While open source software has been more successful than many people's wildest dreams, open source hardware has been a much tougher nut to crack, I think partly because to exploit it requires access to manufacturing capacity to make what is effectively a custom design, whereas open source software works on nearly any computer. FPGAs do help - and they are basically software. Having an FPGA perform (computationally) nearly as well as say a 5000 series nV or 9000 series ATI is probably going to be expensive.
I won't say it isn't possible. I think it might fit a nice niche.
..just less so. If you look up current and previous fusion reactors, you'll find that the liners and other parts of the reactor become "hot" after a while because they are pelted by stray neutrons. One of the things ITER is supposed to help find are find materials that don't become so radioactive.
A D-VHS tape can store about 44 gigabytes. You don't want to know how much money it costs to do that in solid state memory. It looks like the D5 tape standard uses 140GB/hour.
IMO, it is pretty curious that this HD camcorder doesn't use it, as JVC is trying to promote D-VHS, they own the VHS and D-VHS standards.
I saw a prototyping machine at a recent trade show, that could lay down ABS plastic. For a six cubic inch toy wheel, it was an overnight job. It wasn't neceessarily a desktop unit, it was still considerably larger in footprint than an HP LaserJet 4, and is floor standing, I think.
It also costed $25,000.
The machine type described are good for prototyping and custom parts, but there are usually better mass production methods. Laying down atom-by-atom will be slow for a loooong time and at best be of most consequence to nanomachines for that time.
Can someone please describe what advantage RFID has vs. the old Wacoms? The article simply doesn't say. The complaint about the lack of navigation buttons seems to fall short. I try to use those buttons on my mouse, but I keep forgetting.
Other problems with the article:
"What does that mean? Well, as you can see on the list of features on the box, it is light, saves some money (compared to using non-rechargable batteries), and protects the environment."
Gee, why not use rechargeable batteries? OK, it still uses some batteries with toxic chemicals, it just seems silly to use non-rechargeable batteries for this if at all possible.
There may be a point. I stayed away from optical mice because I thought they were too light. I hated it that the cable was heavier than the mouse. I had considered adding weights to a mouse.
Now, I have a few optical mice, although I still use a ball mouse on occasion. The real problem I have with mice is, oddly, the button clicks.
FWIW, Sony actually did relent on the ATRAC conversion for its hard drive and flash players. I'm not sure if that hard drive player was fixed. The 20GB is smaller than Apple's 20GB but costs $50 more and still has a dubious interface.
Sony's CD and DVD players had been using MP3 for a while.
I'm considering a 20GB iPod right now, and won't consider Sony for this task. The 40GB iPod isn't necessary and IMO too thick anyway. I currently only have a 10GB music collection + 1GB software files. It's taken me ten years to get my collection where it is, I don't see it doubling anytime soon.
While brands may not mean anything, models do. You mention that the TVs are essentially the same on the inside. In some ways they are, but that doesn't cover the user interface. For TVs, you get the best colors by making sure the set you get has accurately colored phosphors, then tune it. Few individuals can afford to do a color test, but some magazines do test this. And not all deinterlacing algorithms are the same, I recommend DCDi, but it pays to look up what the differences are between them.
Bad laptop design and poor chip choice doesn't reflect on the company that makes the chip, but the ones that designed the laptop.
For one, using desktop Pentium 4 chips in laptops is rediculously stupid. Maybe the P4m chips were stupid too, I'm not sure.
I have had two Compaq business laptops and they most certanly do not have overheating problems. They both happened to be Pentium IIIm based. If I buy another, I'd have no problem with a Pentium M based laptop.
I think it is some kind of odd thing where it might hint that Apple's notebooks are no better than anyone else's if the same company makes and partly designs both PC and Mac notebooks.
I still don't see how that is relevant though.
Even if the same company makes all Dell, HP and Apple laptops, I don't necessarily consider them to be equal in quality. The brand company can specify the quality of the components and the rigorousness of design validation and so on.
It would be nice if there was more standardization of notebook components, although I do understand that is kind of limiting because form factors shift a lot over time, and a compact design for one particular CPU / chipset might differ from that of another.
If you had read the article, would you be saying that? Oh, that's right, this is Slashdot, where too many people spout off based on a bad one-paragraph summary of an article, without actually reading the article.
"would prohibit a government or any entity it creates from offering broadband for a fee."
"The city could provide the service for free, but it is unlikely to find a funding source for that, she said."
It looks to me that it is the users that will pay for the actual service used. What is the problem with that?
