Is a specialized hardware raytracing processor on graphics boards. That or built into the GPU but I mean, doing actual real raytracing.
I saw a webpage where some guy made a raytracer with a FPGA or similar and got quake or quake 2 running and using his hardware tracer and the shadows etc were doom3 like (it didnt look that good, but it did look great for quake), at a decent fps. And this was just some guy. If ATI/Nvidia actually developed a nice hardware raytracer onboard their cards, plus this physics processor, I think we'd be pretty damn close to the goal of movie-like 3d in real time.
If the aliens are at the nearest star (they arent), using a 30dB dish and a 1000 watt microwave magnotron...
The recieved signal would be at least -300dBm. You know what kind of transmitter can Rx a signal at -300dBm? The magical non existant kind. No one is recieving these ads, no matter what any ham operator can do, or craigs list.
I'd also point out, as I have many times before, the strange standards of American audiences, who can become red-faced with indignation over nudity, but find no problem with slasher films or chains-saw massacres. I mean, Galactica's premised on a massive genocide, and the pilot deals with violent, shocking deaths over and over again, but people get upset about the sex? Weird....
I find this 100% true, what is the deal wiht that. Why do so many americans and canadians let their children watch terminator movies and other very violent action shows but the hint of a naked body sends parents into a frenzy. What kind of insane values were these parents brought up with..
I can imagine their parents.. "Killing is okay..BUT DONT EVER LET ANYONE SEE YOU NAKED OR EVER HAVE SEX!!!"
I can certainly tell you which i find more natural.
Winzip also has crappy shell extensions, and no batch ability.
When someone uses zip for a spanned archive (thankfully very rare now-a-days) what do you do in winzip to extract all 80 zip files? Before winrar you used pkunzip. With winrar you just select them all, extract here (or to a directory with the archive name)
There is a difference. With winrar you can right click, extract here. Not so with the windows native zip stuff. You can also extract quickly to a directory that is the arhives name under the current directory. Plus sending to email, etc.
Lets not forget the boons of batch processing and proper security (passwords) and error detection.
Lets also not forget the ability to add recovery data (parity data) to rebuild damaged archives.
For joe shmoe who doesnt have much idea about what is going on then yes windows zip support will do. I wouldnt be able to keep a straight face if i heard someone call themselves a power user then talk about using windows native zip (or any zip) for all their compression needs.
I cant speak for linux, but for windows...winrar has to be one of the most perfect pieces of software I've ever seen. It has one of the most untuative interfaces (shell and program) that I've ever seen. It also seems to be near bug free.
I'm back to linux after a few year break (when xp came out..slack forever:D) and winrar is probably the program i miss the most.
Did you actually believe that no late fees meant you could just keep the movie forever free of charge? A femtogram of common sense would have saved you this embarassment.
You have your normal free account, and there are no more late fees. That's it. (if you keep more than 7 days past the return time, there is a restocking fee, but its a buck 25, who cares).
The downside i see on further reflection is..a lot of rental businesses are going to go out of business unless they can match this policy i think. So i suppose it has some competative issues, but really, this is one case where this is just a fantastic deal that the others cant match, so normal competition plain and simple IMHO.
I'm really confused, what's your problem? People like you are gonna ruin this great deal for the rest of us.
You can keep the movie for 7 days in ADDITION to the normal rental time of the movie. Then, after that seven days, you have 30 days (from the orignal rental date) to return it only beeing charged 1.25$ restocking fee.
Before this, you kept the movies for their rental times then the big late charges piled up. For the price of keeping it one day, you've already got more fees on your account than keeping it up to one month with the new system.
How much do you think you'd pay for a movie keeping a new release 30 days with the old system? I bet it would be more than the movie is worth and you'd still have to return it. Now if you keep it that long, you've payed and you now own the movie.
How you got +(x) informative for saying yuck to a deal that charges you signifigantly less money with no catches is beyond me.
The whole point of 'the butterfly effect' (not the movie, again) is that a complex system must be predicted as a system, and not as a sum of its parts.
The point is, that even if you knew the mass, shape, and size of every single piece of a complex system, you still wouldnt get an accurate output on your prediction.
So the best way to predict something like this (if at all possible of course) is to treat as a complex system, find out how it behaves, and write apropriate algorithms to match. Even this is frequently unreliable but it works much better than trying to know every little detail because you can never know enough.
A friend recommended me to watch the pilot of Battlestar Galactica. After seeing that (then of course watching the entire season1), I have this to say to enterprize fans: Good luck.
This is obviously just my humble personal opinion, but from what ive seen, ST:E has absolutly -nothing- on BSG.
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Is a specialized hardware raytracing processor on graphics boards. That or built into the GPU but I mean, doing actual real raytracing.
I saw a webpage where some guy made a raytracer with a FPGA or similar and got quake or quake 2 running and using his hardware tracer and the shadows etc were doom3 like (it didnt look that good, but it did look great for quake), at a decent fps. And this was just some guy. If ATI/Nvidia actually developed a nice hardware raytracer onboard their cards, plus this physics processor, I think we'd be pretty damn close to the goal of movie-like 3d in real time.
Ah well, one day.
Downloading is definately legal in canada. Without a doubt. So is copying your friends cds for personal use.
No idea, but I do know he isnt picking an access point up at -300dBm. The noise floor alone is signifigantly higher.
Your standard wifi card has a rx sensitivity of around -92ish dBm. The BEST commerical offerings might hit -110dBm.
iwlist is lying, or the card's hardware is.
