Perhaps Apple can pump enough money into TSMC to get some manufacturing lines running that can compete with Intel's last-generation process technology. This will keep AMD's CPUs in a not-quite-competitive state for another 6 months, at least!
Are you serious? The biggest advantages of the Raspberry Pi are the community, size, and power consumption. With your 10-year-old beige box you get none of these -- I'm imagining your beige box is probably a 10 year old Pentium3 or Pentium4 Dell that you pulled out of the dumpster for free. It probably needs a new hard drive, the ~300 Watt power supply might be going out, and it's full of dust. It would run a mainstream (GUI) linux distribution at barely-acceptable levels of performance, and no one in the linux distribution forums would reply to your questions about how to debug problems on ancient hardware.
Absolutely as stated above -- do not use the tablet as a toddler toy! I would even try to avoid exposing children under 2 to the (mesmerizing) television, meaning I would not watch TV while a young child is in the room.
That's a bit of an exaggeration, unless you're going to an out of state school. If you are trying to be economical, stay in state. For example (tuition and fees, *not* living expenses):
Michigan: $6,854
Rutgers: $10,356
Texas -Austin: $5,107
Arizona: $10,050
Washington: $12,383
California -Berkeley: $7,492.75
NC State: $7,788
...of course, living expenses can push costs into the high teens / 20's, but some people can also live at home, etc.
Wait! I have a better idea to avoid $200K of loans. Don't go to an overpriced private school; do go to a good state school. Get a major in a technical area where you can work on internships or co-op often to cover a good portion of your tuition. Get an automatic job offer when you graduate from your co-op / internship company.
There are paperlike color screens capable of playing video. They are so fast they actually alternate between colors to display more colors like Plasma TVs do.
Check out Mirosol displays. I don't know why these aren't popular in the US yet.
http://www.qualcomm.com/mirasol
I saw a demo of one by the original e-ink company running a cartoon at about 15fps. It was also a touch screen. Pretty impressive, but apparently they lose their power advantage over LCDs when they are running at high frame rates. Since it is possible to refresh these screens at 66msec or better, I'd guess that the weak link in the e-ink nook and kindle must be the cpu. Again, this is probably for power reasons.
LCD screen tablets == eyestrain after a long reading period. If you do not read for long periods of time, perhaps a 10" would work for you.
E-Ink screens are too small and/or too slow to render a typical journal article well.
You all are being so conned.... This whole thing is no coincidence.
So do you think this is all being planned by some government or extra-governmental organization? It seems more likely it is just natural evolution of human greed and the US government: greed from the top with investors and fund managers pulling down "1%" salaries by manipulating huge retirement funds and greed from the bottom with US voters demanding more and more free stuff from the government.
I love how this "Fiscal cliff" they've invented is designed to scare everyone, even scientists, into letting them raise taxes and reduce services even more. Hilarious.
Are we suppose to write conspiracy theories in monospaced font now? Who is they and how did they get so smart/powerful so that they could pull off a huge, international economic conspiracy involving the last 40 years of the Western world?
Put the tax rates back to what we had in the 50s, bring our work force AND our troops back home, and watch the shortfalls evaporate.
Wait, you forgot a step:
1. Put the tax rates back to what we had in the 50s
2. Bring our work force AND our troops back home
3. Bomb the crap out of the rest of the industrial world, leaving the US as the major producer of industrial goods and only nation that doesn't have to pay to rebuild huge amounts of infrastructure. (i.e. post WWII)
4. Watch shortfalls evaporate.
The scanners don't even work. Remember that story about the guy with a pocket on his sleeve? He put a metal cigarette pack in the pocket and since it was off his body, and appeared black as the background, they didn't see it at all on the scanner and he hopped on the plane with it.
Sorry, this is total BS. A metal box will show extremely high contrast on both xray backscatter or "terahertz" scanners used by the TSA.
I'm glad someone said this. The real problem is the failure to apply traffic regulations to bicyclists. Our legislators should take care to make sure all traffic rules apply to bicyclists, to make sure the police enforce the rules against bicyclists, and to make sure the fines and penalties are the same for violators on bikes as for others. We'd have far fewer bicyclists going through stop signs if they had to pay a $400 fine when they're caught.
