You haven't heard anything about Transmeta in years because they ceased operating in 2009. The patent portfolio went to Intellectual Ventures, LLC, and licensed in whole or part to Intel, Nvidia, Sony, Fujitsu, and NEC.
TFA just mentions the interview without a clear reference to it. Looking for it I found two other articles that suggest that the 900p resolution and 30fps targets came from other factors. http://www.gamespot.com/articl... says that 30fps is "more cinematic" and 60fps "looked really wierd." http://www.gamespot.com/articl... suggests that some non-graphic computation is going on the GPU, but also has a quote that mentions "technically CPU bound."
What we don't know from these articles is why some or more of the AI computation can't be done in the GPU.
...which is why review sites get free samples and detailed marketing material sent to them. The review sites are using that to make advertising that doesn't look like conventional ads. Of course, they also run banner advertising on the sites - and who do you think wants to buy advertising on those review sites? Why do you think people make a good living running product review websites?
Truthfully, the actual purpose of the advertising for cars involves makin recent purchasers feel good about their recent purchase. Purchasers who feel good about their recent purchase are more likely to talk their friends and acquaintances about their car and have a greater influence on them than the direct advertising can do. Listen to someone talk about their newly purchased car and you can hear the tag lines of the advertising coming out of their mouths - people use the advertising to focus their own conversations - whether its the rally tires, or MacPherson strut suspension, lock-up transmission, or a zillion other features that most people even know what they really are. These person's status upgrade depends on their being able to make the case to their friends that they made a good purchase, and didn't buy the kind of cars that social losers buy.
Toyota had a huge problem marketing to young first-time car buyers - they kept coming out with low-cost cars that they'd like to market to that group, but found that older buyers were buying them, and when young people saw old people driving the same car, their interest in them plummeted. They were more successful marketing the Scion than previous attempts because they went out of their way to make the car unattractive to older people, as well as other initiatives, including opening up the specifications early to third-party customizers, to encourage buyers to make the cars even funkier.
Nonsense. Highly unlikely events? Multitude of convincing arguments?...and if we are alone, the fact that failing to colonize other galaxies before the sun exhausts all its nuclear fuel would finish us does not make us the ones to seed life in other galaxies and colonize distant solar systems. That's simply a non-sequitur.
With neither real facts nor justification of any assumptions of the frequency of life, multicellular life, intelligent life, technological life, stupid-enough-to-give-itself-away life, this article starts off on the wrong foot and gets worse. It doesn't matter how many exoplanets you can find, one, ten, hundreds, millions, billions, trillions - finding life on those planets is a completely different step. Finding life on a planet that has is not trying to be found is not likely to be possible, and this opens a problem that is beyond simple epistemology.
As others and famously, Stephen Hawking, has pointed out, an intelligent life form on an exoplanet should be aware of the risk contacting ET should entail. It's a simple matter of weighing risk and reward - and so far, Homo Sapiens has failed to figure that out. We're still stupid enough to be sending physical artifacts far away from our planet with a map that effectively says "We're curious and stupid - please invite us to dinner" without distinguishing the difference in role of dinner guest and entree.
Fortunately, sending physical artifacts is one the least effectual ways to contact ET. Sending electromagnetic signals is far more effective, and humans have tried that too, but only for a short time and only in a few directions. Beyond our early transmissions of "I Love Lucy," the increasing complexity of our signals make it less likely that modern communication, if were somehow intercepted with adequate S/N ratio, would be decoded into anything useful to ET. In fact, those DirecTV signals mean almost nothing without a access card, by design. Unless we actually intend to send a signal, nothing from Earth is likely to give our presence away, short of a few hundred short bursts of nuclear radiation from our atomic and fusion weapons, which we can only hope have ceased to be transmitted.
The simple fact is: "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." Plausably, Homo Sapiens has got to figure out how to deal with the "terrible ghastly silence" of space with much greater probability than having to deal with ET. Even so, contact with ET is much more likely to be via long-distance (and therefore long-latency) communication than by physical contact. And if a religious person doesn't like what ET is saying, they'll just change the channel, or stop responding.
Historically, religion has adapted to scientific advances without just giving up and saying - OK, we were wrong. Religions have been very facile in their interpretation of sacred documents in order for their memes to continue to flourish despite scientific and logical contradiction. Indeed, with Socrates as the example, the risk is borne by the truth-tellers, not the religious followers....unless one can surmise how religious orthodoxy would drink the hemlock this time.
