They have a non-standard wimax network in vancouver, and you can actually feel the radiation coming off the receiving unit.
But to be fair, technology is improving not because they are pumping out more watts through the transmitter (although that helps range) it's more because computational power and the ability for them to multiplex more data on the proverbial line.
We have already been toasting our gonads with wireless data for the past 60+ years and I haven't heard of increased birth defects from people living next to radio stations and cellular towers.
Although I know that both formats are technically superior to dvd, and I have seen content in hd-dvd and blu-ray, my only real concern is that it looks like the studios are just hacking together the movies. Blu-ray does look nice, but most the movies that have been released show all kinds of compression artifacts and such, they just dont look to be even up to broadcast hdtv standards.
Maybe with time the studios will learn how to properly telecine hd content onto these discs, but for now it looks somewhat like an upsampled dvd in most available movies.
Personally I think that bluray will have the competitive advantage when it's released with the ps3, as I personally believe the storage is priceless in game development, you often commonly hear that it'll prevent games from spanning across more then 1 dvd, but it's more then that, because for example, a 5 dvd game, on all 5 dvd's there will have to be repeat content of all the basic elements of the game, sounds, textures, game logic, etc, that really only leaves maybe a few gigs free for extra data on each disc of the game. By storing all content on one disc, you can have a much more varied and high resolution experience throughout the game.
I doubt that you'll ever break the 1 gig mark, with 2 gigs of ram, it's pretty safe to turn the virtual memory and swapping on windows off through the control panel.
I've had my swap turned off ever since I got my first gig of ram.
If you are doing something so memory intensive that you might need to swap, good software all has it's own swap built in, e.g. photoshop will swap itself when necessary.
To know for sure if you need to use swap or not, hit ctrl-alt-del, and look at the commit charge in the task manager, if you've ran your computer for a while and the peak is the amount of ram you have, it should be safe to turn the swap off. My computers peak is at 700megs, and I run 2 virtual machines, photoshop, eclipse, and stream video all at the same time. So it's probably pretty safe.
I'm sick of this, the C?O's of this world just have no soul, it's that simple. They feel no remorse, screw this relative value bullshit, most those rich bastards got where they were by being stingy and holding onto every penny. They probably watch the price is right all day and get it right 99% of the time. You can't tell me the bastards are so rich that they would just walk into a store and steal shit because the price is so low it's negligible to them.
The real reason the bastards didn't pay for the fucken muffins is because anyone with C?0 in there name doesnt have any cash on them. They just carry 30 credit cards and dont even know what change is.
The lesson to be learnt is that if you are gonna go on the honor systems, at least put a card swipe next to the muffin so you can "charge" them after.
And dont forget about mplayer for linux, it can play any porn in SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW motion, or the opposite.
Can't play windows porn in slow motion. Brings new life to old clips
Astrophysicists generally agree nowadays that the expansion of the universe is not slowing down but speeding up, this in itself defies conservation of energy.
Just because they said something in high school doesnt mean it holds true in the real world for all time. Conservation of energy is a method of making the equations work, there are places where conservation of energy can not fully explain every universal phenonema.
Besides, I was also taught newtonion physics where energy isn't even a concern. Physics is a mathmetical approximation of the real world, and there are different ways to reach the same conclusions, but that doesnt mean that the equations will hold true in 100% of situations, since they are only the best understanding we have today.
Well, is the universe itself not a perpetual motion machine, if anything it is expanding and creating energy all the time.
And I never said the electric car was perpetual motion, just an example of the rich excercising their interest in money.
Validation in the academic world, free or even cheap power has never done well because it's not money. Since the 1900's there have literally been thousands of perpetual motion and free power devices. Who's to say that every single one is bunk, I think it's equally likely that the rich are smart enough to do whats in there power to prevent any kind of serious progress that would hurt there ability to make money. The GM EV1 electric car as an example, a production quality electric car the owners loved, and they took them all back and crushed them.
