Yes, I understand this, the real question is "why 6?". How does 6 improve on 5? Why is 7+ unnecessary? Are there technical reasons, such as efficiency or the availability of light sources at the proper wavelengths?
They put the linux kernel, linux distos, Android and apps in the same list. Android and linux distros contain the linux kernel There isn't much to linux distros besides testing and maintenance, there are mostly a collection of third-party software.
So, for example, is a bug in the linux kernel also a bug in Ubuntu? Is is still a but if there is some kind of mitigation in place?
Both the summary and the article don't know what they are talking about. Reading these will only confuse you. Read the paper here instead : http://www.nature.com/articles...
To summarize : - ReRAM is a promising type of non-volatile memory. - Earlier, it was discovered that ReRAM cells could be used to perform computations. This is not news. - Multi-level ReRAM, which is able to store more than 2 states per cell exist. This is similar to MLC/TLC for flash memory. This is not news. - The new thing is that with using 6-state cells, they managed to do calculations in base 3 directly. More generally, they said it would be possible to do base-n using 2n-state cells. This is good because higher bases means less cells are required for the same computation.
Look at the bright side. If your phone is your PC, you won't lose one because you are distracted by the other. Like forgetting your laptop bag because you are looking at your phone.
This Freesync 2 technology should be able to give you the best possible response time your display is capable of without artifacts (i.e. no tearline).
The way rendering works is by using a double buffer. The back buffer is the canvas where the GPU draws the picture where the front buffer contain the completed previous frame, intended for display. When the GPU part of the drawing is complete, the buffers are swapped. Further down, the RAMDAC (is it still how it is called?) scans the front buffer and send the data to the monitor, line by line. The monitor then processes the data and displays the image. The problem with the usual fixed framerate is that the scanning is a continuous process, going top down ($refresh_rate) times per second no matter how fast the GPU is drawing new frames, which mean that the image may change mid-display, creating a tearline effect. To avoid this, it is possible to wait for the drawing to complete but it causes lag (that's vsync). It mean that gamers had to choose between an ugly tearline and increased lag. Freesync/G-Sync fix the problem by synchronizing the GPU rendering, RAMDAC scanning and display. So when a frame is complete, the scanning starts immediately afterwards and the monitor starts the display process at the same time. If the monitor is able to follow, there is no extra lag.
Freesync 2 goes a step further and addresses the data processing part of the monitor. Unlike old CRTs, modern monitors do plenty of things before lighting up pixels : contrast, scaling, color correction, etc..., and it can cause more lag. This is too bad because it is something your GPU can do better and faster. And it is exactly what Freesync 2 does : it takes some image processing out of the monitor and on to the GPU where it belongs.
It is like saying that more swiss cheese is bad because it means more holes and more holes means less cheese.
It dead people are needed, we don't need to do it in a convoluted way by making the roads less safe. We could just shoot them in the head. There may be a tiny ethical problem but at least we could select the best potential donor and avoid wasting valuable cars.
And third, in that business you simply can't get paid; the reputable payment providers like Paypal won't touch porn, and that leaves ones that are either part of an existing distribution network or that are linked to organized crime and anyways it scares away a vast majority of customers
This is why I am wondering why bitcoin hasn't caught up with porn. It is worldwide, it requires little in the way of payment processing and it is anonymized, which is desirable for many customers.
In Japan, there is "Perfect Dark". An darknet style filesharing software. It is commonly used for sharing anime, in a country that isn't very kind with pirates (it is ninja-land after all).
They do convey information. It makes the difference between " start quote " and " end quote ". Parenthesis, brackets, as well as French guillemets, CJK brackets and Spanish punctuation all differentiate between start and end. From a computer perspective, straight quotes just make parsing harder : you can't quote within a quote without escaping. It is even worse with single quotes being apostrophes. It results in unreadable mess like "Can't open file "'"'"$filename"'"' just because "Can't open file "$filename"" is ambiguous.
This is France we are talking about, 90% of its electricity is nuclear, as a result it produces very little CO2 (around 25g/kWh). If we are talking global warming, solar panels will actually make things worse.
These are not as bad as "solar freakin roadways" because they do not attempt to light up the roads or melt snow. It is a huge waste of money but at least, the laws of physics are safe.
Smartwatches are good as notifications device, it can act like the top bar of your Android phone. I have a Mi Band (like a Chinese FitBit), it is great because it has a very noticeable vibrator, much better than what you have on your phone because it is always in contact with your skin. Good enough to act as a silent alarm clock. It has sensors too and the new model has a tiny display giving you things like the time and unread message count. Do you really need more? For any interaction, the smartphone you already have with you is much better.
