I think picture quality would vary substantially over the combined image because of the differences in anti-aliasing and texture filtering algorithms used over the years. Newer cards have the ability to make custom anti-aliasing filters, but I still think that differences in texture filtering could be a problem.
I imagine that this will decrease the amount of vibration proofing every single payload they send up will require. Since this is an active damper I imagine it might be lighter then a lot of other design options they had and probably not the cheapest.
I only just got it half working this past Friday (the receiving antenna I designed and fabricated was 200MHz off my design frequency of 10.5GHz so it was useless). This technology has been around forever but hasn't been exploited much, it can be found in some of RFID technologies though. The biggest pain is designing the microwave circuits for maximum efficiency which is more of an art then a science. The fact this company has design can adjust itself for different loads is pretty interesting.
Pretty cool to see this commercialized. Especially after getting questions about the viability and applications of the technology during my final presentation. Maybe I should send the company a resume, I can't imagine they would be too impressed by my project though.
No doubt, this is serious problem with all microwave radiation, some research is even linking cell phones as a cause for cataracts but that's very low power. Since this weapon is causing redness and blisters I can easily see this also causing huge amounts of damage to the eyes. Sounds about as non-lethal as getting shot in the eye with a rubber bullet I guess.
If they ever uses this to torture people, I hope they develop cataracts as well. Then again you can't expect a grunt to not treat something like this as magic. Hmm maybe this is where the nickname for Guantanamo, Camp X-Ray, comes from.
If you have cfosspeed setup to minimize ping on all computers I think they will try not to get in each others way, but if one computer is trying to max out the connection it just wont work.
Cfosspeed is a great little program for Windows XP+ that gives an incredible ammount of control over quality of service. It detects a large number of standard protocols (http,ftp,nntp,dns...) and can set priority on a per program basis for games, voip and p2p. I reccomend it especially if you have an ADSL connection prone to a high ping while downloading. You can setup cfosspeed to prioritize your connection for low ping or high bandwidth. Unfortunately it doesn't work as intended if you have multiple computers on a router because it shapes the traffic independent of other computers, but the developers are working to add multi computer support.
I've used it for almost 6 months and its given me the highest most stable download speeds I've ever seen on my DSL. My pings while downloading are almost as good as they can be. It's also very lean on CPU overhead.
Since we're talking about written language the Japanese case would normaly represent each word with kanji not the phonetic alphabet or a combination of the two. If context is very obvious you might see phonetic only. The word might also be a homonym in spelling only, 'ikura' for example can mean both 'price' and 'salmon eggs' but the pronounciation is slightly different. Japanese has way more problems with the spoken language because there are many dialects which is one of the reasons why so many TV shows are subtitled.
I'd also look at things like page faults per second. I had some bad nForce IDE drivers that were causing an incredible number of page faults in Half-Life 2. Updating the drivers got rid of the problem and increased my framerate considerably.
Bottlenecks can be non obvious also like an underpowered power supply.
Well the Japanese's love for ice wine probably has something to do with the local wines being made sweet. They don't have the food to go with a nice wine. Even if you go to a Italian restaurant you'll end up with a Japanese bastardization of Italian food that will never the less still taste good. I can drink wine by itself, but you can't fully enjoy it without an appropriate meal.
His liking of things otaku weren't really the reason for his social awkwardness. In the movie at least Hermes is interested in his hobbies and really once a nerd always a nerd even if you can change your outward image and gain some confidence.
The episodes themselves are labeled Standalone Complex or Complex. It has nothing to do with the concept of a Standalone Complex from the series. Standalone Complex episodes are primarily character development episodes with IMO more interesting plots.
There are also Akiba-san (short for Akihabara-san) which are the type of otaku or plain old nerds/geeks that are becoming mainstream, a lot of them are too far gone but the public's perception is changing.
BluRay uses a different kind of demodulation compared to DVDs and HD-DVDs and is the reason they can fit 50GB as opposed to 30 GB. IIRC the demodulation it uses is more sensitive to jitter and therefor will require higher quality everything compared to HD-DVD and backwards compatibility with DVDs is more expensive. The focal point of the discs also are different from DVDs so the optics are more complex.
