I worked at a company which, in the mid 80s, made a high resolution broadcast quality character generator for titling. RAM was so expensive even then that it become worthwhile to compress the image using run-length coding into a small amount of video RAM, and repeatedly decompress on the fly for screen refresh. This was implemented with a large number of TTL MSI logic chips, but was still less expensive than full raster RAM (1440x480 x 18 bits I think).
I'm not paying the $30 to read the paper, but how do they overcome 1/f noise? You can get arbitrarily high noise disturbances if you wait long enough.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise
Though I guess this can be fixed with an error correction protocol involving copies stored at long distances, but you can do that with any media.
Good. My fortune 100 company is switching to Linux and this new vista policy will encourage many home users (at least those which don't play video games) to switch to Linux as well. IT professionals have a lot of clout in small businesses- they should start recommending Linux for them.
Linux needs to get better at supporting odd-ball hardware. For example, many small businesses need label printers. How many work in Linux?
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"when a hydroelectric damn collapses..." the nuclear power plants which rely on the man-made lake created by the damn melt down. Take a look at how many nuclear reactors depend on man-made lakes as their ultimate heat sinks.. Here are the actual requirements: http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0037/ML003739969.pdf Here is a list of reactors: http://www.animatedsoftware.com/environm/no_nukes/nukelist1.htm
I worked at a company which, in the mid 80s, made a high resolution broadcast quality character generator for titling. RAM was so expensive even then that it become worthwhile to compress the image using run-length coding into a small amount of video RAM, and repeatedly decompress on the fly for screen refresh. This was implemented with a large number of TTL MSI logic chips, but was still less expensive than full raster RAM (1440x480 x 18 bits I think).
"It's a Type 13 planet, it's in its final stages, it's infected with some kind of alien - we are going to leave...."
I'm not paying the $30 to read the paper, but how do they overcome 1/f noise? You can get arbitrarily high noise disturbances if you wait long enough. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise Though I guess this can be fixed with an error correction protocol involving copies stored at long distances, but you can do that with any media.
They should release it as a firefox plugin to make firefox on PPC linux - firefox on the PS-3 - more useful.
Good. My fortune 100 company is switching to Linux and this new vista policy will encourage many home users (at least those which don't play video games) to switch to Linux as well. IT professionals have a lot of clout in small businesses- they should start recommending Linux for them. Linux needs to get better at supporting odd-ball hardware. For example, many small businesses need label printers. How many work in Linux?