As a member of Qualcomm's power-management IC engineering team, (and hoping I do not sound like a total shill,) I'd like to point out that battery life and power efficiency is one of the big selling points of the Snapdragon. As opposed to the Intel Atom, which was designed by a desktop/server CPU company, at Qualcomm we're is coming from a background of years of low-power mobile device design.
Hopefully (though I can't say for certain as full specs have not yet been released), HTC also used our power management platform this time, rather than the third-party, battery-gulping solution they installed on their G1's. That was an embarrassment.
I find it hard to believe there is no descension among the party.
I would presume that there would be plenty of descension in the party, given the number of skyscrapers in Beijing and the likelihood of someone getting canned for this.
Dissension, on the other hand? Probably not so much.
Are we referring to the same Tolkien, here? If you read his books, you see that J.R.R. Tolkien was not much of a writer of dialogues or painter of characters. What he was, though, was a designer of worlds of epic proportions. Tolkien's Middle Earth is what made The Lord of the Rings what it is, not the banter of transient characters.
Get away from the idea of Gigahertz desktops and $1000 laptops and join the real computer revolution!
As a hardware engineer in the mobile industry, I agree fully. Whereas the 1990's were about powerful PC's beginning to enter every home, the 2000's were about powerful communication devices beginning to enter every pocket, the next ten years will (I hope!) be about systems of these tiny systems revolutionizing our idea of a "computer".
The dynamic range of human hearing is 120dB, the theoretical CD dynamic range is 96dB, tape and records have lower dynamic range and CDs usually are recorded with lower dynamic range too, so it shouldn't hurt your ears.
Unfortunately, driving a car (especially a 140k mile one like mine), adds a noise floor with magnitude ~60-70 dB, meaning that the SNR for the quiet parts of the music is often less than 0 dB. Though I understand that some people have the ability to do so, I cannot decipher audio inputs with such a low SNR, regardless of the specific frequency components of the music.
Though I very much enjoy symphonic and orchestral music (though I am more into modern and romantic than classical), there is no way I can get a half decent experience of the piece if it was recorded with wide dynamic range, which is so often the case.
No, Maru is not to intelligent when it comes to boxes. Maru seems to just want his head hidden from the world.
My cat, on the other hand, places himself fully within said box of security, then rotates to face the opening and watch the world from a secure and defensible position. He will even move the box if it is in an insufficiently protected location.
very time you go back to camp in DAO some asshole is standing in the back with a bright yellow exclamation mark saying "Buy the DLC for my quest!".
I purchased the retail version of Dragon Age: Origins and started playing it in mid-January. The first time that farmer/miner/peasant/whatever showed up and started spinning his life story for me, I was fairly impressed. It is such a CRPG trope to have every third villager drop his life story in your lap, but this one was different. It was well written and well acted, it was well thought out, and it even contained personal ties to my character and his story.
And then the dirt-loving scumbag hit me with a shortcut to purchase the DLC of his quest from Bioware. I was so turned off from the game that I dove into Final Fantasy VII PC (heavily patched with graphical/audio/difficulty mods aplenty), where I remain.
It just feels awful to chuck expensive electronics every other year. It feels like sin.
Thank you... I hoped that I was not the only one who felt sick watching the iPhone "blend" or seeing Bill Nye chuck an Apple IIe to demonstrate momentum (back when they were new, of course).
Now, there are certainly a few metric craptons of post-trilogy Star Wars books out there (trust me, I read way too many of them when I was younger), and some of them are bad. I mean Really Bad. So bad that Timothy Zahn basically devoted chapters of his later Hand of Thrawn series to "apologizing" for the other authors and trying to fix the plot holes and character messes that had been scattered over the Star Wars Universe since he single-handedly founded it in 1990
So yeah. Those three novels are good Star Wars reading, and most fans have been willing to accept them as the unofficial follow-up trilogy which it looks as though Lucas will never write. Don't expect the next Dune--Zahn writes his Star Wars novels at a level only moderately more difficult than Harry Potter--but I've enjoyed the series each and every time I re-read it.
Just to put the May 1991 publishing date of the trilogy in perspective, the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition did not come out until 1997, with Episode 1 following in 1999. The flood of Star Wars novels by other authors began about five years after the success of Zahn's trilogy, reaching its peak around the millennium.... Did you know that Timothy Zahn invented "Coruscant"?
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True, but the gap is getting smaller.
True...
But in Uncanny Valley terms, this also corresponds with deeper.
did you know right now in the USA liver failure is the leading cause of AIDS death?
Even if that were true, it could easily be astounding evidence of the effectiveness of the AIDS drug cocktail.
(i.e. The patients are living long enough to die to something such as liver failure rather than immunodeficiency-related conditions)
He was pretty good in Ali, too. He's not the greatest actor in the world, but he's far from the worst.
I see what you did there.
As a member of Qualcomm's power-management IC engineering team, (and hoping I do not sound like a total shill,) I'd like to point out that battery life and power efficiency is one of the big selling points of the Snapdragon. As opposed to the Intel Atom, which was designed by a desktop/server CPU company, at Qualcomm we're is coming from a background of years of low-power mobile device design.
Hopefully (though I can't say for certain as full specs have not yet been released), HTC also used our power management platform this time, rather than the third-party, battery-gulping solution they installed on their G1's. That was an embarrassment.
I find it hard to believe there is no descension among the party.
