Yet, somehow Foveon had managed to make improvements by making a three layer CMOS sensor so you can use one single sensor and still record the red, green and blue for every single pixel. Most digital cameras are single chip, but alternate what color is detected based on pixel location, causing some issues occasionally.
Well we did invent $7000 televisions and 28% credit cards. That's progress I guess.
Corrected for inflation, TVs before the '60s costed a lot more than they do now, corrected for current money, they could be more than $20,000 (current money) for an average set then.
I haven't heard of 28% credit cards, I would think those would be going to the people that shouldn't ever have a credit card.
why are people "stealing" stuff they claim is so bad they don't even want to listen to?
Because they are "sampling" it to verify how bad it is. Uh, yeah, that's it. That doesn't explain the people that store hundreds of gigs of audio though. As much as I don't like the copyright cartels, I don't think this is right either. The people that don't like the mainstream stuff can always buy independent music, there's even plenty of good indie music that has tracks available free and legal, so there's really little point in violating the copyright of the companies that don't want to play. Just downloading stuff against the owner's wishes only gives them more ammo in claiming P2P is hurting them.
Dolby Headphone and other psycho-accoustic transforms could be applied to the audio, so any headphones should work. It seems to work pretty well. The main problem is that there isn't a good way to get 5 channel audio into or out of a portable audio device. The DTS CDs are transferable, but most 5 channel audio has shifted to closed SACD or DVD-Audio formats, so ripping isn't feasible unless you want to go back to recording from the line-outs, and few people own 5.1 capture cards.
What I've seen done for live recordings, is that the musicians are on the fronts, the rears are for audience. It is nice to have that sort of separation.
PDF is definitely very established. I even print to PDF rather than paper so I can keep payment records. The one thing I would want is efficiency, PDFs are among the slowest to render document type. It is improving with the latest computers so that it really isn't noticible, but I don't plan to dump my computers any time soon.
Have you measured the draw of these components? The big draws are the video and processor, everything else you list is generally peanuts. For example, the drives take maybe 10 to 15 watts each in use, much less when idling.
DC does not require any larger conductors than AC does, for the same voltage and current. You must be assuming low voltage in reference to DC.
Low voltage as in safe DC voltage. 120VDC is unsafe for home use. Start an arc and you can't stop it short of tripping a circuit breaker. The same arc on an AC system, 120VAC RMS, the arc dies before the zero crossing.
AC transformers are even more efficient than DC-DC converters, 99%+ efficient is not uncommon. 90% efficiency on DC is available, but for the cut-throat consumer electronics market, the extra cost means that they go with cheaper units with maybe 70% efficiency.
There are still some nearly unsolvable problems with higher voltage DC as a distribution system. For one, arcs start easier on a 48VDC system, and arcs are harder to break because current can just follow the ionized trail and is easily sustained. This causes a safety issue, and is one reason why few autos have a 48VDC system.
Incidental arcs with AC systems are easily broken and die automatically because the current goes to zero, breaking the current and the ionized path disperses too quickly for the reverse current to travel through it.
There are several lines of analog programmable chips. I've heard about them five years ago or so. I think analog IC design is quite a bit tougher than digital, so if you need a truly custom analog IC, you are best off finding a specialist or going for a Master's (or higher) EE program.
There is a government program that subsidizes chipmaking for schools, last I heard, it costs $50k (before subsidy) to make a custom chip. I had a prof that showed off his custom chip during the IC design class. Our school doesn't do it because the whole cycle is 6 months and the students would be graduated and gone by then.
The Blackberry would be better anyway because it is connected anywhere there is a compatible cellular network. The DS needs to have an open (or have a key for) WiFi hotspot nearby, those tend to be far spottier than the cell network.
There is the bit about driver support and compatibility with hardware combinations that has not been tested. The Linux and BSD systems get a lot of testing with a far wider variety of hardware.
