And I find that, once you are in better shape, you tend to eat better. When I took up jogging and was running several miles per day, I could no longer stomach the less healthy foods I used to eat... I couldn't stand overly buttered popcorn, and candy just wasn't too appealing to me. I would rather eat vegetables or yogourts instead.
In my experience, you can't really have exercise without a healthy diet.
Manned missions are vastly more expensive than any automated probe, for obvious reasons. What's the loss of a few million dollars due to miscalculations or unpredictable conditions compared to the potential for loss of life, or the reduced frequency of missions? And anyway, is sending a human up with your probes only for purposes of maintenance really worth the added expense? It would be cheaper to just send two or even three probes at once than to design the mission to support human travellers.
Sure, we'll send astronauts to Mars, and eventually even colonists, but I think it would be more for political, rather than scientific purposes.
The real sad thing here is that we can't trust a hardware company to allow an objective test of their product's abilities. While benchmarks can only approximate the real-world usage patterns of a potential user, a good benchmark does that as accurately and comprehensively as possible. Benchmarks make sense. But nVidia evidently will not allow this sort of objective test. Do they really need to generate what essentially amounts to misinformation in order to maintain a "market lead"? Perhaps this behaviour should bring into question their product's/real/ quality of performance.
However, it is now in 3dMark's hands to prevent nVidia (or anyone else) from doing this again in the future. The credibility of their benchmarking product is at stake.
Though no matter what it's called, this is still cheating.
Why's that sad? Who really cares? Most people just want a decent card, and either don't care enough or don't have time to devote themselves to some absurd quest to find the perfect graphics card. You'll never get the latest technologies in a consumer-grade product, so as long as you're getting a good price and it works, why should they care? Stop making this out to be some monstrous injustice, because it's not.
Virtually undisturbed for half a century the zone has also become a rugged natural haven for several endangered species including the white-naped and red-crowned cranes as well as nearly extinct Korean subspecies of tiger and leopard.
I think that there are much deeper cultural psychological reasons for this than mere "convenience." You can pay $2.25 and go anywhere within Toronto, sure. But with our society's emphasis on independence and "freedom," depending so heavily on the system is often an abhorrent concept. Do most people really need the four-wheel drive options that they have on their SUVs? Of course not, when all they do is drive on city streets and highways. But it's the notion that they/can/ drive anywhere that gives them that heady feeling of freedom. And people will pay for that.
Some may be interested to know that barcodes have been applied to music, too.
German artist Günter Schroth has done work in barcode-controlled music, releasing a full album of his results. It is a rather interesting method, with a modified turntable playing EP-sized "barcode records," with a pen scanner instead of a needle.
I'm using Quicktime 5 and mine won't play sound either, in Windows XP. Looks like I'll have to "upgrade." The video quality itself, however, is absolutely amazing.
I would have said "Complex Character Set Support for PDAs?" rather than "Language," since the language is really completely transparent to the device. I initially thought that the article was about actual language recognition, in human-computer interaction, for example.
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Exactly.
And I find that, once you are in better shape, you tend to eat better. When I took up jogging and was running several miles per day, I could no longer stomach the less healthy foods I used to eat... I couldn't stand overly buttered popcorn, and candy just wasn't too appealing to me. I would rather eat vegetables or yogourts instead.
In my experience, you can't really have exercise without a healthy diet.
Hate to break it to you, but Slashdot is not one homogenous entity.
Manned missions are vastly more expensive than any automated probe, for obvious reasons. What's the loss of a few million dollars due to miscalculations or unpredictable conditions compared to the potential for loss of life, or the reduced frequency of missions? And anyway, is sending a human up with your probes only for purposes of maintenance really worth the added expense? It would be cheaper to just send two or even three probes at once than to design the mission to support human travellers.
Sure, we'll send astronauts to Mars, and eventually even colonists, but I think it would be more for political, rather than scientific purposes.
...*gag*
...it's called optimization. He simply combined two already extant asterisks into one to avoid redundancy and save space. It's more elegant that way.
congratulations :)
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:) Good point.
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but if he did that, it would assemble him!
The real sad thing here is that we can't trust a hardware company to allow an objective test of their product's abilities. While benchmarks can only approximate the real-world usage patterns of a potential user, a good benchmark does that as accurately and comprehensively as possible. Benchmarks make sense. But nVidia evidently will not allow this sort of objective test. Do they really need to generate what essentially amounts to misinformation in order to maintain a "market lead"? Perhaps this behaviour should bring into question their product's /real/ quality of performance.
However, it is now in 3dMark's hands to prevent nVidia (or anyone else) from doing this again in the future. The credibility of their benchmarking product is at stake.
Though no matter what it's called, this is still cheating.
This is not a room of the future, just a really expensive room of today. This is just marketing drivel.
Why's that sad? Who really cares? Most people just want a decent card, and either don't care enough or don't have time to devote themselves to some absurd quest to find the perfect graphics card. You'll never get the latest technologies in a consumer-grade product, so as long as you're getting a good price and it works, why should they care? Stop making this out to be some monstrous injustice, because it's not.
oh yes, and we all know how beautiful those huge high-res textures look on a TV.
Virtually undisturbed for half a century the zone has also become a rugged natural haven for several endangered species including the white-naped and red-crowned cranes as well as nearly extinct Korean subspecies of tiger and leopard.
hehe
I think that there are much deeper cultural psychological reasons for this than mere "convenience." You can pay $2.25 and go anywhere within Toronto, sure. But with our society's emphasis on independence and "freedom," depending so heavily on the system is often an abhorrent concept. Do most people really need the four-wheel drive options that they have on their SUVs? Of course not, when all they do is drive on city streets and highways. But it's the notion that they /can/ drive anywhere that gives them that heady feeling of freedom. And people will pay for that.
Some may be interested to know that barcodes have been applied to music, too.
h tml
German artist Günter Schroth has done work in barcode-controlled music, releasing a full album of his results. It is a rather interesting method, with a modified turntable playing EP-sized "barcode records," with a pen scanner instead of a needle.
A web site with much more information, as well as downloadable sample music can be seen here:
http://www.archegon.de/BarcodeMusic/barcodemusic.
1.3, of course. Update, a lot of problems are solved and it runs a lot better.
Wow, it even works in Mozilla!
Also, it may be of interest to take a look here for AAC Audio licensing information:e nse.terms.html
http://www.vialicensing.com/products/mpeg4aac/lic
Quicktime 6 uses this new "AAC Audio" standard to replace MP3: http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/aac/
I'm using Quicktime 5 and mine won't play sound either, in Windows XP. Looks like I'll have to "upgrade." The video quality itself, however, is absolutely amazing.
blame the IEC.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
I would have said "Complex Character Set Support for PDAs?" rather than "Language," since the language is really completely transparent to the device. I initially thought that the article was about actual language recognition, in human-computer interaction, for example.
Ah, yes yes. like Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Threonine, Tryptophan, and Valine.