Can't the "waste" from conventional nuclear reactors be, uh, "recycled", for lack of a better word? I thought I read about pilot projects here, where the spent nuclear fuel would be put into a different kind of reactor and continued to emit heat until they finally decayed to something stable (or something with such a small amount of damage that it wouldn't matter).
That's TWO years from now. It's been well over a year since Elop killed MeeGo, S60, and Symbian^3 in one shot, and we're barely starting to see nokia ship windows handsets. Really guys? Is this what we've become? Does nobody remember this is exactly how NT got its foot into the door?
And we all know how well that went. Arguably things didn't even start to work out until 2003 and 2008. Ten years. They didn't even deliver on half the promises. Where is Cairo?
The Sims is the best selling PC video game franchise in history. I'm pretty sure each individual generation has outsold plenty of other household names.
Whatever happened to that image from ArsTechnica, they had two screenshots, one of Mac OSX, and another of Windows Vista, with typical apps loaded up...
Second, no matter how drunk he may have been, a man can't seriously claim that he did not consent to sex if he, under no coercion to do so, climbs on top of an unconscious woman, spreads her legs apart and penetrates her. The actions show a deliberate choice to rape the woman.
I guess you've never heard of this:
Today, I had drunk sex with a girl that I barely know. I didn't have a condom and was nervous about getting her pregnant, but she assured me that I could pull out. Right when I was about to pull out, she wrapped her legs around me and yelled : "BE MY BABY'S DADDY!" I couldn't get out in time. FML
what happens then? is it impossible that a girl goes on a guy? yeah, he's the one with the penis, but she's the one who initiated the action.
A lot of Davinci and OMAP chips from TI now feature ISPs. Assuming it's easy to rig this to normal linux software, you could have it react differently based on what it recognises from the video feed (or from still frames).
It would be interesting to have something that could place various "targets" at various "levels". For example, for a stranger, the locks remain shut, and if the user is out, the sensors in the house turn up to 11, and the user gets a phone call letting them know someone's at the house (or a MMS/e-mail might be better, with a photo of who's at the door). Or you could configure it to fire tasers out if you feel like goin' back to jail.
Ideally you'd just have it to recognize when a friendly shows up, so you'd get an alert telling you $friend was at the house.
But the asker has an apartment, so I guess an ISP is a little harder to use, unless he can set up a camera to check outside his door without having it break easily. These sort of things can be networked to a DVR, be it a hardware solution or a mythbox or something.
(I guess all that to show that video cameras are not useless, just not thought out enough)
Could they be looking at an equivalent of Jazelle but for C#?
I don't see microsoft having enough engineers willing to work on an ARM core unless MS has something they want to try and pull the industry with. The idea of an optimized core might make sense, but i'm not sure how much they could change it without running into problems.
If Nvidia hasn't been allowed to purchase Via's x86 license by that point they are quite frankly out of business.
Apparently, licensing terms for access to the x86 designs forbid it passing to non-US hands. I think VIA is working a loophole here, because Centaur is doing the CPU designs, VIA does the branding, chipsets, and sometimes the motherboards.
However, it might work if nVidia aquired VIA and Centaur, and merged VIA's chipset departments into nvidia's (and segmented them or something) because otherwise they're only looking for Centaur and it ain't going to be pretty. I'm just disappointed in nVidia myself for letting Nano go the way it did, and not partnering GeForce+Nano properly.
Are you only looking at the 4W Atom core? Should I remind you that you have to drag along an 8W+ chipset along with that, whose sole ability is to draw 2D graphics and maybe do light 3D if you don't look at it funny?
Compare that to ARM cores like the Cortex-A9... Dual-core, 600MHz to 2GHz, 45nm, comes with a GPU core (they're usually meh to me, but apparently they're very good at cellphone resolutions), and a DSP that's worth a shit (1080p encode/decode at the same time, and sometimes they're reprogrammable).
