The 1960s were a full 20 years after we developed the only nuclear weapons ever to be used against a real target.
That's 20 years of development.
Why do you think we still have these nose cones, anyway? The US has not come all that far since the 60s in terms of nuclear weapon design. By the 60s we were already detonating fusion bombs, and I guarantee you that the designs and electronics used in the 60s to create hydrogen bombs will still work today.
I don't think anyone would care whether the megaton hydrogen bomb just detonated in their city was based on 1960s designs or 1980s designs:)
The electronics and detonation systems used in nuclear bombs are very advanced, and very difficult to get right. A large portion of the time spent developing a nuclear weapon is devoted to the detonation electronics.
Mistakenly handing over a crate of said electronics would give a nation a significant shortcut toward developing their own nuclear weapons.
No, you really can't. MPEG-2 is old, but it's not terrible.. and when you have a 5-6x bitrate advantage, MPEG-2 is still better than others.
Besides, I don't think any current releases are MPEG-2. A lot of BD movies were MPEG-2 in the beginning. Now they are all, AFAIK, VC-1 like virtually all HD DVDs.
NASA's GISS just said that 2007 was tied with 1998 for the second-warmest year in the past century.
Their data also shows that I think 8 months of 2007 were warmer than the corresponding months in 2006 - and all months of 2007 were at least as warm as the corresponding months in 2000.
"they hammered home a single line in the CNN employee handbook which states that any writing done for a "non-CNN outlet" must be run through the network's standards and practices department. They asked if I had seen this decree. As a matter of fact I had... I had thought when I read the rule... that it was staggeringly vague and couldn't possibly apply to something as innocuous as a blog."
He violated a clear written policy. The guy is stupid for thinking work published on an internet blog doesn't count as writing.
The niche that wants a decent-resolution screen (1440x900), full-size keyboard, and built-in DVD drive in a notebook that's less than an inch thin and right about 3 pounds, give or take 2 ounces.
The Macbook Air has no DVD drive. The 12.1" X-series notebooks have no DVD drive and are only 1024x768.
It can't do Crysis at that resolution, and it is 5-10 fps (a significant number) slower in the likes of COD4 and similar at the same settings than a similarly-priced 8800GT.
I can *just barely* enable AA and AF with the 8800GT. I would not be able to do this with a 30% slower card like the 3870.
The article attempts to show that the numbers you get from a timedemo *don't* correlate well to what you get in the real world. Some cards or drivers do better in the "timedemo -> real life" conversion than others.
This difference is the entire point of the article.
It's misleading because sometimes one card will come out way in front of another during a canned benchmark due to tweaking, shortcuts, whatever.... but that same card will come out way behind the other card during actual, real-life gameplay.
See the difference?
HardOCP's testing is only concerned with real-life gameplay. Most of the time, their conclusions are pretty similar to other sites... card A is faster than card B, for instance. However, sometimes, their conclusions are opposite what other sites come up with.
"As long as you don't run two 30 inch monitors, any name brand video card for about 200 bucks will give you great playable rates at 1680 x 1050."
Not in Crysis, Call of Duty 4, UT3, etc.
When I go to plunk down $200 - $300 on a video card, and one of them performs comfortably at my LCD's native resolution and the other one doesn't, that matters. Saying all cards in a given price range are roughly equivalent is saying that you are completely, 100% blind to the reality of video cards today.
I plan to vote for him in the Republican primary in my state.
But you've specifically disallowed his mention in the Best Candidates - Republican thread?
Quite an oversight, CmdrTaco. I would have expected better of you than of the typical CNN/Fox News media that have done their best to ignore him. I expected that from them. But from you? The one candidate that most values our freedoms? You specifically forbid us from discussing him?
People who regularly get on 16-hour flights or travel to underdeveloped nations regularly are presumably not the target for the Macbook Air, I'd say.
I've had lots of laptops and have never, ever, ever carried a spare battery for one. For 95% of laptop buyers - and 100% of Macbook Air buyers - having the battery built-in simply isn't an issue. For all of those people who need swappable batteries, go buy a Macbook Pro. Or, better yet, a ToughBook.
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Those "modern ICBMs" were largely developed in the 60s and 70s.
The 1960s were a full 20 years after we developed the only nuclear weapons ever to be used against a real target.
:)
That's 20 years of development.
Why do you think we still have these nose cones, anyway? The US has not come all that far since the 60s in terms of nuclear weapon design. By the 60s we were already detonating fusion bombs, and I guarantee you that the designs and electronics used in the 60s to create hydrogen bombs will still work today.
I don't think anyone would care whether the megaton hydrogen bomb just detonated in their city was based on 1960s designs or 1980s designs
Not really.
The electronics and detonation systems used in nuclear bombs are very advanced, and very difficult to get right. A large portion of the time spent developing a nuclear weapon is devoted to the detonation electronics.
Mistakenly handing over a crate of said electronics would give a nation a significant shortcut toward developing their own nuclear weapons.
