I never thought that X11 was slow. My problem with X windows has always been that it was too fragile and complex. A lot of features of X seemed to be over kill for use on a standard desktop. I never felt X11 as too slow just that it tended to break way to easy.
Calm yourself. Right now the scanners are passive. They just view the background signal that you are emitting all the time. They don't bombard you with THz radiation they just look at what is already there. This is research on the next generation of scanners that are not yet in service and may never be now that we found this.
"we have money just like "your part" of the world does and no, we don't like getting episodes 1-2 months later than the rest of the world and no we don't like being shut off of a service that would allow us to watch TV while supporting the producers." 1. Hulu is an ad supported service. The people that pay for the ads don't want to pay for people that can not buy their stuff. It doesn't make a lot of sense for Ford to pay to advertise a car to people that can not buy it. 2. Don't blame the content producers for your lag blame you networks. You networks will wait to see if a US show is a hit before they bring it to your country. Only makes sense that way they don't buy the shows that suck. The producers make a lot more money from selling the shows to your networks than from Hulu even if they got sponsers that wanted to pay for the ads. So can't you buy the shows on iTunes? I mean if you want to pay for them and they are available then that is a sound option.
Flash I will give you but I avoid Adobe Reader when I can. Foxit reader does the job for me and is lighter and faster. I also question why Chrome is crapware? It is a good browser and easy to uninstall if you don't want it. Toolbars? yea I hate them. Trailware? Okay let me install them if I want but leave it off other wise. I have no problem with preinstalled software if I can uninstall it cleanly. I would prefere a DVD of good software that I could pick and choose from to make my system useful.
Not really. you must heat paper to 451f to get it to ignite. Back in the old days they even used cotton on house current wires for insulation it worked but wasn't as safe as what we have now. If you are talking about high voltage, high power stuff then yea not the best idea. If you are talking about the power levels in most computers then it is fine.
If you can do it on say paper or fabric how about ceramic? That would be even safer than the PCB boards we use now as far as fire goes.
The story is light and fluffy the reactor is interesting but the story was written at a lower level than I would expect from Slashdot. It is a big test fusion reactor that uses activated charcoal and may work really well. The reactor is the cool. The story was dull and uninformative.
Coconut shell charcoal is one of the best available for making filters. Charcoal filters are nothing new folks most fish tanks use them as do most water purifiers and even gas masks. And this "May" be a practical fusion reactor but they have been saying that since the 1950s but I am staying hopeful. Yet another light and fluffy pop science story with a funny little twist because it has coconuts in it... Yawn.....
It is called a trade off. When the government spends money on infrastructure it isn't throwing it away. That money will provide jobs to people in the US those people will buy stuff and provide more jobs and all those people will pay taxes. Some of that stuff may be education for their children or themselves which will pay more benefits. Think about the rural electrification project from the 1930s. That paid huge benefits to the country in increased productivity and quality of life in rural America In the end things like roads, phone lines, and now data lines are used by everybody. The more people that have access the more benefit to everybody. I know that it is may be unpopular to say it but $300 spent on infrastructure will benefit the US a lot more than that same money spent on a game console made in china by a Japanese company.
Don't forget Chrome OS from Google. I have high hopes for Chrome OS if for no other reason than it drops X windows. Yes that will mean that some software will not work but I wonder how many will be left out if they port GTK and QT to the new video system? If needed I am sure that it would be possible to add an X-Windows layer to the system similar to what Apple does on the Mac.
But WinMo is still with us. The Treo and other WinMo smartphones did have internet data before the iPhone. What I think was the big advance was the App store. It made it easy to find, buy and sell software for your device. I do agree that it is hard to say what will happen but I hope that we get something more innovative than just little Windows machines running on Intel Atoms.