Yeah, I believe you when you say the i7 has great performance per watt... but that's to be expected. Atom and the Core 2s just suck on battery life compared to ARM. If they didn't, how do you explain the fact that we were talking like 2-3 hours of battery life for the HP Slate, and yet Notion Ink's Adam should get at least 10 hours (they claim 16, I'm not sure how exactly, if it's 1080p on the internal screen or via an output) and they're similar profiles. And the Adam can still do more!
it's barely sucking hollywood cock. it's more like sucking old republican cock. none of their actions are relevant anymore. they do it because they know they could win an election, and nobody wants an election, and it goes into a vicious cycle...
and yes, I did just say we don't want an election... do you realize what that means? it's not even like we're alone. Canadians don't want another election. because we're just too stupid to get out when we can and elect decent members into parliament... everyone seems to have a big business backing them, with few exceptions (David McGuinty is one of the few I recognize as being "ok to good", mostly because of Geist's coverage. Prentice has turned out to not be so bad after all. But the entire landscape needs a shake-up, including our old favourites. I'm tired of seeing situations where a rockstar could come in and slap an iPod tax because he thinks that Canadians pirate too much, while we suffer with shit internet. or that the CRTC can chose to keep canada's telecom industry monopolistic because the head doesn't believe in competition....)
Prentice was actually very much for the stance the tech companies in Canada took a while back (don't change the system, just fight the bootleggers and define what's right and wrong).
It's apparently "heritage" (what a crock of shit) minister Moore that has been busting cabinet's balls for a restrictive DMCA-style deployment.
Oh, brownie points for Prentice: apparently he's copied all of his CDs for use on his iPod and doesn't afraid of it. Again, the problem is moore, and the dummies who think that kind of "change" will do anything, other than fit into "change, please?"
How many of those 6.7 billion are about to die in the next 30 years? What about in Japan?
Sure, there are 6.7 billion people, but the birth rate is what matters... the Japanese are not having kids, and they will not accept immigrants. Unless you want them to become Eurabia of the East, good luck regrowing the population.
(exagerations are not necessarily abound. poorer palestinian families average what, 10, 12 kids per family? if you're looking at the long-term survival of the Japanese, it's not looking pretty.)
Not quite. They've been draining the water from their neighbours (what do you think they did, the moment they invaded Lebanon? They brought them commerce and in return piped out all of their water) and even that's not enough. (perhaps the biggest reason why there's no peace with Israel and Palestine)
No, the Israelis are just as screwed as everyone else.
Looked into Homebank or Grisbi? (or was that gribsi?)
Both of them started in Europe and on Amigas, if I remember correctly, and both are fairly good accounting programs. Gnucash is only notable because tend to forget the competition.
If not, you could build one with the Semrpon 140. If it doesn't unlock the extra core, that's ok, just play with single core. Or buy the Athlon II X2 240. Combine it with an HD4670, and you've got a 720p gaming computer. The 4670 can almost do 1080p on a lot of games (average framerate is 30fps with everything cranked right up).
(Canadian prices, divide by two for US prices) The motherboard and CPU will likely cost something like $130-$150, RAM is maybe another $40-$80, a good case like the NSK4480 can be had for like $80, depending on your needs a hard drive is typically like $70 if you want a 640GB Caviar Black, and monitors go on sale a lot for like $90 (18.5", 1366x768, good brand names too). Toss in $60 for that HD4670. So you're looking at about $500 for a better experience.
Assuming these crooks want $20/mo or something equally outrageous, it pretty much pays itself off in two years (but the difference is that after that likely only your video card needs an upgrade). Yeah, games will cost you money. But you can always find good games for $20 on boxing day, and this way you have a fully functioning computer.
Phoronix covered that, and I think someone else did too. XBMC has got the Broadcom Crystal HD (I don't remember the exact model number(s), but they're all over eBay and logicsupply has some) working, and their current solution apparently works across linux, OSX, and windows.
Fingers crossed that it doesn't use some kind of horribly strange API. I was hoping it would be VA-API supportive, but it's alright...
