I agree totally, and that article looks like the kind of advancement thats needed, but the article you reference says that:
For now, their device is still on glass. But they insist they've cleared the major hurdles for putting it on a flexible surface. And the circuits produce a decent picture: 64 by 64 pixels with 256 shades of grey and the contrast of black ink on paper.
Don't you think they would have announced it as a viable result by now if they could have done?
They have been trying to do this for over 30 years now, another couple of years is a drop in the ocean.
Its not about being a Microsoft hater. Most people I know who use firefox still use and prefer MS Windows to the alternatives.
Software compatibility is important and being able to go into a shop and buy any software for Windows means Windows will remain for a while. When the tiny Apple or Linux section in computer shops grows and software is generically released for more platforms things will change.
My local PC world (in England) is already being taken over by Apple Macs so its only a matter of time now:)
Just because some parts of the industry move forward at phenominal pace, doesn't mean everything does. The actual process appears limited to a physically moving object rather than a smaller die. Sure, they may eventually crack it, but 4 years isn't "that" long in real world terms.
I've seen figures of around 0.5-1.0 seconds per pixel full addressing for these type of displays. Whilst not quick enough for movies (as you point out), would be perfectly acceptable for virtual paper:)
"In addition, although the transistors allow a switching speed of about 2.5 milliseconds, the total time for an image to change smoothly is about one second; typical LCD's pixels are refreshed 70 times a second. "Currently the electronic ink, and not the transistors, limit the speed,"
Hang on a minute, its not all rosey when you got a huge high pressure hose for a knob:
"But having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask, and one of the two males stranded on the Spanish coast had accidentally injected himself with sperm packages in the legs and body. And this does not seem to have been an isolated incident since two of the eight males that had stranded in the north-east Atlantic before had also accidentally inseminated themselves.
If nothing else, this buys them the bittorrent.com domain name.
When there is a for money version of the software as the top result in google, then the greater majority of normal people will buy it.
Raping that site alone will easily bring back the investment, even if they never host another torrent again.
"bittorrent" has become the cool way to download things, think about how you explain to somebody how to download a movie, your first words are "I use bittorrent to download it, but i go to xyz.com tracker site" Normals can only remember "bittorrent":)
Nothing wrong with advertising their own content as long as its above board. The article was selected because it was submitted and was interesting (if the editors read it), and not because of a hidden agenda (we hope). Slashdot didn't have to post it, and there would be nothing Carl could do about it.
Astroturfing is something completely different, and would be like Carl hiding in the comments as multiple accounts giving insight and additional information about the article, whilst shooting down anyone who doesn't agree.
The text is written just next to the big flashing label near the white pixel over there just up from the murky thistle thingy when you look backwards using a dog as a complex lens.
the label says: T3H 5Ux0r
I am thinking it will have been in a previous weeks update, and has been removed now. On the other news articles the images of the countdown have different details (rabbits moved, new apples etc), so its possible that it just got hidden again.
You just looked more carefully at a website and spent time talking about it some more.
The guys doing this site must be wetting themselves at the reactions its getting.
"It's like in chess. First, you strategically position your pieces, and when the timing is right you.. strike. They're using this signal to synchronize their efforts and in approximately, twelve hours..the countdown will be over. {and then..} Checkmate!"
Somebody better send Jeff Goldblum an Apple mac, quickly.
The phone line is a requirement because a large percentage of the population have just phone service from a cable company and have no copper wires from the BT phone exchange.
1) Biggest problem as far as I can see, we may become experts at shooting solid cored bodies in space, but would still be bolloxed with a "fragile" mass.
2) We almost routinely manage to shoot spacecraft into orbit around other planets. This requires great precision and skill, being slightly off will cause the craft to either skim the atmosphere and shoot off into space, or burn up in it. We have also performed a number of rendezvous with asteroids and comets in the past. This I believe is the "easiest" part of the mission.
3) Whether it is deflected or absorbed is almost irrelevant, the collision MUST cause a deflection, and that deflection is always going to be opposite to the impact vector.
4) Lets just hope the cameras are focused this time.
Lots of slashdotters go there because there are lots of reviews. When a new one is posted, it gets submitted and because its good gets posted here...
