I'm not saying that wi-fi is harmless. I am, however, saying that using it is less risky than using antibacterial hand cleanser. That stuff is loaded with various pthalates (known endocrine disrupters and suspected teratogens) that are known to be absorbed across the skin.
Wow... I did mess that up. That's what I get for multitasking before caffeine... now I have to try to unwrap what I said and meant.
I guess the truth behind what I meant to say is that the trend in the open source community is to have an active distaste for closed source code, not intellectual property in general as I wrote. However, the commercial software in question is exclusively closed. OSS advocates (of which I claim most people with the resources to pay for the commercial media editing software who will not have OSX or Windows available to run the software are OSS advocates) will of course have a much better understanding of what intellectual property is, and the consequences for violating the social agreement behind it. That understanding is essential to forming an opinion in the first place, so that understanding comes almost by definition. The open source advocate will, however, generally try to spend the effort to find or even improve a free alternative rather than spend the money on the mainstream software.
I'm not against open source. I have...
Okay, I don't remember where I was going with that last one... while researching my argument I started reading about Ardour and it's integration with Harrison consoles. My personal interest in content creation is with DAWs and related software, so by the time I'm done looking into that and disproving my original main point this topic will be stale. But then again, most audio engineers are just geeks who hang around musicians. Look at the last word in the title "audio engineer" for supporting evidence.
The HTC evo already has an HDMI out which you could hook a proper monitor to, wifi for home networking rather than using the cell network, and USB + bluetooth which could in theory* charge the battery, connect keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner and most other modern peripherals. Local storage would be a little limiting, but network and cloud storage are becoming ubiquitous. MP3s? Most of my friends just stream music from Pandora as it is. Movies? Youtube, Hulu, Netflix et all. Pictures? Many cameras can upload directly to flikr or photobucket. Your internet connection down? Remember, your computer is now a phone with Wi-max. In fact, most people won't even need a wire to bring internet in IF the cell carriers have appropriate data plans. All that would be needed is a dongle and appropriate software to manage it all.
The reason I say "in theory" is because there may be issues running the phone as USB host... I don't know enough about the implementation of USB to know if this would work. I assume it would be possible to work around this with a USB hub that masquerades as the root and simply passes incoming info to a driver on the phone, but again, I could be wrong here.
In the office most companies are probably going to stick with the boxy desktop or at least laptop form factor for quite some time. However, I fully expect that by the time I need to replace my current personal computer, all the functionality I need will be available in a phone form factor. Whether I choose to abandon the personal computer completely for the mobile platform will be an aesthetic choice and have little impact on my lifestyle. At that point one of the biggest deficiencies for home use may be games... but the mobile form factor is even beginning to handle its own there. Capcom doing a decent job of combining the technologies behind Zombie Run and Invizimals would breathe new life into the Resident Evil franchise. Same with any other FPS. MMOers could grind their character outside of their proverbial "mom's basement" maybe choosing to "dock up" solely for group raids or exploring new areas.
And a decade or two down the road? I'm not going to speculate that far. We may have direct neural links by that point and then the whole interface thing becomes moot. Or maybe our society will have crashed and a handful of computers are maintained only as a reminder of the days of yore.. Or we will have reached utopia and computers will no longer be useful for augmenting our thinking power. Or, more likely, something in between those three. Ehh... who am I kidding about a decade. We'll know in about 794 days.
The market for high end editing software is even smaller on Linux than the install base would indicate.
1)A high proportion of Linux computers are used as a server rather than a desktop.
2)Linux users have less respect the concept of intellectual property than as most computer users... this means they will be less willing to go through some of the hoops to run commercial level editing software and would rather spend their time working with what is available through open source. This also includes an active aversion to paying money for software. Commercial editing software is quite expensive.
3)The various "flavors" of Linux add a level of difficulty to software support and attempting to deliver a consistent problem.
4)Linux users tend to be less traditionally artistically involved. This isn't to say that there are no creative artists on Linux or in the Linux community, but there simply isn't the critical mass of users needed to develop for the platform. Let's just say there may be some Linux enthusiasts that dabble in art, but the number of professional artists who use Linux exclusively isn't enough to pay the costs of migrating to the platform.
5)Those who are serious enough about dropping the money for professional level editing equipment generally wouldn't have a problem buying a separate computer just to run it. If they Like using Linux, they will run it on another box. I personally know of a few audio engineers who have dedicated computers just for recording music... their studio computer often isn't even hooked up to the internet. This configuration is actually good practice in a world where you are working with someone else's valuable media that they are working on. It also removes some potential unexpected legal liabilities when you are hooked up to CD duplication machines... I imagine RIAA lawyers dream of finding this sort of thing on a potential infringement case.