Lets just hope that when things get really bad, one of the many free power devices actually was not bunk, because to believe in conservation of energy itself is bunk. The universe has been showen to expand at an exponentially rate from it's creation, the distribution of a fixed amount of energy evenly throughout the expanding universe would mean that we wouldnt be moving for much longer.
Conservation of energy is more of a crutch to help explain what's happening in small scale physical interaction. Things like dark matter are just proof that the systems of energy in the universe are not a static one but dynamic.
Well, it being a quantum computer should give it the benefits of being quantum, you know, the ability to solve N-Complete problems and such through probabilities and such. Wasn't quantum computing theoretically supposed to kill all non-quantum encryption techniques while creating unbreakable ones?
I guess we'll have to wait and see, it's not about how fast it is, but its capabilities as a computer, do quantum computers still count as turing machines or would they be in a classification of their own?
Are you sure what you are trying to do is run virtual machines? Personally I use virtual machines daily in development to help simulate a multi-tier applications and also for linux development, but I wouldnt want to download a 10 gig virtual machine every time I turned on my computer.
Are you sure what you want is not some kinda of terminal services to completely lock down the computers. U know with linux you can run VNC as a multi-user app, and serve up full KDE/Gnome interface over the X11 protocols, it's pretty cool I think. Not only would you be able to remotely use a centralized system to get work done, but also you could maintain a steady desktop between locations, closing the session and resuming it from another location.
I also have fond memories of programming in turbo products, turbo pascal for dos was my second point of entry into programming, the first was quickbasic, then turbo pascal, turbo c++ etc. Turbo products used to be amazing for there time, they really helped get the job done, and write fast efficient code. I really liked how you could embed assembly into your code directly to create super-efficient subroutines and such.
Nowadays, your lucky if your compiler even compiles into machine code and not into some bytecode that gets interepretted by 2 virtual machines and a scripting engine before before any machine level code is generated.
I miss the ability to perform low level optimizations on my code.
Shameless Plug, my site, link in the footer, friendly link/no ad's or popups. The site also adopts somewhat of a turbo product color scheme, I think the influence was on a subconscious level though.
I find that keeping compliant with you xhtml code helps with standardizing the layout a lot.
My css on the other hand has quite a few things that only work in non-ie browsers. When I design I do not leave out effects IE can't render, I just leave a firefox logo and hope people will switch. At least IE7 properly supports:hover effects in css, which is very important in ajax/web applications. The current hacks for IE to make:hover work only work well when you have a static dom, when you load new content that might use the:hover it doesnt work.
I'd like to see full support for CSS2.0 selectors in IE7, and I would hope to see some css3 spec type stuff like rounded borders and multiple columns. I doubt microsoft will pull through, and IE7 will probably hold back web development just like IE6 has for years. The problem microsoft faces is that they need to support all there past crap in there browsers, such as frontpage generated sites and such, if the browser was strictly compliant it could actually cause some level of disorder with how non-compliant they've been in the past.
I've been developing an ajax app from scratch, but have been using features of the dojo toolkit. Dojo is great so far and I can't wait to see what they add in the future.
Feel free to check it out by following the link in my footer, I've never tested my site under heavy strain and I guess todays as good a day as any. It was designed to have less strain on the server then a traditional web application.
Come on slashdotters, try and bring down my site. The link is friendly, there are no popups, ad's or anything else that makes the internet suck.
All I really care about at E3 time (along with 99.99% of the public) is that I get my game news and videos delivered to me in a timely fashion. Also, nothing should ever be below HD content on the web from now on.
That said, I hope E3's online presence becomes more organized in the process with developers all responsible for delivering content for web-based delivery, so I dont have to watch crappy camera bootlegs of games.
Ok, the programmer in the video is very insistent that there would be no detection possible to see if there is cheating going on. But I think there is more then one, first off, something like ethereal can monitor traffic near the centralized server. Which means via packet analysis you could determine if any "vote updating" or other protocol additions are in use.
