This seems like a push to remove Freevo and the other Tivo-like software out of the market. The only problems with the PVR software your run on your general purpose computer is that other software gets in the way. I would prefer a dedicated machine for PVR usage and another for generalized computing.
Well, the solution is obvious, just print out the next refresh of the screen. Imagine, with a high speed printer you can get 30 frames(pages) per second, this is sure to surpass current video displays as king!
When I saw that headline mentioning the BSA Anti-Piracy Campaign and scanned the writeup I thought to myself
"that would be damn scary to have the Boy Scouts of America raid my place for software piracy!"
Imagine your door being kicked in by a pack of 6-12 year olds screaming:
"Put your hands up, this is the Boy Scouts of America."
They then proceed to tie you up and get a merit badge from the RIAA in the process!
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What's an EBNF?!?
... why not the front page, or in a slashback?
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This really needs to be mentioned on the front page, or at the least in a slashback so people know what is going on. Supporting *BSD will further Open Source along, people really should know that *BSD has not been dropped by Tucows.
IBM is creating a petaflop supercomputer, called "Blue Gene", for the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. It also is being used for genetics research and, more specifically, simulations of protien folding. These systems are not just lots of processors and memory, but huge arrays of disks and tape farms. The IBM systems was priced at $100 Million US Dollars.
I have posted the text from the article, so you don't have to log-in/register.
December 7, 2000
WHAT'S NEXT
Researchers Trying to Find Ways to Turn Microchips Into Lasers
By IAN AUSTEN
WHATEVER their many talents, silicon microchips aren't very bright. That is, they can't produce significant amounts of light, certainly not enough to act as tiny lasers. But because photons -- the basic units of light -- make electrons seem relatively sluggish, a silicon chip that could spit out laser light is the stuff of dreams for engineers looking for ever faster computer chips.
Light-producing silicon chips could even revolutionize consumer gadgets. A single silicon chip that could both calculate and glow, for example, could slim down laptop computers to the thickness of a credit card.
Even a real-life variation of the science- fiction film "Fantastic Voyage" might be possible, but instead of a miniature Raquel Welch traveling through a patient's veins in a tiny submarine, this adventure would feature silicon microchips using their own laser light to guide a path through the human body and diagnose medical problems.
Professor Lorenzo Pavesi of the University of Trento in Italy, says that the potential uses for such "thinking lasers" would be limited only by the imagination.
Research led by Dr. Pavesi has overcome at least one hurdle between current reality and flights of fancy. While Dr. Pavesi's researchers have not created a silicon laser, they have managed to coax light from special silicon crystals, enough light that they may have taken a step toward integrating optical systems into silicon.
Lionel Kimerling, the director of the Microphotonics Research Center at M.I.T., is developing a different approach, which keeps the light source separate from chips, but he does not dismiss the value of the Italian research. "We're just at the birth of integrating photonics," he said. "There is tremendous power from integration."
Like many research groups trying to force light from silicon, Dr. Pavesi's team began working with conventional bulk silicon crystals. They found two problems. Not only was bulk crystal a particularly poor light producer, but its feeble light output diminished over time.
Dr. Pavesi then tried silicon nanocrystals, very tiny objects made by manipulating individual atoms, molecules and groups of molecules. His group zapped a wafer laced with nanocrystals with an intense blue laser. Out came more light, now colored red, than went in. In fact, the light amplification was on about the same level as is achieved with more costly gallium arsenide crystals now used in lasers, Dr. Pavesi said.
Because of their size, Dr. Pavesi said, silicon nanocrystals can be packed very densely. A large light gain, he said, requires a lot of nanocrystals.
Dr. Pavesi said that the light's color could be changed by simply altering the size of the nanocrystals in the silicon sandwich or adding other chemicals.
There are at least two very big problems to overcome before Dr. Pavesi's glowing nanocrystals become part of the first silicon laser. The photons that come out of Dr. Pavesi's chip do not produce the intense light of a laser beam. It will be necessary, Dr. Pavesi said, to surround the nanocrystals with two tiny mirrors facing each other.The light produced from the nanocrystals would bounce off the mirrors, building power before leaving the chip.
The far more difficult problem is finding a way to make the chip generate light on its own instead of boosting light beamed against it from the outside. With regular lasers, electricity provides the energy that becomes light. Unfortunately for silicon laser researchers, silicon is the material of choice for microchips partly because it is a very good electrical insulator. "There are some tricks that can be worked on," Dr. Pavesi said.
