Does it learn to play via the Suzuki method. If so, does Toyota have to pay royalties to or cross-license patents from Suzuki Company, one of their competitors in Japan?
I initially thought this was going to be a theme park where robots can go to spend their free time and 'wind down.' They could have fantasy rides where robots are allowed to simulate, in a non-harmful way, egregious breaking of Asimov's Three Laws...
That's what I've done since the earliest years of PCs such as the TRS-80: copy the directory to the destination, check that it all arrived, only THEN delete the original.
I use to work in that group 7-8 years ago when they were just beginning that project.
The likely reason it's something that you cannot buy is that it takes a massive amount of power, much more than a typical 20A/120V circuit can supply. So it's not something you can simply plug into your regular office/home power outlet.
During the previous product cycle, we worked with print heads that were 2" wide. The four print heads required drew 10-15 amps, IIRC. So let's do some conservative calculations:
Assuming they want this printer to do relatively large format printing, let's presume they can print up to "poster size," or 17" wide by 22" tall. With overprint, assume they need 18" wide print heads.
Using the conservative estimate of 10A/120V for 4 2" printheads, this printer will require at least 9X (18" / 2") the amperage to operate. They mentioned that a hydrophilic ("having a strong affinity for water") bonding agent is fixed to the paper, and this is likely applied with a fifth print-head [that's what they were planning when I was there]. So I'll do a rough calculation assuming five print-heads:
20A * 9 * (5/4) = 225A
So this puppy needs a power circuit that can provide [at surge] 225A at 120V, when printing full color, heavy saturation docs.
Your house probly doesn't even have that much to provide!
www.increw.com has a kernel extension called SpeedIt, which makes Intel Macs "correctly" light sleep when they are supposed to. Apple claims this is automatically handled entirely by hardware, but the increw.com guys claim this isn't so.
On my MPB, the SpeedIt kext alone reduced the CPU temperature by 5-10C when idle.
Keeping SpeedIt running and adding smcFanControl took the temperature down by another 13C! My MPB is now running a CPU temperature of about 33C, which is a big improvement for me...
I have one and am very happy with it. It's an external USB 2.0 device, which IMHO provides a couple of key advantages: (1) being external, it is isolated from computer noise; (2) being USB 2.0, it is easily moved between computers.
Several other advantages: (3) it works with laptops if you want to be more portable; (4) it's supported by a wide variety of software; (5) it does PC or Mac (I happen to use it with a Mac laptop).
It does audio in/out (all kinds of connectors, both analog and digital), and also provides a MIDI interface, should you need that.
it works to relieve knotted muscles that press on nerves and cause tingling/numbness.
there are two types of acupuncture: Yin (feminine / low-energy type -- very relaxing and non-intense), and Yuan (masculine, powerful, high-energy type -- also very relaxing but very intense, as it causes fasciculation -- this means the muscle jumps around on its own with the needle stimuls, this jumping lets it release toxins).
I know you said you want to keep the capture cards you have, but have you considered a MacBook Pro? You could obtain any of a variety of very portable external USB|Firewire audio capture devices (keeps the audio away from the CPU/Motherboard, which is of course good for keeping electronics-induced noise down); (also, see below).
I've recently switched from Windows back to Mac, and it has been a transforming experience. Everything Just Works. There was very little setup to do, and it runs rock solid. It's a nice compromise between screen real estate and portability.
Of course, if you choose to use MacOS on the Mac (as opposed to running Windows, which does work), your encoding software would have to be switched out. I haven't googled yet for what's available for live encoding and streaming on Macs, but I'm 98.6% sure there are several good choices. I've talked with several local pro musicians (some of whom are audio guys as well), and they pretty much universally use Macs. (I'm guessing, for example, that Apple's program 'Logic' [pro version] has live encoding -- it seems to do just about everything else...)
As for the outboard hardware, check out these two companies' products:
It will take nearly an hour (over 53 minutes) to process the individual faces of people packed into an 80,000 seat stadium to watch something like the superbowl.
This is assuming you can even isolate each face from all the others (and that the camera doesn't linger on Janet Jackson's torso during the half-time show...)
I read the review and scanned the specs for the HDTV receiver (Miglia TVMini HD) they used for viewing free-to-air digital TV broadcasts. The spec sheet for the Miglia device claims it records digital streams direct to disc w/o modification, claiming that full quality is kept.
