But if you really think about it, the Apollo Program was run very Agile-like. If it had been Waterfall, then Apollo 1 would have been destined for the moon. But instead, there were several 'flights' that never left Earth, several more that were unmanned and fully automated, then there were LEO flights designed for figuring out how the whole command module thing would work. Then they changed the whole schedule at the last minute because there was no LM's available to work on rendezvous maneuvers in LEO and instead sent Apollo 8 to the moon and back. And when they did land on the moon, they did it with a minimum load compared to what the requirements said, just as a kind of proof-of-concept. In between each flight, they talked to the users, made some changes based on the evolving needs, and then moved onto the next set of requirements. Okay, so they probably didn't have a scrum meeting everyday... but for such a hugely complex development effort, they understood the values of prototyping and iterative design, something that apparently is lost in most government contracts today.
IMO it doesn't have much to do with availability of guns either- my dad talks about how he used to go hunting in the morning, throw his shotgun in the car, and then drive to school. Guns have been readily available for a long time.
The real issue to me seems to be lack of respect for authority, caused by lack of discipline. It used to be that the threat of detention was enough to stop most fist fights from ever happening. Not because detention was particularly effective, but because telling Mom and Dad would lead to more, and more effective, discipline. There used to be an understanding that expected behavior and accepted behavior were two different things. So yes, boys will be boys was expected, but the acceptable behavior was reinforced by authority figures (principals, parents, friends parents, random people on the street who are older than you and saw you do something you shouldn't be doing). Now, accepted behavior is always expected, and any deviation from that must be the fault of some outside influence. Don't try and discipline the child, try and find who/what else to blame. Must be the principal/parent/friends parent/random person on the street who is at fault.
That has to be one of the most insightful posts I have ever seen on Slashdot- congrats. If I had mod points, I would hand them out.
On top of that, I think that the issue has to be addressed legally, otherwise it's the proverbial elephant that no one wants to talk about. I don't really think a constitutional ammendment is in order, because they scare me - but it also doesn't really matter what I think. But something needs to be done to remove all legal doubt. That law can then be tested in the courts and eventually my guess is some sort of status quo on the issue will be settled on and acepted. Remember, there are more possible solutions than what is presented by the extremes.
From the same post that you take your quote from you can see that:
- The characters are the same- not just the cast. It won't be a rehash, it will be a new storyline for the same characters.
-He is doing it on a shoestring budget, under 5mil. The first was cheap because he didn't have to pay salary. Now he feels like being nice to these people.
I understand that diesel doesn't provide the high-end horsepower that gas engines do, but we're talking about hybrid SUV's- not your standard SUV. I would assume that most people interested in a hybrid SUV want an SUV for looks/creature comforts/safety and not for the ability to drag race. No hybrid is particularly usefull to people who want to drive something like a sports car.
It's a chicken/egg thing really. The only reason diesel costs more is that Ford/GM/etc have never needed them manufactured at high volumes. I actually have wondered when we'll get the first hybrid electric/diesel. It would work wonderfully for the hybrid SUV section. A relatively small diesel engine could provide ample power, plus the electric to keep you running in start-stop situations. Gas mileage would be through the roof (compared to your standard SUV gas mileage). I would guess that in the short term the cost of manufacturing a small diesel (say 60hp) would be about the same, if not less, as manufacturing the 120hp engine in the hybrid Escape, and it would provide comparable results. Plus, as volume increases, the cost of producing the diesel engine will go down, thus meaning Ford won't have to sell at a loss.
Then let them come via legal channels and not come sneaking across the border!
Look- I'm a Republican who believes that we need serious imigration reform, our policy is too restrictive (I know, not exactly the party line there). The southwest sees tons of illegals because we as a country won't let them come across in a legit manner. However, all that will change by giving illegals free health care is increasing the number of illegals. Politicians on both sides of the aisle spend way to much time fighting symptoms. Get to the cause- make these aliens legal and then allow them the same health care options the rest of America has.
If Arnold or whoever else gets elected through this process, you can bet there will be an almost instantaneous recall campaign started by the Gray Davis faction.
Actually, I can almost guarentee there won't be. The dem's aren't stupid, doing something that childish would only further hurt their already dismall chances in '04 (not meant as a dig- just my opinion from the way I see the race shaping up). If any attempt is made, I will further guarentee it will be put down quite quickly from the left, even before the right has a chance to notice.
The one thing everyone is forgetting is that perjury is defined, by the law as:
The deliberate, willful giving of false, misleading, or incomplete testimony under oath.
