Er...shooting yourself is just as risky as hanging yourself or jumping off a building
What about jumping off a realy tall building head first? I think the risk of survival is pretty low.
If you shoot yourself anywhere else...well, you won't end up brain-damaged, but it still might not kill you. Let's say you try to shoot yourself in the heart and miss--you now have a nice, painful bullet stuck in your chest.
have to suspect the reduction in fatigue is due to a placebo effect. maybe, i don't know about that
The split keyboards really put more stress on your wrists in most cases not in my case.
, and they are usually more inclined than a typical keyboard, which is the exact opposite of what you want to reduce stress. mine (ms natural) isn't inclined at all, almost flat (i'm not using the legs ofcourse)
When I have my hands in typing positon they line up perfectly with the rows, which is not the case with a normal keyboard. I have a ms natural and for typing it works very well. However there are three problems with it: 1.small cursorkeys 2.hanging key when pressing 3 or more keys simultaneously 3.long keyboard-mouse distance (which could be solved with a detachable numpad)
It was very dissapointing to find out that the successor only has those stupid media buttons instead of solving the above metioned problems.
If there is a discrepancy between the code and the comments, and it is the code that ends up changing when the discrepancy is discovered, then the code was lying, and the comment was telling the truth.
Depends on your view on things.. If you view what-happens-when-executed as the absolute truth then the code never lies.
If you view whatever-is-intended-by-the-designer as the truth then code or/and comments may lie.
The average time-to-replac a PC is about 3 years, but, that old PC doesn't go away, the kids or grandkids, or parents or whoever get it. That's why you see alot of 9x and ME machines still around. You dont just throw out that old PC - load it up with games and stick in the kids room.
That's silly. The new PC is used for the games and goes into the kids room. The old PC can be used for the serious non gaming stuff.
> I can tell of many a friend who bought XP and later reformatted back to 2K.
that's only natural
There are also lot of people running cracked copies of 2K who swear they will never "upgrade" to "XP". These are dead-enders who will eventually end up on Linux.
no need for a crack, just a serial. Why would not upgrading to XP be an dead end? Maybe I'll upgrade (to linux or win) when a win (and that won't be XP) or linux comes out with functionality I can't live without, but at the moment there is no animated search dog on my wish list.
No not at all. If you are thinking about double buffering... that only takes about 4 MB.
The amount of required videoram depends mostly on the amount of textures you use (size, resolution and colordepth). Add 32MB for framebuffers and such, any more vram will not increase performance. I suggest to first look at the CPU, normal RAM and disk usage and upgrade that.
That's exactly the wrong thinking that the manufacturs are hoping for. The question should be: Why would more memory be helpful? Sum up your requirements and then decide if you need more ram.
Sure it's sort of separate but it's also part of the 'normal' RAM address space. If there isn't (or not not enough) 'fast' RAM, the processor runs on Chip RAM. Chip RAM is used for video AND audio, so it's not separated for A/V.
Not exactly deceived. They are getting what they are buying. Buying something that you don't need isn't being deceived, it just proves the buyer is stupid.
Since such applications hardly use textures, how would that work? I am not up to date with the current implementations of OpenGL, is it uploading a displaylist or vertexlist to the card and then only a matrix each frame?
Patent offices should increase the costs for every next patent request. This would keep the cost for normal patent submitters lower than for the abusers. Something like, 100$ for first request, 200$ for second, 400$ for third... That would make them think twice before filing their next oh-so-obvious patent.
I used to be quite annoyed by the noise of my pc but since i started smoking i installed a fan in front of my window and it's humming along 24h a day. I am now so used to the 'noise', I couldn't care less about noise reduction.
In fact, at work I welcome the noise of the airco (which goes on and off:( and makes lot's of noise:) when on ), it masks the typing and farts of my coworkers.
One of the most interesting things about it is that it points out that, based on our assumptions, we should be detecting some kind of extra-terran life
I am not so sure about that. The avarage distance to other civilisations is proportional to how rare life is. Unless our observation technology improves vastly, I don't think we'll detect anything. Look at it this way, can we detect earth over many lightyears just by searching for human activities with our current technology? I don't think so. Another thing is, since I don't believe in hyperdrives and other scifi tech, if there is extra-terran life then their technology and radio emission won't be much different than ours.
No, only idiots have thier Windows install infected with viruses and spyware. You just have to be careful when running windows, that's all. You know, not running around and clicking on everything like a little child. Some knowledge is required to be safe on the internet, or linux.
It's kind of exciting actualy to work with such a dangerous OS:P
The article basically says: 1. smaller transistors lead to unpredictability. 2. live with it, it wil be amazing
It's doesn't say how. If they planning to run an instruction set based cpu with this "idea", error correction or error cancelation might be the underlying technique.
On the other hand there are fuzzy algorithms and other non-deterministic techniques that aren't running sequences of instruction.
