A open source diablo clone sounded nice, but after looking at the screenshot list of freedroids: Cant those FOSS programmers imagine a player avatar that is NOT a penguin? I mean, thre are things like atmosphere, that could have created by doing something else than the usual "steal game concept, slap tux in" that brought us tux-racer, the lemmings clone, this tux-supermario clone, ect ect.
well, in fact, the speed increase HAS slowed. They guy is just spoiled because the introduction of GMR read-heads started a storage density explosion that now is slowing down to normal levels.
The biggest hd you can buy now is 400GB. 250GB hds have been availabe more than 2 years ago. Thats A LOT slower than doubling every year...
Its because the normal way of taking colour pictures (Si photocells with wideband colourfilters) is only good at taking pictures for human eyes, not for any kind of spectral analysis. Plus in this case, there were 3 reasons: a) There wasnt enough space for multiple cameras/spectrometer b) Most of the pictures were planned to be taken in rapid descent/being shaken around (they hoped it would land, but werent sure), so filter changing wouldnt be so good (plus too time consuming, they only had so little) c) There isnt much light there, so narrowband spectral filters would have made the exposure matter even worse(by factor of 50 or so, and even wideband filters would block 2/3s of the light) (especially combined with the moving viewpoint) At least they had very cool ccds (little noise), so they could take such bright pictures in that short time.
Are you telling me you are living in a world without exposure settings on cameras? You dont need daylight to create bright pictures, you know? They didnt know the exact luminosity, too, so they chose settings that would give pictures even if it was darker than it oviously was. Better to bright than too dark...
True story: back when i was in the (german) army, i was in the it department of a translation/signal tracking station (dont know the english name for such a thing). THe whole building had two power circuits. Normal one and failsafe one (with all the worksations and servers on it) We had plenty of usv, a 50kW generator in the basement, all good. Until they started a building job and needed to disassable some wirering going through a cabletunnel into the room they were cleaning up. And of course somebody cut the main line of the secure grid.... Was really funny. Light stayed on, radio stayed on, coffee machine went on, all servers went down...
haha. You missed one.... The probe has radioactive heat sources in it, giving contant heat. Now where does the energy go? No gas, no heat transfer. Only blackbody radiation, but that not very high for temperatures of 150K or so, especially if you coat the whole thing in aluminum or another low emission material.
Im PRETTY sure the probe had it a lot warmer inside out in the vakuum.
Well, it IS one of the most toxic ELEMENTS, thats true. Too bad people forget that the REALLY nasty stuff is either organic or at least molecules containing different elements. A gram of butolinotoxin could kill more people than a truckload of plutonium.
And yes, it IS highly radioactive. Or how else could you power a thermoelectric generator with it? Not only those short half-life isotopes can have a high activity, a few kg of Pu are not to be unterestimated.
So all in all, its no doomsday device, but the combination of being quite toxic plus quite radioactive makes the whole stuff rather nasty. I wouldnt want it under the playground, honestly.
On mars, you have relativly civil temperaturs. You can use batteries,ect. On Titan, you are at -160 C IIRC. No chemical batteries will work at that temperature, nor most sensors or computational parts (you need the electrons of the doped atoms in the conduction band). So its a matter of isolation and heat capacity.
1). What du you mean? alt+N opens a new window, or do you mean something else?) 2) dont understand what you mean... but if its in MSIE,too why does it hinder you from switching? 3) maybe, but i never noticed it. some pages are badly looking, but that could be by design (either lacking html or estethics skillz) 4) ask logitech. They surely can fix this bug in their utility. this has nothing to do with firebirg.
i tried it. it IS a real solution with a quick gui frontend attached. If you start a simulation, an extra computation kernel starts that only has console output, so i guess it would be no problem to not only use a lokal client but a whole network.
only that jpegs dont use RLE for encoding the koefficient data, but also a high level compression algorithm. Im not sure if its huffman, but something comareable. NO RLE. Thats the reason zip failes: its like zipping a zip. And try using rar on a zip compared to unzipping and raring the contends of the zip.
but instead of using this, why not use jpeg2000. Its even smaller, no more blocks with higher compression ratios, and it is well documented... (oppossed to this "patend pending" superalgorithm) Btw: the "whitepaper" should be called "advertisement", because it contained zero technical information.
and btw: jpeg2000 is MUCH better than jpg. half the size is definitvely possible. But of course space isnt really limited, but cpu power is (especiall in cameras and other low-power appliances), so trading 50% filesize for 10 times the calculation needed doesnt seem so hot in the end.
Believe him, i used the same programm. It was from iterated systems (they are long gone). Its not on their homepage anymore. I dont know if they really used IFS or they just did some wavelets and faked it, but the compression was honestly much better than jpeg. (but of course slower, too. IIRC, compressing a 1024x786 picture took about 40-50 seconds on my pentium. What was unique was the viewer. it was "resolutionless", so you could zoom in farther than the original without pixelation. Shapes started to look painterly then, as if traced by outlines, which would actually be in favour of it really being a fractal compressor. No idea why it was canned.
it doesnt pale compared to desktop The original pcmcia was 8 bit 8 mhz. But a few years ago they renamed it to pc-card and did a major change: they are now more or less pci-level.
the quake released more energy than people are producing... in a year, not ever. And energy isnt everything. Little influences in the right points can lead to huge results. Especially because the athmosphere is TINY compared to the mass of the earth, and our climate depents totally on it. Compare venus, earth and mars to see what 1/100000 of a planets mass can do, and this tiny part is much easier to change than the large body the quake is affecting.
