Apple may have been working on this functionality for iOS 5, when Hughes released his version, but that doesn't excuse the arrogant behavior. At the very least, they could have brought him in as a consultant or paid him for his efforts.
Apple has patents on this functionality. They're just now rolling it into iOS 5. Follow their patents once and a while and you'll discover this was well in the works for several years.
They are on the Architecture Review Board yet they are almost 2 years behind the current OpenGL 4.1 spec. OpenGL 3.0 was spec'd out and released at least 18 months ago, Apple helped lead the way in this effort yet they STILL dont have a 100% OpenGL 3.0 driver. I hope that with Lion they have moved to OpenGL 4.0. Please let me know if you hear anything. Personally this is one of the BIG items about Apple that I don't like. They want developers to develop but they don't give them all the tools. I want to continue writing this game app but i can't because I cannot access certain OpenGL functionality - not because the graphics card doesn't have the hardware - but because there is no driver update to support the hardware.
Let that sink in: They helped write the OpenGL 3.0 spec over 18 months ago but they don't have their own driver for it.
Let's get something straight. OS X is ahead of everyone's acclerated OpenGL stack for their Windowing Environment, period. When they have full 3.x stack it means all those primitives are accessible, system-wide. All drawing primitives will inherit OpenGL 3.x ready calls. Having a game utlize the OpenGL 4.x stack or an application leverage that stack is one matter. Having the entire Quartz Extreme Drawing system with the OpenGL 3.x/4.x stack sitting on top is an entirely different beast. KDE KWin is just now working not on getting the full OpenGL 2.x stack, but OpenGL ES 2.0 into it. Linux has 4.x drivers but it's Windowing environments for compositing is leveraging the 1.4 stack, currently.
The openness of Android is a big part of why Android has better marketshare than iOS, so maybe they shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Keep enjoying all those subsidized phones flooding the market. Apple will continue to expand its position owning the lion's share of profit. When Telcos stop subsidizing those freebies handheld manufacturers will start consolidating their lines to only a few options, or they will have to get out of the Android market and jump ship for Windows 7.
I worked in a semiconductor fab for a long time and we used AMAT SEM machines that were manufactured in israel. The direct factory reps were all israeli as well. A lot of people think of israel as this war-torn middle east wasteland but that's just not the case. It's a very wealthy and prosperous country, even if they are expanding and displacing the native populace. They are bringing a lot of non-oil money into the region.
There wealth is directly tied to the US subsidies and US Corporations who expanded overseas to avoid a 35% tax owed back in the States.
Use HTML4 and Flash. That's good enough for everyone that matters.:-)
That's rationale. Not! Skip WebGL, shit can Canvas, WebApps, WebSockets, etc., all for Adobe? Pass. Hell, even Adobe is contributing to Poppler which makes it clear to me that even their own stuff [PDF] rendered sucks compared to an outside project. There was a reason Apple wrote Display PDF--they're better at it.
Wherever a rural area houses the big pipes running through it, a Data Center will likely pop up. Especially when Hydroelectric power, Wind and Solar are prevalent.
As a side note: The lowest grade you can achieve in Graduate School is a B. Getting an A at a graduate level in your chosen field is far easier than getting an A in your requirements where you have no experience to understand the scope and requirements necessary to achieve that aim. Example: When one takes Differential Equations or Modern Physics you don't walk in with a foundation already aware of what to expect. You do when you are in Graduate School.
On the converse, you've already colored your perception of how your experience is the end all and be all for your profession, before you even stepped into the classroom. It cuts both ways.
I use my Engineering Textbooks routinely. The same goes for my Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and more. I don't give a rat's ass about Business Majors and other Non-Applied Science Majors reselling their books after each term. My textbooks were all in the $40-$70 range as I didn't just graduate from a University. However, if you think learning stops there you should just flip a burger for a living. Stop speaking for the world of business and academics as if you represent it. You don't. Go get your CS certificates all you want. More power to you. The world doesn't offer CS jobs as the only field of study. Get it?
University/College is only an educational institute. It teaches you nothing that you can't learn yourself in your chosen field through self-study and research.
College gives you:
- A well stocked library
- A ready made peer group, with whom you can discuss the subjects
- A structured approach to the content
- Ready access to experts (tutors, lecturers and professors)
- time
Internet is a better stocked library. Where you can find a greater amount of peers with similar interests. With many levels of structure to match your own learning preferences. With actual experts amongst your peers in open source participation (maybe also in university but in colleges? no way). And you'll have plenty of time for all that when you drop out of college.
