A $2,600 LCD isn't comparable to a 1080P HDTV for starts. Usually an LCD of that caliber will be 2560x1600 or twice as many pixels compared to the 1920x1080 monitor
Secondly a monitor that expensive is mainly for color reproduction, for people who do art work and require that the monitor accurately reproduces colors.
Our manned space technology is barely going to improve if we don't start building the systems now. The engineering requirements for manned exploration are completely different than robotic exploration.
What's the point of unmanned space exploration if we never plan on going there?
The engineering work behind designing human capable long distance space craft HAS to be done eventually, why sit and wait? It's not as if this kind of technology grows on trees.
Besides, getting off this rock is the only thing that will save it. The resources in space are unlimited and as is pretty obvious from looking back at history, almost all wars are fights over limited resources.
WoW was/is like that on new servers. On a mature server that people have been playing on for years, why would you expect them to do low level stuff?
When I was levelling in WoW (Back when the game was released and again when I started on a new server), 75% of the time I was in a group with friends I had made in game.
For high resolution gaming, ie with SLI video cards @1920x1200 or 2560x1600 you really need the latest and greatest, a 3.6-4.0ghz overclocked CPU is a must or else it bottlenecks the SLI Videocards.
For people doing HD Video/Audio work, having a fast processor is also necessary.
For anyone doing Scientific/Engineering computing, faster is always better as you can never get too fast the simulation will just get finer.
For anyone doing 3D Rendering, again faster is always better because the faster your processor is, the more effects/higher resolution you can run at.
For the average home user, they probably don't need anything better than a 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo.
The best would be to provide 2 encryption keys, one that when used shows a perfectly normal set of data, and another when used would show the REAL data.
Usually a 4.0 is in the 100-94 range. Even lower depending on grade scaling. When I took my thermodynamics class I had an A with only an 89 average. Granted the class average was ~60. Getting 100% is impossible for even the best students.
Because going to orbit would cost you $20,000,000 or 100x as much, and that price isn't expected to decrease below the $1,000,000 point anytime in the next 20-30 years?
Impossible! Whose going to calibrate my Gigawatt laser if I'm out having coffee??
I mean come on people, there are freaking sharks here just waiting to have freaking laser beams attached to their head. It's not like sharks just start naturally growing lasers out of their heads due to evolutionary mutations...
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Skynet is already around!! It's plotting against us as we speak and when it's plans are fully realized it will come and attack us all!
Since when has less than 1,000,000 been anything special?
Some of you Slashdot folk are rather amusing comparing Boeing to Blizzard/Nintendo...
A $2,600 LCD isn't comparable to a 1080P HDTV for starts. Usually an LCD of that caliber will be 2560x1600 or twice as many pixels compared to the 1920x1080 monitor
Secondly a monitor that expensive is mainly for color reproduction, for people who do art work and require that the monitor accurately reproduces colors.
"The great danger that would accompany thme would be morally unconscionable."
Only for a wuss like you.
"It will remain false for scores or hundreds of years. "
Might as well start working on that next Miley Cyrus album instead. That's a much better usage of our resources.
Our manned space technology is barely going to improve if we don't start building the systems now. The engineering requirements for manned exploration are completely different than robotic exploration.
What's the point of unmanned space exploration if we never plan on going there?
The engineering work behind designing human capable long distance space craft HAS to be done eventually, why sit and wait? It's not as if this kind of technology grows on trees.
Besides, getting off this rock is the only thing that will save it. The resources in space are unlimited and as is pretty obvious from looking back at history, almost all wars are fights over limited resources.
Not within our budget limits however.
I would agree though, bringing back NERVA would definetly help with getting to Mars.
It's hardly a poor clone of Elite, in fact it's significantly more sophisticated than elite.
I find it rather odd that you couldn't find any other players in game however, the world is filled with other players.
WoW was/is like that on new servers. On a mature server that people have been playing on for years, why would you expect them to do low level stuff?
When I was levelling in WoW (Back when the game was released and again when I started on a new server), 75% of the time I was in a group with friends I had made in game.
No, 2001 is definitely rewatchable and awesome.
2010 on the other hand...
Sort of.
For high resolution gaming, ie with SLI video cards @1920x1200 or 2560x1600 you really need the latest and greatest, a 3.6-4.0ghz overclocked CPU is a must or else it bottlenecks the SLI Videocards.
For people doing HD Video/Audio work, having a fast processor is also necessary.
For anyone doing Scientific/Engineering computing, faster is always better as you can never get too fast the simulation will just get finer.
For anyone doing 3D Rendering, again faster is always better because the faster your processor is, the more effects/higher resolution you can run at.
For the average home user, they probably don't need anything better than a 2.0ghz Core 2 Duo.
It's nothing special, just a higher binned Phenom II.
Considering you can get an i7 920 for $199 at microcenter, this seems kinda useless since the i7 will overclock better and run much faster.
That doesn't make it any better.
The best would be to provide 2 encryption keys, one that when used shows a perfectly normal set of data, and another when used would show the REAL data.
Maybe if you weren't an idiot and knew the difference between diesel and gasoline.
Whoa yourself!, he ment the lifetime the chip is in the market, ie as in it becomes obsolete and no longer available for sale within a year.
That's when you remove the IHS and apply this diamond compound all over :D
Usually a 4.0 is in the 100-94 range. Even lower depending on grade scaling. When I took my thermodynamics class I had an A with only an 89 average. Granted the class average was ~60. Getting 100% is impossible for even the best students.
That's really only true for a graduates first job.
Because going to orbit would cost you $20,000,000 or 100x as much, and that price isn't expected to decrease below the $1,000,000 point anytime in the next 20-30 years?
Impossible! Whose going to calibrate my Gigawatt laser if I'm out having coffee??
I mean come on people, there are freaking sharks here just waiting to have freaking laser beams attached to their head. It's not like sharks just start naturally growing lasers out of their heads due to evolutionary mutations...
Hrmm that's an idea.
My Mistake too though in the post you quoted, I wrote 378 million barrels, I ment gallons since we are talking about the price per gallon.
38 billion barrels = 1.596 Trillion gallons.
20 million barrels = 378million gallons.
Simple mistake really, but you're doing unit conversions worse than NASA.