I run a small web dev firm that does a lot in the way of PHP and JS, like yourself. What we have found works the best for our core library is a copy of Subversion running on our server. This way we all know exactly what the latest version is, and more importantly we can see how it became the latest version (i.e. what changes were made). A lot of tools run with SVN nicely. For instance, Trac talks to a backend copy of SVN and couples it loosely with a wiki and a couple of other things. A lot of hosting providers will also run a copy of SVN for you, like http://networkredux.com/ (We just switched over to them).
Of course, a root level folder on the ftp server can also work.
This battery is very similar to a lithium polymer battery, but has different benefits and drawbacks. ORB's standout feature is not it's energy density, which is good, but no better than Lithium Ion - on the order of 10kW/kg and 10Wh/kg.
What sets this technology apart is the extremely high current rates at which it can charge and discharge. Where Li-Poly (which has the largest discharge rate relative to capacity and weight) is able to charge at between 3 and 10 times the capacity, and lithium ion is limited to a mere 0.7 times capacity, ORB is on the order of 60 times capacity.
This makes it suited to situations where high amperage is needed, but for short bursts, such as in UPS systems, which is what NEC demonstrated the battery with. They were able to sustain a 100 watt system for around 15 seconds using 4 "small, thin ORB cells (each the size of 3 stacked credit cards)." Using Ni-Mh the power system would have to be massively oversized to support this level of power output, which is why you still see UPS units using lead acid batteries instead of the more exotic technology available today.
Deviant Art is more of a gallery. I think what the poster was getting at was sites that are art, not that contain art.
On a related note, Hell.com used to be one of the best 'Web as Art' sites out there, and it led into a whole rat's nest of other sites, all as snazzy as it. Unfortunately, it seems to have gone away.
It's interesting to look at sites like these -- I always feel like I've wandered into an issue of wired magazine, only with more movement and blink tags. Kind of post-modernist, avant garde, art deco 'busy-ness' brought to a new medium. Sometimes it hurts my eyes.
Extending upon the other comments to the parent, it seems that the question of whether ghosts do or don't exist is not the question being analyzed here - the question is how closely one can virtually create a world that makes you react to the same way as a "legitimate" haunting would. The most fascinating part of this article is that it seems that the models for affective gaming through response times and so forth on the gaming pad can rival the effectiveness of much closer monitoring techniques outlined in the article - eeg's and gsr's.
It's interesting to think about how this could change the gaming industry. But beyond that, imagine what it could do for pr0n.:)
This feels like a knee-jerk reaction to the psx being released. Of course Gates again lost the race, this time for a media center / console hybrid. At least the difference is far less than the last release wars.
It's interesting to note that it's touted as a media center extension -- will it not function without a media center pc already in the household? Along those same lines -- I can't really figure out what the offering is here, besides playing video over a network. This is a very vague announcement indeed.
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I run a small web dev firm that does a lot in the way of PHP and JS, like yourself. What we have found works the best for our core library is a copy of Subversion running on our server. This way we all know exactly what the latest version is, and more importantly we can see how it became the latest version (i.e. what changes were made). A lot of tools run with SVN nicely. For instance, Trac talks to a backend copy of SVN and couples it loosely with a wiki and a couple of other things. A lot of hosting providers will also run a copy of SVN for you, like http://networkredux.com/ (We just switched over to them).
Of course, a root level folder on the ftp server can also work.
This battery is very similar to a lithium polymer battery, but has different benefits and drawbacks. ORB's standout feature is not it's energy density, which is good, but no better than Lithium Ion - on the order of 10kW/kg and 10Wh/kg.
What sets this technology apart is the extremely high current rates at which it can charge and discharge. Where Li-Poly (which has the largest discharge rate relative to capacity and weight) is able to charge at between 3 and 10 times the capacity, and lithium ion is limited to a mere 0.7 times capacity, ORB is on the order of 60 times capacity.
This makes it suited to situations where high amperage is needed, but for short bursts, such as in UPS systems, which is what NEC demonstrated the battery with. They were able to sustain a 100 watt system for around 15 seconds using 4 "small, thin ORB cells (each the size of 3 stacked credit cards)." Using Ni-Mh the power system would have to be massively oversized to support this level of power output, which is why you still see UPS units using lead acid batteries instead of the more exotic technology available today.
Deviant Art is more of a gallery. I think what the poster was getting at was sites that are art, not that contain art.
On a related note, Hell.com used to be one of the best 'Web as Art' sites out there, and it led into a whole rat's nest of other sites, all as snazzy as it. Unfortunately, it seems to have gone away.
It's interesting to look at sites like these -- I always feel like I've wandered into an issue of wired magazine, only with more movement and blink tags. Kind of post-modernist, avant garde, art deco 'busy-ness' brought to a new medium. Sometimes it hurts my eyes.
Extending upon the other comments to the parent, it seems that the question of whether ghosts do or don't exist is not the question being analyzed here - the question is how closely one can virtually create a world that makes you react to the same way as a "legitimate" haunting would. The most fascinating part of this article is that it seems that the models for affective gaming through response times and so forth on the gaming pad can rival the effectiveness of much closer monitoring techniques outlined in the article - eeg's and gsr's.
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It's interesting to think about how this could change the gaming industry. But beyond that, imagine what it could do for pr0n.
This feels like a knee-jerk reaction to the psx being released. Of course Gates again lost the race, this time for a media center / console hybrid. At least the difference is far less than the last release wars.
It's interesting to note that it's touted as a media center extension -- will it not function without a media center pc already in the household? Along those same lines -- I can't really figure out what the offering is here, besides playing video over a network. This is a very vague announcement indeed.