It isn't storage--its the massive number of data transfers a second. If you use Gmail as a file system, you're interacting with Gmail as you would with a hard drive. And that means you're using not just bandwidth, but server power. And if a few ten thousand/.ers did this, Google would have to add hundreds of extra servers--yet they would earn nothing off ads to pay for what normally would support millions of email users.
Supposedly, ATI cards are actually supposed to get higher speeds in HL2 than nVidia cards. And ATI's latest driver set equalized them in Doom 3 also.
However, even though evidence shows that ATI's claim of speed is false, it doesn't matter. Because even a GeForce 3 can run HL2 just fine paired with a good processor.
No, the H-Bomb was fusion. It was set off by a fission bomb, which heated the massive H-Bomb up enough to cause fusion, which ignited the bomb. It was called the Hydrogen Bomb because it did just that--fused hydrogen.
Very slow. I have done some programming in Java, and one thing I notice is that it does even the simplest processing, addition, subtraction, loops, recursiveness--all slower than C++. Much slower. Unless I add hardware acceleration, it takes 1/5 of a second to clear the graphics window on a fast computer. It also has annoying limits on things, like how deep a recursion can go. Even when compiled specifically for x86 (there's some java mod to do that, forgot its name though), it is still much slower. And the most annoying thing IMO is that Java doesn't give me options on how to do things--it makes me do things EXACTLY how Java wants me to do them, whether I like it or not. IMO, that is the worst part of Java.
The Higgs Boson is a critical part of Quantum Mechanics--if the entire mass range is searched (which, while LHC isn't searching all of it, many future colliders will finish the range), and the boson is not found, the basic foundation of quantum mechanics will have to be questioned, as the way that the theorists made the theory work originally was to introduce the hypothetical Higgs field. This solved the mathematical inconsistancies and made the theory work. But if the boson isn't found...
I just hope they don't attempt to find the mass of the Higgs-Bosun particle and collapse this type 13 planet into a super dense particule the size of a pea.
First of all, if the planet was collapsed to the size of a pea, it wouldn't be a particle, it would be a black hole:).
Second of all, what you're thinking of is the strange matter fallacy, in which certain high-energy experiments could create strange matter, which could turn all the matter in the earth into, well, more strange matter.
Turns out the probability of this happening is so astoundingly low that it is considerably more likely that our sun will just blow up within the next few days anyways.
The radiation won't go through the atmosphere instantly, but over time it may make holes in the ozone layer that will allow blasts of high-energy solar radiation through. This won't be good.
Plus every single satellite in orbit will be fried in mere minutes.
EXACTLY. PNG is a beautiful file format--high quality, 24-bit color... but its best feature is transparency, which is why I use it over jpeg in the first place. And if IE can't display it, well, I have to use GIF. And GIF images are limited to just 256 colors either way.
Not exactly. Tachyons are mathematical byproducts of early versions of String theory. Later versions fixed this problem. Tachyons were simply a sign that the theory had a serious problem, as they were predicted as particles with IMAGINARY mass that traveled faster than the speed of light backwards in time.
In other words, check that theory of yours. Its probably wrong.
Get in. Find what you want--make sure its not a ripoff. Most things are as they round up all their prices. How about a Radeon 7000 64MB for 100 dollars? But anyways, you simply have to get in fast, ahead of the salesmen. Get what you want, and then leave. If the cashier wants you to purchase a service plan, say NO. Like really no. They offered me a 2-year service plan on my MX510 logitech mouse--which COMES WITH A 3-YEAR WARRANTY. Bastards.
That the companies can read our credit card numbers, get our social security numbers, get all our personal information, unless we encrypt. And since 99% of email users don't encrypt, that means they can mine massive amounts of personal data and sell it off to some guy in nigeria who's going to use it to rip people off.
Its faster, easier to use, and less bloated than Winamp;). Only thing I know thats less bloated than WMP is mPlayer. I don't know why people bash WMP--it uses very little memory, its fast, it has good visualizations, a great GUI, a good song-management system, good portable device support... don't know what more there is to have.
As in 1970s. Its very old tech and completely useless because you need a projector to project whats behind you. This is just a slightly enhanced version of the same thing. Nothing new, nothing to see here, move along.
