Well, XP is a somewhat sensible choice for gaming. It was a lump of dirt, but Microsoft has polished it over the course of six years until is actually resembles a viable operating system. It's certainly better than their console.
Regular usage. Leaving the X-Box on for too long. Not leaving it on for long enough. Powering down between gaming sessions.
There is more than one way in which your X360 can develop an RROD. If you have bad solder balls underneath the GPU, any regular gaming session can cause one to break, leaving you red-ringed. Other X360s have been known to fail when powered on and off too quickly; I don't know what caused the issues there.
Essentially, whether or not you get a Red Ring very much depends on which faults your X360 has. If you got lucky, it doesn't have any and you can use it in any way you want.
And I'd go one step further and even make the prediction that we will one day likely image in exquisite, undeniable detail a sequence of shots demonstrating that hot planets like this are in fact expelled from highly electrical stars like this one superficially appears to be.
I think that it's best to wait until then, then. Or at least until we have data that gives us a bit more insight. I'm not an astrophysicist and my armchair speculations on how the universe works are going to be wildly inaccurate at best. Basing them on a very low-res image of something that looks like a cheap particle effect in a 3D game (at least at this resolution it does) is unlikely to provide any new insight. Similarly, saying "hey, that looks highly energetic! This might or might not tell us anything about the Plasma Universe" is unlikely to reveal anything new.
Maybe that's why so many people on/. are tired of the PU theory - it's unlikely that we'll get anything more definitive than "maybe it's true, maybe it isn't".
By the way, I fail to see how the IEEE's opinion has much weight in astrophysics, apart from the engineering required to build instruments and the like. NASA and LANL, okay, but IEEE? They probably know a lot about plasma, but do they also know a lot about the universe?
By the way, the fact that the IEEE is the largest scientific institution on the planet doesn't say much - Microsoft is one of the largest software houses om the planet, but they're hardly competent to speak on the topic of which programming language industrial robots should be controlled with. It's not entirely their field and they're going to come up with some.NET language because that's what they know; even if they have a couple industrial robot experts, they're hardly oing to be the minority.
Once again, I'm armchairing here and in reality IEEE could (counter-intuitively) actually be one of the core forces behind space exploration, but it seems to me that their size is rather irrelevant as their work is mostly unrelated to astrophysics.
Hmm... What would happen if the suppliers reacted by simply raising their prices across the board? For every product sold at Sam's Wal-Mart takes two dollars and gives two dollars. For every product sold at a regular Wal-Mart Wal-Mart gives two dollars.
If they want to make it less obvious, they'll calculate how much of their stuff goes to Sam's as opposed to other Wal-Mart stores and adjust the price in such a way that they still don't lose any money.
Impossible to tell. Due to the image's low resolution I can't tell whether it's an a regular solar corona, a star sitting in a wispy gas cloud, a star sitting in a debris field, a star sitting behind a cloud/debris field, extremely large protuberances, giant lightning bolts... Heck, it could be a giant glowing amoeba.
That image looks like it was about 30x30 pixels before scaling. With that kind of resolution being able to tell that it's a star is about as far as we get.
Why do I suddenly have to think of Starship Troopers? Replace "citizenship" with "health care" and "bugs" with "terrorists" and it becomes very familiar...
Things like prescription drugs, imaging, etc. should not be covered. These would be affordable in a true free market society.
Only if you remove patents from the equation. Until the patent on a newly developed drug runs out the corp which developed it can charge whatever they want. If they decide that the a drug that can prevent the outbreak of Alzheimer's is worth 1000$ per dose (with one dose per week neccessary for it to work) then the cost of that drug is 1000% per week. If you can't afford it, too bad for you. Wait ten years, maybe by then they will release the generic version.
As long as only one corporation is allowed to prodice a certain drug, the price will be at whichever point the corp deems best, i.e. wherever they believe they will make the most money. If the price most people can't afford is too low for them to recoup their costs effectively, most people will not be able to buy the medication. The free market works like that.
Here is some food for thought imagine a gun man wearing a black black suit with a black black gun. One wouldn't be able to see his hands much less the gun only the silhouette of his body.
Unless he's not facing you head-on, of course. Add to that the fact that a black black suit automaticlly draws attention simply because it's black black...
You can even rewrite Dungeons and Dragons, so that it works exactly like the original if you're only using your own words to phrase the rules.
Interesting. I'll have to look up whether European/German copyright law works similarly. This could be relevant to me as the best way I see to manage the enormous amount of house rules my online roleplaying group develops is to compile half of the Dark Eye v3 sourcebooks into one big tome, with our changes built in. (Although I certainly wouldn't fight Ulisses Spiele if they came at me with a takedown notice; their stuff, their rules.)
