The rate of idle time to actual processing goes up further and further. The average home user uses his computer mainly for office applications.
As bandwith on the last mile grows it will be possible to reduce the Ghz-monsters from today to dumb terminals. And what program is it that will be running on them on an ASIC? A simple X-server.
Isn't that what Sun is talking about for so long? I don't see Microsoft developing neither a multi-user OS nor an embedded X-server.
The average user wants a simple solution. I can't think of a more simple solution than pluging your terminal in the outlet and network, like we are used to do it with the TV today, and start working with applications that are hosted on a mainframe. For gaming there will be still Ps/2, X-box et al. Time will tell.
A researcher at the university of Delft has developed a way to create twisted glass allowing for twisted buildings.
A dutch article can be found here [tudelft.nl]. Take a look at the images if you don't understand the text
I had an internship in a firm that processed glass to bend it. See here under 'free form bender'. Other forms as shown there are possible too. The biggest disadvantage is that glass processed this way is very difficult to handle, once a two m window burst into million pieces just when it slightly touched the floor accidentaly when it was being carried. Imagine the trouble you will have fitting out a whole skyscraper with these.
About *every* CD mastered today has its peak volume at appr. 0dB, you can't go further and normalize them cause they are already have been normalized in the studio.
These "gain-ups" which exist as plugin for Winamp or xmms do the same but instead of scanning all the samples from a song to gather the amount the samples have to be scaled with they scan just the next second of the song which will be played and normalize this samples, so the song will not just be normalized but compressed badly.
And this, my fellow, just sounds like hell.
The difference between normal and LOUD songs is that the loud ones have been compressed this way in the studio. (See "Red hot chily peppers - Californication" for example.)
WMA has advantanges at lower bitrates (64-128kbps) but compared to mp3 there are still fine artifacts even when you encode with a higher bitrate. So it is better for streaming media but not for archiving.
You compare the demand for DRAM with that for cellphones. But software grows with its functionality and demands more RAM, unlike humans who after all make just phone calls.
As long as software companies bring out new programs that grab it as if it's free users will have to stock it up. This, of course, does not apply to users who stick with their software - but these do not need other new components either.
does it work with streeming music?
Yes, it is a virtual sound card that has to be chosen as output source in the player software. In another program with which you can record, e.g. cool edit, you chose it as input source. The whole process is transparent to the programs, no hacking is required.
the windows-client is just a pain in the ass. No drag&drop, no playlist, windows 3.0-type dialogues, and the renderer slows my whole system down if i scale the output window bigger than 100%. Since i have a 1280*960-desktop and most flics are around 640*480 big or smaller playing them back at 200% needs me to close all non-idleing processes just to get an output of about 8 frames/s at 99% processor time on an Athlon-500. Please!
Baloney. We (engineers) were building all sorts of impressive stuff long before the invention of science. Check out the Great Pyramid and Yu the Great
Science provides tools for engineers to build pyramids without causing the death of thousands of slaves and finishing the work within the lifetime of an engineer. Furthermore it makes the buildings payable for non-gods.
... I watched the Lucy Liu episode, which has some heavy RIAA-aligned propaganda against P2P file sharing. It was somewhat disturbing to see that in such a cool show
Heh heh, you didn't get the greatest meta-humour the show ever had. Do you remeber the 'Don't date robots!' propaganda when Fry had the idea to download a celebrity? The story of the whole episode is in the same style as the small clip, made up as a propaganda against file sharing. The space-pope-propaganda was obviously overdrawn in its ridiculousness while the whole episode was not. It is just a big, subtle piece of meta-humour, showing that the modern propaganda do not need to be as obviuous as one might think.
Add two glasses to the box that hit each other when it is moved and write 'glue' or some other fluid on it.
Employees may like to break a fragile computer, but no one likes to clean up the floor of glue or what else may leak out.
His final words were: "It is all in the way you work. Changing your routine is not easy at first, but after a month, I have adjusted completely. I am removing Windows from my computer!" I think this Quote is still from the 10th day of evaluation and he just wanted to say "after a month, I will have adjusted completely".
In the appendix, which is much more interesting, it says on page 21:
Some of the assumptions behind the selected 1993 Space Station "Alpha" design and cost
estimate of $17.4B now appear to be ridiculously optimistic.
The space flight software would total 500,000 source lines of code (SLOC).
It is now projected three times as high, tripleing the costs. And this is only to speak of the software onboard, the whole project software has 4M source lines it says later. Why do I think that in the majority of cases the software costs is the part which is underestimated mostly? Shouldn't they have learned from the Ariane V disaster?
