the point is that you don't. GP said "build around". it floods where you live? go live somewhere else. high winds there? try again. repeat untill your house survives longer than you live (and die of old age). also try not to build something that lights on fire easily. Guess what, the edge of an ocean isn't the best place to build a house.
The last I understood of what a space warp drive would do was that it would warp space. More specifically, that it would compress space. This compressed space would look the same to anyone traveling through it, but would in fact be "smaller", and would take less time to travel through than if it were uncompressed. The FTL occurs when you travel from one side of the compressed space to the other, faster than light could have through the uncompressed space. However, you need not to actually travel faster than light, and in fact, you still can't. With a large enough compression factor, I could give my spaceship a good kick (with my foot) and it would be "traveling faster than the speed of light". So, with enough warpage, you can use conventional thrust, because you're moving through warped space as though it were regular space.
The problem I remember with making something that would warp space is that it usually needs to be on the order of a black hole in mass. To create a "warp drive", you would need to create the warping without access to such mass, though you might still need the gravity to do the job. This of course poses its own problems. I think there's also a bit of a problem with not getting warped yourself.
Well, good for you. But my guess is that if you couldn't recognize spoken english words too well, you were anything but "fluent".
The fact that Bush is still president in america is a very good reason
You do realize that we don't have a parliament, right? And that you can't impeach a president if he doesn't appear to have broken any laws. And that he'd still have to be convicted? And that, btw, not telling the public the truth, isn't actually against the law in the US. Lying isn't either, only perjury.
P.S. German is actually harder than English. Ask any German, chances are they'll tell you the same. For an easy language, you might try a Romance language, structures and such tend to be fairly straightforward.
while I don't know where you come from, I was slightly offended by that as an American, until I remembered that it's usually only the stupid Americans that don't even bother to learn another language. I and most of my friends have at least made an attempt, though it's fairly difficult to get enough practice to become fluent.
P.S. I write this from Germany where one of my courses this semester was Spanish.
We're almost at the point where cut scenes animation is only a little better than the in game graphics
except when they're worse than game graphics. pre-recorded stuff at a resolution lower than I play the game makes me want to puke.
Some newer games start to integrate cut scenes into the game engine. For example, Guild Wars, all cut scene stuff is rendered on the fly, with the characters that are participating (i.e. your character, with all the trimmings (armor, hair style) the same as when you're actively playing). I can't think of other examples at the moment, but I think stuff like this is what you're talking about.
Also, I think in Fable, you sometimes had an effect on what cut scene was shown.
ok, so, what happens if I don't have any ID? I have a NY drivers license and a US passport. Last year I didn't have a passport because I'd never needed one (hadn't left the country). Before my driver's license, I had a learner's permit. Closest thing I had to ID before that was a hunting licence. And before that, I didn't have any whatsoever.
Please tell me how, for example, a 14 year old walking home from school is required to show ID when they do now possess such a thing. No, actually, let's make it 18, who doesn't drive. Since I'm not required to have (any) ID, I'd have to say it's impossible that I can be required to show it, ever.
The variable weight is negligible compared to the weight of the giant metal box itself. In any case, it's still more effecient to only have to move the variable weight than the variable + static weight, which is what an elevator without a counterweight would have to do.
and you might have a point, except that anything else they could continue with would be redundant.
"Pentium V" or "Pentium 5" the fifth fifth thing? wtf - redundant "Intel D 840: Intel Inside" hmm, too many damned I's and we have "Intel" doubled - also redundant
"Intel D 840: Leap Ahead" - oooh shiny, an Intel computer runs so fast it has to jump. This means that they reinforce all of their lines at the same time, not just the Pentium line.
oh, there are estimates, but even if you count bodies (to prevent casualty inflation by bragging soldiers), you can't be sure how many died on the other side.
For example: how many people just died in that building you just blew up? If there was one person in the building, and the bomb landed on his head, you probably wouldn't be able to prove anyone died. Also, the military keeps records about its troops, how is anyone supposed to know how big a certain cell is. If you don't know how many there were, or how many there are, it's difficult to find out how many there no longer are.
