All you have to do is go to a good concert hall to realize your point is moot.
Music is not produced from point sources. The interaction of the hall, or stage, or wherever you're performing in is an important part, and these echoes come from all over the place. If you ever go to a good church organ concert, where the sounds will reverbate for over 5 seconds, try closing your eyes. It's actually very hard to tell where the organ actually is. Mere stereo speakers cannot simulate that.
This is ignoring the fact that many artists would probably want to use the surround sound to "place" instruments differently. Don't tell artists what they can and cannot do.
If you mean Ridley Scott didn't do anything good since Alien, you'd be wrong, because he made Blade Runner three years after. If you mean James Cameron didn't do anything good since Aliens, you'd also be wrong, because right after that he made Terminator 2.
If you want to say "Terminator 2 sucked!" consider before you do so that you obviously don't know anything about sci-fi movies in general.
"However... isn't this energy that would just be wasted, anyway? This thing doesn't exactly slow down your car. It's not like it's sucking power right out of your engine. This is kinetic energy combined with the force of gravity and the weight of your car, energies that would just be wasted and poured into the ground otherwise."
Conservation of energy, you dunderhead.
On a flat road the only way for a car to lose energy is friction and braking. Adding a ramp will increase the length of the road, causing MORE energy to be wasted, not less. The force of gravity will never cause a car to "pour energy" into a flat road, unless you think your car is somehow using energy by sitting in the garage, but it will "pour energy" into these ramps--probably with considerable inefficiency and heat loss.
"There is a classic old film short shown in airline training, where a group of 6 people, 3 dressed in white and 3 dressed in black, are shown, bouncing and tossing two basketballs around. You are told to count the number of times a ball is bounced (not tossed) from one white clothed person to another. The film then starts moving. It is actually a complex task, because not only do you have two balls to watch, you have to carefully note whether it came from and then goes to a white team member. This film goes for about 30 seconds. At the end, every one is asked as to how many ball-bounces between whites they counted. Most of the time, the answers agree within +/-2 out of 10. Occasionally, one person asks, "But what about the gorilla?!?""
No, this is from a completely unrelated 1999 scientific study and has nothing to do with airline training. Having been thought up around 1999, it's not possible that it was a "classic short film shown in airline training". Also, the person in the gorilla suit was female, not male.
In fact, this study was posted earlier on Slashdot's front page. So you picked a particularly bad topic to lie and karma-whore about. Good job.
It should be pointed out that, because all frames of reference are equal, rest mass is "real" mass since it's always the same in every frame of reference. Relativistic mass is a derived concept, used because it's easier to understand and because it makes many equations easier.
Have you read that web site? It reads like cult propaganda with math added. Not to mention the horrible grammar, constantly misspelled words, gross misuse of math, horrible website design... we obviously aren't dealing with very smart people here.
They claim that frames of reference don't actually exist. I don't see why not, but that leaves you with a theory that is completely unable to meaningfully describe any phenomenon that is not standing still. Try to calculate the orbits of a moving Bohr atom, using Autodynamics... whoops, you can't, because the atom is moving, and you can't use the atom's frame of reference because it "does not exist".
I get the feeling they just can't wrap their puny brains around the concept of a frame of reference, so they outright deny it.
In a real Marxist society, the state would seize all the arm rests, give each person half an arm rest and then build giant chairs for themselves with 20 or 30 arm rests so they can rest their arms in a myriad of possible ways.
Gee, it must be because Apple and big media are in cahoots to smother out all independent forms of media. It's not because millions of people want to listen to ABC, Ebert and Newsweek--nobody ever liked those shows anyway. Right?
Oh, for Pete's sake. Your own frickin source deliniates that the only "terms of surrender" the Japanese could agree on was mere withdrawl. That's not a surrender.
Whether or not the U.S. should have accepted that is debatable, but don't pollute this comments section with your baseless "facts".
Who the heck modded this informative? This is a completely juvenille misinterpetation of how CPUs work.
