That is pretty cool. I have a HTPC that does that for 10x the price. But even my box needs to use gpu hardware (an Ion2) to play back 720p h264 files fluently (those come in.mkv containers usually). This demo shows.mov files and I don't know how much decoding is required for playing back those files. All I know is,.mov files tend to be really big. So will the Raspberry be able to play common file formats, or will you have to encode everything in.mov beforehand?
Other industries certainly possess as much power. The defence industry is involved a lot when it comes to foreign policies (who gets to buy which weapons, which decides the fate of entire countries). Big oil companies too can get what they want easily, for example rights to drill wherever they want.
But in those cases it is real power, created by the scarcity and importance of their products. They don't need to push for laws, or do extreme lobbying, because they already wield that power and no one is going to take it from them soon.
The power of media companies is mostly artificial. No on really needs them, they created the demand for their services themselves. That must be why they push so hard for laws. It's a desperate move to tie themselves into everything, so they can't be easily disposed off.
Passing laws backed by the MPAA is usually a detriment to the victim country's economy (as seen with SOPA) and the quality of life in that country for it's citizens, which will make them unhappy with their government (as rising anger about these laws indicates).
As such it can be seen as economic and political sabotage of foreign countries.
For the US embassy to take part in that, couldn't this seen as a hostile act by the victim country?
It is interesting that everything negative I read and hear about this man (and there is A LOT of that) is all, without exception, personal attacks on him.
I guess that means he is an asshole and does behave assholish a lot.
But the thing is: I really don't care about the character and integrity of some guy I don't even know personally. Now if the there really is nothing else wrong about the things he proclaims, other than they are being brought to us by some smug asshole, count me in.
I assume that things that sound the same in this demo, would be recognized as the same gesture. It is shown that doing the same gesture produces the same sounds over and over again, so that gesture would be reliably recognized.
But, this would be extremly dependant on the type of surface and the spot on the surface, that the gesture is performed on. Changing either the spot on the surface, or to another surface entirely, would alter the outcome of the gesture, even though it is actually the same. That is also shown in the video. How would they work around that? Maybe by only looking at signals in relation to each other, not at the total signal?
most likely goes like this: - some genius put that original backpack computer together - he barely made it work, but he was not sure why it worked and he never bothered to write any documentation - he left as soon as it was up and running, out of fear that it might break any moment and he had no idea what to do then - now it is breaking apart and the genius is gone. - it is your job to fix it, good luck
The credit does not come from the one selling you something. It comes from the bank, that is paying for you on the spot. Hence why it is named credit card... And yes, your are living on that credit until you pay it back.
But aren't those physical limitation the original reason for a library to exist? If you can copy a book unlimited times with no cost whatsoever, then why would you need a place that stores a bunch of them for lending purposes? You aren't really lending it anyway, you just copy it one more time. It will still be available to every other visitor, no matter how what.
The only reason you would do this is the low cost access to books for everyone. But in this case, it stands alone, there are no other reasons attached to it, like with physical books. It really eliminates the reason for a library to exist.
I don't know how it is in Australia, but around here, you can return anything you bought online within 14 days and get your money back (as long as you can actually return it as you got it, so food/software etc usually not included). What do people expect happens to stuff that gets returned? Of course it goes on sale again. Otherwise selling online would be economic suicide...
Of course it does, because there is another part of power consumption for electronic devices, that does not change with the frequency. But this assumes you are going 100% cpu load over the whole time in both cases. Not very likely.
You put in fuses or fuse-diodes for that reason. A random crack in a circuit line is not a good safety measure against shorts. Btw, this does not repair short circuits. It maintains connectivity. In a short circuit, there is too much connectivity, not too few.
What is new about this? I have done the same thing with my old modded Xbox years ago. Streaming video from a pc/NAS that is. Had to stop when the poor box couldn't handle decoding the newer video files in real time any more, because they kept getting bigger. Well, I went from Xbox to Zbox.
I guess with the new ones you don't need to mod and install XBMC anymore? That means they always had this feature, so it's not new.
What do you expect from making those specialized algorithms open source? Usually, you would go open source if you want someone to work with and improve upon the things you have. You could open source ways to implement your sensors into applications, an open source library that implements things you can do with them for example. A good, open library that I know I can alter to suit my needs, is something I look for when choosing hardware, such as ICs. Or even hardware specs that would allow people to find new purposes for them. If you do that, you might get useful things in return and attract developers to work with your sensors.
