If anyone can come up with a better explanation I'd be interested to hear it.
Non-conspiracy answer: PCMark uses the CPUID string to decide which testing method it uses. It's got three: a generic method, one optimized for Intel, and one optimized for AMD. The Intel one happens to be a better match for the VIA Nano hardware than the AMD one, and both are better than the generic one.
What I want to see is this test run on an AMD chip impersonating an Intel, and an Intel impersonating an AMD CPU. If I'm right, both CPUs will have lower benchmark scores than when they're providing correct CPUIDs.
There is the slight question of where and how you store your hydrogen and oxygen in the meantime so, especially for small scale "localized" applications. Lets say your house needs 5000 W. To get through an 8 h dark period, you need 40 kWhr, or 136,000 BTU. That's roughly the energy in 2 lbs of hydrogen. To store that much hydrogen, you either need a balloon of 11 m^3 size, or you need a compressor that allows you to store the hydrogen as compressed gas
Eleven cubic meters is no big deal -- that's a balloon a meter and a half in diameter. You'd have trouble fitting one in your car, but houses have far more room. You can stick it in a corner of your garage, or in the attic, or wherever you've got extra space.
I want it to show me urls that start with the letter I typed.
Type "w".
Opera's got a wonderful solution to this: if you type "w", you get all the URLs beginning with "w" except the ones beginning with "www". If you want one of those, you need to type in the full "www.".
Alternatively, you can type in the URL skipping the "www" part. Typing in "goog" gives you all the "http://goog*" URLs, followed by the "http://www.goog*" URLs.
I ran my standard test of new search engines: can I find the Hilton Hotel in Paris.
Searching for "Paris Hilton" gives the sex video, as expected. Searching for "Paris Hilton hotel" gives the sex video, the Las Vegas Hilton, and a random selection of other hotels.
I'll stick with Google. It may not search as many pages, but at least the results make sense.
It's a bit screwy in how it crawls, too. My website returns 404 if you ask for the index page of the root directory, and has an extensive website at a subdirectory that's linked to from all over. The crawler has only ever asked for the index of the website root.
This has to be the worst time ever to be a web surfer. How long until we see the major networks broadcasting the legit IP quads of sites we want to reach?
There's nothing new about this. DNS cache poisoning attacks have been found before, and the internet hasn't melted down yet. If you're paranoid, run your own caching resolver.
Or did the first Fable have "Expressions... that let you woo ladies and forge new friendships" that "[You picked] from a radial menu when you want to take a wife or receive a gift" and "non-playable characters throughout town that you can interact with using Expressions, each with icons over their heads indicating their disposition"?
I should also mention I played the PC version, I don't know if this had a impact on my experience.
That could have something to do with it. The gameplay of the PC version is identical to the Playstation version, but the graphics and user interface are decidedly inferior.
If the opportunity arises I shall play one of the installments you mention, but I am not shelling out any more cash until one of the games demonstrates the awesomeness others seem to see.
If you don't mind software piracy, there are some excellent Super Nintendo emulators out there, and Final Fantasy VI ROM dumps are readily available.
If you do mind piracy, there are also decent Playstation emulators, and you should be able to find a copy of FFIX or Tactics for $5 or so.
I would have already used a CF to IDE adapter but they seem to be expensive and mostly incompatible.
You're looking in the wrong places, then. The CF interface is pin- and signal-compatible with the IDE interface, so any adapter is simply a CF socket, an IDE header, and a set of wires connecting the two. Cheap adapters are flimsy, but not incompatible.
Actually, solid-state disks are marketed using metric gigabytes instead of binary gigabytes. The chips are manufactured using binary gigabytes, and the difference is used for a set of spare sectors that are used for wear-levelling or to replace defective and worn-out sectors.
They might be referring to server-grade hardware, which is generally much more expensive than consumer-grade stuff.
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To answer your points:
1) The default filesystem of TrueCrypt volumes is FAT32. Unlike modern filesystems, FAT32 sticks new data as close to the start of the disk as possible, leading to the inefficiency and fragmentation issues that FAT32 is notorious for. 2) The hidden volume is placed at the end of the filesystem, the area of the disk that, on a FAT32 filesystem, is most likely to be empty.
