My old Asus GeForce 1 card came with shutter glasses. They were cool. They required additional drivers from Asus. I don't see what would stop another card manufacturer from doing the same with a more modern card, except there doesn't seem to be much of a market for them.
Given that there are people reading this who don't understand why doing this in Excel is cool, there are probably people who don't understand your butterfly reference.
Joe user says: "Every time I want to open a pdf file on my Windows a weird popup comes up asking me which program to open it with?! How should I know?! And my wireless network card doesn't work. Give me my Linux back!" There, I fixed it for you.
It is possible, even with a two-dimensional arrangement, to set up 4 cores with a single hop between them.
Arrange 3 cores in a triangle. Place the fourth core inside the triangle. Join this core to the other three cores. This has two issues: 1.) The paths are different lengths. 2.) A 3-dimensional link is required for the centre core to talk to anything other than the other 3 cores.
With a three dimensional arrangement, it is possible to have a single hop between any number of cores.
Yeah well, I heard that a New Zealand so-called "scientist" managed to split an atom! That's impossible, what would it split in to?
Furthermore, the Germans claim to be able to see through people with what they call an X-Ray machine. Preposterous! Even the name sounds like bad science! I mean who would call it an "X-Ray" machine?
Ok, jokes aside, the New Scientist has never deliberately claimed more than is possible, although like any paper for the masses, the headlines are somewhat glorified and exaggerated.
That's mostly a good idea except for the randomly generated bit. Random number generation can be cpu intensive. A better option might be to randomly generate 500Mb of data in memory and send that to dev/null over whatever link, using the same data each time.
I am prince plane from kingdom of Nigeria. I am most pleasing to make your known acquaintance. An hours few ago then, I was escaped my country from fear of my passengers lives. In my account I am hold $436,875,000 US DOLLARS and I am needing somebody to help I return this money. I am finding your air traffic control on the internet and am most impressed with your record. If you are landing me to help, I am giving you a TEN PERCENT SHARE of the $418,327,000 US DOLLARS!! PLEASE provide your air traffic control codes, you do not have to have ANY air craft in your airport, I am needing an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT to prove to my bank who I am (PPRINCE PLANE FROM NIGERIA) and returns the money safely.
Thanking you in advance,
PRINCE PLANE
Once there ingratiate flip donkey ruby on rails framework with the pyhont 3000 interpreter. Please girls are beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We pizza going. Friday the 14th is a day to remember for which an elephant at the zoo. Running away freely I quickly acquiesce. Soviet gun control is heading to soccer mom toyota. Bullet train to tokyo as ever more always.
In the end it doesn't matter if it's a bluff or not, because Microsoft will never reveal anything either way. It's the FUD they want, not the money. Of course it matters! If it isn't a bluff, or at least they believe they can convince the courts that it isn't a bluff, Microsoft will choose to go down whichever path they believe will make them the most profit.
Currently they believe that an increasing Linux market share will hurt their bottom line. It will. A lot. Not only does that mean customers are not buying windows, those same customers will not buy Office, Exchange server licenses, Sharepoint server licenses and so forth.
Once the world calls microsoft out on the patent front, if they believe they have a case they will come after corporations. This is much more expensive than a FUD campaign and won't get them as much money per license. Courts may eventually decide to force companies to buy licenses for ms software for which an amount of code violating ms patents is present in Linux. They could decide to force companies to pay a license fee for as much as Windows Vista Ultimate, but this would not cover the additional software that these companies may have bought from microsoft. The courts will probably also decide that if there is any source code in Linux that violates MS patents, it's probably from windows XP which costs less than half as much as vista.
All in all, FUD is currently far more valuable to ms than court decisions on patents. FUD is cheaper and more effective. Court cases may work once the FUD stops working.
If, however, the mistake is on IBM's side, I won't trust them to port Lotus Notes to an imaginary version. It'd be a lot easier than porting to a real version!
Sounds like you lost out on $100 there - cost you $400 paying the difference between the insurance of $1100 and the MRI cost of $1500, whereas if you'd said insurance won't pay, it would have cost you $300.
Maybe I've done too much playing around with CGI in my spare time, but I'd have to disagree with your claim that "we're already there" on the grounds that I got 10 out of 10 at http://www.autodesk.com/eng/etc/fake_or_foto/index.html, then 4/4 in the bonus round.
In the case of the drunk person, we prosecute him because he has the keys and is legally considered in charge of the vehicle. Not for drink driving.
In the burglar case, we ridicule him on the internet for being an incompetent jerk. Or give him a Darwin award if he subsequently dies.
As for the case in hand, the EFF is claiming that no evidence has been presented that any copying took place and that there is no law against making it easy for such copying to take place.
