GPS Receivers *DO* come with digital magnetic compasses. Your cheaper Garmin or Magellans won't have them, but their upper-end models will. Typically they are implemented via a Honeywell MEMSIC Digital Hall-Effect Sensor. You can get around 0.1 to 0.01 degree resolution depending on the quality of the ADC you have.
Generally, most things previously impossible are extremely simple and inexpensive with new breeds of MEMS in a wheatstone bridge configuration.
So.. if you're going to buy a GPS, don't buy an older brand trying to pull one more year out of that old design.. get a newer brand which incorporates newer and cheaper technology.
KICK ASS! Google never ceases to amaze. They are on the right track.. just imagine how intelligent google is going to be in 2 or 3 years! I'll be able to type in my homework and it'll answer it for me... oh wait... it already does with built in math functionality!
NO IT ISN'T.
Anyone can write an editorial, but it takes a respected organization and a proven track record of ethics to be considered trusted journalism. Sorry, Livejournal, Xanga, NBC, etc.. You're not journalists.
The profit margins just weren't there. Normal movies made for guys at least have girlfriends to drag to the movies.. so they get double the revenue.. But scifi dorks, who will probably pirate the movie anyway.. just can't bring in the numbers without the "girlfriend who was forced to go" crowd.
Its really not a bad idea. I mean, how many times have you gone to register a domain name and its just some company holding it and not using it. They've had it for years and will continue to have it for years.. merely to have it. When I want a domain that is my last name.. I can't have it.. cuz they want me to pay them $500 for it, instead of $20 to register it myself. Its bullshit that some companies can hold onto thousands or millions of names for free.
I have a Palm Vx (old school now). And it can import memopad and notepad stuff into it and out of. I used to keep all my classnotes on it before i got a laptop.
I think they keep rehashing the same hardware. I mean, do they still use that 24mhz processor.. (mine's 16). Basically all you do is buy a prettier screen each time.
Hi 12 year old little boy. It seems that mommy and daddy bought you that brand shiny new spyware ridden P4 for Christmas, and you just love to claim its better than a Mac/PPC merely because your little ego can't handle a Mac being better. So every 90 minutes when windows dies and 900 pop-up adds destroy your computer and you wait for it to reboot think about this...
the G4 can perform Four double-precision add operations every 5clock cycles. So I can add 4 doubles every 5 clock cycles. now that glorious Pentium4 of yours, can do a single double-precision add in 5 clock cycles. So a P4 would have to have a clock speed 4x that of a PowerPC to perform the same amount of operations. Interesting.. but of course, you're a 12 year old little noob that only uses maybe 15% of your computers potential, so you don't even know what performance is anyway do you?
So I really have to ask.. what benchmarks are you looking at? The one's where they take Windows software and benchmark it on a P4, and then load up a Virtual Machine and see how fast it is on a Mac? Or any other Windows software that was "ported" to a Mac. Its ignorant to think that decades old architecture is better merely because you live in a windows world and refuse to change. If you lived in a Unix world.. you'd see the way things really are.
Its not a word. Sorry.. its not. Some dictionaries say it is.. but its not. Sorry
Acceleration is defined as the change in velocity. The definition does not imply a positive or negative change. Just "a change". So you can have both positive and negative acceleration.
Deceleration is a word made up by people who have to take Physics 101 two or three times because they can't comprehend a simple definition... so they relabel acceleration as a positive change in velocity so they can have their precious deceleration.
Sorry.. not a word. Learn english or stop speaking it. Sorry.. not a word.
Reading everyone's comments about PowerPC sucking makes me realize that most of these people have never had the pleasure of taking a masters level Organization and Architecture class.. because if people truely understood the power of a RISC processor and its simplicity and superior design.. they'd dump CISC in a minute. The fact remains.. intel could never shake the 8086 CISC precedent.. and it will forever remain backwards compatibe to 1980's technology... seeing a horribly inefficient CISC pipeline makes me want to cry.
Branch Hazard! Bubble! Data Hazard! Flush or glorious 16 stage Pipeline! errrrrrr... Hazard! Hazard! Hazard!!
I don't know if anyone remembers back when Intel first created PCI.. but within two months they released it to public domain. And look.. They created an open standard that *they* were first to support. And with an open standard led to a lot of peripherals... which was a very compelling reason to buy an x86 system.
So a company who puts its own capital on the line to build a product that has the user base to recover their initial investment.. can do nothing to stop pirates? What if pirates prevent them from recovering their investment? What is someone to do who puts their life investment on the line for a dream.. to help the community..to do? To just have the community rape them of their work?
