From your link: I don't know if its possible given the laws of physics, but I'd sure like to find out. I'd invest in it.
Wahahaaaahahahahhhaaaaaa! Look up the inverse square law, buddy! Not to mention that enough people are unhappy with the fact that you can light up flourescent bulbs just by holding them up under a high-voltage transmission line. Being able to do that anywhere would be a hundred times the fun.
Actually, there is one place that "wireless power" makes sense, and that's beaming it (in a directional beam) from a satellite to a power receiving station on Earth. Since it's a tight beam, there's no inverse-square problem.
I'm a little surprised--why did it take so long for someone to do this?
Because so few people care about DVD Audio? Most people's ears (and rooms) aren't good enough for 24/96 audio. My interest in high-end audio disc formats ends with DTS, which was a real clever hack in how it used a standard CDDA audio data stream.
It basically falls into two categories. The one you're probably not complaining about is intentional joke misspellings like "teh intarwebnet". The one you are complaining about is the category where some words are just plain misspelled ("catagory"), and others use a correctly spelled wrong word (lose/loose, principal/principle, populace/populous, you're/your, its/it's). While some of the offenders are not native English speakers, most are the product of our (.us) wonderful educational system.
I suspect a major cause of this is people who didn't read a lot when they were young. Not that it matters any more, because publishers can't afford anyone clueful enough to copyedit spelling any more. And that is thanks to spelling checkers which blindly let correctly spelled wrong words through. I think you can thank Microsoft Word stifling competition in the word processor market for the lack of good grammar checking.
Currently I think these run about forty dollars, but there have been talks about the government footing the bill for a mass production to make them extremely cheap for this change over.
Try more like $200-$400, depending on features (add a digital cable QAM tuner and it may cost $600). And relatively hard to find because the big box stores would rather sell satellite TV contracts. There's even one box, I think Panasonic makes it, which combines a DVD, a DVR, and an ATSC tuner, for about $400.
As for the subsidies, there's talk about making them only for "low income" people, who are ironically the most likely to already have cable TV anyhow.
As for me, I've got a couple of tuner boxes, and since the one in the living room doesn't have an analog tuner, I've been watching almost entirely OTA digital (along with a DVD player, and AVIs from a PC).
One bad thing is that not until next month are TV stations being required to broadcast digital at full power, so it's been tough to receive some of the stations. Here in Austin, the Fox channel has been broadcasting at 800 watts (impossible to receive more than a couple of miles away), and over the next couple of weeks will they be turning on the full power signal.
Since these questions were submitted to me seven months ago, a lot of things have happened in my life, and my free time went from 1d12 - 4 hours a day to 2d4 -3. (Yes, I realize that means I can occasionally have negative free time in a day. Believe me, I know.)
Yes, but that also means that your negative free time went from -3 hours a day to -1 hours a day! w00t!
Do the Mario!
Swing your arms from side to side,
Come on, it's time to go, do the Mario!
Take one step, and then again,
Let's do the Mario, all together now!
You got it!
It's the Mario!
Do the Mario!
Swing your arms from side to side,
Come on, it's time to go, do the Mario!
Take one step, and then again,
Let's do the Mario, all together now!
Come on now, just like that!
In the US, if a trademark isn't enforced, it's up for grabs. Circuit City dropped it like a magma potato and didn't want to hear anything more about it. Using it as the name of the hacked MS codec was originally a joke, and nobody ever complained about it.
Oh gee whiz... I think I figured it out now. What he did was make a grayscale image that resulted in a signal which was equivalent the unmodulated data stream. So the VGA card was esentially being used as an enormous shift register. In that case, it would definitely take some work (and an 8VSB modulator) to make it generate ATSC.
HDTV in North America uses ATSC/8VSB, not DVB-T/COFDM. It also sounds like the guy in the article "cheated" by using a DVB-T modulator. I can't see anywhere that shows where the MPEG stream to feed into the modulator came from.
The best part of TFA is at the end where he gushes about "This project can be the basis for foo, bar, and baz", then at the end "Where is the source code? It is currently not available, although I plan to release it someday, provided enough people ask me to." Sounds like "this project" can be the basis for approximately zilch right now.
I read last week that you could get homebrews to run on the 1.0-J firmware, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't news even then. After RTFA, this is the same thing that I already knew.
Wake me up when this works on a current US firmware release.
Now that my rant is done with, I will say that I expect the PSP to be broken for homebrews eventually, probably through some kind of buffer overflow exploit like the one in 007 Agent Under Fire (?) for Xbox. You may have to carry a UMD of some particular game around and use it every time you want to run a homebrew, though.
Metroworks was bought out by Motorola a few years back, and I presume (since they're still on the same campus) they stayed as a division of Freescale after the spin-off from Motorola. They do quite a bit of business in making compilers/IDEs for embedded CPUs. So even though they started with the Mac, they really don't need it to survive.
And they could always just interface to the Intel version of GCC or Intel's compiler.
