But as I understand this, the service will send you info about people who you haven't planed on meeting and also about people who are connected to people you know. Like getting a mess that tells you that one of your friends brothers are at that café across the street... Or maybe you're at a place with some friends but it turns out they only played really lousy music there, so you take a look in you phone to see if anyone you know are at a nearby place, without having to sms or call all of them.
If this service worked ok and I could restrict who was to be able to find out where I am, I might actually have been willing to pay for it. The college I attend is spread over a rather large area and it would be nice to see if anyone I know are in the same part as I... =)
" Thus, if you buy a region free DVD player, you're stealing from the producer"
No, but if you buy foreign region dvd's that are availible with your local region you might be.
At least where I come from, buying movies of the local region is usually as cheap or cheaper than buying foreign region movies. The reason for me buying a region-free DVD-player is all the movies that aren't released here. Around half of my dvd-collection can't be bought on region 2 dvd's.
It's not a monitor, that's why their website doesn't have any resolution/refresh rate specs. It works as a surface on which you can project an image with a projector. And you'd like to be a bit cautious about what kind of content you project there, since the picture will be visible on the other side of the panel. ^_^
At my college more than half of the computers can dual-boot into either windows or linux. It's a great setup that I think should be embraced by more schools. You can use linux if you're more comfortable with that os, or if you simply want to learn it. When there's something you can't do in linux, you just boot into windows.
The only problem with the computers at my school is that the admins are actually good at both win and unix, so both platforms are really secure and locked down. We're allowed to run the apps we need and not much more. =P But I guess that's needed to keep us damn students from wrecking the computers. ^_^
Well, I'd say that it's a sport, but not athletics. So the probability for math being in the olympics is about the same as rally or formula one. Those are sports but not athletics.
My own, highly personal definition of what a sport is: Something you, or your team, use your abilities to compete against others in. If these abilities are running, driving a car or doing math doesen't matter...
For your standpoint to be true, the people that do the interview has to have at/least/ the same level of knowledge in the field as you do. In allmost all the interviews I've been called to or been assisting at, the one who actually decides doesn't have this knowledge. It's not his area of proffession, so he doesn't need it. So he looks at the persons certificates and see that this person *should* have the required knowledge, talks to him/her to see if he/she has had any previous experience, etc, and to see if he/she fit into the corporate culture. If the position requires knowledge in, say, compaq fibrechannel solutions, a person who isn't a certified compaq fibrechannel technician isn't even called to an interview.
So, no, a certification doesn't show your knowledge, but it is essential it you want a qualified work.
Even if you're the worlds best surgion, you won't do one damnded operation, legally, if you haven't got an exam.
And when you want o watch a movie you just feed the projector with another video-source. =)
Actually... I don't see why this would be hard to do with a standard projector and a videocamera. =/ (The "Wall into window" thingy, that is.)
Anyway... Most new technology cost. Just like, say, television and computers it won't change anything until it's become an old enought technology to be cheap.
Following your reasoning one can also say "how often have you sat on the subway going "I'd really like to play Zelda now"?". How many people actually need a mobile game-device?
And what about longer trips? I've often been on 3 to 5 hour train/bus/car-rides that would have been much nicer if I'd had something like this, or a laptop, or a portable game-console. And for once it seems like there finally will be a portable video-device that's small and good enough to actually be usable. Earlier such devices have always had too small screens, been too big, had too short battery-time, etc.
My biggest gripe with this device is that it will use musicmatch. =( I really hate devices that use some kind of special software to transfer and arrange the content. Let me mount it as a drive and transfer my folder-structure, damn it! Much easier and more user friendly that way. =)
*rotfl* Yeah, that would be the exception. ^_^ But I must say, it sucks that we must boot from their damn DVD to use linux. (Well, I got to have/something/ to whine about, right?)
One nice function would be playing divx from my network. But since sony seems to have something against standards they'll probably won't be able to access smb or nfs-shares or be able to decode anything else than some obscure sony-proprietary video-standard and maybe atrac3 music.... =/
I haven't read this entire thread, but since it seems to touch the subject of fuel-grade vegetable-oil...
