Most things around us, including the keyboard I'm currently typing on, are made out of processed, long-dead and rotten animals. So yeah. Some clothes are made out of that lovely stuff too.
You misunderstand. That's part of the reason they want to spy on us all-... basic human desires. They're building the biggest repository of porn they can find, and any other juicy (not in that way) bits they can find are a nice catch on the side.
Except it's easier to tell the people "we're filtering to protect you from terrorists" than it is to say "we're filtering to get a copy of all your porn". I mean, who'd take -that- seriously?
He/she doesn't do things that are geeky -for Christmas-. That's an essential part that you missed. If it's nothing special to them, why would they bother? Do you do unique geeky things for dinner every day?
No oxygen to burn it with. The biggest reason coal is so useful on Earth is because it reacts with the ever-abundant oxygen in the air to make warmth (which can be used for power with some more materials)
Just flag any cop who gets one of these as having one.. and if they catch someone without having full footage of the arrest, the arrest is denied and the arrested person (victim) is pardoned by default. Yes, you'd have a few more criminals on the street for the first while, until the police officers learn that it is -vital- that they actually keep recording while doing their duty.. and that they avoid doing unsavoury things while recording.
With such a system, police brutality could be reduced immensely. If mandated by someone big, it could really make a big change towards safety and freedom. Sadly, it'd also affect privacy somewhat. On the positive side, the safety/privacy tradeoff is much better than that of NSA posturing or any number of other post-9/11 silliness.
While I agree in principle, the rendertimes and compiletimes you'd get with 256x1ghz just mesmerize me. Of course, any OpenCL program can probably reach the same kind of thing, in theory..
While true, the difference between 1 ghz and 3 ghz per core (all other factors being equal) means that those tasks would be slowed by only 1/3rd. I find it somewhat difficult to come up with anything that needs to be done in realtime but can't be parallelized. Non-casual games come up, but they haven't really been CPU-constrained until fairly recently. A cascaded model (each frame's state is passed down between threads in turn) would give a tiny bit of lag, but make it possible to use 3 cores for the graphics and the game logic rather than 1. Non-essential things could be put in separate threads.
Maybe in cases where the computer can't parallelize, the user should. Run those tasks while the computer's not doing much else anyway. Or even in the background because there's cores not being used otherwise anyway.
Can you tell me some examples of inherently-serial tasks that need to be done in realtime, -and- are actually of interest to even the most hardcore of consumers?
Well, Macs have always been associated with graphical artists. I personally love working on my Cintiq on Windows/Linux and wouldn't touch a Mac with a 10-foot pole (Something big needs to happen before I give any money to something so anti-freedom as Apple), but... yeah. Most people using advanced drawing programs or 3D rendering/sculpting software will need a lot of CPU and GPU power. Some apps lean on one more than the other, but I don't think any 3D artist these days will look at his rendertimes and say "welp, that'll forever be fast enough for me!"
Programmers are traditionally more Unix/Linux folks, and a lot of programmers use compilers that write bytecode rather than actual executables, so I don't think they will be of much concern to Apple.. but this does mean that multi-OS support will fall behind again. And given that Windows (about 80%?) and Linux (maybe another 5%?) serve a huge share of the desktop users, that probably means that the Mac will be left behind. Beside that, a large share of FOSS software seems to be mostly developed on Linux anyway, so..
I don't think this'll affect non-Mac users much. It may hurt Apple's bottom line a bit, but the forced upgrades will compensate and probably cause a bit of a jump in profits even. It'll just further segregation between Mac and non-Mac.
Nah, you're just misinterpreting the units. 60 joules per second per tower per day. Do we know anything else that has time in there twice? Yep, acceleration. For each day that happens, they can power another tower with the same 60 watts.
I agree. This is not what I expected when the article called it "breathtaking". It's not even breathtakingly bad, it's just... plain. I don't even like Apple (ethical reasons) but I have to admit they usually have some sort of sense of design. That makes it pretty hard to believe a designer like Jobs ever thought of this ship.
Hey, I resent the thought that we dutchmen need mexicans and kenyans to make a mess! We're perfectly capable of making our own bleached-blonde islam-hating messes..
