With sales of HDTV's skyrocketing ( > 25% of all new TVs) the opportunity for HD fromat DVD is knocking.
But what did we get? A mess. Many consumers will take one look at this and throw up their hands. The smarter consumers will even take it a step further and back off from buying regular format DVDs because they would rather wait for that new title in the higher definition format.
Moore's observation is that the number of transistors per m^2 doubles about every 18 months. This is still happening. What has stopped at least temporarily is the use of this increase in transistor count as a means of increasing CPU throughput. A variety of factors including the fact that RAM access can't keep up, power consumption increases as the cube of clock speed and that increasing pipeline depth to enable higher clock speeds has been taken as far as is practical means that CPU execution speed is currently not increasing as fast as in the past.
Until a means to get around these problems is found by a future Noble Prize winner CPU designers have resorted to putting multiple CPUs on a die. This is great for processes that can be made to run in a parallel fashion (and for programmer employment since this requires more software development), but not so good for linear single threaded applications.
That is the way it is done everywhere else, plus it is how the US used to do it. Bell got the patent on the phone because he got to the patent office about an hour before the other guy.
There are a lot of benefits - less litigation since priority date is based on something hard to argue about, plus it makes sitting on an idea rather than filing on it very dangerous.
Say I come up with an idea that I think to perfectlu obvious. Since it is obvious, I won't bother patenting it.
That is just being dumb on your part trying to outguess the patent office. Nobody is going to sympathize.
For starters: The patent system was supposed to originally protect the individual inventor. Those days are LONG past!
Bullpuckey. Plenty of individual inventors get patents today. My brother-in-law patented a new type of bow fishing system and collects royalties on it. Without patents forget it.
that does not mean that there would be no more drugs...
The answer to your question is simple if you go back into history, or look at how non-patentable ideas are protected today. Trade secrets and licensing would rule the day. This would generate far more litigation than the current patent system, plus restrict the flow of information because no industrial researcher would ever be able to publish again. With patents you have protection if you publish, without the only answer is a black hole of secrecy.
Patents were instituted just before the start of the industrial revolution, and a case can be made that it was cause and effect; patents made it profitable for inventors get funding to market technological innovations.
"Supreme Court preceeded their repeal of the 5th Amendment property rights with a ruling that police have no obligagtion to enforce restraining orders"
You obviously haven't compared Lian Li with other aluminum cases.
Nonsense. I own two aluminum cases, a Thermaltake and a Lian-Li. The Thermaltake was half the price and has better build quality, air flow and styling, and the layout is just as good if not better. Plus I am not sold on aluminum cases in general - what does aluminum get you anyway over steel? A bigger price tag and that is about it. They also tend to be noisier than steel cases because of the thinner construction. Case manufacturers try selling aluminum based on its higher thermal conductivity, but that is BS. Cooling in a modern PC is by air flow, not conducting heat along the case panels LOL.
The only reason to buy an aluminum case is because you like it for other features - layout, etc. In my book all aluminum does is drive up the price without adding actual utility.
It looks gimmicky and overpriced. The business of inverting the power supply / motherboard looks highly questionable since now your pci cards are in the hot zone (top rear) trapping the heat in this area with no airflow. It is also very questionable since most motherboard thermal designs are based on mounting in the reverse position so you are running outside the designers intended use.
In addition the aesthetics are bad - cheese grater anyone?
I think cases like the Thermaltake Tsunami Dream and the Antec PB-160/180 are much better, and at lower cost to boot.
I've read that basically all the SATA interfaces whether on the MOBO or in plug-in cards have their throughput limited to no more than IDE by the bus speed.
I get better than ATA-133 transfer rates all the time on my SATA RAID 0 system.
I think C is a really good choice. It has a minimal number of keywords and exposes the architecture of the computer very well so the focus is on the machine, and how the structure of the code relates to the hardware.
Java, Python. Scheme et al provide a lot of additional useful abstractions, but are most obviously uselful in systems much larger than what the students will be developing and may be too high level for a high-school setting.
What we need is a parallel programming language that makes it easy and natural to take advantage of multi-core processors.
Believe it or not that language is currently FORTRAN. Parallizing FORTRAN compilers were developed for highly parallel supercomputers years ago. There have been experimental projects for Java along the same lines that I imagine will mature over time.