Yes, we would. No incoming photons doesn't mean that our brain furiously tries to make our pattern filling work 1000% beyond what it normally does. It would mean a big black spot. Just because a person wearing a suit made out of this would look completely flat doesn't mean he'd be invisible.
Even if your brain couldn't handle pure blackness, the rods still fire randomly, ensuring that some form if input is always present. You can verify this by closing your eyes in a very dark room - you should see a color that is not black. This color is called eigengrau.
I think this will be of limited value for personal stealth measures - being that dark, you'd stand out even aginst regular dark surfaces. However, as another article pointed out, a stealth plane could profit from being able to absorb radar beams. Research into the absorption of non-visible wavelengths is already underway.
Interestingly, most people who say that most Catholics are stupid and weird happen to be Catholics. Seeing as how much they like to badmouth themselves, their mass (is that capitalized?) must invove some kind of groin-kicking ritual or something...
(*the chalice is passed around* "This is the blood of Christ. And because Christ was quite pissed for being nailed to a piece of wood, it's vinegar. That's what you assholes get for not helping him." - "But priest, we weren't born back then!" - "Well, that's hardly my fault now, is it?")
1) As far as I could tell from TFA, they were just pissy because he's Catholic, not because of anything he's said.
Unlikely, seeing as the university was founded by a pope. I somehow doubt that such an institution harbors strong anti-Catholic resentments.
The pope remarked, back in 1990, when he was still a German cardinal, that he supported an Austrian theologist's (might be wrong on this one) opinion that the way the Church dealt with Galileo Galilei was right and just. A number of lecturers and students took issue with that and said that unless he steps back from that position they're going to boycott him by interrupting his speech with loud noise. The pope replied by canceling the speech. And that's the story.
I set up my parent's PC to suspend to disk and power down if left alone for 30 minutes. They love it - from the way the see it the thing boots up in a couple seconds now because they rarely actually turn it off. Suspend-to-disk is an awesome thing and it does make "booting" very fast. Loading the OS from ROM is not going to give much of an advantage when a complete WinXP installation comes up in five seconds.
But it should also have the brakes from the 2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR. You know, for those times when you really need to go from 300 to 0 mph in less than 12 feet.
Germany has a number of parties, with currently five or six of them in the Bundestag. Yes, five or six; one "party" (CDU/CSU aka "the Union") is actually a bloc made up of two parties whose main difference is that the CSU is active mainly in Bavaria and the CDU everywhere else.
Our big parties are, as of the 2005 elections:
CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union - the conservatives, but not nerly as right as the American ones): ~35.2%
SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany - they'd like to be slightly left of center): ~34.2%
FDP (Free Democratic Party - the liberals): ~9.8%
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/The Greens - well, the Greens): ~8.1%
Die Linke (The Left - well, duh): ~8.7% (as the bloc PDS/The Left; both parties merged in 2007)
All other parties didn't make it past the 5% hurdle.
Since no party has the absolut majority, it's always a coalition of parties that rules; currently CDU/CSU and SPD are ruling as a grand coalition, which means that we get bullshit from both sides of the fence as opposed to just from one side. Interestingly, the volume of bullshit has stayed about the same, which leads to the question if there's at least one politician that isn't completely interchangable with every other one.
I know some people who ride their batteries right down to zero percent nd only then switch to external power. Okay, they deserve what they get (namely a very short battery lifespan) anyway.
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Microsoft catering to the needs of the user? Come on, everyone knows it works the other way around.
Well, XP is a somewhat sensible choice for gaming. It was a lump of dirt, but Microsoft has polished it over the course of six years until is actually resembles a viable operating system. It's certainly better than their console.
Maybe they can ask Nintendo to build the X-Box 129600*...
* X-Box 1 -> X-Box 360: Multiply by 360.
360 * 360 = 129600.
Of course it couldn't. You need three cores at 3.3 GHz for that. 3D graphics are really expensive, m'kay?
Regular usage. Leaving the X-Box on for too long. Not leaving it on for long enough. Powering down between gaming sessions.
There is more than one way in which your X360 can develop an RROD. If you have bad solder balls underneath the GPU, any regular gaming session can cause one to break, leaving you red-ringed. Other X360s have been known to fail when powered on and off too quickly; I don't know what caused the issues there.
Essentially, whether or not you get a Red Ring very much depends on which faults your X360 has. If you got lucky, it doesn't have any and you can use it in any way you want.
Their MN-700 wireless router was less awesome, though. Tended to crash under stress rather fast.
Maybe that's why so many people on
By the way, I fail to see how the IEEE's opinion has much weight in astrophysics, apart from the engineering required to build instruments and the like. NASA and LANL, okay, but IEEE? They probably know a lot about plasma, but do they also know a lot about the universe?
