Just asking... I do not think we are talking about a tracking/advertising cookie here. I'm very certain google uses first-party cookies for tracking/advertising (meaning it's your site and not google that sets/owns the cookie). And first-party cookies needs no P3P. Or am I wrong?
True moding is when you mod a post up you do not agree with, but is well written, gives an alternate view, or otherwise add to the discussion. That's moding integrity, I suppose very few slashdot moders do this, more should.
I hear where you're coming from, but I don't agree. The OS is becoming less and less relevant. If the web is where people are when using the computer it's the web that needs to evolve. Current technologies gives my computer the speed of an Amiga from 20 years ago while using the web, not good enough if you ask me. I want native speeds, I want portability, I don't want restrictions on what developer tools to use when programming (everything Javascript isn't really that hot). NaCL seems like a good bet, if Google (and hopefully others in the future) can get Intel/"Insert CPU maker of choice" in on it the speed could probably be even better. Important to understand is that NaCL is by comparison rather small, it's just a lightweight "virtual machine" to be able to run native code in a secure way. It's not a bloated library like Java, it uses current web technologies for IO. Calling the web "second class" is short sighted in my opinion, I and many others rather use Gmail and Google docs instead of native apps. I want more apps delivered this way (and better ones), but current technologies hinders that. I for one hope the web will be very different ten years from now.
It's pretty obvious Google are trying to make a "web platform" with Dart and NaCL. Most people spend a lot of time using the web, probably most of the time in front of the computer is web-time. When I use the web, which is a lot I want a better experience, I want native speed, I want real apps and games delivered on the web. If Google can give me that, more power to them. So far their technologies is open source, so I see little wrong from their doings. I don't like installing crap on my computer, phone or "pad", if apps can be delivered over the web, all the better.
Seeing the web as a glorified publishing tool as it is today is old school. Google should have WOW ported to NaCL, that would give it a boost.
Hi, The parrot seems to be something you actually do control with a phone. It's most proably self-stabilizing and very easy to fly altough most certanly very innacurate. http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/en/
It is a "toy", I normaly don't recommed them as it's worlds apart what I fly, but you could probably get some enjoyment out of it. Don't set your expectation bar too high though...
If you are truly interessted you can buy quad-chassis, motors, speed controlers, flight computer (with gyros and other sensors), and there is open source software for it too. These are the real thing, but since I just fly regular copters I don't know much about them I'm afraid. http://aeroquad.com/ (Don't know if this is the best, but a place to start reading, if interessted)
I fly RC Helicopters and I would not trust something like this, period. We take signal quality very, very seriously. Any loss of signal and you are basically doomed the way we fly these days (low to the ground and stickbanging). Even the major manufacturers have signal problems, altough it's very good. Have never had any signal hickup with my Futaba 2.4 gear, but they have done everything in there power to make the signal as optimized for the application as possible. For a slow moving vehicle, sure. But anything flying, no thanks. Latency is another matter. 20ms stick to servo is considered good. The touchscreen alone is probably 100ms, Consider a car at 60mph, it will move several feets before even starting to turn at those latencys.
There are clearly defined uses. Let's say for a moment you find yourself in a already almost pitch black room. Harrison Ford steps up and says "It's to dark in here". Let's say for the sake of context he's going o do some unscientific test on you about turtles. Just press a button and Harrison is ready to go...
Look SharkLaser/Bonch. I've been a reader/poster here for about 10 years. Over the years there have been a quite a few posters like you who just can't stop preaching your message. You think you have some sort of insight which in your oppinion just have to be correct, in your case you have this idea that monoculture is gods gift for operating systems/hardware and every stumble that comes with a more open aproach unclimbable, we got it. But most of us don't agree, monoculture have flaws too you know, where the most apparent is that one size does not fit all.
I for example fly RC helicopters and I configure them over bluetooth, but I can't use an i* device because Apples BT stack don't implement SPP (Serial port profile). There is nothing stoping Apple from implementing it, but they wan't do it for some reason I can't believe is technical. I use a netbook for this, but I will get an Android tablet in the future.
