I'm actually wanting one if it's around $100. It would be perfect for showing simple stats or doing very basic quick commands. Could even write a custom application quickly.
I'm not anywhere close to disappointed by the specs as the author of the article is.
There were several interviews with members of the organizing committee and in each one they stated:
1) Yes, people are already using the phrase in other places. 2) They do not plan on suing people willy nilly. 3) They are using it specifically for the purpose of protecting against rip off merchandise and unauthorized use specifically with the games.
I'm not concerned about this outside of the games as we're small enough and have enough loud smart people that any misuse will result in an outcry. After all, consider what happens any time there's new copyright legislation? Prof Geist tells everybody and an article makes it to the front page of/.
I second the E70. One of the first apps I installed was Putty. It's been good for connecting remotely as well as editing a few vi scripts just to get things running and tested.
I find too often that people turn too early to documentaries for answers. While your daughter's curiosity has been sparked you should guide her into starting research on the subject. Some may consider it too early but surely there are books that she can read and try to obtain answers and opinions from. If she doesn't understand some specific items she can come to you for clarification.
"Where did things come from" is a subject area that can't be simply answered and understood without more investigation. While everybody wants a simple answer she's probably far too young and inexperienced to be satisfied with a simple answer. On the flip side there is concern if she's content with a simple answer.
Now is the time to launch her on the path of discovery and awareness without relying on the limited knowledge within a documentary.
I've worked at several labs in programming circles so I'll give you all I know.
First off, the quality of code that comes out of Universities is generally of poor quality. The research that is done at these labs is interesting and is generally used to write some paper or advance some research so time isn't wasted on doing anything except getting things running.
Yes, some people (very few people) do write good code but for the most part I would not consider the code practices used at a lab as how you should always write your code.
Most labs have a prof that runs it and quite a few masters students. You'll find the uptight masters student and the way laid back University student (a lot of these folks) and in general you'll find it very relaxed. Do not take it relaxed though as the prof likes good workers.
Depending on your experience you might just be an IT guy to start with and then will move forward from there. Perhaps you'll support the students but in the end you probably won't write much code. You'll have tons of time to do your own thing though.
For short distances and for use within IC it's quite useful. The conversion from AC to DC at lower voltages for use within computers produces quite a bit of heat (hence the fan in your PSU, yes I realize that even DC from a higher voltage to DC at a lower voltage produces quite a bit of heat) and so you find that some data centers are moving to converting from AC to DC outside of the cases and transporting DC directly to the servers.
There was an article on/. about this a while back and perhaps somebody who'd like to be modded up a bit can post the link.
Just like most of us here on Slashdot don't know (without the assistance of a search engine) who won the 1982 Super Bowl. Different things matter to different people and most people have things to worry about rather than wondering who the proponents of power transport via AC were.
Most of us here on/. certainly know who Mr. Tesla is and what he pushed for and we should take pleasure in being in such distinct company...except for the trolls and turds.
I'd say yes if it was done by a virtual being but it wasn't. This was real world action in order to steal virtual property purchased with real world currency...so probably a violation of TOS and breaking of some rules by logging in as other people.
Alexa is definitely not a good way to compare all websites with regards to traffic but it definitely has uses (for us to look at but not to install and help populate). Since the average type of user that visits a website stays constant looking at Alexa stats is a good way to determine trends with regards to content. When the whole HD DVD key fiasco hit Digg you can see the immediate spike as well as the slight depression in number of visitors afterwards. Alexa is great at helping those running high traffic websites and absolutely useless for my blog/blag. Alexa is also useful for comparing websites that cater to the same sorts of folks. So you should compare Digg and Netscape's version of Digg or compare CNN to Fox to ABC to NBC (with regards to websites) and you should see somewhat accurate comparison numbers. What CmdrTaco is really getting at though is that for niche sites (and it is still niche) like Slashdot Alexa falls well short of capturing true traffic numbers.
The government claims no rights to the intellectual property of competitor's systems. Any proprietary information disclosed to the government will be protected in accordance with government regulations.
Future development of the candidate systems will be under separate contracts and subject to government rights clauses agreed to under those contracts.
Systems will be visible to competitors and media during the bench test and field trial. Competitors concerned about proprietary information should ensure no proprietary information can be ascertained from a casual viewing of the system.
Think of the $10^6 as some return on the initial R&D. After you've built the battery you will manufacture and then sell it to them and thereby enter into contract. So it's not like 10^6 is all you'll get.
