Well, take Robocop as an example: they kept just his brain and part of his spinal cord (if memory serves), but he was still Murphy. Ah, and he runned DOS!
A few weeks ago I saw in a newspaper that a company in England was selling bottled water in which the bottles are made of a special kind of plastic, made with corn flour. The nice thing is that this plastic can vanish in 70-90 days when exposed to the elements. The funny note was that Greenpeace didn't approve this plastic, because "it could be made with transgenic corn". The question is, is there a way to please environmentalists and animal rights activists?
I've never had the chance to be in the presence of a XBox 360, but the first videogame with a fan I saw was a PS2. When my brother bought his PS2, I hushed to his house to see the new toy. He lives in a noiseless neighbourhood and he has a decent sound system attached to the PS2. I have to admit at first the fan noise was a little annoying.
Changing platforms, my girlfriend and I work on the same desk, wich one with a notebook. When they both are with their fans at full speed, the noise is irritant.
I with every system that needs cooling were liquid cooled.
I've had glasses since I was 11 months old, and as much as I'd like to get rid of them, getting flaps cut or 'ground down' just dont sound very appealing to me.
I've had glasses since I was 12 (I'm 31 now) and I see no problem in this kind of intervention. I have friends who had good result with it and even my mom had it some time ago. I even had the chance to have my eyes "LASIKed" (hey, I just made up a word!) by my health insurance expense. But what gave me second thoughts was the inefficience of the procedure for my case. My refraction is less than 2 degrees, so I could end up with a 0.25 or 0.50 residual refraction problem. That wouldn't be enough for me. I would have to keep the glasses for driving, for watching movies and even worse, I could end up needing reading glasses in something like 5 or 8 years.
No, thanks. I have no doubt that LASIK is fantastic for the bottle-bottom-glasses users, but in my case it would be less than satisfatory.
The problem with the "missing link" expression is that it gives a wrong idea of linearity in evolution, which couldn't be further than truth. Evolution works in branchs, not in strings.
Isn't that obvious that "missing link" and "common ancestor" ideas are mutually exclusive?
one problem with that is that all of the sony PS1 games are entire CD images (500-600 mb)
That's because in a lot of titles most of CD space is for uncompressed soundtrack and uncompressed graphics. If the games are to be emulated, this might be a problem. If the games are to be adapted (like Chrono Trigger for PS1, which is the SNES version adapted, plus intermission videos, which pretty much filled the CD), they could end up saving a lot of space compressing the soundtrack and the graphics/textures.
(Or they could fit about 40 CD images in a 25G blu-ray disk. Well, for something useful this blu-ray stuff had to be!)
From TFA: For example, a 320 kbps bitrate MP3 from AllofMp3.com may end up costing the customer a whopping 8 cents while a 128 kbps may be as little as 4 cents.
Ok, it's been a while since I left school, but this sentence means something like (320/128)~=(8/4), but 320/128 is 2.5. I don't believe a difference of 25% is acceptable for the meaning of ~=.
Unless the article isn't saying about the same song in different bitrates. If it was, we could have a 128 kbps song by 4 cents costing 10 cents in 320 kbps. Or we could have a 8 cents 320 kbps song costing 3 cents in 128 kbps.
Reporters should be more careful with math in their articles. A geek or a slashdotter could read it.
Go back another few decades, and you'd probably find smoking a cigarette inside a building would have been weirder.
You have never been to Spain, have you?
The law banning smoking in workplaces here started having effect in January, 2006. Not January, 1986... 2006. Yeah, like less than 6 months ago.
I started my computer days with a "toy 8 bits computer", 19 years ago, writting programsin BASIC. I learnt to program all by myself and when I knew Pascal, I got amazed by it, specially because it was a structured language and to my BASIC-only eyes, it was like I could "write my own commands". What could be more awesome than that? Besides, I could "compile" the programs (in that time, the expression "to compile a program" meant the same as "installing a turbocharger on it") and this way they would run much, but much faster.
I agree with you, programming in BASIC can't ruin a person's potential, in my case it was a good point to start from. And I fell in love with Pascal in the first moment I saw it because I wanted to achieve more with my programs than I could with BASIC. Thanks heavens, I outgrew BASIC.
That's the difference between good and bad programmers in my point of view: bad programmers go through the easiest way, good programmers go through either the more adequate or the more interesting way.
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Well, take Robocop as an example: they kept just his brain and part of his spinal cord (if memory serves), but he was still Murphy. Ah, and he runned DOS!
The answer for those is "public tranport system". And you don't have to drive either!
Go ahead, mod me troll...
Salvor Hardin, one of the wisest characters in Asimov's "Foundation" once said: "Don't let moral stop you from doing what is right".
I rest my case.
Just a few examples:
"We were amazed to discover..."
"We picked Eon 8 because Eon 9 was already taken."
"We didn't know about..."
"We didn't know how long..."
Sorry!
Better sources of absence of information would be Dvorak's articles or Tom's Hardware's pages...
I didn't know that the vision of once paralyzed rats being able to walk would turn on men with erectile disfunction...