Imagine though that Google takes the idea of AdSense to the next level and integrates targeted commercials into the DRMed downloads. I would despise the idea like nothing else f I had to pay for it but what if downloads that included the commercials were cheaper or entirely free. Make them non fast forwardable and the content providers will jump at the idea and consumers will enjoy the free legal downloads while the content providers get paid and the advertisers get better then TV exposure. Make it better then TV and make sure there are fewer commercials.
Unified shading is completely different beast, although a boon for the Xbox 360 over the PS3. It doesn't really factor much into the subject of the HD era asides from the fact it should be much more efficient then current PC GPU architectures including the PS3's.
The point is that texture access needs to be fast as possible and having to go across multiple busses to access textures isn't going to be speedy at all. So textures are best stored in the memory that is most local to the GPU. Using Cell for feeding transformed geometry to the RSX is another thing entirely. The number of polys you can push is steadily becoming a non-issue though.
I expect the Xbox 360 to have more usable memory space for textures because it uses a unified memory architecture (UMA) and not NUMA (non-unified) like PS3. This is a factor that I definately place in the realm of content. 720p vs. 1080p is a retarded argument as well, no developer in their right mind would design a game around 1080p when they can do more 720p while still getting a spectacular picture.
Blu-ray I'll give them but I don't expect them to be popular for a very long time.
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I think picture quality would vary substantially over the combined image because of the differences in anti-aliasing and texture filtering algorithms used over the years. Newer cards have the ability to make custom anti-aliasing filters, but I still think that differences in texture filtering could be a problem.
I imagine that this will decrease the amount of vibration proofing every single payload they send up will require. Since this is an active damper I imagine it might be lighter then a lot of other design options they had and probably not the cheapest.
How about British comedy versus American comedy...
What this company has made is a low cost (I assume) rectenna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectenna/ and transmitting antenna.
I only just got it half working this past Friday (the receiving antenna I designed and fabricated was 200MHz off my design frequency of 10.5GHz so it was useless). This technology has been around forever but hasn't been exploited much, it can be found in some of RFID technologies though. The biggest pain is designing the microwave circuits for maximum efficiency which is more of an art then a science. The fact this company has design can adjust itself for different loads is pretty interesting.
Pretty cool to see this commercialized. Especially after getting questions about the viability and applications of the technology during my final presentation. Maybe I should send the company a resume, I can't imagine they would be too impressed by my project though.
The atomic battery will corrupt the flash memory and the pony will scratch easily.
I'll wait for the second generation.
I would imagine a drive with such a high mean time before failure is quieter by design.
No doubt, this is serious problem with all microwave radiation, some research is even linking cell phones as a cause for cataracts but that's very low power. Since this weapon is causing redness and blisters I can easily see this also causing huge amounts of damage to the eyes. Sounds about as non-lethal as getting shot in the eye with a rubber bullet I guess.
If they ever uses this to torture people, I hope they develop cataracts as well. Then again you can't expect a grunt to not treat something like this as magic. Hmm maybe this is where the nickname for Guantanamo, Camp X-Ray, comes from.
If you have cfosspeed setup to minimize ping on all computers I think they will try not to get in each others way, but if one computer is trying to max out the connection it just wont work.
Cfosspeed is a great little program for Windows XP+ that gives an incredible ammount of control over quality of service. It detects a large number of standard protocols (http,ftp,nntp,dns...) and can set priority on a per program basis for games, voip and p2p. I reccomend it especially if you have an ADSL connection prone to a high ping while downloading. You can setup cfosspeed to prioritize your connection for low ping or high bandwidth. Unfortunately it doesn't work as intended if you have multiple computers on a router because it shapes the traffic independent of other computers, but the developers are working to add multi computer support.
