Yes, with massive radar antennae. There's no way you can do the same with a six-inch antenna (or whatever).
Also, radar antennae tend to spin so you get a latency in the detection. If it spins (eg.) once per second and you need three readings to be able to calculate the trajectory of the bullet then that's 3.5 seconds latency on average. Plus a second to get out of the way, and, ooops! We've just taken longer than the longest ever snipe.
The trig. is easy, sure, the problem is getting accurate data points on a tiny piece of metal moving at twice the speed of sound on a vector almost directly towards you.
Luckily the patent office accepts patents for impossible things.
I mean, how accurate can this thing be? Maybe the bullet detected by the suit was going to pass two feet to the left of you. If the suit makes you jump to the left... ooops!
It should be my RIGHT to choose - ie. not to pay for Vista if I'm not going to use it. A sale is a sale, Microsoft shouldn't care whether it's Vista or XP.
Feel free to fly in business class if you want to. You get VIP lounges in the airports, big seats, free drinks, all the perks you used to get in the old days. Oh, and a similar price tag...
a) The cost of "doing something" isn't very much (in reality it's more more voter-annoying than monetary - drive lighter cars, buy local produce, eat less meat, don't produce so much trash, turn off unneeded lights, stuff like that).
And that:
b) If Antarctic/Greenland melts the entire world will collapse into "every man for himself".
Then... I think maybe we ought to do something. Just in case.
The greenhouse effect has been known for hundreds of years, even Mythbusters have managed to reproduce it.
What you need to do next is draw a circle on some paper then draw another circle outside it which represents the atmosphere.
The Earth's radius is about 4000 miles and about 99% of the atmosphere is below 25 miles.
Clue: You'll have trouble doing it unless your pencil is very sharp.
If you can look at that and say that man can't change the composition or that burning 100 million barrels of oil per day will do nothing, you're an idiot.
And that's just oil. There's still natural gas and cow burps, which are nearly as bad.
I love people who just come in the Internet and demand that other people do a ton of research for them then type it all up neatly and present it for them to completely ignore on the basis that they've got a link to some nutter's web page who disagrees with it.
Sorry, do your own research, then present your facts here. I'm confident we'll be able to shoot down any argument you present, but first we need to see your arguments.
The "cache coherency across all its cores" thing is particularly important. It means Larrabee truly can be used for general purpose computing tasks (unlike current GPUs where programs have a fairly limited number of inputs and can only output a single value).
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Yes, with massive radar antennae. There's no way you can do the same with a six-inch antenna (or whatever).
Also, radar antennae tend to spin so you get a latency in the detection. If it spins (eg.) once per second and you need three readings to be able to calculate the trajectory of the bullet then that's 3.5 seconds latency on average. Plus a second to get out of the way, and, ooops! We've just taken longer than the longest ever snipe.
The trig. is easy, sure, the problem is getting accurate data points on a tiny piece of metal moving at twice the speed of sound on a vector almost directly towards you.
Luckily the patent office accepts patents for impossible things.
I thought the ceramic armor was made of little discs so you only lose one disc per hit.
...or use a hornet's nest to make a whole military base start jumping around uncontrollably while you just stroll in and set the charges.
The possibility for pranking is endless.
...or right into the path of the SAME bullet.
I mean, how accurate can this thing be? Maybe the bullet detected by the suit was going to pass two feet to the left of you. If the suit makes you jump to the left ... ooops!
I got one of these in it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zisx4mLF6Qo
Linked page is in Catalan?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language
Weird.
If the engines were completely interchangeable, had zero manufacturing cost and this year's engine had worse mileage...
The OS she wants is Windows XP. Why should she pay for two operating systems if she's only going to use one of them?
It should be my RIGHT to choose - ie. not to pay for Vista if I'm not going to use it. A sale is a sale, Microsoft shouldn't care whether it's Vista or XP.
They found out that Piltdown Man was a fake so therefore all the others must be fake too.
No, seriously...
It knows every "illegal" hash on the Intertubes?
If it does that's more newsworthy than the gadget itself.
When they installed them was the headline "will cost millions"? Didn't think so...
Maybe so, but we have heard of Google...
Feel free to fly in business class if you want to. You get VIP lounges in the airports, big seats, free drinks, all the perks you used to get in the old days. Oh, and a similar price tag...
Given that:
a) The cost of "doing something" isn't very much (in reality it's more more voter-annoying than monetary - drive lighter cars, buy local produce, eat less meat, don't produce so much trash, turn off unneeded lights, stuff like that).
And that:
b) If Antarctic/Greenland melts the entire world will collapse into "every man for himself".
Then ... I think maybe we ought to do something. Just in case.
The greenhouse effect has been known for hundreds of years, even Mythbusters have managed to reproduce it.
What you need to do next is draw a circle on some paper then draw another circle outside it which represents the atmosphere.
The Earth's radius is about 4000 miles and about 99% of the atmosphere is below 25 miles.
Clue: You'll have trouble doing it unless your pencil is very sharp.
If you can look at that and say that man can't change the composition or that burning 100 million barrels of oil per day will do nothing, you're an idiot.
And that's just oil. There's still natural gas and cow burps, which are nearly as bad.
I love people who just come in the Internet and demand that other people do a ton of research for them then type it all up neatly and present it for them to completely ignore on the basis that they've got a link to some nutter's web page who disagrees with it.
Sorry, do your own research, then present your facts here. I'm confident we'll be able to shoot down any argument you present, but first we need to see your arguments.
So ... why are lefties typing 159357 instead of qazwsx?
Your description's accurate but I wouldn't really call it a "discrete GPU", it's much less special-purpose then that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU)#Differences_with_current_GPUs
The "cache coherency across all its cores" thing is particularly important. It means Larrabee truly can be used for general purpose computing tasks (unlike current GPUs where programs have a fairly limited number of inputs and can only output a single value).
"Intel needs any kind of GPU win, badly,"
Um, Intel is by far the biggest manufacturer of GPUs (they sell about the same as ATI and NVIDIA combined).
They need the high-end gaming market about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.
Cell is weird and hard to program. Larrabee is x86.
Larrabee has 32 cores, so that's all right then.
There's no reason Intel can't make a high-end graphics chip, their fabrication processes alone would give them a huge advantage over ATI/NVIDIA.
If they haven't made one so far it's because they're not really interested. They already sell more graphics chips than the competition so why bother?
The market for top-of-the-range graphics cards is pretty small. ATI/NVIDIA make way more money from their $50 cards than their $500 cards.
Yahoo's business model is based on installing unwanted toolbars and hijacking people's home pages.
I refuse to have anything to do with them.
"Bloody hell", I thought, is that what the web looks like?
Then I went back to Firefox with AdBlock/NoScript.
Do not want.