This would be marvellous for an HTPC with an Atom. I'm pretty sure the 230/N270 can already play N64 games with Mupen64Plus, 1964, and Project64, at full framerates (but custom textures and such would be another issue) so your gaming is also covered (let's face it, classic nintendo games were win. You might be able to pull off PS2 emulation with a 330 or its sucessor).
Considering we might fight over the Arctic, any friendly action with Russia, in exchange for a ceasefire over the arctic issue (eg, we agree that nobody else should be there), would be really good for both sides.
The difference is that, with a GPL license conflict, you're producing a deriative work and selling it.
Nobody cares if a company, or an individual, produced a deriative for internal distribution.
Downloading a movie is more like taking the source and walking away with it. Bootlegging is the equivalent of GPL abuse. And for a hardware manufacturer, does it really hurt that hard to release your source?
It would be nice if when you bought a paperback or hardcover, the store automagically gave you an ebook version. Would be very nice, actually... But then you could just turn around and sell the deadtree copy and keep the ebook.
Might as well just download the book and buy the printed copy if you want it too.
For ePub and for HTML, for that matter... It would be cool, you could make your site fit in one page for readers that support it. (I guess just ebook readers). It would also mean that publishers could just use HTML with a container for any images/audio/DRM they might want to curse us with.
Or you could publish your own books just by incorporating some HTML tags.
Craigslist has no service in Ottawa, so Kijiji gets all the sales here.
But there's UsedOttawa.com that is a lot more popular, especially since Kijiji is just awful to work with... (with all this WEB TWO POINT OH garbage I'm surprised it gets used at all)
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Can't the "waste" from conventional nuclear reactors be, uh, "recycled", for lack of a better word? I thought I read about pilot projects here, where the spent nuclear fuel would be put into a different kind of reactor and continued to emit heat until they finally decayed to something stable (or something with such a small amount of damage that it wouldn't matter).
Yeah, wait for 2013.
That's TWO years from now. It's been well over a year since Elop killed MeeGo, S60, and Symbian^3 in one shot, and we're barely starting to see nokia ship windows handsets. Really guys? Is this what we've become? Does nobody remember this is exactly how NT got its foot into the door?
And we all know how well that went. Arguably things didn't even start to work out until 2003 and 2008. Ten years. They didn't even deliver on half the promises. Where is Cairo?
Empty promises. Son, I am disappoint.
Gizmodo isn't exactly an unbiased source...
The Sims is the best selling PC video game franchise in history. I'm pretty sure each individual generation has outsold plenty of other household names.
Comparing anything not Nintendo to The Sims?
Good. Fucking. Luck.
Whatever happened to that image from ArsTechnica, they had two screenshots, one of Mac OSX, and another of Windows Vista, with typical apps loaded up...
Most of them were by microsoft/apple.
Not a single one looked the same.
"Consistent" my ass. Compare that to GTK2 and Qt.
Second, no matter how drunk he may have been, a man can't seriously claim that he did not consent to sex if he, under no coercion to do so, climbs on top of an unconscious woman, spreads her legs apart and penetrates her. The actions show a deliberate choice to rape the woman.
I guess you've never heard of this:
Today, I had drunk sex with a girl that I barely know. I didn't have a condom and was nervous about getting her pregnant, but she assured me that I could pull out. Right when I was about to pull out, she wrapped her legs around me and yelled : "BE MY BABY'S DADDY!" I couldn't get out in time. FML
what happens then? is it impossible that a girl goes on a guy? yeah, he's the one with the penis, but she's the one who initiated the action.
A lot of Davinci and OMAP chips from TI now feature ISPs. Assuming it's easy to rig this to normal linux software, you could have it react differently based on what it recognises from the video feed (or from still frames).
It would be interesting to have something that could place various "targets" at various "levels". For example, for a stranger, the locks remain shut, and if the user is out, the sensors in the house turn up to 11, and the user gets a phone call letting them know someone's at the house (or a MMS/e-mail might be better, with a photo of who's at the door). Or you could configure it to fire tasers out if you feel like goin' back to jail.
