How is he just an amateur? He seems to have worked with some biggish names. He doesn't appear to be the guy doing wedding videos at his church, claiming that to be a video production professional.
"If and when an SSD fails, the failure is likely to be catastrophic with total data loss.
I don't have any practical experience, but shouldn't SSDs just become read-only when they fail? Or is the failure not due to wear-out of the flash cells, maybe.
On my OS disk, a third of the data turned to goo 360 days after the drive was installed. I was able to copy the important data off, which was useful because there were a few handy scripts and stuff not on the backup list at that time. The fascinating thing was that it was only the blocks of disk which contained data that had failed - there was a largeish chunk of unused disk which was absolutely fine. In any case, I went back to a spinning disk for now.
I think the Tevatron is the second most powerful accelerator on the planet in terms of collision energies. Cern has way outclassed it in collision energies, but it's still a world class piece of equipment. The Stanford Linear accelerator (SLAC) made a great electron source, for a collaminated X ray source. I think it's by far the brightest in the world, enabling experiments that can be done no where else. What could be done with the Tevatron? It's a shame not to use it somehow.
Looking at the diagram in the article, it looks like the particle source and the initial accelerator/storage ring is still live, they plan to use it for some kind of neutrino experiments. The main ring and detectors are what's being gutted AFAIK (which isn't saying much).
I am surprised you are unaware that you can now plug a USB flash drive into an iPad or an iPhone. Perhaps you may not have followed the news coverage from CES regarding vendors making accessories for the iPad?
The following URL has details for anyone who needs a USB flash drive.
A simple Bing! will reveal USB HD up to 1TB for the iPad 2 now. Seagate featured a 500GB drive what was both USB and wireless to the iPad.
That particular thing seems to be pretty useless, and I'm not sure the seagate drive would be much better. Aside from it only having a 7-hour battery life, it can only connect to the iPad via WiFI, which means that you have to drop your internet connection to talk to it.
That's pretty feeble if you're trying to upload files from the USB stick (or SD card), or you're trying to download something onto removable storage - and that's one of the primary use cases when I take my netbook around with me.
From the (bottom) comment(s): " Also, this has nothing to do with GNOME Shell – the maximisation behaviour is specified by individual applications." -Allan
This is what truly worries me.
Hoo boy. I can see that working really well with GIMP.
They're talking about Kubuntu, which Canonical is pulling their backing for. They don't back Xubuntu and that seems to be moving along happily, so hopefully Kubuntu will continue to do so as well.
There was an early 'palm' computer around '90/1/2 (in the UK) that was very similar to this. It had a keyboard of five keys mapped to the positions of the fingers on one hand, but could, in the right 'hand' be used quite efficiently as a one hand 'keyboard' input device.
There was something around then called 'The Egg', I think.
How many millions of euro of taxpayer money have gone into this project, which will interest only a handful of scientists?
Approximately $9B, over 15 years, split between 20 nations. So on average, about $30M/year per country. Compared to Iraq or Afghanistan, that's a rounding error. Whatever may or may not come out of the Large Hadron Collider, I rather doubt either of those wars is going to show any ROI.
What do you lose in Xubuntu (by switching from GNOME Ubuntu)?
Whoops, I misread that last bit about GNOME. I can't really answer that since I've never really used it much. I've always preferred KDE - for experiences switching from Kubuntu, see my other post.
What do you lose in Xubuntu (by switching from GNOME Ubuntu)?
At this point I think it's more an emotional attachment and familiarity rather than a technical issue. That said, Konqueror's ability to browse to smb://whatever is really handy and I'm not sure Xubuntu provides an equivalent. 'Course, that would probably just mean I fire up Konqueror in Xubuntu. I do prefer Kubuntu's removable disk manager to the way Xubuntu handles it, but that's no big deal.
There are other things I might miss at first when using it on a general purpose system (the other installs are mostly for specific tasks like dedicated web terminal, a dev box at work, a laptop to run Rosegarden on etc). Stuff like printer configuration, desktop compositing and the like which Xubuntu probably provides but I'm not quite sure where or how. I don't think there are any real showstoppers.
Try Xubuntu. I've been using Kubuntu for years and years on my main machine, but all my new installations (on laptops etc) have been Xubuntu instead. Like for like it seems to be faster, and one of these days I may convert the desktop as well - especially if this event causes Kubuntu to implode. That would be a rather sad moment, though - I've been using KDE since 1.1.
