This report is no different than saying, "Scammer Groups are Using Multiple Email Accounts for Online Fraud!". The gmail dot feature makes it a tiny bit easier for them, but it's no different than using multiple fake email accounts. This is non-news.
The Bowmar Brain (1971) was the first electronic calculator made in the USA and it was also the first inexpensive calculator sold in the USA. As a result, it was also the first widely used calculator in the USA.
http://www.vintagecalculators....
From the article:
"Do German consumers benefit from negative prices? Not directly. The wholesale costs of power make up only about a fifth of the average household electricity bill in Germany. The rest is a stew of taxes, fees to finance renewable-energy investments, and charges for use of the grid. That means their bills are lower than they otherwise would be, because power prices are sometimes negative, though household energy bills have been rising overall anyway. Basically, utilities are not depositing money in customer's bank accounts."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...
http://techreport.com/review/3...
Conclusion: "If time is money for your work, and your work can take advantages of lots of threads, the i7-6950X is the fastest high-end desktop CPU we've ever tested, full stop. If you don't need all of its cores and threads, however, the Core i7-7700K arguably delivers the best gaming performance on the market for about a fifth of the price. Intel's Extreme Edition CPUs have never been good values, but the i7-6950X takes the definition of "halo product" to eye-watering new heights. If the return-on-investment calculations work out for you, though, the i7-6950X is an amazing chip."
How many visitors do you have? Seriously. 1000 button pushes is a LOT. Battery life is the least if your problems if you're getting that many visitors.
TIn 19 years none of the cloud infrastructure used by the button is going to work. You'll be lucky if the APis last a year. So that's like 3 button presses a day before your IoT button stops working anyway.
The best cheap camera drone currently is the HUBSAN X4 H107C-HD Quadcopter with 2MP Video Camera. For only $65, you get a quadcopter that shoots 720p video and can fly for 7 minutes per charge both indoors and out. It's a great way to learn how to fly a quadcopter and you won't get upset if you destroy it learning how to fly. You can even order it from B&H Photo http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...
You can drive the Asus PQ321 / Sharp PN-K321 at 3840x2160 with two HDMI ports or one DisplayPort. If your graphics card supports DisplayPort 1.1, then it can only drive the monitors at 3840x2160 30Hz. If your graphics card supports the latest DisplayPort 1.2, then you can drive the monitors at 60Hz if you are willing to configure it as if it were two 1920x2160 60Hz monitors side-by-side.
The Asus PQ321 appears to be the same IGZO monitor as the Sharp PN-K321. I purchased the Sharp PN-K321 last week and found it had less dynamic range / contrast than the Dell 3011 it replaced, which meant that pictures and movies looked better on the Dell than on the Sharp despite the higher resolution of the Sharp. And it was very difficult to configure all my applications to display text at the desired size. Regardless of how I set it up, some fonts in some applications were either too small or too large. I returned it yesterday, and I wouldn't be surprised if many others meet the same disappointing fate. The only application I can think of is where you need resolution and are willing to give up contrast / dynamic range. Maybe it's good for displaying maps?
Verizon discourages users from purchasing an iPhone because it costs more for them to subsidize iPhones than it costs them to subsidize other phones. It has nothing to do with 3g or 4g.
"The Other Half of 'Artists Ship'" presumes that large organizations are motivated by efficiency and effectiveness. This presumption completely misunderstands large organizations. Large organizations come to exist because they have tapped into a large reliable long-term cash stream that can survive their collective incompetence. With their organizational funding assured, all that is left to do is to divy up the organizational spoils amongst the employees, management, and shareholders. And then the key determinant success in such an organization becomes not to be blamed for making a mistake. No employee will get blamed for inadvertently excluding a superior vendor from an acquisition process; most likely no one in his/her organization will even know it happened. They can get blamed for having too lax an acquisition process, however. No employee will be blamed for having too much testing or too much project management or too many software quality checks. They can get blamed for releasing defective software onto a production system without sufficient checks. So the internal goals of the organizational actors are perfectly reflected in the external behavior of the organization. More checks means less blame for mistakes; fewer checks means more blame. With the organizational cash stream assured, less blame means more promotions and greater compensation.
