here's the dilemma - this guy is supposedly protected by whistle-blowing laws, even though he probably broke his none-disclosure agreement... rest of the company's work done to address his concerns are competition sensitive and will not be released into the public domain.
i'm not sure how much research Dan Rather did on FAA safety testing, if he can poke a hole in potential flaws in those requirements, then he has a story. otherwise, it's just bs.
I've done some "high level work on a Air Force and NASA projects" and was the "Responsible Engineering Authority" on others... i can't begin to claim that i know what i'm doing, can only claim that enough tech fellows are satisfied with my work. "high level work" is such a loaded bunch of words, it doesn't mean anything...
"Of course, the pictures aren't fully representative of how the images would look at full size; but given that most people resize images to put on Flickr, we could start to see a decline in dedicated digital cameras sales and an increase in camera phone sales."
Last I checked, my flickr account is full of 8MP photos from 20D and 12MP photos from 5D in their original resolution, with all the proper EXIF data, etc. If i want a crappy online site to share photos, Facebook is where it's at (considering they have more photo uploaded than any other website). Get with the times!
As for the camera phone comparison, either the submitter or the editor is an idiot who doesn't understand color vibrancy != good photo. Color accuracy is much more relevant. That's why there are more sites ranking Canon's subcompact higher than Sony's in image quality - former is more accurate, latter is more vibrant. It's all too easy to change the in-camera settings to fake the vibrancy if you are too lazy to photoshop it in.
with monthly posts on slashdot about cure for HIV/AIDS, it's practically a none-event...
in other news, my father recently claimed that he's getting close to a viable HIV vaccine. *shrugs* of course since he's no longer in academia, it's about patents and trade secrets, so there won't be any disclosures until something is ready for stage 1 clinical trial. (i'm actually serious about this claim, but i also realize it does sound like a joke, hehe... i knew there's a reason he received a few mil in funding from NIH...)
Just bought a dell laptop yesterday actually. with all the discount specials floating around, some models listed in this article doesn't have the option of XP... Looking at the 1505 model, i was faced with the choice of getting Vista Home and buy a XP Pro OEM license elsewhere, or spend an extra hundred via a different deal to include XP Pro. Former requires much more time from me to d/l and install drivers later... Eventually, the 6400 model came through, which had identical specs as the 1505 and comparable discounts, XP Pro came pre-installed:-D took probably 3 hours of looking around though, but if I had to do all the d/l etc, it'll take 6 hours instead -_-'
In comparison, Lenovo shopping was much more straight-forward, albeit around $200 more expensive...
the other thing that bugged me about the article is about the "waste of power to toss away information" is pretty much awash when you factor in the math used to piece together the mirror reflections vs raw-to-jpg compression, which ultimately are all done on some sub-90nm CMOS ASIC that consumes most of the power through idle current leak rather than peak utilization...
from an amature photographer pov, it's totally useless as I'd rather keep the 12MB raw file and perform long and arduous DSP on it via software later, since DSP algorithm will improve but my camera's hardware is fixed... but that's a different debate.
PRAM has been in development for years, and intel is nowhere on the map until now... too many "new memory" types and who knows which will win out... FeRAM, CRAM, MRAM are just a few that immediately comes to mind...
lol you haven't posted a female personal ad on CL have you? o_O
i've done a similar experiment on CL for fun and out of boredom and has the emails sitting in one of my gmail inbox, haha... and only thing i can say is, if he had made this post in LA, he would've gotten 500 replies easy...
uh... to land human on Mars, you need an INSANE amount of radiation shielding... once you are out of the magnetosphere, goodluck not getting incurable cancer during the trip... the radiation hazard to send someone to the moon is already plenty high... (FWIW, i work in the satellite industry)
I know BMW has 'em, and used to invalidate your warranty when necessary... one poor hap got caught down shifting from 6th to 3rd while doing 100, over-revving the engine and no more free service for him...
ask any caltech student, they'll tell you that they didn't learn the skill needed for their job, they learned "how to learn." the degree seems to carry a lot of weight no matter where you go for job interviews. in any rapidly developing profession, what you learned in college is either 10 years out of date, or will be in 3 years...