Essentially, professional artists/etc don't use Linux exclusively because the necessary software is not available on Linux. Professional art/creation software is not available on Linux because there are not enough users that exclusively use Linux. Which means professional artists don't use Linux exclusively. Hmm... it's still not getting through. we need a car analogy. Maybe something to do with a tow hitch on an Indie car. Or a GPS navigation unit... "Left turn, in one quarter mile. Left turn, in one quarter mile. Left turn, in one quarter mile..."
I have heard a tale from times long ago, about an alchemist and the philosopher's stone.
This alchemist, he sought the truth, with an inkling that experiment would lead to proof. To get support from nobles and kings the alchemist spoke of untrue things. "I seek a way to form base lead into gold and an elixer that will keep you from every growing old." Popes and priests said truth comes from the bible, that silly games played in labs are just not reliable. The alchemist just smiled and gave them a nod, and told them that gold represents heaven and God. Upon hearing this the alchemist was found without guilt, for churches look so much better when covered with gilt.
What of the claims that life could be extended? And that the infirm would swiftly be mended? What of the claims of untold power? And of wealth unknown to all at that early hour? The philosopher's stone became much like an orange, for difficult to rhyme is the scientific method.
*70 disabled call waiting. That brings back memories of modem init strings. I remember the dialing sounds well enough that I could probably even figure out the phone number to the BBS I used. And check it against the lists of 414 BBSes... yeah. Odd reading through some of the names of the boards. And finding such era specific names such as "Mr. Homie's Neighborhood." Ah yes, and then there was the whole demo and tracker community, and upon upgrading your computer seeing how many balls you could get bouncing in the fountain part of Second Reality.
Amen. Thank you for reminding me to pull IMDB off the old.html file I use as a homepage. Hmm... don't need google anymore as modern browsers have a search box. Don't need Wikipedia as they are almost always the first or second result for anything I search for, and the extra click is made up for by the spelling suggestions google makes. So I'm left with links to... a couple webcomics and the weather. Why am I afraid of using bookmarks?
Exactly... it's like spamming. And realistically, 90% is probably high if you consider that any company actually violating patents should probably just settle out of court... cheaper and it doesn't tarnish the company's image.
Studio apartment... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the studio Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before, and no woman ever will.
And weather forecasting does tend to get the big things pretty well. Exactly what day and how much the temperature is going to swing... that's got some wiggle room. When the giant storm is going to come through that you actually have to plan around and change your life for: the forecasters are pretty dang good about getting that warning out.
Actually, I have noticed a pretty common trend in the errors on the small stuff where I live. If a weather change is slated for around 2 days to a week out, the event will come through one day later than predicted. It could have something to do with living on the great lakes, or more likely be sampling error and confirmation bias on my part. Then again, it seems to me that between mid june and the middle of July major thunderstorms tend to arrive at the lakefront around 9-10:00pm. I think most of the thunderstorms I have experienced were shortly after sunset at Summerfest.
The point of the larger sensor is low light photography, NOT more data or higher pixel counts. Each "pixel" on the sensor itself is physically larger so they can more accurately report the light levels hitting them without introducing grain.
This sensor isn't for consumer point and click cameras or anything like that... this will be for things like scientific instruments such as telescopes, microscopes, nocturnal wildlife and deep ocean photography (and of course for military and homeland security applications.)
Bigger CCD does not necessarily mean higher pixel counts. In this application it means that each pixel will receive more photons per exposure, allowing for much better low light photography (I.E. less grainy.) Making larger CCDs previously meant higher latency (and therefore more motion blur or related distortion, in addition to lower framerate in video applications) due to limits in the speed of transfer of electrons in the medium. The innovative bit here is that Canon apparently came up with a circuit design that eliminates this latency.
I think you've nailed it right there. The ISS weighs something on the order of one million pounds, and provides cramped living quarters for a handful of people. If we can get around having to move the whole mass of our space stations out of a substantial gravity well, then society will start playing a totally different game.
As long as you aren't on Liberty Island, New York City would likely be safer than hanging around the Eiffel Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa or... really just about any famous visually distinct structures.
