Short Term: - Start by making near stock (all Google app.) phone. - Raise patent licensing fees for all Android phone makers other than MS/Nokia. - Use cost advantage + internal Exchange/Office interoperability to grow userbase of consumers and businesspeople respectively; make MSNokia _THE_ brand to get for users that concurrently like Android & MS Windows. - Start user conversions by first running MS apps alongside Google ones and giving incentives {free MS docs, Exchange, web storage, MS Live single sign on.}
Long term: - Wholesale replacement of all Google apps. - Integrate maps to gain data collection. Nokia already had mapping dept. that MS bought earlier. - Bing (Cortana???) voice search for greater user base & data mining. - Increase MS patent fee on other Android OEMs. - Sell license to MSNokia "Android" at sweetheart price. - Use market share to introduce & push new MS specific features/products.
I'd like to imagine there will be heavy growth in augmented reality; the above tactics could ostensibly help MS capture a signfiicant smartphone user base , but strategically may leave market wide open for Apple/Google/Samsung to gain first mover advantage in emergent non-phone continuously/immersively-networked consumer field... -- The Walter Gretsky quote "skate where the puck's going, not where it's been" would be partially applicable in that case leaving MS playing catchup WRT creating, integrating, and tuning new communication/computing usage modalities. If MS focus must be split between native MS os phone, Nokia Android, and emergent markets; the combinatorial use cases could result in significant user-experience consistency issues along with QA & time-to-market headaches for MSNokia product management.
That's why I like fan subs with their long parenthetical explanations (Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex.) VH1-pop up video or Starship Troopers "Would you like to learn more" (?) forms of subtitles would be interesting (esp. if we were allowed to toggled them on and off.)...and what ever happened to the old text messaging for sarcasm...?
To bad it didn't do very well. I tore out a lot of hair setting that thing up... although those old demos sure were amazing in the older days before these new 3D cards came to power.
Teller and his [AEC[2]] entourage falsely propogandized that Project Chariot[3] which would have "Chernobylized our northwest Alaskan wilderness"[2] could have a controlled detonation with minimal environmental impact.
A small group of concerned scientists, teachers, and other locals (some of which lost their jobs for resisting) fought against the popular political/civic/administrative support for the project and finally succeeded in stopping an environmental catastrophe.
Dan O'Neill's The_Firecracker_Boys covers these subjects as well as disturbing findings that AEC claims that fish would be wholesome and edible despite evidence of fallout contamination and bioamplifcation from the Bikini[3] bomb experiments (1994).
___________ [1] Atomic Energy Comission [2] _Kirkus_Reviews_ quote on The_Firecracker_Boys. [3] Atomic bomb test site which is incidentally the nominal origin of bikini swimwear.
MS will offer a higher price and give SCO the bidding war SCO wants. Therefore, IBM's best option was to sue SCO to smithereens. Any company buying SCO would be stuck owing damages to IBM (?... IANAL[1]). Sort of like IBM getting its own discount to eventually buy SCO...?
This was before MS took notice --how couldn't they, they're wiley and nimble (for a large company.) The lawsuit finesses their point better than they ever could in the eyes of the target, business managers. Controversy not technical-correctness is an adequate goal for them[MS] in this case (which has some precedence al la [Halloween Docs].)
____________ [1] Is this how the system works? I'm just guessing here.
WD-40's applicability(n.) depends on the material (ceramic [cpu] vs metal [cpu block or heatsink]). However, toilet paper is not recommended. And IMHO Artic Silver is best used when one is dealing with extreme conditions (unusually[*] hot cpus, overclocking, or other specialized situations where you'll get a greater result than a mere 1-2 degrees.)
2. ONLY Arctic Silver thermal compound should be between the processor core and the heatsink. Remove any thermal pads or other interface material from the heatsink before applying the Arctic Silver. Thermal pads can be scraped off with a plastic tool that will not scratch the bottom then the remnants can be removed with a xylene based cleaner, (Goof Off and some carburetor cleaners) acetone, mineral spirits, or high-purity isopropyl alcohol.
...Never use any oil or petroleum based cleaners (WD-40, citrus based cleaners and many automotive degreasers) on the base of a heatsink [emphasis mine --ed]. The oil, which is engineered to not evaporate, will fill in the microscopic valleys in the metal and significantly reduce the effectiveness of any subsequently applied thermal compound.[2]
However, for ceramic cpu's WD-40 is okay:
Any dish detergent (Dawn, Lux, Palmolive, Etc.)
Do not use soap for an automatic dishwasher to clean a CPU.
WD-40, citrus based grease removers (Goo Gone, Etc.)
Xylene based products (Goof Off, some carburetor cleaners and many brake cleaners)
Mineral spirits. (Be careful to keep the mineral spirits away from the core.)
