Anyway, I'm kind of a skeptic already, I don't think that looking for life outside our galaxy is particularly interesting or useful anyway, considering that the nearest life would be millions of years away by interstellar travel. Even if it's out there, we'll never meet it or communicate with it. Who said we were looking for life outside our galaxy?
We are still on the "looking for life outside our solar system (but inside our galaxy)" stage. We're not even certain that there isn't other life in our solar system, even if it is only bacteria or moulds.
They DID revisit this one, and they did say that it changes based on speed. For the car they used, at under 50mph the window open was better, and above 50mph AC was better. So as a broad statement, AC is better when you're going fast and having the window open is better when you're going slow.
It depends on the power supply. The cheap ones can be as bad as 50% efficient, in which case a 200W pc would draw 400W from the wall.
Incidentally I have two PCs (with >85% efficiency PSUs) and a 19" CRT monitor plugged through a power-meter right now and they are drawing 510W total, and 425W if I turn off the monitor.
One of the PCs is a dual socket A machine with cpus that won't go below 60C despite some really powerful air cooling, and the other is an AMD A64-X2 3800+ with ATI X1900XTX. Both are fairly beefy by modern standards, and from previous tests they draw about the same power (so about 210W each). If I had cheap power-supplies in these PCs (eg qTec Gold-painted triple-fan 650W) then I would be using their estimated 400W per pc, but as I went for quality (in this case Tagan 480W) I can run two pcs for that.
Thankfully I only run one of these PCs 24/7, so it costs me about $210 per year for that one, and about 1/3 of that for the other.
If you have a crap power-supply now, then you can save the cost of a new, good one in about 6 months in the electricity you use (if you have your pc on 24/7).
There's only two things I can think of that don't work in Windows XP x64 that weren't bad practice in Windows XP x86 or even Windows 2000: 1: Device Drivers 2: Kernel hooks (e.g. Anti-virus software)
Any software that doesn't use either of these, doesn't work on Windows x64 edition, and is less than 5 years old, was obviously not very well written.
Would you trust a program to be secure and bug-free if it doesn't even adhere to the OS's guidelines?
Yes, I know how ironic it is that by making a post like that (and having it modded down as off-topic or similar) it will lower my karma, making me less likely to get mod points in the future.
The computer program is our world, we can create whatever we want in it, we are its god. I've seen some pretty amazing things with artificial intelligences in a virtual world. Did you know the orc armies in the lord of the rings films were AI?
Nothing anywhere near the level of a human, but there is no reason it can't be done.
If you want to get philosophical, if us programmers are god to AIs, and we are just the creations of our god, is our god just the creation of another god above him? Could we ever make an AI capable of creating AIs of it's own?
The problem isn't the oil running out (although this is often how it's explained), it's getting to the point where we're using more oil than we can draw from the ground cheaply. There's still plenty of oil left, it's just what is left is much more expensive to get at.
Unfortunately we don't have long until this happens (1-20 years depending on where you look). When it does, oil prices will start to rise really sharply, until people won't be able to afford their commute to work and actually have to move nearby instead.
As great as a zero point energy device would be, if they existed we'd still have to replace all our current petrol (or other oil derivatives) burning vehicles with electric equivalents, which would be horrendously expensive.
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I'll accept your funny problems and raise you another:
AMD K6/2 too fast for Windows 95: News MS Support
You forgot to say "obligatory Monty Python reference"
Just for those people who've never seen Holy Grail.
Am I the only one surprised that the windows calculator can operate on numbers that large?
That is a truly shockingly large number.
We are still on the "looking for life outside our solar system (but inside our galaxy)" stage. We're not even certain that there isn't other life in our solar system, even if it is only bacteria or moulds.
I should probably have mentioned that I work for a different games studio. Not even in America in fact.
I know you were joking, but actually we're not allowed to take the guns out of the studio in case the police get the wrong idea...
(ok, they're not real, only replicas, but the point still stands)
I wonder if someone's done a study of racism by race?
