Lua has the same relationship with WoW Lua that Java has to Javascript. One is a powerful, flexible, modular language and the other is a braindead scripting language that happens to share keywords and syntax. I understand that Blizzard wants to keep security within the game solid, but it was a real exercise in frustration to learn what little can be done within the game's engine. You want to customize the UI? Fine. You want to do some interesting things with chat text? Go ahead. You want to step outside those two tasks? Good luck.
Thank you for moving the release of this product until after Christmas. By doing so you have enabled my long lost WoW addicted relatives to make a meaningful appearance during the holiday season. There are few things more frustrating than having 2 people ask at the dinner table if they can use your computer.
Look at the first two letters of the acronym: Application Specific. A screwdriver and a swiss army knife will both turn a screw, but the screwdriver is going to be much more efficient at it. GPUs are finely tuned to rip through massive volumes of floating point vectors and not much else. It just so happens that the folding project also fits this desctiption and as such is an excellent use of an otherwise wasted resource.
My first experience with the Commodore was very similar. It didn't take long to learn the limitations of C64 basic. It was a beautiful architecture though:
An addressed serial bus and intelligent peripherals
Memory mapped peripherals including shadow memory to expand the effective RAM space
An impressive selection of well documented ASICs to play with.
Direct access to the address, data, interrupt and analog busses through an external connector
A dedicated and knowledgable community of system hackers
And sorry to be a pedantic Commodore fanboy, but the 1541 Disk Drive was 170K on a side.
We probably failed to conform to some groupthink standard. Ok, gotta get some karma back...
Linux rocks and Microsoft sucks!
DRM and RFID are evil in every incarnation!
Sony sucks!
Halliburton!
The US is fucking up the world and George W. Bush is the devil!
There is no God and evolution is the absolute final answer to our origins!
If I'm American then Democrats are the only hope for our future!
Halliburton!
That should put me in good standing with the mods around here.
20 kilowatts per car? assuming 5 cars at a time at the "pump", where are gas stations going to get 100 kilowatts of continuous power? This is of course assuming zero loss in the conversion from line voltage to 48 volts DC.
In most of the USA you are only required to be a licensed electrician if the work you are doing is for a business or common dwelling. The authorities only get involved when your screw-ups could potentially kill someone other than you and your immediate family.
I've found that there are only a few major clearing houses of contact information that all of these companies feed off of. Before I have a company place me on their do-not-call list I squeeze them for contact info of the source of my info... They will usually play dumb until you ask for a supervisor. BE PERSISTENT.
Call the source company, and ask them where they got the information, then have them place you on their do-not-call list.
Repeat until you reach a dead-end, which is usually one of the aformentioned clearing houses.
It sounds like a pain in the ass, but after going through this a couple of times it stopped virtually all calls for me years before the do-not-call registry went into effect. This technique also works for junk mail purveyors, particularly credit card companies.
I'll have to look at the can on Monday, but I remember something on the can specifically about not beinf for sale in the state of California. Not the standard boilerplate about substances shown to cause cancer in the state of California, an actual ban. I wonder if there is a different formulation that 3M sells there?
I can attest to this. Part of our business where I work is refelting pool tables. To hold the felt in place at the edges we use 3M Super 77 spray glue (banned in California). The only and I mean ONLY way to get the glue off of the slate is by using lighter fluid. The stuff is simply amazing at removing just about anything solvent based. When we clean the crap off of our other equipment we use:
Wildcat tape remover (for lightweight labels and tape residue)
Ronsonol lighter fluid (for high-strength decals, grease, tar, gum, etc)
Sudsing ammonia (will strip many kinds of ink, plus cigarette tar)
99% Isopropyl alcohol (removes permanent marker, flux, some silkscreen inks)
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser
Novus scratch removal system
Mother's aluminum polish
This was one of the marvels of the BeOS. It excelled at one thing above all else: Multithreading. Almost every part of an application was a lightweight thread, and the kernel's scheduler was a work of art. It's really a shame that the original architects never got a chance to finish their "sticky threads" impelmentation; cache trashing was a real bottleneck on heavily loaded machines.