Guys, ok, i got it! I just wasn't fully awake yet when i read the submission.
For another philosophist and physicist I like to recommend Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker. Yes he is still living and that is why you can not read much from him online. He deals with the conjunction of economy and ecology in the next century, e.g. "Factor Four - Doubling wealth, halving resource use", or globalisation in general, here is an interesting short abstract about that.
I'm afraid that in 2051 mankind will think of visionaries like him only like 'if they just shouted louder that time'...
I used bitumen sheets you can get in car-part-stores. 0.75m should cost about 20$. They are self-adhesive and easy to cut, and they reduced the vibrations of the case to a minimum, if you knock it it sounds like a wooden chest now. I highly recommend them.
The sheets you can buy in computer-stores are way too expensive for beeing simlilar to those i have.
actualy there is not much information on that page. There are 40 robots that each compete in one of two challenges. First one is that garbage collection on a 2x3 meter parcour where that robot wins which has collected the garbage at the least time in three tries.
Secondly there is a 'freestyle' competition where a jury prices the most inventive robot without any guidelines. In this competition there are robots which serve, climb facedes, observe rooms or disperse grasshoppers.
Winners get prizes with a total value of DM 15000 appr. 7500$
I'd like to know how much power you can actualy get out of these boots. Charging a cellphone does not need much, but providing just enough for the discman only when you are running would be pretty incentive for us nerds to do some sports, huh?
[The following paragraph is the most techical and worst translated. Sorry.]
Jitter works with a momentum drive. A cam disc ?rotates? permanently inside the robot's housing. When it comes in contact with a wall, the housing gets displaced. According to the direction of the collision, an impulse in the opposite direction is generated
Well I'm a native german speaker and your translation is very accurate. But I don't understand this principle either. As anyone knows you need either a solid underground to apply a force to or accelererated substances for movement. But just displacing the housing of that camshaft? Reminds me of moving an office chair while sitting on it just by alternating quick and slow movements but for this a solid surface with some friction is needed.
Here is another report about this contest with a picture of the jitter. Looks cute, huh? Sorry for that other post with the false desription, seems i have mistaken it for s.th. else.
It has two big propellers on the side which can be panned and a picker arm at the front.
Looks like a dragonfly at first sight.
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The discussion if a better standard is needed anyway is always held when it is getting introduced. For HDTV think of live sports coverage (right word?) where you can recognise the players by their face.
Of course at first it will be the high-flyers and trendsetters who will purchase the first expensive sets, but this was exactly the way it was with the cellphones.
I don't say that HDTV is to normal TV as cellphones to wired ones, but when more and more HDTV broadcast systems became installed maybe more and more people will think about switching to the newer technology.
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The rate of idle time to actual processing goes up further and further. The average home user uses his computer mainly for office applications.
As bandwith on the last mile grows it will be possible to reduce the Ghz-monsters from today to dumb terminals. And what program is it that will be running on them on an ASIC? A simple X-server.
Isn't that what Sun is talking about for so long? I don't see Microsoft developing neither a multi-user OS nor an embedded X-server.
The average user wants a simple solution. I can't think of a more simple solution than pluging your terminal in the outlet and network, like we are used to do it with the TV today, and start working with applications that are hosted on a mainframe. For gaming there will be still Ps/2, X-box et al. Time will tell.
Wouldn't it be more practical to equip passenger seats in planes with outlets? Or where else you can't find one?
A researcher at the university of Delft has developed a way to create twisted glass allowing for twisted buildings. A dutch article can be found here [tudelft.nl]. Take a look at the images if you don't understand the text
I had an internship in a firm that processed glass to bend it. See here under 'free form bender'. Other forms as shown there are possible too. The biggest disadvantage is that glass processed this way is very difficult to handle, once a two m window burst into million pieces just when it slightly touched the floor accidentaly when it was being carried. Imagine the trouble you will have fitting out a whole skyscraper with these.
About *every* CD mastered today has its peak volume at appr. 0dB, you can't go further and normalize them cause they are already have been normalized in the studio.
These "gain-ups" which exist as plugin for Winamp or xmms do the same but instead of scanning all the samples from a song to gather the amount the samples have to be scaled with they scan just the next second of the song which will be played and normalize this samples, so the song will not just be normalized but compressed badly.
And this, my fellow, just sounds like hell.
The difference between normal and LOUD songs is that the loud ones have been compressed this way in the studio. (See "Red hot chily peppers - Californication" for example.)
WMA has advantanges at lower bitrates (64-128kbps) but compared to mp3 there are still fine artifacts even when you encode with a higher bitrate. So it is better for streaming media but not for archiving.
