3D images need three 3D glasses and rendering too don't they? Or is this just a photorealistic 2D image of a solid model? Or something else altogether?
And high quality images are usually pretty large files. Does it render extra bandwidth to carry the file across to my smart phone?
You read the article. Obviously, injecting evidence and facts into the discussion is not helpful with the wild speculation, conjecture and skepticism of the uninformed.
Low power, and small antennas is probably a good thing here. Small antennas will have poor efficiency, low power will mean short range. Combined it means the footprint for a given transmitter will be small. More can be put into a given community without undue interference. If anyone wants to put a 5 foot TV aerial on their laptop or Blackberry, they have way more need for this spectrum than the average Joe or Jane.
I won an original Xbox back when they were new. I didn't need it, none of my cousins cared about it. I was going to try loading Linux on it, but eventually it just went back in the box. Still brand new, basically unused, two fresh games, sitting in a closet. I suppose someday I'll give it to a museum.
Beyond the obvious problems with censorship in general, this kind of "censorship" where superficial elements are removed while keeping the overall spirit and subject matter of the game (come on, who wouldn't figure out looking at those obfuscated Nazi banners what the REAL symbol is supposed to mean)...
You could just as easily say the sanitized version should be sold everywhere. Everyone would still know you were referring to the old Nazis, but you would not be propagating the symbols of the old regime, and it would be easier (and thus cheaper) to manufacture. It isn't like historical accuracy is at risk here. Not even the most virulent anti-Nazis truly believes they were *actually* demons from Hell.
Whatever happened to the Google patent that passed 12Vdc from an external source straight through the power supply to the motherboard? and more to the point, in MS using it?
It was an old idea, should never have gotten the patent, but as a green idea it is great. Whole data centers with just one big p/s instead of lots of little ones converting from ac to dc and back, and running suboptimally would save tons of waste.
If MS can learn to live with and operate in the environment the real users will be in, then their products *SHOULD* be the better for it. What a concept.
How can I burn in their Hell if I do not believe in their Hell?
Just because you do not believe in their Hell doesn't mean their Hell does not exist or that you will not go there.
Similarly, their Hell does not exist or operate a particular way simply because they wish it to be so.
The existence and rules of operation of the thing are going to be largely independent of the desires of the people that believe in, or fail to believe in, it. If that weren't so, we would all have perfect software running on perfect hardwre solving our largely academic and trivial problems in each of our own perfect worlds. Which doesn't seem to be the actual case.
Not really. Walking away from Islam (or Christianity), after having joined, is called apostacy. What you really have to do is reject the faith as false after previously saying it was true. The traditional punishment, in Islam and Christianity, is death. But of course it is rarely applied any more. Not never, but rarely.
Just looking into the belief system, before joining, is no crime at all, and would bring blessings upon the person that shares the information.
How long does it take a big lawsuit to wend its way through the bowels of the justice system> 3 - 5 years? That gets you to a judgment. And then the appeals kick in. Another 3 years later maybe you know who was right, 6 - 8 years earlier.
Meanwhile, Windows XP, released in 2002, will hit end of life around 2012. About 3 years from now.
By the time this lawsuit has any hope of making any kind of impact, MS will no longer officially care. Vista will be middle aged news by then, and Win7 will in all probability be well established.
$21B to fly it. Naturally, since unplanned maintenance never happens, it is cost free.
It generates 1 Gigawatt. Lets just assume this is 24 hours per day, for the life of the system.
Divide the cost by the benefit and you get $21 per watt delivered. Since the customers are paying (for the sake of convenience) $0.21 per kilowatt-hour, it will take about 100,000 hours to pay for the thing. Inflation, like maintenance, is cost free. Thus the system is fully paid in about 11.4 years.
How long did Hubble go before it needed major servicing and a basic rebuild? And it wasn't nearly as complicated as a power plant and microwave death ray transmission path.
Working, but with a twist. Time Warner (through their attorneys in a response to an FCC inquiry spurred by a complaint by me) says they can give you a functioning Firewire port as per regulation 47 CFR 76.640(b)(4). *However* your machine must have compatibility with DTCP (Digital Transmission Content Protection). In effect another DRM scheme controlled much like CableCARD. The technology must be licensed from a company with no motivation to actually sell anything, and incorporated into secure boxes to be sold to the public. Few qualified devices ever make it into the wild.
