From personal experience with these displays, it looks like they fade to black before updating their information. At least at this stage of development, this would limit usage as a video monitor.
I had an opportunity to see one of these first-hand at UIUC's Engineering Open House. It appeared to be the very same type of unit pictured in the article. I was instantly impressed, of course, but when I inquired about the technology the representative said that they're company had more or less gone broke, and the technology had little chance of being further refined.
This is a golden opportunity for investors, if true.
According to the article, "The Altivec shows has 80% increase of performances with the 970."
This strikes me as being odd, considering that an IBM chip shouldn't have an "Altivec" unit (Altivec is a Motorola brand name.) I know the 970 is supposed to have a vector processor, maybe the author's just screwed up. I'd certainly like to believe this article.
Anybody know just how "consumers" are to get HD off this thing for editing? Last I heard, capturing true HD required a PCI card that cost over twice as much as this camera. Or is the MPEG-2 compression (which probably sucks, btw) enough to fit it over a standard firewire interface? In any event, some new Codecs are going to be needed before this can be useful for most.
"And we'd caution against reading too much into the AMD official's comments."
I nearly cracked up when i read this sentence, keeping in mind that the whole rumor-mongering session was started by an assumption that "talking with all first and second tier clients" must have included apple.
Not too far off from this, I've seen rollup LCDs the size and weight of a sheet of paper. Granted, they're black and white with a terrible refresh rate, but technology like this exists and would be incredibly cool if further developed. Unfortunately, the developers of this say that their funding has dried up.
The article states that next, he's building a capsule with 3 seats to attempt the shot into space. Can someone take a guess at who's gonna be crazy enough to want to blow up with that nut?
BTW, in Soviet Russia, the space program builds YOU, and that's the way it ought to be.
>>ICANN would perform much better if it were composed of dry, harmless, bones.
But then we'd have to worry about skeletons. You know, the mean kind that Necromancers auto-summon if they have enough mana. Kinda like all those terrorist states that keep getting in our way now that the Soviets are gone. Though I doubt we'd have to worry too much about that with ICANN. What are they gonna do, throw paperwork at us?
Actually, I think this means that you can ONLY listen to these disks on Windows systems. They're still providing the electronic media files (probably low quality) but they're the WMA files that my mac and iPod hate. Worse yet, they might even be using the sort of copy-protection that causes many systems to crash upon encountering the disks.
What is needed is a standardized, cross-platform method for rights protection.
Does this remind anyone else of the terminals in Bungie's Marathon series? Specifically the messed up poetry ones that confused the hell out of me when I played it as a kid. It's certainly an interesting way to present art, whatever the heck that art is.
It's a rare thing when someone actually thinks outside the box (pardon the pun) enough to make a design that's actually both efficient and user friendly. And, is incredibly sweet, though it is rather large like our ninja's sweet friends the Hippos.
I wonder if an apple motherboard might fit inside, i'm becoming increasingly fed up with apple design and am looking for a nice platform for an anti-mac of sorts.
"Orbis Non Suficit."
I'm obliged to point out that the latest macs use a quick ATA/100 bus as well as a secondary ATA/66 bus.
And that's not just plain DDR RAM in our macs, thats special, magic DDR RAM! And at least macs don't need as many fans as a PC... oh wait, what's that high-pitched noise...
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From personal experience with these displays, it looks like they fade to black before updating their information. At least at this stage of development, this would limit usage as a video monitor.
This is a golden opportunity for investors, if true.
This strikes me as being odd, considering that an IBM chip shouldn't have an "Altivec" unit (Altivec is a Motorola brand name.) I know the 970 is supposed to have a vector processor, maybe the author's just screwed up. I'd certainly like to believe this article.
Anybody know just how "consumers" are to get HD off this thing for editing? Last I heard, capturing true HD required a PCI card that cost over twice as much as this camera. Or is the MPEG-2 compression (which probably sucks, btw) enough to fit it over a standard firewire interface? In any event, some new Codecs are going to be needed before this can be useful for most.
I nearly cracked up when i read this sentence, keeping in mind that the whole rumor-mongering session was started by an assumption that "talking with all first and second tier clients" must have included apple.
Investors?
BTW, in Soviet Russia, the space program builds YOU, and that's the way it ought to be.
>>ICANN would perform much better if it were composed of dry, harmless, bones.
But then we'd have to worry about skeletons. You know, the mean kind that Necromancers auto-summon if they have enough mana. Kinda like all those terrorist states that keep getting in our way now that the Soviets are gone. Though I doubt we'd have to worry too much about that with ICANN. What are they gonna do, throw paperwork at us?
Actually, I think this means that you can ONLY listen to these disks on Windows systems. They're still providing the electronic media files (probably low quality) but they're the WMA files that my mac and iPod hate. Worse yet, they might even be using the sort of copy-protection that causes many systems to crash upon encountering the disks.
What is needed is a standardized, cross-platform method for rights protection.
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"Orbis non suficit"
It's a rare thing when someone actually thinks outside the box (pardon the pun) enough to make a design that's actually both efficient and user friendly. And, is incredibly sweet, though it is rather large like our ninja's sweet friends the Hippos. I wonder if an apple motherboard might fit inside, i'm becoming increasingly fed up with apple design and am looking for a nice platform for an anti-mac of sorts. "Orbis Non Suficit."
I'm obliged to point out that the latest macs use a quick ATA/100 bus as well as a secondary ATA/66 bus.
And that's not just plain DDR RAM in our macs, thats special, magic DDR RAM! And at least macs don't need as many fans as a PC... oh wait, what's that high-pitched noise...
"Orbis Non Suficit."