Less deeply cool if the mirror control software locks up and you burn a line/spot into your retina.
Trying, plasma TV style, to run noise/wipes material through it to reduce retina burn-in would not be fun.
On the other hand, nice to see another step towards the Snow Crash universe. Just need a depleted uranium hypervelocity railgun and people will finally start listening to Reason.
A quick google fails to reveal any detail about how it works, and TFA's explanatory diagram says very little (a drawing of a brain and some boxes - oh so that's how it works?)
1. Is it glowing? 2. Is there a smoking, glowing crater where the plant used to be?
If both are no, the back to napping.
Perhaps an urban legend (I can't find a reference), but didn't operators of nuclear reactors used to sit on one legged chairs, so they couldn't nap at the controls?
In all fairness nothing is likely to go wrong unless a reactor is being experimented on, or an unusual catastrophic event/mechanical failure occurs (even a fully staffed reactor doesn't necessarily mean they'll be avoided). Lack of staffing should be the least of our worries!
MPEG2 lingers because it costs a lot to replace millions of existing set-top boxes, however that's only for video delivery to the home. A lot of backhaul/contribution/distribution is H264 which then gets transcoded at the edge of the broadcaster's networks. All the modern delivery over the internet systems are H264 because there's no legacy technology to replace and bandwidth is at a premium. HEVC will both get adopted both within broadcaster systems, and also for new domestic systems (4k being the obvious one).
Ultimately video over IP (which sounds like a bad plan to start off with) is all about the connection - modern broadcasters use adaptive streaming - the same video is encoded at a variety of bitrates and resolutions and made available to playback clients. The client assesses live buffer fill and decides between low bitrate and poor quality and high bitrate/quality dynamically depending on how the link is performing, fetching small/large files off the server as appropriate. It works very well and the user is left completely unaware that it's happening.
Curiously enough the H264 standard was very forward thinking in this respect and there are lots of clever ways to dynamically control streaming - none of which anyone uses as it's complicated to implement compared to just encoding the same thing at different bitrates.
H265/HEVC is the logical progression in computational complexity vs compression efficiency - definitely here to stay in the video compression industry.
I've run a server at home 24/7 for coming up on a decade. It does all our e-mail, runs a web server, runs a CCTV system and is a filtering proxy for the kids. For a long time it was one of only two Alien Arena master servers. And actually the uptime has been better than the shared hosting we used to have before we went for home serving. There is no additional cost when it comes to adding more web domains (running it as a virtual host), and it can be an ssh tunnelled proxy for when you're away from home.
The downsides?
If it goes down when you're on holiday, it stays down. You'd need someone to have keys to the house to go reset it.
If the hardware fails, it's you that has to fix it. If you run any moderately successful sites from it then you start getting calls. This added pressure can be stressful.
You're solely responsible for keeping it secure, so you'll have to stay on top of that, and keep monitoring it for intrusion. Heaven forbid you accidentally set up an open mail relay. Your ISP would crucify you:)
Most DSL is asymmetric which isn't ideal for servers, as most of the content is outbound. Plus it's easy to hit your maximum DSL monthly bandwidth allowance (vnstat is your friend!). If you don't think you have one, you may well discover in short order that actually, you do;) Then you end up hunting around for deals that give greater bandwidth allowances. All more hassle!
Then there is the leccy cost, so you'll need a nice lightweight server (and unplug everything from it that isn't a hard drive, CPU or memory). Really this is the least of your worries considering everything else above.
All of that said, I wouldn't be without mine. It's far too useful.
Expensive drone considering £32 will buy you a Hubsan x4 then £4 from Hong Kong for a keychain spycamera stripped and stuck to the underneath = spy drone for £36. And you end up with a stable, smaller quad that is better built (no nasty polystyrene body).
Some of the RC guys are experimenting with FPV for the Hubsan x4, there's a few vids on the forums of people flying it around their houses, first person style using lightweight video cams and TX modules.
Quadrotors can be a world of fun without breaking the bank:)
Good flip. I work by the mantra "be nice to people on the way up, so that they will be nice to you when you're on the way down". This was not observed by a couple of bosses of mine (the ones that wave you off with a dismissive hand gesture or consider themselves superior to all other humans) and they've been bitten on the way back down.
Karma can definitely been seen in action in business. Makes me happy to be a human.
Anything that adds cost to PCBs is bit of a no-no - I can't see how the "self-healing" benefit can factor into any PCB design (especially motherboards, which have the least layers possible to reduce cost) unless it is for some specialist application, where using such tech would warrant the extra cost involved.
Cool, but, lets face it - not going to be every day.
It's Lake Nyos and there is a webcam on the plume which updates twice a day over satellite so the team can keep an eye on its height. The carbon dioxide is from magma below the lake, and this is not the only lake affected in this way.
i wish i can grep, less, awk, search in real life.