The question is -- does it heed the broadcast flag and refuse to record shows so flagged? I could not find an answer to this question
Our corporate IT drones use "8e6 Technologies" (www.8e6.com).
Among other lame-o things, it blocks powerball.com (labelled "gambling," which I guess is considered "bad" -- I always thought of it as an "investment" site...).
When my office-mates and I enter a PowerBall pool when the jackpot exceeds $200M, how am I supposed to check whether I need to quit my job?
My Dad brought it home from work when I was in 5th grade (ca. 1975/1976). I taught myself assembly language by simply reading thru the KIM manuals, in conjunction with a Rockwell 6502 databook.
I still have all that stuff in my junk drawer at home...
I've grown pretty used to eyeballing dots that are spaced on a 0.29mm grid, the original dot pitch of a 21" monitor showing a 1280x1024 image [viewable area on such monitors was about 19".].
Presently, I use dual 19" flat panels whose native resolution [combined] is 2560x1024. Each individual display is native 1280x1024, and so has that same dot pitch (0.29mm) as the classic 21" monitor with 1280x1024 setting.
This 30" display, if I calculate correctly, has a dot pitch of about 0.25mm.
This is finer than my aging eyes like to see for text and coding, which is mostly what I do. Sure I could bump up the text size a bit, but then I would essentially waste many of those extra pixels I would have paid dearly for with this 30" display.
Many of the current crop of flat panels also have finer than the 'classic' 0.29mm dot pitch.
Is this a trend that is unlikely to stop?
Will I be able to find high pixel-count displays with no smaller than 0.29mm dot pitch in future?
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did they reveal the conclusion of their decision by sending white smoke up the chimney?
Does it learn to play via the Suzuki method. If so, does Toyota have to pay royalties to or cross-license patents from Suzuki Company, one of their competitors in Japan?
I initially thought this was going to be a theme park where robots
can go to spend their free time and 'wind down.' They could have fantasy
rides where robots are allowed to simulate, in a non-harmful way, egregious
breaking of Asimov's Three Laws...
That's what I've done since the earliest years of PCs such as the TRS-80: copy the directory to the destination, check that it all arrived, only THEN delete the original.
One could use "Audio Hijack Pro" (OS X) to capture this
stream-only programme to a file, then write to CD, or move
to iPod for portable listening...
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/
I use to work in that group 7-8 years ago when they were just beginning that project.
The likely reason it's something that you cannot buy is that it takes a massive amount of power, much more than a typical 20A/120V circuit can supply. So it's not something you can simply plug into your regular office/home power outlet.
During the previous product cycle, we worked with print heads that were 2" wide. The four print heads required drew 10-15 amps, IIRC. So let's do some conservative calculations:
Assuming they want this printer to do relatively large format printing, let's presume they can print up to "poster size," or 17" wide by 22" tall. With overprint, assume they need 18" wide print heads.
Using the conservative estimate of 10A/120V for 4 2" printheads, this printer will require at least 9X (18" / 2") the amperage to operate. They mentioned that a hydrophilic ("having a strong affinity for water") bonding agent is fixed to the paper, and this is likely applied with a fifth print-head [that's what they were planning when I was there]. So I'll do a rough calculation assuming five print-heads:
20A * 9 * (5/4) = 225A
So this puppy needs a power circuit that can provide [at surge] 225A at 120V, when printing full color, heavy saturation docs.
Your house probly doesn't even have that much to provide!
DAMMIT Jim! I'm a CARTOON, not a DOCTOR!!
better? worse? similar?
www.increw.com has a kernel extension called SpeedIt, which makes Intel Macs "correctly" light sleep when they are supposed to. Apple claims this is automatically handled entirely by hardware, but the increw.com guys claim this isn't so.
On my MPB, the SpeedIt kext alone reduced the CPU temperature by 5-10C when idle.
Keeping SpeedIt running and adding smcFanControl took the temperature down by another 13C! My MPB is now running a CPU temperature of about 33C, which is a big improvement for me...
I have one and am very happy with it. It's an external USB 2.0 device, which IMHO provides a couple of key advantages: (1) being external, it is isolated from computer noise; (2) being USB 2.0, it is easily moved between computers.
Several other advantages: (3) it works with laptops if you want to be more portable; (4) it's supported by a wide variety of software; (5) it does PC or Mac (I happen to use it with a Mac laptop).
It does audio in/out (all kinds of connectors, both analog and digital), and also provides a MIDI interface, should you need that.
... spend $4k, get paid $1M, profit $996K!
