The problem with your logic is that you look at the earth as if it has had 4 billion years to experiement with new kinds of life.
As soon as the first kind took over, that experimentation would cease, because de-novo life would be very inadept at surviving, especially compared to something that has had time to evolve. De-novo life would not be able to get an ecological niche for itself and compete agains existing life, nor would it be able to go head-to-head against existing life on a more direct competition.
Good points there. Also (regarding the post you replied to), the point is a chemically reactive elements, with the far left/right stuff, moreso than the ability to double bond, though the double bonding elements could also be relevant.
Actually, in areas of greater pressure (deeper under the clouds), there is still the possibility of life I would say.
Another thing is, we often make the following assumptions in terms of life forms, and we can be ceratain of none of them:
1) requirements of Carbon and Oxygen -- Sulphur, Silicon, and any far-left or far-right non-noble element can handle the requirements here (namely something that can form long complex structures, and something highly reactive that nonetheless has stable compounds wherein it exists) 2) The life will be based on nucleic acids (RNA/DNA) and amino acids (proteins) -- While these are more simple structures that could perform their tasks while remaining stable, there are other structures that could potentially store data and perform structural/chemical tasks.
My old Hitachi was a nice LCD in regards to image quality, and it looked great with clear type. However the backlight died (and the response time was a bit low), and now I have a cheap Samsung - The letters have halos on them with clear type.
So, monitor quality is a big part of it, not just the rendering technology, though both are important.
*turns off the atmospheric regulation equipment, engine, and anything else active* "I see you are trying to go to the space station, would you like help with that?" *crash*
He had a few good ideas on the financial aspects. The socialpolitical aspects though... Makes me wonder if he was deaf, dumb and blind.
Two words are needed disproove the main keystone of the social idea that holds up the sociopolitical aspect of his theories... Baroom Brawl
The working class does not inherantly get along, and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to cut down on the recreational narcotics.
That being said, crises of overproduction, business taking as much money as they can get, and abusing the lower classes (read: less wealthy), who cannot fight back in an organized manner (which would be needed with large corporations), are quite valid points that he made.
If I want to render scenes with one sphere (the most trivial object for a raytracer), colored and no texture and one light source, it can probably be real-time raytraced on my desktop machine.
If I want to render scenes with millions/billions of objects that have textures, translucencies, non-point light soruces (and/or multiple light sources), varying reflectivity, etc., it would be possible to make a scene that 100 of those, clustered, couldn't render in under a few minutes.
It's all a matter of "how much" do you want to render.
In Windows or FreeBSD, I typically do changes as needed. I do a lot of stuff with my computer, and it's rare for me to go a month without installing a new app, as such I'll need to give it a proper home on a well organized start/k menu, and I'll want to configure it's UI settings, if it has any...
In Linux, I usually get sick of trying to figure out how to get a program to work/run properly, and give up.
OK, well, there hasn't been throttling in months where I've gotten over that amount each week of the month, let alone the whole thing. Guess we aren't oversubscribed.
They didn't bother to tell us that we got higher bandwidth with AT&T/SBC/Whever-it-is-this-month... It' just happens, and we see a new piece of info on the bill, with the same price.
All the 4Mbit plans in Columbus Oh are 3-5 static IPs, I plan to move to one of those.
Thanks!
Currently on AT&T I have a 1280kbps connection that averages around 1500kbps, the plan was 768kbps (at the time it averages 1280kbps), but they had up the service.
I will miss getting more bandwidth than I pay for... Didn't even have to mod the modem, plugged it in, turned it on, and it just does it's overpowered thing...
To my knowledge, we've never had a cap, and there's a lot of high-downloaders at the house.
Still I'm thinking of switching to Wide Open West. I'd like the higher throughput (4x) even if it's slightly higher latency in most cases (~10-20% higher). It's still better than the only other major high-speeds around here (Insight/Road Runner), who tend to overburden the hubs in their neighborhoods.
Hmmm, I think you are thinking of a differint type of WINE.
This is not the WINE you find next to the BEER and VODKA, one aisle over from the SODA POP, but rather a software application you find in the PORTS TREE in BSD, or various SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES in Linux.
There are still "average" and "general" Apple users too (otherwise there probably wouldn't be a market for Mac Minis, iMacs and eMacs). These users will/not/ be the users to buy such a machine, and these users are/not/ part of a niche market, but rather part of a market that Apple has either drawn away from, or kept away from, the non-Apple market segments.
And there are non-Apple users who will drop 4 grand on a PC for some tasks. Not all non-Apple users are MS Office drones.
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The problem with your logic is that you look at the earth as if it has had 4 billion years to experiement with new kinds of life.
As soon as the first kind took over, that experimentation would cease, because de-novo life would be very inadept at surviving, especially compared to something that has had time to evolve. De-novo life would not be able to get an ecological niche for itself and compete agains existing life, nor would it be able to go head-to-head against existing life on a more direct competition.
Good points there. Also (regarding the post you replied to), the point is a chemically reactive elements, with the far left/right stuff, moreso than the ability to double bond, though the double bonding elements could also be relevant.
Interesting, I thought of Clarke when I made that post due to the series.
