Scene: gravel road in some desolate bush in the Washington Mountains. A black Buick approaches, pulls to the side of the road. The engine stops. The driver side door opens, and Bill emerges from the vehicle. He walks to the trunk of the car, and opens it. Two executives in suits, blindfolded, hands tied, fumble and stagger as they emerge from the trunk. Bill unties their hands and removes their blindfolds. The executives look at Bill patiently, expectantly, a little anxiously.
Bill: You're free now, boys. Run, play, live.
The executives cock their heads uncertainly, look at each other, and then bound off into the bush together. Bill reaches into the trunk, pulls out a Shop Vac, and proceeds to vacuum the interior of the trunk. Bill then walks calmly back to the driver's side of the vehicle, sits in the driver's seat and pulls the door shut. The engine starts. The car does a two point U turn and proceeds to leave the scene, going the way it came.
Great cooling system, but it looks like one wouldn't be able to do SLI with the Zalman GPU blocks, if the PCIe slots are adjacent to one another, or if one has a card in the middle slot of this board.
He's not saying the answer is dual DVI. He's saying that single DVI has the bandwidth to drive 1920x1200@60, if you reduce the horizontal and vertical blanking intervals. He's right.
The maximum bandwidth for single DVI is 165 MHz, IIRC. You can slice that bandwidth up any way you like. Depending on the horizontal resolution, vertical resolution, horizontal blanking interval and vertical blanking interval, you can get a lot of different geometries and refresh rates.
I had to do this for my ViewSonic VP201s, because it can't handle the VESA standard 1600x1200@60 timings, without losing sync. To work around this, I wrote my own 1600x1200@60 modeline, which causes the output bandwidth to be 153 MHz. Works like a charm.
That being said, yeah it's the compositing chip that is the bottleneck here.
I'm not an expert or anything, but it seems to me that in order to make a huge project like this a success, one would have to first make a small project similar to this a success. This thing has to be the evolution of progressively larger scale successes (and inevitable failures).
There was recently a Daily Planet episode on TV that talked about this "skyhook" thing, where you would rocket up to a suborbital path, and this big rotating cable with a hook on the end of it would grab your ship and fling it up into a higher orbit. The hook satellite maintained station using the earth's magnetic field and solar panels, or something. (I think there was a Spider Robinson story with a similar premise, but I can't remember the name of it).
I think this is the kind of thing that will precede a full blown elevator. It is a lot more feasable with current means, more of a Spaceship One, "Let's see if we can't do some down and dirty engineering to get something useful working" mindset than a NASA, "We will put a 7-eleven on the moon by 2015" mindset.
FEMA is required by law to make their site accessable to people with disabilities.
Well, technically, one could consider an IE user as having a disability. therefore, the designer of this sight was probably making section 508 their top priority, with the intent of going back later and making the site available to the "normals".
It's about time someone linked the use of open source software to the War on Terror(TM). I was beginning to wonder if the authorities were asleep at the wheel...
The point, IIUC, is to not support pirated copies of Windows. MS can only guarantee that this works, with any degree of success, in its own products.
Basically, they compile the restrictions into their own products, so it's not the web server that enforces the restrictions, it's the clients that connect to it.
But, once again, the point is not to restrict access to valid clients, it's to prevent access from obviously invalid clients (i.e. using a duplicate key).
The mouse has a little space suit, with a little EVA pack on it. The point of the experiment is to get the mouse to perform some complex tasks in a zero G environment. Then Nasa will analyze the data and compare the results with those of similar tests done in an earthside laboratory.
What's really amazing about the mouse suit is that the little mouse gloves are completely articulated so that the mouse has full range of motion, and can properly manipulate the controls of the little EVA pack and of the experimental apparatus.
So relax, PETA, nothing to see here, move along now.
