However, there ARE people who can hear the difference.
Do you mean that there are people able to hear the difference between a 16-depth and a 24-bit depth sampled signal? I dare you. Fact is, there is not human being able to hear the dynamic range of a 16-bit signal already.
Same goes for 44.1 KHz vs. 48 KHz sample rate. 44.1 KHz is way planty - it translates into an upper sampleable frequency of just a little bit under 22 KHz. Well, guess what, there isn't any human being able to hear a sound of the frequency of over 22 KHz. That's right, nobody.
I know for a fact that both Finland where I live, and New Zealand where I was involved (can't disclose more, sorry) very directly with Location Based Services, have 'em since 3 years. So, this is not news at all. Maybe the folks in UK think it is, though;o)
The technology is actually really easy to implement, because the Visitor Location Register (part of the mobile switching center) already sends the (somewhat cryptic) location of the cell where you are, but previously people didn't think it would be useful. There's a bit more to it, to determine the position more precisely, but basically, that's it.
The Beauty and The Beast The sword in the Stone Tarzan The Emperor's New Groove Hercules (heh, this dates WAY back;o)) The Hunchback of Notre Dame Pinocchio
Actually, neither RTFA or RFTA are acronyms. They are just initialisms. An acronym is an abbreviation that is "pronounced as a word". For example: SPICE, ARM, SCSI, RAM are acronyms. CIA, RTFM, USA are initialisms but not acronyms.
You make perfect sense, even though I am not sure I agree that this particular form of free market is more suitable for manufacturing environments than for services-oriented. I'll have to think about it a bit, but it doesn't seem that obvious. However, I guess we agree that the alternative is not a communist-style planned economy (the example of which nowadays you can see in cuba and laos) neither a merket-driven dictatorial government like China. I basically think that the free market economy of modern western countries, expecially the american, needs a little bit of tweaking - basically, better laws.
Hey thanks for the info! According to the articles you linked to, both fabs should be operational full throttle as we speak.
This all points to China becoming a very powerful country. At this pace, China will become both a military and economic superpower in two decades, imho. And I am not sure that's good.
Yes, they are related. I have not forgotten ARM, and I ma sure that it will be around for a long time, but I was thinking about the more powerful CPUs.
That said, ARM as a company still has some fire under the quiet ashes, and 170 M under the belt. They have the technical ability to design a powerful new RISC chip - but do they want to risk it (excuse the pun!)?
What you just described is the greatest symtom of the free market, while free market does have (Alot) of virtues, free market should never be considered an end all.
Could you elabeorate more on this thought of yours? i.e. what other symptoms are there, what do you exactly mean?
I agree about the Alpha. In fact, nowadays the only decent RISC architectures with some chance for survival are the Power from IBM and SPARC from Sun (with the latter having a bit more chance, because they don't depend on the Wintel world as much as IBM does). HP gave in to Intel as well as Digital.
Too bad because RISC is, in fact, the better technology and it had a formidable start, back in the 80's.
China, as far as I know, doesn't have suitable factories to fab highly integrated chips of this kind. On the other hand, Taiwan does, and a lot of them at that. So many, in fact, that Taiwan is eager to find companies that want to outsource their production. For the Chinese companies it would make good sense in many aspects, because of the proximity, the culture and language they have in common with the Chinese from Taiwan. However, this seems to be a project very dear to the Chinese govt., and I don't suppose they would want to outsource it to Taiwan with whom they could be at war any moment.
What other options would China have? Honk Kong? Russia? Perhaps Malaysia (they have some big fabs, too, although not as advanced as the Taiwanese).
1. As someone already posted, these devices are very unaccurate. And I am not worried about people who are wrongly detected to be terrorists - I am worried about the opposite case. And from the current research it appears that there are a high percentage of false positives. In the range of tens of percents.
2. The other thing that worries me is that it's a dangerous trend. Using biometric data is much worse than passwords because
a) you can change passwords freely, but you can't change you face, iris or fingerprints. If someone spoofes or achieves these (mask-copy of face, holographic copy of iris, silicon stamp of your fingerprint) you're fucked for life.
b) The people who would want access to your biometric data are likely to be unscrupulous and highly motivated, and a very simple way of accessing your biometric data is by - killing you! Or crippling you significanlty, at least: cut finger(s), gouge eye(s), severe head off to make mask copy of face later on. I definitely don't want to become a person who has access to important things AND uses biometric access systems!