Um, NO. The first model of computer was indeed sold with 4K, but TRSDOS absolutely required 16K minimum, and even then it was barely usable (you had 5K left for BASIC). Try "16K minimum, 32K recommended". And CP/M needed more to be useful because it didn't have 12K ROM BASIC like the TRS-80.
Also, he forgot to add "128M minimum, 512M recommended" for OS X. OS X is a dog (though usable) with 256M. 384M might be enough, but at that point you might as well go for 512M. It'll boot with 64M, though. What he fails to point out is that the later OSen provide many more features (which take up more memory), and application memory requirements go up with time, too. And I'd still rather have a six-year-old Mac than this toy on my desktop, though as a PDA it might be interesting.
Indymedia is the fanfiction.net of journalism, but at least this is clearly a blog rant, not an attempt at journalism. I think he's basically right in that these things could put a dent into the generic PC marketplace, not just Microsoft, but anyone who wants games or multimedia isn't going to be satsified. And it's not like Microsoft is completely ignoring this space... what do you think the Xbox 360 is all about? It's this low-end consumer space, only they're starting from the multimedia/games end of the low-end space, which is the harder problem anyhow.
I don't hear much about Indians being gamers, you know. The Koreans wouldn't be satisfied with a toy like this, that's for sure.
Actually, "Since it's Iomega...", that means that by the time they release this, we'll have already 1 terabyte UV-Ray[tm] discs by then. Iomega has a great track record of being beind the curve.
So are you watching them on satellite or digital cable? Both kinds of providers will over-compress a lot of channels, not just cartoon channels, in order to get more channels into the same bandwidth, since most people don't notice the difference anyhow. They also run their video through real-time compression boxes, which inherently produces more artifacts than off-line compression.
About five years ago, I pointed out the compression artifacts (the whole picture showed a grid of contrast between the macroblocks like you were looking through a screen door) to a friend of mine when we were watching his digital satellite TV. He didn't notice them then, but a couple of weeks later he told me that he could see them after I pointed out the problem to him.
In comparison, full-bandwidth over the air digital TV is a lot better, except for one PBS sub-channel here which is nothing but kids shows and is intentionally over-compressed to give the other three sub-channels more bandwidth.
What I'm trying to say is that the problem isn't that animation is harder to compress (though it is), but that your source isn't providing the bandwidth or CPU time to show animation with fewer artifacts.
One other thing: have you turned off your TV's sharpness control? That adds noise to the kind of high-contrast pictures you can get from DVDs, especially the solid lines of cel-style animation, and will even introduce "artifacts" into your DVD player's on-screen-menu text. On most sets you need to turn it to the minimum, but at least on high-end Sony sets, the middle setting is zero and the lowest settings are negative sharpness.
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From your link: I don't know if its possible given the laws of physics, but I'd sure like to find out. I'd invest in it.
Wahahaaaahahahahhhaaaaaa! Look up the inverse square law, buddy! Not to mention that enough people are unhappy with the fact that you can light up flourescent bulbs just by holding them up under a high-voltage transmission line. Being able to do that anywhere would be a hundred times the fun.
Actually, there is one place that "wireless power" makes sense, and that's beaming it (in a directional beam) from a satellite to a power receiving station on Earth. Since it's a tight beam, there's no inverse-square problem.
I thought the network bottlenecks were caused by illegal video downloads? Music is just a drop in the bucket these days.
Because so few people care about DVD Audio? Most people's ears (and rooms) aren't good enough for 24/96 audio. My interest in high-end audio disc formats ends with DTS, which was a real clever hack in how it used a standard CDDA audio data stream.
It basically falls into two categories. The one you're probably not complaining about is intentional joke misspellings like "teh intarwebnet". The one you are complaining about is the category where some words are just plain misspelled ("catagory"), and others use a correctly spelled wrong word (lose/loose, principal/principle, populace/populous, you're/your, its/it's). While some of the offenders are not native English speakers, most are the product of our (.us) wonderful educational system.
I suspect a major cause of this is people who didn't read a lot when they were young. Not that it matters any more, because publishers can't afford anyone clueful enough to copyedit spelling any more. And that is thanks to spelling checkers which blindly let correctly spelled wrong words through. I think you can thank Microsoft Word stifling competition in the word processor market for the lack of good grammar checking.
/teh intarnet is fool of morans
Try more like $200-$400, depending on features (add a digital cable QAM tuner and it may cost $600). And relatively hard to find because the big box stores would rather sell satellite TV contracts. There's even one box, I think Panasonic makes it, which combines a DVD, a DVR, and an ATSC tuner, for about $400.
As for the subsidies, there's talk about making them only for "low income" people, who are ironically the most likely to already have cable TV anyhow.
As for me, I've got a couple of tuner boxes, and since the one in the living room doesn't have an analog tuner, I've been watching almost entirely OTA digital (along with a DVD player, and AVIs from a PC).
One bad thing is that not until next month are TV stations being required to broadcast digital at full power, so it's been tough to receive some of the stations. Here in Austin, the Fox channel has been broadcasting at 800 watts (impossible to receive more than a couple of miles away), and over the next couple of weeks will they be turning on the full power signal.
