Maybe I'm being naive here, but wouldn't this kinda fuck up the things living in that freezing water down there? Not to mention screwing around with oceam currents? I'm hoping that they have detailed environmental impact studies before undertaking any more such projects, though this would be difficult considering that we know sweet FA about the ecology of the deep sea.
Sure, it's a cat and mouse game, but without RIAA and such, true peer-to-peer networking would still be in the stoneage. Witness: KaZaa, gnutella, BT, freenet, and now the forthcoming distributed search (freenet style distributed has table) for BT.
I'm currently teaching high school kids in London, which in general is a pain in the arse, as the kids tend to be brats who have little or no respect for their teachers (or any authority). A couple of weeks ago I was chatting to a teacher also working in London, but originally from Kenya, where she taught beforehand. She was saying the difference was mainly that in developing countries, the students absolutely, truly want to learn, and at school give everything they have, knowing that education is the only way to make their life easier. But many classrooms lack, oh, boards, floors, etc...
Jump back to London, where every second classroom now has an interactive whiteboard, computers are being rolled out as fast as a media circus forming around Prince Charles, and the kids use it for... games. Fuck that: don't give developing countries $100 computers, give them the $1000 ones that are being wasted on the so called developed countries - hey they're already developed, so they shouldn't need them, right?
Depends at what current (read brightness) the LED is used at, and how long for). Using at lower current increases the life dramatically (or the flipside, using at high current dramatically lowers the life). Except that you can use and LED at high current for a very short burst without degrading its life. So you could use an AC type arrangement to increase life quite a bit, or 'underclock' the LEDs to make them live longer.
The first white LEDs were an RGB mix to produce white; now they use blue + scintillator, probably producing the blue circle. I'd imagine with better diffusion methods this could be overcome.
Anyone notice that a blue LED has a 'haze' around it when looked at from the side (i.e. not looking at where the light comes out)? This is even more pronounced in purple LEDs (which are still expensive and not ready for commercial use). Wonder if this haze has anything to do with the blue circle appearing on recordings...
Well, since almost all educational software currently in use at schools is for windows (OK, there is some mac stuf there), then Wine would certainly be useful to run these, until such a time as *nix replacements are produced.
Yes, but this is not a turkey-specific process. Consider, e.g., biomass (waste or otherwise).
All this is doing is getting greater efficiency from the existing cycles that are there. These ultimately get their energy from the sun. I still don't think, though, that waste would produce the energy used by the modern society. I was reading something somewhere that to run the world on biodiesel (admittedly not waste, but growing plants specifically for making fuel) some huge proportion of the world's crops would need to be converted to this cause. A pretty big chunk of the world's population is already somewhat hungry, but economics being the way it is, poor people would go hungrier in order to feed the West's energy needs.
No, I think the answer may have something to do with reducing energy consumption first.
I want to run linux off my portable hard-drive (large enough to hold a real system), but in any computer I choose to walk up to. So Live-CD hardware detection would be necessary, but with a real filesystem. Anyone had any success with this? (And, no, I can't be bothered rolling my own distro).
Sorry guys, but how is that counterproductive? So you last longer in the sack - that's _really_ bad and should be avoided at all costs. No, sex is something that should be over and done with as quickly as possible.
Nicotine and alcohol have taken even more lives, but we don't seem quite so precious about them. Next thing you'll be asking to stop Monty Python's jokes about the Crusades as they, too, killed thousands of people?
I can't wait for a DRM solution for this problem whereby the CCD (or subequent image processing unit) will automatically reject any shot not sufficiently illuminated. It could even automatically erase bad shots.
Then how to you explain that both radio waves (low frequency) and x-rays/gamma rays (high frequency) can pass through most solids but visible light cannot?
Maybe the high energy of high frequency waves can just ram them through most things?
Or maybe they're taking a more sensible approach than the industry standard, and actually letting people know that the products haven't been completed yet. I'd rather know something is beta than be told it is the final version only to find major bugs (windows 95 was the best example of this).
