It's a bit more complicated than that. Actually, about 4MHz of bandwidth for grayscale values, and about 1.4MHz of that same bandwidth for "coloring" (which does interfere with the grayscaling) The point is that there are NOT 450 well defined pixels with a finite number of levels of color/luminance values in the horizontal sweep. A change to either color or luminance could begin at ANY time in the horizontal sweep, and the level can vary in an infinte number of steps to peak value for luma, and the phase shifts of I and Q from the color burst can be ANY number of degrees from 0-90 for a chroma value.
So the bandwidth limits how fast I can go from one luma value to another, and how fast I can change from one color to another....but I get an infinite range to choose from.
It seems Sun is going the other way with it's Orion server licensing system; they want to push Solaris on x86 more. Well, if a few truly huge corporations can buy into this, might even work. But it seems more likely they're going to miss out on the Linux bandwagon.
we have flying cars. You can only fly from and park in designated facilities, though. You can have the propeller kind, or the jet engine kind. They are made by many major companies including Cessna, Lockheed, Boeing, etc.
They STILL believe to an unhealthy degree that they're the Only Shop In Town, and that The Market Will Follow Their Lead. They don't yet (!!!!!!) understand that the market has already just about written them off,
The world's money and huge data stores live on IBM and compatible mainframes. They are the lead. End of story.
the direction of Sun is what's really important. Less and less market share of hardware, poorly performing architecture on the low and mid range, and their refusal to promote and develop Linux on the high end because of fear it will hurt solaris sales.
I see no future for Sun now that Linux has gained the high end enterprise system features in the kernel, and the related high end datacenter administration tools are in the works.
bah, that's all about using more and more computing resources to present less and less information about what is going on inside the system to a clueless end user. Well, they don't fool me.
I think there could be some prior art for some of those; I remember seeing at least half of the characters in Cambell's alphabet soup when I was a kid.
The OpenBSD team is working on SMP for the i386 and Sparc, but it won't be ready for a while, project page here .
It just doesn't seem to be their priority, given the normal use of OpenBSD on edge machines. Of course, the extra security checks and features mean OpenBSD will never be as fast as the other BSD and Linux, so I don't think use on large crunching machines will ever be a popular use for the O.S.
yow! that sounds painful, especially for someone like me who runs his box in a coloc 180 miles away! I prefer not to be 0wned at all, thanks! Have been secure thus far with OpenBSD hosting my domain for past year and a half on a Sparc 70, then when I upgraded to a really weird x86 box had to go to FreeBSD. I still wouldn't put a Linux box directly on the net with no protection. Hope this FreeBSD holds up until I have money to get a more normal box.
Have been to Thailand, and even to Cambodia during last part of its civil war and was married there. Fascinating and interesting places (Thailand being far safer), but my warnings and observations still stand.
Have not been to Brazil, though had 2 roomates in college from there (about 20 years ago). Hope things are getting better there
Yes, many countries that would be ok to live in allow guns, but some that are otherwise ok do not. I do wish to have law & order where I live, and for gun owners to be peaceful people with regard for human life and to be held absolutely responsible for any use they make of guns! I don't want to see a bunch of crazed people with AK-47's shooting soviet 7.62x39 FMJ mostly but not always into the sky on every national holiday and even for weddings!
defeatist attitude? hardly, just said small arms not sufficient given technology a first world government can muster (whether their technology level could stay high is another question). Effective "fighting" might not involve weapons at all
Brazil? Had a military regime from 1964 to 1985, and the current civilian goverment has interesting violent clashes with peasants. They've outlawed use of torture by police, though in practice still a problem. I especially like freedomhouse.org's description of the police as "among the worlds most violent and corrupt". And the organized crime there is a law unto itself.
Just wanted to point out that places that might look good on a travel brochure, or in a TV show set in the well-to-do section of town, might in fact be 99% a crap hole. Like Thailand, a largely fun and exciting place for tourists in some places but God help you if you ever run afoul of the police/judicial system there or wander into the wrong part of it (like 80% of it).
