Well see the thing is, and I am going to argue this from a completely legal perspective, if no one could drive OVER the speed limit, no one would have to pass anyone going AT the speed limit. I recall from my Drivers Ed years ago that passing a car in a passing zone was only legal if you didn't have to break the posted speed limit to accomplish the pass. If the car you are passing is going the speed limit you have NO legal reason to need to pass that vehicle. If the car is traveling enough below the speed limit to pass them without breaking the speed limit for a long enough period for the proposed limiter to kick in and reduce your speed to the posted limit.
All that being said I think that speed limits are posted much lower than they need to be. But we do have to take into account that driving a car is not a right, and as such if you don't follow the rules put forth by governments you deserve to lose the your ability to drive.
Monster Movies are always in places that are hard to escape. Manhattan is the perfect example: once the man made structures like bridges and tunnels are blocked you have no way off besides trying to swim or finding a boat. Its kind of like being locked in a room with no doors or windows with something terrifying, only instead of a room its a whole city.
Timers are used to keep time and generate interrupts at different intervals in an operating system. This allows the OS to run scheduling tasks at different times. The problem with this is that a timer needs to have a fine enough granularity to support the task it is given. For example, if you want to run the scheduler every second, then a timer that has a resolution of one second is fine. But if you want the timer to run twice every second, you need a timer with a finer resolution. As far as I know, the finest resolution you can get in an OS is equal to the Number of clock ticks per seconds, unless you have another hardware timer that is only responsible for generating a superfast clock.
University of Victoria in BC, Canada did a survey among their female computer science students to find out why it isnt popular among women. It must be pointed out that UVic has a 30% female CS student population, and are shooting for 50%. The number one reason given in this survey was girls dont like CS because the classrooms and labs smell. Not surprising, since it seems that CS students personal hygiene skills are more lacking then their social skills. Sometimes it is to the point where Im ashamed to call some of these people my colleagues.
GPU's are great at working on linear algebra problems, which are basically what graphics are. For general purpose computing however, they would not be that much faster than a CPU
Yes there are a lot of problems with firefox, its being developed so there are going to be vulnerabilities and security problems, but at least its constantly being developed. When everyone moves over to Vista and uses the new version of IE for Vista its going to be the same old crap all over again and im sure that IE will once again have more problems then firefox.
Wont the Kiosks be great once someone figures how to load viruses onto them from whatever media is used to transfer content from kiosk to xbox. XBox Kiosk
virus with a Xbox 360 virus payload.
Yea I dont want to pay 10 bucks to see ads that are making the theatres money. Now if say the ticket could cost 5 bucks, and this cut was attributed to watching 15 minutes of ads before the movie... I might be more receptive to it.
I would much rather watch movie previews then coke and snapple commercials that I see on TV all the time. At least the movie trailers are somewhat related to the movie going experience.
Until someone creates a mod for a game thats rated 14+ that allows kids to have full on hardcore sex and all games end up being rated M or AO because of the potential for adult content. I mean really thats as proposterous as people who try to ban guns on the premis that they may possibly be used to kill someone.
not give in to the studios, Bungies bible is probably the only thing keeping a Halo movie from being made into a huge piece of crap. Game movies flop usually becase they deviate too far from the games storyline and universe. IE not using the same main characters, or changing the main characters, or completely changing the "topic" of the movie.
If microsoft does one thing right it should be making sure that bungie gets the final say in how the movie plays out.
with HCI "experts" not knowing how to program. It all too often occurs that you have a quack expert insiting that the program/website do something from a usability prespective thats just not possible.
Anyone who is specializing in HCI should have a strong background in programming and computer technology, ESPECIALLY at the graduate level.
I dont know what kind of design you are referring to but synthesizing and doing routing and placement of a circut takes much longer than 10 minutes for largers system. We have a project in our research lab that takes somewhere around 3 hours to compile from start to finish.
That being said, it does not mean that you have to recompile everything when you want to reconfigure a chip. Each chip can have a base set of logic, and have sectors where abstract "modules" can simply be "dropped in". While this can cause a performance hit, it is easy to implement new logic circuts for a device.
FPGA's are also really starting to hit their stride and are growing by leaps and bounds.
Heh... Liquid metal in the sense of say steel or some other normally solid metal is only hotter than water in the sense that it must absorb a certain amount of heat before it liquifies. There are however some metals that are liquid at low/room temperatures. That being said even though the substance may need to be heated to liquify, the process of heating the substance will draw heat from the source, thus cooling it.
Consider the fact that when you are at work actually working the last thing you need is your friends calling you up and distracting you. They can very easily do so after work.
Most people dont screen their calls to block out telemarketers and such, but rather to avoid using the phone at certain times. For example, if i am in a meeting i wont answer the phone from anyone besides my girlfriend, spouse, etc. Or if im at work i might want to take close family and friends calls, and co workers, but no one else.
Its not because I dont want to talk to someone, its because I dont want to talk to them right now, and some people dont seem to understand the fact that we arent available to talk about certain subjects at certain times of the day. The last thing I want is one of the "buds" calling up wanting to talk about getting hammered this weekend.
