I completely disagree. The conflict you speak of is a media fabrication, because controversy sells, and all intelligent people recognize this. Religion and faith can help some people be at peace and believe things which science does not yet explain - and there are certainly many things which science does not explain.
Science denialism is a problem yes, but it is absolutely possible to be religious without denying science. I was raised into a religious group of sorts which never denied any scientific observations. They would actually adjust and adapt their teaching as science advanced. I am no longer an adherent, but I have observed such religious thinkers, and quite frankly, the conflict and divisiveness is more of a problem than religion itself.
In a few years, I expect to see the rate of pedestrian-car accidents and people running into poles to go up by an order of magnitude. Sure, it overlays in your field of vision, so it's not like looking down at a phone, but we're just not meant to multitask with our senses the way this kind of device demands.
I don't even want to think about how many idiots will drive while using such devices.
Tiny cheap solutions like the raspberry pi are kind of limited.
I've got an Intel Atom/NVidia ION mini ITX board that was pretty cheap. It has a single PCIe x16 slot and 4 SATA ports and was worth less than $100. There are similar chipsets which I'm sure would work equally well and still beat the crap out of tiny boards like R Pi.
It's a file server, a media center, and it even does well with office suites and web browsing. Media players like XBMC are no problem, as are standard peripherals like wireless keyboards. I can also drop in up to 4Gigs of RAM and some 12TB of hard drive space.
Way, way way more flexible than any ARM device on the market could possibly be, and much more mature and easier to get working for multiple common tasks - not just playing media.
It's not about HFCS directly. It's the fact that is has trace amounts of a pesticide in it - pesticide that's intended to kill insects!
Now, I admit that I didn't fully read the article, but I'm pretty sure you're missing something fundamental. Monsanto GMO is not directly a problem. The problem is dumping pesticide on things because the crops have been given GMO resistance.
Gee - feed something with trace amounts of bug killer to bugs and it kills bugs. How did no one think of this earlier???
It seems to me that people blame cheap memory and making larger buffers possible for this problem, but no - if there is a problem, it's from bad programming.
Buffering serves a purpose where the rate of receiving data is potentially faster than the rate of sending data in unpredictable conditions. A proper event driven system should always be draining the buffer whenever there is data in it that can possibly be transmitted.
Simply increasing the size of a buffer should absolutely not increase the time that data waits in that buffer.
A large buffer serves to minimize potential dropped packets when there is a large burst of incoming data or the transmitter is slow for some reason.
If a buffer actually adds delay to the system because it's always full beyond the ideal, one of two things is done totally wrong:
a) Data is not being transmitted (draining the buffer) when it should be for some stupid reason.
b) The characteristics of the data (average rate, burstiness, etc.), was not properly analyzed and the system with the buffer does not meet its requirements to handle such data.
In the end, it's about bad design and bad programming. It is not about "bigger buffers" slowing things down.
No, there is no audible difference between 44.1kHz and 192kHz if all you want to do is listen. However, if the intent is to do any post-production work, re-mixing, mash-ups, whatever - then the quality makes a big difference.
Try running time-shifting or pitch-bending (not dumb-resample where time and pitch both change), and I assure you, you'll get much cleaner results starting with the 192kHz file.
Stop thinking of "desktop PC's" and start thinking embedded hardware products. Tons of things are moving that way anyway.
In general, I find that the embedded community is much more into open source solutions.
Windows is the king shit desktop OS. Linux is the king shit embedded OS.
The ability to be picky with online dating is the whole point! You can put all of your cards on the table before ever even meeting someone. In this busybody world, people don't want to have to go through traditional dating, only to find out months into a relationship about some strong deal breaker like wanting kids. That's just a disappointing waste of time and people are starting to realize it.
If you're looking for someone to spend your life with, you damned well should be picky. For the record, I met my partner online many years ago on a niche dating site, so maybe I'm a little biased.
This story is tagged with both "islam" and "muslims", yet the actual linked article mentions nothing about either. As India is a predominantly Hindu country, I seriously doubt it's only Muslims behind this. It also says "Gods", not "God", which to me implies Hinduism, not Islam.