Either that or Hemos is taking backhanders from the hexus BOFHs to push for extra server upgrades "Boss, the servers keep going down, we need more power".
Since dolphins cannot discern the difference between enemy and friendly vessels, or enemy and friendly divers and swimmers, it would not be wise to give that kind of decision authority to an animal.
The powerpoint presentation was a little murky at this point, the slide in question had the following:
1) Read unknown filename and attributes
2) ????
3) Display error message
4) Profit
They are leaving it to the developers who spent 3 hours handwaving and making grand gestures whilst all the time crossing their toes and hoping they didn't get either fired or berated by the OSS community peers.
I've noticed that greasemonkey is the most sluggish addin to date, the stalling problem has gotten noticable since installing it (some complex pages take ~10seconds of freeze). I suppose it could be the same with any addin that scans the entire page and makes modifications to it.
Add to that the fact there are 5 different addins all doing slightly different things to the page, but each scanning them seperately, I tend to look for addins and scripts which combine actions and modifications in one sweep (for instance remove redirects, and remove mouseevent handlers).
Using javascript is cool, but when are we going to get a faster model for precompiled addins?
As for crashing, I haven't had FF crash on me for a while (since I uninstalled forecastfox actually, but thats another story).
After reading the threads, it appears as though you are right, BUT the nano scratches appear more eye catching. Perhaps its because of the colour screen, or the scale of scratches compared to the size of it?
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I agree totally, and that article looks like the kind of advancement thats needed, but the article you reference says that:
For now, their device is still on glass. But they insist they've cleared the major hurdles for putting it on a flexible surface. And the circuits produce a decent picture: 64 by 64 pixels with 256 shades of grey and the contrast of black ink on paper.
Don't you think they would have announced it as a viable result by now if they could have done?
They have been trying to do this for over 30 years now, another couple of years is a drop in the ocean.
Its not about being a Microsoft hater.
:)
Most people I know who use firefox still use and prefer MS Windows to the alternatives.
Software compatibility is important and being able to go into a shop and buy any software for Windows means Windows will remain for a while.
When the tiny Apple or Linux section in computer shops grows and software is generically released for more platforms things will change.
My local PC world (in England) is already being taken over by Apple Macs so its only a matter of time now
Thats still sounds a like a hell of a lot better future than if they chose Microsoft for the on board diagnosis:
"Mission Control, this is Mars Pathfinder 1, we are experiencing minor power fluctuations on bus C and require some diagnostic advice, over..."
Clippy: It looks like your all going to die. Would you like to.....
*silent scream*
A giant leap for google kind towards the Copernicus Center
Why would you assume that?
Just because some parts of the industry move forward at phenominal pace, doesn't mean everything does.
The actual process appears limited to a physically moving object rather than a smaller die. Sure, they may eventually crack it, but 4 years isn't "that" long in real world terms.
I've seen figures of around 0.5-1.0 seconds per pixel full addressing for these type of displays. :)
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Whilst not quick enough for movies (as you point out), would be perfectly acceptable for virtual paper
heres a link to an article mentioning the 1second refresh
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/052301/Prototype_sh
"In addition, although the transistors allow a switching speed of about 2.5 milliseconds, the total time for an image to change smoothly is about one second; typical LCD's pixels are refreshed 70 times a second. "Currently the electronic ink, and not the transistors, limit the speed,"
The copy protection is between Sandisk->sandisk compatible transfers (from what I can tell)
Otherwise I assume the data will be an encrypted blob and be unusable.
Hang on a minute, its not all rosey when you got a huge high pressure hose for a knob:
"But having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask, and one of the two males stranded on the Spanish coast had accidentally injected himself with sperm packages in the legs and body. And this does not seem to have been an isolated incident since two of the eight males that had stranded in the north-east Atlantic before had also accidentally inseminated themselves.
If nothing else, this buys them the bittorrent.com domain name.
:)
When there is a for money version of the software as the top result in google, then the greater majority of normal people will buy it.
Raping that site alone will easily bring back the investment, even if they never host another torrent again.
"bittorrent" has become the cool way to download things, think about how you explain to somebody how to download a movie, your first words are "I use bittorrent to download it, but i go to xyz.com tracker site" Normals can only remember "bittorrent"
That is until your ISP slaps you with a massive bandwidth bill at the end of the month for going over your quota.
will the £x credit from your movie sharing top the £y per gigabyte overcharge?
