Generally it's all a clusterfuck of confusion stemming from one group choosing, for its marketing, a name of basic radio method they use...and not only them; also the group most commonly seen as "GSM association", just not in its oldest standard.
If anything, "CDMA" (in whatever form) is going out; LTE & FDMA is revving up. And considering that various "3G" technologies don't really have a universal uptake, with majority of people on 2G TDMA networks - I wouldn't be too surprised if they jump directly to LTE, at some point in the future, more often than not.
Actually, for rockets - keeping them clean might be relatively easy, if it were needed. Via "boost stage shroud", more or less. How the laser was directed also hints at curious possibilities with retroreflctors - after all, they'd return the beam (even if for a short time) on a slightly shifted path, which could easily wreck havoc.
Sure; still not so easy / makes the thing harder. And depends greatly on the state of your heatsink, so "still works fine" might be too strong way of saying it; especially if you consider that big part of ground on Earth working as a nice heatsink is...quite large quantities of liquid water in it.
Oh, it was also about Chromium in the second case (for some reason I read Chrome, probably partly because they line up at my res); I don't know about that. Anyway, it was only about autoupdates of Chrome; mostly only that really matters.
And yet, their clothing didn't act at all in a way suggesting big forces (nvm distributed in a bit weird way, as far as weight goes) They and their surroundings didn't work in a way suggesting huge magnetic fields present (look at MRI rooms...); fields with which there wouldn't be that much of a need for a radiation bunker (certainly no need for such races to it)
It wasn't magnetic nano-fibers woven into the clothing; it was an excuse for not redesigning the ship a bit more to have larger rotating section (BTW some parts which "rotated" a bit occasionally, the storage, did so completelly pointlessly) and avoidance of exploration on how to do 0g more often (but still decently rare), and within the limitations of TV production.
Well, it's not "science TV", it's a docudrama after all. The drama part means the mission plan took a hit - of course we wouldn't (hopefully) perform it like that, in an "inspirational" way & so it can be nicely shown in 2h; but that seems to be one of the primary points behind docudramas. And remember, much "science" stuff was omitted on purpose, because it would require too much speculation - that's why the Titan probe fails.
But it wasn't even about this part; more like, for a start, about basic production qualities. Acting and dialogs which aren't horrible; quite good actually. Even if some technology is too optimistic, there's really nothing ridiculous; the ship itself is quite good. Exploiting the surroundings (comms lag, 0g) instead of trying to ignore them. Visible care taken into creating effects / CGI. Simply put, not sucking across the spectrum; with quite pleasurable viewing experience. Even for somebody with a bit of physics background.
Yes, there were some faults - one could easily point out, for example, the "slingshot" around the Sun - which wouldn't really work exactly as described; or that getting off from Venus via such launch profile would be futile; or "wrong" look of exhaust gasses in many cases; way too visible, and in a wrong way, "aurora"; flying through clouds of Jupiter (way too deep), nvm how it had a common error of depicting the flow as subsonic; implausibility of putting such spacechip into ring gap within sensible fuel budget; unrealstic interactions with debris; the way of analysing samples; weird exercise with Pluto telescope... (asteroid belt wasn't really one of them, IMHO; notice how they didn't depict it as some debris field - it was mostly empty, just with that one chance encounter (even if the surprise was improbable given the size of twins) & most of the situation due to some error)
But, at the same time, so many things done good. DG otoh...just most likely took away, for a long time I'm afraid, the possibility of a series in such scenery.
So Steve doesn't know on a satisfactory level, fine... (again, he didn't clarify when Adobe specifically talked about supposed OS crashes in PR response)
Indeed, "there is more under the hood then simply cycles" - the rules have changed a bit with the proliferation of multicore CPUs. From 2 to 6 cores will be a tremendous upgrade down the line. Or from 4 to 8.
Your GFX chip is quite nicely supported by open "radeon" X.org driver (wasn't ever supported, IIRC, by fglrx). I'd consider it some hiccup that it wasn't simply autodected.
PS. With Fusion it will get really interesting - high chance of becoming "good enough" baseline for games, I guess. And in video editing it might even simply destroy everything else.