If you want to pay for something, go ahead. If you don't like it, don't pay for it; duh.
I don't usually have trouble with SkypeIn (also still in beta), but there are times when a call just cuts out. Heres the trouble: I don't know why; it could be from SkypeIn, someone calling me from a cellphone who's switching towers, or any other link that breaks in the chain.
I still pay for SkypeIn, because I can get calls while I'm abroad with people having to pay only local rates (which sometimes amounts to free). SkypeIn has paid for itself many times over.
Paying for something is your choice, so, if you don't like it, don't pay for it; the company will figure it out. BTW, every once in a while Skype sends me to give feedback about the last call I've had, I always fill this out, since it theoretically will make my service better in the future.
Beta's have their kinks, and usually reactions (the fact people have reacted) are good and welcome. DRM is stupid. However, a bad UI can't necessarily be Google's fault, they can't get everything right first try. They deserve a break on this one, and considering it's beta, I think it's ok. If it doesn't get fixed, bitch all you want. In fact, do it now so that it gets fixed. Just don't pay for it yet.
Actually, from real measurements, temperatures lower than this have been found down there. 2.4C, I think it was. I think this had somthing to do with salt content.
if I turn my headphones down to the point where they're barely just on, I only get sound from the left side; the right is comepletely dead. When I raise it a bit above, the right side turns on. Any electronics/sound people care to say something about different channels and/or power levels?
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SCOTUS doesn't have the power to make anything illegal. They do have the power to decide cases. In deciding cases, they have the power to effectively nullify laws. This is because once something has been decided in SCOTUS, lower courts can't really contradict this without giving instant grounds for an appeal. This can then make it's way back up to SCOTUS, which could overturn the previous SCOTUS decision.
To summarize: SCOTUS cannot make anything illegal, they can only nullify laws. This is not the same as repealing them.
btw, I realize you said "in effect illegalizes", I don't disagree, just wanted to clarify a bit.
Not everyone. Sure, if you buy something today, it'll probably support everything, a couple years ago, that wasn't the case. My mom's laptop doesn't want to burn on a +R, but seems to read everything, and claims to be +-RW. My dad's old 450mhz (he hardly uses the computer at home, so it's not worth upgrading yet) has a drive that seems to like -R, but not +R. My modded xbox (1.1) refuses to read anything that's not a +R or a CD-R. I tend to buy +R's, because I (for no good reason) feel they are superior and they're more usefull to me (with the xbox).
Summary: the war is over, but it still made a mess of things.
yup, you're right, after re-reading my post, it's not relevant to Moore's law.
I should have left it at "bit != hz".
I think I was trying to say: Even though clock speeds haven't been doubling every year, that doesn't mean that the computing "power" hasn't been advancing rapidly.
It still says nothing relevant to Moore's law, though.
bit != hz hz = (clock) cycles per second hz != calculations per second
so, even though clock speed hasn't been doubling in line with Moore's Law, it doesn't mean the number of calculations per second hasn't been. There have been other increases in speed; hyperthreading, dual core, faster FSB, and more on-die cache all affect the number of calculations that can be performed. The fact that we've been stuck at 3-4 Ghz for the last couple years doesn't mean that a 4 Ghz today can't perform twice as well as a 3 Ghz from two years ago.
Yes, I'm an Intel user. However, this even more proves my point that Ghz != speed, though there is a relationship. AMD chips' clock speeds don't seem to have as direct a relationship to the performance. So, even though those clock speeds might be slower than Intel's from 2 years ago, they can still have better performance than Intel's latest stuff.
put chips in the barcodes, put a chip in you, and put a chip scanner at the door. scanner totals everything up, accesses your credit info, and poof, done! You can even have it print a receipt, so nobody ends up cheated by being charged the wrong amount.
EZ Pass for food.
