Agreed, my bay trail Atom powered "net top" lives bolted to the wall of my hall closet as a Wi-Fi repeater and headless CentOS box. The HDMI port on it is useless media applications. Thanks, PowerVR.
You can pick up a used 2012 Nexus 7 tablet for $75 from a variety of locations, it will be getting the Android 5.0 update. It is Google's official tablet development platform.
Power VR is terrible, Intel released a ton of low end Atom powered devices with Power VR GPU, but due to licencing agreements never released drivers except for the 32 bit variant of Windows 7 and never for Win 8 or Linux drivers worth a damn. Means Linux users were SOL when they tried using these machines for anything media related. And I doubt the situation with Power VR is going to be any better this time around. Avoid like the plauge any Intel hardware that's hard wired to a Power VR chip.
While I've seen some gross examples of this case in the past, Docker while being new is already a buzz word, they went 1.0 back in June or July, so one fiscal quarter after the fact is not too bleeding edge to need a description here.
No, I am referring to the NERVA rocket engine, a nuclear reactor that shoots superheated hydrogen out the back. The program was so successful followng the Apollo era that Congress cancelled all funding as it would have made a very expensive Mars trip viable using even 1970's technology (shortens the trip from 6 months to 2 months).
Nuclear reactors aren't a whole lot larger, they managed to make them small enough to fit on a space rocket, a submarine and back in the 1960's, nine of them on an Aircraft Carrier. It's the support systems (like cooling) and maintenance buildings that end up taking up several acres. Dissipating the waste heat of a 20MW reactor safely, indefinitely, is no small feat.
I use about 10 pages a week from the printer, most of that is me being overly cautious with making sure I have effective notes or references on hand for a meeting. It's faster to sort through three pages of prepared documents than dig through an endless list of emails on my work blackberry.
You can buy that on a sign in multiple gift shops in Fredericksburg, Texas, and probably at Friedhelm's on the north end of main street. My cousins call their grandparents Oma and Opa. Texas was predominantly German and Spanish speaking up until the first world war. There were more German speaking Texans than Irish Speaking or Italian speaking New Yorkers. Czech bakeries are A Thing in Texas. Stop off at the Czech-Stop if you're ever headed between Dallas and Austin or San Antonio.
My grandparents are 82 and I only learned last year (at age 30) that they both speak fluent German.They changed the spelling of their last name and learned English due to social pressures. This was in a predominantly German-speaking rural Texas community surrounded by other German-speaking communities*, I can only imagine how badly speaking German was stigmatized in urban academic circles. This is a real thing.
*Texas has it's own recognized dialect of German, look it up on Wikipedia
They managed to give Kim Jong-il cancer with their first mission, and now that they've perfected their orbital space-cancer-raygun, took out Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong-un on this latest mission. Why build airborne drones when you can riddle offending world leaders with cancer from orbit?
Until they bolt this thing in (or on top of) a Prius and drive it from NYC to LA on live television it's not real. Supposedly it's not very large, so if it's real, let's see it being used in a real-world application!
Probably someone at Amazon said "what if we just hold a competition and see what happens?" and their boss said "yeah but how much would that cost? we have a budget, you know", response back; "yeah I guess we could put it together for $100,000 including logisitcs, leaving 25% of the project cost as an incentive price". Boss thinks on it for a minute, "hmm yeah that sounds good, send me a proposal and we'll run with it, this is the sort of thing we reinvest all our profits in to, there's no way this is a complete waste of money since this gamble could really improve our bottom line."
There's an unofficial yahoo email group for our enterprise software owned by a top NYSE-listed company, we get almost no help from their customer service but when you bring up bugs in the email group (which broadcasts to almost all of their customers) they tend to get fixed very quickly by their development staff.
I own a Model M, with a goofy RJ- to PS2 cable, old school. It's fun and clacky. I also have a Thinkpad which has it's own coveted keypress feel. However in my open office cubefarm plan it's noisy as shit. It also has zero ergonomics. I ended up buying a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard, which is sort of a sleek, complete redesign, of the Microsoft Natural keyboard. It has "modern" laptoppy feel keys that are actually quiet, and proper ergonomics. I'm thinking about getting one for the house, I was skeptical about wireless keyboards but I think that this is "the one" for me.
