I came across an article in the Economist. They are much more cautious about the economic development in India. They mention corruption, bureaucracy, strong communist parties in parliament as the major threats. I'm hoping that someone with first hand experience could say more about this...
I think this is a good idea - adding a limit on how long you can play per day. I don't play much these days, but from time to time I would get a game and spend way too much time playing it. Staying up until 4 am, when I have a meeting the next day is not good. Fortunately this happens only once or twice a year.
I wish there was a setting when installing a game that would limit the number of hours it would let me play. Sometimes I need help too:)
From the part called "Problem is economic" here http://www.dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id =8521
"A 1989 National Science Foundation internal report argued a need to limit growth in doctoral salaries in science and engineering, and proposed as a solution bringing in more foreign students and scholars. It recognized the negative impact this would have on domestic student enrollment: "(If) doctoral studies are failing to appeal to...the best citizen baccalaureates, then a key issue is pay. The relatively modest salary premium for acquiring a (science and engineering) doctorate may be too low to attract a number of able potential graduate students."
Just yesterday I read in my university newspaper that NSF did a study and found that getting a PhD in science and engineering doesn't really pay anymore. On average you do earn more if you have a doctorate degree, but you never recoop the earnings you lost while earning your degree. I think the conclusion that economists would make is that there is an oversupply of PhD's.
Many would say that you don't get a doctorate degree for the money alone. It was not the main motivation for me either.
Monitor calibration tools are not expensive (~$100). Printer calibration setup is at least $360+. I'd have to print a lot to justify investing that much. I had really good results with reputable labs.
One problem with home photo printers is maintaining consistent color. Unfortunately with inkjet printers color depends on ink+paper combination. It's really hard to make colors on the print match the colors on the screen without expensive printer profiler.
However, even machines at costco or walmart now have automatic color profiling. Every morning the machine prints a set of test prints and makes adjustments to keep colors consistent. In addition it is somewhat easier to maintain color accuracy with the chemical process used in these machines.
I use http://www.adoramapix.com/ and I'm very happy with the results. You can get photoshop color profile for their machines from their web page.
2-8MB runs you almost as much as the voice service does!
In fact it is cheap. Voice service runs at 9600 bps when you are speaking and down to 2400 bps when silent (for CDMA phones). So you are using way more bandwidth with data.
Great link! I knew someone already though of that question. However, I read the article and the writer questions the assumptions and suggests that a 20MHz channel you can probably support about 1000 users, which proves my point.
Also important to understand is that the lower the transmitting frequency, the further the signal will go (given the same transmitter strength). Going from 1 Ghz to 500 Mhz and you double the transmission range without increasing the transmitter strength.
You actually want exactly the opposite. You want to reuse the same frequency as much as possible, so you want relatively short range.
By the way, don't you find it mindboggling that a tiny cell phone with the maximum output of 2W and omnidirectional antenna can transmit to a tower 20-30 and, as was reported, over 100 miles away.
I have a question which I haven't seen discussed when it comes to WiMAX. Is there enough radio frequency bandwidth to support more than a few dozen high-speed users per access point?
As I understand, the promises about the speed of WiMax are based on top speed (i.e. 1 user). Multiple users will have to share the same radio frequency and their connection speed will be lower.
I remember reading that 4G cell phone network will (with much lower connection speeds) will require on the order of 500MHz of radio spectrum. To put this number in prospective FCC actions slices of 10MHz for billions of $.
I'm not an expert in radio communications, but I don't see how the numbers (promised connection bandwidth and available radio spectrum) would ever add up. Could someone explain?
One thing to consider if you want to scan pages from books is depth of field. With cheaper scanners anything that's not touching the glass will be out of focus, including text close to the crease of the book.
One non-obvious place to read about scanners is the forum at http://www.pgdp.org/ (distributed proofreading for project Gutenberg).
I've been a palm user for many years. I use it as an organizer and for reading e-books. I don't understand why people insist on watching postage size movies or editing big word documents on their palm pilots.
The problem I have with the current crop of palms is battery life. They now use lithium batteries which die after only 100-200 recharges and can be replaced only by the manufacturer. That means I have send my palm out once a year or so.
Does anyone have technical details on how this "protection" works?
If I make a 1-1 (backup) copy how would the copied disk "know" that it is a copy? If I put my original disk into a different computer how would it know that I already copied it on my other computer?
It's not a question of the size of a fp number. There are many subtle points in designing "safe" floating point arithmetic.
IEEE 754 compliance makes fp operations slower, which is why hardware doesn't often support it (famous example Cray where SQRT(1-COS(X)) could return with an error root of a negative number).
Roundoff errors might not matter for graphics (who cares about being one pixel off?), but it is a huge problem for numerical computations.
