Even if your theory is correct, the device doing the mixing from multiple channels to stereo will need to know the layout of your room, how much your walls reflect sound, how tall you are etc. (plus tracking your movement in real time if you don't sit still), in order to produce the same effect to you as a multichannel setup does. A pre-mixed stereo track will not do any of that.
He mixed up 2 different cases. One is the one you described, and the other is the 'cat' person using a "remote control virus" to taunt the police and got them to arrest the wrong person (whose PC is infected and used to send email remotely). He got caught and confessed eventually I think.
The hardware having the wrong range is probably pretty hard to avoid due to variance between terminals and problems keeping them all tuned over their lifetime.
However, the NFC reader shouldn't be active until the customer told the cashier he/she will be using a contactless card for payment and the cashier enabling the reader.
It wouldn't prevent reading the wrong card if the customer has several NFC cards, but it would at least prevent the kind of surprises shown in the article.
Reminds me of Microsoft Plus! and Windows Ultimate Extras, stuff that either adds little value to the product or is included in the next retail version of it.
I hate flash as much as everyone, but I think the blame is misplaced wrt the Firefox situation.
On my system Firefox only locks up when I close a tab containing flash, never when flash is running. I have not had flash content crash in mid-run, let alone it bringing down the browser.
Sure, killing plugin-container.exe unlocks the browser, but it is an ugly hack at the most and not a fix.
Firefox devs have been plugging their ears and closing their eyes every time someone mentions this problem. They cannot expect users to believe it is the users' setup (or drivers, or plugins) that is the fault in every case when there are so many reports in the wild.
It also doesn't explain why other browsers have no such problem, nor why FF 3.6 did not have it (without resorting to lame excuses like "the flash version is different") either.
There are bad sectors on your brand new drive. You can count on it. You have to make the drive find them and map around them because it won't happen in the factory.
In the MFM/RLL days, SCSI disks were tested in the factory and came with a list of known bad C/H/S locations, and also keeps a list for bad sectors developed afterwards. I forgot whether the controller board had to skip those sectors during LBA translation or the OS had to not use them.
When IDE drives came out, the 'factory list' suddenly disappeared, and all drives seemingly came with 0 bad sectors out of the factory, but it was understood that the list was just hidden. They also introduced reserved sectors used to replace bad sectors developed afterwards so the user/OS always can always see/use the same capacity as long as the reserved area is not used up.
I believe this is still the case (test in the factory and hiding the list) as 2 new drives of the same model / batch can perform differently when tested, and sometimes there are consistent speed dips in the performance graph where you can tell something is going on.
That said, drives nowadays are more reliable, and I've not encountered a drive that develop bad sectors during the initial fill with random data, which I always do when I buy a new drive. I would not trust any brand-new drive which does it and for old drives that develops bad sectors I'll not use for anything important, even though the drive can reallocate them and might still run for years onwards.
Please work on something that will be actually useful, like those below. These are hard to do but it looks really bad when Mozilla ignore these for nearly 10 years to work on eye candy.
The translation above came from slashdot.jp comments posted right after the quake, before people realized the extent of the problem of the nuclear reactors, so people outside of the area hit directly were fairly positive that life would be back to normal soon.
The real picture only started to come out these few days, you can't blame the editors.
I bought a 4670 for an XP machine after an nvidia 6600gt card in it failed after a few years of use. It would bluescreen immediately whenever I bring up the TV viewing application that came with a TV card that I also had in the system.
I had to try multiple drivers, going back a few versions until I could find one that didn't bluescreen and ran relatively stable. But it still did little things wrongly sometimes that gets annoying. e.g. I ran 2 monitors with different resolutions on it and it insists on re-detecting them every time when waking up from sleep. But it got it wrong and swapped the resolutions once in a while!
The 6600gt never did any of those things. I did clean out the old drivers (including nvidia's) and reinstalled the drivers numerous times to isolate the bluescreen down to particular driver versions so it was not the old drivers messing the system up. So yes, I did have some negative feeling towards ATI's driver quality.
That said, I have a hd5870 in my current Win7 system that runs fine for the most part... Though I'd not say 100% perfect. e.g. h.264 video would glitch once in a while if I turn on hardware decoding acceleration (not always in the same spot and not if I go back and played the same scene so it is not the file nor the player), and sometimes a few scan lines are corrupted after waking up from sleep. I ran RAM test for the system and on the video card and they came up fine, so I'm not sure whether it is hardware or the drivers.
The 5870's performance is quite good and the glitches don't happen often enough to get in the way, at least not when I'm playing games, so I've been mostly satisfied with it, but I wouldn't rule out switching back to nvidia for my next upgrade if they come up with something fast, less heat and has a good bang-for-the-buck.
