Data Storage and Playback: The picture information is normally compressed and stored using a QuBit compression system produced by QuVis of Topeka, KS. The QuBit uses proprietary wavelet compression technology with a user selectable SNR. The compressed data is stored on four computer HD drives with a total capacity of 72 Gbytes. Other playback servers based on MPEG2 compression have also been used for a limited number of digital releases.
Your guess is as good as mine as to what "limited number of digital releases" really means, but it sounds as if QuBit is the preferred standard for the moment. The list stands.
So can someone tell me: Is Visual C++.NET a native x86 compiler suite that contains.NET support (which is useful); or does it rather compile C++ code to the.NET Common Language Runtime (which is not useful at all)?
We are also working to "win the hearts and minds of the muslim world" to get them to stop hating us. Maybe if we would stop trying to brainwash...err..win everyone's hearts and minds...
It was built the late '60s. What else would they have been using?
Until you see it you'll just have to believe my disbelief at the total lack of electronics on board.
Really - the Apollo lander looked like a Cray supercomputer next to this thing. Which is not to say that their other engineering was not impressive, I am sure it was - just the lander was a complete joke.
A few years back, PBS ran a series named the "Red Files", and Episode 3 dealt with the Soviet's Korolev Lunar Lander.
If I recall correctly, they interviewed a NASA engineer who was able to take a tour of the lunar lander and compared it to a "flying garbage can". It really was awful, there were analog gauges and whatnot littering the interior - basically one step shy of having Cosmonauts just jump out of the orbiter and hope for the best!
This certainly doesn't help standards, but when there is a large mob of people phoning up the tech support lines complaining that their favourite websites no longer work, AOL may start changing their mind.
Or they can start complaining to the individual sites that their pages are non-standard - and the sites will adjust. They have before, and they will continue to do so.
If you were in charge of the site's operation, would *you* want to handle a deluge of calls and e-mails from AOL users who are admittedly using a standards compliant browser to view your non-functional site? Do *you* want to put the embarassing text at the bottom of your homepage that reads "AOL Users - this site will not work for you" ?!
eBay, Amazon, Yahoo? No. They'll adjust to comply to the standard.
Joe Kraus, founder of Excite and co-founder of DigitalConsumer.org, is scheduled to testify before Congress today - his testimony is online and is excellent.
Students used to locating information with Google are appalled at the steps it takes to locate a scholarly journal.
Well, I don't know about your "students" - but I personally like both!
Especially in the last few years the Library indexes have vastly improved! I remember when InfoTrac came out w/ it's monochrome screen, CD-Rom jukebox, and cheesy IBM dot-matrix printer (sometimes thermal).
*THAT* was nothing compared to some of the systems in use today - plus the fact that many publishers provide indexes for all of the journals they publish. Most of the time you can get a.PDF file of journal articles, which is awesome! No need to feed quarters into the photocopier and tediously flip pages!!!!! I LOVE IT!
What does that mean in the real world, versus say a 200Mhz Hitachi SH4?
Well, since this one runs @ 300MHz, chances are good it can outperform the Hitachi. Plus, the PXA250 can run as high as 400MHz - I wonder if you can overclock this sucker since it only comes out of the box at 300MHz?
Fujitsu's press release just said the chip was "high-performance", and after some digging I turned up this article which tells us that the Intel PXA250 can run at speeds as high as 400MHz. An excerpt:
Designed for advanced PDAs, the PXA250 is available at speeds of 200MHz, 300MHz, and 400MHz. While designed for low power, the PXA250 offers a Turbo Mode for application acceleration and multimedia acceleration with Intel Media Processing technology. USB, 920Kbps Bluetooth wireless, and a 1.84MHz baseband interface are offered as communication interfaces, and an enhanced memory support 2.5 volt or 3.3 volt 16-bit or 32-bit memory.
Yes, but does Mozilla include a mail client? That's the only reason I'm using Netscape 6.2.
Yes. In fact, I have been using Netscape as my e-mail client since 1996 and was able to import my ancient e-mail archives into Mozilla with no probloems at all. Beautiful - simply beautiful.
Slashdot Mirror
No problem, the networks will push for product placement over the traditional 30-second spots.
I dunno about you, but product placement B_L_O_W_S
The picture information is normally compressed and stored using a QuBit compression system produced by QuVis of Topeka, KS. The QuBit uses proprietary wavelet compression technology with a user selectable SNR. The compressed data is stored on four computer HD drives with a total capacity of 72 Gbytes. Other playback servers based on MPEG2 compression have also been used for a limited number of digital releases.
Your guess is as good as mine as to what "limited number of digital releases" really means, but it sounds as if QuBit is the preferred standard for the moment. The list stands.
Here's a list of DLP-enabled Theatres from Texas Instruments, includes at least 6 theatres not listed in the Wired article, plus links to the theatres' websites.
