Seriously why waste time and energy thinking about this? It can't be predicted. Imagine in 1947: "There is no forseable way to improve computing speed for 20 years."
Dude, go easy on Malc. Did you see his user ID? He must be like 60 years old. Don't forget, he probably finds computers confusing, and has his some explain email to him. And he thinks that the "internet" is inside his computer. So be nice to the old folks.
Seriously though, I think you missed his point, namely the line "to each his own."
What it makes me wonder is why someone who is so out of touch is the head of the FBI. Granted many people fall for such things, but for example, probably most readers here wouldn't. The head of the FBI should know better.
If you read Feynman's book he actually interviewed on exec. or engineer at NASA who said the chances of catastrophic failure were 1 in 100,000. Feynman pointed out that that this was like flying the space shuttle every day for 300 years without an accident.
Also "theres" should be "there's". Clearly the AC is themselves not intelligent. But that little ditty from bumper stickers around the world still makes me laugh. Does anyone know its origin?
Well if is in all one kind of unit, and it doesn't matter what kind, then there shouldn't be any conversion. The problem occurred when two different groups working on the mars orbiter project used two different systems.
I didn't say I actually did that, but it is possible. On the the other hand, I have a 40 core network of macs at work that could use parallel povray to render it.... well gee, I guess 40 times faster!
Not to mention, movies can be made at any resolution almost, esp. cgi movies. Even using povray I can generate 6400x4800 res movies, and you know what? I don't need a dvd to same them. There is this universal storage device called a "hard drive". Also, crazily enough, as you point out, the movies can be in any of these mysterious "formats", such as.mov,.mp4,.avi, etc. If they want to provide me with a way to back up a 50 gig directory fine, but it's so old fashioned to think that this is going to be the new "movie" format.
Also, I've even downgraded from dvd quality. I am very happy streaming things from Netflix.
Yeah, well more properly, ssh, secure sockets, etc. It made it possible to have e-commerce. PGP really didn't have the same impact I think. (Of course, it uses RSA I think...)
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But how do we know the length of such an event so accurately? Maybe it took 10 minutes.
that the photons all left at the same time?
Seriously why waste time and energy thinking about this? It can't be predicted. Imagine in 1947: "There is no forseable way to improve computing speed for 20 years."
This attitude may explain your lack of success with women. Don't hide behind the geek excuse. You'll never get a date with a woman in you IT dept.
Dude, go easy on Malc. Did you see his user ID? He must be like 60 years old. Don't forget, he probably finds computers confusing, and has his some explain email to him. And he thinks that the "internet" is inside his computer. So be nice to the old folks. Seriously though, I think you missed his point, namely the line "to each his own."
Well I think at the Pumpkin Chunkin they use frozen pumpkins.
What it makes me wonder is why someone who is so out of touch is the head of the FBI. Granted many people fall for such things, but for example, probably most readers here wouldn't. The head of the FBI should know better.
Yeah, but they did manage to defrost Walt Disney to create Steve Jobs.
I think that's a joke about NERF toys. Not offtopic, but a JOKE.
No they need openbsd with that...
Pluto isn't in the solar system anymore.
If you read Feynman's book he actually interviewed on exec. or engineer at NASA who said the chances of catastrophic failure were 1 in 100,000. Feynman pointed out that that this was like flying the space shuttle every day for 300 years without an accident.
How? If you don't like it just ignore it.
People are starting to see the value of this. Also of programming in logic based languages like Haskell, ML etc.
Yeah, well just trying using kermit and see what happens.
Also "theres" should be "there's". Clearly the AC is themselves not intelligent. But that little ditty from bumper stickers around the world still makes me laugh. Does anyone know its origin?
Actually, I think just about anyone would prefer it to be a skull on a volcano, rather than a face.
Yes yes I know, as does everyone. It was a joke.
Well if is in all one kind of unit, and it doesn't matter what kind, then there shouldn't be any conversion. The problem occurred when two different groups working on the mars orbiter project used two different systems.
All because the size of Roman roads...
People are ignorant outside of their realm of knowledge? I like that.
Perhaps it would seem to imply that to a person whose reasoning capabilities were impaired.
I didn't say I actually did that, but it is possible. On the the other hand, I have a 40 core network of macs at work that could use parallel povray to render it .... well gee, I guess 40 times faster!
Not to mention, movies can be made at any resolution almost, esp. cgi movies. Even using povray I can generate 6400x4800 res movies, and you know what? I don't need a dvd to same them. There is this universal storage device called a "hard drive". Also, crazily enough, as you point out, the movies can be in any of these mysterious "formats", such as .mov, .mp4, .avi, etc. If they want to provide me with a way to back up a 50 gig directory fine, but it's so old fashioned to think that this is going to be the new "movie" format.
Also, I've even downgraded from dvd quality. I am very happy streaming things from Netflix.
Yeah, well more properly, ssh, secure sockets, etc. It made it possible to have e-commerce. PGP really didn't have the same impact I think. (Of course, it uses RSA I think...)