I have programmed in both C# and Java. I prefer programming in Java using Eclipse to programming in C# using plain Visual Studio. Eclipse had built-in refactoring tools much earlier than VS to name one thing.
VS is only better because it is faster, since it was programmed in C++ rather than Java.
Not really. If 3Dfx was ever serious about scientific or engineering applications, they would have made decent OpenGL drivers and they never did. They only had a craptascular miniGL driver. They wanted everyone to use their proprietary Glide, but by that time, people preferred OpenGL or Direct3D.
You are forgetting gunpowder guns, steel armor, and horses. Those improved the chances significantly. The fact that at least in Central America the natives were a bunch of bickering and warring tribes helped as well. Try reading about how Cortes invaded Tenochtitlan. If I was getting my place raided and my people enslaved to provide for live sacrifices, I would have joined the Spanish too. Besides, they may have got smallpox, but we got gonorrhea.
Acupuncture is recognized by the WHO for the treatment of pain. I wouldn't dismiss something I have not tried that easily. I was skeptical about it, but it does work, at least it did for me.
Regarding being better than placebo, if something is 5% better than something else, if falls into something called statistic irrelevance, i.e. it may simply be a fluke of the size or type of the control sample. When you add the side effects of those wonderful psychiatric drugs, which may include diabetes, sterility, lupus, and so on, it is just not worth it.
Wind farms never reach peak power. If we are going to talk about bogus numbers, perhaps I should quote nuclear power plant GWt (thermal gigawatts) instead of GWe (electrical gigawatts) as well.
IIRC TCP/IP has a guaranteed maximum error rate of at least 10^-5 bits. Well, the thing is, 1.5 Gigabytes is over 10^10 bits in length. So even at such an error rate, it is not guaranteed that your file will arrive without bit errors.
Anti-aliasing can be done basically the same way in either technique. You supersample the scene at a higher resolution and the use a filter (e.g. bilinear or bicubic) to shrink it down to the desired pixel resolution.
Actually Pixar uses raytracing as well...
Digital effects supervisors throughout the industry choose RenderMan because it delivers the most comprehensive set of rendering features available:
I suspect its because strontium-90 is really nasty stuff. It is a beta radiation emitter while pu-238 is an alpha radiation emitter. Not to mention the strontium-90 decate emits less energy.
I would try St. John's Wort tea for the depression. Check with your doctor if it doesn't conflict with other meds.
Regarding the stomach issues, I would go to a gastroenterologist. Vomit is usually a reflex from poisoning or over feeding. I wouldn't be surprised you have liver issues. Try drinking Cammomille tea at mealtime, or carbonated water like Perrier, for the stomach issues.
First in hydrogen bombs. But even in a tokamak breakeven conditions have been achieved. JT-60 did it in 1998, i.e. more energy got out than had been put in. ITER aims to go one step further: make a burning plasma. A burning plasma is one that given bootstrap heat perpetually self-heats itself on its own. After ITER they aim to fix the remaining problem: make the fusion plant cheap, and easy to maintain. The conditions inside a D-T fusion tokamak are hardly forgiving to the materials the reactor is made of.
Just think about what is important to you. Why did you get in that situation to begin with?
After knowing what you want, plan a course of action that will get you there. For me, getting time to do my own thing was important, so I left my full-time job and got a part-time job which allows me to start my own business or whatever. For some people money is more important, so they can buy something they want? Just analyze what you do for a whole week and see where you are spending your time.
Minidisc was hardly successful. Sony had AFAIK no major involvement in Flash memory media or hard disks, which I believe now are the best of breed media. Even Sony figured out they had to put a hard disk and Gigabit Ethernet in the PS3, while the original PS had neither disks or networking built-in.
I think the future is pointing away from traditional write-only media, unless some major new technology is developed. There used to be a time a CD-ROM (650MB) had more capacity than the hard disk of the day (20MB) and was a good archival format. This has not been the case for quite some time. A dual layer Blue-ray disk can have 50GB of data, while 250GB hard disks are commonplace. DSL speeds now have download bitrate to compete with regular DVD. Coupled with better than MPEG-2 encoding this enables real-time transmission of multiple channels of high quality video and audio.
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VS is only better because it is faster, since it was programmed in C++ rather than Java.
W-CDMA, despite name similarities, has nothing to do with CDMA-2000 which is a standard developed by Qualcomm mainly used in the US market.
