Lately, I drag a netbook around with me and plug into the monitor/keyboard at my desks. When I need oomph, I remote into a quadcore Xeon left over after the last server refresh.
The mouse can be a tad laggy if I'm not at the same office, but otherwise it is indistinguishable from having that thing sitting on my desk. Well, except for the lack of jet-engine cooling fans blowing papers around.
I wouldn't want to compress video on the netbook directly, although playback wouldn't be a problem, but I can easily farm out the task to the Xeon and go do something else locally without slowing it down.
Sure, Microsoft could release ARM versions of Word, etc, but if all you can run on your netbook is IE, Word and Powerpoint, why not run Linux instead?
My company doesn't even need IE, Word or Powerpoint. All they need is a good terminal client and(unfortunately) a spreadsheet bug-compatible with Excel.
If it weren't for that second requirement, we'd have gone linux whole hog already. If Microsoft ported Office to ARM, I'd toss every non-server X86 box that didn't belong to accounting out in a second.
I don't buy the trade format if the same book is available as a standard paperback. Nor will I buy an ebook if it costs more than a standard paperback. Heck, if a book is only available in trade format, I'd rather buy the hardback or not buy it at all.
I'm buying the words, not the container. If I wanted to buy the container, I'd buy in hardback and get them recovered in leather.
And just because I dropped $250 on a reader doesn't mean I'm willing to pay more for ebooks. If anything, it means I'd rather pay less for ebooks because I'm amortizing the hardware over all the books I buy. If the hardware was free(e.g. I used my phone or laptop), then I'd at best pay the same as paper should I consider the convenience equal to what I think the publisher is saving by not printing/storing/etc the hardcopy.
But, despite what I said above, I like hardcopy, so my convenience "cost" isn't very large.
Indeed. I'm not going to boycott MacMillan because they charge $15. Some books cost more, some less, and I think that they should have the freedom to adjust pricing however they like.
If it is a hardback that costs $25 and the ebook is $15, I'll happily pay $15 for it. I'll gripe about the rising costs since I was a kid, but I won't begrudge the publisher his bit.
However, if it is a paperback that costs 8$ or $10 or even $15, I'm not paying $15 for the ebook. I'll buy the print version and warez the ebook.
If the publisher isn't will to share some of the savings, on printing costs and if they get a better split from Amazon than brick & mortar stores, they can get bent.
The same can't really be said for books, surprisingly
One word: Opra
Other than book reviews or bookstore newsletters, and perhaps the rare internet ad, she's the only radio-like form of book marketing that comes to mind. People buy those books because she makes them popular, not because they are good.
I wonder if somebody can make another "hitmaker" personality for books, or if this was a fluke.
- There's no (AFAIR) option to restore the opened pages when the browser crashes.
If it doesn't offer to do so on startup, go into options and check "Reopen the pages that were last open on startup".
Or go to the "New tab" page and look at the "recently closed tabs" area. If you had multiple windows open, it will have X tabs, Y tabs, Z tabs, etc for each window. I'd keep less than 6 windows open to stay within the space of that feature.
If you made a sheet of graphene the thickness of tissue paper, it could possible hold back the ocean. I don't know about straight up graphene, but a sheet of graphene oxide has a tensile modulus of 32 gigapascals.
On the other hand, you can snap it by folding sharply.
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Have you noticed that, with the increased mention of Somalian piracy, that this winter has been a bit chill?
I think it is a sign from the FSM, but I'm not sure if it is positive of negative.
At $100, I'm going to buy it for the pickers in the warehouse I work for. I've been wanting to switch to a digital pick system, but the devices are either to fragile to drop from 20' up in a lift or too expensive to buy.
This is probably still too fragile and not quite so cheap that I'd be entirely cavalier about breakage, but I could buy 3 of these instead of a netbook(or 1 Office license!), cover them in spray foam and cannibalize the first break to fix the next.
If the surface is multi-touch(for large values of multi), you can implement a frog-eye algorithm that ignores anything that hasn't moved in an interesting manner recently. Or ignore blobs that run off the edge.
