We'll arbitarily assume Microsft is targeting Ubuntu specifically, then post the question: what is it about Ubuntu that's making Microsoft target them specifically?
Don't worry, soon actual artificial singers will have replaced artificial-sounding pop singers. Sure, the current Vocaloid offerings are still distinguishable from human singers for lead vocals, but when used professionally and as part of a backing track you'd never notice.
Not the goddamn short-term hockey-stick again. Go wave about a longer-term climate change graph than a mere 1000 years. Have a look at this one, for example.
Oh, if it were that easy. When you collapse the wave function my measuring one 'end' of your hypothetical particle-block, you: have NO WAY of influencing HOW it collapses, and thus cannot send any information to the other 'end'. You cannot determine what spin you will observe, only that the opposite spin will be observed on the other particle.
Documentaries too. Where else would you be able to find an easily accessible copy of Hyperland, for example, without it being split into several parts or requiring a full download?
"In short, this is like the old "Russians using a pencil / NASA spending $** million on the space pen story". It sounds clever until you realize that a pencil makes loose graphite dust in a closed environment."
The story is a load of balls. BOTH used ordinary ballpoint pens due to the graphite issue. Not to mention the space pen not being developed by NASA, not costing millions, etc.
For one small crowd of the internet (anime watchers), h.264 in MKV is the de-facto standard for soft-subs, with.avi being abandoned by all but the laziest or most incompetant users.
Remember when most videos distributed online were realVideo or.mov? Yeah, that.avi container/xvid codec will never catch on...
The reason consoles and PC are separate is because every console uses the same hardware. You buy a PS3, and it will work in the same way as another PS3 (barring minor chip revisions, carefully checked to be backwards compatible). You can easily tailor your code to take advantage of the specific platform, introducing lots of little tricks to speed things up.
On a PC, however, you have to code for as many hardware devices as possible. Instead of optimising, you're generalising. For a PC to also act as a console, it would either:
a) Have to PERFECTLY emulate the hardware of the console, in real time
b) Contain the same hardware as the console.
c) code as generally as possible, in which case why the hell are you coding for a console anyway?
(a) is technically difficult without an order of magnitude or more processing power than the emulated console, and (b) is just as or more expensive as the console itself.
Anyone who has read Prey and has a modicum of knowledge on how nanomachines actually work, however, knows that Michael Crichton doesn't know a scanning electron microscope from his own elbow. Obligatory link.
My point was: did they merely not DETECT wavelengths other than Gamma, or have they shown that wavelengths other than Gamma are not EMITTED? No mention is made of what tests can and/or have been done to determine which is true.
It's not mentioned in the article, and I assume it's so obvious that it was ruled out before announcement, but is there anything to suggest that the pulsar is pulsing across all frequencies up to Gamma, and that intervening matter is simply blocking all but the high-energy Gamma portion of the pulse? Or am I just mixing up black-body emission and emission by electron's jumping a band-gap.
I'll stick with my MX Revolution. I've yet to find a mouse with the same number of buttons arranged in an equally usable manner. And yes, I DO use all of them.
The parent clearly fails to realise that Virgin are a terrible provider (unreliable, capped transfers, packet shaping, unusually awful customer service, etc), the only users of which are those without a BT line who cannot afford to have one put in.
As for their 'fibre optic' cable: It's plain and simple BS. They may use fibre between exchanges, but SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE. It's not even fibre to the kerb, let alone fibre to the home.
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We'll arbitarily assume Microsft is targeting Ubuntu specifically, then post the question: what is it about Ubuntu that's making Microsoft target them specifically?
Don't worry, soon actual artificial singers will have replaced artificial-sounding pop singers. Sure, the current Vocaloid offerings are still distinguishable from human singers for lead vocals, but when used professionally and as part of a backing track you'd never notice.
about the only thing intel graphics offers is raytracing
Maybe Sony intent to pursue raytracing then?
Maybe they'll finally support non 4:3 resolutions.
Then you weren't looking hard enough. Page 5, just below equation 4, states that 5x10^23erg is 10 times less than 5x10^23erg.
And it all came about because it's hard to achieve 1000C in a shed.
If TV has taught us anything, we'll soon need Degeneracy Reactors to power our giant robots.
Not the goddamn short-term hockey-stick again. Go wave about a longer-term climate change graph than a mere 1000 years. Have a look at this one, for example.
Oh, if it were that easy. When you collapse the wave function my measuring one 'end' of your hypothetical particle-block, you: have NO WAY of influencing HOW it collapses, and thus cannot send any information to the other 'end'. You cannot determine what spin you will observe, only that the opposite spin will be observed on the other particle.
0.25mm is hardly nanoscale. It's not even milli-scale!
Documentaries too. Where else would you be able to find an easily accessible copy of Hyperland, for example, without it being split into several parts or requiring a full download?
The story is a load of balls. BOTH used ordinary ballpoint pens due to the graphite issue. Not to mention the space pen not being developed by NASA, not costing millions, etc.
For one small crowd of the internet (anime watchers), h.264 in MKV is the de-facto standard for soft-subs, with .avi being abandoned by all but the laziest or most incompetant users.
Remember when most videos distributed online were realVideo or .mov? Yeah, that .avi container/xvid codec will never catch on...
Thank goodness we're prepared for when the sinister Kythera device is unearthed.
Replace 'monsters' with 'pirates', and 'angry wizards' with 'Concord', and you have Eve-Online.
The reason consoles and PC are separate is because every console uses the same hardware. You buy a PS3, and it will work in the same way as another PS3 (barring minor chip revisions, carefully checked to be backwards compatible). You can easily tailor your code to take advantage of the specific platform, introducing lots of little tricks to speed things up.
On a PC, however, you have to code for as many hardware devices as possible. Instead of optimising, you're generalising. For a PC to also act as a console, it would either:
a) Have to PERFECTLY emulate the hardware of the console, in real time
b) Contain the same hardware as the console.
c) code as generally as possible, in which case why the hell are you coding for a console anyway?
(a) is technically difficult without an order of magnitude or more processing power than the emulated console, and (b) is just as or more expensive as the console itself.
Are you sure you're, using commas correctly?
Of course not! It doesn't even take a professional entomologist to know that Scorpions aren't insects!
Anyone who has read Prey and has a modicum of knowledge on how nanomachines actually work, however, knows that Michael Crichton doesn't know a scanning electron microscope from his own elbow. Obligatory link.
At least it's not an alien meteor.
My point was: did they merely not DETECT wavelengths other than Gamma, or have they shown that wavelengths other than Gamma are not EMITTED? No mention is made of what tests can and/or have been done to determine which is true.
It's not mentioned in the article, and I assume it's so obvious that it was ruled out before announcement, but is there anything to suggest that the pulsar is pulsing across all frequencies up to Gamma, and that intervening matter is simply blocking all but the high-energy Gamma portion of the pulse? Or am I just mixing up black-body emission and emission by electron's jumping a band-gap.
I'll stick with my MX Revolution. I've yet to find a mouse with the same number of buttons arranged in an equally usable manner. And yes, I DO use all of them.
The parent clearly fails to realise that Virgin are a terrible provider (unreliable, capped transfers, packet shaping, unusually awful customer service, etc), the only users of which are those without a BT line who cannot afford to have one put in. As for their 'fibre optic' cable: It's plain and simple BS. They may use fibre between exchanges, but SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE. It's not even fibre to the kerb, let alone fibre to the home.
I, uh, don't think that was a typo, as such.