This is a great recommendation. Modern P&S cameras take great pictures with no fuss, so if you get one that also has full manual control, you can see if you are really interested in having more control over your shooting before investing on a DSLR. And DSLRs are for very few people, if you find out that something you can put in your pocket takes great pics, you won't like to carry something larger. And the great advantage the S100 has over most compacts is the lens. 24mm wide angle is VERY useful and the fact that it is f2.0 makes it usable in low light conditions (the big sensor helps there too). However, the S100 is not cheap. So there is a little gem called the ELPH 500 HS (not the new 510), for less than half the price ($200 currently on amazon) that has almost all the features of the S100 including a fast 24mm lens and manual modes. The lower cost is due to the sensor being smaller and the lack of gps geo-tagging. However, as a thrilled owner of the ELPH 500 HS I can tell you that the grain is little even at ISO 1600, so I would definitely not call the sensor inadequate. So, another vote for the S100 if money is no object otherwise you will enjoy the ELPH 500HS almost as much.
Note that we don't have to go back in time to see extreme optimization examples, as RAM is also about cost. I remember about 5 years ago, my company was asked to deliver a predictive text entry system for a portable device. Our standard C API weighed at a bit over 1kb RAM usage, which was already less than competing systems, and was custom configured for each client. So, the European company that had the device referred us to their Chinese partner that was making the hardware. It turns out they were using a very slow 8bit cpu that could address very little RAM to save on costs of course, and what was worse, they had already filled most of it. So we ask them what is the most RAM we can use? The answer: "Less than 200 bytes". Fortunately they gave us a few kb's in ROM, so for 2 months I was going through every line of code changing everything for least ram, sacrificing ROM but not speed (due to very slow CPU). In the end, I delivered an API that used 185 bytes of RAM. Now start thinking what 185 bytes means...;)
Perhaps the Intel compiler situation might explain some of my experiences. I have a system (mac pro) with a quad core Bloomfield Xeon @ 3.2GHz and also a system with a quad-core Phenom II also @ 3.2GHz. On most things I run the Xeon is faster. However, the same is not true for the software I write. If I implement say the edit distance algorithm in C to compare two DNA molecules, and compile in x86-64 with gcc, the Phenom II is about 10% faster than the Xeon for a single thread. Interestingly, the Xeon is faster if compiled for 32bit arch. Then, a string processing program I have in Perl, runs at about the same speed on both CPU's per thread. The Xeon does get an advantage for more than 4 threads due to HT, but of course I could switch to the cheap Phenom X6 if I needed such workloads... Overall, for the custom software I use daily for work, the $5000 Xeon Mac Pro machine is not faster than the $500 Phenom II system...
Right, 80 is for Intel, so it would have been better to call it Z80... oh, wait...
The more serious answer is that the Z68 is a chipset and not a CPU, so they can call it whatever they want and old hackers won't complain (Z80 would turn some heads though). And if you want to know, "80" was originally Intel's prefix just for 8-bit microprocessors, just like "40" was for 4-bit ones. But they did not keep the scheme when they went to 16-bits possibly because they were not drawing hard lines for the new architecture by basically extending the 8080 architecture and also having 16bit CPUs running on 8b buses (8088).
this means that you can put your computer with its noisy fans into the basement use a single thunderbolt cable, and just have an extremely thin client at your workstation.
I really don't see the problem you are trying to solve. I mean, we ARE in the basement, right? Right next to our computer. Where would we put our "thin client", upstairs with mom??? Don't be ridiculous, what are we, 7 years old? Plus, what you are calling "computer with its noisy fans" is music to our ears and a delight to our eyes in its full LED glory, how would we admire that if we were on another floor?
