1 RPM seems very low, unless they've hobbled the animal or something. I'd say a higher RPM would be more efficient as well, you'd get more work out of the animal. I'd imagine its similar in concept to my bike, I'm supposed to use a lower gear and pedal faster because its more efficient and less likely to knacker my knees. As for horses, why not just use elephants...
It seems to me that it would be a better use of his time to direct those DDoD attacks at people with money, who are actually willing to part with it. If the guy is directing attacks against insecurity experts, he must be either worried they'll feck up his precious botnet, or he's a muppet (or both I suppose).
What else would this be useful for. This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm too lazy to look it up. Is this relevant for video encoding, and other regular consumer stuff?
Wow, dude, you need to chill out a bit. My post was bad, even more incomplete than the original parent, but yours is practically a rant. I thought it would have been obvious that when I said watch the video, I meant you know, the normal way, start , middle, end etc. It doesn't matter what the container is, if the data is not downloaded in sequence, its unlikely that you can watch the video in sequence. Nothing you posted contradicts that, it mostly just made me think you were an ass.
Not the entire story. Yes you can record a video "stream" and call it a "download", it'll give you the same file. But you can't download a video and start watching it before the download is complete. Streaming a file implies that the data is been sent in a specific order to allow for this.
Ok I don't get this, first off why does America and India want to land astronauts in China, Japan, and Russia, and why will it take so damn long to do it?
You are correct in that it just has to be big enough and cheap enough, but it's got a loooong way to go yet.
However I believe the demand for capacity/value is driven by big business, hosting companies etc. not Joe Soap consumer. Huge web farms like the ones required by google, yahoo etc will continue to demand ever bigger, cheaper, better drives
The consumer market will continue to just develop new applications that take advantage of these new drives.
20gig games with HD content can't be very far away, after that there'll be a hot new format that needs more space etc etc etc. Joe Soaps applications may lag behind, but eventually they will rely on all the extra space, and furthermore the smaller drives will no longer even be available, as the manufacturers will not want to maintain legacy manufacturing plants.
I'm not really that qualified to discuss all the merits of C versus managed code etc. For better or worse, C is a distant memory for me, and I'm now pursuing a career in seat of my pants ad-hoc c#. I'll likely wind up as one of those "experienced" developers you mentioned, sigh. Anyway, you're definitely correct in that "No high level language is a good substitution for good programming practices", however in my experience good programming practices in (for example) C# are easier to master and adhere to than in C. So to use a ridiculous example, if you were to take two nice but dim identical twins, and teach one to program C and the other to program in C#, I'd say the latter would be considered the better programmer by his/ her peers.
Researchers tried this (for fun I can only assume). The problem is, monkeys don't type randomly, mostly stuff like ggggggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr etc, and they just defecated on the keyboard when they got bored.
Too personally for what, slashdot? Anyway I can't speak for everyone that hunts, but I for one enjoy the actual hunt, I don't consider it correct to say I enjoy the death of an animal and certainly not the suffering of animals. Fishing is very similar to hunting and many fishermen throw back what they catch, would you also say that they enjoy the suffering of fish?
As far as I'm aware only humans can be murdered, so I'll have to agree with the parent poster. I'm also completely against red necks murdering people for sport.
I'm no sound engineer or anything but offhand I can't think of anything that converts sound directly into electricity without the mechanical movement/vibration of something in between, usually a diaphragm like in your microphone example. Sound doesn't actually carry that much energy (and it generally disperses very quickly). The common example of just how little, is that it would required something like 10 years worth of yelling, to heat one cup of coffee. So all I can think of to dampen the sound would be to have as large and dense a diaphragm (I think it would probably have to be very soft as well to stop the sound bouncing, but I dunno) as possible to capture as much of the sound energy as possible and then using that energy to create a counter sound wave that cancels out any remaining sound.
I shouldn't encourage you, but I actually am a bit childish, so I'll respond one last time. As far as I'm concerned you were preaching. The parent post had a God joke tacked onto the end, whereas your entire "argument" seemed to me to be just to enlighten me and teach me the error of my child like atheist ways. The tone of your "argument" placed you above a significant proportion of the world, who you believe have somehow misunderstood their own faith (which pissed me off). Btw regarding my education, you're correct, I didn't learn anything overly specific about American history, just a little about your civil wars, industrial revolution and tea parties etc and I've forgotten most of it. Since I'm Irish though, understandably my education focused more on Irish history, leprechauns and shamrocks, that kind of thing. And no I've never taken comparative theology in college, I took computer engineering instead as I felt I had a better aptitude for it. A fact no less irrelevant to the original argument than nearly everything you wrote. You're entitled to your faith, just don't use words like "limited ability" "Only children" etc when you ramble on about it, you'll piss people off.
