Some things just don't translate that well. I bet there are a lot of Americans who are intelligent enough to know that if you translate a movie title it may not properly reflect the original title.
Eg the great series "Arrested Development" was in Sweden translated to something like "Bluff and Build Inc". That is pretty much the anti-thesis of the original clever and convoluted title. The kind of people that will find the Swedish title interesting will most likely not enjoy the show.
Can I blame that on the US title? Hell no. I can only blame the translater who had an excessively bad day and poor QA. It's worse since the people in Sweden who would find the show really good would have no problem understanding the original title in english.
There was a "ka" in there as well, so it was probably intended as a question. Though appending a short form phrase with a "ka" tends to confuse japanese native speakers.
W800 is based on K750i and not V800. (The naming does confuse the issues though.)
W800 and k750i are both GSM and "candy bar" style phones. They are also quite a bit smaller than the V/Z800.
K750 and W800 also have an external slot for the memory card, so you don't have to open up the battery compartment in order to get to the memory slot.
The biggest difference as far as MP3s go between W800 and V800 is that the W800 can be put into MP3 mode and then switch off the radio for the mobile network, thus getting a lot better battery time.
Not only that but compilers are a lot better at some optimisations than humans. Eg Software pipelining is something that you can do as a human but try to do it for a general case with super scalar computers and it soon becomes prohibatively hard.
I have a similar setup but with the newer 95G Shuttle and a 660GT. It is noisy, that is true. However the noisy part of it is the 6600GT fan since that was apparently never designed to be quiet.
If you swap the gfx fan for something quiet then it would be quite quiet. OTOH I guess since the GFX is so loud I don't really notice any other sounds in the box.;-)
ROUTED PROTOCOLS SUCK for controllers, especially low-bandwidth ones like Bluetooth.
Perhaps I'm not using the same definition of routed as you but I fail to see in what way a Bluetooth would be a routed protocol. Now I haven't used a BT keyboard/mouse myself so I can't say if it's a bit problem with games, but it seems to work quite well.
The biggest problems people seem to have with BT keyboards is that it typically doesn't establish the connection fast enough for the user to press the magic enter BIOS button.
BT 1.x can handle 700kbit transfer raters. That should be enough for a controller. However you can only have 7 devices connected to one master, so if controllers and headsets are on separate channels (which seems wise) you'd need at least 2 in a console for 4 players.
I have a Logitech for my XBox and I've so far had to change batteries about once every two or three months. I don't use it all that much for playing but I do use it a lot for watching videos (that doesn't use the ruble though).
Personally I'd rate it over the often praised Wavebird, which I also own one of. The Logitech (the old 4 battery version) fits my hands really well and the button layout is better than standard XBox controller IMHO.)
Not sure how they will do it but what I've wanted for a long time is a console with build in Bluetooth for controllers and voice.
That way you could bring your own controller / headset and play with friends with minimum fuss. Besides BT is designed to be used in low power equipment. (BT headsets typically last several hours on a charge.)
Even if they don't do that they can still let the headsets use their own connection to the system. No need to go via the controller.
I saw a demo of a much simpler system during a lab at the physics department at my local university. They put a colour wheel (with one red, one blue and one green filter) on each side of the image intensifier and then simply spun that wheel while running the intensifier. Prestor, instant colour night vision. (The non-IR kind.)
Why can't you find such a phone? Because they don't sell. In order to drive the mobile phone market you need to sell a lot of phones. And while there are a lot of people that "just want a phone" they are the same people that don't want to spend a lot of money on a new phone every year.
As such they may be a large potential market; but since you can't depend on them to actually buy a phone there's not much of a drive to develop a new model for them.
The source is in the CVS. When I was browsing the mailarchive I saw that Ian Clarke (of Freenet fame) seems to behind this as well. Seems like they aim to target it as smaller files than BT, such as blog updates.
Too bad that the Uni through which I'm hooked up doesn't allow P2P, it would be fun to try otherwise. They even have a Firefox extention, that's gotta count for something.
After browsing the "how it works" files is seems to be quite a lot of though behind it. (It's quite a bit more complex than BT eg.) The thing I think seems least robust would be the verification part. It seems like it would be possible to insert false error messages in the system which could cause DDOS of the original server. OTOH perhaps the entire distribution system will help with that as well.
