I agree the GUI on Android is still not as good. It feels less polished especially on the browser. However Nexus One with Android 2.1 is much smoother and nicer than phones with old Android releases.
My guess is we will need to see OpenCL support for people to start working on these features. You could do it with shaders probably. But shaders are easier to work for to program filters and stuff like that.
Press the escape key. It works on the games I play.
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I would rather have the Western internals. Soviet fighters from this time period were analog instrumentation packed up the wazoo. You need to be very experienced to fly one of the things. Today you have like a couple of multifunction liquid-crystal displays which do everything. A lot of the countries which have old Soviet planes have bought Russian or Israeli electronic upgrade packages. Kind of surprising they do not have some sort of INS/GPS navigation system however. The Russians have had their Glonass satnav system almost as long as GPS has been available.
IIRC Malaysia and Vietnam had a couple of these, or something similar, and they seldom flew them because of the fuel bill. It has horrid fuel consumption. The range is good because it has huge fuel tanks.
The Russians made these to fight the F-15. It is very fast and agile. The weapon systems are also very good. It had these infrared missiles (AA-11 Archer) which could hit a target at a greater angle than similar NATO missiles at the time. This resulted in a flurry by NATO countries to upgrade their Sidewinder missiles. The electronics are totally obsolete by now however.
That was not what I heard. I heard Intel wanted exclusivity, it was not directly related to number of units sold. It was related to the percentage of units sold with Intel processors. AMD sued Intel in Japan. Intel was IIRC fined in Korea and the EU for monopoly practices. Citing the last link:
Intel gave rebates to computer manufacturer A from December 2002 to December 2005 conditional on this manufacturer purchasing exclusively Intel CPUs
Intel gave rebates to computer manufacturer B from November 2002 to May 2005 conditional on this manufacturer purchasing no less than 95% of its CPU needs for its business desktop computers from Intel (the remaining 5% that computer manufacturer B could purchase from rival chip maker AMD was then subject to further restrictive conditions set out below)
Intel gave rebates to computer manufacturer C from October 2002 to November 2005 conditional on this manufacturer purchasing no less than 80% of its CPU needs for its desktop and notebook computers from Intel
Intel gave rebates to computer manufacturer D in 2007 conditional on this manufacturer purchasing its CPU needs for its notebook computers exclusively from Intel.
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For example, rival chip manufacturer AMD offered one million free CPUs to one particular computer manufacturer. If the computer manufacturer had accepted all of these, it would have lost Intel's rebate on its many millions of remaining CPU purchases, and would have been worse off overall simply for having accepted this highly competitive offer. In the end, the computer manufacturer took only 160,000 CPUs for free.
World War I started over less. Basically the crown heir to the Austrian-Hungarian empire was assassinated in Serbia and then it escalated.
Pakistan has pretty close relations with China. If China ever got involved into a large nuclear conflict, with say India, Russia and the US could not stand by idly.
Sure Athlon was hot. But so were the Intel alternatives. Intel could not even get a working 1 GHz Pentium III in 0.18um in any decent quantity. Pentium 4 same thing.
AMD got a bad rap at a time because their processors did not have an integrated temperature measurement diode like the PIII did. This meant if a processor was inadequately cooled you could get a burn out processor. They fixed that in Palomino (Athlon XP). Still, compared to the hardware bugs in the i820 chipset, or the paper launch of the 1GHz PIII, it was no biggie.
AMD could not manage to sell their processors for more money, because Intel basically used their cash reserves and market power to undermine AMD. Intel basically threatened manufacturers that would buy AMD that they would suddenly start paying much more expensive prices, than Intel exclusive manufacturers. This caused AMD to lose a lot of customers. It was claimed AMD got its first major OEM win (Compaq) by essentially giving its processors away for free. If AMD had sold its processors for more, they could have had the money to build new fabs, or have more design teams. You have to remember AMD has like one CPU design team, and one shrink team, while Intel has at least 2 designs teams, and separate shrink teams. So Intel can afford to fail more when designing CPUs while AMD has to get everything right.
Actually Smedley's problem was that he thought buying movie licenses was going to be their big ticket into awesome profits. Game be damned. So they bought Star Wars licenses, Matrix licenses. If you read the history of game publishing, corporations doing movie licensed games more often than not produce absolute piles of steaming shit of games, and go belly up after a certain time. I mean, one of these games (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) even caused the videogame crash of 1983. The minute I heard SOE was going to do movie license games, I thought they were finished. There are reasons why this often happens. The money you need to shell out for licensing is money you do not have to spend on game development.