What I'd much prefer is if you could allow or deny individually
If you can root your phone and install Cyanogenmod then you will gain this ability.
Mine's still on 5.07, so I presume it was added after that. It's working well enough now that I'm a little scared to update it, especially as it's older hardware...
I don't know what Android has been up to since about 2.2, but one thing that has always irked me is that it displayed a list of "This application wants to do: X,Y,Z - Allow or Deny?"
What I'd much prefer is if you could allow or deny individually, i.e. Internet access but not contacts or phone. However I can kind of see why they wouldn't want to do that - it could cock up the advertising funded ones.
Weren't Anobit the folks who developed the technology to make MLC flash work reliably? That's going to become critically important as people increase the density of the arrays (for SSD drives etc) - and from the way Apple has been behaving recently, I'm not sure they'd be willing to share it with Intel, Sandisk and so on.
Please... Try to make gapless MP3 playback work..... Does nobody notice? Does anybody listen to, say, Pictures at an Exhibition? (You'd notice.) Sigh.</semi-rant>
Yes, and yes. This is one of my criteria for a media player. Currently I'm using MOC (MOCP under Ubuntu since it conflicts with QT's Meta Object Compiler). It's not the prettiest thing in the world, but it does do gapless playback and it doesn't require everything to be stuffed into some kind of media library first (this makes it handy if you need to scan through a bunch of sound clips or something).
Think of the resolutions the human eye won't be able to distinguish; dots the size of percentage of a human hair to dots the size of potatoes, its all just a blur to our eyes. But hey, who am I to poop on progress on any scale?
What it would mean is that you could support multiple resolutions like on a CRT display. The fact that an LCD has to have a 'native resolution' at all is a nuisance for things like games. That and this thing should sidestep the horrible contrast problems LCD has.
Phone games are not exactly built to run on a specific hardware arch like in the PC world. Most are just Java/Flash applets.
Yes and no. I've heard a fair number of them use the NDK, which means the.so loaded by the Java part will be for ARM, maybe x86 as well if they used the current NDK. MIPS is not part of the official toolchain, though there is a 3rd-party NDK for it. As of 2.3 it is possible to make a game entirely natively.
It did use computer graphics, although it's true that very few managed to stay awake to see that part.
I think you'll find the stargate was done via a technique called 'Slit scan' photography, much like some of the 1970s Dr. Who titles.
Star Wars probably used mattes for compositing since it was shot on film (Return of the Jedi certainly did, I remember seeing a documentary clip about it). For that matter, Star Wars did in the strict sense use CGI, albeit for the computer displays such as the trench fly-through (which was rendered on a 1970s graphics computer and shot frame-by-frame).
You have to remember just how limited the hardware was back then. A good video card only offered a frame buffer with ZERO hardware acceleration. Everything was done in software, and the software ran on a machine that was so incredibly slow that only the tightest, hand-optimised assembly programming using all sorts of tricks had any hope of rendering even the simplest fake 3d or good quality 2d.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I was trying to get at in my earlier post, where the AC was saying they didn't stretch the hardware at the time. What Origin did was phenomenal. Myself, I was at school/college at the time, but teaching myself to program mode 13h games in DOS on a 286. So yeah, I know what it was like:3
I believe it needed himem.sys to allocate memory via XMS, but once it had got that, it switched into ring 0 briefly to create a segment that was 4GB instead of 64KB. This was then mapped to the XMS block it had allocated, and it switched back into real mode with that segment still stuck at 4GB. You could then access the memory via GS or something, a trick I used when writing a standalone softsynth in DOS a couple of years ago (Though I simply stole the memory since it was basically an appliance).
I presume that with U7, they used it as some kind of very fast swap to page in and out of.
EMM386 (or Windows for that matter) put itself into ring 0 and thus prevented the Voodoo system from being able to get there. I'm not sure whether it could have been modified to use VCPI (EMM386' protected mode interface) or something, but even that wouldn't have helped when Windows replaced DOS later on.
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How is he just an amateur? He seems to have worked with some biggish names. He doesn't appear to be the guy doing wedding videos at his church, claiming that to be a video production professional.
He meant himself, not the guy in the article.
Didn't Robert Millikan throw away all the data that didn't match, and thus neatly avoid discovering that electron charge was quantised?
"If and when an SSD fails, the failure is likely to be catastrophic with total data loss.