Linux isn't necessarily better than Windows. There are many arguments both ways. What we do know is that 99% of the people using Windows are complete morons who don't even password their admin account, don't download any windows updates, have no firewall, and are about as easy to hack into as a computer running an FTP server on its whole hard drive with full read/write unpassworded access.
Linux is more secure because the people using it know how to make it secure. Not because of the OS itself. If average people used Linux, it would be even less secure than Windows, as the bug-hunters find enough bugs each week to kill a million unpatched linux machines. Which there would be if all the computer morons out there used Linux;).
The only thing keeping Linux with the title of SECURE is that its far too hard for an uninformed user to install, so the only ones left using it are those who actually know how;)
The current prescotts already dissipate over 100 watts of heat over about a square inch. Something tells me that making a dual core prescott would at least double the number of house fires across the world...;)
OWNED. After what SCO did, they deserve this completely. Maybe this will teach them and other companies a lesson--to not start frivolous lawsuits just to get attention.
And its not spam.
Looks very interesting... but the interesting thing is that REAL scientific reports show that the catastrophe in the Day After Tomorrow could really happen, although it could take about 20-30 years to happen rather than a few days. Only way to stop it? Curb global warming.
Actually, that isn't true. The human brain is good at what it does. It isn't a computer, which is good at laid-out logical tasks. Computers do not come up with insights. And computers do not prove the Riemann Hypothesis. Computers are also incapable of many simple tasks that humans are--A human can look at a program, and without compiling in his head, say what is wrong with it. A computer has to compile it to figure out what is wrong. In fact, I believe it has been proven that a computer can NEVER analyse a program without compiling it.
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It isn't storage--its the massive number of data transfers a second. If you use Gmail as a file system, you're interacting with Gmail as you would with a hard drive. And that means you're using not just bandwidth, but server power. And if a few ten thousand /.ers did this, Google would have to add hundreds of extra servers--yet they would earn nothing off ads to pay for what normally would support millions of email users.
Supposedly, ATI cards are actually supposed to get higher speeds in HL2 than nVidia cards. And ATI's latest driver set equalized them in Doom 3 also. However, even though evidence shows that ATI's claim of speed is false, it doesn't matter. Because even a GeForce 3 can run HL2 just fine paired with a good processor.
No, the H-Bomb was fusion. It was set off by a fission bomb, which heated the massive H-Bomb up enough to cause fusion, which ignited the bomb. It was called the Hydrogen Bomb because it did just that--fused hydrogen.
Very slow. I have done some programming in Java, and one thing I notice is that it does even the simplest processing, addition, subtraction, loops, recursiveness--all slower than C++. Much slower. Unless I add hardware acceleration, it takes 1/5 of a second to clear the graphics window on a fast computer. It also has annoying limits on things, like how deep a recursion can go. Even when compiled specifically for x86 (there's some java mod to do that, forgot its name though), it is still much slower. And the most annoying thing IMO is that Java doesn't give me options on how to do things--it makes me do things EXACTLY how Java wants me to do them, whether I like it or not. IMO, that is the worst part of Java.
The Higgs Boson is a critical part of Quantum Mechanics--if the entire mass range is searched (which, while LHC isn't searching all of it, many future colliders will finish the range), and the boson is not found, the basic foundation of quantum mechanics will have to be questioned, as the way that the theorists made the theory work originally was to introduce the hypothetical Higgs field. This solved the mathematical inconsistancies and made the theory work. But if the boson isn't found...
I just hope they don't attempt to find the mass of the Higgs-Bosun particle and collapse this type 13 planet into a super dense particule the size of a pea. First of all, if the planet was collapsed to the size of a pea, it wouldn't be a particle, it would be a black hole :).
Second of all, what you're thinking of is the strange matter fallacy, in which certain high-energy experiments could create strange matter, which could turn all the matter in the earth into, well, more strange matter.
Turns out the probability of this happening is so astoundingly low that it is considerably more likely that our sun will just blow up within the next few days anyways.
The movie where "the core stops turning"?