One of the cool things I do with my freedom is collect guns and handload ammo shooting in competition. Another is bitching about any high government official who I think is a goosestepping Nazi asshole, maybe even in a public forum. Try those hobbies out in Singapore or Thailand or even Japan.
Interesting list of countries, most I might find ok at least...but I wouldn't say "just about anyplace really". Most of the rest of the world is under governments and/or religions that make the place in question bad. Lack of freedom and wrong fundemental beliefs about man makes most of africa, asia, south america and the middle east a crap hole.
small arms are no longer sufficient to protect a free society from the ravages of a first world government turned on its own citizens, should that ever happen. Hmmmm, I wonder what the founding fathers would have said about this?
yes, there is a net energy loss...but if one uses solar or geothermal or wind power to get the energy to split water in the first place, the energy source is free, and the process is perfectly clean.
yes, the european accelerators had already beaten the Fermilab (U.S.A.) folks to the punch on this question, while the U.S.A. was still building this very expensive thing (at two locations in Minnesota and Illinois). But we can't let the U.S. taxpayers feel they've been had, now can we?
BSD may not really be dying, but Fermilab sure is.
Here's a fun page on shapes that could be manhole covers, if the only criteria was not being able to be made to fall into a slightly smaller hole:
Here
the OS companies which license Unix(tm) might like to renegotiate the price down to $0.00. The "pure Unix" code they use isn't what differentiates their products, and revealing the generic Unix code won't help their competitors, as THEY ALSO LICENSE THE CODE ALREADY. So what harm will come to Sun, SGI, IBM, HP and the many smaller Unix(tm) vendors if the Unix(tm) code is GPL'd?
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It's a bit more complicated than that. Actually, about 4MHz of bandwidth for grayscale values, and about 1.4MHz of that same bandwidth for "coloring" (which does interfere with the grayscaling) The point is that there are NOT 450 well defined pixels with a finite number of levels of color/luminance values in the horizontal sweep. A change to either color or luminance could begin at ANY time in the horizontal sweep, and the level can vary in an infinte number of steps to peak value for luma, and the phase shifts of I and Q from the color burst can be ANY number of degrees from 0-90 for a chroma value.
So the bandwidth limits how fast I can go from one luma value to another, and how fast I can change from one color to another....but I get an infinite range to choose from.
It seems Sun is going the other way with it's Orion server licensing system; they want to push Solaris on x86 more. Well, if a few truly huge corporations can buy into this, might even work. But it seems more likely they're going to miss out on the Linux bandwagon.
we have flying cars. You can only fly from and park in designated facilities, though. You can have the propeller kind, or the jet engine kind. They are made by many major companies including Cessna, Lockheed, Boeing, etc.
They STILL believe to an unhealthy degree that they're the Only Shop In Town, and that The Market Will Follow Their Lead. They don't yet (!!!!!!) understand that the market has already just about written them off,
The world's money and huge data stores live on IBM and compatible mainframes. They are the lead. End of story.
the direction of Sun is what's really important. Less and less market share of hardware, poorly performing architecture on the low and mid range, and their refusal to promote and develop Linux on the high end because of fear it will hurt solaris sales.
I see no future for Sun now that Linux has gained the high end enterprise system features in the kernel, and the related high end datacenter administration tools are in the works.
Sun is dying, and Linux is killing it.
3D accelerated desktop
bah, that's all about using more and more computing resources to present less and less information about what is going on inside the system to a clueless end user. Well, they don't fool me.
I think there could be some prior art for some of those; I remember seeing at least half of the characters in Cambell's alphabet soup when I was a kid.
The OpenBSD team is working on SMP for the i386 and Sparc, but it won't be ready for a while, project page here .
