From http://www.speex.org/docs/manual/speex-manual/node4.html "Every speech codec introduces a delay in the transmission. For Speex, this delay is equal to the frame size, plus some amount of ``look-ahead'' required to process each frame. In narrowband operation (8 kHz), the delay is 30 ms, while for wideband (16 kHz), the delay is 34 ms. These values don't account for the CPU time it takes to encode or decode the frames."
So speex has a higher latency.
48000 x $70 = $3.36 Million a month x 12 = $40.32 Million a year.
The cell phones are probably closer to $40 a month in order to get
48000 x $40 = $1.92 Million a month x 12 = $23.04 Million a year which is closer to the $20M dollar savings the article talked about.
There are many myths about quantum computers. The most prevalent myths are that they will break all cryptographic protocols, be exponentially faster, do all calculations simultaneously, and solve NP-Complete problems in polynomial time. These are all untrue to various degrees.
A quantum computer is a computer that uses at least one quantum effect to solve problems. Currently quantum computers are leveraging either superposition or entanglement. A difficult hurdle to scaling quantum computers is decoherence which basically renders qubits inoperable. Decoherence happens when qubits are too close to each other. This is a major problem because currently we scale processors by cramming more and more transistors into a smaller and smaller space.
There is no one-way to build quantum computers. Several models are Gate model, Adiabatic, Measurement Based, and Topological. Several implementations are Ion Trap, NMR schemes, Nitrogen Vacancy, and Superconducting electronics. Some of these such as Nitrogen Vacancy are theoretical at this point since nobody has figured out how to implement them yet.
Basically Quantum computers at this stage aren't envisioned to replace classical computers, but they will be really useful as specialized computers for solving certain types of problems. The problem with classical computers are that they work off of classical physics and so they have a hard time modeling the way the universe really works (ie in a quantum manner). Quantum computers on the other hand behave in a quantum manner (duh) and so they are more ideally suited to solving simulation type problems. Some problems they are ideally suited for are machine learning, pattern recognition, neural networks, and building synthetic brains.
IBM has a 7 qubit machine that can successfully factor the number 15. This is not very impressive computationally but it does serve as a working proof that quantum computers aren't just theory. She showed a picture of a chip that has 128 qubits on it and another picture of a quantum computer that takes up a full room. She predicts we will see a commercially viable quantum computer within the next few years.
I think the problem is that anything that passes through the political system does not come out the way it is sent in. My main concern with what the FCC is pushing is that it is Net Neutrality plus exceptions. Net Neutrality is great and I fully support it, the question is whether Net Neutrality plus exceptions is going to leave loop holes that businesses can exploit to make the whole thing meaningless.
I love the way the Windows screen shot shows the control panel as if Windows' strong point is configurability.
Contrast that with the Ubuntu screen shot which shows installed games as if Ubuntu's strength is its games.
This seems like a superior way to debug code. I especially like the way the inspections stay persistent and the way you are looking at a path of code instead of some call stack list.
I don't know how well this would work for new development though.
If you are in the unix/linux world take a look at puppet. You provision out a set of nodes (allows node inheritance) and manage all your scripts, config files, etc from one central location (called the puppet master). Changes propagate to all servers that the change applied to automatically. It is built around keeping the configuration files in a versioned repository and is ready to use today.
Before you give up on solo marketing take a look at the book Duct Tape Marketing. It gives you a basic understanding of marketing and is geared towards doing it on the cheap. If you still want to hire out then you will at least be able to talk intelligently and have a better idea what to expect from whoever you hire.
There are very good reasons not to use Vector. The main one is that it internally synchronizes all calls. Any algorithms 101 class will show you why that is a false sense of security.
The classic example is:
vector.size();
vector.get(0);
Each one of those calls is synchronized internally but the JVM can still switch threads inbetween the two calls causing a race condition. To make that code thead safe you need to synchronize externally:
Would you care to explain to the crowd what you think CSS and SVG are "standards" for?