I don't have any practical experience, but shouldn't SSDs just become read-only when they fail? Or is the failure not due to wear-out of the flash cells, maybe.
On my OS disk, a third of the data turned to goo 360 days after the drive was installed. I was able to copy the important data off, which was useful because there were a few handy scripts and stuff not on the backup list at that time. The fascinating thing was that it was only the blocks of disk which contained data that had failed - there was a largeish chunk of unused disk which was absolutely fine. In any case, I went back to a spinning disk for now.
I think the Tevatron is the second most powerful accelerator on the planet in terms of collision energies. Cern has way outclassed it in collision energies, but it's still a world class piece of equipment. The Stanford Linear accelerator (SLAC) made a great electron source, for a collaminated X ray source. I think it's by far the brightest in the world, enabling experiments that can be done no where else. What could be done with the Tevatron? It's a shame not to use it somehow.
Looking at the diagram in the article, it looks like the particle source and the initial accelerator/storage ring is still live, they plan to use it for some kind of neutrino experiments. The main ring and detectors are what's being gutted AFAIK (which isn't saying much).
If I read the summary right, they're keeping hold of the mobile display business. This seems to be their larger displays.
I am surprised you are unaware that you can now plug a USB flash drive into an iPad or an iPhone. Perhaps you may not have followed the news coverage from CES regarding vendors making accessories for the iPad?
The following URL has details for anyone who needs a USB flash drive.
http://esbjournal.com/2011/01/world’s-first-usb-flash-drive-for-ipad-and-iphone-launches/
A simple Bing! will reveal USB HD up to 1TB for the iPad 2 now. Seagate featured a 500GB drive what was both USB and wireless to the iPad.
That particular thing seems to be pretty useless, and I'm not sure the seagate drive would be much better. Aside from it only having a 7-hour battery life, it can only connect to the iPad via WiFI, which means that you have to drop your internet connection to talk to it.
That's pretty feeble if you're trying to upload files from the USB stick (or SD card), or you're trying to download something onto removable storage - and that's one of the primary use cases when I take my netbook around with me.
From the (bottom) comment(s): " Also, this has nothing to do with GNOME Shell – the maximisation behaviour is specified by individual applications." -Allan
This is what truly worries me.
Hoo boy. I can see that working really well with GIMP.
Where's the love, KDE is unsinkable!
They're talking about Kubuntu, which Canonical is pulling their backing for. They don't back Xubuntu and that seems to be moving along happily, so hopefully Kubuntu will continue to do so as well.
There was an early 'palm' computer around '90/1/2 (in the UK) that was very similar to this. It had a keyboard of five keys mapped to the positions of the fingers on one hand, but could, in the right 'hand' be used quite efficiently as a one hand 'keyboard' input device.
There was something around then called 'The Egg', I think.
How many millions of euro of taxpayer money have gone into this project, which will interest only a handful of scientists?
Approximately $9B, over 15 years, split between 20 nations. So on average, about $30M/year per country. Compared to Iraq or Afghanistan, that's a rounding error. Whatever may or may not come out of the Large Hadron Collider, I rather doubt either of those wars is going to show any ROI.
What do you lose in Xubuntu (by switching from GNOME Ubuntu)?
Whoops, I misread that last bit about GNOME. I can't really answer that since I've never really used it much. I've always preferred KDE - for experiences switching from Kubuntu, see my other post.
What do you lose in Xubuntu (by switching from GNOME Ubuntu)?
At this point I think it's more an emotional attachment and familiarity rather than a technical issue. That said, Konqueror's ability to browse to smb://whatever is really handy and I'm not sure Xubuntu provides an equivalent. 'Course, that would probably just mean I fire up Konqueror in Xubuntu. I do prefer Kubuntu's removable disk manager to the way Xubuntu handles it, but that's no big deal.
There are other things I might miss at first when using it on a general purpose system (the other installs are mostly for specific tasks like dedicated web terminal, a dev box at work, a laptop to run Rosegarden on etc). Stuff like printer configuration, desktop compositing and the like which Xubuntu probably provides but I'm not quite sure where or how. I don't think there are any real showstoppers.
Try Xubuntu. I've been using Kubuntu for years and years on my main machine, but all my new installations (on laptops etc) have been Xubuntu instead. Like for like it seems to be faster, and one of these days I may convert the desktop as well - especially if this event causes Kubuntu to implode. That would be a rather sad moment, though - I've been using KDE since 1.1.