It just doesn't seem to be their priority, given the normal use of OpenBSD on edge machines. Of course, the extra security checks and features mean OpenBSD will never be as fast as the other BSD and Linux, so I don't think use on large crunching machines will ever be a popular use for the O.S.
yow! that sounds painful, especially for someone like me who runs his box in a coloc 180 miles away! I prefer not to be 0wned at all, thanks! Have been secure thus far with OpenBSD hosting my domain for past year and a half on a Sparc 70, then when I upgraded to a really weird x86 box had to go to FreeBSD. I still wouldn't put a Linux box directly on the net with no protection. Hope this FreeBSD holds up until I have money to get a more normal box.
There's things like this They must be better than Linux and *BSD based solutions, because they cost alot and need more admin time!
the funny thing is that the Itanium DOES have hardare x86 emulation, but it sucks so very badly they made this software emulator. How embarassing.
Greek islands - sounds good
Have been to Thailand, and even to Cambodia during last part of its civil war and was married there. Fascinating and interesting places (Thailand being far safer), but my warnings and observations still stand.
Have not been to Brazil, though had 2 roomates in college from there (about 20 years ago). Hope things are getting better there
Yes, many countries that would be ok to live in allow guns, but some that are otherwise ok do not. I do wish to have law & order where I live, and for gun owners to be peaceful people with regard for human life and to be held absolutely responsible for any use they make of guns! I don't want to see a bunch of crazed people with AK-47's shooting soviet 7.62x39 FMJ mostly but not always into the sky on every national holiday and even for weddings!
no "violent clashes with peasants" for almost 4 whole months? That's good, and I do hope things get better there.
defeatist attitude? hardly, just said small arms not sufficient given technology a first world government can muster (whether their technology level could stay high is another question). Effective "fighting" might not involve weapons at all
Brazil? Had a military regime from 1964 to 1985, and the current civilian goverment has interesting violent clashes with peasants. They've outlawed use of torture by police, though in practice still a problem. I especially like freedomhouse.org's description of the police as "among the worlds most violent and corrupt". And the organized crime there is a law unto itself.
Just wanted to point out that places that might look good on a travel brochure, or in a TV show set in the well-to-do section of town, might in fact be 99% a crap hole. Like Thailand, a largely fun and exciting place for tourists in some places but God help you if you ever run afoul of the police/judicial system there or wander into the wrong part of it (like 80% of it).
One of the cool things I do with my freedom is collect guns and handload ammo shooting in competition. Another is bitching about any high government official who I think is a goosestepping Nazi asshole, maybe even in a public forum. Try those hobbies out in Singapore or Thailand or even Japan.
Interesting list of countries, most I might find ok at least...but I wouldn't say "just about anyplace really". Most of the rest of the world is under governments and/or religions that make the place in question bad. Lack of freedom and wrong fundemental beliefs about man makes most of africa, asia, south america and the middle east a crap hole.
small arms are no longer sufficient to protect a free society from the ravages of a first world government turned on its own citizens, should that ever happen. Hmmmm, I wonder what the founding fathers would have said about this?
Could you please post list of "better places to live" than U.S.A.? Some of us are genuinely curious, and may need it for future reference!
yes, there is a net energy loss...but if one uses solar or geothermal or wind power to get the energy to split water in the first place, the energy source is free, and the process is perfectly clean.
yes, the european accelerators had already beaten the Fermilab (U.S.A.) folks to the punch on this question, while the U.S.A. was still building this very expensive thing (at two locations in Minnesota and Illinois). But we can't let the U.S. taxpayers feel they've been had, now can we?
BSD may not really be dying, but Fermilab sure is.
Here's a fun page on shapes that could be manhole covers, if the only criteria was not being able to be made to fall into a slightly smaller hole: Here
I first thought it was because men have round cross-sections, but then I remembered not all men are shaped like slashdotters.
the OS companies which license Unix(tm) might like to renegotiate the price down to $0.00. The "pure Unix" code they use isn't what differentiates their products, and revealing the generic Unix code won't help their competitors, as THEY ALSO LICENSE THE CODE ALREADY. So what harm will come to Sun, SGI, IBM, HP and the many smaller Unix(tm) vendors if the Unix(tm) code is GPL'd?
and just think, Giant Robot can save rocket fuel by bouncing around on feet made of this stuff instead of flying.