I can assure you, the religion I was fed in school is quite clear on he/she/it being an old beardy guy who resides quite apart from the universe the rest of us are sharing. Even stretching this, it seems to me at any rate, that the dogma has a fairly specific "God" entity. As an aside, if you must preach to us child like types (and I wish you wouldn't), you should at least spell atheist correctly.
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Slightly off the main point of your argument, but anyway. Generally speaking the chip makers are in competition with each other, so they have to release new products to remain competitive. They upgrade or build new fabs to produce the new stuff, and over time are left unable to produce the old stuff. At this point as a company, if they weren't pushing "the latest hot, fast hardware" they'd be pushing up daisies instead. They have made a lot of advances reducing power consumption etc, at a guess I'd say if you were to under clock a modern processor so that it had the equivalent processing power of an old one, it would I believe, run cooler than the old one (Though I'll admit I'm speculating a bit there). As for software bloat, I dislike that myself, but modern OSes are designed with modern machines in mind. Windows is more or less an all or nothing deal, if you want the new features you gotta handle the bloat as well.
I was labeled gifted very early on (self proclaimed actually as I didn't need the reaffirmation of others). I didn't study TFA but I have inferred the meaning from the title, and completely agree with it. Nothing is more relaxing for me than squeezing off a few depleted uranium rounds at the weekend.
I more or less 100% agree, I think www.drawball.com (dispite my dislike of its implementation) is a good example of free expression without pay for example. That said I think while people won't ever stop being (or at least trying to be) creative they generally will take their creativity to whever the frosting is at.
Apple has successfully trademarked the letter that comes just after h in the alphabet. Use of sayd letter eys prohybyted and people can face hefty fynes eyf caught do'n so. Onlyne experts recommend people to start dystancyng themselves from g whyle they're at yet.
Granted I'll never win at debate, but come on. CFL's are roughly 4-5 times more efficient than incandescent bulbs. Who the hell is going to switch to CFL and leave them more than 4 times longer? Of course some people will, there's literally millions of idiots out there, but I'd put money down that most people won't. And I'm adamant, if everyone in a country switches to CFL bulbs the energy footprint of a county should go down, its basic math. (I am however making the assumptions that energy costs of production are not significantly higher for CFLs (admittedly a big assumption) and that people don't leave them on forever just for the hell of it)
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1 RPM seems very low, unless they've hobbled the animal or something. I'd say a higher RPM would be more efficient as well, you'd get more work out of the animal. I'd imagine its similar in concept to my bike, I'm supposed to use a lower gear and pedal faster because its more efficient and less likely to knacker my knees. As for horses, why not just use elephants...
It seems to me that it would be a better use of his time to direct those DDoD attacks at people with money, who are actually willing to part with it. If the guy is directing attacks against insecurity experts, he must be either worried they'll feck up his precious botnet, or he's a muppet (or both I suppose).
Based on bs like this, I doubt everyone agrees with you. http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39154136,00.htm
What else would this be useful for. This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm too lazy to look it up. Is this relevant for video encoding, and other regular consumer stuff?
Wow, dude, you need to chill out a bit. My post was bad, even more incomplete than the original parent, but yours is practically a rant. I thought it would have been obvious that when I said watch the video, I meant you know, the normal way, start , middle, end etc. It doesn't matter what the container is, if the data is not downloaded in sequence, its unlikely that you can watch the video in sequence. Nothing you posted contradicts that, it mostly just made me think you were an ass.
Not the entire story. Yes you can record a video "stream" and call it a "download", it'll give you the same file. But you can't download a video and start watching it before the download is complete. Streaming a file implies that the data is been sent in a specific order to allow for this.
I had a look earlier, and I could see plenty of spots.
Ok I don't get this, first off why does America and India want to land astronauts in China, Japan, and Russia, and why will it take so damn long to do it?
However I believe the demand for capacity/value is driven by big business, hosting companies etc. not Joe Soap consumer. Huge web farms like the ones required by google, yahoo etc will continue to demand ever bigger, cheaper, better drives
The consumer market will continue to just develop new applications that take advantage of these new drives.
20gig games with HD content can't be very far away, after that there'll be a hot new format that needs more space etc etc etc. Joe Soaps applications may lag behind, but eventually they will rely on all the extra space, and furthermore the smaller drives will no longer even be available, as the manufacturers will not want to maintain legacy manufacturing plants.
I'm not really that qualified to discuss all the merits of C versus managed code etc. For better or worse, C is a distant memory for me, and I'm now pursuing a career in seat of my pants ad-hoc c#. I'll likely wind up as one of those "experienced" developers you mentioned, sigh. Anyway, you're definitely correct in that "No high level language is a good substitution for good programming practices", however in my experience good programming practices in (for example) C# are easier to master and adhere to than in C. So to use a ridiculous example, if you were to take two nice but dim identical twins, and teach one to program C and the other to program in C#, I'd say the latter would be considered the better programmer by his/ her peers.
