Simply replace red-green-blue triplets with red-green-blue-blue quads and you've doubled the blue life.
One of the manufacturers also has a white OLED so you don't need to mix in blue to get white.
If you can do the resolution and don't mind the complexity. Why not have loads of different colours (a complete rainbow) in the display, then when you burn out a native colour, just sythesize it from others. (OK so its a dumbass idea, I was just shooting the breeze).
If you read hotmails privacy statement it says basically this:
Principle 1,
Hotmail collects registration information
Principle 2,
You registration information is kept private.
Principle 3,
Hotmail won't spam you
Principle 4,
Complain to xxx if you think we've broken these principles.
So where does it say they'll keep your emails private? Its suggest in the FAQ that the privacy statement says this, but its not in the privacy statement.
If you click on a link in an email to hotmail, it redirects that link through a hotmail server so they can track you followed the link.
They put up "you are visiting a site outside of hotmail" in a pane.
The reason for redirecting you is so that they can warn you, right?
No way, the pane doesn't give you the chance to cancel the site link, what use is a warning of something thats ALREADY happened? The link has ALREADY been followed!
Still don't believe that this is purely for spying?
Do this:
1. Email your hotmail account a link to
http://www.hotmail.com
2. Open your hotmail
3. Follow the link
4. You still get the message
"You are visiting a site outside of Hotmail"
It makes no difference if this is any site within the passport, msn or hotmail group it always sends the command through the hotmail server.
Any warning value they could give you simply by putting "Warning External Site:" infront of the link, instead of the redirect.
Sony have big plans for the PS2, maybe SONY ITSELF will put Linux onto it, since they wants to run audio, video, internet, etc. etc. on PS2 it makes sense if they slap Linux on it and use the existing software thats out there.
Think of all the third world countries in the world and help them first.
I read of one third world country that had huge debts and its people have no hospitals to go when they are sick.
Its politicians are corrupt and can be bought and sold.
Why out in the remote province of California people have no electricity and constantly shoot each other to protect what little they have. Mobs rule in the city of Miami (pronouce My-am-ee).
On top of that the people of this third world country suffer Earthquakes, tornadoes, and Seinfeld reruns.
Don't be selfish, help that country first before you indulge yourself with broad band internet access.
What caught my eye was the 'Global Unique Identifier' mentioned.
This field contains a 128-bit value identifying the generic
functionality supported by the device. The generic function vendor
shall ensure that the GUID value is unique
Its the PIII over again, only this time in the hard disk rather than the processor that has the ID tag.
Movies and cartoons are 25 rames per second aren't they?
Once you're past a certain frames per second level it all looks smooth. The extra frames just make is less flickery.
But then again you could remove flickering by simply repeating the same frame twice. (Think of 100hz TVs displaying 50hz signals - they don't flicker but they don't render extra frames in that mode - right?)
Then there's resolution, your eye has a limit to resolution and 1024x768 is already way above it.
The only reason you can see pixels at all on the computer screen is because you're looking at a small PART of the screen, which isn't what games players do (OK, except AOE players).
Do this: bring the whole of a 19" monitor into the center of vision then try to read slash dot without focussing your eye on any tiny part of the screen.
Can't do it huh? So many pixels, so few colour vision neurons.
Same goes for subpixel rendering at these resolutions - these tiny shifts in the colour of a pixel are imperceptible at these resolutions.
I side with the 'final chip' opinion.
Time for a rethink on the pixel/sec race.
If you ripped the DVD into MPEG4 format, you could put a selection of movies on a single DVD for watching on long boring trips.
Or maybe a full StarTrek season.
Just a suggestion if anyone has some coding time on their hands.
MS Word for DOS used to have a copy protection scheme very similar to this.
You installed it from floppy.
The floppies were modified during installation
You could then not install from the same floppy again.
If you uninstalled, the floppys were modified again to let you install it on a different machine.
I got caught out after I trashed the disk and found I could not install another copy.
Later versions didn't have that copyprotection (they backed down) and
reading the venom against this move makes me think they'll back down again.
I would have thought you Linux guys would love this move, it creates a whole $0-$100 price hole under Windows into which Linux would fit nicely.
So if you don't want to pay the fee, you have to buy Linux, whereas now you can simply pirate Windows.
Same with Windows users, $99 is a lot to pay for a minor upgrade, but if everyone pays up it the price could be lot lower.
PC's won't dominate this market, they're too damn complex for the average user.
Its nice to think that all users will make MPeg videos on PC's using digital firewire cameras. But the average user would struggle even to figure out which hole the firewire plug goes into let alone record and edit a movie*
You might argue that WebTV failed because it wasn't a PC, but WebTV failed because its TV, you watch TV lounging on your sofa watching the whole screen at far distance - passively, no interaction.
You read email text close up, focussing on a tiny part of the screen at a time. There is lots of interaction.