You compare the demand for DRAM with that for cellphones. But software grows with its functionality and demands more RAM, unlike humans who after all make just phone calls.
As long as software companies bring out new programs that grab it as if it's free users will have to stock it up. This, of course, does not apply to users who stick with their software - but these do not need other new components either.
does it work with streeming music?
Yes, it is a virtual sound card that has to be chosen as output source in the player software. In another program with which you can record, e.g. cool edit, you chose it as input source. The whole process is transparent to the programs, no hacking is required.
Pipe the songs through the virtual audio cable and you can do with them whatever you want.
Science provides tools for engineers to build pyramids without causing the death of thousands of slaves and finishing the work within the lifetime of an engineer. Furthermore it makes the buildings payable for non-gods.
But it can be mistaken for 'music'
Heh heh, you didn't get the greatest meta-humour the show ever had. Do you remeber the 'Don't date robots!' propaganda when Fry had the idea to download a celebrity? The story of the whole episode is in the same style as the small clip, made up as a propaganda against file sharing. The space-pope-propaganda was obviously overdrawn in its ridiculousness while the whole episode was not. It is just a big, subtle piece of meta-humour, showing that the modern propaganda do not need to be as obviuous as one might think.
Add two glasses to the box that hit each other when it is moved and write 'glue' or some other fluid on it.
Employees may like to break a fragile computer, but no one likes to clean up the floor of glue or what else may leak out.
His final words were: "It is all in the way you work. Changing your routine is not easy at first, but after a month, I have adjusted completely. I am removing Windows from my computer!"
I think this Quote is still from the 10th day of evaluation and he just wanted to say "after a month, I will have adjusted completely".
Some of the assumptions behind the selected 1993 Space Station "Alpha" design and cost estimate of $17.4B now appear to be ridiculously optimistic.
The space flight software would total 500,000 source lines of code (SLOC).
It is now projected three times as high, tripleing the costs. And this is only to speak of the software onboard, the whole project software has 4M source lines it says later. Why do I think that in the majority of cases the software costs is the part which is underestimated mostly? Shouldn't they have learned from the Ariane V disaster?
For another philosophist and physicist I like to recommend Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker. Yes he is still living and that is why you can not read much from him online. He deals with the conjunction of economy and ecology in the next century, e.g. "Factor Four - Doubling wealth, halving resource use", or globalisation in general, here is an interesting short abstract about that.
I'm afraid that in 2051 mankind will think of visionaries like him only like 'if they just shouted louder that time'...
Bible of the 21st century? Some bios
I used bitumen sheets you can get in car-part-stores. 0.75m should cost about 20$. They are self-adhesive and easy to cut, and they reduced the vibrations of the case to a minimum, if you knock it it sounds like a wooden chest now. I highly recommend them.
The sheets you can buy in computer-stores are way too expensive for beeing simlilar to those i have.
actualy there is not much information on that page. There are 40 robots that each compete in one of two challenges. First one is that garbage collection on a 2x3 meter parcour where that robot wins which has collected the garbage at the least time in three tries.
Secondly there is a 'freestyle' competition where a jury prices the most inventive robot without any guidelines. In this competition there are robots which serve, climb facedes, observe rooms or disperse grasshoppers.
Winners get prizes with a total value of DM 15000 appr. 7500$
Aw - Sorry. That search function of IE will freak me out sooner or later.
I'd like to know how much power you can actualy get out of these boots. Charging a cellphone does not need much, but providing just enough for the discman only when you are running would be pretty incentive for us nerds to do some sports, huh?
Well I'm a native german speaker and your translation is very accurate. But I don't understand this principle either. As anyone knows you need either a solid underground to apply a force to or accelererated substances for movement. But just displacing the housing of that camshaft? Reminds me of moving an office chair while sitting on it just by alternating quick and slow movements but for this a solid surface with some friction is needed.
Here is another report about this contest with a picture of the jitter. Looks cute, huh? Sorry for that other post with the false desription, seems i have mistaken it for s.th. else.
It was on german television a few weeks ago.
It has two big propellers on the side which can be panned and a picker arm at the front.
Looks like a dragonfly at first sight.
The discussion if a better standard is needed anyway is always held when it is getting introduced. For HDTV think of live sports coverage (right word?) where you can recognise the players by their face.
Of course at first it will be the high-flyers and trendsetters who will purchase the first expensive sets, but this was exactly the way it was with the cellphones.
I don't say that HDTV is to normal TV as cellphones to wired ones, but when more and more HDTV broadcast systems became installed maybe more and more people will think about switching to the newer technology.