What may be is that they are using a product made by The Mathworks called XPC Target. This product take a simulink (block diagram based programming language) model and interprets it to c++ code. It then compiles the c++ code into an executable that is run on an embedded machine with a modified NT Kernel (all low level, no GUI, etc) to run the code.
That might just be it.
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In the suburbs of Philadelphia where I lived until I went off to college, people are already required to dial all 10 digits of a phone number. The area codes 484 and 610 are overlayed. How this works is that someone across the street from you can have a different area code from you. I am not sure why they decided on this but they did.
One other thing is that, I have heard a good number of people asking for cell phones, pagers, etc. to have their own area code. Well I am not sure how true this is, but I heard the argument that when that happens, the local telcos will lose a certain amount in leverage in gaining revenues from cell phone companies. This is the case because the cell phone companies would more easily go through a competitive local exchange carrier (clec), and by pass the old Bell networks. So That is why you might see some foot dragging in getting that to be the case.
There is a company called Neoware that is already doing something exactly like this. They make linux based windows based terminals and need a small lite system. They have a subset of redhat linux on their flash chip. Their mini distribution is called NeoLinux. I think they might even have a distro that fits on an 8MB chip and has X windows, a citrix ICA client (used to connect to windows terminal servers with citrix software) and as I recall even netscape 4.7?!?
My sister is in the Peace Corps in Nepal, and there has been alot of adoption of the internet in the touristy spots (Kathmandu, Pakhara, etc.), but there was also adoption in places that were definately NOT touristy. I recently went over to visit her and there were internet access storefronts, and places to use email (for a small fee ~30 cents per email, including computer usage to write it), all over the place.
Last night I was caught off guard when she wrote me an email from her own dialup account (hosted by wlink.com.np) She now has, for ~US$20 a month, 10 hours of full internet usage that she can use from her house (20+ hours by bus from Kathmandu). I did notice that the ping times were up near 900ms for their web server, but still, it is in Nepal (and just to note, it is using Linux according to netcraft.
Since alot of the technology workers in the US take trips to Nepal, many of you might know, just how amazing thinking about the internet in Nepal actually is.
It seemed like this article was aimed at small to medium sized companies, and as the article showed, easy to use graphical managment tools are a must for any NOS today. Linux still lags behind Win2000 and Netware in terms of graphical admin tools. As has been posted here before, I think that the Linux community needs to get together and make a standard config tool, that would allow third-party plugins, and have no usablity issues, as was pointed out about linuxconf in the article.
First question for you, have you seen an HDTV tv with an HD image on it yet? If not, you probably don't understand what HD really offers. The image quality is MUCH better then current NTSC signals, as is the audio.
Next thing is that in the time before the FCC HDTV mandate goes into effect the boxes for converting HDTV signals to NTSC standard signals will be very inexpensive. An example of this is that fact that Hauppauge, and other computer TV card vendors, are in the very near future going to be offering HDTV cards for the PC at around $300. At that price a company would easily be able to embed a chip like that into a converter box and those boxes to the cable companies, and they in turn, could rent them to you, just as the ordinary converter boxes of today. Look at the price of the chips and all, it would not be too hard to see that it would not be prohibitively expensive to have one of those for every every tv.
To answer the question about wether you will be able to use your current cable ready TVs, the answer is yes and no. Just hooking the cable up from the wall into the tv will not work as far as I know. But, there are actually a couple of ways that you could make it work, a)hook the converter box up to the TV and turn the TV to channel 4 (or 3) and use the converter box to change channels OR b)there may be a way (I haven't seen this technology yet) to have a converter box convert all of the signals all the time so that your cable ready TVs would not be able to notice a difference between that and an ordinary NTSC signal OR c)cable companies may offer a special service where they would convert all of the channels at the head end and then send a set of signals out that could be recieved natively by the old NTSC TVs. I feel, to a certain extent, that the things that you are worrying about not go to be that bad. I know that in many areas, the cable companies are starting to offer digital cable. This requires a converter box even for you normal everyday NTSC TVs,(same as the HDTV plan that you are worrying about) but the thing is that it offers better picture quality and audio. I know many people who love this, and feel that the trade off for the converter box is worth it.