I also thought of (Bova?) With Saturn Rukh.
Actually, in areas of greater pressure (deeper under the clouds), there is still the possibility of life I would say.
Another thing is, we often make the following assumptions in terms of life forms, and we can be ceratain of none of them:
1) requirements of Carbon and Oxygen
-- Sulphur, Silicon, and any far-left or far-right non-noble element can handle the requirements here (namely something that can form long complex structures, and something highly reactive that nonetheless has stable compounds wherein it exists)
2) The life will be based on nucleic acids (RNA/DNA) and amino acids (proteins)
-- While these are more simple structures that could perform their tasks while remaining stable, there are other structures that could potentially store data and perform structural/chemical tasks.
my mom only gave me one hour of computer/video gaming when I was a kid.
She truely was totalitarian!
I think a lot of it is monitor quality too..
My old Hitachi was a nice LCD in regards to image quality, and it looked great with clear type.
However the backlight died (and the response time was a bit low), and now I have a cheap Samsung - The letters have halos on them with clear type.
So, monitor quality is a big part of it, not just the rendering technology, though both are important.
It's more like (30 seconds after liftoff)
*turns off the atmospheric regulation equipment, engine, and anything else active*
"I see you are trying to go to the space station, would you like help with that?"
*crash*
But does it run Linux?
What? No 'touch'? I take it that's the polictially correct article?
He had a few good ideas on the financial aspects. The socialpolitical aspects though... Makes me wonder if he was deaf, dumb and blind.
Two words are needed disproove the main keystone of the social idea that holds up the sociopolitical aspect of his theories...
Baroom Brawl
The working class does not inherantly get along, and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to cut down on the recreational narcotics.
That being said, crises of overproduction, business taking as much money as they can get, and abusing the lower classes (read: less wealthy), who cannot fight back in an organized manner (which would be needed with large corporations), are quite valid points that he made.
No
It was also a comic book!
Kindergarten math.
Hey, they did say they were a bit behind!
A more relevant factor: How complex is the scene.
If I want to render scenes with one sphere (the most trivial object for a raytracer), colored and no texture and one light source, it can probably be real-time raytraced on my desktop machine.
If I want to render scenes with millions/billions of objects that have textures, translucencies, non-point light soruces (and/or multiple light sources), varying reflectivity, etc., it would be possible to make a scene that 100 of those, clustered, couldn't render in under a few minutes.
It's all a matter of "how much" do you want to render.
I wonder what it ate? I hope it wasn't the fish...
In Windows or FreeBSD, I typically do changes as needed. I do a lot of stuff with my computer, and it's rare for me to go a month without installing a new app, as such I'll need to give it a proper home on a well organized start/k menu, and I'll want to configure it's UI settings, if it has any...
In Linux, I usually get sick of trying to figure out how to get a program to work/run properly, and give up.
OK, well, there hasn't been throttling in months where I've gotten over that amount each week of the month, let alone the whole thing. Guess we aren't oversubscribed.
Good to know
They didn't bother to tell us that we got higher bandwidth with AT&T/SBC/Whever-it-is-this-month... It' just happens, and we see a new piece of info on the bill, with the same price.
All the 4Mbit plans in Columbus Oh are 3-5 static IPs, I plan to move to one of those.
Thanks!
Currently on AT&T I have a 1280kbps connection that averages around 1500kbps, the plan was 768kbps (at the time it averages 1280kbps), but they had up the service.
I will miss getting more bandwidth than I pay for... Didn't even have to mod the modem, plugged it in, turned it on, and it just does it's overpowered thing...
same here, before it was SBC, then SBC-Yahoo...
/.ers?
To my knowledge, we've never had a cap, and there's a lot of high-downloaders at the house.
Still I'm thinking of switching to Wide Open West. I'd like the higher throughput (4x) even if it's slightly higher latency in most cases (~10-20% higher). It's still better than the only other major high-speeds around here (Insight/Road Runner), who tend to overburden the hubs in their neighborhoods.
Any info on WoW from the
Hmmm, I think you are thinking of a differint type of WINE.
This is not the WINE you find next to the BEER and VODKA, one aisle over from the SODA POP, but rather a software application you find in the PORTS TREE in BSD, or various SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES in Linux.
Sure...
Many games I play in WINE lack the bugs they have in windows.
Ex: Due to DirectX errors, Master of Orion 3 is virtually unplayable in Windows, where as it's flawless in WINE.
Also, WINE isn't involved in my web browsing or email.
I feel so sorry for those poor hackers not being able to get to my account...
not.
Ahh
Nobody wants a show staring Callie and Baltar anyway.
Given that the original BSG was supposed to take place around the 1980s...
Were they planning a merger series? Cylon Rider?
There are still "average" and "general" Apple users too (otherwise there probably wouldn't be a market for Mac Minis, iMacs and eMacs). These users will /not/ be the users to buy such a machine, and these users are /not/ part of a niche market, but rather part of a market that Apple has either drawn away from, or kept away from, the non-Apple market segments.
And there are non-Apple users who will drop 4 grand on a PC for some tasks. Not all non-Apple users are MS Office drones.