They should have just improved their existing Everquest franchise, instead of letting it die of software bitrot. They only bothered launching Everquest II around the time WoW was launched, and the machine requirements to play the game were so demanding, I wonder how they ever thought they were going to sell a lot of copies. So they only managed to sustain their existing player base instead of enlarging it. IMO they should have also done an RPG using the same engine in a different, PvP, fantasy setting of their own. Blizzard has always been pretty sensitive about this issue and they usually make games which have non-demanding machine requirements.
I did not have a lot of hope for Bioware after all the employees they lost (KotOR II was done by Obsidian) but Mass Effect seems to have turned out well. They should have just made an MMO out of the Mass Effect world instead of shelling out for a Star Wars license.
Ah! Well that makes sense as an approach to saving communications power. The press release was notoriously devoid of actual technical information and full of corporate speak crapola.
Remember when computers had a real power button on front? A power button you had to actually push with a moderate amount of strength to operate? That button is today in the back of the computer near the power supply.
Now in these days of soft power buttons, nothing is ever really disabled. But rejoice! EPA Energy Star (TM) devices only use a minimum amount of power when in standby mode. Uhuh.
I have heard the supergrid proposal before. It is an interesting project which should be done. Even if it was just to distribute energy inside the EU. However IMO Europe should be self reliant on energy generation. Transferring electrical production to unstable North African countries is not the way to go. Solar can be done in Italy, Portugal, Spain, and neighboring countries. Northern Sea and Atlantic coastal countries can produce windpower, nuclear has its place as well. Nuclear power is not nearly as capacity limited as some claim. It can probably last longer than coal.
Denmark is the supposed leader in this wind turbine field. Their fraction of generated power by wind turbines has remained more or less constant for several years now. At best they got like 20% of required electrical power. Most electricity in Denmark is produced by burning coal.
After you put wind mills in the places with most wind, you need to start building wind farms in the ocean, and other places where costs go up. Denmark seems to have hit a wall there, even if theoretically they could have much more generation using wind than they presently do.
What a load of bull. A nuclear reactor has an availability factor of like 90%, at 100% of the specified generation rate. You need to stop them basically to replace the fuel bundles. Some nuclear reactors in the US, like the one in the news item, even run over spec at 120% generation capacity. France gets like 77% of its electricity generation from nuclear power. Yearly. Tell me of one country which can do the same using wind power.
So what emits CO2 in a nuclear power plant? The concrete used to construct the building. Perhaps we should all demolish our houses and start living in tents just as well. Oh, and hydroelectric dams require a lot of concrete to build them as well.
Do you really think you do not emit CO2 to build windmills?
The RMBK reactors had one really nice feature. You could easily access the nuclear fuel in them. This made them nice for plutonium production. So the military liked the design.
When they needed to manufacture reactors for civilian electricity they used the design, because it was readily available. To make it even cheaper to build a plant, they did not bother with a containment building.
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I agree the GUI on Android is still not as good. It feels less polished especially on the browser. However Nexus One with Android 2.1 is much smoother and nicer than phones with old Android releases.
Wolfram Alpha actually seemed interesting at a time. If it was not so painfully slow.
My guess is we will need to see OpenCL support for people to start working on these features. You could do it with shaders probably. But shaders are easier to work for to program filters and stuff like that.
Press the escape key. It works on the games I play.
I would rather have the Western internals. Soviet fighters from this time period were analog instrumentation packed up the wazoo. You need to be very experienced to fly one of the things. Today you have like a couple of multifunction liquid-crystal displays which do everything. A lot of the countries which have old Soviet planes have bought Russian or Israeli electronic upgrade packages. Kind of surprising they do not have some sort of INS/GPS navigation system however. The Russians have had their Glonass satnav system almost as long as GPS has been available.
IIRC Malaysia and Vietnam had a couple of these, or something similar, and they seldom flew them because of the fuel bill. It has horrid fuel consumption. The range is good because it has huge fuel tanks.
The Russians made these to fight the F-15. It is very fast and agile. The weapon systems are also very good. It had these infrared missiles (AA-11 Archer) which could hit a target at a greater angle than similar NATO missiles at the time. This resulted in a flurry by NATO countries to upgrade their Sidewinder missiles. The electronics are totally obsolete by now however.
For example, rival chip manufacturer AMD offered one million free CPUs to one particular computer manufacturer. If the computer manufacturer had accepted all of these, it would have lost Intel's rebate on its many millions of remaining CPU purchases, and would have been worse off overall simply for having accepted this highly competitive offer. In the end, the computer manufacturer took only 160,000 CPUs for free.
