Am I the only one concerned that some IP legal battle could ground the planes? If GM steals some contractors software and puts it in their new SUVs does it mean people who own those SUVs can't drive them? I understand that no more predators should be built using the code, but to render useless all the predators already in use seems wrong. According to US law if I purchase stolen property I have to give it back for free even if I didn't know it was stolen, so if a company stole property on a grand scale would all the purchasers have to hand it back?
Besides, I think he was offering his recent experience with building Generic vs Dell which is what the author is trying to do, not necessarily saying he must use 6 core processors.
"Hey, I can pay a huge premium for something that will give me a headache, requires glasses and that almost no content can use. "
Or pay for a feature I'll only use maybe 4 hours a month, assuming you watch a 3D movie twice a month. Sorry, that 4 hours of fun a month is not worth an extra $2,000, I could buy a lot of Avatar 3D tickets for that.
Besides, if we all had 3D HDTVs doesn't that mean pirates would download 3D movies and the MPAA would be mad again? Can't make everyone happy.
A 55" HDTV is $900 and a 50" is only $650. If a family spent 2 years paying off a TV they have bigger concerns than the size of their TV, they might want to spend the time wasted watching TV working towards getting a better job.
Because we're 200 years behind: "In 1802, H. Goodwin published an observation on the appearance of 9s in the repeating-decimal representations of fractions whose denominators are certain prime numbers. "
Slashdot: News For Nerds Stuck In The Past. Stuff That Use To Matter.
I have wikipedia too...:
"When a number in decimal notation is multiplied by 10, the digits do not change but the decimal separator moves one place to the right. Thus 10 × 0.999... equals 9.999..., which is 9 greater than the original number. To see this, consider that in subtracting 0.999... from 9.999..., each of the digits after the decimal separator the result is 9 9, which is 0. The final step uses algebra:"
I stand corrected: according to that article it certainly sounds like the GPU is being used for video encoding: "the GPU makes use of the same features that the 9700 Pro (R300) version did, namely VideoSoap, utilising the shader unit on the GPU to apply realtime effects on the video stream to clean it up, and partial MPEG encoding. While it's not a full offload on to the GPU (that I can tell), it still allows a drop in CPU utilisation when recording video to your hard drive. "
I think ATI has a case for prior art since they actually had a product on the market in 2003 that did "Accelerated video encoding using a graphics processing unit". No doubt there were press materials and other information released long before this CPU was available.
""nVidia has also added support for video encoding with the introduction of PureVideo and most of the playback features can be applied to the encoding side of the equation as well, with the video noise reduction looking particularly handy.""
Like it says, PureVideo was suppose to make it easier to play videos because the GPU was playing the video instead of the CPU, so your CPU wouldn't be bogged down trying to play a Blu-Ray. This is ommonly known as hardware-acceleration.
Seems to have nothing to do with GPU video encoding, like converting from one video format to another.
FTFA: "With just 4 months of data, it's clear that the iPhone 4 is significantly more prone to physical damage than its predecessor."
Actually that's not what that means. What is clear is people are breaking the iPhone 4 more than they did the 3GS. Could be any number of factors, doesn't necessarily mean iPhone 4 screen worse than 3GS. I think squaretrade needs a Jump to Conclusions mat. It's pretty scary though that a company that offers warranties makes unscientific assumptions about the products they're warrantying, I'd expect a better conclusion than this from SquareTrade "Research"
Before we get a million "Adobe does this!" comments RTFA: "Microsoft applied for the patent titled “Accelerated video encoding using a graphics processing unit” in October 2004"
"Sony is much, much more likely to release their own phone with their own OS than team up with Google."
I'm not sure why the author of the article thought Sony needed Google. Of the five analysts they spoke with only 2 mentioned Google and in each case it was only 1 sentence.
Sony has been making cellphones since 2001 so they know what they're doing there, and Sony already has the PSP and successful PS3. I don't think Sony and Google would see eye-to-eye, Google released Droid to anyone that wants to slap it onto a toaster and Sony would want to keep everything bottled up and firmware controlled.
I thinks a PlayStation Phone would work, but Sony would need to use Apple's business model so developers could make 99 cent games instead of the $5-$20 range most games in the Playstation Store cost now.
If Sony had 99 cent downloadable games I might not have sold my PSP for a iPhone.
"BTW, for those that think that trucks/hummer/semis do not make sense, well, let me point out that many trucks are used for job sites."
I know a dozen people with trucks and SUVs, none of them work on a "job site". Every one of them have a desk job.
I would like to know where you get your "many trucks are used for job sites" information. I would say the opposite is more likely, that most trucks are never used on a job site.