A few years ago I talked to a farmer here in sweden who produced just that. Apparently, it takes 2 liters of diesel to produce 1 liter of vegetable-fuel. Much of the equipment used in the process is driven by diesel-fuel, but the price of vegetable-fuel makes it profitable nontheless. But this was a few years ago. Maybe the situation has become more sane today. =/
Yes, some jobs are created in russia instead of the US in the music-sales sector and the IT-sector. But most of the jobs related to the song that's being downloaded have little or nothing to do with where in the world the song is being sold. This is no different than buying a record while on vacation, buying a record from another country over the net or buying something from iTunes while not being a US citizen.
And in the article and the website it says that this is an embedded cpu and some of the applications mentioned are, say, video encoders, crypo-engines and such. It's not a generic cpu like the transmeta, pentium or athlon and are not meant to be used in the same applications as those types of cpu's.
I belive you to be absolutely right. But since this is meant to be an embeded cpu, most applications for it will require doing lots and lots of the same operations over and over again. So using, say, 60% of the silicon for doing one certain operation a few hundred times faster than what would be possible with a generic cpu at the same clock-speed might not be a waste at all... That's what custom hardware does today. But developing custom chips is timeconsuming and expensive compared to doing almost the same thing in software, which is what Stretch allows you to do if I'm not misstaken.
Well, I have a stonetable with a very rough surface (it isn't even nearly flat) that makes it impossible to use any kind of mouse without a very stiff mousepad. But even if you happen to have an ordinary table you will wear down those little teflon-pads underneath your mouse alot quicker if you do not use a pad.
Well... As a matter of fact, these guys *are* sceners. =) Take a look at http://www.theproduct.de Somewhere around there they have a rather good explanation of how they made one of their 64k demos using the same technology a few years ago.
And it's thickness. How thick would a textile made of this be compared to one of similar strenght made out of nylon? And it's resistance to chemicals. Oils, acids and saltwater are really bad for nylon.
If it's really thin, light and UV resistant, you could make parachutes that packs really small! =)
You may not need it, and thus should not buy this product. I, on the other hand, know quite a few people who would be very glad to have this in their pc's. No more having to boot the entire os, logging in and start a program just to listen to a cd or watch a dvd. Yes. There *are* people who doesn't own a seperate dvd, cd and tv, who instead uses their computer for all those tasks due to space or economical reasons. I doubt that things like these will become the standard, so you'll still have all those other boards without BIOS-bloatware. Actually, most product that are availible on the market are stuff that I'm not buying. Diversity in the market is good, not bad. Gives us a little choise in what we want to buy.
It's a big pain but you *could* just re-rip your cd's to Ogg Vorbis and thus circumvent the problem of loosing quality. Unless you actually bought the music in mp3-format that is. Or are using mp3's of records you haven't bought. But that's the downside of buying or pirating music in a lossy format. If the music was bought: That's to bad but not much to do about. If the music was stolen: Well, one wouldn't have much right to complain then, right? =)
Hmm... If I haven't missunderstod this whole thing, this new license is supposed to make apache gpl-compatible whilst it never has been that before. The controversy, as I understand it, is apache saying "Apache now gpl-compatible, ugh." and fsf saying "No, it isn't. Go fix!". =/
Of course there is, if the transmeta-cpu is less powerhungry than the ppc/mc680x0/arm-cpu it's emulating. And it would be really cool to have a cpu that could *change* while running, so that you could be running MacOSX on PPC-emulation and start x86-programs that runs x86-emulation. Even if it would take a reboot to change architecture and then boot into a different os, it would be really cool. =) I would love to have a machine capable of running IRIX, WinXP, MacOSX, Mac classic just by rebooting. Of course, it would be hell to design a mainboard that could handle this even if the cpu could. =/ You'd need more or less one complete system per architecture, only sharing the cpu and some basic hardware. =/
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But as I understand this, the service will send you info about people who you haven't planed on meeting and also about people who are connected to people you know.
Like getting a mess that tells you that one of your friends brothers are at that café across the street...