The EFF also claims that it is doubtful that any illegal copying did take place involving the defendant, given the number of files shared and the number of users on the system at the time. This snippet of "information" is disputable, given that the Kazaa software may have chosen to download the files searched for from the defendant over other users, and therefore other users may have been directed to the defendant for similar reasons, such as higher bandwidth availability and so forth. Equally, a search for "porn" or something similar would probably have revealed that 199000000 of the 200000000 odd files were completely unrelated to the case and it is entirely possible that the files on the defendants computer (if it even was their computer that possessed the IP address in question at the time) were the only copies discovered by a search for the relevant music.
Even still, none of this proves beyond reasonable doubt that copying took place.
Then again, think how bad it would be if people were allowed to drive without licenses. Ever heard of people failing their driving tests several times over? People losing their licenses for reckless driving? Licenses do keep many of the worst drivers off the road. Perhaps the standard could be set higher, but it would be inaccurate, or at least , to say they have no effect.
As for PI licenses for computer forensics, if they applied only to computers that you do not own, especially if you took payment for such services, that would be acceptable. But requiring it for your own computers is as bad as requiring a PI license for claiming you found the perpetrator's wallet in your house after a burglary.
Maybe it's a test they've come up with to determine if they themselves are a simulation. (And so on and on up the chain).
Seriously though, there's no way we're a simulation. Computers are not sufficiently reliable, so our simulation would have crashed millions of times by now. And then there's data corruption...
I don't quite see the amusement value, but the following occurs:
Each person can click once per day to increase a particular aspect of a person's city. The more clicks, the more increases.
There are two reasons to link spam:
1.) Get your city some growth. This increases the rank of your city. 2.) Link to somebody else's city linking to a particular aspect like industry, which if enough people click will screw the balance of their city, e.g. high industry increases crime. This lowers the rank of their city.
Are you sure about that? If you put 9 women on the task of making a baby it only takes a month... It does once you get your pipeline filled, even on a single core processor like a P4. With 9 women you can push them out at a rate of one per month. There's 9 months of latency for the first one though, which is why we moved to a chip with a much shorter pipeline, the Core architecture.
no problem, we'll just use ++i, i++, i+=1, i=1+i (depending on what type i is and the language used, addition may not be commutative), i=i-3; i=i+4 and so forth.
I've missed a billion variations on that, but I would lament the loss of any idiomatic code, code designed for teaching, or any code really.
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My old Asus GeForce 1 card came with shutter glasses. They were cool. They required additional drivers from Asus. I don't see what would stop another card manufacturer from doing the same with a more modern card, except there doesn't seem to be much of a market for them.
Given that there are people reading this who don't understand why doing this in Excel is cool, there are probably people who don't understand your butterfly reference.
http://xkcd.com/378/
Rolling in his grave?
Which in turn will be shortly after Duke Nukem Forever.
It is possible, even with a two-dimensional arrangement, to set up 4 cores with a single hop between them.
Arrange 3 cores in a triangle. Place the fourth core inside the triangle. Join this core to the other three cores. This has two issues: 1.) The paths are different lengths. 2.) A 3-dimensional link is required for the centre core to talk to anything other than the other 3 cores.
With a three dimensional arrangement, it is possible to have a single hop between any number of cores.
Yeah well, I heard that a New Zealand so-called "scientist" managed to split an atom! That's impossible, what would it split in to?
Furthermore, the Germans claim to be able to see through people with what they call an X-Ray machine. Preposterous! Even the name sounds like bad science! I mean who would call it an "X-Ray" machine?
Ok, jokes aside, the New Scientist has never deliberately claimed more than is possible, although like any paper for the masses, the headlines are somewhat glorified and exaggerated.
That's mostly a good idea except for the randomly generated bit. Random number generation can be cpu intensive. A better option might be to randomly generate 500Mb of data in memory and send that to dev/null over whatever link, using the same data each time.
Esteemed Mr airtraffic.control,
I am prince plane from kingdom of Nigeria. I am most pleasing to make your known acquaintance. An hours few ago then, I was escaped my country from fear of my passengers lives. In my account I am hold $436,875,000 US DOLLARS and I am needing somebody to help I return this money. I am finding your air traffic control on the internet and am most impressed with your record. If you are landing me to help, I am giving you a TEN PERCENT SHARE of the $418,327,000 US DOLLARS!! PLEASE provide your air traffic control codes, you do not have to have ANY air craft in your airport, I am needing an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT to prove to my bank who I am (PPRINCE PLANE FROM NIGERIA) and returns the money safely.
Thanking you in advance,
PRINCE PLANE
Once there ingratiate flip donkey ruby on rails framework with the pyhont 3000 interpreter. Please girls are beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We pizza going. Friday the 14th is a day to remember for which an elephant at the zoo. Running away freely I quickly acquiesce. Soviet gun control is heading to soccer mom toyota. Bullet train to tokyo as ever more always.