I would presume that there would be plenty of descension in the party, given the number of skyscrapers in Beijing and the likelihood of someone getting canned for this.
Dissension, on the other hand? Probably not so much.
I'd even take it to the next level:
I own my own oil rig/refinery, so I never have to pay for gas!
Tolkien's brilliant timeless dialog
Are we referring to the same Tolkien, here? If you read his books, you see that J.R.R. Tolkien was not much of a writer of dialogues or painter of characters. What he was, though, was a designer of worlds of epic proportions. Tolkien's Middle Earth is what made The Lord of the Rings what it is, not the banter of transient characters.
Get away from the idea of Gigahertz desktops and $1000 laptops and join the real computer revolution!
As a hardware engineer in the mobile industry, I agree fully. Whereas the 1990's were about powerful PC's beginning to enter every home, the 2000's were about powerful communication devices beginning to enter every pocket, the next ten years will (I hope!) be about systems of these tiny systems revolutionizing our idea of a "computer".
It is pretty suspicious to me though that the article says the mother was just 3 feet away.
According to the article, she was on the computer at the time.
How can one be 3 feet away from both a 3 year old and a loaded pistol and not realize it?
My guess? Facebook. Or Twitter. Or both.
Do I need the book? If so, this is something of a non-story, isn't it?
No, because of the real-world relevance of the result.
I can't wait.
This time, I purchased AMD over intel so that, next time, I still have a choice.
or rip the cd and make a compressed version.
That's a great idea... any suggestions on software with which to do that?
The dynamic range of human hearing is 120dB, the theoretical CD dynamic range is 96dB, tape and records have lower dynamic range and CDs usually are recorded with lower dynamic range too, so it shouldn't hurt your ears.
Unfortunately, driving a car (especially a 140k mile one like mine), adds a noise floor with magnitude ~60-70 dB, meaning that the SNR for the quiet parts of the music is often less than 0 dB. Though I understand that some people have the ability to do so, I cannot decipher audio inputs with such a low SNR, regardless of the specific frequency components of the music.
Though I very much enjoy symphonic and orchestral music (though I am more into modern and romantic than classical), there is no way I can get a half decent experience of the piece if it was recorded with wide dynamic range, which is so often the case.
cat named Maru?
No, Maru is not to intelligent when it comes to boxes. Maru seems to just want his head hidden from the world.
My cat, on the other hand, places himself fully within said box of security, then rotates to face the opening and watch the world from a secure and defensible position. He will even move the box if it is in an insufficiently protected location.
You must be referring to my son.
At one year old, he recently tried eating the housecat. Said cat was less than pleased, and now spends most of his time hiding in cardboard boxes.
This is honestly the first time in my life that I am ashamed of my heritage.
Hear hear.
Though Slashdot's random inspirational quote is unusually appropriate:
Never frighten a small man -- he'll kill you.
very time you go back to camp in DAO some asshole is standing in the back with a bright yellow exclamation mark saying "Buy the DLC for my quest!".
I purchased the retail version of Dragon Age: Origins and started playing it in mid-January. The first time that farmer/miner/peasant/whatever showed up and started spinning his life story for me, I was fairly impressed. It is such a CRPG trope to have every third villager drop his life story in your lap, but this one was different. It was well written and well acted, it was well thought out, and it even contained personal ties to my character and his story.
And then the dirt-loving scumbag hit me with a shortcut to purchase the DLC of his quest from Bioware. I was so turned off from the game that I dove into Final Fantasy VII PC (heavily patched with graphical/audio/difficulty mods aplenty), where I remain.
It just feels awful to chuck expensive electronics every other year. It feels like sin.
Thank you... I hoped that I was not the only one who felt sick watching the iPhone "blend" or seeing Bill Nye chuck an Apple IIe to demonstrate momentum (back when they were new, of course).
It may have been intended as derogatory but the Quakers don't really seem bothered by it.
See "Yankee" for further examples.
How isn't this a form of terrorism?
*ahem*
terror is defined as a state of intense fear
My work here is done.
So, this is proof that religious people aren't using their whole brain then?
You keep using that word.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
over the Star Wars Universe since he single-handedly founded it in 1990
Oops... I lost a word, there: It should be "the Star Wars Literature Universe", which had its modern origins in Zahn's novels.
So... Admiral Motti gains another hundred or so pounds and takes on the role of Baron Harkonnen?
Episodes VII, VIII, and IX have been written by Timothy Zahn.
... Did you know that Timothy Zahn invented "Coruscant"?
Now, there are certainly a few metric craptons of post-trilogy Star Wars books out there (trust me, I read way too many of them when I was younger), and some of them are bad. I mean Really Bad. So bad that Timothy Zahn basically devoted chapters of his later Hand of Thrawn series to "apologizing" for the other authors and trying to fix the plot holes and character messes that had been scattered over the Star Wars Universe since he single-handedly founded it in 1990
So yeah. Those three novels are good Star Wars reading, and most fans have been willing to accept them as the unofficial follow-up trilogy which it looks as though Lucas will never write. Don't expect the next Dune--Zahn writes his Star Wars novels at a level only moderately more difficult than Harry Potter--but I've enjoyed the series each and every time I re-read it.
Just to put the May 1991 publishing date of the trilogy in perspective, the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition did not come out until 1997, with Episode 1 following in 1999. The flood of Star Wars novels by other authors began about five years after the success of Zahn's trilogy, reaching its peak around the millennium.