Aren't all the gerbers and design files published royalty-free? What's stopping someone from manufacturing their own? I don't even think the RP community would care - the more devices out there the better.
Even though this video is fake, the videos of guys with circular tracks that look like they're shot at trade shows are real. I actually kind of suspect that they tried to do this for real but it didn't work, so they created a fake video to spoof investors or other people whom were promised results.
This just in:
Clicking a hyperlink may result in being directed to a malicious site.
Considering 99% of uses don't check the URL of hyperlinks, I'm not sure how QR codes are any different... they're just physical hyperlinks for camera phones.
Since some people seem confused as to why this is special and what it actually does.... I'll try to explain some things.
Yes, HDCP happens right at the I/O chip, and you can extract unencrypted raw video bitstreams in a variety of ways. All involve actually opening up the receiver device and soldering on wires.
Typical HDCP compliant devices use a ROM with a vendor key that's attached right to the I/O device. Industry standard devices such as the ADV7441 or AD9889 from Analog Devices fully support this, and interface to the rest of the system with a standard raw video bit stream. The contents of these vendor ROMs are typically unique to each vendor and their contents are not even disclosed to the vendor. They do not contain the master key, but are somehow related to it. This is cheap - the ROM's probably cost pennies, and the cost is more about registering as a certified HDCP compliant device. It's pretty much a plug-and-play solution for display device vendors - simply attach the vendor code ROM to the receiver chip, and the device just outputs unencrypted video to the rest of the system.
There are various mod kits for adding SDI or unencrypted DVI/HDMI outputs to things like Blu-Ray players, but they all work just by connecting to the raw bitstream lines AFTER the decryption at the actual HDMI receiver chip.
On an HDMI cable, the actual encryption that takes place is specific to keys on both sides, so can't generally be universally cracked. If a vendor key becomes compromised, future Blu-Ray players can blacklist it.
What makes this solution useful, is that it's just about the only way to crack the encryption on-the-wire without having to open anything up or solder anything, and it can't be prevented by simply blacklisting vendor keys.
Electronic musicians have been demanding high-quality tactile interfaces for many years. There are various USB MIDI controllers on the marked with various arrangements of knobs, buttons, keys and other moving things. Check out M-Audio and Alesis and other big names, and you might get some good ideas.
Similar things have been done with lasers for years. It's not really a new idea.. This guy just uses LCDs instead, which don't even seem to work as well. Watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Athens from a few years ago for some pretty decent 3D projections in space.
Do you have any idea how sparse the population is up there, and just how much land you'd have to cover? It's like laying 500km of fiber for every person.
Not to mention that you'd have to deal with seasonal melting and freezing of muskeg and swamps and lakes.
I'm not sure which Canada you live in, but I just signed up on Wind Mobile who is NOT part of the telecom cartel, and I get unlimited text, talk AND data for around $45. The network quality is shit compared to Rogers, but I'm still glad to be done supporting the cartel.
I think this is quite useful. This topic is super-important and highly neglected in most Universities and colleges. Newbies where I work as an embedded developer learn very fast that compiling things is actually a lot harder than just writing code.
Who cares if it looks awesome if latency sucks. I'd rather have SuperNES StarFox quality graphics with no lag than ray-traced graphics with horrible latency.
It can be reduced, but I don't yet believe it's possible to make it unnoticeable. I guess I'll believe it when I see it.
Will they remove this feature in a few months after the phones are selling well and then call the people who still want custom software criminals and hackers? I wouldn't get my hopes up. History often repeats.
I am totally amazed that this was actually possible and that the system didn't break at some point. Every single time I've tried to upgrade from one Ubuntu version to the next, the system becomes unusable.
Sometimes I think Microsoft deserves more credit than nerds want to give them!
Slashdot Mirror
I completely disagree. The conflict you speak of is a media fabrication, because controversy sells, and all intelligent people recognize this. Religion and faith can help some people be at peace and believe things which science does not yet explain - and there are certainly many things which science does not explain.