For mouse-pointer emulation, just attach the cursor to the first blob that touches, keep track of other blobs that touch later and ignore them until you remove all blobs. Then start over again with the first blob. Maybe have some size/shape characteristics(eg nothing larger than a basketball players hand can get the pointer).
The Wacom tablet is not a display device, just an input device. Having a similar level of pressure sensitivity as a Wacom tablet but on the actual display device would be a huge improvement.
I'm not terribly familiar with full prototyping suites, I had just looked into runtime changeable FPGAs, especially partially reconfigurable ones like the Atmel AT40K that let you change portions of the FPGA without losing state.
I think Altera either has or is partnered with somebody that has verification/analysis tools for their FPGAs.
There are a run-time reconfigurable FPGAs on the market, but they still take time to switch(something like 200 microseconds). Not terribly long on our scale, but not exactly fast for the CPU.
The real problem is that FPGAs are generally more expensive for anything that you can mass-produce. FPGAs shine if you want something custom and parallel, like this cluster, and can be cost-competitive compared to getting your own silicon made for prototypes.
Crap, I can't read. It doesn't let your render apps on other screens, and running 2 x sessions would already let you copy buffers, but not apps either.
I was taking Uni classes two years early as well, but I went to public schools. The trick is choosing your own schedule instead of following the standard one.
Once I got to Uni, alas, I took too many electives and ended up needing an extra year part time for the capstone classes, so it was a bit of a wash.
Sure, it'd be more accurate if you're in range, but some AGPS offload initial fix calculations to the cell network. No network means really long time-to-fix and worse battery performance.
You don't have to simulate the universe iteratively down the chain. When you get to a point where the sim builds a simulator, replace the logic of the machine with a pointer back to the head of the simulation.
Watch them oooh and ahh that the sim-sim machine works in sim-real-time, despite what logic says.
Then be greatly amused when they realize that changing the sim changes their reality:)
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Lately, I drag a netbook around with me and plug into the monitor/keyboard at my desks. When I need oomph, I remote into a quadcore Xeon left over after the last server refresh.
The mouse can be a tad laggy if I'm not at the same office, but otherwise it is indistinguishable from having that thing sitting on my desk. Well, except for the lack of jet-engine cooling fans blowing papers around.
I wouldn't want to compress video on the netbook directly, although playback wouldn't be a problem, but I can easily farm out the task to the Xeon and go do something else locally without slowing it down.
My company doesn't even need IE, Word or Powerpoint. All they need is a good terminal client and(unfortunately) a spreadsheet bug-compatible with Excel.
If it weren't for that second requirement, we'd have gone linux whole hog already. If Microsoft ported Office to ARM, I'd toss every non-server X86 box that didn't belong to accounting out in a second.
yarg, he dated Kathy Griffin? I don't know who got the worse of that, it seems like a lose-lose scenario.
I don't buy the trade format if the same book is available as a standard paperback. Nor will I buy an ebook if it costs more than a standard paperback. Heck, if a book is only available in trade format, I'd rather buy the hardback or not buy it at all.
I'm buying the words, not the container. If I wanted to buy the container, I'd buy in hardback and get them recovered in leather.
And just because I dropped $250 on a reader doesn't mean I'm willing to pay more for ebooks. If anything, it means I'd rather pay less for ebooks because I'm amortizing the hardware over all the books I buy. If the hardware was free(e.g. I used my phone or laptop), then I'd at best pay the same as paper should I consider the convenience equal to what I think the publisher is saving by not printing/storing/etc the hardcopy.
But, despite what I said above, I like hardcopy, so my convenience "cost" isn't very large.
Not only are they charging $15 for the ebook, they want $15 for the trade paperback when Amazon sells the same print version for $10!
Indeed. I'm not going to boycott MacMillan because they charge $15. Some books cost more, some less, and I think that they should have the freedom to adjust pricing however they like.
If it is a hardback that costs $25 and the ebook is $15, I'll happily pay $15 for it. I'll gripe about the rising costs since I was a kid, but I won't begrudge the publisher his bit.
However, if it is a paperback that costs 8$ or $10 or even $15, I'm not paying $15 for the ebook. I'll buy the print version and warez the ebook.