Exactly! And better regulations defining where bikers can and cannot ride. I know one narrow, two-lane 55mph road that runs directly parallel to a nice bike trail. Of course there a few bikers who want to be out on the road and cause miles of very dangerous passing maneuvers.
Luckily we have many systems in place for managing scarce resources. In fact, almost any resource you deal with throughout life is scarce. I'm not saying we manage wireless frequencies efficiently, but I'm quit sure that "navigation, public safety, national security, etc" have been improved by smartphones rather than suffering due to smartphones taking their bandwidth.
What kind of idiot buys a stock they end up selling a few seconds later? Think before you buy, genius.
That's the problem -- idiots are not buying and selling on the second time scale, for example:
1. HFT Computer notices that a mutual fund is trying to acquire $10's of millions of one stock
2. HFT Computer buys available stock at $10.00/share
3. HFT Computer immediately sells stock (seconds later) to mutual fund at $10.02.
Result: The mutual fund (i.e. middle class retirement accounts) is fleeced every time it makes a buy or sell order.
Generally people would say this is the 1% exploiting the 99%, or alternatively, the Man is keeping you Down!
We will never see this telescope mentioned on the Discover Channel again unless it involves a reality show with a group of rednecks who auction off dates with B-list celebrities to go logging in the nearby national forest.
Florida has been a hotbed of counterfeit and stolen prescription drugs. I doubt this is a simple case of someone helping the uninsured buy legit drugs from Canada -- maybe it would be in another state, but not Florida. For more information I recommend reading this book: http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Doses-Counterfeiters-Contaminating-Americas/dp/0151010501.
I've crossed the border between Russia and just about anywhere you can think of that shares a border with Russia. I have never ever been interrogated at their border. I've even crossed the Ukrainian Moldovan border with another individual who overstayed his visa for months. They barely asked any questions even then, they just walked him to a nearby bank and had him pay a fine (the fine is paid directly to the bank to prevent the possibility of the border guard pocketing it). I even overstayed my own visa while exiting Ukraine. I didn't even miss my flight.
People need to realize that the United States has a very brutal regime in charge at the moment.
Oh please! Back in the 1993 to 1997 range my family of four (father, mother, and two brothers) crossed the border from the US to Canada. One brother (~17ish years old) was taken to an office by a Canadian border guard for more than 30 minutes for questioning for no apparent reason. Does that mean that the 1990s Canadian government was very brutal?
You can't improve audio quality of *audible frequencies* by increasing resolution of the horizontal axis (sampling frequency) beyond a rate which surpasses the Nyquist frequency for human hearing.
Nyquist-Shannon notwithstanding, the range of human hearing is wider than 20kHz.
That said, doubling the sampling rate isn't going to do anything for a digital signal. At best, the new signal will simply play each of the old signal's samples twice.
Just because musical instruments produce frequencies above 20kHz (as shown in your link), it doesn't mean that the average human can hear them. Younger people can hear frequencies up to ~20kHz, and maybe a bit above, but most middle age adults probably cut off around 15kHz or lower. Here's one study showing 18-24 yr olds who can mostly hear 24kHz, but they're generating the sound at 117 dB -- a very dangerous level for more than just a few seconds. (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00206098409070087?journalCode=ija)
Listening to loud sounds (>85dB) for extended periods of time will decrease the high frequency response of the human ear, so I wonder if high frequency hearing in children and teens of the last decade or two will have even worse hearing that their parents due to the ubiquitous white ear buds.
Microsoft and Comcast already have authentication worked out for viewing channels on your Xbox 360. They require you to log in with your Comcast account, which knows if you're paying for channels. I can't believe it would take years to do the same thing for Hulu.
In any case, I've cut the cord and won't be going back even if they stop broadcasting TV over the air.
And imagine a future with huge capacitors buried underground in the middle of a city, slowly leaching electrolyte into the surrounding soil in almost everybody's neighborhood!
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Perhaps Apple can pump enough money into TSMC to get some manufacturing lines running that can compete with Intel's last-generation process technology. This will keep AMD's CPUs in a not-quite-competitive state for another 6 months, at least!
Abit still exists??? I remember them from back in the 440BX days with the original P3 CPUs, but I haven't heard that name in ages!
