I only tried Resedent Evil 4 and Wii Sports, but the mix of jaggies and up scaling was painful. I expect the console could do anti-aliasing if they lower the polygon count, but I have yet to see it. I suspect it would work much better on a smaller screen or with a better game, but don't really feel like messing with it.
PS: Metroid Prime looked great on the Game Cube so I might want to try MP3 it with the Wii unless you have a better suggestion.
I have a Wii hooked up to a 55 inch 1080p TV. 360 and PS 3 looks good, old PS 2 games on the PS 3 look ok, but the Wii graphics are so bad I can't play it. I don't really care about the polygon count, but without AA all those jagged edges bother me. Now I am keeping the console around and I assume in a few years games will have fewer problems but for now I think the Wii was a swing and a miss.
4 gig's is not that all that much data. Let's take RAW HD video 4gb / (30 * 1080 * 1920 * 4 bytes ) ~= 4 seconds. If computer growth keeps going 64bit address spaces will eventually seem cramped because the resolution of the real world is insane so someone is always going to want to record at the highest level their technology can handle.
Mathematicians consider any probability less than about 1 in 10^-42 equal to zero. Like most of the rest of your coment this is false.
Hint: 1 in 10^-42 does not mean what you think it means.
Anyway, 1 in 10^42 can become vary likely if roll the dice enough times.
PS: Your making a mistake by only concidering the specific outcome not the range of outcomes that are similar. There are more than 10^20000 ways to make a horse which can breed with other horses.
UO and EQ where late to the game. Launched online December 15, 1995 "Meridian 59 is often credited as the first 3D graphical "massively multiplayer online game" or MMORPG."
Anyway, I will ask you a simple question if we build a device to directly view the past and you can watch over billions of years as life evolves as scientists thought it did, and see the most interesting thing Jesus did was starting a cult. Would you still believe in God?
I played till 30 and then stopped. The game is fun but it becomes fairly repetitive over time so IMO it's worth checking out.
For example multi kills in short time periods give more experience so chaining low level mobs is ideal but get's boring. You can solo dungeons and see some some really interesting an storyline even at fairly low levels.
PS: Defending a base with other random people is also interesting. As you level you can start having more impact on the battlefield. At low levels your picking off enemy's from the edge and over time you start getting into the tick of it. But, it's scripted so you will lose at some point, however you then get to take the base back which is also fun.
That might be how it was designed but that's not how it was implemented. Look I am a coder I can see what's in ram and on disk while using vista and it's broken.
PS: It's not all about fast boot the OS wants to keep RAM free so you can quickly allocate memory without swapping which is a good idea, but if I open a 24 hour old tab it's not in memory even if I have 2GB of free ram. I think the bug has something with not loading back stuff that's been swapped out in favor of the ready boost crap.
Vista tends to swap memory to disk that's "stale" so it replaces stuff I want in memory with files that help programs load faster. This is stupid, I would like to quickly tab to something I opened 3 hours ago no reload it from disk. I don't care about programs I might at some point use I want the 5 programs I am using right now to all say in ram. I have a tun of ram I would like to be able to use it vs. swapping stuff out to free up memory I might want to load some other application.
Adjusting for the differences in efficiency between an electric and gas engine it's about the equivalent of 5galons of gas. However, at 300LB's you could have two without much trouble so you could have a good range a decent range including some energy reserves.
PS: (52.220 kWh * 98%) / (36.6 kWh/US gallon * 30%) = 4.7 gallon but you can probably use more efficient regenerative breaks because you can charge faster.
Assuming a classic demand curve an increased sales tax will drive down demand, but the customers that are left care less about price so the price you charge to maximize profit goes up more than the sales tax. However, with a tax on profits the price that maximizes profits does not change because there is no change to the demand curve or your costs. Basically, if you would have made more money charging more you would have already done so and if you would have made more money charging less you would have done so independent of the tax on profits.
PS: The real impact is on investing which can impact long term pricing as well as the amount of tax evasion.
It's a tax on profit so it's not a cost. If your costs go up you need to increase the cost, but if your price maximizes your profit then a change in the tax rate on profits will not change the price you charge because that would reduce your profit.
