Are you honestly comparing the $6.99 version of battlefield for the $50(not 60) PC version of battlefield?
Two entirely different games, and I do have to say the new BFBC2 is quite awesome(Closed Beta right now.)
Trying to upsell us to 3D FPS and more expensive phones, and expensive software is just a failed market strategy.
What? Maybe people actually want more featurefull phones with better software? Ever thought of that? I actually quite like the fact that I can browse the web on my phone, run many applications on it... Heck even the 3D games are fun and going into the Linux command line on my Pre is just awesome especially when I SSH to my home computer.
Nono; Apple, Google, and Palm are just holding guns onto consumers heads and selling them these geewhiz 3D gaming phones. If you don't like it, don't buy it, but don't come here with your holier-than-thou attitude and try to preach to us. You sound like a Luddite.
We keep delaying the onset of maturity, pushing what used to be high school curricula into undergraduate schools, and what used to be in undergraduate programs into graduate ones. As a result, we've made higher education increasingly expensive and inconvenient
Interesting, I had taken 2 years worth of college level calculus and one year worth of college level physics in high school. My class on Tribology and Applied stress analysis used to be the domain of graduate courses and were now available as undergraduate courses...
Don't get me wrong, Inventor is a pretty decent software package. We used it for quite a while in our SAE Baja team and I believe they are still using it, mostly due to a reluctance to move to UGS NX. However it IS a lowend package compared to some more capable software like UGS NX or CATIA.
One of the largest benefits of working in a software like NX for example is being able to move ideas from the Design to Engineering to Manufacturing phases all in one software package.
Not if Thomas-Rasset refuses to settle. Either they will set a precedent that the fines are ridiculously high, or the RIAA will win the appeal and this matter will head to the Supreme Court.
Giving it some thought, you're correct. I should have said the Tegra2 was twice as powerful as the A4 not 2x more powerful. You see, they don't teach us grammars as Engineers, just math. Even though I believe you're being overly pedantic, you do have a point.
However, as far as percentages are concerned, a 200% increase implies something is 3x the original amount.
For example let us denote a base amount of 1 or x. A 40% increase would imply a transition from 1 to 1.4 or 1.4x. A 100% increase would imply a transition from 1 to 2 or 2x A 200% increase would imply transition from 1 to 3 or 3x.
I didn't bring up the issue of multitasking, however I would say that the best system so far is Palm's WebOS card system. It works wonderfully for multitasking compared to what I've seen on Android.
Highly doubt the Tegra 2 is on par with the A4, unless the A4 has a dual-core Cortex A9... Info suggests the A4 is only a single core Cortex A9 which would make the Tegra2 at least 2x more powerful. Not to mention Nvidia vs ARM based graphics core.
For a gas/plasma Temperature is simply a statistical measure of the molecular kinetic energy that exists in a group of particles.
Like you may have learned in high school physics, opposites atrract and like particles repel each other.
In order to fuse two hydrogen atoms you have to make contact between two positively charged hydrogen ions, this means that you need enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic repulsion between those ions.
So yes, since temperature is a measure of the translational energy(also rotational, vibrational, etc.) of molecules, get it hot enough and there will be a small chance that the hydrogen ions will fuse. If the chance is high enough and the energy returned is greater than what is put into the reaction, then huzzah you have commercially viable fusion.
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Are you honestly comparing the $6.99 version of battlefield for the $50(not 60) PC version of battlefield?
Two entirely different games, and I do have to say the new BFBC2 is quite awesome(Closed Beta right now.)
Trying to upsell us to 3D FPS and more expensive phones, and expensive software is just a failed market strategy.
What? Maybe people actually want more featurefull phones with better software? Ever thought of that? I actually quite like the fact that I can browse the web on my phone, run many applications on it... Heck even the 3D games are fun and going into the Linux command line on my Pre is just awesome especially when I SSH to my home computer.
Nono; Apple, Google, and Palm are just holding guns onto consumers heads and selling them these geewhiz 3D gaming phones. If you don't like it, don't buy it, but don't come here with your holier-than-thou attitude and try to preach to us. You sound like a Luddite.
The kids who play the games can't afford the service plans or phones themselves...
