So I guess you want to forget about any good parties you went to? Because those crappy Polaroid photos won't be around in 10 or 20 years. I have some Polaroids from when I was younger; I can't make out a damn thing in those photos.
Ah... but these days you can put it on a wooden table when you get home and take a photo of it with your cellphone.
Intel/AMD FPUs can accept data on every clock cycle, the data bubbles through the system and a result pops out N clock cycles later. It's a rare program that can keep putting data in on every cycle so it makes sense to have one FPU per two cores.
You can easily see the effect, try this:
float array[arraySize]; float result=0; for (i=0; iarraySize; ++i) {
result += array[i]; } print(result);
If your compiler's any good the second loop will run about twice as fast as the first because it keeps the FPU busier. The effect is much more noticeable when the code has lots of divisions and square roots.
it's still generally too much of a pain to mess with very often.
I wondered about this...
If you're a responsible sort of a person... how often would you even dare to switch it on?
I bought some *really* strong magnets a while back but they're no fun to play with. They pinch/nip your fingers the whole time. It hurts. They've been stuck to a shelf for the last six months where the occasionally surprise my by dragging stuff out of my hand when I go to put it on the shelf.
The potential for accidentally throwing in my eye is pretty slim.
Also the potential for throwing rocks at aircraft...pretty nonexistant.
Throwing rocks at passing cars from half a mile away? Extremely difficult.
I don't normally say stuff like this but I agree with GP, stuff like this shouldn't be sold to the public via mail order. It only takes a fraction of a second to permanently blind somebody with something like this. You wouldn't be happy if people went outside in your neighborhood and randomly fired machine guns at buildings.
It's a safe bet that most of these will be waved around at night by drunken people who don't quite understand the risks. Even looking at the spot a 1w laser makes on a white wall will probably cause eye damage. Hopefully it'll be the buyers before anybody else.
Around here they're so reflective and so frequent that they might as well flash spotlights in your face while you're driving.
While you're at it, make it legal shoot assholes who come up behind, move out to overtake, put their indicator on when they get to the driver's window then slowly drift back into your lane two feet in front of you to make sure you see it properly in all it's daytime-brightness glory. On dual lane roads with nobody else around....
Hollywood Records is responsible for especially crappy pop music (Miley Cyrus, Hillary Duff, the Jonas Brothers) that pushes an eerily clean-cut image
...until your kid has a few years of posters, CDs, etc., at which point said popstar turns into a drug-addled slut who's forced to make sex tapes to keep themselves in the public eye after HR dumped them for the next big thing.
a) Which part of the "Samsung could just as easily be copying..." did you miss?
(If they're copying anything at all)
b) Which one of the similar 1980s...1970s...1960s... gadgets posted here did you fail to see?
Unless Apple has an email from the CEO of Samsung telling the engineers to "copy the iPad" then this is pure bullshit.
And let's face it, once you decide to make a "pad device using the Android operating system" then it's a pretty generic design. I'd be really amazed if it DIDN'T look like that.
I don't get it... hence my comment about the outcome of all lawsuits has a random/human element to them and no matter how "obvious" things are the court might still make the wrong decision.
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Apparently, anything can be called art now.
Technically it's art, yes. Art is anything that makes you form an opinion just by seeing it, it doesn't go unnoticed.
OTOH, there's good art and there's bad art. As art goes, this isn't among the greats.
So I guess you want to forget about any good parties you went to? Because those crappy Polaroid photos won't be around in 10 or 20 years. I have some Polaroids from when I was younger; I can't make out a damn thing in those photos.
Ah ... but these days you can put it on a wooden table when you get home and take a photo of it with your cellphone.
Nope, there's nothing on there from the RIAA/MPAA (that would be stupid...)
...and why cant they just rub a bit of hand sanitizer on them before launch?
I want to know when Google is going to implement "unsafe search" - filter out all the boring stuff for me.
often times it's just more convenient to use a UAV anways.
But not as cool. And that's one cool looking satellite. The Borg couldn't have designed it any better.
What's "Redmine"?
Most programs can't saturate the FPU anyway.
Intel/AMD FPUs can accept data on every clock cycle, the data bubbles through the system and a result pops out N clock cycles later. It's a rare program that can keep putting data in on every cycle so it makes sense to have one FPU per two cores.
