There's a lot more, ironically. Accodring to this Slate article, 64,000 tons of yellowcake is produced worldwide annually:
http://www.slate.com/id/2085848/
Puts things into perspective, at least.
Erm, we currently have Net Neutrality, and it doesn't seem to be probihiting anything. Also, I'm sure most folks here are NOT against net neutrality. It's as if you've mixed the whole thing up, and thinking NN is the bad thing looming in the future and not the other way around.
Maybe I just didn't understand, but I'm baffled at the amount of people who don't even know if Net Neutrality is the old way or the new way proposed by ISPs.
Also, the public doesn't *want* computers to fly their planes. For as long as people refuse to step on a plane with an empty cockpit, it's not gonna happen. Even if the pilots just sits on their butts, they're still wanted there.
Not necessarily. I too have 1.5GB of RAM. Windows and all the background stuff takes some 300-400MB (MSN, AV, Firewalls etc) and several hours of BF2 boosts the size well beyond 1.3GB. I tried without a pagefile and ended up crashing a lot after longer sessions due to memory problems. Newer games probably use even more.
Sure, it's a gaming rig with full details and stuff, but the "monstrous" 2GB of memory isn't just for some exotic server use, gamers can really put it to good use too.
Not entirely true though. While I pretty much hate Sony by now, and am not exactly excited about the price of PS3 either, I belong to the minority who has a problem: I'm a Final Fantasy fan. And I'm not the only one. If new Final Fantasies are only made for PS3, I don't really have a choice - it's either no console, or PS3, since FF's cover pretty much 80% of the time I spend with consoles. It's a sad fact, but I don't really know any other console games that actually beat PC games. Sure, I'm a minority, but it's true that Sony has a lot of great and known titles, and that fact is about the only thing they just can't lose, no matter what the other consoles do...:(
Slighly off-topic, but the problem with soundcards is that unlike what seems to be every other PC component out there, sound cards that are 5 years old are still perfectly good. Processing sound doesn't require so much power that you have to get a new card every year, and even the amount of line in/out/whatever jacks you can add is limited.
There will be dragons, and we will shoot balls of fire from our hands. Why? Because they're dreams, and the human kind has a habit of filling its dreams. Sure, it takes some time, but in, say, 600 years, maybe we really manage to create a creature that resembles the dragon of the myths, and no doubt we'll also have the possibility to attach nano/quantum implants into our hands that create some yet unknown reaction to fire plasma-like subtance from our fingertips. As long as there are wars where these invetions could be used and there's a military that supports them, they'll happen. I have no doubt, really.
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There's a lot more, ironically. Accodring to this Slate article, 64,000 tons of yellowcake is produced worldwide annually: http://www.slate.com/id/2085848/ Puts things into perspective, at least.
You should try out Universcale by Nikon: http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/index.htm Truly an awesome application.
Youtube has a nice video of these 'gravity waves' you mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnkzeCU3bE
Erm, we currently have Net Neutrality, and it doesn't seem to be probihiting anything. Also, I'm sure most folks here are NOT against net neutrality. It's as if you've mixed the whole thing up, and thinking NN is the bad thing looming in the future and not the other way around. Maybe I just didn't understand, but I'm baffled at the amount of people who don't even know if Net Neutrality is the old way or the new way proposed by ISPs.
Actually, the pancam isn't completely black-and-white: http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_inst ru_pancam.html
Also, the public doesn't *want* computers to fly their planes. For as long as people refuse to step on a plane with an empty cockpit, it's not gonna happen. Even if the pilots just sits on their butts, they're still wanted there.
Not necessarily. I too have 1.5GB of RAM. Windows and all the background stuff takes some 300-400MB (MSN, AV, Firewalls etc) and several hours of BF2 boosts the size well beyond 1.3GB. I tried without a pagefile and ended up crashing a lot after longer sessions due to memory problems. Newer games probably use even more. Sure, it's a gaming rig with full details and stuff, but the "monstrous" 2GB of memory isn't just for some exotic server use, gamers can really put it to good use too.
Yeah, and PC game sales seem to be increasing a bit: http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan20 07/id20070122_804652.htm
Not entirely true though. While I pretty much hate Sony by now, and am not exactly excited about the price of PS3 either, I belong to the minority who has a problem: I'm a Final Fantasy fan. And I'm not the only one. If new Final Fantasies are only made for PS3, I don't really have a choice - it's either no console, or PS3, since FF's cover pretty much 80% of the time I spend with consoles. It's a sad fact, but I don't really know any other console games that actually beat PC games. Sure, I'm a minority, but it's true that Sony has a lot of great and known titles, and that fact is about the only thing they just can't lose, no matter what the other consoles do... :(
Slighly off-topic, but the problem with soundcards is that unlike what seems to be every other PC component out there, sound cards that are 5 years old are still perfectly good. Processing sound doesn't require so much power that you have to get a new card every year, and even the amount of line in/out/whatever jacks you can add is limited.
There will be dragons, and we will shoot balls of fire from our hands. Why? Because they're dreams, and the human kind has a habit of filling its dreams. Sure, it takes some time, but in, say, 600 years, maybe we really manage to create a creature that resembles the dragon of the myths, and no doubt we'll also have the possibility to attach nano/quantum implants into our hands that create some yet unknown reaction to fire plasma-like subtance from our fingertips. As long as there are wars where these invetions could be used and there's a military that supports them, they'll happen. I have no doubt, really.
Can someone decipher the long error message seen in many of the screenshots? I know it starts with "System" but that's pretty much it.