Just curious if we have self replicating earth bound machines right now? I mean in the sense of something that's able to be automous, move around, and mine materials? We can worry about space travel later.
The other advantage is that it's really really hard to stop the projectiles. The only defense is a) being out of range, b) destroying the gun c) massively hunkered down. Those are all pretty hard when your range is 200miles. It's like Big Berthas in Total Annihilation. You gotta go after the source.
Imperial is here to stay. I hate to say it, but in things like construction, where a 2x4 is standard, you're always going to use imperial measurements. Old houses don't go away. Having said that, everything that's "serious" aka, science and NASA ought to be done in metric.
While sure, guys are interested in how a girl looks, There are a lot of visual clues you can pick up about a girl ot guy thru their pictures. What are they wearing? What are they doing? What kind of friends that they have. You can tell right away, if they are a shopper type, a clubber type, etc...
I always include a picture of my face, a full body picture, a picture with some of my friends, a picture of me doing stuff I like to do. I think it's worked reasonably well. Of course, being a guy it helps that I'm 6'0". Women have ridiculous height requirements on online sites.
You're right, that AUX in is totally the way to go.
However, I do get by without a case and use this product. It's actually really really nice. The front doesn't scratch at all, and while the rear doesn't have full coverage, I don't mind so much about the back scratching. And it lets me pocket the iPod without having to deal with a large bulky case, and lets me use my FlexDock in my car to pop my iPod on. So not everyone's stupid who doesn't have a case...
Well it would help if you are copying large files over your internal network. Some things just call for gigabit ethernet, if you are transferring a ton of photos/music/video, but unless it's going to take hours, then I'm too lazy to plug in, and halving my transfer times would be nice...
Well that was the great white hope - compiler technology evolving. It hasn't happened, and I doubt it will in the near future, at least in it's current form. The problem is that most code that we run today is inherently non parallelizable. do 5 ops on dependent data, branch, repeat. There's nothing you can parallelize there. It'll take a major paradigm shift away from serial code for us to take advantage of ia64.
on the flip size, some media app, that has a small kernel of code that loops, is perfect for IA64, but again, compilers are dumb, and if it's an important loop, you should hand optimize the assembly anyways.
Sure AMD got to 1GHz first and came out with x86-64, but really does that matter anymore? Are you really going to purchase a chip today based on who got to 1GHz first?
AMD is selling a lot of chips, not to regular joe consumers, but to OEM server makers and/. nerds that build their own computer from scratch. Joe consumer buys a dell cause it's cheap. I have a lot of friends in tech, and AMD doesn't have the name recognition that Intel has. Everyone knows Intel, very few non tech people know AMD. Plus, regular joes often ask their more tech savy friends about computer recommendations, and really what's not to like about Core 2 Duo? Plus it'll be even easier to recommend than an Athlon 64 was before. You'll just have to wait 3-6 months, and be like, "order it from dell". With Athlon 64, you'd have to buy an HP or build it for them - pain in the ass.
AMD has built up mindshare, no question. But Core 2 Duo will knock AMD down a couple places out of sheer performance, performace per watt and performance per dollar.
I don't think you can ever future proof computer products.
Anyhow, I doubt any company would make such a co-processor for an AM2 socket. There just wouldn't be a reason to do it - not a large enough market. Just use a PCI Express slot. There are ton more computers out there with those than an extra AM2 socket.
Well, it's different with the gov't cause it's your money that they are spending. You have a say in how they spend it, or at least, you're allowed to show your displeasure at the voting booths. You don't really have a say in how a university student spends his money now do you?
All I'm saying is that $900 is well within the reach of a whole mess of university students whether it be from their parents or whatever.
I'll agree with you that Dell's are cheaper, tho I don't think by much these days, someone else can do a price comparo here. But I can see a lot of students just saying, "I want a Mac. It's hip/cool, and my friends have one. I can get a free nano with one". so even if the Dell was 300 cheaper than the iMac, I bet a lot of kids would still buy it at 900.
I think you're more than welcome to try to change the system. I'm not sure how much support you'll get for passing a law that says billionaires can't donate their money to charities without congressional approval. Of course that would take money and resources, and somehow, I think it's not the greatest peril this country, or world even, faces - controlling how rich people donate their money.
It sounds like you want to tax rich rich people more. I'm fine with that, but realize that people get to keep their untaxed portion, and spend it as they see fit - regardless of income or net worth level.
In 1995 I bought a Pentium 133 with 32 megs of memory. The processor cost me i think $800 and the memory about $900. My friends still tease me about it to this day.
I later upgraded to a P166MMX and bought a Canopus Pure3D which was a ton cooler than any other Voodoo card cause it sported 6 megs of texture memory rather than the standard 4! Woo hoo!
Also it was a good thing cause I was in college in those days, and had a 10mbit pipe to the outside world. Not to mention one of the most popular DM servers was sitting on our hall. I would get ping times of 7-10ms.:P
So there you have it. It has to go at least as fast as someone could bike.:D
Well, 15mph is definitely attainable on a bike, but it does take some effort to average 15mph over 9.6 miles. I don't think just anyone can hop on a mtn bike or hybrid and pull out an 15mph average over that distance. I'm guessing most normal people will commute at about 10mph.