[3]
Regarding the "toilet paper" usage in the parent post, Arctic's Instructions recommended that one "Clean...surfaces...with a low residual solvent...and a LINT FREE cloth."[emphasis theirs][4]
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[*] Although with CPU die sizes and increasing power consumption, your typical high end desktop CPU might be considered "extreme". [1] Yes, I know, "the source", ydadda yadda blah blah... I read the instructions long before, and I remembered the WD-40 warnings, I should have double checked before I meta-moderated;)
[2] Arctic Silver (company). Instructions
For Arctic Silver, Arctic Silver II, and Arctic Silver 3. Arctic Silver, Inc.(2003). [Thermal compound application(v.) instructions.] Available online: [3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
After reading a particular article in the Matrix philosophy section, I've gotten a little less annoyed with the bio-electric power, because they put more emphasis on telling a story and seeding discussion. --although I still occasionally get knee-jerk desires to yell out, "OMG that's so BS," at the "bioelectric" energy plot-hole/saver(?). One possiblity:
The machines, following the "essence of the second renaissance", chose to "bless all forms of intelligence" and preserve humanity for ethical[?] reasons and subsequently did something useful with the human "flesh" the machines had demanded from the people at the United Nations HQ(?) --sounds like a Computer Lifeform's Burden argued for by the human rights faction of the artificial intelligence collective =D[1]
Maybe he film producers are well aware that
people don't generate power, but they're
trying to show that people are always getting used for power today (politically) and in the future (elecrically [electronically]?) Human-brains-as-computing-source plot device wasn't used, emphasizing that the machines could do all the processing "needed", relegating humans to --exceedingly-- menial power generating duties, a form of role reversal showing how far man had fallen from their earlier thought-of-as superior position.
After all, having "long studied man's, simple, protein based based" bodies, the machines could have engineered blocks of cancer-like bioelectric flesh superior in most ways to the human-power-cells for their power duties because the blocks reproduce, come in adjustable shapes, and are very very unlikely to rebel [al la Neo];) ) But, they'd be boring, they'd kill the "save the enslaved masses" plot, and wouldn't be as ironic *heh*
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[1]All quotes occur near the section where a machine intelligence is meeting with human leaders in Second Renaissance Part 2 before the building blows up like Neo Tokyo in Akira
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[1]Kasparov notes also that the chess performance ranking numbers that Ken Thompson derived were asymptotic(?); "which flattens at the top end"
. From Garry Kasparov on Chess Computers (22.01.2003) [ONLINE][http://www.worldchessrating.com/521629870.html?804278037510812]
[2](Note: The "one of Deep Blue's two programmers." citation is incorrect... the followup post clarifies the error.)
You heard right, they likelydo have less surface area than a larger object. But their surface area to mass ratio is greater --like, for a cube of water, you'd get:
A 2cm cube
surface area 24 square cm
mass 8 grams
area/mass ratio 3:1
A 1cm cube
surface area 6 square cm
mass 1 gram
(surface area) / (mass) 6:1
Surface area has indeed gone down, but area per gram has gone up. Though I think asbestos and other fiber type particles have even more lift because they're fibers of evil rather than little spheres of evil. =D
>"10 micron particles and below generally don't stay suspended in the air too long"
You may have to worry about >10 micron particles. The larger sizes simply deposit at different locations.
Size and density of particles, mist or aerosol - determines site of deposition. Maximum alveolar deposition at 1-5 micron size. Airway deposition 5-10 micron; nose 20 micron; fume 0.2 micron - not deposited (e.g. metal fume fever)[1]
Smaller particles stay aloft a longer --not shorter-- period. Maybe that's why fresh outside air is suggested when a workplace has been contaminated by silicates or asbestos fibers?
The first is that large particles tend to settle out of the air more rapidly than do small ones. The settling rate for sub-micron particles is so slow as to be inconsequential. These particles stay suspended in air and drift with ambient air currents. A 0.01 microns particle will sink through air at a rate of about 140 days to settle1 meter in air. A 0.1 microns particle will settle about 10 times as fast, and will require about 14 days to settle 1 meter. A 1 micron particle will require about one hour to settle 1 meter. The point is that these small particles remain in the air long enough to be inhaled, and they will remain in the air long enough to be swept around by ambient air currents.[2]
Hope the info helps =D
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[1] Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM NOTES
from the Department of Medicine, University of Sydney[Online] citing "Chang-Yeung, M., Lam S. "Occupational Asthma". Am Rev Respir Dis. 1986. 133;686-703"
[2] David Abrams, CIH. Airborne Dangers. [Online](05/01/1999)
Wouldn't companies want to make their printers last longer because it would build customer loyalty (and hopefully result in the customer buying LOTS of cartridges from them)?
