On the palm, whenever you start a new program, the OS sends a stop signal to the running program. The running program then is supposed to store any data it has out and close so the new app can run. Everything is in RAM but the RAM is split into storage and executable space. Only one program gets executable space at a time.
There is multitasking of a sort on the palm. You just have to do it at app level and you don't get any cycles for your background apps. Hmm... Not really multitasking at all.
First of all all of the suggestions here are good, but don't take any of them too seriously.
The only thing that matters when selecting a home audio system is what YOU think sounds good. Here is how you figure that out.
Find the highest end stereo shop you can find in your area, and listen to their MOST expensive system. I am talking about that one they have alone in a room that costs the same as a luxury car or a house. Until you do this, you do not have a reference to judge the components you will eventually buy.
Listen to the equipment they have in your price range. They will have equipment you can afford, and it will be brands that the electronic superstores do not carry. They should have a room where you can compare a lot of equipment al at the same time.
Look to spend more on your speakers than on your amp. The speakers make the most noticable difference in sound quality.
Make sure that you listen to different brands of recievers and speakers. For instance, B&W has a very direct sound while paradigm has a more diffuse sound quality. Different people like different types of sound reproduction. Yamaha is quite musical, but is not nearly as crisp as Dennon which is too harsh for some people.
My current setup:
Yamaha 975 Reciever.
B&W 605 s2 fronts(Active subs)
B&W 302 rears
B&W cc3 center
Cheap players that should be replaced.:)
My personal recomendations:
Yamaha/Denon/NAD/Rotel $600 reciever
B&W 601/602 fronts $250-$400 each (not exact)
B&W 302 rear $125 each (Best sounding bookshelf at pricepoint I have EVER heard)
B&W CC3/CC6 $180-$250 (not exact)
Spend the rest on a Velodyne or Sunfire powered subwoofer. A powered sub makes a LOT of difference.
I hope this helps. My main advice is listen, listen, listen. Your ears are different from everyone elses.
PS. I would not recomend BOSE unless space is your main concern. Listen and you will hear the difference, or maybe not, not everybody does.
But they also didn't, at least I didn't see it, mention the number of colors that are possible for each pixel. It looks like there will be more than three colors for each. They also don't mention if they can reproduce white. If they can reflect white light, many of these problems will go away.
Reflecting ambient light should be able to get better contrast and color that the current three color projection method we use now. The more paints you have the better mixes you can make.
That could be taken care of with enough of a pixel density.
As is stated in many other posts, we cannot see resolutions over a certain DPI. A black pixel next to a red one should just make the red pixel seem darker.
I have a feeling that this tech might just be able to have better color/intensity differentiation than anything we have now.
Different colors of paint are just multimple colored molecules mixed together.
Once we reach the practical limit of the two dimentional display, it will move into some sort of true three dimentional display. The graphics card will have to worry about rendering objects from all directions at once, virtual light sources, and REAL light soruces.
If you censor information by using a company that is in a different country than the one you are controlling, it greatly reduces the chance that the people you are censoring will ever even know that their government is in the censorship business.
You seem to think that the means are the bad part of what is happening here. The ends are much more insidious. Censorware is a very direct threat. Removal of access to information causes people to not question current events. This is a dangerous, and usually unconcious, road to travel.
Read "Farenheight 451"(sp). It is not about government censorship. Information removal usually comes at request of the people. Every group of people has some bit of information they would like to see gone. It is not just the "religious right".
By the way, we are a long way from what this nation(USA) was founded upon.
The definition of libral is now more closly aligned with Socialism than Libralism. The Democrats are NOT librals.(Neither are the Republicans) The US was founded upon the new, at the time, ideal of Libralism.
Schools have always been about indoctrination. They teach useful skills, but they are also about instilling the values of the nation that they are in. If you cannot control the content of what is taught to some extent, they do not work as well as they should.
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On the palm, whenever you start a new program, the OS sends a stop signal to the running program. The running program then is supposed to store any data it has out and close so the new app can run. Everything is in RAM but the RAM is split into storage and executable space. Only one program gets executable space at a time.
