... with a wicked habit from the time commercials was banned during shows TV4 has continued to place other programs like the news in the middle of the breaks (claiming the news had to be aired that specific time).
I can usually watch TV despite commercials, but when they show 5 minutes commercials + 10 minutes news + 5 more minutes commercials you have either forgot the plot in most movies or decided that it's good enough to see some other time.
OK, maybe I'm exaggerating - but it's definitely out of control and the debate has until now stopped at "commercials or not" which is not the issue. If they cared about the viewers they would probably get closer to the state on danish TV where feature films are broadcast non-stop...
It is very hard to use optical discs for mobile storage,
Hitachi is already doing this and Sony has a range of CDR cameras.
For optical storage to work, the write head must be very stable.
From the article:
The three-centimetre disc will be the same thickness as a DVD, but the phase-change material that records the data will be a mere 0.1 millimetres thick, compared to 0.6 millimetres for DVDs. Philips says this should mean there is less risk of beam distortion if the disc tilts when the portable device gets jogged. Portable DVD players will not play smoothly if jogged.
This jog-resistance is helped by making the glass and polymer lens that focuses the laser only 1.3 millimetres wide, just one-third the size of the lens in a DVD recorder. This means the optics need be only one-tenth the mass of their counterpart in a DVD, light enough for an electromagnet to keep them steady.
Flash memory won't catch in videorecorders - not that it's not possible, but there are hundreds of applications that are less cost sensitive.
Flash won't scale as good as DVD's when it gets cheaper since there's still the cost of the chip fab to consider...
With new hardware formats like the VAIO Picturebook's DVD's have become the single most limiting factor for those that want a little more (I've even cut that feature from what I need on a notebook) so there will be a lot of devices waiting for this kind of storage (even though it's a total overkill for plain mp3).
Maybe things fall into public domain, maybe they don't - we should really care more.
In the long run patents or works 50 years old will still be useful and could probably change the lifes of most of the worlds population that are set back to even earlier technology for economic reasons.
Why aren't there a stronger movement to salvage the public domain and create a common worth sustaining. Would it be unfair competition to the former patentholders? Nonsense, the what seems unfair is how lobbyists and patentlawyers seems to reinvent the laws and update minor sorrounding techniques to maintain the patents artificially. This is why you can't assume the public domain to drop out by itself, it has to be refined in the manners that GPL projects try to get free from patented technologies today.
We can't keep going in the second best direction forever. I hope that the best technology today will be released into the public domain in my lifetime, even though it's sad to see how much of it that's based on decisions made because someone else held the patent.
Anyone here should see that firewire is included in the features on an Intel motherboard and chuckle at the impossibly sublime humour of the reviewer, not needing any explanation.
he is way beyound "independent". Maybe he could have saved his face by ending his stories a few times per year, but that's not the way everyone else does it.
Could be, but you still wouldn't reach the application buttons if you turned the screen.
There are an up down button arrangement on the outside of the upper right corner (probably volume). This could be good for onehanded use, but it still seems like Sharp forgot that part. A single jog-dial would have boosted usability a lot.
Also remember that a big part of this is getting something that works client/server. I would love to have a scheduling server at home for the family.
Mozilla Calendar recently got the ability to read calendars on the net and there's work started on a real calendar server implementation.
But your first point is right, you have to begin with treating every file as a server to make a descent user-interface, then supporting local and distant calendars is merely a question of fileformats. That said, I still have to see a calendar that separates appointments and public holiday information in a structured way.
what happens if you have to brighten or darken the image a few notches. Human perception suddenly becomes profoundly more sensitive
Is this true? I thought that the limiting factor was lousy 24-bit fileformats. 48-bit goes a bit on the way, but what is the sensitivity of current CMOS arrays...
3D technology demonstrates that 128 bit color depth isn't useless (especially for professional manipulation). Now, is the problem in cameras in sensors, lacking storage technology or just archaic fileformats?
Digtal photography should be able to bring new details to pictures where normal humans won't see a thing, maybe in the next generation.
Even if Intel doesn't embrace it, AMD should. Fast memory is irrelevant for Athlon, but Opterons (especially multi-processor Opterons) could seriously take advantage of this.
You forget that Opterons and all Hammers already have the memory controller integrated on the processor die. If this takes off it will have to aim at higher budget customers that can afford motherboards with an extra memorycontroller attached to hypertransport, which of course is the customers that prefere reliable proven technology and don't want to jump the first wagon of anything. AMD's solution is neat indeed, but the price is that every new memory technology will have to be pioneered by Intel. When Intel has paved the way and earned money on first adopters AMD can step in and use it more efficiently on a market with lower prices.
Technology never goes the best way, it's just takes any possible solution that seems economically viable.
I code-free programming should be a paradigm, not trying to do something thinking like you always did before.
A good place to start looking would be XSLT, which is inherently hostile to programming by code, but the container-like structure of XML would easily lend itself to a graphical interpretation instead of clunky brackets.
