about the "average clod" certainly won't make matters any easier. Being that aggressive just puts them on the defensive, and they'll happily write you off as an "elitist prick" and ignore everything you have to say anyway. Fox News provides enough of that polarizing talk as it is, we don't need to make it worse.
I did about the same as you. I went in to college with 60 credits, majoring in physics (was also doing math, but wasn't as into it, so I dropped the second major) and minored in German. The extra credits allowed me to take many classes that I wouldn't have otherwise. Psychology, sociology, random math and programming classes, bowling:), and study abroad. I still graduated in 4 years, had something like 160 credits (only 120 necessary to graduate), and if I could change anything it would be to have spent MORE time in school, taking more classes, spending more time studying abroad. As it is, I plan to go back in a couple of years once my wife is done with grad school and working again.
Nope. Despite how the 2-d projections in science textbooks look, Pluto and Neptunes orbits never cross. And unless there's some tiny precession or a major event like a giant asteroid knocking them out of their orbit, they never will.
TFA didn't mention what effect this process has on CMOS devices, which is probably more relevant since this is what is used in most digital design these days (and a lot of analog as well). Bipolar devices take up more area and tend to consume a lot more power, among other things. But if this speeds up MOSFETs, then they're really on to something...
The genesis of Nationalism was strong external enemies that forced regions together into unified communities calling themselves "nations". This provided the common ground to call people we've never met our brothers and fight a common cause for our own survival. To unite the entire world in an analogous Globalism, we need to be attacked by space aliens. It doesn't particularly matter what type of space aliens, just so long as they are strong enough to defeat any individual nation. As the nations of the world coalesce to protect our planet, killing each other in the name of $deity will make even less sense than it does today.
You are correct that the host OS would have to have drivers for the hardware on the machine in order to even have a prayer of success, but this problem is vastly easier for malware than for commercial software. For malware, they only need to be successfully installed on a small percentage of the machines they attempt to compromise, and they only need to be good enough to avoid detection by lazy users. They won't be able to virtualize hardware accelerated video, I'm sure, but how does that affect a user who is just using a non-accelerated onboard video card? All the VMM needs is a decent enough driver to support the resolution/color depth of the original machine and the user will likely never notice. A commercial product couldn't get by with only supporting 30/40/50% of the hardware out there.
I also agree that this threat is overstated. Most users would at least notice that something wasn't right with their machine and dig deeper. I know for sure that I would notice if my Linksys wifi card suddenly became a RealTek Ethernet card;) The people that would never notice this issue would probably be just as easily duped by a standard trojan. The only real significance is that this is harder to catch with AV software and harder to remove if found.
Now, the only way this would be interesting would be if the worm / virus / trojan installed the virtualization software, moved the existing OS to a virtual machine
That's exactly what it does, according to this paper that somebody else posted in the comments. I don't know that it fakes all the hardware names and such (unlikely), but I doubt that the typical user would recognize that the hardware in their control panel was any different than before.
I don't think straight extrapolation on the 2006 year-to-date sales is fair. Releases are end-loaded for the Christmas shopping season. I'd guess the numbers end up close to 2005, albeit a bit lower. Still the overall trend is interesting...
I wanted to see it as percentages of games released (technically rated, I suppose), so here's how it breaks down according to MetaCritic:
2001: 465 total -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 5.37% 2002: 819 total -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 4.15% 2003: 954 total -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 3.98% 2004: 1020 total -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 2.94% 2005: 931 total -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 2.25% 2006: 573 total (to date) -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 1.22%
I'm running Parallels on the exact same setup, and all that stuff runs fine. I do plan to upgrade to 2GB of RAM on the MacBook Pro, though. I will start to have slowdown issues if I have, say, iTunes & Safari running on OSX and then run something memory intensive on the Win2K VM, which is set to use 512MB of RAM. You may not be quite as fast as running it on your Dell, but any slowdown shouldn't be noticeable. At any rate, Parallels has a free trial code, so you can give it a shot without any cost but your time.
