From what I remember, Samsung disk drives didn't implement SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) It would tell you useful things like how many times your disk drive had been powered up and down, longest seek time, number of bad sectors, highest temperature, longest spin-up time. Just about everything a sys-admin would ever want to know.
That's what they were used to doing. Waiting for technology to advance in several generations in every aspect of computer technology, so they could combine them together and have a completely new, unique and distinctive product that no-one had seen before. Just about every creative person dreams of doing that. When it was Apple vs. Microsoft/Intel, they only had to worry about the OS and CPU, desktop cases were more or less the same; gray box under the monitor.or mini-tower unit.
The shrinking size of components let them design new and distinctive looking cases. But when you have new Android systems being rolled out every quarter at all market levels from wearable devices to netbooks, that becomes impossible for them. So the only option is to take legal action.
Sometimes it's just a random evolutionary combination of features. Some mobile phones have a high performance GPU,others just offer basic graphics. Other have a stereoscopic cameras that can make 3D movies, others don't. Some have a super-large screen that just does basic 2D, others have the parallax view 3D screen. Others have a secondary camera. Then there's battery life, memory size, the shape and color of the case. Some colors go with certain applications and markets. Customers will view certain combinations as "too girly". As all the different components have different prices, the price/performance ratio can vary.
Funny thing is, some of those mid 1990's PC accelerator graphics boards that were built from i860's and TMS34020's and megabytes, had their own NIC socket. That way they could avoid the slowdown due to the network stack running on software on the CPU.
There was a story in our engineering department about how once some foreign fighter pilots defected to the west by landing at some military airbases. While they were being interviewed, the intelligence engineers started inspecting and examining the planes. They were surprised to see that the radar systems still used old-fashioned radio valves, and couldn't understand this given the free availability of transistors. Then when they started doing radar-jamming and all sorts of EMI tests, the answer became obvious. Those valves could withstand an EMP from close by. The plane would keep flying while every other aircraft would just fry.
Ironically, there's a lot of British people who emigrate to Spain and France to get away from the property speculators, gazumping, political correctness and mass migration across the country - wealthy Londoners decide to move out into the country which in turn displaces everyone else, who either have to live with their parents or emigrate.
I remember that in the first company I interned for. The IT staff maintained their own comms room with dozen racks of PABX, Internet and WAN connections. This was the time when Digital X.25 networks were state of the art. It was the room they always took visitors to see - racks and racks of red, green and black blinkenlighten everywhere.
The bit people didn't see was the "snake-pit" which was all the cabling under the floor, accessed by special spike grips that lifted up heavy carpet tiles. Miles of yellow, blue, green, red cable snaking twisting and curling everywhere. What the engineers used to do was to add a new cable or two every now and again when a new office desk was added somewhere in the building. But then they had to move the rack units around when they ran out of space in one unit. But then all the other cables no longer reached over. So they had to disconnect those old cables and replace them, but now they didn't have time to remove those old cables (since they might come in useful some day) so they were just left there. Then a problem evolved where the engineers couldn't tell which end of each cable was which, so a special strategy of "cable jiggling" was introduced, where one engineer pulled and released that cable, so they other engineer knew which cable to connect.
Eventually all of this snowballed - they ran out of space in the underfloor tiles. The only solution then was to call in a consultant. He immediately saw the problem. Remove all the old cabling, and color code the the new cables according to length, Make sure there are more than enough cables for ever rack unit, so no-one ever has to add cables individually again. Use cable ties to keep everything neat. And it all worked, and they discovered 75% of the cables in the snake pit were unused.
Looking at the protesters, they aren't gang-bangers, they're artists-in-residence who simply want somewhere affordable to live. Then they need a tourist city like San Francisco to live in.
If you visit other websites, you'll see that there aren't many our cities in the USA that are safe from gangs, have plenty of employment opportunities and affordable.
No, these are private hire corporate buses. They travel a fixed long-distance route with a few stops with the last one being the corporate car-park, or a bus-stop right outside it. But they do use the public bus stops simply because they have safety markings on the road. The closest public transport equivalent would be what the UK called an "Express bus" which would only stop at a select number of bus stops in the city and at the far end of the bus route.
There technically is "free public transport" with Caltrain. You could buy a monthly train pass with Caltrain that would allow you to travel anywhere by just showing the pass. But the problem with bus services, particularly circular routes, is that being air-conditioned or heated, homeless people (drug addicts, mental illnesses) would use them as shelters, and teenagers would use them as hangouts. This then caused problems with other passengers and drivers.