It's funny to note that the expensive epson 3000,5000,5500,7000,9000 printers (wide print format) don't have print cartridge chips.
As for knocking down color printing costs, I'm looking into getting an automatic ink refill system. These are the ones I've encountered so far.
"Continuous Flow Systems" (automatic chip resetter at this company) Parts for building your own feed system for an un-supported printer.
"Continuous Charging System" (carries continuous refill systems for Canon printers in addition to Epson models and option of buying smaller [cheaper] bottles.)
"Camel Ultra-FLO CRS(TM)" CRS(TM) - abbreviation for the term Continuous Re-inking System(TM)" (Carries Canon as well as Epson)
Inkjet Buying Guide(with printer recommendations, and refill companies, drivers, etc.) "I have two Canon BJ-200 printers that have made a total of at least 150,000 copies without any problems...The gallon of black ink is about $32 including shipping." "Other than the Canon BJ-200, all other CANON PRINTERS are off my buy list because the HIGH COST of operation."
(The author doesn't give definitive numbers nor methodology --duhhhh...he's not "testing" either) His copy rate for ink is running at almost 1/50th of a cent ($0.00021) at a fraction of a laser printers speed I suppose --Though he is running two in parallel, and is adding a 3rd I believe; that could speed things up.
For comparison Samsung ML-1430 Laser Printer (a nice printer IMHO) runs at 1/5 of a cent per page at higher print speeds.
I brain farted, thinking that 'Joe' was Joel Benjamin (the chess consultant.) The "Deep Blue" team was actually bigger than 3 people. It's listed on IBM's Deep Blue site
The cheese title "Deep Blue's creator would..." was from me typoing another post about why there wasn't an IBM rematch. (It was due to Kasparov's public accusations of the D.B. team and IBM.)
Question from Frantic: According to what was published DB was evaluating 200 million positions per second (vs 2.5 to 5 million for the 8-way Simmons server running Deep Fritz). How fast would be Beep Blue today if the project continued?
CrazyBird: if we redo the chip in say, 0.13 micron, and with a improved architecture, it should be possible to do one billion nodes/sec on a single chip. CrazyBird: so a trillion nodes/sec machine is actually possible today. CrazyBird: i was planning to shock kasparov should he [have] agree[d] to a new match:).[1]
...
[0.09 micron gives you something like 40-fold increase in area density and 6-fold increase in speed, which means through technology alone, a single chip can be more powerful than the entire Deep Blue. Put that on a CompactFlash card and plug it into a PocketPC...]
_____________ [1] CrazyBird is Feng-Hsiung Hsu, one of Deep Blue's two programmers. [2] Interview with Hsu. [http://www.chessclub.com/event/crazybird1.html]
I wonder if we'll see large budget adware games in the future. Considering the 400billion to Trillion[1] dollar expenditures on direct and indirect advertising along with the increased popularity of ad-blocking software and consumer electronics, creative --foolhardy?-- ad producers might see piggyback ads as a way to micro-target consumers.
Former FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky projected online advertising revenue to projected to increase. From 3E8$ to 2E9$ to 11 billion dollars by 2003[2]. If advertisers aren't seeing good returns from banner ads, they might after making their "ads" more entertaining by bundling some entertainment... =)
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[1]COMMUNICATION FROM THE UNITED STATES:
Advertising and Related Services (2001 July). World Trade Organization notes (?)
[2]Opening Remarks, FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky, Public Workshop on Online Profiling, November 8, 1999. Volume XIX. Issue 22. November 15, 1999. Page 5-8. [see hyperlink]. --the linked article is some sort of critque of Pitosfsky's policies.
According to Nicola Hemming, the president of Sharmen Networks (which owns Kazaa) [CNet]
"Just for reference, we elected with the user terms to regulate our affairs by Australian law."
Maybe her attempt to "move file-swapping out of a commercial--and legal gray" by setting up lobbyists, pushing for global (legislated?) media access fees, and talking to artist groups and British telecom companies has caused alarm in some media companies. (see interview link for details.)
I was pretty convinced that "bit's were bits" and that jitter was just elitist hoodoo mumbo jumbo, but here's a couple links to jitter articles that made me question my views a bit:
According to acquaintance of mine whose parents ran a high end audio equipment store, jitter does make some difference, but it's not that big a deal. As for me, I've only imagined that I found differences in some interconnects, but I wanted to do AB tests with higher end equipment under stricter test procedures before making any judgments I'd put my full credit behind.
The (profit last year)/(total previous profit) * scaler.
If one applied for a SW copyright (before working on a projcet) and then brought it out on the last year. It would skew the ratio to some huge value.
Here's an interesting proposal on copyright time allocation. And some nice counterpounts from writers and others that need to live off copyrights.
