I have every belief that things WILL eventually get back to normal.
I wish I had this same faith in our return to "normalcy." It seems that as our rights are continuously eroded(as they have been for a long, long time now), they never come back, or rather are never returned. There's always a new reason to "be more vigilant", etc. It's sad, really.
Obviously, we have to respond to the recent attacks and future threats.
It's just that the Government finds that easier to do with a lesser regard for our constitutional rights.
The cnn article doen't mention if you even get the pictures in digital form.
It won't last for a number of already mentioned reasons:
1. 640x480 isn't good enough, even for $16.
2. many of the camera's will be hacked (I'm looking forward to trying).
3. the quality of the print won't approach other disposable cameras that are cheaper.
Is it me, or do laptops seem a better application? Of course you do have extra current draw, heat to dissipate, etc, but you also have a little more room to work with. It would be very cool to have a laptop batter that lasted a week before it needed recharging.
The citizen watches and the like work off heat gradients. The electricity is generated from the difference between the temp of your body and the temp of outside air or the like. How would something like that work for an implanted device? You're pretty much 98.6 degrees all over inside.
I think the innovation here is that it's generated from "low gradient body heat flow." Notice they don't mention why this is new/important, no technical descriptions, nothing. How low can the temp gradient be, if one is still required at all?
It's the statiscical properties of image files that he's exploiting to "detect" hidden info.
Apparently the LSB's of any image file tend exhibit certain mathematical qualities and inserting data upsets those qualities while not interfering with the quality of the image. Kinda nifty.
The real news here is that the 2.2GHz speed was achieved using a relatively common silicon process (0.18micron, aluminum interconnects). Intel,AMD,and others are achieving higher speeds (~2GHz), but with much more developed processes (.12micron, copper).
Intrinsic claims to have developed a new way to design and fabricate high speed logic using some older ideas and this could be a significant achievement.
Does this mean that Intel, etc will be able instantly make 4GHz chips? Nope. And as we all know, the speed of the chip isn't a great measure of it's performance.
By the way, that siliconvalley.com article was pretty weak. Did they try to omit as many details as possible?
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This is another article on the testimony, this time by Reuters at Yahoo.
It mentions the barriers Microsoft tried to impose on getting linux pre-installed on a system.
This is kind of neat, but nothing more.
Now a mud or online massively multiplayer RPG where everyone starts at the same time, at the same level would be pretty cool. Totally ruthless.
Has no one made the obligatory Ender's Game reference yet?
It's that "it's training, but it's not, but it is" sort of story.
I have every belief that things WILL eventually get back to normal.
I wish I had this same faith in our return to "normalcy." It seems that as our rights are continuously eroded(as they have been for a long, long time now), they never come back, or rather are never returned. There's always a new reason to "be more vigilant", etc. It's sad, really.
Obviously, we have to respond to the recent attacks and future threats.
It's just that the Government finds that easier to do with a lesser regard for our constitutional rights.
If you were to remake an Ultima game, why pick I?
Wouldn't most people choose IV?
The PC Gamer article linked to on their site says that the boys at Paradox wouldn't mind redoing all the games. Interesting resume...
The cnn article doen't mention if you even get the pictures in digital form.
It won't last for a number of already mentioned reasons:
1. 640x480 isn't good enough, even for $16.
2. many of the camera's will be hacked (I'm looking forward to trying).
3. the quality of the print won't approach other disposable cameras that are cheaper.
Is it me, or do laptops seem a better application? Of course you do have extra current draw, heat to dissipate, etc, but you also have a little more room to work with. It would be very cool to have a laptop batter that lasted a week before it needed recharging.
This may be totally different...
The citizen watches and the like work off heat gradients. The electricity is generated from the difference between the temp of your body and the temp of outside air or the like. How would something like that work for an implanted device? You're pretty much 98.6 degrees all over inside.
I think the innovation here is that it's generated from "low gradient body heat flow." Notice they don't mention why this is new/important, no technical descriptions, nothing. How low can the temp gradient be, if one is still required at all?
In all seriousness, a larg insulated crate and some dry ice would keep the butter very cool for days.
It would be fun to destroy it creatively, though.
Archie Mcphee has lots of toys/weird stuff to keep your cube interesting.
http://www.archiemcphee.com/
They have a wobbly guy with a ukulele, and monkeys for instance.
It's the statiscical properties of image files that he's exploiting to "detect" hidden info.
Apparently the LSB's of any image file tend exhibit certain mathematical qualities and inserting data upsets those qualities while not interfering with the quality of the image. Kinda nifty.
The real news here is that the 2.2GHz speed was achieved using a relatively common silicon process (0.18micron, aluminum interconnects). Intel,AMD,and others are achieving higher speeds (~2GHz), but with much more developed processes (.12micron, copper).
Intrinsic claims to have developed a new way to design and fabricate high speed logic using some older ideas and this could be a significant achievement.
Does this mean that Intel, etc will be able instantly make 4GHz chips? Nope. And as we all know, the speed of the chip isn't a great measure of it's performance.
By the way, that siliconvalley.com article was pretty weak. Did they try to omit as many details as possible?
Plain fm radio transmitter kits have been relatively cheap and readily available for some time now.... Why is this one better, for MP3 or otherwise?
Oh, how I annoyed my parents with long distance calls to various BBS's to play TradeWars. Ah, the pre mass internet of the early nineties...