This also appears to be an economic development program:
"The US$7 million to $10 million project is intended to encourage economic growth and help poor residents access the Internet with a broadband service priced at an estimated $15 to $25 per month, she said. About 60 percent of Philadelphia's neighborhoods, primarily poorer neighborhoods and less densely populated ones, don't have access to broadband services, according to Neff."
It doesn't sound too far off of REA and such. Power and telephone needed to be made ubiquitous, so the government financed its roll-out. While there is a chance of abuse, I don't think it should rule out such a program.
For many things, what you say is exactly right. The problem is, there will always be small cases here and there that a true free market system simply fails.
Some people think that having broadband helps economic prospects. If that is true, and that Verizon and the other ISPs can't provide it, why let that be an excuse to hold back other parts of economic progress?
There are cities that provide utilities and happen to do them better than a for-profit company can do.
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Who confirmed the quality difference was an urban myth? I thought Betamax could demonstrate 330 lines of resolution when VHS could only do 250 at best. Of course, there is always possible variation between machines, on the recording and playback end.
Mind you, I never owned a Beta machine, I wouldn't mind one but I own enough media formats, and SVHS looks nice for recording.
The article was interesting, but it was posted a long time ago on Slashdot. The article still reads to me like something is simply better because it is more popular - the reason I say that is because infrastructure follows popularity.
It is an interesting read, but I still hate to say something like MacDonald's is superior to Chili's just because McDonald's has more locations. So there's some fine tuning needed to fix that "whole product" explaination. It fits more things, but the situation seems more complex than that.
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The replacement is a very specialized infrared telescope that won't be able to make the same kinds of observations that the Hubble has been making.
I've seen a quote saying that once we get a natural language compiler, we'll find that geeks can't write.
It would be stupid to route everything through one satellite.
A satellite book I have says that one company had seven satellites in one stationing area, in a region of space about seventy five miles cubed.
I imagine if one goes down, another can fill the need.
It doesn't look like a PCI card. It looks like a signal interface or controller interface board.
While open source software has been more successful than many people's wildest dreams, open source hardware has been a much tougher nut to crack, I think partly because to exploit it requires access to manufacturing capacity to make what is effectively a custom design, whereas open source software works on nearly any computer. FPGAs do help - and they are basically software. Having an FPGA perform (computationally) nearly as well as say a 5000 series nV or 9000 series ATI is probably going to be expensive.
I won't say it isn't possible. I think it might fit a nice niche.
I wish them luck.
Why the hell did the U.S. government even bother with SELinux if they won't use it?
The right butt cheek doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
I thought "Ka" was after some mythological creature. Unfortunately, I can't find anything to back that up with five minutes of searching.
..just less so. If you look up current and previous fusion reactors, you'll find that the liners and other parts of the reactor become "hot" after a while because they are pelted by stray neutrons. One of the things ITER is supposed to help find are find materials that don't become so radioactive.
A D-VHS tape can store about 44 gigabytes. You don't want to know how much money it costs to do that in solid state memory. It looks like the D5 tape standard uses 140GB/hour.
IMO, it is pretty curious that this HD camcorder doesn't use it, as JVC is trying to promote D-VHS, they own the VHS and D-VHS standards.
Your subject is written as if you disagree with the grandparent post, but the actual post agrees.
One other difference is, IIRC, complying with stricter US crash safety regulations and the costly crash testing.
Not that it helps, because Americans are generally less safe drivers, for example, 60% more deaths per 100,000 passenger miles than Japan and Europe.
I saw a prototyping machine at a recent trade show, that could lay down ABS plastic. For a six cubic inch toy wheel, it was an overnight job. It wasn't neceessarily a desktop unit, it was still considerably larger in footprint than an HP LaserJet 4, and is floor standing, I think.
It also costed $25,000.
The machine type described are good for prototyping and custom parts, but there are usually better mass production methods. Laying down atom-by-atom will be slow for a loooong time and at best be of most consequence to nanomachines for that time.
Also, the zoom would probably be digital and not optical.
The funny thing is that this appears to be in consideration, not development or ready for sale:
"LG is considering the development of 6- or 7 -megapixel camera phone with Japanese companies including Canon."
Can someone please describe what advantage RFID has vs. the old Wacoms? The article simply doesn't say. The complaint about the lack of navigation buttons seems to fall short. I try to use those buttons on my mouse, but I keep forgetting.
Other problems with the article:
"What does that mean? Well, as you can see on the list of features on the box, it is light, saves some money (compared to using non-rechargable batteries), and protects the environment."
Gee, why not use rechargeable batteries? OK, it still uses some batteries with toxic chemicals, it just seems silly to use non-rechargeable batteries for this if at all possible.
