Actually, my experience is exactly opposite. I recently purchased a new DVD player. I was trying to make sure I bought the one with the best progressive scan technology. My fiance insisted on buying the one that "looked coolest."
I don't mean to be rude, but I think you should RTFA. HD-DVD disks hold 30 GB on one side (dual layer). Let's look at th numbers, shall we?
A 1080i HDTV broadcast requires the largest bandwidth of all the HDTV standards. A standard 1080i broadcast is 18.8 Mbps (here is one source). This equates to 2.35 MB/s or 0.00235 GB/s (roughly).
An HD-DVD disc holds 30 GB. That means that an HD-DVD disc can hold (30 / 0.00325) seconds of 1080i video.
That turns out to be about 212 minutes. Skim off some overhead for menus and stuff and we're still talking about over 3 hours. Most movies will easily fit on an HD-DVD, and that's at the highest possible datarate. If they are stored on the disc as 720p (which would make sense since movies are progressive), then you get almost 4 hours. (720p is 16.9 Mbps)
Well, considering that a hard drive is basically a permanent, slow form of memory, I would expect it to measure bytes correctly.
I think you are confusing the issue a bit. Gigabit ethernet is described correctly, gigaBIT. Same thing with GHz; Hz can be desribed in base 10, there is no reason to treat them any other way. However, hard drives are measured in BYTES. A BYTE is always 2^3 BITS. This means that anything claiming to be 1 teraBYTE damn well better use base 2 if you ask me.
By comparison, Phobos would appear to be about 900 arcseconds from the surface of Mars. Deimos would be about 200 arcseconds.
So actually Phobos would appear to be about half the diameter of our moon and Deimos would appear to be about 1/9 the diameter. I suppose that's not terribly small, but you also need to recognize that far less light will be hitting them and then reflecting off. Phobos would be much dimmer than our moon, and Deimos is dark in color, so it may not be easy to see even with the naked eye.
I imagine capturing an image of the moons with the camera on board a rover would be difficult.
Apple gains an enormous amount from this- they will further solidify their proprietary audio codec as the standard for internet music distribution. We can be sure that HP won't be the only licensee. Apple has done this exactly right- create the most seamless integration in the industry, then graciously allow what would otherwise be their competition to join the party...
I don't mean to be rude, but you're wrong. AAC is a Dolby codec that Apple happens to be using. As many others have pointed out, this is about increasing iPod sales.
I can't believe this was even posted! All one needs to do it click on the "More Offbeat News" link at the top of that page to see that CNN has a section of Onion-like articles. Seriously....
If Sony wants to kill the Xbox they will have to bring out a version of the PS2 which comes with the hard drive and ethernet interface, which can both run linux and play games on the internet, and which costs no more than the Xbox.
First off, as someone else pointed out: Linux doesn't sell a console, games do.
But this entire argument is crap. The PS2 *does* come with a network adaptor now. There is a Linux kit for the PS2 (http://playstation2-linux.com/). The Linux kit comes with a hard drive, but even without that you can buy one in March. The fact is, most users don't need a hard drive anyway.
Furthermore, how much does XBox Live! cost? How much am I paying to play my PS2 online? I'm sorry, but if the PS2 were to become $99, it would KILL X-Box.
This is simply not true. While it may not have OpenGL support (I'm not sure on this), it is NOT DX9 only. Valve has confirmed that the game will run on hardware that supports at least DX6.
According to Valve, the game will run fine for users with as little as 700 Mhz and a video card capable of running DX6. The Source engine automatically scales down to meet the specs of the PC it's running on.
My only hope is that the user can override the settings that it picks automatically, I'm one of those crazy people that would rather have 30 fps with good image quality than 60 fps with average image quality.
...and it's *not* meant as an "open letter to the open source community." This letter was written as a PR move, plain and simple. It's riddled with half-truths and full-on lies. McBride knew damn well that the open source community would be able to debunk almost everything he says, but he also know that the media wouldn't. Mr. Reporter reading this letter will simply take everything in it as fact and report it, which is exactly what SCO wants. After all, why would this letter contain lies? So far the media has barely touched SCO's opposition, but take a look at the list of headlines that simply discuss SCO's claims.
