Note the word approximate solution. No, quantum computers can't do NP-Complete any better than normal computers, but they can approximate quite a bit faster.
"We want Microsoft to provide us with cheaper copies of Windows XP, so we will threaten to switch to OS X but not actually do it."
They've done this before with switching to AMD--they've announced many time that they were "considering" it, but as soon as Intel lowered their prices, Dell backed off.
Most anime *is* garbage, agreed! But most Disney is garbage too, and worse, at that. I'd rather be forced to watch low-grade anime than bad disney movies.
At least the 2D-animation disney that we used to know. They have been pushed off the market by far superior and widespread Japanese animation that fills the same market. Disney has only made it worse by being unoriginal, stealing ideas, and making crappy movies.
The 280-dollar-or-so 20GB iRiver has video support, a color screen, and so on. You can play videos up to 10 FPS on it--perfect for the neighborhood otaku. iRivers are great players.
Pons proved himself that his cold fusion wasn't fusion. He did the same experiment with regular instead of heavy water, and reached the exactly same results. He however covered up the results of this experiment, and thus cold fusion become fraud, not science.
The brain has about 100 billion neurons, each with 10,000 connections to other neurons. Even if you treat the brain as a classic recurrant neural network (which it isn't) in which each node is merely a function and nothing else, it would still require about 1 million gigabytes of memory to hold. And of course processing time would be ridiculous.
What's the point of buying stuff I won't watch? I'm not even paying for it. If I buy it from Bandai, I'm paying Bandai money to continue their horrible pansy marketing, their pathetic dubbing with horrible voice acting, and their complete utter ruining of the best anime. Ghost in the Shell does not belong on the same channel as Pokemon.
If I did pay for it, it would be for the original thing. I don't want it though. I want quality fansubs, not a crappy DVD version by Bandai. Yet again I ask--what is the point of buying what I won't watch? Its like downloading movies and then buying the DVDs, but never watching the DVDs. Such a waste of money.
I loved Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Neon Genesis Evangelion,.hack//SIGN, Fullmetal Alchemist, and many more.
Know how many I spent a cent on? Its a nonnegative integer smaller than 1. I don't know any people who download fansubs who also buy the DVDs, especially considering there are many fansub groups that make DVD quality rips with 6-channel AC3 audio and 1500-2000kbs Xvid. They're basically the same as the original, and with easier-to-read subs and karaoke.
PeaceFire distributes a free program called the Circumventor which can be used (by running it on a server in a free country) to safely and securely proxy out of a firewalled nation like China.
It would cost me 30 bucks per DVD (with 7 DVDs!) to get a badly translated first season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Or I could spend a few hours downloading a better translation, with subs that are easier to read, completely for free.
At least in my experience, downloaded TV shows are far, far superior to what you will find on a DVD, if not simply from the ease of use perspective. For example, if one of my friends wants to watch a show, I can grab two DVD-RWs, copy everything onto them, and give them to him. Can't do that as easily for 7 DVDs.
Inferior? The reason why people download fansubs is that they have better translation, karaoke (which isn't on any DVD version), better-looking subtitles, and similar image and sound quality to a DVD version. And buying a DVD doesn't support the show--only the crappy licenser who butchers it. The show itself in Japan gets nothing at all.
Ouch. Although most licensing costs are easily payed back considering they [b]sell it all to Cartoon Network[/b]. Of course all this is why I don't buy DVDs... fansub DVD-rips look better, sound better, are smaller, and cost nothing but a few hours on bittorrent.
An HD-DVD will easily fit the amount of video that is now stored on a whole season-pack of DVDs. But people will not be willing to pay $120+ for a single disk. They will demand what was sold before for $120 for $20. And thus we will never get the potential of this technology. You'll still have to get Star Trek: The Next Generation on 7 packs of 7 DVDs, even though they could fit it all on 3 or 4. The worst heresy I've seen recently was Bandai putting 26 24-minute episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on 7 DVDs, and trying to charge up to $30 each for them. Considering that a single dual-layer DVD can fit all 26 episodes encoded at basically-perfect 1600kbs Xvid along with 6-channel AC3 audio, they have no right to spread out 11 hours of video to 7 disks. Its just an utter ripoff.
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Isn't it a bit late for them to try to be "friendly" with open source?
But the server still melted anyways.
Note the word approximate solution. No, quantum computers can't do NP-Complete any better than normal computers, but they can approximate quite a bit faster.
Well, according to their math, every copy pirated is a sale lost, so they've "lost" trillions of dollars.
"We want Microsoft to provide us with cheaper copies of Windows XP, so we will threaten to switch to OS X but not actually do it."
They've done this before with switching to AMD--they've announced many time that they were "considering" it, but as soon as Intel lowered their prices, Dell backed off.