But that is the whole point. The state will have to either not allow individual counties and municipalities to collect additional taxes, and be guaranteed it gets the national tax collected by all retailers (and the extra revenue they can share if they wish with counties etc), or continue with their current convoluted system and miss on out-of-state e-tailers. I would say the choice for states is easy. They would gain more if they both let affiliates work in their state (income tax) and get the national sales tax. Of course they would have to change their current convoluted system with something simpler (big difficulty there, I know, goes against everything legislators know). And don't tell me they can't find a way with their spoiled counties & munis that are used to getting sales taxes - the pie to share will be larger so it is not that hard to find a way for everyone to benefit. We would lose because we currently buy things without sales tax if possible and never declare it (if you are objecting: yes, you are the only one reading this that declares your out-of-state purchases, seriously get some help). But States will be better off.
Yep, he sure was a visionary. But personally, I was always bothered with his vision of all of us having the same device (rectangular, with rounded corners) which does only what the manufacturer wants it to do. I give credit to the other Steve and to Bill for the PC revolution. Jobs was masterful at what he did, I just don't like what he did. Condolences to his loved ones.
Along with R&D and marketing, infrastructure etc overhead, it is losing more than $10 per Kindle Fire sale. And this is news to whom? When you expect a steady stream of income for each device sold, you would be stupid not to subsidize it! Similar to how many recent video game consoles were sold at a loss when they came out, to ensure a user base.
It's worth noting that the Scrolls are the original pieces of paper, penned by Jews living in Jerusalem before, during, and after the time that Jesus is said to have done all those amazing things.
Yet you won't find even a hint of an oblique reference to anything that could possibly be mistraken for Jesus or the events of the Gospels.
It is kind of obvious, isn't it? I mean, these scrolls were written by Jews who were not converted to Christianity. For the majority of the Jews who were not converted, if Jesus existed he was nothing but a false prophet, certainly not worth mentioning.
Now, about Philo of Alexandria or Pliny the Elder, you certainly have a point. If Jesus was such a big event, he should have gotten at least some mentions. While I don't believe that any deity has been messing with puny humans during any part of history, Jesus might as well have existed as a historical person, but from the lack of contemporary information it would seem to me his appearance was at best a minor event and everything was accomplished by the hype of his followers decades later.
The one who was considered successful by all (Hurd) was the one with the least compensation (by a huge margin if you consider his years on the job vs Apotheker). It is no joke we say the worse you do as a CEO the more money they pay you!
So, nobody seems to be able to track the planned reentry of a big satellite in 2011... I guess then it is not too probable that governments have been tracking alien FTL spaceship visits since the 1940's, is it?;)
So, the foldable containers help in what way? Either you ship back folded or unfolded empty containers, the weight of the ship and thus the water displacement is the same. The folding improves only on volume so the gp is correct, the only think that could possibly be affected is the returning ships being a bit more aerodynamic (which obviously will not make up for the folding/unfolding overhead), and of course land storage (but good logistics might help more than folding for this). You have to fold ships too, otherwise with an asymmetric transport requirement this does not seem helpful in reducing transport costs.
Yes, but they managed the worst possible! They passed it through their testing/evaluation, let it on the app store, sold it for a few hours... AND THEN pulled it!
You won't get a credit and you can't directly participate in class. I am sure those paying Stanford tuition won't have a problem. And I won't even go into the other benefits of being part of a good academic environment. If you think about it, you could probably learn the things that a university teaches by getting the textbooks and studying. So by the same logic everyone who pays for school is stupid.
I imagine you only got modded up because you bash Microsoft and this is Slashdot. Microsoft is not the big bully in the console gaming arena, they seem to have a good product (I am not a console gamer so this is from what I read) that got a decent market share. However, they are a distant third in market share (yeah, even if you don't count handhelds). What they do have going for them, is that, again according to what I read, their current gen console is perhaps the best (for casual gamers), especially when you consider their online platform. So, if I had a good platform and some game dev was bought as an exclusive by a competitor, I would certainly feel within my rights to deny them access to my platform. Sony bought your game, it's theirs, I don't want it on my console. As simple as that. You choose to either make money off the exclusivity deal, or take advantage of the Xbox market. You can't have both! And to remind you, that is the definition of exclusivity. If you are not convinced, I have to tell you that on other markets, a manufacturer giving an exclusivity to a retailer can seriously piss-off other large retailers and have trouble selling to them in the future (unless you have a popular product of course!). And nobody complains, that's what exclusivity entails.
