Wrong way round. You are rapidly gaining civil rights - via the internet - the only difference is you now know about how they have been curtailed for centuries.
The signal to noise ratio on the sensor inside the hubble. There is inherent noise from the electronics on the sensor. The more you amplify your signals, the more you amplify noise. Study CCD sensors. You'll find the reason that they had to stack this exposure 2000 times. The noise is random, so you can average it out with multiple exposures. Looks like they did a 15-16 minute exposure here.
There were power pc cores that were later designed to be much more efficient. They have also remained competitive with x86 in terms of power. Apple switched because intel was moving faster than ibm/motorola. Power pc is still used on high end servers and mainframes, so clearly they were able to keep up.
Agreed! I read TFA article too. Intel has been long behind and it is simple fact that their architecture was never efficient from the start and probably never really will be in comparison.
But that dual core 1.5ghz processor would be stomped by even an atom. ARM is great at power efficiency, not so great at raw computing power. It is quickly closing the gap, but doing anything that requires real muscle is going to be painfully slow versus an intel or amd x86 processor from even 5 years ago (and longer...)
Yeah, because that's a completely original title. You cannot expect a well used title to hold up in court under trademark claims. Just because you have been granted a trademark does not mean that it cannot be challenged in court. Seeing as how there are many, many examples of this title being used to the point of cliche, I would imagine if he had his day in court he would be laughed out of it. This guy is also suing a network for using what he considers similar subject matter on episode of a television show. Harper Collins is not stealing his work, not reprinting his books without his permission, and not publishing a book with the same title that steals material directly from the graphic novel. Maybe I should trademark "the road" or "fire in the sky" or "the garden of eden." How about "Lost Souls"?? If I can come up with titles as original as that I should totally have a right to sue anyone that would dare use a title that I obviously ripped off from something else with THE SAME EXACT TITLE. I mean god! The same title! How dare she commit such theft of his intellectual property! She is going to make millions while he isn't according to his sob story and he's getting ripped off because he stole the title first? I mean if you read his statement, he makes it out like they completely ripped his material and reused it. Note how he acknowledges that the title has been used in the past, but note the tone of how he feels he now owns it. Do you feel this is fair or how book titles should be dealt with? I mean what happens when everyone trademarks all the common phrases and words? Do book titles suddenly become "The Long and Winding Road to the Home on the Range under Silver Magnolias on Elm Street?" If you ask me, he's just butthurt that someone is more successful than him and has a similar theme going on. Maybe Tolkein estate should start suing everyone that writes fantasy, because you know, they are just ripping off Tolkein's intellectual property. Boy, all these needless and frivolous lawsuits must be costing this guy a lot of money.
That's exactly the meat of his argument. That his trademark represents a series. Whether that trademark is unique enough to hold up in court is another story.
The poster was referring to ukraine under russian soviet control and said his wife thought it was better in the 70s under communist rule. Maybe you should go read up on your history before you make pointless posts?:P
Also...you may be correct about macs. Clearly there is a large enough market now for valve to develop steam for it. I think windows is now clearly in the decline. It will persist for a long time, but I think people want something more like android or ios to be their computing experience. I use my tablet and phone far more than my laptop. But my laptop runs lightroom and plays games that my tablet can't. Windows 8 is a desperate move if you want to point out desperation. If they can succeed at moving their api into something more portable they might have something. Shame about the metro...erm..modern ui.
OS X? Huge growth? Last I looked at the numbers it was still in the single digit range where it has firmly been for years. Wake me up when over 10% of PCs are Macs. Sure there's a market, but its not very big. Linux is 1% fwiw. But you know, Microsoft's stranglehold according to you has kept games from other platforms. Nevermind that they were just tiny, insignificant markets. Also honda never quit making 2 door civics and aftermarket parts makers never went out of business. Do you always write about things you know nothing about? Dreamcast was long gone by the time halflife 2 came. It was sega's console and Microsoft provided the operating system for it. A winCE variant I think? He threw his company behind the market with the most potential profit. Amazing, right? I mean gee, how did they ever stay in business with desperate moves like that? First of all, none of your arguments make sense. Secondly I'm sure the people at valve see the decline of Windows as a platform vs IOS and Android for general users. The know the market is changing and, guess what? steam isn't part of any of those newer market and that's a problem. I wouldn't exactly say they are desperate though.
Indeed. Also, there are so many vectors for terrorist attack that if they really wanted to blow things up in america and cause massive death and destruction, there would be little in the way to actually stop someone that is rather determined.
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Wrong way round.
You are rapidly gaining civil rights - via the internet - the only difference is you now know about how they have been curtailed for centuries.
It's not rights people are gaining. It's power.
And they are very much trying to take that away.
America is very guilty of war crimes by now.
This is really impressive considering the logistics of taking this same picture 3000 times from orbit.
But will it stack 3000 images? :)
The signal to noise ratio on the sensor inside the hubble. There is inherent noise from the electronics on the sensor. The more you amplify your signals, the more you amplify noise. Study CCD sensors. You'll find the reason that they had to stack this exposure 2000 times. The noise is random, so you can average it out with multiple exposures. Looks like they did a 15-16 minute exposure here.