I don't do streaming. I much prefer laying in bed while watching a film, and no s-video cable on earth is going to stretch from my PC to there. Besides, how am I supposed to pirate films if they're streaming?:P
I have no proof one way or the other, I just think it would be surprising for the government to retire something as valuable as the Blackbird without having an even better replacement in the works.
The SR-71 was replaced by a number of cheaper options:
* For continuous observation, the U-2 is still in operation, and has much better loiter times than the SR-71. * For short-notice missions, UAV drones are much cheaper to operate, and can be launched from forward airfields, or even a clear patch of ground. * For routine monitoring, satellites have a cheaper lifetime cost, and don't cause international incidents when they overfly a country.
The SR-71 is impressive and almost impossible to shoot down, but it's incredibly expensive: the Air Force's entire UAV fleet costs less to operate than a single SR-71.
1) Infant mortality. In the 1700s, you could expect about 50% of newborns to die before their first birthday. 2) Childhood diseases. You could expect 50% of children to die before their 10th birthday. 3) Accidents. You could expect 25% of teenagers to die or be crippled before their 20th birthday, because of a lack of experience and common sense.
Once you reached your 20s (about one newborn in six), you had a good chance of living into your 70s -- that is, if you're a man. A woman had an additional 50% chance of dying in childbirth.
I wonder how much of a role open source software is playing in Wikipedia's operations. How much is it? Anyone in the know?
I'm not aware of any software that Wikipedia uses that isn't open-source. They've got a very strong commitment to the free-content movement -- sometimes a little too strong: the only sound format they accept is Ogg Vorbis, the only video format Ogg Theora
All other bullshit about this article aside, the general rule of thumb for I.C. engines is that 1/3rd of the fuel's energy goes to motive power, 1/3rd goes to engine coolant/oil as heat and 1/3rd goes out the exhaust as heat.
If you could recover 1/2 of the energy lost going out the coolant+exhaust and put it to use, you would double the engine's output.
There is a limit to how much useful energy you can get out of a heat engine, determined entirely by the temperature of the heat source (ie. how hot you're burning the fuel) and the temperature of the heat sink (ie. the outside air temperature). This is known as the "Carnot cycle efficiency", and for a typical internal combustion engine, it's around 40%. That means that, at best, you'll be able to recover around 10% of the wasted heat.
Water injection works by letting you run the engine hotter without it melting or catching fire. Between the increased fuel flow and the expansion of water to steam, you get an impressive boost to total thrust -- but this comes at a cost to fuel efficiency. The Air Force uses it on B-52s to let them get off the ground with a heavier bomb load.
It's called a universal Turing machine -- a Turing machine capable of emulating any other. Every computer produced in the past half-century or so is a UTM, give or take the available storage space.
MacOS is probably the most advanced in this regard: it's got a system call for "swap the contents of these two files". This does an atomic swap, and as a side benefit, preserves any links to the files.
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It's already reached that point for me. I won't fly unless I'm travelling over a thousand miles -- and even then, I'll consider not going instead.
Non-conspiracy answer: PCMark uses the CPUID string to decide which testing method it uses. It's got three: a generic method, one optimized for Intel, and one optimized for AMD. The Intel one happens to be a better match for the VIA Nano hardware than the AMD one, and both are better than the generic one.
What I want to see is this test run on an AMD chip impersonating an Intel, and an Intel impersonating an AMD CPU. If I'm right, both CPUs will have lower benchmark scores than when they're providing correct CPUIDs.
Eleven cubic meters is no big deal -- that's a balloon a meter and a half in diameter. You'd have trouble fitting one in your car, but houses have far more room. You can stick it in a corner of your garage, or in the attic, or wherever you've got extra space.
If I give you the uncommented source code for a program, will you be able to figure out what it does?
Opera's got a wonderful solution to this: if you type "w", you get all the URLs beginning with "w" except the ones beginning with "www". If you want one of those, you need to type in the full "www.".
Alternatively, you can type in the URL skipping the "www" part. Typing in "goog" gives you all the "http://goog*" URLs, followed by the "http://www.goog*" URLs.
I ran my standard test of new search engines: can I find the Hilton Hotel in Paris.
Searching for "Paris Hilton" gives the sex video, as expected.
Searching for "Paris Hilton hotel" gives the sex video, the Las Vegas Hilton, and a random selection of other hotels.
I'll stick with Google. It may not search as many pages, but at least the results make sense.