Last week someone made a comment that noted that SCO releases something like this right before some of the executives stock is scheduled to sell. The comment closed with something along the lines of "look for more FUD on Monday." Hmmm... is Tuesday close enough?
The only bit about the blurb posted here on/. that I don't understand is that they guy says that PSX emulation is done in software. That sounds wrong to me, since I thought that it was just using the PS2 input processor, which happens to be the same as the main chip in the PSX, as a PSX. Add in the PSX BIOS and perhaps some tiny software bits here and there, but still isn't it mostly hardware?
If memory serves, PSX emulation is done mostly on the PS1 chip included, but some aspects (mostly graphics) are handled via software emulation. But I could be wrong.
I'm not concerned about that feature. Steam is an option, it can be turned off. But even so, I trust Valve not to do anything that I don't want. Valve has always done right by me, and I don't expect that to change.
I seriously doubt this article is authentic, as someone else pointed out. I'm surprised no one else has posted the whois info yet.
Domain Name: NERDSAHOY.COM
Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS0.WASABIDNS.COM
Name Server: NS1.WASABIDNS.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 24-may-2003
Creation Date: 24-may-2002
Expiration Date: 24-may-2004
Notice the creation date. The main page of Nerdsahoy.com claims it's been up since 1999. Netcraft has no history on the site, nor does the Wayback machine.
nerdsahoy.com claims that all of it's previous news was accidentally deleted... a likely story indeed.
It sounds to me like McBride's plan is to milk money out of the lawsuit(s) involving Linux and use those funds to pay for this work. Making statements like this implies that he has absolutely no doubts that his plans will work. I for one don't think he's lying, I think he *honestly* believes everything that he says.
This be Slashdot, no one here cares about the type of partying that the Princeton Review ranked CU #1 in. The Princeton Review looked at pot smoking, alcohol drinking, and the lowest amount of studying done. The Slashdot crowd enjoys parties that involve a LAN.
As a side note: I am a senior at CU, and the whole party thing seems to be only enjoyed by underclassmen. The only time I ever hear other students discuss the "party last night" is when I'm fulfilling one of my core requirements and I'm stuck in a room with 200 underclassmen that are doing the same. Then again, all my other classes are CS related... one wouldn't expect that sort of behavior from a bunch of geeks.
As I understand it, current big bang theory does say "a really dense ball of matter exploded." If that was the case, then your argument about the Chandra limit would make (some) sense.
However (someone correct me if I'm wrong), currently the big bang theory is closer to "the three dimensions we live in suddenly became much larger." Think of it this way: Say you have a few small magnets. When you place them close together they will all collect in one big mass. This is similar to what matter will do under the force of gravity. Now place those magnets on a rubber sheet, close enough so that they will attract. Hold them in place so they don't move (think of this as a frozen moment in time). Now let the magnets go but suddenly stretch the sheet in all directions. Despite them being close enough initially to attract, the sudden stretch in their "space" will separate them enough to prevent the attraction. However, each one remains stationary relative to their location in "space" since "space" itself is expanding.
Does that make any sense? Basically, the matter wasn't propelled outward by some force. Instead, space itself expanded (and still is? Maybe?)
Of course, I'm no physicist. But I wrote a paper on M-Theory in my black holes class last year.:) Anyone care to set me straight?
Not that I'm against being modded up, but was my comment seriously worthy of a +4 Informative? I didn't really give any information that wasn't already presented....
Oh well.... maybe someone can counter-balance that with a mod of Offtopic to this post?
Despite comments made by others saying that it took too long to patch these holes, I am actually glad they weren't putting resources into this. The entire HL team is probably working really hard on HL2, and I want it to stay that way. If letting HL die is the price we must pay to get HL2 out the door on Sept. 30 (in recent proximity to my birthday), then so be it.