I'm wondering if some sort of copyright/patent power limitation should imitate progressive taxation, where you'd pay higher premiums if you own more copyrights/patents. Companies would tend to split up their copyright ownership (to reduce fees) while at the same time they would then be exposed to more anti-trust laws (because their satellite [copyright-holder] companies would have "intra-company" cooperative behavior subject to anti-trust laws.)
I read it too quickly and skipped the link that said "Jpeg Committee" because it was just citing the author and not the source. Yes, I feel very dumb. Thanks for the heads up though! =D [1]
I was a little wary of what was posted at the DJVuLibre (a free wavelet compression implementation). They claimed that they were given a free license to ATT's wavelet stuff, and I was a little paranoid. Because I didn't know if "broad rights" meant as much freedom as people are used to with GPLed software.
Two patents apply to two very specific aspects of DjVu and DjVuLibre
(described below). Those patents are owned by AT&T, but LizardTech has very broad rights to them and grants free and permanent licenses to them for the purpose of building GPL'ed software with the DjVu open source release.
A discission I found from Google states that: ...JBIG and JPEG 2000 both mandate use of one or more patented techniques which are owned by companies that take part in JPEG.[1]
And mentions some nice licensing guidelines:
I would welcome a standard wavelets codec, and an associated standard
format, but I'm not very interested unless they are either free of patents or include a free-of-charge unlimited license.
But earlier on Slashdot in Slashback: Alternatives, Ads, Apple A discussion regarding the licensing scheme to Jpeg2000 pointed to it (the license) being open.
...because those companies who currently claim patents on part 1 of JPEG2000 have also agreed to license their patents to
the general public without royalty
I tried a few searches, "jpeg 2000 (license/patent/open source)", but I didn't find anything. Any tips?
R3Mix and abandoning compression
on
Ogg Vorbis 1.0
·
· Score: 1
> Hopefully, R3Mix.net will pick this up
R3Mix's has retired from his online audio test management/documentation. It's disappointing, I was looking forward to them doing major quality comparisons on Ogg audio encoding as well.
> Lossy compression can approach (for certain types of audio) Can approach what?...
> is to simply not use lossy compression at all.
Well you said "[bzip2'ed WAV]" files are just "too large for archival purposes" I think compression is for attaining practical file sizes at the highest quality possible.
If transparency, indistinguishable quality, cannot be achieved on all equipment and all music, then at least people should try to form guidelines so that users can (1) see what quality is available and (2) select an appropriate quality.
You have a good point with your tests, I think that information could be useful for the maintainers of Vorbis and other researchers that don't have gobs of research money like AT&T, Fraunhauffer, etc.:) The differences are hard to discount as pathological, abnormal and extremely unlikely, test cases, as I'm confident that electronic music needs synthesized sounds.
Ideally, the compression could give warnings that certain passages in music are not-transparently encodable --perhaps switching over to lossless encoding for those.
As a counterexample, a majority of pictures we see online and all DVD movies are lossy encoded because to do otherwise would be impractical, like saving a whole DVD in it's native format (4+ Gigabytes) is impractical for a home video jukebox, hence MPEG4, Divx etc. --maybe we'd use it for future audio formats too(if "fair use" rights aren't taken away by then)[1]
__________ [1] Maybe, one day, we may see Ogg encoded 24bit/192khz songs saved at CD bitrates. From a quality standpoint we could get CD bit rate Vorbis(?) files for even higher quality. Such that a 24/96 or 24/176 DVD could be saved onto a CD, or saved onto a hard drive, If each DVD audio disk were 600 MB, our 120GB Hard drives could store 200 disks.
A few years ago, some friends and I switched over to Dvorak. We switched because three programmer friends of ours swore by Dvorak, and we were interesting in bettering ourselves. My typing speed was already fair; I was around 60-100+ when I started (accuracy vs. speed-chat wpm).
Although the speed was interesting, there wasn't really much point. I could only hit 100+ wpm when transcribing or in momentary bursts while chatting.
The going wasn't easy. It was frustrating at times, we'd be making typos like beginning typists --well we _were_ in a way. And, we watched out qwerty speed dimish at first. We went about it different ways: One of us engrossed himself in Dvorak and suffered the greatest initial Qwerty spped loss. And, while I minimized my Qwerty wpm regressions by switching key layouts in mid sentence during my learning period, I also slowed down my Dvorak gains.
I took maybe a quarter to half of a year of casual effort. Mainly using Dvorak and switching to Qwerty when I needed consistent high RPMs, which I would stop relying on partway through the year.