Are you serious? The biggest advantages of the Raspberry Pi are the community, size, and power consumption. With your 10-year-old beige box you get none of these -- I'm imagining your beige box is probably a 10 year old Pentium3 or Pentium4 Dell that you pulled out of the dumpster for free. It probably needs a new hard drive, the ~300 Watt power supply might be going out, and it's full of dust. It would run a mainstream (GUI) linux distribution at barely-acceptable levels of performance, and no one in the linux distribution forums would reply to your questions about how to debug problems on ancient hardware.
Sounds like a great idea to me!
Did a TRS-80 touch you when you were young?
No, it was actually a Timex-Sinclair 2068.
Absolutely as stated above -- do not use the tablet as a toddler toy! I would even try to avoid exposing children under 2 to the (mesmerizing) television, meaning I would not watch TV while a young child is in the room.
That's a bit of an exaggeration, unless you're going to an out of state school. If you are trying to be economical, stay in state. For example (tuition and fees, *not* living expenses):
...of course, living expenses can push costs into the high teens / 20's, but some people can also live at home, etc.
Michigan: $6,854
Rutgers: $10,356
Texas -Austin: $5,107
Arizona: $10,050
Washington: $12,383
California -Berkeley: $7,492.75
NC State: $7,788
Wait! I have a better idea to avoid $200K of loans. Don't go to an overpriced private school; do go to a good state school. Get a major in a technical area where you can work on internships or co-op often to cover a good portion of your tuition. Get an automatic job offer when you graduate from your co-op / internship company.
There are paperlike color screens capable of playing video. They are so fast they actually alternate between colors to display more colors like Plasma TVs do. Check out Mirosol displays. I don't know why these aren't popular in the US yet. http://www.qualcomm.com/mirasol
I saw a demo of one by the original e-ink company running a cartoon at about 15fps. It was also a touch screen. Pretty impressive, but apparently they lose their power advantage over LCDs when they are running at high frame rates. Since it is possible to refresh these screens at 66msec or better, I'd guess that the weak link in the e-ink nook and kindle must be the cpu. Again, this is probably for power reasons.
LCD screen tablets == eyestrain after a long reading period. If you do not read for long periods of time, perhaps a 10" would work for you.
E-Ink screens are too small and/or too slow to render a typical journal article well.
You all are being so conned. ... This whole thing is no coincidence.
So do you think this is all being planned by some government or extra-governmental organization?
It seems more likely it is just natural evolution of human greed and the US government: greed from the top with investors and fund managers pulling down "1%" salaries by manipulating huge retirement funds and greed from the bottom with US voters demanding more and more free stuff from the government.
I love how this "Fiscal cliff" they've invented is designed to scare everyone, even scientists, into letting them raise taxes and reduce services even more. Hilarious.
Are we suppose to write conspiracy theories in monospaced font now? Who is they and how did they get so smart/powerful so that they could pull off a huge, international economic conspiracy involving the last 40 years of the Western world?
Put the tax rates back to what we had in the 50s, bring our work force AND our troops back home, and watch the shortfalls evaporate.
Wait, you forgot a step:
1. Put the tax rates back to what we had in the 50s
2. Bring our work force AND our troops back home
3. Bomb the crap out of the rest of the industrial world, leaving the US as the major producer of industrial goods and only nation that doesn't have to pay to rebuild huge amounts of infrastructure. (i.e. post WWII)
4. Watch shortfalls evaporate.
The scanners don't even work. Remember that story about the guy with a pocket on his sleeve? He put a metal cigarette pack in the pocket and since it was off his body, and appeared black as the background, they didn't see it at all on the scanner and he hopped on the plane with it.
Sorry, this is total BS. A metal box will show extremely high contrast on both xray backscatter or "terahertz" scanners used by the TSA.
I'm glad someone said this. The real problem is the failure to apply traffic regulations to bicyclists. Our legislators should take care to make sure all traffic rules apply to bicyclists, to make sure the police enforce the rules against bicyclists, and to make sure the fines and penalties are the same for violators on bikes as for others. We'd have far fewer bicyclists going through stop signs if they had to pay a $400 fine when they're caught.
Exactly! And better regulations defining where bikers can and cannot ride. I know one narrow, two-lane 55mph road that runs directly parallel to a nice bike trail. Of course there a few bikers who want to be out on the road and cause miles of very dangerous passing maneuvers.
Wow, a Luddite on Slashdot gets modded up...