At the moment you are making/. pretty much unbearable to read. Same old in every single thread. Everybody here have gotten your message by now. It's time for you to move on, you're just spreading FUD by now. Why don't you start a blog or something. As I've been on/. for some time I know from experience you will eventaully get tired and stop this bullshit, do yourself and others a favour and find some other channel to preach your message. Having multiple accounts on/. to post same old ramblings is just silly.
For the record I'm an owner of both iPhone and iPad.
Whatever happens this year, I'm sure iPhone users will grab the popcorn and enjoy the show.
I own an iPhone and an iPad. They are well built at least but I can't do shit with them. Plays 1% of my movies, no functional bluetooth, no emulators. Pretty much all apps are toys. I never got the fuzzy feeling Apple users rave about. My next purchase will be Android. If I can install Android on the iPad 2 I would be even happier.
My cheepo ASUS 1015PN has nvidia ION2, full OpenGL support. Hardware accelerates any movie I throw at it (Well, the ones that needs it anyway), even 50GB bluray rips is no problem. Bitstreams DTS-HD Master and Dolby TrueHD over HDMI. Quite a little wonder, all hardware supported in latest Ubuntu.
If you need a great Linux netbook, 1015PN is a nice choice.
Answering again, if you are interessted in getting mplayer on Linux to bitstream lossless over HDMI on Ion 2 drop me a mail at linus(dot)larsson(dot)public(at)gmail(dot)com, there are some alsa tweaking needed at the moment which is non-intuitive but not really hard once you know how to do it. Took me 3 days to figure out though, there is very little documentation out there on this stuff.
Ion 2 can bitstream DTSHD-MA and TrueHD, Ion 1 however can not, don't think it's HDMI 1.3 (you are correct that you need to decode to LPCM first, and there is no software decoder for DTSHD-MA). If you are interested check out mplayer-svn (spdifdts, spdifthd audiocodecs), they do bitstream lossless over HDMI. It took some time to get this working since it quite new and there is pretty much zero documentation but set up correctly it will light up the DTSHD-MA and THD on the receiver, meaning you are bitstreaming. I have full bluray-rips I run this on, and it's rocking. I have only tried this on Linux, I took for granted i works in windows too.
This chipset/cpu doesn't seem to bring anything which NVidia Ion 2 can't already do. Ion 2 coupled with a low powered Atom plays anything video using pretty much zero CPU, and it even bitstreams Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA to the receiver, on Linux and Windows. And it's proven and stable. NVidia know this stuff, VIA need to do better. I use a cheap ASUS S1-AT5NM10E (Shity name, good computer) for playback. Even my netbook have Ion 2 (Asus 1015PN), it also plays any video out there. So what will this bring we don't already have?
Yes you can, but you can't easily install Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 is "messy" at the moment. While I have hopes for both Unity and Gnome 3 for the future they are not great at the moment if you actually try to work on your computer. My work computer will be running an old Ubuntu for some time, and on my netbook I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and Xfce. I think they will sort out the problems of both Unity and Gnome 3, they are kind of cool interfaces but at the moment it's not for me. I mostly need a browser and a bunch of terminals, I don't have "big" needs when it comes to the desktop environment, but neither Unity or Gnome 3 seems to fullfill my needs as good as Gnome 2 or Xfce. Hopefully they will get there. I mostly miss some configuration options, and the speed is lacking. I don't care for transparency and such if it means being slower, and current implementations are.
There is really nothing wrong with a start menu. Microsoft however never enforced a good practice with their start menu, the signal to noise ratio is VERY low. It's cluttered with company names, uninstallers and readme files. Why should I have to know the name of the company if I want to use a program, looks very much like advertisement to me. Instead of enforcing a good practice they have extended the start menu with "most used programs" which really doesn't cure the underlying problem, and to me it's even more cluttered. They should get rid of everything but the program starters in correct folders, Games in games folder and so on, one program has one menu entry, this was probably how it was meant to be by the original designer but never enforced. Look at Gnome, very simple, and very effective. And now MS have come to the conclusion that nobody uses their cluttered mess of a start menu, and are killing it. I say it could be fixed, but MS doesn't seem to know what's wrong with it...
