Well for the near term i do not think there is a chance of a major shakeup of XFCE. They seem to focus on steady refinements. But if they should get a sudden influx of devs and general interest, that may change as the people involved becomes high on the attention.
I find myself wondering if what they are doing is using voxels to step down the detail level om distant objects while stepping it up on near objects, and not even bothering with the objects out of view.
The question is not what 3D printing can do today, but tomorrow or a decade ahead. Faster depositing (seems right now much of the speed issue comes from moving a "printing head" around), the ability to mix materials in a single run (no assembly required, tho maintenance may be a bitch), perhaps even recycling old objects for new ones (the ST replicator was capable of breaking down objects as well as assembling them, meaning little to no waste and no dishes to clean).
The trick will be to get 3D printers that can work with multiple materials at the same time. This so that the heating wire and the shell is printed at the same time.
And perhaps also borrowing some recent development in inkjet printing may affect how fast these printers can work. There is a company out there that makes inkjet printers that use a page wide printing head. So rather then physically move the head for each line, the ink is gated to the relevant area of the page, and may even be used on multiple point at the same time.
It may be possible to do something similar with 3D printing, resulting in shorter print time.
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Not uncommon for people to have the TV along one wall and the couch along the opposing one. This quickly results in 12' if they are after making maximum use of the floor space in said room.
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In theory, at the point where digital goes crappy your looking at a unwatchable analog signal anyways. In practice however, the amount of error correction included in a stream is adjusted by the service provider. And less correction data means they can fit more streams in a single data channel. End result is that all bets are off...
Well a complete recovery may not be possible. But optical media, at least at present, have redundancies built into the data format. Also, back when CD-ROM was new, i think some designers considered a caddy system. Basically something similar to a over-sized diskette. Sony had a magnetoptical format called Minidisc that was used for portable music playback. And i seem to recall MO drives also being sold for backup use. Basically this is a kind of optical media that is written much like a HDD. This by heating the disc using a laser, and altering the reflectiveness of the material with the magnetic field. It can then be later read much like a CD.
The Libs are likely to say it is McCain. I am not sure there is a Gandalf figure around these days, even considering a global view rather then a US one.
BR should have been sold for computer storage first, home video second. So far HDTV have been a marketing flop, and a replay of the flop that was high bitrate audio discs. Said discs used DVD as the physical layer, but was otherwise the same as a CD in its logical layout. Same number of tracks and so on, only higher encoding bitrate pr track. Likely few have ever heard of it.
this because first of, CD was "good enough". Second, because they did not give a physical benefit over CD. By this i mean that when CD was introduced it most apparent benefit was that you could jump directly to a track with the push of a button. No FF or REW to get the right song, or trying to find the correct groove on a record. Insert, hit the number, play.
DVD gave the same physical jump over VHS. No need to rewind after a showing, being able to instantly jump to a specific scene one wanted. And when TV Series started showing up boxed, one could have several pr disc and jump to a specific one. Best way BR could top that was by stuffing more onto a single disc, perhaps whole seasons.
Add to this that people would have to fuss with getting a new TV, new cabling, new player, and things just add up. In comparison the DVD was a drop in replacement, using the same connectors as the VHS it replaced. And the same with the CD, players connecting right alongside existing playback equipment present.
And the less is said about the HDCP the better i suspect. I wonder how much weird behavior i have seen or read about regarding one device refusing to talk to another because of DRM issues. DVD in comparison JUST WORKS! (at least once the joke that was CSS was broken)
Hell, i am willing to bet that Mini-Discs tanked because of the hoop jumping one needed to do to get music onto the format, while at the same time any dollar store MP3 player could be plugged into a computer and accessed just like any other storage device. For most people out there, convenience overcomes just about any other consideration (except perhaps basic survival).
Well there is the, imo, often overlooked issue of the HDD being a sealed unit. Drive hardware or control board dies, and it is game over (unless your willing to fork the cash for that clean room dissection). With optical or tape, if the hardware dies you can replace it with a equal unit and still access the media.
Easier to sell hardware that looks "impressive" in the living room then stuff that is actually good at what is doing. Surround sound was the 3D of the 90s.
We should not forget that Apple did bootstrap it from Khtml, the HTML engine made for the KDE desktop. Hell, if people had not noticed and petitioned Apple for the changes (the engine was under GPL or LGPL) it may not be a webkit as we know it today.
I run the browser maximized mostly because page designs are expecting a large playing field. Still, i do enjoy a minimal Desktop (XFCE) and the new Firefox5 minimalist interface.
And right now all but one of the brand name phone firmwares use Webkit as their go to HTML rendering library (Windows Phone 7 being the "odd" one out).
This then becomes a kind of mobile web monoculture, and i have already seen one site that focuses on mobile Safari. Shades of "Requires IE6" anyone?
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I think the more generic term is "action RPG". That is, story is secondary to beefing up the character via repeated combat and loot collecting.
Well for the near term i do not think there is a chance of a major shakeup of XFCE. They seem to focus on steady refinements. But if they should get a sudden influx of devs and general interest, that may change as the people involved becomes high on the attention.
