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Re:Ceres RC3 Animation: Bright spots revealed to be composed of many s...
on Monday May 11, 2015 @05:07PM (#9527850)
Actually, a large part of a spaceship capable of traveling near c would be comprised of ice, as a shield from relativistic particles.
Re:Ceres RC3 Animation: Bright spots revealed to be composed of many s...
on Monday May 11, 2015 @04:47PM (#9527741)
Scattered remains of a huge alien spaceship?
( Sadly it is probably just ice. )
Re:Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish
on Monday May 11, 2015 @11:43AM (#9525548)
Is it possible that the "cyber" laws are designed to be effective towards individuals.
Re:Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
on Sunday May 10, 2015 @04:59PM (#9521294)
Why don't you instead just make 10 better?
Re:“Superfish is currently transitioning our focus”
on Sunday May 10, 2015 @10:15AM (#9519962)
Is modern web really that bad, and are those the reasons that just visiting some of the popular websites overwhelms my brand new cpu?
Re:Fast Approximate Logarithms, Part I: The Basics
on Saturday May 09, 2015 @06:47PM (#9517976)
You need only one table look-up, a couple quick operations and no conditionals or multiplying.
The table size required to beat the accuracy of fastlog2 is 512 elements.
edit: The speed ratio is actually about 0.6 in favor of look-up versus fastlog2. Enabling -O3 changes the ratio to 0,9. This is of course not measured in a real-world program where the cache is shared by other stuff.
edit2: I have removed the if statement from fastlog2 and compiled with -O3. The ratio was 1,2.
Re:Fast Approximate Logarithms, Part I: The Basics
on Saturday May 09, 2015 @02:26PM (#9517192)
This is faster than a look-up table at the cost of some accuracy. Also no cache misses.
Re:This is what happens after you die
on Friday May 08, 2015 @02:22PM (#9513310)
A housefly lives for a day and with exponential growth it could take just a couple of days, so it is plausible.
Re:A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @10:58PM (#9496366)
That wouldn't work because it would introduce a new key. Also every power-up takes effect immediately, this would break the consistency.
@developers
This is a bug on firefox, sometimes the dotted border from the remove wall power-up doesn't disappear giving the impression that the power-up is still active, thus killing players
Re:A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @10:55PM (#9496351)
Wow that was fun. I'm tempted to implement a similar version in C.
Re:A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @10:01PM (#9496186)
Just keep the background black and prevent from choosing too dark colors.
Re:A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @09:07PM (#9496019)
@developers
Players are choosing the color of the background, thus making them invisible. Please fix this.
Re:Fractal Lab
on Monday May 04, 2015 @07:10PM (#9489832)
And according to the mentioned site, it is impossible to have a website without google-analytics.
Re:Test drive of a petrol car
on Monday May 04, 2015 @01:35PM (#9487647)
Hey there. You are arguing against a strawman...
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I'm way over here!
Hi.
You completely missed my point, which was, that the desire to drive an ICE car is generational.
Re:Test drive of a petrol car
on Monday May 04, 2015 @01:31PM (#9487618)
Tesla S has a range of 400 km. This makes the cost 5.31 € per 100 km. An average ICE car of the same size uses, let's say, 8 L per 100 km. The cost for the ICE is then 11.2 €. Twice as much. Don't forget that: you can charge at free stations, charge at a free supercharger, and you can charge the car at night when the electricity price is lower( 25ct is quite high btw ), while the price for the petrol is always the same.
Re:Test drive of a petrol car
on Monday May 04, 2015 @12:54PM (#9487367)
I've only learned to drive and have owned my car for a year now (I'm in my mid-30s), but I just love the engine of my petrol car starting. Often times I choose to drive with my radio turned-off just to hear the engine's sound. Mind you, is a regular 1.4l hatcchbak, nothing sporty or the like.
You have a valid point, but... anyone here misses typewriters? I didn't think so.
Re:Test drive of a petrol car
on Monday May 04, 2015 @12:51PM (#9487345)
You can always occupy yourself, now free of unnecessary tasks, with audiobooks.
Re:Quadratic Voting (2014)
on Sunday May 03, 2015 @06:07AM (#9480709)
How do you mine it?
Re:What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York
on Sunday May 03, 2015 @04:09AM (#9480458)
You can bill them? Surely you have to inform them beforehand that any further conversation about IT will be considered as a paid consultation, i.e. make a verbal agreement.
Re:Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner
on Saturday May 02, 2015 @07:38PM (#9479007)
I was not implying that.
Nothing. Built in arithmetic will do the job nicely.
Re:Integer Overflow Bug in Boeing 787 Dreamliner
on Saturday May 02, 2015 @07:01AM (#9476623)
I disagree. You can reduce space usage with a logarithmic complexity. A couple tens of bytes is enough to store miliseconds until the heat death of the universe.