I'm not a great cyclist, but I average about 16 mph on my commute to work which is about 15 miles. However traffic lights and stop signs and a headwind by the bay hold me back a little. I'm guessing if I have perfect conditions and a flat course, I could push 19-20mph average over the 15 miles. I'm on a road bike too. People on mtn bikes will top out at 15 mph beacuse mtn bikes are geared lower and the knobbies have pretty high rolling resistance.
To put it in perspective, Lance would average probably about 31-32mpg on a perfectly flat course.
Well really the compiler spits out assembly, which sends it to the assembler that turns it into machine code.
and no a compiler is not smarter than you are. There are some amazing assembly code written by people out there that no compiler would ever be able to compile. Of course the compiler does well enough, cause who want to write even 5% of their app in assembly these days?
While traditionally AMD has been cheaper than Intel, this hasn't been the case with dual core chips. Athlon X2s start in the 300-350 range, whereas the Pentium D's start in the 150-200 range. Of course, you have to factor in performance per dollar to get an equal comparo, maybe someone has this information can post it?
Look, this applies to any business. It's called a paradigm shift. I'm not supporting his website at all, but I would think this is an obvious fact of doing business - especially in technology. There's always going to be something down the line that's going to obsolete a business - you just have to hope to have enough resources to jump on the new bandwagon whenever it gets here. MP3s are changing the music industry. Cars changed transportation.
At some point silicon will give out. There's a lower limit of having 1 electron on a wire to signal a "1" rather than a "0". When it happens, then there has to be a shift to some new technology. I bet you Intel and AMD execs are thinking about when this might happen as it would force them to get off the cash cow that they are riding and change their businesses entirely.
I think GP is trying to make the same point at you are. Assuming global warming exists, do we know the cause of it? of course not. There are way too many variables to take into account. I think GP states this.
I think the only point of contention you have with GP is if global warming is happening or not. This can easily been seen just by looking at the record of the temperatures around the world. I don't know the numbers, but if the temps are increasing, then global warming is happening. Why? who the hell knows?
I think it's much much better than iPhoto. Sorry, but it's true. I hate the way that iPhoto forces you to organize your photos in a particular style. iTunes has this problem also. Also I think Picasa is a bit more integrated with Gmail (which i use and love) and Blogger (not so good, but what I blog with).
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Well, I tried, but somehow, I can't seem to self-replicate. I think I need to mine this strange exotic material.... what's the word? Girlfriend? :)
Just curious if we have self replicating earth bound machines right now? I mean in the sense of something that's able to be automous, move around, and mine materials? We can worry about space travel later.
The other advantage is that it's really really hard to stop the projectiles. The only defense is a) being out of range, b) destroying the gun c) massively hunkered down. Those are all pretty hard when your range is 200miles. It's like Big Berthas in Total Annihilation. You gotta go after the source.
Imperial is here to stay. I hate to say it, but in things like construction, where a 2x4 is standard, you're always going to use imperial measurements. Old houses don't go away. Having said that, everything that's "serious" aka, science and NASA ought to be done in metric.
It's called an iMac. :P
-don
While sure, guys are interested in how a girl looks, There are a lot of visual clues you can pick up about a girl ot guy thru their pictures. What are they wearing? What are they doing? What kind of friends that they have. You can tell right away, if they are a shopper type, a clubber type, etc...
I always include a picture of my face, a full body picture, a picture with some of my friends, a picture of me doing stuff I like to do. I think it's worked reasonably well. Of course, being a guy it helps that I'm 6'0". Women have ridiculous height requirements on online sites.
You're right, that AUX in is totally the way to go.
However, I do get by without a case and use this product. It's actually really really nice. The front doesn't scratch at all, and while the rear doesn't have full coverage, I don't mind so much about the back scratching. And it lets me pocket the iPod without having to deal with a large bulky case, and lets me use my FlexDock in my car to pop my iPod on. So not everyone's stupid who doesn't have a case...
Well it would help if you are copying large files over your internal network. Some things just call for gigabit ethernet, if you are transferring a ton of photos/music/video, but unless it's going to take hours, then I'm too lazy to plug in, and halving my transfer times would be nice...
-don
Well that was the great white hope - compiler technology evolving. It hasn't happened, and I doubt it will in the near future, at least in it's current form. The problem is that most code that we run today is inherently non parallelizable. do 5 ops on dependent data, branch, repeat. There's nothing you can parallelize there. It'll take a major paradigm shift away from serial code for us to take advantage of ia64.
on the flip size, some media app, that has a small kernel of code that loops, is perfect for IA64, but again, compilers are dumb, and if it's an important loop, you should hand optimize the assembly anyways.
-don
Sure AMD got to 1GHz first and came out with x86-64, but really does that matter anymore? Are you really going to purchase a chip today based on who got to 1GHz first?
