If you could understand what a sentence with "also as a supposedly" conveys, from first post in subthread, you wouldn't have to try make yourself feel better that way...
On our planet we have a technological civilisation sort of capable of making contact basically for less than a century. That's practically a rounding error in "life on our planet never advanced above the stage when the only way it makes its presence knows is due to wild transformation of planetary atmosphere"; and we couldn't really detect that yet. Kepler might be a proper start...
It's approximately the same (in the given time of observations) only assuming comparable orbital periods, isn't it?
In our system that would overrepresent terrestrial planets. Who knows what is the norm... (most extrasolar planets being gas giants orbiting close to their star might be itself a selection bias)
The IAU definition of a planet that you speak of is about Solar System only. Why would you be annoyed about status of some rock anyway? (except for trying to maintain consistency of course, which the IAU tries to do)
Besides, there will be quite a mess with extrasolar systems too; what is a giant planet and what is a sub-brown dwarf? Or what about moons of gas giants that will turn out to be larger than Earth?
Hey, so you have shown that there might be another way of looking at any possible vestiges of tribalism at play here (generally getting together in large group and letting everything just flow would fit, too)...does that immediatelly invalidate the possibility of general underlying factors?
You seem to be under impression that it was mostly about things going the way of "sport fans" that I mentioned - I meant it just as quite striking case.
Plus, from what I see, even when watching a game of two teams quite unknown to them, people tend to choose a side they root for; however temporary it would be, however arbitrary. And hey, I would expect that something which also satisfies somewhat our quite basic urges brings pleasure, joy,...fun.
Doesn't Cortex-A8 have already for some time quite a bit greater MIPS than what you write, "not like that's something they might work on" - up to 2MIPS/MHz? Cortex-A9, "that nice 1.2GHz ARM core" seems to be comfortably two times more than you said, per core of course. And ARM also has SIMD extensions...
What "fooling people"? How many people even realise how large number of ARM cores surrounds them all the time? (nvm their speed) If Intel has such advantage, why they haven't released very low clocked (it wouldn't be a problem with people working on embedded stuff) part that is still significantly faster and taking the market from ARM? Why new Intel Atom "for smartphones" has probably at least two ARM cores to even approach sensible levels of efficiency? Why the talk about ARM servers?
I take it that whether or not one sees differences between "normal" vision and any given deficiency example is a good & straightforward test for that particular type?
Meh, boring vision for me...;/
Because, you know, it appears like some of them (especially all types of only "...reduced") are very similar to color grading in many modern movies, supposedly looking more aesthetically pleasing that way / you are able to see whole world that way all the time;)
Exercise in interpretation or just conclude that it's pointless to rely on sense of humor of others when there's a even hint of possiblity that it migt trigger some insecurities...what to do, what to do?
PS. And if one were to run the smartphones I linked to in offline mode most of the time... (still with much greater capabilities compared to TRS-80 Model 100)
What? Why bring Fusion into this? Running "phone parts of a phone" on it instead of dedicated silicon? Yeah, it would greatly simplify things for sure - a phone which drains its battery in minutes has quite simple mode of "operation" after that...
There's signalling / protocol stack too, of course - but that can run even on quite old ARM cores.
I can a lot bigger problem with that lathe glooming - finding old PC is easy, imaging HDD contents likewise; but what about that ISA card?
Anyway, "those beige boxes were fugly, but they were built like tanks" is IMHO a combination of nostalgia and selection bias (you see only those which survived to our times)
Unreal still looks damn nice, hmm (especially old ruins filled with water kind of stuff) - I guess it just shows it's a also a lot about texture / artist side of things.
But anyway, I think folks were saying the same thing with electronic calculators vs. mechanical ones using help of electric motor; the latter vs. those with hand crank; trains vs. buggies; steamships vs....well, you get the idea.
Our medicine is quite primitive, we'll probably see another "why do people don't appreciate what they have compared with that savage past?" here (and in ways we can't quite imagine, even dismissed by many); or with driverless modes of transport blending public & private (and with better energy transfer technologies to boot)
But it would work wonderfully in the form of typical noise-cancelling headphones (just targeting the sound; would be useful for players or referees...), I guess?
It's probably mostly about vestiges of tribalism, finding some completelly arbitrary "us vs. them"
Which might be not such a bad idea if it's the only practical way of releasing steam... (hey, at my place "sport fans" groups fight mostly with each other for some time now, even in basically predetrmined time and location, a bit out of sight)
More generally, it might be hard to decide whether to feel a bit underwhelmed by 3DS or really glad that it still is mostly a pure console, without washing it out...
For many people in those ops 20k a year might be actually a quite decent level of income; compared to, say, the average at the place they are or from which they are.
Maybe one day you'll learn a thing or two about outgrowing peer pressures. Specifically one about avoidance, by teens, of things perceived by them as a sign of "childishness"...
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If you could understand what a sentence with "also as a supposedly" conveys, from first post in subthread, you wouldn't have to try make yourself feel better that way...
On our planet we have a technological civilisation sort of capable of making contact basically for less than a century. That's practically a rounding error in "life on our planet never advanced above the stage when the only way it makes its presence knows is due to wild transformation of planetary atmosphere"; and we couldn't really detect that yet. Kepler might be a proper start...