I won't defend CSS, but SVG is used to render icons for GNOME (any KDE people who know if KDE uses it too?). Also, there is a Java toolkit by Apache called Batik that allows you to add SVG support to Swing apps (along with all the other uses of Batik). SVG's are great for rich client apps if you want your images to scale up as people increase the font size - It helps keep the screen looking balanced.
When I looked at Sourceforges projects by languages it came up with:
C++ - 13440 projects
C - 13254 projects
Java - 12436 projects
PHP - 9201 projects
Perl - 5321 projects
Python - 3316 projects
This hardly supports the argument that open source programmers prefer open source languages since none of the source forge crowd's top 3 languages are open source.
I am sure if Microsoft had their way they would love to find some way to region encode people's PCs so they could sell full versions for reduced prices in certain markets while continuing to gouge the developed world.
There is a very good free java implementaiton. GCJ (GNU Compiler for Java). The library lacks a few things (e.g. AWT/Swing), though, but other than that it is a great implementation.
We are a pretty small company and needed to expand our storage capacity (from 250GB to 750GB) so we decided to get a whole new server while we were at it. We already have two Windows 2000 Advanced Server licenses so it would cost nothing (in license terms) to make it a Windows box, but after weighing all the factors we decided to go with Redhat 9. Even our lawyer (who is also the CFO) seems pretty excited about it.
Since the article was obviously US centric I will only defend it from the US perspective. You say this is happening on the local level. But it hasn't happened on a national level. The information cost is significantly less on a local level.
-Phil
Finally universities get a taste of their own medicine!
We have all spent years being quantified by percentages that translate into A, B, C, D, and F and further go into a meaningless 4 point scale GPA. Does GPA measure our intelligence, our ability to perform in the "real" world, or our worth as a member of society? None of these, it simply tells how successful we will be at taking school tests in the future. Now universities are being quantified by meaningless measurements and they expect us to feel sorry for them?
I have a Treo 300 with access through Sprint. I pay $40 US a month and get 300 anytime minutes. The plan includes unlimited wireless internet (meaning that internet time does not eat away at my minutes). The speeds are supposed to approach 64Kbps but in reality fall a bit short. The speed is great if you are hitting a wireless site (Google for instance has a redirect to a low info site if you come from your phone) but so many sites are huge these days and take awhile to load.
If you are looking to connect to your house network make sure the interface is real simple (small screen, low bandwidth) and this should work for you.
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From http://www.speex.org/docs/manual/speex-manual/node4.html "Every speech codec introduces a delay in the transmission. For Speex, this delay is equal to the frame size, plus some amount of ``look-ahead'' required to process each frame. In narrowband operation (8 kHz), the delay is 30 ms, while for wideband (16 kHz), the delay is 34 ms. These values don't account for the CPU time it takes to encode or decode the frames." So speex has a higher latency.
48000 x $70 = $3.36 Million a month x 12 = $40.32 Million a year.
The cell phones are probably closer to $40 a month in order to get
48000 x $40 = $1.92 Million a month x 12 = $23.04 Million a year which is closer to the $20M dollar savings the article talked about.
This article questions the validity of the company.
A quantum computer is a computer that uses at least one quantum effect to solve problems. Currently quantum computers are leveraging either superposition or entanglement. A difficult hurdle to scaling quantum computers is decoherence which basically renders qubits inoperable. Decoherence happens when qubits are too close to each other. This is a major problem because currently we scale processors by cramming more and more transistors into a smaller and smaller space.
There is no one-way to build quantum computers. Several models are Gate model, Adiabatic, Measurement Based, and Topological. Several implementations are Ion Trap, NMR schemes, Nitrogen Vacancy, and Superconducting electronics. Some of these such as Nitrogen Vacancy are theoretical at this point since nobody has figured out how to implement them yet.