Android Wear does too much, as a result, it need a really powerful CPU and a large and power hungry screen. First, it is expensive (>$100), but it also results in a ridiculously short battery life, usually around a day which mean you need to recharge it every day like a smartphone, typically overnight. Not only it is annoying but because you aren't wearing your watch at night, you don't get the silent wake-up alarms, which is a feature only wearables can provide. Same for sleep tracking if it has any value to you. To put it into perspective the Mi Band is around $15 and has a real month of battery life. Version 2 is around $30 and has a tiny screen which shows time and notifications and the battery life is just slightly lower.
Yes and no. Increasing the clock speed or the number of cores will demand more power but this can be counteracted by using a more efficient architecture or smaller transistors. Newer hardware is typically more efficient and can be better without needing more power.
I think that the "truth" Google is factoring into web pages doesn't and shouldn't apply to controversial topics. You know, the whole "I disagree but you have the right to say it" thing. We can live with a few holocaust deniers, anti-vacs and moon landing deniers. Let them express their misguided ideas in their own little bubble. Deranking their favorite source won't stop them anyways.
What I think is that "truth" should be a quality metric like proper spelling and limit itself to small, uncontroversial truths. For example a site claiming that the speed of light in a vacuum is 100000 mph should be penalized because there is no reason to think that, no opinion being argued, no alternative explanation, it is just a wrong number, a sign of poor quality. And a good predictor for an uninteresting site.
One way the algorithm work is by looking at bounces : how often you click a link and then go back to the search page. People looking at the page likely didn't come back quickly, which mean that people found it interesting. Not necessarily helpful, or true, just that people are interested enough to spend some time on the site. That you use this time to make fun of holocaust deniers doesn't matter to Google, You are willing to spend time there, this site is worth seeing, it gets ranked higher.
In addition, who do you think will search "Did the holocaust happen?". As GP said, we all know it took place, no debate, so there is no reason to Google it up. Those who enter these queries probably don't really want to know the actual answer (they already know it), they want to find arguments to deny it. And Google serves them what they want, because that's what Google is designed for.
When an autonomous car was caught running a red light, Uber was very quick to blame the driver. And they didn't really "came out". They only admitted a few issues when evidence was piling up against them and were told by the DMV that public roads are not their playground.
Well the odd thing is Facebook is an Internet company, so it would seem strange to have to "register" in Germany before Germans can visit your site, sign up for an account, and see ads.
They don't need to. But it make many things much easier if they do.
A good way is to limit feedback to those who actually buy it. 1 beer, 1 feedback, no more. This way, the feedback will come mostly from people who actually want good beer. There are also techniques to weed out fake reviews. Actual feedback follow statistical laws and large deviations can be ignored.
1- Automated speed traps can already send you tickets in the mail. Legislation is the only reason it doesn't happen in the US, because the technology is here and is actively used in Europe. 2- You don't need to hack V2V systems tu cause chaos and devastation. How about the stupid teenager prank of cutting a break line or dropping a large brick on a busy highway. This is very easy to do. The reason it doesn't happen is because normal people don't want to do stuff that can kill. Because they tend to have some ethics and don't want to risk spending the rest of their life in jail. 3- If the alternative to remotely stop your car is to make a dangerous car chase and shoot you, than it is a lesser evil. Some cars already have remote control systems and we don't hear of such abuse left and right. 4- A valid point, however cars are heavily regulated when it comes to safety so recalls will probably be ordered if a bug affects critical systems. For non-critical stuff, it is very unlikely that you will get anything beyond what you initially paid for unless you buy the upgrade.
So yeah, there is abuse potential but in the grand scheme of things, I don't thing it is something to worry about. It will probably end up saving many lives and in some very rare and well published cases, kill or hurt someone. A net positive but all the attention will go to the negative.
It is probably as well anonymized as your license plates. From what I understand, this is nothing more that the electronic equivalent of break lights or turn signals, and nothing you can spy that traffic cameras can't do.
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Yes, I understand this, the real question is "why 6?".
How does 6 improve on 5? Why is 7+ unnecessary?
Are there technical reasons, such as efficiency or the availability of light sources at the proper wavelengths?
6? Why not 5 or 7?
Technically, you need an infinity of perfectly monochromatic sources to get it perfect.