Or maybe you're at a place with some friends but it turns out they only played really lousy music there, so you take a look in you phone to see if anyone you know are at a nearby place, without having to sms or call all of them.
If this service worked ok and I could restrict who was to be able to find out where I am, I might actually have been willing to pay for it.
The college I attend is spread over a rather large area and it would be nice to see if anyone I know are in the same part as I... =)
" Thus, if you buy a region free DVD player, you're stealing from the producer"
No, but if you buy foreign region dvd's that are availible with your local region you might be.
At least where I come from, buying movies of the local region is usually as cheap or cheaper than buying foreign region movies.
The reason for me buying a region-free DVD-player is all the movies that aren't released here. Around half of my dvd-collection can't be bought on region 2 dvd's.
It's not a monitor, that's why their website doesn't have any resolution/refresh rate specs.
It works as a surface on which you can project an image with a projector.
And you'd like to be a bit cautious about what kind of content you project there, since the picture will be visible on the other side of the panel. ^_^
At my college more than half of the computers can dual-boot into either windows or linux.
It's a great setup that I think should be embraced by more schools.
You can use linux if you're more comfortable with that os, or if you simply want to learn it.
When there's something you can't do in linux, you just boot into windows.
The only problem with the computers at my school is that the admins are actually good at both win and unix, so both platforms are really secure and locked down. We're allowed to run the apps we need and not much more. =P But I guess that's needed to keep us damn students from wrecking the computers. ^_^
Well, I'd say that it's a sport, but not athletics.
So the probability for math being in the olympics is about the same as rally or formula one. Those are sports but not athletics.
My own, highly personal definition of what a sport is:
Something you, or your team, use your abilities to compete against others in.
If these abilities are running, driving a car or doing math doesen't matter...
Smart people want choice.
Dumb people doesn't want to have to choose.
Problem is, there are more dumb people than smart people out there.
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All your secrets are belong to us!
For your standpoint to be true, the people that do the interview has to have at /least/ the same level of knowledge in the field as you do.
In allmost all the interviews I've been called to or been assisting at, the one who actually decides doesn't have this knowledge. It's not his area of proffession, so he doesn't need it.
So he looks at the persons certificates and see that this person *should* have the required knowledge, talks to him/her to see if he/she has had any previous experience, etc, and to see if he/she fit into the corporate culture. If the position requires knowledge in, say, compaq fibrechannel solutions, a person who isn't a certified compaq fibrechannel technician isn't even called to an interview.
So, no, a certification doesn't show your knowledge, but it is essential it you want a qualified work.
Even if you're the worlds best surgion, you won't do one damnded operation, legally, if you haven't got an exam.
And when you want o watch a movie you just feed the projector with another video-source. =)
Actually... I don't see why this would be hard to do with a standard projector and a videocamera. =/
(The "Wall into window" thingy, that is.)
Anyway...
Most new technology cost.
Just like, say, television and computers it won't change anything until it's become an old enought technology to be cheap.
Following your reasoning one can also say "how often have you sat on the subway going "I'd really like to play Zelda now"?".
How many people actually need a mobile game-device?
And what about longer trips?
I've often been on 3 to 5 hour train/bus/car-rides that would have been much nicer if I'd had something like this, or a laptop, or a portable game-console.
And for once it seems like there finally will be a portable video-device that's small and good enough to actually be usable. Earlier such devices have always had too small screens, been too big, had too short battery-time, etc.
My biggest gripe with this device is that it will use musicmatch. =(
I really hate devices that use some kind of special software to transfer and arrange the content.
Let me mount it as a drive and transfer my folder-structure, damn it!
Much easier and more user friendly that way. =)
*rotfl* /something/ to whine about, right?)
Yeah, that would be the exception. ^_^
But I must say, it sucks that we must boot from their damn DVD to use linux.
(Well, I got to have
Maybe it was a TINI?
You can order them direct from Dallas Semiconductors or, if you live in Europe, it might be better to get one from Taylec
One nice function would be playing divx from my network.
But since sony seems to have something against standards they'll probably won't be able to access smb or nfs-shares or be able to decode anything else than some obscure sony-proprietary video-standard and maybe atrac3 music.... =/
I haven't read this entire thread, but since it seems to touch the subject of fuel-grade vegetable-oil...