The ergonomics are fundementally different which is why WebTV failed. Not because it couldn't run Word or a Spreadsheet.
Sony have got it spot on:
1. Desktop device, for close focus reading.
2. Portrait - excellent.
3. Stand alone one piece main unit, no needless cables
4. Switch on and bingo off you go.
5. Keyboard. Pens are nice, but most people don't write a lot but they learn to quickly pick out individual keys very quickly.
6. Pretty, targetted device.
7. Fanless, hence quiet. So I can leave it running and it will pop up when I have email?
All excellent, but what price?
Its worth $400-$500 to me. If they price it like a computer at $999 then no good.
* my girlfriend pushed the 'on' button on the monitor and couldn't figure out why the computer wouldn't start. She's not stupid, she just didn't know that the computer monitor wasn't the same as the computer -that the 2 are distinct and separate pieces of equipment.
You or I would think its stupid not to know this, but that a result of our conditioning not common sense. After all I don't have a separate ON switch for the keyboard do I? I don't have to switch the mouse on separately?
p.s. can someone suggest they stick a phone and voicemail in the next version. Then I can have a nice all in one communications box plugged into the phone socket.
Ever tried to do that with a PC? By the time the disk has spun up to speed ready to record the messgae, the caller has hung up.
They have a device that separate mirrors to cause interference in light.
Q1. Where's the light from?!! The light is the big power draw in LCD's not the LCD itself.
The interference depends on the wavelength so the light has to be defined wavelengths i.e. artificially generated. So all that talk of low power is BS?
Q2. Its electrostatic with a mirror on a springy base, so if I switch off the voltage presumably the pixel changes back to some neutral state?
So does this mean they have to keep the voltage there all the time? I.e. several transistors per pixel and a wire to each individual pixel? Ahhh!
Q3. How fast do these mirrors move?
Maybe if they put in a treacle thick liquid, they could make the mirrors move slowly, multiplex the display. Kind of like they do with LCDs now.
Q4. Does the light come out of the side?
I mean they have 2 plates that form a gap, the story makes it sound like the front and back plates of an LCD, but doesn't the light have to come out of the side of that pixel? Doesn't it come out along the gap (or slightly off centre)?
This story sounds like they're fishing for research funding.
[Skeptic Mode off]
Sounds cool, you could make a continuosly changing colour discreet 'LED' like indicator with that.
Nintendo are Power PC based with a ATI graphics card. Apple are Power PC based with an ATI graphics card? Both have DVDs/CDs now right?
So the difference between the two can't be sooo great?
Both could do with lift up. I reckon they should work together, Nintendo making sure their games port to Apple easily and Apple doing the programming leg work required to run them.
The source says they have been checked for absense of watermark and gone through preliminary listening tests for sound quality and Leonardo Chiariglione confirms it in his reply.
OK so he doesn't exactly say it, he simply doesn't deny it, instead he complains about a shift in tense as the source talks about what happens next.
They make the point that Benchmarks are designed so that Compiler optimisations don't defeat them.
(i.e. they avoid repeated small tight loops) while Crusoe Code Morphing takes advantage of small tight loops in normal applications.
In other words the benchmarks will give an artificially low value (and having read what they're doing, I think they've got a point).
When I get my hands on one, I'll run a real world video image processing test over it and see rather than take the benchmarks as read.
What they say about their code Morphing techniques appears to be no-bullshit stuff, they have good technology that doesn't need all the BS you see a lot of these days.
Only thing I don't agree with is the 'Store Before Load' out-of-order optimisation failure is rare and I'm not convinced. Bet that costs them a lot of cycles to clean up.
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Simply replace red-green-blue triplets with red-green-blue-blue quads and you've doubled the blue life.
One of the manufacturers also has a white OLED so you don't need to mix in blue to get white.
If you can do the resolution and don't mind the complexity. Why not have loads of different colours (a complete rainbow) in the display, then when you burn out a native colour, just sythesize it from others. (OK so its a dumbass idea, I was just shooting the breeze).
The USB connector is different.
Atari sued Sega a few years back and Sega paid out tens of millions over the joypad connector used on the Sega Megadrive which Atari had patented.
No doubt Microsoft will have patented the connector aswell to prevent any company producing hardware except under the strict control from Redmond.
I'm betting MS will sell a XBox keyboard that is non-standard and owned by MS sometime later.
You spyed on them, you landed on their island. Their pilot is dead.
No doubt they would have sent the crew back if the pilot wasn't dead. But he is, wow all their asking for is an apology.
Is an apology so much to ask for? Is the US really so small that you can't say sorry?
http://lc3.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/dasp/ hminfo_shell.asp?content=pstate
If you read hotmails privacy statement it says basically this:
Principle 1,
Hotmail collects registration information
Principle 2,
You registration information is kept private.
