The combined jack plug + Toslink is everywhere, it's not specific to Apple. I had one in a Fujitsu laptop from 2005. I wish it were more common these days, though. I guess a lot of people get their digital audio via HDMI, Displayport or something, but as an audio geek, I find such a tie-in a little dumb.
It's called eSATAp. Oddly enough, my current Thinkpad (T410) only has plain eSATA, but I remember a Fujitsu laptop from my 2008 workplace that had the powered one.
True, we should stop this infantile bickering, because it's obvious to everyone that Finland is better than the USA, so there's nothing to fight about. Besides, my UID is twice a prime, so nyah nyah nyah!
Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the social news site Reddit
This is just from the summary that doesn't fully capture the range of his contributions, so you might want to read some more.
Voodoo2 can do some 2D, there are Linux drivers which enable you to use it for the only display. Too bad I sold mine before I learned about this, it would have been an interesting experiment.
In fact, if you think about it, 2D is a subset of 3D -- a texture, or one face of a cuboid, etc. Modern display hardware and software tend to use 3D engines for 2D stuff, so you don't need to write separate 2D engines. We used to have specialized 2D hardware tricks for a long time, but these days pretty much everything comes with some 3D capabilities.
especially working for some kind of finacial reward which you'll spend on ultimately useless possessions or experiences.
What, like Shelter, food, water, plumbing, air conditioning, telephone, internet connectivity?
When people claim that $x is useful, the reality is that it is just a means of getting $y, and then you can continue the chain of usefulness indefinitely. There is no logical end to such a chain, so instead of doing useful things, I just try to focus on fun things.
Wow, thanks for the info. I remember reading about Tarkin back in the day, but somehow this idea was never advertised. I worked in image processing around 2002 and later came up with this idea, so I guess it wasn't particularly original:-/
AFAIK, in Plan 9, everything is a file, as a logical continuation of the Unix philosophy. You mount the other machine as a network filesystem, and then access its resources like the CPU and network (for NAT). I have no experience on it, so maybe someone can elaborate.
It would be great if the blocks were independent, so you could parallelize the work by a huge factor. I guess block boundary effects are the problem, but they don't exactly constitute all the work. A great deal of scientific computing (e.g. fluid dynamics) is done by splitting the problem space into blocks which can be run on different nodes of a cluster, and while a lot of communication is needed between nodes, there are certainly benefits from such parallelism.
Another interesting idea (which I've probably mentioned before, and isn't exactly new anyway) is to treat the video as a 3D voxel blob, with time as the third dimension. Split this into cubical blocks (if only for streaming) and use a 3D Fourier (wavelet, cosine etc.) transform and keep the most significant elements. This way you'll get a natural tradeoff between spatial and temporal accuracy, depending on the block content.
White LEDs actually do have a nonzero rise and fall time(because if it says 'white' on the label, that means 'glob of phosphor being pumped by a blue or UV die, since we don't have wideband LEDs').
For me it's the blue LEDs that drive me crazy, so perhaps the OP has a problem with the spectrum rather than flicker.
In a HS commentary to that story they ask if cyber weapons trade should be regulated as well as IRL weapons. That would be something from redundant to hilarious, considering things like (a) strong crypto is already regulated like weapons when exported from the US, (b) the root of the problem is consumer software like Windows, so perhaps it should be classified likewise, and (c) how do you regulate people exchanging data, on the Internet or otherwise.
It makes sense in Scandinavia, because MySQL was named after the female name My (Monty's daughter along with Maria), not the English possessive pronoun. As for the pronunciation, think about how New Yorkers pronounce "New York" -- there's the Scandinavian "Ny" (meaning "new").
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Damn straight! I lived in Europe before it was cool.
The combined jack plug + Toslink is everywhere, it's not specific to Apple. I had one in a Fujitsu laptop from 2005. I wish it were more common these days, though. I guess a lot of people get their digital audio via HDMI, Displayport or something, but as an audio geek, I find such a tie-in a little dumb.