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I've used it for almost 6 months and its given me the highest most stable download speeds I've ever seen on my DSL. My pings while downloading are almost as good as they can be. It's also very lean on CPU overhead.
here's the developers explanation on how it works
http://www.cfos.de/traffic_shaping/traffic_shapin
Since we're talking about written language the Japanese case would normaly represent each word with kanji not the phonetic alphabet or a combination of the two. If context is very obvious you might see phonetic only. The word might also be a homonym in spelling only, 'ikura' for example can mean both 'price' and 'salmon eggs' but the pronounciation is slightly different. Japanese has way more problems with the spoken language because there are many dialects which is one of the reasons why so many TV shows are subtitled.
Lucent tried the same stunt with the original Xbox but the case was thrown out. It would be braindead for Microsoft to use the same decoder in the 360. Infact they are using Intervideo technology in the 360 now. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Xbox+360+ InterVideo+DVD&btnG=Search
I'd also look at things like page faults per second. I had some bad nForce IDE drivers that were causing an incredible number of page faults in Half-Life 2. Updating the drivers got rid of the problem and increased my framerate considerably.
Bottlenecks can be non obvious also like an underpowered power supply.
He'll happily outsource the programing to his hordes of captured souls. Doesn't really support the idea of Cell being easy to program for though.
Well the Japanese's love for ice wine probably has something to do with the local wines being made sweet. They don't have the food to go with a nice wine. Even if you go to a Italian restaurant you'll end up with a Japanese bastardization of Italian food that will never the less still taste good. I can drink wine by itself, but you can't fully enjoy it without an appropriate meal.
His liking of things otaku weren't really the reason for his social awkwardness. In the movie at least Hermes is interested in his hobbies and really once a nerd always a nerd even if you can change your outward image and gain some confidence.
The episodes themselves are labeled Standalone Complex or Complex. It has nothing to do with the concept of a Standalone Complex from the series. Standalone Complex episodes are primarily character development episodes with IMO more interesting plots.
There are also Akiba-san (short for Akihabara-san) which are the type of otaku or plain old nerds/geeks that are becoming mainstream, a lot of them are too far gone but the public's perception is changing.
I disagree, otakus are probably more mainstream then ever because of the Densha Otoko phenomenon.
BluRay uses a different kind of demodulation compared to DVDs and HD-DVDs and is the reason they can fit 50GB as opposed to 30 GB. IIRC the demodulation it uses is more sensitive to jitter and therefor will require higher quality everything compared to HD-DVD and backwards compatibility with DVDs is more expensive. The focal point of the discs also are different from DVDs so the optics are more complex.
Imagine though that Google takes the idea of AdSense to the next level and integrates targeted commercials into the DRMed downloads. I would despise the idea like nothing else f I had to pay for it but what if downloads that included the commercials were cheaper or entirely free. Make them non fast forwardable and the content providers will jump at the idea and consumers will enjoy the free legal downloads while the content providers get paid and the advertisers get better then TV exposure. Make it better then TV and make sure there are fewer commercials.
Albeit relatively low tech in comparison. A real life counterpart none the less.i me)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laughing_Man_(an
Let's just hope this isn't comming from their Cleveland factory.
Unified shading is completely different beast, although a boon for the Xbox 360 over the PS3. It doesn't really factor much into the subject of the HD era asides from the fact it should be much more efficient then current PC GPU architectures including the PS3's.
The point is that texture access needs to be fast as possible and having to go across multiple busses to access textures isn't going to be speedy at all. So textures are best stored in the memory that is most local to the GPU. Using Cell for feeding transformed geometry to the RSX is another thing entirely. The number of polys you can push is steadily becoming a non-issue though.
I expect the Xbox 360 to have more usable memory space for textures because it uses a unified memory architecture (UMA) and not NUMA (non-unified) like PS3. This is a factor that I definately place in the realm of content. 720p vs. 1080p is a retarded argument as well, no developer in their right mind would design a game around 1080p when they can do more 720p while still getting a spectacular picture.
Blu-ray I'll give them but I don't expect them to be popular for a very long time.