Memory exists to be used. If memory is not in use, you are wasting it. The reality is that your system will operate with higher performance if unused data is paged out of RAM to disk and the newly freed memory is used for additional disk caching.
This does not apply any more. My (Linux) system has 8GB of RAM. That's enough to have every program I routinely use running (2.5GB), and store every other program I might use in a ramdisk (3GB), while leaving 3.5 GB available to cache data files. If it weren't for my desire to protect against random hardware failures, my computer could go weeks without accessing the hard drive.
Inside chloroplasts: CO2 + H2O + sunlight => sugar Inside the rest of the plant: sugar + O2 => energy
The reason plants have net oxygen production is that they also use sugar as a structural material, in the form of cellulose.
There are living things that don't use oxygen, but they tend to be single-celled organisms such as obligate anaerobes (sugar => alcohol + carbon dioxide + energy) or chemosynthetic bacteria (funky sulpher compounds => other funky sulpher compounds + energy).
You're either dead or you're not. It's rather binary. There's no continuum.
The people quoting The Princess Bride above do have a point: you can't draw a line and say "everyone on this side is dead, everyone on the other side is alive". Consider bacterial endospores: no significant chemical reactions are taking place inside the spore, and by most objective measures, they're "dead". But place one in the correct environment, and it will convert to an unambiguously-alive bacterium.
Humans are far more complicated, with even more ways to blur the boundary between "alive" and "dead".
Current elephants are reasonably closely related to mammoths, so you should be able to use them as the base. Since mitochrondria reproduce asexually, they don't evolve very quickly, and all the other bits in a donor egg will be replaced with DNA-derived ones as the cell divides.
Seems to me that granting full personhood would also do it. Your company was found guilty of deliberately causing the death of someone, in a state where capital punishment is legal? Your company can be executed (ie. forcibly dissolved)
You seem to have some misconceptions on how BitTorrent works. Basically, when you start a torrent download, your client asks the tracker (a central server that's keeping track of things) which computers have the download in question. Your client then asks those computers for pieces of the whole download. The pieces come in random order, and it might take a while for you to get the whole file, but the strength of BitTorrent is that, by asking many computers for small pieces of the file, you're getting a share of the collective upload bandwidth of every computer that's got part of the file, rather than getting the complete upload bandwidth of a single computer. This lets the download start immediately, and means that even peers that don't have the complete download yet can help speed things up for you.
(2) The power to move your vehicle through air is P = (1/2)(density)(projected area)(drag coeff)(velocity^3) (4) At sea level, 25C, 60 MPH, A = (1 m)^2, CD =.1, you have to expend P = 1.25 KW to continue moving.
A drag coefficient of 0.1 is outstanding for a car-shaped car, but you can streamline better than that. A teardrop-shaped car, for example, has a drag coefficient of 0.04, giving a fuel economy of 1800 miles per gallon.
Is format shifting a form of piracy? I bought a whole ton of nintendo and super nintendo games and I still own them. If I could rip the roms from them what is wrong with using the homebrew to play those roms via an emulator?
To the best of my knowlege, there is nothing wrong, legally or morally, with format-shifting games you already own. In order to be strictly legal, you need to do the ROM-dumping yourself rather than downloading ROM images someone else has already dumped. Running an emulator is totally legal -- this was tested in court back in the early 90s when the first console emulators came out.
Kick the cockpit door in(there pretty easy) and make your demands, meanwhile your partner(s) also gut a few people to keep everyone in order.
At this point, you're going to run up against the one advance in airplane security that *has* been made post-9/11: you're not getting through the reinforced cockpit door with anything less than a battering ram.
How do you *know* that it's Apple's software updater that's causing the UAC box to appear, and not an opportunistic bit of malware that's been watching for the software update dialog to show up?
About how big of a crater would 700,000 liters of liquid helium make?
I can't find any definite numbers, but the impression I get is that the explosion would wreck the accelerator, but wouldn't blow open the tunnel it's in.