Principle 3,
Hotmail won't spam you
Principle 4,
Complain to xxx if you think we've broken these principles.
So where does it say they'll keep your emails private? Its suggest in the FAQ that the privacy statement says this, but its not in the privacy statement.
Let me give you just 1 example.
If you click on a link in an email to hotmail, it redirects that link through a hotmail server so they can track you followed the link.
They put up "you are visiting a site outside of hotmail" in a pane.
The reason for redirecting you is so that they can warn you, right?
No way, the pane doesn't give you the chance to cancel the site link, what use is a warning of something thats ALREADY happened? The link has ALREADY been followed!
Still don't believe that this is purely for spying?
Do this:
1. Email your hotmail account a link to
http://www.hotmail.com
2. Open your hotmail
3. Follow the link
4. You still get the message
"You are visiting a site outside of Hotmail"
It makes no difference if this is any site within the passport, msn or hotmail group it always sends the command through the hotmail server.
Any warning value they could give you simply by putting "Warning External Site:" infront of the link, instead of the redirect.
MS have a pcode compiler, transmeta have a processor for running x86 as pseudo code on a processor core.
Maybe they'll do a Transmeta chip that runs native C#/.NET pseudo ops.
Just like there are native Java ops processors.
If you read the article, its a group of atoms arranged so that 1 electron makes the difference between open and closed.
Its not a single atom transistor, its a transistor switched on or off by a single electron.
All your base/collector/emitter belongs to us.
Britain has everything America has plus we have and electricity aswell to run our new silicon LEDs with... :->
Sony have big plans for the PS2, maybe SONY ITSELF will put Linux onto it, since they wants to run audio, video, internet, etc. etc. on PS2 it makes sense if they slap Linux on it and use the existing software thats out there.
Think of all the third world countries in the world and help them first.
I read of one third world country that had huge debts and its people have no hospitals to go when they are sick.
Its politicians are corrupt and can be bought and sold.
Why out in the remote province of California people have no electricity and constantly shoot each other to protect what little they have. Mobs rule in the city of Miami (pronouce My-am-ee).
On top of that the people of this third world country suffer Earthquakes, tornadoes, and Seinfeld reruns.
Don't be selfish, help that country first before you indulge yourself with broad band internet access.
This field contains a 128-bit value identifying the generic functionality supported by the device. The generic function vendor shall ensure that the GUID value is unique
Its the PIII over again, only this time in the hard disk rather than the processor that has the ID tag.
Movies and cartoons are 25 rames per second aren't they?
Once you're past a certain frames per second level it all looks smooth. The extra frames just make is less flickery.
But then again you could remove flickering by simply repeating the same frame twice. (Think of 100hz TVs displaying 50hz signals - they don't flicker but they don't render extra frames in that mode - right?)
Then there's resolution, your eye has a limit to resolution and 1024x768 is already way above it.
The only reason you can see pixels at all on the computer screen is because you're looking at a small PART of the screen, which isn't what games players do (OK, except AOE players).
Do this: bring the whole of a 19" monitor into the center of vision then try to read slash dot without focussing your eye on any tiny part of the screen.
Can't do it huh? So many pixels, so few colour vision neurons.
Same goes for subpixel rendering at these resolutions - these tiny shifts in the colour of a pixel are imperceptible at these resolutions.
I side with the 'final chip' opinion.
Time for a rethink on the pixel/sec race.
OK, so when PIII runs slow it runs low power.
But what's the real average power consumption for the average websurfing user of the 2 chips?
Anyone in a position to test them.
Its a marketting campaign.
No really,
there's nothing of substance there, if there was, they'd patent them and make them.
You'd be reading the patent submissions, not the PR.
This is PR, its not a leak, its a marketing 'teaser' campaign.
Why a teaser campaign if there was anything of substance? If it really was going to be huge you would have no teaser campaign.
It needs hard selling so its nothing you would want or need.
http://www.indetech.com/ is Johnson and Johnson web site on his previous invention a 4WD wheelchair.
This story might also be interesting to you:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/285231.asp
If you search on Kamen, you get stuff from his own websites or from press releases quoted on news sites,
e.g.
http://www.usfirst.org/dean.html
From this site, Dean founded 'First' in New Hampshire, and works/founded
Deka Research and development corp whose web site doesn't work.
So it sounds like a marketting build up to sell a mainstream 4WD wheelchair as fun vehicle you would
want to play with.
If you ripped the DVD into MPEG4 format, you could put a selection of movies on a single DVD for watching on long boring trips.
Or maybe a full StarTrek season.
Just a suggestion if anyone has some coding time on their hands.
MS Word for DOS used to have a copy protection scheme very similar to this.
You installed it from floppy.
The floppies were modified during installation
You could then not install from the same floppy again.