Actually, for typical uses it compares rather nicely - it's really hard to notice much of a difference and/or if there seems to be any, it's also likely not really due to the CPU. Basically, CPU almost doesn't matter nowadays, unless for gaming (not really the case here) or exporting files after video editing, a process which is of "batch type" no matter how fast the CPU is (and considering their choice of OS, video editing also didn't have high priority)
Atom OTOH happens to struggle sometimes even in quite "normal" usage.
That's not really exclusive to Linux; the other OS can do fine on quite frugal hardware, too - what seems to make the biggest difference is indeed the style of software. Take some care to have efficient one, and it's fine.
It doesn't even really have to be something "ominous", etc.; from to time something nice gets through. My place was behind the Iron Curtain, but not many people realize today (even / especially locally) that we actually had...reasonably decent, given the circumstances, freedom of speech. You could say really a lot, as long as it was in in the right place and time - most notably cabarets or concerts; almost openly treated by the regime as some sort of venting area. Not much different, perhaps even in slightly better style, than free speech zones / First Amendment Zones.
What's really amusing is actually how some got so worked up...totally missing how it wasn't about quality (or rather lack of; I hate the thing) of Flash per se - just (obviously) about curious & funny dissonance of messages from Apple. With which you went nonetheless, like a charm.:)
Hey, I guess they can do no wrong...unless they do, in which case obviously the right thing is actually really there, somewhere...
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To be fair, hardly anybody was buying those 68040 models - what for, when much cheaper ones were constantly offered, even introduced, and vast majority of most important software was running on them just fine?... PowerPC even moreso, it arrived when the Amiga was already dead; and even then the transition wasn't smooth, with the new chip acting sort of as a coprocessor for a long time.
Model M was worth something, in regards to hardware. Hell, it still is:P
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...having ASCII graphics apps...
Hey, such could be the necessity to get roguelikes really going. And without them, where would we be?
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Generally it's all a clusterfuck of confusion stemming from one group choosing, for its marketing, a name of basic radio method they use...and not only them; also the group most commonly seen as "GSM association", just not in its oldest standard.
If anything, "CDMA" (in whatever form) is going out; LTE & FDMA is revving up. And considering that various "3G" technologies don't really have a universal uptake, with majority of people on 2G TDMA networks - I wouldn't be too surprised if they jump directly to LTE, at some point in the future, more often than not.
Is jamming UMTS network also planned? (yes, lots of folks still don't have handsets with UMTS; but at Defcon...)
Wars too, it would seem...
Actually, for rockets - keeping them clean might be relatively easy, if it were needed. Via "boost stage shroud", more or less. How the laser was directed also hints at curious possibilities with retroreflctors - after all, they'd return the beam (even if for a short time) on a slightly shifted path, which could easily wreck havoc.
Oh well, we'll see.
As for weapons which couldn't be found...that's an old trick; and in fact it's not the intelligence who said it... (guess who)
Sure; still not so easy / makes the thing harder. And depends greatly on the state of your heatsink, so "still works fine" might be too strong way of saying it; especially if you consider that big part of ground on Earth working as a nice heatsink is...quite large quantities of liquid water in it.
Oh, it was also about Chromium in the second case (for some reason I read Chrome, probably partly because they line up at my res); I don't know about that.
Anyway, it was only about autoupdates of Chrome; mostly only that really matters.
"Fair", fairness? So...comparing to Nehalem is similarly unfair on such grounds? ;)
And yet, their clothing didn't act at all in a way suggesting big forces (nvm distributed in a bit weird way, as far as weight goes) They and their surroundings didn't work in a way suggesting huge magnetic fields present (look at MRI rooms...); fields with which there wouldn't be that much of a need for a radiation bunker (certainly no need for such races to it)
It wasn't magnetic nano-fibers woven into the clothing; it was an excuse for not redesigning the ship a bit more to have larger rotating section (BTW some parts which "rotated" a bit occasionally, the storage, did so completelly pointlessly) and avoidance of exploration on how to do 0g more often (but still decently rare), and within the limitations of TV production.
Well, it's not "science TV", it's a docudrama after all. The drama part means the mission plan took a hit - of course we wouldn't (hopefully) perform it like that, in an "inspirational" way & so it can be nicely shown in 2h; but that seems to be one of the primary points behind docudramas. And remember, much "science" stuff was omitted on purpose, because it would require too much speculation - that's why the Titan probe fails.
