GG is an actual look-through heads up display? I thought it was classic instrumentation that you can look up at and powered by an ARM computer. Is looking up better?
There is a hardware difference of course, the Recon doesn't have a $1000 webcam. Some people might consider that a plus.
My main reason for mentioning the Recon unit was to point out the extreme price of GG and their attitude of "you broke it so fuck off" compared to another android powered HUD that could be coded for and broken for one third the price.
Well, sentient Grey Goo was an 80's thing too. I don't think I got around to reading Bear's Blood Music until the 90's however.
The idea that a network of computers could form a brainlike awareness floating in "cyberspace" (on a cloud, if you prefer) was also done around the same time.
I don't like to grade scifi on the movies. I was watching Nerdist last night and they commented on the lack of modern movies that were like 2001 A Space Odyssey, right before they brought out Guillermo del Toro for his new movie about Giant Robots With A Stupid UI.
They want few people who paid ~3x as much as an existing competing android product (that is really cool and works) to void their warrantee to make new stuff for them. They want to OWN this segment. It's just stupid.
With as much hype as Google is trying to create for an existing product by another manufacturer, you'd think they'd give a little more leeway for innovation.
Gas is slang and short for Gasoline, that stuff you might fill up your car with. Petrol is also slang for Gasoline but is short for Petroleum which makes it ambiguous as to whether you are speaking of Crude Oil or any other refined fuels.
Ditto in 1988 (IIRC). From a Florida launch. I was driving north of Atlanta though, so it looked like what could be an airburst over the city or some kind of Tunguska bang. It was definitely an Oh Shit hour and had me checking the radio news channels, which I figured would go down if there was an EMP or at least say something about it.
Search Interest generally spikes in October with the highwater mark being October 2011. However looks like May 2013 has the highest search interest in vampires for the month of May, ever and all-time interest should peak this October.
Interest in Zombies and Werewolves may have reached a plateau.
Current fastest ARM (and ATOM) CPUs are performing at about the same level as the old Pentium D. Which is fast enough to run a Win 7 desktop, browser, and office. It's a far cry from a serious computer, but it's all the "desktop" power they need if built into a phone that can use a Bluetooth KB/Mouse and can display on a TV.
Facts would indicate that very few people are upgrading their PCs anymore for the need of more speed. They're just replacing them when they break. When they figure out that their phone works as well as their old but trusty PC, they may decide that they don't need to buy another PC when it kicks the bucket.
"Whittling" refers to cutting a stick down to a sharp point and then repeating the action until you no longer have a stick to whittle. Sounds like business as usual.
Surf power is the "wave" of the future. I'm a big supporter of it. However, when the surf drops there's nothing to do but wait for it to pick back up... OHHH you mean SERFs. Never mind.
Found the system specs for the test PCs, I wouldn't call them High End PCs except in the sense that the price was high end. The Xeon X5550 system appears to even be underclocked 1GHz below it's normal speed of 2.66/3.06GHz.
Still, it'd take a big cluster of them to equal the performance of the V6. That's worth it right there.
"All software solver tests were carried out on a suite of seven Lenovo ThinkStation S30 0568 workstations, each containing one Intel Xeon E5-2609/2.4GHz Quad-Core processor with 16GB RAM. The operating system was Ubuntu 64-bit 12.04 LTS.
Blackbox runs on a Lenovo d20 workstation containing two Intel Xeon X5550@1.6GHz Quad-Core processors with 16GB RAM. The operating system is Fedora 15. The number of hardware samples per main loop iteration was set to k = 1000 and the stopping rule was set to 107 function evaluations.
The QA algorithm was run on a hardware chip named Vesuvius 5 (V5) that contains 439 working qubits. It is a challenging problem to nd precise, accurate, and commensurable runtime measurements for these diverse solution strategies. We adopted the following conventions. All software runtimes are Unix CPU times in units of seconds. The Matlab front end started timing immediately before solver invocation and stopped immediately upon return: thus the tasks carried out by the front end (including all I/O) are not included in our time measurements. All software tests were run on empty systems (with no competing user processes), measuring one solver on one instance, running on one core at a time. The Intel hyperthreading option (which is known to produce timing anomalies) was turned o. In addition to total CPU times, most tests produced \history" trace data, by which each solver recorded time and solution cost whenever a better solution was found."
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GG is an actual look-through heads up display? I thought it was classic instrumentation that you can look up at and powered by an ARM computer. Is looking up better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8lScHO2mM0
There is a hardware difference of course, the Recon doesn't have a $1000 webcam. Some people might consider that a plus.
My main reason for mentioning the Recon unit was to point out the extreme price of GG and their attitude of "you broke it so fuck off" compared to another android powered HUD that could be coded for and broken for one third the price.
Well, sentient Grey Goo was an 80's thing too. I don't think I got around to reading Bear's Blood Music until the 90's however.
The idea that a network of computers could form a brainlike awareness floating in "cyberspace" (on a cloud, if you prefer) was also done around the same time.