Basically Quantum computers at this stage aren't envisioned to replace classical computers, but they will be really useful as specialized computers for solving certain types of problems. The problem with classical computers are that they work off of classical physics and so they have a hard time modeling the way the universe really works (ie in a quantum manner). Quantum computers on the other hand behave in a quantum manner (duh) and so they are more ideally suited to solving simulation type problems. Some problems they are ideally suited for are machine learning, pattern recognition, neural networks, and building synthetic brains.
IBM has a 7 qubit machine that can successfully factor the number 15. This is not very impressive computationally but it does serve as a working proof that quantum computers aren't just theory. She showed a picture of a chip that has 128 qubits on it and another picture of a quantum computer that takes up a full room. She predicts we will see a commercially viable quantum computer within the next few years.
Of course, right now the worldwide market is zero, since they haven't actually constructed one yet.
Except that in the video she clearly talks about several quantum computers that have been built and have actually solved problems.
I think the problem is that anything that passes through the political system does not come out the way it is sent in. My main concern with what the FCC is pushing is that it is Net Neutrality plus exceptions. Net Neutrality is great and I fully support it, the question is whether Net Neutrality plus exceptions is going to leave loop holes that businesses can exploit to make the whole thing meaningless.
I love the way the Windows screen shot shows the control panel as if Windows' strong point is configurability. Contrast that with the Ubuntu screen shot which shows installed games as if Ubuntu's strength is its games.
This seems like a superior way to debug code. I especially like the way the inspections stay persistent and the way you are looking at a path of code instead of some call stack list. I don't know how well this would work for new development though.
If you are in the unix/linux world take a look at puppet. You provision out a set of nodes (allows node inheritance) and manage all your scripts, config files, etc from one central location (called the puppet master). Changes propagate to all servers that the change applied to automatically. It is built around keeping the configuration files in a versioned repository and is ready to use today.
Before you give up on solo marketing take a look at the book Duct Tape Marketing. It gives you a basic understanding of marketing and is geared towards doing it on the cheap. If you still want to hire out then you will at least be able to talk intelligently and have a better idea what to expect from whoever you hire.
The classic example is:
vector.size();
vector.get(0);
Each one of those calls is synchronized internally but the JVM can still switch threads inbetween the two calls causing a race condition. To make that code thead safe you need to synchronize externally:
synchronized(vector) {
vector.size();
vector.get(0);
}
Now the code is thread safe but there were three synchronization calls (our explicit call and one for size() and one for get()). Very inefficient.
A guy I used to work with got on an XML (I think it was for JAXP or something) committee by just asking.
> first feature lenght IMAX animation movie Lion King came out on IMAX a few years ago. -Phil
We can, it's called voting.
When I looked at Sourceforges projects by languages it came up with:
This hardly supports the argument that open source programmers prefer open source languages since none of the source forge crowd's top 3 languages are open source.
I am sure if Microsoft had their way they would love to find some way to region encode people's PCs so they could sell full versions for reduced prices in certain markets while continuing to gouge the developed world.
I just bought a 2 gallon gas tank at Pep Boys a month ago.
hmmm... Didn't HTML 4 come out in 1998? http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/
You mean resedit the resource editor that modified the resource forks of your files?
We are a pretty small company and needed to expand our storage capacity (from 250GB to 750GB) so we decided to get a whole new server while we were at it. We already have two Windows 2000 Advanced Server licenses so it would cost nothing (in license terms) to make it a Windows box, but after weighing all the factors we decided to go with Redhat 9. Even our lawyer (who is also the CFO) seems pretty excited about it.
Since the article was obviously US centric I will only defend it from the US perspective. You say this is happening on the local level. But it hasn't happened on a national level. The information cost is significantly less on a local level. -Phil
We have all spent years being quantified by percentages that translate into A, B, C, D, and F and further go into a meaningless 4 point scale GPA. Does GPA measure our intelligence, our ability to perform in the "real" world, or our worth as a member of society? None of these, it simply tells how successful we will be at taking school tests in the future. Now universities are being quantified by meaningless measurements and they expect us to feel sorry for them?
If you are looking to connect to your house network make sure the interface is real simple (small screen, low bandwidth) and this should work for you.