Also, we dont fully understand how a bird flies, and how the complex interactions between feathers creates lift and thrust. We should never attept to simulate flight using such crude models as fixed wings and propellers.
And dont get me started on locomotion....
Have you ever thought that maybe starting a simulation using our limited knowledge of how neurons work will help us to refine our understanding? Even a failed experiment provides useful data that we can use to improve our models.
How do you failover when road conditions exceed the thresholds of the car? Uh... slow down or stop maybe???
Just because you might need to transfer control to the driver doesnt mean you need to do it at 100 miles per hour.
Computers are far better at understanding their limitations that human drivers, and when they start getting reduced sensor data or confusing conditions will be programmed to be conservative, unlike the human drivers that keep barreling on until they are at the edge of disaster.
This laser is probably in the 10's of kilowatts, and even including inefficiencies, it's a pretty small load. The air conditioning in the bridge probably consumes more power.
A two litre diesel engine generator would produce enough power and run for hours on a jerry can of fuel. That's pretty good going for a weapon.
If I got 50Gbps out of 6 x 10Gbps links I'd be ecstatic. That's pretty good efficiency considering the sheer throughput processing requited and overheads involved.
Plus it may be difficult if not impossible to get multiple high speed interfaces via one internet carrier - however what if 3 or 4 fibre providers went past your datacenter? Buy bandwidth from all of them and use them simultaneously and add redundancy.
You're missing the point. One of the big reasons to have multiple interfaces is for redundancy - with a company's internet interface, redundancy would be vastly improved by choosing two different providers, and even better with different mediums. The subnets will definitely be different.
Having both of these links acting simultaneously would be great and I could see a lot of people being excited about it.
I think people are understating how difficult it can be to confront people who cause offence
So then go to the PyCon organisers in private and raise your complaint with them. They will then go and find the individuals, again in private and inform them of their infraction.
Taking photos and using your position of influence to publicly shame people based on heresay is a severve form of harrasment. It's so severe that it even lost one guy his job over midly innapropriate comments. Dont you get it? The guy has a wife and kids and no income now... it's freaking tragic.
Crusading blowhard deserved what she got, but in the end everyone has lost. It's very sad indeed.
- DRM done right and not invasive - Fast download of new release games - Ability to install your games as many times as you like? - Super cheap specials and multi-packs - Offline modes - Simple game install and patch deployment
Borderlands is a great example where interesting graphics are far more effective than hyper-realistic graphics.
The rotoscoping/cartoon effect in borderlands is used really well, and even though they are low fidelity the styling more than makes up for it. Plus you dont need such a high-end card because high resolutions are less important.
Interesting artistic style and good gameplay/story/humour will always trump eye candy.
I used to be a member of the WAFreenet, and whilst we did a great job at low cost, the network had major issues.
Wifi is just not up to the job. The protocol cannot handle the timings and collition avoidance at outdoor scales, not to mention the fact that it was just plain unreliable. Oh and the channel space was completely saturated, plus you could only have 3 x 2.4GHz antennas co-located before you self-interfered. It's pretty hard to build a robust mesh this way.
Carrier grade wireless is far better and addresses many of these issues, but they are not cheap.
Comapnies shouldnt require a law - especially one with such serious rammifications - to enforce their choice of bisiness model. Either put up with the loss, write termination fees into the contract, or price the phones more realistically.
It's sickening that you have allowed your lawmakers to go ahead with this.
Try OpenELEC then, it's an XBMC distro that runs perfectly well off a USB thumbdrive, and takes all of 15 minutes to install. It would at least make dual booting a snap.
Personally I use a relatively cheap, low power Zotac ZBOX to run XBMC (OpenELEC) permanently, and keep the noisy, power hungry 3D gaming machine turned off 99% of the time. Just the power savings alone would pay off the Zotac box in a few years.
I've used the XBMC Live and OpenElec distros and they run all day every day for months on end without ever locking up. It would be trivial to have a headless box running them and never have to touch it.
It's only the sensor that needs to be cooled below ambient, other parts can use traditional methods. So, you make the back side of the sensor flouresce, capture that light in a chamber where it is converted back to heat, then dissipate that heat through regular air cooled heatsinks.
In the end it's just shifting the heat whilst working against a thermal gradient - same as a refridgerative system, but without moving parts.
I just did somethign similar. I was writing a karoke jukebox client/server system in my own time, and decided that: 1) Tablets woud be a convenient (and cool) client interface, and 2) I suck at UI aesthetics.
Using the jQuery Mobile library was a no brainer and all of the aesthetics were done for me. It looks and works great on a tablet/smartphone, and is still perfectly usable on a PC. I could make the PC interface richer and more information dense, but there is little incentive.
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I agree.
Also, we dont fully understand how a bird flies, and how the complex interactions between feathers creates lift and thrust. We should never attept to simulate flight using such crude models as fixed wings and propellers.
And dont get me started on locomotion....
Have you ever thought that maybe starting a simulation using our limited knowledge of how neurons work will help us to refine our understanding? Even a failed experiment provides useful data that we can use to improve our models.
Give the kid a bath whilst dinner is being cooked. You could shave off half an hour that way.
Wow. He was smart enought to go to college but not smart enough to use earplugs and an eye mask?
Let me know when you can grow a solar panel, batteries, charge controller and an LED from a seed.