Its useful. If you are into movies, you have seen them in cinema, on cable, ect. This list should cover the "should i bother to buy the dvd" question...
Well, atoms are much smaller than nano, so who cares? I on my part call everything nanotechnology that has designed features in the nm order of magnitude. And i studied Nanostructur technology.
People have to get away from the thought that only a molecular assembler is nanotech. YOUR nanotechnology label is the one that is getting out of hand.
They DID. If you tell me that they were emulating it, you could also say that the athlon is emulating x86. It used the same function units than the epic core, but the instruction decoding/dispatching was all done in hardware. (although very slow, because it was in order, single issue, ect)
Well, there ARE applications. There has been much research about using waveguides instead of copper to connect chips, but the limiter was always the problems with external lasers. Just putting them on die allows for quite some progress in that area.
Of course i would be really interested how they did it (with SI having an indirect bandgap and all)
I call bullshit on you! At least partially. THe first round of epic (merced) was supposed to be a server processor, like the p6, with desktop parts trickling down, later. With the original plan, all current intel cpus should have been epic-based till now. But the whole project was delayed and delayed, the compilers took ages to get running and AMD came rather unsuspected with the athlon, which resulted in the need quickly push the existing x86 design. So the late epic designs werent significantly faster than x86 anymore, plus more expensive/higher power requiring. -> nobody wanted them. If the itanium never was supposed to become a normal server&workstation processor, why do you think that they included a dedicated x86 processing core into the die?
Despite being 100 times bigger, the Mpeg-2 video is still worst quality....
You see, just because you type it doesnt mean its true, and im sure i played around with mpeg2 and mpeg4 more than you... (and about mpeg4 never meant for full res: how come you can do 1080i with 6-8 mbit AVC, the same you use for 572p mpeg2?)
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A open source diablo clone sounded nice, but after looking at the screenshot list of freedroids:
Cant those FOSS programmers imagine a player avatar that is NOT a penguin? I mean, thre are things like atmosphere, that could have created by doing something else than the usual "steal game concept, slap tux in" that brought us tux-racer, the lemmings clone, this tux-supermario clone, ect ect.
well, in fact, the speed increase HAS slowed.
They guy is just spoiled because the introduction of GMR read-heads started a storage density explosion that now is slowing down to normal levels.
The biggest hd you can buy now is 400GB. 250GB hds have been availabe more than 2 years ago.
Thats A LOT slower than doubling every year...
Its because the normal way of taking colour pictures (Si photocells with wideband colourfilters) is only good at taking pictures for human eyes, not for any kind of spectral analysis.
Plus in this case, there were 3 reasons:
a) There wasnt enough space for multiple cameras/spectrometer
b) Most of the pictures were planned to be taken in rapid descent/being shaken around (they hoped it would land, but werent sure), so filter changing wouldnt be so good (plus too time consuming, they only had so little)
c) There isnt much light there, so narrowband spectral filters would have made the exposure matter even worse(by factor of 50 or so, and even wideband filters would block 2/3s of the light) (especially combined with the moving viewpoint)
At least they had very cool ccds (little noise), so they could take such bright pictures in that short time.
Are you telling me you are living in a world without exposure settings on cameras?
You dont need daylight to create bright pictures, you know?
They didnt know the exact luminosity, too, so they chose settings that would give pictures even if it was darker than it oviously was.
Better to bright than too dark...
True story: back when i was in the (german) army, i was in the it department of a translation/signal tracking station (dont know the english name for such a thing).
THe whole building had two power circuits. Normal one and failsafe one (with all the worksations and servers on it)
We had plenty of usv, a 50kW generator in the basement, all good.
Until they started a building job and needed to disassable some wirering going through a cabletunnel into the room they were cleaning up.
And of course somebody cut the main line of the secure grid....
Was really funny. Light stayed on, radio stayed on, coffee machine went on, all servers went down...
There isnt anything that "cant" break.
Please mods, next time look at the timestamp of the posting before modding redundant.
haha. You missed one....
The probe has radioactive heat sources in it, giving contant heat. Now where does the energy go? No gas, no heat transfer.
Only blackbody radiation, but that not very high for temperatures of 150K or so, especially if you coat the whole thing in aluminum or another low emission material.
Im PRETTY sure the probe had it a lot warmer inside out in the vakuum.
Well, it IS one of the most toxic ELEMENTS, thats true.
Too bad people forget that the REALLY nasty stuff is either organic or at least molecules containing different elements. A gram of butolinotoxin could kill more people than a truckload of plutonium.
And yes, it IS highly radioactive. Or how else could you power a thermoelectric generator with it? Not only those short half-life isotopes can have a high activity, a few kg of Pu are not to be unterestimated.