/. nerds that build their own computer from scratch. Joe consumer buys a dell cause it's cheap. I have a lot of friends in tech, and AMD doesn't have the name recognition that Intel has. Everyone knows Intel, very few non tech people know AMD. Plus, regular joes often ask their more tech savy friends about computer recommendations, and really what's not to like about Core 2 Duo? Plus it'll be even easier to recommend than an Athlon 64 was before. You'll just have to wait 3-6 months, and be like, "order it from dell". With Athlon 64, you'd have to buy an HP or build it for them - pain in the ass.
AMD is selling a lot of chips, not to regular joe consumers, but to OEM server makers and
AMD has built up mindshare, no question. But Core 2 Duo will knock AMD down a couple places out of sheer performance, performace per watt and performance per dollar.
-don
Like another reply said, the Xeons (Woodcrest) can to multiple chips. Of course, you pay the Xeon price for those too...
-don
I don't think you can ever future proof computer products.
Anyhow, I doubt any company would make such a co-processor for an AM2 socket. There just wouldn't be a reason to do it - not a large enough market. Just use a PCI Express slot. There are ton more computers out there with those than an extra AM2 socket.
-Don
Just curious, how much would you expect to pay for it then if list isn't the real price?
-don
Well, it's different with the gov't cause it's your money that they are spending. You have a say in how they spend it, or at least, you're allowed to show your displeasure at the voting booths. You don't really have a say in how a university student spends his money now do you?
All I'm saying is that $900 is well within the reach of a whole mess of university students whether it be from their parents or whatever.
I'll agree with you that Dell's are cheaper, tho I don't think by much these days, someone else can do a price comparo here. But I can see a lot of students just saying, "I want a Mac. It's hip/cool, and my friends have one. I can get a free nano with one". so even if the Dell was 300 cheaper than the iMac, I bet a lot of kids would still buy it at 900.
How much is tuition these days? 20K-35K? not to mention living expenses are probably another 10-20k. The computer is cheap relatively.
All the kids will want a computer. The real question is why get this when you can get a portable, bluetooth, macbook for only $200 more?
So it's a flaw in the system?
I think you're more than welcome to try to change the system. I'm not sure how much support you'll get for passing a law that says billionaires can't donate their money to charities without congressional approval. Of course that would take money and resources, and somehow, I think it's not the greatest peril this country, or world even, faces - controlling how rich people donate their money.
It sounds like you want to tax rich rich people more. I'm fine with that, but realize that people get to keep their untaxed portion, and spend it as they see fit - regardless of income or net worth level.
In 1995 I bought a Pentium 133 with 32 megs of memory. The processor cost me i think $800 and the memory about $900. My friends still tease me about it to this day.
:P
I later upgraded to a P166MMX and bought a Canopus Pure3D which was a ton cooler than any other Voodoo card cause it sported 6 megs of texture memory rather than the standard 4! Woo hoo!
Also it was a good thing cause I was in college in those days, and had a 10mbit pipe to the outside world. Not to mention one of the most popular DM servers was sitting on our hall. I would get ping times of 7-10ms.
Well, 15mph is definitely attainable on a bike, but it does take some effort to average 15mph over 9.6 miles. I don't think just anyone can hop on a mtn bike or hybrid and pull out an 15mph average over that distance. I'm guessing most normal people will commute at about 10mph.
I'm not a great cyclist, but I average about 16 mph on my commute to work which is about 15 miles. However traffic lights and stop signs and a headwind by the bay hold me back a little. I'm guessing if I have perfect conditions and a flat course, I could push 19-20mph average over the 15 miles. I'm on a road bike too. People on mtn bikes will top out at 15 mph beacuse mtn bikes are geared lower and the knobbies have pretty high rolling resistance.
To put it in perspective, Lance would average probably about 31-32mpg on a perfectly flat course.
and no a compiler is not smarter than you are. There are some amazing assembly code written by people out there that no compiler would ever be able to compile. Of course the compiler does well enough, cause who want to write even 5% of their app in assembly these days?
While traditionally AMD has been cheaper than Intel, this hasn't been the case with dual core chips. Athlon X2s start in the 300-350 range, whereas the Pentium D's start in the 150-200 range. Of course, you have to factor in performance per dollar to get an equal comparo, maybe someone has this information can post it?
At some point silicon will give out. There's a lower limit of having 1 electron on a wire to signal a "1" rather than a "0". When it happens, then there has to be a shift to some new technology. I bet you Intel and AMD execs are thinking about when this might happen as it would force them to get off the cash cow that they are riding and change their businesses entirely.
Gawd. Let it go!
I think the only point of contention you have with GP is if global warming is happening or not. This can easily been seen just by looking at the record of the temperatures around the world. I don't know the numbers, but if the temps are increasing, then global warming is happening. Why? who the hell knows?
I think it's much much better than iPhoto. Sorry, but it's true. I hate the way that iPhoto forces you to organize your photos in a particular style. iTunes has this problem also. Also I think Picasa is a bit more integrated with Gmail (which i use and love) and Blogger (not so good, but what I blog with).
Serious question here. Does anyone know if Nintendo holds any patents that would bar Sony or Microsoft from copying the controller?