This is no different than the people who buy gold in MMORPG's. If anything it might be more productive. There are always the people who have more money than time and are willing to make up the difference by pulling out the checkbook. Gold in a game doesn't buy - pardon the pun, game, but a few hours with a coach just might.
My dad (back when I was a teenager... 7 years ago?) had a thinkpad, and the paint (or enamel more likely) and started peeling on the handwrest. Turned out about 5% of the guys at work had the certain level of acidity or whatever in their hand sweat required to react with it. Thinkpad recalled and started using a diffrent formulation.
The electric car comment was an extension of your "the rocket only goes 62 miles" comment.
Airplanes can be rockets.
No, rockets carry their own oxidizer onboard. Airplanes breathe oxidizer from the ambient.
A 'plane' describes a fixed-wing vehicle.
A plane describes a vehicle that derives its predominant lift force from aerodynamic forces (90%+). A rocket has no lifting surfaces but derives lift from its engines.
You could put Bezos' vehicle on the moon, on Mars, under the ocean (if it was denser than the surrounding water) and it would function. Not so for a plane.
And that's the last I'm going to say for this stupid, inane conversation.
Similarly, I'd call Bezos's craft a VTOL airplane -- though I might give it an asterisk -- VTOL airplane*.
It isn't an airplane - by your analogy, I should be an airplane, as I live in the air (I spend more time in the air than in the water)... but I don't have wings or propellors/turbojet...
It has no feature that puts it in league with an airplane. It is a rocket, 100%. It is not an orbital rocket, it is a suborbital rocket, meaning it makes hops but never stays out of earths orbits ad infinum. Its a spaceship that hops to space and hops back. It would be like calling an electric car that can only do 150 miles not a "real car" because it can't travel 400 miles like my Saturn can...
Core 2 Duo... how's that different from Core Duo?
from gur3d.com
The key differences of the new architecture [Core 2 Duo] from the "ideologically closest" Intel Core Duo (Yonah) are as follows:
* Improved instruction decoder extended to 4 decoders of x86 macroops (vs. 3 of Intel Pentium M / Core Duo)
* 128-bit SIMD instruction performance of 1 instruction per clock in each execution unit (twice as faster as Yonah)
* Improved memory operation and hardware prefetch mechanisms
* L2 cache is dynamically shared by both cores depending on load (as seen in Intel Core Duo)
* Further improved energy saving
* A new SIMD instruction set SSE4.
The first has been mentioned, the most recent Dual Core Processor Driver from AMD's web site.
The second (if that does not work) is to explicitly bind your game to a single core. Start the game and right away hit control-alt-delete. Select the game in the "processes" tab, right-click and select "set affinity" and check only 1 processor.
I too have an x2, nVidia video card and nVidia chipset. I had problems with Everquest2 until I installed the first, and regular Everquest until I did the second (every time you play). My wife has never had a problem with WoW.
not nearly as tightly as NVidia's, and ATI's windows drivers are crap to begin with:( Besides the fact nVidia's been doing it for 4-5 years now...
(I'm not just a gamer, I do some 3D visualization programming... if you subscribed to some of the newsgroups or listservs for various toolkits, you'd see all sorts of posts about ATI crap... things that are **standard** openGL are not rendering properly on their mainstream cards.)
Use nVidia if you want performance. They use a standard code base between all OS's. 95%+ of the code that is in your Linux driver is in your windows driver. The drivers are stable and have great performance. This has been hashed out many times on various OpenGL forums...
So by finding one incident of murder in a Michigan newspaper, you can completely conclude that concealed guns make people less safe? Wow, your logic (or lack thereof) is astounding...
I will complete grad school this fall - total of 5 semesters. I'm studying Aerospace Engineering, thesis track. I have a wife and a 14 year old. I work fulltime (which is great - they pay for classes:) ). I use all my vacation hours - we saw the shuttle launch took a week for that, and we visit relatives alot (we live a good ways from the grandparents). I have a great relationship with my wife and son. Grad school doesn't mean sacrificing the world. It means aligning your interests. I cut back on my video games and other hobbies. I took my "me-time" and used it to improve myself. I haven't sacrificed my other relationships with my wife or son. From 5pm-bedtime is baby time and after that the next hour or so is wife time, then I study. Weekends are prettymuch free to enjoy. I also take lunchbreaks and instead of going out to lunch, pack a lunch and review notes. You wouldn't believe how much information you can digest over that hour (and how much money you can save).
If you are doing a thesis - here is how I did it. Two classes a semester for four semesters. One class the last semester. Your Masters in less than 2 years.
I'll graduate this christmas, assuming I don't fail class this fall with a GPA sufficient to be automatically admitted into the PhD program here at UAH.
Do you imagine that every time you see an actor that the geometry, animations, textures, and AI are being regenerated in every frame?