I'd settle for just 'screen' so that in those long boring meetings I can leave myself sitting and nodding the right responses, while actually I'm disconnected off somewhere else having fun.
I have a question for gamers who have tried both PS3 and Kinect, or PS3 and Wii.
The PS3 is trying to be all things to all gamers. "It only does everything." How does the PlayStation Move compare with Kinect or the Wii?
Is the Kinect actually better for sports games and such or is the experience about the same, and whichever game is better written is more fun?
Is the Wii controller better/more accurate, or about the same? Are the Wii games better?
steveha
We definitely don't want our PS3 to do Wii-like things.
Downstairs we have a Wii, which is great for the kids and dance games and the like. They have a great time when their friends are over, and we enjoy playing it with them as a family (that Super Monkey Ball mini-game where you have to land a rocket by holding the Wii remote upright and pressing A for thrust is pure genius - but it is a novelty and nothing more). The Wii is a little unsatisfying to the serious gamer; SD resolution is looking really dated these days. The hardware limits are showing.
In our bedroom we have a PS3 (+ HDTV mounted on the wall). Sitting in bed of an evening playing LBP2 with the missus, or Portal 2 while only having to move thumbs is a win for us, aside from the obvious point that physical exertion to control a games console in the bedroom is clearly getting some priorities wrong.;) We like that it doesn't expect this of us in order to have fun.
Come the next generation and having to choose between a console expecting us to wave arms about, or one that lets us just play... that will be tough.
I'm taking my daughter powerboating thanks to a good Groupon deal. We don't normally do that kind a thing, but a good deal caught my eye and it sounded a blast. There is no way could anyone have seen that coming from my purchase history. This isn't the first time Groupon has appealed to the random in me either, and from what I gather from talking to other people this isn't uncommon.
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Interestingly, this landing may affect NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer operation:
http://www.space.com/23675-china-moon-lander-trouble-nasa-ladee.html
I'll believe it when I see it here.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Hand your movie buff card back - Tremors; that can only mean snakeoids about to pour from beneath the very dirt itself!
Less deeply cool if the mirror control software locks up and you burn a line/spot into your retina.
Trying, plasma TV style, to run noise/wipes material through it to reduce retina burn-in would not be fun.
On the other hand, nice to see another step towards the Snow Crash universe. Just need a depleted uranium hypervelocity railgun and people will finally start listening to Reason.
That's lovely. Where's my patented copper nail?
So if there was no commercial benefit, then it is OK?
How does tripadvisor get away with it then?
A quick google fails to reveal any detail about how it works, and TFA's explanatory diagram says very little (a drawing of a brain and some boxes - oh so that's how it works?)
We can only assume this stems from Qualcomm's partnership with Brain Corp http://www.braincorporation.com/
Checklist:
1. Is it glowing?
2. Is there a smoking, glowing crater where the plant used to be?
If both are no, the back to napping.
Perhaps an urban legend (I can't find a reference), but didn't operators of nuclear reactors used to sit on one legged chairs, so they couldn't nap at the controls?
In all fairness nothing is likely to go wrong unless a reactor is being experimented on, or an unusual catastrophic event/mechanical failure occurs (even a fully staffed reactor doesn't necessarily mean they'll be avoided). Lack of staffing should be the least of our worries!
MPEG2 lingers because it costs a lot to replace millions of existing set-top boxes, however that's only for video delivery to the home. A lot of backhaul/contribution/distribution is H264 which then gets transcoded at the edge of the broadcaster's networks. All the modern delivery over the internet systems are H264 because there's no legacy technology to replace and bandwidth is at a premium. HEVC will both get adopted both within broadcaster systems, and also for new domestic systems (4k being the obvious one).
Ultimately video over IP (which sounds like a bad plan to start off with) is all about the connection - modern broadcasters use adaptive streaming - the same video is encoded at a variety of bitrates and resolutions and made available to playback clients. The client assesses live buffer fill and decides between low bitrate and poor quality and high bitrate/quality dynamically depending on how the link is performing, fetching small/large files off the server as appropriate. It works very well and the user is left completely unaware that it's happening.
Curiously enough the H264 standard was very forward thinking in this respect and there are lots of clever ways to dynamically control streaming - none of which anyone uses as it's complicated to implement compared to just encoding the same thing at different bitrates.
H265/HEVC is the logical progression in computational complexity vs compression efficiency - definitely here to stay in the video compression industry.
I've run a server at home 24/7 for coming up on a decade. It does all our e-mail, runs a web server, runs a CCTV system and is a filtering proxy for the kids. For a long time it was one of only two Alien Arena master servers. And actually the uptime has been better than the shared hosting we used to have before we went for home serving. There is no additional cost when it comes to adding more web domains (running it as a virtual host), and it can be an ssh tunnelled proxy for when you're away from home.
The downsides?
If it goes down when you're on holiday, it stays down. You'd need someone to have keys to the house to go reset it.