I noticed, at least subjectively, a reduction in the number of inadvertent-key-press typos. It didn't make things much faster than before, but it was definitely much easier; I like typing most words without moving my hands much at all. My left wrist rarely aches after extended Dvorak keyboarding, but it'll be sore after an hour of piano or Qwerty, especially if the temperature is cold. [1] We also have the benefit of friends not wanting to hijack our computer systems for a "quickie" game session or web browsing.:)
Two of us are back near or above old Qwerty speeds. Opted to return to his hybrid qwerty-hunt-and-peck. All in all, I'm happy I learned Dvorak; it's not the same magnitude of improvement as going from hunt-and-peck to Qwerty, but it's more like going from the Qwerty number system to learning "Ten Key" numbers.
______ [1]Its kind of funny because I was always Mr. Careful, and I knew about and constantly was on the lookout for info on household and workplace health risks, including RSI --I even had a book and couple cut out articles about it I would repeat to friends.
I guess this is related to the "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you" I ignored the signs, and constantly downplayed them, and now I get aches from playing piano, computer games, or keyboards with high keypress-resistance.
All three of us have some RSI in our wrists. I got it from too much Quake2 and piano, one got it from too much Diablo, and another got it from too much Action Quake2.[1] I don't mash keys now and actually take typing breaks/stretches *laugh*.
The other Dvoraker came close to getting the uberkeyboard/glove ($1k?) from "http://www.fentek-ind.com/datahand.htm" but instead opted for the Dvorak Kinesis board ($250-$300.) I spent my money on audio equipment and made do with el-cheapo keyboards;)
Opera also displays ads unless you register it (for $39!)
Well, we're deluged with ads in IE and Netscape and other "free" browsers anyway... I think it's because everyone wants free content paid for by ads or tax dollars (government/public pages.)
Slashdot Mirror
Short Term:
- Start by making near stock (all Google app.) phone.
- Raise patent licensing fees for all Android phone makers other than MS/Nokia.
- Use cost advantage + internal Exchange/Office interoperability to grow userbase of consumers and businesspeople respectively; make MSNokia _THE_ brand to get for users that concurrently like Android & MS Windows.
- Start user conversions by first running MS apps alongside Google ones and giving incentives {free MS docs, Exchange, web storage, MS Live single sign on.}
Long term:
- Wholesale replacement of all Google apps.
- Integrate maps to gain data collection. Nokia already had mapping dept. that MS bought earlier.
- Bing (Cortana???) voice search for greater user base & data mining.
- Increase MS patent fee on other Android OEMs.
- Sell license to MSNokia "Android" at sweetheart price.
- Use market share to introduce & push new MS specific features/products.
I'd like to imagine there will be heavy growth in augmented reality; the above tactics could ostensibly help MS capture a signfiicant smartphone user base , but strategically may leave market wide open for Apple/Google/Samsung to gain first mover advantage in emergent non-phone continuously/immersively-networked consumer field...
-- The Walter Gretsky quote "skate where the puck's going, not where it's been" would be partially applicable in that case leaving MS playing catchup WRT creating, integrating, and tuning new communication/computing usage modalities. If MS focus must be split between native MS os phone, Nokia Android, and emergent markets; the combinatorial use cases could result in significant user-experience consistency issues along with QA & time-to-market headaches for MSNokia product management.
Is there some form of public/private key crypto? Otherwise you'd have the same issue with forged signatures or lifted thumb prints.
"Ooo, hey I just extracted ur iris pic and watermarked my baby pics with it. Now you're busted for kiddie porn. LoLz."
I had a LessThanSign 's' GreaterThanSign for "sarcasm" that got filtered out. >=L
That's why I like fan subs with their long parenthetical explanations (Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex.) VH1-pop up video or Starship Troopers "Would you like to learn more" (?) forms of subtitles would be interesting (esp. if we were allowed to toggled them on and off.) ...and what ever happened to the old text messaging for sarcasm...?
To bad it didn't do very well. I tore out a lot of hair setting that thing up... although those old demos sure were amazing in the older days before these new 3D cards came to power.
8 (Slashdot link to Demo Scene animations on DVD and more. Anyone else remember these things? =)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/18921
Teller and his [AEC[2]] entourage falsely propogandized that Project Chariot[3] which would have "Chernobylized our northwest Alaskan wilderness"[2] could have a controlled detonation with minimal environmental impact.
A small group of concerned scientists, teachers, and other locals (some of which lost their jobs for resisting) fought against the popular political/civic/administrative support for the project and finally succeeded in stopping an environmental catastrophe.
Dan O'Neill's The_Firecracker_Boys covers these subjects as well as disturbing findings that AEC claims that fish would be wholesome and edible despite evidence of fallout contamination and bioamplifcation from the Bikini[3] bomb experiments (1994).
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[1] Atomic Energy Comission
[2] _Kirkus_Reviews_ quote on The_Firecracker_Boys.
[3] Atomic bomb test site which is incidentally the nominal origin of bikini swimwear.
MS will offer a higher price and give SCO the bidding war SCO wants.