Google's approach is much more in line with the Debian policy than Microsoft's.
Certainly, ogg needs more CPU power for decoding than mp3 does, but how does it stack up against the next generation of codecs like WMA and AAC and such?
As for development costs, I'd say that the market tells us these are minimal: an increasing number of companies are shipping ogg players.
No, Apple don't support it because it would cut in on their DRM turf. FairPlay is part of Apple's overall business plan to control digital media. By supporting one of the next-gen codecs (ogg, wma, aac, et al) that did not use their DRM they would be undermining this strategy.
As I understand it, modern compressed music formats (mp3, ogg, et al) compress the data by firstly breaking it up into frames of a certain length (I ain't sure what length), then screwing aroung with a fourier transform of that chunk of the waveform. This will almost always leave a small gap at the end of each song, as the length of the song will rarely match up exactly with the frame.
You may notice in audio apps like winamp, xmms, etc that there is (or used to be - might be a standard feature by now) a plugin which removed the gap on playback - this plugin would analyse the last bit of a song, and remove any silence. Portable players are already pushing the limits of their processors, so I'm guessing the extra power needed to do this has slowed companies adding this feature (cost benefit analysis - most people don't care or don't know until they've already bought it and don't want to complain about a $400 piece of hardware to their friends)
I remember a lecturer telling us a story about when his engineering team created a controller logic system using air pressure in tubes - it was to be used in the real world in a factory, because an electrical system was not plausible due to the possibility of sparks, etc. The system worked, right up until they connected it to the air pressure system in the factory, which was too dirty, and the logic gates got jammed really quickly.
So, yes, there are practical uses for these kinds of things.
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Jesus - how many people already fell for this troll? Just coz its posted as story doesn't mean you have to take the bait people.
Maybe I'm being naive here, but wouldn't this kinda fuck up the things living in that freezing water down there? Not to mention screwing around with oceam currents? I'm hoping that they have detailed environmental impact studies before undertaking any more such projects, though this would be difficult considering that we know sweet FA about the ecology of the deep sea.
Sure, it's a cat and mouse game, but without RIAA and such, true peer-to-peer networking would still be in the stoneage. Witness: KaZaa, gnutella, BT, freenet, and now the forthcoming distributed search (freenet style distributed has table) for BT.
Thanks RIAA!
I'm currently teaching high school kids in London, which in general is a pain in the arse, as the kids tend to be brats who have little or no respect for their teachers (or any authority). A couple of weeks ago I was chatting to a teacher also working in London, but originally from Kenya, where she taught beforehand. She was saying the difference was mainly that in developing countries, the students absolutely, truly want to learn, and at school give everything they have, knowing that education is the only way to make their life easier. But many classrooms lack, oh, boards, floors, etc...
Jump back to London, where every second classroom now has an interactive whiteboard, computers are being rolled out as fast as a media circus forming around Prince Charles, and the kids use it for... games. Fuck that: don't give developing countries $100 computers, give them the $1000 ones that are being wasted on the so called developed countries - hey they're already developed, so they shouldn't need them, right?
Depends at what current (read brightness) the LED is used at, and how long for). Using at lower current increases the life dramatically (or the flipside, using at high current dramatically lowers the life). Except that you can use and LED at high current for a very short burst without degrading its life. So you could use an AC type arrangement to increase life quite a bit, or 'underclock' the LEDs to make them live longer.
The first white LEDs were an RGB mix to produce white; now they use blue + scintillator, probably producing the blue circle. I'd imagine with better diffusion methods this could be overcome.
Anyone notice that a blue LED has a 'haze' around it when looked at from the side (i.e. not looking at where the light comes out)? This is even more pronounced in purple LEDs (which are still expensive and not ready for commercial use). Wonder if this haze has anything to do with the blue circle appearing on recordings...
Why does this entire news item smell like a troll?