DLP = Digital Light Processing and is supposedly better than Plasma/LCD. 4 Million+ mirrors in this sucker less than a micron apart each.
Kinda reminds me of that fertility doctor in Florida that artificially inseminated all of his patients with *his own* sperm....
Few books sell well, and even fewer (mine, for example) make money.
Huh. No kidding. I mean, with such a devout following on
[S A R C A S M]
why doesn't the apache team use
Funny, the
This is abviously an April Fool's day joke that was so lame it took two weeks to surface.
a new method for extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on a large scale and at normal concentrations
In the study, the old method called Planting a tree, was found to be too conventional and made the landscape too pleasing to look at.
But seriously, this is a GoodThing(tm).
Ebert and Roeper [formerly Siskel and Ebert] gave it two thumbs up .
I think they used more polygons to model her cleavage than they did for her face...
IMHO, the article reads like the guy re-wrote his review to be negative once he couldn't get it to sync with Outlook.
So can someone tell me: Is Visual C++
It can do both.
all about winning hearts-and-minds
Brainwashing.
We are also working to "win the hearts and minds of the muslim world" to get them to stop hating us. Maybe if we would stop trying to brainwash...err..win everyone's hearts and minds...
Resistance is futile
It was built the late '60s. What else would they have been using?
Until you see it you'll just have to believe my disbelief at the total lack of electronics on board.
Really - the Apollo lander looked like a Cray supercomputer next to this thing. Which is not to say that their other engineering was not impressive, I am sure it was - just the lander was a complete joke.
A few years back, PBS ran a series named the "Red Files", and Episode 3 dealt with the Soviet's Korolev Lunar Lander.
If I recall correctly, they interviewed a NASA engineer who was able to take a tour of the lunar lander and compared it to a "flying garbage can". It really was awful, there were analog gauges and whatnot littering the interior - basically one step shy of having Cosmonauts just jump out of the orbiter and hope for the best!
maybe watched a few too many movies
He seems to be emulating the portrayal of Abbie Hoffman in "Steal This Movie".
"They've overstepped their bounds, and they're keeping him from defending himself," he [the father] said.
Assuming that the kid doesn't have access to the materials he will undoubtedly need to prepare his own defense - the Father has a very valid point.
This certainly doesn't help standards, but when there is a large mob of people phoning up the tech support lines complaining that their favourite websites no longer work, AOL may start changing their mind.
Or they can start complaining to the individual sites that their pages are non-standard - and the sites will adjust. They have before, and they will continue to do so.
If you were in charge of the site's operation, would *you* want to handle a deluge of calls and e-mails from AOL users who are admittedly using a standards compliant browser to view your non-functional site? Do *you* want to put the embarassing text at the bottom of your homepage that reads "AOL Users - this site will not work for you" ?!
eBay, Amazon, Yahoo? No. They'll adjust to comply to the standard.
Joe Kraus, founder of Excite and co-founder of DigitalConsumer.org, is scheduled to testify before Congress today - his testimony is online and is excellent.
Students used to locating information with Google are appalled at the steps it takes to locate a scholarly journal.
Well, I don't know about your "students" - but I personally like both!
Especially in the last few years the Library indexes have vastly improved! I remember when InfoTrac came out w/ it's monochrome screen, CD-Rom jukebox, and cheesy IBM dot-matrix printer (sometimes thermal).
*THAT* was nothing compared to some of the systems in use today - plus the fact that many publishers provide indexes for all of the journals they publish. Most of the time you can get a
But, that's just me.
It's like they build this equipment just so they can get it on the streets before Congress passes legislation to ban it.
January 2002: CEO Steve Ballmer says, "We want to evolve our storage system."
What ever happened to the market deciding what features are in demand?!
What does that mean in the real world, versus say a 200Mhz Hitachi SH4?
Well, since this one runs @ 300MHz, chances are good it can outperform the Hitachi. Plus, the PXA250 can run as high as 400MHz - I wonder if you can overclock this sucker since it only comes out of the box at 300MHz?
Fujitsu's press release just said the chip was "high-performance", and after some digging I turned up this article which tells us that the Intel PXA250 can run at speeds as high as 400MHz. An excerpt:
Designed for advanced PDAs, the PXA250 is available at speeds of 200MHz, 300MHz, and 400MHz. While designed for low power, the PXA250 offers a Turbo Mode for application acceleration and multimedia acceleration with Intel Media Processing technology. USB, 920Kbps Bluetooth wireless, and a 1.84MHz baseband interface are offered as communication interfaces, and an enhanced memory support 2.5 volt or 3.3 volt 16-bit or 32-bit memory.
I feel so Dirty.
Yes, but does Mozilla include a mail client? That's the only reason I'm using Netscape 6.2.
Yes. In fact, I have been using Netscape as my e-mail client since 1996 and was able to import my ancient e-mail archives into Mozilla with no probloems at all. Beautiful - simply beautiful.