A few weeks ago I saw in a newspaper that a company in England was selling bottled water in which the bottles are made of a special kind of plastic, made with corn flour. The nice thing is that this plastic can vanish in 70-90 days when exposed to the elements. The funny note was that Greenpeace didn't approve this plastic, because "it could be made with transgenic corn". The question is, is there a way to please environmentalists and animal rights activists?
I've seen this video before, and I thought he was Homer Simpson. (I must be new here...)
Why?
I've never had the chance to be in the presence of a XBox 360, but the first videogame with a fan I saw was a PS2. When my brother bought his PS2, I hushed to his house to see the new toy. He lives in a noiseless neighbourhood and he has a decent sound system attached to the PS2. I have to admit at first the fan noise was a little annoying.
Changing platforms, my girlfriend and I work on the same desk, wich one with a notebook. When they both are with their fans at full speed, the noise is irritant.
I with every system that needs cooling were liquid cooled.
I've had glasses since I was 11 months old, and as much as I'd like to get rid of them, getting flaps cut or 'ground down' just dont sound very appealing to me.
I've had glasses since I was 12 (I'm 31 now) and I see no problem in this kind of intervention. I have friends who had good result with it and even my mom had it some time ago. I even had the chance to have my eyes "LASIKed" (hey, I just made up a word!) by my health insurance expense. But what gave me second thoughts was the inefficience of the procedure for my case. My refraction is less than 2 degrees, so I could end up with a 0.25 or 0.50 residual refraction problem. That wouldn't be enough for me. I would have to keep the glasses for driving, for watching movies and even worse, I could end up needing reading glasses in something like 5 or 8 years.
No, thanks. I have no doubt that LASIK is fantastic for the bottle-bottom-glasses users, but in my case it would be less than satisfatory.
And still it wouldn't be enough as soon as you launch a heavy application, like Mine Sweeper.
Nah, that wouldn't be geeky...
And also Galactus.
They will soon be outlawed. They would represent a "analog hole".
The problem with the "missing link" expression is that it gives a wrong idea of linearity in evolution, which couldn't be further than truth. Evolution works in branchs, not in strings.
Isn't that obvious that "missing link" and "common ancestor" ideas are mutually exclusive?
one problem with that is that all of the sony PS1 games are entire CD images (500-600 mb)
That's because in a lot of titles most of CD space is for uncompressed soundtrack and uncompressed graphics. If the games are to be emulated, this might be a problem. If the games are to be adapted (like Chrono Trigger for PS1, which is the SNES version adapted, plus intermission videos, which pretty much filled the CD), they could end up saving a lot of space compressing the soundtrack and the graphics/textures.
(Or they could fit about 40 CD images in a 25G blu-ray disk. Well, for something useful this blu-ray stuff had to be!)
And at a point they said the ROM cartridges would seal Nintendo's end...
Me spanish. Me understands math better than english. Hehehe... ;-)
Would it make the RIAA happy if allofmp3.com contacted the individual artists and paid them their royalties?
No, because the artistis are not the copyright holders, the record companies are.
RIAA saying "let's shut down 'pirate' sites to protect the artists" is the same as GWB saying "let's invade Iraq to protect freedom and democracy".
No!! Nooooo!!! The wars are only to protect the freedom and democracy!!! Why do you hate America so much?!?
Legal disclaimer: I am not american, actually I have never been to the USA.
From TFA: For example, a 320 kbps bitrate MP3 from AllofMp3.com may end up costing the customer a whopping 8 cents while a 128 kbps may be as little as 4 cents.
Ok, it's been a while since I left school, but this sentence means something like (320/128)~=(8/4), but 320/128 is 2.5. I don't believe a difference of 25% is acceptable for the meaning of ~=.
Unless the article isn't saying about the same song in different bitrates. If it was, we could have a 128 kbps song by 4 cents costing 10 cents in 320 kbps. Or we could have a 8 cents 320 kbps song costing 3 cents in 128 kbps.
Reporters should be more careful with math in their articles. A geek or a slashdotter could read it.
Is this unit already in Civilization IV?
You forgot the single "????" and "Profit!" steps.
Go back another few decades, and you'd probably find smoking a cigarette inside a building would have been weirder.
You have never been to Spain, have you?
The law banning smoking in workplaces here started having effect in January, 2006. Not January, 1986... 2006. Yeah, like less than 6 months ago.
I started my computer days with a "toy 8 bits computer", 19 years ago, writting programsin BASIC. I learnt to program all by myself and when I knew Pascal, I got amazed by it, specially because it was a structured language and to my BASIC-only eyes, it was like I could "write my own commands". What could be more awesome than that? Besides, I could "compile" the programs (in that time, the expression "to compile a program" meant the same as "installing a turbocharger on it") and this way they would run much, but much faster.
I agree with you, programming in BASIC can't ruin a person's potential, in my case it was a good point to start from. And I fell in love with Pascal in the first moment I saw it because I wanted to achieve more with my programs than I could with BASIC. Thanks heavens, I outgrew BASIC.
That's the difference between good and bad programmers in my point of view: bad programmers go through the easiest way, good programmers go through either the more adequate or the more interesting way.