I'm not sure this whole thing was planned out right, except maybe with the question, "How can the electronics and television industries make a shitload of money in one fell swoop?" being the only objective. What of the millions of people who can't *afford* new HDTVs or the little box to convert down to "normal" broadcast signals of today? Do they get told, "Sorry, you're fucked"? There are plenty of people out there that simply will not stand for this, if the options are either buy a new television or give up TV.
This was not really the driving force behind the movement. I think that the advantages of HDTV HEAVILY outweigh the disadvantages of it.
All in all, I think that HDTV is an EXTREMELY worth while technology. I feel that once people move to HDTV, they will never ever come back to standard NTSC.
I don't know if many of you have heard of the long range weather forecasting site, weatherplanner.com. This site claims a high percent accuracy in predicting the weather approximately 365 days ahead of time. I have been looking at the freely downloadable 30 planner for my city, and I was surprised to see that the forecast is extremely accurate, approx 75-90%. These forecasts are apparently based off of models, not just guessing. Just thought that might add something to the debate about the use of cpu cycles to figure out long range trends. If a private sector company with limited resources can do it, imagine how much better a super computer (via distribution) could do it!
Here is the situation... Intel releases a new socket/slot design for each new generation of chip, no one says all too much. People herald this as the price of technological innovation, where most of the motivation is there to force consumers to buy a whole new computer instead of upgrading, and to cut off 3rd parties trying to offer alternatives.
But when Apple releases a new generation of their chip and they decide to keep the old socket, they have to do something to get you to buy a new computer. This is possibly part of their motivaiton to do this. And this motive is not necessarily one that really should be criticized quite so much.
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What may be is that they are using a product made by The Mathworks called XPC Target. This product take a simulink (block diagram based programming language) model and interprets it to c++ code. It then compiles the c++ code into an executable that is run on an embedded machine with a modified NT Kernel (all low level, no GUI, etc) to run the code.
That might just be it.
What about Andy Warhool's Campbell's Soup ?
Is that theft of the trademarked Campbells soup can design, or is it art?
The four categories are:
- highest spire
- highest observation deck
- highest top floor
- highest antenna
The Sears tower holds the title for all of these except highest spire (which is held by the petronas towers in KL.)In the suburbs of Philadelphia where I lived until I went off to college, people are already required to dial all 10 digits of a phone number. The area codes 484 and 610 are overlayed. How this works is that someone across the street from you can have a different area code from you. I am not sure why they decided on this but they did.
One other thing is that, I have heard a good number of people asking for cell phones, pagers, etc. to have their own area code. Well I am not sure how true this is, but I heard the argument that when that happens, the local telcos will lose a certain amount in leverage in gaining revenues from cell phone companies. This is the case because the cell phone companies would more easily go through a competitive local exchange carrier (clec), and by pass the old Bell networks. So That is why you might see some foot dragging in getting that to be the case.
There is a company called Neoware that is already doing something exactly like this. They make linux based windows based terminals and need a small lite system. They have a subset of redhat linux on their flash chip. Their mini distribution is called NeoLinux. I think they might even have a distro that fits on an 8MB chip and has X windows, a citrix ICA client (used to connect to windows terminal servers with citrix software) and as I recall even netscape 4.7?!?
My sister is in the Peace Corps in Nepal, and there has been alot of adoption of the internet in the touristy spots (Kathmandu, Pakhara, etc.), but there was also adoption in places that were definately NOT touristy. I recently went over to visit her and there were internet access storefronts, and places to use email (for a small fee ~30 cents per email, including computer usage to write it), all over the place.
