Another reason: I often have so many tabs open, the tabs often shrink down until they are impossible to read or even click on. But a vertical arrangement would become a scroll area (bonus if I don't have to click on it to scroll it). Or a finger swipe area, on a touchscreen.
Indeed, that last part may be what Google has in mind. Chrome tablets.
I can't disagree with any of those criticisms, but it's not a terrible game. A number of the missions, I thought, were well-done and interesting (though as another poster noted, for every episode, there's a Spock's Brain). There just wasn't enough stuff. After I played through all of the episodes, it became a boring grind.
I quit the game, but I'll go back when I feel they've added enough content to justify paying for another month.
So a better question is, do the astronauts have a right to hear the CORRECT figures, not the wild wishful-thinking executive estimates?
Somehow I suspect that the astronauts are more in tune with what the engineers think than the executives. The astronauts, after all, generally come from engineering and flight test backgrounds.
I also suspect that the astronauts (some of them, at least) would go even if the odds were 1 in 10, if that was the best the engineers could do.
I'll take my two free points any way I can get 'em.
On a related note, whenever I get mod points, I generally scroll down to the end of the page and look for anonymous or unranked posts most people would miss because they simply don't read that far. Am I accomplishing anything by doing this? Probably not.
If the "bubble" is unstable at superluminal speeds, would this still work as a sublight propulsion system? What properties would that have? Would it still be immune to the effects of relativity?
Right, and I got the impression that the show's God (since "it doesn't like to be called that" as Angel Six said) falls into that sufficiently advanced category. Perhaps an ascended survivor of a much earlier cycle of death and rebirth, who still takes interest in the process.
Fast as in, will run desktop applications fast, or can do some obscure math calculations fast?
The latter. Cell has a single crappy in-order PPC processor core attached to eight fast as hell math co-processors. It is not a good general-purpose processor.
Cell rules at scientific applications written specifically for it, and happily for Sony, video game stuff (physics calculations, AI, etc) is close enough to that.
We're already seeing the convergence of digital cameras and video cameras. There are lots of cheapo little "Post to Youtube" video cameras that also shoot 4-6 MP stills, and nice consumer camcorders are shifting to SDHC for storage.
Eventually there will no longer be a distinction between small video cameras and consumer digicams. While there will still be DSLRs for pros, those are gaining video capability in the prosumer area, as well.
This makes me sad. OK, I know that a lot of people on Slashdot didn't like rpiquepa, and I understand why. But truthfully, I never paid much attention to who submitted what, so I probably read hundreds of his articles. Am I a better person for being a little bit more informed? I think so.
And so are you. We're all just names on the internet to each other. Some of those names, like mine, are more or less anonymous. And some people, like Roland, use their real names on the internet. Are we mortal or not? Obviously, we are. One (more) of us is dead now.
What about our words, our ideas? When the checks to the hosting companies stop and their servers shut down, will our words- all that we really are to each other- not disappear? I'm just rambling. Good night, Slashdot. My condolences to Roland's family.
Seriously, I look stupid enough holding a normal phone to my ear.
I just don't see the value of a larger iPod touch. The point of the touch is that it (a) shares apps with the iPhone and (b) fits in a pocket. This would do neither.
A slate-type tablet Mac, if it could run full desktop apps, would have some value. But not if it was crippled to run iPhone apps on a bigger screen.
Yeah, you can't ignore the total platform cost. I can get 8GB (eight!) of DDR2 for under $100. I'll take that, a budget Intel mobo (P43?), and a Q6600 over an i7 system right now.
And if gaming is your thing, the graphics card is what matters.
Exactly. Google isn't a bandwidth hog. The people using Google's services are the bandwidth hogs- but they're paying their ISP for that fucking bandwidth. I spend about $45 a month on DSL. When I use that connection to watch YouTube clips, the $$$ has changed hands, from me to my ISP.
It looks to me like "net neutrality opponents" just want to be paid twice for the same service.
I've been switching between the different free AV software to see which I liked, and I have mixed feelings about Avira Antivir.
On the one hand, it found a trojan on my computer that AVG and Clamwin had both missed. On the other hand, it seems to have really limited options. For example, I can't get it to scan only my PC's internal drives, without also scanning my terabyte external drive, which takes forever. Avira also pops up a window advertising the pro version periodically.
AVG 8 sucks system resources and ClamWin couldn't detect a virus if it punched it in the face. I guess I'll try Avast next.
Indeed. I have a 2.8GHz P4 with 2GB of RAM, and an old Geforce 6600GT card. It plays 720p fine, but 1080p is out of the question.
Perhaps a more modern video card, that decodes xyz codec in hardware, would solve that problem. But it would have to be an AGP card and, frankly, a PC with a P4 isn't worth the investment.
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Another reason: I often have so many tabs open, the tabs often shrink down until they are impossible to read or even click on. But a vertical arrangement would become a scroll area (bonus if I don't have to click on it to scroll it). Or a finger swipe area, on a touchscreen.
Indeed, that last part may be what Google has in mind. Chrome tablets.
I can't disagree with any of those criticisms, but it's not a terrible game. A number of the missions, I thought, were well-done and interesting (though as another poster noted, for every episode, there's a Spock's Brain). There just wasn't enough stuff. After I played through all of the episodes, it became a boring grind.