At some point in time processing power made a difference when gaming, but saying a single 1.6GHz P4 had troubles says little about a quad core cpu at 2.4Ghz with 8Mbytes of cache. For a tiny fraction of people buying a 20,000$ workstation is a great idea, but for most things like playing FPS at normal resolutions it's just not that taxing for modern CPU's.
It's also wrong, I have a Core 2 Q6600 the slowest chip in their roundup and I never tax all the cores. Games don't need that much CPU and I can encode video while playing games so I don't care how long it takes.
Unless you are spend all day running benchmarks it's silly for most people to spend all that much on a CPU.
I would be annoyed if a newspaper was withholding information which helps to re-elect someone who had failed to uphold the constitution last time and had ordered criminal acts to take place. Presumably voters should have all available information before voting but perhaps that's just me.
I thought the BR DRM prevented you from streaming the movies in full quality over the network from an external drive. If it works then there is a fairly major hole in there DRM system.
Upkeep on something that's generating money is just part of doing business. We are still going though a rappid R&D phase phase with wind but large scale wind turbines are valuable on a day to day basis. 5MW wind turbines are becomeing more common so assuming 1MW 24 * 7 works out to.04c/kw * 1000 * 24 * 7 = 6,720$ every week the turbine is down.
Now small scale plants using outdated technology will probably not be upgraded until most of their turbines break, but because they are on valuable land for wind farming they will be replaced with highly valuable systems. Assuming they don't want to removing working turbines, or rearrange the new system for a few turbines that will break in a few years.
The advantages to wind is it's cheaper than Nuclear energy once you consider all the costs. You don't need to build giant facility's, you don't need guards, you can use the land for other things, there is minimal long term waste, and the costs are only going to go down over the next 20 years. The US government subsidizes the cost of running nuclear power plants and wind power plants but the wind subsidy is only for the first 10 years where nuclear has significant long term costs.
PS: Gov safety inspectors are a form of subsidy because the plant is not paying their wages.
A) Reprocessing fuel still costs more than minding it in large part due to it's radio active nature. "the high cost of reprocessing fuel safely requires uranium prices of more than 200 USD/kg before becoming justified economically." vs. "The world's present measured resources of uranium, economically recoverable at a price of 130 USD/kg, are enough to last for "at least a century" at current consumption rates."
B) I am not saying your going to end up with an A bomb, but there are 2 extra failure modes to consider. #1 the pile gains energy fast enough that it "blows up" with about as much energy as that much TNT. AKA 1/1000th the blast of an A bomb, but still much harder to contain than a pure "melt down" so would take a more intense containment structure to maintain safty.
And there is the old liquid sodium leak issue. It might not be as bad, but systems that use a lot of liquid Sodium and Water seem like a bad idea.
PS: The only production breeder reactor in the world is sodium cooled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-600 it's 600 MW and has had a few problems but nothing drastic. Scaling that up to hundreds or thousands of reactors still seems risky.
Carter decided to avoid breeder reactors in part because they can blow up and new fuel is cheep enough that reprocessing is not that big a deal. Also by letting the fuel cool off it becomes cheaper to reprocess in the future. It's not like we are dumping the stuff into a volcano so it's gone forever so when we get really well tested and safe breeder design we will have plenty of high grade fuel waiting around ready to be used on the cheep.
PS: Carter understood a lot more about the industry than most lay people. "He was assigned to Schenectady, New York, where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics, and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine." So it's not like this was some idiot deciding something based on an uninformed whim.
You can find plenty of old abandoned buildings so clearly the single family home is never going to catch on without creating huge wastelands of old abandoned homes.
AKA: If the site is valuable maintaining or upgrading the wind farms is a net gain.
Nope, the earth tilts off axis, so for most of the year the top would never cross the earths shadow. You might have a problem a few times a day in the middle of spring and fall, but it's ~22,000 miles up so it's not going to be in the dark for long.
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I only tried Resedent Evil 4 and Wii Sports, but the mix of jaggies and up scaling was painful. I expect the console could do anti-aliasing if they lower the polygon count, but I have yet to see it. I suspect it would work much better on a smaller screen or with a better game, but don't really feel like messing with it.
PS: Metroid Prime looked great on the Game Cube so I might want to try MP3 it with the Wii unless you have a better suggestion.