One error per 10,000? They have some serious catching up to do, Intel had managed just 1 error in 9 billion over 15 years ago! And the later Pentiums were probably even better than that!
I was looking at ebay over the weekend and the Touchpad 16GB auctions were all closing at around $250-$270 - and we are talking about 1 auction closing per minute! So, this means that they could have sold the Touchpad at around $300 (more for the 32GB version) and still sell-out in a few days. This would have been at a loss of R&D, as the cost of making them is astimated at around $315 & $330 for the 16GB and 32GB versions. Now, after selling out in a few days they would have a big installed WebOS base, so maybe the app store would take off. But nooo, they HAVE to sell their tablet at least $400, even though they are trying to enter late in a market dominated by Apple. And when they obviously can't do that, they simply give the tablets away and call it quits! Now THAT is corporate suicide and yet it stands second to Nokia's recent "FU developers - we take back our promises, BTW we are just another windows phone maker now".
Few technology companies willingly give a two year warranty;
Actually in Greece it seems there are few companies that don't give a two year warranty, as the majority now does. Apple is the most notorious among those who are sticking with the 1 year, while Sony the other major one has at least been giving 2 years on their Sony Ericsson phones for a while now. Then there are some laptop makers like Acer who are on 1 year...
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This is a great recommendation. Modern P&S cameras take great pictures with no fuss, so if you get one that also has full manual control, you can see if you are really interested in having more control over your shooting before investing on a DSLR. And DSLRs are for very few people, if you find out that something you can put in your pocket takes great pics, you won't like to carry something larger.
And the great advantage the S100 has over most compacts is the lens. 24mm wide angle is VERY useful and the fact that it is f2.0 makes it usable in low light conditions (the big sensor helps there too).
However, the S100 is not cheap. So there is a little gem called the ELPH 500 HS (not the new 510), for less than half the price ($200 currently on amazon) that has almost all the features of the S100 including a fast 24mm lens and manual modes. The lower cost is due to the sensor being smaller and the lack of gps geo-tagging. However, as a thrilled owner of the ELPH 500 HS I can tell you that the grain is little even at ISO 1600, so I would definitely not call the sensor inadequate.
So, another vote for the S100 if money is no object otherwise you will enjoy the ELPH 500HS almost as much.
Note that we don't have to go back in time to see extreme optimization examples, as RAM is also about cost. ;)
I remember about 5 years ago, my company was asked to deliver a predictive text entry system for a portable device. Our standard C API weighed at a bit over 1kb RAM usage, which was already less than competing systems, and was custom configured for each client. So, the European company that had the device referred us to their Chinese partner that was making the hardware. It turns out they were using a very slow 8bit cpu that could address very little RAM to save on costs of course, and what was worse, they had already filled most of it. So we ask them what is the most RAM we can use? The answer: "Less than 200 bytes".
Fortunately they gave us a few kb's in ROM, so for 2 months I was going through every line of code changing everything for least ram, sacrificing ROM but not speed (due to very slow CPU). In the end, I delivered an API that used 185 bytes of RAM. Now start thinking what 185 bytes means...
Interestingly, the Xeon is faster if compiled for 32bit arch.
Obviously compared to the Phenom also running a 32bit binary.
Perhaps the Intel compiler situation might explain some of my experiences. I have a system (mac pro) with a quad core Bloomfield Xeon @ 3.2GHz and also a system with a quad-core Phenom II also @ 3.2GHz. On most things I run the Xeon is faster. However, the same is not true for the software I write. If I implement say the edit distance algorithm in C to compare two DNA molecules, and compile in x86-64 with gcc, the Phenom II is about 10% faster than the Xeon for a single thread. Interestingly, the Xeon is faster if compiled for 32bit arch. Then, a string processing program I have in Perl, runs at about the same speed on both CPU's per thread. The Xeon does get an advantage for more than 4 threads due to HT, but of course I could switch to the cheap Phenom X6 if I needed such workloads...
