Having glanced at the curt document it looks they used this method. They were caught by an automatic monitoring system, not Timber Hill, and it's noted that Timber Hill has changed their algorithm since then (but nothing about them making an an issue out of it.)
It looks like they started out slow, but got bolder and eventually the stock exchange shut down to investigate. Bet they got a chill when that happened.
Which just goes to show how well designed it was. Exactly how often do they need to track a negative number of people?
I know that in some programming languages, like java, you have to jump through hoops to get unsigned values. For all we know that database was fine, but the server frontend trunctuated values down to signed ints.
For those that don't know, JPEG-2000 lets you encode the largest image once, then download only the amount of file that you need for the image resolution that you're displaying.
I belive normal jpegs has this feature as well, at least to the extent of reducing decode memory usage. There's also progressive jpegs, and oddly enough they tend to be smaller than non-progressive.
I know what audio "dynamic range" compression is. Not unfamiliar with the term as my PC's soundcard has that feature, and the decency to explain that dynamic range takes a hit.
However, only audiophiles notice stuff like that. I've done enough blind tests to know that I don't. Of course, my speakers are built into the telly so they likely introduce bigger distortions than the digital signal processing. I was able to pick out a slight difference when using headphones on my PC, but even then wasn't able to say which was the original uncrushed signal on 128k mp3s - and though high quality MP3s did sound a tad worse they still sounded better than 128k MP3s (and 128k MP3s are good enough for us non-audiophiles).
It isn't that hard to take the average level from the past five minutes, and make the average level of the commercial be the same
My TV does this already; just an option in the menu... and it's not an expensive model or anything. Had more or less forgotten how annoying loud commercials can be.
Probably the most solid platform too! theres no way i'd trust window 7 to launch a rocket into outta space!
Windows 7 is not a RTOS (Real Time OS), so it's a poor choice for controlling the space shuttle in flight. But it's a perfectly fine for hosting the big red launch button.
contrast them against Japan, who only a little more than a century ago, was a dirt poor, backwards country that had to be literally forced at the barrel of a gun to open their doors to the world.
I wouldn't call them backwards. Before the industrial revolution they had greater GDP PPP than Great Brittan (or whatever they were called back then), and was considered an advanced enviable culture. They fell a bit behind, yes, but had a fairly advanced economy, culture, school system, and so on. They even had cannons, guns and pirates! Yarh.
They weren't totally isolationistic either, just sulking a bit over a bloody nose the Koreans gave them in some war over there and stamping out Christianity before it could take root.
So YES Nintendo screwed Sony, just the same as if we agreed to buy a car together but then I suddenly backed-out, leaving you with the $20,000 bill.
Nintendo didn't just screw Sony. They made the Philips announcement without telling Sony that the deal was off first. According to interviews Sony was demonstrating the SNES-CD when this happened and were utterly humiliated. Up to then the company at large was reluctant to enter the gaming marked, they only entered because but some engineers at Sony had managed to get some contracts with Nintendo (for instance they designed the SNES sound chip), but when Nintendo made a fool out of them the big boss took it personally.
Sony wasn't the first big-corp that tried to take a chunk of the gaming marked. NEC, for instance, was bigger and went in sooner. But Sony didn't just release great hardware, they went the extra mile by getting the needed games and marketing campaign to make it all matter. It's possible that Sony's rage is the reason for that.
United Kingdom (excluding attempts): 1.49
United States - Presumably includes attempts: 5
Of course, it probably isn't enough to make up the difference... but I've learned by now that statistics can be prettied up quite a bit through careful choice of methodology.
Ahh, sorry. Not entierly sure what I was arguing up there.
I've never played Metriod or any emulated Wii game except a little Mega Man 9. Mega Man ran just fine by the way, not as fun as on the Game Boy versions though, and nowhere near as taxing to emulate as Metroid.
High end compared to a Playstation. You don't need 12Gigs and 4GHz for Wii emulation, but even "2GHz" is a little too much for the PS3's PPC CPU.