Ideally you'd just have it to recognize when a friendly shows up, so you'd get an alert telling you $friend was at the house.
But the asker has an apartment, so I guess an ISP is a little harder to use, unless he can set up a camera to check outside his door without having it break easily. These sort of things can be networked to a DVR, be it a hardware solution or a mythbox or something.
(I guess all that to show that video cameras are not useless, just not thought out enough)
Could they be looking at an equivalent of Jazelle but for C#?
I don't see microsoft having enough engineers willing to work on an ARM core unless MS has something they want to try and pull the industry with. The idea of an optimized core might make sense, but i'm not sure how much they could change it without running into problems.
can you put it on pastebin maybe?
If Nvidia hasn't been allowed to purchase Via's x86 license by that point they are quite frankly out of business.
Apparently, licensing terms for access to the x86 designs forbid it passing to non-US hands. I think VIA is working a loophole here, because Centaur is doing the CPU designs, VIA does the branding, chipsets, and sometimes the motherboards.
However, it might work if nVidia aquired VIA and Centaur, and merged VIA's chipset departments into nvidia's (and segmented them or something) because otherwise they're only looking for Centaur and it ain't going to be pretty. I'm just disappointed in nVidia myself for letting Nano go the way it did, and not partnering GeForce+Nano properly.
What the hell?
Are you only looking at the 4W Atom core? Should I remind you that you have to drag along an 8W+ chipset along with that, whose sole ability is to draw 2D graphics and maybe do light 3D if you don't look at it funny?
Compare that to ARM cores like the Cortex-A9... Dual-core, 600MHz to 2GHz, 45nm, comes with a GPU core (they're usually meh to me, but apparently they're very good at cellphone resolutions), and a DSP that's worth a shit (1080p encode/decode at the same time, and sometimes they're reprogrammable).
Yeah, I believe you when you say the i7 has great performance per watt... but that's to be expected. Atom and the Core 2s just suck on battery life compared to ARM. If they didn't, how do you explain the fact that we were talking like 2-3 hours of battery life for the HP Slate, and yet Notion Ink's Adam should get at least 10 hours (they claim 16, I'm not sure how exactly, if it's 1080p on the internal screen or via an output) and they're similar profiles. And the Adam can still do more!
s/hollywood/republican
it's barely sucking hollywood cock. it's more like sucking old republican cock. none of their actions are relevant anymore. they do it because they know they could win an election, and nobody wants an election, and it goes into a vicious cycle...
and yes, I did just say we don't want an election... do you realize what that means? it's not even like we're alone. Canadians don't want another election. because we're just too stupid to get out when we can and elect decent members into parliament... everyone seems to have a big business backing them, with few exceptions (David McGuinty is one of the few I recognize as being "ok to good", mostly because of Geist's coverage. Prentice has turned out to not be so bad after all. But the entire landscape needs a shake-up, including our old favourites. I'm tired of seeing situations where a rockstar could come in and slap an iPod tax because he thinks that Canadians pirate too much, while we suffer with shit internet. or that the CRTC can chose to keep canada's telecom industry monopolistic because the head doesn't believe in competition....)
Prentice was actually very much for the stance the tech companies in Canada took a while back (don't change the system, just fight the bootleggers and define what's right and wrong).
It's apparently "heritage" (what a crock of shit) minister Moore that has been busting cabinet's balls for a restrictive DMCA-style deployment.
Oh, brownie points for Prentice: apparently he's copied all of his CDs for use on his iPod and doesn't afraid of it. Again, the problem is moore, and the dummies who think that kind of "change" will do anything, other than fit into "change, please?"
How many of those 6.7 billion are about to die in the next 30 years? What about in Japan?
Sure, there are 6.7 billion people, but the birth rate is what matters... the Japanese are not having kids, and they will not accept immigrants. Unless you want them to become Eurabia of the East, good luck regrowing the population.