I would also add that the 52% fatality rate is much better than the 90% rate that other outbreaks have sufferred, and it suggests that the heroic medical intervention that is underway is having a beneficial effect.
It's going to be difficult enough to get the 1700 beds constructed quickly enough to make a dent in this problem, and the magnitude of the problem is approximately doubling every month.
From the comments I've been reading to most of the Ebola news articles these days, American's have been demonstrating their stupidity at a truly alarming rate.
This solar process replaces up to order 80% of the fossil fuel that must already be employed to generate steam 'round-the-clock. There is also a gas-fired steam generator present to make steam at night and/or days with insufficient insolation, though they discuss on their website the notion that steam injection rates may vary - more during the day and less at night in order to increase the use of the solar-generated steam (to get up to the 80% level). Otherwise, the typical peak-rate to average-rate problem of solar power would make the amount more like 50% utilization absent additional hardware for steam storage.
It'd be nice if they could use something like this to heat the water they use to extract oil from tar sands. Canada could turn even more of itself into a barren wasteland.
Fortunately, this technology isn't so useful in Canada because of its lower solar insolation.
I'm not convinced that this is a problem that needs a solution, but to me, a simple solution to the problem is this:
Start the car with the cell phone. In that way, which cell phone is associated with the driver is simple.
A more detailed disclosure follows:
Instead of starting the car with a key or a button, start the car by sending a text message. The car then blocks sending text messages by that phone for as long as the car is moving, (or in an alternative embodiment, as long as the car is operating). This prevents that particular phone from being used in whatever prohibited manner is desired, such as no texting when the car is moving (or when the car is operating).
In an alternative embodiment, an application running on the cell phone is started to start the car operating, and beginning making the cell phone operate in a restricted manner. In an alternative embodiment, well-known cryptographic techniques are employed by the software application to start the car in a secure manner. Thus, the car replaces a physical or electronic key. As a side effect, the phone in control by the driver is identified for restricted operation.
Similarly, in an alternative embodiment, the phone can be prevented from other prohibited uses, such as (but limited to) web browsing, non-hands free calling, and so forth. When the car is turned off (with button, or ignition key), normal operation of the phone can resume.
Technologically, this is most easily enforced by the phone itself, under command from the car. In an alternative embodiment, the car can block attempted communication by that particular phone advertising itself as a micro-cell-tower that only that particular phone connects to.
In an alternative embodiment, the car can signal that the phone should enter a lower-power operating condition, and take over monitoring communications on behalf of the phone, such as by advertising signals matching what the phone would normally employ to maintain cell-tower communications and wake up the phone to a higher-power state when an incoming call or incoming message arrives. In an alternative embodiment, this operating mode would use car hardware to maintain hands-free communications mode in replacement to the normal communications modes of the cell phone.
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Solution C: Deputize driverless cars to enforce traffic rules of surrounding cars and report it to the authorities. Make it enourmously expensive to drive cars manually, causing the free market to make driverless cars mandatory. When you include all the little potential violations, the frequency at which drivers violate traffic rules is probably several times per mile.
I've outfitted quite a few WRT-54GL over the years, but I've moved on to the ASUS RT-AC66U with Shibby variation of Tomato.
The features that grab me most are (0) GHz Ethernet LAN connections (1) QOS rules and graphical pie charts of relative usage both incoming and outgoing (2) multiple SSID's and both 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, triple antennae (3) graphical displays of bandwidth usage that can drill down to show individual machines (4) display of bandwith of individual TCP/IP connections (5) VPN support with enough processor bandwidth to perform the encryption (6) WDS to extend coverage without a wired backbone (7) DDNS for remote access by domain name.
I've found the Shibby releases to be very stable and rarely have to reboot. The price is a few times that of the WRT54GLs, but the improved coverage helps to reduce the number of boxes I need to use. I wish they were prettier to have around the house, though. I've placed some Engenius EAP600's in ceilings where esthetics were important, using them as access points to extend coverage - they also support multiple SSID's and POE so you don't have to run AC power.