Not sure how helpful SPEs are for emulation but they can probably be put to good use for software rendering. It's the PPE that's the weak link.
(I realize Metroid Prime is a Gamecube game, not a Wii game, but the two systems are pretty similar so I think my point stands nonetheless.)
I'm impressed it runs at all. It's amazing what a few hobbyists can put together*, though I still strongly doubt we'll see good Wii emulation on the PS3. It may be technically feasible, but it will be a large effort, you can't simply port existing code like the ever port-popular SNES9X.
* I'm not entirely happy that Dolphin can run commercial Wii games. They should have kept that feature locked away or something until the Wii was off the marked. (Not that it really matters as pirates likely have the real thing anyway.)
You can do Wii emulation on a high end PC. I gave Mega Man 9 a whirl just for shits and giggles, but other games supposedly work too.
Problem is, of course, that the playstation isn't a high end PC. A direct port of that emulator will run dog slow, a lot like SNES emulation on the GBA I suspect. MS got Xbox games working on the 360, but likely only thanks to a crack team of coders.
The Atom looks bad on work/watt, but still wins in raw performance.
but I have no idea how they compare to Alpha.
The alpha is a "floating point monster", or was anyway, and since ARM doesn't focus on floating point I doubt they compare. The Atom might keep up though.
as opposed to those who are satisfied with the theory that life evolved from inorganic chemical compounds, totally by chance, with a series of ininitely improbable events occurring in the right sequence over and over and over again.
As it happens, fatty acids and amino acids (the building blocks of life) are quite common in the universe. On earth they've long since been eaten by bacteria but before there was life they floated around freely all over the planet.
Now fat has a tendency to clump together, and if you apply heat (plenty of natural hot springs even today, more back then) you will see "fatty cells" evolve all without any complex DNA. Mix in amino acids and give it enough time and you'll see primitive cell structures forming. Give it a couple of billion years and you'll have your complex cells. Multicelled takes over from there.
Windows Live is free on the PC. I got "Xbox" Live Silver and I played some PC Bioshock 2 MP at no charge. I also bought an Bioshock 2 addon with a credit card - though I don't recall if I bought it through Steam of directly on Windows Live.
Politics, alliances and swords pawed the way for Christianity, with the dead king becoming "a saint" and miracles occurring around his corpse. Same old, same old in other words. Remember now that this took up a good chunk of our history classes, with a lot of fuzz being made about the miracles and them being presented as factual happenings. I'm actually a little appalled right now, ho hum, but with the school system being reformed almost every four years (yes I'm serious, drives the poor teachers up the wall and makes our schools rank as the worst of northern Europe) I can't say what they are teaching right now.
The Vatican isn't exactly an unbiased source, and even if you factor out the bias people back then wasn't exactly grade A statisticians.
If I remember the story correctly, the Vikings butchered wave after wave of missionaries to them until they began to suspect that if all these people were willing to die for their faith, there might be something to it.
I'm weary of stories that have a "romantic flair" to them. I did actually have Norwegian history in elementary school (being Norwegian and all) and from what little I remember some crazed king spread Christianity by the sword, with taxmen close behind. I recall someone asking the teacher what happened to those who didn't convert, and he answered simply with "he cut their heads off" - which was thoughtless of him come to think of it, now remember why I don't like that king. LOL.
There was some sort of tradition called "blood revenge" that got shot by Christianity, that may be the reduction in depredations you're talking about.
I've always found Norwegian history dreadfully boring. Much more fun to read about Greek, Roman, Spanish, etc. histories, so don't take my word for anything.
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Didn't stop Batman Begins and The Dark Knight from being awesome.
I'm not into "Batman" but I thought The Dark Knight sucked.
Knowing how Caprica is going to end killed all interest for me.
Having glanced at the curt document it looks they used this method. They were caught by an automatic monitoring system, not Timber Hill, and it's noted that Timber Hill has changed their algorithm since then (but nothing about them making an an issue out of it.)
