Domain squatters have their own auction sites - they buy and sell domain names from each other all the time. Most of the long names just sell for less than $50, while the shorter single word names will go into the thousands , if not hundreds of thousands.
The retina does more than just act like a CCD sensor - there are special neurons dedicated to basic tasks like motion detection, edge detection, contrast detection. While there are 100 million rods/cones in each eye, there are only around 1.2 million nerve fibres. Simulating this compression/conversion process in the past required a supercomputer and today requires a GPU card. To package a CCD sensor/GPU chip and VRAM into an eyeball sized package is going to be a big challenge.
Figuring out what a single layer of cells in either the brain or the retina does, usually leads to dozens of papers being published and add a feature or two to a digital camera (automatic motion compensation, auto-focus, auto-white-balance, auto-shutter speed, auto-face recognition). Some mobile phones can do auto-text-to-speech or auto-barcode-reading-to-webpage loading.
Look at some of the early SGI workstations or PC's with graphics accelerator boards - every separate function (video RAM to analog RAMDAC, pixel processing, motherboard bus interface) was a separate ASIC with some other chips to handle communication.
There is the vintage joke often attributed to a socialite and Winston Churchill:
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds? Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds? Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?! Churchill: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.
When you create objects to represent information consisting of things like character strings, arrays, lists and hierarchical trees, you make a system call to create a new list of data objects.
In languages like 'C', this would be like 'malloc( number of bytes) ' or 'calloc( number of bytes)'. You would then have to match every such call with an equivalent 'free( pointer)' to ensure the memory was freed. Failure to do so leads to 'memory leaks' where the memory space is allocated but incorrectly freed (caused by uninitialised pointer variables, missing calls or faulty decision making).
C++ tried to fix this by having 'new' and 'delete' operators which were intended to be called through the constructor (a function automatically called with the object is created) and the destructor (a function automatically called when the object is destroyed). However, there were times when these functions also needed to be called throughout the lifetime of the object, so memory leak problem crept in again.
JAVA attempts to fix C++ by eliminating the need for the 'delete' operator. Since every function always belongs to a class, and consequently a data object, data always belongs to a data object. Memory is allocated as before, but when a data object ceases to be in use (return of a function call), it is placed in the garbage area. At periodic intervals, the garbage collector is called and all the allocated memory blocks are collected and freed. The disadvantage is that an application could build up a large amount of "garbage memory" and could freeze for several seconds while this process occurred.
Easily happens with CPU systems - nothing would piss off a technical writer, animator, 3D modeler or texture artist more than having their workstation crash after several hours of editing. Either caused by a electrical fault or a software bug.
Fortunately, there are Battery backed RAM disks. Thought these had died out after all these years.
Maybe they will double the disk memory cache to something larger like 16MB or 32MB. Even with only 8MB it really amazes me that just the disk drive has more RAM memory than PC's from a decade ago.
I've just discovered the Atari800 emulator for Linux. About a decade ago, I archived all my old BASIC programs onto a PC. Running them through the emulator, it was really amazing to see all those programs running again, even the ones with 6502 assembler coded as DATA statements.
Then I read about MyDos (which seemed to be the default OS for the Atari in the USA), 6502 C compilers (CC65), find internet archives of just about every Atari game and cartridge that existed. It makes me really want to learn more about how these games were developed (Rescue on Fractalus, Star Raiders).
I guess if they have a airman down in hostile territory with the enemy having access to frequency monitoring equipment, how does the person transmit his coordinates without broadcasting anything.
Reminds me of those experiments that we used to to do in cub scouts - sticking a small mirror onto a thin sheet of clingfilm and watching how sound waves changed the direction of reflected light - to demonstrate how sound was just air moving rapidly.
While playing Pilot Wings 64, I always wanted to see what would happen if the giant balloon was bounced into the cave entrance just above the waterfall - it literally went ballistic.
Going into the caves with the jungle-hopper boots was fun as well. Actually managed to get bounced out of the cave and into the ground plane of the moutains and was able to see the tunnel network clearly.
Better still, keep the original hard disk drive, and buy a new one for your OS and data files. If you want to sell it to trade up or send it in for repair, you can restore the old disk drive without any problems about warranty or data loss.
The original intent of the FCC legislation was to protect the reception of TV/radio broadcasts and to prevent the safe functioning of electrical equipment. This was achieved by approving equipment that met limits in the amount of RF energy they emitted. This was extended to home computers, which seem to be built like tanks with layers and layers of metal shielding.
Tricky thing is, most simple equipment like hairdryers and vacuum cleaners probably give off more RF than a mobile phone. Even a multisync CRT monitor could jam long-wave radio broadcasts in a radius of 10 metres.
Perfectly. Nvidia have drivers that you just 'yum update' or 'rpm -i' install.
