Perhaps I'm discriminating against "AL" blindness sufferers, but why would visitors from "Austria" be special on a site that is Australian?
Perhaps it's for those visitors who (allegedly) emailed the Australian tourist information service asking when the famous boys choir performed......;-)
I think they should extend it back indefinitely and then I'm going to prove that I'm the only living heir of the estate of Shakespeare
No need for steps 1 and 2 just proceed to
3. Profit!:-)
In the words of a professional logician "Bull...."
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"All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore, all men are Socrates."
"The last scene was interesting from the point of view of a professional logician because it contained a number of logical fallacies -- that is, invalid propositional constructions and syllogistic forms -- of the type so often committed by my wife."...:-)
I can't remember the exact figures but I heard that in the UK either "1 in 6" fatal accidents may be caused by falling asleep at the wheel. Certainly they've been advertising the dangers of driving while tired as much now as anti-drink-driving.
Now I can see it could save a life if a so called "micro sleep" occured at the wheel but could it have the opposite effect? Would some people then try to drive longer thinking they have a safety net/alarm clock to wake them up if they drift off?
Okay, so copying a DV tape @ 720p over firewire is slower than this? Not. This sort of defeats his key point in the beginning of the "review Agreed.
The review also talks of the being inconvient to store - good grief - if he's going to transfer them to the computer, why worry?
Secondly, if you're off on holiday and want to shoot a lot of video (and didn't want to lug a PC with you) then you'd still need a few flash cards - For the price of one 512Mb flash ram you could buy a bucket load of tapes. (shrug)
"I had a TV (also by Toshiba, coincidently) that would crash when it showed the local community channel."
My TV (a Panasonic) has a similar problem with DVB (i.e. terestrial digital tv) in the UK. It will sometimes lock-up and I have to power it off completely in order to get it to work. I presume it's either due to poor transmission error handling or bad coding when handling the interactive menus that can be broadcast with DVB.
I know that the plural of anecdote is not data, but every single Dreamcast owner I know had more pirated games than legitimate ones.
In fact, apart from the friend I bought mine from, I can't recall any of them actually having any legitimate games at all. The one I bought came with a roughly 25% original, 75% bootleg mix of discs.
I only have 100% legit' games, so there's a counter example for you.
Re:Crazy specs.. aka not understanding "Giga" :-)
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"... and 1.4 million megaflops, or floating-point operations per second."
Well that was definitely wrong. It's out by a factor of 1000!
DC's SH4 FPU peaked at 1.4Gflops when doing a 4 component dot product (i.e. 7 floating point operations) per clock. (== a 4x4 matrix * vector multiply in 4 clocks)
I wonder if you could do a "Benjamin Franklin"... fly the kite on a stormy day and take a photo of the yourself being incinerated by lightning? Just think of what a cool (err hot) photo that would be.
Just replace the Ne555 timer with a photodiode so that the flash sets off the camera.
I guess you'd have to put a sturdy Faraday cage around the electronics... although it'd be a great geek trick if you could also recharge the battery with every strike:-)
"Hmmmm. Source please" I guess this will depend on the bird, but certainly it'll be cranberry for turkeys.
That's the wittiest thing I've read all day.:-)
Did you know that "chloride" is related to the poison chlorine? Did you know that you eat "chloride" every day, and you would die if you didn't? Yes, but too much (more than 5g per day IIRC) is also a bad thing:-)
Internal combustion engines, on the other hand, are highly scalable. In fact the most efficient ICE is some diesel engine that's the size of a house and is over 50% efficient, if I properly recall. If you have a use for the heat you can make the process of combustion highly efficient.
IIRC, jet engines/turbines are far more efficient still (80%??) and should be better as the driver for the generator/alternator.
For example, a lot of the locomotives in the UK seem to be gas turbine-electrics. Presumably they use these instead of the older diesel-electrics because of efficiency
FWIW, one other way of "storing" power is to use the excess to pump water back "uphill" in hydroelectric schemes.
"How are you. I am back. My name is mister hamsi. I am seeing you. Haaaaaaaa. You must come to turkiye. I am cleaning your computer. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 0. Gule. Gule." ("Gule. Gule" is Turkish for "Bye. Bye". "Hamsi" is a small fish, like an anchovy, found in the Black Sea). F-Secure has a copy of the sound file generated by the message."
I know my Turkish isn't great, but I've been there on holidays enough to know that the pronunciation of "Gule Gule" was hysterically awful. Come to think of it, the English was pretty poor too:-)
It reminds me when, at Uni', we used to try to put "The Hunting of the Snark" through an early voice synthesiser. It made an absolute mess of the job.
It looks like Apple is extending the "illuminated case" theme by making it more interactive. The patent is purposely vague about what the illumination is, taking (what seems to be) pains to avoid calling the illumination static. I think they're looking at displaying color bars, logos, icons, etc. on the case from the inside. It would be cool to see an entire case shaded (for example) from blue to red to indicate processor activity. Imagine a rack full of server systems with that capability, in a dark server room....
