I read an article a while back about PCs that were being shipped with XP, with speech recognition enabled, but no microphone plugged in, so that when they ran Word, noise would be picked up from the mic input and write garbage words to the screen. People thought that their computers were haunted.
On a 64-bit processor you should be able to process 16 or 32 bit operations in parallel.
I haven't had a look at the AMD64 instruction set, but on a 32 bit digital signal processor you can commonly do a multiply-accumulate instruction on a pair of 32 bit values in one instruction cycle or on two pairs of 16 bit values in one instruction cycle.
On a 64-bit digital signal processor you should be able perform a multiply-accumulate on four pairs of 16 bit values in one instruction cycle (or on two pairs of 32 bit values).
This effectively doubles the amount of multiply-accumulate instructions, which may be performed for the same clock speed.
For applications like image compression/decompression, if it is compiled for a 64-bit processor, you should get a significant speed increase.
The homegrown Fundamentalist Christian and White Supremacist groups are just as big a terrorist threat (if not greater) than the foreign groups. There are hundreds of these groups in the US.
William Krar got caught with weapons of mass destruction in May this year - he had a stock pile of chemical weapons, brief case bombs, pipe bombs, remote control bombs, and half a million rounds of ammo. This barely rates a mention in the media, yet the "dirty bomber" merit weeks on the front pages. People get in a panic over a Syrian band catching a plane, and this makes the news. William Krar got sentenced to 11 years in jail, while his accomplices got around 5 years.
There is an article on the Australian ABC here: link
There's an interesting article in Wired (from a while ago), titled "The Pope's Astrophysicist", which touches on extra-terrestial life, and the Pope's belief in evolution.
"No, he was not. He looked at the facts, and acted on the side of good against evil. Just because two people decide to do the reasonable thing does not mean that one is licking the other's arse."
Is he on the side of good? Does he really care about the Iraqi People? You just need to look at the prison camps he has set up in and around Australia for them, and the way in which Iraqi refugees are treated to answer that question.
There must be tons of prior art with DVRs used in the security industry. DVRs commonly have to record several video cameras and audio streams to the hard-drive simultaneously, and the recording from a particular camera cannot stop if an operator wants to view another recording at a certain date and time. The ability to pause or rewind a live video stream has also been around for a while.
Companies like Dallmeier and Indigo Vision must have been doing this stuff before 1998. These patents are trivial and obvious when taken from the point of view of a security application.
I was working at the CSIRO Australia a couple of years ago with a few of the people that were helping design this thing. At the time they were thinking of using 'Luneburg' Lenses or white spherical objects, as the antenna elements so that they didn't have to angle the antennas to track the source. The artist's impression looked like a bunch of eggs sitting out in the desert. I also think that the computing power they expected the SKA to use in processing the raw signals is not practical/available today, but should be by 2015.
Anyway it's all on their website at:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/1kT/
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I read an article a while back about PCs that were being shipped with XP, with speech recognition enabled, but no microphone plugged in, so that when they ran Word, noise would be picked up from the mic input and write garbage words to the screen.
People thought that their computers were haunted.
On a 64-bit processor you should be able to process 16 or 32 bit operations in parallel.
I haven't had a look at the AMD64 instruction set, but on a 32 bit digital signal processor you can commonly do a multiply-accumulate instruction on a pair of 32 bit values in one instruction cycle or on two pairs of 16 bit values in one instruction cycle.
On a 64-bit digital signal processor you should be able perform a multiply-accumulate on four pairs of 16 bit values in one instruction cycle (or on two pairs of 32 bit values).
This effectively doubles the amount of multiply-accumulate instructions, which may be performed for the same clock speed.
For applications like image compression/decompression, if it is compiled for a 64-bit processor, you should get a significant speed increase.
I had to uninstall SP2 after it rendered a couple of my games unplayable.
The homegrown Fundamentalist Christian and White Supremacist groups are just as big a terrorist threat (if not greater) than the foreign groups. There are hundreds of these groups in the US.
William Krar got caught with weapons of mass destruction in May this year - he had a stock pile of chemical weapons, brief case bombs, pipe bombs, remote control bombs, and half a million rounds of ammo. This barely rates a mention in the media, yet the "dirty bomber" merit weeks on the front pages. People get in a panic over a Syrian band catching a plane, and this makes the news.
William Krar got sentenced to 11 years in jail, while his accomplices got around 5 years.
There is an article on the Australian ABC here:
link
MPEG2 also uses Run Length Encoding.
There's an interesting article in Wired (from a while ago), titled "The Pope's Astrophysicist", which touches on extra-terrestial life, and the Pope's belief in evolution.
Link
"No, he was not. He looked at the facts, and acted on the side of good against evil. Just because two people decide to do the reasonable thing does not mean that one is licking the other's arse."
Is he on the side of good?
Does he really care about the Iraqi People?
You just need to look at the prison camps he has set up in and around Australia for them, and the way in which Iraqi refugees are treated to answer that question.
One octopus and many octopi.
The plural of octopus is octopuses.
It is derived from a greek word, not latin.
There must be tons of prior art with DVRs used in the security industry. DVRs commonly have to record several video cameras and audio streams to the hard-drive simultaneously, and the recording from a particular camera cannot stop if an operator wants to view another recording at a certain date and time. The ability to pause or rewind a live video stream has also been around for a while.
Companies like Dallmeier and Indigo Vision must have been doing this stuff before 1998. These patents are trivial and obvious when taken from the point of view of a security application.
I was working at the CSIRO Australia a couple of years ago with a few of the people that were helping design this thing. At the time they were thinking of using 'Luneburg' Lenses or white spherical objects, as the antenna elements so that they didn't have to angle the antennas to track the source. The artist's impression looked like a bunch of eggs sitting out in the desert. I also think that the computing power they expected the SKA to use in processing the raw signals is not practical/available today, but should be by 2015.
Anyway it's all on their website at:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/1kT/