Luckily we have many systems in place for managing scarce resources. In fact, almost any resource you deal with throughout life is scarce. I'm not saying we manage wireless frequencies efficiently, but I'm quit sure that "navigation, public safety, national security, etc" have been improved by smartphones rather than suffering due to smartphones taking their bandwidth.
All you need to stop this is a car alarm and a .357 magnum.
You really just need the .357 magnum -- if you shoot the car enough times in the correct place, I guarantee a thief will not be able to drive it away.
There is still no serious Android competitor to the new iPad, with its unparalleled 2048x1536 display.
Did you hear about the 1920x1200 Amazon Fire HD for $299? It's 8.9" rather than 10", but it is still a very serious iPad competitor.
What kind of idiot buys a stock they end up selling a few seconds later? Think before you buy, genius.
That's the problem -- idiots are not buying and selling on the second time scale, for example:
1. HFT Computer notices that a mutual fund is trying to acquire $10's of millions of one stock
2. HFT Computer buys available stock at $10.00/share
3. HFT Computer immediately sells stock (seconds later) to mutual fund at $10.02.
Result: The mutual fund (i.e. middle class retirement accounts) is fleeced every time it makes a buy or sell order.
Generally people would say this is the 1% exploiting the 99%, or alternatively, the Man is keeping you Down!
We will never see this telescope mentioned on the Discover Channel again unless it involves a reality show with a group of rednecks who auction off dates with B-list celebrities to go logging in the nearby national forest.
Florida has been a hotbed of counterfeit and stolen prescription drugs. I doubt this is a simple case of someone helping the uninsured buy legit drugs from Canada -- maybe it would be in another state, but not Florida. For more information I recommend reading this book: http://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Doses-Counterfeiters-Contaminating-Americas/dp/0151010501.
I've crossed the border between Russia and just about anywhere you can think of that shares a border with Russia. I have never ever been interrogated at their border. I've even crossed the Ukrainian Moldovan border with another individual who overstayed his visa for months. They barely asked any questions even then, they just walked him to a nearby bank and had him pay a fine (the fine is paid directly to the bank to prevent the possibility of the border guard pocketing it). I even overstayed my own visa while exiting Ukraine. I didn't even miss my flight. People need to realize that the United States has a very brutal regime in charge at the moment.
Oh please! Back in the 1993 to 1997 range my family of four (father, mother, and two brothers) crossed the border from the US to Canada. One brother (~17ish years old) was taken to an office by a Canadian border guard for more than 30 minutes for questioning for no apparent reason. Does that mean that the 1990s Canadian government was very brutal?
You can't improve audio quality of *audible frequencies* by increasing resolution of the horizontal axis (sampling frequency) beyond a rate which surpasses the Nyquist frequency for human hearing.
Nyquist-Shannon notwithstanding, the range of human hearing is wider than 20kHz.
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~boyk/spectra/spectra.htm (a properly conducted experiment)
That said, doubling the sampling rate isn't going to do anything for a digital signal. At best, the new signal will simply play each of the old signal's samples twice.
Just because musical instruments produce frequencies above 20kHz (as shown in your link), it doesn't mean that the average human can hear them. Younger people can hear frequencies up to ~20kHz, and maybe a bit above, but most middle age adults probably cut off around 15kHz or lower. Here's one study showing 18-24 yr olds who can mostly hear 24kHz, but they're generating the sound at 117 dB -- a very dangerous level for more than just a few seconds. (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00206098409070087?journalCode=ija)
Listening to loud sounds (>85dB) for extended periods of time will decrease the high frequency response of the human ear, so I wonder if high frequency hearing in children and teens of the last decade or two will have even worse hearing that their parents due to the ubiquitous white ear buds.
Microsoft and Comcast already have authentication worked out for viewing channels on your Xbox 360. They require you to log in with your Comcast account, which knows if you're paying for channels. I can't believe it would take years to do the same thing for Hulu. In any case, I've cut the cord and won't be going back even if they stop broadcasting TV over the air.
Computer science is a programme of study not an entire department.
Only if you're at a bad school.
For example, the University of California at Berkeley with its combined EECS dept? They're only ranked #1 in the 2010 US News ratings...
And imagine a future with huge capacitors buried underground in the middle of a city, slowly leaching electrolyte into the surrounding soil in almost everybody's neighborhood!
FTFY