For the record: I still play HL and CounterStrike online. And I use Wine to do it. Do I care that there isn't a Linux client? NOPE! Why? See above.
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Actually, my experience is exactly opposite. I recently purchased a new DVD player. I was trying to make sure I bought the one with the best progressive scan technology. My fiance insisted on buying the one that "looked coolest."
I don't mean to be rude, but I think you should RTFA. HD-DVD disks hold 30 GB on one side (dual layer). Let's look at th numbers, shall we?
A 1080i HDTV broadcast requires the largest bandwidth of all the HDTV standards. A standard 1080i broadcast is 18.8 Mbps (here is one source). This equates to 2.35 MB/s or 0.00235 GB/s (roughly).
An HD-DVD disc holds 30 GB. That means that an HD-DVD disc can hold (30 / 0.00325) seconds of 1080i video.
That turns out to be about 212 minutes. Skim off some overhead for menus and stuff and we're still talking about over 3 hours. Most movies will easily fit on an HD-DVD, and that's at the highest possible datarate. If they are stored on the disc as 720p (which would make sense since movies are progressive), then you get almost 4 hours. (720p is 16.9 Mbps)
Well, considering that a hard drive is basically a permanent, slow form of memory, I would expect it to measure bytes correctly.
I think you are confusing the issue a bit. Gigabit ethernet is described correctly, gigaBIT. Same thing with GHz; Hz can be desribed in base 10, there is no reason to treat them any other way. However, hard drives are measured in BYTES. A BYTE is always 2^3 BITS. This means that anything claiming to be 1 teraBYTE damn well better use base 2 if you ask me.
Since I'm on a roll:
On the surface of Mars, Deimos would appears the be the size of a tennis ball viewed from 59 meters. Or 64 yards.
For futher comparison, when it is closest (as is was recently), Mars itself appears to be about 18 arcseconds in diameter when viewed from Earth.
Possibly because they aren't actually visible from the surface. They are pretty dang small.
For geek's sake:
Our moon has an apparent size in the sky of about 1800 arcseconds. This is found by arctan(radius of the moon/distance to the moon) * 2.
By comparison, Phobos would appear to be about 900 arcseconds from the surface of Mars. Deimos would be about 200 arcseconds.
So actually Phobos would appear to be about half the diameter of our moon and Deimos would appear to be about 1/9 the diameter. I suppose that's not terribly small, but you also need to recognize that far less light will be hitting them and then reflecting off. Phobos would be much dimmer than our moon, and Deimos is dark in color, so it may not be easy to see even with the naked eye.
I imagine capturing an image of the moons with the camera on board a rover would be difficult.
AAC info here and here.
Wow, my mistake. Those articles just look so ridiculous that it's hard to believe they are true.
I can't believe this was even posted! All one needs to do it click on the "More Offbeat News" link at the top of that page to see that CNN has a section of Onion-like articles. Seriously....
But this entire argument is crap. The PS2 *does* come with a network adaptor now. There is a Linux kit for the PS2 (http://playstation2-linux.com/). The Linux kit comes with a hard drive, but even without that you can buy one in March. The fact is, most users don't need a hard drive anyway.
Furthermore, how much does XBox Live! cost? How much am I paying to play my PS2 online? I'm sorry, but if the PS2 were to become $99, it would KILL X-Box.
Normally I don't like to point this out.... but RTFA. GameSpy flat out admits that they unjustly contributed to the hype.
This is simply not true. While it may not have OpenGL support (I'm not sure on this), it is NOT DX9 only. Valve has confirmed that the game will run on hardware that supports at least DX6.
Yes, they are.
According to Valve, the game will run fine for users with as little as 700 Mhz and a video card capable of running DX6. The Source engine automatically scales down to meet the specs of the PC it's running on.
My only hope is that the user can override the settings that it picks automatically, I'm one of those crazy people that would rather have 30 fps with good image quality than 60 fps with average image quality.