I wonder what will happen if it ever works out that it can behave like a chameleon and then it suddenly disappears....?
Well it sounds like Apple did the right thing by using AES and RSA which are both industry standard and not some crazy "applecrypt" or something. Must be a really weak key or poor implementation or the protocol.
Presumably, there is some software running on the Mac that drives this. Somewhere, then, they must embed one of the keys in that software. One would guess that key has been extracted. My guess is that the Public/Private key is set up once during an initialisation step.
The encryption is presumably there to stop some hacker broadcasting his own "music" into your house. The scheme should be secure against that.
There was one demonstration showing projection onto the inside of a translucent sphere, while in the paper "iLamps: Geometrically Aware and self-configuring projectors" Raskar et al showed a system that could also combine the output of several projectors. It was quite impressive.
"Brain the size of a planet" was not meant to be taken LITERALLY!:-)
I know what you're getting at but, IIRC, I think his brain was supposed to be the size of a planet...just that it was stored in some other dimension or something.
"As for growing hemp, what't the problem with that?" Well, I suspect that the earlier poster is worried that, with all that hemp, he'd be able to make enough rope to hang himself.:-)
Does any PDA have the CPU and RAM required to run Flash at a respectable speed? It really does take multi-hundred-megahertz desktop CPUs and make them grind to a halt, even on systems with really good process schedulers. This leads me to wonder how low-power PDA CPUs will cope, unless, of course, we are talking only about future PDAs that don't exist, yet. I suppose when we have 1-watt 3GHz CPUs, this will all be moot.
One possibility is that when, say, OpenVG is done there will be an efficient and simple interface to underlying PDA/Mobile HW to support the Flash/SVG features without the need for the "1-watt 3GHz CPUs".
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Guns don't kill people, people *with* guns kill people
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Maybe so but they make people pretty damned effective at it. As for the other choices, well, they are pretty poor
* People with knives kill people
Only at a very close distance
* People with bows kill people
Unlikely since you'd need some skill and practice and if you miss the first time, it's going to take a while to reload.
* People with fists kill people
Again, only at very close range (unless you happen to be a zombie and can throw your hand quite a distance)
* People with baseball bats kill people
Hmmm... bit hard to conceal... But maybe you have a sawn-off baseball bat?
* People with plastic bags kill people
Jeez! I'll be careful when packing my groceries then.
* People with rocks and pointy sticks kill people
You forgot to mention people attacking you armed with a pineapple!
Virgin Radio have been streaming Ogg Voribs for at long time and in much higher quality than their mp3 stream. www.virginradio.co.uk
:-) ) here is the page
Just to make it easier to find, (because it wasn't immediately obvious to a dimwit like me
Exactly! Why would anybody want to bother hiding those things behind panels and such, anyway?
:-)
It's obvious. To reduce the coefficient of drag.
Engineers don't go spending hours in a wind tunnel getting the car perfect only for you to spoil it all with an ugly roof-rack full of munitions.
Jeez!
Perhaps I'm discriminating against "AL" blindness sufferers, but why would visitors from "Austria" be special on a site that is Australian?
;-)
Perhaps it's for those visitors who (allegedly) emailed the Australian tourist information service asking when the famous boys choir performed......
I think they should extend it back indefinitely and then I'm going to prove that I'm the only living heir of the estate of Shakespeare
:-)
No need for steps 1 and 2 just proceed to
3. Profit!
"All men are mortal
:-)
Socrates is a man
Therefore, all men are Socrates."
"The last scene was interesting from the point of view of a professional logician because it contained a number of logical fallacies -- that is, invalid propositional constructions and syllogistic forms -- of the type so often committed by my wife."...
Monty Python
I can't remember the exact figures but I heard that in the UK either "1 in 6" fatal accidents may be caused by falling asleep at the wheel. Certainly they've been advertising the dangers of driving while tired as much now as anti-drink-driving.
Now I can see it could save a life if a so called "micro sleep" occured at the wheel but could it have the opposite effect? Would some people then try to drive longer thinking they have a safety net/alarm clock to wake them up if they drift off?
Okay, so copying a DV tape @ 720p over firewire is slower than this? Not. This sort of defeats his key point in the beginning of the "review
Agreed.
The review also talks of the being inconvient to store - good grief - if he's going to transfer them to the computer, why worry?
Secondly, if you're off on holiday and want to shoot a lot of video (and didn't want to lug a PC with you) then you'd still need a few flash cards - For the price of one 512Mb flash ram you could buy a bucket load of tapes. (shrug)
"I had a TV (also by Toshiba, coincidently) that would crash when it showed the local community channel."
My TV (a Panasonic) has a similar problem with DVB (i.e. terestrial digital tv) in the UK. It will sometimes lock-up and I have to power it off completely in order to get it to work. I presume it's either due to poor transmission error handling or bad coding when handling the interactive menus that can be broadcast with DVB.
I know that the plural of anecdote is not data, but every single Dreamcast owner I know had more pirated games than legitimate ones.
In fact, apart from the friend I bought mine from, I can't recall any of them actually having any legitimate games at all. The one I bought came with a roughly 25% original, 75% bootleg mix of discs.