So all in all, its no doomsday device, but the combination of being quite toxic plus quite radioactive makes the whole stuff rather nasty.
I wouldnt want it under the playground, honestly.
He is to easily missed at 0 and is informative
On mars, you have relativly civil temperaturs. You can use batteries,ect.
On Titan, you are at -160 C IIRC. No chemical batteries will work at that temperature, nor most sensors or computational parts (you need the electrons of the doped atoms in the conduction band).
So its a matter of isolation and heat capacity.
What world are you living in ?
What about the mars rover?
The Venus probes in the late 70s?
1). What du you mean? alt+N opens a new window, or do you mean something else?)
2) dont understand what you mean... but if its in MSIE,too why does it hinder you from switching?
3) maybe, but i never noticed it. some pages are badly looking, but that could be by design (either lacking html or estethics skillz)
4) ask logitech. They surely can fix this bug in their utility. this has nothing to do with firebirg.
i tried it.
it IS a real solution with a quick gui frontend attached.
If you start a simulation, an extra computation kernel starts that only has console output, so i guess it would be no problem to not only use a lokal client but a whole network.
only that jpegs dont use RLE for encoding the koefficient data, but also a high level compression algorithm. Im not sure if its huffman, but something comareable. NO RLE.
Thats the reason zip failes: its like zipping a zip. And try using rar on a zip compared to unzipping and raring the contends of the zip.
but instead of using this, why not use jpeg2000. Its even smaller, no more blocks with higher compression ratios, and it is well documented...
(oppossed to this "patend pending" superalgorithm)
Btw: the "whitepaper" should be called "advertisement", because it contained zero technical information.
and btw: jpeg2000 is MUCH better than jpg. half the size is definitvely possible. But of course space isnt really limited, but cpu power is (especiall in cameras and other low-power appliances), so trading 50% filesize for 10 times the calculation needed doesnt seem so hot in the end.
Believe him, i used the same programm. It was from iterated systems (they are long gone).
Its not on their homepage anymore. I dont know if they really used IFS or they just did some wavelets and faked it, but the compression was honestly much better than jpeg. (but of course slower, too. IIRC, compressing a 1024x786 picture took about 40-50 seconds on my pentium.
What was unique was the viewer. it was "resolutionless", so you could zoom in farther than the original without pixelation. Shapes started to look painterly then, as if traced by outlines, which would actually be in favour of it really being a fractal compressor.
No idea why it was canned.
it doesnt pale compared to desktop
The original pcmcia was 8 bit 8 mhz.
But a few years ago they renamed it to pc-card and did a major change: they are now more or less pci-level.
the quake released more energy than people are producing... in a year, not ever.
And energy isnt everything. Little influences in the right points can lead to huge results. Especially because the athmosphere is TINY compared to the mass of the earth, and our climate depents totally on it.
Compare venus, earth and mars to see what 1/100000 of a planets mass can do, and this tiny part is much easier to change than the large body the quake is affecting.
Its useful.
If you are into movies, you have seen them in cinema, on cable, ect.
This list should cover the "should i bother to buy the dvd" question...
Well, atoms are much smaller than nano, so who cares?
I on my part call everything nanotechnology that has designed features in the nm order of magnitude. And i studied Nanostructur technology.
People have to get away from the thought that only a molecular assembler is nanotech. YOUR nanotechnology label is the one that is getting out of hand.
They DID.
If you tell me that they were emulating it, you could also say that the athlon is emulating x86.
It used the same function units than the epic core, but the instruction decoding/dispatching was all done in hardware. (although very slow, because it was in order, single issue, ect)
Well, there ARE applications.
There has been much research about using waveguides instead of copper to connect chips, but the limiter was always the problems with external lasers.
Just putting them on die allows for quite some progress in that area.
Of course i would be really interested how they did it (with SI having an indirect bandgap and all)
I call bullshit on you!
At least partially.
THe first round of epic (merced) was supposed to be a server processor, like the p6, with desktop parts trickling down, later. With the original plan, all current intel cpus should have been epic-based till now.
But the whole project was delayed and delayed, the compilers took ages to get running and AMD came rather unsuspected with the athlon, which resulted in the need quickly push the existing x86 design.
So the late epic designs werent significantly faster than x86 anymore, plus more expensive/higher power requiring. -> nobody wanted them.
If the itanium never was supposed to become a normal server&workstation processor, why do you think that they included a dedicated x86 processing core into the die?
awwwh. Yeah. Here is my test:
Channel 41 (oct 22).mpg
Video Compression Mpeg-2 Resolution 480x480 230Mbit/sec, Audio compression MPEG layer 3 Size 122,414,700 KB
Channel 41 (oct 29).avi
Video Compression MPEG-4 (DivX) Resolution 480x360 Audio compression Mpeg-layer 3
Size 1,091,350 KB
Despite being 100 times bigger, the Mpeg-2 video is still worst quality....
You see, just because you type it doesnt mean its true, and im sure i played around with mpeg2 and mpeg4 more than you... (and about mpeg4 never meant for full res: how come you can do 1080i with 6-8 mbit AVC, the same you use for 572p mpeg2?)