While it's true of Obama's particular prize was forward-looking, and probably so are a handful of others, I don't think it's true of the Peace Prize in general, and it certainly isn't the case with the technical prizes.
It's already possible on $700-or-so cards. While it won't be utilised in games until those cards are at mass-market prices, that won't take a decade. Half that, maybe.
I was under the impression that people who were uncertain about the future (e.g. existentially afraid) spend less, and that it's one of the reasons why a recession is difficult to get out of.
Can someone explain the retraction here? The Nature link just gives a 404, while the other link just goes to a logon page and there doesn't seem to be any other content on the site.
It doesn't have to be 5 kilotons of explosives. It just has to be equal to 5 kilotons of TNT. I dare say modern explosives get you more bang per unit mass.
They seem better because years of exposure haven't ruined them by familiarity. "Xbox" seemed like a daringly direct name for a box that ran Direct X, for about six months.
It'd be interesting to date various components of the code by technological improvements or software development trends.
"Here we see a portion from the early 2000s, by which point the developers had discovered primitive particle effects. It is built upon the ruins of an older epoch developed in the Quake II engine."
SP1 added the firewall, gave Windows Update a bit of a shake down, and generally acted as though the internet existed and was not necessarily friendly. And that was about it. I don't know where this impression that Windows service packs are huge orbital drops of features came from because in my experience, aside XP SP1, they've been nothing but a banal necessity.
In five years' time they'll be able to crank these out as integrated graphics chips for low-end Dell laptops. They might as well ship them to a handful of enthusiasts and ahead-of-the-curve game developers now.
Having recently taken the plunge, the new user experience can be summarised as "swipe a bit, here's some corners, now don't drown". I really like the OS now I've had some practice, in both its content-browsing Metro guise and as an updated version of Windows 7 but they've made no effort to bridge the gap between the two in such a way that a confident use of one can get to grips with the other. It takes some real lateral thinking to see what the mouse or touchpad equivalent of a touchscreen gesture is.
It doesn't help that touchpad gesture support is uniformly terrible. A look at regedit suggests that scrolling support is mostly hacked in on a per-app basis.
Actually "apprehend" is correct, in the sense of "to grasp". It's quite an obscure but acceptable usage, for example in Babbage's famous quote about confusions of ideas.
Not necessarily: completely unprocessed honey can still be "clear" (as in not cloudy). This should be obvious given that it's clear when you're taking it off the honeycomb to begin with.
Not saying it should be free or $1, but that's way out of the tablet software price range. And it probably won't be feature equivalent with the desktop one.
MS's rumoured plan to give it away a part of Office 365 subs makes sense. Remove that sticker shock.
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Europe, according to the grandparent post.
"Go to war together", not "go to war with each other".
While it's true of Obama's particular prize was forward-looking, and probably so are a handful of others, I don't think it's true of the Peace Prize in general, and it certainly isn't the case with the technical prizes.
It's already possible on $700-or-so cards. While it won't be utilised in games until those cards are at mass-market prices, that won't take a decade. Half that, maybe.
I was under the impression that people who were uncertain about the future (e.g. existentially afraid) spend less, and that it's one of the reasons why a recession is difficult to get out of.
It seems like the page was up at some point:
http://www.nature.com/nature/archive/category.html?code=archive_news
Can someone explain the retraction here? The Nature link just gives a 404, while the other link just goes to a logon page and there doesn't seem to be any other content on the site.
For God's sake don't pay them twice!
It doesn't have to be 5 kilotons of explosives. It just has to be equal to 5 kilotons of TNT. I dare say modern explosives get you more bang per unit mass.
They seem better because years of exposure haven't ruined them by familiarity. "Xbox" seemed like a daringly direct name for a box that ran Direct X, for about six months.
It only draws 250W. It's right there in the article.
The Next Big Thing is all-real-time lighting. Epic has been demoing a sparse voxel based technique that just eats GPU power.
It'd be interesting to date various components of the code by technological improvements or software development trends.
"Here we see a portion from the early 2000s, by which point the developers had discovered primitive particle effects. It is built upon the ruins of an older epoch developed in the Quake II engine."
"I'm here to use my bubble-gun and kick some asps. And I'm all out of bubbles."
You can still use Office 365 offline (the licence lets you download the desktop apps). Of course, you have to pay for it every year.
SP1 added the firewall, gave Windows Update a bit of a shake down, and generally acted as though the internet existed and was not necessarily friendly. And that was about it. I don't know where this impression that Windows service packs are huge orbital drops of features came from because in my experience, aside XP SP1, they've been nothing but a banal necessity.
In five years' time they'll be able to crank these out as integrated graphics chips for low-end Dell laptops. They might as well ship them to a handful of enthusiasts and ahead-of-the-curve game developers now.
Having recently taken the plunge, the new user experience can be summarised as "swipe a bit, here's some corners, now don't drown". I really like the OS now I've had some practice, in both its content-browsing Metro guise and as an updated version of Windows 7 but they've made no effort to bridge the gap between the two in such a way that a confident use of one can get to grips with the other. It takes some real lateral thinking to see what the mouse or touchpad equivalent of a touchscreen gesture is.
It doesn't help that touchpad gesture support is uniformly terrible. A look at regedit suggests that scrolling support is mostly hacked in on a per-app basis.
Actually "apprehend" is correct, in the sense of "to grasp". It's quite an obscure but acceptable usage, for example in Babbage's famous quote about confusions of ideas.
Not necessarily: completely unprocessed honey can still be "clear" (as in not cloudy). This should be obvious given that it's clear when you're taking it off the honeycomb to begin with.
Yes, given that there are no in-house native clients for those platforms Microsoft unsurprisingly does not include them.
Not saying it should be free or $1, but that's way out of the tablet software price range. And it probably won't be feature equivalent with the desktop one.
MS's rumoured plan to give it away a part of Office 365 subs makes sense. Remove that sticker shock.
I've read that they basically intend to give it away with Office 365, rather than sell it as a set of standalone apps.
Office 365 includes downloads of the native clients for each platform. The browser is just a convenient fall-back.
Sixty dollars per copy. By Deus! It's full of nonsense.