A few years ago I talked to a farmer here in sweden who produced just that.
Apparently, it takes 2 liters of diesel to produce 1 liter of vegetable-fuel.
Much of the equipment used in the process is driven by diesel-fuel, but the price of vegetable-fuel makes it profitable nontheless.
But this was a few years ago. Maybe the situation has become more sane today. =/
Yes, some jobs are created in russia instead of the US in the music-sales sector and the IT-sector.
But most of the jobs related to the song that's being downloaded have little or nothing to do with where in the world the song is being sold.
This is no different than buying a record while on vacation, buying a record from another country over the net or buying something from iTunes while not being a US citizen.
And in the article and the website it says that this is an embedded cpu and some of the applications mentioned are, say, video encoders, crypo-engines and such.
It's not a generic cpu like the transmeta, pentium or athlon and are not meant to be used in the same applications as those types of cpu's.
I belive you to be absolutely right.
But since this is meant to be an embeded cpu, most applications for it will require doing lots and lots of the same operations over and over again.
So using, say, 60% of the silicon for doing one certain operation a few hundred times faster than what would be possible with a generic cpu at the same clock-speed might not be a waste at all...
That's what custom hardware does today. But developing custom chips is timeconsuming and expensive compared to doing almost the same thing in software, which is what Stretch allows you to do if I'm not misstaken.
Well, I have a stonetable with a very rough surface (it isn't even nearly flat) that makes it impossible to use any kind of mouse without a very stiff mousepad.
But even if you happen to have an ordinary table you will wear down those little teflon-pads underneath your mouse alot quicker if you do not use a pad.
Well... As a matter of fact, these guys *are* sceners. =)
Take a look at http://www.theproduct.de
Somewhere around there they have a rather good explanation of how they made one of their 64k demos using the same technology a few years ago.
Let me guess... Your partner is Macgyver? =)
And it's thickness.
How thick would a textile made of this be compared to one of similar strenght made out of nylon?
And it's resistance to chemicals. Oils, acids and saltwater are really bad for nylon.
If it's really thin, light and UV resistant, you could make parachutes that packs really small! =)
You may not need it, and thus should not buy this product.
I, on the other hand, know quite a few people who would be very glad to have this in their pc's.
No more having to boot the entire os, logging in and start a program just to listen to a cd or watch a dvd.
Yes. There *are* people who doesn't own a seperate dvd, cd and tv, who instead uses their computer for all those tasks due to space or economical reasons.
I doubt that things like these will become the standard, so you'll still have all those other boards without BIOS-bloatware.
Actually, most product that are availible on the market are stuff that I'm not buying.
Diversity in the market is good, not bad. Gives us a little choise in what we want to buy.
It's a big pain but you *could* just re-rip your cd's to Ogg Vorbis and thus circumvent the problem of loosing quality.
Unless you actually bought the music in mp3-format that is. Or are using mp3's of records you haven't bought.
But that's the downside of buying or pirating music in a lossy format.
If the music was bought: That's to bad but not much to do about.
If the music was stolen: Well, one wouldn't have much right to complain then, right? =)
Hmm... If I haven't missunderstod this whole thing, this new license is supposed to make apache gpl-compatible whilst it never has been that before.
The controversy, as I understand it, is apache saying "Apache now gpl-compatible, ugh." and fsf saying "No, it isn't. Go fix!". =/
Of course there is, if the transmeta-cpu is less powerhungry than the ppc/mc680x0/arm-cpu it's emulating.
And it would be really cool to have a cpu that could *change* while running, so that you could be running MacOSX on PPC-emulation and start x86-programs that runs x86-emulation.
Even if it would take a reboot to change architecture and then boot into a different os, it would be really cool. =)
I would love to have a machine capable of running IRIX, WinXP, MacOSX, Mac classic just by rebooting.
Of course, it would be hell to design a mainboard that could handle this even if the cpu could. =/
You'd need more or less one complete system per architecture, only sharing the cpu and some basic hardware. =/