People like Windows Media player because it's convinient. For the average user they want to be able to play music right out of the box without having to go around installing other software. People simply don't have the patience to search for and then install software especially with all the spyware around these days (that's not to say they won't do it...but they'd prefer not to). It's standard procedure to download Real Media and websites help people through the process and let them know exactly what they want. Software packages come with QT and Real Player which adds to the convinience. It's more of a pain not to be able to play media right out of the box. Would these users benefit from a switch to Linux? Probably not for most of them as they'd find themselves in an unfamiliar environment which is likely to turn them away from future Linux exploration.
While for the vast majority of people ABC might be better the people who will install Linux to their DS will prefer the QWERTY layout over any other. So in this case the UI has been designed to match the audience correctly.
In addition to the aforementioned Intel chips there are also AMD MIPS based solutions that you may look into. The Au1550 Security Engine runs seperately from the processor (albeit using the same memory) and has a RNG built in. The RNG uses entropy by letting enough noise build up in a pair of ring oscillators and then querying from them. The throughput for the RNG is also fairly high and you can get 412.5K words per second.
beating a dead horse. The RIAA and their possie have enormous patience and wallets. If they don't get what they want this year then they'll do it again next year and so on. I bet they loose a lot more from making bad movies.
They use those processors because they can't shield against radiation properly. The pentiums and highers have their components spaced so tightly they're overly fragile. That's why 486s and such are much nicer to use.
There's a good book called Moonseed by Stephen Baxter that involves the last moon landing. It's very interesting and the basic gist (to get you interested) is that Venus explodes in recent times and strange events start happenning on Earth.
I also wanted to add that video will be on the heels shortly as they're probably just going to use the same core as they do right now (which supports mpeg4). Course, bandwidth problems come into play but imagine the possibilities...can you see me now?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm actually wanting one if it's around $100. It would be perfect for showing simple stats or doing very basic quick commands. Could even write a custom application quickly.
I'm not anywhere close to disappointed by the specs as the author of the article is.
So I looked up costs for pre-ordering from Netfirms.ca and it was $379 for 3 years. Quite comparable, don't you think?
There were several interviews with members of the organizing committee and in each one they stated:
1) Yes, people are already using the phrase in other places.
2) They do not plan on suing people willy nilly.
3) They are using it specifically for the purpose of protecting against rip off merchandise and unauthorized use specifically with the games.
I'm not concerned about this outside of the games as we're small enough and have enough loud smart people that any misuse will result in an outcry. After all, consider what happens any time there's new copyright legislation? Prof Geist tells everybody and an article makes it to the front page of /.
Unfortunately it does not but keys can be remapped and PuTTY includes the option to send special characters.
I second the E70. One of the first apps I installed was Putty. It's been good for connecting remotely as well as editing a few vi scripts just to get things running and tested.
I find too often that people turn too early to documentaries for answers. While your daughter's curiosity has been sparked you should guide her into starting research on the subject. Some may consider it too early but surely there are books that she can read and try to obtain answers and opinions from. If she doesn't understand some specific items she can come to you for clarification.
"Where did things come from" is a subject area that can't be simply answered and understood without more investigation. While everybody wants a simple answer she's probably far too young and inexperienced to be satisfied with a simple answer. On the flip side there is concern if she's content with a simple answer.
Now is the time to launch her on the path of discovery and awareness without relying on the limited knowledge within a documentary.
I've worked at several labs in programming circles so I'll give you all I know.
First off, the quality of code that comes out of Universities is generally of poor quality. The research that is done at these labs is interesting and is generally used to write some paper or advance some research so time isn't wasted on doing anything except getting things running.
Yes, some people (very few people) do write good code but for the most part I would not consider the code practices used at a lab as how you should always write your code.
Most labs have a prof that runs it and quite a few masters students. You'll find the uptight masters student and the way laid back University student (a lot of these folks) and in general you'll find it very relaxed. Do not take it relaxed though as the prof likes good workers.
Depending on your experience you might just be an IT guy to start with and then will move forward from there. Perhaps you'll support the students but in the end you probably won't write much code. You'll have tons of time to do your own thing though.
For short distances and for use within IC it's quite useful. The conversion from AC to DC at lower voltages for use within computers produces quite a bit of heat (hence the fan in your PSU, yes I realize that even DC from a higher voltage to DC at a lower voltage produces quite a bit of heat) and so you find that some data centers are moving to converting from AC to DC outside of the cases and transporting DC directly to the servers.