And it does everything I need it to do, and does it well. I can VPN to my company's network and can run all the software I need to get my work done, and it runs plenty fast. It also handles the older games I still play with no noticeable problems (starcraft, civ 3, etc). I plan to try out some new games like Oblivion soon, just to see how well that runs. I'm not as optimistic about that, however.
The key advantages to me, over using something like BootCamp, is that I don't have to reboot my machine to access my Windows only stuff, and I minimize my risk of cross contamination. I'm less likely to hose my OSX install if I destroy my Win2K install (which I am prone to doing).:) I avoid computational and memory intensive stuff on the Win2K VM, so that potential downfall doesn't cause me any trouble.
I don't know how reliable these data are, though. There seems to be considerable hand waving between what the eye records and what the brain "sees" in that link.
Interconnect capacitance generally dominates gate capacitance. And since this type of gate will improve the signal to noise ratio, the device doesn't need to be as large, which would mitigate the increased gate cap.
It is understandable that if your only tool is a hammer, every problem will look like a nail. However, when every problem is a nail, why the hell would you look for a screwdriver?
I question the validity of this survey. Wouldn't beer-drinking college students necessarily be underrepresented in this type of poll? It's totally not a statistically representative sample of college students if they asked these questions during daylight hours, and even worse, if they asked them before noon.
Warcraft 3 has a feature something like this. When you start a level, you can choose between "Normal" and "Hard" mode. If you fail the level (maybe have to fail a couple times? I can't remember), then you get the option of "Replay this level in an easier mode". I used it once on some level that was kicking my butt repeatedly and starting to frustrate me.
That may be true, in theory, but I imagine it would be difficult to get a large enough collection of sample material. Also, I think the various statistical and Bayesian filters only can go so far to say Spam or Not Spam. They can't identify a particular spammer or type of spammer. Applied to blogs, they may not be able to provide any more distinguishing detail than "seems to enjoy Douglas Adams and Monty Python."
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about the "average clod" certainly won't make matters any easier. Being that aggressive just puts them on the defensive, and they'll happily write you off as an "elitist prick" and ignore everything you have to say anyway. Fox News provides enough of that polarizing talk as it is, we don't need to make it worse.
Mrs Petrov: Stanislov saved the world from nuclear annihilation today. What are you doing, you lazy bum?
/me goes back to playing Pacman...
I hear they offer that course on the internet.
I did about the same as you. I went in to college with 60 credits, majoring in physics (was also doing math, but wasn't as into it, so I dropped the second major) and minored in German. The extra credits allowed me to take many classes that I wouldn't have otherwise. Psychology, sociology, random math and programming classes, bowling :), and study abroad. I still graduated in 4 years, had something like 160 credits (only 120 necessary to graduate), and if I could change anything it would be to have spent MORE time in school, taking more classes, spending more time studying abroad. As it is, I plan to go back in a couple of years once my wife is done with grad school and working again.
That just causes me to core dump :(
Don't knock it. It's the new American Dream!
Nope. Despite how the 2-d projections in science textbooks look, Pluto and Neptunes orbits never cross. And unless there's some tiny precession or a major event like a giant asteroid knocking them out of their orbit, they never will.
TFA didn't mention what effect this process has on CMOS devices, which is probably more relevant since this is what is used in most digital design these days (and a lot of analog as well). Bipolar devices take up more area and tend to consume a lot more power, among other things. But if this speeds up MOSFETs, then they're really on to something...
The irony being that it was meant to land on Mars, but they got the units wrong then too. *duck*
The genesis of Nationalism was strong external enemies that forced regions together into unified communities calling themselves "nations". This provided the common ground to call people we've never met our brothers and fight a common cause for our own survival. To unite the entire world in an analogous Globalism, we need to be attacked by space aliens. It doesn't particularly matter what type of space aliens, just so long as they are strong enough to defeat any individual nation. As the nations of the world coalesce to protect our planet, killing each other in the name of $deity will make even less sense than it does today.
Bring it on Kang & Kodos. Save us from ourselves.