According to the cray website, each CX1 node can have at most 8GB of RAM, not 64GB as stated in the original slashdot post. You can have at most 8 nodes/blades, so the CX1 can have a total of 64GB of RAM across all nodes, which is pretty thin on memory for a supercomputer.
I'll back this up. I benchmarked reiserfs, ext2, ext3, xfs, and jfs for a real-world disk-intensive application and reiserfs stomped all over the other filesystems. ext3 was second but xfs and jfs were so far behind I would never use them.
I have watched a crazy number of HD-DVDs and Blu-Rays and I can confirm that the original poster was correct: HD-DVD typically had better picture, better compression, better sound quality, and a cheaper method of production. The picture quality on most HD-DVDs was outstanding from the start, because most HD-DVDs were dual-layer (30GB) with the great VC1 MPEG4 video codec and TruHD audio codec which made excellent use of that space. In contrast, many Blu-Ray releases were one layer only (25GB) with the obsolete MPEG2 video codec and uncompressed PCM sound which squandered the 25GB. So while Blu-Ray had the theoretically higher storage and bit-rate specifications in reality it often delivered inferior picture quality and inferior audio quality. Also the HD-DVD specification was finalized before any players were sold so every player could access every advanced feature, including picture-in-picture, internet, etc. The Blu-Ray specifications were only finalized recently and you still can't buy a Blu-Ray player which offers all the features of even the first HD-DVD player sold (Toshiba A1/XA1). I will be sad if HD-DVD looses because it was by far the better deal for consumers.
Schools have high maintenance costs... So you have to amortize the cost of construction over a relatively short period of time, at most ten years. That still leaves you with an insanely high cost of $37.5k per student per year for the building alone, not including all your overhead and personel costs.
You are incorrect, Sir. All shipping BluRay disks are single layer, which only holds 25GB. Nearly all (perhaps all) shipping HD-DVD disks are dual layer and hold 30GB. So currently shipping HD-DVD media has greater raw capacity than currently shipping BluRay media.
Moreover all shipping BluRay movies are encoded with MPEG2. Nearly all shipping HD-DVD movies are encoded with VC-1, which can encode much higher bit rates than MPEG2. So anyway you count it, currently shipping HD-DVD disks have significantly greater capacity than currently shipping BluRay disks.
The only valuable piece of software owned by Rational is purify. Does anyone know if IBM donated purify to open source or did they keep it to themselves?
It's not about the frame rate, its about visual quality. The newer Dx9-class cards support some impressive visual effects such as "heat haze" that you will never get to see in your Dx8-class card. The higher end cards allow you to play at higher resolutions (and correspondingly greater visual quality) without taking a frame rate hit. Try playing Doom3 at 1600x1200 resolution on the highest quality setting --- its simply not possible for your card. Once you enjoy the higher visual quality made possible by a high end card, its difficult to go back to a low end card.
I dont' think that one is a laugher because its true. Hyperthreading is surprisingly effective for most real world applications that are not I/O bound. I routinely get 99% utilization on two simultaneous processes per CPU with hyperthreading. By and large hyperthreading is like having a dual core CPU for free. And for most compute-intensive problems, it's better to have two slightly slower cpus (Intel HT) than one slightly faster cpu (AMD).
Yes, cable companies are not known for their ability to innovate. That's not their business model. They wait for other companies to offer new capabilities (cable modems, program guides, on-demand cable, DVRs) and then buy them.
It sounds like Tivo employees are deluded about how cable companies work, when DVRs became a commodity item, what consumers want, and how much they are willing to pay for it. Not good.
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What standard is the Gmail dot feature ignoring? And what "competitive advantage" does it give them?
This report is no different than saying, "Scammer Groups are Using Multiple Email Accounts for Online Fraud!". The gmail dot feature makes it a tiny bit easier for them, but it's no different than using multiple fake email accounts. This is non-news.