I think the best possible solution was implemented for an entirely different reason at the Des Moines Public Library. They built a fine copper mesh into the entire glass exterior for light control purposes. Very cool looking on the outside, amazingly energy efficient on the inside. This was a fascinating project to see go up.
Actively cooling something involves moving thermal energy, usually with some kind of pump. Perhaps you could harness the energy on the other side of the cooling system as an offset to the energy required to get it there.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. The jungle truly is God's laboratory.
I'd also like to tank you for reinforcing a long-standing theory of mine: The only people who call the jungle a rain forest are the people who've never had to spend a night in it.:)
Flamebait? Honestly? Sounds like it's time for the mods to pull their collective heads out of their collective asses, or at least out of the sand. Isreal is the kid who talks funny in a schoolyard full of bullies. Anyone who has ever witnessed this knows that there are only two outcomes: Either the kid resigns himself to victimhood or he learns to speak the bullies' language, and by language I mean violence in quantity when the line is crossed.
Israel is a Jewish nation surrounded by arabs, many of whom seek actively to destroy Israel by any means. The arabs' current and favorite method is to pick fights until Israel responds and then cry to the "international community". Considering the common thread of anti-semitism that runs through much of the world's governmental bodies, this is a can't-lose strategy.
Just because you disagree with something or you have some political/religious/whatever axe to grind does not mean you can mod something Flamebait, Overrated, or whatever. If you want to bitch-slap someone for their beliefs, do it in your own damn blog and leave the real discussion to the adults.
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Lua has the same relationship with WoW Lua that Java has to Javascript. One is a powerful, flexible, modular language and the other is a braindead scripting language that happens to share keywords and syntax. I understand that Blizzard wants to keep security within the game solid, but it was a real exercise in frustration to learn what little can be done within the game's engine. You want to customize the UI? Fine. You want to do some interesting things with chat text? Go ahead. You want to step outside those two tasks? Good luck.
Thank you for moving the release of this product until after Christmas. By doing so you have enabled my long lost WoW addicted relatives to make a meaningful appearance during the holiday season. There are few things more frustrating than having 2 people ask at the dinner table if they can use your computer.
Scanners are legal. Descramblers that pick apart the enciphered police trunks are not.
Look at the first two letters of the acronym: Application Specific. A screwdriver and a swiss army knife will both turn a screw, but the screwdriver is going to be much more efficient at it. GPUs are finely tuned to rip through massive volumes of floating point vectors and not much else. It just so happens that the folding project also fits this desctiption and as such is an excellent use of an otherwise wasted resource.
Your sig funny as hell. I wonder how long it will be until slashcode forbids it. :)
My first experience with the Commodore was very similar. It didn't take long to learn the limitations of C64 basic. It was a beautiful architecture though:
An addressed serial bus and intelligent peripherals
Memory mapped peripherals including shadow memory to expand the effective RAM space
An impressive selection of well documented ASICs to play with.
Direct access to the address, data, interrupt and analog busses through an external connector
A dedicated and knowledgable community of system hackers
And sorry to be a pedantic Commodore fanboy, but the 1541 Disk Drive was 170K on a side.
We probably failed to conform to some groupthink standard. Ok, gotta get some karma back...
Linux rocks and Microsoft sucks!
DRM and RFID are evil in every incarnation!
Sony sucks!
Halliburton!
The US is fucking up the world and George W. Bush is the devil!
There is no God and evolution is the absolute final answer to our origins!
If I'm American then Democrats are the only hope for our future!
Halliburton!
That should put me in good standing with the mods around here.
What stairs?
Let's do the math on a 5 minute charge of a 26oo Farad capacitor at 48 volts:
2600 farad * 48 volts = 124800 coulombs
124800 coulombs / 5 minutes = 416 amps
416 amps * 48 volts = 19968 watts
20 kilowatts per car? assuming 5 cars at a time at the "pump", where are gas stations going to get 100 kilowatts of continuous power? This is of course assuming zero loss in the conversion from line voltage to 48 volts DC.
