IBM just announced Lenovo is purchasing the server business, so... that correction is false at least. The Dell one is too, since Dell started in late 1984, nearly a year after the first mac shipped.
The rest check out. The MSX is of particular note, as it's the platform (MSX2) where the Metal Gear videogame franchise started. Unfortunately, most people are more familiar with the later NES port. It was a pretty terrible port with much more primitive graphics and lots of important stuff removed, like, say, the actual metal gear the game is named after.
Indeed, the protesters weren't complaining about rent, but about how the engineer "is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control, and automation", that the designer of a condo he wants to build "[have] created military installations, malls, and hospitals", that they are destroying the economy by "growing their own vegetables in a rooftop garden and selling them to other wealthy people"... They talk about how they stalk him in his morning routine and that when he descended the stairs of his home with his baby in his arms, he "appeared in this moment like the robot he admits that he is."
They also go on some insane rant about mining and that "Anthony Levandowski has never worked in a pit mine"...
These people come off as a bunch of creepy stalker nutjobs. If I was their target, I would legitimately fear for the safety of my family.
Something to do with there being a tariff exemption for "devices that enhance the operation of a computer" or something like that. I don't remember the text of the exemption.
Fortunately their multiple attempts at getting a fee for MP3 players didn't go through.
Yes and no: a 5% tariff on MP3 players is currently in place, to be effective as of 2015. Luckily the exception is pretty large; if the MP3 player can be connected to a computer, they're exempt from the tariff.
So you're telling me I can get a 100mbit upstream link with resale rights for $45/mo?
That's astounding, since as near as I can tell, getting any kind of dedicated circuit at all is over $400/mo, and any CIR is ontop of that.
You're confusing transit costs with delivery costs. I'm not sure if you can get a 100 Mbps link for $45/mth, but you definitely can get a 1000Mbps link for $450.
Transit is so cheap these days that it's almost free; it's very cheap, keeps getting cheaper, while many other costs are not getting any cheaper (electricity prices don't ever seem to go down, for example). As a result, transit seems to be making up a smaller and smaller percentage of costs.
Let's take the example of wholesale internet service in Canada. Say that you want to service 1000 customers, and that each customer uses at peak 2Mbps on average. You've got $15 for the DSL or cable line, roughly $3 for the share of the incumbent aggregation network connection, $40 for the aggregation capacity costs, and $1 for the transit. On top of this, there are obviously colocation costs, manpower, office space, etc. But let's just pretend the only costs are the actual network-related costs: you're already at $59, and the transit is less than two percent of that. Once you add in all the other costs, transit is basically inconsequential.
In the mean time, Stardock's ModernMix does exactly that (run metro apps in a regular window). Combine that with their Start8 app and Windows 8 is a perfectly comfortable experience for a Windows 7 user.
The optics set the focal distance at infinity, so everything is maximally far away. The B and C cups bring the focal plane closer, but because of the distortion, the focal plane is curved outwards. So maybe with the B lens you get the center of vision in focus but the edges are too far away (and blurred), but with the C lens you get the edges in focus but the centre is too close for your eyes to focus.
No combination of my glasses and the lenses is perfect, so I normally settle on the B lenses with my glasses on, which seems to be the best compromise, but still not a great option (outside the center is blurred).
I believe the latest prototype enlarges the lenses, which might help.
The camera framerate isn't relevant, because it's not the primary source of motion data. Their motion sensor (which updates at 1000 Hz) is used for positioning, while the camera is used to provide a reference to prevent drift. The camera could probably work at even just 30 Hz and still be fine, because the accelerometres in the rift aren't going to drive that much off course in 1/30th of a second.
Latency. The screen isn't the only latency component, and if you're trying to get under 20ms (considered to be the point below which your brain won't notice the latency) and your 60Hz display is adding 17ms of latency, that's a problem.