You are correct that the host OS would have to have drivers for the hardware on the machine in order to even have a prayer of success, but this problem is vastly easier for malware than for commercial software. For malware, they only need to be successfully installed on a small percentage of the machines they attempt to compromise, and they only need to be good enough to avoid detection by lazy users. They won't be able to virtualize hardware accelerated video, I'm sure, but how does that affect a user who is just using a non-accelerated onboard video card? All the VMM needs is a decent enough driver to support the resolution/color depth of the original machine and the user will likely never notice. A commercial product couldn't get by with only supporting 30/40/50% of the hardware out there.
;) The people that would never notice this issue would probably be just as easily duped by a standard trojan. The only real significance is that this is harder to catch with AV software and harder to remove if found.
I also agree that this threat is overstated. Most users would at least notice that something wasn't right with their machine and dig deeper. I know for sure that I would notice if my Linksys wifi card suddenly became a RealTek Ethernet card
There's more than one way to do it ;)
I don't think straight extrapolation on the 2006 year-to-date sales is fair. Releases are end-loaded for the Christmas shopping season. I'd guess the numbers end up close to 2005, albeit a bit lower. Still the overall trend is interesting...
I wanted to see it as percentages of games released (technically rated, I suppose), so here's how it breaks down according to MetaCritic:
2001: 465 total -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 5.37%
2002: 819 total -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 4.15%
2003: 954 total -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 3.98%
2004: 1020 total -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 2.94%
2005: 931 total -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 2.25%
2006: 573 total (to date) -- percent with 90 rating or greater: 1.22%
I'm running Parallels on the exact same setup, and all that stuff runs fine. I do plan to upgrade to 2GB of RAM on the MacBook Pro, though. I will start to have slowdown issues if I have, say, iTunes & Safari running on OSX and then run something memory intensive on the Win2K VM, which is set to use 512MB of RAM. You may not be quite as fast as running it on your Dell, but any slowdown shouldn't be noticeable. At any rate, Parallels has a free trial code, so you can give it a shot without any cost but your time.
And it does everything I need it to do, and does it well. I can VPN to my company's network and can run all the software I need to get my work done, and it runs plenty fast. It also handles the older games I still play with no noticeable problems (starcraft, civ 3, etc). I plan to try out some new games like Oblivion soon, just to see how well that runs. I'm not as optimistic about that, however.
:) I avoid computational and memory intensive stuff on the Win2K VM, so that potential downfall doesn't cause me any trouble.
The key advantages to me, over using something like BootCamp, is that I don't have to reboot my machine to access my Windows only stuff, and I minimize my risk of cross contamination. I'm less likely to hose my OSX install if I destroy my Win2K install (which I am prone to doing).
According to the quick google search I just did, somewhere in the neighborhood of 576 megapixels.
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http://clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution
I don't know how reliable these data are, though. There seems to be considerable hand waving between what the eye records and what the brain "sees" in that link.
Interconnect capacitance generally dominates gate capacitance. And since this type of gate will improve the signal to noise ratio, the device doesn't need to be as large, which would mitigate the increased gate cap.
It is understandable that if your only tool is a hammer, every problem will look like a nail. However, when every problem is a nail, why the hell would you look for a screwdriver?
I question the validity of this survey. Wouldn't beer-drinking college students necessarily be underrepresented in this type of poll? It's totally not a statistically representative sample of college students if they asked these questions during daylight hours, and even worse, if they asked them before noon.
Warcraft 3 has a feature something like this. When you start a level, you can choose between "Normal" and "Hard" mode. If you fail the level (maybe have to fail a couple times? I can't remember), then you get the option of "Replay this level in an easier mode". I used it once on some level that was kicking my butt repeatedly and starting to frustrate me.
That may be true, in theory, but I imagine it would be difficult to get a large enough collection of sample material. Also, I think the various statistical and Bayesian filters only can go so far to say Spam or Not Spam. They can't identify a particular spammer or type of spammer. Applied to blogs, they may not be able to provide any more distinguishing detail than "seems to enjoy Douglas Adams and Monty Python."
Dr. Jean Grey from X-Men. If only real scientists looked like that *sigh*