Most anime *is* garbage, agreed! But most Disney is garbage too, and worse, at that. I'd rather be forced to watch low-grade anime than bad disney movies.
At least the 2D-animation disney that we used to know. They have been pushed off the market by far superior and widespread Japanese animation that fills the same market. Disney has only made it worse by being unoriginal, stealing ideas, and making crappy movies.
The 280-dollar-or-so 20GB iRiver has video support, a color screen, and so on. You can play videos up to 10 FPS on it--perfect for the neighborhood otaku. iRivers are great players.
Well, if it isn't a nuclear reaction, there's only one other option: its a chemical reaction. And if its a chemical reaction, nobody cares.
Pons proved himself that his cold fusion wasn't fusion. He did the same experiment with regular instead of heavy water, and reached the exactly same results. He however covered up the results of this experiment, and thus cold fusion become fraud, not science.
The brain has about 100 billion neurons, each with 10,000 connections to other neurons. Even if you treat the brain as a classic recurrant neural network (which it isn't) in which each node is merely a function and nothing else, it would still require about 1 million gigabytes of memory to hold. And of course processing time would be ridiculous.
Anyone else wonder why this is in the Hardware section?
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o 217527 - Left column on Slashdot is sometimes too narrow or too wide for its contents.
FINALLY! Slashdot renders correctly. But doesn't this mean we can't make any jokes about Firefox and Slashdot anymore?
Or, should I say, your AV software sucks so bad that it wrongly detects a perfectly legit AlbinoBlackSheep link as a trojan?
A nanometer is 10^-9, a micrometer is 10^-6. Wrong units.
But I thought that BSD was dead?
*ducks*
But in all seriousness, its good that BSD is still going. Not dead yet, and hopefully not for a long time.
What's the point of buying stuff I won't watch? I'm not even paying for it. If I buy it from Bandai, I'm paying Bandai money to continue their horrible pansy marketing, their pathetic dubbing with horrible voice acting, and their complete utter ruining of the best anime. Ghost in the Shell does not belong on the same channel as Pokemon.
If I did pay for it, it would be for the original thing. I don't want it though. I want quality fansubs, not a crappy DVD version by Bandai. Yet again I ask--what is the point of buying what I won't watch? Its like downloading movies and then buying the DVDs, but never watching the DVDs. Such a waste of money.
I loved Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Neon Genesis Evangelion, .hack//SIGN, Fullmetal Alchemist, and many more.
Know how many I spent a cent on? Its a nonnegative integer smaller than 1. I don't know any people who download fansubs who also buy the DVDs, especially considering there are many fansub groups that make DVD quality rips with 6-channel AC3 audio and 1500-2000kbs Xvid. They're basically the same as the original, and with easier-to-read subs and karaoke.
PeaceFire distributes a free program called the Circumventor which can be used (by running it on a server in a free country) to safely and securely proxy out of a firewalled nation like China.
It would cost me 30 bucks per DVD (with 7 DVDs!) to get a badly translated first season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Or I could spend a few hours downloading a better translation, with subs that are easier to read, completely for free.
At least in my experience, downloaded TV shows are far, far superior to what you will find on a DVD, if not simply from the ease of use perspective. For example, if one of my friends wants to watch a show, I can grab two DVD-RWs, copy everything onto them, and give them to him. Can't do that as easily for 7 DVDs.
You can fit about 5-6 hours of MPEG2 video on one DVD. 3 episodes on one DVD is not even 90 minutes.
Inferior? The reason why people download fansubs is that they have better translation, karaoke (which isn't on any DVD version), better-looking subtitles, and similar image and sound quality to a DVD version. And buying a DVD doesn't support the show--only the crappy licenser who butchers it. The show itself in Japan gets nothing at all.
Well it might fit on Rush Limbaugh's lap...
*runs*
Ouch. Although most licensing costs are easily payed back considering they [b]sell it all to Cartoon Network[/b]. Of course all this is why I don't buy DVDs... fansub DVD-rips look better, sound better, are smaller, and cost nothing but a few hours on bittorrent.
An HD-DVD will easily fit the amount of video that is now stored on a whole season-pack of DVDs. But people will not be willing to pay $120+ for a single disk. They will demand what was sold before for $120 for $20. And thus we will never get the potential of this technology. You'll still have to get Star Trek: The Next Generation on 7 packs of 7 DVDs, even though they could fit it all on 3 or 4. The worst heresy I've seen recently was Bandai putting 26 24-minute episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on 7 DVDs, and trying to charge up to $30 each for them. Considering that a single dual-layer DVD can fit all 26 episodes encoded at basically-perfect 1600kbs Xvid along with 6-channel AC3 audio, they have no right to spread out 11 hours of video to 7 disks. Its just an utter ripoff.