Besides, your eye doesn't work like a camera with a shutter. A human can see a 1ms long flash of light, for example, but can't process more than 10-12 distinct images per second, for example. And the framerate required to produce natural motionblur is way in excess of 60Hz.
I use mine with glasses (since it's too blurry without them). My normal ones don't fit in the Rift, but my previous pair (with their slightly different prescription) does. It's a very uncomfortable experience that becomes physically painful after a while. The lenses of the glasses press against the lenses of the Rift even with the Rift cranked all the way out, which means the glasses are being pushed against your face (bridge of your nose most specifically) with a great deal of force. Ouch.
All that said, my experiences with the Rift have still amazed and delighted, but I think it'll bomb if they don't improve the situation for people with myopia. I don't see any changes to Crystal Lake as compared to DK1 that would make any improvement in that regard.
If prescription Rift lenses are what it takes, fine. But if the choice is between physical pain or super blurry vision, it'll remain a gimmick.
Not really. There are designs out there for pretty darned light reactors. The soviets had some designs specifically intended for space that were pretty light, TOPAZ-2 was half a ton, and I read about a Los Alamos design that was half that. Current nuclear reactors are generally not optimized for weight. Naval reactors are optimized for size.
Also, why would you want or need to approach a nuclear reactor in space? Shielding wouldn't be light, but you don't need to fully shield the reactor. You put shielding to block radiation from going in the direction of the crew compartment, and then you put it at the end of a long boom.
The reasons for not using nuclear power in space are political, not technological.
$100, same 1.3 Gbps AC speed as the WRT. But then, there's a value in having an ultra-low power and ultra-compact router, which takes up way less space than a desktop PC...
Microsoft's new RDP client is pretty fantastic. They bought out some company that made a cross-platform RDP client: I've tried both the OS X version and the iOS version (primarily on my iPhone, but also on my iPad), and overall it's worked extremely well. Better than the Windows client, dare I say. It's also available on Android.
Two big advantages for me on the iPhone: it's very fast (and seems to support some sort of progressive image compression that leads to low latency for getting something up on screen but still high quality as it loads in higher res imagery after) and has a very nice trackpad-like control option. For that mode, you basically can use the screen of the phone as if it were a touchpad, moving around a cursor. This works far better than the usual method most RDP clients use where you just tap on the screen where you want it to click. That's super inaccurate on a phone, while the trackpad style lets you be sure of where you're clicking.
I don't want to say that there aren't other clients supporting all this stuff, just that I've tried Microsoft's new clients and they work pretty darned well.
Considering that Cogswell's previous works include a bunch of completely useless compiler benchmarks that tell you how fast the *compiler* produced the code, and now how fast the resulting code was... I don't think we should be surprised that he's produced another useless article.
When I use a compiler, I don't really care what the assembly it produces look like, I care about how it performs.
Not really. 56K modems exploited the fact that everything in a modern telephone system except the local loop (the part that connects your telephone handset to the telephone network) was digital, normally a 64 kilobit connection (a T-1 was 24x64 kilobit channels). Your end was analog, but the ISP's end was digital. The signal can survive one analog to digital conversion, but not two. If you had either a fully analog connection, or both ends were analog, you'd end up with a 33.6 kilobit connection. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that basically the 56K modem is communicating digitally, like any other digital communication over copper would.
So, basically, 56K relies on the fact that everything except the wire hooked up to your physical phone is digital. That's why the GP's statement that "it all goes digital shortly after it leaves my space anyway" doesn't make sense, because 56K modems counted on exactly that being the case...
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Because saying "died" is less polite.
Perhaps, but what is relevant is that Dell (November 1984) had not been founded when the Mac shipped (January 1984).
IBM just announced Lenovo is purchasing the server business, so... that correction is false at least. The Dell one is too, since Dell started in late 1984, nearly a year after the first mac shipped.
The rest check out. The MSX is of particular note, as it's the platform (MSX2) where the Metal Gear videogame franchise started. Unfortunately, most people are more familiar with the later NES port. It was a pretty terrible port with much more primitive graphics and lots of important stuff removed, like, say, the actual metal gear the game is named after.