I worked alongside a Logistics Test squadron once. These are the guys that write Technical Orders for maintenance and repair. They take the recommendations from the engineers and turn them into repair manuals. The hardest part of the job is two fold: first, you make sure the necessary stuff gets said the right way and clearly, and second you take good ideas from the field and get them implemented. AND you make sure bad ideas get stopped cold (e.g. don't substitute Vaseline for high temp silicone grease).
A wiki will be great for getting good ideas spread around. The front line maintainers very quickly come up with faster, better, cheaper ways to do things. It makes sense that 1000 guys will eventually think up a better solution than the 10 guys that wrote the manual. BUT just as often, the 1000 will go off on the wrong track and emphasize speed or simplicity over reliability or functionality. They don't know it is causing damage because they don't see the long term cause and effect. If the subject matter experts are closely reviewing this wiki, it could be a win for both groups.
And then there is the matter of rewards and retaliation.
...While the "corporate" network is primarily For Official Use Only, some personal use (email, web browsing while "off duty") has always been allowed. All this regulation does it tighten up what is considered acceptable personal use.
The major emails (hotmail, gmail, yahoo) are blocked, and most things that look like a "send" button on blogs are blocked as well. The goal seems to be to prevent DoD users from posting to public places while on the job. Makes a lot of sense, but its really annoying if you need access to a support forum. Or Slashdot.
Unless that laptop has its own dedicated satellite uplink, it has to send its traffic through some local infrastructure. Probably the local Marine provided infrastructure. A private machine can have any number of malware threats on board. Which means either: 1. setting up some sophisticated VPN to isolate that machine, or 2. just taking a chance the private laptop won't scan/infect/blab about the local Marine infrastructure, or 3. just banning them. Which is most secure for the Marines?
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3D images need three 3D glasses and rendering too don't they? Or is this just a photorealistic 2D image of a solid model? Or something else altogether? And high quality images are usually pretty large files. Does it render extra bandwidth to carry the file across to my smart phone?
Regression to the Mean is always in effect. Though sometimes it is enforced by Agression of the Meanest.
You read the article. Obviously, injecting evidence and facts into the discussion is not helpful with the wild speculation, conjecture and skepticism of the uninformed.
Do we call in the MythBusters to stage an experiment? I need to see a Confirmed, Plausible, or Busted branding iron before I believe anything.
I heard an old military intel guy say this about the Germans, "they're either at your feet or at your throat".
What makes you think life as we know it isn't nano swarm intelligence gone terribly wrong?
It has gone terribly wrong. But it isn't nano. One look at Rosie O'Donnell will tell you that. Intelligence is open to debate for similar reasons.
First XKCD points out the obvious weapons end of things, now this guy announces how the brains have already been developed.
No, space is 50 or 62 miles up, depending on who you ask.
Low power, and small antennas is probably a good thing here. Small antennas will have poor efficiency, low power will mean short range. Combined it means the footprint for a given transmitter will be small. More can be put into a given community without undue interference. If anyone wants to put a 5 foot TV aerial on their laptop or Blackberry, they have way more need for this spectrum than the average Joe or Jane.
I won an original Xbox back when they were new. I didn't need it, none of my cousins cared about it. I was going to try loading Linux on it, but eventually it just went back in the box. Still brand new, basically unused, two fresh games, sitting in a closet. I suppose someday I'll give it to a museum.
Beyond the obvious problems with censorship in general, this kind of "censorship" where superficial elements are removed while keeping the overall spirit and subject matter of the game (come on, who wouldn't figure out looking at those obfuscated Nazi banners what the REAL symbol is supposed to mean) ...
You could just as easily say the sanitized version should be sold everywhere. Everyone would still know you were referring to the old Nazis, but you would not be propagating the symbols of the old regime, and it would be easier (and thus cheaper) to manufacture. It isn't like historical accuracy is at risk here. Not even the most virulent anti-Nazis truly believes they were *actually* demons from Hell.
