The wave/particle duality is true for any and all energies, and it is wrong for anybody to try to convince you otherwise. A single photon is incredibly difficult to observe, yet even a single photon shows wave-like behavior, smearing out results. So it depends on your observation technique. A quantum optics guy told me that their rule of thumb is that anything beyond five photons is a wave. From a theoretical standpoint however photons are absolutely necessary to describing the situation. Without it you wouldn't be able to describe the emission lines which are incredibly important for radio astronomy. The Hydrogen line is at 1.4GHz, comfortably in the radio band of the spectrum.
A test is certainly designed to fail students. That's why it's called a test. A test which universally affirms student's capabilities would be a pretty useless waste of time. A student unable to understand the question most likely deserves to fail, and test anxiety is hardly something schools can accommodate for.
Problem is that the computer market is a very complex dynamic system. Even a seemingly exemplary sustainable growth and market can spiral downwards given a few years of bad decisions. Just look at Nokia and RIM.
We're not talking cutting-edge software with daily builds here, the 'enterprise market' is very much about end-user solutions which are reliable, consistent and can remain unchanged for many years. And no, there is nothing wrong with wanting to use Win95 software. You have to hand it to Microsoft that Windows will still basically run most Windows 9x software you throw at it. They also offer extensive visualization features. Heck, Windows 7 will flat-out give you a Virtual XP machine. Apple doesn't even bother with that kind of functionality.
I kinda agree, but on the other hand this could provide real world relief for the distractions that people are going to do anyway. I dread to think how many people have died because of retarded interfaces on car radios. This is something that's gotten harder over the years. A nice voice-activated or large-button touch interface OTOH would mean people taking their eyes off the road for less time.
Copyright is a social contract conceived to encourage creative investment by selling artistic content. We give them the that opportunity. If they unfairly discriminate against patrons and actively decide not to sell or market their content based on region, then there is neither a reason or a justification for the contract.
If by "not matching the price" you mean "offering a superior product for the same price", then you'd be right.
TBH I don't think Samsung are worried about being cheaper than whatever Apple has. They make products good enough to compete on their own merits. Other manufacturers have targeted the lower end. Samsung are beating Apple by making superior products, and Apple can't accept it that they can't keep up. For a company who relied on premium revenues by selling the luxury product lines and maintaining this image it's a problem when somebody comes along and starts making clearly better products.
And just because something isn't published by a standardization organisation doesn't make it not a standard. WebM is a format for multimedia files. The fact that a variety of independent projects and companies support it makes it a standard format.
He would call it making simple products that mere mortals want to use. The public has spoken, and appliance computing is here to stay.
The iPhone and iPad aren't computers. I cannot give the machine instructions whatsoever, all I can do is fumble about with my thumbs, and hope somebody has already written an approved "App" for whatever I want to do.
As you point out, Apple has certainly benefited from open source projects, which is why it's strange that they will alienate this userbase so willingly.
With a GUI you're going to have a lot more people try out features and even knowledgeable users can find things faster. Certainly better than sifting through man pages because the setting you want isn't featured in the GUI.
A bad CLI has cryptic parameters which are undocumented, no explanation how to use them and won't give you any helpful error messages to get you on track, and requires a dictionary of jargon to even get the ROM to run in the first place. But anyway, the point was that most all emulators do have a CLI. Improving upon the GUI goes hand-in-hand with improvements on the CLI
Not likely. Unless they were pushing for a certain effect, they would have been designing these games on developer systems which were 1980s computers, complete with component video and progressive scan.
The question is how much do things like this add to the experience, vs. giving me headache from all the flicker. FWIW, I never noticed scanlines with old consoles, but then again I only ever had European TVs.
That isn't the problem. Most emulators do have extensive command-line configuration. The problem is that most users don't go near these settings and they aren't well documented. If all you want to do is enjoy a couple of classic games now and then it's hardly worth trying to get your head around the obscurity. If you're willing to invest a couple of hours you might be able to configure your perfect emulator, but with a nice GUI you could have everything you want in minutes.