SSDs help improve performance pretty dramatically, and also nullifies fragmented disk issues (which mostly disappeared when Microsoft started scheduling regular defrags of the drive in Windows version * )
You must have been born before the advent of the original iMac. Of course the color matters. Which would you rather eat, a raw potato or a fresh apple? People aren't robots, their brains are wired in a particular manner. Marketing is a huge industry that makes a ton of money capitalizing on that fact. Technology isn't a game of min/maxing for most consumers. Do you want to claim that World of Warcraft isn't addictive to a particular type of person? Marketing research went in to developing that product too.
That's how my bill in Texas works with Green Mountain Energy; I pay an X base fee for infrastructure etc and then Y rate per KWh, which is broken in to three rate tiers, below 450KWh/mo (second cheapest), 451-900KWh/mo (the cheapest)
and 900+KWh/mo (most expensive)
I'm not on any special solar plan (nor do I have the generating capability), that's just how they've broken down my bill for the last Z years.
Microsoft's 2001 era tablets were also almost 2" thick and wrapped in 1990's era gray plastic you might find on an old HP desktop. 2001-era touchscreen displays were thicker than an entire iPad or android tablet is today. Not to mention pixel density in the 640x480 range, and battery life left a lot to be desired.
Enter the high PPI display, Gorilla Glass, modern Li-Ion battery technology and modern CPU (ARM) designs and now you can produce a tablet that's lighter and smaller than most text books.
Is anyone else curious how he got three OLED displays powered off of the single Arduino? I can think of several good uses of a multi-display Arduino product...
We've had the capability to put a man on Mars since the mid-1970's.... Just not the political will. Now that spaceflight is in the commercial realm, it's no long political willpower + taxpayer cost, it's just private cost and selling that dream to the right person.
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Agreed, my bay trail Atom powered "net top" lives bolted to the wall of my hall closet as a Wi-Fi repeater and headless CentOS box. The HDMI port on it is useless media applications. Thanks, PowerVR.
You can pick up a used 2012 Nexus 7 tablet for $75 from a variety of locations, it will be getting the Android 5.0 update. It is Google's official tablet development platform.
Power VR is terrible, Intel released a ton of low end Atom powered devices with Power VR GPU, but due to licencing agreements never released drivers except for the 32 bit variant of Windows 7 and never for Win 8 or Linux drivers worth a damn. Means Linux users were SOL when they tried using these machines for anything media related. And I doubt the situation with Power VR is going to be any better this time around. Avoid like the plauge any Intel hardware that's hard wired to a Power VR chip.
What's stopping ESPN from offering their entire HD channel package for $10/month via Amazon, HuluPlus or a bundle deal with HBOGo?
While I've seen some gross examples of this case in the past, Docker while being new is already a buzz word, they went 1.0 back in June or July, so one fiscal quarter after the fact is not too bleeding edge to need a description here.
No, I am referring to the NERVA rocket engine, a nuclear reactor that shoots superheated hydrogen out the back. The program was so successful followng the Apollo era that Congress cancelled all funding as it would have made a very expensive Mars trip viable using even 1970's technology (shortens the trip from 6 months to 2 months).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
Clearly someone doesn't play Kerbal Space Program. This has nothing to do with RTGs.
Nuclear reactors aren't a whole lot larger, they managed to make them small enough to fit on a space rocket, a submarine and back in the 1960's, nine of them on an Aircraft Carrier. It's the support systems (like cooling) and maintenance buildings that end up taking up several acres. Dissipating the waste heat of a 20MW reactor safely, indefinitely, is no small feat.
I use about 10 pages a week from the printer, most of that is me being overly cautious with making sure I have effective notes or references on hand for a meeting. It's faster to sort through three pages of prepared documents than dig through an endless list of emails on my work blackberry.
You can buy that on a sign in multiple gift shops in Fredericksburg, Texas, and probably at Friedhelm's on the north end of main street. My cousins call their grandparents Oma and Opa. Texas was predominantly German and Spanish speaking up until the first world war. There were more German speaking Texans than Irish Speaking or Italian speaking New Yorkers. Czech bakeries are A Thing in Texas. Stop off at the Czech-Stop if you're ever headed between Dallas and Austin or San Antonio.
