I'm pretty sure that it introduced me to internet porn back around 1994/1995. My dad was a subscriber to the magazine, and while flipping through an issue I saw an article about recommended porn sites. Interestingly the one that caught my eye was actually amateur erotic fiction. Anyway, at the time it never occurred to me that it might be strange to see an endorsement for a porn site in a mainstream computer magazine. Thus, I can't find myself entirely surprised at an article about file-sharing networks.
Yeah, as someone who works at a glass distributer I can second the suggestion that laminated glass would have proved much more secure. It's not proof against break-ins, but getting in would take a more work than just smashing at it. It's also safer in accidents than plate glass. . .
I'm still not convinced that it would be a good idea. I'm not comfortable with the idea of trying to cover up warming caused by human emissions with even more emissions. Reduction of emissions is the only answer I agree with -- which capturing and this covering do nothing to encourage.
Clouds also help to trap heat near the ground, which is partially why the coldest days up here started on the clearest days. As such, any cooling caused by increasing the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere would be temporary at best and in the long run would be quite detrimental indeed.
At least the degree to which Linux swaps pages is configurable (though only during kernel compilation, I think?). The "average user" probably does not need the OS to swap quite as aggressively as Windows does. Due to my Kubuntu installation's increased responsiveness, I find it far superior to Windows for casual use (ie: web-browsing, video playback, etc. ..)
I don't speak like that and no one around me does, either -- unless they're joking around. I may pronounce some words in the manner indicated by that article, but at the very least I do not include the infamous "aboot". It's a regional thing and Canada is a very large "region" to try and apply it to.
Y'all understand me?:p
Is there still really a point to huge RPMs? As data density increases, speed should increase naturally. Move over the same distance at the same speed on a drive with twice the density should mean that one has read twice the data in the same amount of time -- therefore reading speed is twice as fast, right? This should even work on low-capacity drives by simply using small, high-data-density disks.
One important question that remains is the cost-comparison, though. Uranium is currently valued at $57 (US) per pound, for a total of $9291, in this instance. The gas-pump value of that diesel is around $116 000 000 (I don't know what cargo transport companies pay for it). In the case of the uranium, though, we're only talking about raw uranium, not fuel uranium. What is the cost of refinement into fuel form?
It's for the same reason why colour mapping is still used even in the highest-fidelity graphics in rasterization: speed. Keep in mind that there's no rule saying that ray-tracing must procedurally generate textures and that rasterization-based rendering must use colour maps. Both rendering methods are fully capable of using either technique -- with speed being the only major issue. The advantage to using ray-tracing in a general sense is that it allows for realistic reflections, refractions, and shadows without resorting to the sort of complex trickery involved in rasterization. This is why lightmaps are still used for static shadows.
Even with ray-tracing, colour mapping for textures will likely never disappear. You do, after all, need something to indicate to the ray tracer how the surface reflects light. Gazing through POV-Ray's documentation, there appears to be a variety of methods for accomplishing this, with bitmap-based color maps being just one (and perhaps one of the fastest). I believe this answers your question, too. A type of pixel shader is used in ray-tracing to describe materials, but somewhat differently from those used in rasterization-based rendering.
> I don't understand why Wired insists on playing along with Potter's pretense of being an "unemployed psychologist".
Because people like 'underdog' stories.
If the object in question is constructed from a single material, then a density test should work. Use water displacement and a scale to determine the volume and mass, respectively. From that you can calculate the density and compare the value to the actual density of titanium. Of course, this won't work if the object merely has titanium components and it cannot be disassembled. . .
I think the best application would be for use by independant game and animation studios. It's inexpensive, has relatively few components, and doesn't require much space. Perfect for the indie community.
K-Mart didn't actually come to my mind when this topic was brought up. Actually, I starting thinking about how Apple adds "i-" to virtually every product they've released since the original iMac.
I believe his point is that there's is nothing wrong with McBride's statement. This is, of course, assuming that SCO did in fact truely believe that they owned what they claim to have owned and that said intellectual property was indeed being infringed upon. Ultimately, the conclusion was that both were false and that they knew it. If anything, it is the latter that they should be villified for. One should not be attacked for simply protecting what one owns as long as one does so in an honest manner. Once again, though, it appears that SCO wasn't exactly being honest. . .
Yeah, I've never understood why some people have such a problem with Python's use of whitespace. I think that it makes Python great as a language for teaching programming to beginners. Anyone who has had to try and read a student's unindented code will surely sypathize.
Teaching method has alot to do with it. I had an accounting class, one semester. Two classes per week, two hours per class -- all in a dark room listening to a lecture accompanied by Powerpoint slides. I spent half my time asleep and thus failed. I re-took the class the next semester and practically aced it. That instructor didn't use Powerpoint, but instead always had the lights on, she wrote all her notes on the whiteboard, and she frequently required active participation in the class. I don't really blame Powerpoint for my previous failure. I blame two hours of lecture per class in a dark room.
Yeah, that was my first reaction to this -- especially since 99.9% of products and services for which you set a password tell you never to give it to anyone. Add to that the frequent reports of identity and information theft in the media. . .
Wasn't this an easter egg in Fallout? There was a bonus area that randomly appeared. It was a building where several people inside were running on treadmills, generating power. . .
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Hmm. . . It appears I misunderstood the tone of your post. Sorry.
Odd that you cared enough to troll.