Efficiency is irrelevant if the components are cheap/renewable and the input power would be wasted anyway.
And yet still twice as much as a coal fired power plant, 100 times as mich as a gas fired powerplant, and a million times more than a wind turbine.
How do you failover when road conditions exceed the thresholds of the car? Uh... slow down or stop maybe???
Just because you might need to transfer control to the driver doesnt mean you need to do it at 100 miles per hour.
Computers are far better at understanding their limitations that human drivers, and when they start getting reduced sensor data or confusing conditions will be programmed to be conservative, unlike the human drivers that keep barreling on until they are at the edge of disaster.
This laser is probably in the 10's of kilowatts, and even including inefficiencies, it's a pretty small load. The air conditioning in the bridge probably consumes more power.
A two litre diesel engine generator would produce enough power and run for hours on a jerry can of fuel. That's pretty good going for a weapon.
I was under the impression that the 45 minutes is there to allow for bag screening - all of the checked baggage gets x-rayed or similar.
And somehow desktop shortcuts, quicklaunch bars, favourite apps, and pinned apps didnt help you???
Yes, you are missing a clue.
If I got 50Gbps out of 6 x 10Gbps links I'd be ecstatic. That's pretty good efficiency considering the sheer throughput processing requited and overheads involved.
Plus it may be difficult if not impossible to get multiple high speed interfaces via one internet carrier - however what if 3 or 4 fibre providers went past your datacenter? Buy bandwidth from all of them and use them simultaneously and add redundancy.
You're missing the point. One of the big reasons to have multiple interfaces is for redundancy - with a company's internet interface, redundancy would be vastly improved by choosing two different providers, and even better with different mediums. The subnets will definitely be different.
Having both of these links acting simultaneously would be great and I could see a lot of people being excited about it.
I think people are understating how difficult it can be to confront people who cause offence
So then go to the PyCon organisers in private and raise your complaint with them. They will then go and find the individuals, again in private and inform them of their infraction.
Taking photos and using your position of influence to publicly shame people based on heresay is a severve form of harrasment. It's so severe that it even lost one guy his job over midly innapropriate comments. Dont you get it? The guy has a wife and kids and no income now... it's freaking tragic.
Crusading blowhard deserved what she got, but in the end everyone has lost. It's very sad indeed.
And how is that?
- DRM done right and not invasive
- Fast download of new release games
- Ability to install your games as many times as you like?
- Super cheap specials and multi-packs
- Offline modes
- Simple game install and patch deployment
What criminals!!! It's just terrible...
Borderlands is a great example where interesting graphics are far more effective than hyper-realistic graphics.
The rotoscoping/cartoon effect in borderlands is used really well, and even though they are low fidelity the styling more than makes up for it. Plus you dont need such a high-end card because high resolutions are less important.
Interesting artistic style and good gameplay/story/humour will always trump eye candy.
I used to be a member of the WAFreenet, and whilst we did a great job at low cost, the network had major issues.
Wifi is just not up to the job. The protocol cannot handle the timings and collition avoidance at outdoor scales, not to mention the fact that it was just plain unreliable. Oh and the channel space was completely saturated, plus you could only have 3 x 2.4GHz antennas co-located before you self-interfered. It's pretty hard to build a robust mesh this way.
Carrier grade wireless is far better and addresses many of these issues, but they are not cheap.
Their larvae are a food source to many aquatic animals.
Urgh, me neither .... boy I learnt my lesson.
I thought the whole point of supercaps is that they DONT lose capacity, i.e they can be cycled faster and more times than conventional batteries.
I have a ZBox, and both XBMC Live (ubuntu) and XBMC OpenELEC both worked great and very stable.
Comapnies shouldnt require a law - especially one with such serious rammifications - to enforce their choice of bisiness model. Either put up with the loss, write termination fees into the contract, or price the phones more realistically.
It's sickening that you have allowed your lawmakers to go ahead with this.
Try OpenELEC then, it's an XBMC distro that runs perfectly well off a USB thumbdrive, and takes all of 15 minutes to install. It would at least make dual booting a snap.
Personally I use a relatively cheap, low power Zotac ZBOX to run XBMC (OpenELEC) permanently, and keep the noisy, power hungry 3D gaming machine turned off 99% of the time. Just the power savings alone would pay off the Zotac box in a few years.
Are you using the windows version?
I've used the XBMC Live and OpenElec distros and they run all day every day for months on end without ever locking up. It would be trivial to have a headless box running them and never have to touch it.
It's not hard to get Arduino clones down to $12 - $15. At that point, price is hardly the obstacle.
In addition, I value my time higher than that and saving evan an hour on programming is worth it for me.
It's only the sensor that needs to be cooled below ambient, other parts can use traditional methods. So, you make the back side of the sensor flouresce, capture that light in a chamber where it is converted back to heat, then dissipate that heat through regular air cooled heatsinks.
In the end it's just shifting the heat whilst working against a thermal gradient - same as a refridgerative system, but without moving parts.
I just did somethign similar. I was writing a karoke jukebox client/server system in my own time, and decided that:
1) Tablets woud be a convenient (and cool) client interface, and
2) I suck at UI aesthetics.
Using the jQuery Mobile library was a no brainer and all of the aesthetics were done for me. It looks and works great on a tablet/smartphone, and is still perfectly usable on a PC. I could make the PC interface richer and more information dense, but there is little incentive.