The printer also erases the pages... so no actual requirement to "clean" the pages, just feed them in and it erases and writes the new info onto the page.
Not saying I think this is a great idea for home use, but maybe some businesses could use it.
However, unless they've figured out how to make this special paper not turn black if placed on or near a heat source, these pages will be somewhat useless.
Sure, it may be a decade old but mine is still going strong and has 110dpi, 17.3" widescreen, 1600x1024 native resolution.
Only downsides are that it not supported by anyone, so eBay is the only real place to find them, and you need an adapter to convert the LVDI to DVI, though many of the ones I have seen on eBay come with the adapter built in.
However, if you want a high-quality screen that is still comparable to monitors made today, I would suggest looking at them.
Because if you keep doing incremental improvements you just may climb out of the uncanny valley... if you never bother to try you will just stand at the edge, on the wrong side of the valley.
Not working on new technology for rendering would be something akin to the patent office declaring everything had already been invented so they might as well close down... which didn't happen.
Personally, having grown up on 8-bit systems (Atari mostly), then 16-, 32- and now 64-Bit processors... in my lifetime... I can't wait to see what the next few decades will bring.:)
Just copy Terminal.app from Tiger and run it on Leopard.
Trust me, it works great, especially in conjunction with Visor, which provides a "Quake like" terminal window that pops down from the top of the screen.
Yes, I do agree that the western world consumes energy at an alarming rate...
Though for every person that travels around the world for personal enjoyment there are probably 20 others driving around in SUVs that get 5 miles per gallon... to go to the grocery store.:(
Also, as you pointed out earlier, all the server farms we use to host websites take up quite an enormous amount of resources... heck I wonder what Google itself consumes per day in energy resource?
I think the major key is to finally develop a source of renewable energy that is not harmful to the environment... though to do that we need to make big business actually care about something other then money or power... and that will not be easy.:(
Obviously I have heard of Virgin's space tourism plans, however, the focus of this article is for the "tag along" launches that have occured in the past... heck, the company offering it is the exact same one that did it three times before.
Whatever the plans are for Virgin and any other company destined to send tourists into space, this article was not about that. Though, to be fair, space tourism is a great way to work up interest in space travel, something we need if we are ever to get off this rock we call home.
I have lived in a few countries on Earth and I would love to visit more... however, the cost of doing so isn't going to change much until "big business" has a reason to do so. There is no real reason why we don't have much more efficient forms of energy then we do now... other then eating into profits of multinationals who are afraid to change business models or gain new competition.
Your example of climbing a mountain does not include thousands of people at once... just how many people do you think go mountain climbing at once? In tourist areas there are usually plans in place to handle waste products, however, there are also many cities in the world who are still just dumping wate right into rivers and oceans untreated... which is far worse then some people going climbing or camping.
Sadly, until we live in a society that does not crave money and power over virtually everything else we will continue, as a race, to destroy our home... perhaps at some point we will realise just how stupid we have been, but as usual it will probably come too late.
In the meantime, all we can do as individuals is exactly what you said, try to conserve energy and try not to be part of the problem... however, do yourself a favour and travel just a little bit... even if it does cost a few barrels of oil... or wait for more energy efficient forms of travel.
Your imagination may provide you with some satisfaction, but the real experience of visiting foregin countries is much, much better.:)
Last I heard the space tourists didn't go up on a special launch just for them, they went up on a mission that was already scheduled... so the fuel would of been burnt anyway.
As for the travelling around the world... you just come of sounding like a jealous jerk with that little rant... dotting feces around the landscape... oh yea, that is going to have an impact... unlike the millions of animals doing exactly that daily.
I hope you drive some nice fuel-efficient vehicle... or better yet bike/walk everywhere after that rant... or do you need to pop down to the gas-station and fill up your SUV now?;)
Hmm, I think I got confused by the following quote:
"Currently, dynamic load balancing is not yet possible. So, the second GPU is either used entirely to process effects physics, or graphics. But NVIDIA is working on a load balancing model that will allow maximum use of both GPUs."
I thought that meant that a single GPU could not handle both graphics and physics, however, it seems a single GPU can, just two (or more?) GPU's have to be dedicated to a specific task, graphics or physics.
Read the article... they state that right now you can not share both graphics rendering and physics emulation on the same GPU, though they do plan to work on this in the future.
For now you need two GPUs, one for graphics, one for physics.
No, this exploit does not actually require you to "double click" on anything to execute it.
A web browser, for example, only needs to parse the WMF file prior to display to trigger the exploit. If your mail client happens to have a "preview" pane simply clicking the email could also trigger the exploit.
This was a tad more severe then the usual types of email worms.
The Enter key being a different shape and the pipe/backslash moving is simply because you are comparing keyboards for different countries... in your case probably US vs UK.
Try looking at a French or German keyboard sometime as well.;)
Personally, I *hate* this new design... they also tend to screw up the inverted T arrow key configuration as well when they do this kind of stuff.
When I lived in the UK for 5 years I became very attached to the UK keyboard layout... so I had a friend there ship me two plain black UK keyboards in a standard configuration.
