After reading the title i thought the article would actually be useful to us (the stereotypical/. reader). Turns out its about selling video games to girls, laaaaaame.
not that im an expert, but CCD is 'charge-coupled device' and CMOS is 'complementary metal oxide semiconductor'. neither is mutually exclusive as you can make a CCD out of CMOS. in any event, you probably get the jist of my post.
Has anyone thought about the fact that cheap CMOS cameras have a particularly long charge time, meaning that by the time you get enough energy onto the CCD to render an image, the object has undoubtedly moved enough to produce a blur (and more than the desired amount of time has probably elapsed before you go on to the next image)? Either an extremely bright light will be needed, or you will get significantly sub-par image quality.
Almost, not quite a solution. What happens when 'waste' is found. Its not as if there are simply '$500 widget processing fee paid to Xcorp.' type items that can be snipped without a second thought. Waste comes from inefficient processes, and inadequate oversight, and it can only be solved by people who know and work with the system. Publicizing the budget would be good to put pressure on legislators and inspire workers to be more thoughtful as they incur expenses, but it's certainly not a silver bullet.
+1, many TRUE business apps (Read: not some excel spreadsheet that manages your 2 employee home business) only come in windows versions, because lets face it, a HUGE majority of workstations are windows, and you have to cater to the biggest source of income. The tendency toward non-OS specific software is moving along nicely, but a lot of big apps are nowhere close.
You forgot a biggie:
36. When a supplier, be it of bandwidth, hardware, printer paper, etc. screws up, please get mad at us personally. We need the inspiration of your berating in order to effectively berate said supplier, and they need our berating because they love it when customers who 50% of the time ask for the wrong thing and get it, get even more upset the other 50% of the time when they're given what they actually needed in the first place.
How useful will this be when it responds to a simple question with a simple answer? me: why did the program leak 1GB of memory then segfault?
computer: because you don't know how to program, you idiot!
Imagine how useful this sort of not-far-off technology would be in this situation? Send it to the sun for the cost of electricity. Just hope you REALLY didnt want any of that 'waste' cause theres no getting it back!
Will it be considered ironic when energy from nuclear plants is used to propel their own waste into space?
but you won't see MS including 8 GB of flash memory, not hardly. They will probably include just enough for saves and minor downloads for games. Most people dont come close to using it all anyhow. Saved music? Bad consumer! youre supposed to have a cd player (and legitimate cd) if you want to listen to that! Bad, bad consumer!
Also, consider the actual cost of a hard drive vs. flash. That's right, failure rate. The hard drive cost MS more due to having to warranty failures, not just from including them in the first place. Using cheap, low-heat flash they will see a scarce number of RMAs compared to the first xbox.
Apparently we hold ourselves to completely different standards. IMO, you can't tell half of a story and expect anyone to give a rat's ass. Its perfectly possible for someone to examine all sides of a situation, and include all the facts in an honest way. Moore made no attempt at being balanced, he has some deep hatred for bush and decided to express it by taking 2 hours worth of video clips and stringing them together to make him look as bad as possible. It winds up in a movie theater, and people say its brilliant? It would be brilliant if he made any attempt at fairness to let YOU decide which way to go. It's naive to think that the american public doesn't deserve better.
I mean come on, what does Moore have to worry about, if bush is as bad as he wants everyone to believe, he could have been fair and balanced and everyone would have reacted the same way? Right? Right?
TRUTH is a non-biased, exhaustive analysis of a topic. What moore did in F911 was nothing resembling that. The worst part about the movie is the fact that he touts it as a 'completely factual documentary', yet makes NO attempt at presenting a fair and balanced look at the terrorist situation and the war in iraq. Sure, everything in the movie was accurate. But if you go see the movie, and now consider yourself educated on the subject because it was entirely 'truthful', then you're lying to yourself. There is a lot more to 'truth' than simply not saying anything false.
On top of that fact, many of moore's positions against the Bush administration's stance on terrorism and the war in iraq are based on his eyes shut view of the situation. Just because he has a video camera and too much free time doesnt mean he's any more well informed than anyone else. Take everything he says with a huge anti-conservative grain of salt, and you MIGHT be able to glean something meaningful from his work.
I'm not even going to get into the reasons the movie is a steaming load, for that I turn you to this piece which does a good job of slanting everything moore presents, in the completely opposite direction. Put them together, and you might just find some balance. And for anyone who wants to argue with me, i have no political preferences, all i have is a chip on my shoulder for anyone who wants to spread truth by only telling one horribly narrow side of a story. Please flame accordingly.
