Video decompression happens to be one of the few areas where the P4's deep pipeline doesn't hurt its performance (not many branch mispredictions)
i.e. the P4 is much more efficient per clock cycle for video decompression than it is for many other things, thus its significantly higher performance compared to the Athlon in these few situations.
It contains a full and reasonably accurate road map of the United States. It's not necessarily good for routing because it does not include information on speed limits (you can guess based on road type, and many of the mapping packages out there do this and not actual speed limit storage) or more importantly, one-way streets.
That thing is less than half the size of my old Dodge Spirit's radiator. And my family's new Subaru has a radiator about the same size.
BTW, if you don't mind a fan (albeit a large slow-speed one, typically very quiet despite the ability to move lots of air), automotive heater cores are quite popular with watercoolers I believ.
DVB-T is DVB for TERRESTRIAL. It's Europe's equivalent of ATSC digital broadcasting in the US.
DVB-C is for cable, and is Europe-only. US cable uses QAM modulation also, but the coding scheme and other minor details about the signal differ, so DVB-C cards do not work with U.S. cable.
There ARE QAM-capable tuner cards for US cable on the market now, but since almost all U.S. cable channels are encrypted, they're not very useful.
PC-based DVB-S receivers won't work in the U.S. except for getting Dish Network's preview channel, as Dish's encryption scheme is modified enough from standard Nagravision that the Nagra access cards compatible with PC-based DVB-S receivers won't work with Dish.
Like a similar technology from Lucent, the optical MEMS uses an electrical signal for the control signal.
While it DOES have the advantage over a fully electronic system in that the optical signal being acted upon is never converted, the control signal itself is electrical. In Lucent's version, an electrical signal would cause a small mirror to move, essentially deciding where the light beam aimed at the mirror would go. (Think of TI's DLP chips, same basic idea.)
This new development is *fully* optical. Even the control signal.
If you want something done right, often you have to do it yourself. Finding a good tuner shop is TOUGH.
And in some cases, you might have a car where you'll need to do all the research and fabrication yourself. Some cars have impressive performance potential, but for various reasons were ignored by the aftermarket.
Plus in some cases, the challenge is to produce a sleeper car that no one expects to be fast.
http://www.turbovan.net/ and http://www.thedodgegarage.com/ are good examples of people who REALLY know their stuff modifying cars you would never expect to be fast.
Once I have the space for a beater car (with my current car being the project car) or a project car (keeping my current one stock), I do plan on having some fun. I'm an electrical engineer, and I'm fascinated with projects such as the Megasquirt and Megasquirt-AVR. I also consider myself quite competent with my garage tools.:)
Most likely the probe is designed to float, and WILL continue floating for quite a long time. But since Cassini will be gone and the batteries will be dead, it won't matter.
The closed-source nature of the ATI and NV drivers is partly due to the manufacturers' desire for secrecy, but also largely in part because some of the technologies used in the card are patented and the patent covers parts of the driver. In at least one such case, the patent is NOT owned by either company and the license they have prohibits them from including it in open-source drivers.
This is why when UT2K3 came out, it would only run on NVidia cards under Linux. At that point, ATI cards had a pretty good open-source driver that supported almost all features of the card *except* for S3 texture compression, which both ATI and NVidia had licensed but didn't own the patents for. NVidia's binary drivers supported it, the open-source ATI drivers couldn't. Now we have binary drivers for ATI cards too.
I would love a high-performance video card with open-source drivers, but it's going to take a lot more than one interested/open-source-friendly manufacturer to provide that. For the really high-performance cards, you have to deal with a nasty web of cross-licensed patents.
They seem to be indicating that the RGBW trick is a whole different thing used to increase brightness (similar to CMYK for printers to make dark black colors).
There is a chance the subpixel rendering trick might depend on the new RGBW setup though, but it seems like they're two seperate technologies.
With the advent of cross-platform toolkits like GTK+, OpenGL, and OpenAL, it's becoming much easier to write an application and make it cross-platform with minimal effort AND have it perform excellently. (As opposed to Java, which is a great way to piss off your user by hogging 250M of memory for a freaking IM client... God those were painful days before the TOC protocol and later gAIM. Anyone remember the nightmare that the Java AIM client was?)
Please tell me how to sell a $100 PC when the OS is $200, Mr. Ballmer.
The biggest problem lately is the increasing percentage of the cost of the PC being the cost of the OS alone. The problem with software piracy isn't expensive hardware, it's CHEAP hardware, because if you're spending $3000 on a computer, $100-200 for the OS doesn't seem to be that much. If you paid $200 for your box, then $200 for a copy of XP seems like a LOT.
If the transmitter is powerful enough, the signal will bounce off of objects in the room quite readily.