Also, does GPU signal overflow/underflow/division by zero??
It's not a question of the size of a fp number. There are many subtle points in designing "safe" floating point arithmetic.
IEEE 754 compliance makes fp operations slower, which is why hardware doesn't often support it (famous example Cray where SQRT(1-COS(X)) could return with an error root of a negative number).
Roundoff errors might not matter for graphics (who cares about being one pixel off?), but it is a huge problem for numerical computations.
Also, does GPU signal overflow/underflow/division by zero?
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I came across an article in the Economist. They are much more cautious about the economic development in India. They mention corruption, bureaucracy, strong communist parties in parliament as the major threats. I'm hoping that someone with first hand experience could say more about this...
I checked wikipedia. The guy is 83 years oldhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hellyer. Maybe he is just not all here anymore...
I wish there was a setting when installing a game that would limit the number of hours it would let me play. Sometimes I need help too :)
From the part called "Problem is economic" here http://www.dateline.ucdavis.edu/dl_detail.lasso?id =8521
"A 1989 National Science Foundation internal report argued a need to limit growth in doctoral salaries in science and engineering, and proposed as a solution bringing in more foreign students and scholars. It recognized the negative impact this would have on domestic student enrollment: "(If) doctoral studies are failing to appeal to...the best citizen baccalaureates, then a key issue is pay. The relatively modest salary premium for acquiring a (science and engineering) doctorate may be too low to attract a number of able potential graduate students."
Many would say that you don't get a doctorate degree for the money alone. It was not the main motivation for me either.
In other news: Cola to replace flossing
If I microwave my passport with that disable the chip? I need to know. My passport expires in 2009.
Monitor calibration tools are not expensive (~$100). Printer calibration setup is at least $360+. I'd have to print a lot to justify investing that much. I had really good results with reputable labs.
However, even machines at costco or walmart now have automatic color profiling. Every morning the machine prints a set of test prints and makes adjustments to keep colors consistent. In addition it is somewhat easier to maintain color accuracy with the chemical process used in these machines.
I use http://www.adoramapix.com/ and I'm very happy with the results. You can get photoshop color profile for their machines from their web page.
IIRC, there were a few times when the peace prize was awarded to the head of the UN the work of the whole UN organization.
Now RIAA will have one more target for lawsuits.
Boring... :) Or am I missing something?
Great link! I knew someone already though of that question. However, I read the article and the writer questions the assumptions and suggests that a 20MHz channel you can probably support about 1000 users, which proves my point.
You actually want exactly the opposite. You want to reuse the same frequency as much as possible, so you want relatively short range.
By the way, don't you find it mindboggling that a tiny cell phone with the maximum output of 2W and omnidirectional antenna can transmit to a tower 20-30 and, as was reported, over 100 miles away.
As I understand, the promises about the speed of WiMax are based on top speed (i.e. 1 user). Multiple users will have to share the same radio frequency and their connection speed will be lower.
I remember reading that 4G cell phone network will (with much lower connection speeds) will require on the order of 500MHz of radio spectrum. To put this number in prospective FCC actions slices of 10MHz for billions of $.
I'm not an expert in radio communications, but I don't see how the numbers (promised connection bandwidth and available radio spectrum) would ever add up. Could someone explain?
One non-obvious place to read about scanners is the forum at http://www.pgdp.org/ (distributed proofreading for project Gutenberg).
:)
I know how much Israelis love to talk on their pele-phones. If there was any damage they would all be blind by now :)
I thought that instruction timings, number of pipelines etc are different on amd, so code that's best for intel won't be best for amd.
The problem I have with the current crop of palms is battery life. They now use lithium batteries which die after only 100-200 recharges and can be replaced only by the manufacturer. That means I have send my palm out once a year or so.
If I make a 1-1 (backup) copy how would the copied disk "know" that it is a copy? If I put my original disk into a different computer how would it know that I already copied it on my other computer?
I don't know much about OSX, but isn't kernel open source? How will they restrict modified kernels then?
IEEE 754 compliance makes fp operations slower, which is why hardware doesn't often support it (famous example Cray where SQRT(1-COS(X)) could return with an error root of a negative number).
Roundoff errors might not matter for graphics (who cares about being one pixel off?), but it is a huge problem for numerical computations.
Also, does GPU signal overflow/underflow/division by zero??
IEEE 754 compliance makes fp operations slower, which is why hardware doesn't often support it (famous example Cray where SQRT(1-COS(X)) could return with an error root of a negative number).
Roundoff errors might not matter for graphics (who cares about being one pixel off?), but it is a huge problem for numerical computations.
Also, does GPU signal overflow/underflow/division by zero?