I would have rather seen them switch to AMD processors. Their superior x86-64 and memory access (as compared to the P4) on the Athlon 64 and Opteron cores would suit OSX's thirst for memory bandwidth quite well.
But this is still big news. I hope that their laptops will get better, faster, and hopefully at least a little bit cheaper!
I'm using Fedora Core 2 at this point, but I just set up a friend's box (with a PVR-350) using FC3. I believe I'm using ivtv 0.1.10pre2, but I can't access the box at the moment to check for sure. I'm also using the ivtvdev X driver. I set things up using this guide for FC2/3.
I run a Hauppauge PVR-350 in my box. It runs in a PIII 500 with 386mb ram and the processor is hardly ever even touched. Hardware encoding and decoding are done on the card itself. It's somewhat expensive (about $180 depending on where you get it), but if you have old hardware it's worth it to not have to build something with more power (although that is fun too).
I'll also be adding a PVR-250 (hardware encoding only) to my backend system as a second tuner eventually.
True, but as with most research, somebody will most likely pick this up and add to it, perhaps using infared or some other form of light not visible to humans.
Honestly, I'm not really sure where it can lead, but it should be an interesting path as it goes along.
Note: I haven't read the paper yet, but it is downloading.
It seems like this might have some military applications as a result. Imagine sticking a photo-resistor array under a door or through a window and then getting "viewpoints" from any of the lights in the room. Could aid in target aquisition and elimination.
Not sure how well it works for something like that, but this is a rather impressive (at least to me) research project.
Make sure you close your calendar/appointment program first... I did this at work once before and got about a billion reminders for recurring meetings throughout the year and into next.
We watched the kickoff broadcast at our own kickoff meeting (Go team 79!). The game itself seems simple in concept, yet very complex in the strategy. We already filled up 3 sheets of paper with possible autonomous mode strategies alone (both for us and alliance partners).
I'm very excited to get my hands on the software ('specially the math libs) and new compiler for this year. We've done some work with gyros already on our 2004 robot, but the math required to filter the noise was too much to run all our other sensors. The new math libs will be a treat!
Good luck to all teams! (I know there's a bunch of/. people that were at the championship last year, we should have a meet! hehe)
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I would have rather seen them switch to AMD processors. Their superior x86-64 and memory access (as compared to the P4) on the Athlon 64 and Opteron cores would suit OSX's thirst for memory bandwidth quite well.
But this is still big news. I hope that their laptops will get better, faster, and hopefully at least a little bit cheaper!
I'm using Fedora Core 2 at this point, but I just set up a friend's box (with a PVR-350) using FC3. I believe I'm using ivtv 0.1.10pre2, but I can't access the box at the moment to check for sure. I'm also using the ivtvdev X driver. I set things up using this guide for FC2/3.
Actually, the PVR-350 and some models of PVR-250 cards from Hauppauge have a built in FM tuner.
I run a Hauppauge PVR-350 in my box. It runs in a PIII 500 with 386mb ram and the processor is hardly ever even touched. Hardware encoding and decoding are done on the card itself. It's somewhat expensive (about $180 depending on where you get it), but if you have old hardware it's worth it to not have to build something with more power (although that is fun too).
I'll also be adding a PVR-250 (hardware encoding only) to my backend system as a second tuner eventually.
But why does it look strikingly similar to a white version of the Dell desktop I have sitting here on my desk at work?
6. When referring to the Xbox, try to scew the name a bit. Xblox, eggs bocks, the stupider the name, the more favorable of a response you will get.
I would also suggest calling it the "suXbox"
Too bad my place of employment blocks all the non-standard ports.
True, but as with most research, somebody will most likely pick this up and add to it, perhaps using infared or some other form of light not visible to humans.
Honestly, I'm not really sure where it can lead, but it should be an interesting path as it goes along.
Note: I haven't read the paper yet, but it is downloading.
It seems like this might have some military applications as a result. Imagine sticking a photo-resistor array under a door or through a window and then getting "viewpoints" from any of the lights in the room. Could aid in target aquisition and elimination.
Not sure how well it works for something like that, but this is a rather impressive (at least to me) research project.
At first I thought it was a faked bottle of Slurm
I was actually thinking that would have ended up being this one
Oh come on... be fair... Slashdot jumped the shark long ago.
Proper ventilation of the bodies or the floor? Because you can use an AK-47 on the bodies... then they'd be plenty ventilated.
"Number 8" *belch* "Number 8" *belch* "Number 8" *belch*
Brilliant! Wonder what the FCC would do about that?
Seriously who hasn't at the very least seen this game being played?
Me.
Make sure you close your calendar/appointment program first... I did this at work once before and got about a billion reminders for recurring meetings throughout the year and into next.
Plus they'll take care of any stray flies and other insects that are buzzing around.
"Goodwill and comradery" always seem to go out the window when there are fat sacks of cash money involved.
How about a link to the comic that'll work after Wednesday?
We watched the kickoff broadcast at our own kickoff meeting (Go team 79!). The game itself seems simple in concept, yet very complex in the strategy. We already filled up 3 sheets of paper with possible autonomous mode strategies alone (both for us and alliance partners).
/. people that were at the championship last year, we should have a meet! hehe)
I'm very excited to get my hands on the software ('specially the math libs) and new compiler for this year. We've done some work with gyros already on our 2004 robot, but the math required to filter the noise was too much to run all our other sensors. The new math libs will be a treat!
Good luck to all teams! (I know there's a bunch of
And if they played the game at all, they'd have realized that if you spray a tag while a cop is around, you get a wanted star! Wow, I wonder why?
My sig makes a perfect addendum to this post ;-)
It's easy... just don't RTFA and post off the cuff.
I've never played Halo... I play my Xbox for Crimson Skies and Burnout 3. I just can't seem to play FPS games on consoles.
Only 8 hours a day?! Wow, I want your job!