How do you think a PS3 would fare at Crysis on 1900x1200?
Nope.
They contain flash powder, not nitroglycerin.
No, you really can't. MPEG-2 is old, but it's not terrible.. and when you have a 5-6x bitrate advantage, MPEG-2 is still better than others.
Besides, I don't think any current releases are MPEG-2. A lot of BD movies were MPEG-2 in the beginning. Now they are all, AFAIK, VC-1 like virtually all HD DVDs.
They rotate, but along the wrong axis.
This design doesn't help accommodate more transformers at all.
I must be missing something major.
No, the DRM has little to nothing to do with it.
Decoding 20+ Mbps of MPEG-2 or VC-1 video along with lossless, compressed audio on the fly is extremely taxing and uses a lot of power.
NASA's GISS just said that 2007 was tied with 1998 for the second-warmest year in the past century.
Their data also shows that I think 8 months of 2007 were warmer than the corresponding months in 2006 - and all months of 2007 were at least as warm as the corresponding months in 2000.
Why would they want to track all of your traffic if not for advertising purposes?
"they hammered home a single line in the CNN employee handbook which states that any writing done for a "non-CNN outlet" must be run through the network's standards and practices department. They asked if I had seen this decree. As a matter of fact I had... I had thought when I read the rule... that it was staggeringly vague and couldn't possibly apply to something as innocuous as a blog."
He violated a clear written policy. The guy is stupid for thinking work published on an internet blog doesn't count as writing.
The niche that wants a decent-resolution screen (1440x900), full-size keyboard, and built-in DVD drive in a notebook that's less than an inch thin and right about 3 pounds, give or take 2 ounces.
The Macbook Air has no DVD drive. The 12.1" X-series notebooks have no DVD drive and are only 1024x768.
It can't do Crysis at that resolution, and it is 5-10 fps (a significant number) slower in the likes of COD4 and similar at the same settings than a similarly-priced 8800GT.
I can *just barely* enable AA and AF with the 8800GT. I would not be able to do this with a 30% slower card like the 3870.
This is why reviews matter.
The article attempts to show that the numbers you get from a timedemo *don't* correlate well to what you get in the real world. Some cards or drivers do better in the "timedemo -> real life" conversion than others.
This difference is the entire point of the article.
It's misleading because sometimes one card will come out way in front of another during a canned benchmark due to tweaking, shortcuts, whatever.... but that same card will come out way behind the other card during actual, real-life gameplay.
See the difference?
HardOCP's testing is only concerned with real-life gameplay. Most of the time, their conclusions are pretty similar to other sites... card A is faster than card B, for instance. However, sometimes, their conclusions are opposite what other sites come up with.
"As long as you don't run two 30 inch monitors, any name brand video card for about 200 bucks will give you great playable rates at 1680 x 1050."
Not in Crysis, Call of Duty 4, UT3, etc.
When I go to plunk down $200 - $300 on a video card, and one of them performs comfortably at my LCD's native resolution and the other one doesn't, that matters. Saying all cards in a given price range are roughly equivalent is saying that you are completely, 100% blind to the reality of video cards today.
Um, they come up with what is probably the most useful data of all:
The highest playable settings for given hardware.
They then change the video card and find the highest playable settings for that hardware.
I'd much rather compare the highest playable settings for two different cards than the timedemo benchmark numbers for two different cards.
Yes.
RTFA. It clearly shows how the canned timedemo benchmarks most sites use can be horribly misleading and give totally wrong impressions.
Anyone who did knows that they're not beige ;)
He's running on the Republican ticket.
I plan to vote for him in the Republican primary in my state.
But you've specifically disallowed his mention in the Best Candidates - Republican thread?
Quite an oversight, CmdrTaco. I would have expected better of you than of the typical CNN/Fox News media that have done their best to ignore him. I expected that from them. But from you? The one candidate that most values our freedoms? You specifically forbid us from discussing him?
*That* is lame.
A file that can be viewed by your friend can be emailed to you. Simple userland permissions is trying to replicate.
DRM will only let the person whose profile is signed in view the image, whether it's emailed or whatever. It's a very different thing.
It's 15 files, each slightly over 1GB.
No.
The EU and Canada have both adopted anti-circumvention laws with language *very* similar to that of the DMCA.
It is illegal to break CSS in the EU, US, and Canada.
The View that's just a *little* thicker than a Nano doesn't have a user-replaceable battery ;)
In fact, it's not replaceable at all. Sansa has no battery replacement program whatsoever for the View.
People who regularly get on 16-hour flights or travel to underdeveloped nations regularly are presumably not the target for the Macbook Air, I'd say.
I've had lots of laptops and have never, ever, ever carried a spare battery for one. For 95% of laptop buyers - and 100% of Macbook Air buyers - having the battery built-in simply isn't an issue. For all of those people who need swappable batteries, go buy a Macbook Pro. Or, better yet, a ToughBook.