I don't like to grade scifi on the movies. I was watching Nerdist last night and they commented on the lack of modern movies that were like 2001 A Space Odyssey, right before they brought out Guillermo del Toro for his new movie about Giant Robots With A Stupid UI.
I think it's the Qinese pronounciation.
I'll give you a clue. People who venture outside and go skiing wear goggles... oh fuckit.
http://developers.reconinstruments.com/
http://www.reconinstruments.com/
The HUD is ~$500 from them. Oakley, Scott, Smith, etc... all had Recon hardware (with a markup) last year.
Full Disclosure: I didn't buy one.
They want few people who paid ~3x as much as an existing competing android product (that is really cool and works) to void their warrantee to make new stuff for them. They want to OWN this segment. It's just stupid.
I didn't say it was the right choice.
With as much hype as Google is trying to create for an existing product by another manufacturer, you'd think they'd give a little more leeway for innovation.
I'm completely OK with this, personally. However, I was taught metric in US elementary school and don't GAF about your kids. Sorry 'bout that.
I don't have kids, but if I did I'd make sure they knew metric by the time they learned a conversational language and basic algebra. So, by age 12.
Be we decided that provinciality was a smaller sacrifice than the cost of the paint.
Gas is slang and short for Gasoline, that stuff you might fill up your car with. Petrol is also slang for Gasoline but is short for Petroleum which makes it ambiguous as to whether you are speaking of Crude Oil or any other refined fuels.
Sounds like another issue of national security to me. So they could just take it away if it isn't offered.
http://i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/419/444/420/420444419_371.jpg
Well they used them all for this model.
Sounds kinda like the Adobe, Microsoft, and (coming soon) NSA campuses in Lehi. Less forest and more snowcapped mountains though.
Ditto in 1988 (IIRC). From a Florida launch. I was driving north of Atlanta though, so it looked like what could be an airburst over the city or some kind of Tunguska bang. It was definitely an Oh Shit hour and had me checking the radio news channels, which I figured would go down if there was an EMP or at least say something about it.
Apple.
Sorry, it ain't over yet.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=vampire
Search Interest generally spikes in October with the highwater mark being October 2011. However looks like May 2013 has the highest search interest in vampires for the month of May, ever and all-time interest should peak this October.
Interest in Zombies and Werewolves may have reached a plateau.
Current fastest ARM (and ATOM) CPUs are performing at about the same level as the old Pentium D. Which is fast enough to run a Win 7 desktop, browser, and office. It's a far cry from a serious computer, but it's all the "desktop" power they need if built into a phone that can use a Bluetooth KB/Mouse and can display on a TV.
Facts would indicate that very few people are upgrading their PCs anymore for the need of more speed. They're just replacing them when they break. When they figure out that their phone works as well as their old but trusty PC, they may decide that they don't need to buy another PC when it kicks the bucket.
Maybe they didn't want to lose a kidney.
"Whittling" refers to cutting a stick down to a sharp point and then repeating the action until you no longer have a stick to whittle. Sounds like business as usual.
Surf power is the "wave" of the future. I'm a big supporter of it. However, when the surf drops there's nothing to do but wait for it to pick back up... OHHH you mean SERFs. Never mind.
Found the system specs for the test PCs, I wouldn't call them High End PCs except in the sense that the price was high end. The Xeon X5550 system appears to even be underclocked 1GHz below it's normal speed of 2.66/3.06GHz.
Still, it'd take a big cluster of them to equal the performance of the V6. That's worth it right there.
http://www.cs.amherst.edu/ccm/cf14-mcgeoch.pdf
"All software solver tests were carried out on a suite of
seven Lenovo ThinkStation S30 0568 workstations, each containing
one Intel Xeon E5-2609/2.4GHz Quad-Core processor
with 16GB RAM. The operating system was Ubuntu
64-bit 12.04 LTS.
Blackbox runs on a Lenovo d20 workstation containing
two Intel Xeon X5550@1.6GHz Quad-Core processors with
16GB RAM. The operating system is Fedora 15. The number
of hardware samples per main loop iteration was set
to k = 1000 and the stopping rule was set to 107 function
evaluations.
The QA algorithm was run on a hardware chip named
Vesuvius 5 (V5) that contains 439 working qubits.
It is a challenging problem to nd precise, accurate, and
commensurable runtime measurements for these diverse solution
strategies. We adopted the following conventions.
All software runtimes are Unix CPU times in units of seconds.
The Matlab front end started timing immediately
before solver invocation and stopped immediately upon return:
thus the tasks carried out by the front end (including
all I/O) are not included in our time measurements. All software
tests were run on empty systems (with no competing
user processes), measuring one solver on one instance, running
on one core at a time. The Intel hyperthreading option
(which is known to produce timing anomalies) was turned
o. In addition to total CPU times, most tests produced
\history" trace data, by which each solver recorded time and
solution cost whenever a better solution was found."
ugg! They're. dammit.
Their still working on the Repeat/Sex Offender app that causes the handle to buzz when they get close, so it might be a while.
So which do you smoke to get high, the Yorkie? I assume there's a lower TCH concentration in the Golden Retriever.