Oh well, there haven't been any news lately on the P2P front. Fun that something new pops up.
FPGAs are loads of fun. But they are not particularly suited for general cases. I was part of a group that did an image processor for FPGA, even its theoretical capacity was thouroughly whipped by a GPU running the same algorithms implemented as shaders. (And the GPU version wasn't optimised at all, eg we wasted 3 of 4 channels available for processing.)
And for basic signal processing a DSP is really fast, typically way faster than a FPGA. It's all about how the data is structured.
AFAIK DSP is good with "narrow" data, ie audio. FPGAs are good with wider data (eg images) with high demands on flexibility on the processing elements. Vector processors (such as GPUs, Altivec, SSE etc) are good when you have semi-wide data and general processing requirements. As it's implemented as ASIC you can get extremely high frequencies which makes for high throughput and low latency. Compared to FPGA the calculations aren't as flexible though. And finally the typical CPU which can do just about anything but comparatively slowly.
All that said, I remember when I studied good ol' An introduction to Algorithms that there was an entire chapter on parallell processing, however it typically required multiple processor for each element in the data. Naturally that is not very useful for a normal CPU but it's good for a GPU and even better for FPGA.
MWC I haven't seen (or perhaps I have I don't know). Seinfeld is a very good show and also quite unique. To let unproven writers and producers make a TV show is very unusual. Watch the material on the DVDs for more innfo.
Besides, that you had two examples out of 2 billion shows available kind of proves my point.
Feel free to read the Slashdot FAQ so you understand why this is not done. It is related to this pesky copyright thing.
Could a better system be used? Surely. It's not an entirely trivial question though. And considering that not even dupes are checked for I believe this is quite far in the future.
Because Debian is a binary package based system, there is the possibility of installing a package that depends on something you don't have.
No. It is possible that an admin forgets to add a dependency to a package, but that has nothing to do with the packaging format.
Besides in my opinion the biggest bonus as far as Debian goes (in production environment) is the use of three separate branches with different stability standards. I'm unaware that any other distro has that "feature".
One of them portrays a character playing himself who spends his time tryng to be a "90 guys" and finds himself messing up all the time and getting chewed at by his wife (and or mother). It may be slightly satirical as it describes "modern man" in a role he is quite confused and lost in.
I "The Family Guy" you have (besides a talking matricidal baby and a talking/smoking/drugging dog) a father who quite obviously isn't a 90's guy. He is so politically incorrect that he redefines the scale.
Sitcoms make fun of modern life. Cartoons like FG make fun of sitcoms way of moralising and making fun of modern life by taking it to the extreme. You could make a sitcom like FG but I doubt it would survive the moral police. You are not supposed to have bad "role models" on TV (how anyone could have Peter as a role model is beyond me).
Some executive made the comment (although he was at a radio station, but the same principle). They were not there to deliver music to listeners. They were there to deliver listeners to advertisers.
No matter what you do you're not really a customer, you are a consumer. And as a consumer you are supposed to accept what they are given and be damned happy about it.
If you run WindowsXP without SP2 (god forbid) you won't get through the install before your computer is infected.
On the student network were I'm connected they have made a new policy of banning computers which are infected. (Not really banning, they just drop all packet from that computer at the gateway.) This has done more than anything I have ever seen in order to get peoples attention as to getting their computers patched.
I would probably be a good idea if ISPs started doing something similar. Or at least rerouted the first http request from an infected computer to a special "Your computer is infected, click here to download freeware firewall and antivirus."
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Some things just don't translate that well. I bet there are a lot of Americans who are intelligent enough to know that if you translate a movie title it may not properly reflect the original title.
Eg the great series "Arrested Development" was in Sweden translated to something like "Bluff and Build Inc". That is pretty much the anti-thesis of the original clever and convoluted title. The kind of people that will find the Swedish title interesting will most likely not enjoy the show.
Can I blame that on the US title? Hell no. I can only blame the translater who had an excessively bad day and poor QA. It's worse since the people in Sweden who would find the show really good would have no problem understanding the original title in english.