While the largest telco (NTT) is indeed the owner of the ISP (OCN) in question, but OCN is only a large ISP and do not have a monopoly in the market. Broadband service in Japan is mostly unbundled so you can get the physical line from NTT and internet service from a large number of ISPs, so the impact is limited at the moment.
What is actually important is that most ISPs have already started to experiment with traffic control, but they don't tell you what their policies are (e.g. what limit they use, what traffic they block and what happens if you reach the limit). OCN is one of the first to come out with an explicitly stated cap.
Losing AV really isn't that big a deal to them in the bigger picture, I'm sure they won't let it go without a fight though. It is still quite the cash cow.
Quite the cash cow is an understatement. Every Windows machine I've seen have some form of antivirus on it, esp. since XPSP2. I think some people just install antivirus to shut that security center tray thing up. (yeah I know you can disable that) Most of them use Symantec/Norton.
Let's say only half of new Windows PCs install antivirus (an underestimate) and half of them use Symantec/Norton (an underestimate too, I'd think), that's $40 from 1/4 of every Windows PC sold, just for the 1st year of those PCs' lifetime.
It is consistently the best-selling software in computer stores, and just thinking of the profit it generates from the continued subscription (which may be only part of the market but with a huge margin) should make any executive cream his pants. I agree they wouldn't let it go without a fight.
If you are looking at Gigabit Ethernet products, consider the I-O Data UHDL-G400U. It supports larger jumbo frames (the Buffalo can do only up to 7k I believe), has a faster CPU which leads to much faster transfers. It has been available in Japan for a while. Their usa web site list the product, but their web shop is not selling it yet it seems.
When I saw your post I almost thought you worked for Supermicro, because they have something that sounds exactly like what you said. I'm not sure if it requires SAS on the host side, though.
The 'white paper written by Samsung' mentioned in the submission is titled 'Context Switching and IPC Performance Comparison between uClinux and Linux on the ARM9 based Processor'. So it is indeed uClinux.
My impression from the Japanese press releases is that you can only read DRM'd content on this device. This seriously lowers its attractiveness as a product. I can't, for example, put that long HOWTO onto it for reading at leisure.
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Not disagreeing, but Steam sell old games and I do wonder what happens if some games themselves happen to not work on Windows 7 upwards.
Even if your theory is correct, the device doing the mixing from multiple channels to stereo will need to know the layout of your room, how much your walls reflect sound, how tall you are etc. (plus tracking your movement in real time if you don't sit still), in order to produce the same effect to you as a multichannel setup does. A pre-mixed stereo track will not do any of that.
If you don't want their TV can you pay that $30 "unlimited home Internet data allowance (a $30 value)" to remove the cap?
6Gbps is about 2TB / hr.
Just put a 3TB HDD (or lots of DVDs) on a car and drive to the destination in half and hour, and you've achieved more than double the bandwidth :-P
Are we really hubristic enough to think we will ever have a theory that predicts and explains everything with 100% accuracy at all levels?
"There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - D.A.
He mixed up 2 different cases. One is the one you described, and the other is the 'cat' person using a "remote control virus" to taunt the police and got them to arrest the wrong person (whose PC is infected and used to send email remotely). He got caught and confessed eventually I think.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...
http://www.japancrush.com/2012...
The Sony Xperia Z Ultra has a multi-touch screen that you can also use a stylus with to get more precision.
The hardware having the wrong range is probably pretty hard to avoid due to variance between terminals and problems keeping them all tuned over their lifetime.
However, the NFC reader shouldn't be active until the customer told the cashier he/she will be using a contactless card for payment and the cashier enabling the reader.
It wouldn't prevent reading the wrong card if the customer has several NFC cards, but it would at least prevent the kind of surprises shown in the article.
The most notable example being SATA on Intel chipsets:
http://communities.intel.com/message/133881
If Intel wanted to, they could probably have a new driver that enables support for port multipliers before WD releases the disk.
Reminds me of Microsoft Plus! and Windows Ultimate Extras, stuff that either adds little value to the product or is included in the next retail version of it.
I hate flash as much as everyone, but I think the blame is misplaced wrt the Firefox situation.
On my system Firefox only locks up when I close a tab containing flash, never when flash is running. I have not had flash content crash in mid-run, let alone it bringing down the browser.
Sure, killing plugin-container.exe unlocks the browser, but it is an ugly hack at the most and not a fix.
Firefox devs have been plugging their ears and closing their eyes every time someone mentions this problem. They cannot expect users to believe it is the users' setup (or drivers, or plugins) that is the fault in every case when there are so many reports in the wild.