It looks like they started out slow, but got bolder and eventually the stock exchange shut down to investigate. Bet they got a chill when that happened.
Purple doesn't exist...
It's sort of true actually. Unlike our other colors purple isn't a "wavelength of purple light". Probably caused by cross talk in our eyes.
...and is a conspiracy against the colorblind
Shit, he's on to us!
Which just goes to show how well designed it was. Exactly how often do they need to track a negative number of people?
I know that in some programming languages, like java, you have to jump through hoops to get unsigned values. For all we know that database was fine, but the server frontend trunctuated values down to signed ints.
For those that don't know, JPEG-2000 lets you encode the largest image once, then download only the amount of file that you need for the image resolution that you're displaying.
I belive normal jpegs has this feature as well, at least to the extent of reducing decode memory usage. There's also progressive jpegs, and oddly enough they tend to be smaller than non-progressive.
I know what audio "dynamic range" compression is. Not unfamiliar with the term as my PC's soundcard has that feature, and the decency to explain that dynamic range takes a hit.
However, only audiophiles notice stuff like that. I've done enough blind tests to know that I don't. Of course, my speakers are built into the telly so they likely introduce bigger distortions than the digital signal processing. I was able to pick out a slight difference when using headphones on my PC, but even then wasn't able to say which was the original uncrushed signal on 128k mp3s - and though high quality MP3s did sound a tad worse they still sounded better than 128k MP3s (and 128k MP3s are good enough for us non-audiophiles).
It isn't that hard to take the average level from the past five minutes, and make the average level of the commercial be the same
My TV does this already; just an option in the menu... and it's not an expensive model or anything. Had more or less forgotten how annoying loud commercials can be.
Probably the most solid platform too! theres no way i'd trust window 7 to launch a rocket into outta space!
Windows 7 is not a RTOS (Real Time OS), so it's a poor choice for controlling the space shuttle in flight. But it's a perfectly fine for hosting the big red launch button.
contrast them against Japan, who only a little more than a century ago, was a dirt poor, backwards country that had to be literally forced at the barrel of a gun to open their doors to the world.
I wouldn't call them backwards. Before the industrial revolution they had greater GDP PPP than Great Brittan (or whatever they were called back then), and was considered an advanced enviable culture. They fell a bit behind, yes, but had a fairly advanced economy, culture, school system, and so on. They even had cannons, guns and pirates! Yarh.
They weren't totally isolationistic either, just sulking a bit over a bloody nose the Koreans gave them in some war over there and stamping out Christianity before it could take root.
So YES Nintendo screwed Sony, just the same as if we agreed to buy a car together but then I suddenly backed-out, leaving you with the $20,000 bill.
Nintendo didn't just screw Sony. They made the Philips announcement without telling Sony that the deal was off first. According to interviews Sony was demonstrating the SNES-CD when this happened and were utterly humiliated. Up to then the company at large was reluctant to enter the gaming marked, they only entered because but some engineers at Sony had managed to get some contracts with Nintendo (for instance they designed the SNES sound chip), but when Nintendo made a fool out of them the big boss took it personally.
Sony wasn't the first big-corp that tried to take a chunk of the gaming marked. NEC, for instance, was bigger and went in sooner. But Sony didn't just release great hardware, they went the extra mile by getting the needed games and marketing campaign to make it all matter. It's possible that Sony's rage is the reason for that.
After all, how long does it take for a human to be able to predict another human's actions, with any reasonable accuracy?
You'd be surprised.
I hate statistics:
United Kingdom (excluding attempts): 1.49
United States - Presumably includes attempts: 5
Of course, it probably isn't enough to make up the difference... but I've learned by now that statistics can be prettied up quite a bit through careful choice of methodology.
A good UI need to be consistent and predictable. When software tries to second guess what I want, glares at MS Word, it tends to piss me off instead.
And no, I don't want a video to full screen when I lean back or audio to mute when I switch app or whatever they think of next.
