I'm the founder of Zigfu. We support both Kinect SDK and OpenNI with our browser plugin so we can run on both PC and Mac. Zigfu also runs in IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari because we built our plugin both as an ActiveX and NPAPI plugin. Our QA matrix is nasty.
Now we need a chip that can take any given problem and divide it into one thousand parts so we can feed it into these processors. -Gives me a headache!
The Unity namespace is already occupied by http://www.unity3d.com/ a great game engine for iOS and android and support multitouch and so on. Canonical is just going to make it a PITA for one or both sets of developers searching for "unity opengl" "unity GUI" "unity multitouch" "unity android."
I can't help but feel like I already came up with this idea and submitted it to the X-Prize Foundation a few years ago. Mean Green Von Neumann Machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqGfYfWcEYM
There are very cheap FPGAs too! Actel igloo nano are even under $1. These are often used as glue logic or nano-controllers like to connect a USB port to an ADC and DAC. In many cases, low cost ($1-20) FPGAs are use instead of microcontrollers and often FPGAs are even being programmed with microprocessor cores like the Nios(altera) or Microblaze (xilinx) or even soft ARM cores. You can run Linux on them!
Summary is deceptive: They don't use an Arduino. They use their own ARM Maple board: http://leaflabs.com/ which was designed to the Arduino form factor.
contrary to the AC response, there are a lot of metal alloys that cannot be made on earth because gravity causes the mixture of liquid metals to form separate layers (like mixing oil and water) especially during the cooling process for making the allow. another possibility is the creation of metallic foams which cannot be made the same way on earth because gravity separates the liquid metal from the air bubbles.
If you actually do a google search for "Brian Shuster Ideaflood Inc" you find this article about a porn-baron with a patent for pop-up ads. Truly a modern day Nikolai Tesla...
Ideaflood Inc. is an intellectual property holding company owned by Brian Shuster. He previously ran porn web sites that were accused by the Federal Trade Commission of deceptively charging customers. While he is said to have made millions from internet porn, with which he is still involved, he now sees Ideaflood's patents as his best potential revenue source.
His pop-up ad patent application was filed in 1998 and granted in 2002. Last week, Shuster modestly told MSNBC news, "I apologise for being a pioneer."
That's an incredible saving. That money can be used to fix broken windows everywhere.
lol--and then the window makers can buy bread from the baker who can buy shoes from the shoemaker who can buy copyrighted textbooks for his child in high school.:)
I always thought those studies put piracy on the wrong side of the balance sheet: that's 56 billions dollars saved; not a 56 billion dollar cost. 373,000 jobs lost? That's over 15 millions hours each week of free time to spend with children
i'm currently wrapping up a PDP-11 emulator on FPGA. I'm writing this post while waiting for the simulator to run test code that was written before I was born.... our contract also has us replacing a fixed-head disk with magneto-RAM.
A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a fundamentally different type of architecture than what you think of as "modern processors." Instead of serial instruction stream execution engines you are provided with an array of programmable logic blocks in a sea of programmable routing. The programming model is akin to programming a spreadsheet in which each cell updates in parallel. Traditionally we think of this as "reconfigurable hardware" since the languages we use for designing physical hardware and FPGA emulations are the same (VHDL/Verilog). For most tasks that exhibit any sort of parallelism, an FPGA can grossly outperform a CPU of similar transistor count and cost both in terms of throughput and power consumption. The major barriers preventing the FPGA architecture from pushing serial instruction stream executers aside is the learning curve of the programming model and the economic barrier-to-entry: FPGAs are historically expensive VHDL/Verilog simulators and good design tools aren't cheap either.
FPGA emulations of legacy systems can replace computing components that can no longer be purchased. This is what I do professionally.
what are you talking about? with 44 billion dollars we could put 44 of those $100 units every square kilometer.
the issue to increasing the amount of bandwidth per transceiver to anything higher than 100Mbps was that we need to be able to LEGALLY USE more of the spectrum.
44 Billion Dollars / Area of US = 4,477.63 U.S. dollars per Square Kilometer
I can build a wireless transceiver for well under $1000 that can provide 100 Mbps coverage to 1 square kilometer (564 meter radius). It will cost more like $100 each if we're making 10M.
The real hurdle isn't technical, but political: we need to stop licensing bandwidth to private corporations and start sharing the entire spectrum.
From TFA: '''In order to be so flexible, however, FPGAs are large and expensive. And once the design is done, engineers generally abandon FPGAs for leaner "application-specific integrated circuits."'''
This isn't really true. The rising fixed costs of an ASIC is prohibitive for low volume embedded projects where a $1 FPGA will do just fine. High performance FPGA chips are about the same cost as a CPU and they are commonly used as reconfigurable co-processors for supercomputing applications or embedded DSP. And I get way more GigaOps per dollar with FPGAs than with a CPU and for much less power.
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I'm the founder of Zigfu. We support both Kinect SDK and OpenNI with our browser plugin so we can run on both PC and Mac. Zigfu also runs in IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari because we built our plugin both as an ActiveX and NPAPI plugin. Our QA matrix is nasty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNAXVs8rydU&feature=player_embedded
Now we need a chip that can take any given problem and divide it into one thousand parts so we can feed it into these processors. -Gives me a headache!
It's called a "programmer".
