Hire more people and raise the fee? It is not enough. Not effective AT ALL. In fact, they should LOWER the fee so ordinary inventors not with a big pocket can file patents.
What they need is a punitive system when a patent is found to be invalid, and that needs to be either:
1. prohibition of filing for 6 months to 1 year. 2. fine of 10 times the patent application fee, or 1000 times for a lowered fee.
I'd like to use the stock kernel as much as possible.
As of now no SATA DVD drive works well unless you change one line and recompile the kernel.
So many systems are now built as SATA-only (yes, the IDE ports are completely unused), stock kernels break all live-CD distributions - none of them will boot:(
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1. run text Captcha reading algorithm 2. "search" for sin(34)*10 on google.
The Voodoo3's are keepers, as well as the Geforce MX, if you want a fanless card. I used to play CS with them and they now end up in my girlfriend's computers (she doesn't 3D game).
These old boards are still way better than the VIA onboard videos sold today in terms of 2D quality and 3D performance.
These cards are cool, reliable, and with rock solid stability (out of ALL video drivers I have used till today, Nothing beats 3dfx in terms of driver stability!)
I'm looking for a fanless 6600 setup right now, tho none of the local stores carry them:(
Even without the BBP algorithm or FFT, parallizing Pi calculation is a piece of cake - in fact, it is embarrassingly parallel using a Monte Carlo approach.
Here's how: drop random dots in a 1x1 square and then estimate the number of dots within the insribing circle.
Pi = 4 * (number of dots in circle) / (total number of dots)
Different computers can drop dots all by themselves and PI calculated using a combined sum.
It converges very slowly but very scalable nonetheless.
How does it perform on a GeForce3, DX8 and 1024x768? Altho I don't have time for much gaming, I'm stuck in a similar situation - the GF3 is the only card that has a relative small, quiet fan, supports VIVO, and has *some* pixel shader support.
I'm still looking for a card with DX9 support, runs at decent speed with as little active cooling as possible, and VIVO.
NONE of the cards on the market seem to do the job. I figure I'd stick around with a GF3 for a while...
Yeah...haha I still remember buying 250 ns 41256 chips to put onto a memory card (for 256 KB!!) for my Apple//e...15 years ago, or replacing 4116 with 4164, bend a few pins, waste 75% of the capacity...and it still worked! It was fun when hardware were that hackable.
Come to think about it, 250ns ~ 4 Mhz DRAM...still quite a bit faster than the seek time of an average 10000 RPM hard drive;)
Never mind the fact that the human eye has a hard time detecting changes above 30 frames per second.
I wonder where you get that "fact" from. My eyes can detect the difference between 40 fps and 80 fps pretty easily, maybe my eyes are not human?
A 30 fps recorded video is very different from a 30 fps game - video recording equipments inherently record the motion blur that tricks you mind into thinking that there's motion even within 1 frame.
A 30 fps synthesized CG such as a game does not have free motion-blur - currently it is only achievable using multisampling, which has no benefit at all over just increasing the frame rate.
Maybe you should check deeper into some statements before you present them as "facts".
If it were burning coal->boiling water->generator->light bulb, then yes it's very, very inefficient.
However, when the last steps are "electrolysis of water" and then "burning the hydrogen", there's additional energy input, namely, those come from the water/hydrogen - it is not merely a "fire transfer system" anymore.
I think you've mistaken this for "to create hydrogen particles using the electricity without water, then burn those hydrogen"
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It's my first thought...
Who doesn't want to donate to a country whose government just spent 150+ Billions on war funds?
I'm a Canadian, and have donated a lot for many different causes.
This time, I'll say let them help themselves.
If not receiving any aid can help bring GWB down, so be it.
Hire more people and raise the fee? It is not enough. Not effective AT ALL. In fact, they should LOWER the fee so ordinary inventors not with a big pocket can file patents.
What they need is a punitive system when a patent is found to be invalid, and that needs to be either:
1. prohibition of filing for 6 months to 1 year.
2. fine of 10 times the patent application fee, or 1000 times for a lowered fee.
Why PDF? It is a print-only format - you cannot open all PDF files in an editor and then edit the texts in it and save it.
;)
OpenOffice OASIS format is in the right direction, since it uses human-readable markups - if used properly, it is potentially as powerful as LaTeX.
This brings up the question: Why don't we just use LaTeX?
I'd like to use the stock kernel as much as possible.
:(
As of now no SATA DVD drive works well unless you change one line and recompile the kernel.
So many systems are now built as SATA-only (yes, the IDE ports are completely unused), stock kernels break all live-CD distributions - none of them will boot
1. run text Captcha reading algorithm
2. "search" for sin(34)*10 on google.