I wonder if someone managed to format a disk such that one was also able to share the data space between the different OSs?
Not possible. The C64/1541 and the IBM-PC used different encoding schemes for putting the bits on the disk. This is why the C64 tracks needed to be marked as "bad" rather than as "in-use".
Mac/Windows hybrid CD-ROMs can and do share data, but that's because the underlying on-disk encoding is the same for both.
"Indium ranks 61st in abundance in the Earth's crust at approximately 0.25 ppm [2], which means it is more than three times as abundant as silver, which occurs at 0.075 ppm"
There's apparently a lot of it on earth, but not much purified. As it becomes more useful, we can get more.
What the article didn't mention is that indium is rather evenly distributed throughout the crust -- there are no veins or lodes of the stuff. In order to produce 25 tons of indium, you need to process 100,000,000 tons of crust.
It's not fair, because the problem is NOT the p2p users. The problem is the oversubscribed.
Comcast internet is 6Mbps at $60 a month. A dedicated T1 line is 1.5Mbps at $700 a month. You know why the T1 costs ten times as much even though it's only a quarter as fast? It's not oversubscribed.
"Too much bandwidth" is defined as a sustained download of more than 4Mbps or a sustained upload of more than 700kbps, over a period of 15 minutes. That works out to ten simultaneous VoIP calls; I don't know how many video chat streams you'd need to reach it.
On the download side of things, that corresponds to downloading one CD image every 20 minutes.
Well, point #3 could be Oblivion. The graphics are better and more detailed than Sony's graphics in EQ, but don't even come close to the insane polygon counts and animations of the FF movies.
I'd disagree that polygon count is a good measure of the degree of realism present. Case in point: Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8, and Final Fantasy 9 all had about the same polygon count, but the character designs in 8 were far more realistic than the cartoony designs in 7 and 9 (and, in my experience, far more disturbing).
I'm not saying that Oblivion doesn't fall between EQ2 and the FF movie for realism, but there's no objective reason to put it there. By doing so, you're making the same mistake that the defenders of the Uncanny Valley hypothesis are.
So...why has compositing always been fairly straight forward with Linux then?
Mostly because the much-maligned network transparency of X forced a clean separation between GUI applications and the X server, while the fact that XFree86 and the Linux kernel were developed by different groups kept the two from getting tangled up in each other.
The typical GNU/Linux distribution is about a million times more modular than Microsoft Windows, so major changes to any one part have few undesired effects on other parts.
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This does not apply any more. My (Linux) system has 8GB of RAM. That's enough to have every program I routinely use running (2.5GB), and store every other program I might use in a ramdisk (3GB), while leaving 3.5 GB available to cache data files. If it weren't for my desire to protect against random hardware failures, my computer could go weeks without accessing the hard drive.
Plants require oxygen:
Inside chloroplasts: CO2 + H2O + sunlight => sugar
Inside the rest of the plant: sugar + O2 => energy
The reason plants have net oxygen production is that they also use sugar as a structural material, in the form of cellulose.
There are living things that don't use oxygen, but they tend to be single-celled organisms such as obligate anaerobes (sugar => alcohol + carbon dioxide + energy) or chemosynthetic bacteria (funky sulpher compounds => other funky sulpher compounds + energy).
The people quoting The Princess Bride above do have a point: you can't draw a line and say "everyone on this side is dead, everyone on the other side is alive". Consider bacterial endospores: no significant chemical reactions are taking place inside the spore, and by most objective measures, they're "dead". But place one in the correct environment, and it will convert to an unambiguously-alive bacterium.
Humans are far more complicated, with even more ways to blur the boundary between "alive" and "dead".
Current elephants are reasonably closely related to mammoths, so you should be able to use them as the base. Since mitochrondria reproduce asexually, they don't evolve very quickly, and all the other bits in a donor egg will be replaced with DNA-derived ones as the cell divides.
Old Celeron 466: Free
Linux: Free
Two four-port 100Mbps network cards off ebay: $35
Wireless USB adapter: $25
Peace of mind from having a router with software you trust: Priceless.