The OpenGL extensions (multi-texturing, shaders, CUDA) work perfectly with X-windows, Qt and 5Dwm on both laptops and desktops. So, if you really want to, you can give your Linux system that SGI workstation desktop look.
And in France, the response would probably require Microsoft employees to randomize their routes to work, travel in unmarked cars and always have an escort.
If you are submitting a comment to a forum, you will have the forum main window open, the submission form, the webpage page of the article you are referencing, a wikipedia entry along with whatever popup windows are used to view links like images and PDF files.
At least they are trying. And the geography, geology and demographics of each region of the world is going to determine what kind of technology can be used. If everyone is packed together into a small city, then cable/wifi might be the best solution. In a rural area with low density farmhouses, satellite might be the best solution.
I always thought having miniature tunnel boring machines would be an alternative to digging up roads to lay fibre optic cable. The use of giant cutting wheels is not really permitted in the UK or perhaps even Europe.
There is a patent on the use of just two fisheye pictures taken back to back - it belongs to a property agency of all companies; apparently they patented the process of taking two pictures to create a virtual tour of a home. The fisheye lens came with a small utility to create a panoramic view from two such fisheye lens pictures along with the necessary license. However, at the fringes of each picture the blue light tends to bleed more than the red or green, so one or two extra pictures help to average that out.
You would have to take three or four pictures at different directions to get a complete coverage (sky view + three compass directions = tetrahedral arrangement).
Because many are really defensive patents. They are not original in any way, but to issue a challenge to any one of them would cost several years worth of litigation. These are purely defensive - if someone sues, the company will just counter-sue.
I think that shows that the average life span of a hard drive is only around seven years. I really only used mine sequentially. For a large corporation like Google and archive.org, they have hard disk drives failing every day.
A discovery made by grinning idiots who love to cut and paste code and couldn't understand why they kept getting memory leaks and segmentation faults.
By itself C++ will just create a default copy constructor going straight through to memcpy. I'll make an assignment operator a deep copy by default, and have all the different functions specified separately.
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Domain squatters have their own auction sites - they buy and sell domain names from each other all the time. Most of the long names just sell for less than $50, while the shorter single word names will go into the thousands , if not hundreds of thousands.
The retina does more than just act like a CCD sensor - there are special neurons dedicated to basic tasks like motion detection, edge detection, contrast detection. While there are 100 million rods/cones in each eye, there are only around 1.2 million nerve fibres. Simulating this compression/conversion process in the past required a supercomputer and today requires a GPU card. To package a CCD sensor/GPU chip and VRAM into an eyeball sized package is going to be a big challenge.
Figuring out what a single layer of cells in either the brain or the retina does, usually leads to dozens of papers being published and add a feature or two to a digital camera (automatic motion compensation, auto-focus, auto-white-balance, auto-shutter speed, auto-face recognition). Some mobile phones can do auto-text-to-speech or auto-barcode-reading-to-webpage loading.
Look at some of the early SGI workstations or PC's with graphics accelerator boards - every separate function (video RAM to analog RAMDAC, pixel processing, motherboard bus interface) was a separate ASIC with some other chips to handle communication.
There is the vintage joke often attributed to a socialite and Winston Churchill:
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course...
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
Churchill: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.
When you create objects to represent information consisting of things like character strings, arrays, lists and hierarchical trees, you make a system call to create a new list of data objects.
In languages like 'C', this would be like 'malloc( number of bytes) ' or 'calloc( number of bytes)'. You would then have to match every such call with an equivalent 'free( pointer)' to ensure the memory was freed. Failure to do so leads to 'memory leaks' where the memory space is allocated but incorrectly freed (caused by uninitialised pointer variables, missing calls or faulty decision making).
C++ tried to fix this by having 'new' and 'delete' operators which were intended to be called through the constructor (a function automatically called with the object is created) and the destructor (a function automatically called when the object is destroyed). However, there were times when these functions also needed to be called throughout the lifetime of the object, so memory leak problem crept in again.
JAVA attempts to fix C++ by eliminating the need for the 'delete' operator. Since every function always belongs to a class, and consequently a data object, data always belongs to a data object. Memory is allocated as before, but when a data object ceases to be in use (return of a function call), it is placed in the garbage area. At periodic intervals, the garbage collector is called and all the allocated memory blocks are collected and freed. The disadvantage is that an application could build up a large amount of "garbage memory" and could freeze for several seconds while this process occurred.
Easily happens with CPU systems - nothing would piss off a technical writer, animator, 3D modeler or texture artist more than having their workstation crash after several hours of editing. Either caused by a electrical fault or a software bug.
Fortunately, there are Battery backed RAM disks. Thought these had died
out after all these years.
Maybe they will double the disk memory cache to something larger like 16MB or 32MB. Even with only 8MB it really amazes me that just the disk drive has more RAM memory than PC's from a decade ago.