For C or C++ there appear to questions as to how well these languages can optimized for parallel operations.
The question is does transmitting negative information from point A to point B cause the informantion level of A to increase? If so it would explain how universities work.
Simply put they bring in the best and brightest students, hire professors to send these students negative information in their lectures and writings, and thus the university gains information.
Keep this up for a couple of hundred years and it is quite obvious how top universities become famous as such great centers of learning.
I agree for 95% of my print jobs a color laser is best. But I also own an Epson Stylus 3000, and it rocks for some types of color printing - it takes a 22"x17" sheet of paper and prints in stunning resolution. There are a lot of aftermarket suppiles for it too. The ink carts are huge too - the size of a deck of cards. I got it for a good price too at one of the overstock web outlets.
Talk about prior art, this design is at least 2200 years old. It may have been disruptive technology during the Early Han dynasty, but now all it is is a waste of propellant.
Among others. Flash Remoting, old fashioned DHTML, swing based clients using Java Web Start, Foxbase (yes it had a cross platform client) Applets, you name it. AJAX is not revolutionary, any more compatable and has a reduced feature set compared to many of the others.
What next? Lysenkoism? What utter rejection of the progress from the Pythagorean back to fear superstition and darkness. What can we look forward to? Retraction of the apology to Copernicus and Galileo?
HARK ALL THINKING PEOPLE YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOU INTELLECTUAL HONESTY. Memes of the dark ages still run rampant and must be repudiated at all turns.
Soldiers of Thales Arise for the fight is not over.
The problem has nothing to do with Java. FreeBSD has very bad threading support. Everyone who tries to use it runs into problems. For example the Apache apr team is always complaining about it.
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Would have a server that mirrored popular open source distros plus stuffs like CPAN.
This story reminds me of the Star Trek episode 'Court Martial' where Kirk's lawyer actually has a collection of books that he actually reads.
With sales of HDTV's skyrocketing ( > 25% of all new TVs) the opportunity for HD fromat DVD is knocking.
But what did we get? A mess. Many consumers will take one look at this and throw up their hands. The smarter consumers will even take it a step further and back off from buying regular format DVDs because they would rather wait for that new title in the higher definition format.
This is a total foot-shot.
Moore's observation is that the number of transistors per m^2 doubles about every 18 months. This is still happening. What has stopped at least temporarily is the use of this increase in transistor count as a means of increasing CPU throughput. A variety of factors including the fact that RAM access can't keep up, power consumption increases as the cube of clock speed and that increasing pipeline depth to enable higher clock speeds has been taken as far as is practical means that CPU execution speed is currently not increasing as fast as in the past.
Until a means to get around these problems is found by a future Noble Prize winner CPU designers have resorted to putting multiple CPUs on a die. This is great for processes that can be made to run in a parallel fashion (and for programmer employment since this requires more software development), but not so good for linear single threaded applications.
This "first to file" thing worries me.
That is the way it is done everywhere else, plus it is how the US used to do it. Bell got the patent on the phone because he got to the patent office about an hour before the other guy.
There are a lot of benefits - less litigation since priority date is based on something hard to argue about, plus it makes sitting on an idea rather than filing on it very dangerous.
Say I come up with an idea that I think to perfectlu obvious. Since it is obvious, I won't bother patenting it.
That is just being dumb on your part trying to outguess the patent office. Nobody is going to sympathize.
For starters: The patent system was supposed to originally protect the individual inventor. Those days are LONG past!
Bullpuckey. Plenty of individual inventors get patents today. My brother-in-law patented a new type of bow fishing system and collects royalties on it. Without patents forget it.
that does not mean that there would be no more drugs...
The answer to your question is simple if you go back into history, or look at how non-patentable ideas are protected today. Trade secrets and licensing would rule the day. This would generate far more litigation than the current patent system, plus restrict the flow of information because no industrial researcher would ever be able to publish again. With patents you have protection if you publish, without the only answer is a black hole of secrecy.
Patents were instituted just before the start of the industrial revolution, and a case can be made that it was cause and effect; patents made it profitable for inventors get funding to market technological innovations.
"Supreme Court preceeded their repeal of the 5th Amendment property rights with a ruling that police have no obligagtion to enforce restraining orders"
You need to stop getting your news from Fox.
You obviously haven't compared Lian Li with other aluminum cases.