Uh... the biggest problem about manned travel to Mars is radiation effect. A Geo-Synchronous satellite has enough trouble with its electronics from harsh radiation effects (much more so than a Low Earth Orbit satellite), much due to the lack of protection from Van Allen's belt; think about people, who's tolerance is one thousands if not one millionth that of semiconductors. Doesn't matter what kind of spacesuit you have, you can't shield against heavy particles, and unless the time it takes to travel to Mars gets reduced substantially, (say to 1/100th of what we are theoretically capable of, based on time to travel to the moon) you really could have Fantastic Four by the time the astronauts come back to Earth...
lol you mean we lost the freaking Flemming canon? -_-' that's just sad... i'm amazed MIT managed to get that thing all the way across the country... gigantic uhaul?
MMORPG is a complete waste of money and time, but it does create a whole new market for oursourcing, e-commerce, among other things.
random battles, i can do without... i remember one of the ffs i played had such a high encounter rate it was painful to do side-quests and make mistakes...
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lol yeah... you won't be able to use those health-dependent weapon-combos like the ones in FF-X2 where you get 9999 damage regardless of enemy's defense if your health is at 1... (more than 1 rpg have done this) that is, unless you spend tons of time micromanage when the game's level-up system is designed around zipping through battles... i can see that as a potential issue...
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final fantasy series never had a whole lot of strategy and difficulty to it... the 99 limit in number of items, the endless casting of pheonix down and such made dying "just another part of the game". some of the "hardest" fights were fairly easy, and i've managed to defeat toneberries with little trouble when the walkthrough said they are impossible at that stage of the game. (in FF8's battle arena, in the last fight, i was berserked after being turned into a toad and mini'd, so i only dealt 1 point of damage without any way to get out of the infinite loop... turns out the monster didn't have physical attacks and i was totally immune to his magic, which he ran out after some time... so i left the tv off and playstation running for a week before winning o_O)
In comparison, i'm currently playing Star Ocean 3, where you have no pheonix down casting, and limit to 20 "revive-item" in the earlier part of the game, and i've actually ran out of those (or mp-replenish items) during normal map-walking... i also remember xenogears where one of the first boss i fought was close to impossible unless i upgraded my gears... so in that sense, the new system is welcomed... either that, or make the fights more tatically challenging, but not a button-smasher.
my list of completed rpgs include: ff4-x2 (no tatics) xenogears, xenosaga 1 (got kinda bored with xenosaga 2) star ocean 2, (in the process of playing star ocean 3) one of many dragon quests one of many breath of fire lunar - silver star story chrono trigger, chrono cross secret of mana and probably one or two other ones i forgot about...
I guess you have no clue on how the aerospace industry works and the problems associated with it... 12,000 ft may not have enough air pressure to spin up harddrives, but it certainly has enough radiation to cause tons of errors in the flash device. do you want your plane to crash due to a "bit-flip" (aka seu-event)?
decades ago, his petition back after the 1989 incident would've got him arrested... And how many of you foreigners are aware that almost all Chinese historians consider the 1989 incident as a political struggle for who to succeed Deng instead of a movement for democracy? the students were mere (and willing) pawns in a game of chess... there are A LOT of still growing military and geo-political issues within the communist party that you can't even begin to fathom, Westerners needs to give Hu a lot more credit for managing to stablize the country in its current form.
progress doesn't happen over night, especially with a country with much longer history and population base than the "developed world", where "way of things" are in-grained in thousands of years of history and minds of people. Kind of a Netflix vs. Blockbuster analogy if you will...
read my original post more carefully before you call people ignorant.
you pose the questions as if their family left china to escape political prosecution...
I'm a first generation Chinese immigrant who totally agrees with the original post. China, as it's economy rapidly develops, is influencing the government in a big way, making it more "open" and more "progressive" in the last 25 years than the past 2,500 years, except arugably between 1919 to 1944 (when the KMT was first formed 'til civil war). In the mean time, First Amendment rights in the US, world's darling and model of "freedom" are being slowly stripped away through things like the Times case, the wire-tapping scandle, and will only get worse in the name of "national security." In contrast, China's opening it's final protected institution, the 5 major banks to the world in the near future, while the US is going through major protectionism through CNNOC and DPT fiascos.
