damn straight, thats why you get paid.
in theory, theory and practice are the same, in practice its not. you're job is to make it that way.
replace theory with lab and you see the fundamental flaw with the false sense of security a lab provides.
even the fridge can be run from gas. been done for a long time... look, pictures!
true true, sorry if i sounded harsh.
Panasonic acquired Sanyo, not Sharp, dont repeat facts unless you're gonna get them right
if its for home use i dont see why the form facto is so big of a deal. i understand space constraints in JP but in the US anyway, a battery the size of a trashcan could probably be stored in a suburban garage with no concern whatsoever. i would think that even in Japan you could get away with a battery the size of a microwave oven without too much hassle. in these instances we would be talking about kWh rates that would be sufficiently large to make a significant impact on global warming. yes you heard me right global warming. peak usage at power plants could be streamlined dramatically. this would also decrease load on power plants giving them longer uptime, and you could probably see cost for electricity drop as a by product.
it struck me that the author intent was "40cm of rock eroded per day, while waterleved rose bay as much as 10meters per day at its peak..." that being the case 40cm or rock erosion per day is pretty huge
what part of "Invisible Stealth Plane" dont you get?
here try this:
that "$" is soooo clever!
well they do provide other services. Microsoft makes lots of things, including Operating Systems in case you forgot. and yahoo? well there needs to be something other than Google out there to dodge monopoly issues. and Wolfram Alpha doesnt count.
this whole notion that Google is "privacy evil" [sic] kinda bothers me. i dont understand where the issue is. even at their worst if they were data-mining and targeting your habbits to your IP address their ultimate goal is to make it more valuable for their advertisers to advertise there becasue the vendor knows they are likely to et their product in front of somebody thats interested in it.
personally i think its a good thing. i'm going to be bombarded with ads wherever i go on the web or in real life, its just a fact. Google is like NPR, there are ads, but they're not nearly as annoying as listening to whatever top40 clap-trap station is on. additionally, since i've accepted the fact there will be ads foisted upon me wherever i go i'd at least like to be exposed to advertising of products i might actually use. Tampons? dont need em. New Tech? tell me more!
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i could see their collaborative effort, sharing source code and such, may yield some sort of search tool that is more of a threat than Google, but tbh they have a steep hill to climb, even jointly. perhaps the venture will allow the two to stop worrying about each other (which i suspect was the intent behind the bid to purchase) so that they can do waht they do best.
i'm actually more interested in the paint on the aircraf, FTA:
Many questions remain about the aircraft’s use. If it is a high-altitude aircraft it is painted an unusual color – medium grey overall, like Predator or Reaper, rather then the dark gray or overall black that provides the best concealment at very high altitudes.
i know theyve developed asome sort of "radar absorbant" type materials and coatings in the past and i wonder what special coating this thing has. my assumption is that this will probably see lots of service over places like North Korea and possibly China, where these countries spend a good bundle on defense technology. why sacrifice the visual camouflage?
so, essentially what youre saying is, "why invest in healthcare when you can make a bomb that will kill everyone so that there is no need for heatlhcare ever?" sounds like a plan!
Thank You!
i was actually thinking of saying something similar but chose not to, so as to avoid another debate about God. it always baffles me how stiff-necked the scientific community can be at times. the only times when things progress is when they can get over themselves and say, "hey maybe theres something we dont know here"
i agree completely but i think that this situation will be a catalyst for the next big step. i think back to when unreal was released. there was almost no hardware that could run the game smoothly, in a way it was a proof of concept of what gaming could become, but as hardware caught up we saw it give rise to a whole new way to make games, FPS, RTS, RPG, all genres really, have adopted the 3d model, even board games. now the market is saturated and the pressure is off the hardware vendors to make components that perform.
now its time for the software guys to push again. with modern hardware it may soon be possible to produce games that are ray traced. beyond that there are other technologies that will require greater processing power, and the GPU is well adapted to handle the loads of these needs. things like detailed realtime physics modeling, collision and deformation modeling and so forth.
i dont think this is the end of the golden age of the GPU, but just a small barren land that must be bridged to access the next level.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