That really depends I think on how netbooks mature. Is a netbook a small weak notebook or a big iPod Touch? Take a look as the WindowsMobile vs iPhone battle. WIndowsMobile had years of time in the market before the iPhone and it had a lot more applications than the iPhone. The iPhone blew it out of the water in just a few short years. If the ARM baised netbook folks get their act together then yes Arm could move up into the netbook area. From there it could move up into the Notebook and even Desktop space. You may think that could never happen but the X86 went from a toy to push up into the workstation and server market. You even have some X86 style systems pushing well into the Mini/Mainframe area. Windows and X86 has done so well because it is cheap and fast enough. Now ARM is heading into cheap and fast enough.
I am hopping that Google will open up all there mapping data. They should have a large amount of data from their Street View project so let us hope they make available to everyone. I would love to see a good FOSS GPS nav program so I can build a good Linux Car Computer.
If it requires a data network then that is how a stand-alone GPS unit beats it. Every cell phone has dead areas or areas where you will be on roaming or where you may not get data. When you do you don't get navigation anymore and that sucks. I love my cell phone navigation system but I keep a $99 Nuvi in the car as a backup.
That has nothing to do with this case. NPR published this media. Another group used it in a way that is totally legal under the concept of fair use. NPR tried to use legal means to get that media removed. It would be fine for NPR to say we don't like that being used in that way but they had no right to send a take down notice. Since the take down didn't happen the system worked. The problem is when people think that it is okay for NPR to send a take down notice but not when say FOX news does based on what they think is right or wrong.
And who decides what is more evil? That is why we have free speech. Both sides can present their arguments and the voters decide. When you start deciding that an idea is too evil for the people to hear you then have set your self up as God. You determine who is worthy of freedom of speech?
I would say it only for the OSS evangelists. I am a developer and I an OSS contributor. I hate the word fan or evangelist because I am not a zealot. As a developer I find it about useless. There was not mention of how complete the SDK is. When I last looked at the official Palm SDK I was ticked off how limited it was. There was no way for me to find the charging state of the device. AKA is it being charged. I wanted to make a program wake up when the device was put on a charger. There was no way to control the flash so you could use it as a flash light or a signaling device. I thought it would be fun to write a program that could send morse with the flash and use the camera to read it. Just as a toy but there was no way to do it without rooting the phone and messing the the device directly. That is very limiting. Also what emulators are available? How does debugging work? What IDEs are supported? What languages are supported. One Advantage that the Google's VM has over running native code is that you don't have to worry about devices using different ISAs The Cortex A8 has some instructions that the ARM 11 lacks. All these things matter to developers but again none where even touched on in the story. This was a simplistic rah rah Maemo is is more free than Android because I say so story with no real meat. Maemo may be great but I got no information of use from this story. As the old Wendy's commerical said... "Where's the beef!"
Maybe or it could just be that the US has samples of all these radar systems and found the best way to jam or overload them. Nothing is perfect so I am sure they have torn those system apart and found any weakness. The US then shared that information. Kind of like in WWII when the US found a Zero. They found that the Zero had a longer range, could out climb, out turn, and was faster than the F4F fighters the US had. The only thing advantage the F4F had was that it could out dive the Zero and as built like a tank. The one problem it had was at high speed it didn't turn well to the left. So F4Fs made diving attacks at high speed and turned left to escape. The F4F ended up with a very good kill rate when dealing with the Zero. If you can find a weakness and exploit it you will often win.
Well we have been giving the Telcos Billions of dollars in tax money to solve that problem since 96. I am sure the will fix it real soon not. Still sucks. My father and another friend that have cabins in North Ga both have high speed. I guess your right in that it really is luck of the draw.
I don't buy many DVDs anymore. Netflix streaming is great on my XBox. Now that Sony is putting NetFlix on the PS3 I hope that they will allow Sony movies on netflix streaming.
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I never thought that X11 was slow. My problem with X windows has always been that it was too fragile and complex. A lot of features of X seemed to be over kill for use on a standard desktop.
I never felt X11 as too slow just that it tended to break way to easy.
Heck I am running a Postgres server on a 600 MHZ P3 with 40 users.
Calm yourself. Right now the scanners are passive. They just view the background signal that you are emitting all the time. They don't bombard you with THz radiation they just look at what is already there.
