What ever the data rate is supposed to max out at I haven't seen anywhere close to that (I'm looking at you Rogers). I see more compression artifacts then detail, especially on sports broadcasts. The only content that would really use it to its potential would be BluRay media. YMMV
You wouldn't add the master key but derive your own private key from the master to authorize your device. Aside from being a pendant I would sign up for such a flashable device or even better a PCI card so I can finally make a real HD PVR.
I'm sure you can trademark pretty much anything since it's just a representation of an entity and not a literal meaning. I would guess I could trademark "Pope Nikker" and not have to actually be identified as such by the Vatican.
Ya I doubt getting the millions of people who have already bought a HDTV/BluRay Player will just go back to the store and buy another one. If the crack goes mainstream there will just be another format all together and Sony will / does look like dumb asses after their latest iteration of 8 track / beta / BluRay. Funny they finally win a proprietary format and it proves to screw them, the irony is too sweet.
If you check out TFA a comment submitted by H2Wizard
There is a serious problem with the paragraph comparing the solar conversion efficiency of this system with photovoltaics. The 40% given by the authors is a quantum yield for a single wavelength of light (785nm). The best solar cells have a quantum yield of better than 95% at all wavelengths across the entire visible and near IR spectra, more than twice as efficient as what is reported here. The 20% efficiency given for solar cells is the efficiency for converting the entire solar spectra into electricity. The solar conversion efficiency of this system is several orders of magnitude lower than that.
That paragraph needs to be deleted.
Editor’s note: The article has been corrected to remove the comparison with the efficiencies of conventional PV devices (“or about double the efficiency of today’s best solar cells.”). The paper does not make this comparison.
So essentially the numbers mentioned in the article have no mention of actual efficiency other than at the quantum level (the energy still has to be stored which is where most solar cells achieve the 10-20%(of the entire spectrum), so if we assume the losses are identical we are much lower than 1% efficiency. The interesting thing about this research is the ability to reconstruct the molecules involved in the harvesting, finding a more efficient method (TFA states it can possibly reach 100%) but again in this implementation is only recovering electrons at the 785nm wavelength.
As for your argument that we should only consider individual deployments at this time isn't completely accurate. By first deploying in areas such as the Nevada desert and other sparsely populated areas we get companies involved which employ their own scientists. It would be similar to how the electronics industry would reform its self if each customer had a background in computer science, overnight most of the products would disappear since a great deal preys on the ignorance of the individual consumer. If and when photo voltaic energy becomes a commodity item we all know that the industry will be infiltrated (as it is now) with inferior and incomplete products with big hype and short term gains. Someone who is investing a magnitude of magnitudes more will cut most of the cruft from the available technologies to select the one with the highest ROI. Once this becomes the established course the consumer industry will compete with each other producing that technology rather than shots in the dark. Making individually deployable cells will be more refined from this process rather than starting with the end consumer since they are unable to really discriminate the available technologies and many will choose improperly supporting poor companies and scaring other adopters via bad press.
That's a slippery slope my friend, are you sure you want to start this garbage of a game with Intel's marketing dept? "Sure we'll give you $50 off of our product, we were going to sell you a sigle core 1.4GHz for $250 but now we will drop the price to $150 clocked @ 1.2GHz, that's a better deal than you were going to get to begin with!". Now realize the numbers involved were exaggerated but I hope you get the jist. Once you start bartering over what you were supposed to be getting in the first place you end up with nothing.
I don't mind feeding trolls every once in a while so I'll let you in on something. Companies blow smoke! I have never seen Microsoft to date come through with an actual product that shows off their apparent research. Please, please, please prove me wrong below. It better not be Aero, lol.
The only real difference between the open source driver and a proprietary one is the project manager behind it. Company X releases a driver for device Y and it is working slowly, eats memory like mad and crashes when the load is high, but it does function. It comes back to the project manager to decide "do I care enough to ask upper management to give me money to fix these issues?" and "if I do ask will upper management care?". The answer to both of these questions will likely be "NO!", reason being if you speak to upper management and tell them the current implementation works but lacks in these cases, a small percentage of the user base is unhappy, management will likely say it's fine the way it is get back to work on the next greatest thing. Open source is driven on making the end user happy so while it still takes the same if not more time to get to the same goals overall the project stays open and progresses adding more features and fixing bugs continuously until reports disappear.
That is why Open Source is not magic but it is not run by people who don't know what is going on either;)
So you are saying the PS3 design is just plain garbage, I guess I can see that. Other than to boot the OS all the media will be on a server. A single BluRay title is still only about 3hrs max. Maybe if I get a couple years out of it I can gut it and throw in a mini-ITX board with an ION and a couple Atoms in it. Either way $299 ain't that bad. Maybe there is some cool stuff I can poke around and learn about with these fancy processors. Maybe it will be fun to compile rainbow tables with it, maybe not...
Either way just hacking it for the sake of hacking it is not only ok it's also fun. As far as getting kicked off of Sony's servers well you see I didn't pay for those so I don't really care. As far as installing windows... Well I wouldn't do that to many machines let alone one I own.