Nonsense. I own two aluminum cases, a Thermaltake and a Lian-Li. The Thermaltake was half the price and has better build quality, air flow and styling, and the layout is just as good if not better. Plus I am not sold on aluminum cases in general - what does aluminum get you anyway over steel? A bigger price tag and that is about it. They also tend to be noisier than steel cases because of the thinner construction. Case manufacturers try selling aluminum based on its higher thermal conductivity, but that is BS. Cooling in a modern PC is by air flow, not conducting heat along the case panels LOL.
The only reason to buy an aluminum case is because you like it for other features - layout, etc. In my book all aluminum does is drive up the price without adding actual utility.
It looks gimmicky and overpriced. The business of inverting the power supply / motherboard looks highly questionable since now your pci cards are in the hot zone (top rear) trapping the heat in this area with no airflow. It is also very questionable since most motherboard thermal designs are based on mounting in the reverse position so you are running outside the designers intended use.
In addition the aesthetics are bad - cheese grater anyone?
I think cases like the Thermaltake Tsunami Dream and the Antec PB-160/180 are much better, and at lower cost to boot.
4 processors to run adware and spyware which will probably be multithreaded, and one processor to run your single-threaded game.
I've read that basically all the SATA interfaces whether on the MOBO or in plug-in cards have their throughput limited to no more than IDE by the bus speed.
I get better than ATA-133 transfer rates all the time on my SATA RAID 0 system.
I think C is a really good choice. It has a minimal number of keywords and exposes the architecture of the computer very well so the focus is on the machine, and how the structure of the code relates to the hardware.
Java, Python. Scheme et al provide a lot of additional useful abstractions, but are most obviously uselful in systems much larger than what the students will be developing and may be too high level for a high-school setting.
I prefer fast, cheap, good, pick two or even better just 'pick two' per se.
What we need is a parallel programming language that makes it easy and natural to take advantage of multi-core processors.
Believe it or not that language is currently FORTRAN. Parallizing FORTRAN compilers were developed for highly parallel supercomputers years ago. There have been experimental projects for Java along the same lines that I imagine will mature over time.
For C or C++ there appear to questions as to how well these languages can optimized for parallel operations.
The question is does transmitting negative information from point A to point B cause the informantion level of A to increase? If so it would explain how universities work.
Simply put they bring in the best and brightest students, hire professors to send these students negative information in their lectures and writings, and thus the university gains information.
Keep this up for a couple of hundred years and it is quite obvious how top universities become famous as such great centers of learning.
Before '99 at any rate.
The filing date is 1996. 1999 isn't good enough.
Buy a color laser printer.
I agree for 95% of my print jobs a color laser is best. But I also own an Epson Stylus 3000, and it rocks for some types of color printing - it takes a 22"x17" sheet of paper and prints in stunning resolution. There are a lot of aftermarket suppiles for it too. The ink carts are huge too - the size of a deck of cards. I got it for a good price too at one of the overstock web outlets.
Hmmm...
Talk about prior art, this design is at least 2200 years old. It may have been disruptive technology during the Early Han dynasty, but now all it is is a waste of propellant.
JAVA applets come to mind.
Among others. Flash Remoting, old fashioned DHTML, swing based clients using Java Web Start, Foxbase (yes it had a cross platform client) Applets, you name it. AJAX is not revolutionary, any more compatable and has a reduced feature set compared to many of the others.
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of Ants?
Yes, I have several of those in my back yard.
All that because each of the applications just offers a dumb fat client to access it per default.
All that you are doing with AJAX is writing the dumb fat client using a different, less capable programming environment than what is used today.
What next? Lysenkoism? What utter rejection of the progress from the Pythagorean back to fear superstition and darkness. What can we look forward to? Retraction of the apology to Copernicus and Galileo?
HARK ALL THINKING PEOPLE YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOU INTELLECTUAL HONESTY. Memes of the dark ages still run rampant and must be repudiated at all turns.
Soldiers of Thales Arise for the fight is not over.
From what I recall it was Fred Brooks, Mythical Man Month
Write a C program to enumerate all of the transcendental numbers, and pack them into a 200K memory segment.
The problem has nothing to do with Java. FreeBSD has very bad threading support. Everyone who tries to use it runs into problems. For example the Apache apr team is always complaining about it.