...and it's *not* meant as an "open letter to the open source community." This letter was written as a PR move, plain and simple. It's riddled with half-truths and full-on lies. McBride knew damn well that the open source community would be able to debunk almost everything he says, but he also know that the media wouldn't. Mr. Reporter reading this letter will simply take everything in it as fact and report it, which is exactly what SCO wants. After all, why would this letter contain lies? So far the media has barely touched SCO's opposition, but take a look at the list of headlines that simply discuss SCO's claims.
Last week someone made a comment that noted that SCO releases something like this right before some of the executives stock is scheduled to sell. The comment closed with something along the lines of "look for more FUD on Monday." Hmmm... is Tuesday close enough?
I seriously doubt this article is authentic, as someone else pointed out. I'm surprised no one else has posted the whois info yet.
Domain Name: NERDSAHOY.COM
Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS0.WASABIDNS.COM
Name Server: NS1.WASABIDNS.COM
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 24-may-2003
Creation Date: 24-may-2002
Expiration Date: 24-may-2004
Notice the creation date. The main page of Nerdsahoy.com claims it's been up since 1999. Netcraft has no history on the site, nor does the Wayback machine.
nerdsahoy.com claims that all of it's previous news was accidentally deleted... a likely story indeed.
It sounds to me like McBride's plan is to milk money out of the lawsuit(s) involving Linux and use those funds to pay for this work. Making statements like this implies that he has absolutely no doubts that his plans will work. I for one don't think he's lying, I think he *honestly* believes everything that he says.
This be Slashdot, no one here cares about the type of partying that the Princeton Review ranked CU #1 in. The Princeton Review looked at pot smoking, alcohol drinking, and the lowest amount of studying done. The Slashdot crowd enjoys parties that involve a LAN.
As a side note: I am a senior at CU, and the whole party thing seems to be only enjoyed by underclassmen. The only time I ever hear other students discuss the "party last night" is when I'm fulfilling one of my core requirements and I'm stuck in a room with 200 underclassmen that are doing the same. Then again, all my other classes are CS related... one wouldn't expect that sort of behavior from a bunch of geeks.
Dude, this is Slashdot... do you really need to explain what i is?
Oops! That first line is supposed to say "current big bang theory doesn't say".
As I understand it, current big bang theory does say "a really dense ball of matter exploded." If that was the case, then your argument about the Chandra limit would make (some) sense.
:) Anyone care to set me straight?
However (someone correct me if I'm wrong), currently the big bang theory is closer to "the three dimensions we live in suddenly became much larger." Think of it this way: Say you have a few small magnets. When you place them close together they will all collect in one big mass. This is similar to what matter will do under the force of gravity. Now place those magnets on a rubber sheet, close enough so that they will attract. Hold them in place so they don't move (think of this as a frozen moment in time). Now let the magnets go but suddenly stretch the sheet in all directions. Despite them being close enough initially to attract, the sudden stretch in their "space" will separate them enough to prevent the attraction. However, each one remains stationary relative to their location in "space" since "space" itself is expanding.
Does that make any sense? Basically, the matter wasn't propelled outward by some force. Instead, space itself expanded (and still is? Maybe?)
Of course, I'm no physicist. But I wrote a paper on M-Theory in my black holes class last year.
Not that I'm against being modded up, but was my comment seriously worthy of a +4 Informative? I didn't really give any information that wasn't already presented....
Oh well.... maybe someone can counter-balance that with a mod of Offtopic to this post?
Despite comments made by others saying that it took too long to patch these holes, I am actually glad they weren't putting resources into this. The entire HL team is probably working really hard on HL2, and I want it to stay that way. If letting HL die is the price we must pay to get HL2 out the door on Sept. 30 (in recent proximity to my birthday), then so be it.
For the record: I still play HL and CounterStrike online. And I use Wine to do it. Do I care that there isn't a Linux client? NOPE! Why? See above.
Did you not read the submitter's comments? The code there is the original source of those packages, not the modified code Linksys uses.