I find myself wondering if what they are doing is using voxels to step down the detail level om distant objects while stepping it up on near objects, and not even bothering with the objects out of view.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080402023736/http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/fiction/bs01.htm
http://boingboing.net/2011/03/15/my-weird-femur-print.html
The question is not what 3D printing can do today, but tomorrow or a decade ahead. Faster depositing (seems right now much of the speed issue comes from moving a "printing head" around), the ability to mix materials in a single run (no assembly required, tho maintenance may be a bitch), perhaps even recycling old objects for new ones (the ST replicator was capable of breaking down objects as well as assembling them, meaning little to no waste and no dishes to clean).
The trick will be to get 3D printers that can work with multiple materials at the same time. This so that the heating wire and the shell is printed at the same time.
And perhaps also borrowing some recent development in inkjet printing may affect how fast these printers can work. There is a company out there that makes inkjet printers that use a page wide printing head. So rather then physically move the head for each line, the ink is gated to the relevant area of the page, and may even be used on multiple point at the same time.
It may be possible to do something similar with 3D printing, resulting in shorter print time.
And it is spreading. The other day there was news that Foxconn (yes, that Foxconn) was going to buy a whole lot of industrial robots.
And industrial robots are getting better all the time:
http://singularityhub.com/2011/04/23/look-out-humans-this-frida-robot-from-abb-will-take-your-factory-job/
Depends on the ability to recycle the material when broken or not.
I know there are some project or other out there looking into grinding up and reusing previous creations as feed for new ones.
"Senate smash puny civil rights!"
"No officer, i am not listening to music. I am collecting energy".
Sounds like a "legal" racket to me...
Not uncommon for people to have the TV along one wall and the couch along the opposing one. This quickly results in 12' if they are after making maximum use of the floor space in said room.
In theory, at the point where digital goes crappy your looking at a unwatchable analog signal anyways. In practice however, the amount of error correction included in a stream is adjusted by the service provider. And less correction data means they can fit more streams in a single data channel. End result is that all bets are off...
Well a complete recovery may not be possible. But optical media, at least at present, have redundancies built into the data format. Also, back when CD-ROM was new, i think some designers considered a caddy system. Basically something similar to a over-sized diskette. Sony had a magnetoptical format called Minidisc that was used for portable music playback. And i seem to recall MO drives also being sold for backup use. Basically this is a kind of optical media that is written much like a HDD. This by heating the disc using a laser, and altering the reflectiveness of the material with the magnetic field. It can then be later read much like a CD.
The Libs are likely to say it is McCain. I am not sure there is a Gandalf figure around these days, even considering a global view rather then a US one.
BR should have been sold for computer storage first, home video second. So far HDTV have been a marketing flop, and a replay of the flop that was high bitrate audio discs. Said discs used DVD as the physical layer, but was otherwise the same as a CD in its logical layout. Same number of tracks and so on, only higher encoding bitrate pr track. Likely few have ever heard of it.
this because first of, CD was "good enough". Second, because they did not give a physical benefit over CD. By this i mean that when CD was introduced it most apparent benefit was that you could jump directly to a track with the push of a button. No FF or REW to get the right song, or trying to find the correct groove on a record. Insert, hit the number, play.
DVD gave the same physical jump over VHS. No need to rewind after a showing, being able to instantly jump to a specific scene one wanted. And when TV Series started showing up boxed, one could have several pr disc and jump to a specific one. Best way BR could top that was by stuffing more onto a single disc, perhaps whole seasons.
Add to this that people would have to fuss with getting a new TV, new cabling, new player, and things just add up. In comparison the DVD was a drop in replacement, using the same connectors as the VHS it replaced. And the same with the CD, players connecting right alongside existing playback equipment present.
And the less is said about the HDCP the better i suspect. I wonder how much weird behavior i have seen or read about regarding one device refusing to talk to another because of DRM issues. DVD in comparison JUST WORKS! (at least once the joke that was CSS was broken)
Hell, i am willing to bet that Mini-Discs tanked because of the hoop jumping one needed to do to get music onto the format, while at the same time any dollar store MP3 player could be plugged into a computer and accessed just like any other storage device. For most people out there, convenience overcomes just about any other consideration (except perhaps basic survival).
Well there is the, imo, often overlooked issue of the HDD being a sealed unit. Drive hardware or control board dies, and it is game over (unless your willing to fork the cash for that clean room dissection). With optical or tape, if the hardware dies you can replace it with a equal unit and still access the media.
Easier to sell hardware that looks "impressive" in the living room then stuff that is actually good at what is doing. Surround sound was the 3D of the 90s.
Would playing one in a orchestra suffice?
We should not forget that Apple did bootstrap it from Khtml, the HTML engine made for the KDE desktop. Hell, if people had not noticed and petitioned Apple for the changes (the engine was under GPL or LGPL) it may not be a webkit as we know it today.
Funny enough the history of Mozilla contains Netscape Communicator, and one can still see it today in the form of Seamonkey.
I run the browser maximized mostly because page designs are expecting a large playing field. Still, i do enjoy a minimal Desktop (XFCE) and the new Firefox5 minimalist interface.
And right now all but one of the brand name phone firmwares use Webkit as their go to HTML rendering library (Windows Phone 7 being the "odd" one out).
This then becomes a kind of mobile web monoculture, and i have already seen one site that focuses on mobile Safari. Shades of "Requires IE6" anyone?
With quite possibly a sprinkling of atheists and some other beliefs.