HAve you played Red Alert 2? A tank can kill fast a US marine only by running over it - its cannon does very little damage against the infantry. As such, infantry is a deadlier enemy for groups of entrenched marines than a tank would be
They don't really need shoes. I think one of them is capable (no shoes and 100 pounds of sticks in his back) to walk longer, go faster and in places where you couldn't go, using the best shoes money can buy.
The things that will help them are TOOLS and knowledge, not things like shoes.
I stand corrected. Anyway, I think that was at over 100m - probably over 200.
Maybe some kind of "explosive" parachute, or maybe some airbags like the ones used by the Mars landers would help some.
A parachute won't help you when you are flying at less than 200 meters high (maybe a bit less). If you fly at 30m (10-stories high), no parachute will deploy fast enough - especially if you are flying slow.
A much bigger mass ratio of the sugar cane is able to be transformed into ethanol. However, if some bacteria capable to readily transform celulose into ethanol can be found/used on large scale, corn will be much more useful.
Maybe a better solution would be to produce bio-diesel (as at this time, the edible oils like sunflower are cheaper than diesel fuel in Romania, and probably elsewhere)
Yes. The premium was increased because your car was hit while parked. You are now in the class of people that are are more at risk at having your car hit while parked.
I understand you don't read articles (sometime I don't), but at least read the post you are replying to.
A punch card had 80 bits on it, on a size of about 10 by 15 cm. It was made of hard paper, I suppose more than 120g/mp. This way, 1 square meter of punch cards would be about 120g for 512 bytes (let's say).
You end up with 1kg for 4kbytes, so the punch cards weighed more than 1 ton. Not so much as the hard drive probably (including robot arms, readers and so on), but browsing after the correct card in a ton (2000+ pounds) or paper would have taken much longer than the direct access a hard drive would have allowed (it would maybe have been slower than rewinding and reading a data tape).
(I don't remember very well the size/capacity of the punch cards, but you can assume my calculations to be in the correct order of magnitude)
Programming tends to be a hog - memory hog, and CPU cycle hog (when compiling/...). And some of the older PCs had just two DIMM slots.
Anyway, replacing now single-core 1600MHz Pentium4 would be in order (going to something like dual core 3000+ MHz). Also, the use of a virtual machine running on the current computer requires more RAM and speed, so there are problems with old computers.
I am looking at upgrading RAM in some machines from 1GB to 1.5GB - but this will be with canibalized RAM from upgraded computers, probably
Did you said "workstation market"? I thought so.
The only reason some of HTPC uses desktop computers, mainboards,... it the fact that they are cheaper to buy. Even quad core would be overkill for desktop use - but even eight cores won't be enough for workstation market.
We at work use some computers three years and some old. Their RAM went a four fold increase, from 256MB to 1GB. The latest computers had 1GB of RAM out of the box, and are expected to survive for some three years.
While 64bit has no no use, its increased accessible memory might come in handy in the followind years.
I saw one implementation, and it was complete junk. Blue screens, crashes and (even more) the need to reinstall. The stability was somehow good at start, but went to the worse fast.
Some of the problems were solved when a discrete video card replaced the integrated one.
There are other tasks that will go on the other core - some of the OS activity that is concurrent with the game, or is created by the game. Also, the video drivers might be "SMP-improved".
I remember NVidia had a "SMP-optimized" driver - it gave a good 10% or less improvement in performance.
I wonder why hardOCP didn't add into the benchmark a slower processor - like a dual core 3800+, or an Pentium D 930. Maybe because they would get the same frame rates?
Guess what is more efficient than a jet engine? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-130_Hercules, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95
Turboprops are used in planes and helicopters, to move big propellers. For the best efficiency, counter-rotating propellers are the best.
Also, if you look at small passenger planes (for 50 or so), made for slower speed, they have a turboprop (jet turbine) that move propellers.
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HAve you played Red Alert 2? A tank can kill fast a US marine only by running over it - its cannon does very little damage against the infantry. As such, infantry is a deadlier enemy for groups of entrenched marines than a tank would be
Sled dogs (huskies, malamutes) are NOT guard dogs. They look special, different, good, nice - but they don't have a strong feeling of property.
Let's say you have a boat with a 393 or a 484 horsepower engine. When you install both of them, the boat will sink
They don't really need shoes. I think one of them is capable (no shoes and 100 pounds of sticks in his back) to walk longer, go faster and in places where you couldn't go, using the best shoes money can buy. The things that will help them are TOOLS and knowledge, not things like shoes.