Then I suppose you're just going to have to pay for the software, information, and services you use then.
Well, since almost all educational software currently in use at schools is for windows (OK, there is some mac stuf there), then Wine would certainly be useful to run these, until such a time as *nix replacements are produced.
Yes, but this is not a turkey-specific process. Consider, e.g., biomass (waste or otherwise).
All this is doing is getting greater efficiency from the existing cycles that are there. These ultimately get their energy from the sun. I still don't think, though, that waste would produce the energy used by the modern society. I was reading something somewhere that to run the world on biodiesel (admittedly not waste, but growing plants specifically for making fuel) some huge proportion of the world's crops would need to be converted to this cause. A pretty big chunk of the world's population is already somewhat hungry, but economics being the way it is, poor people would go hungrier in order to feed the West's energy needs.
No, I think the answer may have something to do with reducing energy consumption first.
I want to run linux off my portable hard-drive (large enough to hold a real system), but in any computer I choose to walk up to. So Live-CD hardware detection would be necessary, but with a real filesystem. Anyone had any success with this? (And, no, I can't be bothered rolling my own distro).
Sorry guys, but how is that counterproductive? So you last longer in the sack - that's _really_ bad and should be avoided at all costs. No, sex is something that should be over and done with as quickly as possible.
Maybe they could compress the list of names with bzip2, then print the resulting hex?
Nicotine and alcohol have taken even more lives, but we don't seem quite so precious about them. Next thing you'll be asking to stop Monty Python's jokes about the Crusades as they, too, killed thousands of people?
But why would you want to run an advertising network on your computer?
So they're changing things to make it better to be less energy efficient? Makes sense to me...
I can't wait for a DRM solution for this problem whereby the CCD (or subequent image processing unit) will automatically reject any shot not sufficiently illuminated. It could even automatically erase bad shots.
A good counter-argument can be found at kuro5hin
Then how to you explain that both radio waves (low frequency) and x-rays/gamma rays (high frequency) can pass through most solids but visible light cannot?
Maybe the high energy of high frequency waves can just ram them through most things?
Or maybe they're taking a more sensible approach than the industry standard, and actually letting people know that the products haven't been completed yet. I'd rather know something is beta than be told it is the final version only to find major bugs (windows 95 was the best example of this).
Google's approach is much more in line with the Debian policy than Microsoft's.
Certainly, ogg needs more CPU power for decoding than mp3 does, but how does it stack up against the next generation of codecs like WMA and AAC and such?
As for development costs, I'd say that the market tells us these are minimal: an increasing number of companies are shipping ogg players.
No, Apple don't support it because it would cut in on their DRM turf. FairPlay is part of Apple's overall business plan to control digital media. By supporting one of the next-gen codecs (ogg, wma, aac, et al) that did not use their DRM they would be undermining this strategy.
PearPC does it for linux/X86
As I understand it, modern compressed music formats (mp3, ogg, et al) compress the data by firstly breaking it up into frames of a certain length (I ain't sure what length), then screwing aroung with a fourier transform of that chunk of the waveform. This will almost always leave a small gap at the end of each song, as the length of the song will rarely match up exactly with the frame.
You may notice in audio apps like winamp, xmms, etc that there is (or used to be - might be a standard feature by now) a plugin which removed the gap on playback - this plugin would analyse the last bit of a song, and remove any silence. Portable players are already pushing the limits of their processors, so I'm guessing the extra power needed to do this has slowed companies adding this feature (cost benefit analysis - most people don't care or don't know until they've already bought it and don't want to complain about a $400 piece of hardware to their friends)
I remember a lecturer telling us a story about when his engineering team created a controller logic system using air pressure in tubes - it was to be used in the real world in a factory, because an electrical system was not plausible due to the possibility of sparks, etc. The system worked, right up until they connected it to the air pressure system in the factory, which was too dirty, and the logic gates got jammed really quickly.
So, yes, there are practical uses for these kinds of things.