Science denialism is a problem yes, but it is absolutely possible to be religious without denying science. I was raised into a religious group of sorts which never denied any scientific observations. They would actually adjust and adapt their teaching as science advanced. I am no longer an adherent, but I have observed such religious thinkers, and quite frankly, the conflict and divisiveness is more of a problem than religion itself.
In a few years, I expect to see the rate of pedestrian-car accidents and people running into poles to go up by an order of magnitude. Sure, it overlays in your field of vision, so it's not like looking down at a phone, but we're just not meant to multitask with our senses the way this kind of device demands.
I don't even want to think about how many idiots will drive while using such devices.
Tiny cheap solutions like the raspberry pi are kind of limited.
I've got an Intel Atom/NVidia ION mini ITX board that was pretty cheap. It has a single PCIe x16 slot and 4 SATA ports and was worth less than $100. There are similar chipsets which I'm sure would work equally well and still beat the crap out of tiny boards like R Pi.
It's a file server, a media center, and it even does well with office suites and web browsing. Media players like XBMC are no problem, as are standard peripherals like wireless keyboards. I can also drop in up to 4Gigs of RAM and some 12TB of hard drive space.
Way, way way more flexible than any ARM device on the market could possibly be, and much more mature and easier to get working for multiple common tasks - not just playing media.
It's not about HFCS directly. It's the fact that is has trace amounts of a pesticide in it - pesticide that's intended to kill insects!
Now, I admit that I didn't fully read the article, but I'm pretty sure you're missing something fundamental. Monsanto GMO is not directly a problem. The problem is dumping pesticide on things because the crops have been given GMO resistance.
Gee - feed something with trace amounts of bug killer to bugs and it kills bugs. How did no one think of this earlier???
Ok then.
Just scrap wind turbine subsidies and instead propose to build more CANDU reactors in the backyards of the complainers.
They must support that, given than Ontario is mostly powered by nuclear and hydro already.
It seems to me that people blame cheap memory and making larger buffers possible for this problem, but no - if there is a problem, it's from bad programming.
Buffering serves a purpose where the rate of receiving data is potentially faster than the rate of sending data in unpredictable conditions. A proper event driven system should always be draining the buffer whenever there is data in it that can possibly be transmitted.
Simply increasing the size of a buffer should absolutely not increase the time that data waits in that buffer.
A large buffer serves to minimize potential dropped packets when there is a large burst of incoming data or the transmitter is slow for some reason.
If a buffer actually adds delay to the system because it's always full beyond the ideal, one of two things is done totally wrong:
a) Data is not being transmitted (draining the buffer) when it should be for some stupid reason.
b) The characteristics of the data (average rate, burstiness, etc.), was not properly analyzed and the system with the buffer does not meet its requirements to handle such data.
In the end, it's about bad design and bad programming. It is not about "bigger buffers" slowing things down.
No, there is no audible difference between 44.1kHz and 192kHz if all you want to do is listen. However, if the intent is to do any post-production work, re-mixing, mash-ups, whatever - then the quality makes a big difference.
Try running time-shifting or pitch-bending (not dumb-resample where time and pitch both change), and I assure you, you'll get much cleaner results starting with the 192kHz file.
Stop thinking of "desktop PC's" and start thinking embedded hardware products. Tons of things are moving that way anyway.
In general, I find that the embedded community is much more into open source solutions.
Windows is the king shit desktop OS. Linux is the king shit embedded OS.
The ability to be picky with online dating is the whole point! You can put all of your cards on the table before ever even meeting someone. In this busybody world, people don't want to have to go through traditional dating, only to find out months into a relationship about some strong deal breaker like wanting kids. That's just a disappointing waste of time and people are starting to realize it.
If you're looking for someone to spend your life with, you damned well should be picky. For the record, I met my partner online many years ago on a niche dating site, so maybe I'm a little biased.
This story is tagged with both "islam" and "muslims", yet the actual linked article mentions nothing about either. As India is a predominantly Hindu country, I seriously doubt it's only Muslims behind this. It also says "Gods", not "God", which to me implies Hinduism, not Islam.
Aren't all the gerbers and design files published royalty-free? What's stopping someone from manufacturing their own? I don't even think the RP community would care - the more devices out there the better.
