I'd like to point out that thanks to the carry bit, an 8-bit CPU can do 64-bit math. In fact, any Turing-complete device can do 64-bit math. This is strictly a software issue.
Wait, you want to record a crystal-clear digital signal onto videotape? I have a far superior solution for you. (Unless you like to watch commercials or something.) For playback I reccomend a soft-modded Xbox.
To paraphrase Colbert, the truth has a well-known anti-SCO bias. Just because the Linux-mob thinks they got what's coming to them doesn't mean that it wasn't also the correct, fact-based legal decision.
Coming up with an improved product and then marketing it? Oh noes!! Seriously though, better high end products lead to better or cheaper low end products. Those that don't need a "frigging TB" can pick up a 64 meg flash drive is $4. That should do the trick.
Apples and oranges. Microsoft pampers their game studios because they have a grand evil scheme (whatever it is) and they need good games to make it come true, more than they need to squeeze the lifeblood out of game studios. EA on the other hand, squeezing the life out of things is their bread and butter.
I think that's his point. The first sentence makes no sense, which means it's not a verb. Thus invalidating the second sentence as well.
"Fuck" in the "fuck you" sense seems to have all the same properties as the entire phrase "I am displeased with". So "describe and I am displeased with communism"?
Grammar-ologists out there (in other words, those of you that cringed when you saw "grammar-ologist") what is the term for a word that means the same as a phrase?
True, but the dirty little secret of the nex-gen format war is that you don't need high capacity AND better codecs than DVD, you only need one or the other.
A plain old DVD can easily store a high definition, high quality movie-length clip, if it's encoded in x264.
The only benefit of using blue-laser discs for movies is that they can continue to charge the higher price for the discs long after they become trivial to manufacture.
Somebody always makes this comment whenever a CPU story shows up on Slashdot. But it's just not true. As painful as x86 code looks to an engineer, it doesn't really affect processor speed. By the time the code hits the instruction window, it's been mutated into RISC microcode, complete with the huge register bank, ortohogonality, everything. x86 has basically turned into a 'compression algorithm' for the actual machine code.
I think a better optimization would be to replace English with Interlingua. And I think it's about as likely to happen as ditching x86.
Troll 1: Over here we have our random number generator.
Troll 2: Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine...
Dilbert: Are you sure that's random?
Troll 1: There's no way to know for sure.
IANACSOQP but aren't all NP-complete problems essentially equivalent at some fundamental level? So if QC can do one NP-complete problem in P time, it can do all NP problems in P time?
The problem with that sort of flamewar is Americans are complaining about 10mbps not being fast enough to be called "broadband". I live in rural New York (really) and around here, "broadband" means "at least it's not dialup". I have no access to cable or DSL. Thank God Verizon put in a tower so I can get EVDO. So no, you're not the only people living under a digital rock.
5.1 sound lets you tell whether someone is sneaking up behind you, or about to jump out from around that corner you're approaching. And don't try and tell me your headphones are 3D:)
I can't speak about the accuracy of any of the other numbers, but you're not describing an example of rigging. Basically it's saying for you X joules you can build a Prius and have enough energy left over to drive it 100,000 miles. For the same X joules you can build a Hummer and have enough energy left over to drive it for 300,000 miles.
In other words, the article says "you have to drive a Prius at least 300,000 miles before it becomes energetically viable."
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I'd like to point out that thanks to the carry bit, an 8-bit CPU can do 64-bit math. In fact, any Turing-complete device can do 64-bit math. This is strictly a software issue.
Check out the rest of his site - he built a real jet engine, and the asciimation thing is incredible!
Wait, you want to record a crystal-clear digital signal onto videotape? I have a far superior solution for you. (Unless you like to watch commercials or something.) For playback I reccomend a soft-modded Xbox.
To paraphrase Colbert, the truth has a well-known anti-SCO bias. Just because the Linux-mob thinks they got what's coming to them doesn't mean that it wasn't also the correct, fact-based legal decision.
Perhaps the universe isn't black and white, and MP3 is the middle ground between .ogg and DRM.
It says graphics processors, which are quite parallel.
You must be new here. Roland's submissions always make the front page regardless of how dumberer/non-newsworthy they are.
Coming up with an improved product and then marketing it? Oh noes!! Seriously though, better high end products lead to better or cheaper low end products. Those that don't need a "frigging TB" can pick up a 64 meg flash drive is $4. That should do the trick.
Apples and oranges. Microsoft pampers their game studios because they have a grand evil scheme (whatever it is) and they need good games to make it come true, more than they need to squeeze the lifeblood out of game studios. EA on the other hand, squeezing the life out of things is their bread and butter.
I think that's his point. The first sentence makes no sense, which means it's not a verb. Thus invalidating the second sentence as well. "Fuck" in the "fuck you" sense seems to have all the same properties as the entire phrase "I am displeased with". So "describe and I am displeased with communism"? Grammar-ologists out there (in other words, those of you that cringed when you saw "grammar-ologist") what is the term for a word that means the same as a phrase?
True, but the dirty little secret of the nex-gen format war is that you don't need high capacity AND better codecs than DVD, you only need one or the other. A plain old DVD can easily store a high definition, high quality movie-length clip, if it's encoded in x264. The only benefit of using blue-laser discs for movies is that they can continue to charge the higher price for the discs long after they become trivial to manufacture.
I would hope not. What's the point of wrecking the environment to... save the environment?
Imaginary as in square root of -1, not imaginary as in non-existent. Google 'phasor diagram'.
Damn, do some research before you post (or worse yet, mod up) those urban legend quotes!!
Somebody always makes this comment whenever a CPU story shows up on Slashdot. But it's just not true. As painful as x86 code looks to an engineer, it doesn't really affect processor speed. By the time the code hits the instruction window, it's been mutated into RISC microcode, complete with the huge register bank, ortohogonality, everything. x86 has basically turned into a 'compression algorithm' for the actual machine code.
I think a better optimization would be to replace English with Interlingua. And I think it's about as likely to happen as ditching x86.
Troll 1: Over here we have our random number generator. Troll 2: Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine... Dilbert: Are you sure that's random? Troll 1: There's no way to know for sure.
IANACSOQP but aren't all NP-complete problems essentially equivalent at some fundamental level? So if QC can do one NP-complete problem in P time, it can do all NP problems in P time?
I've seen plenty of 50 year old things in much better shape than that car... It must have been completely submerged.
Need I remind you the DMCA itself started out as one of those "bullshit bills"...
5.1 sound lets you tell whether someone is sneaking up behind you, or about to jump out from around that corner you're approaching. And don't try and tell me your headphones are 3D :)
Is that what you use to hack Paris Hildon's Blackberry?
I wonder if my Myspace Profile Picture is in violation?
I thought I saw the sky turn purple yesterday...
I can't speak about the accuracy of any of the other numbers, but you're not describing an example of rigging. Basically it's saying for you X joules you can build a Prius and have enough energy left over to drive it 100,000 miles. For the same X joules you can build a Hummer and have enough energy left over to drive it for 300,000 miles. In other words, the article says "you have to drive a Prius at least 300,000 miles before it becomes energetically viable."