Dr. Kimerling said that some researchers claimed to have sent electricity through silicon, but said that their evidence was not convincing. Using silicon nanocrystals, he said, will not reduce the problem's difficulty. But Dr. Kimerling said that if Dr. Pavesi was able to change the color of light produced by his nanocrystals simply by altering their size, they could be useful in fiber optic communications -- even if they were simply amplifying external laser light. Fiber optic systems can increase the amount of data they carry by running several laser light colors simultaneously.
Citing the history of lasers made with more light-friendly materials, Dr. Pavesi is reluctant to offer even a vague estimate of when consumers might see the first, ultra- slim, one-chip laptops based around silicon nanocrystal technology.
"In technological development," he said, "you can have one bottleneck and that takes 10 years to solve. If we are lucky it will be 5 to 10 years to market. On the contrary, it may happen that due to engineering difficulties a silicon laser will never reach the market. It's very difficult to predict."
I've been thinking about something like this for a while, and it's be a really neat thing to see big LCD screens, touchpads (or maybe touch screens, like some of the Fujitsu models), modular hot-swapable CD/DVD/Zip/Disk Drive/LS-120/Floppy Drive components and the support for PCMCIA cards with modems, network cards and such. Then when need to make a switch from working at the desktop at home to your mobile, almost all your components can go with you, including the data on the hot-swap drives. Another benifit would be very small size and lower power consumption, but all this is offsetted by a much higher cost than standard desktop components. Somebody out there has gotta be making these.
It doesn't matter if the quality drops to even 320x480 (TV out is a little bit better than this) since this is about what resolution most normal BIOSes output their messages in, also with a linux console this is about the same.
You should be able to get a video card with a TV-Out to show the contents of your screen while in any mode, then just hook the 'out' to a VCR and hit record then pull the screenshot back in off of tape at a later time.
It seems like a simple to use language for prototyping quickly. Maybe to get a program laid out before you start to code it up and optimize it down in C++.
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The trick to cutting down the noise is to make the best use of your bans: /ban *!*@*!*
This will get rid of almost all your problems.
Right, let the Unix mantra of make one tool to do one thing well apply here.
This seems like a push to remove Freevo and the other Tivo-like software out of the market. The only problems with the PVR software your run on your general purpose computer is that other software gets in the way. I would prefer a dedicated machine for PVR usage and another for generalized computing.
You must have read the article, or something...
Seems like this same post gets repeated every story regarding China and Filtering. -1 Redundant
What fraction of time could this be? I am not so sure!
FWIW I've talked to Rob and verified this as true.
Well, the solution is obvious, just print out the next refresh of the screen. Imagine, with a high speed printer you can get 30 frames(pages) per second, this is sure to surpass current video displays as king!
--
What's an EBNF?!?
This really needs to be mentioned on the front page, or at the least in a slashback so people know what is going on. Supporting *BSD will further Open Source along, people really should know that *BSD has not been dropped by Tucows.
...is what the BSD guys would call their port.
IBM is creating a petaflop supercomputer, called "Blue Gene", for the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. It also is being used for genetics research and, more specifically, simulations of protien folding. These systems are not just lots of processors and memory, but huge arrays of disks and tape farms. The IBM systems was priced at $100 Million US Dollars.
Now we can make Word 2005 scroll faster!
"We're still workin' on it, but we'll make you think we'll be done real soon so you keep giving us money."
I have posted the text from the article, so you don't have to log-in/register.
December 7, 2000
WHAT'S NEXT
Researchers Trying to Find Ways to Turn
Microchips Into Lasers
By IAN AUSTEN
WHATEVER their many talents, silicon microchips aren't very bright. That is, they can't produce significant amounts of light, certainly not enough to act as tiny lasers. But because photons -- the basic units of light -- make electrons seem relatively sluggish, a silicon chip that could spit out laser light is the stuff of dreams for engineers looking for ever faster computer chips.
Light-producing silicon chips could even revolutionize consumer gadgets. A single silicon chip that could both calculate and glow, for example, could slim down laptop computers to the thickness of a credit card.
Even a real-life variation of the science- fiction film "Fantastic Voyage" might be possible, but instead of a miniature Raquel Welch traveling through a patient's veins in a tiny submarine, this adventure would feature silicon microchips using their own laser light to guide a path through the human body and diagnose medical problems.
Professor Lorenzo Pavesi of the University of Trento in Italy, says that the potential uses for such "thinking lasers" would be limited only by the imagination.