You can easily see the effect, try this:
float array[arraySize];
float result=0;
for (i=0; iarraySize; ++i) {
result += array[i];
}
print(result);
float array[arraySize];
float result1=0, result2=0;
for (i=0; iarraySize; i+=2) {
result1 += array[i];
result2 += array[i+1];
}
print(result1+result2);
If your compiler's any good the second loop will run about twice as fast as the first because it keeps the FPU busier. The effect is much more noticeable when the code has lots of divisions and square roots.
Why should people have to take those "5 minutes out of their day to scan something"
Because they're adults?
it's still generally too much of a pain to mess with very often.
I wondered about this...
If you're a responsible sort of a person ... how often would you even dare to switch it on?
I bought some *really* strong magnets a while back but they're no fun to play with. They pinch/nip your fingers the whole time. It hurts. They've been stuck to a shelf for the last six months where the occasionally surprise my by dragging stuff out of my hand when I go to put it on the shelf.
The potential for accidentally throwing in my eye is pretty slim.
Also the potential for throwing rocks at aircraft...pretty nonexistant.
Throwing rocks at passing cars from half a mile away? Extremely difficult.
I don't normally say stuff like this but I agree with GP, stuff like this shouldn't be sold to the public via mail order. It only takes a fraction of a second to permanently blind somebody with something like this. You wouldn't be happy if people went outside in your neighborhood and randomly fired machine guns at buildings.
It's a safe bet that most of these will be waved around at night by drunken people who don't quite understand the risks. Even looking at the spot a 1w laser makes on a white wall will probably cause eye damage. Hopefully it'll be the buyers before anybody else.
Nope. Blue photons have more energy...
I'd like to see headlamps toned down a bit.
Reflective road signs, too.
Around here they're so reflective and so frequent that they might as well flash spotlights in your face while you're driving.
While you're at it, make it legal shoot assholes who come up behind, move out to overtake, put their indicator on when they get to the driver's window then slowly drift back into your lane two feet in front of you to make sure you see it properly in all it's daytime-brightness glory. On dual lane roads with nobody else around....
[mutters something about lawns]
Hollywood Records is responsible for especially crappy pop music (Miley Cyrus, Hillary Duff, the Jonas Brothers) that pushes an eerily clean-cut image
...until your kid has a few years of posters, CDs, etc., at which point said popstar turns into a drug-addled slut who's forced to make sex tapes to keep themselves in the public eye after HR dumped them for the next big thing.
Why not?
Yep, citation needed. Apple is incredibly secretive about its designs before launch date.
I'd be utterly amazed if they'd registered a public design years before the product was launched.
Whoosh!
a) Which part of the "Samsung could just as easily be copying..." did you miss?
(If they're copying anything at all)
b) Which one of the similar 1980s...1970s...1960s... gadgets posted here did you fail to see?
Unless Apple has an email from the CEO of Samsung telling the engineers to "copy the iPad" then this is pure bullshit.
And let's face it, once you decide to make a "pad device using the Android operating system" then it's a pretty generic design. I'd be really amazed if it DIDN'T look like that.
Why can't this same judge see all the devices which were designed prior to the iPad and see that Samsung could just as easily be copying those?
(eg. http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype/ )
I don't get it ... hence my comment about the outcome of all lawsuits has a random/human element to them and no matter how "obvious" things are the court might still make the wrong decision.
Yeah, that's some VERY selective choices of devices...
That's because they know that all court decisions have an element of randomness.
Imagine if they win: They'll have a legally enforced monopoly on tablets!
If they lose...no biggie when you've got billions in cash.
No "scientific investigator" has ever been fooled by a faker, right?
Uri Geller springs to mind.
that is some serious shit that involves conscious, subconscious and alternative personalities.
Either that or he's faking it...
There's only one cow. It was already out.
The fact that you weren't aware that it was already out is the reason why Wikileaks had to do this - make sure *everybody* knows.
It would be utterly unthinkable for the USA to move their informants to a safe place after the leaks, right?
They risked their lives to help the USA ... will the USA be there for them?
If anybody dies now it will be the fault of the US for not moving their informants to a safe place.
Think they'll do it? Or will they prefer to use them as human sacrifices for their witch hunt.