The key to this would be the terms deliberate and willful. However, the RIAA were acting as agents of Usher(R&B) and, in good faith to their client, were attempting to remove his copyrighted material from public distrobution. There is nothing perjorous in their act. It was a simple, honest mistake. Yes, it could have- and probably should have been avoided, but that does not make it illegal (criminally).
However, Dr. Usher probably would have a decent claim in a civil court, slander or some such- but he (so far) seems to be a nice guy and realizes that everyone makes mistakes.
Can you provide a link to such a case? This isn't meant as a flame against you or anyone else- but I see it said alot that courts have said EULA's don't standup, but I have never seen an actual published decision that states this. It seems to me that the/.'ers out there that wanted to fight EULA's and licensing in general would want to have supporting cases memorized. You sound a lot more informed if you can say to the unconverted "According to the landmark evil-company vs. joe schmoe case, EULA's are not enforcable." In fact, if such a decision exists (and it may, I really don't have a clue if it does or doesn't) then I would think it would be a great help to have that case, the decision and all the facts about it readily available.
Anyway, if anyone knows of such a case, a link would be appreciated.
I was in a quake2 clan #include where I was stdio.h, we also had iomanip.h, iostream.h, etc etc... As for computers- I'm litesgod just about everywhere- comes from working as a lighting tech on many a concert. As far as pen and paper goes- I tend to be creative, as much as possible. Dwarf fighter named Shirundkhal- which is Dwarven for 'Elf Slayer' (at least in the DL setting, even though we play FR usually), a halfling theif named Peppermint, and a Malkavian ex rock star named Syd (ok- I sort of stole that one, but few people would know from where).
White Wolf has its own issues. I play both systems regularly. I personally like D20 better, it seems easier, probably brought on by having to roll fewer dice. Tell me why WW makes the roll for every 3rd level discipline a different Ability/Attribute combination than that of the other discipline levels? I spend way to much time checking those strange combinations. But my greatest problem with WW- an ungodly powerful character can fall way to easily due to die rolls. The probabilities don't scale properly. Sure it's more 'realistic' but when was a game about vampires and werewolves supposed to be real? D20 has some overpower problems- such as why can my 16th level dwarf fighter take out an entire army of Orcs in one turn? But hey- he's a hero, right? That is what hero's do.
I tend to agree. For me, computers were the hobby and only later became a career. At home I have total control of what hardware/software I'm running, and how I want things configured. At work I'm stuck running a certain machine with a certain image- not much fun. The being said, I do enjoy playing golf and recently tennis, own more guitars than I could ever have a use for, and read like a madman. I used to be quite a mountain biker, but haven't had the oppurtunity lately, and learning to fly is a definite must, whenever the time and money becomes available. Of course, I could have the money, if I cut back on the computers and guitars (guitars are more addictive than crack).
Are you crazy? Allowing aluminum bats in the big leagues would be suicide for every pitcher out there! Personally, I don't know why they keep them in college ball. Getting hit with a 95mph pitch coming off of Barry Bonds' aluminum bat just doesn't sound like much fun to me (not that getting hit with a ball coming off of a wooden bat sounds like fun either...)
However I do agree that umpires aren't going anywhere. Their inconsitancies make the game more random, and thus more enjoyable (at least for me).
You're correct- on both guesses. Most new games don't even include software rendering in their code. That forces the API (openGL, DirectX, whatever) to do any software rendering, which is not going to be as efficient as software rendering written for the game by the developer. On the same token, new cards support DX9, but old cards don't. When the old cards encounter a DX9 call, they have to throw it off to the CPU to do via slow software rendering. Also, Graphics cards are incredibly specialized for generating polygons, they aren't designed to do anything else. Whereas Intel/AMD/IBM/whoever has to worry about all sorts of applications when developing their processors, ATI, nVidia, etc only have to worry about graphics. That means that little tricks can get thrown into the hardware. Perhaps (and this is purely a random guess/example) displaying a texture requires a math trick that, when done on hardware increases speed for displaying that texture, but would drastically decrease speed if the hardware were being used for compiling software. It's really just a case of the GPUs being much more specialized at rendering than CPU's are.
I've read some of the Eddings stuff and liked it so far, but haven't tried the Cornwell, may have to add it to my list. Along with your Too Obvious list goes my also obvious list:
George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice
--A Game Of Thrones
--A Clash of Kings
--A Storm of Swords
--A new one coming soon!
and also Robin Hobb has two trilogies completed, and a third one just started. So far I've only made it through her Farseer Trilogy, very good stuff. Just a few more recent fantasy books I've picked up. I highly suggest both authors to anyone who hasn't read them yet.