They put the linux kernel, linux distos, Android and apps in the same list.
Android and linux distros contain the linux kernel
There isn't much to linux distros besides testing and maintenance, there are mostly a collection of third-party software.
So, for example, is a bug in the linux kernel also a bug in Ubuntu? Is is still a but if there is some kind of mitigation in place?
Both the summary and the article don't know what they are talking about. Reading these will only confuse you.
Read the paper here instead : http://www.nature.com/articles...
To summarize :
- ReRAM is a promising type of non-volatile memory.
- Earlier, it was discovered that ReRAM cells could be used to perform computations. This is not news.
- Multi-level ReRAM, which is able to store more than 2 states per cell exist. This is similar to MLC/TLC for flash memory. This is not news.
- The new thing is that with using 6-state cells, they managed to do calculations in base 3 directly. More generally, they said it would be possible to do base-n using 2n-state cells. This is good because higher bases means less cells are required for the same computation.
Look at the bright side.
If your phone is your PC, you won't lose one because you are distracted by the other. Like forgetting your laptop bag because you are looking at your phone.
This Freesync 2 technology should be able to give you the best possible response time your display is capable of without artifacts (i.e. no tearline).
The way rendering works is by using a double buffer. The back buffer is the canvas where the GPU draws the picture where the front buffer contain the completed previous frame, intended for display. When the GPU part of the drawing is complete, the buffers are swapped.
Further down, the RAMDAC (is it still how it is called?) scans the front buffer and send the data to the monitor, line by line. The monitor then processes the data and displays the image.
The problem with the usual fixed framerate is that the scanning is a continuous process, going top down ($refresh_rate) times per second no matter how fast the GPU is drawing new frames, which mean that the image may change mid-display, creating a tearline effect. To avoid this, it is possible to wait for the drawing to complete but it causes lag (that's vsync). It mean that gamers had to choose between an ugly tearline and increased lag.
Freesync/G-Sync fix the problem by synchronizing the GPU rendering, RAMDAC scanning and display. So when a frame is complete, the scanning starts immediately afterwards and the monitor starts the display process at the same time. If the monitor is able to follow, there is no extra lag.
Freesync 2 goes a step further and addresses the data processing part of the monitor. Unlike old CRTs, modern monitors do plenty of things before lighting up pixels : contrast, scaling, color correction, etc..., and it can cause more lag. This is too bad because it is something your GPU can do better and faster. And it is exactly what Freesync 2 does : it takes some image processing out of the monitor and on to the GPU where it belongs.
That's the job of the police. The driver did his part.
And yes, this is not groundbreaking, it is just a story the name "Uber" in it.
It is like saying that more swiss cheese is bad because it means more holes and more holes means less cheese.
It dead people are needed, we don't need to do it in a convoluted way by making the roads less safe. We could just shoot them in the head. There may be a tiny ethical problem but at least we could select the best potential donor and avoid wasting valuable cars.
And third, in that business you simply can't get paid; the reputable payment providers like Paypal won't touch porn, and that leaves ones that are either part of an existing distribution network or that are linked to organized crime and anyways it scares away a vast majority of customers
This is why I am wondering why bitcoin hasn't caught up with porn. It is worldwide, it requires little in the way of payment processing and it is anonymized, which is desirable for many customers.
In Japan, there is "Perfect Dark". An darknet style filesharing software.
It is commonly used for sharing anime, in a country that isn't very kind with pirates (it is ninja-land after all).
They do convey information. It makes the difference between " start quote " and " end quote ".
Parenthesis, brackets, as well as French guillemets, CJK brackets and Spanish punctuation all differentiate between start and end.
From a computer perspective, straight quotes just make parsing harder : you can't quote within a quote without escaping. It is even worse with single quotes being apostrophes. It results in unreadable mess like "Can't open file "'"'"$filename"'"' just because "Can't open file "$filename"" is ambiguous.
This is France we are talking about, 90% of its electricity is nuclear, as a result it produces very little CO2 (around 25g/kWh).
If we are talking global warming, solar panels will actually make things worse.
These are not as bad as "solar freakin roadways" because they do not attempt to light up the roads or melt snow. It is a huge waste of money but at least, the laws of physics are safe.
Smartwatches are good as notifications device, it can act like the top bar of your Android phone.
I have a Mi Band (like a Chinese FitBit), it is great because it has a very noticeable vibrator, much better than what you have on your phone because it is always in contact with your skin. Good enough to act as a silent alarm clock. It has sensors too and the new model has a tiny display giving you things like the time and unread message count.