...I know I'll hate THAT article from Dvorak,
so I'm simply Moving Along, Moving Along,
Nothing To See Here.
it works to relieve knotted muscles that press on nerves and cause tingling/numbness.
there are two types of acupuncture: Yin (feminine / low-energy type -- very relaxing and non-intense), and Yuan (masculine, powerful, high-energy type -- also very relaxing but very intense, as it causes fasciculation -- this means the muscle jumps around on its own with the needle stimuls, this jumping lets it release toxins).
you want the Yuan type of acupuncture
My Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100 (a PDA) has an XScale processor, and runs ucLinux under the hood.
Does anyone see this change impacting Sharp's PDA products?
I know you said you want to keep the capture cards you have, but have you considered a MacBook Pro? You could obtain any of a variety of very portable external USB|Firewire audio capture devices (keeps the audio away from the CPU/Motherboard, which is of course good for keeping electronics-induced noise down); (also, see below).
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I've recently switched from Windows back to Mac, and it has been a transforming experience. Everything Just Works. There was very little setup to do, and it runs rock solid. It's a nice compromise between screen real estate and portability.
Of course, if you choose to use MacOS on the Mac (as opposed to running Windows, which does work), your encoding software would have to be switched out. I haven't googled yet for what's available for live encoding and streaming on Macs, but I'm 98.6% sure there are several good choices. I've talked with several local pro musicians (some of whom are audio guys as well), and they pretty much universally use Macs. (I'm guessing, for example, that Apple's program 'Logic' [pro version] has live encoding -- it seems to do just about everything else...)
As for the outboard hardware, check out these two companies' products:
- http://m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=
http://m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=
- http://digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=30&langid=1
http://digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=31&langid=1
http://digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=29&langid=1
What happens with the first BSOD. Will the robot fail to avoid Asimov's First Law if in motion at the time?
It will take nearly an hour (over 53 minutes) to process the individual faces of people packed into an 80,000 seat stadium to watch something like the superbowl.
This is assuming you can even isolate each face from all the others (and that the camera doesn't linger on Janet Jackson's torso during the half-time show...)
So July 1st is the FIRST opportunity to launch, but may not necessarily be THE day that it does launch
Let's say your electricity costs you $0.10 per kilowatt-hour. This machine will cost nearly $75/month to operate:
1000watts / 1000 = 1kW-hour to operate for one hour
( 1 kw-hour * 24hours per day * 365 days / 12 months ) * $0.10 == $73.00 / month
I read the review and scanned the specs for the HDTV receiver (Miglia TVMini HD) they used for viewing free-to-air digital TV broadcasts. The spec sheet for the Miglia device claims it records digital streams direct to disc w/o modification, claiming that full quality is kept.
The question is -- does it heed the broadcast flag and refuse to record shows so flagged? I could not find an answer to this question
Among other lame-o things, it blocks powerball.com (labelled "gambling," which I guess is considered "bad" -- I always thought of it as an "investment" site...).
When my office-mates and I enter a PowerBall pool when the jackpot exceeds $200M, how am I supposed to check whether I need to quit my job?
Great!
Now, not only will my new phone be unable to run more than one task at the same time, but it'll also crash a few times a week.
My Dad brought it home from work when I was in 5th grade (ca. 1975/1976). I taught myself assembly language by simply reading thru the KIM manuals, in conjunction with a Rockwell 6502 databook.
I still have all that stuff in my junk drawer at home...
I've grown pretty used to eyeballing dots that are spaced on a 0.29mm grid, the original dot pitch of a 21" monitor showing a 1280x1024 image [viewable area on such monitors was about 19".].
Presently, I use dual 19" flat panels whose native resolution [combined] is 2560x1024. Each individual display is native 1280x1024, and so has that same dot pitch (0.29mm) as the classic 21" monitor with 1280x1024 setting.
This 30" display, if I calculate correctly, has a dot pitch of about 0.25mm.
This is finer than my aging eyes like to see for text and coding, which is mostly what I do. Sure I could bump up the text size a bit, but then I would essentially waste many of those extra pixels I would have paid dearly for with this 30" display.
Many of the current crop of flat panels also have finer than the 'classic' 0.29mm dot pitch.
Is this a trend that is unlikely to stop?
Will I be able to find high pixel-count displays with no smaller than 0.29mm dot pitch in future?
Now I can have resource wasting, distracting animations fluttering around inside my PDFs, as well as in my browser window...