For that matter, it "syncs" with the old-style NT domains (with NDS for NT), Oracle 8 db users (natively) and PeopleSoft users (don't know the details about this one).
If the facts are clearly in the favor of the little guy, all of the lawyering in the world may not be enough to save the big guy. Think [..]the lady who scalded herself on McDonalds coffee..
Sure, the old lady who sued McDonalds because she spilled the cofee on herself! Facts were clearly in her favor, oh yeah.
You are correct: a 100% Microsoft network is very vulnerable. I, let's say, am closely affiliated with this famous company that makes mobile phones, and it's a 100% pure Microsoft shop, including IIS, Exchange, Outlook and Office - Microsoft end to end. Well, when these mail viruses attack our IM people look like idiots. They perhaps are not idiots, but they look so helpless and inefficient, and network services just don't work.
And we're punished every time some schmuck writes one of these macrovirii, because of this uniform, Microsoft infrastructure.
Ah, but that's advanced;o) no, really, I have a TG9000 (or was it T9000) that's an older model than yours:o)
It came with two 5.25" floppies full of drivers, sadly, all of them totally useless today. However, my card was supported natively by PSpice for DOS, so I could have 1024x768 graphs of circuit simulations onscreen. Nice.
No fscking suit, you have one of those Trident SVGA cards? Is it a PCI or an ISA card? I still have this Trident SVGA ISA card among my stuff, but no ISA slot to pop it in:o) but I wish there was a way to get at least 256 colors in 600x800 mode. In theory, at least, it should be possible, but not with X11, as far as I know....
Yeah, I knew those, but they are not interesting for me in any way, I must say. I didn't know they came with 2 NICs, you got me, there, I confess, but regardless, they are a toy waiting for an application, as far as I'm concerned.
And knowing that they overheat just turns me off even more.
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However, there ARE people who can hear the difference.
Do you mean that there are people able to hear the difference between a 16-depth and a 24-bit depth sampled signal? I dare you. Fact is, there is not human being able to hear the dynamic range of a 16-bit signal already.
Same goes for 44.1 KHz vs. 48 KHz sample rate. 44.1 KHz is way planty - it translates into an upper sampleable frequency of just a little bit under 22 KHz. Well, guess what, there isn't any human being able to hear a sound of the frequency of over 22 KHz. That's right, nobody.
I know for a fact that both Finland where I live, and New Zealand where I was involved (can't disclose more, sorry) very directly with Location Based Services, have 'em since 3 years. So, this is not news at all. Maybe the folks in UK think it is, though ;o)
The technology is actually really easy to implement, because the Visitor Location Register (part of the mobile switching center) already sends the (somewhat cryptic) location of the cell where you are, but previously people didn't think it would be useful. There's a bit more to it, to determine the position more precisely, but basically, that's it.
Even more obvious ones:
;o))
The Beauty and The Beast
The sword in the Stone
Tarzan
The Emperor's New Groove
Hercules (heh, this dates WAY back
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Pinocchio
Actually, neither RTFA or RFTA are acronyms. They are just initialisms. An acronym is an abbreviation that is "pronounced as a word". For example: SPICE, ARM, SCSI, RAM are acronyms. CIA, RTFM, USA are initialisms but not acronyms.
Have you seen the new Serengeti-class Sun servers? Not as flashy as these, but very sexy nonetheless.
And don't forget.. Mars!
You make perfect sense, even though I am not sure I agree that this particular form of free market is more suitable for manufacturing environments than for services-oriented. I'll have to think about it a bit, but it doesn't seem that obvious. However, I guess we agree that the alternative is not a communist-style planned economy (the example of which nowadays you can see in cuba and laos) neither a merket-driven dictatorial government like China. I basically think that the free market economy of modern western countries, expecially the american, needs a little bit of tweaking - basically, better laws.
Hey thanks for the info! According to the articles you linked to, both fabs should be operational full throttle as we speak.
This all points to China becoming a very powerful country. At this pace, China will become both a military and economic superpower in two decades, imho. And I am not sure that's good.
Yes, they are related. I have not forgotten ARM, and I ma sure that it will be around for a long time, but I was thinking about the more powerful CPUs.
That said, ARM as a company still has some fire under the quiet ashes, and 170 M under the belt. They have the technical ability to design a powerful new RISC chip - but do they want to risk it (excuse the pun!)?
What you just described is the greatest symtom of the free market, while free market does have (Alot) of virtues, free market should never be considered an end all.