Proposition 13 helped stabilize city budgets. Normally a city would raise their taxes and spending as fast as house prices were rising, all during a property boom. Then they would be completely screwed when the property boom ended and revenues dropped. Any mention of cutbacks, and the unions would be threatening to go on strike, the pressure groups would be wearing down the atmosphere and sidewalks with all their shouting, placard waving and marching.
Given the risk of land liquefaction during an earthquake (all that water that has percolated through fault lines through the decades now gets squished and sloshed back up to the surface), the dangers of brick and stone buildings collapsing, and the rescue effort required, the ban on tall buildings was there for a reason. Many property owners find it is cheaper to demolish existing buildings and build high rise apartments than it is to retrofit a legacy building.
The banks are robo-foreclosing on properties, leaving them abandoned, and subject to water-damage, vandalism to the point that they are a health hazard.
Then at the same time, you have all those homeless people. It seems insane.
Same thing happened in Aberdeen, Scotland during the 1980's. Oil workers were getting paid £50K/year for two week on/two week off contracts working on the oil rigs. Oil workers liked being in the city for all the pubs and nightclubs. That shot up the prices of homes such that other people such as teachers, technicians, nurses couldn't afford to rent never mind buy flats or apartments. Teachers even went on strike over this. The solution? Teachers got pay rises so they could afford cars and commute in from 10 miles away, and they converted the school playgrounds into car parks. For nursing the solution was just to bring in cheap foreign labor.
It sounds good, but flat rings may not always make a solid connection, though they could be made to be grooved or wavy like a car clutch. But there is the problem that the magnet could lose strength over time.
The market itself isn't dying - the number of users remain the same, it's just that people are hanging onto their PC's longer because they don't see any need to upgrade, so PC sales are going down 10% year on year. 10 years ago, someone who bought a PC for doing tax returns, sending business letters, balancing household budgets would do so every 2 years. Now they will hang onto that PC for 5 or more years. So sales will likely drop by 65% or more simply because of the long lifespan of the CPU and graphics card.
Fortunately, it wasn't like that 15 years ago. It seems the universities expanded just to take on as many people as possible, and employers have absolutely no way of telling whether that person is a good deal or not.
Yes, you can block the publication of rivals research papers by getting on a committee. If you are particularly powerful, you can even instruct a supervisor to drag out a PhD for four or more years and railroad that person out of their field of interest.
The human retina actually does some pre-processing before the pixel data (input from rods and cones) goes further along the visual circuits. One of the most basic tasks is edge enhancement and based on red-green, blue-yellow and intensity values based on a large sample of input data: http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/ganglion.html
In image processing speak, these are called edge detection and contrast detection. If there is an intensity difference between two areas, then one is darker than the other, and vice versa. This difference gets amplified close to the border between the two edges. So the human eye can immediately tell there is some kind of edge. For the application of painting, having a split view would allow the artist to immediately tell when the source color (the scene) and the destination color (the painting) matched. Professional cameras use a similar mechanism for perfecting focus:
The greatest advancement in the art world was during the Renaissance period, when they finally understood how perspective worked. Before then, it was a mystery how objects became smaller the further away they became. Until they had algebra, it wasn't possible to really formulate how inverse distance laws or explain concepts like perspective lines. Then all sorts of new techniques became possible. Some methods included pinhole cameras projecting onto tracing paper screens.
That includes effects like ambient occlusion (+16 rays), shadowing (+1 ray per light source, maybe more for soft shadows)? The advertising industry already use real-time ray-tracing systems (with a render farm in a back room), so it's only a matter of time before that technology gets squashed into the space of a console.
Not so much the class system but more a problem of trying to filter out the applications from various colleges that have set up above take-aways - "The New Delhi school of International English -learn english while you work". Then you get a whole level of requirements like "must be from a red brick university" or "must be from a Russell group university". Other times your Honours degree (advanced final year) must be a 2:1 or 1st. Even then many employers just want the brightest entry level graduate to be the team leader or project manager.
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From what I remember, Samsung disk drives didn't implement SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
It would tell you useful things like how many times your disk drive had been powered up and down, longest seek time, number of bad sectors, highest temperature, longest spin-up time. Just about everything a sys-admin would ever want to know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_S.M.A.R.T._tools
That's what they were used to doing. Waiting for technology to advance in several generations in every aspect of computer technology, so they could combine them together and have a completely new, unique and distinctive product that no-one had seen before. Just about every creative person dreams of doing that. When it was Apple vs. Microsoft/Intel, they only had to worry about the OS and CPU, desktop cases were more or less the same; gray box under the monitor.or mini-tower unit.