Not only that- but it seems that my cats favorite place to sleep is on my computer chair. And when I move her from her slumber, she quickly finds her second favorite spot- the keyboard.
While it is true that it does take some time, and quite a bit of money to move fabs, it is something that the semiconductor buisness has had to deal with for a long time. The simple fact is, a new fab is really only state-of-the-art for a year or so. It may start out cranking out the money makers, but within a few years they are usually reduced to making either embedded or memory, or something equally non-taxing. And by ten years, all of there equipment has been donated to some university or other, and they are redisgned as office buildings.
So yeah, it might take sometime for the research, but I would say it would only take a few years after that(assuming Intel/AMD/whoever is in control of chips at the time decides to) before fabs spring up to mass produce these chips.
The problem with this and all new tech is cost. Right now, AFAIK the real research is going into.07 micron tech (you say.18, but actually.13 is "cutting edge"). Currently.07 is done using a laser etch, as opposed to lithography. For any new tech to become available you have to be able to mass produce it, and do so cheaply..07 isn't cost effective yet (because of the laser it takes a long time to produce one wafer), and I would guess that.01 is not cost effective either. the next 10-15 years will likely see IBM first perfecting the process, and then scaling it to large scale/mass production. After that you may see things (5-10 years) being created using this process, but I wouldn't expect anything, even larger feature sizes, to be seen before then.
I don't want to say these people aren't ignorant or anything, because I believe they probably are. However, this type of questioning would be very normal in a court preceeding. You have to be very specific in your questioning, or else the other lawyers will jump on it. Its likely that the question was asked in such a manner becuase quite probably, someone somewhere won't know what compression is.
The NV ratings are just a conveinent way to name R&D projects. It lets them have 4 variations that they can play with, the NV-11 is based on the NV-10, and one could assume that an NV-12. NV-13, and NV-14 would also be based on the NV-10 chip. As for x-box, as I've said before, nVidia has yet to announce what chip will be in the x-box, it will probably be an entirely different chip from anything we've seen yet.
GeForce2 will run on the same drivers as the GeForce (which, consequently run on the same drivers as the TNT2Ultra, TNT2, and TNT). So, assuming that the beta drivers nVidia released yesterday are adequate, then the GeForce2 drivers will be as well.
although, at this size, lithography is going to be, er, interesting.
Interesting? Try near impossible (though I refuse to say impossible, sub micron was once considered impossible)..13 is accomplished using 150nm light, how much lower can we go? Lithography has consistently been the hold up in manufacturing, not the substrate.
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But if you really think about it, the Apollo Program was run very Agile-like. If it had been Waterfall, then Apollo 1 would have been destined for the moon. But instead, there were several 'flights' that never left Earth, several more that were unmanned and fully automated, then there were LEO flights designed for figuring out how the whole command module thing would work. Then they changed the whole schedule at the last minute because there was no LM's available to work on rendezvous maneuvers in LEO and instead sent Apollo 8 to the moon and back. And when they did land on the moon, they did it with a minimum load compared to what the requirements said, just as a kind of proof-of-concept. In between each flight, they talked to the users, made some changes based on the evolving needs, and then moved onto the next set of requirements. Okay, so they probably didn't have a scrum meeting everyday... but for such a hugely complex development effort, they understood the values of prototyping and iterative design, something that apparently is lost in most government contracts today.
IMO it doesn't have much to do with availability of guns either- my dad talks about how he used to go hunting in the morning, throw his shotgun in the car, and then drive to school. Guns have been readily available for a long time.
The real issue to me seems to be lack of respect for authority, caused by lack of discipline. It used to be that the threat of detention was enough to stop most fist fights from ever happening. Not because detention was particularly effective, but because telling Mom and Dad would lead to more, and more effective, discipline. There used to be an understanding that expected behavior and accepted behavior were two different things. So yes, boys will be boys was expected, but the acceptable behavior was reinforced by authority figures (principals, parents, friends parents, random people on the street who are older than you and saw you do something you shouldn't be doing). Now, accepted behavior is always expected, and any deviation from that must be the fault of some outside influence. Don't try and discipline the child, try and find who/what else to blame. Must be the principal/parent/friends parent/random person on the street who is at fault.
That has to be one of the most insightful posts I have ever seen on Slashdot- congrats. If I had mod points, I would hand them out.