No, just clearly trying to get their story out.
Nothing wrong with advertising their own content as long as its above board.
The article was selected because it was submitted and was interesting (if the editors read it), and not because of a hidden agenda (we hope). Slashdot didn't have to post it, and there would be nothing Carl could do about it.
Astroturfing is something completely different, and would be like Carl hiding in the comments as multiple accounts giving insight and additional information about the article, whilst shooting down anyone who doesn't agree.
I totally agree.
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It appears that between their 5th birthday and this one, they have blurred the lines.
But google never lies, so here is a google search backing up what the parent said:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=September+19
The text is written just next to the big flashing label near the white pixel over there just up from the murky thistle thingy when you look backwards using a dog as a complex lens.
the label says: T3H 5Ux0r
I am thinking it will have been in a previous weeks update, and has been removed now. On the other news articles the images of the countdown have different details (rabbits moved, new apples etc), so its possible that it just got hidden again.
You just looked more carefully at a website and spent time talking about it some more.
The guys doing this site must be wetting themselves at the reactions its getting.
You can never get those wasted 5 minutes back you know.
As much as you protest, Microsoft had you by the balls.
"It's like in chess. First, you strategically position your pieces, and when the timing is right you.. strike. They're using this signal to synchronize their efforts and in approximately, twelve hours ..the countdown will be over. {and then..} Checkmate!"
Somebody better send Jeff Goldblum an Apple mac, quickly.
Of course it doesnt mean that.
The internal network in our office runs at 100Mbps.
Theres a lot more than 4 machines connected to it at any one time.
Its only ever an issue if its physically processing some large query or internally shuffling some files around.
The phone line is a requirement because a large percentage of the population have just phone service from a cable company and have no copper wires from the BT phone exchange.
1) Biggest problem as far as I can see, we may become experts at shooting solid cored bodies in space, but would still be bolloxed with a "fragile" mass.
2) We almost routinely manage to shoot spacecraft into orbit around other planets.
This requires great precision and skill, being slightly off will cause the craft to either skim the atmosphere and shoot off into space, or burn up in it. We have also performed a number of rendezvous with asteroids and comets in the past. This I believe is the "easiest" part of the mission.
3) Whether it is deflected or absorbed is almost irrelevant, the collision MUST cause a deflection, and that deflection is always going to be opposite to the impact vector.
4) Lets just hope the cameras are focused this time.
I prefered it when Bob Marley was the only one Jamming.
Chicken and egg.
Lots of slashdotters go there because there are lots of reviews.
When a new one is posted, it gets submitted and because its good gets posted here...
Either that or Hemos is taking backhanders from the hexus BOFHs to push for extra server upgrades "Boss, the servers keep going down, we need more power".
Since dolphins cannot discern the difference between enemy and friendly vessels, or enemy and friendly divers and swimmers, it would not be wise to give that kind of decision authority to an animal.
Just how did they find that information out?
The powerpoint presentation was a little murky at this point, the slide in question had the following:
1) Read unknown filename and attributes
2) ????
3) Display error message
4) Profit
They are leaving it to the developers who spent 3 hours handwaving and making grand gestures whilst all the time crossing their toes and hoping they didn't get either fired or berated by the OSS community peers.
Version 19: Added Skin texture and sold thousands of them to the porn industry.
I've noticed that greasemonkey is the most sluggish addin to date, the stalling problem has gotten noticable since installing it (some complex pages take ~10seconds of freeze). I suppose it could be the same with any addin that scans the entire page and makes modifications to it.
Add to that the fact there are 5 different addins all doing slightly different things to the page, but each scanning them seperately, I tend to look for addins and scripts which combine actions and modifications in one sweep (for instance remove redirects, and remove mouseevent handlers).
Using javascript is cool, but when are we going to get a faster model for precompiled addins?
As for crashing, I haven't had FF crash on me for a while (since I uninstalled forecastfox actually, but thats another story).
After reading the threads, it appears as though you are right, BUT the nano scratches appear more eye catching.
Perhaps its because of the colour screen, or the scale of scratches compared to the size of it?
Its turning into another issue for Apple.