The shrinking size of components let them design new and distinctive looking cases. But when you have new Android systems being rolled out every quarter at all market levels from wearable devices to netbooks, that becomes impossible for them. So the only option is to take legal action.
Sometimes it's just a random evolutionary combination of features. Some mobile phones have a high performance GPU,others just offer basic graphics. Other have a stereoscopic cameras that can make 3D movies, others don't. Some have a super-large screen that just does basic 2D, others have the parallax view 3D screen. Others have a secondary camera. Then there's battery life, memory size, the shape and color of the case. Some colors go with certain applications and markets. Customers will view certain combinations as "too girly". As all the different components have different prices, the price/performance ratio can vary.
Funny thing is, some of those mid 1990's PC accelerator graphics boards that were built from i860's and TMS34020's and megabytes, had their own NIC socket. That way they could avoid the slowdown due to the network stack running on software on the CPU.
During the 1970's, families had to live in railway carriages and double-decker buses, because that was all they could afford.
There was a story in our engineering department about how once some foreign fighter pilots defected to the west by landing at some military airbases. While they were being interviewed, the intelligence engineers started inspecting and examining the planes. They were surprised to see that the radar systems still used old-fashioned radio valves, and couldn't understand this given the free availability of transistors. Then when they started doing radar-jamming and all sorts of EMI tests, the answer became obvious. Those valves could withstand an EMP from close by. The plane would keep flying while every other aircraft would just fry.
Ironically, there's a lot of British people who emigrate to Spain and France to get away from the property speculators, gazumping, political correctness and mass migration across the country - wealthy Londoners decide to move out into the country which in turn displaces everyone else, who either have to live with their parents or emigrate.
I remember that in the first company I interned for. The IT staff maintained their own comms room with dozen racks of PABX, Internet and WAN connections. This was the time when Digital X.25 networks were state of the art. It was the room they always took visitors to see - racks and racks of red, green and black blinkenlighten everywhere.
The bit people didn't see was the "snake-pit" which was all the cabling under the floor, accessed by special spike grips that lifted up heavy carpet tiles. Miles of yellow, blue, green, red cable snaking twisting and curling everywhere. What the engineers used to do was to add a new cable or two every now and again when a new office desk was added somewhere in the building. But then they had to move the rack units around when they ran out of space in one unit. But then all the other cables no longer reached over. So they had to disconnect those old cables and replace them, but now they didn't have time to remove those old cables (since they might come in useful some day) so they were just left there. Then a problem evolved where the engineers couldn't tell which end of each cable was which, so a special strategy of "cable jiggling" was introduced, where one engineer pulled and released that cable, so they other engineer knew which cable to connect.
Eventually all of this snowballed - they ran out of space in the underfloor tiles. The only solution then was to call in a consultant. He immediately saw the problem. Remove all the old cabling, and color code the the new cables according to length, Make sure there are more than enough cables for ever rack unit, so no-one ever has to add cables individually again. Use cable ties to keep everything neat. And it all worked, and they discovered 75% of the cables in the snake pit were unused.
Looking at the protesters, they aren't gang-bangers, they're artists-in-residence who simply want somewhere affordable to live. Then they need a tourist city like San Francisco to live in.
If you visit other websites, you'll see that there aren't many our cities in the USA that are safe from gangs, have plenty of employment opportunities and affordable.
No, these are private hire corporate buses. They travel a fixed long-distance route with a few stops with the last one being the corporate car-park, or a bus-stop right outside it. But they do use the public bus stops simply because they have safety markings on the road. The closest public transport equivalent would be what the UK called an "Express bus" which would only stop at a select number of bus stops in the city and at the far end of the bus route.
There technically is "free public transport" with Caltrain. You could buy a monthly train pass with Caltrain that would allow you to travel anywhere by just showing the pass. But the problem with bus services, particularly circular routes, is that being air-conditioned or heated, homeless people (drug addicts, mental illnesses) would use them as shelters, and teenagers would use them as hangouts. This then caused problems with other passengers and drivers.