It also doesn't explain why other browsers have no such problem, nor why FF 3.6 did not have it (without resorting to lame excuses like "the flash version is different") either.
Dell's U2711 & U3011 does 10 bit per channel, but I think you need a professional-class display card (i.e. Quadro / FireGL) to drive it that way.
In the MFM/RLL days, SCSI disks were tested in the factory and came with a list of known bad C/H/S locations, and also keeps a list for bad sectors developed afterwards. I forgot whether the controller board had to skip those sectors during LBA translation or the OS had to not use them.
When IDE drives came out, the 'factory list' suddenly disappeared, and all drives seemingly came with 0 bad sectors out of the factory, but it was understood that the list was just hidden. They also introduced reserved sectors used to replace bad sectors developed afterwards so the user/OS always can always see/use the same capacity as long as the reserved area is not used up.
I believe this is still the case (test in the factory and hiding the list) as 2 new drives of the same model / batch can perform differently when tested, and sometimes there are consistent speed dips in the performance graph where you can tell something is going on.
That said, drives nowadays are more reliable, and I've not encountered a drive that develop bad sectors during the initial fill with random data, which I always do when I buy a new drive. I would not trust any brand-new drive which does it and for old drives that develops bad sectors I'll not use for anything important, even though the drive can reallocate them and might still run for years onwards.
Please work on something that will be actually useful, like those below. These are hard to do but it looks really bad when Mozilla ignore these for nearly 10 years to work on eye candy.
HTML5 <ruby> support
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33339
CSS3 writing-mode (vertical text)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145503
The translation above came from slashdot.jp comments posted right after the quake, before people realized the extent of the problem of the nuclear reactors, so people outside of the area hit directly were fairly positive that life would be back to normal soon.
The real picture only started to come out these few days, you can't blame the editors.
I bought a 4670 for an XP machine after an nvidia 6600gt card in it failed after a few years of use. It would bluescreen immediately whenever I bring up the TV viewing application that came with a TV card that I also had in the system.
I had to try multiple drivers, going back a few versions until I could find one that didn't bluescreen and ran relatively stable. But it still did little things wrongly sometimes that gets annoying. e.g. I ran 2 monitors with different resolutions on it and it insists on re-detecting them every time when waking up from sleep. But it got it wrong and swapped the resolutions once in a while!
The 6600gt never did any of those things. I did clean out the old drivers (including nvidia's) and reinstalled the drivers numerous times to isolate the bluescreen down to particular driver versions so it was not the old drivers messing the system up. So yes, I did have some negative feeling towards ATI's driver quality.
That said, I have a hd5870 in my current Win7 system that runs fine for the most part... Though I'd not say 100% perfect. e.g. h.264 video would glitch once in a while if I turn on hardware decoding acceleration (not always in the same spot and not if I go back and played the same scene so it is not the file nor the player), and sometimes a few scan lines are corrupted after waking up from sleep. I ran RAM test for the system and on the video card and they came up fine, so I'm not sure whether it is hardware or the drivers.
The 5870's performance is quite good and the glitches don't happen often enough to get in the way, at least not when I'm playing games, so I've been mostly satisfied with it, but I wouldn't rule out switching back to nvidia for my next upgrade if they come up with something fast, less heat and has a good bang-for-the-buck.
What is actually important is that most ISPs have already started to experiment with traffic control, but they don't tell you what their policies are (e.g. what limit they use, what traffic they block and what happens if you reach the limit). OCN is one of the first to come out with an explicitly stated cap.
Other sources state that seven Samsung executives may still face criminal prosecution.
It is consistently the best-selling software in computer stores, and just thinking of the profit it generates from the continued subscription (which may be only part of the market but with a huge margin) should make any executive cream his pants. I agree they wouldn't let it go without a fight.
If you are looking at Gigabit Ethernet products, consider the I-O Data UHDL-G400U. It supports larger jumbo frames (the Buffalo can do only up to 7k I believe), has a faster CPU which leads to much faster transfers. It has been available in Japan for a while. Their usa web site list the product, but their web shop is not selling it yet it seems.
If that is not enough for you, they even have a version that supports dual hosts.
The 'white paper written by Samsung' mentioned in the submission is titled 'Context Switching and IPC Performance Comparison between uClinux and Linux on the ARM9 based Processor'. So it is indeed uClinux.
My impression from the Japanese press releases is that you can only read DRM'd content on this device. This seriously lowers its attractiveness as a product. I can't, for example, put that long HOWTO onto it for reading at leisure.
Not as powerful as the brakes that go 157 -> 0 km/h in 4 seconds.
Too bad Nintendo spend 5 seconds to display their logo on their cartridge-using GBA, when they could have made it instant-on.