Is what the original story "the boy who cried wolf"? sure, you can draw such analogy. But I point you to a quote from wikipedia on wolfs: "Accordingly, while the stereotype of wolves as malicious, wanton killers and vile, worthless beasts still has influence in certain circles, a significant portion of the public has developed a more positive opinion of wolves as interesting, valuable, and noble animals." I'm not hinting that the Chinese government is "noble", just not as "malicious" and "vile" as most here at Slashdot makes it out to be.
and to answer your question, I live in the good-o California, and my family migrated to US in 1992 as purely a career move of my dad, who now co-founded a multi-million dollar biotech company in San Diego.
Considering the difference in speed in photo-processing between the two 2GHz computers, especially with ever increasing Megapixel count, my desktop is here to stay for the long term. On top of that, other than MacBooks, how many other laptop will be able to drive dual-link DVI monitors? My Dell laptop is sitting by my bed and getting utilized maybe 1/10th as much as my desktop. I don't see a laptop fast enough to replace my current desktop in photo-processing for another 3 years or so...
Dell 700m - 2.0GHz Pentium M 512MB of RAM 40GB HD (5400RPM?) DVD+-RW (that produces CRC errors often) shared graphics that can't even handle transparency in gaim...
Home Brewed - 2.0GHz Athlon 64 (not overclocked, surprisingly) 1GB of RAM 2x 73GB Raptor in RAID1 DVR+-RW (that almost never produce coasters) ATI FireGL X3 (Cheapest dual-link dvi solution at the time i built my system)
Captain Obvious is Captain Idiot! some idiotic white guy who thinks he knows all that just 'cuz he's talked to some chinese of unknown origin...
Vast majority of mainland chinese considers Taiwan as a province. Call it brainwashing, call it national pride, call it whatever, just don't go off running your mouth as if it were a fact. Most Taiwan-Taiwanese doesn't like KMT. So here in the US, there's a distinction of "taiwan-taiwan", "mainland-taiwan", and "mainland" chinese. And why did you drag Taiwan into this anyway? totally irrelevant from this discussion.
Mainland Chinese haven't developed a large enough middle class to realize or understand "free from oppression." The distinction between "communism" and "capitalism" in the current Chinese society are just difference in words. Official CCP's stance's been "a market driven economy with socialistic flavor" for the past several decadesn now. And as the government moves towards more capitalism and away from communism, you are now seeing lots of social-unrest from the farmers. The biggest fear is one hand, you have know-nothing farmers who are poor and consists of 80% of the population wondering where's the money they've been promised (I think something like bottwom 75% holds 15% of the wealth or some staggering number I read recently), while 20% of the remaining population slowly becoming self-aware and demanding more rights, including freedom of speech. CCP isn't strong enough to deal with both issues right now, and if they come together, you'll have a social-upheval that'll set back 1/6th of the world's population back to the late 70s, and then what?
If the economy is fully market driven instead of central-plan, China would've crashed back in the late 90s and you would've seen a global economic meltdown far worse than what took place. If China's economy suddenly becomes market driven now, all the major banks of China will be in trouble due to bad-loans of the 90s, and you'll have even more social-unrest. Given its size, history, and current situation, the CCP is doing an amazing job keeping things together. I'm not saying what they are doing is all good-and-dandy, and all for the good-of-the-people, but sometimes some things are a necessary evil.
India's facing similar problems as China... the poor are wondering where's all the wealth gone. They are, however, the only successful democracy with annual per-capita income of under US$5k...
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here's the dilemma - this guy is supposedly protected by whistle-blowing laws, even though he probably broke his none-disclosure agreement... rest of the company's work done to address his concerns are competition sensitive and will not be released into the public domain.
i'm not sure how much research Dan Rather did on FAA safety testing, if he can poke a hole in potential flaws in those requirements, then he has a story. otherwise, it's just bs.