On top of that, I think that the issue has to be addressed legally, otherwise it's the proverbial elephant that no one wants to talk about. I don't really think a constitutional ammendment is in order, because they scare me - but it also doesn't really matter what I think. But something needs to be done to remove all legal doubt. That law can then be tested in the courts and eventually my guess is some sort of status quo on the issue will be settled on and acepted. Remember, there are more possible solutions than what is presented by the extremes.
From the same post that you take your quote from you can see that:
- The characters are the same- not just the cast. It won't be a rehash, it will be a new storyline for the same characters.
-He is doing it on a shoestring budget, under 5mil. The first was cheap because he didn't have to pay salary. Now he feels like being nice to these people.
The starting guns are made to emit a very obvious puff of white smoke. Most athletes time off of the smoke, not the sound.
err... isn't there also the small issue of him not being an American citizen?
I understand that diesel doesn't provide the high-end horsepower that gas engines do, but we're talking about hybrid SUV's- not your standard SUV. I would assume that most people interested in a hybrid SUV want an SUV for looks/creature comforts/safety and not for the ability to drag race. No hybrid is particularly usefull to people who want to drive something like a sports car.
It's a chicken/egg thing really. The only reason diesel costs more is that Ford/GM/etc have never needed them manufactured at high volumes. I actually have wondered when we'll get the first hybrid electric/diesel. It would work wonderfully for the hybrid SUV section. A relatively small diesel engine could provide ample power, plus the electric to keep you running in start-stop situations. Gas mileage would be through the roof (compared to your standard SUV gas mileage). I would guess that in the short term the cost of manufacturing a small diesel (say 60hp) would be about the same, if not less, as manufacturing the 120hp engine in the hybrid Escape, and it would provide comparable results. Plus, as volume increases, the cost of producing the diesel engine will go down, thus meaning Ford won't have to sell at a loss.
Then let them come via legal channels and not come sneaking across the border!
Look- I'm a Republican who believes that we need serious imigration reform, our policy is too restrictive (I know, not exactly the party line there). The southwest sees tons of illegals because we as a country won't let them come across in a legit manner. However, all that will change by giving illegals free health care is increasing the number of illegals. Politicians on both sides of the aisle spend way to much time fighting symptoms. Get to the cause- make these aliens legal and then allow them the same health care options the rest of America has.
If Arnold or whoever else gets elected through this process, you can bet there will be an almost instantaneous recall campaign started by the Gray Davis faction.
Actually, I can almost guarentee there won't be. The dem's aren't stupid, doing something that childish would only further hurt their already dismall chances in '04 (not meant as a dig- just my opinion from the way I see the race shaping up). If any attempt is made, I will further guarentee it will be put down quite quickly from the left, even before the right has a chance to notice.
However, Dr. Usher probably would have a decent claim in a civil court, slander or some such- but he (so far) seems to be a nice guy and realizes that everyone makes mistakes.
Anyway, if anyone knows of such a case, a link would be appreciated.
I was in a quake2 clan #include where I was stdio.h, we also had iomanip.h, iostream.h, etc etc...
As for computers- I'm litesgod just about everywhere- comes from working as a lighting tech on many a concert. As far as pen and paper goes- I tend to be creative, as much as possible. Dwarf fighter named Shirundkhal- which is Dwarven for 'Elf Slayer' (at least in the DL setting, even though we play FR usually), a halfling theif named Peppermint, and a Malkavian ex rock star named Syd (ok- I sort of stole that one, but few people would know from where).
White Wolf has its own issues. I play both systems regularly. I personally like D20 better, it seems easier, probably brought on by having to roll fewer dice. Tell me why WW makes the roll for every 3rd level discipline a different Ability/Attribute combination than that of the other discipline levels? I spend way to much time checking those strange combinations. But my greatest problem with WW- an ungodly powerful character can fall way to easily due to die rolls. The probabilities don't scale properly. Sure it's more 'realistic' but when was a game about vampires and werewolves supposed to be real? D20 has some overpower problems- such as why can my 16th level dwarf fighter take out an entire army of Orcs in one turn? But hey- he's a hero, right? That is what hero's do.
I tend to agree. For me, computers were the hobby and only later became a career. At home I have total control of what hardware/software I'm running, and how I want things configured. At work I'm stuck running a certain machine with a certain image- not much fun.
The being said, I do enjoy playing golf and recently tennis, own more guitars than I could ever have a use for, and read like a madman. I used to be quite a mountain biker, but haven't had the oppurtunity lately, and learning to fly is a definite must, whenever the time and money becomes available. Of course, I could have the money, if I cut back on the computers and guitars (guitars are more addictive than crack).