In the higher-end market Nokia went from being the nonplus ultra of phone manufacturers to a minor player with options barely worth considering. Down-market the situation looks a little better, but whether that's enough to sustainably support a tech company like Nokia is questionable. While Nokia might be able to push the biggest volume of phones onto the market, they have failed in one key segment: the market of the trendsetters.
More and more, huge tracts of Wikipedia make it look like the online compendium of popular culture, rather than a place to find out about possibly obscure but real world topics, inventions or discoveries.
This is precisely the problem with deletionist mentality. Wikipedia does not have a "real world balance" policy. People write about things they are familiar with and knowledgeable about, and so popular culture, by definition, will receive a disproportionate amount of attention. It is not up to administrators to pass judgement on the "validity" of topics in some effort to maintain an ideology. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_is_not_paper
I asked him how long the work we did with each rover would take a competent human geologist to do. He replied, "a hard afternoon's worth of effort.
The problem with that comparison is that it already assumes the geologist to be on mars and have tools at his disposal which he can use as he would on earth, and the rover to still be as primitive as the ones which fit our budget today. In reality of course we would probably end up spending more on making the astronauts a fancy piss-pot than for the entire MER program. The entire cost of Spirit and Opportunity is on the same scale as one Space Shuttle launch, so the question is rather what would a robotic mission with the budget of a manned mission be capable of? Realistic manned Mars concepts also require extensive use of robots, in such a way that the equipment would have to be readily set-up, so that when it comes time for the human's field trip all they have to do is push a button.
The ISS is a remnant of NASA's original ill-fated Space Shuttle vision. While it may not have the highest return in value, this has more to do with the shortcomings of the Shuttle program itself. Apart from the awesome technical feat of being a space-plane, the ISS is the only significant achievement of the Shuttle. While manned spaceflight does indeed sometimes compare unfavorably, an orbiting space station is certainly much more scientifically valuable than a base on the moon, or a nostalgic repetition of the Apollo program.
The closure of NOTW is a stark reminder of the power Murdoch wields more than anything. Newspapers have been involved in many scandals over the years. In the end a few people might have boycotted the paper, but it could still have gone on to sell over a million copies and been a highly relevant newspaper. But once Murdoch's reputation is at stake things are different. To anyone else shutting such a paper down would be an insane and indefensible move, but to Murdoch it's just a drop in the ocean of his media empire.
This doesn't even come CLOSE to being a top producer of energy per power plant.
Who said it would or that it should?
The top 10 power plants in the world all produce more than 6000 MW.
That's a ridiculous comparison. First or all, no single power unit produces anything on that scale. Larger power plants simply contain multiple power units, with separate fuel, separate reactors and separate generators. The most powerful reactors are nuclear and produce around 1500MW.
I actually like the fast-paced choreographed stuff better. Reminds me of arcade-style fun from the 2D era. Like the Metal Slug games I love. Better than killing stupid AI enemies in bland repetitive levels. 20 hours on an FPS? Who the fuck wants that?
Meh. I done the same. Unreadable fonts, broken jittery graphics driver (funny, because Ubuntu manages it perfectly with a free driver) were annoying. Sure, I could read documentations to figure out how to get sudo to work, I just don't want to. The final straw was when it managed to forget the internet connection settings for the same connection that it installed itself from, and with no obvious option to change them. I guess commercial interest does wonders in terms of actually getting important things to work.
Germany's at least committing to trying to do this in a nonpolluting (i.e. non-fossil-fuel) way,
Uhh, no. The subsidies for renewables are a decade and more old and energy storage is still inconceivable. The short-term plan is simply to build Gas-turbine power plants and stay friendly with Russia, as well as building coal-burning plants. It basically means that the country will be getting well over 60% of it's electricity from fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. There are no long-term plans. Except maybe hoping the energy sector will figure it all out for them.