And of course, some VIA and SIS chipsets have shown themselves to me to be simply worthless.
BTW: SuSE has or have done "official" certification with a great many models of computers that ensures the system stability and driver compatibility. I have a couple such computers that are happen to be listed as certified. It's pretty common with workstation-level apps too, the software maker runs a slew of tests to ensure the hardware and software work together.
To properly compare to AMD power consumption with Intel, you have to compare the both processor and the chipset. These fundamental differences make direct processor power comparisons meaningless.
For power, yes, you need to consider the whole package, which they do, they aren't just measuring the CPU power consumption. They said: "We measured the power consumption of our entire test systems, except for the monitor, at the wall outlet". It appears they pretty much did what you suggested.
For performance, it's pretty much built into the tests.
I don't think that is necessariy the case. It could be the doing of unproductive, greedy, envious capitalist compeititors. Any one company seem dominant in any market, the rest of that market sometimes coalesces against the dominant player.
It's a ridiculous restriction anyhow. It's not like DVI-capture cards are a dime a dozen (or even possible with current hardware for that matter). It's not like anyone would WANT to capture the uncompressed digital stream and waste their time recompressing that back to it's original size. It's just another insane move by Hollywood.
Your comments seem to assume time doesn't move on and technology doesn't become cheaper and easier.
Also, Sony's AC3 format comes to mind. Say hello to HDDVD
Sigh.
AC3 is the technical name for Dolby Digital. You are probably thinking of ATRAC.
HD-DVD is using the exact same protection standard as Blu-Ray, being the AACS system. HD-DVD will also require the same display encryption system to operate as Blu-Ray, so if you don't have HDCP, you won't be able to use an unhacked system. Both formats pretty much support the same sets of audio and video CODECs too.
As much as I can gather, BluRay and HD-DVD are similar in so many ways that the the most significant difference between them are in the optics and the physical media. In fact, they both use the same laser wavelength. There are relatively minor things such as the control language, and HD-DVD is requiring managed copy when Blu-Ray isn't, but my main point is that they aren't anywhere nearly as different as people think.
Blu-Ray isn't under Sony's exclusive control either. All but two of Japan's electronics makers collaborated on the hardware format, it is a consortium that included names like Pioneer and Matsushita (JVC & Panasonic) as well. I don't understand why people fixate on BluRay as if it is Sony's format, they should be given credit for industry collaboration here, but I suppose this is one of those "bash anything touched by Sony" things. In this case, it is actually NEC and Toshiba that thought they should make their own alternative format, well after the BluRay consortium announced a functioning optical standard. Indications I've heard have it that NEC/Toshiba's format was accepted only because of shady politiking of the DVD consortium.
That argument sounds like the slippery slope fallacy.
While I don't think broadband should necessarily be free, I wonder how many people in the 30's said that no one has a right to affordable telephone service or electricity. Wiring the USA for power and telephone was a significant but worthwhile investment that helped the post WWII booms. As it is, most of the nations that are ahead of the US in broadband acceptance were from state controlled telecomm that manages to be less regressive than the US telecom oligopoly, the government had to lead the way and it seems to be helping them.
I think that is more of an issue of software not utilizing the available capacity, the software won't be optimized unless there is sufficient hardware available to justify optimizing the code. That very article seems to indicate that a Quad G5 could encode two videos at a time and still beat the Intel iMac.
Say bye to the race to the Gigahertz. Say hello to the race to the core count
Really. It does seem that there's only so much that can be done to increase the clock. I hope this gives an impetus to improve multi-CPU software performance.
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Yet, somehow Foveon had managed to make improvements by making a three layer CMOS sensor so you can use one single sensor and still record the red, green and blue for every single pixel. Most digital cameras are single chip, but alternate what color is detected based on pixel location, causing some issues occasionally.
Well we did invent $7000 televisions and 28% credit cards. That's progress I guess.