Does anyone have favorite devices for extending links between buildings that are a few hundred feet apart? I put a high-gain antenna onto a WRT-54GL with tomato and used WDS, but without a matching antenna on the other side, it was as solid as I would have liked. Ideally, I'd put something on an exterior wall and use POE to power it.
Carbon fiber itself is just as recycleable as bamboo fiber. However bamboo, once combined with epoxy, it's just as unrecycleable and toxic as carbon fiber. I've got several ASUS bamboo laptops, where bamboo was used instead of plastic for a portion of the case. It was marketed as better for the environment, but to me it was just more esthetically pleasing than plastic. The bamboo components held up better than the hinges and the electronics.
Readers here should know that LADEE was crashed into the moon more than a month ago. Yes, NASA did research on laser communication using LADEE, but reporting it in present tense is misleading. (...and the last Slashdot article on LADEE incorrectly reported where it crashed.) Previous Slashdot articles already reported the laser communication research.
As a person who has been in two ski accidents where I've sustained serious injury (but no head injury), and recently having suffered an unrelated concussion, I would second CaptainLard's view. We all play the odds in life, and the odds of being injured by a ski helmet are seriously outweighed by the the odds of being protected by one. If the AC has some insight into improving the design of ski helmets - that could be all to the good, but I wouldn't condone going without a helmet.
For the Brain-stem stroke AC above, I'd hope you can provide a useful response to how helmets can be improved; I imagine that a larger rear cut-out might have prevented the issue you had, though if the flexion of the neck was severe, that itself could have been the cause of your injury, rather than the helmet. Helmet designs vary lots, and we don't know what type you had.
For the original poster (cablepokerface) I can only offer my condolences and advise patience as there's reason to expect that her condition can improve with time and treatment. Please ignore the insensitive idiots that jump to negative conclusions.
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Yes, I read the summary, I was simply supplying a correction. I'm not an editor, so I can't fix TFS directly.
You haven't heard anything about Transmeta in years because they ceased operating in 2009. The patent portfolio went to Intellectual Ventures, LLC, and licensed in whole or part to Intel, Nvidia, Sony, Fujitsu, and NEC.
900p is the resolution, 30fps is the frame rate for that resolution.
TFA just mentions the interview without a clear reference to it. Looking for it I found two other articles that suggest that the 900p resolution and 30fps targets came from other factors. http://www.gamespot.com/articl... says that 30fps is "more cinematic" and 60fps "looked really wierd." http://www.gamespot.com/articl... suggests that some non-graphic computation is going on the GPU, but also has a quote that mentions "technically CPU bound."
What we don't know from these articles is why some or more of the AI computation can't be done in the GPU.
...which is why review sites get free samples and detailed marketing material sent to them. The review sites are using that to make advertising that doesn't look like conventional ads. Of course, they also run banner advertising on the sites - and who do you think wants to buy advertising on those review sites? Why do you think people make a good living running product review websites?
Truthfully, the actual purpose of the advertising for cars involves makin recent purchasers feel good about their recent purchase. Purchasers who feel good about their recent purchase are more likely to talk their friends and acquaintances about their car and have a greater influence on them than the direct advertising can do. Listen to someone talk about their newly purchased car and you can hear the tag lines of the advertising coming out of their mouths - people use the advertising to focus their own conversations - whether its the rally tires, or MacPherson strut suspension, lock-up transmission, or a zillion other features that most people even know what they really are. These person's status upgrade depends on their being able to make the case to their friends that they made a good purchase, and didn't buy the kind of cars that social losers buy.
Toyota had a huge problem marketing to young first-time car buyers - they kept coming out with low-cost cars that they'd like to market to that group, but found that older buyers were buying them, and when young people saw old people driving the same car, their interest in them plummeted. They were more successful marketing the Scion than previous attempts because they went out of their way to make the car unattractive to older people, as well as other initiatives, including opening up the specifications early to third-party customizers, to encourage buyers to make the cars even funkier.
Points!
Nonsense. Highly unlikely events? Multitude of convincing arguments? ...and if we are alone, the fact that failing to colonize other galaxies before the sun exhausts all its nuclear fuel would finish us does not make us the ones to seed life in other galaxies and colonize distant solar systems. That's simply a non-sequitur.