The second is through mathmatical analysis, the voting machines would use a very specific logic to flip the votes, and I believe that by examining the the delta of votes vs time, it would help provide evidence if tampering was evident or not.
Anyways, what's with this two party system you have going on flip it to 49-51? I'm from canada and I can tell you one thing, we get more then 2 parties running, and definatly more then 2 parties in parliament at any one time. I guess that's why I can smoke my joints in peace.
It was nice to see css2.0 work so damn well in opera 9, how about css3 support for opera10.
Also I have noticed that opera does not like the anchor links method of history management, it would be nice if the back and forward buttons were able to jump between anchor links so that ajax history techniques would work a bit better.
Although people say opera is fast, it is by far the slowest browser when it comes to javascript animation, I would like to see optimized drawing routines in the browsers, with proper offscreen buffering and rendering through an accelerated layer when possible.
For the record, kim jong-il isn't chinese, he's north korean, and in team america, that wasn't a puppet, that was really him.
Lets remember that not all asians are shinese.
Also, on the fact of google, china didnt leave uch of a choice, either blacklisted or censored. I'm sure google is not gonna give up a significant percentage of the worlds population just to be the "good guy" and fight censorship.
It's probably 85% less to him because people are only buying 1 out of 9 tracks on his album. I think what he is saying is that crappy artists can't force u to buy an entire album to get the single you want anymore. Therefor 85% loss.
Lol, I agree, whenever my mind is fried sober and I can't solve a problem I get baked, and somehow the code always gets finished good. Which is scary cause my mind keeps going blank and I have no clue how the hell I managed to write so much code stoned.
Actually, to be honest, I dont think I code sober anymore.
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They have a non-standard wimax network in vancouver, and you can actually feel the radiation coming off the receiving unit.
But to be fair, technology is improving not because they are pumping out more watts through the transmitter (although that helps range) it's more because computational power and the ability for them to multiplex more data on the proverbial line.
We have already been toasting our gonads with wireless data for the past 60+ years and I haven't heard of increased birth defects from people living next to radio stations and cellular towers.
Although I know that both formats are technically superior to dvd, and I have seen content in hd-dvd and blu-ray, my only real concern is that it looks like the studios are just hacking together the movies. Blu-ray does look nice, but most the movies that have been released show all kinds of compression artifacts and such, they just dont look to be even up to broadcast hdtv standards.
Maybe with time the studios will learn how to properly telecine hd content onto these discs, but for now it looks somewhat like an upsampled dvd in most available movies.
Personally I think that bluray will have the competitive advantage when it's released with the ps3, as I personally believe the storage is priceless in game development, you often commonly hear that it'll prevent games from spanning across more then 1 dvd, but it's more then that, because for example, a 5 dvd game, on all 5 dvd's there will have to be repeat content of all the basic elements of the game, sounds, textures, game logic, etc, that really only leaves maybe a few gigs free for extra data on each disc of the game. By storing all content on one disc, you can have a much more varied and high resolution experience throughout the game.
I doubt that you'll ever break the 1 gig mark, with 2 gigs of ram, it's pretty safe to turn the virtual memory and swapping on windows off through the control panel.
I've had my swap turned off ever since I got my first gig of ram.
If you are doing something so memory intensive that you might need to swap, good software all has it's own swap built in, e.g. photoshop will swap itself when necessary.
To know for sure if you need to use swap or not, hit ctrl-alt-del, and look at the commit charge in the task manager, if you've ran your computer for a while and the peak is the amount of ram you have, it should be safe to turn the swap off. My computers peak is at 700megs, and I run 2 virtual machines, photoshop, eclipse, and stream video all at the same time. So it's probably pretty safe.
I'm sick of this, the C?O's of this world just have no soul, it's that simple. They feel no remorse, screw this relative value bullshit, most those rich bastards got where they were by being stingy and holding onto every penny. They probably watch the price is right all day and get it right 99% of the time. You can't tell me the bastards are so rich that they would just walk into a store and steal shit because the price is so low it's negligible to them.