Last night I was caught off guard when she wrote me an email from her own dialup account (hosted by wlink.com.np) She now has, for ~US$20 a month, 10 hours of full internet usage that she can use from her house (20+ hours by bus from Kathmandu). I did notice that the ping times were up near 900ms for their web server, but still, it is in Nepal (and just to note, it is using Linux according to netcraft.
Since alot of the technology workers in the US take trips to Nepal, many of you might know, just how amazing thinking about the internet in Nepal actually is.
It seemed like this article was aimed at small to medium sized companies, and as the article showed, easy to use graphical managment tools are a must for any NOS today. Linux still lags behind Win2000 and Netware in terms of graphical admin tools.
As has been posted here before, I think that the Linux community needs to get together and make a standard config tool, that would allow third-party plugins, and have no usablity issues, as was pointed out about linuxconf in the article.
Next thing is that in the time before the FCC HDTV mandate goes into effect the boxes for converting HDTV signals to NTSC standard signals will be very inexpensive. An example of this is that fact that Hauppauge, and other computer TV card vendors, are in the very near future going to be offering HDTV cards for the PC at around $300. At that price a company would easily be able to embed a chip like that into a converter box and those boxes to the cable companies, and they in turn, could rent them to you, just as the ordinary converter boxes of today. Look at the price of the chips and all, it would not be too hard to see that it would not be prohibitively expensive to have one of those for every every tv.
To answer the question about wether you will be able to use your current cable ready TVs, the answer is yes and no. Just hooking the cable up from the wall into the tv will not work as far as I know. But, there are actually a couple of ways that you could make it work, a)hook the converter box up to the TV and turn the TV to channel 4 (or 3) and use the converter box to change channels OR b)there may be a way (I haven't seen this technology yet) to have a converter box convert all of the signals all the time so that your cable ready TVs would not be able to notice a difference between that and an ordinary NTSC signal OR c)cable companies may offer a special service where they would convert all of the channels at the head end and then send a set of signals out that could be recieved natively by the old NTSC TVs.
I feel, to a certain extent, that the things that you are worrying about not go to be that bad. I know that in many areas, the cable companies are starting to offer digital cable. This requires a converter box even for you normal everyday NTSC TVs,(same as the HDTV plan that you are worrying about) but the thing is that it offers better picture quality and audio. I know many people who love this, and feel that the trade off for the converter box is worth it.
This was not really the driving force behind the movement. I think that the advantages of HDTV HEAVILY outweigh the disadvantages of it.
All in all, I think that HDTV is an EXTREMELY worth while technology. I feel that once people move to HDTV, they will never ever come back to standard NTSC.
So how does this project differ from WINE?
I don't know if many of you have heard of the long range weather forecasting site, weatherplanner.com. This site claims a high percent accuracy in predicting the weather approximately 365 days ahead of time. I have been looking at the freely downloadable 30 planner for my city, and I was surprised to see that the forecast is extremely accurate, approx 75-90%. These forecasts are apparently based off of models, not just guessing. Just thought that might add something to the debate about the use of cpu cycles to figure out long range trends. If a private sector company with limited resources can do it, imagine how much better a super computer (via distribution) could do it!
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this USB2 standard basically just reinventing firewire?
Here is the situation... Intel releases a new socket/slot design for each new generation of chip, no one says all too much. People herald this as the price of technological innovation, where most of the motivation is there to force consumers to buy a whole new computer instead of upgrading, and to cut off 3rd parties trying to offer alternatives.
But when Apple releases a new generation of their chip and they decide to keep the old socket, they have to do something to get you to buy a new computer. This is possibly part of their motivaiton to do this. And this motive is not necessarily one that really should be criticized quite so much.
Think different, Think double standard.
Here is a link with more (true) info about the upcoming iMac (codenamed C2 or Kihei):
http://www.macosrumors.com/imac.html
Also "Mac OS Rumors" is running a story today about the upcoming iMac:
http://www.macosrumors.com/