If I can pick up a PS3 for $299CDN and use is as a HTPC, screw games. If after it's hacked I can play one out of 1000 games then I'm cool with that. The slim ones look cool enough have ethernet, HDMI and other jacks and most HTPC's will set you back $400+ from scratch (especially if you want a decent looking case). So if they get access to the GPU then I'll get one and the PSN will never get a ping from me.
Choice is the better choice;) If I am truly stuck and need to access a site (reservations, tickets, etc) while I am on the road then if my 2 minutes of flash usage takes 25% of my battery then I will live with that, I won't use it on a regular basis but I will use it when I have no other alternative.
These people aren't stupid in the slightest sense of the word. The offer one prize of 11M which if there are quality people with quality hardware isn't really that much but the catch is I have independent groups of people all doing research and finding many different and unique ways of doing it. The best part is each group has to show me what they have done and I only have to pay once for everyones work! So instead of hiring NASA to come up with the solution for 100M+, I can have 10 or 20 groups doing R&D for price of 1. Sounds like Profit!!!
I'm with you on this one main reason being as people get older they take quite a bit of medication to sustain a level of comfort and mobility. Even our main water supply is filtered but remnants of medications survive and that is after being diluted amongst all other waste water, this is not even diluted at all. On top of it all his entire supply is exclusively from elderly diabetics who will almost all be taking other forms of medication. Sounds scary enough to me to let this one alone.
I bet if you are willing to pay 10-30k for a custom emulation package you would be willing to look around for some 2nd hand p2's. They can be found but if you are looking for a clock-by-clock comparison you have to take into account everything down to the chipset, hdd performance, etc. It's upto who is doing the work. The lowest common denominator is the current performance, if you are adding in sorts and algorithms this late in the programs life cycle then you are likely in troubled waters.
The main reason people keep these old relics is because of a peripheral or some custom code that was written on that very box that everyone was just too scared to touch. If you are actively coding for hardware that was made 10+ years ago then you should start asking questions;) Especially generic / ancient Intel desktops.
Running recursive VM's is in no way an accurate method either. If Accuracy is important for any reason having identical hardware is the only way to go. If you don't have a spare laying around then it's time to go shopping.
Don't kid yourself with these legacy apps. The actual code is only a couple MB at the upper limit but most are billing and auditing programs which easily generate multiple GB of data per month and it's more likely than not there is no compression and you have bills hanging around as far back as 1982 as well.
Slashdot Mirror
What ever the data rate is supposed to max out at I haven't seen anywhere close to that (I'm looking at you Rogers). I see more compression artifacts then detail, especially on sports broadcasts. The only content that would really use it to its potential would be BluRay media. YMMV
You wouldn't add the master key but derive your own private key from the master to authorize your device. Aside from being a pendant I would sign up for such a flashable device or even better a PCI card so I can finally make a real HD PVR.
I'm sure you can trademark pretty much anything since it's just a representation of an entity and not a literal meaning. I would guess I could trademark "Pope Nikker" and not have to actually be identified as such by the Vatican.
You would only get in trouble if you type "I am Dr. Ann De Wees Allen and I state that I am a hoot"
Ya I doubt getting the millions of people who have already bought a HDTV/BluRay Player will just go back to the store and buy another one. If the crack goes mainstream there will just be another format all together and Sony will / does look like dumb asses after their latest iteration of 8 track / beta / BluRay. Funny they finally win a proprietary format and it proves to screw them, the irony is too sweet.
So essentially the numbers mentioned in the article have no mention of actual efficiency other than at the quantum level (the energy still has to be stored which is where most solar cells achieve the 10-20%(of the entire spectrum), so if we assume the losses are identical we are much lower than 1% efficiency. The interesting thing about this research is the ability to reconstruct the molecules involved in the harvesting, finding a more efficient method (TFA states it can possibly reach 100%) but again in this implementation is only recovering electrons at the 785nm wavelength.
As for your argument that we should only consider individual deployments at this time isn't completely accurate. By first deploying in areas such as the Nevada desert and other sparsely populated areas we get companies involved which employ their own scientists. It would be similar to how the electronics industry would reform its self if each customer had a background in computer science, overnight most of the products would disappear since a great deal preys on the ignorance of the individual consumer. If and when photo voltaic energy becomes a commodity item we all know that the industry will be infiltrated (as it is now) with inferior and incomplete products with big hype and short term gains. Someone who is investing a magnitude of magnitudes more will cut most of the cruft from the available technologies to select the one with the highest ROI. Once this becomes the established course the consumer industry will compete with each other producing that technology rather than shots in the dark. Making individually deployable cells will be more refined from this process rather than starting with the end consumer since they are unable to really discriminate the available technologies and many will choose improperly supporting poor companies and scaring other adopters via bad press.