Overall, for the custom software I use daily for work, the $5000 Xeon Mac Pro machine is not faster than the $500 Phenom II system...
Try this longer video instead. It has construction details, explanations, double levitation etc.
Also, "semiconductor"? Jeez, that is a lame mistake even by Slashdot standards!
Right, 80 is for Intel, so it would have been better to call it Z80 ... oh, wait...
The more serious answer is that the Z68 is a chipset and not a CPU, so they can call it whatever they want and old hackers won't complain (Z80 would turn some heads though). And if you want to know, "80" was originally Intel's prefix just for 8-bit microprocessors, just like "40" was for 4-bit ones. But they did not keep the scheme when they went to 16-bits possibly because they were not drawing hard lines for the new architecture by basically extending the 8080 architecture and also having 16bit CPUs running on 8b buses (8088).
this means that you can put your computer with its noisy fans into the basement use a single thunderbolt cable, and just have an extremely thin client at your workstation.
I really don't see the problem you are trying to solve. I mean, we ARE in the basement, right? Right next to our computer. Where would we put our "thin client", upstairs with mom??? Don't be ridiculous, what are we, 7 years old?
Plus, what you are calling "computer with its noisy fans" is music to our ears and a delight to our eyes in its full LED glory, how would we admire that if we were on another floor?
But that is the whole point. The state will have to either not allow individual counties and municipalities to collect additional taxes, and be guaranteed it gets the national tax collected by all retailers (and the extra revenue they can share if they wish with counties etc), or continue with their current convoluted system and miss on out-of-state e-tailers.
I would say the choice for states is easy. They would gain more if they both let affiliates work in their state (income tax) and get the national sales tax. Of course they would have to change their current convoluted system with something simpler (big difficulty there, I know, goes against everything legislators know). And don't tell me they can't find a way with their spoiled counties & munis that are used to getting sales taxes - the pie to share will be larger so it is not that hard to find a way for everyone to benefit.
We would lose because we currently buy things without sales tax if possible and never declare it (if you are objecting: yes, you are the only one reading this that declares your out-of-state purchases, seriously get some help). But States will be better off.
Ehmm, looks a bit like it. However it is looks even more to a 1960's Braun T3 pocket radio, and the Mac Pro looks like a Braun T1000 radio and so on. http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future
Tried to view the video on the BBC site. Says "not available in your area".
The irony is that I am in Greece...
Thanks BBC.
Yep, he sure was a visionary.
But personally, I was always bothered with his vision of all of us having the same device (rectangular, with rounded corners) which does only what the manufacturer wants it to do.
I give credit to the other Steve and to Bill for the PC revolution. Jobs was masterful at what he did, I just don't like what he did.
Condolences to his loved ones.
Along with R&D and marketing, infrastructure etc overhead, it is losing more than $10 per Kindle Fire sale. And this is news to whom? When you expect a steady stream of income for each device sold, you would be stupid not to subsidize it!
Similar to how many recent video game consoles were sold at a loss when they came out, to ensure a user base.
It's worth noting that the Scrolls are the original pieces of paper, penned by Jews living in Jerusalem before, during, and after the time that Jesus is said to have done all those amazing things.
Yet you won't find even a hint of an oblique reference to anything that could possibly be mistraken for Jesus or the events of the Gospels.
It is kind of obvious, isn't it? I mean, these scrolls were written by Jews who were not converted to Christianity. For the majority of the Jews who were not converted, if Jesus existed he was nothing but a false prophet, certainly not worth mentioning.