Could you elabeorate more on this thought of yours? i.e. what other symptoms are there, what do you exactly mean?
I agree about the Alpha. In fact, nowadays the only decent RISC architectures with some chance for survival are the Power from IBM and SPARC from Sun (with the latter having a bit more chance, because they don't depend on the Wintel world as much as IBM does). HP gave in to Intel as well as Digital.
Too bad because RISC is, in fact, the better technology and it had a formidable start, back in the 80's.
China, as far as I know, doesn't have suitable factories to fab highly integrated chips of this kind. On the other hand, Taiwan does, and a lot of them at that. So many, in fact, that Taiwan is eager to find companies that want to outsource their production. For the Chinese companies it would make good sense in many aspects, because of the proximity, the culture and language they have in common with the Chinese from Taiwan.
However, this seems to be a project very dear to the Chinese govt., and I don't suppose they would want to outsource it to Taiwan with whom they could be at war any moment.
What other options would China have? Honk Kong? Russia? Perhaps Malaysia (they have some big fabs, too, although not as advanced as the Taiwanese).
There are 2 things about this that worry me:
1. As someone already posted, these devices are very unaccurate. And I am not worried about people who are wrongly detected to be terrorists - I am worried about the opposite case. And from the current research it appears that there are a high percentage of false positives. In the range of tens of percents.
2. The other thing that worries me is that it's a dangerous trend. Using biometric data is much worse than passwords because
a) you can change passwords freely, but you can't change you face, iris or fingerprints. If someone spoofes or achieves these (mask-copy of face, holographic copy of iris, silicon stamp of your fingerprint) you're fucked for life.
b) The people who would want access to your biometric data are likely to be unscrupulous and highly motivated, and a very simple way of accessing your biometric data is by - killing you! Or crippling you significanlty, at least: cut finger(s), gouge eye(s), severe head off to make mask copy of face later on. I definitely don't want to become a person who has access to important things AND uses biometric access systems!
For that matter, it "syncs" with the old-style NT domains (with NDS for NT), Oracle 8 db users (natively) and PeopleSoft users (don't know the details about this one).
I can almost picture that thing running back and forth on a podium, screaming, jumping and sweating profusely.
Oh, wait...
If the facts are clearly in the favor of the little guy, all of the lawyering in the world may not be enough to save the big guy. Think [..]the lady who scalded herself on McDonalds coffee..
Sure, the old lady who sued McDonalds because she spilled the cofee on herself! Facts were clearly in her favor, oh yeah.
We love AMD and Hammer! We love intel and Itanium!
You forgot PA-RISC: "we are committed to our PA-RISC development"
You are correct: a 100% Microsoft network is very vulnerable. I, let's say, am closely affiliated with this famous company that makes mobile phones, and it's a 100% pure Microsoft shop, including IIS, Exchange, Outlook and Office - Microsoft end to end. Well, when these mail viruses attack our IM people look like idiots. They perhaps are not idiots, but they look so helpless and inefficient, and network services just don't work.
And we're punished every time some schmuck writes one of these macrovirii, because of this uniform, Microsoft infrastructure.
Hi Jim,
would you mind if we brought this communication offline? My email is mario@myrealbox..com
mario
No, not VLB (and it's VESA LB, not Video LB): as I said, it's an ISA card.
Ah, but that's advanced ;o) no, really, I have a TG9000 (or was it T9000) that's an older model than yours :o)
It came with two 5.25" floppies full of drivers, sadly, all of them totally useless today. However, my card was supported natively by PSpice for DOS, so I could have 1024x768 graphs of circuit simulations onscreen. Nice.
No fscking suit, you have one of those Trident SVGA cards? Is it a PCI or an ISA card? I still have this Trident SVGA ISA card among my stuff, but no ISA slot to pop it in :o) but I wish there was a way to get at least 256 colors in 600x800 mode. In theory, at least, it should be possible, but not with X11, as far as I know....
Yeah, I knew those, but they are not interesting for me in any way, I must say. I didn't know they came with 2 NICs, you got me, there, I confess, but regardless, they are a toy waiting for an application, as far as I'm concerned.
And knowing that they overheat just turns me off even more.
Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing: iFolder, if I recall correctly? That's in NetWare 6.
One of the most informative posts on Slashdot. Thanks!
And note how the BOX-3410 comes with an built-in power supply, too! Much better than the product featured in this story.