BS. What a load of dung. I'll take my years studying Mechanical Engineering with highly respected and proven Academics who all are required to do serious Research over shooting the shit with some dude via IIRC, Mail and Forums. You write as if the entire world is nothing but liberal arts majors and programming hacks.
Why do they insist on capsules? Why not take the advice of someone from FPA; build it at the space station and design it to refuel/load from there, eliminating the need to return to earth? We still have to get things up to the ISS, but that'll be left to the Russians and their superior rockets. We can take over 'space exploration' by just skipping that part. "Oh but what if they don't want to help us shuttle our crew/items up to the ISS one day?" No worries, Virgin and Japan/other countries are working on that! So we'll find one way or another to get to the ISS.
We'd first have to actually build a large scale Space Port, not to mention more advanced large assembly equipment and space suit assembly equipment for the staff before we can pull a Star Trek.
That mere fact that I am reading this article indicates that WebP has enough momentum to potentially be useful. The fact that other browser(s) are adding support is even more relevant. So the real question I believe is what wouldn't they add it? It's not costing anything, and (apparently) it's already been developed. So what's the issue?!
Not it doesn't. It means you read articles on Slashdot--a site that represents probably 0.00001% of all Internet users interests.
This was a worse disaster than Chernobyl but hydroelectric power is "green" so people forget about it.
Automobiles kill more people, yearly than hydro has done since it's inception. What's your point? Flooding people versus contaminating a planet aren't remotely on the same playing field of reality. Wake me up when Pebble Bed Nuclear takes off [Oh wait! China woke up and is moving to 4th Generation [Pebble Bed] now]--the same technology Fermi patented and the first act the US Atomic Energy Commission banned for it's obvious non weapons use of fissile materials. Hell, we don't even need to use Uranium to be encapsulated in the Carbon pebbles, but since Westinghouse pulled out from South Africa we'll all just sit back and watch China take the lead, again. People will bitch that Solar isn't useful, even when it reaches 50-60% efficiency--they'll proclaim it must be 70% or greater before it becomes profitable.
Hi can you convert that to the more familiar Wh/Kg ? It'd then be possible to compare it to traditional Lithium Ion batteries which usually have that as their metric.
Go right ahead. Crack open a basic Physics book to do it.
That's what I love so much about graphene. It was just sitting there all those years and nobody thought of it. I remember being in electronics class years ago when we calculated the size of a capacitor that could power an electric car for a certain distance. It was HUGE. Yet we all knew the formula for capacitance and nobody came up with even ultracapacitors. Finally with graphene capacitors are going to get an incredible leap in what they can do... and all that time it was right under our noses.
The power of the Universe is right under our noses. We're not so much as inventing technology as we are inventing our first awareness that it has been there all along.
I was not talking about Thunderbolt. I was commenting on the claim that USB held no advantage over eSATA.
USB 2 offers power as an advantage over eSATA but regarding data performance neither USB 2 or 3 out-performs eSATA. None of them touch Thunderbolt in any of their strengths categories.
N0 improvements 99.999 percent of used need or will see.
Horse shit. Keep talking. When the UI becomes more immersive and demanding on the system, without lag you'll be thanking Thunderbolt [LightPeak] and it's 100G version. USB will be phased out at Intel. Their research and investment is in LightPeak.
Sure it is fine. If you have physical access you own the machine anyway. If you made a ribbon cable for a PCI port you would get the same thing.
The whole point of DMA is to be able to read and right arbitrary addresses in memory. Did the damn name Direct Memory Access not tip you off?
It is for high speed, not low cost.
Save your breath. The self-proclaimed geniuses know everything and you know nothing. At least that's how the sheep on this site speak.
Just out of curiousity, is there a good reason that this is perched on the International Space Station rather than just being it's own satellite? Does it need maintenance or something like that?
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Apple may have been working on this functionality for iOS 5, when Hughes released his version, but that doesn't excuse the arrogant behavior. At the very least, they could have brought him in as a consultant or paid him for his efforts.
Apple has patents on this functionality. They're just now rolling it into iOS 5. Follow their patents once and a while and you'll discover this was well in the works for several years.