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What about jumping off a realy tall building head first? I think the risk of survival is pretty low. If you shoot yourself anywhere else...well, you won't end up brain-damaged, but it still might not kill you. Let's say you try to shoot yourself in the heart and miss--you now have a nice, painful bullet stuck in your chest.
But in this case you could try again. :)
maybe, i don't know about that
The split keyboards really put more stress on your wrists in most cases
not in my case.
, and they are usually more inclined than a typical keyboard, which is the exact opposite of what you want to reduce stress.
mine (ms natural) isn't inclined at all, almost flat (i'm not using the legs ofcourse)
When I have my hands in typing positon they line up perfectly with the rows, which is not the case with a normal keyboard. I have a ms natural and for typing it works very well. However there are three problems with it:
1.small cursorkeys
2.hanging key when pressing 3 or more keys simultaneously
3.long keyboard-mouse distance (which could be solved with a detachable numpad)
It was very dissapointing to find out that the successor only has those stupid media buttons instead of solving the above metioned problems.
Dude, clocks are run by a piece of hardware with it's own pulse generator seperated from the motherboard's bus speed.
Depends on your view on things.. If you view what-happens-when-executed as the absolute truth then the code never lies.
If you view whatever-is-intended-by-the-designer as the truth then code or/and comments may lie.
That's silly. The new PC is used for the games and goes into the kids room. The old PC can be used for the serious non gaming stuff.
> I can tell of many a friend who bought XP and later reformatted back to 2K.
that's only natural
There are also lot of people running cracked copies of 2K who swear they will never "upgrade" to "XP". These are dead-enders who will eventually end up on Linux.
no need for a crack, just a serial. Why would not upgrading to XP be an dead end? Maybe I'll upgrade (to linux or win) when a win (and that won't be XP) or linux comes out with functionality I can't live without, but at the moment there is no animated search dog on my wish list.
The amount of required videoram depends mostly on the amount of textures you use (size, resolution and colordepth). Add 32MB for framebuffers and such, any more vram will not increase performance. I suggest to first look at the CPU, normal RAM and disk usage and upgrade that.
For a fair comparison I assume an equal amount of texels for each texture type. I gess it doesn't differ much?
Add some keyboard/mouse/ethernet connectors and you're ready to go.
That's exactly the wrong thinking that the manufacturs are hoping for. The question should be: Why would more memory be helpful?
Sum up your requirements and then decide if you need more ram.
Sure it's sort of separate but it's also part of the 'normal' RAM address space. If there isn't (or not not enough) 'fast' RAM, the processor runs on Chip RAM. Chip RAM is used for video AND audio, so it's not separated for A/V.
Not exactly deceived. They are getting what they are buying. Buying something that you don't need isn't being deceived, it just proves the buyer is stupid.
Since such applications hardly use textures, how would that work? I am not up to date with the current implementations of OpenGL, is it uploading a displaylist or vertexlist to the card and then only a matrix each frame?
Patent offices should increase the costs for every next patent request. This would keep the cost for normal patent submitters lower than for the abusers. Something like, 100$ for first request, 200$ for second, 400$ for third... That would make them think twice before filing their next oh-so-obvious patent.
The question is: do you want to function as a hub or as a fileserver plugged into the hub together with many other Human Network Devices?
In fact, at work I welcome the noise of the airco (which goes on and off :( and makes lot's of noise :) when on ), it masks the typing and farts of my coworkers.
it wasn't funny and the moderation is disturbing
1000 ly is not much, the milkyway alone is 100K ly across. Life might be rare enough that on avarage only one planet is populated per galaxy.
I am not so sure about that. The avarage distance to other civilisations is proportional to how rare life is. Unless our observation technology improves vastly, I don't think we'll detect anything. Look at it this way, can we detect earth over many lightyears just by searching for human activities with our current technology? I don't think so. Another thing is, since I don't believe in hyperdrives and other scifi tech, if there is extra-terran life then their technology and radio emission won't be much different than ours.
No, only idiots have thier Windows install infected with viruses and spyware.
:P
You just have to be careful when running windows, that's all. You know, not running around and clicking on everything like a little child. Some knowledge is required to be safe on the internet, or linux.
It's kind of exciting actualy to work with such a dangerous OS
The article basically says:
1. smaller transistors lead to unpredictability.
2. live with it, it wil be amazing
It's doesn't say how. If they planning to run an instruction set based cpu with this "idea", error correction or error cancelation might be the underlying technique.
On the other hand there are fuzzy algorithms and other non-deterministic techniques that aren't running sequences of instruction.
Or it could be something totaly different.
In any case, the article tells me nothing.
but how did you know? ;)
I'll.. as soon as you stop talking ill of others and mind you own bussines.
It's maybe a problem but not mine, so fuck off you idiot
You must be new here or did you actualy see an interesting article on /. this year?