If the publisher isn't will to share some of the savings, on printing costs and if they get a better split from Amazon than brick & mortar stores, they can get bent.
The same can't really be said for books, surprisingly
One word: Opra
Other than book reviews or bookstore newsletters, and perhaps the rare internet ad, she's the only radio-like form of book marketing that comes to mind. People buy those books because she makes them popular, not because they are good.
I wonder if somebody can make another "hitmaker" personality for books, or if this was a fluke.
If it doesn't offer to do so on startup, go into options and check "Reopen the pages that were last open on startup".
Or go to the "New tab" page and look at the "recently closed tabs" area. If you had multiple windows open, it will have X tabs, Y tabs, Z tabs, etc for each window. I'd keep less than 6 windows open to stay within the space of that feature.
If you made a sheet of graphene the thickness of tissue paper, it could possible hold back the ocean. I don't know about straight up graphene, but a sheet of graphene oxide has a tensile modulus of 32 gigapascals.
On the other hand, you can snap it by folding sharply.
Have you noticed that, with the increased mention of Somalian piracy, that this winter has been a bit chill?
I think it is a sign from the FSM, but I'm not sure if it is positive of negative.
epaper has Liquid Crystals in it? That'd be a surprise for the manufacturer, making all those B&W charged spheres for nothing.
At $100, I'm going to buy it for the pickers in the warehouse I work for. I've been wanting to switch to a digital pick system, but the devices are either to fragile to drop from 20' up in a lift or too expensive to buy.
This is probably still too fragile and not quite so cheap that I'd be entirely cavalier about breakage, but I could buy 3 of these instead of a netbook(or 1 Office license!), cover them in spray foam and cannibalize the first break to fix the next.
If only I could buy them now.
It has 1 USB port and an SD slot. It looks like it has space for a second USB port, but the specs don't mention it.
In California, one of the states studied, they have cops that exclusively pull people over for phone violations. And still no change.
If the surface is multi-touch(for large values of multi), you can implement a frog-eye algorithm that ignores anything that hasn't moved in an interesting manner recently. Or ignore blobs that run off the edge.
For mouse-pointer emulation, just attach the cursor to the first blob that touches, keep track of other blobs that touch later and ignore them until you remove all blobs. Then start over again with the first blob. Maybe have some size/shape characteristics(eg nothing larger than a basketball players hand can get the pointer).
What, like a Wacom Cintiq?
I wouldn't exactly say that Orlando has many tall structures.
I'm not terribly familiar with full prototyping suites, I had just looked into runtime changeable FPGAs, especially partially reconfigurable ones like the Atmel AT40K that let you change portions of the FPGA without losing state.
I think Altera either has or is partnered with somebody that has verification/analysis tools for their FPGAs.
There are a run-time reconfigurable FPGAs on the market, but they still take time to switch(something like 200 microseconds). Not terribly long on our scale, but not exactly fast for the CPU.
The real problem is that FPGAs are generally more expensive for anything that you can mass-produce. FPGAs shine if you want something custom and parallel, like this cluster, and can be cost-competitive compared to getting your own silicon made for prototypes.
Crap, I can't read. It doesn't let your render apps on other screens, and running 2 x sessions would already let you copy buffers, but not apps either.
It's designed to share mice/keyboards/buffers across computers, but perhaps you could use it to share across X sessions on the same machine.
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
But my worldview is that everyone should be forced to the same worldview, you insensitive clod!
I was taking Uni classes two years early as well, but I went to public schools. The trick is choosing your own schedule instead of following the standard one.
Once I got to Uni, alas, I took too many electives and ended up needing an extra year part time for the capstone classes, so it was a bit of a wash.
Sure, it'd be more accurate if you're in range, but some AGPS offload initial fix calculations to the cell network. No network means really long time-to-fix and worse battery performance.
You don't have to simulate the universe iteratively down the chain. When you get to a point where the sim builds a simulator, replace the logic of the machine with a pointer back to the head of the simulation.
Watch them oooh and ahh that the sim-sim machine works in sim-real-time, despite what logic says.
Then be greatly amused when they realize that changing the sim changes their reality:)