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Ru jrgpo.w p.an daq0po ap. jrmmabe ncb. go.pow or frg,aby yr go. _nraet.fo ekrpat_ cboy.aewv C dak. ydco cb mf i.byrr oyapygl ojpclyov
Yd. ucpoy ydcbi C gogannf er,d.b C i.y a b., t.fxrape co yr lrl ruu ann yd. jalo abe p.appabi. yd.m cb Ekrpat nafrgyv Rbj. C dak. yd. t.fo o.y gl pcidyw C jab rbj. aiacb nrrt ay mf ucbi.po,dcne C yfl.v d.d.v
It is true that revenues from sales of printed materials will drop if the same materials are available online for free.
However, uneversity presses are generally non-profit organizations, so they generally price their materials to cover the costs associated with producing, storing and distributing them.
If the materials are available free online, then all those costs are eliminated.
If someone still wants a nicely bound hardcopy, then that person has the choice of getting one printed at a local print shop. The university press can also offer on demand printing for a cost covering fee.
I guess I don't understand their objection to having their materials available without any work required from them.
But what if you and your 500,000 friends stand in line and each hold a letter and each will show it to people for $12/500,000 per letter. Are you infringing on the copyright?
What if you and your 10,000 friends each stand a in line and each of you are holding a paper citing a line from the book. >Are each of you just using your citation rights?
This is equivalent to (weakly) encrypting the book before distributing it, and here's why:
In order to verify the authenticity of the parts, the receiver must have the authentication algorithm. Therefore, the sender must send the data (i.e. 500,000 chicks, each with a letter on her t-shirt) as well as the key (i.e. the order in which the t-shirts must be removed to be read).
Obviously, the guy that thought this scheme up and implemented it is guilty as sin; he had the intent. However, I would not consider the chicks to be guilty, even if each one had her own copy of the key, as long as she was unaware of what the key unlocked.
If the chicks are a general transport mechanism, then they are just couriers, and could very well be used for legitimate purposes. It is only when they are aware that what they are carrying is part of an illegal act that they assume responsibility for that act.
I guess my thesis here is that there has to be intent to commit a crime for there to be guilt, in this situation.
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The theme music is nice too. Really sets the mood.
The companies are the sharks and Rambus are the lampreys, right?
Bill: You're free now, boys. Run, play, live.
The executives cock their heads uncertainly, look at each other, and then bound off into the bush together. Bill reaches into the trunk, pulls out a Shop Vac, and proceeds to vacuum the interior of the trunk. Bill then walks calmly back to the driver's side of the vehicle, sits in the driver's seat and pulls the door shut. The engine starts. The car does a two point U turn and proceeds to leave the scene, going the way it came.
He doesn't want to have to download something extra, just to play on linux.
He wants the box he buys to be ready to go on linux. He may or may not care if it is ready to go on Windowstm also.
WHOOOOSH!!!!!!
Great cooling system, but it looks like one wouldn't be able to do SLI with the Zalman GPU blocks, if the PCIe slots are adjacent to one another, or if one has a card in the middle slot of this board.
The maximum bandwidth for single DVI is 165 MHz, IIRC. You can slice that bandwidth up any way you like. Depending on the horizontal resolution, vertical resolution, horizontal blanking interval and vertical blanking interval, you can get a lot of different geometries and refresh rates.
I had to do this for my ViewSonic VP201s, because it can't handle the VESA standard 1600x1200@60 timings, without losing sync. To work around this, I wrote my own 1600x1200@60 modeline, which causes the output bandwidth to be 153 MHz. Works like a charm.
That being said, yeah it's the compositing chip that is the bottleneck here.
There was recently a Daily Planet episode on TV that talked about this "skyhook" thing, where you would rocket up to a suborbital path, and this big rotating cable with a hook on the end of it would grab your ship and fling it up into a higher orbit. The hook satellite maintained station using the earth's magnetic field and solar panels, or something. (I think there was a Spider Robinson story with a similar premise, but I can't remember the name of it).
I think this is the kind of thing that will precede a full blown elevator. It is a lot more feasable with current means, more of a Spaceship One, "Let's see if we can't do some down and dirty engineering to get something useful working" mindset than a NASA, "We will put a 7-eleven on the moon by 2015" mindset.