The summary information was vauge, and I have yet to read the entire documentation from the IEEE. What I know is that it has been described as an 'encryption system working in hardware just above the transciever'. Good for cisco that their hardware supports recoding the signal layer, but how many other vendors do you suppose can/will do the same?
Change hardware *again*? No thanks
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IEEE Approves 802.11i
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That makes it transparent for applications sending data through the radio, so legacy programs running on new 802.11i-compliant hardware will automatically get the benefits of the new protocol without the need for modification.
And exactly 0% of the hardware will be backwards compatible. Who trusts data privacy flying across a network anyway? Isnt that what we have VPN, SSH, HTTPS, etc. for? IMHO we have more things to concern ourselves with, like interference countermeasures, signal efficiency, etc. Who is going to switch to a new hardware platform just because it offers a different (read: not necessarily better) encryption method?
Do you sue the government knowing that the settlement will just be funded by charging the comsumer (ie the public) more?
That's precisely why you can't "sue the government". An apparently little known facet of law known as sovereign immunity guarantees that the funds held by the state are in "Public Trust" and cannot be siezed by any legal action regardless of merit. See: getting in a car accident involving any state owned vehicle (even off duty police, civil engineering trucks, etc.).
Iirc the impact area of a sonic 'boom' is the cone created by the leading edges of the projectile, and it extends laterally away as the projectile moves at greater than mach 1 (not just while it 'breaks' the speed but at all times when it exceeds the speed). This means that the crew and the entire ship will never be in contact with the shock cone, so it will essentially make no noise at all during travel. It will make noise im sure as its fired, but probably nothing compared to a gunpowder projectile.
Am i right, or has high school physics failed again? (or rather did i fail physics...)
Ex-freaking-xactly. the first thing I thought of when i saw 'babylon 5' and 'star trek' on the same line was 'sounds like DS9'. They were both similar in style and very good productions.
People (myself included) dont want to watch the damn linear phase inverters get rerouted to the plasma vents on deck 9, for crying out loud. We want to see believeable and understandable stories about relatable characters in a setting that feels current, but statistically could be 10 or 1000 years in the future. eh? Don't make writing a TV show look hard, it shouldn't be.
We're talking about gameplay, though. When you put a game in an Xbox, the dashboard (that pretty menu system) is completely irrelevant, it can be missing or completely different and the game will still work just fine, they are two completely different entities.
In fact, thank you for proving my point, the game acts IN PLACE OF what you would call that little 'operating system', meaning your xbox in effect is upgraded every time you use a new/different game.
If you consider a bios an OS, then yes. The term 'operating system' implies that you can input, process, store, and output in a meaningful way. The base firmware of a ps2 or xbox doesnt really come close to that, its all held on the disc that runs on startup.
As someone who's modded both the hardware and the software of both systems, I can tell you that not a lot is gonna happen without a game disc.
You do realize that there's not an OS on an x-box or a ps2, don't you? Every new game is essentially a new cut of the best tweaked operating system for the console, designed specifically to run its payload (the game). Firmware updates are so PC, with a console the hardware NEVER changes, hence once you have a good firmware loaded it will not cause problems, or limit features.
Case in point is the dramatic difference in the appearance of the early PS2 games to those released today. Graphics and controls are much improved, since over time better and better engines can be developed.
"Of course, for all its prowess, I'm still a little troubled that the ICH5R's RAID 1 arrays crashed out of IOMeter under our highest load level. A load of 256 outstanding IOs is quite a bit beyond what most desktops and workstations will encounter, but it's well within the realm of possibility for servers"
Can anyone confirm or deny that this occurs in real world settings? Its definitely troubling that the crash condition was consistent, but I am suspicious that it was simply an incompatibility between the benchmarking tool and the raid controller. Does someone know more?
Jeff
Modern digital handheld camcorders can use extended exposure to essentially mimic the human eye's perception, making the frame timing rather useless unless you alter it so much that it looks bad to the eye too. technology simply advances too fast, they wont be successful til they stop the gear from getting in front of the screen in the first place. Add that to the fact that camera rips certainly arent the only source of leaks, this technology will be rather pointless eh? find a cure for cancer or something!