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Well see the thing is, and I am going to argue this from a completely legal perspective, if no one could drive OVER the speed limit, no one would have to pass anyone going AT the speed limit. I recall from my Drivers Ed years ago that passing a car in a passing zone was only legal if you didn't have to break the posted speed limit to accomplish the pass. If the car you are passing is going the speed limit you have NO legal reason to need to pass that vehicle. If the car is traveling enough below the speed limit to pass them without breaking the speed limit for a long enough period for the proposed limiter to kick in and reduce your speed to the posted limit. All that being said I think that speed limits are posted much lower than they need to be. But we do have to take into account that driving a car is not a right, and as such if you don't follow the rules put forth by governments you deserve to lose the your ability to drive.
Monster Movies are always in places that are hard to escape. Manhattan is the perfect example: once the man made structures like bridges and tunnels are blocked you have no way off besides trying to swim or finding a boat. Its kind of like being locked in a room with no doors or windows with something terrifying, only instead of a room its a whole city.
Just buy a regular el-cheapo cell phone. Most of them can make outgoing 911 emergency calls without having a sim card in them.
Timers are used to keep time and generate interrupts at different intervals in an operating system. This allows the OS to run scheduling tasks at different times. The problem with this is that a timer needs to have a fine enough granularity to support the task it is given. For example, if you want to run the scheduler every second, then a timer that has a resolution of one second is fine. But if you want the timer to run twice every second, you need a timer with a finer resolution. As far as I know, the finest resolution you can get in an OS is equal to the Number of clock ticks per seconds, unless you have another hardware timer that is only responsible for generating a superfast clock.
We have FPGA development boards in our lab that are specifically designed for signal processing.
Im sure no one buys Halflife or Halflife 2 for Counterstrike... no one plays that game...
Just to piss you off...
University of Victoria in BC, Canada did a survey among their female computer science students to find out why it isnt popular among women. It must be pointed out that UVic has a 30% female CS student population, and are shooting for 50%. The number one reason given in this survey was girls dont like CS because the classrooms and labs smell. Not surprising, since it seems that CS students personal hygiene skills are more lacking then their social skills. Sometimes it is to the point where Im ashamed to call some of these people my colleagues.
GPU's are great at working on linear algebra problems, which are basically what graphics are. For general purpose computing however, they would not be that much faster than a CPU
Lets see... Hammers, Nails, Chainsaw, good old handsaw, axes some saw horses stuff you dont need electricity for.
He probably got the midichlorians to do it for him
Yes there are a lot of problems with firefox, its being developed so there are going to be vulnerabilities and security problems, but at least its constantly being developed. When everyone moves over to Vista and uses the new version of IE for Vista its going to be the same old crap all over again and im sure that IE will once again have more problems then firefox.
Wont the Kiosks be great once someone figures how to load viruses onto them from whatever media is used to transfer content from kiosk to xbox. XBox Kiosk virus with a Xbox 360 virus payload.
Yea I dont want to pay 10 bucks to see ads that are making the theatres money. Now if say the ticket could cost 5 bucks, and this cut was attributed to watching 15 minutes of ads before the movie... I might be more receptive to it.
I would much rather watch movie previews then coke and snapple commercials that I see on TV all the time. At least the movie trailers are somewhat related to the movie going experience.
But without Slashdot you will be totally alone... is that a smart move?
Windows Freedom, oh the irony.
Until someone creates a mod for a game thats rated 14+ that allows kids to have full on hardcore sex and all games end up being rated M or AO because of the potential for adult content. I mean really thats as proposterous as people who try to ban guns on the premis that they may possibly be used to kill someone.
I havnt played TA in years but even I know that turtling is the quickest way to lose a game of ta
not give in to the studios, Bungies bible is probably the only thing keeping a Halo movie from being made into a huge piece of crap. Game movies flop usually becase they deviate too far from the games storyline and universe. IE not using the same main characters, or changing the main characters, or completely changing the "topic" of the movie. If microsoft does one thing right it should be making sure that bungie gets the final say in how the movie plays out.
with HCI "experts" not knowing how to program. It all too often occurs that you have a quack expert insiting that the program/website do something from a usability prespective thats just not possible. Anyone who is specializing in HCI should have a strong background in programming and computer technology, ESPECIALLY at the graduate level.
I dont know what kind of design you are referring to but synthesizing and doing routing and placement of a circut takes much longer than 10 minutes for largers system. We have a project in our research lab that takes somewhere around 3 hours to compile from start to finish. That being said, it does not mean that you have to recompile everything when you want to reconfigure a chip. Each chip can have a base set of logic, and have sectors where abstract "modules" can simply be "dropped in". While this can cause a performance hit, it is easy to implement new logic circuts for a device. FPGA's are also really starting to hit their stride and are growing by leaps and bounds.
Heh... Liquid metal in the sense of say steel or some other normally solid metal is only hotter than water in the sense that it must absorb a certain amount of heat before it liquifies. There are however some metals that are liquid at low/room temperatures. That being said even though the substance may need to be heated to liquify, the process of heating the substance will draw heat from the source, thus cooling it.
Consider the fact that when you are at work actually working the last thing you need is your friends calling you up and distracting you. They can very easily do so after work.
Most people dont screen their calls to block out telemarketers and such, but rather to avoid using the phone at certain times. For example, if i am in a meeting i wont answer the phone from anyone besides my girlfriend, spouse, etc. Or if im at work i might want to take close family and friends calls, and co workers, but no one else. Its not because I dont want to talk to someone, its because I dont want to talk to them right now, and some people dont seem to understand the fact that we arent available to talk about certain subjects at certain times of the day. The last thing I want is one of the "buds" calling up wanting to talk about getting hammered this weekend.