And have a background process that does it "automagically" every hour.
I've just discovered the Atari800 emulator for Linux. About a decade ago, I archived all my old BASIC programs onto a PC. Running them through the emulator, it was really amazing to see all those programs running again, even the ones with 6502 assembler coded as DATA statements.
Then I read about MyDos (which seemed to be the default OS for the Atari in the USA), 6502 C compilers (CC65), find internet archives of just about every Atari game and cartridge that existed. It makes me really want to learn more about how these games were developed (Rescue on Fractalus, Star Raiders).
I guess if they have a airman down in hostile territory with the enemy having access to frequency monitoring equipment, how does the person transmit his coordinates without broadcasting anything.
Reminds me of those experiments that we used to to do in cub scouts - sticking a small mirror onto a thin sheet of clingfilm and watching how sound waves changed the direction of reflected light - to demonstrate how sound was just air moving rapidly.
While playing Pilot Wings 64, I always wanted to see what would happen if the giant balloon was bounced into the cave entrance just above the waterfall - it literally went ballistic.
Going into the caves with the jungle-hopper boots was fun as well. Actually managed to get bounced out of the cave and into the ground plane of the moutains and was able to see the tunnel network clearly.
Better still, keep the original hard disk drive, and buy a new one for your OS and data files. If you want to sell it to trade up or send it in for repair, you can restore the old disk drive without any problems about warranty or data loss.
The original intent of the FCC legislation was to protect the reception of TV/radio broadcasts and to prevent the safe functioning of electrical equipment. This was achieved by approving equipment that met limits in the amount of RF energy they emitted. This was extended to home computers, which seem to be built like tanks with layers and layers of metal shielding.
Tricky thing is, most simple equipment like hairdryers and vacuum cleaners probably give off more RF than a mobile phone. Even a multisync CRT monitor could jam long-wave radio broadcasts in a radius of 10 metres.
Perfectly. Nvidia have drivers that you just 'yum update' or 'rpm -i' install.
The OpenGL extensions (multi-texturing, shaders, CUDA) work perfectly with X-windows,
Qt and 5Dwm on both laptops and desktops. So, if you really want to, you can give your
Linux system that SGI workstation desktop look.
This wouldn't be your desktop PC 3.5" hard disk drive or a 2.5" laptop drive. This would be an server-class hard disk drive the size of a briefcase
Network attached storage
Lacie hard disk drive
The problem is, it probably didn't look like a piece of computer equipment and ended up being moved somewhere totally different.
I remember that game (Alley Cat) - still remember that tick-tock noise that the PC speaker made.
PC Graphics Cards
VGA 1987 80×25 640×480 / 16 256 KB
SVGA 1989 80×25 800×600 / 256 512 KB
XGA 1990 80×25 1024×768 / 256 1 MB
XGA-2 1992 80×25 1024×768 / 65,536 2 MB
SVGA 1998 132×60 1280×1024 / 16.8M -
And in France, the response would probably require Microsoft employees to randomize their routes to work, travel in unmarked cars and always have an escort.
If you are submitting a comment to a forum, you will have the forum main window open, the submission form, the webpage page of the article you are referencing, a wikipedia entry along with whatever popup windows are used to view links like images and PDF files.
At least they are trying. And the geography, geology and demographics of each region of the world is going to determine what kind of technology can be used. If everyone is packed together into a small city, then cable/wifi might be the best solution. In a rural area with low density farmhouses, satellite might be the best solution.
I always thought having miniature tunnel boring machines would be an alternative to digging up roads to lay fibre optic cable. The use of giant cutting wheels is not really permitted in the UK or perhaps even Europe.
There is a patent on the use of just two fisheye pictures taken back to back - it belongs to a property agency of all companies; apparently they patented the process of taking two pictures to create a virtual tour of a home. The fisheye lens came with a small utility to create a panoramic view from two such fisheye lens pictures along with the necessary license. However, at the fringes of each picture the blue light tends to bleed more than the red or green, so one or two extra pictures help to average that out.
Nikon Coolpix has a http://www.nikonweb.com/fisheye/
You would have to take three or four pictures at different directions to get a complete coverage (sky view + three compass directions = tetrahedral arrangement).
Because many are really defensive patents. They are not original in any way, but to issue a challenge to any one of them would cost several years worth of litigation. These are purely defensive - if someone sues, the company will just counter-sue.
I think that shows that the average life span of a hard drive is only around seven years. I really only used mine sequentially. For a large corporation like Google and archive.org, they have hard disk drives failing every day.
A discovery made by grinning idiots who love to cut and paste code and couldn't understand why they kept getting memory leaks and segmentation faults.
By itself C++ will just create a default copy constructor going straight through to memcpy.
I'll make an assignment operator a deep copy by default, and have all the different functions specified separately.