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After reading the title i thought the article would actually be useful to us (the stereotypical /. reader). Turns out its about selling video games to girls, laaaaaame.
not that im an expert, but CCD is 'charge-coupled device' and CMOS is 'complementary metal oxide semiconductor'. neither is mutually exclusive as you can make a CCD out of CMOS. in any event, you probably get the jist of my post.
Has anyone thought about the fact that cheap CMOS cameras have a particularly long charge time, meaning that by the time you get enough energy onto the CCD to render an image, the object has undoubtedly moved enough to produce a blur (and more than the desired amount of time has probably elapsed before you go on to the next image)? Either an extremely bright light will be needed, or you will get significantly sub-par image quality.
If youre going to just answer all the questions why did /. go to all the trouble of setting this up?
heh.
Almost, not quite a solution. What happens when 'waste' is found. Its not as if there are simply '$500 widget processing fee paid to Xcorp.' type items that can be snipped without a second thought. Waste comes from inefficient processes, and inadequate oversight, and it can only be solved by people who know and work with the system. Publicizing the budget would be good to put pressure on legislators and inspire workers to be more thoughtful as they incur expenses, but it's certainly not a silver bullet.
+1, many TRUE business apps (Read: not some excel spreadsheet that manages your 2 employee home business) only come in windows versions, because lets face it, a HUGE majority of workstations are windows, and you have to cater to the biggest source of income. The tendency toward non-OS specific software is moving along nicely, but a lot of big apps are nowhere close.
You forgot a biggie: 36. When a supplier, be it of bandwidth, hardware, printer paper, etc. screws up, please get mad at us personally. We need the inspiration of your berating in order to effectively berate said supplier, and they need our berating because they love it when customers who 50% of the time ask for the wrong thing and get it, get even more upset the other 50% of the time when they're given what they actually needed in the first place.
How useful will this be when it responds to a simple question with a simple answer?
me: why did the program leak 1GB of memory then segfault?
computer: because you don't know how to program, you idiot!
and boy was that place strange
Imagine how useful this sort of not-far-off technology would be in this situation? Send it to the sun for the cost of electricity. Just hope you REALLY didnt want any of that 'waste' cause theres no getting it back!
Will it be considered ironic when energy from nuclear plants is used to propel their own waste into space?
but you won't see MS including 8 GB of flash memory, not hardly. They will probably include just enough for saves and minor downloads for games. Most people dont come close to using it all anyhow. Saved music? Bad consumer! youre supposed to have a cd player (and legitimate cd) if you want to listen to that! Bad, bad consumer!
Also, consider the actual cost of a hard drive vs. flash. That's right, failure rate. The hard drive cost MS more due to having to warranty failures, not just from including them in the first place. Using cheap, low-heat flash they will see a scarce number of RMAs compared to the first xbox.
Apparently we hold ourselves to completely different standards. IMO, you can't tell half of a story and expect anyone to give a rat's ass. Its perfectly possible for someone to examine all sides of a situation, and include all the facts in an honest way. Moore made no attempt at being balanced, he has some deep hatred for bush and decided to express it by taking 2 hours worth of video clips and stringing them together to make him look as bad as possible. It winds up in a movie theater, and people say its brilliant? It would be brilliant if he made any attempt at fairness to let YOU decide which way to go. It's naive to think that the american public doesn't deserve better.
I mean come on, what does Moore have to worry about, if bush is as bad as he wants everyone to believe, he could have been fair and balanced and everyone would have reacted the same way? Right? Right?
TRUTH is a non-biased, exhaustive analysis of a topic. What moore did in F911 was nothing resembling that. The worst part about the movie is the fact that he touts it as a 'completely factual documentary', yet makes NO attempt at presenting a fair and balanced look at the terrorist situation and the war in iraq. Sure, everything in the movie was accurate. But if you go see the movie, and now consider yourself educated on the subject because it was entirely 'truthful', then you're lying to yourself. There is a lot more to 'truth' than simply not saying anything false.
On top of that fact, many of moore's positions against the Bush administration's stance on terrorism and the war in iraq are based on his eyes shut view of the situation. Just because he has a video camera and too much free time doesnt mean he's any more well informed than anyone else. Take everything he says with a huge anti-conservative grain of salt, and you MIGHT be able to glean something meaningful from his work.
I'm not even going to get into the reasons the movie is a steaming load, for that I turn you to this piece which does a good job of slanting everything moore presents, in the completely opposite direction. Put them together, and you might just find some balance. And for anyone who wants to argue with me, i have no political preferences, all i have is a chip on my shoulder for anyone who wants to spread truth by only telling one horribly narrow side of a story. Please flame accordingly.