Corrected for inflation, TVs before the '60s costed a lot more than they do now, corrected for current money, they could be more than $20,000 (current money) for an average set then.
I haven't heard of 28% credit cards, I would think those would be going to the people that shouldn't ever have a credit card.
why are people "stealing" stuff they claim is so bad they don't even want to listen to?
Because they are "sampling" it to verify how bad it is. Uh, yeah, that's it. That doesn't explain the people that store hundreds of gigs of audio though. As much as I don't like the copyright cartels, I don't think this is right either. The people that don't like the mainstream stuff can always buy independent music, there's even plenty of good indie music that has tracks available free and legal, so there's really little point in violating the copyright of the companies that don't want to play. Just downloading stuff against the owner's wishes only gives them more ammo in claiming P2P is hurting them.
Dolby Headphone and other psycho-accoustic transforms could be applied to the audio, so any headphones should work. It seems to work pretty well. The main problem is that there isn't a good way to get 5 channel audio into or out of a portable audio device. The DTS CDs are transferable, but most 5 channel audio has shifted to closed SACD or DVD-Audio formats, so ripping isn't feasible unless you want to go back to recording from the line-outs, and few people own 5.1 capture cards.
What I've seen done for live recordings, is that the musicians are on the fronts, the rears are for audience. It is nice to have that sort of separation.
Still, the wider adoption of AAC won't help other devices play iTMS tracks unless Apple licences out the format.
PDF is definitely very established. I even print to PDF rather than paper so I can keep payment records. The one thing I would want is efficiency, PDFs are among the slowest to render document type. It is improving with the latest computers so that it really isn't noticible, but I don't plan to dump my computers any time soon.
In other words, business as usual for C|Net.
Have you measured the draw of these components? The big draws are the video and processor, everything else you list is generally peanuts. For example, the drives take maybe 10 to 15 watts each in use, much less when idling.
Actually, many of the smaller oil producing countries are exactly as you describe.
At least, I could have sworn that this topic was posted to this site last week.
DC does not require any larger conductors than AC does, for the same voltage and current. You must be assuming low voltage in reference to DC.
Low voltage as in safe DC voltage. 120VDC is unsafe for home use. Start an arc and you can't stop it short of tripping a circuit breaker. The same arc on an AC system, 120VAC RMS, the arc dies before the zero crossing.
AC transformers are even more efficient than DC-DC converters, 99%+ efficient is not uncommon. 90% efficiency on DC is available, but for the cut-throat consumer electronics market, the extra cost means that they go with cheaper units with maybe 70% efficiency.
There are still some nearly unsolvable problems with higher voltage DC as a distribution system. For one, arcs start easier on a 48VDC system, and arcs are harder to break because current can just follow the ionized trail and is easily sustained. This causes a safety issue, and is one reason why few autos have a 48VDC system.
Incidental arcs with AC systems are easily broken and die automatically because the current goes to zero, breaking the current and the ionized path disperses too quickly for the reverse current to travel through it.
There are several lines of analog programmable chips. I've heard about them five years ago or so. I think analog IC design is quite a bit tougher than digital, so if you need a truly custom analog IC, you are best off finding a specialist or going for a Master's (or higher) EE program.
There is a government program that subsidizes chipmaking for schools, last I heard, it costs $50k (before subsidy) to make a custom chip. I had a prof that showed off his custom chip during the IC design class. Our school doesn't do it because the whole cycle is 6 months and the students would be graduated and gone by then.
Actually, it was Diamond Multimedia over their Rio player. Sadly, both Diamond, and the audio player spin-off, Rio, seem to be dead and gone now.
The Blackberry would be better anyway because it is connected anywhere there is a compatible cellular network. The DS needs to have an open (or have a key for) WiFi hotspot nearby, those tend to be far spottier than the cell network.
There is the bit about driver support and compatibility with hardware combinations that has not been tested. The Linux and BSD systems get a lot of testing with a far wider variety of hardware.