With neither real facts nor justification of any assumptions of the frequency of life, multicellular life, intelligent life, technological life, stupid-enough-to-give-itself-away life, this article starts off on the wrong foot and gets worse. It doesn't matter how many exoplanets you can find, one, ten, hundreds, millions, billions, trillions - finding life on those planets is a completely different step. Finding life on a planet that has is not trying to be found is not likely to be possible, and this opens a problem that is beyond simple epistemology.
As others and famously, Stephen Hawking, has pointed out, an intelligent life form on an exoplanet should be aware of the risk contacting ET should entail. It's a simple matter of weighing risk and reward - and so far, Homo Sapiens has failed to figure that out. We're still stupid enough to be sending physical artifacts far away from our planet with a map that effectively says "We're curious and stupid - please invite us to dinner" without distinguishing the difference in role of dinner guest and entree.
Fortunately, sending physical artifacts is one the least effectual ways to contact ET. Sending electromagnetic signals is far more effective, and humans have tried that too, but only for a short time and only in a few directions. Beyond our early transmissions of "I Love Lucy," the increasing complexity of our signals make it less likely that modern communication, if were somehow intercepted with adequate S/N ratio, would be decoded into anything useful to ET. In fact, those DirecTV signals mean almost nothing without a access card, by design. Unless we actually intend to send a signal, nothing from Earth is likely to give our presence away, short of a few hundred short bursts of nuclear radiation from our atomic and fusion weapons, which we can only hope have ceased to be transmitted.
The simple fact is: "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." Plausably, Homo Sapiens has got to figure out how to deal with the "terrible ghastly silence" of space with much greater probability than having to deal with ET. Even so, contact with ET is much more likely to be via long-distance (and therefore long-latency) communication than by physical contact. And if a religious person doesn't like what ET is saying, they'll just change the channel, or stop responding.
Historically, religion has adapted to scientific advances without just giving up and saying - OK, we were wrong. Religions have been very facile in their interpretation of sacred documents in order for their memes to continue to flourish despite scientific and logical contradiction. Indeed, with Socrates as the example, the risk is borne by the truth-tellers, not the religious followers....unless one can surmise how religious orthodoxy would drink the hemlock this time.
Nice diagram of a left-facing swastika in the article - or is that a southern-hemisphere hurricane?
Uhh. No. The number of people previously infected is very low, and concentrated in areas not part of the current outbreak.
I would also add that the 52% fatality rate is much better than the 90% rate that other outbreaks have sufferred, and it suggests that the heroic medical intervention that is underway is having a beneficial effect.
Perhaps you are unaware of exponential growth - http://www.geert.io/exponentia...
It's going to be difficult enough to get the 1700 beds constructed quickly enough to make a dent in this problem, and the magnitude of the problem is approximately doubling every month.
From the comments I've been reading to most of the Ebola news articles these days, American's have been demonstrating their stupidity at a truly alarming rate.
Pease take off your tinfoil hat - it's acting as an antenna and overconcentrating the paranoid thoughts the CIA is putting into your tiny brain.
This solar process replaces up to order 80% of the fossil fuel that must already be employed to generate steam 'round-the-clock. There is also a gas-fired steam generator present to make steam at night and/or days with insufficient insolation, though they discuss on their website the notion that steam injection rates may vary - more during the day and less at night in order to increase the use of the solar-generated steam (to get up to the 80% level). Otherwise, the typical peak-rate to average-rate problem of solar power would make the amount more like 50% utilization absent additional hardware for steam storage.
Nope - it's the high temperatures that make the heavy oil flow more easily. But "Global Warming" of only a few degrees doesn't really do the trick.
It'd be nice if they could use something like this to heat the water they use to extract oil from tar sands. Canada could turn even more of itself into a barren wasteland.
Fortunately, this technology isn't so useful in Canada because of its lower solar insolation.
I'm not convinced that this is a problem that needs a solution, but to me, a simple solution to the problem is this:
Start the car with the cell phone. In that way, which cell phone is associated with the driver is simple.
A more detailed disclosure follows:
Instead of starting the car with a key or a button, start the car by sending a text message. The car then blocks sending text messages by that phone for as long as the car is moving, (or in an alternative embodiment, as long as the car is operating). This prevents that particular phone from being used in whatever prohibited manner is desired, such as no texting when the car is moving (or when the car is operating).
