Assuming that Dell implements the same sort of technology that they have been with their Inspiron 7500 series with this new screen the actual resolution that you run the screen at is almost irrelevant. Why? Simply put, the video card scales the display image appropriately to fill the entire screen. This means that rather than 800x600 only using 480000 pixels to display itself, it will actually use the full 1920000 provided by the display. I've used this feature a few times in presentations and it works just fine for those of us who can't see a Origin2000 from 3 feet away.
There are several problems with using LCD glasses such as size, weight, resolution and cost. It is not always convenient to carry around your laptop and all of the assorted paraphenalia to support the LCD glasses.
You are indeed correct about the top speed (at least from what the documentaries say). The SR-71 program was scrapped during the last budget by Clinton due to certain constraints (the program cost 24 million a year...quite affordable for the kind of planes but satellites have long since taken the place of these wonderful aircraft).
Just as a useless information tidbit wrt the OS, since the SR-71 has been around for so long, and that the budget has been so horribly small, they actually still operate off of some variation of Amiga machines.:)
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As far as the mp3 player goes, does the processor have enough horsepower to pull off high quality (128kbit+) mp3s?
It would be nice to find out a little more about these glasses from a technical point of view...180k pixels means less than 512x384 resolution. If the refresh rate isn't high enough we could also have problems that plagued the old active matrix displays...that of latency and ghosting. Anyone have links to more info?
Well it's certainly about time that something like this came out from Cygnus...since the administration of our University seems set on the idea that we need something like Codewarrior to code, at least we can have something almost USEFUL.
This hopefully will not lead to a situation similar to that depicted in THX 1138...children learning from a bottle...the metaphor created here is quite strong. You will learn only what we want you to learn, free thinking is to be frowned upon. What happens to out of the bottle thinking? Curious minds demand information, and if they can't get it at school, where the heck are they supposed to?
Anyone in their right mind should not be surprised with this announcement...in fact I am surprised that it was made at all. The US government is a notorious information gathering body, you need only look as far as basic Senate practice for confirmation: "Well before we make a decision, let's perform a few studies".
Throughout history spying has been an integral part of warfare, and as such it has grown with the times. The CIA has long employed any means at it's disposal to achieve its goal of national security, which has included everything from simple bribes for information, to the planting of moles in important government positions, to the extremes of assasination. Why would they stop there?
Also, look at the NSA. What is their purpose? It is "support of U.S. Government activities to protect U.S. communications and produce foreign intelligence information." Hmmm...and how would they do that in an electronic world? The massive amount of mathematical and computing experience, not to mention raw computing power, has not been (presumably) sitting idle since it's conception in 1952...it has been put to the task of intercepting and decoding information that may be strategically useful to the US government. The CIA is simply taking this information gathering process one step further...right to the systems where the information originates.
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Assuming that Dell implements the same sort of technology that they have been with their Inspiron 7500 series with this new screen the actual resolution that you run the screen at is almost irrelevant. Why? Simply put, the video card scales the display image appropriately to fill the entire screen. This means that rather than 800x600 only using 480000 pixels to display itself, it will actually use the full 1920000 provided by the display. I've used this feature a few times in presentations and it works just fine for those of us who can't see a Origin2000 from 3 feet away.
It's nice to see that they've essentially admitted that there are problems with the existing system and are taking steps to rectify the situation.
To paraphrase monty python:
Q: What does American beer and having sex in a canoe have in common?
A: They're both f**king near water.
There are several problems with using LCD glasses such as size, weight, resolution and cost. It is not always convenient to carry around your laptop and all of the assorted paraphenalia to support the LCD glasses.
You are indeed correct about the top speed (at least from what the documentaries say). The SR-71 program was scrapped during the last budget by Clinton due to certain constraints (the program cost 24 million a year...quite affordable for the kind of planes but satellites have long since taken the place of these wonderful aircraft).
:)
Just as a useless information tidbit wrt the OS, since the SR-71 has been around for so long, and that the budget has been so horribly small, they actually still operate off of some variation of Amiga machines.
As far as the mp3 player goes, does the processor have enough horsepower to pull off high quality (128kbit+) mp3s?
Keeping in mind that ftp.cdrom.com has 4GB of RAM to handle its load...
It would be nice to find out a little more about these glasses from a technical point of view...180k pixels means less than 512x384 resolution. If the refresh rate isn't high enough we could also have problems that plagued the old active matrix displays...that of latency and ghosting. Anyone have links to more info?
I read somewhere that the brains capacity was on the order of 13 TB. No links to back it up yet...
Well it's certainly about time that something like this came out from Cygnus...since the administration of our University seems set on the idea that we need something like Codewarrior to code, at least we can have something almost USEFUL.
This hopefully will not lead to a situation similar to that depicted in THX 1138...children learning from a bottle...the metaphor created here is quite strong. You will learn only what we want you to learn, free thinking is to be frowned upon. What happens to out of the bottle thinking? Curious minds demand information, and if they can't get it at school, where the heck are they supposed to?
A recent poll of Canadians showed that the majority of people thought that stealing a candy bar was worse than software piracy...
Anyone in their right mind should not be surprised with this announcement...in fact I am surprised that it was made at all. The US government is a notorious information gathering body, you need only look as far as basic Senate practice for confirmation: "Well before we make a decision, let's perform a few studies".
Throughout history spying has been an integral part of warfare, and as such it has grown with the times. The CIA has long employed any means at it's disposal to achieve its goal of national security, which has included everything from simple bribes for information, to the planting of moles in important government positions, to the extremes of assasination. Why would they stop there?
Also, look at the NSA. What is their purpose? It is "support of U.S. Government activities to protect U.S. communications and produce foreign intelligence information." Hmmm...and how would they do that in an electronic world? The massive amount of mathematical and computing experience, not to mention raw computing power, has not been (presumably) sitting idle since it's conception in 1952...it has been put to the task of intercepting and decoding information that may be strategically useful to the US government. The CIA is simply taking this information gathering process one step further...right to the systems where the information originates.