Bingo! Patents don't protect anything without the ability to sue deep-pocketed infringers.
The Bowmar Brain (1971) was the first electronic calculator made in the USA and it was also the first inexpensive calculator sold in the USA. As a result, it was also the first widely used calculator in the USA. http://www.vintagecalculators....
From the article: "Do German consumers benefit from negative prices? Not directly. The wholesale costs of power make up only about a fifth of the average household electricity bill in Germany. The rest is a stew of taxes, fees to finance renewable-energy investments, and charges for use of the grid. That means their bills are lower than they otherwise would be, because power prices are sometimes negative, though household energy bills have been rising overall anyway. Basically, utilities are not depositing money in customer's bank accounts." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...
http://techreport.com/review/3... Conclusion: "If time is money for your work, and your work can take advantages of lots of threads, the i7-6950X is the fastest high-end desktop CPU we've ever tested, full stop. If you don't need all of its cores and threads, however, the Core i7-7700K arguably delivers the best gaming performance on the market for about a fifth of the price. Intel's Extreme Edition CPUs have never been good values, but the i7-6950X takes the definition of "halo product" to eye-watering new heights. If the return-on-investment calculations work out for you, though, the i7-6950X is an amazing chip."
How many visitors do you have? Seriously. 1000 button pushes is a LOT. Battery life is the least if your problems if you're getting that many visitors.
TIn 19 years none of the cloud infrastructure used by the button is going to work. You'll be lucky if the APis last a year. So that's like 3 button presses a day before your IoT button stops working anyway.
The best cheap camera drone currently is the HUBSAN X4 H107C-HD Quadcopter with 2MP Video Camera. For only $65, you get a quadcopter that shoots 720p video and can fly for 7 minutes per charge both indoors and out. It's a great way to learn how to fly a quadcopter and you won't get upset if you destroy it learning how to fly. You can even order it from B&H Photo http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/...
You can drive the Asus PQ321 / Sharp PN-K321 at 3840x2160 with two HDMI ports or one DisplayPort. If your graphics card supports DisplayPort 1.1, then it can only drive the monitors at 3840x2160 30Hz. If your graphics card supports the latest DisplayPort 1.2, then you can drive the monitors at 60Hz if you are willing to configure it as if it were two 1920x2160 60Hz monitors side-by-side.
The Asus PQ321 appears to be the same IGZO monitor as the Sharp PN-K321. I purchased the Sharp PN-K321 last week and found it had less dynamic range / contrast than the Dell 3011 it replaced, which meant that pictures and movies looked better on the Dell than on the Sharp despite the higher resolution of the Sharp. And it was very difficult to configure all my applications to display text at the desired size. Regardless of how I set it up, some fonts in some applications were either too small or too large. I returned it yesterday, and I wouldn't be surprised if many others meet the same disappointing fate. The only application I can think of is where you need resolution and are willing to give up contrast / dynamic range. Maybe it's good for displaying maps?
Verizon discourages users from purchasing an iPhone because it costs more for them to subsidize iPhones than it costs them to subsidize other phones. It has nothing to do with 3g or 4g.
The self-serving statements were from an HP exec who wants to excuse the fact that HP wasted $1.2 billion.
"The Other Half of 'Artists Ship'" presumes that large organizations are motivated by efficiency and effectiveness. This presumption completely misunderstands large organizations. Large organizations come to exist because they have tapped into a large reliable long-term cash stream that can survive their collective incompetence. With their organizational funding assured, all that is left to do is to divy up the organizational spoils amongst the employees, management, and shareholders. And then the key determinant success in such an organization becomes not to be blamed for making a mistake. No employee will get blamed for inadvertently excluding a superior vendor from an acquisition process; most likely no one in his/her organization will even know it happened. They can get blamed for having too lax an acquisition process, however. No employee will be blamed for having too much testing or too much project management or too many software quality checks. They can get blamed for releasing defective software onto a production system without sufficient checks. So the internal goals of the organizational actors are perfectly reflected in the external behavior of the organization. More checks means less blame for mistakes; fewer checks means more blame. With the organizational cash stream assured, less blame means more promotions and greater compensation.