And oh yeah, the line I quoted said exactly 'NEW HARDWARE'. thanks.
The summary information was vauge, and I have yet to read the entire documentation from the IEEE. What I know is that it has been described as an 'encryption system working in hardware just above the transciever'. Good for cisco that their hardware supports recoding the signal layer, but how many other vendors do you suppose can/will do the same?
That makes it transparent for applications sending data through the radio, so legacy programs running on new 802.11i-compliant hardware will automatically get the benefits of the new protocol without the need for modification.
And exactly 0% of the hardware will be backwards compatible. Who trusts data privacy flying across a network anyway? Isnt that what we have VPN, SSH, HTTPS, etc. for? IMHO we have more things to concern ourselves with, like interference countermeasures, signal efficiency, etc. Who is going to switch to a new hardware platform just because it offers a different (read: not necessarily better) encryption method?
Do you sue the government knowing that the settlement will just be funded by charging the comsumer (ie the public) more?
That's precisely why you can't "sue the government". An apparently little known facet of law known as sovereign immunity guarantees that the funds held by the state are in "Public Trust" and cannot be siezed by any legal action regardless of merit. See: getting in a car accident involving any state owned vehicle (even off duty police, civil engineering trucks, etc.).
just to clarify, just silent to those on the ship. eh?
Iirc the impact area of a sonic 'boom' is the cone created by the leading edges of the projectile, and it extends laterally away as the projectile moves at greater than mach 1 (not just while it 'breaks' the speed but at all times when it exceeds the speed). This means that the crew and the entire ship will never be in contact with the shock cone, so it will essentially make no noise at all during travel. It will make noise im sure as its fired, but probably nothing compared to a gunpowder projectile.
Am i right, or has high school physics failed again? (or rather did i fail physics...)
jeff
Ex-freaking-xactly. the first thing I thought of when i saw 'babylon 5' and 'star trek' on the same line was 'sounds like DS9'. They were both similar in style and very good productions.
People (myself included) dont want to watch the damn linear phase inverters get rerouted to the plasma vents on deck 9, for crying out loud. We want to see believeable and understandable stories about relatable characters in a setting that feels current, but statistically could be 10 or 1000 years in the future. eh? Don't make writing a TV show look hard, it shouldn't be.
We're talking about gameplay, though. When you put a game in an Xbox, the dashboard (that pretty menu system) is completely irrelevant, it can be missing or completely different and the game will still work just fine, they are two completely different entities.
In fact, thank you for proving my point, the game acts IN PLACE OF what you would call that little 'operating system', meaning your xbox in effect is upgraded every time you use a new/different game.
If you consider a bios an OS, then yes. The term 'operating system' implies that you can input, process, store, and output in a meaningful way. The base firmware of a ps2 or xbox doesnt really come close to that, its all held on the disc that runs on startup.
As someone who's modded both the hardware and the software of both systems, I can tell you that not a lot is gonna happen without a game disc.
You do realize that there's not an OS on an x-box or a ps2, don't you? Every new game is essentially a new cut of the best tweaked operating system for the console, designed specifically to run its payload (the game). Firmware updates are so PC, with a console the hardware NEVER changes, hence once you have a good firmware loaded it will not cause problems, or limit features.
Case in point is the dramatic difference in the appearance of the early PS2 games to those released today. Graphics and controls are much improved, since over time better and better engines can be developed.
"Of course, for all its prowess, I'm still a little troubled that the ICH5R's RAID 1 arrays crashed out of IOMeter under our highest load level. A load of 256 outstanding IOs is quite a bit beyond what most desktops and workstations will encounter, but it's well within the realm of possibility for servers" Can anyone confirm or deny that this occurs in real world settings? Its definitely troubling that the crash condition was consistent, but I am suspicious that it was simply an incompatibility between the benchmarking tool and the raid controller. Does someone know more? Jeff
Modern digital handheld camcorders can use extended exposure to essentially mimic the human eye's perception, making the frame timing rather useless unless you alter it so much that it looks bad to the eye too. technology simply advances too fast, they wont be successful til they stop the gear from getting in front of the screen in the first place. Add that to the fact that camera rips certainly arent the only source of leaks, this technology will be rather pointless eh? find a cure for cancer or something!