They DID revisit this one, and they did say that it changes based on speed. For the car they used, at under 50mph the window open was better, and above 50mph AC was better. So as a broad statement, AC is better when you're going fast and having the window open is better when you're going slow.
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Wiki has the details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(season_
It depends on the power supply. The cheap ones can be as bad as 50% efficient, in which case a 200W pc would draw 400W from the wall.
Incidentally I have two PCs (with >85% efficiency PSUs) and a 19" CRT monitor plugged through a power-meter right now and they are drawing 510W total, and 425W if I turn off the monitor.
One of the PCs is a dual socket A machine with cpus that won't go below 60C despite some really powerful air cooling, and the other is an AMD A64-X2 3800+ with ATI X1900XTX. Both are fairly beefy by modern standards, and from previous tests they draw about the same power (so about 210W each). If I had cheap power-supplies in these PCs (eg qTec Gold-painted triple-fan 650W) then I would be using their estimated 400W per pc, but as I went for quality (in this case Tagan 480W) I can run two pcs for that.
Thankfully I only run one of these PCs 24/7, so it costs me about $210 per year for that one, and about 1/3 of that for the other.
If you have a crap power-supply now, then you can save the cost of a new, good one in about 6 months in the electricity you use (if you have your pc on 24/7).
The original Game Boy was monochrome? How can the colors be faded?
Also on mine the VV and AA join at the top of the V and the bottom of the A, where a font with proper kerning would leave a gap.
Or just use the AdBlock Plus extension, which blocks all the advert scripts without disabling any of the other scripts on the site.
It also has the advantage of blocking gif image ads on other sites that NoScript misses.
I thought it was tomato ketchup, mayo and finely chopped pickle?
I suppose I classed kernel hooks and shell extensions together, and I shouldn't.
I use tortoise svn myself, and it works perfectly in 64-bit, since they released the 64-bit version anyway.
Indeed. Windows XP x64 doesn't support it either for exactly that reason.
There's only two things I can think of that don't work in Windows XP x64 that weren't bad practice in Windows XP x86 or even Windows 2000:
1: Device Drivers
2: Kernel hooks (e.g. Anti-virus software)
Any software that doesn't use either of these, doesn't work on Windows x64 edition, and is less than 5 years old, was obviously not very well written.
Would you trust a program to be secure and bug-free if it doesn't even adhere to the OS's guidelines?
Yes, I know how ironic it is that by making a post like that (and having it modded down as off-topic or similar) it will lower my karma, making me less likely to get mod points in the future.
That is one insightful post.
You, sir, are a genius.
You are one of the few that "gets it".
The computer program is our world, we can create whatever we want in it, we are its god. I've seen some pretty amazing things with artificial intelligences in a virtual world. Did you know the orc armies in the lord of the rings films were AI?
Nothing anywhere near the level of a human, but there is no reason it can't be done.
If you want to get philosophical, if us programmers are god to AIs, and we are just the creations of our god, is our god just the creation of another god above him? Could we ever make an AI capable of creating AIs of it's own?
I hate to inform you, but the Titanic sank quite a while ago.
:-)
If you were on it now you'd be dead.
Dear god, the original link has so much extra on it (even with adblock) that one page would take 4 pages to print.
With the article only being on the first page, and the rest being links...
How do they expect anyone to navigate that site?
Me with my £20 digital projector :-)
It's ex-lecture hall, and f***ing awesome.
Wasn't there a prototype cell blade server at one point?
The problem isn't the oil running out (although this is often how it's explained), it's getting to the point where we're using more oil than we can draw from the ground cheaply. There's still plenty of oil left, it's just what is left is much more expensive to get at.
Unfortunately we don't have long until this happens (1-20 years depending on where you look). When it does, oil prices will start to rise really sharply, until people won't be able to afford their commute to work and actually have to move nearby instead.
As great as a zero point energy device would be, if they existed we'd still have to replace all our current petrol (or other oil derivatives) burning vehicles with electric equivalents, which would be horrendously expensive.
Wow, that's equivalent to an average of 50kB/sec 24/7 for a month.
I'm impressed.