You should check some details on the VirtualBoy. As you can see in this teardown, it does not use screens, but oscillating mirrors with a single 1D LED array by eye. Even if it ultimately failed, it is interesting to see.
Buying a flight (for example) from Paris to Tokyo is cheaper if changing planes in London, but it is also cheaper to fly from London to Tokyo through Paris, using exactly the same intercontinental flights.
The rationale is that by lowering the price of flights with two parts, you are poaching the clients of the local flag carrier, but with a substandard product due to the increased flight time and the inherent inconvenience. Conversely, incumbent flag carriers do not encounter a lot of concurrence on the direct routes, which means that the prices are geared towards what the customers can pay rather than what the flights cost.
For a reference point, the Bluecars used in a car-sharing service in Paris are for sale at about €12k, after a €7k subvention, but you need to pay an additional €80 a month for battery rental + battery exchange at 400,000 km. And it's a very spartan car, with 4 places but no trunk, clearly designed for city-only use.
You should look at LWN. It's a news site maintained by Jonathan Corbet, who co-authored the popular 'Linux Device Drivers' books for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, and maintains a weekly newsletter about what currently happens in the Linux community. It also maintains archives, which gives it an index covering the widest range of topics in the Linux kernel.
You can read the 2.6 driver book on LWN as a starter, as there is no radical departure between Linux 3.x and the 2.6.x series. You can even grab an older copy/branch of the kernel like 2.6.32 and run it in a VM, as then there will be no difference between the source you use and what the existing books contain.
The Belgians did worse than that. After the last general election, the previous caretaker government managed to stay in place for 541 days before an agreement was found to form a new one.
As Skype is a network, and does not offer interoperability, it benefits from a network effect: its usefulness compared to its concurrents is the square of the number of ts consumers. This usually leads to a natural monopoly, and Microsoft must have recognized it.
Nokia is now just a device manufacturer, it squandered its 'network' when it abandoned the Symbian users and developers.
As far as I know, there was no damage to the TGV track after either the 512 km/h test or the 575 km/h test, the 'ballast cloud' you describe is only dust. Do you have a reliable source for your claim ?
You're hopelessly wrong about the origin of Copts. The term itself comes from the 'gpt' consonants in Egypt.
They were living in Egypt before Muslims ever existed, and they still live there because even int the 9th century, Muslim invaders understood that expelling the vast majority of its population is not the right way to do a conquest. They resisted islamic assimilation for 14 centuries, including periods when they were violently reprimed for this. Except for a short period during the Crusades, there has been no direct conflict between Western Christians and Copts, and there was never any significant movement of population from Europe to Egypt.
I just want my packets to make it to their destination, uninspected and un-fucked with, and I want the same for the packets coming back to me.
Unfortunately, this means that all remote servers you interact with need to use HTTPS or the appropriate secure version of the protocol used - but is there an encrypted version of VoIP available ? Barring that, if you only mistrust your local network provider, you need a VPN. With some work, you could also rent a colocated box to install your own.
This quote reminds me of the 19th century Carte du CIel program, where massive numbers of scientists have continued to work on tedious measurements for vanishingly small results.
Just for measure, as you may not understand the EU institutions.The European Council is composed of the governments of the states of the EU. It usually works by organizing reunions of ministers for each political domain, as well as reunions of the heads of government, and that's currently the place where important decisions are taken. Given that there are 27 members, it is a piece of cake for the US to know what is said in there, and some countries' governments will gladly tell the US if they ask. Except that they may distort the message to fit their interests. Thus, it is interesting for US spys to get the information directly. But on the political level, this spying is tantamount to bugging the White House's main conference room.
We may make a difference between government and distinct individuals, but in the end, the only thing that can stop a government is its own people. As long as the citizens of the States of the Union continue to tolerate unlimited corruption in name of "campaign contributions", broken election methods for representatives, and as long as this corruption leads them to elect a leadership with the same behaviour, the rest of the world can only conclude that the people of the USA wants it.
the confirmation dialog would have to present some identifying information about the device
It's not really possible with USB out of the box. In this case the charger is the host, and is at the origin of all transactions. You need to add another layer over the existing protocols to require the host to give some credentials, before changing the device profile and exporting the interesting interfaces. This means a new WHQL certification / kernel update for your drivers, and ensures that it will not happen immediately.
But OpenGL is even more relevant on all non-PC devices. Whether it's done by software rendering in the old J2ME games, or now by hardware-acceleration on iOS and Android, the common point for all new platforms has been OpenGL ES. It will continue to see evolution and improvement, and nothing will prevent these improvements from going back to the PC. Notably because there is no hard distinction left between a Linux PC and an Android device nowadays.
they sure knew how to engineer a damn solid network.
That's what regulated, cost-oriented prices in a monopoly do. Gold plate everything, spare no expense in the research of perfection, and earn a fixed percentage on it. Nowadays, we spend money on advertisement instead, because it's much more efficient at recruiting clients than quality in a competitive market.