USB is a universal interface, of course it comes with some limitations. What if you needed a special port for your memory stick, a different for hard drive, another one for your mp3 player and yet another one for your GPS, mouse, keyboard, external soundcard, or the gadget Rocket launcher. You would end up with 50 different ports and a bunch of Add-in cards.
USB solves all this, with some limitations (SATA is faster for drives, ethernet has faster networking). USB3 looks to me like it's going to rock, and it will problably not saturate harddrive speeds for a few years to come. It is much needed though since USB2 is just to slow for todays harddrives.
especially girls who usually don't understand why their boyfriends/husbands want a huge HDTV
I must be lucky, my GF already talks about 3DTV. Last year I tried unsuccesfully to hold her back on the home cinema system.
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That's not the point. Do you think it's an ethical move to lure developers to your library using LGPL, and then when you have a customer base declare it never was LGPL to begin with?
Just so we know what we are talking about. Copy to and from two USB2 drives on a slow Pentium 4. 20Mb/s transfer speed.
/cat/proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz cpu MHz : 2992.662
cp/media/store1/wargames.avi/media/store2
Top hovers around 10-15% CPU, that ain't that bad. On a modern cpu I guess it's pretty much negligible.
I probably move more data over USB than most (Having 2.5TB data on USB2) and I have never felt the CPU to be a bottleneck. In recent years anyway. Of course I wouldn't use USB for server drives but for home/office use it's pretty much unbeatable (Counting Price, performance, availability). The 20MB/s transferspeed is too slow by todays standard, and USB3 will rectify this. I don't want E-Sata, Firewire or whatever. Give me one type of port to do it all, and give me lots of them. That is USB.
I regulary buy those "shoddy" drives. And for the last five years I have gotten 20MB/S on them. No matter what the drive/controler/computer combo. Because the USB2 connection is saturated. I for one will welcome USB3.
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Just asking... I do not think we are talking about a tracking/advertising cookie here. I'm very certain google uses first-party cookies for tracking/advertising (meaning it's your site and not google that sets/owns the cookie). And first-party cookies needs no P3P. Or am I wrong?
True moding is when you mod a post up you do not agree with, but is well written, gives an alternate view, or otherwise add to the discussion. That's moding integrity, I suppose very few slashdot moders do this, more should.
I hear where you're coming from, but I don't agree. The OS is becoming less and less relevant. If the web is where people are when using the computer it's the web that needs to evolve. Current technologies gives my computer the speed of an Amiga from 20 years ago while using the web, not good enough if you ask me. I want native speeds, I want portability, I don't want restrictions on what developer tools to use when programming (everything Javascript isn't really that hot). NaCL seems like a good bet, if Google (and hopefully others in the future) can get Intel/"Insert CPU maker of choice" in on it the speed could probably be even better. Important to understand is that NaCL is by comparison rather small, it's just a lightweight "virtual machine" to be able to run native code in a secure way. It's not a bloated library like Java, it uses current web technologies for IO. Calling the web "second class" is short sighted in my opinion, I and many others rather use Gmail and Google docs instead of native apps. I want more apps delivered this way (and better ones), but current technologies hinders that. I for one hope the web will be very different ten years from now.
It's pretty obvious Google are trying to make a "web platform" with Dart and NaCL. Most people spend a lot of time using the web, probably most of the time in front of the computer is web-time. When I use the web, which is a lot I want a better experience, I want native speed, I want real apps and games delivered on the web. If Google can give me that, more power to them. So far their technologies is open source, so I see little wrong from their doings. I don't like installing crap on my computer, phone or "pad", if apps can be delivered over the web, all the better.
Seeing the web as a glorified publishing tool as it is today is old school. Google should have WOW ported to NaCL, that would give it a boost.
Actually, there is no credible source on that...
Hi, The parrot seems to be something you actually do control with a phone. It's most proably self-stabilizing and very easy to fly altough most certanly very innacurate. http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/en/
It is a "toy", I normaly don't recommed them as it's worlds apart what I fly, but you could probably get some enjoyment out of it. Don't set your expectation bar too high though...