Are you crazy? Allowing aluminum bats in the big leagues would be suicide for every pitcher out there! Personally, I don't know why they keep them in college ball. Getting hit with a 95mph pitch coming off of Barry Bonds' aluminum bat just doesn't sound like much fun to me (not that getting hit with a ball coming off of a wooden bat sounds like fun either...)
However I do agree that umpires aren't going anywhere. Their inconsitancies make the game more random, and thus more enjoyable (at least for me).
You're correct- on both guesses. Most new games don't even include software rendering in their code. That forces the API (openGL, DirectX, whatever) to do any software rendering, which is not going to be as efficient as software rendering written for the game by the developer. On the same token, new cards support DX9, but old cards don't. When the old cards encounter a DX9 call, they have to throw it off to the CPU to do via slow software rendering. Also, Graphics cards are incredibly specialized for generating polygons, they aren't designed to do anything else. Whereas Intel/AMD/IBM/whoever has to worry about all sorts of applications when developing their processors, ATI, nVidia, etc only have to worry about graphics. That means that little tricks can get thrown into the hardware. Perhaps (and this is purely a random guess/example) displaying a texture requires a math trick that, when done on hardware increases speed for displaying that texture, but would drastically decrease speed if the hardware were being used for compiling software. It's really just a case of the GPUs being much more specialized at rendering than CPU's are.
I've read some of the Eddings stuff and liked it so far, but haven't tried the Cornwell, may have to add it to my list. Along with your Too Obvious list goes my also obvious list:
George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice
--A Game Of Thrones
--A Clash of Kings
--A Storm of Swords
--A new one coming soon!
and also Robin Hobb has two trilogies completed, and a third one just started. So far I've only made it through her Farseer Trilogy, very good stuff. Just a few more recent fantasy books I've picked up. I highly suggest both authors to anyone who hasn't read them yet.
Not only that- but it seems that my cats favorite place to sleep is on my computer chair. And when I move her from her slumber, she quickly finds her second favorite spot- the keyboard.
While it is true that it does take some time, and quite a bit of money to move fabs, it is something that the semiconductor buisness has had to deal with for a long time. The simple fact is, a new fab is really only state-of-the-art for a year or so. It may start out cranking out the money makers, but within a few years they are usually reduced to making either embedded or memory, or something equally non-taxing. And by ten years, all of there equipment has been donated to some university or other, and they are redisgned as office buildings.
So yeah, it might take sometime for the research, but I would say it would only take a few years after that(assuming Intel/AMD/whoever is in control of chips at the time decides to) before fabs spring up to mass produce these chips.
The problem with this and all new tech is cost. Right now, AFAIK the real research is going into .07 micron tech (you say .18, but actually .13 is "cutting edge"). Currently .07 is done using a laser etch, as opposed to lithography. For any new tech to become available you have to be able to mass produce it, and do so cheaply. .07 isn't cost effective yet (because of the laser it takes a long time to produce one wafer), and I would guess that .01 is not cost effective either. the next 10-15 years will likely see IBM first perfecting the process, and then scaling it to large scale/mass production. After that you may see things (5-10 years) being created using this process, but I wouldn't expect anything, even larger feature sizes, to be seen before then.
I don't want to say these people aren't ignorant or anything, because I believe they probably are. However, this type of questioning would be very normal in a court preceeding. You have to be very specific in your questioning, or else the other lawyers will jump on it. Its likely that the question was asked in such a manner becuase quite probably, someone somewhere won't know what compression is.
The NV ratings are just a conveinent way to name R&D projects. It lets them have 4 variations that they can play with, the NV-11 is based on the NV-10, and one could assume that an NV-12. NV-13, and NV-14 would also be based on the NV-10 chip. As for x-box, as I've said before, nVidia has yet to announce what chip will be in the x-box, it will probably be an entirely different chip from anything we've seen yet.
GeForce2 will run on the same drivers as the GeForce (which, consequently run on the same drivers as the TNT2Ultra, TNT2, and TNT). So, assuming that the beta drivers nVidia released yesterday are adequate, then the GeForce2 drivers will be as well.
although, at this size, lithography is going to be, er, interesting.
.13 is accomplished using 150nm light, how much lower can we go? Lithography has consistently been the hold up in manufacturing, not the substrate.
Interesting? Try near impossible (though I refuse to say impossible, sub micron was once considered impossible).