Mori's Uncanny Valley is just a theory. People shouldn't take it as a gospel that an acceptable humanoid representation is impossible.
Popular Science ran an article about an interesting guy that's working to beat the odds.
There may be a point. I stayed away from optical mice because I thought they were too light. I hated it that the cable was heavier than the mouse. I had considered adding weights to a mouse.
Now, I have a few optical mice, although I still use a ball mouse on occasion. The real problem I have with mice is, oddly, the button clicks.
There are a few errors. The U2 SE doesn't include the "digital boxed set"
Real Networks DID approach Apple to licence Fairplay. Apple refused. Then they released their own workaround.
Another note that I didn't think of until now, the Newsweek with Jobs on the cover looks kind of like the guy in Sling Blade with an iPod.
FWIW, Sony actually did relent on the ATRAC conversion for its hard drive and flash players. I'm not sure if that hard drive player was fixed. The 20GB is smaller than Apple's 20GB but costs $50 more and still has a dubious interface.
Sony's CD and DVD players had been using MP3 for a while.
I'm considering a 20GB iPod right now, and won't consider Sony for this task. The 40GB iPod isn't necessary and IMO too thick anyway. I currently only have a 10GB music collection + 1GB software files. It's taken me ten years to get my collection where it is, I don't see it doubling anytime soon.
It is kind of funny that nearly all of the +5 moderated posts in that story were positive.
I will note that I knew Apple fans that wouldn't even consider it.
While brands may not mean anything, models do. You mention that the TVs are essentially the same on the inside. In some ways they are, but that doesn't cover the user interface. For TVs, you get the best colors by making sure the set you get has accurately colored phosphors, then tune it. Few individuals can afford to do a color test, but some magazines do test this. And not all deinterlacing algorithms are the same, I recommend DCDi, but it pays to look up what the differences are between them.
Bad laptop design and poor chip choice doesn't reflect on the company that makes the chip, but the ones that designed the laptop.
For one, using desktop Pentium 4 chips in laptops is rediculously stupid. Maybe the P4m chips were stupid too, I'm not sure.
I have had two Compaq business laptops and they most certanly do not have overheating problems. They both happened to be Pentium IIIm based. If I buy another, I'd have no problem with a Pentium M based laptop.
I think it is some kind of odd thing where it might hint that Apple's notebooks are no better than anyone else's if the same company makes and partly designs both PC and Mac notebooks.
I still don't see how that is relevant though.
Even if the same company makes all Dell, HP and Apple laptops, I don't necessarily consider them to be equal in quality. The brand company can specify the quality of the components and the rigorousness of design validation and so on.
It would be nice if there was more standardization of notebook components, although I do understand that is kind of limiting because form factors shift a lot over time, and a compact design for one particular CPU / chipset might differ from that of another.
If you had read the article, would you be saying that? Oh, that's right, this is Slashdot, where too many people spout off based on a bad one-paragraph summary of an article, without actually reading the article.
"would prohibit a government or any entity it creates from offering broadband for a fee."
"The city could provide the service for free, but it is unlikely to find a funding source for that, she said."
It looks to me that it is the users that will pay for the actual service used. What is the problem with that?
This also appears to be an economic development program:
"The US$7 million to $10 million project is intended to encourage economic growth and help poor residents access the Internet with a broadband service priced at an estimated $15 to $25 per month, she said. About 60 percent of Philadelphia's neighborhoods, primarily poorer neighborhoods and less densely populated ones, don't have access to broadband services, according to Neff."
It doesn't sound too far off of REA and such. Power and telephone needed to be made ubiquitous, so the government financed its roll-out. While there is a chance of abuse, I don't think it should rule out such a program.
For many things, what you say is exactly right. The problem is, there will always be small cases here and there that a true free market system simply fails.
Some people think that having broadband helps economic prospects. If that is true, and that Verizon and the other ISPs can't provide it, why let that be an excuse to hold back other parts of economic progress?
There are cities that provide utilities and happen to do them better than a for-profit company can do.
Who confirmed the quality difference was an urban myth? I thought Betamax could demonstrate 330 lines of resolution when VHS could only do 250 at best. Of course, there is always possible variation between machines, on the recording and playback end.
Mind you, I never owned a Beta machine, I wouldn't mind one but I own enough media formats, and SVHS looks nice for recording.
The article was interesting, but it was posted a long time ago on Slashdot. The article still reads to me like something is simply better because it is more popular - the reason I say that is because infrastructure follows popularity.
It is an interesting read, but I still hate to say something like MacDonald's is superior to Chili's just because McDonald's has more locations. So there's some fine tuning needed to fix that "whole product" explaination. It fits more things, but the situation seems more complex than that.