Functional programming can be used with standard container algoritms like STL, but with recursion anything can be accomplished if you think about it.
The standard user with today's application would probably only drag symbolic contents from a document, DTD och schema and put them into markup from the target DTD (HTML, FOP) and occationally pick an algoritm to automate more complicated things.
This is really not different from using XSLT today but the graphical angle seems no worse than the machinecode people use today.
Maybe I should have joined the mentioned discussion instead, but I just thought of this so flame away...
Kudos to the goat.cx guy's who actually investigated the security of the sites instead of just trolling here. They are always there for us to keep slashdot from getting too mainstream.
I agree that XUL seems to be an elegant way of creating GUI's making them cross platform.
The point however is that Mozilla isn't very cross platform, every embedded linux project (or WinCE for that part) has chosen another browser engine. And those experimenting with Mozilla are usually trying to create a more light-weight GUI.
Apart from being bloated the great thing about XUL is that it's making it possible to add much more plug-in bloat easily. Though it will probably demand more of the platform.
Hire her, she might be what Xerox needs to make printers that _really_ last. If they are on a leasing contract, it will probably pay off in the long run.
These are exactly the people that are guaranteed to get a device with WiFi built in because the higher prices includes some "extras" they haven't really had time to explore.
Yup, the proposal was to edit in HTML code to be able to see the results while coding, not to get a lot of brackets all over the place. XML lets you do that, the other alternative is to create a totally new standard to store all the extra information...
Though I admit that editing XML raw without any auto-completion, syntaxchecking etc is pretty useless.
Actually, running fibler along powerlines is the simple thing, some power companies has even done it for their own and others long distance data connections.
The cost rises exponentally when you have to run a cable from the powerstation to every single house - and this is where you can find intermediate solutions.
Yup, Just to raise havoc - don't publish the EULA's to chanllenge copyrights, just use it to scan for companies that cut-and-paste someone elses EULA and tip them off to raise havoc for averyone that uses them...
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This is no medicine issue, these are the voters that will ensure Silvio Berlusconi another term as president.
... with a wicked habit from the time commercials was banned during shows TV4 has continued to place other programs like the news in the middle of the breaks (claiming the news had to be aired that specific time).
I can usually watch TV despite commercials, but when they show 5 minutes commercials + 10 minutes news + 5 more minutes commercials you have either forgot the plot in most movies or decided that it's good enough to see some other time.
OK, maybe I'm exaggerating - but it's definitely out of control and the debate has until now stopped at "commercials or not" which is not the issue. If they cared about the viewers they would probably get closer to the state on danish TV where feature films are broadcast non-stop...
... or you might forever miss the chance to go to africa to see real snow.
That key is dead.
That's what dead-keys are for.
Alt-Gr is used to give you straining-injuries.
Hitachi is already doing this and Sony has a range of CDR cameras.
For optical storage to work, the write head must be very stable.
From the article:
The three-centimetre disc will be the same thickness as a DVD, but the phase-change material that records the data will be a mere 0.1 millimetres thick, compared to 0.6 millimetres for DVDs. Philips says this should mean there is less risk of beam distortion if the disc tilts when the portable device gets jogged. Portable DVD players will not play smoothly if jogged.
This jog-resistance is helped by making the glass and polymer lens that focuses the laser only 1.3 millimetres wide, just one-third the size of the lens in a DVD recorder. This means the optics need be only one-tenth the mass of their counterpart in a DVD, light enough for an electromagnet to keep them steady.
Flash memory won't catch in videorecorders - not that it's not possible, but there are hundreds of applications that are less cost sensitive. Flash won't scale as good as DVD's when it gets cheaper since there's still the cost of the chip fab to consider...
With new hardware formats like the VAIO Picturebook's DVD's have become the single most limiting factor for those that want a little more (I've even cut that feature from what I need on a notebook) so there will be a lot of devices waiting for this kind of storage (even though it's a total overkill for plain mp3).
Maybe things fall into public domain, maybe they don't - we should really care more.
In the long run patents or works 50 years old will still be useful and could probably change the lifes of most of the worlds population that are set back to even earlier technology for economic reasons.
Why aren't there a stronger movement to salvage the public domain and create a common worth sustaining.
Would it be unfair competition to the former patentholders? Nonsense, the what seems unfair is how lobbyists and patentlawyers seems to reinvent the laws and update minor sorrounding techniques to maintain the patents artificially. This is why you can't assume the public domain to drop out by itself, it has to be refined in the manners that GPL projects try to get free from patented technologies today.
We can't keep going in the second best direction forever. I hope that the best technology today will be released into the public domain in my lifetime, even though it's sad to see how much of it that's based on decisions made because someone else held the patent.
Go to http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html
to get rid of free registration.
It's a free world
Hmm, you're right.
It seems like the reviewer wrote about the 845PE, then reviewed the 845GE and somehow mixed up their specs. Still funny though.
