That's not quite true. The demonstration of ability saved lives, not so much the actual dropping on actual cities.
It'd have been much more civilized to drop a single bomb where its immense destructive power could have been witnessed, with the promise of dropping the other one somewhere where it would cause real damage in case they wouldn't immediately surrender.
If they'd acted in such a manner, even more lives could have been saved, and needless destruction would have been avoided.
...converted into another form of fuel, losing efficiency.
Very true. However, that doesn't neccessarily mean that the end result is less efficiency. There are other factors, such as how efficient the process of extracting power from hydrogen is (the answer to which is very, compared to good-old gasoline combustion).
Efficiency = total input/usable output
In the end you still get the same story, just different presentation. You also get a lot more news in 30 minutes of the dailyshow than you would 30 minutes of Fox News, where likely it would just be 30 minutes covering the same story.
It may well be that you get a larger number of news items in the dailyshow than in Fox News shows, but that doesn't automatically make it better. Indepth != larger number of news items.
Disclaimer: I haven't actually seen much of either the Daily Show or Fox News, I'm just critiquing your logic.
Does the hard drive act as a buffer, or does it actually store stuff?
Even wired internet has some problems transmitting hi-def TV. I wonder why IPTV isn't made to be displayed a few seconds later than normal analog broadcast so that the content can be buffered beforehand. I'm no IPTV expert, but it seems to me like that'd fix the occasional digital hiccup in the displayed image.
Far too many people think that math defines the universe instead of describing it.
I find that not at all odd, given how mathematics have proven unreasonably effective in describing the universe we find ourselves to be a part of. Or so I feel.
Math feels a little bit like magic to those who don't have a firm grasp of it. Hell, I have a decent grasp of mathematics in general, but it still seems a bit mystical to me. Sort of.
Disclaimer: My worldview is entirely naturalistic. I'm not describing my reasoned (or otherwise accepted) conclusions on how things are, but rather how these things feel to me.
But I have a question. In the long term (say, a few years - maybe between 1 to 3), considering the average electric bill, does it pay off to use such old machines? Wouldn't it be cheaper to use modern thin clients or shared machines?
This isn't so much tech news as it is financial news, and despite the popular support which AMD has among the nerd community, this hardly warrants a mention at tech-centered news sites (though many of those bring increasingly financial related news).
Move on, nothing to see here.
Yeah, the Slashdot-effect as it applies to torrents is pretty fracking awesome. I left for a few moments after starting the torrent, and when I came back I'd already downloaded the whole thing in its 350MB H.264 version.
Yes, in a way it is. Far as I'm aware, the "Steal This X" in-joke was started by Abbie Hoffmans "Steal This Book" (which it often was, coincidentally). Then, there's "Steal This Movie", based on Abbie Hoffmans life. I'm not aware of any other works named based on this meme which are directly about Abbie Hoffman, but works named in such a way usually pay homage to Abbie or at least reference the values he is known to stand for, in one way or another.
HD definition content is and will still be playable on any Windows computer with the proper hardware and software. However, HDCP protected content will not be playable in full definition unless the proper DRM requirements are met.
Moore's famous "law", previously a handy rough predictor for the maximum obtainable complexity of ICs (integrated circuits, e.g. CPUs) is often unappropriately applied to fields which it has nothing to do with, e.g. the maximum capacity of HDDs. Does it apply in this case?
"I'm not willing to sign up for any sort of we'll-give-you-a-new-game-every-month-try-it-you'l l-like-it sort of system. Can I still play?"
Yes, yes you can. This "episodic content" is essentially in the form of (small) self-contained games which are published in a serialized manner, to be bought either through stores or through Valve's downloading service.
Sort of like a series of novels. You don't actually have to buy the former novels to read the new ones, though you might miss out on something if you do. Expansion packs are a bit like extra chapters, you can't read them without the book which they belong to (ok, you technically could in that case, but you shouldn't).
For those of us who happen to have Porphyric Hemophilia, this would probably make an excellent substitute for coffee. Wait, what am I saying? It'd probably work best to add both ground coffee beans and this freeze dried blood in a single drink...