I quit the game, but I'll go back when I feel they've added enough content to justify paying for another month.
Not many '59 Bel Airs made it 51 years in running order. Certainly no one in 1959 expected them to last that long.
The trolls will stake out territories early, like a game of Risk, only with Slashdot instead of Kamchatka. We'll know this era as the Internet War.
whitehouse.gov will be an epic battlefield
So a better question is, do the astronauts have a right to hear the CORRECT figures, not the wild wishful-thinking executive estimates?
Somehow I suspect that the astronauts are more in tune with what the engineers think than the executives. The astronauts, after all, generally come from engineering and flight test backgrounds.
I also suspect that the astronauts (some of them, at least) would go even if the odds were 1 in 10, if that was the best the engineers could do.
I'll take my two free points any way I can get 'em.
On a related note, whenever I get mod points, I generally scroll down to the end of the page and look for anonymous or unranked posts most people would miss because they simply don't read that far. Am I accomplishing anything by doing this? Probably not.
If the "bubble" is unstable at superluminal speeds, would this still work as a sublight propulsion system? What properties would that have? Would it still be immune to the effects of relativity?
Exactly. Just don't call him god.
Right, and I got the impression that the show's God (since "it doesn't like to be called that" as Angel Six said) falls into that sufficiently advanced category. Perhaps an ascended survivor of a much earlier cycle of death and rebirth, who still takes interest in the process.
She was dead. But she still had a mission to carry out, so she did it.
Fast as in, will run desktop applications fast, or can do some obscure math calculations fast?
The latter. Cell has a single crappy in-order PPC processor core attached to eight fast as hell math co-processors. It is not a good general-purpose processor.
Cell rules at scientific applications written specifically for it, and happily for Sony, video game stuff (physics calculations, AI, etc) is close enough to that.
We're already seeing the convergence of digital cameras and video cameras. There are lots of cheapo little "Post to Youtube" video cameras that also shoot 4-6 MP stills, and nice consumer camcorders are shifting to SDHC for storage.
Eventually there will no longer be a distinction between small video cameras and consumer digicams. While there will still be DSLRs for pros, those are gaining video capability in the prosumer area, as well.
Set that password on your phones, kids.
This makes me sad. OK, I know that a lot of people on Slashdot didn't like rpiquepa, and I understand why. But truthfully, I never paid much attention to who submitted what, so I probably read hundreds of his articles. Am I a better person for being a little bit more informed? I think so.
And so are you. We're all just names on the internet to each other. Some of those names, like mine, are more or less anonymous. And some people, like Roland, use their real names on the internet. Are we mortal or not? Obviously, we are. One (more) of us is dead now.
What about our words, our ideas? When the checks to the hosting companies stop and their servers shut down, will our words- all that we really are to each other- not disappear? I'm just rambling. Good night, Slashdot. My condolences to Roland's family.
The desktop Atoms, Atom 230 and 330, are 64-bit. Actually they all are, it's just disabled on the mobile versions. You'd have to ask Intel why.
All I want to say, is that this makes me very happy. I can't quantify it or explain it, but it does.
Seriously, I look stupid enough holding a normal phone to my ear.
I just don't see the value of a larger iPod touch. The point of the touch is that it (a) shares apps with the iPhone and (b) fits in a pocket. This would do neither.
A slate-type tablet Mac, if it could run full desktop apps, would have some value. But not if it was crippled to run iPhone apps on a bigger screen.
I would love to have a Star Trek -licensed GPS unit. LCARS for your car...
They're owned by Ziff Davis, makers of PC Magazine. They're never going to respect their readers.
There's absolutely no reason NOT to overclock Core2s.
What if I want a quiet-to-silent system that can run with minimal cooling and use as little power as possible to do its job?
Yeah, you can't ignore the total platform cost. I can get 8GB (eight!) of DDR2 for under $100. I'll take that, a budget Intel mobo (P43?), and a Q6600 over an i7 system right now.
And if gaming is your thing, the graphics card is what matters.
Exactly. Google isn't a bandwidth hog. The people using Google's services are the bandwidth hogs- but they're paying their ISP for that fucking bandwidth. I spend about $45 a month on DSL. When I use that connection to watch YouTube clips, the $$$ has changed hands, from me to my ISP.
It looks to me like "net neutrality opponents" just want to be paid twice for the same service.
I've been switching between the different free AV software to see which I liked, and I have mixed feelings about Avira Antivir.
On the one hand, it found a trojan on my computer that AVG and Clamwin had both missed. On the other hand, it seems to have really limited options. For example, I can't get it to scan only my PC's internal drives, without also scanning my terabyte external drive, which takes forever. Avira also pops up a window advertising the pro version periodically.
AVG 8 sucks system resources and ClamWin couldn't detect a virus if it punched it in the face. I guess I'll try Avast next.
"There's OS X, and there's OS X Server. Period."
Don't forget the OS X Family Pack, which is 5 licenses for $199, compared to $129 for one license. Windows could use an equivalent to that.
Indeed. I have a 2.8GHz P4 with 2GB of RAM, and an old Geforce 6600GT card. It plays 720p fine, but 1080p is out of the question.
Perhaps a more modern video card, that decodes xyz codec in hardware, would solve that problem. But it would have to be an AGP card and, frankly, a PC with a P4 isn't worth the investment.