My grandparents are 82 and I only learned last year (at age 30) that they both speak fluent German.They changed the spelling of their last name and learned English due to social pressures. This was in a predominantly German-speaking rural Texas community surrounded by other German-speaking communities*, I can only imagine how badly speaking German was stigmatized in urban academic circles. This is a real thing.
*Texas has it's own recognized dialect of German, look it up on Wikipedia
They managed to give Kim Jong-il cancer with their first mission, and now that they've perfected their orbital space-cancer-raygun, took out Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong-un on this latest mission. Why build airborne drones when you can riddle offending world leaders with cancer from orbit?
The latest Broadwell/Core-M processors are all fanless @ 4.5w.
The raspberry pi uses 1.89w for the B model and 1.21 watts for the new/improved B+ model released this summer.
By 2017 when the next model is due, Broadwell will be a three year old processor, and Intel's passively cooled Edison will be four years old..
Do you have links to the patent applications?
Until they bolt this thing in (or on top of) a Prius and drive it from NYC to LA on live television it's not real. Supposedly it's not very large, so if it's real, let's see it being used in a real-world application!
They own PGP. Which is a major part of the backbone of their security segment.
Probably someone at Amazon said "what if we just hold a competition and see what happens?" and their boss said "yeah but how much would that cost? we have a budget, you know", response back; "yeah I guess we could put it together for $100,000 including logisitcs, leaving 25% of the project cost as an incentive price". Boss thinks on it for a minute, "hmm yeah that sounds good, send me a proposal and we'll run with it, this is the sort of thing we reinvest all our profits in to, there's no way this is a complete waste of money since this gamble could really improve our bottom line."
Yeah, everyone loves the passive agressive Dwight-type in the office.
There's an unofficial yahoo email group for our enterprise software owned by a top NYSE-listed company, we get almost no help from their customer service but when you bring up bugs in the email group (which broadcasts to almost all of their customers) they tend to get fixed very quickly by their development staff.
I own a Model M, with a goofy RJ- to PS2 cable, old school. It's fun and clacky. I also have a Thinkpad which has it's own coveted keypress feel. However in my open office cubefarm plan it's noisy as shit. It also has zero ergonomics. I ended up buying a Microsoft Sculpt keyboard, which is sort of a sleek, complete redesign, of the Microsoft Natural keyboard. It has "modern" laptoppy feel keys that are actually quiet, and proper ergonomics. I'm thinking about getting one for the house, I was skeptical about wireless keyboards but I think that this is "the one" for me.
SSDs help improve performance pretty dramatically, and also nullifies fragmented disk issues (which mostly disappeared when Microsoft started scheduling regular defrags of the drive in Windows version * )
You must have been born before the advent of the original iMac. Of course the color matters. Which would you rather eat, a raw potato or a fresh apple? People aren't robots, their brains are wired in a particular manner. Marketing is a huge industry that makes a ton of money capitalizing on that fact. Technology isn't a game of min/maxing for most consumers. Do you want to claim that World of Warcraft isn't addictive to a particular type of person? Marketing research went in to developing that product too.
That's how my bill in Texas works with Green Mountain Energy; I pay an X base fee for infrastructure etc and then Y rate per KWh, which is broken in to three rate tiers,
below 450KWh/mo (second cheapest),
451-900KWh/mo (the cheapest)
and 900+KWh/mo (most expensive)
I'm not on any special solar plan (nor do I have the generating capability), that's just how they've broken down my bill for the last Z years.
Microsoft's 2001 era tablets were also almost 2" thick and wrapped in 1990's era gray plastic you might find on an old HP desktop. 2001-era touchscreen displays were thicker than an entire iPad or android tablet is today. Not to mention pixel density in the 640x480 range, and battery life left a lot to be desired.
Enter the high PPI display, Gorilla Glass, modern Li-Ion battery technology and modern CPU (ARM) designs and now you can produce a tablet that's lighter and smaller than most text books.
Is anyone else curious how he got three OLED displays powered off of the single Arduino? I can think of several good uses of a multi-display Arduino product...
We've had the capability to put a man on Mars since the mid-1970's.... Just not the political will. Now that spaceflight is in the commercial realm, it's no long political willpower + taxpayer cost, it's just private cost and selling that dream to the right person.