PPC is over 5ghz now. Quite competitive!
There were power pc cores that were later designed to be much more efficient. They have also remained competitive with x86 in terms of power. Apple switched because intel was moving faster than ibm/motorola. Power pc is still used on high end servers and mainframes, so clearly they were able to keep up.
Agreed! I read TFA article too. Intel has been long behind and it is simple fact that their architecture was never efficient from the start and probably never really will be in comparison.
omg..i'm dying here
But that dual core 1.5ghz processor would be stomped by even an atom. ARM is great at power efficiency, not so great at raw computing power. It is quickly closing the gap, but doing anything that requires real muscle is going to be painfully slow versus an intel or amd x86 processor from even 5 years ago (and longer...)
It doesn't sound like it. Still could you build this in your spare time? :)
Yeah, because that's a completely original title. You cannot expect a well used title to hold up in court under trademark claims. Just because you have been granted a trademark does not mean that it cannot be challenged in court. Seeing as how there are many, many examples of this title being used to the point of cliche, I would imagine if he had his day in court he would be laughed out of it. This guy is also suing a network for using what he considers similar subject matter on episode of a television show. Harper Collins is not stealing his work, not reprinting his books without his permission, and not publishing a book with the same title that steals material directly from the graphic novel. Maybe I should trademark "the road" or "fire in the sky" or "the garden of eden." How about "Lost Souls"?? If I can come up with titles as original as that I should totally have a right to sue anyone that would dare use a title that I obviously ripped off from something else with THE SAME EXACT TITLE. I mean god! The same title! How dare she commit such theft of his intellectual property! She is going to make millions while he isn't according to his sob story and he's getting ripped off because he stole the title first? I mean if you read his statement, he makes it out like they completely ripped his material and reused it. Note how he acknowledges that the title has been used in the past, but note the tone of how he feels he now owns it. Do you feel this is fair or how book titles should be dealt with? I mean what happens when everyone trademarks all the common phrases and words? Do book titles suddenly become "The Long and Winding Road to the Home on the Range under Silver Magnolias on Elm Street?" If you ask me, he's just butthurt that someone is more successful than him and has a similar theme going on. Maybe Tolkein estate should start suing everyone that writes fantasy, because you know, they are just ripping off Tolkein's intellectual property. Boy, all these needless and frivolous lawsuits must be costing this guy a lot of money.
That's exactly the meat of his argument. That his trademark represents a series. Whether that trademark is unique enough to hold up in court is another story.
Star Wars is fairly unique and uncommon.
I have a friend that lived in unkraine under the soviets and actually thought it was better. Of course he's totally insane, so there is that too.
And fuck whoever posted this puff piece glorifying that human piece of trash!
2 years in prison for a song protesting him? I hope he burns in hell and history remembers him for the despot he is!
The poster was referring to ukraine under russian soviet control and said his wife thought it was better in the 70s under communist rule. Maybe you should go read up on your history before you make pointless posts? :P
fuck putin. that is all.
those girls didn't deserve that.
Also...you may be correct about macs. Clearly there is a large enough market now for valve to develop steam for it. I think windows is now clearly in the decline. It will persist for a long time, but I think people want something more like android or ios to be their computing experience. I use my tablet and phone far more than my laptop. But my laptop runs lightroom and plays games that my tablet can't. Windows 8 is a desperate move if you want to point out desperation. If they can succeed at moving their api into something more portable they might have something. Shame about the metro...erm..modern ui.
Fair enough. You do realize that anything you post here tends to get picked to pieces right?
Didn't mean any harm there really. Its just sport after a certain point. :)
OS X? Huge growth? Last I looked at the numbers it was still in the single digit range where it has firmly been for years. Wake me up when over 10% of PCs are Macs. Sure there's a market, but its not very big. Linux is 1% fwiw. But you know, Microsoft's stranglehold according to you has kept games from other platforms. Nevermind that they were just tiny, insignificant markets. Also honda never quit making 2 door civics and aftermarket parts makers never went out of business. Do you always write about things you know nothing about? Dreamcast was long gone by the time halflife 2 came. It was sega's console and Microsoft provided the operating system for it. A winCE variant I think? He threw his company behind the market with the most potential profit. Amazing, right? I mean gee, how did they ever stay in business with desperate moves like that? First of all, none of your arguments make sense. Secondly I'm sure the people at valve see the decline of Windows as a platform vs IOS and Android for general users. The know the market is changing and, guess what? steam isn't part of any of those newer market and that's a problem. I wouldn't exactly say they are desperate though.
That made my day really. Maybe he needs to throw some more chairs.
Developers! developers! developers!
Indeed. Also, there are so many vectors for terrorist attack that if they really wanted to blow things up in america and cause massive death and destruction, there would be little in the way to actually stop someone that is rather determined.
but is bsd heavily optimized for mobile chipsets like linux?
likewise. people are really ignoring the fact that android wouldn't haven been possible without linux and it really is the unsung hero.