The article says the oil will be burned locally... basically all these robots would keep bringing oil to a collection point where it is removed by heating the fabric, and then burned by traditional means. I assume at this point the collection point will be a larger ship of some sort where it would be feasible to use the heat from burning the oil to remove oil from other skimmers. The numbers they used don't say that each skimmer would carry 33 barrels of oil at a time; what is realistically meant is that each robot can sop up oil at a rate that after a month of operation it would have collected 33 barrels. On a rough estimate, that works out to about 4 gallons an hour. That sound reasonable, and of course probably assumes constant running in conditions of maximum efficiency and ignores time losses in going out to heavier patches of oil and returning it to the collection points.
This basically sounds like an advanced form of the skimmers currently being used. Rather than one large net that has to be dragged in, the "net" is made of several small robotic boats which carry the oil back to the boat for processing. Whether that oil is burned or stored would depend more on the ships used than the robot. But that's really not important to the students prototyping this robot... that's more for when the whole system is being implemented. This skimmer is just a proof of concept that would allow other people to move on with the other parts.
Spy on emails and phone calls from: These rules include the conditions under which companies their employees such as telephone or e-mail traffic control should the telecoms. The access options are linked to this vast information and documentation requirements and vary by type of operation and the individual agreed use of technical equipment.
Mod parent +1: I also use mouse gestures. Nothing like sitting on a friend's computer, and getting a moment of disorientation when right click/swipe left doesn't push me back in the history. Even worse is sitting down at the computer of a friend that DOES have mouse gestures... because I have a couple customized commands, and they generally have a couple others customized.
Not exactly true. Transmission to the tower is essentially free, but transmission of the data in the SMS packet across the network, and subsequent routing to the destination phone does cost the carriers money. Additionally, having SMS in the protocol means that bandwith is no longer free to add increased functionality or allow compression that would allow a tower to strip the dead space and allow communication with more phones.
But, yes, SMS is not carried over the 3G channel and so should not be incorporated into that billing. And while the per message cost of supporting SMS isn't that much... the actual total cost to a telecom is significant; I would almost suspect something on the order of millions of dollars annually. Although I will gladly acquiesce that claim if someone shows me actual internal figures.
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I'm not saying that wi-fi is harmless. I am, however, saying that using it is less risky than using antibacterial hand cleanser. That stuff is loaded with various pthalates (known endocrine disrupters and suspected teratogens) that are known to be absorbed across the skin.
Wow... I did mess that up. That's what I get for multitasking before caffeine... now I have to try to unwrap what I said and meant.
I guess the truth behind what I meant to say is that the trend in the open source community is to have an active distaste for closed source code, not intellectual property in general as I wrote. However, the commercial software in question is exclusively closed. OSS advocates (of which I claim most people with the resources to pay for the commercial media editing software who will not have OSX or Windows available to run the software are OSS advocates) will of course have a much better understanding of what intellectual property is, and the consequences for violating the social agreement behind it. That understanding is essential to forming an opinion in the first place, so that understanding comes almost by definition. The open source advocate will, however, generally try to spend the effort to find or even improve a free alternative rather than spend the money on the mainstream software.
I'm not against open source. I have...
Okay, I don't remember where I was going with that last one... while researching my argument I started reading about Ardour and it's integration with Harrison consoles. My personal interest in content creation is with DAWs and related software, so by the time I'm done looking into that and disproving my original main point this topic will be stale. But then again, most audio engineers are just geeks who hang around musicians. Look at the last word in the title "audio engineer" for supporting evidence.
And thank you for making me research the point...
The HTC evo already has an HDMI out which you could hook a proper monitor to, wifi for home networking rather than using the cell network, and USB + bluetooth which could in theory* charge the battery, connect keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner and most other modern peripherals. Local storage would be a little limiting, but network and cloud storage are becoming ubiquitous. MP3s? Most of my friends just stream music from Pandora as it is. Movies? Youtube, Hulu, Netflix et all. Pictures? Many cameras can upload directly to flikr or photobucket. Your internet connection down? Remember, your computer is now a phone with Wi-max. In fact, most people won't even need a wire to bring internet in IF the cell carriers have appropriate data plans. All that would be needed is a dongle and appropriate software to manage it all.
The reason I say "in theory" is because there may be issues running the phone as USB host... I don't know enough about the implementation of USB to know if this would work. I assume it would be possible to work around this with a USB hub that masquerades as the root and simply passes incoming info to a driver on the phone, but again, I could be wrong here.