There is multitasking of a sort on the palm. You just have to do it at app level and you don't get any cycles for your background apps. Hmm... Not really multitasking at all.
Dan
First of all all of the suggestions here are good, but don't take any of them too seriously.
:)
The only thing that matters when selecting a home audio system is what YOU think sounds good. Here is how you figure that out.
Find the highest end stereo shop you can find in your area, and listen to their MOST expensive system. I am talking about that one they have alone in a room that costs the same as a luxury car or a house. Until you do this, you do not have a reference to judge the components you will eventually buy.
Listen to the equipment they have in your price range. They will have equipment you can afford, and it will be brands that the electronic superstores do not carry. They should have a room where you can compare a lot of equipment al at the same time.
Look to spend more on your speakers than on your amp. The speakers make the most noticable difference in sound quality.
Make sure that you listen to different brands of recievers and speakers. For instance, B&W has a very direct sound while paradigm has a more diffuse sound quality. Different people like different types of sound reproduction. Yamaha is quite musical, but is not nearly as crisp as Dennon which is too harsh for some people.
My current setup:
Yamaha 975 Reciever.
B&W 605 s2 fronts(Active subs)
B&W 302 rears
B&W cc3 center
Cheap players that should be replaced.
My personal recomendations:
Yamaha/Denon/NAD/Rotel $600 reciever
B&W 601/602 fronts $250-$400 each (not exact)
B&W 302 rear $125 each (Best sounding bookshelf at pricepoint I have EVER heard)
B&W CC3/CC6 $180-$250 (not exact)
Spend the rest on a Velodyne or Sunfire powered subwoofer. A powered sub makes a LOT of difference.
I hope this helps. My main advice is listen, listen, listen. Your ears are different from everyone elses.
PS. I would not recomend BOSE unless space is your main concern. Listen and you will hear the difference, or maybe not, not everybody does.
Just rechecked the article.
I see where they state that there are 4 settings. Black, red, blue, and green.
Dan
Yes, these could definatly cause problems.
But they also didn't, at least I didn't see it, mention the number of colors that are possible for each pixel. It looks like there will be more than three colors for each. They also don't mention if they can reproduce white. If they can reflect white light, many of these problems will go away.
Reflecting ambient light should be able to get better contrast and color that the current three color projection method we use now. The more paints you have the better mixes you can make.
Dan
That could be taken care of with enough of a pixel density.
As is stated in many other posts, we cannot see resolutions over a certain DPI. A black pixel next to a red one should just make the red pixel seem darker.
I have a feeling that this tech might just be able to have better color/intensity differentiation than anything we have now.
Different colors of paint are just multimple colored molecules mixed together.
Dan
Technology does not stop.
Once we reach the practical limit of the two dimentional display, it will move into some sort of true three dimentional display. The graphics card will have to worry about rendering objects from all directions at once, virtual light sources, and REAL light soruces.
Display technology has a long road ahead of it.
Dan
hmm...
If you censor information by using a company that is in a different country than the one you are controlling, it greatly reduces the chance that the people you are censoring will ever even know that their government is in the censorship business.
You seem to think that the means are the bad part of what is happening here. The ends are much more insidious. Censorware is a very direct threat. Removal of access to information causes people to not question current events. This is a dangerous, and usually unconcious, road to travel.
Read "Farenheight 451"(sp). It is not about government censorship. Information removal usually comes at request of the people. Every group of people has some bit of information they would like to see gone. It is not just the "religious right".
By the way, we are a long way from what this nation(USA) was founded upon.
The definition of libral is now more closly aligned with Socialism than Libralism. The Democrats are NOT librals.(Neither are the Republicans) The US was founded upon the new, at the time, ideal of Libralism.
Schools have always been about indoctrination. They teach useful skills, but they are also about instilling the values of the nation that they are in. If you cannot control the content of what is taught to some extent, they do not work as well as they should.