I only have 100% legit' games, so there's a counter example for you.
"... and 1.4 million megaflops, or floating-point operations per second."
Well that was definitely wrong. It's out by a factor of 1000!
DC's SH4 FPU peaked at 1.4 Gflops when doing a 4 component dot product (i.e. 7 floating point operations) per clock. (== a 4x4 matrix * vector multiply in 4 clocks)
Wonderful discovery but, now that we've found them, one wonders how long it'll be before we somehow manage to wipe the species out :(
I wonder if you could do a "Benjamin Franklin"... fly the kite on a stormy day and take a photo of the yourself being incinerated by lightning?
:-)
Just think of what a cool (err hot) photo that would be.
Just replace the Ne555 timer with a photodiode so that the flash sets off the camera.
I guess you'd have to put a sturdy Faraday cage around the electronics... although it'd be a great geek trick if you could also recharge the battery with every strike
"Hmmmm. Source please" :-)
I guess this will depend on the bird, but certainly it'll be cranberry for turkeys.
That's the wittiest thing I've read all day.
Did you know that "chloride" is related to the poison chlorine? Did you know that you eat "chloride" every day, and you would die if you didn't? :-)
Yes, but too much (more than 5g per day IIRC) is also a bad thing
Internal combustion engines, on the other hand, are highly scalable. In fact the most efficient ICE is some diesel engine that's the size of a house and is over 50% efficient, if I properly recall. If you have a use for the heat you can make the process of combustion highly efficient.
IIRC, jet engines/turbines are far more efficient still (80%??) and should be better as the driver for the generator/alternator.
For example, a lot of the locomotives in the UK seem to be gas turbine-electrics. Presumably they use these instead of the older diesel-electrics because of efficiency
FWIW, one other way of "storing" power is to use the excess to pump water back "uphill" in hydroelectric schemes.
"How are you. I am back. My name is mister hamsi. I am seeing you. Haaaaaaaa. You must come to turkiye. I am cleaning your computer. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 0. Gule. Gule." ("Gule. Gule" is Turkish for "Bye. Bye". "Hamsi" is a small fish, like an anchovy, found in the Black Sea). F-Secure has a copy of the sound file generated by the message."
:-)
I know my Turkish isn't great, but I've been there on holidays enough to know that the pronunciation of "Gule Gule" was hysterically awful. Come to think of it, the English was pretty poor too
It reminds me when, at Uni', we used to try to put "The Hunting of the Snark" through an early voice synthesiser. It made an absolute mess of the job.
It looks like Apple is extending the "illuminated case" theme by making it more interactive. The patent is purposely vague about what the illumination is, taking (what seems to be) pains to avoid calling the illumination static. I think they're looking at displaying color bars, logos, icons, etc. on the case from the inside. It would be cool to see an entire case shaded (for example) from blue to red to indicate processor activity. Imagine a rack full of server systems with that capability, in a dark server room....
I wonder what will happen if it ever works out that it can behave like a chameleon and then it suddenly disappears....?
Well it sounds like Apple did the right thing by using AES and RSA which are both industry standard and not some crazy "applecrypt" or something. Must be a really weak key or poor implementation or the protocol.
Presumably, there is some software running on the Mac that drives this. Somewhere, then, they must embed one of the keys in that software. One would guess that key has been extracted. My guess is that the Public/Private key is set up once during an initialisation step.
The encryption is presumably there to stop some hacker broadcasting his own "music" into your house. The scheme should be secure against that.
... at Siggraph 2003.
There was one demonstration showing projection onto the inside of a translucent sphere, while in the paper "iLamps: Geometrically Aware and self-configuring projectors" Raskar et al showed a system that could also combine the output of several projectors. It was quite impressive.
I inherited a copy of EA from about 1971 which featured a "build your own computer" project. It had words to the effect of
"we decided not to use one of the 'new fangled' microprocessors"
I think it had about 64 bytes (yes, bytes) of memory and was done in 7400 series logic!
"Brain the size of a planet" was not meant to be taken LITERALLY! :-)
I know what you're getting at but, IIRC, I think his brain was supposed to be the size of a planet...just that it was stored in some other dimension or something.
So you can bargain with these guys?
Yes, if you pay early they'll also throw in a set of steak knives....
"As for growing hemp, what't the problem with that?" :-)
Well, I suspect that the earlier poster is worried that, with all that hemp, he'd be able to make enough rope to hang himself.
Does any PDA have the CPU and RAM required to run Flash at a respectable speed? It really does take multi-hundred-megahertz desktop CPUs and make them grind to a halt, even on systems with really good process schedulers. This leads me to wonder how low-power PDA CPUs will cope, unless, of course, we are talking only about future PDAs that don't exist, yet. I suppose when we have 1-watt 3GHz CPUs, this will all be moot.
One possibility is that when, say, OpenVG is done there will be an efficient and simple interface to underlying PDA/Mobile HW to support the Flash/SVG features without the need for the "1-watt 3GHz CPUs".