The Tegra is basically an ARM SoC with an nVidia video system. Maybe they're looking at doing an ARM SoC with the ATI video core...
What I'd much prefer is if you could allow or deny individually
If you can root your phone and install Cyanogenmod then you will gain this ability.
Mine's still on 5.07, so I presume it was added after that. It's working well enough now that I'm a little scared to update it, especially as it's older hardware...
I don't know what Android has been up to since about 2.2, but one thing that has always irked me is that it displayed a list of "This application wants to do: X,Y,Z - Allow or Deny?"
What I'd much prefer is if you could allow or deny individually, i.e. Internet access but not contacts or phone. However I can kind of see why they wouldn't want to do that - it could cock up the advertising funded ones.
Weren't Anobit the folks who developed the technology to make MLC flash work reliably? That's going to become critically important as people increase the density of the arrays (for SSD drives etc) - and from the way Apple has been behaving recently, I'm not sure they'd be willing to share it with Intel, Sandisk and so on.
Please... Try to make gapless MP3 playback work. .... Does nobody notice? Does anybody listen to, say, Pictures at an Exhibition? (You'd notice.) Sigh.</semi-rant>
Yes, and yes. This is one of my criteria for a media player. Currently I'm using MOC (MOCP under Ubuntu since it conflicts with QT's Meta Object Compiler). It's not the prettiest thing in the world, but it does do gapless playback and it doesn't require everything to be stuffed into some kind of media library first (this makes it handy if you need to scan through a bunch of sound clips or something).
Think of the resolutions the human eye won't be able to distinguish; dots the size of percentage of a human hair to dots the size of potatoes, its all just a blur to our eyes. But hey, who am I to poop on progress on any scale?
What it would mean is that you could support multiple resolutions like on a CRT display. The fact that an LCD has to have a 'native resolution' at all is a nuisance for things like games. That and this thing should sidestep the horrible contrast problems LCD has.
Evolution uses everything? I've heard it said evolution never discovered the wheel.
I have heard that ATP Synthase is actually implemented as a rotor... a micromotor spun by proton-motive force.
When cassette took over from open reel, I think.
Phone games are not exactly built to run on a specific hardware arch like in the PC world. Most are just Java/Flash applets.
Yes and no. I've heard a fair number of them use the NDK, which means the .so loaded by the Java part will be for ARM, maybe x86 as well if they used the current NDK. MIPS is not part of the official toolchain, though there is a 3rd-party NDK for it. As of 2.3 it is possible to make a game entirely natively.
Flash certainly isn't going to be built for MIPS.
It did use computer graphics, although it's true that very few managed to stay awake to see that part.
I think you'll find the stargate was done via a technique called 'Slit scan' photography, much like some of the 1970s Dr. Who titles.
Star Wars probably used mattes for compositing since it was shot on film (Return of the Jedi certainly did, I remember seeing a documentary clip about it). For that matter, Star Wars did in the strict sense use CGI, albeit for the computer displays such as the trench fly-through (which was rendered on a 1970s graphics computer and shot frame-by-frame).
You have to remember just how limited the hardware was back then. A good video card only offered a frame buffer with ZERO hardware acceleration. Everything was done in software, and the software ran on a machine that was so incredibly slow that only the tightest, hand-optimised assembly programming using all sorts of tricks had any hope of rendering even the simplest fake 3d or good quality 2d.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I was trying to get at in my earlier post, where the AC was saying they didn't stretch the hardware at the time. What Origin did was phenomenal. Myself, I was at school/college at the time, but teaching myself to program mode 13h games in DOS on a 286. So yeah, I know what it was like :3
I believe it needed himem.sys to allocate memory via XMS, but once it had got that, it switched into ring 0 briefly to create a segment that was 4GB instead of 64KB. This was then mapped to the XMS block it had allocated, and it switched back into real mode with that segment still stuck at 4GB. You could then access the memory via GS or something, a trick I used when writing a standalone softsynth in DOS a couple of years ago (Though I simply stole the memory since it was basically an appliance).
I presume that with U7, they used it as some kind of very fast swap to page in and out of.
EMM386 (or Windows for that matter) put itself into ring 0 and thus prevented the Voodoo system from being able to get there. I'm not sure whether it could have been modified to use VCPI (EMM386' protected mode interface) or something, but even that wouldn't have helped when Windows replaced DOS later on.