Research led by Dr. Pavesi has overcome at least one hurdle between current reality and flights of fancy. While Dr. Pavesi's researchers have not created a silicon laser, they have managed to coax light from special silicon crystals, enough light that they may have taken a step toward integrating optical systems into silicon.
Lionel Kimerling, the director of the Microphotonics Research Center at M.I.T., is developing a different approach, which keeps the light source separate from chips, but he does not dismiss the value of the Italian research. "We're just at the birth of integrating photonics," he said. "There is tremendous power from integration."
Like many research groups trying to force light from silicon, Dr. Pavesi's team began working with conventional bulk silicon crystals. They found two problems. Not only was bulk crystal a particularly poor light producer, but its feeble light output diminished over time.
Dr. Pavesi then tried silicon nanocrystals, very tiny objects made by manipulating individual atoms, molecules and groups of molecules. His group zapped a wafer laced with nanocrystals with an intense blue laser. Out came more light, now colored red, than went in. In fact, the light amplification was on about the same level as is achieved with more costly gallium arsenide crystals now used in lasers, Dr. Pavesi said.
Because of their size, Dr. Pavesi said, silicon nanocrystals can be packed very densely. A large light gain, he said, requires a lot of nanocrystals.
Dr. Pavesi said that the light's color could be changed by simply altering the size of the nanocrystals in the silicon sandwich or adding other chemicals.
There are at least two very big problems to overcome before Dr. Pavesi's glowing nanocrystals become part of the first silicon laser. The photons that come out of Dr. Pavesi's chip do not produce the intense light of a laser beam. It will be necessary, Dr. Pavesi said, to surround the nanocrystals with two tiny mirrors facing each other.The light produced from the nanocrystals would bounce off the mirrors, building power before leaving the chip.
The far more difficult problem is finding a way to make the chip generate light on its own instead of boosting light beamed against it from the outside. With regular lasers, electricity provides the energy that becomes light. Unfortunately for silicon laser researchers, silicon is the material of choice for microchips partly because it is a very good electrical insulator. "There are some tricks that can be worked on," Dr. Pavesi said.
Dr. Kimerling said that some researchers claimed to have sent electricity through silicon, but said that their evidence was not convincing. Using silicon nanocrystals, he said, will not reduce the problem's difficulty. But Dr. Kimerling said that if Dr. Pavesi was able to change the color of light produced by his nanocrystals simply by altering their size, they could be useful in fiber optic communications -- even if they were simply amplifying external laser light. Fiber optic systems can increase the amount of data they carry by running several laser light colors simultaneously.
Citing the history of lasers made with more light-friendly materials, Dr. Pavesi is reluctant to offer even a vague estimate of when consumers might see the first, ultra- slim, one-chip laptops based around silicon nanocrystal technology.
"In technological development," he said, "you can have one bottleneck and that takes 10 years to solve. If we are lucky it will be 5 to 10 years to market. On the contrary, it may happen that due to engineering difficulties a silicon laser will never reach the market. It's very difficult to predict."
I've been thinking about something like this for a while, and it's be a really neat thing to see big LCD screens, touchpads (or maybe touch screens, like some of the Fujitsu models), modular hot-swapable CD/DVD/Zip/Disk Drive/LS-120/Floppy Drive components and the support for PCMCIA cards with modems, network cards and such. Then when need to make a switch from working at the desktop at home to your mobile, almost all your components can go with you, including the data on the hot-swap drives. Another benifit would be very small size and lower power consumption, but all this is offsetted by a much higher cost than standard desktop components. Somebody out there has gotta be making these.
It doesn't matter if the quality drops to even 320x480 (TV out is a little bit better than this) since this is about what resolution most normal BIOSes output their messages in, also with a linux console this is about the same.
One more thing, if you are looking to get a screen capture of the video bios stuff, i think you may be out of luck without some more advanced setup.
You should be able to get a video card with a TV-Out to show the contents of your screen while in any mode, then just hook the 'out' to a VCR and hit record then pull the screenshot back in off of tape at a later time.
I like it more than everthing.
Well, now you can _only_ imagine a beowulf cluster of these. Stupid lamer.
It seems like a simple to use language for prototyping quickly. Maybe to get a program laid out before you start to code it up and optimize it down in C++.
Now if we could get someone to show that a closed formats causes loss of money then maybe my boss would actually consider open source.
Maybe we could convince them to port NewDeal to Linux and everyone would be happy.
...ten copies of the full function word processor/DTP program fit on a single 3.5" diskette
I bet they charge you extra for the other 9 copies on the disk too, those bastards!