(for those who don't live in NY/NJ, EZ Pass is an RFID for paying highway tolls, velcro one to your windshield and drive through toll booths without stopping.)
I believe the limit for effective radiated power is higher than that for 2.4Ghz devices. It seems like that (100mW) might be about right for ~5Ghz stuff. Also, I know that with a WRT54G and sveasoft firmware, you can push the stock hardware to 251mW, and they claim that is well below the 36dBm limit.
Ok, well, you can obviously tell I don't have a mac. Thanks for correcting me on that.
I tend to think what makes windows slow is bloatware, not the availability of drivers. This is the same thing that slows down the larger Linux distros, and even OS X, too. Junk laying around that you don't need shouldn't be there.
As for different chipsets, if you're talking about the motherboards and such, I didn't think that made much of a difference to the software running on them. As for drivers for any other PCI card etc., well, I don't know, that should be up to the vendors of said cards anyway.
It's just too bad Apple charges so much for the same crap with their name on it. They even design for the look instead of function which means stuff breaks easier. Oh well, if I knew they were going to build good cheap machines that would run any OS (short of something designed for sparc), I'd consider it.
Which is why most conclusions from these sciences are technically still theories. Ever heard the phrase "Law of Evolution"? Nope, it's still "Theory of Evolution". Geological Theory. Archaeological Theory. Big Bang Theory.
Theory = not reproduced enough to be called a Law or Fact.
A certain amount of confirmed observation is necessary to push a conclusion up to "theory" level, also. For example, I doubt anybody would say that, oh, the earth is round without a certain amount of data to back that up. (if the earth is flat, why do ships dissapear over the horizon?)
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the point is that you don't. GP said "build around". it floods where you live? go live somewhere else. high winds there? try again. repeat untill your house survives longer than you live (and die of old age). also try not to build something that lights on fire easily. Guess what, the edge of an ocean isn't the best place to build a house.
The last I understood of what a space warp drive would do was that it would warp space. More specifically, that it would compress space. This compressed space would look the same to anyone traveling through it, but would in fact be "smaller", and would take less time to travel through than if it were uncompressed. The FTL occurs when you travel from one side of the compressed space to the other, faster than light could have through the uncompressed space. However, you need not to actually travel faster than light, and in fact, you still can't. With a large enough compression factor, I could give my spaceship a good kick (with my foot) and it would be "traveling faster than the speed of light". So, with enough warpage, you can use conventional thrust, because you're moving through warped space as though it were regular space.
The problem I remember with making something that would warp space is that it usually needs to be on the order of a black hole in mass. To create a "warp drive", you would need to create the warping without access to such mass, though you might still need the gravity to do the job. This of course poses its own problems. I think there's also a bit of a problem with not getting warped yourself.
Well, good for you. But my guess is that if you couldn't recognize spoken english words too well, you were anything but "fluent".
The fact that Bush is still president in america is a very good reason
You do realize that we don't have a parliament, right? And that you can't impeach a president if he doesn't appear to have broken any laws. And that he'd still have to be convicted? And that, btw, not telling the public the truth, isn't actually against the law in the US. Lying isn't either, only perjury.
P.S. German is actually harder than English. Ask any German, chances are they'll tell you the same. For an easy language, you might try a Romance language, structures and such tend to be fairly straightforward.
while I don't know where you come from, I was slightly offended by that as an American, until I remembered that it's usually only the stupid Americans that don't even bother to learn another language. I and most of my friends have at least made an attempt, though it's fairly difficult to get enough practice to become fluent.
P.S. I write this from Germany where one of my courses this semester was Spanish.
We're almost at the point where cut scenes animation is only a little better than the in game graphics
except when they're worse than game graphics. pre-recorded stuff at a resolution lower than I play the game makes me want to puke.
Some newer games start to integrate cut scenes into the game engine. For example, Guild Wars, all cut scene stuff is rendered on the fly, with the characters that are participating (i.e. your character, with all the trimmings (armor, hair style) the same as when you're actively playing). I can't think of other examples at the moment, but I think stuff like this is what you're talking about.