IIRC the Athlon 64 can "only" dispatch 3 'muops' per cycle to its execution units, which themselves are broken-down x86 instructions. The P4 is similar.
Secondly, the mu-ops must be in a certain sequence if you're ever going to dispatch more than 1 per cycle.
Thirdly, in order to keep the dispatcher dispatching, you must keep it busy with new operations and data to execute. Which means you need a good memory architecture and cache.
And: "The size of the pipes is important (you may be doing more per cycle, but the cycles take longer)." I can't fully understand what this sentence is trying to say, but it's probably wrong.
Put it all together, and IIRC the Athlon 64 can barely beat 1 x86 instruction per cycle under optimal conditions. It won't get close to 9.
Parent poster has a long history of lying, telling ridiculous stories and otherwise karma whoring. I bet you 100 dollars to 1 donut he doesnt have the file.
Actually, things are priced at 1 cent or 5 cents less than a dollar so that the cashier would have to use the register most times a sale is made, which would help prevent cashiers from stealing from the store.
Um, the way War3 is set up, you don't need a private server to create private games or channels. In fact, this should be obvious.
"Simple gameservers" exist only because, in an FPS, it is neccesary to have a low-ping dedicated host with CPU time to spare.
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All you have to do is go to a good concert hall to realize your point is moot.
Music is not produced from point sources. The interaction of the hall, or stage, or wherever you're performing in is an important part, and these echoes come from all over the place. If you ever go to a good church organ concert, where the sounds will reverbate for over 5 seconds, try closing your eyes. It's actually very hard to tell where the organ actually is. Mere stereo speakers cannot simulate that.
This is ignoring the fact that many artists would probably want to use the surround sound to "place" instruments differently. Don't tell artists what they can and cannot do.
If you mean Ridley Scott didn't do anything good since Alien, you'd be wrong, because he made Blade Runner three years after. If you mean James Cameron didn't do anything good since Aliens, you'd also be wrong, because right after that he made Terminator 2.
If you want to say "Terminator 2 sucked!" consider before you do so that you obviously don't know anything about sci-fi movies in general.
Actually, there's a very big discontinuity down the middle.
"However... isn't this energy that would just be wasted, anyway? This thing doesn't exactly slow down your car. It's not like it's sucking power right out of your engine. This is kinetic energy combined with the force of gravity and the weight of your car, energies that would just be wasted and poured into the ground otherwise."
Conservation of energy, you dunderhead.
On a flat road the only way for a car to lose energy is friction and braking. Adding a ramp will increase the length of the road, causing MORE energy to be wasted, not less. The force of gravity will never cause a car to "pour energy" into a flat road, unless you think your car is somehow using energy by sitting in the garage, but it will "pour energy" into these ramps--probably with considerable inefficiency and heat loss.
"There is a classic old film short shown in airline training, where a group of 6 people, 3 dressed in white and 3 dressed in black, are shown, bouncing and tossing two basketballs around. You are told to count the number of times a ball is bounced (not tossed) from one white clothed person to another. The film then starts moving. It is actually a complex task, because not only do you have two balls to watch, you have to carefully note whether it came from and then goes to a white team member. This film goes for about 30 seconds. At the end, every one is asked as to how many ball-bounces between whites they counted. Most of the time, the answers agree within +/-2 out of 10. Occasionally, one person asks, "But what about the gorilla?!?""
No, this is from a completely unrelated 1999 scientific study and has nothing to do with airline training. Having been thought up around 1999, it's not possible that it was a "classic short film shown in airline training". Also, the person in the gorilla suit was female, not male.
In fact, this study was posted earlier on Slashdot's front page. So you picked a particularly bad topic to lie and karma-whore about. Good job.
It should be pointed out that, because all frames of reference are equal, rest mass is "real" mass since it's always the same in every frame of reference. Relativistic mass is a derived concept, used because it's easier to understand and because it makes many equations easier.
Have you read that web site? It reads like cult propaganda with math added. Not to mention the horrible grammar, constantly misspelled words, gross misuse of math, horrible website design... we obviously aren't dealing with very smart people here.