The radiation won't go through the atmosphere instantly, but over time it may make holes in the ozone layer that will allow blasts of high-energy solar radiation through. This won't be good.
Plus every single satellite in orbit will be fried in mere minutes.
As the Earth's magnetic field is the only thing that protects us from the solar wind...
EXACTLY. PNG is a beautiful file format--high quality, 24-bit color... but its best feature is transparency, which is why I use it over jpeg in the first place. And if IE can't display it, well, I have to use GIF. And GIF images are limited to just 256 colors either way.
Not exactly. Tachyons are mathematical byproducts of early versions of String theory. Later versions fixed this problem. Tachyons were simply a sign that the theory had a serious problem, as they were predicted as particles with IMAGINARY mass that traveled faster than the speed of light backwards in time.
In other words, check that theory of yours. Its probably wrong.
Get in. Find what you want--make sure its not a ripoff. Most things are as they round up all their prices. How about a Radeon 7000 64MB for 100 dollars? But anyways, you simply have to get in fast, ahead of the salesmen. Get what you want, and then leave. If the cashier wants you to purchase a service plan, say NO. Like really no. They offered me a 2-year service plan on my MX510 logitech mouse--which COMES WITH A 3-YEAR WARRANTY. Bastards.
That the companies can read our credit card numbers, get our social security numbers, get all our personal information, unless we encrypt. And since 99% of email users don't encrypt, that means they can mine massive amounts of personal data and sell it off to some guy in nigeria who's going to use it to rip people off.
The Celeron D 2.8Ghz beat the XP 2600+. Pretty amazing considering that the previous celeron series was about as slow as pentium 3s.
a minute to start? strange, takes under a second to start for me.
Its faster, easier to use, and less bloated than Winamp ;). Only thing I know thats less bloated than WMP is mPlayer. I don't know why people bash WMP--it uses very little memory, its fast, it has good visualizations, a great GUI, a good song-management system, good portable device support... don't know what more there is to have.
Me ;) shadedlancer@hotmail.com please ;)
No programs required. No messing required. No firewalls/linux gateways required. No spybot/hijackthis/adaware required. No antivirus scanner required.
Its known as Firefox. Use it, love it, never worry about adware/malware/spyware ever again.
NP Complete, NP Hard, and similar problems in polynomial time. 'nuff said ;)
As in 1970s. Its very old tech and completely useless because you need a projector to project whats behind you. This is just a slightly enhanced version of the same thing. Nothing new, nothing to see here, move along.
Linux isn't necessarily better than Windows. There are many arguments both ways. What we do know is that 99% of the people using Windows are complete morons who don't even password their admin account, don't download any windows updates, have no firewall, and are about as easy to hack into as a computer running an FTP server on its whole hard drive with full read/write unpassworded access. Linux is more secure because the people using it know how to make it secure. Not because of the OS itself. If average people used Linux, it would be even less secure than Windows, as the bug-hunters find enough bugs each week to kill a million unpatched linux machines. Which there would be if all the computer morons out there used Linux ;).
The only thing keeping Linux with the title of SECURE is that its far too hard for an uninformed user to install, so the only ones left using it are those who actually know how ;)
The current prescotts already dissipate over 100 watts of heat over about a square inch. Something tells me that making a dual core prescott would at least double the number of house fires across the world... ;)
Interesting though. But from what I've heard, this is spot on with everyone else's experiences... :(
OWNED. After what SCO did, they deserve this completely. Maybe this will teach them and other companies a lesson--to not start frivolous lawsuits just to get attention.
And its not spam. Looks very interesting... but the interesting thing is that REAL scientific reports show that the catastrophe in the Day After Tomorrow could really happen, although it could take about 20-30 years to happen rather than a few days. Only way to stop it? Curb global warming.
Actually, that isn't true. The human brain is good at what it does. It isn't a computer, which is good at laid-out logical tasks. Computers do not come up with insights. And computers do not prove the Riemann Hypothesis. Computers are also incapable of many simple tasks that humans are--A human can look at a program, and without compiling in his head, say what is wrong with it. A computer has to compile it to figure out what is wrong. In fact, I believe it has been proven that a computer can NEVER analyse a program without compiling it.