The low-level-language experts (including me a few times) may have known their language well, but they'd never looked into the perl/python/cc code to learn the algorithms used there. It turned out that the implementers of perl/python/cc have developed some rather sophisticated algorithms for some of the time-wasting operations (e.g. table lookup) that were unknown to the asm programmers.
Yes, yes, 1000X yes.
I've seen this in Matlab versus C++a couple times. The matlab people implemented some very fast algorithms that were way faster than some of the things I came up with.
When Hulu pitches their online service to an ad agency they don't need Neilsen to tell them how many people are watching their shows - they already collect that stuff on their own.
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Said another way, why would Neilsen spend money to estimate the number of viewers of hulu when hulu already knows exactly.
what? that is bad logic [and fuck the mods]. The new "Mario Brothers" has sold 10 Million copies. "Modern Warfare 2" is the same game, offered for multiple platforms, and has sold almost double that amount.
to use vgcharts, you would have to total up all the systems Adding xbox 360 (http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=28848) To PS3 (http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=28847) To PC (http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=28849)
That is really going to be dependent on the area you live in though. I live in a pretty humid area, so it takes a little longer 2min maybe (then again, I have an old car, so that also might be a factor).
Wind chill has nothing to do with the object being animate or not, it has to do with the object having its own heat source. Wind chill is the difference between convective and conductive cooling. On the human body, an additional factor would be evaporation cooling from moisture.
Good point, But U was still only a little hasty in my write off Conversely, Peltier devices work at the diode level which is already quite small, so until shown otherwise, I think the problem is still better handled by this class of devices. That doesn't mean this tech isn't interesting, it just means I think it is not as well suited to heat dissipation. While I may be proved wrong in the future, currently, I am correct.
What movie house sells 3$ burgers?! For a good burger (better than I can make myself) around where I live, I usually pay 7$. But I guess that's city life.
You picked the ONE example where your system is sun->solar panels->electricity->heating toast. But there are MANY other uses for electricity that don't dissipate 100% of their energy in heat.
What does the term energy efficiency mean to you? That, is if our electronic devices are more efficient than the solar panels used to power them, we would be removing heat energy from the atmosphere.
That depends on the registration time of each pixel. If it takes 1/100 of a second to get a single pixel reading, that means a 320x480 image takes 25 minutes to get a frame update.
That isn't really true in my area so I wanted to call bullshit. Then I realized that in most rural places that is probably true.
population in the USA ~300,000,000 zip 5+4= 1 to 999,999,999. I know it isn't direct, but that means you could basically have a postal code for ever house in the country and for every business, and one left over for ever PO box
I use advertisements on most of my sites not because I want to make money, but because I want to pay for the site.
Same difference. You place ads so you get money. The fact that you put that money back in the site is irrelevant. It does not matter what you use the money for.
I'm not sure if cost is still an issue but cat5e works just find for 1000-BaseT. Also, if stringing the cords through walls, 5e lets you drill smaller holes.
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I think RFID cards would be less intrusive than getting all the kids finger prints.
The low-level-language experts (including me a few times) may have known their language well, but they'd never looked into the perl/python/cc code to learn the algorithms used there. It turned out that the implementers of perl/python/cc have developed some rather sophisticated algorithms for some of the time-wasting operations (e.g. table lookup) that were unknown to the asm programmers.
Yes, yes, 1000X yes.
I've seen this in Matlab versus C++a couple times. The matlab people implemented some very fast algorithms that were way faster than some of the things I came up with.
Iraq war: 255 million/day
Nasa buget FY 2010:: ~19.6 billion
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15377059/
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/344612main_Agency_Summary_Final_updates_5_6_09_R2.pdf&ei=q5VgS8faG8LflAfXr6ncCw&sa=X&oi=nshc&resnum=4&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CBUQzgQoAA&usg=AFQjCNHbvMN_LllUUGX-OGEOk1BtsLAPww
Where did you get your numbers?
I'm not saying we hould be in iraq, I'm saying don't make shit up. Perhaps you meant to say: "77 days in iraq is the entire nasa budget.