There was a "ka" in there as well, so it was probably intended as a question. Though appending a short form phrase with a "ka" tends to confuse japanese native speakers.
True, and IIRC all us monkeys evolved from an animal quite similar to modern lemurs.
W800 is based on K750i and not V800. (The naming does confuse the issues though.)
W800 and k750i are both GSM and "candy bar" style phones. They are also quite a bit smaller than the V/Z800.
K750 and W800 also have an external slot for the memory card, so you don't have to open up the battery compartment in order to get to the memory slot.
The biggest difference as far as MP3s go between W800 and V800 is that the W800 can be put into MP3 mode and then switch off the radio for the mobile network, thus getting a lot better battery time.
Not only that but compilers are a lot better at some optimisations than humans. Eg Software pipelining is something that you can do as a human but try to do it for a general case with super scalar computers and it soon becomes prohibatively hard.
That product you linked comes in a "pro" version as well with optical/coax etc outputs.
Thanks for the link, looks like a nifty gadget.
I have a similar setup but with the newer 95G Shuttle and a 660GT. It is noisy, that is true. However the noisy part of it is the 6600GT fan since that was apparently never designed to be quiet.
;-)
If you swap the gfx fan for something quiet then it would be quite quiet. OTOH I guess since the GFX is so loud I don't really notice any other sounds in the box.
Perhaps I'm not using the same definition of routed as you but I fail to see in what way a Bluetooth would be a routed protocol. Now I haven't used a BT keyboard/mouse myself so I can't say if it's a bit problem with games, but it seems to work quite well.
The biggest problems people seem to have with BT keyboards is that it typically doesn't establish the connection fast enough for the user to press the magic enter BIOS button.
BT 1.x can handle 700kbit transfer raters. That should be enough for a controller. However you can only have 7 devices connected to one master, so if controllers and headsets are on separate channels (which seems wise) you'd need at least 2 in a console for 4 players.
I have a Logitech for my XBox and I've so far had to change batteries about once every two or three months. I don't use it all that much for playing but I do use it a lot for watching videos (that doesn't use the ruble though).
Personally I'd rate it over the often praised Wavebird, which I also own one of. The Logitech (the old 4 battery version) fits my hands really well and the button layout is better than standard XBox controller IMHO.)
Not sure how they will do it but what I've wanted for a long time is a console with build in Bluetooth for controllers and voice.
That way you could bring your own controller / headset and play with friends with minimum fuss. Besides BT is designed to be used in low power equipment. (BT headsets typically last several hours on a charge.)
Even if they don't do that they can still let the headsets use their own connection to the system. No need to go via the controller.
I saw a demo of a much simpler system during a lab at the physics department at my local university. They put a colour wheel (with one red, one blue and one green filter) on each side of the image intensifier and then simply spun that wheel while running the intensifier. Prestor, instant colour night vision. (The non-IR kind.)
Why can't you find such a phone? Because they don't sell. In order to drive the mobile phone market you need to sell a lot of phones. And while there are a lot of people that "just want a phone" they are the same people that don't want to spend a lot of money on a new phone every year.
As such they may be a large potential market; but since you can't depend on them to actually buy a phone there's not much of a drive to develop a new model for them.
The source is in the CVS. When I was browsing the mailarchive I saw that Ian Clarke (of Freenet fame) seems to behind this as well. Seems like they aim to target it as smaller files than BT, such as blog updates.
Too bad that the Uni through which I'm hooked up doesn't allow P2P, it would be fun to try otherwise. They even have a Firefox extention, that's gotta count for something.
After browsing the "how it works" files is seems to be quite a lot of though behind it. (It's quite a bit more complex than BT eg.) The thing I think seems least robust would be the verification part. It seems like it would be possible to insert false error messages in the system which could cause DDOS of the original server. OTOH perhaps the entire distribution system will help with that as well.
Oh well, there haven't been any news lately on the P2P front. Fun that something new pops up.
You could, but there isn't much of a point since BT isn't very effective for small files.
Dijjer seems to be a neat pice of code though. GPL as well!