This is why the economics prove closed-source via CD distribution to be better. You never approach diminishing returns like you do here.. Maybe you're paying $299 for the software.. but they assume 60% of its user base is going to be thiefs so they spread the cost over everyone who actually does buy it. Here its $5.. you need a huge userbase to recover costs..
This is a great idea. Now that its tagged and *if* you share it, they'll know exactly whose sharing it and can prosecute. They make money by selling a product. When you copy it for other people.. its stealing. Sadly the RIAA was right on filing lawsuits. People who steal should be punished.... if downloading music was because of the price, then maybe a better effort would be to mass-boycott and stop attending concerts. Oh wait! that'd be unamerican! Cuz I want it now.. and if I don't get it I steal it.
Yeah, I may have stuff a little backwards. I read about BSE many months ago when there was a scare in Canada. Either way, to fully understand this I'd bet we'd all need to go take a class in proteomics.:)
I've not read the article.. but a little synopse of how BSE works... Everyone already has the protein for BSE in their brain. Except in its natural form in the brain.. its meta-table.. Meaning it can unfold and refold into its original shape. The interesting thing about BSE is its super-stable fold of the protein. What makes this dangerous is proteins can learn new and unique ways of folding.. so if in contact with a BSE protein it'll learn to fold the BSE way. Meaning.. it'll learn to fold superstable.. which is basically a knot you can't untie. Proteins are the messengers of the body.. and if they can't unfold to be read.. its basically dead weight. After a couple years too many proteins have been retrained, leading to loss of cognitive abilities.. tada... your cow has the mad shakes!
Its the deterent. Now that people can and will be caught it'll make people think twice. And what if the 16 year old gets a harsh punishment? You think you'll enter a theatre again to pirate a movie you already paid to see so some stranger can see a crapy copy for free?
Obviously Infinium Labs is a group of 12 year olds working out of their clubhouse modding an old 8bit nintendo with their ultra leet skill to do thy bidding!
Obviously the EU is gonna loose this battle. If they meddle in the affairs of Microsoft, they might just get themselves bought out. Honestly now, who has more power.. the sissy EU, or the mighty Microsoft! muahaha! Capitalism is Unstoppable!
presumably, this is the result of the Nvidia's latest acquisition, MediaQ. I'm sure there will be more releases in the near future (6months), but they'd rather get a market presence now before someone beats them too it...or thats what my annual report claims..
I, personally, would prefer 1GB = 1024mb, instead of 1GB = 1000mb. You get an extra 24mb! Come on People! More than what you thought! MORE! Not Less! They're not gypin' you! They're giving you MORE!
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GPS Receivers *DO* come with digital magnetic compasses. Your cheaper Garmin or Magellans won't have them, but their upper-end models will. Typically they are implemented via a Honeywell MEMSIC Digital Hall-Effect Sensor. You can get around 0.1 to 0.01 degree resolution depending on the quality of the ADC you have. Generally, most things previously impossible are extremely simple and inexpensive with new breeds of MEMS in a wheatstone bridge configuration. So.. if you're going to buy a GPS, don't buy an older brand trying to pull one more year out of that old design.. get a newer brand which incorporates newer and cheaper technology.
KICK ASS! Google never ceases to amaze. They are on the right track.. just imagine how intelligent google is going to be in 2 or 3 years! I'll be able to type in my homework and it'll answer it for me... oh wait... it already does with built in math functionality!
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NO IT ISN'T. Anyone can write an editorial, but it takes a respected organization and a proven track record of ethics to be considered trusted journalism. Sorry, Livejournal, Xanga, NBC, etc.. You're not journalists.
The profit margins just weren't there. Normal movies made for guys at least have girlfriends to drag to the movies.. so they get double the revenue.. But scifi dorks, who will probably pirate the movie anyway.. just can't bring in the numbers without the "girlfriend who was forced to go" crowd.
ZigBee, n, pronounced: Bluetooth.
Its really not a bad idea. I mean, how many times have you gone to register a domain name and its just some company holding it and not using it. They've had it for years and will continue to have it for years.. merely to have it. When I want a domain that is my last name.. I can't have it.. cuz they want me to pay them $500 for it, instead of $20 to register it myself. Its bullshit that some companies can hold onto thousands or millions of names for free.
I have a Palm Vx (old school now). And it can import memopad and notepad stuff into it and out of. I used to keep all my classnotes on it before i got a laptop. I think they keep rehashing the same hardware. I mean, do they still use that 24mhz processor.. (mine's 16). Basically all you do is buy a prettier screen each time.