Sometimes. Level of detail is recalculated. Lots of games the entire "zone" is not prefetched before play but is contantly being mapped. PG is much more processor intensive and degrades user experiance... there is room for it, but it is not a panacea. (Yes, I work with 3D modeling)
Speed. Running algorithms to generate every damn thing takes a lot more processor time than loading a pre-rendered object file. Disk space is dirt cheap compared to processor cycles, so the appropriate trade study is made....
I was an RA a few years back and we set up a murder mystery in the dorms. I wasn't in charge of setting it up but I was an actor. I was told to dress as a rapper. I had a wifebeater, an Adidas jacket, but couldn't find the bling... so a friend (who knew me all too well) took a can of mountain dew and the pop tops and made me my "bling"...
The webcams are on there to monitor the shuttle going up. They put video clips on the internet for all the people who like to see shuttle launches (how much closer can you get, sitting on the SRB?)
Besides, the shuttle is getting mothballed in 2010, the CEV will be in service (hopefully) in 2014. There is no support needed so long as shuttle tiles aren't being whacked off by falling foam/ice. (And if we do have problems, Griffin himself said he'd mothball the program early)
The SRB's never technically 'leave' the atmosphere so they can't re-enter. They are going pretty fast but not Mach 25 like the shuttle and station are doing on orbit. Maybe a few (2-4) Mach. Actually the shuttle goes quite slow while the SRB's are on because the atmosphere is so dense at low altitudes (the SRB's are only on for just over 2 minutes) because dynamic pressure builds up quickly ( a linear function of air density and a square of velocity ) so you keep your velocity at a fair clip until the atmosphere thins and then speed up. Long story short the SRB's aren't going that fast, and the cameras are in a good housing. The cam itself is made by these guys
He is wrong about the water level thing. You could have a pressurized tube underwater that you escape through. Or if you reenter through a diving bell or into a sewer pipe which could be at a different pressure. There are several valid scenarios.
And what the hell is up with picking on Myst? That game is what, 13 years old? Come on...
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This is no different than the people who buy gold in MMORPG's. If anything it might be more productive. There are always the people who have more money than time and are willing to make up the difference by pulling out the checkbook. Gold in a game doesn't buy - pardon the pun, game, but a few hours with a coach just might.
My dad (back when I was a teenager... 7 years ago?) had a thinkpad, and the paint (or enamel more likely) and started peeling on the handwrest. Turned out about 5% of the guys at work had the certain level of acidity or whatever in their hand sweat required to react with it. Thinkpad recalled and started using a diffrent formulation.
The electric car comment was an extension of your "the rocket only goes 62 miles" comment.
Airplanes can be rockets.
No, rockets carry their own oxidizer onboard. Airplanes breathe oxidizer from the ambient.
A 'plane' describes a fixed-wing vehicle.
A plane describes a vehicle that derives its predominant lift force from aerodynamic forces (90%+). A rocket has no lifting surfaces but derives lift from its engines.
You could put Bezos' vehicle on the moon, on Mars, under the ocean (if it was denser than the surrounding water) and it would function. Not so for a plane.
And that's the last I'm going to say for this stupid, inane conversation.
Similarly, I'd call Bezos's craft a VTOL airplane -- though I might give it an asterisk -- VTOL airplane*.
... but I don't have wings or propellors/turbojet...
It isn't an airplane - by your analogy, I should be an airplane, as I live in the air (I spend more time in the air than in the water)
It has no feature that puts it in league with an airplane. It is a rocket, 100%. It is not an orbital rocket, it is a suborbital rocket, meaning it makes hops but never stays out of earths orbits ad infinum. Its a spaceship that hops to space and hops back. It would be like calling an electric car that can only do 150 miles not a "real car" because it can't travel 400 miles like my Saturn can...
Core 2 Duo ... how's that different from Core Duo?
from gur3d.com
The key differences of the new architecture [Core 2 Duo] from the "ideologically closest" Intel Core Duo (Yonah) are as follows:
* Improved instruction decoder extended to 4 decoders of x86 macroops (vs. 3 of Intel Pentium M / Core Duo)
* 128-bit SIMD instruction performance of 1 instruction per clock in each execution unit (twice as faster as Yonah)
* Improved memory operation and hardware prefetch mechanisms
* L2 cache is dynamically shared by both cores depending on load (as seen in Intel Core Duo)
* Further improved energy saving
* A new SIMD instruction set SSE4.
The first has been mentioned, the most recent Dual Core Processor Driver from AMD's web site.
The second (if that does not work) is to explicitly bind your game to a single core. Start the game and right away hit control-alt-delete. Select the game in the "processes" tab, right-click and select "set affinity" and check only 1 processor.
I too have an x2, nVidia video card and nVidia chipset. I had problems with Everquest2 until I installed the first, and regular Everquest until I did the second (every time you play). My wife has never had a problem with WoW.
not nearly as tightly as NVidia's, and ATI's windows drivers are crap to begin with :( Besides the fact nVidia's been doing it for 4-5 years now...