No "natural", no misplaced (or missing) keys, no screwed up arrow keys... yay!
"How many of us sign the back of our cards? I certainly don't..."
I have one of the PayPal debit cards which can work as a credit card... not only is it no longer signed the signature strip has worn completly off the card.
Right now it says "VOID VOID VOID VOID" many times across the back of the card... nobody even blinks twice at it when I use it.
Only a few times have I been asked for ID, now the card and my Passport (Canadian living in the US) even have different last names, but the same first name, and nobody even blinks at that.
The signature is dead really, nobody really seems to care about it as long as the little machine says "approved" it would seem.
"For in the end, these people are criminals who are breaking the law."
Are they? Not if it isn't against the laws of Canada they're not.
It would seem file-swapping is in a grey area currently, and you also may not realise but all blank media and MP3 players sold in Canada are subject to a tarrif.
This tarrif goes to the Canadian Recording Industry to offset "loss of sales" due to people copying tapes (this tarrif has been around a while), then CD's and now DVD's.
If they charge a tarrif on our media and make millions from doing so they better remove said tarrif if they then make copying media illegal.
Canada is not the USA, not all countries have the equivilent laws of the USA, as much as the USA would like them to... or force them to.
Go read the pearpc.net website, you will see a five page thread from the author of the sound patch in the Development forum.
In this thread they state they have fixed the issues with said patch so it will work on the latest version of PearPC.
The problem before was timing issues with the JITC which caused serious issues with the sound quality.
The author (canadacow) also states the reason they have not release the new patch is because they feel Maui X-Stream will "steal" the code for use in CherryOS.
Essentially, you can see some stars when on the moon when facing away from the Sun and/or Earth. However, since the Earth reflects so much sunlight the stars do not have enough exposure on the film to become visible and are only faintly visible with the naked eye.:)
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First Pentiums came in at 60 and 66 MHz actually, not 75 MHz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_microprocessors#P5_based_Pentiums
I know this because I had a 66 MHz processor with the infamous FDIV floating point bug!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Bug
The printer also erases the pages... so no actual requirement to "clean" the pages, just feed them in and it erases and writes the new info onto the page.
Not saying I think this is a great idea for home use, but maybe some businesses could use it.
However, unless they've figured out how to make this special paper not turn black if placed on or near a heat source, these pages will be somewhat useless.
Sure, it may be a decade old but mine is still going strong and has 110dpi, 17.3" widescreen, 1600x1024 native resolution.
Only downsides are that it not supported by anyone, so eBay is the only real place to find them, and you need an adapter to convert the LVDI to DVI, though many of the ones I have seen on eBay come with the adapter built in.
However, if you want a high-quality screen that is still comparable to monitors made today, I would suggest looking at them.
Because if you keep doing incremental improvements you just may climb out of the uncanny valley... if you never bother to try you will just stand at the edge, on the wrong side of the valley.
:)
Not working on new technology for rendering would be something akin to the patent office declaring everything had already been invented so they might as well close down... which didn't happen.
Personally, having grown up on 8-bit systems (Atari mostly), then 16-, 32- and now 64-Bit processors... in my lifetime... I can't wait to see what the next few decades will bring.
I named mine vTerminal.app, and also edited the Info.plist file to change the bundle ID so the preferences would also save in a different location.
:)
I also changed Visor to look for the renamed bundle ID so now I have a nice drop-down terminal I can use at the press of a key!
Just copy Terminal.app from Tiger and run it on Leopard.
Trust me, it works great, especially in conjunction with Visor, which provides a "Quake like" terminal window that pops down from the top of the screen.
Yes, I do agree that the western world consumes energy at an alarming rate...
:(
:(
Though for every person that travels around the world for personal enjoyment there are probably 20 others driving around in SUVs that get 5 miles per gallon... to go to the grocery store.
Also, as you pointed out earlier, all the server farms we use to host websites take up quite an enormous amount of resources... heck I wonder what Google itself consumes per day in energy resource?
I think the major key is to finally develop a source of renewable energy that is not harmful to the environment... though to do that we need to make big business actually care about something other then money or power... and that will not be easy.
Obviously I have heard of Virgin's space tourism plans, however, the focus of this article is for the "tag along" launches that have occured in the past... heck, the company offering it is the exact same one that did it three times before.
:)
Whatever the plans are for Virgin and any other company destined to send tourists into space, this article was not about that. Though, to be fair, space tourism is a great way to work up interest in space travel, something we need if we are ever to get off this rock we call home.
I have lived in a few countries on Earth and I would love to visit more... however, the cost of doing so isn't going to change much until "big business" has a reason to do so. There is no real reason why we don't have much more efficient forms of energy then we do now... other then eating into profits of multinationals who are afraid to change business models or gain new competition.
Your example of climbing a mountain does not include thousands of people at once... just how many people do you think go mountain climbing at once? In tourist areas there are usually plans in place to handle waste products, however, there are also many cities in the world who are still just dumping wate right into rivers and oceans untreated... which is far worse then some people going climbing or camping.
