They could just mount the laser onto the r/w head. Then you only need to worry about the solved problem of head alignment. This is still an issue when you shrink bit size but this is not what's gonna stop HDD industry.
Well, if there were a radio channel running Mentl Music artists 24/7 I'd listen to it. There certainly is plenty to listen to outside the major labels.
Ok, so I am going to catch a lot of flack for this, but his speech doesn't sound too exciting. Sure you can write an engine with better lighting, sure you can watch the cards get faster and polygon count get higher, but where's the jump in technology? I wish Carmack would find something to revolutionize rather than focus on incremental improvements. Just think of what the guy could do if he focused on modeling realistic physics or decent AI...
Check out http://www.brainfingers.com/technical.htm,
http://www.qualilife.com/products.cfm?cat_ID=11&li ngua=en, or http://www.eyecan.ca/ OTOH, I am guessing you guys are well aware of these options and are asking specifically for a cheap alternative. That's much tougher.
I would have bought but you route all payments through PayPal. Do get a regular credit card processing option, else you'll lose some customers, like myself.
This patent is circa 1986. Since it is before GAAT went into effect, I assume it's valid until 2003 (17 years). Any lawyers out there to confirm that people could just wait it out and not even litigate?
This is a concern for sure. Another is privacy. Imagine your employer getting access to your medical record or simply noting a few things about you, running an internet diagnosis and seeing that there is a small probability you got cancer/hiv/paranoia/... Just seeing that as an option will raise flags. Or imagine the rumors that will circulate in the workplace behind your back for no good reason. Anyhow, like anything else this has its downside too.
I am not prepared to use the keyboard. When you do graphics you think visually so there should be a way of doing everything with a mouse and it should be fairly intuitive.
Current scale for transistors is about 90 nm (current production technology is 130 nm). Single molecule transistor scale would be 1 nm. So oversimplifying a bit, this is 100 times smaller than current tech.
TI calculators have nice things built in but graphing isn't one of them. My primary use for TI-85 is units conversion. The main thing I dislike about small calculators is that they don't display several results and you can't store variables. I like to write out a complicated arithmetic statement, review it, correct it, then press enter and see the answer. It is also handy to be able to recall last expression you entered. And last but not least, few small calculators can handle imaginary numbers and those that can often use hard to read syntax. That said, when I went to school, calculators of any kind were a rarity. Drafting was done by hand. I think it was better that way.
Do you remember when Argentina beat Brazil a couple (?) of World Cups ago in semis. That was an awesome game even though it had the same dynamics you just described. (IIRC Battistuta was the only one to venture out of the Argentinian half, he scored his one goal and that was enough). Just because it is strong/lucky defense vs. strong offense doesn't mean the game is boring.
As a physicist I had to design a portable experiment. Imagine an industrial table full of physics equipment. It drew more power than any desktop or small server but needed to run for hours. We bought a single AGM sealed valve regulated deep cycle battery for $80 and it has worked well. It provided power continuosly for more than 4 hrs and as far as we can tell has not lost much capacity yet (i.e. after a few dozen fairly deep discharge cycles). It has also worked for a couple of years now without a hickup. So from personal experience, this scheme works very well, but a quality setup will run you ~$300. Look at boating and RV sites and newsgroups for names of good battery manufacturers and compare prices. We have nothing but good things to say about Concorde's Chairman batteries.
Standards are only worth while if they are open. For one company to create standards will always be bad. For a bunch of companies to collude and create standards that come with strings attached or royalty payments due or any other barrier to entry, that too is bad. So bad in fact that it should be illegal.
Can anyone please explain what a modchip is, what it does, and how are you supposed to install it (do you need to make your own pcb for a daughtercard, do you need to unsolder something and then solder this in place), etc.? For the record, I have never owned a console or a console game (nor obviously pirated any) but I am interested to know what hack value consoles have in general and in this case Xbox.