And of course, some VIA and SIS chipsets have shown themselves to me to be simply worthless.
BTW: SuSE has or have done "official" certification with a great many models of computers that ensures the system stability and driver compatibility. I have a couple such computers that are happen to be listed as certified. It's pretty common with workstation-level apps too, the software maker runs a slew of tests to ensure the hardware and software work together.
To properly compare to AMD power consumption with Intel, you have to compare the both processor and the chipset. These fundamental differences make direct processor power comparisons meaningless.
For power, yes, you need to consider the whole package, which they do, they aren't just measuring the CPU power consumption. They said: "We measured the power consumption of our entire test systems, except for the monitor, at the wall outlet". It appears they pretty much did what you suggested.
For performance, it's pretty much built into the tests.
I don't think that is necessariy the case. It could be the doing of unproductive, greedy, envious capitalist compeititors. Any one company seem dominant in any market, the rest of that market sometimes coalesces against the dominant player.
It's a ridiculous restriction anyhow. It's not like DVI-capture cards are a dime a dozen (or even possible with current hardware for that matter). It's not like anyone would WANT to capture the uncompressed digital stream and waste their time recompressing that back to it's original size. It's just another insane move by Hollywood.
Your comments seem to assume time doesn't move on and technology doesn't become cheaper and easier.
Also, Sony's AC3 format comes to mind. Say hello to HDDVD
Sigh.
AC3 is the technical name for Dolby Digital. You are probably thinking of ATRAC.
HD-DVD is using the exact same protection standard as Blu-Ray, being the AACS system. HD-DVD will also require the same display encryption system to operate as Blu-Ray, so if you don't have HDCP, you won't be able to use an unhacked system. Both formats pretty much support the same sets of audio and video CODECs too.
As much as I can gather, BluRay and HD-DVD are similar in so many ways that the the most significant difference between them are in the optics and the physical media. In fact, they both use the same laser wavelength. There are relatively minor things such as the control language, and HD-DVD is requiring managed copy when Blu-Ray isn't, but my main point is that they aren't anywhere nearly as different as people think.
Blu-Ray isn't under Sony's exclusive control either. All but two of Japan's electronics makers collaborated on the hardware format, it is a consortium that included names like Pioneer and Matsushita (JVC & Panasonic) as well. I don't understand why people fixate on BluRay as if it is Sony's format, they should be given credit for industry collaboration here, but I suppose this is one of those "bash anything touched by Sony" things. In this case, it is actually NEC and Toshiba that thought they should make their own alternative format, well after the BluRay consortium announced a functioning optical standard. Indications I've heard have it that NEC/Toshiba's format was accepted only because of shady politiking of the DVD consortium.
Does anyone have an idea as to how hard it would be to break the encryption scheme being placed on the next gen technology?
AACS is protected by AES. Has anyone been able to break AES in a reasonable time frame?
That argument sounds like the slippery slope fallacy.
While I don't think broadband should necessarily be free, I wonder how many people in the 30's said that no one has a right to affordable telephone service or electricity. Wiring the USA for power and telephone was a significant but worthwhile investment that helped the post WWII booms. As it is, most of the nations that are ahead of the US in broadband acceptance were from state controlled telecomm that manages to be less regressive than the US telecom oligopoly, the government had to lead the way and it seems to be helping them.
MS should have no trouble scaling Windows up to four - eight cores in the next iteration.
They shouldn't because they are already well beyond that with their Datacenter Edition:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888732/en-us
I think that is more of an issue of software not utilizing the available capacity, the software won't be optimized unless there is sufficient hardware available to justify optimizing the code. That very article seems to indicate that a Quad G5 could encode two videos at a time and still beat the Intel iMac.
Say bye to the race to the Gigahertz. Say hello to the race to the core count
Really. It does seem that there's only so much that can be done to increase the clock. I hope this gives an impetus to improve multi-CPU software performance.