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The wave/particle duality is true for any and all energies, and it is wrong for anybody to try to convince you otherwise. A single photon is incredibly difficult to observe, yet even a single photon shows wave-like behavior, smearing out results. So it depends on your observation technique. A quantum optics guy told me that their rule of thumb is that anything beyond five photons is a wave.
From a theoretical standpoint however photons are absolutely necessary to describing the situation. Without it you wouldn't be able to describe the emission lines which are incredibly important for radio astronomy. The Hydrogen line is at 1.4GHz, comfortably in the radio band of the spectrum.
A test is certainly designed to fail students. That's why it's called a test. A test which universally affirms student's capabilities would be a pretty useless waste of time.
A student unable to understand the question most likely deserves to fail, and test anxiety is hardly something schools can accommodate for.
The proper way to do it is to give penalty points for wrong answers such that the expected return for guessing is zero.
Problem is that the computer market is a very complex dynamic system. Even a seemingly exemplary sustainable growth and market can spiral downwards given a few years of bad decisions. Just look at Nokia and RIM.
We're not talking cutting-edge software with daily builds here, the 'enterprise market' is very much about end-user solutions which are reliable, consistent and can remain unchanged for many years. And no, there is nothing wrong with wanting to use Win95 software.
You have to hand it to Microsoft that Windows will still basically run most Windows 9x software you throw at it. They also offer extensive visualization features. Heck, Windows 7 will flat-out give you a Virtual XP machine. Apple doesn't even bother with that kind of functionality.
I kinda agree, but on the other hand this could provide real world relief for the distractions that people are going to do anyway. I dread to think how many people have died because of retarded interfaces on car radios. This is something that's gotten harder over the years. A nice voice-activated or large-button touch interface OTOH would mean people taking their eyes off the road for less time.
Copyright is a social contract conceived to encourage creative investment by selling artistic content. We give them the that opportunity. If they unfairly discriminate against patrons and actively decide not to sell or market their content based on region, then there is neither a reason or a justification for the contract.
If by "not matching the price" you mean "offering a superior product for the same price", then you'd be right.
TBH I don't think Samsung are worried about being cheaper than whatever Apple has. They make products good enough to compete on their own merits. Other manufacturers have targeted the lower end.
Samsung are beating Apple by making superior products, and Apple can't accept it that they can't keep up. For a company who relied on premium revenues by selling the luxury product lines and maintaining this image it's a problem when somebody comes along and starts making clearly better products.
And just because something isn't published by a standardization organisation doesn't make it not a standard. WebM is a format for multimedia files. The fact that a variety of independent projects and companies support it makes it a standard format.
Bzzz. Wrong. MPEG-LA demands license fees from anyone in Europe too.
He would call it making simple products that mere mortals want to use. The public has spoken, and appliance computing is here to stay.
The iPhone and iPad aren't computers. I cannot give the machine instructions whatsoever, all I can do is fumble about with my thumbs, and hope somebody has already written an approved "App" for whatever I want to do.
As you point out, Apple has certainly benefited from open source projects, which is why it's strange that they will alienate this userbase so willingly.
Maybe a niche, but an important and pioneering niche. That's what all too many businesses who go after the mass market forget.
With a GUI you're going to have a lot more people try out features and even knowledgeable users can find things faster. Certainly better than sifting through man pages because the setting you want isn't featured in the GUI.
A bad CLI has cryptic parameters which are undocumented, no explanation how to use them and won't give you any helpful error messages to get you on track, and requires a dictionary of jargon to even get the ROM to run in the first place.
But anyway, the point was that most all emulators do have a CLI. Improving upon the GUI goes hand-in-hand with improvements on the CLI
Not likely. Unless they were pushing for a certain effect, they would have been designing these games on developer systems which were 1980s computers, complete with component video and progressive scan.
The question is how much do things like this add to the experience, vs. giving me headache from all the flicker. FWIW, I never noticed scanlines with old consoles, but then again I only ever had European TVs.
That isn't the problem. Most emulators do have extensive command-line configuration. The problem is that most users don't go near these settings and they aren't well documented. If all you want to do is enjoy a couple of classic games now and then it's hardly worth trying to get your head around the obscurity.
