I'm also a new user to Linux and have had trouble trying to configure Samba on my Linux (SuSE) machine to share files with my windows box. I was suprised that I actually had to compile the program to install it. I'm sure this is normal in Linux, but for the average user it's too complicated. After reading documents for 3 hours I was finally able to get it to work (sort of).
Most likely. Just the signals coming from the CPU or any other device on the motherboard would interfere. This would be especially true with a low quality sound card.
The propagation delay created by the gates in the circuitry of the switches and routers affects how long it takes a signal to get from one point to another. Newer transistor technologies allow these to run a bit faster which is why gigabit/s is possible. Also, if a system is buffering/compressing/error checking any large quantity of the data before it is sent again this creates yet another delay.
This new video codec probably utilizes a lot of Intel specific SSE2 instructions. Maybe Intel is making this open source to encourage developers to use more Intel specific instructions. I hope the VP3 codec though doesn't require an Intel processor to work. It should at least have a back up algorithm that utilizes MMX so that those with AMD CPU's and others can use it.
Often companies say that their product produces "VHS" quality, but that is a bit subjective. For example some say that one codec sounds just as good as another (WMA at 64kbps vs. MP3 at 128kbps) but I can notice the difference immediately. And since this is a product produced by a company, not a standard, it probably won't be very popular.
No, it means I took a few minutes of time to do research and I know type 20WPM faster than most people. I now spend less time typing than most people do. Try different things. It doesn't hurt.
I for one think that the life of an American soldier is worth at least $3000. Of course superior military technology costs more. Who do you think is winning in Afghanistan now? Those who spent billions of dollars creating an air force? Or those riding on the backs of horses?
I think this same thing hurt Windows CE early on. I always had a hard time finding useful Windows CE applications. It's more important that the device ships with "killer apps" that make the device worth buying. Any applications that come out later just add to the potential sales of the device.
Are there any companies that specifically design embedded Linux development kits for college courses? If any company is interested in becoming successful selling embedded products they should produce low cost versions of their products that can be used in electronic engineering courses. Documentation is also very important. Without good documentation it's difficult to convince people to learn how to use your product.
The dvorak keyboard layout can help individuals who are only able to type one handed. The keys are in an optimized layout. I use the two handed version which is much easier to type in then QWERTY but I had quite a bit of difficulty configuring it. Apparently, the SuSE distro I was using didn't have it configured correctly, so none of the arrow keys, page up/down, keypad etc worked. I was able to fix it by editing the keyboard file manually, but I wonder why they would overlook something like this?
Wow. I remember hypercard. We learned how to use it in gradeschool (6th grade). I think I was the only person in my class who actually figured out how to program with it instead of just drawing stupid animations (stick figures shooting each other was only fun for so long...). I made some sort of dice rolling program. I think that was something like 7 or 8 years ago. I still have the source code too. Yikes. Time goes by fast.
Or Windows users. I used to have Quicktime player installed on my computer, but it always kept asking you to upgrade. The interface didn't make any sense on windows either. They ported over the player interface, but hen you also had a weird floating menu bar window (because on the mac, the menu bar is always on top).
Why is it that I have been playing video games since the Atari and have never heard of the company SNK? I've never heard of any of those games before. It's amazing that their company could survive that long being that unpopular.
They should have done what Sega did to survive. Switch to game development only.
The essay was an interesting read, but it is all theoretical as to what the future would be. It's obvious what the authors intent writing the article was by reading the last paragraph:
As a musician, I have come to believe that free file sharing is good for the soul. In the short run, we may lose money. But we are a tenacious lot, and we will figure out new ways to make money in cyberspace. If we believe in the future of music-- and I don't mean remarketing rock 'n' roll to each new generation but rather encouraging unbounded creative exploration-- then we should celebrate the open Internet.
My point would be that we should respect what the author of a piece of music wants. If the author says they do not want people copying his music, they should respect that. If another author or musician says that people can freely copy their work, let people do so. In the end, I see it as a matter of morality (if that exists anymore...).
As long as you can hear the music, there is no way they can actually copy protect it. You can simply connect the line out of a CD-Player to the line in of your sound card and then record the resulting song on a computer. Any watermarks in the song though will still exist, but as long as you have software that ignores those watermarks it should still continue to play.
I guess in the future they could also design all sound cards and recording devices to detect watermarks. Then you would be stuck looking for technology that predates these restrictions. I'm sure the music industry has a long term goal like this.
Now that a very large player in the home broadband business is stopping service to so many customers, this will cause people to have to yet again rely on the local monopoly phone companies to get internet services. Perhaps broadband is dying. Unless other companies have access to the cable networks or wireless and satellite gain popularity, the cost will continue to be prohibitive for a lot of people.