Initialism is more specific than abbreviation.
abbreviation just means smaller, so
Dr. for 'doctor' or mon. for 'monday'
An initialism is abreviated all the way to just its initials. So CIA for 'Central Intelligence Agency'.
Acronyms are a pronounceable initialisms and were popularized (in english) by the military in WW1.
I would say Acronyms are to Initialisms are to abbreviations as Squares are to rectangles are to quadrilaterals.
When Hulu pitches their online service to an ad agency they don't need Neilsen to tell them how many people are watching their shows - they already collect that stuff on their own.
Insightful
Said another way, why would Neilsen spend money to estimate the number of viewers of hulu when hulu already knows exactly.
what? that is bad logic [and fuck the mods]. The new "Mario Brothers" has sold 10 Million copies. "Modern Warfare 2" is the same game, offered for multiple platforms, and has sold almost double that amount.
You are misreading the charts. Modern Warfare 2 has sole way more than 10 million copies total
They sold a billion$ worth of product: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/01/what-we-and-activision-learned-from-modern-warfare-2.ars
That is about 17 million copies.
to use vgcharts, you would have to total up all the systems
Adding xbox 360 (http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=28848)
To PS3 (http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=28847)
To PC (http://vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=28849)
That is really going to be dependent on the area you live in though. I live in a pretty humid area, so it takes a little longer 2min maybe (then again, I have an old car, so that also might be a factor).
Wind chill has nothing to do with the object being animate or not, it has to do with the object having its own heat source. Wind chill is the difference between convective and conductive cooling. On the human body, an additional factor would be evaporation cooling from moisture.
Good point, But U was still only a little hasty in my write off
Conversely, Peltier devices work at the diode level which is already quite small, so until shown otherwise, I think the problem is still better handled by this class of devices. That doesn't mean this tech isn't interesting, it just means I think it is not as well suited to heat dissipation. While I may be proved wrong in the future, currently, I am correct.
Already done: see peltier device. They are already made to the correct size and probably better efficiency.
http://www.peltier-info.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling
So, with all their extra cash, think they could put a dedicated server or two in?
What movie house sells 3$ burgers?! For a good burger (better than I can make myself) around where I live, I usually pay 7$. But I guess that's city life.
You picked the ONE example where your system is sun->solar panels->electricity->heating toast.
But there are MANY other uses for electricity that don't dissipate 100% of their energy in heat.
What does the term energy efficiency mean to you? That, is if our electronic devices are more efficient than the solar panels used to power them, we would be removing heat energy from the atmosphere.
That depends on the registration time of each pixel. If it takes 1/100 of a second to get a single pixel reading, that means a 320x480 image takes 25 minutes to get a frame update.
Definitely a problem 10 years ago maybe, but modern thermal images, while expensive, can easily get a usable image w/o cooling.
Cooling is to reduce the thermal noise in the electronics. Better detectors and modern electronics reduce the need for this.
does it have a name?
That isn't really true in my area so I wanted to call bullshit. Then I realized that in most rural places that is probably true.
population in the USA ~300,000,000
zip 5+4= 1 to 999,999,999.
I know it isn't direct, but that means you could basically have a postal code for ever house in the country and for every business, and one left over for ever PO box
Same difference. You place ads so you get money. The fact that you put that money back in the site is irrelevant. It does not matter what you use the money for.
I think it does.
I'm not sure if cost is still an issue but cat5e works just find for 1000-BaseT. Also, if stringing the cords through walls, 5e lets you drill smaller holes.
I bought my 9XXX series NVIDIA for the same reasons. I'm happy to hear that there are others that consider this when choosing PC computer parts.
You disagree with the FACT that he isn't the father of a 14 year old girl? Then you are either a pimp, or ALSO not the father of a 14 year old girl.
Your sexual conquests (:thumbs up:,:rolls eyes:) have nothing to do with the psychological change that the father of a teenage girl undergoes.
perhaps, and I'm just spit-balling here, that a charge of wife battering would get his gun confiscated for ...5 years.
You are clearly not the [good] father of a 14 year old girl.