This is backbone technology. It is used to carry lots of users' data simultaneously over a single fiber. What this means is that telecoms will be able to support more users with fewer fibers. The speed of end-users' hard drives is mostly irrelevant.
a truck can move more data 100 miles faster than the new link
Until you consider loading/unloading time and writing/reading the DVDs, which would add days of latency. I'm assuming that this fiber line has vritually no latency.
350 GHz is actually 350,000,000,000 Hz. It's not 350 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 Hz like we would convert gigabytes to bytes. Therefore, the actual max distance between cycles is 1.167mm, which is even worse. In reality, the physical clock domains in a chip can be smaller than the entire chip itself, since electrons only need to flow between stages of the pipeline, and not the entire breadth of the chip (hopefully).
Plus, Trolltech releasing Qt under the GPL is almost exactly the same as any software company using a "free for personal use" license. I imagine that most (maybe all?) commercial software houses that use Qt, use the commercial license (mine does), instead of the GPL. For whatever reason (ignorance or otherwise), companies seem to shy away from the GPL when there's money involved.
No, you're mistaken. The summary says it accurately: "Trolltech, the company whose founders created KDE" (emphasis mine). Guess who Matthias Ettrich works for?
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You're probably right. Hope you didn't take my comment as an attack on him.
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By the way, the author, Bruce Tate, is not a programmer. By his own admission, his qualifications are based on experience "reading code" and hiring developers. I listened to him speak at a conference, and I was underwhelmed with his presentation's technical content.
They could write everything in assembler and just use the kernel calls.
You mean to say that you believe distributions like Fedora write all the applications they include? In most cases, they don't (except for things like the redhat-config-* family of apps). Linux distributors don't have a choice about including libc unless they want to rewrite ls and every other application written in C. Take ls for example:
I think you have globbed together shrink-wrapped software and custom development projects. For open source work, the latter lends itself to making developers money. The former does not. I've worked on both sides.
After watching these videos, I must disagree that Gorm is going to cause "the obsolesence of the GNOME and KDE projects". Gorm is about where Qt Designer was 3 years ago.
I've used several different iris recognition devices, and the best devices took about 1 second. The worst devices required two snapshots and took about 6 seconds depending on how still the subject could be. Sometimes they failed to capture at all, and the user had to resort to prying his/her eyelids open with their fingers while the machine tried to find the iris.
No matter what kind of hardware you use, the size of the database can still cause slowdowns, but this is where iris excells when compared to fingerprint. The "iris code" generated by the device can be as small as 512 bytes to get a positive ID. The problem is by nature linear, so it helps to have a badge scanner accompanying the iris scanner as well.
Frankly, I'm quite excited about this development. For the last several years, iris biometric vendors had to pay big royalties to Iridian to license their algorithms. Now that *some* of their patents are expiring, that burden will be alleviated, and there will actually be a way to differentiate among vendors. For the past few years, no matter what vendor one chose, the software algorithms were all the same.
I was going to mod you up so we could see a healthy discussion on this topic, but I'll reply instead.
They started out friendly, but now Ubuntu is distancing itself more and more from Debian
I have to respectfully disagree. I run Ubuntu on my laptop, and I have switched the/etc/apt/sources.list to use the Debian unstable sources. The two distros are binary compatible (meaning I can use Debian.deb files on Ubuntu), and it works great. I get the eye-candy of Ubuntu (a pretty good default setup) with the new packages of Debian unstable. I for one like the setup.
Not to start a flame-war, since I've heard lots of good things about wxWidgets, but just look at this code:
wxWidgets:
str.Trim().Trim(false);
Qt:
str = str.stripWhiteSpace();
Notice that Qt manages to do it in a sane fashion, with a single, readable method call. wxWidgets requires two calls, one with a boolean parameter?
This leads me to number 10: Sane and readable APIs.
If you're wondering what a voxel is, webopedia has a pretty good definition.
Basically, it's a "volume pixel", which apparently is a box with height, width, and depth, and it has to do with how fine images appear. The more voxels in the image, the smoother it'll appear. So a pixel is to a 2D image what a voxel is to a 3D image. Wikipedia.
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Here's the chrome adblock extension that I use. Works great for me. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom?hl=en
Chrome does have adblocking now. Does it not work for you?
This is backbone technology. It is used to carry lots of users' data simultaneously over a single fiber. What this means is that telecoms will be able to support more users with fewer fibers. The speed of end-users' hard drives is mostly irrelevant.
a truck can move more data 100 miles faster than the new link
Until you consider loading/unloading time and writing/reading the DVDs, which would add days of latency. I'm assuming that this fiber line has vritually no latency.
350 GHz is actually 350,000,000,000 Hz. It's not 350 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 Hz like we would convert gigabytes to bytes. Therefore, the actual max distance between cycles is 1.167mm, which is even worse. In reality, the physical clock domains in a chip can be smaller than the entire chip itself, since electrons only need to flow between stages of the pipeline, and not the entire breadth of the chip (hopefully).