I stand corrected. Anyway, I think that was at over 100m - probably over 200. Maybe some kind of "explosive" parachute, or maybe some airbags like the ones used by the Mars landers would help some.
A parachute won't help you when you are flying at less than 200 meters high (maybe a bit less). If you fly at 30m (10-stories high), no parachute will deploy fast enough - especially if you are flying slow.
A much bigger mass ratio of the sugar cane is able to be transformed into ethanol. However, if some bacteria capable to readily transform celulose into ethanol can be found/used on large scale, corn will be much more useful. Maybe a better solution would be to produce bio-diesel (as at this time, the edible oils like sunflower are cheaper than diesel fuel in Romania, and probably elsewhere)
Yes. The premium was increased because your car was hit while parked. You are now in the class of people that are are more at risk at having your car hit while parked. I understand you don't read articles (sometime I don't), but at least read the post you are replying to.
It looks like a similar configuration with the $3000+ USD IBM PC's of the 1980 era. Well, except the portability/transportability/trailerability
Just the reason (cost was another) why I choose a Sony-Ericsson instead of a Nokia - the menus on Nokia seemed to me "braindead".
A punch card had 80 bits on it, on a size of about 10 by 15 cm. It was made of hard paper, I suppose more than 120g/mp. This way, 1 square meter of punch cards would be about 120g for 512 bytes (let's say). You end up with 1kg for 4kbytes, so the punch cards weighed more than 1 ton. Not so much as the hard drive probably (including robot arms, readers and so on), but browsing after the correct card in a ton (2000+ pounds) or paper would have taken much longer than the direct access a hard drive would have allowed (it would maybe have been slower than rewinding and reading a data tape). (I don't remember very well the size/capacity of the punch cards, but you can assume my calculations to be in the correct order of magnitude)
Programming tends to be a hog - memory hog, and CPU cycle hog (when compiling/...). And some of the older PCs had just two DIMM slots. Anyway, replacing now single-core 1600MHz Pentium4 would be in order (going to something like dual core 3000+ MHz). Also, the use of a virtual machine running on the current computer requires more RAM and speed, so there are problems with old computers. I am looking at upgrading RAM in some machines from 1GB to 1.5GB - but this will be with canibalized RAM from upgraded computers, probably
No way, five cores only in USA. Add maybe one for Europe :D
This should be renamed "workstation publishing multimedia business"
I don't want to say anything about BeOS users, but Niagara and databases uses so many desktop microprocessors, it's scary.
Did you said "workstation market"? I thought so. The only reason some of HTPC uses desktop computers, mainboards, ... it the fact that they are cheaper to buy. Even quad core would be overkill for desktop use - but even eight cores won't be enough for workstation market.
We at work use some computers three years and some old. Their RAM went a four fold increase, from 256MB to 1GB. The latest computers had 1GB of RAM out of the box, and are expected to survive for some three years. While 64bit has no no use, its increased accessible memory might come in handy in the followind years.
He was a repeat offender, and there was already a conviction that blocked him to look at child porn
I saw one implementation, and it was complete junk. Blue screens, crashes and (even more) the need to reinstall. The stability was somehow good at start, but went to the worse fast. Some of the problems were solved when a discrete video card replaced the integrated one.
Good thing that you can use a single license of Windows to install on no matter how many virtual machines... or you don't?
Silver bullets were presumed to be much more precise in firing than normal lead bullets - I saw this in an american movie (but I don't remember which)
The Core 2 Duo Extreme is more expensive than the Xeon line ($999 versus $800), so this is reason enough not to use Core Extreme
There are other tasks that will go on the other core - some of the OS activity that is concurrent with the game, or is created by the game. Also, the video drivers might be "SMP-improved". I remember NVidia had a "SMP-optimized" driver - it gave a good 10% or less improvement in performance.
I wonder why hardOCP didn't add into the benchmark a slower processor - like a dual core 3800+, or an Pentium D 930. Maybe because they would get the same frame rates?
Guess what is more efficient than a jet engine? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-130_Hercules, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95 Turboprops are used in planes and helicopters, to move big propellers. For the best efficiency, counter-rotating propellers are the best. Also, if you look at small passenger planes (for 50 or so), made for slower speed, they have a turboprop (jet turbine) that move propellers.