About half the episodes of Mythbusters have either some sort of epic science fail in the experiment or are so obviously busted that they might as well not bother testing them (but they do anyway).
RAM, too, I forgot the RAM. I wanted 8Gb but DELL only does 8Gb on the very high expensive machines and even though the low end machines can take 8Gb they don't leave any RAM slots free so I would have had to throw away 4Gb to upgrade to 8Gb.
Bottom line, they're not as flexible as they claim...
Yep. Try getting a DELL with a decent CPU but very basic graphics card. I tried a few months ago and failed (I've already got an expensive graphics card). Ended up building my own machine.
Having said that, the most expensive part of a 'business' DELL is the warranties/service. All the parts are standard so you can easily do this yourself for far less money (and quicker turnaround).
All geeks know that you can't write down one tenth in binary notation.... why is everybody so surprised when you can't write down one ninth in decimal? It's exactly the same problem.
The number '0.99999....' is only an approximation to the value "nine times one ninth", limited by decimal notation.
If you write down the same number in a more suitable number base nine the 'problem' completely vanishes.
Don't forget the lack of 3D movies/programming available to the purchaser...basically you'd be buying it so your kids can watch cartoons in 3D - hardly a big incentive for the average gadget freak to buy one.
(and does anybody know what hours of watching 3D might do to young, unformed brains?)
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BSD was never intended as a desktop OS... but if I wanted a remotely administered server I wouldn't consider anything else. BSD rules!
What if we use a big LCD shutter then we can switch it on and off as needed, even do PWM effects.
About half the episodes of Mythbusters have either some sort of epic science fail in the experiment or are so obviously busted that they might as well not bother testing them (but they do anyway).
We still watch them though.
Obligatory XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/397/
RAM, too, I forgot the RAM. I wanted 8Gb but DELL only does 8Gb on the very high expensive machines and even though the low end machines can take 8Gb they don't leave any RAM slots free so I would have had to throw away 4Gb to upgrade to 8Gb.
Bottom line, they're not as flexible as they claim...
Yep. Try getting a DELL with a decent CPU but very basic graphics card. I tried a few months ago and failed (I've already got an expensive graphics card). Ended up building my own machine.
Having said that, the most expensive part of a 'business' DELL is the warranties/service. All the parts are standard so you can easily do this yourself for far less money (and quicker turnaround).
There's nothing wrong with wearing a suit either. A lot of the worlds rich and successful wear suits .... yet "suit" is an insult in some circles.
He feels dirty for doing this and maybe there's a reason.
Simple: He's raising the average price of all second hand books for everybody else.
(And he's not even interested in reading them, he just sees them as a profit).
A true geek would use MiPa (MibiPascals)
I think the French government hasn't done the math.
Choice A: Spend €25, get €50 of music legally, download the other €999,950* of music from the Internet.
Choice B: Spend €0, download €1000000 of music from the Internet.
Which do you choose?
Of course option B is just more proof that people will still download even when prices are 'dropped'(**).
[*] Numbers provided by the RIAA
[**] Only the RIAA could see this as a 'price drop'.
Vote Pirate Party in the next elections. It's the only sane thing to do.
Buy Apple shares, quick!
There's a bunch of French taxpayer money about to be transferred to Apple's account.
I think the hard part will be getting some quality time alone with the device you're trying to clone.
Still ... this is just some academic paper. I doubt it will ever be used in practice.
If it can be done in software then it's cheap...hackers have a lot of spare time.
Can't you create a device emulator and emulate the defects?
All geeks know that you can't write down one tenth in binary notation .... why is everybody so surprised when you can't write down one ninth in decimal? It's exactly the same problem.
The number '0.99999....' is only an approximation to the value "nine times one ninth", limited by decimal notation.
If you write down the same number in a more suitable number base nine the 'problem' completely vanishes.
Don't forget the lack of 3D movies/programming available to the purchaser...basically you'd be buying it so your kids can watch cartoons in 3D - hardly a big incentive for the average gadget freak to buy one.
(and does anybody know what hours of watching 3D might do to young, unformed brains?)
I think what he's saying is that he's the one who suggested it to Baumgartner, he set the ball rolling and this project wouldn't exist without him.
To me that seems like a reasonable complaint if he's now being cut out of the deal.
Diesel-from-oil is step 1 - get diesel cars on the road, get people used to driving them (hey, they're not so bad as we were told!)
Step 1 on its own is worthwhile - diesels produce much less CO2 than gasoline.
Once the cars are out there and there's a demand for diesel you can start building algae farms or whatever...that's step 2.
Electric cars have a major problem which can't easily be solved - energy density of batteries.
Biodiesel is carbon neutral, the delivery infrastructure is already built, the cars are already available, it's just marketing.
The words "graphics card" are a complete red herring.
It's obvious that you should use the fastest bit of the computer for heavy processing jobs, whatever that part happens to be...
The patent is basically "use the fastest chip in the computer to do the work".
How is that non-obvious?
Step 1) Start using more diesel cars
Step 2) Make biodiesel
Step 3) Profit!
Plus, diesel engines are a far better choice than gasoline for moving big SUVs around at low engine revs (which seems to be what Americans want)
Weird, the Firefox spell checker allows that spelling...
PS: My everyday language isn't English, in Spanish it's "garantia" so that's my excuse... :-)
The pedants are revolting!
I'm not saying C++ is perfect or best for all jobs...