Also, I think in Fable, you sometimes had an effect on what cut scene was shown.
ok, so, what happens if I don't have any ID? I have a NY drivers license and a US passport. Last year I didn't have a passport because I'd never needed one (hadn't left the country). Before my driver's license, I had a learner's permit. Closest thing I had to ID before that was a hunting licence. And before that, I didn't have any whatsoever.
Please tell me how, for example, a 14 year old walking home from school is required to show ID when they do now possess such a thing. No, actually, let's make it 18, who doesn't drive. Since I'm not required to have (any) ID, I'd have to say it's impossible that I can be required to show it, ever.
isn't all of MS Office due to switch to (compressed) XML-based files in the next release?
so, I guess you'll be reading this book sometime in the next couple of years?
The variable weight is negligible compared to the weight of the giant metal box itself. In any case, it's still more effecient to only have to move the variable weight than the variable + static weight, which is what an elevator without a counterweight would have to do.
and you might have a point, except that anything else they could continue with would be redundant.
"Pentium V" or "Pentium 5" the fifth fifth thing? wtf - redundant
"Intel D 840: Intel Inside" hmm, too many damned I's and we have "Intel" doubled - also redundant
"Intel D 840: Leap Ahead" - oooh shiny, an Intel computer runs so fast it has to jump. This means that they reinforce all of their lines at the same time, not just the Pentium line.
oh, there are estimates, but even if you count bodies (to prevent casualty inflation by bragging soldiers), you can't be sure how many died on the other side.
For example: how many people just died in that building you just blew up? If there was one person in the building, and the bomb landed on his head, you probably wouldn't be able to prove anyone died. Also, the military keeps records about its troops, how is anyone supposed to know how big a certain cell is. If you don't know how many there were, or how many there are, it's difficult to find out how many there no longer are.
If you want to pay for something, go ahead. If you don't like it, don't pay for it; duh.
I don't usually have trouble with SkypeIn (also still in beta), but there are times when a call just cuts out. Heres the trouble: I don't know why; it could be from SkypeIn, someone calling me from a cellphone who's switching towers, or any other link that breaks in the chain.
I still pay for SkypeIn, because I can get calls while I'm abroad with people having to pay only local rates (which sometimes amounts to free). SkypeIn has paid for itself many times over.
Paying for something is your choice, so, if you don't like it, don't pay for it; the company will figure it out. BTW, every once in a while Skype sends me to give feedback about the last call I've had, I always fill this out, since it theoretically will make my service better in the future.
Beta's have their kinks, and usually reactions (the fact people have reacted) are good and welcome. DRM is stupid. However, a bad UI can't necessarily be Google's fault, they can't get everything right first try. They deserve a break on this one, and considering it's beta, I think it's ok. If it doesn't get fixed, bitch all you want. In fact, do it now so that it gets fixed. Just don't pay for it yet.
Does this include a band playing only their own originals?
I really hope it doesn't.
Actually, from real measurements, temperatures lower than this have been found down there. 2.4C, I think it was. I think this had somthing to do with salt content.
also, ice still floats.
why would you click twice?
if I turn my headphones down to the point where they're barely just on, I only get sound from the left side; the right is comepletely dead. When I raise it a bit above, the right side turns on. Any electronics/sound people care to say something about different channels and/or power levels?
SCOTUS doesn't have the power to make anything illegal. They do have the power to decide cases. In deciding cases, they have the power to effectively nullify laws. This is because once something has been decided in SCOTUS, lower courts can't really contradict this without giving instant grounds for an appeal. This can then make it's way back up to SCOTUS, which could overturn the previous SCOTUS decision.
To summarize: SCOTUS cannot make anything illegal, they can only nullify laws. This is not the same as repealing them.
btw, I realize you said "in effect illegalizes", I don't disagree, just wanted to clarify a bit.