TFA is nothing more than an enigma wrapped in an ebay auction wrapped in a Slashdot article.
Researchers tried this (for fun I can only assume). The problem is, monkeys don't type randomly, mostly stuff like ggggggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr etc, and they just defecated on the keyboard when they got bored.
Too personally for what, slashdot? Anyway I can't speak for everyone that hunts, but I for one enjoy the actual hunt, I don't consider it correct to say I enjoy the death of an animal and certainly not the suffering of animals. Fishing is very similar to hunting and many fishermen throw back what they catch, would you also say that they enjoy the suffering of fish?
As far as I'm aware only humans can be murdered, so I'll have to agree with the parent poster. I'm also completely against red necks murdering people for sport.
I'm no sound engineer or anything but offhand I can't think of anything that converts sound directly into electricity without the mechanical movement/vibration of something in between, usually a diaphragm like in your microphone example. Sound doesn't actually carry that much energy (and it generally disperses very quickly). The common example of just how little, is that it would required something like 10 years worth of yelling, to heat one cup of coffee. So all I can think of to dampen the sound would be to have as large and dense a diaphragm (I think it would probably have to be very soft as well to stop the sound bouncing, but I dunno) as possible to capture as much of the sound energy as possible and then using that energy to create a counter sound wave that cancels out any remaining sound.
I shouldn't encourage you, but I actually am a bit childish, so I'll respond one last time. As far as I'm concerned you were preaching. The parent post had a God joke tacked onto the end, whereas your entire "argument" seemed to me to be just to enlighten me and teach me the error of my child like atheist ways. The tone of your "argument" placed you above a significant proportion of the world, who you believe have somehow misunderstood their own faith (which pissed me off). Btw regarding my education, you're correct, I didn't learn anything overly specific about American history, just a little about your civil wars, industrial revolution and tea parties etc and I've forgotten most of it. Since I'm Irish though, understandably my education focused more on Irish history, leprechauns and shamrocks, that kind of thing. And no I've never taken comparative theology in college, I took computer engineering instead as I felt I had a better aptitude for it. A fact no less irrelevant to the original argument than nearly everything you wrote. You're entitled to your faith, just don't use words like "limited ability" "Only children" etc when you ramble on about it, you'll piss people off.
Lots of people, http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/ 20/2048258&from=rss
I can assure you, the religion I was fed in school is quite clear on he/she/it being an old beardy guy who resides quite apart from the universe the rest of us are sharing. Even stretching this, it seems to me at any rate, that the dogma has a fairly specific "God" entity. As an aside, if you must preach to us child like types (and I wish you wouldn't), you should at least spell atheist correctly.
Slightly off the main point of your argument, but anyway. Generally speaking the chip makers are in competition with each other, so they have to release new products to remain competitive. They upgrade or build new fabs to produce the new stuff, and over time are left unable to produce the old stuff. At this point as a company, if they weren't pushing "the latest hot, fast hardware" they'd be pushing up daisies instead. They have made a lot of advances reducing power consumption etc, at a guess I'd say if you were to under clock a modern processor so that it had the equivalent processing power of an old one, it would I believe, run cooler than the old one (Though I'll admit I'm speculating a bit there). As for software bloat, I dislike that myself, but modern OSes are designed with modern machines in mind. Windows is more or less an all or nothing deal, if you want the new features you gotta handle the bloat as well.
I was labeled gifted very early on (self proclaimed actually as I didn't need the reaffirmation of others). I didn't study TFA but I have inferred the meaning from the title, and completely agree with it. Nothing is more relaxing for me than squeezing off a few depleted uranium rounds at the weekend.
I more or less 100% agree, I think www.drawball.com (dispite my dislike of its implementation) is a good example of free expression without pay for example. That said I think while people won't ever stop being (or at least trying to be) creative they generally will take their creativity to whever the frosting is at.
Hardly a prime example. Google slipstreaming and check out this site while you're at it http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
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Apple has successfully trademarked the letter that comes just after h in the alphabet. Use of sayd letter eys prohybyted and people can face hefty fynes eyf caught do'n so. Onlyne experts recommend people to start dystancyng themselves from g whyle they're at yet.
Granted I'll never win at debate, but come on. CFL's are roughly 4-5 times more efficient than incandescent bulbs. Who the hell is going to switch to CFL and leave them more than 4 times longer? Of course some people will, there's literally millions of idiots out there, but I'd put money down that most people won't. And I'm adamant, if everyone in a country switches to CFL bulbs the energy footprint of a county should go down, its basic math. (I am however making the assumptions that energy costs of production are not significantly higher for CFLs (admittedly a big assumption) and that people don't leave them on forever just for the hell of it)