How is this supposed to work? I mean if there is more than one kind of watermark then storage and look-up requirements will make ADCs slower (more costly too but that's an aside). The only way not to loose performance on ADCs would be to build watermarks and their detection circuitry into the ADCs itself in hardware, and you can't physically do that for more than just a few watermarks because chips can only be made so big. So now all music/movies/pictures etc. would have to be protected with the same watermark and a pretty short (simple) one at that. But then it will offer almost no protection from copying or retransmitting.
I too think this idea is ridiculous. Here is why: asuume you got the tax levied. Now how do you distribute it to artists. You can't track usage (otherwise you could stop current p2p flood), and if you pretend you can then you'll be swamped with lawsuits from artists who claim that usage of their art was undercounted. Now then, how do we distributed the dough? Given that the proposal is to use the legilative approach, my guess is this will result in a disaster just like NEA. You'll get boards and committees and shadowy money flow. My guess is that in the end most artists will see as much money as they do now. Personally I think the solution is to prohibit assignment of intellectual property so that only its creators ever have any rights to their own work. The artists aren't that different from other IP creators such as inventors. Inventors go to venture capitalists or angel investors, develop a business and possibly cash in. Artists should record their works using an equivalent venture capitalist system, then hire marketing people and get their works out to the public. No need for RIAA and no need for universal taxes. Once each artist is their own label, and there is real competition, then prices will come down to a point where buying a CD is cheaper than paying for a CD-R disk and download bandwidth. At that point p2p problem is solved.
A quick check shows that LabPro has a serial interface, ergo writing a driver should be easy. As well, they say it costs $220 per package. For that kind of money you can buy a nice DAQ card.
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They could just mount the laser onto the r/w head.
Then you only need to worry about the solved
problem of head alignment. This is still an issue
when you shrink bit size but this is not what's
gonna stop HDD industry.
yes
Well, if there were a radio channel running
Mentl Music artists 24/7 I'd listen to it.
There certainly is plenty to listen to outside
the major labels.
Hmm, I probably know you, I'm a '97 BSE alum.
Ok, so I am going to catch a lot of flack
for this, but his speech doesn't sound too exciting.
Sure you can write an engine with better
lighting, sure you can watch the cards get
faster and polygon count get higher, but where's
the jump in technology? I wish Carmack would
find something to revolutionize rather than
focus on incremental improvements. Just think
of what the guy could do if he focused on
modeling realistic physics or decent AI...
If C++ ABI is now declared stable does this
automatically imply that GCC is now fully C++
standards compatible? If not then what is
left to change?
Check out http://www.brainfingers.com/technical.htm,i ngua=en, or http://www.eyecan.ca/
http://www.qualilife.com/products.cfm?cat_ID=11&l
OTOH, I am guessing you guys are well aware
of these options and are asking specifically
for a cheap alternative. That's much tougher.
The article says "thinner than 0.1 micron".
The industry was working for a while on
90 nm (0.09 micron) tech so I guess this is
what they have there.
I would have bought but you route all
payments through PayPal. Do get a regular
credit card processing option, else you'll
lose some customers, like myself.
This patent is circa 1986. Since it is
before GAAT went into effect, I assume it's
valid until 2003 (17 years). Any lawyers
out there to confirm that people could just
wait it out and not even litigate?
This is a concern for sure.
Another is privacy. Imagine your employer
getting access to your medical record or
simply noting a few things about you,
running an internet diagnosis and seeing
that there is a small probability you
got cancer/hiv/paranoia/...
Just seeing that as an option will raise
flags. Or imagine the rumors that will
circulate in the workplace behind your back
for no good reason. Anyhow, like anything
else this has its downside too.
I am not prepared to use the keyboard. When you
do graphics you think visually so there should
be a way of doing everything with a mouse and
it should be fairly intuitive.
You really want all that debt on your shoulders?
Current scale for transistors is about 90 nm
(current production technology is 130 nm).
Single molecule transistor scale would be 1 nm.
So oversimplifying a bit, this is 100 times
smaller than current tech.