This is research on the next generation of scanners that are not yet in service and may never be now that we found this.
"we have money just like "your part" of the world does and no, we don't like getting episodes 1-2 months later than the rest of the world and no we don't like being shut off of a service that would allow us to watch TV while supporting the producers."
1. Hulu is an ad supported service. The people that pay for the ads don't want to pay for people that can not buy their stuff. It doesn't make a lot of sense for Ford to pay to advertise a car to people that can not buy it.
2. Don't blame the content producers for your lag blame you networks. You networks will wait to see if a US show is a hit before they bring it to your country. Only makes sense that way they don't buy the shows that suck. The producers make a lot more money from selling the shows to your networks than from Hulu even if they got sponsers that wanted to pay for the ads.
So can't you buy the shows on iTunes? I mean if you want to pay for them and they are available then that is a sound option.
Flash I will give you but I avoid Adobe Reader when I can. Foxit reader does the job for me and is lighter and faster.
I also question why Chrome is crapware? It is a good browser and easy to uninstall if you don't want it.
Toolbars? yea I hate them.
Trailware? Okay let me install them if I want but leave it off other wise.
I have no problem with preinstalled software if I can uninstall it cleanly. I would prefere a DVD of good software that I could pick and choose from to make my system useful.
If you could do this on fabric maybe you could make a camouflage suite that has tiny optical sensors and oleds :)
Not really. you must heat paper to 451f to get it to ignite. Back in the old days they even used cotton on house current wires for insulation it worked but wasn't as safe as what we have now.
If you are talking about high voltage, high power stuff then yea not the best idea. If you are talking about the power levels in most computers then it is fine.
If you can do it on say paper or fabric how about ceramic? That would be even safer than the PCB boards we use now as far as fire goes.
Using a digital camera technical isn't the process of photography. It is the still the art of photography but not the process.
Yea I can see it now.
Sea World uses activated carbon to save whales!
Coconuts can protect you from poison gas!
It is being used for a stinking filter folks just like charcoal has been used for decades if not centuries.
The story is light and fluffy the reactor is interesting but the story was written at a lower level than I would expect from Slashdot. It is a big test fusion reactor that uses activated charcoal and may work really well. The reactor is the cool. The story was dull and uninformative.
Coconut shell charcoal is one of the best available for making filters. Charcoal filters are nothing new folks most fish tanks use them as do most water purifiers and even gas masks. And this "May" be a practical fusion reactor but they have been saying that since the 1950s but I am staying hopeful.
Yet another light and fluffy pop science story with a funny little twist because it has coconuts in it... Yawn.....
It is called a trade off. When the government spends money on infrastructure it isn't throwing it away. That money will provide jobs to people in the US those people will buy stuff and provide more jobs and all those people will pay taxes. Some of that stuff may be education for their children or themselves which will pay more benefits.
Think about the rural electrification project from the 1930s. That paid huge benefits to the country in increased productivity and quality of life in rural America
In the end things like roads, phone lines, and now data lines are used by everybody. The more people that have access the more benefit to everybody. I know that it is may be unpopular to say it but $300 spent on infrastructure will benefit the US a lot more than that same money spent on a game console made in china by a Japanese company.
Don't forget Chrome OS from Google. I have high hopes for Chrome OS if for no other reason than it drops X windows. Yes that will mean that some software will not work but I wonder how many will be left out if they port GTK and QT to the new video system? If needed I am sure that it would be possible to add an X-Windows layer to the system similar to what Apple does on the Mac.
But WinMo is still with us. The Treo and other WinMo smartphones did have internet data before the iPhone.
What I think was the big advance was the App store. It made it easy to find, buy and sell software for your device. I do agree that it is hard to say what will happen but I hope that we get something more innovative than just little Windows machines running on Intel Atoms.
That really depends I think on how netbooks mature.
Is a netbook a small weak notebook or a big iPod Touch?
Take a look as the WindowsMobile vs iPhone battle.