I think I'll call it... Haima Coffee! Why does it have a sort of red-brownish tinge, you ask? Oh, it's just that its... umm... greek? Yeah, greek coffee!
Games don't need to have such low graphics in order for them to be original. 1998 was a good year for games, and those most certainly had better than NES level graphics. For the PC there were Starcraft, Half-life and Homeworld. Consoles had Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Metal Gear Solid.
Some truly excellent games were released the second half of the last decade, in fact I'd go so far as to call it the best time for originality in gaming so far.
Nowadays, innovation is almost completely driven by computing power. Physics, lighting effects and skeletal animation change how we play and view our games in various subtle and unsubtle ways.
HL2's gravity gun is driven by physics, and don't get me wrong, I think it's a really great idea, but it was bound to happen once physics engines begun to be used in games.
Games can now be presented in increasingly cinematic and/or theatric ways, and can be incredibly stunning to look at, but what's lacking is originality, because many of the methods used to produce games in such ways can already be seen on TV, in movie theaters and at plays.
Dolphins are pretty smart, all right. They have excellent social intelligence, even to the point of being able to communicate somewhat effectively with other species, most notably us humans.
I've always found it relatively obvious why dolphins wouldn't develop very high intelligence as corresponds to that measured by IQ, which is generally called g. We humans evolved heightened intelligence because that's what we needed to be able to adapt to rapidly changing conditions and to exploit multiple sources of food. But why would dolphins really develop both the sort of intelligence, and the limbs, needed to make and handle tools (which I think is an important part of developing the g type of intelligence as that which is seen in humans)? Their only natural predators are sharks and orcas, and they've got those pretty well covered due to their excellent teamwork skills. Those lucky bastards are practically living in paradise!
But then again, maybe we'd find that dolphins have the neccessary intelligence for toolmaking, if we just gave them some manipulators. That is to say hands.
As far as I understand it, this is basically the same as what you find in vibrators, except that it's used in a "man-machine interface". Daft, eh? Not the first time I find a patent x which is the same as patent (or prior art) y, except that x is used for purpose z.
I agree with the common/.er view that the USPT needs a major overhaul.
Slashdot Mirror
"I know what you're thinking, and the answer is no. I have a headache."
"Yeah, I get that a lot."
"those bombs saved American and Japanese lives."
That's not quite true. The demonstration of ability saved lives, not so much the actual dropping on actual cities.
It'd have been much more civilized to drop a single bomb where its immense destructive power could have been witnessed, with the promise of dropping the other one somewhere where it would cause real damage in case they wouldn't immediately surrender.
If they'd acted in such a manner, even more lives could have been saved, and needless destruction would have been avoided.
Yay, I fucked up the blockquote tag.
It may well be that you get a larger number of news items in the dailyshow than in Fox News shows, but that doesn't automatically make it better. Indepth != larger number of news items.
Disclaimer: I haven't actually seen much of either the Daily Show or Fox News, I'm just critiquing your logic.
Does the hard drive act as a buffer, or does it actually store stuff?
Even wired internet has some problems transmitting hi-def TV. I wonder why IPTV isn't made to be displayed a few seconds later than normal analog broadcast so that the content can be buffered beforehand. I'm no IPTV expert, but it seems to me like that'd fix the occasional digital hiccup in the displayed image.
Not where I live. If the Gulf Stream shuts down, I'll have to live with some very, very nasty winters.
But it could have some chilling consequences.
But I have a question. In the long term (say, a few years - maybe between 1 to 3), considering the average electric bill, does it pay off to use such old machines? Wouldn't it be cheaper to use modern thin clients or shared machines?
Do MS stockholders drink a lot?
This isn't so much tech news as it is financial news, and despite the popular support which AMD has among the nerd community, this hardly warrants a mention at tech-centered news sites (though many of those bring increasingly financial related news). Move on, nothing to see here.
Yeah, the Slashdot-effect as it applies to torrents is pretty fracking awesome. I left for a few moments after starting the torrent, and when I came back I'd already downloaded the whole thing in its 350MB H.264 version.