/. about this a while back and perhaps somebody who'd like to be modded up a bit can post the link.
There was an article on
Just like most of us here on Slashdot don't know (without the assistance of a search engine) who won the 1982 Super Bowl. Different things matter to different people and most people have things to worry about rather than wondering who the proponents of power transport via AC were.
/. certainly know who Mr. Tesla is and what he pushed for and we should take pleasure in being in such distinct company...except for the trolls and turds.
Most of us here on
I'd say yes if it was done by a virtual being but it wasn't. This was real world action in order to steal virtual property purchased with real world currency...so probably a violation of TOS and breaking of some rules by logging in as other people.
All I see is the that the "slower" mouse realizes that they're going nowhere on the treadmill.
Alexa is definitely not a good way to compare all websites with regards to traffic but it definitely has uses (for us to look at but not to install and help populate). Since the average type of user that visits a website stays constant looking at Alexa stats is a good way to determine trends with regards to content. When the whole HD DVD key fiasco hit Digg you can see the immediate spike as well as the slight depression in number of visitors afterwards. Alexa is great at helping those running high traffic websites and absolutely useless for my blog/blag.
Alexa is also useful for comparing websites that cater to the same sorts of folks. So you should compare Digg and Netscape's version of Digg or compare CNN to Fox to ABC to NBC (with regards to websites) and you should see somewhat accurate comparison numbers. What CmdrTaco is really getting at though is that for niche sites (and it is still niche) like Slashdot Alexa falls well short of capturing true traffic numbers.
As a follow up:
Section 6.0 on this page: http://www.dod.mil/ddre/prize/rules_doc.html
6.0 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The government claims no rights to the intellectual property of competitor's systems. Any proprietary information disclosed to the government will be protected in accordance with government regulations.
Future development of the candidate systems will be under separate contracts and subject to government rights clauses agreed to under those contracts.
Systems will be visible to competitors and media during the bench test and field trial. Competitors concerned about proprietary information should ensure no proprietary information can be ascertained from a casual viewing of the system.
Think of the $10^6 as some return on the initial R&D. After you've built the battery you will manufacture and then sell it to them and thereby enter into contract. So it's not like 10^6 is all you'll get.
When was the last time the Borg asked if they could assimilate you?
People like Windows Media player because it's convinient. For the average user they want to be able to play music right out of the box without having to go around installing other software. People simply don't have the patience to search for and then install software especially with all the spyware around these days (that's not to say they won't do it...but they'd prefer not to).
It's standard procedure to download Real Media and websites help people through the process and let them know exactly what they want. Software packages come with QT and Real Player which adds to the convinience.
It's more of a pain not to be able to play media right out of the box.
Would these users benefit from a switch to Linux? Probably not for most of them as they'd find themselves in an unfamiliar environment which is likely to turn them away from future Linux exploration.
With regards to ABC layout.
While for the vast majority of people ABC might be better the people who will install Linux to their DS will prefer the QWERTY layout over any other. So in this case the UI has been designed to match the audience correctly.
In addition to the aforementioned Intel chips there are also AMD MIPS based solutions that you may look into.
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The Au1550 Security Engine runs seperately from the processor (albeit using the same memory) and has a RNG built in. The RNG uses entropy by letting enough noise build up in a pair of ring oscillators and then querying from them.
The throughput for the RNG is also fairly high and you can get 412.5K words per second.
More info.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/Pr
If you read the specs of how the GC communicates you'll understand.
...ha ha ha...we've been making this joke for 3 years...
beating a dead horse. The RIAA and their possie have enormous patience and wallets. If they don't get what they want this year then they'll do it again next year and so on.
I bet they loose a lot more from making bad movies.
mmmmm....delicious
:)
thanks for the link
They use those processors because they can't shield against radiation properly.
The pentiums and highers have their components spaced so tightly they're overly fragile. That's why 486s and such are much nicer to use.
There's a good book called Moonseed by Stephen Baxter that involves the last moon landing. It's very interesting and the basic gist (to get you interested) is that Venus explodes in recent times and strange events start happenning on Earth.
I also wanted to add that video will be on the heels shortly as they're probably just going to use the same core as they do right now (which supports mpeg4).
Course, bandwidth problems come into play but imagine the possibilities...can you see me now?