Well, they did just buy an advanced military robot manufacturer...
Indeed, the protesters weren't complaining about rent, but about how the engineer "is building an unconscionable world of surveillance, control, and automation", that the designer of a condo he wants to build "[have] created military installations, malls, and hospitals", that they are destroying the economy by "growing their own vegetables in a rooftop garden and selling them to other wealthy people"... They talk about how they stalk him in his morning routine and that when he descended the stairs of his home with his baby in his arms, he "appeared in this moment like the robot he admits that he is."
They also go on some insane rant about mining and that "Anthony Levandowski has never worked in a pit mine"...
These people come off as a bunch of creepy stalker nutjobs. If I was their target, I would legitimately fear for the safety of my family.
Something to do with there being a tariff exemption for "devices that enhance the operation of a computer" or something like that. I don't remember the text of the exemption.
Fortunately their multiple attempts at getting a fee for MP3 players didn't go through.
Yes and no: a 5% tariff on MP3 players is currently in place, to be effective as of 2015. Luckily the exception is pretty large; if the MP3 player can be connected to a computer, they're exempt from the tariff.
That's not a 5TB drive, that's a 6TB drive. Nobody makes 5TB drives yet.
According to the CBSA: Yes, there is a tax on iPods. Or a tariff, more precisely.
NewEgg doesn't sell any 5TB drives, internal or external, and nobody makes them either (yet), so... no you can't?
So you're telling me I can get a 100mbit upstream link with resale rights for $45/mo?
That's astounding, since as near as I can tell, getting any kind of dedicated circuit at all is over $400/mo, and any CIR is ontop of that.
You're confusing transit costs with delivery costs. I'm not sure if you can get a 100 Mbps link for $45/mth, but you definitely can get a 1000Mbps link for $450.
Transit is so cheap these days that it's almost free; it's very cheap, keeps getting cheaper, while many other costs are not getting any cheaper (electricity prices don't ever seem to go down, for example). As a result, transit seems to be making up a smaller and smaller percentage of costs.
Let's take the example of wholesale internet service in Canada. Say that you want to service 1000 customers, and that each customer uses at peak 2Mbps on average. You've got $15 for the DSL or cable line, roughly $3 for the share of the incumbent aggregation network connection, $40 for the aggregation capacity costs, and $1 for the transit. On top of this, there are obviously colocation costs, manpower, office space, etc. But let's just pretend the only costs are the actual network-related costs: you're already at $59, and the transit is less than two percent of that. Once you add in all the other costs, transit is basically inconsequential.
In the mean time, Stardock's ModernMix does exactly that (run metro apps in a regular window). Combine that with their Start8 app and Windows 8 is a perfectly comfortable experience for a Windows 7 user.
The optics set the focal distance at infinity, so everything is maximally far away. The B and C cups bring the focal plane closer, but because of the distortion, the focal plane is curved outwards. So maybe with the B lens you get the center of vision in focus but the edges are too far away (and blurred), but with the C lens you get the edges in focus but the centre is too close for your eyes to focus.
No combination of my glasses and the lenses is perfect, so I normally settle on the B lenses with my glasses on, which seems to be the best compromise, but still not a great option (outside the center is blurred).
I believe the latest prototype enlarges the lenses, which might help.
The camera is just to prevent drift, it doesn't need to be very fast. The accelerometres provide the raw motion data, and they're sampled at 1000 Hz.
The camera framerate isn't relevant, because it's not the primary source of motion data. Their motion sensor (which updates at 1000 Hz) is used for positioning, while the camera is used to provide a reference to prevent drift. The camera could probably work at even just 30 Hz and still be fine, because the accelerometres in the rift aren't going to drive that much off course in 1/30th of a second.
