I know that 18bit got a bit of a renaissance because of those high-speed "gamer" displays, but any quality LCD should be 24 bit. My 2 here certainly are.
Of couse if you buy the cheapest available, you dont deserve better. Thats the same price-group that also had a plethora of quality problems in the CRT age.
As a matter of fact, $200 are usually able to capture 30fps at 640x480. The one i bought recently does 848x480+h264 encoding. There is no reason for a motion camera to be more expensive than a still one, when using ccds.
Nah. This is already behind the "realtime" stage, which is made done directly in hardware and only picks up the 0.001%or so of events that are deemed worthwhile to analyse. Otherwise, they would need exabit connections...
This is from 2004! Not the best point to make, considering that back then this article might not have been read more than a handfull of times during those months.
My first real "day" at a "lab" was a beamtime at a synchrotron. So thats hardly representative.
If you dont know _exactly_ what you want to know (and search for corresponding review papers), arxiv & co are worse than wikipedia for a basic knowledge background. You can very easily run into missconceptions, glorified pet theories, or just get lost in (for the big picture) unimportant details.
About professors: I cannot speak for the US, but over here, the professor has better thinks to do than playing tyrrant in the lab. In fact, many will hardly ever be there. They have to spend their time for teaching, and getting money to finance their (and that also usually means _your_) research.
Etiquette can be drastically different. I am in physics, and in one other chair of the institute i was back then, attentance at 8:00 was required, and people had to do their quarterly reports, ect. While where i was, you just had to do your stuff (even if that means comming at 1pm and leaving late at the evening, ect). Tone was usually very informal. Just remember: For you its your Great First Day in the Lab. For the others, its just work/doing what is done every day. So you will just experience a normal work enviroment (well, a gernerally more relaxed one than in the industry, but still), with all the variations that this can include.
I tried it 3 years or so ago. Back at that time, there were some links to "default" pages, including some "more or less" directories (i.e. User-lists of freenet sites).
The only directory that loaded before timeout (its freenet, yeah), had 3 links to sites with descriptions that clearly showed its childporn. I would really _love_ to think that this was just some anomaly, but the only other guy i know who tried it came to the same conclusion: Childporn, a few white pride nuts and somne lonely warez that take 500 years
All ministers of interior seem to be prime examples of the old "power corrupts" thing. They just sit there, and suddenly get the nice idea "if i could just track and observe _everybody_, _I_ would be a hero who stops all crime". And because they are all idiots, they really believe it.
So they jump to the slightest chance of doing so, getting a real hard on with every now terrorist rumor that enables them to pass more bills.
Secondly, a lot of the biometrics was also forced onto the european nations by the US. Want to the USA? Fingerprinting. That alone destroyed much of the taboo that fingerprinting had in europe forever. Many of us just dont have a choice. I am not staying home because i dont like my buissness trip destination. Also, "no biometric passport" == "we kick you out of the visa waiver program", which is something they cannot allow, also.
You think very wrong. Funding has nothing to do with it. Its the useage: As a supercomputer. 20k 1U servers running as shared hosts at an ISP would be a supercomputer if they had the interconnection and the software background. But they arent, so they dont. Same for google, ect.
You will notice a lot of company computers (at airlines, automotive companies, ect, in the top500)
Thanks for stating my most favorite feature of firefox3.
A address entry that finally does smart autocomplete (and not that idiotic, basic one that only cares about the first letter of the url (which are most often "cgi" or "forums",)?
Simply not true. First, the "suggested" speed is 130km/h. Second, the insurance may only decline coverage if they have a way to prove that your speed wasnt suitable for the driving enviroment... which might hold a candle if it was very wet, or stormy, but not so much normally on a section that explicitly doesnt have speed limits. Which is about half of the autobahn kms (not "some places" like you are trying to suggest.
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Every IPS and PVA Display should be 24bit.
I know that 18bit got a bit of a renaissance because of those high-speed "gamer" displays, but any quality LCD should be 24 bit. My 2 here certainly are.
Of couse if you buy the cheapest available, you dont deserve better. Thats the same price-group that also had a plethora of quality problems in the CRT age.
Well, not quite true. It might mean "niggers" if they didnt decide to genocide each other and not to believe in AIDS.
And for the population of china and (mostly) india, "nigger" would be quite a missnomer.
And CoreCodec. The company that _seriously_ demanded online activation for a $10 video codec. Including dongeling it to your current hardware config.
AC/DC conversion in typical PSUs is at 80%. Anything more is only possible in tightly constrained parameters not suitable for servers.
As a matter of fact, $200 are usually able to capture 30fps at 640x480. The one i bought recently does 848x480+h264 encoding.
There is no reason for a motion camera to be more expensive than a still one, when using ccds.
Hah. Thats seriously funny.
Shame on the editors, thought.
Well, not if i remember correctly.
They save all the sensor data to events that make the first relevancy triggers, but the vast majority is discarted.