I've done some "high level work on a Air Force and NASA projects" and was the "Responsible Engineering Authority" on others... i can't begin to claim that i know what i'm doing, can only claim that enough tech fellows are satisfied with my work. "high level work" is such a loaded bunch of words, it doesn't mean anything...
haha, i'm glad someone is getting their job done right to ensure that we have a chance to win GPS-3, lol
except US only accounts for ~25% of chinese exports. losing 1/4 of it's output isn't going to bankrupt state-owned-enterprises
"Of course, the pictures aren't fully representative of how the images would look at full size; but given that most people resize images to put on Flickr, we could start to see a decline in dedicated digital cameras sales and an increase in camera phone sales."
Last I checked, my flickr account is full of 8MP photos from 20D and 12MP photos from 5D in their original resolution, with all the proper EXIF data, etc. If i want a crappy online site to share photos, Facebook is where it's at (considering they have more photo uploaded than any other website). Get with the times!
As for the camera phone comparison, either the submitter or the editor is an idiot who doesn't understand color vibrancy != good photo. Color accuracy is much more relevant. That's why there are more sites ranking Canon's subcompact higher than Sony's in image quality - former is more accurate, latter is more vibrant. It's all too easy to change the in-camera settings to fake the vibrancy if you are too lazy to photoshop it in.
with monthly posts on slashdot about cure for HIV/AIDS, it's practically a none-event...
in other news, my father recently claimed that he's getting close to a viable HIV vaccine. *shrugs* of course since he's no longer in academia, it's about patents and trade secrets, so there won't be any disclosures until something is ready for stage 1 clinical trial. (i'm actually serious about this claim, but i also realize it does sound like a joke, hehe... i knew there's a reason he received a few mil in funding from NIH...)
Just bought a dell laptop yesterday actually. with all the discount specials floating around, some models listed in this article doesn't have the option of XP... Looking at the 1505 model, i was faced with the choice of getting Vista Home and buy a XP Pro OEM license elsewhere, or spend an extra hundred via a different deal to include XP Pro. Former requires much more time from me to d/l and install drivers later... Eventually, the 6400 model came through, which had identical specs as the 1505 and comparable discounts, XP Pro came pre-installed :-D took probably 3 hours of looking around though, but if I had to do all the d/l etc, it'll take 6 hours instead -_-'
In comparison, Lenovo shopping was much more straight-forward, albeit around $200 more expensive...
244 starting in a few weeks! One of my friends just left US to join the sales team in China.
In other news, 244 people in China decided to forgo feeding their first and only born for a year, to purchase Vista.
that's why it's called "myth"
JPEG2000 has a lossless algorithm definition...
the other thing that bugged me about the article is about the "waste of power to toss away information" is pretty much awash when you factor in the math used to piece together the mirror reflections vs raw-to-jpg compression, which ultimately are all done on some sub-90nm CMOS ASIC that consumes most of the power through idle current leak rather than peak utilization...
from an amature photographer pov, it's totally useless as I'd rather keep the 12MB raw file and perform long and arduous DSP on it via software later, since DSP algorithm will improve but my camera's hardware is fixed... but that's a different debate.
says "due to regional laws, regulations, and policies, some results will not be shown" so yeah, you are pretty close :-)
PRAM has been in development for years, and intel is nowhere on the map until now... too many "new memory" types and who knows which will win out... FeRAM, CRAM, MRAM are just a few that immediately comes to mind...
lol you haven't posted a female personal ad on CL have you? o_O
i've done a similar experiment on CL for fun and out of boredom and has the emails sitting in one of my gmail inbox, haha... and only thing i can say is, if he had made this post in LA, he would've gotten 500 replies easy...
uh... to land human on Mars, you need an INSANE amount of radiation shielding... once you are out of the magnetosphere, goodluck not getting incurable cancer during the trip... the radiation hazard to send someone to the moon is already plenty high... (FWIW, i work in the satellite industry)
I know BMW has 'em, and used to invalidate your warranty when necessary... one poor hap got caught down shifting from 6th to 3rd while doing 100, over-revving the engine and no more free service for him...
how useful is undergrad?
ask any caltech student, they'll tell you that they didn't learn the skill needed for their job, they learned "how to learn." the degree seems to carry a lot of weight no matter where you go for job interviews. in any rapidly developing profession, what you learned in college is either 10 years out of date, or will be in 3 years...
i find the 2nd reason to be particularly true.