TI calculators have nice things built in
but graphing isn't one of them. My primary
use for TI-85 is units conversion. The main
thing I dislike about small calculators is
that they don't display several results and
you can't store variables. I like to write
out a complicated arithmetic statement, review
it, correct it, then press enter and see the
answer. It is also handy to be able to recall
last expression you entered. And last but not
least, few small calculators can handle imaginary
numbers and those that can often use hard to
read syntax.
That said, when I went to school, calculators of
any kind were a rarity. Drafting was done by hand.
I think it was better that way.
Do you remember when Argentina beat Brazil
a couple (?) of World Cups ago in semis.
That was an awesome game even though it
had the same dynamics you just described.
(IIRC Battistuta was the only one to venture
out of the Argentinian half, he scored his
one goal and that was enough).
Just because it is strong/lucky defense vs.
strong offense doesn't mean the game is
boring.
As a physicist I had to design a portable
experiment. Imagine an industrial table
full of physics equipment. It drew more power
than any desktop or small server but needed
to run for hours. We bought a single AGM sealed
valve regulated deep cycle battery for $80 and
it has worked well. It provided power continuosly
for more than 4 hrs and as far as we can tell
has not lost much capacity yet (i.e. after a few dozen fairly deep discharge cycles). It has also
worked for a couple of years now without a hickup.
So from personal experience, this scheme works
very well, but a quality setup will run you ~$300.
Look at boating and RV sites and newsgroups for
names of good battery manufacturers and compare
prices. We have nothing but good things to say
about Concorde's Chairman batteries.
Standards are only worth while if they are open.
For one company to create standards will always
be bad. For a bunch of companies to collude and
create standards that come with strings attached
or royalty payments due or any other barrier to
entry, that too is bad. So bad in fact that it
should be illegal.
No, I'd just like this feature for myself.
I wish browsers showed IPs as well as URLs in
the location box. Can I get Mozilla to do this?
Can anyone please explain what a modchip is,
what it does, and how are you supposed to
install it (do you need to make your own
pcb for a daughtercard, do you need to
unsolder something and then solder this in
place), etc.?
For the record, I have never owned a console or
a console game (nor obviously pirated any) but I
am interested to know what hack value consoles
have in general and in this case Xbox.
How is this supposed to work? I mean if there
is more than one kind of watermark then storage
and look-up requirements will make ADCs slower
(more costly too but that's an aside). The only
way not to loose performance on ADCs would be to
build watermarks and their detection circuitry
into the ADCs itself in hardware, and you can't
physically do that for more than just a few
watermarks because chips can only be made so big.
So now all music/movies/pictures etc. would have
to be protected with the same watermark and a
pretty short (simple) one at that. But then it
will offer almost no protection from copying or
retransmitting.
I too think this idea is ridiculous. Here is why:
asuume you got the tax levied. Now how do you
distribute it to artists. You can't track usage
(otherwise you could stop current p2p flood), and
if you pretend you can then you'll be swamped with
lawsuits from artists who claim that usage of their art was undercounted.
Now then, how do we distributed the dough? Given
that the proposal is to use the legilative approach, my guess is this will result in a disaster just like NEA. You'll get boards and committees and shadowy money flow. My guess is
that in the end most artists will see as much
money as they do now.
Personally I think the solution is to prohibit
assignment of intellectual property so that only
its creators ever have any rights to their own
work. The artists aren't that different from other
IP creators such as inventors. Inventors go to
venture capitalists or angel investors, develop
a business and possibly cash in. Artists should
record their works using an equivalent venture
capitalist system, then hire marketing people and
get their works out to the public. No need for
RIAA and no need for universal taxes. Once each
artist is their own label, and there is real
competition, then prices will come down to a
point where buying a CD is cheaper than paying for
a CD-R disk and download bandwidth. At that point
p2p problem is solved.
A quick check shows that LabPro has a serial
interface, ergo writing a driver should be
easy. As well, they say it costs $220 per
package. For that kind of money you can buy
a nice DAQ card.
What about /. interview of Gosling? Surely people
here have Java related issues and questions...