20k Servers. Not CPUs. And also not cores.
Nah.
This is already behind the "realtime" stage, which is made done directly in hardware and only picks up the 0.001%or so of events that are deemed worthwhile to analyse.
Otherwise, they would need exabit connections...
Because _somebody_ will read every word they will print at least once?
Thats the "editing" part.
Not to mention that a "maliciously created defamatory arcticle about themselves" would be hard pressed to get into the popular article range...
Not perfectly true anymore.
Wikipedia is different than standart excylocpaedieas: It goes way mroe in depth.
Physics articles, for example (as one i can gauge), are often way deeper than even college-level textbooks, touching same lighter review papers.
Its no longer true that just because its in an ecyclopaedia, its "general knowledge" and thus free from reference requirements.
This is from 2004!
Not the best point to make, considering that back then this article might not have been read more than a handfull of times during those months.
My first real "day" at a "lab" was a beamtime at a synchrotron. So thats hardly representative.
If you dont know _exactly_ what you want to know (and search for corresponding review papers), arxiv & co are worse than wikipedia for a basic knowledge background. You can very easily run into missconceptions, glorified pet theories, or just get lost in (for the big picture) unimportant details.
About professors: I cannot speak for the US, but over here, the professor has better thinks to do than playing tyrrant in the lab. In fact, many will hardly ever be there. They have to spend their time for teaching, and getting money to finance their (and that also usually means _your_) research.
Etiquette can be drastically different. I am in physics, and in one other chair of the institute i was back then, attentance at 8:00 was required, and people had to do their quarterly reports, ect.
While where i was, you just had to do your stuff (even if that means comming at 1pm and leaving late at the evening, ect). Tone was usually very informal. Just remember: For you its your Great First Day in the Lab. For the others, its just work/doing what is done every day. So you will just experience a normal work enviroment (well, a gernerally more relaxed one than in the industry, but still), with all the variations that this can include.
Sadly, the aerodynamic laws have changed little lince 72.
55 vs 75 makes an easy 10-15% difference in fuel consumption. Just try it out, both over a 10 or 20 km with cruise control.
Not everything larry niven wrote in ringworld is literal truth....
According to my old astrohysics textbooks, you are off by an a few orders of magnitude.
In the sun, its about 1 million years.
You can calculate it as a simple random walk in a medium with an absorption gradient
INfinite.
A black hole of any stelar size will only radiate like a body in the femto-kelvin range.
This means that galactic background radiation will "refill" it more than it could ever lose.
I tried it 3 years or so ago.
Back at that time, there were some links to "default" pages, including some "more or less" directories (i.e. User-lists of freenet sites).
The only directory that loaded before timeout (its freenet, yeah), had 3 links to sites with descriptions that clearly showed its childporn.
I would really _love_ to think that this was just some anomaly, but the only other guy i know who tried it came to the same conclusion: Childporn, a few white pride nuts and somne lonely warez that take 500 years
9.11.
All ministers of interior seem to be prime examples of the old "power corrupts" thing. They just sit there, and suddenly get the nice idea "if i could just track and observe _everybody_, _I_ would be a hero who stops all crime".
And because they are all idiots, they really believe it.
So they jump to the slightest chance of doing so, getting a real hard on with every now terrorist rumor that enables them to pass more bills.
Secondly, a lot of the biometrics was also forced onto the european nations by the US.
Want to the USA? Fingerprinting. That alone destroyed much of the taboo that fingerprinting had in europe forever. Many of us just dont have a choice. I am not staying home because i dont like my buissness trip destination.
Also, "no biometric passport" == "we kick you out of the visa waiver program", which is something they cannot allow, also.
You think very wrong.
Funding has nothing to do with it.
Its the useage: As a supercomputer.
20k 1U servers running as shared hosts at an ISP would be a supercomputer if they had the interconnection and the software background. But they arent, so they dont. Same for google, ect.
You will notice a lot of company computers (at airlines, automotive companies, ect, in the top500)
"Grapped from a pallet of junk at work"
Hey, you answered your question right there.
But SAS is electrically more or less identical to SATA. So it doesnt go against the 500 different SCSIs as an obsolete (physical layer) interface
Thanks for stating my most favorite feature of firefox3.
A address entry that finally does smart autocomplete (and not that idiotic, basic one that only cares about the first letter of the url (which are most often "cgi" or "forums",)?
DMA excludes "OS managing it".
If the os starts managing, its no DMA anymore.
Thats the same reason why you can root a linux box with the DMA of its firewire drivers.
Simply not true.
First, the "suggested" speed is 130km/h.
Second, the insurance may only decline coverage if they have a way to prove that your speed wasnt suitable for the driving enviroment... which might hold a candle if it was very wet, or stormy, but not so much normally on a section that explicitly doesnt have speed limits. Which is about half of the autobahn kms (not "some places" like you are trying to suggest.