If you uninstalled, the floppys were modified again to let you install it on a different machine.
I got caught out after I trashed the disk and found I could not install another copy.
Later versions didn't have that copyprotection (they backed down) and
reading the venom against this move makes me think they'll back down again.
I would have thought you Linux guys would love this move, it creates a whole $0-$100 price hole under Windows into which Linux would fit nicely.
So if you don't want to pay the fee, you have to buy Linux, whereas now you can simply pirate Windows.
Same with Windows users, $99 is a lot to pay for a minor upgrade, but if everyone pays up it the price could be lot lower.
PC's won't dominate this market, they're too damn complex for the average user.
Its nice to think that all users will make MPeg videos on PC's using digital firewire cameras. But the average user would struggle even to figure out which hole the firewire plug goes into let alone record and edit a movie*
You might argue that WebTV failed because it wasn't a PC, but WebTV failed because its TV, you watch TV lounging on your sofa watching the whole screen at far distance - passively, no interaction.
You read email text close up, focussing on a tiny part of the screen at a time. There is lots of interaction.
The ergonomics are fundementally different which is why WebTV failed. Not because it couldn't run Word or a Spreadsheet.
Sony have got it spot on:
1. Desktop device, for close focus reading.
2. Portrait - excellent.
3. Stand alone one piece main unit, no needless cables
4. Switch on and bingo off you go.
5. Keyboard. Pens are nice, but most people don't write a lot but they learn to quickly pick out individual keys very quickly.
6. Pretty, targetted device.
7. Fanless, hence quiet. So I can leave it running and it will pop up when I have email?
All excellent, but what price?
Its worth $400-$500 to me. If they price it like a computer at $999 then no good.
* my girlfriend pushed the 'on' button on the monitor and couldn't figure out why the computer wouldn't start. She's not stupid, she just didn't know that the computer monitor wasn't the same as the computer -that the 2 are distinct and separate pieces of equipment.
You or I would think its stupid not to know this, but that a result of our conditioning not common sense. After all I don't have a separate ON switch for the keyboard do I? I don't have to switch the mouse on separately?
p.s. can someone suggest they stick a phone and voicemail in the next version. Then I can have a nice all in one communications box plugged into the phone socket.
Ever tried to do that with a PC? By the time the disk has spun up to speed ready to record the messgae, the caller has hung up.
They have a device that separate mirrors to cause interference in light.
Q1. Where's the light from?!! The light is the big power draw in LCD's not the LCD itself.
The interference depends on the wavelength so the light has to be defined wavelengths i.e. artificially generated. So all that talk of low power is BS?
Q2. Its electrostatic with a mirror on a springy base, so if I switch off the voltage presumably the pixel changes back to some neutral state?
So does this mean they have to keep the voltage there all the time? I.e. several transistors per pixel and a wire to each individual pixel? Ahhh!
Q3. How fast do these mirrors move?
Maybe if they put in a treacle thick liquid, they could make the mirrors move slowly, multiplex the display. Kind of like they do with LCDs now.
Q4. Does the light come out of the side?
I mean they have 2 plates that form a gap, the story makes it sound like the front and back plates of an LCD, but doesn't the light have to come out of the side of that pixel? Doesn't it come out along the gap (or slightly off centre)?
This story sounds like they're fishing for research funding.
[Skeptic Mode off]
Sounds cool, you could make a continuosly changing colour discreet 'LED' like indicator with that.
Nintendo are Power PC based with a ATI graphics card. Apple are Power PC based with an ATI graphics card? Both have DVDs/CDs now right?
So the difference between the two can't be sooo great?
Both could do with lift up. I reckon they should work together, Nintendo making sure their games port to Apple easily and Apple doing the programming leg work required to run them.
The source says they have been checked for absense of watermark and gone through preliminary listening tests for sound quality and Leonardo Chiariglione confirms it in his reply.
OK so he doesn't exactly say it, he simply doesn't deny it, instead he complains about a shift in tense as the source talks about what happens next.
Cracked, as sure as broken eggs is eggs.
Read the Transmeta Document Below
u soetechwp.pdf
http://www.transmeta.com/crusoe/download/pdf/cr
They make the point that Benchmarks are designed so that Compiler optimisations don't defeat them.
(i.e. they avoid repeated small tight loops) while Crusoe Code Morphing takes advantage of small tight loops in normal applications.
In other words the benchmarks will give an artificially low value (and having read what they're doing, I think they've got a point).
When I get my hands on one, I'll run a real world video image processing test over it and see rather than take the benchmarks as read.
What they say about their code Morphing techniques appears to be no-bullshit stuff, they have good technology that doesn't need all the BS you see a lot of these days.
Only thing I don't agree with is the 'Store Before Load' out-of-order optimisation failure is rare and I'm not convinced. Bet that costs them a lot of cycles to clean up.