If you are truly interessted you can buy quad-chassis, motors, speed controlers, flight computer (with gyros and other sensors), and there is open source software for it too. These are the real thing, but since I just fly regular copters I don't know much about them I'm afraid. http://aeroquad.com/ (Don't know if this is the best, but a place to start reading, if interessted)
I fly RC Helicopters and I would not trust something like this, period. We take signal quality very, very seriously. Any loss of signal and you are basically doomed the way we fly these days (low to the ground and stickbanging). Even the major manufacturers have signal problems, altough it's very good. Have never had any signal hickup with my Futaba 2.4 gear, but they have done everything in there power to make the signal as optimized for the application as possible. For a slow moving vehicle, sure. But anything flying, no thanks. Latency is another matter. 20ms stick to servo is considered good. The touchscreen alone is probably 100ms, Consider a car at 60mph, it will move several feets before even starting to turn at those latencys.
Cool, possibly. But more of a toy thing.
There are clearly defined uses. Let's say for a moment you find yourself in a already almost pitch black room. Harrison Ford steps up and says "It's to dark in here". Let's say for the sake of context he's going o do some unscientific test on you about turtles. Just press a button and Harrison is ready to go...
Look SharkLaser/Bonch. I've been a reader/poster here for about 10 years. Over the years there have been a quite a few posters like you who just can't stop preaching your message. You think you have some sort of insight which in your oppinion just have to be correct, in your case you have this idea that monoculture is gods gift for operating systems/hardware and every stumble that comes with a more open aproach unclimbable, we got it. But most of us don't agree, monoculture have flaws too you know, where the most apparent is that one size does not fit all.
I for example fly RC helicopters and I configure them over bluetooth, but I can't use an i* device because Apples BT stack don't implement SPP (Serial port profile). There is nothing stoping Apple from implementing it, but they wan't do it for some reason I can't believe is technical. I use a netbook for this, but I will get an Android tablet in the future.
At the moment you are making /. pretty much unbearable to read. Same old in every single thread. Everybody here have gotten your message by now. It's time for you to move on, you're just spreading FUD by now. Why don't you start a blog or something. As I've been on /. for some time I know from experience you will eventaully get tired and stop this bullshit, do yourself and others a favour and find some other channel to preach your message. Having multiple accounts on /. to post same old ramblings is just silly.
For the record I'm an owner of both iPhone and iPad.
Whatever happens this year, I'm sure iPhone users will grab the popcorn and enjoy the show.
I own an iPhone and an iPad. They are well built at least but I can't do shit with them. Plays 1% of my movies, no functional bluetooth, no emulators. Pretty much all apps are toys. I never got the fuzzy feeling Apple users rave about. My next purchase will be Android. If I can install Android on the iPad 2 I would be even happier.
My cheepo ASUS 1015PN has nvidia ION2, full OpenGL support. Hardware accelerates any movie I throw at it (Well, the ones that needs it anyway), even 50GB bluray rips is no problem. Bitstreams DTS-HD Master and Dolby TrueHD over HDMI. Quite a little wonder, all hardware supported in latest Ubuntu.
If you need a great Linux netbook, 1015PN is a nice choice.
Answering again, if you are interessted in getting mplayer on Linux to bitstream lossless over HDMI on Ion 2 drop me a mail at linus(dot)larsson(dot)public(at)gmail(dot)com, there are some alsa tweaking needed at the moment which is non-intuitive but not really hard once you know how to do it. Took me 3 days to figure out though, there is very little documentation out there on this stuff.
Ion 2 can bitstream DTSHD-MA and TrueHD, Ion 1 however can not, don't think it's HDMI 1.3 (you are correct that you need to decode to LPCM first, and there is no software decoder for DTSHD-MA). If you are interested check out mplayer-svn (spdifdts, spdifthd audiocodecs), they do bitstream lossless over HDMI. It took some time to get this working since it quite new and there is pretty much zero documentation but set up correctly it will light up the DTSHD-MA and THD on the receiver, meaning you are bitstreaming. I have full bluray-rips I run this on, and it's rocking. I have only tried this on Linux, I took for granted i works in windows too.
We are talking about 13 watts here. While speedstep would be nice, there isn't a whole lot of power to save.
Strap a touchscreen to one side and a battery to the other and install some tablet edition of Windows or Linux and it should work pretty well.
