The MPAA has sent cease and desist orders to all the major TV, monitor, LCD & video camera manufacturers requiring that they cease making their devices as the provide a means for circumventing the copy protection of their copyright material.
Corporations like the MPAA (& RIAA) are protecting their profits, not the copyrighted material. The internet takes away their power as distribution becomes easier. They are now able to control the channels that the content is delivered, but for how long. How much money are they going to be worth if artists & filmmakers start distributing their work independently of these corporations?
There's no need to go to higher optical frequencies to increase capacity. The carrier frequency of a 1.3 micron infrared laser is 230 terahertz. It's easy to see that a few hundreds of megabits per seconds barely scratch the theoretical capacity.
I could be wrong, but my understanding of optical transmission is that it generally does not modulate the signal onto the native frequency of the light but uses pulses to encode the signal. On...off...on......
I believe that it is kind of difficult to get electronic circuits to oscillate at Terahertz.
Therefore, the bandwidth is a function of the electronic circuit, not the optical circuit. Of course, when 100% optical switches are ready........
As a thought, I wonder if you could borrow some of the spread spectrum techniques for optical transmission. E.g. Would it be possible to recover a signal from a light source that has been dispersed?
It is pretty normal for M$ to pre-announce their software to whet the appetites of those IT managers and prevent them from going out and buying the competition.
Hang on......I am going to have to think twice before i "buy" that office suite for linux.....hmmm......
supporting games in linux with WINE is not necessarily a good ideal to shoot for. At it's best, it's crappy windows emulation with worse performance, at it's worst, it's an excuse for game coders to say "bah - they've got wine, why code fo linux now?"
I think that aiming to support the "latest and greatest" windows game shouldn't be the aim of WINE. Hands up all those people that have a copy of MAME or C64 emulator running on their machine....same thing will apply to windows games. It will be the no-longer-supported applications & games that will get the most attention with WINE since, at the current rate of growth linux WILL have enough market share to ensure that new software is written for linux. Old stuff doesn't really have any performance issues....just bugs.
I want to buy shares in Transmeta....seems they have the right idea....when are they going public? So, it would seem to me that with the increasing fragmentation in the processor and OS market would make JAVA (or something like it) a much better option for software distribution......
Coming from Brisbane myself, I must say that the only problem is that the $A is not too flash and the wages are not high due to the low cost of living. In general, Brisbane is a great place to work & live if you don't plan on leaving it any time soon.
You might want to have a look at Ireland, lots of tech jobs popping up and pound is strong and wages are high. Beer is outstanding, people are too friendly (if possible). Weather could be better.....but as a geek, who cares....;P
OpenGL is clearly much better than Direct3D for a number of reasons, but nobody is lining the pockets of game developers to write games in openGL are they? If there was a port of Direct3D on linux then M$ wouldn't have any reason to push it so hard and it could die it's rightful death.
Emacs is truly awesome.....I can't stand any other editor anymore. There are 2 features (out of the box) of emacs that I just can't live without. 1. Dynamic expansion - start typing a word press alt-/ and if that word exists in any file you have open, it will complete it for you, cycling through the possibilities. Greatly improves my code readability since now I can have informative variable names:) 2. Coding/indent styles - Once you set up your preferred indenting style, just have to hit tab to put that line in its rightful place. ctl-c ctl-q and the whole damn file is indented the way you want it! There are a million other reasons emacs is cool and if you don't have one, you can easily make it do what you want. Emacs does take some time to coax it to behave the way you like, but once you are there.......you shall never return to the dark side.
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The MPAA has sent cease and desist orders to all the major TV, monitor, LCD & video camera manufacturers requiring that they cease making their devices as the provide a means for circumventing the copy protection of their copyright material.
Corporations like the MPAA (& RIAA) are protecting their profits, not the copyrighted material. The internet takes away their power as distribution becomes easier. They are now able to control the channels that the content is delivered, but for how long. How much money are they going to be worth if artists & filmmakers start distributing their work independently of these corporations?
