YMMV. Not all the 3D glasses in the theaters are the same. Some are big-ass polychromatic Dolby things. Others are cheap polarized glasses which are only half-designed to go over the top of normal glasses.
They also make the same calculators in versions which are open and programmable so this is just stupid. All you'll end up doing is getting them banned from exams and then you won't want to own one so you just shot yourself in the foot.
Impedence isn't going to degrade the signal at audio frequencies (ie. kHz). At most it will cause a tiny voltage drop at the other end. You can compensate for this by turning the volume knob one degree to the right.
I once took a decent-quality amplifier apart and looked at the speaker-protection fuses. You practically needed a magnifying glass to see the fuse wire it was so fine. Six inches later and you need big thick cable to carry the signal? I lost my cable-religion that day and have never looked back. My advice: Use cheap electrical wire and spend your money on better speakers (and spend more money on your speakers than on your amplifier...)
The only 'insightful' comment so far, and me without mod points - your department pays whatever your boss has agreed to pay. Why should it even worry you...? $30 a month is background noise compared to the cost of running a 'department'.
(PS: The OP didn't even say what he's paying for so I don't see what other people are commenting on...)
It doesn't say what the display is but it's probably going to be 40 column text. 80-column is possible but I remember 80 columns being almost unreadable in my home computer days (and it took 16k of RAM for a black/white 80-column screen).
Will there be graphics....? Decoding JPEG images on an 8-bit chip will be painful. The device won't be able to hold all the bitmaps for a page in RAM so they'd have to be decoded on the fly as you scroll. Ick.
Doing this in 8 bits is reducing it too far. A 16-bit chip wouldn't cost much more but would make this device much, MUCH better.
Why do people insist on using 1950s reactors as the basis of safety/cost measurements? Modern reactors can be a lot cheaper/simpler and have very little decommissioning costs (the plant outside the core doesn't become radioactive over time).
Most reactors only use up a fraction of the energy in Uranium (less than 1%). Breeder reactors (which will become much more viable once we have large stockpiles of 'spent' fuel) can use almost all of it and leave very little radioactive waste behind.
I bet you could very close graphically. The only real problem is that vector graphics displays could make very bright spots of light but that's just a question of contrast.
What you can't emulate is the little Vectrex joystick and buttons, that's what really made it unique.
Yep, I've driven in the USA and it's awful. The one that really got me was people merging from ramps without even looking and just shoving me out of the way if I happened to be there. How does that work...? After a couple of days driving there I'm convinced that nobody looks out of the window when driving.
In Germany there's no speed limits but there's plenty of polizei on the roads. You can burn past a patrol car at 200mph, no problem, but if they see you tailgating, hogging a lane, using a phone or doing anything other than paying attention tot he road and driving the car they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks. It works like a charm, Germany is one of the nicest places in the world to drive.
If they're so capable, how come they only invade countries where they're fighting farmers with rifles? Why don't they go after any real targets like North Korea? North Korea is a much more repressive regime than Saddam Hussain's ever was. Liberating the Koreans would do a massive amount of good.
Yes...but we're in the 21st century now and we're supposed to be more enlightened than the Romans.
To me the whole thing smacks of 1984 - a war is politically desirable because it unites the people in a common cause and distracts them from what's really going on. That, mixed with the fact that GW Bush seems to think he'll go down in history as some sort of hero for invading Iraq.
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...except that cinemas don't use LCD, they use DLP so there's no problem with the blacks.
YMMV. Not all the 3D glasses in the theaters are the same. Some are big-ass polychromatic Dolby things. Others are cheap polarized glasses which are only half-designed to go over the top of normal glasses.
Learn ... next time take some cleaning fluid and a kleenex.
Is Blizzard supposed to make allowances for this as well?
Either that or the cooling fins/fans are too full of fluff to do their job properly.
I've seen quite a few graphics cards burned out because of that.
Calling SwapBuffers() isn't going to overheat anything because it does no real work and won't heat up the chip.
I suspect the real truth is that their cooling fans are too clogged up with filth to do their job.