Sadly, until we live in a society that does not crave money and power over virtually everything else we will continue, as a race, to destroy our home... perhaps at some point we will realise just how stupid we have been, but as usual it will probably come too late.
In the meantime, all we can do as individuals is exactly what you said, try to conserve energy and try not to be part of the problem... however, do yourself a favour and travel just a little bit... even if it does cost a few barrels of oil... or wait for more energy efficient forms of travel.
Your imagination may provide you with some satisfaction, but the real experience of visiting foregin countries is much, much better.
I wouldn't want to see the shipping charges on getting said item delivered. ;)
Over-reacting much?
;)
Last I heard the space tourists didn't go up on a special launch just for them, they went up on a mission that was already scheduled... so the fuel would of been burnt anyway.
As for the travelling around the world... you just come of sounding like a jealous jerk with that little rant... dotting feces around the landscape... oh yea, that is going to have an impact... unlike the millions of animals doing exactly that daily.
I hope you drive some nice fuel-efficient vehicle... or better yet bike/walk everywhere after that rant... or do you need to pop down to the gas-station and fill up your SUV now?
Hmm, I think I got confused by the following quote:
"Currently, dynamic load balancing is not yet possible. So, the second GPU is either used entirely to process effects physics, or graphics. But NVIDIA is working on a load balancing model that will allow maximum use of both GPUs."
I thought that meant that a single GPU could not handle both graphics and physics, however, it seems a single GPU can, just two (or more?) GPU's have to be dedicated to a specific task, graphics or physics.
Read the article... they state that right now you can not share both graphics rendering and physics emulation on the same GPU, though they do plan to work on this in the future.
For now you need two GPUs, one for graphics, one for physics.
No, this exploit does not actually require you to "double click" on anything to execute it.
A web browser, for example, only needs to parse the WMF file prior to display to trigger the exploit. If your mail client happens to have a "preview" pane simply clicking the email could also trigger the exploit.
This was a tad more severe then the usual types of email worms.
Sadly it seems Japan is using Aspertame now instead of Stevia as well... :(
I can't believe podcasting got into the dictionary before rootkit did!
:D
Hmm, is this also a first post... if so, it's my first one ever!
Try storing /files/ on your film camera... ;)
The Enter key being a different shape and the pipe/backslash moving is simply because you are comparing keyboards for different countries... in your case probably US vs UK.
;)
Try looking at a French or German keyboard sometime as well.
You also have a smaller left-shift key to accomodate the extra key the backslash and pipe characters live on. :)
;)
I love using UK keyboards myself, became a convert when I lived in the UK for 5 years.
Actually, I think I like them better because they are closer to the old Atari keyboards then the standard US layout is.
Personally, I *hate* this new design... they also tend to screw up the inverted T arrow key configuration as well when they do this kind of stuff.
When I lived in the UK for 5 years I became very attached to the UK keyboard layout... so I had a friend there ship me two plain black UK keyboards in a standard configuration.
No "natural", no misplaced (or missing) keys, no screwed up arrow keys... yay!
"How many of us sign the back of our cards? I certainly don't..."
I have one of the PayPal debit cards which can work as a credit card... not only is it no longer signed the signature strip has worn completly off the card.
Right now it says "VOID VOID VOID VOID" many times across the back of the card... nobody even blinks twice at it when I use it.
Only a few times have I been asked for ID, now the card and my Passport (Canadian living in the US) even have different last names, but the same first name, and nobody even blinks at that.
The signature is dead really, nobody really seems to care about it as long as the little machine says "approved" it would seem.
"For in the end, these people are criminals who are breaking the law."
Are they? Not if it isn't against the laws of Canada they're not.
It would seem file-swapping is in a grey area currently, and you also may not realise but all blank media and MP3 players sold in Canada are subject to a tarrif.
This tarrif goes to the Canadian Recording Industry to offset "loss of sales" due to people copying tapes (this tarrif has been around a while), then CD's and now DVD's.
If they charge a tarrif on our media and make millions from doing so they better remove said tarrif if they then make copying media illegal.
Canada is not the USA, not all countries have the equivilent laws of the USA, as much as the USA would like them to... or force them to.
Go read the pearpc.net website, you will see a five page thread from the author of the sound patch in the Development forum.
In this thread they state they have fixed the issues with said patch so it will work on the latest version of PearPC.
The problem before was timing issues with the JITC which caused serious issues with the sound quality.
The author (canadacow) also states the reason they have not release the new patch is because they feel Maui X-Stream will "steal" the code for use in CherryOS.
Or, reflash your BIOS and whitelist the cards of your own choosing. ;)
"(between 800 and 900 km in size and 45 km deep) "
;)
:)
According to TFA the depth is 45 METERS deep, not 45 KILOMETERS.
There is quite a difference between the two...
Here is a link that explains this phenomenon, which is often used to try and claim the moon landings were faked:
3 23 .cfm
:)
http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae
Essentially, you can see some stars when on the moon when facing away from the Sun and/or Earth. However, since the Earth reflects so much sunlight the stars do not have enough exposure on the film to become visible and are only faintly visible with the naked eye.