There's no need to go to higher optical frequencies to increase capacity. The carrier frequency of a 1.3 micron infrared laser is 230 terahertz. It's easy to see that a few hundreds of megabits per seconds barely scratch the theoretical capacity.
I could be wrong, but my understanding of optical transmission is that it generally does not modulate the signal onto the native frequency of the light but uses pulses to encode the signal. On...off...on......
I believe that it is kind of difficult to get electronic circuits to oscillate at Terahertz.
Therefore, the bandwidth is a function of the electronic circuit, not the optical circuit. Of course, when 100% optical switches are ready........
As a thought, I wonder if you could borrow some of the spread spectrum techniques for optical transmission. E.g. Would it be possible to recover a signal from a light source that has been dispersed?
It is pretty normal for M$ to pre-announce their software to whet the appetites of those IT managers and prevent them from going out and buying the competition.
Hang on......I am going to have to think twice before i "buy" that office suite for linux.....hmmm......
Notice the word "reversible". Equates to 0 power consumption. Neat little concept that one.
Or, pick an open source project(s) and get the kids to develop one of the "it would be nice if" features....
Programmers don't make money.
Some of us are just lucky enough to get paid to write programs.
If you want to make money you have to sell something.
Most grandma's & grandpa's have children......or grandchildren for that matter.
supporting games in linux with WINE is not necessarily a good ideal to shoot for. At it's best, it's crappy windows emulation with worse performance, at it's worst, it's an excuse for game coders to say "bah - they've got wine, why code fo linux now?"
I think that aiming to support the "latest and greatest" windows game shouldn't be the aim of WINE. Hands up all those people that have a copy of MAME or C64 emulator running on their machine....same thing will apply to windows games. It will be the no-longer-supported applications & games that will get the most attention with WINE since, at the current rate of growth linux WILL have enough market share to ensure that new software is written for linux. Old stuff doesn't really have any performance issues....just bugs.
I want to buy shares in Transmeta....seems they have the right idea....when are they going public?
So, it would seem to me that with the increasing fragmentation in the processor and OS market would make JAVA (or something like it) a much better option for software distribution......
Suits me.....:)
Coming from Brisbane myself, I must say that the only problem is that the $A is not too flash and the wages are not high due to the low cost of living. In general, Brisbane is a great place to work & live if you don't plan on leaving it any time soon.
You might want to have a look at Ireland, lots of tech jobs popping up and pound is strong and wages are high. Beer is outstanding, people are too friendly (if possible). Weather could be better.....but as a geek, who cares....;P
If you haven't rented it yet, do so.
You might want to dose up on caffeine first, the movie is as boring as the vision of the future it portrays....
OpenGL is clearly much better than Direct3D for a number of reasons, but nobody is lining the pockets of game developers to write games in openGL are they? If there was a port of Direct3D on linux then M$ wouldn't have any reason to push it so hard and it could die it's rightful death.
Emacs is truly awesome.....I can't stand any other editor anymore. :)
There are 2 features (out of the box) of emacs that I just can't live without.
1. Dynamic expansion - start typing a word press alt-/ and if that word exists in any file you have open, it will complete it for you, cycling through the possibilities. Greatly improves my code readability since now I can have informative variable names
2. Coding/indent styles - Once you set up your preferred indenting style, just have to hit tab to put that line in its rightful place. ctl-c ctl-q and the whole damn file is indented the way you want it!
There are a million other reasons emacs is cool and if you don't have one, you can easily make it do what you want. Emacs does take some time to coax it to behave the way you like, but once you are there.......you shall never return to the dark side.
There are 3 things you shouldn't expect when going to a hollywood sci-fi movie. 1. Originality 2. Any grasp of physics 3. A plot When one or more of these is present, you get a pleasant surprise.
Do you think the developers of WINE will be allowed to look at the windoze source code?