Now, about Philo of Alexandria or Pliny the Elder, you certainly have a point. If Jesus was such a big event, he should have gotten at least some mentions. While I don't believe that any deity has been messing with puny humans during any part of history, Jesus might as well have existed as a historical person, but from the lack of contemporary information it would seem to me his appearance was at best a minor event and everything was accomplished by the hype of his followers decades later.
The one who was considered successful by all (Hurd) was the one with the least compensation (by a huge margin if you consider his years on the job vs Apotheker). It is no joke we say the worse you do as a CEO the more money they pay you!
So, nobody seems to be able to track the planned reentry of a big satellite in 2011... ;)
I guess then it is not too probable that governments have been tracking alien FTL spaceship visits since the 1940's, is it?
So, the foldable containers help in what way? Either you ship back folded or unfolded empty containers, the weight of the ship and thus the water displacement is the same. The folding improves only on volume so the gp is correct, the only think that could possibly be affected is the returning ships being a bit more aerodynamic (which obviously will not make up for the folding/unfolding overhead), and of course land storage (but good logistics might help more than folding for this).
You have to fold ships too, otherwise with an asymmetric transport requirement this does not seem helpful in reducing transport costs.
Yes, but they managed the worst possible!
They passed it through their testing/evaluation, let it on the app store, sold it for a few hours... AND THEN pulled it!
The keys were on a site kept by a 3rd party fulfillment partner that had really bad security (or really great lack of it if you prefer)...
You won't get a credit and you can't directly participate in class. I am sure those paying Stanford tuition won't have a problem.
And I won't even go into the other benefits of being part of a good academic environment.
If you think about it, you could probably learn the things that a university teaches by getting the textbooks and studying. So by the same logic everyone who pays for school is stupid.
Still better than Nokia!
I imagine you only got modded up because you bash Microsoft and this is Slashdot.
Microsoft is not the big bully in the console gaming arena, they seem to have a good product (I am not a console gamer so this is from what I read) that got a decent market share. However, they are a distant third in market share (yeah, even if you don't count handhelds).
What they do have going for them, is that, again according to what I read, their current gen console is perhaps the best (for casual gamers), especially when you consider their online platform. So, if I had a good platform and some game dev was bought as an exclusive by a competitor, I would certainly feel within my rights to deny them access to my platform. Sony bought your game, it's theirs, I don't want it on my console.
As simple as that. You choose to either make money off the exclusivity deal, or take advantage of the Xbox market. You can't have both! And to remind you, that is the definition of exclusivity.
If you are not convinced, I have to tell you that on other markets, a manufacturer giving an exclusivity to a retailer can seriously piss-off other large retailers and have trouble selling to them in the future (unless you have a popular product of course!). And nobody complains, that's what exclusivity entails.
I hate to have to explain jokes, but maybe some slashdotters are too young to remember the Pentium FDIV bug?
One error per 10,000? They have some serious catching up to do, Intel had managed just 1 error in 9 billion over 15 years ago! And the later Pentiums were probably even better than that!
I was looking at ebay over the weekend and the Touchpad 16GB auctions were all closing at around $250-$270 - and we are talking about 1 auction closing per minute!
So, this means that they could have sold the Touchpad at around $300 (more for the 32GB version) and still sell-out in a few days. This would have been at a loss of R&D, as the cost of making them is astimated at around $315 & $330 for the 16GB and 32GB versions.
Now, after selling out in a few days they would have a big installed WebOS base, so maybe the app store would take off.
But nooo, they HAVE to sell their tablet at least $400, even though they are trying to enter late in a market dominated by Apple. And when they obviously can't do that, they simply give the tablets away and call it quits!
Now THAT is corporate suicide and yet it stands second to Nokia's recent "FU developers - we take back our promises, BTW we are just another windows phone maker now".
Few technology companies willingly give a two year warranty;
Actually in Greece it seems there are few companies that don't give a two year warranty, as the majority now does. Apple is the most notorious among those who are sticking with the 1 year, while Sony the other major one has at least been giving 2 years on their Sony Ericsson phones for a while now. Then there are some laptop makers like Acer who are on 1 year...