Whenever life gets you down...
...ohhhhh...
And you just want to look like a clown...
Keep one word in mind...
And happiness you'll find...
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
Yes, but that also means that your negative free time went from -3 hours a day to -1 hours a day! w00t!
So did you frame the Shatner card from Linucon?
I prefer to just say: "Indymedia is the fanfiction.net of journalism."
Fiskars makes the ultimate in firewall protection for Windows systems.
My second choice would be a quality Etherkiller.
I seem to recall this too. Not that I ever really cared to watch them in the first place.
Either they misquoted or, as you say, he was talking about some other clock. Perhaps the timeslicing clock?
Do the Mario
Sung by Lou Albano
Do the Mario!
Swing your arms from side to side,
Come on, it's time to go, do the Mario!
Take one step, and then again,
Let's do the Mario, all together now!
You got it!
It's the Mario!
Do the Mario!
Swing your arms from side to side,
Come on, it's time to go, do the Mario!
Take one step, and then again,
Let's do the Mario, all together now! Come on now, just like that!
In the US, if a trademark isn't enforced, it's up for grabs. Circuit City dropped it like a magma potato and didn't want to hear anything more about it. Using it as the name of the hacked MS codec was originally a joke, and nobody ever complained about it.
Sounds like you need to install the flashlight hack. Just tape a flashlight to the back of your PSP and you're ready to rock!
Oh gee whiz... I think I figured it out now. What he did was make a grayscale image that resulted in a signal which was equivalent the unmodulated data stream. So the VGA card was esentially being used as an enormous shift register. In that case, it would definitely take some work (and an 8VSB modulator) to make it generate ATSC.
The best part of TFA is at the end where he gushes about "This project can be the basis for foo, bar, and baz", then at the end "Where is the source code? It is currently not available, although I plan to release it someday, provided enough people ask me to." Sounds like "this project" can be the basis for approximately zilch right now.
Disney has a soul?
Wake me up when this works on a current US firmware release.
Now that my rant is done with, I will say that I expect the PSP to be broken for homebrews eventually, probably through some kind of buffer overflow exploit like the one in 007 Agent Under Fire (?) for Xbox. You may have to carry a UMD of some particular game around and use it every time you want to run a homebrew, though.
And they could always just interface to the Intel version of GCC or Intel's compiler.
Um, NO. The first model of computer was indeed sold with 4K, but TRSDOS absolutely required 16K minimum, and even then it was barely usable (you had 5K left for BASIC). Try "16K minimum, 32K recommended". And CP/M needed more to be useful because it didn't have 12K ROM BASIC like the TRS-80.
Also, he forgot to add "128M minimum, 512M recommended" for OS X. OS X is a dog (though usable) with 256M. 384M might be enough, but at that point you might as well go for 512M. It'll boot with 64M, though. What he fails to point out is that the later OSen provide many more features (which take up more memory), and application memory requirements go up with time, too. And I'd still rather have a six-year-old Mac than this toy on my desktop, though as a PDA it might be interesting.
Indymedia is the fanfiction.net of journalism, but at least this is clearly a blog rant, not an attempt at journalism. I think he's basically right in that these things could put a dent into the generic PC marketplace, not just Microsoft, but anyone who wants games or multimedia isn't going to be satsified. And it's not like Microsoft is completely ignoring this space... what do you think the Xbox 360 is all about? It's this low-end consumer space, only they're starting from the multimedia/games end of the low-end space, which is the harder problem anyhow.
I don't hear much about Indians being gamers, you know. The Koreans wouldn't be satisfied with a toy like this, that's for sure.
You delivered such a mighty blow, that you caused your opponent to be ejected from The Matrix?
If there's too much wax afterwards, you can always use some Svinto to remove the excess wax.
Actually, "Since it's Iomega...", that means that by the time they release this, we'll have already 1 terabyte UV-Ray[tm] discs by then. Iomega has a great track record of being beind the curve.
I'd feel a lot safer with a RAID 5 array of the USB flash sticks.
About five years ago, I pointed out the compression artifacts (the whole picture showed a grid of contrast between the macroblocks like you were looking through a screen door) to a friend of mine when we were watching his digital satellite TV. He didn't notice them then, but a couple of weeks later he told me that he could see them after I pointed out the problem to him.
In comparison, full-bandwidth over the air digital TV is a lot better, except for one PBS sub-channel here which is nothing but kids shows and is intentionally over-compressed to give the other three sub-channels more bandwidth.
What I'm trying to say is that the problem isn't that animation is harder to compress (though it is), but that your source isn't providing the bandwidth or CPU time to show animation with fewer artifacts.
One other thing: have you turned off your TV's sharpness control? That adds noise to the kind of high-contrast pictures you can get from DVDs, especially the solid lines of cel-style animation, and will even introduce "artifacts" into your DVD player's on-screen-menu text. On most sets you need to turn it to the minimum, but at least on high-end Sony sets, the middle setting is zero and the lowest settings are negative sharpness.