Yes, in a way it is. Far as I'm aware, the "Steal This X" in-joke was started by Abbie Hoffmans "Steal This Book" (which it often was, coincidentally). Then, there's "Steal This Movie", based on Abbie Hoffmans life. I'm not aware of any other works named based on this meme which are directly about Abbie Hoffman, but works named in such a way usually pay homage to Abbie or at least reference the values he is known to stand for, in one way or another.
If by "interesting", you mean "unreadable", then yes. I copy-pasted the text into a text editor so as to make it somewhat readable. Ugh.
HD definition content is and will still be playable on any Windows computer with the proper hardware and software. However, HDCP protected content will not be playable in full definition unless the proper DRM requirements are met.
Moore's famous "law", previously a handy rough predictor for the maximum obtainable complexity of ICs (integrated circuits, e.g. CPUs) is often unappropriately applied to fields which it has nothing to do with, e.g. the maximum capacity of HDDs. Does it apply in this case?
"I'm not willing to sign up for any sort of we'll-give-you-a-new-game-every-month-try-it-you'l l-like-it sort of system. Can I still play?"
Yes, yes you can. This "episodic content" is essentially in the form of (small) self-contained games which are published in a serialized manner, to be bought either through stores or through Valve's downloading service.
Sort of like a series of novels. You don't actually have to buy the former novels to read the new ones, though you might miss out on something if you do. Expansion packs are a bit like extra chapters, you can't read them without the book which they belong to (ok, you technically could in that case, but you shouldn't).
For those of us who happen to have Porphyric Hemophilia, this would probably make an excellent substitute for coffee. Wait, what am I saying? It'd probably work best to add both ground coffee beans and this freeze dried blood in a single drink... I think I'll call it... Haima Coffee! Why does it have a sort of red-brownish tinge, you ask? Oh, it's just that its... umm... greek? Yeah, greek coffee!
Games don't need to have such low graphics in order for them to be original. 1998 was a good year for games, and those most certainly had better than NES level graphics. For the PC there were Starcraft, Half-life and Homeworld. Consoles had Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Metal Gear Solid.
Some truly excellent games were released the second half of the last decade, in fact I'd go so far as to call it the best time for originality in gaming so far.
Nowadays, innovation is almost completely driven by computing power. Physics, lighting effects and skeletal animation change how we play and view our games in various subtle and unsubtle ways.
HL2's gravity gun is driven by physics, and don't get me wrong, I think it's a really great idea, but it was bound to happen once physics engines begun to be used in games.
Games can now be presented in increasingly cinematic and/or theatric ways, and can be incredibly stunning to look at, but what's lacking is originality, because many of the methods used to produce games in such ways can already be seen on TV, in movie theaters and at plays.
Dolphins are pretty smart, all right. They have excellent social intelligence, even to the point of being able to communicate somewhat effectively with other species, most notably us humans.
I've always found it relatively obvious why dolphins wouldn't develop very high intelligence as corresponds to that measured by IQ, which is generally called g. We humans evolved heightened intelligence because that's what we needed to be able to adapt to rapidly changing conditions and to exploit multiple sources of food. But why would dolphins really develop both the sort of intelligence, and the limbs, needed to make and handle tools (which I think is an important part of developing the g type of intelligence as that which is seen in humans)? Their only natural predators are sharks and orcas, and they've got those pretty well covered due to their excellent teamwork skills. Those lucky bastards are practically living in paradise!
But then again, maybe we'd find that dolphins have the neccessary intelligence for toolmaking, if we just gave them some manipulators. That is to say hands.
The patent is for "Tactile feedback man-machine interface device"
/.er view that the USPT needs a major overhaul.
As far as I understand it, this is basically the same as what you find in vibrators, except that it's used in a "man-machine interface". Daft, eh? Not the first time I find a patent x which is the same as patent (or prior art) y, except that x is used for purpose z.
I agree with the common
I deem the concept of humor to be too much for you by about a furlong.
the NSA measure computing power not in flops, or MIPs, but in acres
I measure your IQ in nanometers.