WIndowsMobile had years of time in the market before the iPhone and it had a lot more applications than the iPhone. The iPhone blew it out of the water in just a few short years.
If the ARM baised netbook folks get their act together then yes Arm could move up into the netbook area. From there it could move up into the Notebook and even Desktop space.
You may think that could never happen but the X86 went from a toy to push up into the workstation and server market. You even have some X86 style systems pushing well into the Mini/Mainframe area.
Windows and X86 has done so well because it is cheap and fast enough.
Now ARM is heading into cheap and fast enough.
I am hopping that Google will open up all there mapping data. They should have a large amount of data from their Street View project so let us hope they make available to everyone.
I would love to see a good FOSS GPS nav program so I can build a good Linux Car Computer.
I wonder how well 2.0 will run on say a G1, HTC Hero, ,Moto Clik or the Samsung Moment.
And will updates be made available?
If it requires a data network then that is how a stand-alone GPS unit beats it.
Every cell phone has dead areas or areas where you will be on roaming or where you may not get data. When you do you don't get navigation anymore and that sucks.
I love my cell phone navigation system but I keep a $99 Nuvi in the car as a backup.
Or every PC maker. I mean really.
They all run Windows and have an X86 cpu. They just get faster. Let's freeze PCs for a few years as well.
That has nothing to do with this case. NPR published this media. Another group used it in a way that is totally legal under the concept of fair use.
NPR tried to use legal means to get that media removed. It would be fine for NPR to say we don't like that being used in that way but they had no right to send a take down notice. Since the take down didn't happen the system worked.
The problem is when people think that it is okay for NPR to send a take down notice but not when say FOX news does based on what they think is right or wrong.
And who decides what is more evil? That is why we have free speech. Both sides can present their arguments and the voters decide. When you start deciding that an idea is too evil for the people to hear you then have set your self up as God. You determine who is worthy of freedom of speech?
I would say it only for the OSS evangelists. I am a developer and I an OSS contributor. I hate the word fan or evangelist because I am not a zealot.
As a developer I find it about useless. There was not mention of how complete the SDK is. When I last looked at the official Palm SDK I was ticked off how limited it was.
There was no way for me to find the charging state of the device. AKA is it being charged. I wanted to make a program wake up when the device was put on a charger.
There was no way to control the flash so you could use it as a flash light or a signaling device. I thought it would be fun to write a program that could send morse with the flash and use the camera to read it. Just as a toy but there was no way to do it without rooting the phone and messing the the device directly.
That is very limiting.
Also what emulators are available? How does debugging work? What IDEs are supported? What languages are supported.
One Advantage that the Google's VM has over running native code is that you don't have to worry about devices using different ISAs The Cortex A8 has some instructions that the ARM 11 lacks.
All these things matter to developers but again none where even touched on in the story. This was a simplistic rah rah Maemo is is more free than Android because I say so story with no real meat.
Maemo may be great but I got no information of use from this story. As the old Wendy's commerical said... "Where's the beef!"
Maybe or it could just be that the US has samples of all these radar systems and found the best way to jam or overload them.
Nothing is perfect so I am sure they have torn those system apart and found any weakness. The US then shared that information.
Kind of like in WWII when the US found a Zero.
They found that the Zero had a longer range, could out climb, out turn, and was faster than the F4F fighters the US had. The only thing advantage the F4F had was that it could out dive the Zero and as built like a tank.
The one problem it had was at high speed it didn't turn well to the left. So F4Fs made diving attacks at high speed and turned left to escape. The F4F ended up with a very good kill rate when dealing with the Zero.
If you can find a weakness and exploit it you will often win.
Well we have been giving the Telcos Billions of dollars in tax money to solve that problem since 96. I am sure the will fix it real soon not.
Still sucks. My father and another friend that have cabins in North Ga both have high speed. I guess your right in that it really is luck of the draw.
I don't buy many DVDs anymore.
Netflix streaming is great on my XBox. Now that Sony is putting NetFlix on the PS3 I hope that they will allow Sony movies on netflix streaming.