By the way, the fact that the IEEE is the largest scientific institution on the planet doesn't say much - Microsoft is one of the largest software houses om the planet, but they're hardly competent to speak on the topic of which programming language industrial robots should be controlled with. It's not entirely their field and they're going to come up with some
Once again, I'm armchairing here and in reality IEEE could (counter-intuitively) actually be one of the core forces behind space exploration, but it seems to me that their size is rather irrelevant as their work is mostly unrelated to astrophysics.
Hmm... What would happen if the suppliers reacted by simply raising their prices across the board? For every product sold at Sam's Wal-Mart takes two dollars and gives two dollars. For every product sold at a regular Wal-Mart Wal-Mart gives two dollars.
If they want to make it less obvious, they'll calculate how much of their stuff goes to Sam's as opposed to other Wal-Mart stores and adjust the price in such a way that they still don't lose any money.
That image looks like it was about 30x30 pixels before scaling. With that kind of resolution being able to tell that it's a star is about as far as we get.
Why do I suddenly have to think of Starship Troopers? Replace "citizenship" with "health care" and "bugs" with "terrorists" and it becomes very familiar...
As long as only one corporation is allowed to prodice a certain drug, the price will be at whichever point the corp deems best, i.e. wherever they believe they will make the most money. If the price most people can't afford is too low for them to recoup their costs effectively, most people will not be able to buy the medication. The free market works like that.
Wish I had mod points. +1, Insightful
Watch it! Any more game puns and Hasbro might snap and start chopping up people with a Catana.
Yes, we would. No incoming photons doesn't mean that our brain furiously tries to make our pattern filling work 1000% beyond what it normally does. It would mean a big black spot. Just because a person wearing a suit made out of this would look completely flat doesn't mean he'd be invisible.
Even if your brain couldn't handle pure blackness, the rods still fire randomly, ensuring that some form if input is always present. You can verify this by closing your eyes in a very dark room - you should see a color that is not black. This color is called eigengrau.
I think this will be of limited value for personal stealth measures - being that dark, you'd stand out even aginst regular dark surfaces. However, as another article pointed out, a stealth plane could profit from being able to absorb radar beams. Research into the absorption of non-visible wavelengths is already underway.
North American of African Descent, please!
Interestingly, most people who say that most Catholics are stupid and weird happen to be Catholics. Seeing as how much they like to badmouth themselves, their mass (is that capitalized?) must invove some kind of groin-kicking ritual or something...
(*the chalice is passed around* "This is the blood of Christ. And because Christ was quite pissed for being nailed to a piece of wood, it's vinegar. That's what you assholes get for not helping him." - "But priest, we weren't born back then!" - "Well, that's hardly my fault now, is it?")
The pope remarked, back in 1990, when he was still a German cardinal, that he supported an Austrian theologist's (might be wrong on this one) opinion that the way the Church dealt with Galileo Galilei was right and just. A number of lecturers and students took issue with that and said that unless he steps back from that position they're going to boycott him by interrupting his speech with loud noise. The pope replied by canceling the speech. And that's the story.
I set up my parent's PC to suspend to disk and power down if left alone for 30 minutes. They love it - from the way the see it the thing boots up in a couple seconds now because they rarely actually turn it off. Suspend-to-disk is an awesome thing and it does make "booting" very fast. Loading the OS from ROM is not going to give much of an advantage when a complete WinXP installation comes up in five seconds.
Thank you, but I prefer not bleeding from all orifices.
But it should also have the brakes from the 2008 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500KR. You know, for those times when you really need to go from 300 to 0 mph in less than 12 feet.
Germany has a number of parties, with currently five or six of them in the Bundestag. Yes, five or six; one "party" (CDU/CSU aka "the Union") is actually a bloc made up of two parties whose main difference is that the CSU is active mainly in Bavaria and the CDU everywhere else.
Our big parties are, as of the 2005 elections:
CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union - the conservatives, but not nerly as right as the American ones): ~35.2%
SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany - they'd like to be slightly left of center): ~34.2%
FDP (Free Democratic Party - the liberals): ~9.8%
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/The Greens - well, the Greens): ~8.1%
Die Linke (The Left - well, duh): ~8.7% (as the bloc PDS/The Left; both parties merged in 2007)
All other parties didn't make it past the 5% hurdle.
Since no party has the absolut majority, it's always a coalition of parties that rules; currently CDU/CSU and SPD are ruling as a grand coalition, which means that we get bullshit from both sides of the fence as opposed to just from one side. Interestingly, the volume of bullshit has stayed about the same, which leads to the question if there's at least one politician that isn't completely interchangable with every other one.
I know some people who ride their batteries right down to zero percent nd only then switch to external power. Okay, they deserve what they get (namely a very short battery lifespan) anyway.