You don't fit in on slashdot.
Anyone here should see that firewire is included in the features on an Intel motherboard and chuckle at the impossibly sublime humour of the reviewer, not needing any explanation.
I mean, firewire, Intel, hello
McFarlane is one of the big guys,
he is way beyound "independent". Maybe he could have saved his face by ending his stories a few times per year, but that's not the way everyone else does it.
Could be, but you still wouldn't reach the application buttons if you turned the screen.
There are an up down button arrangement on the outside of the upper right corner (probably volume).
This could be good for onehanded use, but it still seems like Sharp forgot that part. A single jog-dial would have boosted usability a lot.
Also remember that a big part of this is getting something that works client/server.
I would love to have a scheduling server at home for the family.
Mozilla Calendar recently got the ability to read calendars on the net and there's work started on a real calendar server implementation.
But your first point is right, you have to begin with treating every file as a server to make a descent user-interface, then supporting local and distant calendars is merely a question of fileformats. That said, I still have to see a calendar that separates appointments and public holiday information in a structured way.
what happens if you have to brighten or darken the image a few notches. Human perception suddenly becomes profoundly more sensitive
Is this true? I thought that the limiting factor was lousy 24-bit fileformats. 48-bit goes a bit on the way, but what is the sensitivity of current CMOS arrays...
3D technology demonstrates that 128 bit color depth isn't useless (especially for professional
manipulation). Now, is the problem in cameras in sensors, lacking storage technology or just archaic fileformats?
Digtal photography should be able to bring new details to pictures where normal humans won't see a thing, maybe in the next generation.
Even if Intel doesn't embrace it, AMD should. Fast memory is irrelevant for Athlon, but Opterons (especially multi-processor Opterons) could seriously take advantage of this.
You forget that Opterons and all Hammers already have the memory controller integrated on the processor die. If this takes off it will have to aim at higher budget customers that can afford motherboards with an extra memorycontroller attached to hypertransport, which of course is the customers that prefere reliable proven technology and don't want to jump the first wagon of anything. AMD's solution is neat indeed, but the price is that every new memory technology will have to be pioneered by Intel. When Intel has paved the way and earned money on first adopters AMD can step in and use it more efficiently on a market with lower prices.
Technology never goes the best way, it's just takes any possible solution that seems economically viable.
I code-free programming should be a paradigm, not trying to do something thinking like you always did before.
A good place to start looking would be XSLT, which is inherently hostile to programming by code, but the container-like structure of XML would easily lend itself to a graphical interpretation instead of clunky brackets.
Functional programming can be used with standard container algoritms like STL, but with recursion anything can be accomplished if you think about it.
The standard user with today's application would probably only drag symbolic contents from a document, DTD och schema and put them into markup from the target DTD (HTML, FOP) and occationally pick an algoritm to automate more complicated things.
This is really not different from using XSLT today but the graphical angle seems no worse than the machinecode people use today.
Maybe I should have joined the mentioned discussion instead, but I just thought of this so flame away...
What happened to this fab model?
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Since David W Thomas Jr's site seems to have disappeared all you can get is a peek here:
http://www.jqnweb.com/index.php?itemid=128
Kudos to the goat.cx guy's who actually investigated the security of the sites instead of just trolling here. They are always there for us to keep slashdot from getting too mainstream.
I agree that XUL seems to be an elegant way of creating GUI's making them cross platform.
The point however is that Mozilla isn't very cross platform, every embedded linux project (or WinCE for that part) has chosen another browser engine. And those experimenting with Mozilla are usually trying to create a more light-weight GUI.
Apart from being bloated the great thing about XUL is that it's making it possible to add much more plug-in bloat easily. Though it will probably demand more of the platform.
Hire her, she might be what Xerox needs to make printers that _really_ last. If they are on a leasing contract, it will probably pay off in the long run.
These are exactly the people that are guaranteed to get a device with WiFi built in because the higher prices includes some "extras" they haven't really had time to explore.
Yeah,
:)
What did these suckers think of? The computer goes in the keyboard! It always has!
Let's start the movement for ex-Amiga slashdot keyboard linux computers agains Micro$oft tablet-PC's
Yup, the proposal was to edit in HTML code to be able to see the results while coding, not to get a lot of brackets all over the place. XML lets you do that, the other alternative is to create a totally new standard to store all the extra information...
Though I admit that editing XML raw without any auto-completion, syntaxchecking etc is pretty useless.
Or just make up your password on the fly http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html
Actually, running fibler along powerlines is the simple thing, some power companies has even done it for their own and others long distance data connections.
The cost rises exponentally when you have to run a cable from the powerstation to every single house - and this is where you can find intermediate solutions.
Yup,
Just to raise havoc - don't publish the EULA's to chanllenge copyrights, just use it to scan for companies that cut-and-paste someone elses EULA and tip them off to raise havoc for averyone that uses them...