It's approximately the same (in the given time of observations) only assuming comparable orbital periods, isn't it?
In our system that would overrepresent terrestrial planets. Who knows what is the norm... (most extrasolar planets being gas giants orbiting close to their star might be itself a selection bias)
The IAU definition of a planet that you speak of is about Solar System only. Why would you be annoyed about status of some rock anyway? (except for trying to maintain consistency of course, which the IAU tries to do)
Besides, there will be quite a mess with extrasolar systems too; what is a giant planet and what is a sub-brown dwarf? Or what about moons of gas giants that will turn out to be larger than Earth?
Uhm, I got the idea from Nintendo PR; specifically from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/30/iwata-dsi-xl-is-a-spectator-system/
http://kotaku.com/5393749/iwata-dsi-xl-not-just-for-seniors-its-for-watching-others-play-too
Seems I pay much better attention that you do...
Hey, so you have shown that there might be another way of looking at any possible vestiges of tribalism at play here (generally getting together in large group and letting everything just flow would fit, too)...does that immediatelly invalidate the possibility of general underlying factors?
You seem to be under impression that it was mostly about things going the way of "sport fans" that I mentioned - I meant it just as quite striking case.
Plus, from what I see, even when watching a game of two teams quite unknown to them, people tend to choose a side they root for; however temporary it would be, however arbitrary. ...fun.
And hey, I would expect that something which also satisfies somewhat our quite basic urges brings pleasure, joy,
Doesn't Cortex-A8 have already for some time quite a bit greater MIPS than what you write, "not like that's something they might work on" - up to 2MIPS/MHz? Cortex-A9, "that nice 1.2GHz ARM core" seems to be comfortably two times more than you said, per core of course. And ARM also has SIMD extensions...
What "fooling people"? How many people even realise how large number of ARM cores surrounds them all the time? (nvm their speed) If Intel has such advantage, why they haven't released very low clocked (it wouldn't be a problem with people working on embedded stuff) part that is still significantly faster and taking the market from ARM?
Why new Intel Atom "for smartphones" has probably at least two ARM cores to even approach sensible levels of efficiency? Why the talk about ARM servers?
I take it that whether or not one sees differences between "normal" vision and any given deficiency example is a good & straightforward test for that particular type?
Meh, boring vision for me... ;/
Because, you know, it appears like some of them (especially all types of only "...reduced") are very similar to color grading in many modern movies, supposedly looking more aesthetically pleasing that way / you are able to see whole world that way all the time ;)
Exercise in interpretation or just conclude that it's pointless to rely on sense of humor of others when there's a even hint of possiblity that it migt trigger some insecurities...what to do, what to do?
General population there doesn't even know about GPS; it's enough for such measure to be a show for them.
PS. And if one were to run the smartphones I linked to in offline mode most of the time... (still with much greater capabilities compared to TRS-80 Model 100)
What? Why bring Fusion into this? Running "phone parts of a phone" on it instead of dedicated silicon? Yeah, it would greatly simplify things for sure - a phone which drains its battery in minutes has quite simple mode of "operation" after that...
There's signalling / protocol stack too, of course - but that can run even on quite old ARM cores.
I can a lot bigger problem with that lathe glooming - finding old PC is easy, imaging HDD contents likewise; but what about that ISA card?
Anyway, "those beige boxes were fugly, but they were built like tanks" is IMHO a combination of nostalgia and selection bias (you see only those which survived to our times)
Unreal still looks damn nice, hmm (especially old ruins filled with water kind of stuff) - I guess it just shows it's a also a lot about texture / artist side of things.
But anyway, I think folks were saying the same thing with electronic calculators vs. mechanical ones using help of electric motor; the latter vs. those with hand crank; trains vs. buggies; steamships vs. ...well, you get the idea.
Our medicine is quite primitive, we'll probably see another "why do people don't appreciate what they have compared with that savage past?" here (and in ways we can't quite imagine, even dismissed by many); or with driverless modes of transport blending public & private (and with better energy transfer technologies to boot)
How hard would it be now anyway, considering that new consumer Intel CPUs supposedly communicate via PCIe?
Oh well, even if nothing blocks it - loosing Intel "good will" is not a good thing in times when most sales are laptops.
You realise you just said that you prefer your team not competing on equal terms? Why you want the help of vuvuzelas for them?...
One only wonders what portions of those who "did not buy tickets" were put off by the perspective of vuvuzela...
But it would work wonderfully in the form of typical noise-cancelling headphones (just targeting the sound; would be useful for players or referees...), I guess?
Blame China, they're probably making the things.
There you have one of those thingies to control basic settings of huge range of TVs.
Noise cancelling headphones?
It's probably mostly about vestiges of tribalism, finding some completelly arbitrary "us vs. them"
Which might be not such a bad idea if it's the only practical way of releasing steam... (hey, at my place "sport fans" groups fight mostly with each other for some time now, even in basically predetrmined time and location, a bit out of sight)
More generally, it might be hard to decide whether to feel a bit underwhelmed by 3DS or really glad that it still is mostly a pure console, without washing it out...
For many people in those ops 20k a year might be actually a quite decent level of income; compared to, say, the average at the place they are or from which they are.
Maybe one day you'll learn a thing or two about outgrowing peer pressures. Specifically one about avoidance, by teens, of things perceived by them as a sign of "childishness"...