That means I had the wrong timescales in mind. But yeah-... calculate projectile size, -type- and fuel amount for the range you need. It was implied, because at those ranges ion engines are more effective.
You could avoid half the delta-V by not slowing down-... just have the rocket speed up to max speed and slam into the asteroid. Calculate the engine size and fuel amount to be okay for the range you need it at, then make a few rockets to stand ready for various ranges. Crumple zones would let all the impact go into pushing, rather than shattering the thing. Even use some kind of internal room full of tiny airbags if you must. One-way valves (with a tiny air-hole for letting them deflate on impact and not burst prematurely) on all of them, inflate them the usual way or use a small amount of rocket exhaust that you cool down somehow. Simple, really.
"Transfer orbit". Probably the kind of orbit where you transfer from atmosphere to "space" (as in, getting almost no drag from the atmosphere anymore). That's different from geostationary... and changing orbits takes a lot of fuel, that's simple.
Sorry, van Nederlandse literatuur heb ik geen kaas gegeten. Also... I think it'll piss off the mods if we talk dutch on an english-oriented website, won't it?
Oh gods yes... VVD is the worst of it all because they have power. VVD = People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. But the PVV (Party for Freedom) are the ones that Wilders is using to spew his nonsense. Actually.. they split off from the VVD, so it's all the same anyway. I'm just glad Wilders didn't get to be the prime minister through the VVD somehow, I guess..
We've also got the CDA (Christian-Democratic Appeal, I guess?) that was in charge at the time the RFID-enabled mandatory ID cards were introduced... Well, I guess that's about it for Christian or Freedom. But there's been a few more, just as evil.
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Eliminates sounds under 40 dB and eliminates noises under 40 hertz. So if sound 40 dB && 40 hz
That's what I understand, anyway. He said "eliminate" in both cases, suggesting both types of sounds are individually eliminated.
You're willing to sell him the TSA? That's cool-... we should start a Kickstarter to collect the funds to buy it and throw it in the trash :D
Most things around us, including the keyboard I'm currently typing on, are made out of processed, long-dead and rotten animals. So yeah. Some clothes are made out of that lovely stuff too.
You misunderstand. That's part of the reason they want to spy on us all-... basic human desires. They're building the biggest repository of porn they can find, and any other juicy (not in that way) bits they can find are a nice catch on the side.
Except it's easier to tell the people "we're filtering to protect you from terrorists" than it is to say "we're filtering to get a copy of all your porn". I mean, who'd take -that- seriously?
Only the water turns to steam.. Explosively. It'll be floating above the oil, one would think.
He/she doesn't do things that are geeky -for Christmas-. That's an essential part that you missed. If it's nothing special to them, why would they bother? Do you do unique geeky things for dinner every day?
No oxygen to burn it with. The biggest reason coal is so useful on Earth is because it reacts with the ever-abundant oxygen in the air to make warmth (which can be used for power with some more materials)
Just flag any cop who gets one of these as having one.. and if they catch someone without having full footage of the arrest, the arrest is denied and the arrested person (victim) is pardoned by default. Yes, you'd have a few more criminals on the street for the first while, until the police officers learn that it is -vital- that they actually keep recording while doing their duty.. and that they avoid doing unsavoury things while recording.
With such a system, police brutality could be reduced immensely. If mandated by someone big, it could really make a big change towards safety and freedom. Sadly, it'd also affect privacy somewhat. On the positive side, the safety/privacy tradeoff is much better than that of NSA posturing or any number of other post-9/11 silliness.
While I agree in principle, the rendertimes and compiletimes you'd get with 256x1ghz just mesmerize me. Of course, any OpenCL program can probably reach the same kind of thing, in theory..
While true, the difference between 1 ghz and 3 ghz per core (all other factors being equal) means that those tasks would be slowed by only 1/3rd. I find it somewhat difficult to come up with anything that needs to be done in realtime but can't be parallelized. Non-casual games come up, but they haven't really been CPU-constrained until fairly recently. A cascaded model (each frame's state is passed down between threads in turn) would give a tiny bit of lag, but make it possible to use 3 cores for the graphics and the game logic rather than 1. Non-essential things could be put in separate threads.