You totally missed the point.
Even when we were running OS/2 on a 386, 99% CPU was idle. I bet you don't need anything more...
What matters is, when you actually use your CPU in that 1% of the time, it runs as responsively as possible.
Plus, if you're running a high load server, you'll NOT find 99% idle CPU time.
Most Iranians think Bikini is a bad thing and that "infidels" should not have the same rights to enter heaven as those who were not "infidels".
So, I'm afraid I have no clue what point you were trying to make..... Does 0.0000001% or 99.99999999% make it *wrong*?
Of course not.
I wonder how civilized we will look 50, 100, or 150 years from now.
The Voodoo3's are keepers, as well as the Geforce MX, if you want a fanless card. I used to play CS with them and they now end up in my girlfriend's computers (she doesn't 3D game).
:(
These old boards are still way better than the VIA onboard videos sold today in terms of 2D quality and 3D performance.
These cards are cool, reliable, and with rock solid stability (out of ALL video drivers I have used till today, Nothing beats 3dfx in terms of driver stability!)
I'm looking for a fanless 6600 setup right now, tho none of the local stores carry them
Not possible. In 1905, Intel did not exist.
Recently the US passed an amendment that allows ban on flag-burning.
Does it mean displaying a video of a burning flag is illegal? We're facing the same issue on this topic.
"<=" 0.5. Time to change /. preference...
Hm. Obviously you have not thought enough before posting.
The calculation does not make use of Pi at all. A dot is in the boundary of the circle if the distance to the centre is = 0.5.
Better retake highschool math.
Even without the BBP algorithm or FFT, parallizing Pi calculation is a piece of cake - in fact, it is embarrassingly parallel using a Monte Carlo approach.
Here's how: drop random dots in a 1x1 square and then estimate the number of dots within the insribing circle.
Pi = 4 * (number of dots in circle) / (total number of dots)
Different computers can drop dots all by themselves and PI calculated using a combined sum.
It converges very slowly but very scalable nonetheless.
How does it perform on a GeForce3, DX8 and 1024x768? Altho I don't have time for much gaming, I'm stuck in a similar situation - the GF3 is the only card that has a relative small, quiet fan, supports VIVO, and has *some* pixel shader support.
I'm still looking for a card with DX9 support, runs at decent speed with as little active cooling as possible, and VIVO.
NONE of the cards on the market seem to do the job. I figure I'd stick around with a GF3 for a while...
Yeah...haha I still remember buying 250 ns 41256 chips to put onto a memory card (for 256 KB!!) for my Apple //e...15 years ago, or replacing 4116 with 4164, bend a few pins, waste 75% of the capacity...and it still worked! It was fun when hardware were that hackable.
;)
Come to think about it, 250ns ~ 4 Mhz DRAM...still quite a bit faster than the seek time of an average 10000 RPM hard drive
Are they 4164 chips? ;-) How time has flied!
I believe the unstated intention is to outlaw unwanted peripherals.
Microsoft must already have put Lik Sang in a blacklist.
True :)
Well I guess not too many people care anyway if a game can sustain a frame rate that equals the refresh rate...
I wonder where you get that "fact" from. My eyes can detect the difference between 40 fps and 80 fps pretty easily, maybe my eyes are not human?
A 30 fps recorded video is very different from a 30 fps game - video recording equipments inherently record the motion blur that tricks you mind into thinking that there's motion even within 1 frame.
A 30 fps synthesized CG such as a game does not have free motion-blur - currently it is only achievable using multisampling, which has no benefit at all over just increasing the frame rate.
Maybe you should check deeper into some statements before you present them as "facts".
Uptime.
No way am I going to give up my 174 days uptime!!
If it were burning coal->boiling water->generator->light bulb, then yes it's very, very inefficient.
However, when the last steps are "electrolysis of water" and then "burning the hydrogen", there's additional energy input, namely, those come from the water/hydrogen - it is not merely a "fire transfer system" anymore.
I think you've mistaken this for "to create hydrogen particles using the electricity without water, then burn those hydrogen"
US Government: Evolution bad
Scientists: Evolution bad
US Government: Stem cells bad
Scientists: Stem cells bad
US Government: Abstination good
Scientists: Abstination good
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Scientists: Global warming doesn't exist
Knowing how everything would end up by evolution does not imply there's no free will.
Poke a balloon with a needle and you'll know for sure it will burst. But can you tell precisely in which directions the air particles escape?
Having the ability to predict how things go macroscopically does not imply also knowing how things to microscopically.
I don't see how it can contradict - creaationism and free will can coexist.
But anyhow I believe ID has no place in the science class.