Dear Linus,
C++ sucks less than C.
They also make the same calculators in versions which are open and programmable so this is just stupid. All you'll end up doing is getting them banned from exams and then you won't want to own one so you just shot yourself in the foot.
Impedence isn't going to degrade the signal at audio frequencies (ie. kHz). At most it will cause a tiny voltage drop at the other end. You can compensate for this by turning the volume knob one degree to the right.
I once took a decent-quality amplifier apart and looked at the speaker-protection fuses. You practically needed a magnifying glass to see the fuse wire it was so fine. Six inches later and you need big thick cable to carry the signal? I lost my cable-religion that day and have never looked back. My advice: Use cheap electrical wire and spend your money on better speakers (and spend more money on your speakers than on your amplifier...)
It's been overloaded for hours and there's no real details on the linked page.
Assuming we're talking about storage, which we might not be...who knows?
The only 'insightful' comment so far, and me without mod points - your department pays whatever your boss has agreed to pay. Why should it even worry you...? $30 a month is background noise compared to the cost of running a 'department'.
(PS: The OP didn't even say what he's paying for so I don't see what other people are commenting on...)
A public library is where devices like this really belong.
It doesn't say what the display is but it's probably going to be 40 column text. 80-column is possible but I remember 80 columns being almost unreadable in my home computer days (and it took 16k of RAM for a black/white 80-column screen).
Will there be graphics....? Decoding JPEG images on an 8-bit chip will be painful. The device won't be able to hold all the bitmaps for a page in RAM so they'd have to be decoded on the fly as you scroll. Ick.
Doing this in 8 bits is reducing it too far. A 16-bit chip wouldn't cost much more but would make this device much, MUCH better.
To paraphrase: It's not what you know, it's what you can PROVE.
Let's hope they didn't mess up. These people need stringing up from a very high place.
This is OK just so long as NOBODY in the entire donor-to-recipient chain makes a profit. Not one cent. Everything done at cost price.
What are the chances of that...?
Why do people insist on using 1950s reactors as the basis of safety/cost measurements?
Modern reactors can be a lot cheaper/simpler and have very little decommissioning costs (the plant outside the core doesn't become radioactive over time).
Most reactors only use up a fraction of the energy in Uranium (less than 1%). Breeder reactors (which will become much more viable once we have large stockpiles of 'spent' fuel) can use almost all of it and leave very little radioactive waste behind.
I bet you could very close graphically. The only real problem is that vector graphics displays could make very bright spots of light but that's just a question of contrast.
What you can't emulate is the little Vectrex joystick and buttons, that's what really made it unique.
That's the real problem - people would rather spend time in courts contesting tickets than not running the red lights in the first place.
You can't do it all at once, that's not fair on people who just bought a new car.
You could say "Tax this year is $0.50, In five years time, it will be $5" - give people time to make plans.
(Cue the whiners who believe they'll die if they can't commute in V8 SUVs....)
Yep, I've driven in the USA and it's awful. The one that really got me was people merging from ramps without even looking and just shoving me out of the way if I happened to be there. How does that work...? After a couple of days driving there I'm convinced that nobody looks out of the window when driving.
In Germany there's no speed limits but there's plenty of polizei on the roads. You can burn past a patrol car at 200mph, no problem, but if they see you tailgating, hogging a lane, using a phone or doing anything other than paying attention tot he road and driving the car they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks. It works like a charm, Germany is one of the nicest places in the world to drive.
Obvious, I know, but can't they just make the chips cheaper then use more of them?
If they're so capable, how come they only invade countries where they're fighting farmers with rifles? Why don't they go after any real targets like North Korea? North Korea is a much more repressive regime than Saddam Hussain's ever was. Liberating the Koreans would do a massive amount of good.
Yes...but we're in the 21st century now and we're supposed to be more enlightened than the Romans.
To me the whole thing smacks of 1984 - a war is politically desirable because it unites the people in a common cause and distracts them from what's really going on. That, mixed with the fact that GW Bush seems to think he'll go down in history as some sort of hero for invading Iraq.