Currently they believe that an increasing Linux market share will hurt their bottom line. It will. A lot. Not only does that mean customers are not buying windows, those same customers will not buy Office, Exchange server licenses, Sharepoint server licenses and so forth.
Once the world calls microsoft out on the patent front, if they believe they have a case they will come after corporations. This is much more expensive than a FUD campaign and won't get them as much money per license. Courts may eventually decide to force companies to buy licenses for ms software for which an amount of code violating ms patents is present in Linux. They could decide to force companies to pay a license fee for as much as Windows Vista Ultimate, but this would not cover the additional software that these companies may have bought from microsoft. The courts will probably also decide that if there is any source code in Linux that violates MS patents, it's probably from windows XP which costs less than half as much as vista.
All in all, FUD is currently far more valuable to ms than court decisions on patents. FUD is cheaper and more effective. Court cases may work once the FUD stops working.
But that'd be an awesome thing! Oh for my mod points back...
So in Soviet Russia we'll get the year of the desktop on Natalie Portman?
Lotus notes... this may spell the end of Ubuntu being considered "User Friendly" as Lotus Notes drags it kicking and screaming to the ground.
New tag - deathofubuntu?
Is that 700*1048576 Berts, 700*1024000 Berts, or 700*1000000 Berts?
Sounds like you lost out on $100 there - cost you $400 paying the difference between the insurance of $1100 and the MRI cost of $1500, whereas if you'd said insurance won't pay, it would have cost you $300.
Maybe I've done too much playing around with CGI in my spare time, but I'd have to disagree with your claim that "we're already there" on the grounds that I got 10 out of 10 at http://www.autodesk.com/eng/etc/fake_or_foto/index.html, then 4/4 in the bonus round.
In the case of the drunk person, we prosecute him because he has the keys and is legally considered in charge of the vehicle. Not for drink driving.
In the burglar case, we ridicule him on the internet for being an incompetent jerk. Or give him a Darwin award if he subsequently dies.
As for the case in hand, the EFF is claiming that no evidence has been presented that any copying took place and that there is no law against making it easy for such copying to take place.
The EFF also claims that it is doubtful that any illegal copying did take place involving the defendant, given the number of files shared and the number of users on the system at the time. This snippet of "information" is disputable, given that the Kazaa software may have chosen to download the files searched for from the defendant over other users, and therefore other users may have been directed to the defendant for similar reasons, such as higher bandwidth availability and so forth. Equally, a search for "porn" or something similar would probably have revealed that 199000000 of the 200000000 odd files were completely unrelated to the case and it is entirely possible that the files on the defendants computer (if it even was their computer that possessed the IP address in question at the time) were the only copies discovered by a search for the relevant music.
Even still, none of this proves beyond reasonable doubt that copying took place.
Assuming the missile left the plane travelling at it's maximum velocity of Mach 2.5 (i.e. disounting acceleration of the missile) = 850m/s
Assuming the missile is fired from behind the airliner (as sidewinders usually are)
Assuming the airliner is travelling at Mach 0.85 (top speed) = 290m/s
Assuming the missile is fired from 2km away
Then the missile would take roughly 4.5 seconds to reach the plane.
If the summary is correct and the laser can respond in a fraction of a second, the airliner doesn't have all that much to fear.
Then again, think how bad it would be if people were allowed to drive without licenses. Ever heard of people failing their driving tests several times over? People losing their licenses for reckless driving? Licenses do keep many of the worst drivers off the road. Perhaps the standard could be set higher, but it would be inaccurate, or at least , to say they have no effect.
As for PI licenses for computer forensics, if they applied only to computers that you do not own, especially if you took payment for such services, that would be acceptable. But requiring it for your own computers is as bad as requiring a PI license for claiming you found the perpetrator's wallet in your house after a burglary.
Maybe it's a test they've come up with to determine if they themselves are a simulation. (And so on and on up the chain).
Seriously though, there's no way we're a simulation. Computers are not sufficiently reliable, so our simulation would have crashed millions of times by now. And then there's data corruption...
I don't quite see the amusement value, but the following occurs:
Each person can click once per day to increase a particular aspect of a person's city. The more clicks, the more increases.
There are two reasons to link spam:
1.) Get your city some growth. This increases the rank of your city.
2.) Link to somebody else's city linking to a particular aspect like industry, which if enough people click will screw the balance of their city, e.g. high industry increases crime. This lowers the rank of their city.
no problem, we'll just use ++i, i++, i+=1, i=1+i (depending on what type i is and the language used, addition may not be commutative), i=i-3; i=i+4 and so forth.
I've missed a billion variations on that, but I would lament the loss of any idiomatic code, code designed for teaching, or any code really.