Because College level English skills are obviously necessary for an engineering project of this scope (aren't all the programming gods renowned for their exemplary grammar and spelling), and any company that displays any kind of sense of humour or humanity clearly isn't legitimate.........
Even easier, picture the population of China divided out, one per 1m^2, in a giant grid 1km x 1km, then turn it into a skyscraper with 1000 floors, each 3m to a total of 3km, with a layer of people on each floor. A truly massive number, but not un visualisable by any stretch of the imagination. Quite small, really, when you think about it, 6 of these skyscrapers could fit in an 6km square area.
Heh....I remember Some article by Martin Gardner (from Scientific American) where he used some method to work out exactly what the length of a piece of string was. naturally it was given within a range but it was interesting that someone tried to give an answer rather than the obvious "as long as you want it to be"
No, I totally agree; my bookshelves are full of stuff like Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, the Dune novels etc. The only thing that I see that even remotely falls under the category of modern would the HHGTTG. Modern science fiction I find, is more of the same-old same-old; although to an extent that's not rally the authors fault, even with new advances in the real science world everyday there are only so many scenarios they can come up with. And don't even start me on how Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson are butchering Dune (although I see Brian's biography of the late Frank Herbert won an award)
From what I read a while back, the screen isnt divided up into two equal sections, but rather in a proportion that would allow each card to do the same amount of work approximately, i.e. if they were working on a scene where the sky took up the top 2/3ds of the screen, while the bottom 1/3 was complex geometry, then 1 card would work on say the top 80% or so, while the second card would work on the bottom 20%, in such a way that neither card is ever doing significantly less work than the other.
Unfortunately the interview was cut short, as Ballmer spontaneously decided to hop up onto to the desk, and started shouting loudly "Console market, Console market,Console market,Console markettttt!!!!" while simultaneously "dancing" wildly, much to the chagrin of his handlers.
They implemented a system like this at my school, (Dublin, Ireland), where every pupil was handed out a swipe card at the start of the year, and you had to "swipe-in" at several scanners located around the campus at the morning as proof as your continued existance and attendance. The whole system was totally insecure and pointless, as you could give your card to anyone and get them to swipe in for you, and as this was done in the morning different timetables weren't an issue. Admittedly the purpose of this system was to avoid truancies rather than child abductions (something we dont get very many of in Ireland), but even still they ended up wasting several thousand on a system that worked worse than the old method of simply ticking off names at the beginning off every class, for the purpose of updating the school to the "Xyber era" (yes, spellt like that.) The principal who implemented this didn't last long (9 months). My point is, sometimes, just because a new system is electronic and uses a fancy buzzword like "RFID" doesnt necessarily make it a magic wand solutio for solving problems. (Although that is not necessarily the case in this topic, personally I agree with the idea)
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Okay, I'm just taking a wild out guess here, but I'm guessing you are a fan of Miyazaki? ;-)
I would imagine there are anti-monopoly laws to prevent that kind of thing.
The Hindenburg disaster really DID end the airship era.
Because College level English skills are obviously necessary for an engineering project of this scope (aren't all the programming gods renowned for their exemplary grammar and spelling), and any company that displays any kind of sense of humour or humanity clearly isn't legitimate.........
Even easier, picture the population of China divided out, one per 1m^2, in a giant grid 1km x 1km, then turn it into a skyscraper with 1000 floors, each 3m to a total of 3km, with a layer of people on each floor. A truly massive number, but not un visualisable by any stretch of the imagination. Quite small, really, when you think about it, 6 of these skyscrapers could fit in an 6km square area.
But is the Clod of dirt insensitive?
The sad thing is that what you just described will probably be better than what they actually come up with (assuming they bother to make it)
Heh....I remember Some article by Martin Gardner (from Scientific American) where he used some method to work out exactly what the length of a piece of string was. naturally it was given within a range but it was interesting that someone tried to give an answer rather than the obvious "as long as you want it to be"
No, I totally agree; my bookshelves are full of stuff like Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, the Dune novels etc. The only thing that I see that even remotely falls under the category of modern would the HHGTTG. Modern science fiction I find, is more of the same-old same-old; although to an extent that's not rally the authors fault, even with new advances in the real science world everyday there are only so many scenarios they can come up with. And don't even start me on how Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson are butchering Dune (although I see Brian's biography of the late Frank Herbert won an award)
From what I read a while back, the screen isnt divided up into two equal sections, but rather in a proportion that would allow each card to do the same amount of work approximately, i.e. if they were working on a scene where the sky took up the top 2/3ds of the screen, while the bottom 1/3 was complex geometry, then 1 card would work on say the top 80% or so, while the second card would work on the bottom 20%, in such a way that neither card is ever doing significantly less work than the other.
Unfortunately the interview was cut short, as Ballmer spontaneously decided to hop up onto to the desk, and started shouting loudly "Console market, Console market,Console market,Console markettttt!!!!" while simultaneously "dancing" wildly, much to the chagrin of his handlers.
They implemented a system like this at my school, (Dublin, Ireland), where every pupil was handed out a swipe card at the start of the year, and you had to "swipe-in" at several scanners located around the campus at the morning as proof as your continued existance and attendance. The whole system was totally insecure and pointless, as you could give your card to anyone and get them to swipe in for you, and as this was done in the morning different timetables weren't an issue. Admittedly the purpose of this system was to avoid truancies rather than child abductions (something we dont get very many of in Ireland), but even still they ended up wasting several thousand on a system that worked worse than the old method of simply ticking off names at the beginning off every class, for the purpose of updating the school to the "Xyber era" (yes, spellt like that.) The principal who implemented this didn't last long (9 months). My point is, sometimes, just because a new system is electronic and uses a fancy buzzword like "RFID" doesnt necessarily make it a magic wand solutio for solving problems. (Although that is not necessarily the case in this topic, personally I agree with the idea)