They claim that frames of reference don't actually exist. I don't see why not, but that leaves you with a theory that is completely unable to meaningfully describe any phenomenon that is not standing still. Try to calculate the orbits of a moving Bohr atom, using Autodynamics... whoops, you can't, because the atom is moving, and you can't use the atom's frame of reference because it "does not exist".
I get the feeling they just can't wrap their puny brains around the concept of a frame of reference, so they outright deny it.
In a real Marxist society, the state would seize all the arm rests, give each person half an arm rest and then build giant chairs for themselves with 20 or 30 arm rests so they can rest their arms in a myriad of possible ways.
Gee, it must be because Apple and big media are in cahoots to smother out all independent forms of media. It's not because millions of people want to listen to ABC, Ebert and Newsweek--nobody ever liked those shows anyway. Right?
You don't mess with a woman with a Power Management System...
(ducks)
Where did you get that hot insider tip? SSE3 is already out, and its biggest feature is an instruction for multiplying complex numbers.
Oh, for Pete's sake. Your own frickin source deliniates that the only "terms of surrender" the Japanese could agree on was mere withdrawl. That's not a surrender.
Whether or not the U.S. should have accepted that is debatable, but don't pollute this comments section with your baseless "facts".
Who the heck modded this informative? This is a completely juvenille misinterpetation of how CPUs work.
IIRC the Athlon 64 can "only" dispatch 3 'muops' per cycle to its execution units, which themselves are broken-down x86 instructions. The P4 is similar.
Secondly, the mu-ops must be in a certain sequence if you're ever going to dispatch more than 1 per cycle.
Thirdly, in order to keep the dispatcher dispatching, you must keep it busy with new operations and data to execute. Which means you need a good memory architecture and cache.
And: "The size of the pipes is important (you may be doing more per cycle, but the cycles take longer)." I can't fully understand what this sentence is trying to say, but it's probably wrong.
Put it all together, and IIRC the Athlon 64 can barely beat 1 x86 instruction per cycle under optimal conditions. It won't get close to 9.
Forget that. I want the magic wand that lets me copy the woman, and then ride that copy for free.
Parent poster has a long history of lying, telling ridiculous stories and otherwise karma whoring. I bet you 100 dollars to 1 donut he doesnt have the file.
Check out, for example, http://slashdot.org/~Amsterdam%20Vallon. Note the 11 "-1 Troll" posts in a row.
The melody to 'Happy Birthday' is not copyrighted. Only the lyrics are.
As a testament to the idiocy of American copyright law, the lyrics will remain copyrighted until 2030.
Also, Mozart never played such a song--it would have been rather hard for him to play a song written 98 years after he died...
It also depends on the speakers you have.
MP3s as bad as 96k/s sound the same on my silly little computer speakers, but 192k/s sounds (relatively) awful on my parents' expensive stereo system.
Incorrect. Chaos theory deals with determinstic systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
Perhaps the word you were looking for is "discrete", not "deterministic", but youd be wrong there too. See cellular automata rule 30.
I hope that wink implies sarcasm...
Of course, if you find play money poker "truly challenging", then your perception of REAL money poker must be a distorted one indeed.
Any game where an allin before the flop routinely gets 5 callers is not "truly challenging" at all.
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This poster is a known troll/karma whore. If this story is true I'll eat my hat.
This post, for example: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=125825&cid=10
Sounds like you might be able to sue for that...
Except you're wrong. You can freely view all the code in the Java API. You just can't view the system-dependent stuff it interfaces with.
Actually, things are priced at 1 cent or 5 cents less than a dollar so that the cashier would have to use the register most times a sale is made, which would help prevent cashiers from stealing from the store.
Um, the way War3 is set up, you don't need a private server to create private games or channels. In fact, this should be obvious. "Simple gameservers" exist only because, in an FPS, it is neccesary to have a low-ping dedicated host with CPU time to spare.
You missed the obvious solution:
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