Latency. The screen isn't the only latency component, and if you're trying to get under 20ms (considered to be the point below which your brain won't notice the latency) and your 60Hz display is adding 17ms of latency, that's a problem.
Besides, your eye doesn't work like a camera with a shutter. A human can see a 1ms long flash of light, for example, but can't process more than 10-12 distinct images per second, for example. And the framerate required to produce natural motionblur is way in excess of 60Hz.
I use mine with glasses (since it's too blurry without them). My normal ones don't fit in the Rift, but my previous pair (with their slightly different prescription) does. It's a very uncomfortable experience that becomes physically painful after a while. The lenses of the glasses press against the lenses of the Rift even with the Rift cranked all the way out, which means the glasses are being pushed against your face (bridge of your nose most specifically) with a great deal of force. Ouch.
All that said, my experiences with the Rift have still amazed and delighted, but I think it'll bomb if they don't improve the situation for people with myopia. I don't see any changes to Crystal Lake as compared to DK1 that would make any improvement in that regard.
If prescription Rift lenses are what it takes, fine. But if the choice is between physical pain or super blurry vision, it'll remain a gimmick.
Not really. There are designs out there for pretty darned light reactors. The soviets had some designs specifically intended for space that were pretty light, TOPAZ-2 was half a ton, and I read about a Los Alamos design that was half that. Current nuclear reactors are generally not optimized for weight. Naval reactors are optimized for size.
Also, why would you want or need to approach a nuclear reactor in space? Shielding wouldn't be light, but you don't need to fully shield the reactor. You put shielding to block radiation from going in the direction of the crew compartment, and then you put it at the end of a long boom.
The reasons for not using nuclear power in space are political, not technological.
Since it's still a 3 stream device, it's not clear if a 4x4 setup offers much improvement.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320173
$100, same 1.3 Gbps AC speed as the WRT. But then, there's a value in having an ultra-low power and ultra-compact router, which takes up way less space than a desktop PC...
They fixed that; the icon is gone, and pinch to zoom is now used as expected.
XPRA is completely incapable of replacing RDP, seeing as how it doesn't support Windows hosts.
Microsoft's new RDP client is pretty fantastic. They bought out some company that made a cross-platform RDP client: I've tried both the OS X version and the iOS version (primarily on my iPhone, but also on my iPad), and overall it's worked extremely well. Better than the Windows client, dare I say. It's also available on Android.
Two big advantages for me on the iPhone: it's very fast (and seems to support some sort of progressive image compression that leads to low latency for getting something up on screen but still high quality as it loads in higher res imagery after) and has a very nice trackpad-like control option. For that mode, you basically can use the screen of the phone as if it were a touchpad, moving around a cursor. This works far better than the usual method most RDP clients use where you just tap on the screen where you want it to click. That's super inaccurate on a phone, while the trackpad style lets you be sure of where you're clicking.
I don't want to say that there aren't other clients supporting all this stuff, just that I've tried Microsoft's new clients and they work pretty darned well.
Considering that Cogswell's previous works include a bunch of completely useless compiler benchmarks that tell you how fast the *compiler* produced the code, and now how fast the resulting code was... I don't think we should be surprised that he's produced another useless article.
When I use a compiler, I don't really care what the assembly it produces look like, I care about how it performs.
Not really. 56K modems exploited the fact that everything in a modern telephone system except the local loop (the part that connects your telephone handset to the telephone network) was digital, normally a 64 kilobit connection (a T-1 was 24x64 kilobit channels). Your end was analog, but the ISP's end was digital. The signal can survive one analog to digital conversion, but not two. If you had either a fully analog connection, or both ends were analog, you'd end up with a 33.6 kilobit connection. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that basically the 56K modem is communicating digitally, like any other digital communication over copper would.
So, basically, 56K relies on the fact that everything except the wire hooked up to your physical phone is digital. That's why the GP's statement that "it all goes digital shortly after it leaves my space anyway" doesn't make sense, because 56K modems counted on exactly that being the case...