A really good example of this is how the Cell cpu in the Playstation 3 is only gonna have 7 SPUs instead of eight. They just deactivate witchever spu is broken and TADA, a good chip! And then when yields improve enough to make this unneeded, they will just make it with 7.
Would it be possible to use dvi out and rig up a second computer to take the dvi output of the first computer as input as a workaround?
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Man, I think you got the wrong thread, or else you're the one who's smoking crack.
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I always worried about the effect that any Taiwan-China conflict could have on the supply of computers. It seems almost all motherboards are made in Taiwan and a whole lotta RAM.
The B-2 bomber is a relic of the Cold War. We may use them to drop conventional bombs but that is just for show really. They were meant all along to penetrate the Soviet airspace to drob the bomb on moscow and other things. This is why cost was no object. The original order was for 132! Right now we have 21. It really is an incredible airplane. If whe had that kind of innovation the space program it would be completly different.
It is you who are very ignorant if you feel the behavior of the Chinese government was justified, and I'm trying to explain to you why I DON'T feel that the situations are NOT comparable. The Waco Wackos were NOT killed, they died through thier own stupidity. Even as the fire started they all could have escaped, only a few chose to.
The US has no laws against the formation of cults, the reason the whole Waco fiasco started was that the governemnt had recieved reports that the Davidians had been stockpiling illegal weapons. So the ATF did a very stupid thing and launched a very intimidating assault. They should have just arrested David Koresh. But Falun Gong was certianly not a cult. It had a huge following, many more adherants than judiasm even, and surely that isn't a cult? If the Davidians hadn't started that firefight and just let the ATF confiscate the illegals weapons they would have left the Davidians in peace to practice thier insane beliefs. The only reason the Chinese government cracked down on FG is they got nervous about the number of people and their orginizational abilities and decided to preemptively disrupt them instead of risking letting them become a possible challenger to the CCP.
What would be the 'resolution' of the human eye? I think its gotta be in the range of maybe 5000*5000 to 10,000*10,000. But maybe its higher. I know I read a cool story by Greg Egan about transferring your mind into a computer and how the visual data was generated by raytracing backwards from the simulated retina, one ray per cell just like how its one ray per pixel. But I wondered at the time how many rays that was.
Sounds like ecsessive cost reduction replaced a very robust radar-based system with a very crappy and stupid switch.
Ended up costing them a lot more in the long run!
Not really comparable. Were talking 80 or so nut jobs versus as many as a 100 million chinese! I really don't think the Federal Governemnt felt very threatend by them. And I don't beleive that the government caused the fire. That entire situation was caused by the Davidians. If they hadn't been stupid enough to get into a fire fight and just let the government search the building and submit to our laws, nothing too bad would have happend. But they had to behave like the religious idiots they were. I really can't feel sympathy for people who could and should have left at any time.
Damn I hate it when people say things like this. Say what you will about the US, and I might even agree with a few of them, but it is NOTHING LIKE CHINA!! I can call Bush a complete idiot with no consequences, or that the Republican party is utterly corrupt without being thrown in prison. This is not true in China. If you really belive what you said you really nead to learn more about just how politically repressive the Chinese government is.
Actually I believe that that is exactly what they did on the Mars Surveyor to enhance the resolution, they had it rotate in the direction opposite the direction of orbit, thus giving it more time above the target. But it probably does use a lot of fuel.
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Wow, its really amazing how applicable darwinism is to this, isn't it?
A really good example of this is how the Cell cpu in the Playstation 3 is only gonna have 7 SPUs instead of eight. They just deactivate witchever spu is broken and TADA, a good chip! And then when yields improve enough to make this unneeded, they will just make it with 7.
Would it be possible to use dvi out and rig up a second computer to take the dvi output of the first computer as input as a workaround?
Man, I think you got the wrong thread, or else you're the one who's smoking crack.
I always worried about the effect that any Taiwan-China conflict could have on the supply of computers. It seems almost all motherboards are made in Taiwan and a whole lotta RAM.
It's made of solid copper, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.
No no no! Henry Knowles from Ain't it Cool News pretty much already IS the CBG!
You misunderstand, that was only the bestiality part of his collection.
I MEANT gigabytes. A 'gig' usually is short for gigabyte. Or at least I thought so. http://www.buslink.com/p_cat1.asp?catID=60
The B-2 bomber is a relic of the Cold War. We may use them to drop conventional bombs but that is just for show really. They were meant all along to penetrate the Soviet airspace to drob the bomb on moscow and other things. This is why cost was no object. The original order was for 132! Right now we have 21. It really is an incredible airplane. If whe had that kind of innovation the space program it would be completly different.
I've seen 8 gig USB memory sticks. Breathtakingly expensive too!
Maybe it was an imported Japanese 2 megapixel phone! I always wanted one of those.
It is you who are very ignorant if you feel the behavior of the Chinese government was justified, and I'm trying to explain to you why I DON'T feel that the situations are NOT comparable. The Waco Wackos were NOT killed, they died through thier own stupidity. Even as the fire started they all could have escaped, only a few chose to.
If my math is right, (and it probabbly isn't), that comses to about 500 dpi at 1 foot, which seems high.
The US has no laws against the formation of cults, the reason the whole Waco fiasco started was that the governemnt had recieved reports that the Davidians had been stockpiling illegal weapons. So the ATF did a very stupid thing and launched a very intimidating assault. They should have just arrested David Koresh. But Falun Gong was certianly not a cult. It had a huge following, many more adherants than judiasm even, and surely that isn't a cult? If the Davidians hadn't started that firefight and just let the ATF confiscate the illegals weapons they would have left the Davidians in peace to practice thier insane beliefs. The only reason the Chinese government cracked down on FG is they got nervous about the number of people and their orginizational abilities and decided to preemptively disrupt them instead of risking letting them become a possible challenger to the CCP.
What would be the 'resolution' of the human eye? I think its gotta be in the range of maybe 5000*5000 to 10,000*10,000. But maybe its higher. I know I read a cool story by Greg Egan about transferring your mind into a computer and how the visual data was generated by raytracing backwards from the simulated retina, one ray per cell just like how its one ray per pixel. But I wondered at the time how many rays that was.
I'd pay good money to see these two in a cage match!
Sounds like ecsessive cost reduction replaced a very robust radar-based system with a very crappy and stupid switch. Ended up costing them a lot more in the long run!
Not really comparable. Were talking 80 or so nut jobs versus as many as a 100 million chinese! I really don't think the Federal Governemnt felt very threatend by them. And I don't beleive that the government caused the fire. That entire situation was caused by the Davidians. If they hadn't been stupid enough to get into a fire fight and just let the government search the building and submit to our laws, nothing too bad would have happend. But they had to behave like the religious idiots they were. I really can't feel sympathy for people who could and should have left at any time.
Who cares about euphimisms, I want techniques!
Strange, I would think the GOP would really want that power.
Falun Gong. The second that the Party felt threatend by the size and zeal of them, they came down hard. Nothing like that can happen in the US.
Chinese prisons contain plenty of people whose only crime was voicing opposition to the Party. What about Falun Gong?
Damn I hate it when people say things like this. Say what you will about the US, and I might even agree with a few of them, but it is NOTHING LIKE CHINA!! I can call Bush a complete idiot with no consequences, or that the Republican party is utterly corrupt without being thrown in prison. This is not true in China. If you really belive what you said you really nead to learn more about just how politically repressive the Chinese government is.
Actually I believe that that is exactly what they did on the Mars Surveyor to enhance the resolution, they had it rotate in the direction opposite the direction of orbit, thus giving it more time above the target. But it probably does use a lot of fuel.