The real reason the bastards didn't pay for the fucken muffins is because anyone with C?0 in there name doesnt have any cash on them. They just carry 30 credit cards and dont even know what change is.
The lesson to be learnt is that if you are gonna go on the honor systems, at least put a card swipe next to the muffin so you can "charge" them after.
And dont forget about mplayer for linux, it can play any porn in SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW motion, or the opposite.
Can't play windows porn in slow motion. Brings new life to old clips
Well, if they had just intended it to send a message, would not a flaming bag of dog doo be more appropriate?
Well basically, dark matter is proof that all theories are not correct, the actual existence of dark matter is non-important.
Astrophysicists generally agree nowadays that the expansion of the universe is not slowing down but speeding up, this in itself defies conservation of energy.
Just because they said something in high school doesnt mean it holds true in the real world for all time. Conservation of energy is a method of making the equations work, there are places where conservation of energy can not fully explain every universal phenonema. Besides, I was also taught newtonion physics where energy isn't even a concern. Physics is a mathmetical approximation of the real world, and there are different ways to reach the same conclusions, but that doesnt mean that the equations will hold true in 100% of situations, since they are only the best understanding we have today.
Well, is the universe itself not a perpetual motion machine, if anything it is expanding and creating energy all the time. And I never said the electric car was perpetual motion, just an example of the rich excercising their interest in money.
Validation in the academic world, free or even cheap power has never done well because it's not money. Since the 1900's there have literally been thousands of perpetual motion and free power devices. Who's to say that every single one is bunk, I think it's equally likely that the rich are smart enough to do whats in there power to prevent any kind of serious progress that would hurt there ability to make money. The GM EV1 electric car as an example, a production quality electric car the owners loved, and they took them all back and crushed them.
Lets just hope that when things get really bad, one of the many free power devices actually was not bunk, because to believe in conservation of energy itself is bunk. The universe has been showen to expand at an exponentially rate from it's creation, the distribution of a fixed amount of energy evenly throughout the expanding universe would mean that we wouldnt be moving for much longer.
Conservation of energy is more of a crutch to help explain what's happening in small scale physical interaction. Things like dark matter are just proof that the systems of energy in the universe are not a static one but dynamic.
Well, it being a quantum computer should give it the benefits of being quantum, you know, the ability to solve N-Complete problems and such through probabilities and such. Wasn't quantum computing theoretically supposed to kill all non-quantum encryption techniques while creating unbreakable ones?
I guess we'll have to wait and see, it's not about how fast it is, but its capabilities as a computer, do quantum computers still count as turing machines or would they be in a classification of their own?
Are you sure what you are trying to do is run virtual machines? Personally I use virtual machines daily in development to help simulate a multi-tier applications and also for linux development, but I wouldnt want to download a 10 gig virtual machine every time I turned on my computer.
Are you sure what you want is not some kinda of terminal services to completely lock down the computers. U know with linux you can run VNC as a multi-user app, and serve up full KDE/Gnome interface over the X11 protocols, it's pretty cool I think. Not only would you be able to remotely use a centralized system to get work done, but also you could maintain a steady desktop between locations, closing the session and resuming it from another location.
I also have fond memories of programming in turbo products, turbo pascal for dos was my second point of entry into programming, the first was quickbasic, then turbo pascal, turbo c++ etc. Turbo products used to be amazing for there time, they really helped get the job done, and write fast efficient code. I really liked how you could embed assembly into your code directly to create super-efficient subroutines and such. Nowadays, your lucky if your compiler even compiles into machine code and not into some bytecode that gets interepretted by 2 virtual machines and a scripting engine before before any machine level code is generated. I miss the ability to perform low level optimizations on my code. Shameless Plug, my site, link in the footer, friendly link/no ad's or popups. The site also adopts somewhat of a turbo product color scheme, I think the influence was on a subconscious level though.
