So what I guess I'm asking is "can this technology be used to not only create and present colors in a 'natural' way but possibly capture them that way as well?"
This question is like asking if a new kind break technology for your car will make your car edible.
the eye strain isn't caused by interference with 60hz the power circuits. Modern monitors have a lot of protection from things like that.
The problem is that you can see the image blinking on and off, and it's annoying. I can still see flicker at 70hz, and in general prefer something in the 80s.
Uh, no. Framerate in general has nothing to do with the actual display, although the image will look better if the two are in synch at some multiple.
Framerate, at least when you're talking about gaming, is how fast the game engine and graphics card can update memory. The refresh rate is how fast the electron beam is swept across a CRT. LCDs don't have refresh rates, but they do have response times And I would assume this thing would as well.
The "frame rate" on an LCD or one of these things is 1/response time.
IIRC Static ram is faster then then regular Dram, but requires a lot more hardware per bit. Static ram also retains its state when the power goes out. Maybe the framebuffer on the display uses SRAM?
Everyone knows LCDs are just a stop-gap, 10 years from now everyone is going to be using OLEDs.
I suppose the benefit of these things is that they are reflective, and thus probably don't require much power when they don't change... But the structure looks pretty complex compared to OLEDs.
If these guys have a very short timeframe to production, they might make out pretty well, but 5-10 years from now this tech won't really be all that relevant, IMO.
Lots of companies out there do subcontract computing time. In a lot of cases, it would only make economic sense. Why pay for a supercomputer when you only need 1 month a year of time?
Otoh, it might still be cheaper for some companies to buy super-comps or build beowulf clusters if they have so much computing that they'd be using the IBM service 24x7.
Finaly some companies might not want 3rd parties to see the data they're working on:P
Why is that no one takes the time to link their links anymore? it takes like two seconds and saves god knows how many people from having to cut, open a new browser window manualy, and paste. You also don't have to wory about slashdot putting spaces in your links that way either.
But really, particle board and metal tables from Wal-Mart hold shit just as well as "a grand cherry-wood conference table".
Um, no they don't. I certainly wouldn't want to put production servers on a cheap metal and particle board table from Wal-Mart for very long. Imagine thousands of dollars in downtime due to catastrophic table failure!
On the other hand, maybe they're just playing the odds that if they throw 100 people together and provide the infrastructure and cell phones, one of them is bound to come up with enough of a marketable idea to make a bajillion dollars.
And then make huge donations to get buildings named after them later:P
For upperclassmen, and especially grad students, running a business could be a valuable experience.
An interesting project for a school would be to have a sort of business that gets passed along to students taken a particular course. Like Biz 146 is lower management Biz 246 is middle management and 346 is upper management.
It would probably lose a lot of money, but if the leaders or whatever we elected you might get some interesting and smart characters.
That A isn't accessable to the outside world. I just tried pinging it, and it didn't respond, while b, c, e, and f (that I tried) did work. On the other hand, it could just be the DDos. But in any event, I would assume that even if A isn't accessable, the other root servers would always be able to touch it.
I'm sure most of you who've programmed have felt that way, until you tried to compile and execute your program (real programmers, I'm not talking interpreted baby languages like Basic or Perl), and then you were amazed by your simple syntax errors, and astonished by your modeling misconceptions
Well yeah, but that's just because I didn't bother to prove them....
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So what I guess I'm asking is "can this technology be used to not only create and present colors in a 'natural' way but possibly capture them that way as well?"
This question is like asking if a new kind break technology for your car will make your car edible.
You can have a diffrence in voltage without constant power. I don't know if it would work for this type of thing.
(isn't TV interlaced 50 FPS?)
NTSC TV, what we use here in the US is 60 feilds per second (a feild is half a frame, every other line)
HDTV has i and p modes, i modes are the same as NTSC as far as speed, and p modes redraw the same frame each time... IIRC
the eye strain isn't caused by interference with 60hz the power circuits. Modern monitors have a lot of protection from things like that.
The problem is that you can see the image blinking on and off, and it's annoying. I can still see flicker at 70hz, and in general prefer something in the 80s.