You can not actually touch type using such a small keyboard though and you are limited to looking at the keys and then pressing the letter you want. They may as well place them in a logical order. BTW I type exclusively in Dvorak, learning a new keyboard does not take very long.
I think the design is very well done expect for perhaps the keypad. I don't understand why they continue to arrange alphanumeric characters in a QWERTY arrangement on such a small keyboard, when a different layout would make much more sense. The auto word complete feature mentioned though is a good idea (Windows CE had this).
Also, the resolution of the LCDs used in these things are very low and it makes text readablity difficult. That is one reason I prefer the windows devices (240x320 resolution) over the palm models.
Finally, I believe that the ability to be able to access a document or search for information from anywhere is very important. If I have a question, I want to be able to go to Google and find the answer within 30 seconds. Will this be possible with the bandwidth and limited screen space that this device has?
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I don't think there was ever such thing as an 80186. It went from 8086 to 80268.
That doesn't make any sense. We can't actually create our own black holes (thankfully!) and the ones we know about are too far away to be any use. The only time I can think of when the gravitation of a planet is used for energy is when the gravitational pull of a planet is used to increase the velocity of a space prob.
I'd rather not see the average consumer wasting any bandwidth of the internet sending episodes of soap operas to each other. Besides wouldn't an hour of high quality video require sending something like 500MB to 2.0GB of data anyway?
I don't quite understand the concept behind Wine. Does it actually use files created by Microsoft to accomplish what it does or are they simply emulating everything by reverse engineering the function of the DLL and EXE files of Windows? Did they use the DirectX SDK to reverse engineer that portion? I'm sure they are violating quite a few licence agreements and as a result they will probably be shut down if Wine becomes too popular (which I doubt). This happned to Bleem and many of the other emulators once they went comercial.
Not all of the motion was done using actors though. The speech for example was hand animated for each sound they made. I thought this looked horrible compared to other motion in the movie. Information on how they did it was included on the DVD version of Final Fantasy. It's a bit long to watch, but interesting.
What about the physics in movies such as Final Fantasy? The character detail was very well done, but the physics of their motions and mouth movements were terrible. I think that more attention needs to be put into making the physics more organic than increasing the polygon count.
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I'm also a new user to Linux and have had trouble trying to configure Samba on my Linux (SuSE) machine to share files with my windows box. I was suprised that I actually had to compile the program to install it. I'm sure this is normal in Linux, but for the average user it's too complicated. After reading documents for 3 hours I was finally able to get it to work (sort of).
Actually, a buffer IC (74244 or 245?) should be adequate to protect the computer unless your running a few hundred volts through your op amp!
Most likely. Just the signals coming from the CPU or any other device on the motherboard would interfere. This would be especially true with a low quality sound card.
The propagation delay created by the gates in the circuitry of the switches and routers affects how long it takes a signal to get from one point to another. Newer transistor technologies allow these to run a bit faster which is why gigabit/s is possible. Also, if a system is buffering/compressing/error checking any large quantity of the data before it is sent again this creates yet another delay.
This new video codec probably utilizes a lot of Intel specific SSE2 instructions. Maybe Intel is making this open source to encourage developers to use more Intel specific instructions. I hope the VP3 codec though doesn't require an Intel processor to work. It should at least have a back up algorithm that utilizes MMX so that those with AMD CPU's and others can use it.
Often companies say that their product produces "VHS" quality, but that is a bit subjective. For example some say that one codec sounds just as good as another (WMA at 64kbps vs. MP3 at 128kbps) but I can notice the difference immediately. And since this is a product produced by a company, not a standard, it probably won't be very popular.
No, it means I took a few minutes of time to do research and I know type 20WPM faster than most people. I now spend less time typing than most people do. Try different things. It doesn't hurt.
I for one think that the life of an American soldier is worth at least $3000. Of course superior military technology costs more. Who do you think is winning in Afghanistan now? Those who spent billions of dollars creating an air force? Or those riding on the backs of horses?
This story was posted in the devolopers section of Slashdot. Not everyone is interested in every single news item that Slashdot has to offer.
I think this same thing hurt Windows CE early on. I always had a hard time finding useful Windows CE applications. It's more important that the device ships with "killer apps" that make the device worth buying. Any applications that come out later just add to the potential sales of the device.
Are there any companies that specifically design embedded Linux development kits for college courses? If any company is interested in becoming successful selling embedded products they should produce low cost versions of their products that can be used in electronic engineering courses. Documentation is also very important. Without good documentation it's difficult to convince people to learn how to use your product.