Not really. If 3Dfx was ever serious about scientific or engineering applications, they would have made decent OpenGL drivers and they never did. They only had a craptascular miniGL driver. They wanted everyone to use their proprietary Glide, but by that time, people preferred OpenGL or Direct3D.
You are forgetting gunpowder guns, steel armor, and horses. Those improved the chances significantly. The fact that at least in Central America the natives were a bunch of bickering and warring tribes helped as well. Try reading about how Cortes invaded Tenochtitlan. If I was getting my place raided and my people enslaved to provide for live sacrifices, I would have joined the Spanish too. Besides, they may have got smallpox, but we got gonorrhea.
Regarding being better than placebo, if something is 5% better than something else, if falls into something called statistic irrelevance, i.e. it may simply be a fluke of the size or type of the control sample. When you add the side effects of those wonderful psychiatric drugs, which may include diabetes, sterility, lupus, and so on, it is just not worth it.
Wind farms never reach peak power. If we are going to talk about bogus numbers, perhaps I should quote nuclear power plant GWt (thermal gigawatts) instead of GWe (electrical gigawatts) as well.
The Pantheon in Rome was built in 125 AD, using concrete, and it is still standing. 1883 years seems good enough to me.
IIRC TCP/IP has a guaranteed maximum error rate of at least 10^-5 bits. Well, the thing is, 1.5 Gigabytes is over 10^10 bits in length. So even at such an error rate, it is not guaranteed that your file will arrive without bit errors.
IMO Project Timberwind was much more interesting.
Did you look at the date?
Australia is close to NZ. Lots of desert there.
Anti-aliasing can be done basically the same way in either technique. You supersample the scene at a higher resolution and the use a filter (e.g. bilinear or bicubic) to shrink it down to the desired pixel resolution.
I suspect its because strontium-90 is really nasty stuff. It is a beta radiation emitter while pu-238 is an alpha radiation emitter. Not to mention the strontium-90 decate emits less energy.
Regarding the stomach issues, I would go to a gastroenterologist. Vomit is usually a reflex from poisoning or over feeding. I wouldn't be surprised you have liver issues. Try drinking Cammomille tea at mealtime, or carbonated water like Perrier, for the stomach issues.
This is my experience. YMMV.
How about just removing the cellphone battery? Seems much simpler to me. Unless you are using an iPhone that is.
Zilog is still alive. Motorola has been renamed to Freescale and spun-off.
First in hydrogen bombs. But even in a tokamak breakeven conditions have been achieved. JT-60 did it in 1998, i.e. more energy got out than had been put in. ITER aims to go one step further: make a burning plasma. A burning plasma is one that given bootstrap heat perpetually self-heats itself on its own. After ITER they aim to fix the remaining problem: make the fusion plant cheap, and easy to maintain. The conditions inside a D-T fusion tokamak are hardly forgiving to the materials the reactor is made of.
Yes it will get cheaper with higher data densities. So will hard discs. Hard discs are rewritable too.
Just think about what is important to you. Why did you get in that situation to begin with?
After knowing what you want, plan a course of action that will get you there. For me, getting time to do my own thing was important, so I left my full-time job and got a part-time job which allows me to start my own business or whatever. For some people money is more important, so they can buy something they want? Just analyze what you do for a whole week and see where you are spending your time.
Yes, a regular AK-74 does not fire NATO ammo. There are however AK like rifles firing NATO ammo. Such as the AK-101, IMI Galil or the Valmek Sako.
Actually, they basically gave away the Flash VM to Mozilla so they can use it for Javascript.
It is not 3DS, but Maya is available native for Linux. Hollywood is big on Linux, so they made a port.
Minidisc was hardly successful. Sony had AFAIK no major involvement in Flash memory media or hard disks, which I believe now are the best of breed media. Even Sony figured out they had to put a hard disk and Gigabit Ethernet in the PS3, while the original PS had neither disks or networking built-in.
I think the future is pointing away from traditional write-only media, unless some major new technology is developed. There used to be a time a CD-ROM (650MB) had more capacity than the hard disk of the day (20MB) and was a good archival format. This has not been the case for quite some time. A dual layer Blue-ray disk can have 50GB of data, while 250GB hard disks are commonplace. DSL speeds now have download bitrate to compete with regular DVD. Coupled with better than MPEG-2 encoding this enables real-time transmission of multiple channels of high quality video and audio.
Apple TV is more like it.
One more note: The Voodoo 2 did 3 million triangles per second. Each of those PS3s is doing 3 * 30 / 3 = 30 million triangles per second.