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It's called eSATAp. Oddly enough, my current Thinkpad (T410) only has plain eSATA, but I remember a Fujitsu laptop from my 2008 workplace that had the powered one.
True, we should stop this infantile bickering, because it's obvious to everyone that Finland is better than the USA, so there's nothing to fight about. Besides, my UID is twice a prime, so nyah nyah nyah!
Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the social news site Reddit
This is just from the summary that doesn't fully capture the range of his contributions, so you might want to read some more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
I see your Swartz is as big as mine.
Voodoo2 can do some 2D, there are Linux drivers which enable you to use it for the only display. Too bad I sold mine before I learned about this, it would have been an interesting experiment.
In fact, if you think about it, 2D is a subset of 3D -- a texture, or one face of a cuboid, etc. Modern display hardware and software tend to use 3D engines for 2D stuff, so you don't need to write separate 2D engines. We used to have specialized 2D hardware tricks for a long time, but these days pretty much everything comes with some 3D capabilities.
I think 80085 should be liberated.
especially working for some kind of finacial reward which you'll spend on ultimately useless possessions or experiences.
What, like Shelter, food, water, plumbing, air conditioning, telephone, internet connectivity?
When people claim that $x is useful, the reality is that it is just a means of getting $y, and then you can continue the chain of usefulness indefinitely. There is no logical end to such a chain, so instead of doing useful things, I just try to focus on fun things.
Wow, thanks for the info. I remember reading about Tarkin back in the day, but somehow this idea was never advertised. I worked in image processing around 2002 and later came up with this idea, so I guess it wasn't particularly original :-/
Perhaps the GP is using a more modern OS ;)
AFAIK, in Plan 9, everything is a file, as a logical continuation of the Unix philosophy. You mount the other machine as a network filesystem, and then access its resources like the CPU and network (for NAT). I have no experience on it, so maybe someone can elaborate.
I saw Jennifer at the mall and she was not with a dentist. Did look like a little drilling had been going on though.
"Drilling" is fun for the first few times, but at the end of the day, it's just boring.
Huh huh huh, you said "came".
It would be great if the blocks were independent, so you could parallelize the work by a huge factor. I guess block boundary effects are the problem, but they don't exactly constitute all the work. A great deal of scientific computing (e.g. fluid dynamics) is done by splitting the problem space into blocks which can be run on different nodes of a cluster, and while a lot of communication is needed between nodes, there are certainly benefits from such parallelism.
Another interesting idea (which I've probably mentioned before, and isn't exactly new anyway) is to treat the video as a 3D voxel blob, with time as the third dimension. Split this into cubical blocks (if only for streaming) and use a 3D Fourier (wavelet, cosine etc.) transform and keep the most significant elements. This way you'll get a natural tradeoff between spatial and temporal accuracy, depending on the block content.
White LEDs actually do have a nonzero rise and fall time(because if it says 'white' on the label, that means 'glob of phosphor being pumped by a blue or UV die, since we don't have wideband LEDs').
For me it's the blue LEDs that drive me crazy, so perhaps the OP has a problem with the spectrum rather than flicker.
How is bitcoin mining not a waste of electricity?
Because hauling cash around in armoured vans, and credit card networks, are not exactly free and clean.
In a HS commentary to that story they ask if cyber weapons trade should be regulated as well as IRL weapons. That would be something from redundant to hilarious, considering things like (a) strong crypto is already regulated like weapons when exported from the US, (b) the root of the problem is consumer software like Windows, so perhaps it should be classified likewise, and (c) how do you regulate people exchanging data, on the Internet or otherwise.
Not quite. The nine billionth name is left out to protect the stars.
Wait, what? As a true geek, you should only listen to GNUs n' RMSes.
It makes sense in Scandinavia, because MySQL was named after the female name My (Monty's daughter along with Maria), not the English possessive pronoun. As for the pronunciation, think about how New Yorkers pronounce "New York" -- there's the Scandinavian "Ny" (meaning "new").
I hereby release myself into the pubic domain.
Makes perfect sense with the wheelchair terminator idea.