Seems to me that granting full personhood would also do it. Your company was found guilty of deliberately causing the death of someone, in a state where capital punishment is legal? Your company can be executed (ie. forcibly dissolved)
You seem to have some misconceptions on how BitTorrent works. Basically, when you start a torrent download, your client asks the tracker (a central server that's keeping track of things) which computers have the download in question. Your client then asks those computers for pieces of the whole download. The pieces come in random order, and it might take a while for you to get the whole file, but the strength of BitTorrent is that, by asking many computers for small pieces of the file, you're getting a share of the collective upload bandwidth of every computer that's got part of the file, rather than getting the complete upload bandwidth of a single computer. This lets the download start immediately, and means that even peers that don't have the complete download yet can help speed things up for you.
A drag coefficient of 0.1 is outstanding for a car-shaped car, but you can streamline better than that. A teardrop-shaped car, for example, has a drag coefficient of 0.04, giving a fuel economy of 1800 miles per gallon.
To the best of my knowlege, there is nothing wrong, legally or morally, with format-shifting games you already own. In order to be strictly legal, you need to do the ROM-dumping yourself rather than downloading ROM images someone else has already dumped. Running an emulator is totally legal -- this was tested in court back in the early 90s when the first console emulators came out.
At this point, you're going to run up against the one advance in airplane security that *has* been made post-9/11: you're not getting through the reinforced cockpit door with anything less than a battering ram.
How do you *know* that it's Apple's software updater that's causing the UAC box to appear, and not an opportunistic bit of malware that's been watching for the software update dialog to show up?
That'a assuming it's a rocky asteroid. If it's nickel-iron, it'll leave a small crater.
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My desktop system has 8GB of RAM, so I've been running for the past year without swap. What sort of bad things have I not been noticing?
I can't find any definite numbers, but the impression I get is that the explosion would wreck the accelerator, but wouldn't blow open the tunnel it's in.
Not possible. The C64/1541 and the IBM-PC used different encoding schemes for putting the bits on the disk. This is why the C64 tracks needed to be marked as "bad" rather than as "in-use".
Mac/Windows hybrid CD-ROMs can and do share data, but that's because the underlying on-disk encoding is the same for both.
What the article didn't mention is that indium is rather evenly distributed throughout the crust -- there are no veins or lodes of the stuff. In order to produce 25 tons of indium, you need to process 100,000,000 tons of crust.
Comcast internet is 6Mbps at $60 a month. A dedicated T1 line is 1.5Mbps at $700 a month. You know why the T1 costs ten times as much even though it's only a quarter as fast? It's not oversubscribed.
"Too much bandwidth" is defined as a sustained download of more than 4Mbps or a sustained upload of more than 700kbps, over a period of 15 minutes. That works out to ten simultaneous VoIP calls; I don't know how many video chat streams you'd need to reach it.
On the download side of things, that corresponds to downloading one CD image every 20 minutes.
Using verbs for button captions has been part of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines since at least System 6.
Does Civ II, Deity, only one city count?
There is. It's called "Freenet".
Which is where I, as an owner of an XO-1, can snicker at you. My computer is perfectly usable with the backlight off. :-)
I'd disagree that polygon count is a good measure of the degree of realism present. Case in point: Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8, and Final Fantasy 9 all had about the same polygon count, but the character designs in 8 were far more realistic than the cartoony designs in 7 and 9 (and, in my experience, far more disturbing).
I'm not saying that Oblivion doesn't fall between EQ2 and the FF movie for realism, but there's no objective reason to put it there. By doing so, you're making the same mistake that the defenders of the Uncanny Valley hypothesis are.
Mostly because the much-maligned network transparency of X forced a clean separation between GUI applications and the X server, while the fact that XFree86 and the Linux kernel were developed by different groups kept the two from getting tangled up in each other.
The typical GNU/Linux distribution is about a million times more modular than Microsoft Windows, so major changes to any one part have few undesired effects on other parts.