Therefore, IBM's best option was to sue SCO to smithereens. Any company buying SCO would be stuck owing damages to IBM (?... IANAL[1]). Sort of like IBM getting its own discount to eventually buy SCO...?
This was before MS took notice --how couldn't they, they're wiley and nimble (for a large company.) The lawsuit finesses their point better than they ever could in the eyes of the target, business managers. Controversy not technical-correctness is an adequate goal for them[MS] in this case (which has some precedence al la [Halloween Docs].)
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[1] Is this how the system works? I'm just guessing here.
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[*] Although with CPU die sizes and increasing power consumption, your typical high end desktop CPU might be considered "extreme".
[1] Yes, I know, "the source", ydadda yadda blah blah... I read the instructions long before, and I remembered the WD-40 warnings, I should have double checked before I meta-moderated
[2] Arctic Silver (company). Instructions For Arctic Silver, Arctic Silver II, and Arctic Silver 3. Arctic Silver, Inc.(2003). [Thermal compound application(v.) instructions.] Available online:
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
After reading a particular article in the Matrix philosophy section, I've gotten a little less annoyed with the bio-electric power, because they put more emphasis on telling a story and seeding discussion. --although I still occasionally get knee-jerk desires to yell out, "OMG that's so BS," at the "bioelectric" energy plot-hole/saver(?). One possiblity: The machines, following the "essence of the second renaissance", chose to "bless all forms of intelligence" and preserve humanity for ethical[?] reasons and subsequently did something useful with the human "flesh" the machines had demanded from the people at the United Nations HQ(?) --sounds like a Computer Lifeform's Burden argued for by the human rights faction of the artificial intelligence collective =D[1]
Maybe he film producers are well aware that people don't generate power, but they're trying to show that people are always getting used for power today (politically) and in the future (elecrically [electronically]?) Human-brains-as-computing-source plot device wasn't used, emphasizing that the machines could do all the processing "needed", relegating humans to --exceedingly-- menial power generating duties, a form of role reversal showing how far man had fallen from their earlier thought-of-as superior position.
After all, having "long studied man's, simple, protein based based" bodies, the machines could have engineered blocks of cancer-like bioelectric flesh superior in most ways to the human-power-cells for their power duties because the blocks reproduce, come in adjustable shapes, and are very very unlikely to rebel [al la Neo] ;) ) But, they'd be boring, they'd kill the "save the enslaved masses" plot, and wouldn't be as ironic *heh*
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[1]All quotes occur near the section where a machine intelligence is meeting with human leaders in Second Renaissance Part 2 before the building blows up like Neo Tokyo in Akira
Kasparov takes the NYT log postings into account in his recent post. He cites Elo (chess rating) numbers by Ken Thompson (an old school computer chess guy) derived by extrapolating numbers generated by setting a computer program against itself with differing search depths, "world championship"[1] level performance would require 1 billion nodes (moves) per second. Interestingly, "one billion nodes/sec on a single chip" is possible with todays 0.13 micron process, while "a trillion nodes/sec machine is actually possible today" according to one of Feng-Hsiung Hsu (Deep Blue hardware designer).[2]
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[1]Kasparov notes also that the chess performance ranking numbers that Ken Thompson derived were asymptotic(?); "which flattens at the top end" . From Garry Kasparov on Chess Computers (22.01.2003) [ONLINE][http://www.worldchessrating.com/52162987
[2](Note: The "one of Deep Blue's two programmers." citation is incorrect... the followup post clarifies the error.)
You heard right, they likelydo have less surface area than a larger object. But their surface area to mass ratio is greater --like, for a cube of water, you'd get:
A 2cm cube
surface area 24 square cm
mass 8 grams
area/mass ratio 3:1
A 1cm cube
surface area 6 square cm
mass 1 gram
(surface area) / (mass) 6:1
Surface area has indeed gone down, but area per gram has gone up. Though I think asbestos and other fiber type particles have even more lift because they're fibers of evil rather than little spheres of evil. =D
Wouldn't companies want to make their printers last longer because it would build customer loyalty (and hopefully result in the customer buying LOTS of cartridges from them)?
.
It's funny to note that the expensive epson 3000,5000,5500,7000,9000
printers (wide print format) don't have print cartridge chips
As for knocking down color printing costs, I'm looking into getting an automatic ink refill system. These are the ones I've encountered so far.
"IJC Bulk Feed Systems" (chip resetters and 'full' chips)
"Continuous Inking System(1)"
"Continuous Inking System(2)" (not necessarily affiliated with each other.
"Continuous Flow Systems"
(automatic chip resetter at this company)
Parts for building your own feed system for an un-supported printer.
"Continuous Charging System"
(carries continuous refill systems for Canon printers in addition to Epson models and option of buying smaller [cheaper] bottles.)