A car with a trailer hitch makes more sense than buying a truck 99% of the time. Drive your car, get good gas mileage 364 days a year. Moving a fridge and couch once a year? Pay $20 rent a trailer from U-Haul for the day. Need the trailer for several days? Just buy an 8 foot trailer for $300
I'd give it a try. It doesn't have to "lock up" permanently, maybe it could just lock and ask for a password if it notices something might not be right? Many people keep their phone locked 24/7 anyway and always require a 4 digit pin so this wouldn't be inconvenient to them at all. I don't keep my phone locked but I do worry about theft, sounds like this system would be the best of both worlds, even if it's wrong 20% of the time I wouldn't mind having to enter a pin 20% of the time. I'd rather have 20% false positives than even 1% false negatives, meaning someone could walk away with it and it not lock up.
If it does lock and require a pin due to possible theft I think it should also display a message "This phone belongs to (INSERT FULL NAME). This phone might be stolen, please ask for identification from anyone attempting to unlock this phone and contact (INSERT FULL NAME) at (ALTERNATE NUMBER, EMAIL, TWITTER, ETC) immediately"
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"if the myth is busted, why would Obama want to use this as a way of promoting solar energy?"
Because MIT proved Mythbusters screwed it up
Am I the only one concerned that some IP legal battle could ground the planes? If GM steals some contractors software and puts it in their new SUVs does it mean people who own those SUVs can't drive them? I understand that no more predators should be built using the code, but to render useless all the predators already in use seems wrong. According to US law if I purchase stolen property I have to give it back for free even if I didn't know it was stolen, so if a company stole property on a grand scale would all the purchasers have to hand it back?
General: that screwball?! What's Bruce Willis doing? He played a general in Red, see if he's available.
"You can still buy these? I wouldn't be surprised if an 80GB drive costs more than a 320 or 500 at this point in time."
Yes you can still buy them, and a 80gb is about $10 cheaper than a 500gb
"How is it that "hex-core processors" is nowadays "Generic PCs For Corporate Use" as it was asked?"
When they're less than $200.
Besides, I think he was offering his recent experience with building Generic vs Dell which is what the author is trying to do, not necessarily saying he must use 6 core processors.
Jaguar is building another jet powered car, except this time the jet engine is used to charge a battery that will power an electric motor similar to what the Chevy Volt does. Volvo tried the same thing in the 90s with a jet powered hybrid.
"Hey, I can pay a huge premium for something that will give me a headache, requires glasses and that almost no content can use. "
Or pay for a feature I'll only use maybe 4 hours a month, assuming you watch a 3D movie twice a month. Sorry, that 4 hours of fun a month is not worth an extra $2,000, I could buy a lot of Avatar 3D tickets for that.
Besides, if we all had 3D HDTVs doesn't that mean pirates would download 3D movies and the MPAA would be mad again? Can't make everyone happy.
A 55" HDTV is $900 and a 50" is only $650. If a family spent 2 years paying off a TV they have bigger concerns than the size of their TV, they might want to spend the time wasted watching TV working towards getting a better job.
Because we're 200 years behind: "In 1802, H. Goodwin published an observation on the appearance of 9s in the repeating-decimal representations of fractions whose denominators are certain prime numbers. "
Slashdot: News For Nerds Stuck In The Past. Stuff That Use To Matter.
Because you enjoy pain?
0.999.... might be equal to 1, but 0.999 is not equal to 1:
x=0.999
10x = 9.99
10x-x = 9.99 - 0.999
9x = 8.991
x = 0.999
This is true whether there's three 9s or a hundred 9s, so I can see the confusion.
the video's been on metacafe since 2007, and I'm pretty sure I learned this in school many years ago.
I have wikipedia too...: "When a number in decimal notation is multiplied by 10, the digits do not change but the decimal separator moves one place to the right. Thus 10 × 0.999... equals 9.999..., which is 9 greater than the original number. To see this, consider that in subtracting 0.999... from 9.999..., each of the digits after the decimal separator the result is 9 9, which is 0. The final step uses algebra:"
Maybe we're just spoiled by technology, but I can buy a 8 gigabyte iPod with touchscreen for $150 and they're offering a 16 megabyte calculator with "color" for $130?
Why not just put a graphing calculator on a iphone or ipod touch and be done with it? Now you have 600+ mhz and a 4" color touchscreen
"Here is a story from Aug 1, 2003 that specifically mentions "onGPU MPEG encoding" of the ATI Radeon 9800. http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=602&page=1&vpr=yes"
I stand corrected: according to that article it certainly sounds like the GPU is being used for video encoding:
"the GPU makes use of the same features that the 9700 Pro (R300) version did, namely VideoSoap, utilising the shader unit on the GPU to apply realtime effects on the video stream to clean it up, and partial MPEG encoding. While it's not a full offload on to the GPU (that I can tell), it still allows a drop in CPU utilisation when recording video to your hard drive. "
I think ATI has a case for prior art since they actually had a product on the market in 2003 that did "Accelerated video encoding using a graphics processing unit". No doubt there were press materials and other information released long before this CPU was available.