Sorry i re-read it an it kind of sounds like im arguing, but I'm just agreeing with you by offering a bit of technical numbers here.
The path loss equation is 32.4db+20log(distance in km)+20log(freq) - (antenna gains)
This answer will come out in a positive, but it's a loss equation..so you subtract it from your signal dBm.
By what transmitter i of course meant what reciever ;)
If the aliens are at the nearest star (they arent), using a 30dB dish and a 1000 watt microwave magnotron...
The recieved signal would be at least -300dBm. You know what kind of transmitter can Rx a signal at -300dBm? The magical non existant kind. No one is recieving these ads, no matter what any ham operator can do, or craigs list.
Not sure if by miniseries you mean the first season or not, but she tells him right out at the end of th e pilot i think.
Yeah I think most game shows use more of a *DING* now..get with the times..sheesh.
http://www.yikes.com.nyud.net:8090/~pengo/8bit/
I got em all before site slowed too much.
From moore when someone complains about the sex..
I'd also point out, as I have many times before, the strange standards of American audiences, who can become red-faced with indignation over nudity, but find no problem with slasher films or chains-saw massacres. I mean, Galactica's premised on a massive genocide, and the pilot deals with violent, shocking deaths over and over again, but people get upset about the sex? Weird....
I find this 100% true, what is the deal wiht that. Why do so many americans and canadians let their children watch terminator movies and other very violent action shows but the hint of a naked body sends parents into a frenzy. What kind of insane values were these parents brought up with..
I can imagine their parents..
"Killing is okay..BUT DONT EVER LET ANYONE SEE YOU NAKED OR EVER HAVE SEX!!!"
I can certainly tell you which i find more natural.
Winzip also has crappy shell extensions, and no batch ability.
When someone uses zip for a spanned archive (thankfully very rare now-a-days) what do you do in winzip to extract all 80 zip files? Before winrar you used pkunzip. With winrar you just select them all, extract here (or to a directory with the archive name)
There is a difference. With winrar you can right click, extract here. Not so with the windows native zip stuff. You can also extract quickly to a directory that is the arhives name under the current directory. Plus sending to email, etc.
Lets not forget the boons of batch processing and proper security (passwords) and error detection.
Lets also not forget the ability to add recovery data (parity data) to rebuild damaged archives.
For joe shmoe who doesnt have much idea about what is going on then yes windows zip support will do. I wouldnt be able to keep a straight face if i heard someone call themselves a power user then talk about using windows native zip (or any zip) for all their compression needs.
I cant speak for linux, but for windows...winrar has to be one of the most perfect pieces of software I've ever seen. It has one of the most untuative interfaces (shell and program) that I've ever seen. It also seems to be near bug free.
:D) and winrar is probably the program i miss the most.
I'm back to linux after a few year break (when xp came out..slack forever
Ok well lets move back to the old system of paying the rental fee for every day late. Genious.
Yes but in this case common sense dictates that you cant just keep their movie forever free of charge.
That beeing said...
This is a MUCH better deal than before, so to the fucking jerkoff suing them: "STOP IT"
Despite the misleading ad, this is way better than before, and i dont want to lose it because of some whiney malcontents and a money grubbing lawyer.
Did you actually believe that no late fees meant you could just keep the movie forever free of charge? A femtogram of common sense would have saved you this embarassment.
This is totally and utterly false.
You have your normal free account, and there are no more late fees. That's it. (if you keep more than 7 days past the return time, there is a restocking fee, but its a buck 25, who cares).
Sorry to reply to my own post but...
The downside i see on further reflection is..a lot of rental businesses are going to go out of business unless they can match this policy i think. So i suppose it has some competative issues, but really, this is one case where this is just a fantastic deal that the others cant match, so normal competition plain and simple IMHO.
I'm really confused, what's your problem? People like you are gonna ruin this great deal for the rest of us.
You can keep the movie for 7 days in ADDITION to the normal rental time of the movie. Then, after that seven days, you have 30 days (from the orignal rental date) to return it only beeing charged 1.25$ restocking fee.
Before this, you kept the movies for their rental times then the big late charges piled up. For the price of keeping it one day, you've already got more fees on your account than keeping it up to one month with the new system.
How much do you think you'd pay for a movie keeping a new release 30 days with the old system? I bet it would be more than the movie is worth and you'd still have to return it. Now if you keep it that long, you've payed and you now own the movie.
How you got +(x) informative for saying yuck to a deal that charges you signifigantly less money with no catches is beyond me.
The whole point of 'the butterfly effect' (not the movie, again) is that a complex system must be predicted as a system, and not as a sum of its parts.
The point is, that even if you knew the mass, shape, and size of every single piece of a complex system, you still wouldnt get an accurate output on your prediction.
So the best way to predict something like this (if at all possible of course) is to treat as a complex system, find out how it behaves, and write apropriate algorithms to match. Even this is frequently unreliable but it works much better than trying to know every little detail because you can never know enough.
A friend recommended me to watch the pilot of Battlestar Galactica. After seeing that (then of course watching the entire season1), I have this to say to enterprize fans: Good luck.
This is obviously just my humble personal opinion, but from what ive seen, ST:E has absolutly -nothing- on BSG.
Mozilla also allows you to keep a large portion of it sitting in memory for quick startups.
I just use isohunt.com.
Searches a whooole bunch of torrent sites, can find near anything on there.
For new stuff and requests i use a login site (elitetorrents)
Rediculous download speeds because there are always way more seeders than leechers.
How is this not usefull? They have the bootloader and can now boot linux on the 4G ipod. Pretty sweet/usefull hack to me.