That's a slippery slope my friend, are you sure you want to start this garbage of a game with Intel's marketing dept? "Sure we'll give you $50 off of our product, we were going to sell you a sigle core 1.4GHz for $250 but now we will drop the price to $150 clocked @ 1.2GHz, that's a better deal than you were going to get to begin with!". Now realize the numbers involved were exaggerated but I hope you get the jist. Once you start bartering over what you were supposed to be getting in the first place you end up with nothing.
Says the troll with the hook in his mouth,
I always like it when other programmers complain they can't do something because of a programs behavior, gives me this warm fuzzy feeling.
I don't mind feeding trolls every once in a while so I'll let you in on something. Companies blow smoke! I have never seen Microsoft to date come through with an actual product that shows off their apparent research. Please, please, please prove me wrong below. It better not be Aero, lol.
If Firefox is eating that much RAM file a bug report or face the fact you've been pwnd by the virus du jour.
The only real difference between the open source driver and a proprietary one is the project manager behind it. Company X releases a driver for device Y and it is working slowly, eats memory like mad and crashes when the load is high, but it does function. It comes back to the project manager to decide "do I care enough to ask upper management to give me money to fix these issues?" and "if I do ask will upper management care?". The answer to both of these questions will likely be "NO!", reason being if you speak to upper management and tell them the current implementation works but lacks in these cases, a small percentage of the user base is unhappy, management will likely say it's fine the way it is get back to work on the next greatest thing. Open source is driven on making the end user happy so while it still takes the same if not more time to get to the same goals overall the project stays open and progresses adding more features and fixing bugs continuously until reports disappear.
;)
That is why Open Source is not magic but it is not run by people who don't know what is going on either
So you are saying the PS3 design is just plain garbage, I guess I can see that. Other than to boot the OS all the media will be on a server. A single BluRay title is still only about 3hrs max. Maybe if I get a couple years out of it I can gut it and throw in a mini-ITX board with an ION and a couple Atoms in it. Either way $299 ain't that bad. Maybe there is some cool stuff I can poke around and learn about with these fancy processors. Maybe it will be fun to compile rainbow tables with it, maybe not...
... Well I wouldn't do that to many machines let alone one I own.
Either way just hacking it for the sake of hacking it is not only ok it's also fun. As far as getting kicked off of Sony's servers well you see I didn't pay for those so I don't really care. As far as installing windows
If I can pick up a PS3 for $299CDN and use is as a HTPC, screw games. If after it's hacked I can play one out of 1000 games then I'm cool with that. The slim ones look cool enough have ethernet, HDMI and other jacks and most HTPC's will set you back $400+ from scratch (especially if you want a decent looking case). So if they get access to the GPU then I'll get one and the PSN will never get a ping from me.
Choice is the better choice ;) If I am truly stuck and need to access a site (reservations, tickets, etc) while I am on the road then if my 2 minutes of flash usage takes 25% of my battery then I will live with that, I won't use it on a regular basis but I will use it when I have no other alternative.
These people aren't stupid in the slightest sense of the word. The offer one prize of 11M which if there are quality people with quality hardware isn't really that much but the catch is I have independent groups of people all doing research and finding many different and unique ways of doing it. The best part is each group has to show me what they have done and I only have to pay once for everyones work! So instead of hiring NASA to come up with the solution for 100M+, I can have 10 or 20 groups doing R&D for price of 1. Sounds like Profit!!!
I'm with you on this one main reason being as people get older they take quite a bit of medication to sustain a level of comfort and mobility. Even our main water supply is filtered but remnants of medications survive and that is after being diluted amongst all other waste water, this is not even diluted at all. On top of it all his entire supply is exclusively from elderly diabetics who will almost all be taking other forms of medication. Sounds scary enough to me to let this one alone.
I bet if you are willing to pay 10-30k for a custom emulation package you would be willing to look around for some 2nd hand p2's. They can be found but if you are looking for a clock-by-clock comparison you have to take into account everything down to the chipset, hdd performance, etc. It's upto who is doing the work. The lowest common denominator is the current performance, if you are adding in sorts and algorithms this late in the programs life cycle then you are likely in troubled waters.
;) Especially generic / ancient Intel desktops.
The main reason people keep these old relics is because of a peripheral or some custom code that was written on that very box that everyone was just too scared to touch. If you are actively coding for hardware that was made 10+ years ago then you should start asking questions
Hey we just leased a WW II sub from the British only 10K more payments and that baby is all ours!
Running recursive VM's is in no way an accurate method either. If Accuracy is important for any reason having identical hardware is the only way to go. If you don't have a spare laying around then it's time to go shopping.
Why not underclock the CPU?
Maybe implement some IP in hardware?
Actually powerline Ethernet would be even slicker since most homes don't have a POE switch and cabling as it is.
You just caught your kids on one of those websites didn't you?
Don't kid yourself with these legacy apps. The actual code is only a couple MB at the upper limit but most are billing and auditing programs which easily generate multiple GB of data per month and it's more likely than not there is no compression and you have bills hanging around as far back as 1982 as well.