As for synergy, totally agreed. I see the Cell as a decent attempt to get there. A few more SPEs and it might have been able to match the throughput of a GPU.
What grade of GPU? It's an order of magnitude short of the shader power alone of a top-of-the-range GPU, let alone the fixed function power it entirely lacks (e.g. texture samplers). Sony famously rated the PS3 as a 2 TFLOPS machine, of which only 200 GFLOPS were the Cell cpu, and the rest was the GPU (of which ~200 GFLOPS were programmable and the rest was fixed functions).
And GPUs have moved on by an order of magnitude since then.
The Japanese maglev system has a lot in common with "Inductrack", it uses passive figure-8 coils in the track to levitate and guide the train. The magnets on the train are superconductors, and powered alternating magnets in the track are used for propulsion. The trains have wheels because they don't levitate at low speeds or while stopped.
The only difference between the systems is in the kind of magnet used in the train itself.
Have you disassembled that keygen/crack to see if it is safe? Convincing someone to run an arbitrary executable file that may or may not do what it claims is exactly the goal of malware authors, after all.
In process explorer, the calc.exe is only indented far enough to be a child of explorer.exe, not chrome.exe. So surely calc.exe was launched from explorer, not chrome?
I passed my driving test in 2002, and hadn't been driving long then. Petrol prices didn't matter to me before that:P
I vaguely understand miles per gallon (I can recognise a typical mpg, good, poor, what's better than another, etc), but I can't calculate anything useful with them, because I have no idea how much a gallon is. I get 400 miles on £70 of fuel, roughly 55 litres. What's that in mpg? Couldn't tell you without looking up the gallonlitre conversion (or as I did in my earlier post, just asked Google to do the maths for me). Miles per litre would be more useful really, but I tend to think about journeys in cost rather than volume of fuel.
I just meant that without looking up the conversions for a USD or US gallon we would have no clue what you meant. Without calculating it I have no idea how much $9 is worth. I know our pound is stronger than pretty much everything, so it's worth less than £9, but how much less? Would it buy a takeaway meal? Or only an apple?
We wouldn't understand what you meant by "$9 a gallon for gas", as not only do we not use gallons, the "gallon" the old people know here is a different size to yours; we don't use dollars (and the exchange rate has varied quite a lot over the past couple of years (between 1.3 and 2.1 USD per GBP, currently ~1.6)); and we call it petrol, not "gas". Google says the prices I've seen work out at between 8.3 and 9.0 USD/US gallon at current exchange rate. My car averages around 400 miles on £70 (aka a full tank) of fuel at the moment, you? That works out about 35 British mpg or about 29 American mpg. That's mostly motorway driving (aka >70mph). It would be better if I drove better.
Not going to disagree on the amount of "urban trash" we have though.
We have used nuclear reactors on probes (e.g. all 5 interstellar probes), as well as tested ion drives which could be run from a nuclear reactor.
AFAIK, of all nuclear technologies, only nuclear pulse drive (repeated atomic explosions) could actually lift a rocket off of earth. There are reasons we don't use that one, we have quite enough nuclear fallout on our planet already. I doubt even the Chinese would launch one.
We use miles and miles per hour, and miles per gallon. But fuel is sold in litres, not gallons. And it's a different-sized gallon to the US gallon, which just complicates car efficiency talk.
These days miles per £GBP is far more important though, with fuel so expensive and electric cars coming in.
48" is approx 120 cm, so you'd put a screw in every 40 cm.
Note that in a metric country the sheet is likely to be a round metric number, so 120 cm is much more likely than the pain-to-divide 121.92 cm that 48" actually is.
How about if your section is a foot and a couple of inches larger than a yard, and you need to divide that into 3?
It doesn't say they're bringing the steam store to PS3.
The features it lists are: You can bind a PSN account to a steam account. Trophies earned in Portal 2 on PS3 also unlock the steam achievements. Achievements earned in Windows or OSX do not unlock PSN Trophies. You buy the PS3 version of Portal 2, you get the PC version free. Via a code in the box. While playing Portal 2 you can chat to people on steam on either platform. You can play Portal 2 multiplayer across-platform. Savegames are automatically copies between PCs and between PS3s using the steam cloud. They are not copied between PC and PS3 though. You can't play Portal 2 on PS3 and anything else on your PC's steam account at the same time.
before I can agree to hire someone for even minor things like painting my house - because if I don't, they'll find a way to chisel another 20-30% out of me.
They try that anyway. Normally by not finishing on time and threatening to just leave it unfinished if you don't pay them for the extra days.
Actually, holograms do work like he said. You do focus as if the image was really at the depth. This is because a hologram reconstructs the exact light waveform that was recorded.
Real (not from a tunnel broker) IPv6 is hierarchical. This means that the first half of the address will give you a rough geolocation, and you can use landmark servers with the same prefix to go from.
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You could just run Windows 3.1. It does still work on a modern pc.
As for synergy, totally agreed. I see the Cell as a decent attempt to get there. A few more SPEs and it might have been able to match the throughput of a GPU.
What grade of GPU? It's an order of magnitude short of the shader power alone of a top-of-the-range GPU, let alone the fixed function power it entirely lacks (e.g. texture samplers). Sony famously rated the PS3 as a 2 TFLOPS machine, of which only 200 GFLOPS were the Cell cpu, and the rest was the GPU (of which ~200 GFLOPS were programmable and the rest was fixed functions).