Plus, Trolltech releasing Qt under the GPL is almost exactly the same as any software company using a "free for personal use" license. I imagine that most (maybe all?) commercial software houses that use Qt, use the commercial license (mine does), instead of the GPL. For whatever reason (ignorance or otherwise), companies seem to shy away from the GPL when there's money involved.
No, you're mistaken. The summary says it accurately: "Trolltech, the company whose founders created KDE" (emphasis mine). Guess who Matthias Ettrich works for?
You're probably right. Hope you didn't take my comment as an attack on him.
By the way, the author, Bruce Tate, is not a programmer. By his own admission, his qualifications are based on experience "reading code" and hiring developers. I listened to him speak at a conference, and I was underwhelmed with his presentation's technical content.
"We found that you can go down to 70 degrees and people will not complain," Braun said. "In fact, they won't even notice."
A setting of 70 degrees is about 4 degrees cooler than the normal setting for that time of day.
"Then, when the critical peak pricing period starts in the afternoon, you start adjusting that temperature upwards, going as high as 78,"
Emphasis mine.
http://macworld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/mw/index.h tml
They could write everything in assembler and just use the kernel calls.
/lib/libacl.so.1 (0xb75d4000) /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0xb75d0000) /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7499000) /lib/libattr.so.1 (0xb7496000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb75eb000)
You mean to say that you believe distributions like Fedora write all the applications they include? In most cases, they don't (except for things like the redhat-config-* family of apps). Linux distributors don't have a choice about including libc unless they want to rewrite ls and every other application written in C. Take ls for example:
$ ldd `which ls`
libacl.so.1 =>
libtermcap.so.2 =>
libc.so.6 =>
libattr.so.1 =>
Oh, and next time you compile a program in C, try statically linking libc into it.
Distributions depend on libc because they have to.
Distributions depend on Python because they want to.
Proof by analogy is logical fallacy.
I like Python too, but with Perl, Python, and all the shells that distros come with these days, it's no wonder Fedora comes on 4 CDs.
I think you have globbed together shrink-wrapped software and custom development projects. For open source work, the latter lends itself to making developers money. The former does not. I've worked on both sides.
After watching these videos, I must disagree that Gorm is going to cause "the obsolesence of the GNOME and KDE projects". Gorm is about where Qt Designer was 3 years ago.
But with the proper gcc flags, it will issue a warning.
I like the new look of Nautilus in browser mode:
t ilus-browse.png
a ges/column-view-big.gif
http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-12/images/nau
But what about a column view like the OS X Finder has?
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/4q00/macosx-pb1/im
Two words: Spatial Nautilus.
I've used several different iris recognition devices, and the best devices took about 1 second. The worst devices required two snapshots and took about 6 seconds depending on how still the subject could be. Sometimes they failed to capture at all, and the user had to resort to prying his/her eyelids open with their fingers while the machine tried to find the iris.
No matter what kind of hardware you use, the size of the database can still cause slowdowns, but this is where iris excells when compared to fingerprint. The "iris code" generated by the device can be as small as 512 bytes to get a positive ID. The problem is by nature linear, so it helps to have a badge scanner accompanying the iris scanner as well.
Frankly, I'm quite excited about this development. For the last several years, iris biometric vendors had to pay big royalties to Iridian to license their algorithms. Now that *some* of their patents are expiring, that burden will be alleviated, and there will actually be a way to differentiate among vendors. For the past few years, no matter what vendor one chose, the software algorithms were all the same.
If you're wondering why he named his previous project Behemoth:
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Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine... Only Too Heavy
Source: http://microship.com/resources/winnebiko-behemoth
Picture of the Behemoth: http://microship.com/resources/resourcepix/behemo
I was going to mod you up so we could see a healthy discussion on this topic, but I'll reply instead.
I have to respectfully disagree. I run Ubuntu on my laptop, and I have switched the
wxWidgets: Qt: Notice that Qt manages to do it in a sane fashion, with a single, readable method call. wxWidgets requires two calls, one with a boolean parameter? This leads me to number 10: Sane and readable APIs.
Excellent comments. May I add another few:
7. All versions (commercial included) come with source. This proves very handy when sub-classing widgets.
8. Qt has the only C++ string class worth using, QString. Who couldn't love
str = str.stripWhiteSpace();
9. Regex support!
Also, it's Qt, not QT.
If you're wondering what a voxel is, webopedia has a pretty good definition.
Basically, it's a "volume pixel", which apparently is a box with height, width, and depth, and it has to do with how fine images appear. The more voxels in the image, the smoother it'll appear. So a pixel is to a 2D image what a voxel is to a 3D image. Wikipedia .
The fact that ... you can accomplish day-to-day tasks without too many hassles is an advantage
That does not sound like much of an advantage.