I have a Wii hooked up to a 55 inch 1080p TV. 360 and PS 3 looks good, old PS 2 games on the PS 3 look ok, but the Wii graphics are so bad I can't play it. I don't really care about the polygon count, but without AA all those jagged edges bother me. Now I am keeping the console around and I assume in a few years games will have fewer problems but for now I think the Wii was a swing and a miss.
Ops, good catch.
(4 * (1024^3)) / (30 * 1080 * 1920 * 4) = 17.26
4 gig's is not that all that much data. Let's take RAW HD video 4gb / (30 * 1080 * 1920 * 4 bytes ) ~= 4 seconds. If computer growth keeps going 64bit address spaces will eventually seem cramped because the resolution of the real world is insane so someone is always going to want to record at the highest level their technology can handle.
Mathematicians consider any probability less than about 1 in 10^-42 equal to zero. Like most of the rest of your coment this is false.
Hint: 1 in 10^-42 does not mean what you think it means.
Anyway, 1 in 10^42 can become vary likely if roll the dice enough times.
PS: Your making a mistake by only concidering the specific outcome not the range of outcomes that are similar. There are more than 10^20000 ways to make a horse which can breed with other horses.
UO and EQ where late to the game. Launched online December 15, 1995 "Meridian 59 is often credited as the first 3D graphical "massively multiplayer online game" or MMORPG."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_disorders note:
# C - Whole chromosome extra, missing, or both - see chromosomal aberrations
# T - Trinucleotide repeat disorders - gene is extended in length
Anyway, I will ask you a simple question if we build a device to directly view the past and you can watch over billions of years as life evolves as scientists thought it did, and see the most interesting thing Jesus did was starting a cult. Would you still believe in God?
I played till 30 and then stopped. The game is fun but it becomes fairly repetitive over time so IMO it's worth checking out. For example multi kills in short time periods give more experience so chaining low level mobs is ideal but get's boring. You can solo dungeons and see some some really interesting an storyline even at fairly low levels.
PS: Defending a base with other random people is also interesting. As you level you can start having more impact on the battlefield. At low levels your picking off enemy's from the edge and over time you start getting into the tick of it. But, it's scripted so you will lose at some point, however you then get to take the base back which is also fun.
It's not a laptop.
That might be how it was designed but that's not how it was implemented. Look I am a coder I can see what's in ram and on disk while using vista and it's broken.
PS: It's not all about fast boot the OS wants to keep RAM free so you can quickly allocate memory without swapping which is a good idea, but if I open a 24 hour old tab it's not in memory even if I have 2GB of free ram. I think the bug has something with not loading back stuff that's been swapped out in favor of the ready boost crap.
XPS 730x H2C = Intel® Coreâ i7-965 Extreme - Level 2 (Factory O/C'd to 3.73GHz), Genuine Windows Vista® 64-bit Ultimate (English) Service Pack 1
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No speakers (FAIL)
PS: I am not kidding they don't give you any speaker options on their most expensive XPS 730x H2C.
Vista tends to swap memory to disk that's "stale" so it replaces stuff I want in memory with files that help programs load faster. This is stupid, I would like to quickly tab to something I opened 3 hours ago no reload it from disk. I don't care about programs I might at some point use I want the 5 programs I am using right now to all say in ram. I have a tun of ram I would like to be able to use it vs. swapping stuff out to free up memory I might want to load some other application.
Adjusting for the differences in efficiency between an electric and gas engine it's about the equivalent of 5galons of gas. However, at 300LB's you could have two without much trouble so you could have a good range a decent range including some energy reserves.
PS: (52.220 kWh * 98%) / (36.6 kWh/US gallon * 30%) = 4.7 gallon but you can probably use more efficient regenerative breaks because you can charge faster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand You can't become rich selling a single apple for a 10 billion $ because nobody is going to buy it.
Assuming a classic demand curve an increased sales tax will drive down demand, but the customers that are left care less about price so the price you charge to maximize profit goes up more than the sales tax. However, with a tax on profits the price that maximizes profits does not change because there is no change to the demand curve or your costs. Basically, if you would have made more money charging more you would have already done so and if you would have made more money charging less you would have done so independent of the tax on profits.
PS: The real impact is on investing which can impact long term pricing as well as the amount of tax evasion.