I routinely use the remote for my MythTV setup while pointed almost exactly AWAY from the IR sensor. (Specifically, pointed nearly straight upwards, bouncing off the ceiling before hitting the sensor on the desk in front of me.)
They're pretty rare. I have at most one device at home that MIGHT support discrete on/off codes (my old Sharp XG-E660U LCD projector), but I'm not sure since I don't have the remote, and attempting to use remote definitions for other Sharp projectors gets minimal functionality at most.
With your typical consumer-grade TV sets, the only power code is a toggle. So this device is as likely to turn TVs ON as it is to turn them off.
Long-term storage of hydrogen is still a bit of a problem. Hydrogen has a tendency to penetrate ANYTHING you try to store it in, resulting in hydrogen embrittlement. In short, anything you store hydrogen in (esp. pressurized hydrogen) will eventually become weakened by the hydrogen permeating it.
And most of the ad just be a list of names, which will consume most of the space best used to plug Firefox itself.
A better donation strategy would be:
$100 for your name to be added, limit of N names $anything if you just want to chip in and help out.
This allows those who don't have $30 to spend to contribute (I'd love to contribute a couple of bucks if it were a well-designed advertisement), while giving the big donaters a reward for their donation without making the ad nothing more than a list of names.
Bleh, IMAP would be much more appropriate to the typical use of accessing a gmail account from another client...
POP3 performs horribly in "persistent storage" situations. (i.e. email remains on the server.)
That reminds me, I should see if Thunderbird's IMAP support is decent, or if it's like all of its Mozilla/Netscape predecessors and insists on keeping a local copy of all IMAP mail (which defeats the purpose of IMAP.)
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I don't know about "disconnected" landline phones, but unactivated mobiles have no trouble dialing 911 in the States.
I believe they do.
:(
I have the MyHD MDP-100 (their first-gen card), and it now sits on a shelf. Marginal reception + no Linux support = shelved.
The 120 has a more sensitive tuner apparently. Still no Linux support. Screw you Teralogic.
CSI at 1080i was absolutely amazing when it worked though...
Video decompression happens to be one of the few areas where the P4's deep pipeline doesn't hurt its performance (not many branch mispredictions)
i.e. the P4 is much more efficient per clock cycle for video decompression than it is for many other things, thus its significantly higher performance compared to the Athlon in these few situations.
What about imports?
Unfortunately I haven't been around that long. :)
I came because a friend told me about it, then I found Taco's E themes. Or was it the other way around?
I believe what you're referring to is TIGER/Line.
It contains a full and reasonably accurate road map of the United States. It's not necessarily good for routing because it does not include information on speed limits (you can guess based on road type, and many of the mapping packages out there do this and not actual speed limit storage) or more importantly, one-way streets.
That's the first time in a looong time I've seen a UID lower than mine. :)
/. since before moderation and user accounts too.
Yeah, I was slow with registration. I was posting on
I have the 1800FP (older 18" model), and absolutely love it. Bright, sharp, no ghosting. A really nice monitor.
That thing is less than half the size of my old Dodge Spirit's radiator. And my family's new Subaru has a radiator about the same size.
BTW, if you don't mind a fan (albeit a large slow-speed one, typically very quiet despite the ability to move lots of air), automotive heater cores are quite popular with watercoolers I believ.
DVB-T is DVB for TERRESTRIAL. It's Europe's equivalent of ATSC digital broadcasting in the US.
DVB-C is for cable, and is Europe-only. US cable uses QAM modulation also, but the coding scheme and other minor details about the signal differ, so DVB-C cards do not work with U.S. cable.
There ARE QAM-capable tuner cards for US cable on the market now, but since almost all U.S. cable channels are encrypted, they're not very useful.
PC-based DVB-S receivers won't work in the U.S. except for getting Dish Network's preview channel, as Dish's encryption scheme is modified enough from standard Nagravision that the Nagra access cards compatible with PC-based DVB-S receivers won't work with Dish.
Like a similar technology from Lucent, the optical MEMS uses an electrical signal for the control signal.
While it DOES have the advantage over a fully electronic system in that the optical signal being acted upon is never converted, the control signal itself is electrical. In Lucent's version, an electrical signal would cause a small mirror to move, essentially deciding where the light beam aimed at the mirror would go. (Think of TI's DLP chips, same basic idea.)
This new development is *fully* optical. Even the control signal.
If you want something done right, often you have to do it yourself. Finding a good tuner shop is TOUGH.
:)
And in some cases, you might have a car where you'll need to do all the research and fabrication yourself. Some cars have impressive performance potential, but for various reasons were ignored by the aftermarket.