(exagerations are not necessarily abound. poorer palestinian families average what, 10, 12 kids per family? if you're looking at the long-term survival of the Japanese, it's not looking pretty.)
Not quite. They've been draining the water from their neighbours (what do you think they did, the moment they invaded Lebanon? They brought them commerce and in return piped out all of their water) and even that's not enough. (perhaps the biggest reason why there's no peace with Israel and Palestine)
No, the Israelis are just as screwed as everyone else.
Is it running Linux? I'm pretty sure XvBA works with 1080p h.264 without a problem except maybe a possible issue with colours. (unconfirmed)
Looked into Homebank or Grisbi? (or was that gribsi?)
Both of them started in Europe and on Amigas, if I remember correctly, and both are fairly good accounting programs. Gnucash is only notable because tend to forget the competition.
You likely have a desktop.
If not, you could build one with the Semrpon 140. If it doesn't unlock the extra core, that's ok, just play with single core. Or buy the Athlon II X2 240. Combine it with an HD4670, and you've got a 720p gaming computer. The 4670 can almost do 1080p on a lot of games (average framerate is 30fps with everything cranked right up).
(Canadian prices, divide by two for US prices) The motherboard and CPU will likely cost something like $130-$150, RAM is maybe another $40-$80, a good case like the NSK4480 can be had for like $80, depending on your needs a hard drive is typically like $70 if you want a 640GB Caviar Black, and monitors go on sale a lot for like $90 (18.5", 1366x768, good brand names too). Toss in $60 for that HD4670. So you're looking at about $500 for a better experience.
Assuming these crooks want $20/mo or something equally outrageous, it pretty much pays itself off in two years (but the difference is that after that likely only your video card needs an upgrade). Yeah, games will cost you money. But you can always find good games for $20 on boxing day, and this way you have a fully functioning computer.
What about the Efika?
http://www.genesi-usa.com/products/efika
Based on the i.mx515. Not sure about availability or pricing.
Phoronix covered that, and I think someone else did too. XBMC has got the Broadcom Crystal HD (I don't remember the exact model number(s), but they're all over eBay and logicsupply has some) working, and their current solution apparently works across linux, OSX, and windows.
Fingers crossed that it doesn't use some kind of horribly strange API. I was hoping it would be VA-API supportive, but it's alright...
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzg0OQ
This would be marvellous for an HTPC with an Atom. I'm pretty sure the 230/N270 can already play N64 games with Mupen64Plus, 1964, and Project64, at full framerates (but custom textures and such would be another issue) so your gaming is also covered (let's face it, classic nintendo games were win. You might be able to pull off PS2 emulation with a 330 or its sucessor).
Considering we might fight over the Arctic, any friendly action with Russia, in exchange for a ceasefire over the arctic issue (eg, we agree that nobody else should be there), would be really good for both sides.
The difference is that, with a GPL license conflict, you're producing a deriative work and selling it.
Nobody cares if a company, or an individual, produced a deriative for internal distribution.
Downloading a movie is more like taking the source and walking away with it. Bootlegging is the equivalent of GPL abuse. And for a hardware manufacturer, does it really hurt that hard to release your source?
Can ebook readers display images in PDFs?
It would be nice if when you bought a paperback or hardcover, the store automagically gave you an ebook version. Would be very nice, actually... But then you could just turn around and sell the deadtree copy and keep the ebook.
Might as well just download the book and buy the printed copy if you want it too.
Then why isn't there a "page" tag?
For ePub and for HTML, for that matter... It would be cool, you could make your site fit in one page for readers that support it. (I guess just ebook readers). It would also mean that publishers could just use HTML with a container for any images/audio/DRM they might want to curse us with.
Or you could publish your own books just by incorporating some HTML tags.
Do any ebook readers support HTML + CSS?
Craigslist has no service in Ottawa, so Kijiji gets all the sales here.
But there's UsedOttawa.com that is a lot more popular, especially since Kijiji is just awful to work with... (with all this WEB TWO POINT OH garbage I'm surprised it gets used at all)