"Camel Ultra-FLO CRS(TM)"
CRS(TM) - abbreviation for the term Continuous Re-inking System(TM)"
(Carries Canon as well as Epson)
Inkjet Buying Guide(with printer recommendations, and refill companies, drivers, etc.)
"I have two Canon BJ-200 printers that have made a total of at least 150,000 copies without any problems...The gallon of black ink is about $32 including shipping."
"Other than the Canon BJ-200, all other CANON PRINTERS are off my buy list because the HIGH COST of operation."
(The author doesn't give definitive numbers nor methodology --duhhhh...he's not "testing" either)
His copy rate for ink is running at almost 1/50th of a cent ($0.00021) at a fraction of a laser printers speed I suppose --Though he is running two in parallel, and is adding a 3rd I believe; that could speed things up.
For comparison Samsung ML-1430 Laser Printer (a nice printer IMHO) runs at 1/5 of a cent per page at higher print speeds.
I brain farted, thinking that 'Joe' was Joel Benjamin (the chess consultant.) The "Deep Blue" team was actually bigger than 3 people. It's listed on IBM's Deep Blue site
The cheese title "Deep Blue's creator would..." was from me typoing another post about why there wasn't an IBM rematch. (It was due to Kasparov's public accusations of the D.B. team and IBM.)
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[1] CrazyBird is Feng-Hsiung Hsu, one of Deep Blue's two programmers.
[2] Interview with Hsu. [http://www.chessclub.com/event/crazybird1.html]
I wonder if we'll see large budget adware games in the future. Considering the 400billion to Trillion[1] dollar expenditures on direct and indirect advertising along with the increased popularity of ad-blocking software and consumer electronics, creative --foolhardy?-- ad producers might see piggyback ads as a way to micro-target consumers.
Some modern ad examples: Kazaa makes (millions) off of their file sharing service. We see product placement ads in movies Happy Gilmore (Subway sandwitch), tv shows Drew Carey(Aqua Java drink) nowadays. Some oneline chat (MMORPG) "There.com" (Levis/Nike)
Former FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky projected online advertising revenue to projected to increase. From 3E8$ to 2E9$ to 11 billion dollars by 2003[2]. If advertisers aren't seeing good returns from banner ads, they might after making their "ads" more entertaining by bundling some entertainment... =)
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[1]COMMUNICATION FROM THE UNITED STATES: Advertising and Related Services (2001 July). World Trade Organization notes (?)
[2]Opening Remarks, FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky, Public Workshop on Online Profiling, November 8, 1999. Volume XIX. Issue 22. November 15, 1999. Page 5-8. [see hyperlink]. --the linked article is some sort of critque of Pitosfsky's policies.
According to Nicola Hemming, the president of Sharmen Networks (which owns Kazaa) [CNet] "Just for reference, we elected with the user terms to regulate our affairs by Australian law." Maybe her attempt to "move file-swapping out of a commercial--and legal gray" by setting up lobbyists, pushing for global (legislated?) media access fees, and talking to artist groups and British telecom companies has caused alarm in some media companies. (see interview link for details.)
I was pretty convinced that "bit's were bits" and that jitter was just elitist hoodoo mumbo jumbo, but here's a couple links to jitter articles that made me question my views a bit:
Jitter on various transports [Stereophile mag]
Informative page by John Risch (DIY cable / EE and acoustics specialist[if memory serves]) link on cables and jitter along with links to more articles about jitter and wire design.
According to acquaintance of mine whose parents ran a high end audio equipment store, jitter does make some difference, but it's not that big a deal. As for me, I've only imagined that I found differences in some interconnects, but I wanted to do AB tests with higher end equipment under stricter test procedures before making any judgments I'd put my full credit behind.
You'll have to put in some default caps too...
The (profit last year)/(total previous profit) * scaler.
If one applied for a SW copyright (before working on a projcet) and then brought it out on the last year. It would skew the ratio to some huge value.
Here's an interesting proposal on copyright time allocation. And some nice counterpounts from writers and others that need to live off copyrights.
I'm wondering if some sort of copyright/patent power limitation should imitate progressive taxation, where you'd pay higher premiums if you own more copyrights/patents. Companies would tend to split up their copyright ownership (to reduce fees) while at the same time they would then be exposed to more anti-trust laws (because their satellite [copyright-holder] companies would have "intra-company" cooperative behavior subject to anti-trust laws.)
I was a little wary of what was posted at the DJVuLibre (a free wavelet compression implementation). They claimed that they were given a free license to ATT's wavelet stuff, and I was a little paranoid. Because I didn't know if "broad rights" meant as much freedom as people are used to with GPLed software.
which are owned by companies that take part in JPEG.[1]
And mentions some nice licensing guidelines: But earlier on Slashdot in Slashback: Alternatives, Ads, Apple A discussion regarding the licensing scheme to Jpeg2000 pointed to it (the license) being open. Can anyone verify that Jpeg2000 has an unencumbering license?