FPGAs are loads of fun. But they are not particularly suited for general cases. I was part of a group that did an image processor for FPGA, even its theoretical capacity was thouroughly whipped by a GPU running the same algorithms implemented as shaders. (And the GPU version wasn't optimised at all, eg we wasted 3 of 4 channels available for processing.)
And for basic signal processing a DSP is really fast, typically way faster than a FPGA. It's all about how the data is structured.
AFAIK DSP is good with "narrow" data, ie audio. FPGAs are good with wider data (eg images) with high demands on flexibility on the processing elements. Vector processors (such as GPUs, Altivec, SSE etc) are good when you have semi-wide data and general processing requirements. As it's implemented as ASIC you can get extremely high frequencies which makes for high throughput and low latency. Compared to FPGA the calculations aren't as flexible though. And finally the typical CPU which can do just about anything but comparatively slowly.
All that said, I remember when I studied good ol' An introduction to Algorithms that there was an entire chapter on parallell processing, however it typically required multiple processor for each element in the data. Naturally that is not very useful for a normal CPU but it's good for a GPU and even better for FPGA.
Of course, Swarmcast did it first. And better.
Bittorrent did it easier and (most significantly I think) at the right time. (Which was about 2 years after Swarmcast.)
I think the basic parts of Swarmcast was OSS. I know that I downloaded the source from them at least.
A wise man once said that you never want to use a bank card / car key / whatever that you can't put on the ground and back away from.
If the only to steal a car is to chop off the owners hand then there will soon be a lot bigger demands on keyboards for one handed people.
MWC I haven't seen (or perhaps I have I don't know). Seinfeld is a very good show and also quite unique. To let unproven writers and producers make a TV show is very unusual. Watch the material on the DVDs for more innfo.
Besides, that you had two examples out of 2 billion shows available kind of proves my point.
Yeah yeah, you're just trolling I know.
But Debian stable may be old and stale, but it sure as hell ain't broken. That's the bloody point.
What may die is the big sites like Suprnova and similar. Those are easy to find and shut down.
.torrent files with your friends.
But there's nothing stopping you from putting up your own tracker (without WWW frontend) and just share the
Besides, no-one would know what Bittorrent is if it wasn't for the "warez" feeds. So I guess Bram Cohen will just have to take that with the fame.
Feel free to read the Slashdot FAQ so you understand why this is not done. It is related to this pesky copyright thing.
Could a better system be used? Surely. It's not an entirely trivial question though. And considering that not even dupes are checked for I believe this is quite far in the future.
No. It is possible that an admin forgets to add a dependency to a package, but that has nothing to do with the packaging format.
Besides in my opinion the biggest bonus as far as Debian goes (in production environment) is the use of three separate branches with different stability standards. I'm unaware that any other distro has that "feature".
One of them portrays a character playing himself who spends his time tryng to be a "90 guys" and finds himself messing up all the time and getting chewed at by his wife (and or mother). It may be slightly satirical as it describes "modern man" in a role he is quite confused and lost in.
I "The Family Guy" you have (besides a talking matricidal baby and a talking/smoking/drugging dog) a father who quite obviously isn't a 90's guy. He is so politically incorrect that he redefines the scale.
Sitcoms make fun of modern life. Cartoons like FG make fun of sitcoms way of moralising and making fun of modern life by taking it to the extreme. You could make a sitcom like FG but I doubt it would survive the moral police. You are not supposed to have bad "role models" on TV (how anyone could have Peter as a role model is beyond me).
Some executive made the comment (although he was at a radio station, but the same principle). They were not there to deliver music to listeners. They were there to deliver listeners to advertisers.
No matter what you do you're not really a customer, you are a consumer. And as a consumer you are supposed to accept what they are given and be damned happy about it.
Screw that.
If you run WindowsXP without SP2 (god forbid) you won't get through the install before your computer is infected.
On the student network were I'm connected they have made a new policy of banning computers which are infected. (Not really banning, they just drop all packet from that computer at the gateway.) This has done more than anything I have ever seen in order to get peoples attention as to getting their computers patched.
I would probably be a good idea if ISPs started doing something similar. Or at least rerouted the first http request from an infected computer to a special "Your computer is infected, click here to download freeware firewall and antivirus."