They are on the Architecture Review Board yet they are almost 2 years behind the current OpenGL 4.1 spec. OpenGL 3.0 was spec'd out and released at least 18 months ago, Apple helped lead the way in this effort yet they STILL dont have a 100% OpenGL 3.0 driver. I hope that with Lion they have moved to OpenGL 4.0. Please let me know if you hear anything. Personally this is one of the BIG items about Apple that I don't like. They want developers to develop but they don't give them all the tools. I want to continue writing this game app but i can't because I cannot access certain OpenGL functionality - not because the graphics card doesn't have the hardware - but because there is no driver update to support the hardware. Let that sink in: They helped write the OpenGL 3.0 spec over 18 months ago but they don't have their own driver for it.
Let's get something straight. OS X is ahead of everyone's acclerated OpenGL stack for their Windowing Environment, period. When they have full 3.x stack it means all those primitives are accessible, system-wide. All drawing primitives will inherit OpenGL 3.x ready calls. Having a game utlize the OpenGL 4.x stack or an application leverage that stack is one matter. Having the entire Quartz Extreme Drawing system with the OpenGL 3.x/4.x stack sitting on top is an entirely different beast. KDE KWin is just now working not on getting the full OpenGL 2.x stack, but OpenGL ES 2.0 into it. Linux has 4.x drivers but it's Windowing environments for compositing is leveraging the 1.4 stack, currently.
The openness of Android is a big part of why Android has better marketshare than iOS, so maybe they shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Keep enjoying all those subsidized phones flooding the market. Apple will continue to expand its position owning the lion's share of profit. When Telcos stop subsidizing those freebies handheld manufacturers will start consolidating their lines to only a few options, or they will have to get out of the Android market and jump ship for Windows 7.
I worked in a semiconductor fab for a long time and we used AMAT SEM machines that were manufactured in israel. The direct factory reps were all israeli as well. A lot of people think of israel as this war-torn middle east wasteland but that's just not the case. It's a very wealthy and prosperous country, even if they are expanding and displacing the native populace. They are bringing a lot of non-oil money into the region.
There wealth is directly tied to the US subsidies and US Corporations who expanded overseas to avoid a 35% tax owed back in the States.
Use HTML4 and Flash. That's good enough for everyone that matters. :-)
That's rationale. Not! Skip WebGL, shit can Canvas, WebApps, WebSockets, etc., all for Adobe? Pass. Hell, even Adobe is contributing to Poppler which makes it clear to me that even their own stuff [PDF] rendered sucks compared to an outside project. There was a reason Apple wrote Display PDF--they're better at it.
No. Some changes cause more backlash than others.
The entire KDE 4 switch was one giant cluster of pain. It's nearing 4.7 and it's still not as rock solid as the last 3.x branch.
``Warriors, come out and play yay!'' Beer bottle clinking in alternating patterns.
Wherever a rural area houses the big pipes running through it, a Data Center will likely pop up. Especially when Hydroelectric power, Wind and Solar are prevalent.
As a side note: The lowest grade you can achieve in Graduate School is a B. Getting an A at a graduate level in your chosen field is far easier than getting an A in your requirements where you have no experience to understand the scope and requirements necessary to achieve that aim. Example: When one takes Differential Equations or Modern Physics you don't walk in with a foundation already aware of what to expect. You do when you are in Graduate School.
On the converse, you've already colored your perception of how your experience is the end all and be all for your profession, before you even stepped into the classroom. It cuts both ways.
I use my Engineering Textbooks routinely. The same goes for my Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and more. I don't give a rat's ass about Business Majors and other Non-Applied Science Majors reselling their books after each term. My textbooks were all in the $40-$70 range as I didn't just graduate from a University. However, if you think learning stops there you should just flip a burger for a living. Stop speaking for the world of business and academics as if you represent it. You don't. Go get your CS certificates all you want. More power to you. The world doesn't offer CS jobs as the only field of study. Get it?
University/College is only an educational institute. It teaches you nothing that you can't learn yourself in your chosen field through self-study and research.
College gives you:
- A well stocked library
- A ready made peer group, with whom you can discuss the subjects
- A structured approach to the content
- Ready access to experts (tutors, lecturers and professors)
- time
Internet is a better stocked library. Where you can find a greater amount of peers with similar interests. With many levels of structure to match your own learning preferences. With actual experts amongst your peers in open source participation (maybe also in university but in colleges? no way). And you'll have plenty of time for all that when you drop out of college.