Uh, no. Framerate in general has nothing to do with the actual display, although the image will look better if the two are in synch at some multiple.
Framerate, at least when you're talking about gaming, is how fast the game engine and graphics card can update memory. The refresh rate is how fast the electron beam is swept across a CRT. LCDs don't have refresh rates, but they do have response times And I would assume this thing would as well.
The "frame rate" on an LCD or one of these things is 1/response time.
IIRC Static ram is faster then then regular Dram, but requires a lot more hardware per bit. Static ram also retains its state when the power goes out. Maybe the framebuffer on the display uses SRAM?
Tell us why it's better then OLEDs.
Everyone knows LCDs are just a stop-gap, 10 years from now everyone is going to be using OLEDs.
I suppose the benefit of these things is that they are reflective, and thus probably don't require much power when they don't change... But the structure looks pretty complex compared to OLEDs.
If these guys have a very short timeframe to production, they might make out pretty well, but 5-10 years from now this tech won't really be all that relevant, IMO.
Lots of companies out there do subcontract computing time. In a lot of cases, it would only make economic sense. Why pay for a supercomputer when you only need 1 month a year of time?
:P
Otoh, it might still be cheaper for some companies to buy super-comps or build beowulf clusters if they have so much computing that they'd be using the IBM service 24x7.
Finaly some companies might not want 3rd parties to see the data they're working on
Why is that no one takes the time to link their links anymore? it takes like two seconds and saves god knows how many people from having to cut, open a new browser window manualy, and paste. You also don't have to wory about slashdot putting spaces in your links that way either.
Im seeing this more and more all the time.
but he seems to have understood both Newtonian and libniz's (sp?) notation perfectly as well.
(Or more then likely he meant he learned it all from lectures or something. Personally I think he just had an easy-ass class)
But really, particle board and metal tables from Wal-Mart hold shit just as well as "a grand cherry-wood conference table".
Um, no they don't. I certainly wouldn't want to put production servers on a cheap metal and particle board table from Wal-Mart for very long. Imagine thousands of dollars in downtime due to catastrophic table failure!
On the other hand, maybe they're just playing the odds that if they throw 100 people together and provide the infrastructure and cell phones, one of them is bound to come up with enough of a marketable idea to make a bajillion dollars.
:P
And then make huge donations to get buildings named after them later
After throwing the money down the pit for two years, do you have an empty hole, or a pit full of money?
:P
I certainly wouldn't mind a pit full of money
if he made a few k, he should have got his own hosting.
You can't GPL code you down own, wether you wrote it or not.
For upperclassmen, and especially grad students, running a business could be a valuable experience.
An interesting project for a school would be to have a sort of business that gets passed along to students taken a particular course. Like Biz 146 is lower management Biz 246 is middle management and 346 is upper management.
It would probably lose a lot of money, but if the leaders or whatever we elected you might get some interesting and smart characters.
Well, I think it would be interesting, anyway.
Hrm, one post gets -1, and a reply that says "I agree 100%" gets a 3.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. It dosn't really seem like much of a troll to me, either.
Certanly not worth a -1.
The fact that something exists in DNS dosn't actualy mean you can reach it :P
That A isn't accessable to the outside world. I just tried pinging it, and it didn't respond, while b, c, e, and f (that I tried) did work. On the other hand, it could just be the DDos. But in any event, I would assume that even if A isn't accessable, the other root servers would always be able to touch it.
I'm absolutely flabbergasted that RMS would oppose this. Flabbergasted. :P
We are talking about automount, not autoplay...
What exactly do you mean by that? Surely not Uniform Modling Language. :P
You could just have provided a link, you know. As opposed to cut'n'pasting this outdated document.
WINDOWS NT: You get in the car and write a letter that says 'go to the store'. Then you get out of the car and nail the letter to the dashboard.
WTF?!
You wern't actualy supposed to make the joke.
yawn. troll.
I'm sure most of you who've programmed have felt that way, until you tried to compile and execute your program (real programmers, I'm not talking interpreted baby languages like Basic or Perl), and then you were amazed by your simple syntax errors, and astonished by your modeling misconceptions
Well yeah, but that's just because I didn't bother to prove them....