In an alternative embodiment, an application running on the cell phone is started to start the car operating, and beginning making the cell phone operate in a restricted manner. In an alternative embodiment, well-known cryptographic techniques are employed by the software application to start the car in a secure manner. Thus, the car replaces a physical or electronic key. As a side effect, the phone in control by the driver is identified for restricted operation.
Similarly, in an alternative embodiment, the phone can be prevented from other prohibited uses, such as (but limited to) web browsing, non-hands free calling, and so forth. When the car is turned off (with button, or ignition key), normal operation of the phone can resume.
Technologically, this is most easily enforced by the phone itself, under command from the car. In an alternative embodiment, the car can block attempted communication by that particular phone advertising itself as a micro-cell-tower that only that particular phone connects to.
In an alternative embodiment, the car can signal that the phone should enter a lower-power operating condition, and take over monitoring communications on behalf of the phone, such as by advertising signals matching what the phone would normally employ to maintain cell-tower communications and wake up the phone to a higher-power state when an incoming call or incoming message arrives. In an alternative embodiment, this operating mode would use car hardware to maintain hands-free communications mode in replacement to the normal communications modes of the cell phone.
All patent rights reserved. Contact me for licensing.
Solution C: Deputize driverless cars to enforce traffic rules of surrounding cars and report it to the authorities. Make it enourmously expensive to drive cars manually, causing the free market to make driverless cars mandatory. When you include all the little potential violations, the frequency at which drivers violate traffic rules is probably several times per mile.
I've outfitted quite a few WRT-54GL over the years, but I've moved on to the ASUS RT-AC66U with Shibby variation of Tomato.
The features that grab me most are (0) GHz Ethernet LAN connections (1) QOS rules and graphical pie charts of relative usage both incoming and outgoing (2) multiple SSID's and both 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, triple antennae (3) graphical displays of bandwidth usage that can drill down to show individual machines (4) display of bandwith of individual TCP/IP connections (5) VPN support with enough processor bandwidth to perform the encryption (6) WDS to extend coverage without a wired backbone (7) DDNS for remote access by domain name.
I've found the Shibby releases to be very stable and rarely have to reboot. The price is a few times that of the WRT54GLs, but the improved coverage helps to reduce the number of boxes I need to use. I wish they were prettier to have around the house, though. I've placed some Engenius EAP600's in ceilings where esthetics were important, using them as access points to extend coverage - they also support multiple SSID's and POE so you don't have to run AC power.
Does anyone have favorite devices for extending links between buildings that are a few hundred feet apart? I put a high-gain antenna onto a WRT-54GL with tomato and used WDS, but without a matching antenna on the other side, it was as solid as I would have liked. Ideally, I'd put something on an exterior wall and use POE to power it.
Drones had better learn to deal with traffic, too.
Carbon fiber itself is just as recycleable as bamboo fiber. However bamboo, once combined with epoxy, it's just as unrecycleable and toxic as carbon fiber. I've got several ASUS bamboo laptops, where bamboo was used instead of plastic for a portion of the case. It was marketed as better for the environment, but to me it was just more esthetically pleasing than plastic. The bamboo components held up better than the hinges and the electronics.
Readers here should know that LADEE was crashed into the moon more than a month ago. Yes, NASA did research on laser communication using LADEE, but reporting it in present tense is misleading. (...and the last Slashdot article on LADEE incorrectly reported where it crashed.) Previous Slashdot articles already reported the laser communication research.
As a person who has been in two ski accidents where I've sustained serious injury (but no head injury), and recently having suffered an unrelated concussion, I would second CaptainLard's view. We all play the odds in life, and the odds of being injured by a ski helmet are seriously outweighed by the the odds of being protected by one. If the AC has some insight into improving the design of ski helmets - that could be all to the good, but I wouldn't condone going without a helmet.
For the Brain-stem stroke AC above, I'd hope you can provide a useful response to how helmets can be improved; I imagine that a larger rear cut-out might have prevented the issue you had, though if the flexion of the neck was severe, that itself could have been the cause of your injury, rather than the helmet. Helmet designs vary lots, and we don't know what type you had.
For the original poster (cablepokerface) I can only offer my condolences and advise patience as there's reason to expect that her condition can improve with time and treatment. Please ignore the insensitive idiots that jump to negative conclusions.
My Garmin seems to have stopped showing ads entirely. Perhaps there aren't enough 265WT still turned on to make it worthwhile selling ads for it.