I tried a few searches, "jpeg 2000 (license/patent/open source)", but
I didn't find anything. Any tips?
> Hopefully, R3Mix.net will pick this up
:) The differences are hard to discount as pathological, abnormal and extremely unlikely, test cases, as I'm confident that electronic music needs synthesized sounds.
R3Mix's has retired from his online audio test management/documentation. It's disappointing, I was looking forward to them doing major quality comparisons on Ogg audio encoding as well.
> Lossy compression can approach (for certain types of audio)
Can approach what?...
> is to simply not use lossy compression at all.
Well you said "[bzip2'ed WAV]" files are just "too large for archival purposes"
I think compression is for attaining practical file sizes at the highest quality possible.
If transparency, indistinguishable quality, cannot be achieved on all equipment and all music, then at least people should try to form guidelines so that users can (1) see what quality is available and (2) select an appropriate quality.
You have a good point with your tests, I think that information could be useful for the maintainers of Vorbis and other researchers that don't have gobs of research money like AT&T, Fraunhauffer, etc.
Ideally, the compression could give warnings that certain passages in music are not-transparently encodable --perhaps switching over to lossless encoding for those.
As a counterexample, a majority of pictures we see online and all DVD movies are lossy encoded because to do otherwise would be impractical, like saving a whole DVD in it's native format (4+ Gigabytes) is impractical for a home video jukebox, hence MPEG4, Divx etc. --maybe we'd use it for future audio formats too(if "fair use" rights aren't taken away by then)[1]
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[1] Maybe, one day, we may see Ogg encoded 24bit/192khz songs saved at CD bitrates. From a quality standpoint we could get CD bit rate Vorbis(?) files for even higher quality. Such that a 24/96 or 24/176 DVD could be saved onto a CD, or saved onto a hard drive, If each DVD audio disk were 600 MB, our 120GB Hard drives could store 200 disks.
A few years ago, some friends and I switched over to Dvorak. We switched because three programmer friends of ours swore by Dvorak, and we were interesting in bettering ourselves.
:)
;)
My typing speed was already fair; I was around 60-100+ when I started (accuracy vs. speed-chat wpm).
Although the speed was interesting, there wasn't really much point. I could only hit 100+ wpm when transcribing or in momentary bursts while chatting.
The going wasn't easy. It was frustrating at times, we'd be making typos like beginning typists --well we _were_ in a way. And, we watched out qwerty speed dimish at first.
We went about it different ways: One of us engrossed himself in Dvorak and suffered the greatest initial Qwerty spped loss. And, while I minimized my Qwerty wpm regressions by switching key layouts in mid sentence during my learning period, I also slowed down my Dvorak gains.
I took maybe a quarter to half of a year of casual effort. Mainly using Dvorak and switching to Qwerty when I needed consistent high RPMs, which I would stop relying on partway through the year.
I noticed, at least subjectively, a reduction in the number of inadvertent-key-press typos. It didn't make things much faster than before, but it was definitely much easier; I like typing most words without moving my hands much at all. My left wrist rarely aches after extended Dvorak keyboarding, but it'll be sore after an hour of piano or Qwerty, especially if the temperature is cold. [1] We also have the benefit of friends not wanting to hijack our computer systems for a "quickie" game session or web browsing.
Two of us are back near or above old Qwerty speeds. Opted to return to his hybrid qwerty-hunt-and-peck. All in all, I'm happy I learned Dvorak; it's not the same magnitude of improvement as going from hunt-and-peck to Qwerty, but it's more like going from the Qwerty number system to learning "Ten Key" numbers.
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[1]Its kind of funny because I was always Mr. Careful, and I knew about and constantly was on the lookout for info on household and workplace health risks, including RSI --I even had a book and couple cut out articles about it I would repeat to friends.
I guess this is related to the "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you" I ignored the signs, and constantly downplayed them, and now I get aches from playing piano, computer games, or keyboards with high keypress-resistance.
All three of us have some RSI in our wrists. I got it from too much Quake2 and piano, one got it from too much Diablo, and another got it from too much Action Quake2.[1] I don't mash keys now and actually take typing breaks/stretches *laugh*.
The other Dvoraker came close to getting the uberkeyboard/glove ($1k?) from
"http://www.fentek-ind.com/datahand.htm" but instead opted for the Dvorak Kinesis board ($250-$300.) I spent my money on audio equipment and made do with el-cheapo keyboards
Opera also displays ads unless you register it (for $39!)
Well, we're deluged with ads in IE and Netscape and other "free" browsers anyway... I think it's because everyone wants free content paid for by ads or tax dollars (government/public pages.)