... if you subscribed to some of the newsgroups or listservs for various toolkits, you'd see all sorts of posts about ATI crap... things that are **standard** openGL are not rendering properly on their mainstream cards.)
(I'm not just a gamer, I do some 3D visualization programming
However, is this truly the case?'."
yes.
Use nVidia if you want performance. They use a standard code base between all OS's. 95%+ of the code that is in your Linux driver is in your windows driver. The drivers are stable and have great performance. This has been hashed out many times on various OpenGL forums...
So by finding one incident of murder in a Michigan newspaper, you can completely conclude that concealed guns make people less safe? Wow, your logic (or lack thereof) is astounding...
I even spell-checked... guess what, Zonk was on the job and it was rejected meer seconds
Mere seconds. I'm not a grammar nazi but since you said you took the time to spell check and all...
I will complete grad school this fall - total of 5 semesters. I'm studying Aerospace Engineering, thesis track. I have a wife and a 14 year old. I work fulltime (which is great - they pay for classes :) ). I use all my vacation hours - we saw the shuttle launch took a week for that, and we visit relatives alot (we live a good ways from the grandparents). I have a great relationship with my wife and son. Grad school doesn't mean sacrificing the world. It means aligning your interests. I cut back on my video games and other hobbies. I took my "me-time" and used it to improve myself. I haven't sacrificed my other relationships with my wife or son. From 5pm-bedtime is baby time and after that the next hour or so is wife time, then I study. Weekends are prettymuch free to enjoy. I also take lunchbreaks and instead of going out to lunch, pack a lunch and review notes. You wouldn't believe how much information you can digest over that hour (and how much money you can save).
If you are doing a thesis - here is how I did it. Two classes a semester for four semesters. One class the last semester. Your Masters in less than 2 years.
I'll graduate this christmas, assuming I don't fail class this fall with a GPA sufficient to be automatically admitted into the PhD program here at UAH.
How do you get the liberal arts student off of your doorstep? Pay him for the pizza.
mush-room, mush-room!
Do you imagine that every time you see an actor that the geometry, animations, textures, and AI are being regenerated in every frame?
... there is room for it, but it is not a panacea. (Yes, I work with 3D modeling)
Sometimes. Level of detail is recalculated. Lots of games the entire "zone" is not prefetched before play but is contantly being mapped. PG is much more processor intensive and degrades user experiance
A John Dvorak quote gets insightful on /.
Why don't we see this more often in all games?
Speed. Running algorithms to generate every damn thing takes a lot more processor time than loading a pre-rendered object file. Disk space is dirt cheap compared to processor cycles, so the appropriate trade study is made....
I was an RA a few years back and we set up a murder mystery in the dorms. I wasn't in charge of setting it up but I was an actor. I was told to dress as a rapper. I had a wifebeater, an Adidas jacket, but couldn't find the bling... so a friend (who knew me all too well) took a can of mountain dew and the pop tops and made me my "bling" ...
looks like you need to re-take slashgeometry
Mr. Jobs lied to you ... you should have gotten a real computer instead of a shiny toy.
Read my post. They **don't** hit Mach 25. You don't hit Mach 25 till all the fuel in the ET is gone. You are probably doing Mach 2-4 or so.
And remember you have three very large parachutes and cylinders are draggy. You aren't hitting the water that fast.
The webcams are on there to monitor the shuttle going up. They put video clips on the internet for all the people who like to see shuttle launches (how much closer can you get, sitting on the SRB?)
Besides, the shuttle is getting mothballed in 2010, the CEV will be in service (hopefully) in 2014. There is no support needed so long as shuttle tiles aren't being whacked off by falling foam/ice. (And if we do have problems, Griffin himself said he'd mothball the program early)
NASA good, naysayers bad.
just install the codecs for MPlayer. Unless you are too lazy ... worked for me last shuttle mission ...
Not to mention theora is still alpha software. Too new, still unproven, there is a perfectly good reason.
The SRB's never technically 'leave' the atmosphere so they can't re-enter. They are going pretty fast but not Mach 25 like the shuttle and station are doing on orbit. Maybe a few (2-4) Mach. Actually the shuttle goes quite slow while the SRB's are on because the atmosphere is so dense at low altitudes (the SRB's are only on for just over 2 minutes) because dynamic pressure builds up quickly ( a linear function of air density and a square of velocity ) so you keep your velocity at a fair clip until the atmosphere thins and then speed up. Long story short the SRB's aren't going that fast, and the cameras are in a good housing. The cam itself is made by these guys
He is wrong about the water level thing. You could have a pressurized tube underwater that you escape through. Or if you reenter through a diving bell or into a sewer pipe which could be at a different pressure. There are several valid scenarios.
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And what the hell is up with picking on Myst? That game is what, 13 years old? Come on
SEC is just concerned that you dot your i's and cross your t's with financial paperwork. Really, RTFA.