BS. What a load of dung. I'll take my years studying Mechanical Engineering with highly respected and proven Academics who all are required to do serious Research over shooting the shit with some dude via IIRC, Mail and Forums. You write as if the entire world is nothing but liberal arts majors and programming hacks.
Why do they insist on capsules? Why not take the advice of someone from FPA; build it at the space station and design it to refuel/load from there, eliminating the need to return to earth? We still have to get things up to the ISS, but that'll be left to the Russians and their superior rockets. We can take over 'space exploration' by just skipping that part. "Oh but what if they don't want to help us shuttle our crew/items up to the ISS one day?" No worries, Virgin and Japan/other countries are working on that! So we'll find one way or another to get to the ISS.
We'd first have to actually build a large scale Space Port, not to mention more advanced large assembly equipment and space suit assembly equipment for the staff before we can pull a Star Trek.
That mere fact that I am reading this article indicates that WebP has enough momentum to potentially be useful. The fact that other browser(s) are adding support is even more relevant. So the real question I believe is what wouldn't they add it? It's not costing anything, and (apparently) it's already been developed. So what's the issue?!
Not it doesn't. It means you read articles on Slashdot--a site that represents probably 0.00001% of all Internet users interests.
Hydroelectric power has killed far more people than nuclear ever has: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
This was a worse disaster than Chernobyl but hydroelectric power is "green" so people forget about it.
Automobiles kill more people, yearly than hydro has done since it's inception. What's your point? Flooding people versus contaminating a planet aren't remotely on the same playing field of reality. Wake me up when Pebble Bed Nuclear takes off [Oh wait! China woke up and is moving to 4th Generation [Pebble Bed] now]--the same technology Fermi patented and the first act the US Atomic Energy Commission banned for it's obvious non weapons use of fissile materials. Hell, we don't even need to use Uranium to be encapsulated in the Carbon pebbles, but since Westinghouse pulled out from South Africa we'll all just sit back and watch China take the lead, again. People will bitch that Solar isn't useful, even when it reaches 50-60% efficiency--they'll proclaim it must be 70% or greater before it becomes profitable.
Hi can you convert that to the more familiar Wh/Kg ? It'd then be possible to compare it to traditional Lithium Ion batteries which usually have that as their metric.
Go right ahead. Crack open a basic Physics book to do it.
That's what I love so much about graphene. It was just sitting there all those years and nobody thought of it. I remember being in electronics class years ago when we calculated the size of a capacitor that could power an electric car for a certain distance. It was HUGE. Yet we all knew the formula for capacitance and nobody came up with even ultracapacitors. Finally with graphene capacitors are going to get an incredible leap in what they can do... and all that time it was right under our noses.
The power of the Universe is right under our noses. We're not so much as inventing technology as we are inventing our first awareness that it has been there all along.
How brain dead is that? The install base of OS X is 50+ Million and climbing. The install base of iOS is 120+ Million and climbing. What's your point?
I was not talking about Thunderbolt. I was commenting on the claim that USB held no advantage over eSATA.
USB 2 offers power as an advantage over eSATA but regarding data performance neither USB 2 or 3 out-performs eSATA. None of them touch Thunderbolt in any of their strengths categories.
N0 improvements 99.999 percent of used need or will see.
Horse shit. Keep talking. When the UI becomes more immersive and demanding on the system, without lag you'll be thanking Thunderbolt [LightPeak] and it's 100G version. USB will be phased out at Intel. Their research and investment is in LightPeak.
Sure it is fine. If you have physical access you own the machine anyway. If you made a ribbon cable for a PCI port you would get the same thing. The whole point of DMA is to be able to read and right arbitrary addresses in memory. Did the damn name Direct Memory Access not tip you off?
It is for high speed, not low cost.
Save your breath. The self-proclaimed geniuses know everything and you know nothing. At least that's how the sheep on this site speak.
"That adapter is less expensive, but it's only single-link DVI; it won't drive a high-res monitor."
So sad. My single VGA port CRT does 2048x1536 at 85Hz without a problem.
You need two links just to get that same resolution at 75Hz over DVI on an LCD.
Enjoying that DRM overhead?
Yes Cathode Ray Tube physics is synonymous with LCD physics. Keep talking. It's good comedy.
Just out of curiousity, is there a good reason that this is perched on the International Space Station rather than just being it's own satellite? Does it need maintenance or something like that?
Future expansion is assured with a Space Station.
I don't care how much it costs. The investment is small compared to the knowledge gained and future return on investment.
It's $4 Billion.