I'm pretty sure that it introduced me to internet porn back around 1994/1995. My dad was a subscriber to the magazine, and while flipping through an issue I saw an article about recommended porn sites. Interestingly the one that caught my eye was actually amateur erotic fiction. Anyway, at the time it never occurred to me that it might be strange to see an endorsement for a porn site in a mainstream computer magazine. Thus, I can't find myself entirely surprised at an article about file-sharing networks.
Did their research come from experiencing cat-splosion during a Dwarf Fortress session?
Yeah, as someone who works at a glass distributer I can second the suggestion that laminated glass would have proved much more secure. It's not proof against break-ins, but getting in would take a more work than just smashing at it. It's also safer in accidents than plate glass. . .
It'd be nice if Amazon followed up this announcement with news that the Kindle would also be available in Canada and Europe. . .
I'm still not convinced that it would be a good idea. I'm not comfortable with the idea of trying to cover up warming caused by human emissions with even more emissions. Reduction of emissions is the only answer I agree with -- which capturing and this covering do nothing to encourage.
Clouds also help to trap heat near the ground, which is partially why the coldest days up here started on the clearest days. As such, any cooling caused by increasing the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere would be temporary at best and in the long run would be quite detrimental indeed.
At least the degree to which Linux swaps pages is configurable (though only during kernel compilation, I think?). The "average user" probably does not need the OS to swap quite as aggressively as Windows does. Due to my Kubuntu installation's increased responsiveness, I find it far superior to Windows for casual use (ie: web-browsing, video playback, etc. . .)
I don't speak like that and no one around me does, either -- unless they're joking around. I may pronounce some words in the manner indicated by that article, but at the very least I do not include the infamous "aboot". It's a regional thing and Canada is a very large "region" to try and apply it to. :p
Y'all understand me?
The only time I ever heard someone pronounce it "aboot" (here in Edmonton) was from a first aid instructor from Nova Scotia.
Is there still really a point to huge RPMs? As data density increases, speed should increase naturally. Move over the same distance at the same speed on a drive with twice the density should mean that one has read twice the data in the same amount of time -- therefore reading speed is twice as fast, right? This should even work on low-capacity drives by simply using small, high-data-density disks.
One important question that remains is the cost-comparison, though. Uranium is currently valued at $57 (US) per pound, for a total of $9291, in this instance. The gas-pump value of that diesel is around $116 000 000 (I don't know what cargo transport companies pay for it). In the case of the uranium, though, we're only talking about raw uranium, not fuel uranium. What is the cost of refinement into fuel form?
It's for the same reason why colour mapping is still used even in the highest-fidelity graphics in rasterization: speed. Keep in mind that there's no rule saying that ray-tracing must procedurally generate textures and that rasterization-based rendering must use colour maps. Both rendering methods are fully capable of using either technique -- with speed being the only major issue. The advantage to using ray-tracing in a general sense is that it allows for realistic reflections, refractions, and shadows without resorting to the sort of complex trickery involved in rasterization. This is why lightmaps are still used for static shadows.
Even with ray-tracing, colour mapping for textures will likely never disappear. You do, after all, need something to indicate to the ray tracer how the surface reflects light. Gazing through POV-Ray's documentation, there appears to be a variety of methods for accomplishing this, with bitmap-based color maps being just one (and perhaps one of the fastest). I believe this answers your question, too. A type of pixel shader is used in ray-tracing to describe materials, but somewhat differently from those used in rasterization-based rendering.
> I don't understand why Wired insists on playing along with Potter's pretense of being an "unemployed psychologist". Because people like 'underdog' stories.
If the object in question is constructed from a single material, then a density test should work. Use water displacement and a scale to determine the volume and mass, respectively. From that you can calculate the density and compare the value to the actual density of titanium. Of course, this won't work if the object merely has titanium components and it cannot be disassembled. . .
I think the best application would be for use by independant game and animation studios. It's inexpensive, has relatively few components, and doesn't require much space. Perfect for the indie community.
K-Mart didn't actually come to my mind when this topic was brought up. Actually, I starting thinking about how Apple adds "i-" to virtually every product they've released since the original iMac.
I believe his point is that there's is nothing wrong with McBride's statement. This is, of course, assuming that SCO did in fact truely believe that they owned what they claim to have owned and that said intellectual property was indeed being infringed upon. Ultimately, the conclusion was that both were false and that they knew it. If anything, it is the latter that they should be villified for. One should not be attacked for simply protecting what one owns as long as one does so in an honest manner. Once again, though, it appears that SCO wasn't exactly being honest. . .
Yeah, I've never understood why some people have such a problem with Python's use of whitespace. I think that it makes Python great as a language for teaching programming to beginners. Anyone who has had to try and read a student's unindented code will surely sypathize.
Teaching method has alot to do with it. I had an accounting class, one semester. Two classes per week, two hours per class -- all in a dark room listening to a lecture accompanied by Powerpoint slides. I spent half my time asleep and thus failed. I re-took the class the next semester and practically aced it. That instructor didn't use Powerpoint, but instead always had the lights on, she wrote all her notes on the whiteboard, and she frequently required active participation in the class. I don't really blame Powerpoint for my previous failure. I blame two hours of lecture per class in a dark room.
Yeah, that was my first reaction to this -- especially since 99.9% of products and services for which you set a password tell you never to give it to anyone. Add to that the frequent reports of identity and information theft in the media. . .
Wasn't this an easter egg in Fallout? There was a bonus area that randomly appeared. It was a building where several people inside were running on treadmills, generating power. . .
Yeah, the X.org driver works fine for me, too. Too bad I can't ATI's official driver to work. . .