Uh... the biggest problem about manned travel to Mars is radiation effect. A Geo-Synchronous satellite has enough trouble with its electronics from harsh radiation effects (much more so than a Low Earth Orbit satellite), much due to the lack of protection from Van Allen's belt; think about people, who's tolerance is one thousands if not one millionth that of semiconductors. Doesn't matter what kind of spacesuit you have, you can't shield against heavy particles, and unless the time it takes to travel to Mars gets reduced substantially, (say to 1/100th of what we are theoretically capable of, based on time to travel to the moon) you really could have Fantastic Four by the time the astronauts come back to Earth...
lol you mean we lost the freaking Flemming canon? -_-' that's just sad... i'm amazed MIT managed to get that thing all the way across the country... gigantic uhaul?
MMORPG is a complete waste of money and time, but it does create a whole new market for oursourcing, e-commerce, among other things.
random battles, i can do without... i remember one of the ffs i played had such a high encounter rate it was painful to do side-quests and make mistakes...
lol yeah... you won't be able to use those health-dependent weapon-combos like the ones in FF-X2 where you get 9999 damage regardless of enemy's defense if your health is at 1... (more than 1 rpg have done this) that is, unless you spend tons of time micromanage when the game's level-up system is designed around zipping through battles... i can see that as a potential issue...
final fantasy series never had a whole lot of strategy and difficulty to it... the 99 limit in number of items, the endless casting of pheonix down and such made dying "just another part of the game". some of the "hardest" fights were fairly easy, and i've managed to defeat toneberries with little trouble when the walkthrough said they are impossible at that stage of the game. (in FF8's battle arena, in the last fight, i was berserked after being turned into a toad and mini'd, so i only dealt 1 point of damage without any way to get out of the infinite loop... turns out the monster didn't have physical attacks and i was totally immune to his magic, which he ran out after some time... so i left the tv off and playstation running for a week before winning o_O)
In comparison, i'm currently playing Star Ocean 3, where you have no pheonix down casting, and limit to 20 "revive-item" in the earlier part of the game, and i've actually ran out of those (or mp-replenish items) during normal map-walking... i also remember xenogears where one of the first boss i fought was close to impossible unless i upgraded my gears... so in that sense, the new system is welcomed... either that, or make the fights more tatically challenging, but not a button-smasher.
my list of completed rpgs include:
ff4-x2 (no tatics)
xenogears, xenosaga 1 (got kinda bored with xenosaga 2)
star ocean 2, (in the process of playing star ocean 3)
one of many dragon quests
one of many breath of fire
lunar - silver star story
chrono trigger, chrono cross
secret of mana
and probably one or two other ones i forgot about...
I guess you have no clue on how the aerospace industry works and the problems associated with it... 12,000 ft may not have enough air pressure to spin up harddrives, but it certainly has enough radiation to cause tons of errors in the flash device. do you want your plane to crash due to a "bit-flip" (aka seu-event)?
decades ago, his petition back after the 1989 incident would've got him arrested... And how many of you foreigners are aware that almost all Chinese historians consider the 1989 incident as a political struggle for who to succeed Deng instead of a movement for democracy? the students were mere (and willing) pawns in a game of chess... there are A LOT of still growing military and geo-political issues within the communist party that you can't even begin to fathom, Westerners needs to give Hu a lot more credit for managing to stablize the country in its current form.
progress doesn't happen over night, especially with a country with much longer history and population base than the "developed world", where "way of things" are in-grained in thousands of years of history and minds of people. Kind of a Netflix vs. Blockbuster analogy if you will...
read my original post more carefully before you call people ignorant.
you pose the questions as if their family left china to escape political prosecution...
