Many suggested an easy way to pay, so put in the apple store and play store an 5$ app that gives the registration number based in the identity of the buyer.
This has several advantages, easy to pay, ubiquitous, trusty, and if the buyer loses the key, he can always re-download the app you already purchased.
Host yourself the app and dont ask for any info for the download,
At one time, I too thought of a similar system, but the "One big problem" is precisely the verifiability of your vote. E.g. Imagine your employer demanding you vote for a certain candidate, he can now verify that you indeed voted for that candidate, or someone buying votes can confirm that the vote was indeed for the proper candidate. Or a political party/church doing the same.
It's a bad system
Dude, sorry for your loss, but if your update is 3.55 or below, you can downgrade via software and get back otherOS, or use one of the more modern CFW with said feature...
Cheers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_computing A claimed advantage of optics is that it can reduce power consumption, but an optical communication system will typically use more power over short distances than an electronic one. This is because the shot noise of an optical communication channel is greater than the thermal noise of an electrical channel which, from information theory, means that more signal power is required to achieve the same data capacity. However, over longer distances and at greater data rates, the loss in electrical lines is sufficiently large that optical communications will comparatively use a lower amount of power. As communication data rates rise, this distance becomes longer and so the prospect of using optics in computing systems becomes more practical.
Today computer components are connected to each other using copper cables or traces on circuit boards. Due to the signal degradation that comes with using metals such as copper to transmit data, these cables have a limited maximum length. This limits the design of computers, forcing processors, memory and other components to be placed just inches from each other. Today's research achievement is another step toward replacing these connections with extremely thin and light optical fibers that can transfer much more data over far longer distances, radically changing the way computers of the future are designed and altering the way the datacenter of tomorrow is architected.
Well, to be fair, after a short google expedition, America does seems to be an accepted name for the United States of America, but it is so ONLY in the United States of America.
remember, in the Americas there are about 911 Million persons, including the 315(35%) Million currently in the USA
And 100% oxygen will kill you pretty damned quick, too. So your argument is nonsense.
100% oxygen at a "normal"atmospheric pressure (0.3 to 3 atm) is perfectly fine and secure to breathe, if used for a very long time can lead to a retinopathy and other problems but is not very dangerous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_therapy
near my house, in a principal hospital, they buy an linear accelerator for cancer treatment, they build a 2.5m concrete wall and a faraday cage made out of 30cm steel (not sure about the material) to shield the damm tning and protect the city.... if this guy is talking about one of those, i REALLY dont want one of those in my backyard... sorry bout the engrish
am i missing something? a 16GigaBit chip can hold 2GigaByte, and a 16x16 array contains 256 chips, so, this array should be able to hold 512GBytes....
i assume the article should say 4x4 array (32GBytes)
(sorry about my english)
yes, their are based in the "faulty" 7800gtx chips.
the 6800 (vanilla 12 pipelines) is also based in the 6800ultra "faulty" chips, but now in the mayority of the 6800(vanilla) you can activate the disabled parts using rivaruner, and in most cases it turned out that the 16 pipes were fully functional...
this leads to the impression that the yields are not as bad, an to satisfice demand they used good chips for the "inferior" line...
so, the more you wait, the more likely your 7800gtx have a fully functional chip in it....
nothe that there are also one disabled vertex shader, so, if one vertex shader turns out to be bad, they disabled it and also disable one quad so they can sell the chip as a 7800gt, in this case you get a 24 pipeline, 7 vertex pipe 7800.
sorry about the "engrish"
the 6800 line runs the dx9 codepath VERY well, the problem was in the 5xxx line, which have a VERY POOR dx9 performance. This was solved in the 6xxx line...
so there are nVidia cards that can run the code (they are expensive, but are out there)
the good news here is the price drop in the 6xxx line, so you can buy for less than 200$ a 6800 card (vanilla, 12P)
The 7800gt uses the same chip that the 7800gtx uses, but it has a quad disabled, therefore it only got 20 pixel pipelines, but as the 6800 -> 6800ultra rivatuner can unlock the "hidden" pipelines and turn your 7800gt into a 7800gtx.
however, the firs cards out are most likely based in the faulty versions of the chip, whit a little time, the probability of found a card fully modeable increases
The fact that this mod can be done, with the current version of rivatuner, is a clever move by nvidia, as most of their sales are not in the top of the line cards, but in the mainstreams, so give this possibility to users is a really smart move...
I for one will buy myself one as soon as I get a pcie board...
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Many suggested an easy way to pay, so put in the apple store and play store an 5$ app that gives the registration number based in the identity of the buyer.
This has several advantages, easy to pay, ubiquitous, trusty, and if the buyer loses the key, he can always re-download the app you already purchased.