It's a tax on profit so it's not a cost. If your costs go up you need to increase the cost, but if your price maximizes your profit then a change in the tax rate on profits will not change the price you charge because that would reduce your profit.
At some point in time processing power made a difference when gaming, but saying a single 1.6GHz P4 had troubles says little about a quad core cpu at 2.4Ghz with 8Mbytes of cache. For a tiny fraction of people buying a 20,000$ workstation is a great idea, but for most things like playing FPS at normal resolutions it's just not that taxing for modern CPU's.
It's also wrong, I have a Core 2 Q6600 the slowest chip in their roundup and I never tax all the cores. Games don't need that much CPU and I can encode video while playing games so I don't care how long it takes.
Unless you are spend all day running benchmarks it's silly for most people to spend all that much on a CPU.
I would be annoyed if a newspaper was withholding information which helps to re-elect someone who had failed to uphold the constitution last time and had ordered criminal acts to take place. Presumably voters should have all available information before voting but perhaps that's just me.
I thought the BR DRM prevented you from streaming the movies in full quality over the network from an external drive. If it works then there is a fairly major hole in there DRM system.
Upkeep on something that's generating money is just part of doing business. We are still going though a rappid R&D phase phase with wind but large scale wind turbines are valuable on a day to day basis. 5MW wind turbines are becomeing more common so assuming 1MW 24 * 7 works out to .04c/kw * 1000 * 24 * 7 = 6,720$ every week the turbine is down.
Now small scale plants using outdated technology will probably not be upgraded until most of their turbines break, but because they are on valuable land for wind farming they will be replaced with highly valuable systems. Assuming they don't want to removing working turbines, or rearrange the new system for a few turbines that will break in a few years.
The advantages to wind is it's cheaper than Nuclear energy once you consider all the costs. You don't need to build giant facility's, you don't need guards, you can use the land for other things, there is minimal long term waste, and the costs are only going to go down over the next 20 years. The US government subsidizes the cost of running nuclear power plants and wind power plants but the wind subsidy is only for the first 10 years where nuclear has significant long term costs.
PS: Gov safety inspectors are a form of subsidy because the plant is not paying their wages.
A) Reprocessing fuel still costs more than minding it in large part due to it's radio active nature. "the high cost of reprocessing fuel safely requires uranium prices of more than 200 USD/kg before becoming justified economically." vs. "The world's present measured resources of uranium, economically recoverable at a price of 130 USD/kg, are enough to last for "at least a century" at current consumption rates."
B) I am not saying your going to end up with an A bomb, but there are 2 extra failure modes to consider. #1 the pile gains energy fast enough that it "blows up" with about as much energy as that much TNT. AKA 1/1000th the blast of an A bomb, but still much harder to contain than a pure "melt down" so would take a more intense containment structure to maintain safty.
And there is the old liquid sodium leak issue. It might not be as bad, but systems that use a lot of liquid Sodium and Water seem like a bad idea.
http://www2.uni-siegen.de/~pci/versuche/english/v44-1-1.html
PS: The only production breeder reactor in the world is sodium cooled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-600 it's 600 MW and has had a few problems but nothing drastic. Scaling that up to hundreds or thousands of reactors still seems risky.
Carter decided to avoid breeder reactors in part because they can blow up and new fuel is cheep enough that reprocessing is not that big a deal. Also by letting the fuel cool off it becomes cheaper to reprocess in the future. It's not like we are dumping the stuff into a volcano so it's gone forever so when we get really well tested and safe breeder design we will have plenty of high grade fuel waiting around ready to be used on the cheep.
PS: Carter understood a lot more about the industry than most lay people. "He was assigned to Schenectady, New York, where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics, and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine." So it's not like this was some idiot deciding something based on an uninformed whim.
That depends on where they get their fuel from.
You can find plenty of old abandoned buildings so clearly the single family home is never going to catch on without creating huge wastelands of old abandoned homes.
AKA: If the site is valuable maintaining or upgrading the wind farms is a net gain.
Nope, the earth tilts off axis, so for most of the year the top would never cross the earths shadow. You might have a problem a few times a day in the middle of spring and fall, but it's ~22,000 miles up so it's not going to be in the dark for long.