Of course nobody's running 64-bit applications at home on at the office. Because the dominant player there is Microsoft -- whose 64-bit support on the desktop is either lame (try to find even basic drivers for XP-64) or a nightmare (try to run Vista-64 at all!). Can't really run 64-bit apps without a 64-bit OS, can you?
Amen to that. I've run both XP 32- and 64-bit on this machine, and now I'm giving Vista x64 a go. XP 64-bit is a total joke - driver support is almost totally lacking, and now with Vista, I doubt that manufacturers have much incentive to develop for XP 64-bit.
As for Vista x64, it has been a nightmare. Between crappy/non-existent drivers and all the programs that are either totally incompatible with Vista, or just won't run on the 64-bit version (no Cisco VPN client? WTF??), I'm left thinking I should go back to XP. Either that, or a long waiting game for Service Pack 1.
I now have a computer that has 1 GB more RAM than it did when running XP (grandparent is wrong on that count, XP 32-bit can't see all 4 GB of RAM because of PCI devices, etc.), but no Bluetooth, suspend-to-RAM that is completely broken, and virtualization that breaks the network driver after a reboot.
Eventually, these machines run out of money anyway, so there should be a maximum amount they could lose. (And if they were really STUPID enough to see the empty machine, have no record of it paying out a huge jackpot that would explain it being empty, and REFILLED it again.... well, that's REALLY looking like their own issue, isn't it?)
From what I've seen (just got back from Las Vegas this morning), there is no such thing as 'emptying' a machine - they don't use coins anymore, just tickets that print the value of your winnings. I don't play, but it seems to me you could just keep on racking up credits until the machine can't display anymore - there's nothing to 'refill'.
I just got back from Las Vegas early this morning from a convention, and I clearly remember signs on slot machines stating "Machine malfunction voids all plays and payments", or something similar.
MPX or Multi-Pointer X is a modification of the X Windows Server that allows multiple input devices to be used at the same time. You only need a normal computer plus any number of keyboards and mice attached to use it. The system lets multiple users to interact with one or various applications simultaneously.
So this means I can hook up two usb touchpads and do the two-handed flipping thing/finger-paint with both hands at the same time, it seems. To me, this is more interesting than a table-top display, since it could work without a major hardware purchase.
Those billboards are created by the server you're playing on replacing the normal billboard texture with an advertisement.
Nothing to do with Valve.
Are you sure?
"Valve's Doug Lombardi confirmed that in-game advertising, served by IGA, will appear in CS 1.6, and in CS:Source later on. He spoke to CS-nation about the ads, where he said, 'There will be some ads posted on walls in the game world, an ad on the scoreboard screen, and one in the letterboxed area of Spectator mode. Counter-Strike levels aren't going to turn into Times Square or a Nextel Cup racecar. We have control over what ads show up in Counter-Strike and how they are presented.'"
i think i speak for everyone when i say "what the fuck??" when did OPERATING SYSTEMS become billboards?
I asked myself a similar question when Valve started literally including billboards in CS 1.6 on Steam. I paid for the damn game, someone else is paying for the server and bandwidth to play it on... why exactly do you think you have the right to stick ads in my game?
Yep. I've definitely decided to stay with my XP system for now. I'm hoping it's a bridge until I can get the Ubuntu Studio setup working so I can do all my music and video on that machine.
What makes you so sure they won't roll it out as an 'update' to XP as well?
I believe "SLI" is supposed to be generalized over the next generation of cards, so you can run in configurations with more than two.
I hadn't thought of that; I guess I still have my old 3dfx Voodoo2s in mind. Still, the Wikipedia article only details dual- and quad-slot setups, and has only this to say about three-slot motherboards:
In response to ATI offering a discrete physics calculation solution in a tri-GPU system, NVIDIA announced a partnership with physics middleware company Havok to incorporate a similar system using a similar approach. Although this would eventually become the Quantum Effects technology, many motherboard companies began producing boards with three PCI-Express x16 slots in anticipation of this implementation being used.
Three PCI Express 16X Slots? I'm not quite sure I get that one. Why? To run SLI on one pair, and have another single graphics card? Most cards today come with two outputs anyway, and if you're crazy enough to need SLI on two monitors, why wouldn't you need it on your third/fourth? Four slots would've made more sense to me.
I guess they must be aiming at the booming five- and six-monitor market...?
The Right to Privacy must be in the same secret section of the US Constitution (I assume you mean US Constitution?) as the Right to Free Choice and the Right to Party...
If by "secret section" you mean the 9th Amendment, then yes. Let me refresh your memory:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
They were neither geniuses or lucky bastards - they were thieves. That figure of 14 years in the Copyright Act of 1790 was most likely copied - no, STOLEN - from England's Statute of Anne, dating to 1709. What a blatant violation of intellectual property!