Ahh, sorry. Not entierly sure what I was arguing up there.
I've never played Metriod or any emulated Wii game except a little Mega Man 9. Mega Man ran just fine by the way, not as fun as on the Game Boy versions though, and nowhere near as taxing to emulate as Metroid.
(I realize Metroid Prime is a Gamecube game, not a Wii game, but the two systems are pretty similar so I think my point stands nonetheless.)
I'm impressed it runs at all. It's amazing what a few hobbyists can put together*, though I still strongly doubt we'll see good Wii emulation on the PS3. It may be technically feasible, but it will be a large effort, you can't simply port existing code like the ever port-popular SNES9X.
* I'm not entirely happy that Dolphin can run commercial Wii games. They should have kept that feature locked away or something until the Wii was off the marked. (Not that it really matters as pirates likely have the real thing anyway.)
Wii emulation
You can do Wii emulation on a high end PC. I gave Mega Man 9 a whirl just for shits and giggles, but other games supposedly work too.
Problem is, of course, that the playstation isn't a high end PC. A direct port of that emulator will run dog slow, a lot like SNES emulation on the GBA I suspect. MS got Xbox games working on the 360, but likely only thanks to a crack team of coders.
Alpha's work/watt rate on integer workloads was never particularly stellar, so I doubt that.
They royally kick Atom's ass,
The Atom looks bad on work/watt, but still wins in raw performance.
but I have no idea how they compare to Alpha.
The alpha is a "floating point monster", or was anyway, and since ARM doesn't focus on floating point I doubt they compare. The Atom might keep up though.
And don't forget, HD/Blue-Ray movies still run at the same old crappy framerate. Motion blur only hides so much, chop chop chop.
as opposed to those who are satisfied with the theory that life evolved from inorganic chemical compounds, totally by chance, with a series of ininitely improbable events occurring in the right sequence over and over and over again.
As it happens, fatty acids and amino acids (the building blocks of life) are quite common in the universe. On earth they've long since been eaten by bacteria but before there was life they floated around freely all over the planet.
Now fat has a tendency to clump together, and if you apply heat (plenty of natural hot springs even today, more back then) you will see "fatty cells" evolve all without any complex DNA. Mix in amino acids and give it enough time and you'll see primitive cell structures forming. Give it a couple of billion years and you'll have your complex cells. Multicelled takes over from there.
Windows Live is free on the PC. I got "Xbox" Live Silver and I played some PC Bioshock 2 MP at no charge. I also bought an Bioshock 2 addon with a credit card - though I don't recall if I bought it through Steam of directly on Windows Live.
Some of my favorite games are 320x200, now get off my lawn. I'm feeling old.
Wikipedia to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stiklestad
Politics, alliances and swords pawed the way for Christianity, with the dead king becoming "a saint" and miracles occurring around his corpse. Same old, same old in other words. Remember now that this took up a good chunk of our history classes, with a lot of fuzz being made about the miracles and them being presented as factual happenings. I'm actually a little appalled right now, ho hum, but with the school system being reformed almost every four years (yes I'm serious, drives the poor teachers up the wall and makes our schools rank as the worst of northern Europe) I can't say what they are teaching right now.
If I remember the story correctly, the Vikings butchered wave after wave of missionaries to them until they began to suspect that if all these people were willing to die for their faith, there might be something to it.
I'm weary of stories that have a "romantic flair" to them. I did actually have Norwegian history in elementary school (being Norwegian and all) and from what little I remember some crazed king spread Christianity by the sword, with taxmen close behind. I recall someone asking the teacher what happened to those who didn't convert, and he answered simply with "he cut their heads off" - which was thoughtless of him come to think of it, now remember why I don't like that king. LOL.
There was some sort of tradition called "blood revenge" that got shot by Christianity, that may be the reduction in depredations you're talking about.
I've always found Norwegian history dreadfully boring. Much more fun to read about Greek, Roman, Spanish, etc. histories, so don't take my word for anything.