But it wasn't even about this part; more like, for a start, about basic production qualities. Acting and dialogs which aren't horrible; quite good actually. Even if some technology is too optimistic, there's really nothing ridiculous; the ship itself is quite good. Exploiting the surroundings (comms lag, 0g) instead of trying to ignore them. Visible care taken into creating effects / CGI. Simply put, not sucking across the spectrum; with quite pleasurable viewing experience. Even for somebody with a bit of physics background.
Yes, there were some faults - one could easily point out, for example, the "slingshot" around the Sun - which wouldn't really work exactly as described; or that getting off from Venus via such launch profile would be futile; or "wrong" look of exhaust gasses in many cases; way too visible, and in a wrong way, "aurora"; flying through clouds of Jupiter (way too deep), nvm how it had a common error of depicting the flow as subsonic; implausibility of putting such spacechip into ring gap within sensible fuel budget; unrealstic interactions with debris; the way of analysing samples; weird exercise with Pluto telescope...
(asteroid belt wasn't really one of them, IMHO; notice how they didn't depict it as some debris field - it was mostly empty, just with that one chance encounter (even if the surprise was improbable given the size of twins) & most of the situation due to some error)
But, at the same time, so many things done good. DG otoh...just most likely took away, for a long time I'm afraid, the possibility of a series in such scenery.
(doesn't work on preview; probably won't when posting...and I even just copied the euro symbols from your post above! It seems quite erratic...)
Huh? You said yourself "and had Google Updater"...
So Steve doesn't know on a satisfactory level, fine... (again, he didn't clarify when Adobe specifically talked about supposed OS crashes in PR response)
We do pay it, in the end. Especially in cases of such dumping @education.
Indeed, "there is more under the hood then simply cycles" - the rules have changed a bit with the proliferation of multicore CPUs. From 2 to 6 cores will be a tremendous upgrade down the line. Or from 4 to 8.
Interesting how you capitalized "core"...Intel marketing must be damn good, indeed ;)
Your GFX chip is quite nicely supported by open "radeon" X.org driver (wasn't ever supported, IIRC, by fglrx). I'd consider it some hiccup that it wasn't simply autodected.
PS. With Fusion it will get really interesting - high chance of becoming "good enough" baseline for games, I guess. And in video editing it might even simply destroy everything else.
Actually, for typical uses it compares rather nicely - it's really hard to notice much of a difference and/or if there seems to be any, it's also likely not really due to the CPU. Basically, CPU almost doesn't matter nowadays, unless for gaming (not really the case here) or exporting files after video editing, a process which is of "batch type" no matter how fast the CPU is (and considering their choice of OS, video editing also didn't have high priority)
Atom OTOH happens to struggle sometimes even in quite "normal" usage.
That's not really exclusive to Linux; the other OS can do fine on quite frugal hardware, too - what seems to make the biggest difference is indeed the style of software. Take some care to have efficient one, and it's fine.
Just like it happened at our places? Wait...
It doesn't even really have to be something "ominous", etc.; from to time something nice gets through. My place was behind the Iron Curtain, but not many people realize today (even / especially locally) that we actually had...reasonably decent, given the circumstances, freedom of speech. You could say really a lot, as long as it was in in the right place and time - most notably cabarets or concerts; almost openly treated by the regime as some sort of venting area. Not much different, perhaps even in slightly better style, than free speech zones / First Amendment Zones.
...and quite widespead.
What's really amusing is actually how some got so worked up...totally missing how it wasn't about quality (or rather lack of; I hate the thing) of Flash per se - just (obviously) about curious & funny dissonance of messages from Apple. With which you went nonetheless, like a charm. :)
Hey, I guess they can do no wrong...unless they do, in which case obviously the right thing is actually really there, somewhere...
To be fair, hardly anybody was buying those 68040 models - what for, when much cheaper ones were constantly offered, even introduced, and vast majority of most important software was running on them just fine?...
PowerPC even moreso, it arrived when the Amiga was already dead; and even then the transition wasn't smooth, with the new chip acting sort of as a coprocessor for a long time.
Model M was worth something, in regards to hardware. Hell, it still is :P
...having ASCII graphics apps...
Hey, such could be the necessity to get roguelikes really going. And without them, where would we be?