I'm a first generation Chinese immigrant who totally agrees with the original post. China, as it's economy rapidly develops, is influencing the government in a big way, making it more "open" and more "progressive" in the last 25 years than the past 2,500 years, except arugably between 1919 to 1944 (when the KMT was first formed 'til civil war). In the mean time, First Amendment rights in the US, world's darling and model of "freedom" are being slowly stripped away through things like the Times case, the wire-tapping scandle, and will only get worse in the name of "national security." In contrast, China's opening it's final protected institution, the 5 major banks to the world in the near future, while the US is going through major protectionism through CNNOC and DPT fiascos.
Is what the original story "the boy who cried wolf"? sure, you can draw such analogy. But I point you to a quote from wikipedia on wolfs:
"Accordingly, while the stereotype of wolves as malicious, wanton killers and vile, worthless beasts still has influence in certain circles, a significant portion of the public has developed a more positive opinion of wolves as interesting, valuable, and noble animals."
I'm not hinting that the Chinese government is "noble", just not as "malicious" and "vile" as most here at Slashdot makes it out to be.
and to answer your question, I live in the good-o California, and my family migrated to US in 1992 as purely a career move of my dad, who now co-founded a multi-million dollar biotech company in San Diego.
Considering the difference in speed in photo-processing between the two 2GHz computers, especially with ever increasing Megapixel count, my desktop is here to stay for the long term. On top of that, other than MacBooks, how many other laptop will be able to drive dual-link DVI monitors? My Dell laptop is sitting by my bed and getting utilized maybe 1/10th as much as my desktop. I don't see a laptop fast enough to replace my current desktop in photo-processing for another 3 years or so...
Dell 700m - 2.0GHz Pentium M
512MB of RAM
40GB HD (5400RPM?)
DVD+-RW (that produces CRC errors often)
shared graphics that can't even handle transparency in gaim...
Home Brewed - 2.0GHz Athlon 64 (not overclocked, surprisingly)
1GB of RAM
2x 73GB Raptor in RAID1
DVR+-RW (that almost never produce coasters)
ATI FireGL X3 (Cheapest dual-link dvi solution at the time i built my system)
Captain Obvious is Captain Idiot! some idiotic white guy who thinks he knows all that just 'cuz he's talked to some chinese of unknown origin...
Vast majority of mainland chinese considers Taiwan as a province. Call it brainwashing, call it national pride, call it whatever, just don't go off running your mouth as if it were a fact. Most Taiwan-Taiwanese doesn't like KMT. So here in the US, there's a distinction of "taiwan-taiwan", "mainland-taiwan", and "mainland" chinese. And why did you drag Taiwan into this anyway? totally irrelevant from this discussion.
Mainland Chinese haven't developed a large enough middle class to realize or understand "free from oppression." The distinction between "communism" and "capitalism" in the current Chinese society are just difference in words. Official CCP's stance's been "a market driven economy with socialistic flavor" for the past several decadesn now. And as the government moves towards more capitalism and away from communism, you are now seeing lots of social-unrest from the farmers. The biggest fear is one hand, you have know-nothing farmers who are poor and consists of 80% of the population wondering where's the money they've been promised (I think something like bottwom 75% holds 15% of the wealth or some staggering number I read recently), while 20% of the remaining population slowly becoming self-aware and demanding more rights, including freedom of speech. CCP isn't strong enough to deal with both issues right now, and if they come together, you'll have a social-upheval that'll set back 1/6th of the world's population back to the late 70s, and then what?
If the economy is fully market driven instead of central-plan, China would've crashed back in the late 90s and you would've seen a global economic meltdown far worse than what took place. If China's economy suddenly becomes market driven now, all the major banks of China will be in trouble due to bad-loans of the 90s, and you'll have even more social-unrest. Given its size, history, and current situation, the CCP is doing an amazing job keeping things together. I'm not saying what they are doing is all good-and-dandy, and all for the good-of-the-people, but sometimes some things are a necessary evil.
India's facing similar problems as China... the poor are wondering where's all the wealth gone. They are, however, the only successful democracy with annual per-capita income of under US$5k...