In this case, you I would say, you should keep your sensors as a black box and let people use them as such. Then open source everything around that, that eases the use of them.
Artifical humans are required to show their robot indicator hologram at all times. It may only be switched off by court order. This is clearly a violation.
True. If we had this on Slashdot, users would only need to identify active users with a clear agenda and could then form factions behind them.
Imagine one Apple fanboy and one Apple hater going into a moderation-war feuled by their respective "factions" mod points. It would be intersting to observe which topics make it it the top, but would hardly improve the quality of news...
I don't believe, that downvotes are such a big problem. There are really just three downvote options: Troll, Flamebait and Offtopic. Using them on posts that you simply disagree with is obviously against the intention. That does not mean no one does it, but in the end the total numbers matter. (You could argue that negative points about Linux are flamebait though... what is the difference between Troll and Flamebait anyway? ^^).
The bigger problem is, that if you come late to a discussion (and "late" is a short time with this huge userbase) there is no way your comment will recieve any views.
So even if you have something very insightful to say, unless you are one of the first posters, it will just not get read by any moderators, because it is burried below the threshold. Meanwhile posts that already are on +3 usually get votet to +5 during the day, for no other reason than their visiblity.
If the private company owns any of your local infrastructure, or it got an outsourcing deal for a former gouvernment service that you need to use, how do you avoid them? Because that's what "less gov" means around here.
How does the average price per unit say anything about hdd prices in general? What kind of units? Maybe they just sold fewer, but more expensive hdds, instead of many cheap ones? One expensive, big hdd entering the top 10 sold (which they used as a basis) can easily alter this statistic by this margin.
I can't see how APU says anything, unless you also average the GB per hdd. In which case a simple $/GB number would should be used.
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That is pretty cool. .mkv containers usually). .mov files and I don't know how much decoding is required for playing back those files. All I know is, .mov files tend to be really big. .mov beforehand?
I have a HTPC that does that for 10x the price. But even my box needs to use gpu hardware (an Ion2) to play back 720p h264 files fluently (those come in
This demo shows
So will the Raspberry be able to play common file formats, or will you have to encode everything in
Other industries certainly possess as much power. The defence industry is involved a lot when it comes to foreign policies (who gets to buy which weapons, which decides the fate of entire countries).
Big oil companies too can get what they want easily, for example rights to drill wherever they want.
But in those cases it is real power, created by the scarcity and importance of their products. They don't need to push for laws, or do extreme lobbying, because they already wield that power and no one is going to take it from them soon.
The power of media companies is mostly artificial. No on really needs them, they created the demand for their services themselves.
That must be why they push so hard for laws. It's a desperate move to tie themselves into everything, so they can't be easily disposed off.
Passing laws backed by the MPAA is usually a detriment to the victim country's economy (as seen with SOPA) and the quality of life in that country for it's citizens, which will make them unhappy with their government (as rising anger about these laws indicates).
As such it can be seen as economic and political sabotage of foreign countries.
For the US embassy to take part in that, couldn't this seen as a hostile act by the victim country?
It is interesting that everything negative I read and hear about this man (and there is A LOT of that) is all, without exception, personal attacks on him.
I guess that means he is an asshole and does behave assholish a lot.
But the thing is: I really don't care about the character and integrity of some guy I don't even know personally.
Now if the there really is nothing else wrong about the things he proclaims, other than they are being brought to us by some smug asshole, count me in.
Writing new code from scratch will not make that code suddenly bug free.
I assume that things that sound the same in this demo, would be recognized as the same gesture.
It is shown that doing the same gesture produces the same sounds over and over again, so that gesture would be reliably recognized.
But, this would be extremly dependant on the type of surface and the spot on the surface, that the gesture is performed on. Changing either the spot on the surface, or to another surface entirely, would alter the outcome of the gesture, even though it is actually the same. That is also shown in the video.
How would they work around that?
Maybe by only looking at signals in relation to each other, not at the total signal?
most likely goes like this:
- some genius put that original backpack computer together
- he barely made it work, but he was not sure why it worked and he never bothered to write any documentation
- he left as soon as it was up and running, out of fear that it might break any moment and he had no idea what to do then
- now it is breaking apart and the genius is gone.