The AC is referring to the fact that in the Copyright Act of 1790 (the US's first), the term of copyright was set at 14 years, and after expiration, could be renewed for another 14: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1790
Unfortunately, the interests that controlled the tiny minority of works that continued to be profitable after 28 years, then 56 years, lobbied for and got legislation that extended the term of all works.
"When Runbot first encounters a slope these low level control circuits 'believe' they can continue to walk up the slope without having to change anything."
"Runbotwalks in a very different way from robots like Asimo, star of the Honda TV adverts, said Prof Woergoetter."
"The first step in building Runbot was creating a biomechanical frame that could support passive walking patterns."
"So using the information from its local circuits Runbot can walk on flat surfaces at speeds of more than three leg lengths per second."
"Prof Woergoetter said Runbot was able to learn new walking patterns after only a few trials."
"Runbot is a small, biped robot which can move at speeds of more than three leg lengths per second, slightly slower than the fastest walking human."
And last but not least:
"Four other scientists - Poramate Manoonpong, Tao Geng, Tomas Kulvicius and Bernd Porr - are also involved in the project, which has been running for the last four years."
Sorry guys, but it really isn't living up to it's name.
"As we all know, the internet is 99% porn. This study shows us that this porn accounts for 1 out of every 2 DVD downloads, which means the other 50% of DVD downloads must be pirated Hollywood blockbusters. Now, if 50% of downloads are 99% of the internet, clearly the other 50% of downloads must also be 99% of the internet. This just goes to show that the internet is 99% pirated movies, and this, Congressman, simply must be stopped."
I believe that "hexadecimal goo" in the comment field is where iTunes stores information about volume normalization. Unfortunately, they fail to give any warning that the program will destroy your comments. Really, that is pretty poor programming. Why couldn't they just stick that information in the iTunes database instead of in the file?
I suggest that there are a number of alternate reasons why our results are as poor as they apparently are. For example, we have a significantly higher incidence of morbid obesity and we don't get nearly the exercise that many people in other countries do.
I definitely agree with you here; we, as a people, are simply not as healthy as other peoples. And I don't like the idea of creating another large federal agency or program, with the track record our federal government has. However, I do think that states might be able to do a good job of this; they could tailor their programs to their specific needs, etc; that's what federalism is all about, right?
While the market provides a mechanism to cut costs, at what cost does cost-cutting proceed? When the goal is profit, is it any wonder that quality of care becomes secondary? I think this is the reason people suggest public systems - they can attempt to make the primary goal be quality of care. Profit doesn't have to come first.
I would think that this process of detection would have to be spelt our pretty clearly in the eula for it to even be feisable for them to try to use this against users.
Maybe they just rely on our impatient fingers to click right through that EULA without reading it...
Fine. Instead of infant mortality, look at the adult mortality rate. If you pull up the WHO statistics, which are calculated in such a way as to be directly comparable between countries, you'll find that the U.S's adult mortality rate is still significantly higher than, say, the UK's, or France's, or Canada's, or Germany's... and as for life expectancy, they also offer a calculation of the so-called "Healthy life expectancy", and the trend is the same.
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Amen to that. I've run both XP 32- and 64-bit on this machine, and now I'm giving Vista x64 a go. XP 64-bit is a total joke - driver support is almost totally lacking, and now with Vista, I doubt that manufacturers have much incentive to develop for XP 64-bit.
As for Vista x64, it has been a nightmare. Between crappy/non-existent drivers and all the programs that are either totally incompatible with Vista, or just won't run on the 64-bit version (no Cisco VPN client? WTF??), I'm left thinking I should go back to XP. Either that, or a long waiting game for Service Pack 1.
I now have a computer that has 1 GB more RAM than it did when running XP (grandparent is wrong on that count, XP 32-bit can't see all 4 GB of RAM because of PCI devices, etc.), but no Bluetooth, suspend-to-RAM that is completely broken, and virtualization that breaks the network driver after a reboot.
Well, at least we know there will only be two more releases after "7"...
From what I've seen (just got back from Las Vegas this morning), there is no such thing as 'emptying' a machine - they don't use coins anymore, just tickets that print the value of your winnings. I don't play, but it seems to me you could just keep on racking up credits until the machine can't display anymore - there's nothing to 'refill'.
I just got back from Las Vegas early this morning from a convention, and I clearly remember signs on slot machines stating "Machine malfunction voids all plays and payments", or something similar.
But who will sandbox the sandboxers?
Are you sure?
"Valve's Doug Lombardi confirmed that in-game advertising, served by IGA, will appear in CS 1.6, and in CS:Source later on. He spoke to CS-nation about the ads, where he said, 'There will be some ads posted on walls in the game world, an ad on the scoreboard screen, and one in the letterboxed area of Spectator mode. Counter-Strike levels aren't going to turn into Times Square or a Nextel Cup racecar. We have control over what ads show up in Counter-Strike and how they are presented.'"
http://www.digitalbattle.com/2006/12/09/cs-gettin"Counter-Strike's in-game adverts are the pilot for a Steam-wide system Valve intend to offer to independent developers, Gabe Newell has explained..."
http://steamreview.org/posts/adverts/I asked myself a similar question when Valve started literally including billboards in CS 1.6 on Steam. I paid for the damn game, someone else is paying for the server and bandwidth to play it on... why exactly do you think you have the right to stick ads in my game?