Plus in some cases, the challenge is to produce a sleeper car that no one expects to be fast.
http://www.turbovan.net/ and http://www.thedodgegarage.com/ are good examples of people who REALLY know their stuff modifying cars you would never expect to be fast.
Once I have the space for a beater car (with my current car being the project car) or a project car (keeping my current one stock), I do plan on having some fun. I'm an electrical engineer, and I'm fascinated with projects such as the Megasquirt and Megasquirt-AVR. I also consider myself quite competent with my garage tools.
First: I get spam on a regular basis from georgewbush.com, and it's *not forged*. Dubya's a spammer.
Now this.
Way to alienate users, Dubya.
That citizens of the US living overseas can file absentee ballots. (Although it may be too late for that now, not sure.)
As mentioned, battery life is the issue here.
Most likely the probe is designed to float, and WILL continue floating for quite a long time. But since Cassini will be gone and the batteries will be dead, it won't matter.
I'll pick the 747.
Do a Google search for the Gimli Glider. Not a 747, but another 7x7 series jet which most likely had similar (if not worse) gliding capabilities.
The card is going to be backwards... Period.
The closed-source nature of the ATI and NV drivers is partly due to the manufacturers' desire for secrecy, but also largely in part because some of the technologies used in the card are patented and the patent covers parts of the driver. In at least one such case, the patent is NOT owned by either company and the license they have prohibits them from including it in open-source drivers.
This is why when UT2K3 came out, it would only run on NVidia cards under Linux. At that point, ATI cards had a pretty good open-source driver that supported almost all features of the card *except* for S3 texture compression, which both ATI and NVidia had licensed but didn't own the patents for. NVidia's binary drivers supported it, the open-source ATI drivers couldn't. Now we have binary drivers for ATI cards too.
I would love a high-performance video card with open-source drivers, but it's going to take a lot more than one interested/open-source-friendly manufacturer to provide that. For the really high-performance cards, you have to deal with a nasty web of cross-licensed patents.
They seem to be indicating that the RGBW trick is a whole different thing used to increase brightness (similar to CMYK for printers to make dark black colors).
There is a chance the subpixel rendering trick might depend on the new RGBW setup though, but it seems like they're two seperate technologies.
With the advent of cross-platform toolkits like GTK+, OpenGL, and OpenAL, it's becoming much easier to write an application and make it cross-platform with minimal effort AND have it perform excellently. (As opposed to Java, which is a great way to piss off your user by hogging 250M of memory for a freaking IM client... God those were painful days before the TOC protocol and later gAIM. Anyone remember the nightmare that the Java AIM client was?)
Please tell me how to sell a $100 PC when the OS is $200, Mr. Ballmer.
The biggest problem lately is the increasing percentage of the cost of the PC being the cost of the OS alone. The problem with software piracy isn't expensive hardware, it's CHEAP hardware, because if you're spending $3000 on a computer, $100-200 for the OS doesn't seem to be that much. If you paid $200 for your box, then $200 for a copy of XP seems like a LOT.
If the transmitter is powerful enough, the signal will bounce off of objects in the room quite readily.
I routinely use the remote for my MythTV setup while pointed almost exactly AWAY from the IR sensor. (Specifically, pointed nearly straight upwards, bouncing off the ceiling before hitting the sensor on the desk in front of me.)
They're pretty rare. I have at most one device at home that MIGHT support discrete on/off codes (my old Sharp XG-E660U LCD projector), but I'm not sure since I don't have the remote, and attempting to use remote definitions for other Sharp projectors gets minimal functionality at most.
With your typical consumer-grade TV sets, the only power code is a toggle. So this device is as likely to turn TVs ON as it is to turn them off.
Long-term storage of hydrogen is still a bit of a problem. Hydrogen has a tendency to penetrate ANYTHING you try to store it in, resulting in hydrogen embrittlement. In short, anything you store hydrogen in (esp. pressurized hydrogen) will eventually become weakened by the hydrogen permeating it.
$30 to get your name in the paper.
And most of the ad just be a list of names, which will consume most of the space best used to plug Firefox itself.
A better donation strategy would be:
$100 for your name to be added, limit of N names
$anything if you just want to chip in and help out.
This allows those who don't have $30 to spend to contribute (I'd love to contribute a couple of bucks if it were a well-designed advertisement), while giving the big donaters a reward for their donation without making the ad nothing more than a list of names.
Bleh, IMAP would be much more appropriate to the typical use of accessing a gmail account from another client...
POP3 performs horribly in "persistent storage" situations. (i.e. email remains on the server.)
That reminds me, I should see if Thunderbird's IMAP support is decent, or if it's like all of its Mozilla/Netscape predecessors and insists on keeping a local copy of all IMAP mail (which defeats the purpose of IMAP.)