It was an old idea, should never have gotten the patent, but as a green idea it is great. Whole data centers with just one big p/s instead of lots of little ones converting from ac to dc and back, and running suboptimally would save tons of waste.
If MS can learn to live with and operate in the environment the real users will be in, then their products *SHOULD* be the better for it. What a concept.
Just because you do not believe in their Hell doesn't mean their Hell does not exist or that you will not go there.
Similarly, their Hell does not exist or operate a particular way simply because they wish it to be so.
The existence and rules of operation of the thing are going to be largely independent of the desires of the people that believe in, or fail to believe in, it. If that weren't so, we would all have perfect software running on perfect hardwre solving our largely academic and trivial problems in each of our own perfect worlds. Which doesn't seem to be the actual case.
Just looking into the belief system, before joining, is no crime at all, and would bring blessings upon the person that shares the information.
Meanwhile, Windows XP, released in 2002, will hit end of life around 2012. About 3 years from now.
By the time this lawsuit has any hope of making any kind of impact, MS will no longer officially care. Vista will be middle aged news by then, and Win7 will in all probability be well established.
Nothing to see here.
...Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause....
It generates 1 Gigawatt. Lets just assume this is 24 hours per day, for the life of the system.
Divide the cost by the benefit and you get $21 per watt delivered. Since the customers are paying (for the sake of convenience) $0.21 per kilowatt-hour, it will take about 100,000 hours to pay for the thing. Inflation, like maintenance, is cost free. Thus the system is fully paid in about 11.4 years.
How long did Hubble go before it needed major servicing and a basic rebuild? And it wasn't nearly as complicated as a power plant and microwave death ray transmission path.
Working, but with a twist. Time Warner (through their attorneys in a response to an FCC inquiry spurred by a complaint by me) says they can give you a functioning Firewire port as per regulation 47 CFR 76.640(b)(4). *However* your machine must have compatibility with DTCP (Digital Transmission Content Protection). In effect another DRM scheme controlled much like CableCARD. The technology must be licensed from a company with no motivation to actually sell anything, and incorporated into secure boxes to be sold to the public. Few qualified devices ever make it into the wild.
So... You're saying God doesn't play dice with the universe, he plays cards? Heretic!!
Is watching others have sex instead of having sex with your spouse healthy?
For the unimaginative, yes.
For the ugly, its doing us all a favor.
I worked alongside a Logistics Test squadron once. These are the guys that write Technical Orders for maintenance and repair. They take the recommendations from the engineers and turn them into repair manuals. The hardest part of the job is two fold: first, you make sure the necessary stuff gets said the right way and clearly, and second you take good ideas from the field and get them implemented. AND you make sure bad ideas get stopped cold (e.g. don't substitute Vaseline for high temp silicone grease).
A wiki will be great for getting good ideas spread around. The front line maintainers very quickly come up with faster, better, cheaper ways to do things. It makes sense that 1000 guys will eventually think up a better solution than the 10 guys that wrote the manual. BUT just as often, the 1000 will go off on the wrong track and emphasize speed or simplicity over reliability or functionality. They don't know it is causing damage because they don't see the long term cause and effect. If the subject matter experts are closely reviewing this wiki, it could be a win for both groups.
And then there is the matter of rewards and retaliation.
...While the "corporate" network is primarily For Official Use Only, some personal use (email, web browsing while "off duty") has always been allowed. All this regulation does it tighten up what is considered acceptable personal use.
The major emails (hotmail, gmail, yahoo) are blocked, and most things that look like a "send" button on blogs are blocked as well. The goal seems to be to prevent DoD users from posting to public places while on the job. Makes a lot of sense, but its really annoying if you need access to a support forum. Or Slashdot.
Unless that laptop has its own dedicated satellite uplink, it has to send its traffic through some local infrastructure. Probably the local Marine provided infrastructure. A private machine can have any number of malware threats on board. Which means either: 1. setting up some sophisticated VPN to isolate that machine, or 2. just taking a chance the private laptop won't scan/infect/blab about the local Marine infrastructure, or 3. just banning them. Which is most secure for the Marines?
What class has 1984 as required reading and where can I sign up?
PoliSci 202, Intermediate Revisionist History
A companion course to Lit 303, Irony in Literature