According to the cray website, each CX1 node can have at most 8GB of RAM, not 64GB as stated in the original slashdot post. You can have at most 8 nodes/blades, so the CX1 can have a total of 64GB of RAM across all nodes, which is pretty thin on memory for a supercomputer.
I'll back this up. I benchmarked reiserfs, ext2, ext3, xfs, and jfs for a real-world disk-intensive application and reiserfs stomped all over the other filesystems. ext3 was second but xfs and jfs were so far behind I would never use them.
Laptopmag.com is live blogging a test of the XOHM WiMax deployment in Baltmore http://blog.laptopmag.com/live-with-xohm-wimax-in-baltimore
I have watched a crazy number of HD-DVDs and Blu-Rays and I can confirm that the original poster was correct: HD-DVD typically had better picture, better compression, better sound quality, and a cheaper method of production. The picture quality on most HD-DVDs was outstanding from the start, because most HD-DVDs were dual-layer (30GB) with the great VC1 MPEG4 video codec and TruHD audio codec which made excellent use of that space. In contrast, many Blu-Ray releases were one layer only (25GB) with the obsolete MPEG2 video codec and uncompressed PCM sound which squandered the 25GB. So while Blu-Ray had the theoretically higher storage and bit-rate specifications in reality it often delivered inferior picture quality and inferior audio quality. Also the HD-DVD specification was finalized before any players were sold so every player could access every advanced feature, including picture-in-picture, internet, etc. The Blu-Ray specifications were only finalized recently and you still can't buy a Blu-Ray player which offers all the features of even the first HD-DVD player sold (Toshiba A1/XA1). I will be sad if HD-DVD looses because it was by far the better deal for consumers.
Schools have high maintenance costs... So you have to amortize the cost of construction over a relatively short period of time, at most ten years. That still leaves you with an insanely high cost of $37.5k per student per year for the building alone, not including all your overhead and personel costs.
You are incorrect, Sir. All shipping BluRay disks are single layer, which only holds 25GB. Nearly all (perhaps all) shipping HD-DVD disks are dual layer and hold 30GB. So currently shipping HD-DVD media has greater raw capacity than currently shipping BluRay media. Moreover all shipping BluRay movies are encoded with MPEG2. Nearly all shipping HD-DVD movies are encoded with VC-1, which can encode much higher bit rates than MPEG2. So anyway you count it, currently shipping HD-DVD disks have significantly greater capacity than currently shipping BluRay disks.
The only valuable piece of software owned by Rational is purify. Does anyone know if IBM donated purify to open source or did they keep it to themselves?
How does Google EArth compare to NASA's excellent Worldwind application http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ ?
It's not about the frame rate, its about visual quality. The newer Dx9-class cards support some impressive visual effects such as "heat haze" that you will never get to see in your Dx8-class card. The higher end cards allow you to play at higher resolutions (and correspondingly greater visual quality) without taking a frame rate hit. Try playing Doom3 at 1600x1200 resolution on the highest quality setting --- its simply not possible for your card. Once you enjoy the higher visual quality made possible by a high end card, its difficult to go back to a low end card.
I dont' think that one is a laugher because its true. Hyperthreading is surprisingly effective for most real world applications that are not I/O bound. I routinely get 99% utilization on two simultaneous processes per CPU with hyperthreading. By and large hyperthreading is like having a dual core CPU for free. And for most compute-intensive problems, it's better to have two slightly slower cpus (Intel HT) than one slightly faster cpu (AMD).
Yes, cable companies are not known for their ability to innovate. That's not their business model. They wait for other companies to offer new capabilities (cable modems, program guides, on-demand cable, DVRs) and then buy them.
It sounds like Tivo employees are deluded about how cable companies work, when DVRs became a commodity item, what consumers want, and how much they are willing to pay for it. Not good.