Host yourself the app and dont ask for any info for the download,
far ahead of every other country on earth? how about number 32
At one time, I too thought of a similar system, but the "One big problem" is precisely the verifiability of your vote. E.g. Imagine your employer demanding you vote for a certain candidate, he can now verify that you indeed voted for that candidate, or someone buying votes can confirm that the vote was indeed for the proper candidate. Or a political party/church doing the same. It's a bad system
Dude, sorry for your loss, but if your update is 3.55 or below, you can downgrade via software and get back otherOS, or use one of the more modern CFW with said feature... Cheers
Sorry, extra character at the end, there you go, sports ,corrected link
well, it have been confirmed that the ps4 will not need internet connectivity at all, so games cannot require key registration. source
"Power: Rechargeable lithium-polymer battery, ~5-10 hours of use
Battery Life: Officially 5 days of classroom use or 2 weeks of homework use
"
That's really, REALLY crappy! for a 15Mhz, 1287k ram device! i would have espected at least ten times that!
relevant wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_computing
A claimed advantage of optics is that it can reduce power consumption, but an optical communication system will typically use more power over short distances than an electronic one. This is because the shot noise of an optical communication channel is greater than the thermal noise of an electrical channel which, from information theory, means that more signal power is required to achieve the same data capacity. However, over longer distances and at greater data rates, the loss in electrical lines is sufficiently large that optical communications will comparatively use a lower amount of power. As communication data rates rise, this distance becomes longer and so the prospect of using optics in computing systems becomes more practical.
and a more interesting article from 2010.
http://phys.org/news199470370.html
Today computer components are connected to each other using copper cables or traces on circuit boards. Due to the signal degradation that comes with using metals such as copper to transmit data, these cables have a limited maximum length. This limits the design of computers, forcing processors, memory and other components to be placed just inches from each other. Today's research achievement is another step toward replacing these connections with extremely thin and light optical fibers that can transfer much more data over far longer distances, radically changing the way computers of the future are designed and altering the way the datacenter of tomorrow is architected.
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Well, to be fair, after a short google expedition, America does seems to be an accepted name for the United States of America, but it is so ONLY in the United States of America. remember, in the Americas there are about 911 Million persons, including the 315(35%) Million currently in the USA
Can you answer this question as a sort of online autograph for me? your books had a great influence in my life. thank you
Only 12 post at the time of this writting (-1) is this tle least commented article in the recent story of slashdot??
not a lot, concrete streets are very common in a lot of places, and are pretty white
but but... that's the dream...
I Agree!
100% oxygen at a "normal"atmospheric pressure (0.3 to 3 atm) is perfectly fine and secure to breathe, if used for a very long time can lead to a retinopathy and other problems but is not very dangerous. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_therapy
apple's "security through scarcity" is starting to fade away as they gain marketshare. any popular OS will get viruses, malware, trojans, etc.
will mac os get a stonger walled garden as a result? i hope not as i was about to buy my first mac.
near my house, in a principal hospital, they buy an linear accelerator for cancer treatment, they build a 2.5m concrete wall and a faraday cage made out of 30cm steel (not sure about the material) to shield the damm tning and protect the city.... if this guy is talking about one of those, i REALLY dont want one of those in my backyard... sorry bout the engrish
God, i realy hope a spammer doesnt grab one of these....
yes, 16 is an 4x4 array, a 16x16 array contains 256 elements
am i missing something? a 16GigaBit chip can hold 2GigaByte, and a 16x16 array contains 256 chips, so, this array should be able to hold 512GBytes.... i assume the article should say 4x4 array (32GBytes) (sorry about my english)
yes, their are based in the "faulty" 7800gtx chips. the 6800 (vanilla 12 pipelines) is also based in the 6800ultra "faulty" chips, but now in the mayority of the 6800(vanilla) you can activate the disabled parts using rivaruner, and in most cases it turned out that the 16 pipes were fully functional... this leads to the impression that the yields are not as bad, an to satisfice demand they used good chips for the "inferior" line... so, the more you wait, the more likely your 7800gtx have a fully functional chip in it.... nothe that there are also one disabled vertex shader, so, if one vertex shader turns out to be bad, they disabled it and also disable one quad so they can sell the chip as a 7800gt, in this case you get a 24 pipeline, 7 vertex pipe 7800. sorry about the "engrish"
the 6800 line runs the dx9 codepath VERY well, the problem was in the 5xxx line, which have a VERY POOR dx9 performance. This was solved in the 6xxx line... so there are nVidia cards that can run the code (they are expensive, but are out there) the good news here is the price drop in the 6xxx line, so you can buy for less than 200$ a 6800 card (vanilla, 12P)
The 7800gt uses the same chip that the 7800gtx uses, but it has a quad disabled, therefore it only got 20 pixel pipelines, but as the 6800 -> 6800ultra rivatuner can unlock the "hidden" pipelines and turn your 7800gt into a 7800gtx. however, the firs cards out are most likely based in the faulty versions of the chip, whit a little time, the probability of found a card fully modeable increases The fact that this mod can be done, with the current version of rivatuner, is a clever move by nvidia, as most of their sales are not in the top of the line cards, but in the mainstreams, so give this possibility to users is a really smart move... I for one will buy myself one as soon as I get a pcie board...
please write it sereval times, plus in CAPITAL LETTER, so i can read them better and understand you... ohh.. nevermind