If you're willing to invest a couple of hours you might be able to configure your perfect emulator, but with a nice GUI you could have everything you want in minutes.
In the higher-end market Nokia went from being the nonplus ultra of phone manufacturers to a minor player with options barely worth considering. Down-market the situation looks a little better, but whether that's enough to sustainably support a tech company like Nokia is questionable.
While Nokia might be able to push the biggest volume of phones onto the market, they have failed in one key segment: the market of the trendsetters.
More and more, huge tracts of Wikipedia make it look like the online compendium of popular culture, rather than a place to find out about possibly obscure but real world topics, inventions or discoveries.
This is precisely the problem with deletionist mentality. Wikipedia does not have a "real world balance" policy. People write about things they are familiar with and knowledgeable about, and so popular culture, by definition, will receive a disproportionate amount of attention.
It is not up to administrators to pass judgement on the "validity" of topics in some effort to maintain an ideology.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_is_not_paper
I asked him how long the work we did with each rover would take a competent human geologist to do. He replied, "a hard afternoon's worth of effort.
The problem with that comparison is that it already assumes the geologist to be on mars and have tools at his disposal which he can use as he would on earth, and the rover to still be as primitive as the ones which fit our budget today.
In reality of course we would probably end up spending more on making the astronauts a fancy piss-pot than for the entire MER program. The entire cost of Spirit and Opportunity is on the same scale as one Space Shuttle launch, so the question is rather what would a robotic mission with the budget of a manned mission be capable of?
Realistic manned Mars concepts also require extensive use of robots, in such a way that the equipment would have to be readily set-up, so that when it comes time for the human's field trip all they have to do is push a button.
The ISS is a remnant of NASA's original ill-fated Space Shuttle vision. While it may not have the highest return in value, this has more to do with the shortcomings of the Shuttle program itself. Apart from the awesome technical feat of being a space-plane, the ISS is the only significant achievement of the Shuttle.
While manned spaceflight does indeed sometimes compare unfavorably, an orbiting space station is certainly much more scientifically valuable than a base on the moon, or a nostalgic repetition of the Apollo program.
The closure of NOTW is a stark reminder of the power Murdoch wields more than anything. Newspapers have been involved in many scandals over the years. In the end a few people might have boycotted the paper, but it could still have gone on to sell over a million copies and been a highly relevant newspaper. But once Murdoch's reputation is at stake things are different.
To anyone else shutting such a paper down would be an insane and indefensible move, but to Murdoch it's just a drop in the ocean of his media empire.
This doesn't even come CLOSE to being a top producer of energy per power plant.
Who said it would or that it should?
The top 10 power plants in the world all produce more than 6000 MW.
That's a ridiculous comparison. First or all, no single power unit produces anything on that scale. Larger power plants simply contain multiple power units, with separate fuel, separate reactors and separate generators. The most powerful reactors are nuclear and produce around 1500MW.
I actually like the fast-paced choreographed stuff better. Reminds me of arcade-style fun from the 2D era. Like the Metal Slug games I love. Better than killing stupid AI enemies in bland repetitive levels. 20 hours on an FPS? Who the fuck wants that?
Meh. I done the same. Unreadable fonts, broken jittery graphics driver (funny, because Ubuntu manages it perfectly with a free driver) were annoying. Sure, I could read documentations to figure out how to get sudo to work, I just don't want to. The final straw was when it managed to forget the internet connection settings for the same connection that it installed itself from, and with no obvious option to change them.
I guess commercial interest does wonders in terms of actually getting important things to work.
Germany's at least committing to trying to do this in a nonpolluting (i.e. non-fossil-fuel) way,
Uhh, no. The subsidies for renewables are a decade and more old and energy storage is still inconceivable. The short-term plan is simply to build Gas-turbine power plants and stay friendly with Russia, as well as building coal-burning plants. It basically means that the country will be getting well over 60% of it's electricity from fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. There are no long-term plans. Except maybe hoping the energy sector will figure it all out for them.