It's a bit screwy in how it crawls, too. My website returns 404 if you ask for the index page of the root directory, and has an extensive website at a subdirectory that's linked to from all over. The crawler has only ever asked for the index of the website root.
There's nothing new about this. DNS cache poisoning attacks have been found before, and the internet hasn't melted down yet. If you're paranoid, run your own caching resolver.
Do something like Nethack: the source code is available, there are extensive guides, and it's still a difficult game with a great deal to discover.
The radial menu is new.
Check out the alt.binaries.pictures.erotica hierarchy sometime -- there are some groups with very suspicious-looking names.
(alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.child? Gee, I wonder what that could contain?)
That could have something to do with it. The gameplay of the PC version is identical to the Playstation version, but the graphics and user interface are decidedly inferior.
If you don't mind software piracy, there are some excellent Super Nintendo emulators out there, and Final Fantasy VI ROM dumps are readily available.
If you do mind piracy, there are also decent Playstation emulators, and you should be able to find a copy of FFIX or Tactics for $5 or so.
You're looking in the wrong places, then. The CF interface is pin- and signal-compatible with the IDE interface, so any adapter is simply a CF socket, an IDE header, and a set of wires connecting the two. Cheap adapters are flimsy, but not incompatible.
Actually, solid-state disks are marketed using metric gigabytes instead of binary gigabytes. The chips are manufactured using binary gigabytes, and the difference is used for a set of spare sectors that are used for wear-levelling or to replace defective and worn-out sectors.
They might be referring to server-grade hardware, which is generally much more expensive than consumer-grade stuff.
To answer your points:
1) The default filesystem of TrueCrypt volumes is FAT32. Unlike modern filesystems, FAT32 sticks new data as close to the start of the disk as possible, leading to the inefficiency and fragmentation issues that FAT32 is notorious for.
2) The hidden volume is placed at the end of the filesystem, the area of the disk that, on a FAT32 filesystem, is most likely to be empty.
I believe this answers your concerns.
Record the stream?
The SR-71 was replaced by a number of cheaper options:
* For continuous observation, the U-2 is still in operation, and has much better loiter times than the SR-71.
* For short-notice missions, UAV drones are much cheaper to operate, and can be launched from forward airfields, or even a clear patch of ground.
* For routine monitoring, satellites have a cheaper lifetime cost, and don't cause international incidents when they overfly a country.
The SR-71 is impressive and almost impossible to shoot down, but it's incredibly expensive: the Air Force's entire UAV fleet costs less to operate than a single SR-71.
You're missing a few points:
1) Infant mortality. In the 1700s, you could expect about 50% of newborns to die before their first birthday.
2) Childhood diseases. You could expect 50% of children to die before their 10th birthday.
3) Accidents. You could expect 25% of teenagers to die or be crippled before their 20th birthday, because of a lack of experience and common sense.
Once you reached your 20s (about one newborn in six), you had a good chance of living into your 70s -- that is, if you're a man. A woman had an additional 50% chance of dying in childbirth.
I'm not aware of any software that Wikipedia uses that isn't open-source. They've got a very strong commitment to the free-content movement -- sometimes a little too strong: the only sound format they accept is Ogg Vorbis, the only video format Ogg Theora
There is a limit to how much useful energy you can get out of a heat engine, determined entirely by the temperature of the heat source (ie. how hot you're burning the fuel) and the temperature of the heat sink (ie. the outside air temperature). This is known as the "Carnot cycle efficiency", and for a typical internal combustion engine, it's around 40%. That means that, at best, you'll be able to recover around 10% of the wasted heat.
Water injection works by letting you run the engine hotter without it melting or catching fire. Between the increased fuel flow and the expansion of water to steam, you get an impressive boost to total thrust -- but this comes at a cost to fuel efficiency. The Air Force uses it on B-52s to let them get off the ground with a heavier bomb load.
It's called a universal Turing machine -- a Turing machine capable of emulating any other. Every computer produced in the past half-century or so is a UTM, give or take the available storage space.
MacOS is probably the most advanced in this regard: it's got a system call for "swap the contents of these two files". This does an atomic swap, and as a side benefit, preserves any links to the files.
NASA. They've been using the white (standard reflective paint), black (heat shields) and gold (reflective gold foil) color scheme since the beginning.