In most of the USA you are only required to be a licensed electrician if the work you are doing is for a business or common dwelling. The authorities only get involved when your screw-ups could potentially kill someone other than you and your immediate family.
Pffft! I'll take two. Why is the salesman high-fiving everyone?
I've found that there are only a few major clearing houses of contact information that all of these companies feed off of. Before I have a company place me on their do-not-call list I squeeze them for contact info of the source of my info... They will usually play dumb until you ask for a supervisor. BE PERSISTENT.
Call the source company, and ask them where they got the information, then have them place you on their do-not-call list.
Repeat until you reach a dead-end, which is usually one of the aformentioned clearing houses.
It sounds like a pain in the ass, but after going through this a couple of times it stopped virtually all calls for me years before the do-not-call registry went into effect. This technique also works for junk mail purveyors, particularly credit card companies.
I'll have to look at the can on Monday, but I remember something on the can specifically about not beinf for sale in the state of California. Not the standard boilerplate about substances shown to cause cancer in the state of California, an actual ban. I wonder if there is a different formulation that 3M sells there?
I can attest to this. Part of our business where I work is refelting pool tables. To hold the felt in place at the edges we use 3M Super 77 spray glue (banned in California). The only and I mean ONLY way to get the glue off of the slate is by using lighter fluid. The stuff is simply amazing at removing just about anything solvent based. When we clean the crap off of our other equipment we use :
Wildcat tape remover (for lightweight labels and tape residue)
Ronsonol lighter fluid (for high-strength decals, grease, tar, gum, etc)
Sudsing ammonia (will strip many kinds of ink, plus cigarette tar)
99% Isopropyl alcohol (removes permanent marker, flux, some silkscreen inks)
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser
Novus scratch removal system
Mother's aluminum polish
This was one of the marvels of the BeOS. It excelled at one thing above all else: Multithreading. Almost every part of an application was a lightweight thread, and the kernel's scheduler was a work of art. It's really a shame that the original architects never got a chance to finish their "sticky threads" impelmentation; cache trashing was a real bottleneck on heavily loaded machines.
I wonder how many of those images are labeled:
PASS GOD DAMNIT!
I think the best possible solution was implemented for an entirely different reason at the Des Moines Public Library. They built a fine copper mesh into the entire glass exterior for light control purposes. Very cool looking on the outside, amazingly energy efficient on the inside. This was a fascinating project to see go up.
Approx 528 Km/H or 881664 furlongs/fortnight
You could say the same about Michael Moore, but I'm still not prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.
See reply to first reply for confession of karma-whoring troll
Yeah, I realized it shortly after posting. I plead temporary insanity. :)
I knew I was forgetting something. Stupid fundamental laws.
Actively cooling something involves moving thermal energy, usually with some kind of pump. Perhaps you could harness the energy on the other side of the cooling system as an offset to the energy required to get it there.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. The jungle truly is God's laboratory.
:)
I'd also like to tank you for reinforcing a long-standing theory of mine: The only people who call the jungle a rain forest are the people who've never had to spend a night in it.
Flamebait? Honestly? Sounds like it's time for the mods to pull their collective heads out of their collective asses, or at least out of the sand. Isreal is the kid who talks funny in a schoolyard full of bullies. Anyone who has ever witnessed this knows that there are only two outcomes: Either the kid resigns himself to victimhood or he learns to speak the bullies' language, and by language I mean violence in quantity when the line is crossed.
Israel is a Jewish nation surrounded by arabs, many of whom seek actively to destroy Israel by any means. The arabs' current and favorite method is to pick fights until Israel responds and then cry to the "international community". Considering the common thread of anti-semitism that runs through much of the world's governmental bodies, this is a can't-lose strategy.
Just because you disagree with something or you have some political/religious/whatever axe to grind does not mean you can mod something Flamebait, Overrated, or whatever. If you want to bitch-slap someone for their beliefs, do it in your own damn blog and leave the real discussion to the adults.