Maybe in cases where the computer can't parallelize, the user should. Run those tasks while the computer's not doing much else anyway. Or even in the background because there's cores not being used otherwise anyway.
Can you tell me some examples of inherently-serial tasks that need to be done in realtime, -and- are actually of interest to even the most hardcore of consumers?
Well, Macs have always been associated with graphical artists. I personally love working on my Cintiq on Windows/Linux and wouldn't touch a Mac with a 10-foot pole (Something big needs to happen before I give any money to something so anti-freedom as Apple), but... yeah. Most people using advanced drawing programs or 3D rendering/sculpting software will need a lot of CPU and GPU power. Some apps lean on one more than the other, but I don't think any 3D artist these days will look at his rendertimes and say "welp, that'll forever be fast enough for me!"
Programmers are traditionally more Unix/Linux folks, and a lot of programmers use compilers that write bytecode rather than actual executables, so I don't think they will be of much concern to Apple.. but this does mean that multi-OS support will fall behind again. And given that Windows (about 80%?) and Linux (maybe another 5%?) serve a huge share of the desktop users, that probably means that the Mac will be left behind. Beside that, a large share of FOSS software seems to be mostly developed on Linux anyway, so..
I don't think this'll affect non-Mac users much. It may hurt Apple's bottom line a bit, but the forced upgrades will compensate and probably cause a bit of a jump in profits even. It'll just further segregation between Mac and non-Mac.
Nah, you're just misinterpreting the units. 60 joules per second per tower per day. Do we know anything else that has time in there twice? Yep, acceleration. For each day that happens, they can power another tower with the same 60 watts.
They are illegally copying power!
Surely "knocking your door down" is just an accident when they use their legal right to "knock on your door" a bit too much?
I agree. This is not what I expected when the article called it "breathtaking". It's not even breathtakingly bad, it's just... plain. I don't even like Apple (ethical reasons) but I have to admit they usually have some sort of sense of design. That makes it pretty hard to believe a designer like Jobs ever thought of this ship.
Heh, no worries. I just love to bash on Wilders.. I think most people do :)
War is good for profit. Promoting peace is terrorism, obviously.
([/sarcasm] tag included for those who need it, and probably for those few people happily monitoring my connection by now :D)
Hey, I resent the thought that we dutchmen need mexicans and kenyans to make a mess! We're perfectly capable of making our own bleached-blonde islam-hating messes..
That means I had the wrong timescales in mind. But yeah-... calculate projectile size, -type- and fuel amount for the range you need. It was implied, because at those ranges ion engines are more effective.
You could avoid half the delta-V by not slowing down-... just have the rocket speed up to max speed and slam into the asteroid. Calculate the engine size and fuel amount to be okay for the range you need it at, then make a few rockets to stand ready for various ranges. Crumple zones would let all the impact go into pushing, rather than shattering the thing. Even use some kind of internal room full of tiny airbags if you must. One-way valves (with a tiny air-hole for letting them deflate on impact and not burst prematurely) on all of them, inflate them the usual way or use a small amount of rocket exhaust that you cool down somehow. Simple, really.
Sorry, but.. "arr anus"? Is that the best you've got? I never knew pirates shared anii.
How about R-slamdunkintoatmosphericdeath?
"Transfer orbit". Probably the kind of orbit where you transfer from atmosphere to "space" (as in, getting almost no drag from the atmosphere anymore). That's different from geostationary... and changing orbits takes a lot of fuel, that's simple.
Sorry, van Nederlandse literatuur heb ik geen kaas gegeten. Also... I think it'll piss off the mods if we talk dutch on an english-oriented website, won't it?
Oh gods yes... VVD is the worst of it all because they have power. VVD = People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. But the PVV (Party for Freedom) are the ones that Wilders is using to spew his nonsense. Actually.. they split off from the VVD, so it's all the same anyway. I'm just glad Wilders didn't get to be the prime minister through the VVD somehow, I guess..
We've also got the CDA (Christian-Democratic Appeal, I guess?) that was in charge at the time the RFID-enabled mandatory ID cards were introduced... Well, I guess that's about it for Christian or Freedom. But there's been a few more, just as evil.
Slippery slope after 9/11, I think. That's when we got RFID'd mandatory ID cards.