""nVidia has also added support for video encoding with the introduction of PureVideo and most of the playback features can be applied to the encoding side of the equation as well, with the video noise reduction looking particularly handy.""
"PureVideo is a hardware feature designed to offload video decoding processes and video post-processing from a computer's CPU hardware to NVIDIA's GPU"
Like it says, PureVideo was suppose to make it easier to play videos because the GPU was playing the video instead of the CPU, so your CPU wouldn't be bogged down trying to play a Blu-Ray. This is ommonly known as hardware-acceleration.
Seems to have nothing to do with GPU video encoding, like converting from one video format to another.
I'm sure this has nothing to do with people breaking their iPhone 4 on purpose because the antenna is bad and they want a different model phone or heard they're redesigning the iPhone 4 in September
FTFA: "With just 4 months of data, it's clear that the iPhone 4 is significantly more prone to physical damage than its predecessor."
Actually that's not what that means. What is clear is people are breaking the iPhone 4 more than they did the 3GS. Could be any number of factors, doesn't necessarily mean iPhone 4 screen worse than 3GS. I think squaretrade needs a Jump to Conclusions mat. It's pretty scary though that a company that offers warranties makes unscientific assumptions about the products they're warrantying, I'd expect a better conclusion than this from SquareTrade "Research"
Google has no references for "GPU accelerated video encoding" before 2005
Before we get a million "Adobe does this!" comments RTFA: "Microsoft applied for the patent titled “Accelerated video encoding using a graphics processing unit” in October 2004"
Far as I know no one was doing this in 2004
"Sony is much, much more likely to release their own phone with their own OS than team up with Google."
I'm not sure why the author of the article thought Sony needed Google. Of the five analysts they spoke with only 2 mentioned Google and in each case it was only 1 sentence.
Sony has been making cellphones since 2001 so they know what they're doing there, and Sony already has the PSP and successful PS3. I don't think Sony and Google would see eye-to-eye, Google released Droid to anyone that wants to slap it onto a toaster and Sony would want to keep everything bottled up and firmware controlled.
I thinks a PlayStation Phone would work, but Sony would need to use Apple's business model so developers could make 99 cent games instead of the $5-$20 range most games in the Playstation Store cost now.
If Sony had 99 cent downloadable games I might not have sold my PSP for a iPhone.
ah nevermind, seems delivering life vests by rocket has existed for awhile
"what happens when your aim is a little too good, and you beam someone in the water with this 3.5kg thing?"
considering it's not designed for accuracy I doubt anyone will hit anyone at 150 meters (1.5 football fields).
It takes top atheletes nearly 30 seconds to swim 50 meters, and average swimmers at least double that, meaning a minute and a half to 3 minutes for someone to reach you 150 meters away. It's very easy to be very dead after 3 minutes in the water making this invention is genius, wonder why no one thought of this before?
My only issue is the expanding foam, how long does it take to reach full size?
"BTW, for those that think that trucks/hummer/semis do not make sense, well, let me point out that many trucks are used for job sites."
I know a dozen people with trucks and SUVs, none of them work on a "job site". Every one of them have a desk job.
I would like to know where you get your "many trucks are used for job sites" information. I would say the opposite is more likely, that most trucks are never used on a job site.
A car with a trailer hitch makes more sense than buying a truck 99% of the time. Drive your car, get good gas mileage 364 days a year. Moving a fridge and couch once a year? Pay $20 rent a trailer from U-Haul for the day. Need the trailer for several days? Just buy an 8 foot trailer for $300
"Listen does anyone really want this?"
I'd give it a try. It doesn't have to "lock up" permanently, maybe it could just lock and ask for a password if it notices something might not be right? Many people keep their phone locked 24/7 anyway and always require a 4 digit pin so this wouldn't be inconvenient to them at all. I don't keep my phone locked but I do worry about theft, sounds like this system would be the best of both worlds, even if it's wrong 20% of the time I wouldn't mind having to enter a pin 20% of the time. I'd rather have 20% false positives than even 1% false negatives, meaning someone could walk away with it and it not lock up.
If it does lock and require a pin due to possible theft I think it should also display a message "This phone belongs to (INSERT FULL NAME). This phone might be stolen, please ask for identification from anyone attempting to unlock this phone and contact (INSERT FULL NAME) at (ALTERNATE NUMBER, EMAIL, TWITTER, ETC) immediately"
Failed project with 200,000+ important lessons learned, like you can't trust projects on kickstarter