Well those 20 years could have been spent worse, you could have been using codewarrior.
Last time I compiled "Hello World" in a codewarrior product, it took, uhhh wait, it's still compiling, I'm gonna get some coffee.
I find that keeping compliant with you xhtml code helps with standardizing the layout a lot.
:hover effects in css, which is very important in ajax/web applications. The current hacks for IE to make :hover work only work well when you have a static dom, when you load new content that might use the :hover it doesnt work.
My css on the other hand has quite a few things that only work in non-ie browsers. When I design I do not leave out effects IE can't render, I just leave a firefox logo and hope people will switch. At least IE7 properly supports
I'd like to see full support for CSS2.0 selectors in IE7, and I would hope to see some css3 spec type stuff like rounded borders and multiple columns. I doubt microsoft will pull through, and IE7 will probably hold back web development just like IE6 has for years. The problem microsoft faces is that they need to support all there past crap in there browsers, such as frontpage generated sites and such, if the browser was strictly compliant it could actually cause some level of disorder with how non-compliant they've been in the past.
I've been developing an ajax app from scratch, but have been using features of the dojo toolkit. Dojo is great so far and I can't wait to see what they add in the future.
Feel free to check it out by following the link in my footer, I've never tested my site under heavy strain and I guess todays as good a day as any. It was designed to have less strain on the server then a traditional web application.
Come on slashdotters, try and bring down my site. The link is friendly, there are no popups, ad's or anything else that makes the internet suck.
All I really care about at E3 time (along with 99.99% of the public) is that I get my game news and videos delivered to me in a timely fashion. Also, nothing should ever be below HD content on the web from now on. That said, I hope E3's online presence becomes more organized in the process with developers all responsible for delivering content for web-based delivery, so I dont have to watch crappy camera bootlegs of games.
Ok, the programmer in the video is very insistent that there would be no detection possible to see if there is cheating going on. But I think there is more then one, first off, something like ethereal can monitor traffic near the centralized server. Which means via packet analysis you could determine if any "vote updating" or other protocol additions are in use.
The second is through mathmatical analysis, the voting machines would use a very specific logic to flip the votes, and I believe that by examining the the delta of votes vs time, it would help provide evidence if tampering was evident or not.
Anyways, what's with this two party system you have going on flip it to 49-51? I'm from canada and I can tell you one thing, we get more then 2 parties running, and definatly more then 2 parties in parliament at any one time. I guess that's why I can smoke my joints in peace.
You missed solar, oh wait, that doesnt really count, sorry.
It was nice to see css2.0 work so damn well in opera 9, how about css3 support for opera10.
Also I have noticed that opera does not like the anchor links method of history management, it would be nice if the back and forward buttons were able to jump between anchor links so that ajax history techniques would work a bit better.
Although people say opera is fast, it is by far the slowest browser when it comes to javascript animation, I would like to see optimized drawing routines in the browsers, with proper offscreen buffering and rendering through an accelerated layer when possible.
For the record, kim jong-il isn't chinese, he's north korean, and in team america, that wasn't a puppet, that was really him.
Lets remember that not all asians are shinese.
Also, on the fact of google, china didnt leave uch of a choice, either blacklisted or censored. I'm sure google is not gonna give up a significant percentage of the worlds population just to be the "good guy" and fight censorship.
I guess the point being, compressed carbon at room temperature = diamond,
lol.
It's probably 85% less to him because people are only buying 1 out of 9 tracks on his album. I think what he is saying is that crappy artists can't force u to buy an entire album to get the single you want anymore. Therefor 85% loss.
Lol, I agree, whenever my mind is fried sober and I can't solve a problem I get baked, and somehow the code always gets finished good. Which is scary cause my mind keeps going blank and I have no clue how the hell I managed to write so much code stoned.
Actually, to be honest, I dont think I code sober anymore.