If the hardware fails, it's you that has to fix it. If you run any moderately successful sites from it then you start getting calls. This added pressure can be stressful.
You're solely responsible for keeping it secure, so you'll have to stay on top of that, and keep monitoring it for intrusion. Heaven forbid you accidentally set up an open mail relay. Your ISP would crucify you :)
Most DSL is asymmetric which isn't ideal for servers, as most of the content is outbound. Plus it's easy to hit your maximum DSL monthly bandwidth allowance (vnstat is your friend!). If you don't think you have one, you may well discover in short order that actually, you do ;) Then you end up hunting around for deals that give greater bandwidth allowances. All more hassle!
Then there is the leccy cost, so you'll need a nice lightweight server (and unplug everything from it that isn't a hard drive, CPU or memory). Really this is the least of your worries considering everything else above.
All of that said, I wouldn't be without mine. It's far too useful.
Expensive drone considering £32 will buy you a Hubsan x4 then £4 from Hong Kong for a keychain spycamera stripped and stuck to the underneath = spy drone for £36. And you end up with a stable, smaller quad that is better built (no nasty polystyrene body).
Some of the RC guys are experimenting with FPV for the Hubsan x4, there's a few vids on the forums of people flying it around their houses, first person style using lightweight video cams and TX modules.
Quadrotors can be a world of fun without breaking the bank :)
The Mayan calendar ends on December 21st, and drilling is due to resume into the Ellsworth sub-Antartic lake on the 21st?
http://www.ellsworth.org.uk/
I for one welcome our tiny little waterborn underlords.
You like this.
A little slashdot virtual facebook machine humour for you there ;)
Good flip. I work by the mantra "be nice to people on the way up, so that they will be nice to you when you're on the way down". This was not observed by a couple of bosses of mine (the ones that wave you off with a dismissive hand gesture or consider themselves superior to all other humans) and they've been bitten on the way back down.
Karma can definitely been seen in action in business. Makes me happy to be a human.
Nah screw that, set fire to the waste bins on the way out, at least they'll remember you! ;)
there is no difference between voltage and power.
P = V * I
For the purpose of illustration, lets make:
P = pain
V = hardness of slap
I = number of slaps
I'm happy to keep V fixed but increase I until it starts to matter to you too.
Anything that adds cost to PCBs is bit of a no-no - I can't see how the "self-healing" benefit can factor into any PCB design (especially motherboards, which have the least layers possible to reduce cost) unless it is for some specialist application, where using such tech would warrant the extra cost involved.
Cool, but, lets face it - not going to be every day.
It's Lake Nyos and there is a webcam on the plume which updates twice a day over satellite so the team can keep an eye on its height. The carbon dioxide is from magma below the lake, and this is not the only lake affected in this way.
i wish i can grep, less, awk, search in real life.
I'd settle for just 'screen' so that in those long boring meetings I can leave myself sitting and nodding the right responses, while actually I'm disconnected off somewhere else having fun.
How precisely did they measure the 732km?
And was that measurement the surface curvature or line of site through the crust?
I can't imagine that's been overlooked but you never know, maybe something a little more subtle and less obvious - which is why peer review is good.
I have a question for gamers who have tried both PS3 and Kinect, or PS3 and Wii.
The PS3 is trying to be all things to all gamers. "It only does everything." How does the PlayStation Move compare with Kinect or the Wii?
Is the Kinect actually better for sports games and such or is the experience about the same, and whichever game is better written is more fun?
Is the Wii controller better/more accurate, or about the same? Are the Wii games better?
steveha
We definitely don't want our PS3 to do Wii-like things.
Downstairs we have a Wii, which is great for the kids and dance games and the like. They have a great time when their friends are over, and we enjoy playing it with them as a family (that Super Monkey Ball mini-game where you have to land a rocket by holding the Wii remote upright and pressing A for thrust is pure genius - but it is a novelty and nothing more). The Wii is a little unsatisfying to the serious gamer; SD resolution is looking really dated these days. The hardware limits are showing.
In our bedroom we have a PS3 (+ HDTV mounted on the wall). Sitting in bed of an evening playing LBP2 with the missus, or Portal 2 while only having to move thumbs is a win for us, aside from the obvious point that physical exertion to control a games console in the bedroom is clearly getting some priorities wrong. ;) We like that it doesn't expect this of us in order to have fun.
Come the next generation and having to choose between a console expecting us to wave arms about, or one that lets us just play... that will be tough.
I'm taking my daughter powerboating thanks to a good Groupon deal. We don't normally do that kind a thing, but a good deal caught my eye and it sounded a blast. There is no way could anyone have seen that coming from my purchase history. This isn't the first time Groupon has appealed to the random in me either, and from what I gather from talking to other people this isn't uncommon.
Pertinent to the story, just spotted this in the news:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/367885/acs-law-solicitor-is-bankrupt
Blackmailing filesharers didn't turn out to be the money-spinner he anticipated it to be...