Great sollution, If you can handle the smell of duct tape and white trash...
This chipset/cpu doesn't seem to bring anything which NVidia Ion 2 can't already do. Ion 2 coupled with a low powered Atom plays anything video using pretty much zero CPU, and it even bitstreams Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA to the receiver, on Linux and Windows. And it's proven and stable. NVidia know this stuff, VIA need to do better. I use a cheap ASUS S1-AT5NM10E (Shity name, good computer) for playback. Even my netbook have Ion 2 (Asus 1015PN), it also plays any video out there. So what will this bring we don't already have?
Yes you can, but you can't easily install Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 is "messy" at the moment. While I have hopes for both Unity and Gnome 3 for the future they are not great at the moment if you actually try to work on your computer. My work computer will be running an old Ubuntu for some time, and on my netbook I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and Xfce. I think they will sort out the problems of both Unity and Gnome 3, they are kind of cool interfaces but at the moment it's not for me. I mostly need a browser and a bunch of terminals, I don't have "big" needs when it comes to the desktop environment, but neither Unity or Gnome 3 seems to fullfill my needs as good as Gnome 2 or Xfce. Hopefully they will get there. I mostly miss some configuration options, and the speed is lacking. I don't care for transparency and such if it means being slower, and current implementations are.
There is really nothing wrong with a start menu. Microsoft however never enforced a good practice with their start menu, the signal to noise ratio is VERY low. It's cluttered with company names, uninstallers and readme files. Why should I have to know the name of the company if I want to use a program, looks very much like advertisement to me. Instead of enforcing a good practice they have extended the start menu with "most used programs" which really doesn't cure the underlying problem, and to me it's even more cluttered. They should get rid of everything but the program starters in correct folders, Games in games folder and so on, one program has one menu entry, this was probably how it was meant to be by the original designer but never enforced. Look at Gnome, very simple, and very effective. And now MS have come to the conclusion that nobody uses their cluttered mess of a start menu, and are killing it. I say it could be fixed, but MS doesn't seem to know what's wrong with it...
USB is a universal interface, of course it comes with some limitations. What if you needed a special port for your memory stick, a different for hard drive, another one for your mp3 player and yet another one for your GPS, mouse, keyboard, external soundcard, or the gadget Rocket launcher. You would end up with 50 different ports and a bunch of Add-in cards.
USB solves all this, with some limitations (SATA is faster for drives, ethernet has faster networking). USB3 looks to me like it's going to rock, and it will problably not saturate harddrive speeds for a few years to come. It is much needed though since USB2 is just to slow for todays harddrives.
especially girls who usually don't understand why their boyfriends/husbands want a huge HDTV
I must be lucky, my GF already talks about 3DTV. Last year I tried unsuccesfully to hold her back on the home cinema system.
That's not the point. Do you think it's an ethical move to lure developers to your library using LGPL, and then when you have a customer base declare it never was LGPL to begin with?
Stinks pretty bad to me.
Just so we know what we are talking about. Copy to and from two USB2 drives on a slow Pentium 4. 20Mb/s transfer speed.
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
cpu MHz : 2992.662
cp /media/store1/wargames.avi /media/store2
Top hovers around 10-15% CPU, that ain't that bad. On a modern cpu I guess it's pretty much negligible.
I probably move more data over USB than most (Having 2.5TB data on USB2) and I have never felt the CPU to be a bottleneck. In recent years anyway. Of course I wouldn't use USB for server drives but for home/office use it's pretty much unbeatable (Counting Price, performance, availability). The 20MB/s transferspeed is too slow by todays standard, and USB3 will rectify this. I don't want E-Sata, Firewire or whatever. Give me one type of port to do it all, and give me lots of them. That is USB.
I regulary buy those "shoddy" drives. And for the last five years I have gotten 20MB/S on them. No matter what the drive/controler/computer combo. Because the USB2 connection is saturated. I for one will welcome USB3.
Didn't you watch the little mermaid? A rather nice flick about a mermaid trying to get laid.
I think I'd be more interested in seeing a new Duke platformer for WiiWare than I would a new Duke FPS.
That's exactly what 3DRealms upper management said in 2006.