World War I started over less. Basically the crown heir to the Austrian-Hungarian empire was assassinated in Serbia and then it escalated.
Pakistan has pretty close relations with China. If China ever got involved into a large nuclear conflict, with say India, Russia and the US could not stand by idly.
AMD got a bad rap at a time because their processors did not have an integrated temperature measurement diode like the PIII did. This meant if a processor was inadequately cooled you could get a burn out processor. They fixed that in Palomino (Athlon XP). Still, compared to the hardware bugs in the i820 chipset, or the paper launch of the 1GHz PIII, it was no biggie.
AMD could not manage to sell their processors for more money, because Intel basically used their cash reserves and market power to undermine AMD. Intel basically threatened manufacturers that would buy AMD that they would suddenly start paying much more expensive prices, than Intel exclusive manufacturers. This caused AMD to lose a lot of customers. It was claimed AMD got its first major OEM win (Compaq) by essentially giving its processors away for free. If AMD had sold its processors for more, they could have had the money to build new fabs, or have more design teams. You have to remember AMD has like one CPU design team, and one shrink team, while Intel has at least 2 designs teams, and separate shrink teams. So Intel can afford to fail more when designing CPUs while AMD has to get everything right.
Actually Smedley's problem was that he thought buying movie licenses was going to be their big ticket into awesome profits. Game be damned. So they bought Star Wars licenses, Matrix licenses. If you read the history of game publishing, corporations doing movie licensed games more often than not produce absolute piles of steaming shit of games, and go belly up after a certain time. I mean, one of these games (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) even caused the videogame crash of 1983. The minute I heard SOE was going to do movie license games, I thought they were finished. There are reasons why this often happens. The money you need to shell out for licensing is money you do not have to spend on game development.
They should have just improved their existing Everquest franchise, instead of letting it die of software bitrot. They only bothered launching Everquest II around the time WoW was launched, and the machine requirements to play the game were so demanding, I wonder how they ever thought they were going to sell a lot of copies. So they only managed to sustain their existing player base instead of enlarging it. IMO they should have also done an RPG using the same engine in a different, PvP, fantasy setting of their own. Blizzard has always been pretty sensitive about this issue and they usually make games which have non-demanding machine requirements.
I did not have a lot of hope for Bioware after all the employees they lost (KotOR II was done by Obsidian) but Mass Effect seems to have turned out well. They should have just made an MMO out of the Mass Effect world instead of shelling out for a Star Wars license.
Well, Blizzard made also made The Lost Vikings. I thought that was pretty good.
Some people cannot wrap their head around AT&T assembler syntax.
Ah! Well that makes sense as an approach to saving communications power. The press release was notoriously devoid of actual technical information and full of corporate speak crapola.
Dunno about you, but I sleep more than two hours per day. During which I am not actually using the computer.
Now in these days of soft power buttons, nothing is ever really disabled. But rejoice! EPA Energy Star (TM) devices only use a minimum amount of power when in standby mode. Uhuh.
Recycling is overrated. Also, you need way more materials to build an equivalent amount of usable wind power.
I have heard the supergrid proposal before. It is an interesting project which should be done. Even if it was just to distribute energy inside the EU. However IMO Europe should be self reliant on energy generation. Transferring electrical production to unstable North African countries is not the way to go. Solar can be done in Italy, Portugal, Spain, and neighboring countries. Northern Sea and Atlantic coastal countries can produce windpower, nuclear has its place as well. Nuclear power is not nearly as capacity limited as some claim. It can probably last longer than coal.
After you put wind mills in the places with most wind, you need to start building wind farms in the ocean, and other places where costs go up. Denmark seems to have hit a wall there, even if theoretically they could have much more generation using wind than they presently do.
So you do not need to mine to get the materials to build wind turbines?
What a load of bull. A nuclear reactor has an availability factor of like 90%, at 100% of the specified generation rate. You need to stop them basically to replace the fuel bundles. Some nuclear reactors in the US, like the one in the news item, even run over spec at 120% generation capacity. France gets like 77% of its electricity generation from nuclear power. Yearly. Tell me of one country which can do the same using wind power.
Do you really think you do not emit CO2 to build windmills?
When they needed to manufacture reactors for civilian electricity they used the design, because it was readily available. To make it even cheaper to build a plant, they did not bother with a containment building.
When they say "tritium" they are talking about tritium in tritiated water really.
The legislated limit varies widely according to the country you are at.