I don't get it.. I can't get it to work in Safari 1.2.4. Is my browser broken, and by broken I mean fixed.
Its not a word. Sorry.. its not. Some dictionaries say it is.. but its not. Sorry Acceleration is defined as the change in velocity. The definition does not imply a positive or negative change. Just "a change". So you can have both positive and negative acceleration. Deceleration is a word made up by people who have to take Physics 101 two or three times because they can't comprehend a simple definition... so they relabel acceleration as a positive change in velocity so they can have their precious deceleration. Sorry.. not a word. Learn english or stop speaking it. Sorry.. not a word.
Reading everyone's comments about PowerPC sucking makes me realize that most of these people have never had the pleasure of taking a masters level Organization and Architecture class.. because if people truely understood the power of a RISC processor and its simplicity and superior design.. they'd dump CISC in a minute. The fact remains.. intel could never shake the 8086 CISC precedent.. and it will forever remain backwards compatibe to 1980's technology... seeing a horribly inefficient CISC pipeline makes me want to cry. Branch Hazard! Bubble! Data Hazard! Flush or glorious 16 stage Pipeline! errrrrrr... Hazard! Hazard! Hazard!!
I don't know if anyone remembers back when Intel first created PCI.. but within two months they released it to public domain. And look.. They created an open standard that *they* were first to support. And with an open standard led to a lot of peripherals... which was a very compelling reason to buy an x86 system.
So a company who puts its own capital on the line to build a product that has the user base to recover their initial investment.. can do nothing to stop pirates? What if pirates prevent them from recovering their investment? What is someone to do who puts their life investment on the line for a dream.. to help the community..to do? To just have the community rape them of their work? This is why the economics prove closed-source via CD distribution to be better. You never approach diminishing returns like you do here.. Maybe you're paying $299 for the software.. but they assume 60% of its user base is going to be thiefs so they spread the cost over everyone who actually does buy it. Here its $5.. you need a huge userbase to recover costs..
This is a great idea. Now that its tagged and *if* you share it, they'll know exactly whose sharing it and can prosecute. They make money by selling a product. When you copy it for other people.. its stealing. Sadly the RIAA was right on filing lawsuits. People who steal should be punished. ... if downloading music was because of the price, then maybe a better effort would be to mass-boycott and stop attending concerts. Oh wait! that'd be unamerican! Cuz I want it now.. and if I don't get it I steal it.
No doubt about it.. The Matrix. Its amazing how Keannu Reeves can completely and utterly destroy a thinly plotted movie.
Yeah, I may have stuff a little backwards. I read about BSE many months ago when there was a scare in Canada. Either way, to fully understand this I'd bet we'd all need to go take a class in proteomics. :)
I've not read the article.. but a little synopse of how BSE works... Everyone already has the protein for BSE in their brain. Except in its natural form in the brain.. its meta-table.. Meaning it can unfold and refold into its original shape. The interesting thing about BSE is its super-stable fold of the protein. What makes this dangerous is proteins can learn new and unique ways of folding.. so if in contact with a BSE protein it'll learn to fold the BSE way. Meaning.. it'll learn to fold superstable.. which is basically a knot you can't untie. Proteins are the messengers of the body.. and if they can't unfold to be read.. its basically dead weight. After a couple years too many proteins have been retrained, leading to loss of cognitive abilities.. tada... your cow has the mad shakes!
Its the deterent. Now that people can and will be caught it'll make people think twice. And what if the 16 year old gets a harsh punishment? You think you'll enter a theatre again to pirate a movie you already paid to see so some stranger can see a crapy copy for free?
'nuf said.
Obviously Infinium Labs is a group of 12 year olds working out of their clubhouse modding an old 8bit nintendo with their ultra leet skill to do thy bidding!
I carry my powerbook around in a Samsonite XT470.
Obviously the EU is gonna loose this battle. If they meddle in the affairs of Microsoft, they might just get themselves bought out. Honestly now, who has more power.. the sissy EU, or the mighty Microsoft! muahaha! Capitalism is Unstoppable!
presumably, this is the result of the Nvidia's latest acquisition, MediaQ. I'm sure there will be more releases in the near future (6months), but they'd rather get a market presence now before someone beats them too it. ..or thats what my annual report claims..
I, personally, would prefer 1GB = 1024mb, instead of 1GB = 1000mb. You get an extra 24mb! Come on People! More than what you thought! MORE! Not Less! They're not gypin' you! They're giving you MORE!