It's called a "fpgaprogrammer"
get it right.
The Unity namespace is already occupied by http://www.unity3d.com/ a great game engine for iOS and android and support multitouch and so on. Canonical is just going to make it a PITA for one or both sets of developers searching for "unity opengl" "unity GUI" "unity multitouch" "unity android."
I can't help but feel like I already came up with this idea and submitted it to the X-Prize Foundation a few years ago.
Mean Green Von Neumann Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqGfYfWcEYM
There are very cheap FPGAs too! Actel igloo nano are even under $1. These are often used as glue logic or nano-controllers like to connect a USB port to an ADC and DAC. In many cases, low cost ($1-20) FPGAs are use instead of microcontrollers and often FPGAs are even being programmed with microprocessor cores like the Nios(altera) or Microblaze (xilinx) or even soft ARM cores. You can run Linux on them!
i am an ee monster!
yay!
Summary is deceptive: They don't use an Arduino. They use their own ARM Maple board: http://leaflabs.com/ which was designed to the Arduino form factor.
These lights lit up our burning man camp :)
contrary to the AC response, there are a lot of metal alloys that cannot be made on earth because gravity causes the mixture of liquid metals to form separate layers (like mixing oil and water) especially during the cooling process for making the allow. another possibility is the creation of metallic foams which cannot be made the same way on earth because gravity separates the liquid metal from the air bubbles.
@TechRadium, your #lawsuit is #bullshit.
If you're tired of all the VHDL and Verilog nuances, try CtoVerilog.com
Learn how to use core generator and a simulator before you even buy a board. you only need a board when you actually want to have hardware.
you can download camspace and use your webcam to track objects and control games right now:
http://www.camspace.com/
If you actually do a google search for "Brian Shuster Ideaflood Inc" you find this article about a porn-baron with a patent for pop-up ads. Truly a modern day Nikolai Tesla...
(From http://www.out-law.com/page-3551):
Ideaflood Inc. is an intellectual property holding company owned by Brian Shuster. He previously ran porn web sites that were accused by the Federal Trade Commission of deceptively charging customers. While he is said to have made millions from internet porn, with which he is still involved, he now sees Ideaflood's patents as his best potential revenue source.
His pop-up ad patent application was filed in 1998 and granted in 2002. Last week, Shuster modestly told MSNBC news, "I apologise for being a pioneer."
That's an incredible saving. That money can be used to fix broken windows everywhere.
lol--and then the window makers can buy bread from the baker who can buy shoes from the shoemaker who can buy copyrighted textbooks for his child in high school. :)
I always thought those studies put piracy on the wrong side of the balance sheet: that's 56 billions dollars saved; not a 56 billion dollar cost. 373,000 jobs lost? That's over 15 millions hours each week of free time to spend with children
i'm currently wrapping up a PDP-11 emulator on FPGA. I'm writing this post while waiting for the simulator to run test code that was written before I was born.... our contract also has us replacing a fixed-head disk with magneto-RAM.
A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a fundamentally different type of architecture than what you think of as "modern processors." Instead of serial instruction stream execution engines you are provided with an array of programmable logic blocks in a sea of programmable routing. The programming model is akin to programming a spreadsheet in which each cell updates in parallel. Traditionally we think of this as "reconfigurable hardware" since the languages we use for designing physical hardware and FPGA emulations are the same (VHDL/Verilog). For most tasks that exhibit any sort of parallelism, an FPGA can grossly outperform a CPU of similar transistor count and cost both in terms of throughput and power consumption. The major barriers preventing the FPGA architecture from pushing serial instruction stream executers aside is the learning curve of the programming model and the economic barrier-to-entry: FPGAs are historically expensive VHDL/Verilog simulators and good design tools aren't cheap either. FPGA emulations of legacy systems can replace computing components that can no longer be purchased. This is what I do professionally.
what are you talking about? with 44 billion dollars we could put 44 of those $100 units every square kilometer. the issue to increasing the amount of bandwidth per transceiver to anything higher than 100Mbps was that we need to be able to LEGALLY USE more of the spectrum.
44 Billion Dollars / Area of US = 4,477.63 U.S. dollars per Square Kilometer
I can build a wireless transceiver for well under $1000 that can provide 100 Mbps coverage to 1 square kilometer (564 meter radius). It will cost more like $100 each if we're making 10M.
The real hurdle isn't technical, but political: we need to stop licensing bandwidth to private corporations and start sharing the entire spectrum.
From TFA: '''In order to be so flexible, however, FPGAs are large and expensive. And once the design is done, engineers generally abandon FPGAs for leaner "application-specific integrated circuits."'''
This isn't really true. The rising fixed costs of an ASIC is prohibitive for low volume embedded projects where a $1 FPGA will do just fine. High performance FPGA chips are about the same cost as a CPU and they are commonly used as reconfigurable co-processors for supercomputing applications or embedded DSP. And I get way more GigaOps per dollar with FPGAs than with a CPU and for much less power.
with the white spaces opening up, all the freed formerly TV bandwidth will probably be filled with hardcore porn from internet traffic. oh the irony.
to beat this "breath test," please refer to the previous slashdot post today on steganography.
You probably need to be in your Junior year to take Ethics at Harvard...
your speculative invocation of Godwin's law will be immortalized in an XKCD one day