Do you really need more? For any interaction, the smartphone you already have with you is much better.
Android Wear does too much, as a result, it need a really powerful CPU and a large and power hungry screen. First, it is expensive (>$100), but it also results in a ridiculously short battery life, usually around a day which mean you need to recharge it every day like a smartphone, typically overnight. Not only it is annoying but because you aren't wearing your watch at night, you don't get the silent wake-up alarms, which is a feature only wearables can provide. Same for sleep tracking if it has any value to you.
To put it into perspective the Mi Band is around $15 and has a real month of battery life. Version 2 is around $30 and has a tiny screen which shows time and notifications and the battery life is just slightly lower.
Yes and no.
Increasing the clock speed or the number of cores will demand more power but this can be counteracted by using a more efficient architecture or smaller transistors.
Newer hardware is typically more efficient and can be better without needing more power.
I think that the "truth" Google is factoring into web pages doesn't and shouldn't apply to controversial topics. You know, the whole "I disagree but you have the right to say it" thing. We can live with a few holocaust deniers, anti-vacs and moon landing deniers. Let them express their misguided ideas in their own little bubble. Deranking their favorite source won't stop them anyways.
What I think is that "truth" should be a quality metric like proper spelling and limit itself to small, uncontroversial truths. For example a site claiming that the speed of light in a vacuum is 100000 mph should be penalized because there is no reason to think that, no opinion being argued, no alternative explanation, it is just a wrong number, a sign of poor quality. And a good predictor for an uninteresting site.
One way the algorithm work is by looking at bounces : how often you click a link and then go back to the search page. People looking at the page likely didn't come back quickly, which mean that people found it interesting. Not necessarily helpful, or true, just that people are interested enough to spend some time on the site. That you use this time to make fun of holocaust deniers doesn't matter to Google, You are willing to spend time there, this site is worth seeing, it gets ranked higher.
In addition, who do you think will search "Did the holocaust happen?". As GP said, we all know it took place, no debate, so there is no reason to Google it up. Those who enter these queries probably don't really want to know the actual answer (they already know it), they want to find arguments to deny it. And Google serves them what they want, because that's what Google is designed for.
When an autonomous car was caught running a red light, Uber was very quick to blame the driver.
And they didn't really "came out". They only admitted a few issues when evidence was piling up against them and were told by the DMV that public roads are not their playground.
Because if antimatter won it would have been called matter.
Now where can I get my Nobel prize?
That's the case with LGPLv3, not LGPLv2.
And the "anti-tivoisation" clause as it is called only applies to consumer products.
According to most developers who know both C# and Java, C# is the better one.
The only problem is that only Windows get first-class support.
Well the odd thing is Facebook is an Internet company, so it would seem strange to have to "register" in Germany before Germans can visit your site, sign up for an account, and see ads.
They don't need to.
But it make many things much easier if they do.
A good way is to limit feedback to those who actually buy it. 1 beer, 1 feedback, no more.
This way, the feedback will come mostly from people who actually want good beer. There are also techniques to weed out fake reviews. Actual feedback follow statistical laws and large deviations can be ignored.
1- Automated speed traps can already send you tickets in the mail. Legislation is the only reason it doesn't happen in the US, because the technology is here and is actively used in Europe.
2- You don't need to hack V2V systems tu cause chaos and devastation. How about the stupid teenager prank of cutting a break line or dropping a large brick on a busy highway. This is very easy to do. The reason it doesn't happen is because normal people don't want to do stuff that can kill. Because they tend to have some ethics and don't want to risk spending the rest of their life in jail.
3- If the alternative to remotely stop your car is to make a dangerous car chase and shoot you, than it is a lesser evil. Some cars already have remote control systems and we don't hear of such abuse left and right.
4- A valid point, however cars are heavily regulated when it comes to safety so recalls will probably be ordered if a bug affects critical systems. For non-critical stuff, it is very unlikely that you will get anything beyond what you initially paid for unless you buy the upgrade.
So yeah, there is abuse potential but in the grand scheme of things, I don't thing it is something to worry about. It will probably end up saving many lives and in some very rare and well published cases, kill or hurt someone. A net positive but all the attention will go to the negative.
It is probably as well anonymized as your license plates.
From what I understand, this is nothing more that the electronic equivalent of break lights or turn signals, and nothing you can spy that traffic cameras can't do.