In the office most companies are probably going to stick with the boxy desktop or at least laptop form factor for quite some time. However, I fully expect that by the time I need to replace my current personal computer, all the functionality I need will be available in a phone form factor. Whether I choose to abandon the personal computer completely for the mobile platform will be an aesthetic choice and have little impact on my lifestyle. At that point one of the biggest deficiencies for home use may be games... but the mobile form factor is even beginning to handle its own there. Capcom doing a decent job of combining the technologies behind Zombie Run and Invizimals would breathe new life into the Resident Evil franchise. Same with any other FPS. MMOers could grind their character outside of their proverbial "mom's basement" maybe choosing to "dock up" solely for group raids or exploring new areas.
And a decade or two down the road? I'm not going to speculate that far. We may have direct neural links by that point and then the whole interface thing becomes moot. Or maybe our society will have crashed and a handful of computers are maintained only as a reminder of the days of yore.. Or we will have reached utopia and computers will no longer be useful for augmenting our thinking power. Or, more likely, something in between those three. Ehh... who am I kidding about a decade. We'll know in about 794 days.
Even the OSX manpages have BSD everywhere in them.
More telling would be that OSX even has manpages?
If you use your computer screen as your TV, you are outside of the "norm" and don't count
Then I'm probably really in trouble... I use my TV as a computer screen. HDMI FTW.
The market for high end editing software is even smaller on Linux than the install base would indicate.
1)A high proportion of Linux computers are used as a server rather than a desktop.
2)Linux users have less respect the concept of intellectual property than as most computer users... this means they will be less willing to go through some of the hoops to run commercial level editing software and would rather spend their time working with what is available through open source. This also includes an active aversion to paying money for software. Commercial editing software is quite expensive.
3)The various "flavors" of Linux add a level of difficulty to software support and attempting to deliver a consistent problem.
4)Linux users tend to be less traditionally artistically involved. This isn't to say that there are no creative artists on Linux or in the Linux community, but there simply isn't the critical mass of users needed to develop for the platform. Let's just say there may be some Linux enthusiasts that dabble in art, but the number of professional artists who use Linux exclusively isn't enough to pay the costs of migrating to the platform.
5)Those who are serious enough about dropping the money for professional level editing equipment generally wouldn't have a problem buying a separate computer just to run it. If they Like using Linux, they will run it on another box. I personally know of a few audio engineers who have dedicated computers just for recording music... their studio computer often isn't even hooked up to the internet. This configuration is actually good practice in a world where you are working with someone else's valuable media that they are working on. It also removes some potential unexpected legal liabilities when you are hooked up to CD duplication machines... I imagine RIAA lawyers dream of finding this sort of thing on a potential infringement case.
Essentially, professional artists/etc don't use Linux exclusively because the necessary software is not available on Linux. Professional art/creation software is not available on Linux because there are not enough users that exclusively use Linux. Which means professional artists don't use Linux exclusively. Hmm... it's still not getting through. we need a car analogy. Maybe something to do with a tow hitch on an Indie car. Or a GPS navigation unit... "Left turn, in one quarter mile. Left turn, in one quarter mile. Left turn, in one quarter mile..."
I have heard a tale from times long ago, about an alchemist and the philosopher's stone.
This alchemist, he sought the truth, with an inkling that experiment would lead to proof. To get support from nobles and kings the alchemist spoke of untrue things. "I seek a way to form base lead into gold and an elixer that will keep you from every growing old." Popes and priests said truth comes from the bible, that silly games played in labs are just not reliable. The alchemist just smiled and gave them a nod, and told them that gold represents heaven and God. Upon hearing this the alchemist was found without guilt, for churches look so much better when covered with gilt.
What of the claims that life could be extended? And that the infirm would swiftly be mended? What of the claims of untold power? And of wealth unknown to all at that early hour? The philosopher's stone became much like an orange, for difficult to rhyme is the scientific method.
*70 disabled call waiting. That brings back memories of modem init strings. I remember the dialing sounds well enough that I could probably even figure out the phone number to the BBS I used. And check it against the lists of 414 BBSes... yeah. Odd reading through some of the names of the boards. And finding such era specific names such as "Mr. Homie's Neighborhood." Ah yes, and then there was the whole demo and tracker community, and upon upgrading your computer seeing how many balls you could get bouncing in the fountain part of Second Reality.
Amen. Thank you for reminding me to pull IMDB off the old .html file I use as a homepage. Hmm... don't need google anymore as modern browsers have a search box. Don't need Wikipedia as they are almost always the first or second result for anything I search for, and the extra click is made up for by the spelling suggestions google makes. So I'm left with links to... a couple webcomics and the weather. Why am I afraid of using bookmarks?