Eddies in the space-time continuum.
That's all I wanted to say.
Well, technically, one could consider an IE user as having a disability. therefore, the designer of this sight was probably making section 508 their top priority, with the intent of going back later and making the site available to the "normals".
It's about time someone linked the use of open source software to the War on Terror(TM). I was beginning to wonder if the authorities were asleep at the wheel...
Hell, if I wanted to change the performance of my computer by one to three orders of magnitude, I would just run Vista.
Oh, wait, maybe he meant one to three orders of magnitude faster. My bad.
Apparently, it is also true that men have larger penises than women.
Well, wouldn't it be the same metal that they were eating? I don't imagine they turn lead into gold.
The point, IIUC, is to not support pirated copies of Windows. MS can only guarantee that this works, with any degree of success, in its own products.
Basically, they compile the restrictions into their own products, so it's not the web server that enforces the restrictions, it's the clients that connect to it.
But, once again, the point is not to restrict access to valid clients, it's to prevent access from obviously invalid clients (i.e. using a duplicate key).
The mouse has a little space suit, with a little EVA pack on it. The point of the experiment is to get the mouse to perform some complex tasks in a zero G environment. Then Nasa will analyze the data and compare the results with those of similar tests done in an earthside laboratory.
What's really amazing about the mouse suit is that the little mouse gloves are completely articulated so that the mouse has full range of motion, and can properly manipulate the controls of the little EVA pack and of the experimental apparatus.
So relax, PETA, nothing to see here, move along now.
P.S. You seem to be missing a chunk after "instead". jpn has a complete translation lower down.
Whoops! forgot to escape the angle brackets. Preview pane doesn't help much in this case.
Cb Qw frg hgoy dak. yr mat. ogp. yday yd. _QtxNafrcgy_ rlycrb cb yd. t.fxrape o.jycrb co o.y yr _ekrpat_ cboy.ae ru _go_ rp ,day.k.pv
Ru jrgpo.w p.an daq0po ap. jrmmabe ncb. go.pow or frg ,aby yr go. _nraet.fo ekrpat_ cboy.aewv C dak. ydco cb mf i.byrr oyapygl ojpclyov
Yd. ucpoy ydcbi C gogannf er ,d.b C i.y a b., t.fxrape co yr lrl ruu ann yd. jalo abe p.appabi. yd.m cb Ekrpat nafrgyv Rbj. C dak. yd. t.fo o.y gl pcidyw C jab rbj. aiacb nrrt ay mf ucbi.po ,dcne C yfl.v d.d.v
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It is definitely easier to roll a round manhole cover into place than it is to lift a square one into place.
groan...
However, uneversity presses are generally non-profit organizations, so they generally price their materials to cover the costs associated with producing, storing and distributing them.
If the materials are available free online, then all those costs are eliminated.
If someone still wants a nicely bound hardcopy, then that person has the choice of getting one printed at a local print shop. The university press can also offer on demand printing for a cost covering fee.
I guess I don't understand their objection to having their materials available without any work required from them.
If you could get the stem cells you wanted without killing the embryo, whould that be all right?
What if you and your 10,000 friends each stand a in line and each of you are holding a paper citing a line from the book. >Are each of you just using your citation rights?
This is equivalent to (weakly) encrypting the book before distributing it, and here's why:
In order to verify the authenticity of the parts, the receiver must have the authentication algorithm. Therefore, the sender must send the data (i.e. 500,000 chicks, each with a letter on her t-shirt) as well as the key (i.e. the order in which the t-shirts must be removed to be read).
Obviously, the guy that thought this scheme up and implemented it is guilty as sin; he had the intent. However, I would not consider the chicks to be guilty, even if each one had her own copy of the key, as long as she was unaware of what the key unlocked.
If the chicks are a general transport mechanism, then they are just couriers, and could very well be used for legitimate purposes. It is only when they are aware that what they are carrying is part of an illegal act that they assume responsibility for that act.
I guess my thesis here is that there has to be intent to commit a crime for there to be guilt, in this situation.