The dvorak keyboard layout can help individuals who are only able to type one handed. The keys are in an optimized layout. I use the two handed version which is much easier to type in then QWERTY but I had quite a bit of difficulty configuring it. Apparently, the SuSE distro I was using didn't have it configured correctly, so none of the arrow keys, page up/down, keypad etc worked. I was able to fix it by editing the keyboard file manually, but I wonder why they would overlook something like this?
Wow. I remember hypercard. We learned how to use it in gradeschool (6th grade). I think I was the only person in my class who actually figured out how to program with it instead of just drawing stupid animations (stick figures shooting each other was only fun for so long...). I made some sort of dice rolling program. I think that was something like 7 or 8 years ago. I still have the source code too. Yikes. Time goes by fast.
Or Windows users. I used to have Quicktime player installed on my computer, but it always kept asking you to upgrade. The interface didn't make any sense on windows either. They ported over the player interface, but hen you also had a weird floating menu bar window (because on the mac, the menu bar is always on top).
Why is it that I have been playing video games since the Atari and have never heard of the company SNK? I've never heard of any of those games before. It's amazing that their company could survive that long being that unpopular.
They should have done what Sega did to survive. Switch to game development only.
The essay was an interesting read, but it is all theoretical as to what the future would be. It's obvious what the authors intent writing the article was by reading the last paragraph:
As a musician, I have come to believe that free file sharing is good for the soul. In the short run, we may lose money. But we are a tenacious lot, and we will figure out new ways to make money in cyberspace. If we believe in the future of music-- and I don't mean remarketing rock 'n' roll to each new generation but rather encouraging unbounded creative exploration-- then we should celebrate the open Internet.
My point would be that we should respect what the author of a piece of music wants. If the author says they do not want people copying his music, they should respect that. If another author or musician says that people can freely copy their work, let people do so. In the end, I see it as a matter of morality (if that exists anymore...).
As long as you can hear the music, there is no way they can actually copy protect it. You can simply connect the line out of a CD-Player to the line in of your sound card and then record the resulting song on a computer. Any watermarks in the song though will still exist, but as long as you have software that ignores those watermarks it should still continue to play.
I guess in the future they could also design all sound cards and recording devices to detect watermarks. Then you would be stuck looking for technology that predates these restrictions. I'm sure the music industry has a long term goal like this.
Now that a very large player in the home broadband business is stopping service to so many customers, this will cause people to have to yet again rely on the local monopoly phone companies to get internet services. Perhaps broadband is dying. Unless other companies have access to the cable networks or wireless and satellite gain popularity, the cost will continue to be prohibitive for a lot of people.
You can not actually touch type using such a small keyboard though and you are limited to looking at the keys and then pressing the letter you want. They may as well place them in a logical order. BTW I type exclusively in Dvorak, learning a new keyboard does not take very long.
I think the design is very well done expect for perhaps the keypad. I don't understand why they continue to arrange alphanumeric characters in a QWERTY arrangement on such a small keyboard, when a different layout would make much more sense. The auto word complete feature mentioned though is a good idea (Windows CE had this). Also, the resolution of the LCDs used in these things are very low and it makes text readablity difficult. That is one reason I prefer the windows devices (240x320 resolution) over the palm models. Finally, I believe that the ability to be able to access a document or search for information from anywhere is very important. If I have a question, I want to be able to go to Google and find the answer within 30 seconds. Will this be possible with the bandwidth and limited screen space that this device has?
I don't think there was ever such thing as an 80186. It went from 8086 to 80268.
That doesn't make any sense. We can't actually create our own black holes (thankfully!) and the ones we know about are too far away to be any use. The only time I can think of when the gravitation of a planet is used for energy is when the gravitational pull of a planet is used to increase the velocity of a space prob.
I'd rather not see the average consumer wasting any bandwidth of the internet sending episodes of soap operas to each other. Besides wouldn't an hour of high quality video require sending something like 500MB to 2.0GB of data anyway?
I don't quite understand the concept behind Wine. Does it actually use files created by Microsoft to accomplish what it does or are they simply emulating everything by reverse engineering the function of the DLL and EXE files of Windows? Did they use the DirectX SDK to reverse engineer that portion? I'm sure they are violating quite a few licence agreements and as a result they will probably be shut down if Wine becomes too popular (which I doubt). This happned to Bleem and many of the other emulators once they went comercial.
Not all of the motion was done using actors though. The speech for example was hand animated for each sound they made. I thought this looked horrible compared to other motion in the movie. Information on how they did it was included on the DVD version of Final Fantasy. It's a bit long to watch, but interesting.
What about the physics in movies such as Final Fantasy? The character detail was very well done, but the physics of their motions and mouth movements were terrible. I think that more attention needs to be put into making the physics more organic than increasing the polygon count.