Even though this video is fake, the videos of guys with circular tracks that look like they're shot at trade shows are real. I actually kind of suspect that they tried to do this for real but it didn't work, so they created a fake video to spoof investors or other people whom were promised results.
This just in:
Clicking a hyperlink may result in being directed to a malicious site.
Considering 99% of uses don't check the URL of hyperlinks, I'm not sure how QR codes are any different... they're just physical hyperlinks for camera phones.
These do not decrypt HDCP. HDMI conversion does not imply HDCP decryption.
http://www.hdfury.com/hdmi-hdcp/hdcp-converters-and-strippers-boxes/
Since some people seem confused as to why this is special and what it actually does.... I'll try to explain some things.
Yes, HDCP happens right at the I/O chip, and you can extract unencrypted raw video bitstreams in a variety of ways. All involve actually opening up the receiver device and soldering on wires.
Typical HDCP compliant devices use a ROM with a vendor key that's attached right to the I/O device. Industry standard devices such as the ADV7441 or AD9889 from Analog Devices fully support this, and interface to the rest of the system with a standard raw video bit stream. The contents of these vendor ROMs are typically unique to each vendor and their contents are not even disclosed to the vendor. They do not contain the master key, but are somehow related to it. This is cheap - the ROM's probably cost pennies, and the cost is more about registering as a certified HDCP compliant device. It's pretty much a plug-and-play solution for display device vendors - simply attach the vendor code ROM to the receiver chip, and the device just outputs unencrypted video to the rest of the system.
There are various mod kits for adding SDI or unencrypted DVI/HDMI outputs to things like Blu-Ray players, but they all work just by connecting to the raw bitstream lines AFTER the decryption at the actual HDMI receiver chip.
On an HDMI cable, the actual encryption that takes place is specific to keys on both sides, so can't generally be universally cracked. If a vendor key becomes compromised, future Blu-Ray players can blacklist it.
What makes this solution useful, is that it's just about the only way to crack the encryption on-the-wire without having to open anything up or solder anything, and it can't be prevented by simply blacklisting vendor keys.
Electronic musicians have been demanding high-quality tactile interfaces for many years. There are various USB MIDI controllers on the marked with various arrangements of knobs, buttons, keys and other moving things. Check out M-Audio and Alesis and other big names, and you might get some good ideas.
Similar things have been done with lasers for years. It's not really a new idea.. This guy just uses LCDs instead, which don't even seem to work as well. Watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Athens from a few years ago for some pretty decent 3D projections in space.
I'm in Canada and I received you loud and clear. Now brace yourself while I write letters to my local newspaper about how offended I am.
This only effects remote northern communities where fiber is unfeasible. It's around 60% of the area and much less than 1% of the population.
Do you have any idea how sparse the population is up there, and just how much land you'd have to cover? It's like laying 500km of fiber for every person.
Not to mention that you'd have to deal with seasonal melting and freezing of muskeg and swamps and lakes.
Not going to happen any time soon.
I'm not sure which Canada you live in, but I just signed up on Wind Mobile who is NOT part of the telecom cartel, and I get unlimited text, talk AND data for around $45. The network quality is shit compared to Rogers, but I'm still glad to be done supporting the cartel.
I think this is quite useful. This topic is super-important and highly neglected in most Universities and colleges. Newbies where I work as an embedded developer learn very fast that compiling things is actually a lot harder than just writing code.
Who cares if it looks awesome if latency sucks. I'd rather have SuperNES StarFox quality graphics with no lag than ray-traced graphics with horrible latency. It can be reduced, but I don't yet believe it's possible to make it unnoticeable. I guess I'll believe it when I see it.
Will they remove this feature in a few months after the phones are selling well and then call the people who still want custom software criminals and hackers? I wouldn't get my hopes up. History often repeats.
I am totally amazed that this was actually possible and that the system didn't break at some point. Every single time I've tried to upgrade from one Ubuntu version to the next, the system becomes unusable.
Sometimes I think Microsoft deserves more credit than nerds want to give them!