What makes you so sure they won't roll it out as an 'update' to XP as well?
Doh! You're right, even though they're the same length, one is 8x. Which begs the question even more, why?
Actually, the summary is correct. I thought it was wrong too, though, until I looked at the photograph of the PCB: http://www.hothardware.com/articles/Gigabyte_GAN68 0SLIDQ6/?page=2
I hadn't thought of that; I guess I still have my old 3dfx Voodoo2s in mind. Still, the Wikipedia article only details dual- and quad-slot setups, and has only this to say about three-slot motherboards:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_InterfThree PCI Express 16X Slots? I'm not quite sure I get that one. Why? To run SLI on one pair, and have another single graphics card? Most cards today come with two outputs anyway, and if you're crazy enough to need SLI on two monitors, why wouldn't you need it on your third/fourth? Four slots would've made more sense to me.
I guess they must be aiming at the booming five- and six-monitor market...?
Clearly, no one's ever pounded YOU in the ass.
If by "secret section" you mean the 9th Amendment, then yes. Let me refresh your memory:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
They were neither geniuses or lucky bastards - they were thieves. That figure of 14 years in the Copyright Act of 1790 was most likely copied - no, STOLEN - from England's Statute of Anne, dating to 1709. What a blatant violation of intellectual property!
The AC is referring to the fact that in the Copyright Act of 1790 (the US's first), the term of copyright was set at 14 years, and after expiration, could be renewed for another 14: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1790
Unfortunately, the interests that controlled the tiny minority of works that continued to be profitable after 28 years, then 56 years, lobbied for and got legislation that extended the term of all works.
I'm getting some mixed signals from this article:
"How does Runbot walk?"
"The basic walking steps of Runbot"
"When Runbot first encounters a slope these low level control circuits 'believe' they can continue to walk up the slope without having to change anything."
"Runbot walks in a very different way from robots like Asimo, star of the Honda TV adverts, said Prof Woergoetter."
"The first step in building Runbot was creating a biomechanical frame that could support passive walking patterns."
"So using the information from its local circuits Runbot can walk on flat surfaces at speeds of more than three leg lengths per second."
"Prof Woergoetter said Runbot was able to learn new walking patterns after only a few trials."
"Runbot is a small, biped robot which can move at speeds of more than three leg lengths per second, slightly slower than the fastest walking human."
And last but not least:
"Four other scientists - Poramate Manoonpong, Tao Geng, Tomas Kulvicius and Bernd Porr - are also involved in the project, which has been running for the last four years."
Sorry guys, but it really isn't living up to it's name.
"As we all know, the internet is 99% porn. This study shows us that this porn accounts for 1 out of every 2 DVD downloads, which means the other 50% of DVD downloads must be pirated Hollywood blockbusters. Now, if 50% of downloads are 99% of the internet, clearly the other 50% of downloads must also be 99% of the internet. This just goes to show that the internet is 99% pirated movies, and this, Congressman, simply must be stopped."
Even odder is the fact that he was buying three 106 2/3 disc spindles...
I believe that "hexadecimal goo" in the comment field is where iTunes stores information about volume normalization. Unfortunately, they fail to give any warning that the program will destroy your comments. Really, that is pretty poor programming. Why couldn't they just stick that information in the iTunes database instead of in the file?
I definitely agree with you here; we, as a people, are simply not as healthy as other peoples. And I don't like the idea of creating another large federal agency or program, with the track record our federal government has. However, I do think that states might be able to do a good job of this; they could tailor their programs to their specific needs, etc; that's what federalism is all about, right?
While the market provides a mechanism to cut costs, at what cost does cost-cutting proceed? When the goal is profit, is it any wonder that quality of care becomes secondary? I think this is the reason people suggest public systems - they can attempt to make the primary goal be quality of care. Profit doesn't have to come first.
Maybe they just rely on our impatient fingers to click right through that EULA without reading it...
Fine. Instead of infant mortality, look at the adult mortality rate. If you pull up the WHO statistics, which are calculated in such a way as to be directly comparable between countries, you'll find that the U.S's adult mortality rate is still significantly higher than, say, the UK's, or France's, or Canada's, or Germany's... and as for life expectancy, they also offer a calculation of the so-called "Healthy life expectancy", and the trend is the same.
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Here, I'll even give you the link: http://www.who.int/whosis/whostat2007/en/index.ht
We can make all the excuses we want, but when you look at the numbers, they speak for themselves.
Just curious, is 1/16 enough? Some of us are mutts, you know.