Not everyone. Sure, if you buy something today, it'll probably support everything, a couple years ago, that wasn't the case. My mom's laptop doesn't want to burn on a +R, but seems to read everything, and claims to be +-RW. My dad's old 450mhz (he hardly uses the computer at home, so it's not worth upgrading yet) has a drive that seems to like -R, but not +R. My modded xbox (1.1) refuses to read anything that's not a +R or a CD-R. I tend to buy +R's, because I (for no good reason) feel they are superior and they're more usefull to me (with the xbox).
Summary: the war is over, but it still made a mess of things.
yup, you're right, after re-reading my post, it's not relevant to Moore's law.
I should have left it at "bit != hz".
I think I was trying to say: Even though clock speeds haven't been doubling every year, that doesn't mean that the computing "power" hasn't been advancing rapidly.
It still says nothing relevant to Moore's law, though.
bit != hz
hz = (clock) cycles per second
hz != calculations per second
so, even though clock speed hasn't been doubling in line with Moore's Law, it doesn't mean the number of calculations per second hasn't been. There have been other increases in speed; hyperthreading, dual core, faster FSB, and more on-die cache all affect the number of calculations that can be performed. The fact that we've been stuck at 3-4 Ghz for the last couple years doesn't mean that a 4 Ghz today can't perform twice as well as a 3 Ghz from two years ago.
Yes, I'm an Intel user. However, this even more proves my point that Ghz != speed, though there is a relationship. AMD chips' clock speeds don't seem to have as direct a relationship to the performance. So, even though those clock speeds might be slower than Intel's from 2 years ago, they can still have better performance than Intel's latest stuff.
--don't have to wait in line at the supermarket.
put chips in the barcodes, put a chip in you, and put a chip scanner at the door. scanner totals everything up, accesses your credit info, and poof, done! You can even have it print a receipt, so nobody ends up cheated by being charged the wrong amount.
EZ Pass for food.
(for those who don't live in NY/NJ, EZ Pass is an RFID for paying highway tolls, velcro one to your windshield and drive through toll booths without stopping.)
Put a pot of water on an electric stove. Save $50K for the electric bill. I win.
I believe the limit for effective radiated power is higher than that for 2.4Ghz devices. It seems like that (100mW) might be about right for ~5Ghz stuff. Also, I know that with a WRT54G and sveasoft firmware, you can push the stock hardware to 251mW, and they claim that is well below the 36dBm limit.
sveasoft faq on the subject some site that seemed to have relevant stuff on the FCC regs
Ok, well, you can obviously tell I don't have a mac. Thanks for correcting me on that.
I tend to think what makes windows slow is bloatware, not the availability of drivers. This is the same thing that slows down the larger Linux distros, and even OS X, too. Junk laying around that you don't need shouldn't be there.
As for different chipsets, if you're talking about the motherboards and such, I didn't think that made much of a difference to the software running on them. As for drivers for any other PCI card etc., well, I don't know, that should be up to the vendors of said cards anyway.
It's just too bad Apple charges so much for the same crap with their name on it. They even design for the look instead of function which means stuff breaks easier. Oh well, if I knew they were going to build good cheap machines that would run any OS (short of something designed for sparc), I'd consider it.
so, if I want to replace a video card, RAM, hard drive, monitor, I should be out of luck because Apple says "too bad"? um, fuck that.
R&D? so, you actually like the idea of hardware-based DRM? I guess you'd never want to make a backup of a DVD either.
Which is why most conclusions from these sciences are technically still theories. Ever heard the phrase "Law of Evolution"? Nope, it's still "Theory of Evolution". Geological Theory. Archaeological Theory. Big Bang Theory.
Theory = not reproduced enough to be called a Law or Fact.
A certain amount of confirmed observation is necessary to push a conclusion up to "theory" level, also. For example, I doubt anybody would say that, oh, the earth is round without a certain amount of data to back that up. (if the earth is flat, why do ships dissapear over the horizon?)