Exactly... it's like spamming. And realistically, 90% is probably high if you consider that any company actually violating patents should probably just settle out of court... cheaper and it doesn't tarnish the company's image.
Studio apartment... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the studio Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before, and no woman ever will.
And weather forecasting does tend to get the big things pretty well. Exactly what day and how much the temperature is going to swing... that's got some wiggle room. When the giant storm is going to come through that you actually have to plan around and change your life for: the forecasters are pretty dang good about getting that warning out.
Actually, I have noticed a pretty common trend in the errors on the small stuff where I live. If a weather change is slated for around 2 days to a week out, the event will come through one day later than predicted. It could have something to do with living on the great lakes, or more likely be sampling error and confirmation bias on my part. Then again, it seems to me that between mid june and the middle of July major thunderstorms tend to arrive at the lakefront around 9-10:00pm. I think most of the thunderstorms I have experienced were shortly after sunset at Summerfest.
Mental hiccup - I stand corrected.
The point of the larger sensor is low light photography, NOT more data or higher pixel counts. Each "pixel" on the sensor itself is physically larger so they can more accurately report the light levels hitting them without introducing grain.
This sensor isn't for consumer point and click cameras or anything like that... this will be for things like scientific instruments such as telescopes, microscopes, nocturnal wildlife and deep ocean photography (and of course for military and homeland security applications.)
Bigger CCD does not necessarily mean higher pixel counts. In this application it means that each pixel will receive more photons per exposure, allowing for much better low light photography (I.E. less grainy.) Making larger CCDs previously meant higher latency (and therefore more motion blur or related distortion, in addition to lower framerate in video applications) due to limits in the speed of transfer of electrons in the medium. The innovative bit here is that Canon apparently came up with a circuit design that eliminates this latency.
Another good american lager.
Or perhaps some market for them in space?
I think you've nailed it right there. The ISS weighs something on the order of one million pounds, and provides cramped living quarters for a handful of people. If we can get around having to move the whole mass of our space stations out of a substantial gravity well, then society will start playing a totally different game.
As long as you aren't on Liberty Island, New York City would likely be safer than hanging around the Eiffel Tower, Leaning Tower of Pisa or... really just about any famous visually distinct structures.
Probably no worse than with standard skimmers in the same conditions.
The article says the oil will be burned locally... basically all these robots would keep bringing oil to a collection point where it is removed by heating the fabric, and then burned by traditional means. I assume at this point the collection point will be a larger ship of some sort where it would be feasible to use the heat from burning the oil to remove oil from other skimmers. The numbers they used don't say that each skimmer would carry 33 barrels of oil at a time; what is realistically meant is that each robot can sop up oil at a rate that after a month of operation it would have collected 33 barrels. On a rough estimate, that works out to about 4 gallons an hour. That sound reasonable, and of course probably assumes constant running in conditions of maximum efficiency and ignores time losses in going out to heavier patches of oil and returning it to the collection points.
This basically sounds like an advanced form of the skimmers currently being used. Rather than one large net that has to be dragged in, the "net" is made of several small robotic boats which carry the oil back to the boat for processing. Whether that oil is burned or stored would depend more on the ships used than the robot. But that's really not important to the students prototyping this robot... that's more for when the whole system is being implemented. This skimmer is just a proof of concept that would allow other people to move on with the other parts.
That should clarify it for you.
I have personally paid multiple times to see robotic musicians.
Mod parent +1: I also use mouse gestures. Nothing like sitting on a friend's computer, and getting a moment of disorientation when right click/swipe left doesn't push me back in the history. Even worse is sitting down at the computer of a friend that DOES have mouse gestures... because I have a couple customized commands, and they generally have a couple others customized.
8:30 - 10:00 could also be a baby monitor.
SMS... incurs no cost at all to the operator
Not exactly true. Transmission to the tower is essentially free, but transmission of the data in the SMS packet across the network, and subsequent routing to the destination phone does cost the carriers money. Additionally, having SMS in the protocol means that bandwith is no longer free to add increased functionality or allow compression that would allow a tower to strip the dead space and allow communication with more phones.
But, yes, SMS is not carried over the 3G channel and so should not be incorporated into that billing. And while the per message cost of supporting SMS isn't that much... the actual total cost to a telecom is significant; I would almost suspect something on the order of millions of dollars annually. Although I will gladly acquiesce that claim if someone shows me actual internal figures.