And GPUs have moved on by an order of magnitude since then.
The Japanese maglev system has a lot in common with "Inductrack", it uses passive figure-8 coils in the track to levitate and guide the train. The magnets on the train are superconductors, and powered alternating magnets in the track are used for propulsion. The trains have wheels because they don't levitate at low speeds or while stopped.
The only difference between the systems is in the kind of magnet used in the train itself.
It only takes one last straw to break the camel's back...
I want an update and re-release of Final Fantasy VII. Preferably for 3DS. Then they can have my money.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Have you disassembled that keygen/crack to see if it is safe? Convincing someone to run an arbitrary executable file that may or may not do what it claims is exactly the goal of malware authors, after all.
In process explorer, the calc.exe is only indented far enough to be a child of explorer.exe, not chrome.exe. So surely calc.exe was launched from explorer, not chrome?
I passed my driving test in 2002, and hadn't been driving long then. Petrol prices didn't matter to me before that :P
I vaguely understand miles per gallon (I can recognise a typical mpg, good, poor, what's better than another, etc), but I can't calculate anything useful with them, because I have no idea how much a gallon is.
I get 400 miles on £70 of fuel, roughly 55 litres. What's that in mpg? Couldn't tell you without looking up the gallonlitre conversion (or as I did in my earlier post, just asked Google to do the maths for me). Miles per litre would be more useful really, but I tend to think about journeys in cost rather than volume of fuel.
I just meant that without looking up the conversions for a USD or US gallon we would have no clue what you meant. Without calculating it I have no idea how much $9 is worth. I know our pound is stronger than pretty much everything, so it's worth less than £9, but how much less? Would it buy a takeaway meal? Or only an apple?
Nah we just like to bash NASCAR.
We wouldn't understand what you meant by "$9 a gallon for gas", as not only do we not use gallons, the "gallon" the old people know here is a different size to yours; we don't use dollars (and the exchange rate has varied quite a lot over the past couple of years (between 1.3 and 2.1 USD per GBP, currently ~1.6)); and we call it petrol, not "gas". Google says the prices I've seen work out at between 8.3 and 9.0 USD/US gallon at current exchange rate.
My car averages around 400 miles on £70 (aka a full tank) of fuel at the moment, you? That works out about 35 British mpg or about 29 American mpg. That's mostly motorway driving (aka >70mph). It would be better if I drove better.
Not going to disagree on the amount of "urban trash" we have though.
The Android browser has multiple windows, you just have to go via the menu to switch between them.
We have used nuclear reactors on probes (e.g. all 5 interstellar probes), as well as tested ion drives which could be run from a nuclear reactor.
AFAIK, of all nuclear technologies, only nuclear pulse drive (repeated atomic explosions) could actually lift a rocket off of earth. There are reasons we don't use that one, we have quite enough nuclear fallout on our planet already. I doubt even the Chinese would launch one.
analog transistor
Transistors are analogue components.
I have seen a USB plug in an Ethernet socket. It fits perfectly, and if you get it in right it even locks in place!
We use miles and miles per hour, and miles per gallon. But fuel is sold in litres, not gallons. And it's a different-sized gallon to the US gallon, which just complicates car efficiency talk.
These days miles per £GBP is far more important though, with fuel so expensive and electric cars coming in.
48" is approx 120 cm, so you'd put a screw in every 40 cm.
Note that in a metric country the sheet is likely to be a round metric number, so 120 cm is much more likely than the pain-to-divide 121.92 cm that 48" actually is.
How about if your section is a foot and a couple of inches larger than a yard, and you need to divide that into 3?
(*That is, unless you consider the movie itself to be a crime against the book)
Only as much as the book is a crime against the radio show. Douglas Adams wrote them all, after all.
The only crime would be a "book of the film".
I love searching for "XYZ review" and getting "be the first to review XYZ!" on a billion shopping sites.
It doesn't say they're bringing the steam store to PS3.
The features it lists are:
You can bind a PSN account to a steam account.
Trophies earned in Portal 2 on PS3 also unlock the steam achievements. Achievements earned in Windows or OSX do not unlock PSN Trophies.
You buy the PS3 version of Portal 2, you get the PC version free. Via a code in the box.
While playing Portal 2 you can chat to people on steam on either platform.
You can play Portal 2 multiplayer across-platform.
Savegames are automatically copies between PCs and between PS3s using the steam cloud. They are not copied between PC and PS3 though.
You can't play Portal 2 on PS3 and anything else on your PC's steam account at the same time.
before I can agree to hire someone for even minor things like painting my house - because if I don't, they'll find a way to chisel another 20-30% out of me.
They try that anyway. Normally by not finishing on time and threatening to just leave it unfinished if you don't pay them for the extra days.
Why not? Everyone else is.
Actually, holograms do work like he said. You do focus as if the image was really at the depth. This is because a hologram reconstructs the exact light waveform that was recorded.
It's NOT powers of a million, that's long scale numbers (which has octillion as 10^48, aka 1000000 (10^6) ^8).
It's powers of 1000, times 1000 to put million at 1,000,000: 1000 * 1000^8 or 1000^(8+1).
Real (not from a tunnel broker) IPv6 is hierarchical. This means that the first half of the address will give you a rough geolocation, and you can use landmark servers with the same prefix to go from.
The technique should work just fine.