Most adults have other things to do, or more powerful systems at home to play "serious" games on.
DRM on the first game was removed with an official patch AFAIK.
We keep delaying the onset of maturity, pushing what used to be high school curricula into undergraduate schools, and what used to be in undergraduate programs into graduate ones. As a result, we've made higher education increasingly expensive and inconvenient
Interesting, I had taken 2 years worth of college level calculus and one year worth of college level physics in high school. My class on Tribology and Applied stress analysis used to be the domain of graduate courses and were now available as undergraduate courses...
Don't get me wrong, Inventor is a pretty decent software package. We used it for quite a while in our SAE Baja team and I believe they are still using it, mostly due to a reluctance to move to UGS NX. However it IS a lowend package compared to some more capable software like UGS NX or CATIA.
One of the largest benefits of working in a software like NX for example is being able to move ideas from the Design to Engineering to Manufacturing phases all in one software package.
It should also be noted that one can get very good commercial CAD software for a FOSS OS
Uhh, almost all of the major CAD packages will work under Linux since the CAD packages were initially designed to run on UNIX decades ago...
and assume the cost of the mission will come down a couple orders of magnitude, but these aren't unreasonable assumptions
Yeah, barring a complete change in the laws of physics or the construction of space elevator...
AutoCAD is still an extremely low end package in today's CAD environment.
Uhh, what do you think CAD stands for?
Let me give you a hint: Computer Aided Design...
And you think Carmack is somehow more intelligent than the thousands of engineering/mathematics/science PhDs out there?
lol.
He has a point, might as well donate the money to charity.
They didn't even use software back then... Way to spin something.
The know-how hasn't disappeared, what's disappeared is the political will.
Easy, through the VGA out port.
Not if Thomas-Rasset refuses to settle. Either they will set a precedent that the fines are ridiculously high, or the RIAA will win the appeal and this matter will head to the Supreme Court.
But the Free Open Source Software movement has been strangled!!!!11
Did you ever see them writing in Star Trek?
Writing was for Admirals and Captains, not regular folks!
Giving it some thought, you're correct. I should have said the Tegra2 was twice as powerful as the A4 not 2x more powerful.
You see, they don't teach us grammars as Engineers, just math. Even though I believe you're being overly pedantic, you do have a point.
However, as far as percentages are concerned, a 200% increase implies something is 3x the original amount.
For example let us denote a base amount of 1 or x.
A 40% increase would imply a transition from 1 to 1.4 or 1.4x.
A 100% increase would imply a transition from 1 to 2 or 2x
A 200% increase would imply transition from 1 to 3 or 3x.
I didn't bring up the issue of multitasking, however I would say that the best system so far is Palm's WebOS card system. It works wonderfully for multitasking compared to what I've seen on Android.
No, because I'm not using percentages here ;-)
I'm using them in the form of an equation, Tegra2 = 2 x AppleA4 in performance.
If I said that Tegra 2 was 200% more powerful than the A4, I would clearly be in the wrong because as you said a 200% increase implies a 3x increase.
Read the post I was replying to first.
Highly doubt the Tegra 2 is on par with the A4, unless the A4 has a dual-core Cortex A9... Info suggests the A4 is only a single core Cortex A9 which would make the Tegra2 at least 2x more powerful. Not to mention Nvidia vs ARM based graphics core.
Clearly there aren't enough buzzwords, if we had more of those people could understand what's going on and we could get this done by next quarter max.
You first, so we can lock you up somewhere and let you starve.
Patience is a virtue that is lost amongst many these days due to the internet "revolution."
For a gas/plasma Temperature is simply a statistical measure of the molecular kinetic energy that exists in a group of particles.
Like you may have learned in high school physics, opposites atrract and like particles repel each other.
In order to fuse two hydrogen atoms you have to make contact between two positively charged hydrogen ions, this means that you need enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic repulsion between those ions.
So yes, since temperature is a measure of the translational energy(also rotational, vibrational, etc.) of molecules, get it hot enough and there will be a small chance that the hydrogen ions will fuse. If the chance is high enough and the energy returned is greater than what is put into the reaction, then huzzah you have commercially viable fusion.