- it is your job to fix it, good luck
The credit does not come from the one selling you something. It comes from the bank, that is paying for you on the spot.
Hence why it is named credit card... And yes, your are living on that credit until you pay it back.
For some reason I knew about the existence of spy satellites before.
If that was the big secret, then it was leaked a long time ago.
But aren't those physical limitation the original reason for a library to exist?
If you can copy a book unlimited times with no cost whatsoever, then why would you need a place that stores a bunch of them for lending purposes?
You aren't really lending it anyway, you just copy it one more time. It will still be available to every other visitor, no matter how what.
The only reason you would do this is the low cost access to books for everyone. But in this case, it stands alone, there are no other reasons attached to it, like with physical books. It really eliminates the reason for a library to exist.
I don't know how it is in Australia, but around here, you can return anything you bought online within 14 days and get your money back (as long as you can actually return it as you got it, so food/software etc usually not included).
What do people expect happens to stuff that gets returned? Of course it goes on sale again. Otherwise selling online would be economic suicide...
Of course it does, because there is another part of power consumption for electronic devices, that does not change with the frequency.
But this assumes you are going 100% cpu load over the whole time in both cases.
Not very likely.
You put in fuses or fuse-diodes for that reason. A random crack in a circuit line is not a good safety measure against shorts.
Btw, this does not repair short circuits. It maintains connectivity. In a short circuit, there is too much connectivity, not too few.
So, how small is it?
What is new about this?
I have done the same thing with my old modded Xbox years ago. Streaming video from a pc/NAS that is.
Had to stop when the poor box couldn't handle decoding the newer video files in real time any more, because they kept getting bigger. Well, I went from Xbox to Zbox.
I guess with the new ones you don't need to mod and install XBMC anymore? That means they always had this feature, so it's not new.
So, you are in the second group, I see.
What do you expect from making those specialized algorithms open source?
Usually, you would go open source if you want someone to work with and improve upon the things you have.
You could open source ways to implement your sensors into applications, an open source library that implements things you can do with them for example.
A good, open library that I know I can alter to suit my needs, is something I look for when choosing hardware, such as ICs.
Or even hardware specs that would allow people to find new purposes for them. If you do that, you might get useful things in return and attract developers to work with your sensors.
In this case, you I would say, you should keep your sensors as a black box and let people use them as such. Then open source everything around that, that eases the use of them.
We do?
Didn't know that.
Artifical humans are required to show their robot indicator hologram at all times.
It may only be switched off by court order. This is clearly a violation.
And here I always thought ARM processors where built to fight the CORE.
The problem is, you can not give the proof as a moderator.
You need to post the proof. And if you do that, you can not moderate anymore.
If you read a factual wrong article, what do you do?
Correct it it with a post, or downmod it?
True.
If we had this on Slashdot, users would only need to identify active users with a clear agenda and could then form factions behind them.
Imagine one Apple fanboy and one Apple hater going into a moderation-war feuled by their respective "factions" mod points.
It would be intersting to observe which topics make it it the top, but would hardly improve the quality of news...
I don't believe, that downvotes are such a big problem. There are really just three downvote options: Troll, Flamebait and Offtopic.
Using them on posts that you simply disagree with is obviously against the intention. That does not mean no one does it, but in the end the total numbers matter.
(You could argue that negative points about Linux are flamebait though... what is the difference between Troll and Flamebait anyway? ^^).
The bigger problem is, that if you come late to a discussion (and "late" is a short time with this huge userbase) there is no way your comment will recieve any views.
So even if you have something very insightful to say, unless you are one of the first posters, it will just not get read by any moderators, because it is burried below the threshold. Meanwhile posts that already are on +3 usually get votet to +5 during the day, for no other reason than their visiblity.
If the private company owns any of your local infrastructure, or it got an outsourcing deal for a former gouvernment service that you need to use, how do you avoid them?
Because that's what "less gov" means around here.
How does the average price per unit say anything about hdd prices in general? What kind of units?
Maybe they just sold fewer, but more expensive hdds, instead of many cheap ones?
One expensive, big hdd entering the top 10 sold (which they used as a basis) can easily alter this statistic by this margin.
I can't see how APU says anything, unless you also average the GB per hdd. In which case a simple $/GB number would should be used.