Proposition 13 helped stabilize city budgets. Normally a city would raise their taxes and spending as fast as house prices were rising, all during a property boom. Then they would be completely screwed when the property boom ended and revenues dropped. Any mention of cutbacks, and the unions would be threatening to go on strike, the pressure groups would be wearing down the atmosphere and sidewalks with all their shouting, placard waving and marching.
It didn't look that bad in the 1960's:
https://blog.archive.org/2013/12/02/lost-landscapes-benefit/
Maybe something happened between the 1970's and the 1990's?
The higher ups have different offices at the other end of the SF Bay Area. They won't necessarily be living in San Francisco.
Given the risk of land liquefaction during an earthquake (all that water that has percolated through fault lines through the decades now gets squished and sloshed back up to the surface), the dangers of brick and stone buildings collapsing, and the rescue effort required, the ban on tall buildings was there for a reason. Many property owners find it is cheaper to demolish existing buildings and build high rise apartments than it is to retrofit a legacy building.
The banks are robo-foreclosing on properties, leaving them abandoned, and subject to water-damage, vandalism to the point that they are a health hazard.
Then at the same time, you have all those homeless people. It seems insane.
The banks want to see the supply of housing reduced so that the value of property will start increasing again.
Same thing happened in Aberdeen, Scotland during the 1980's. Oil workers were getting paid £50K/year for two week on/two week off contracts working on the oil rigs. Oil workers liked being in the city for all the pubs and nightclubs. That shot up the prices of homes such that other people such as teachers, technicians, nurses couldn't afford to rent never mind buy flats or apartments. Teachers even went on strike over this. The solution? Teachers got pay rises so they could afford cars and commute in from 10 miles away, and they converted the school playgrounds into car parks. For nursing the solution was just to bring in cheap foreign labor.
It sounds good, but flat rings may not always make a solid connection, though they could be made to be grooved or wavy like a car clutch. But there is the problem that the magnet could lose strength over time.
The market itself isn't dying - the number of users remain the same, it's just that people are hanging onto their PC's longer because they don't see any need to upgrade, so PC sales are going down 10% year on year. 10 years ago, someone who bought a PC for doing tax returns, sending business letters, balancing household budgets would do so every 2 years. Now they will hang onto that PC for 5 or more years. So sales will likely drop by 65% or more simply because of the long lifespan of the CPU and graphics card.
Fortunately, it wasn't like that 15 years ago. It seems the universities expanded just to take on as many people as possible, and employers have absolutely no way of telling whether that person is a good deal or not.
Yes, you can block the publication of rivals research papers by getting on a committee. If you are particularly powerful, you can even instruct a supervisor to drag out a PhD for four or more years and railroad that person out of their field of interest.
The human retina actually does some pre-processing before the pixel data (input from rods and cones) goes further along the visual circuits. One of the most basic tasks is edge enhancement and based on red-green, blue-yellow and intensity values based on a large sample of input data:
http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/ganglion.html
In image processing speak, these are called edge detection and contrast detection. If there is an intensity difference between two areas, then one is darker than the other, and vice versa. This difference gets amplified close to the border between the two edges. So the human eye can immediately tell there is some kind of edge. For the application of painting, having a split view would allow the artist to immediately tell when the source color (the scene) and the destination color (the painting) matched. Professional cameras use a similar mechanism for perfecting focus:
http://www.diyphotography.net/files/images/3228644_6c2e9a2ba1_m.jpg
So the artist could just start off with a very basic poster paint color scheme, then gradually add the shadows and the highlights.
The greatest advancement in the art world was during the Renaissance period, when they finally understood how perspective worked. Before then, it was a mystery how objects became smaller the further away they became. Until they had algebra, it wasn't possible to really formulate how inverse distance laws or explain concepts like perspective lines. Then all sorts of new techniques became possible. Some methods included pinhole cameras projecting onto tracing paper screens.
That includes effects like ambient occlusion (+16 rays), shadowing (+1 ray per light source, maybe more for soft shadows)? The advertising industry already use real-time ray-tracing systems (with a render farm in a back room), so it's only a matter of time before that technology gets squashed into the space of a console.
Not so much the class system but more a problem of trying to filter out the applications from various colleges that have set up above take-aways - "The New Delhi school of International English -learn english while you work". Then you get a whole level of requirements like "must be from a red brick university" or "must be from a Russell group university". Other times your Honours degree (advanced final year) must be a 2:1 or 1st. Even then many employers just want the brightest entry level graduate to be the team leader or project manager.