I recognize I was wrong in linking the low bandwidth problem with the number of pins, because I referred to the HDMI/DP standards, that used multiple lanes to increase the bandwidth, instead of USB3 or MHL, discussed elsewhere in this thread, that prove that the feature is possible.I spend long enough with hardware controllers to know that there is a wide set of protocols to interconnect two systems, and in my opinion the serial/parallel classification is not interesting.
In the end, others manufacturers achieve to do what Apple doesn't: a small, standard connector with good A/V support. It is Apple's choice when upgrading its connector to degrade a working feature, adding latency and artifacts, while producing a proprietary connector. You see it as a good thing because cables are useless; I don't.
The serial/parallel distinction is completely useless in here. But you're right on the pin count.
There are 9 pins in a full size USB3 connector, and 8 pins in a Lightning connector. But when the lightning connector has two data pairs, USB3 has a bidirectional pair for legacy, and two single-direction pairs for high-speed traffic. HDMI, and Displayport respectively have 3 pairs (+ 1 differential clock) and 4 pairs.
The real question is the nature of the signal on those pairs. USB2 is 480Mb/s with a lot of protocol overhead, HDMI has 3.40 Gb/s with only error correction, and USB3 is 5 Gb/s, but still has (parts of) its inefficient protocol. Depending from what Apple is doing, it could route only the high-speed signaling of USB3 on the Lightning connector's two pairs, and provide the same performance as a standard USB3 cable.
However, since Apple keeps all information about Lightning under wraps, only insiders can tell. And until now, all we've seen is quite underwhelming, with USB2 data cables, and now this adapter.
Don't get confused. The high-tech Intel interconnect once known as LightPeak is called Thunderbolt. Here, we are talking the proprietary, low-tech, USB-like symmetrical connector Apple uses on their recent iOS devices, whose name is on purpose confusing everyone with its better counterpart.
And from what we see here, it's markedly worse than the alternatives Apple shunned, but that were based on standards (MHL, USB3), because those would have prevented Apple from imposing drastic licensing conditions on accessory manufacturers.
With its limited pin count, it's not a surprise that the Lightning connector does not have the bandwidth to transfer uncompressed video. But it's disappointing for it to be so bad at compression, with the MPEG artifacts shown in the article, plus latency issues with encoding/decoding. On that point, the old connector was better, and micro-USB3 would have had enough bandwidth to avoid the issue completely.
Unfortunately, the page you cite is utterly broken: Combined European GDP is below the sole German GDP. The value for the EU should be $17 Triillion, not the puny $3.6 trillion shown on the data.
The Canadian rules can be stupid too. If you're Canadian because you're born from Canadian parents outside of Canada, you need to be careful. Your children will only be Canadians if they are born in Canada.
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You should check some details on the VirtualBoy. As you can see in this teardown, it does not use screens, but oscillating mirrors with a single 1D LED array by eye. Even if it ultimately failed, it is interesting to see.
Buying a flight (for example) from Paris to Tokyo is cheaper if changing planes in London, but it is also cheaper to fly from London to Tokyo through Paris, using exactly the same intercontinental flights.
The rationale is that by lowering the price of flights with two parts, you are poaching the clients of the local flag carrier, but with a substandard product due to the increased flight time and the inherent inconvenience. Conversely, incumbent flag carriers do not encounter a lot of concurrence on the direct routes, which means that the prices are geared towards what the customers can pay rather than what the flights cost.
For a reference point, the Bluecars used in a car-sharing service in Paris are for sale at about €12k, after a €7k subvention, but you need to pay an additional €80 a month for battery rental + battery exchange at 400,000 km. And it's a very spartan car, with 4 places but no trunk, clearly designed for city-only use.
The usual loop song is 99 bootles of beer.
You should look at LWN. It's a news site maintained by Jonathan Corbet, who co-authored the popular 'Linux Device Drivers' books for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, and maintains a weekly newsletter about what currently happens in the Linux community. It also maintains archives, which gives it an index covering the widest range of topics in the Linux kernel.
You can read the 2.6 driver book on LWN as a starter, as there is no radical departure between Linux 3.x and the 2.6.x series. You can even grab an older copy/branch of the kernel like 2.6.32 and run it in a VM, as then there will be no difference between the source you use and what the existing books contain.
Does it build Linux, this time ?
The Linux build system broke when upgrading GNU Make from 3.81 to 3.82, and all stable branches had to add a fix to handle the changes.
The Belgians did worse than that. After the last general election, the previous caretaker government managed to stay in place for 541 days before an agreement was found to form a new one.
As Skype is a network, and does not offer interoperability, it benefits from a network effect: its usefulness compared to its concurrents is the square of the number of ts consumers. This usually leads to a natural monopoly, and Microsoft must have recognized it.
Nokia is now just a device manufacturer, it squandered its 'network' when it abandoned the Symbian users and developers.
As far as I know, there was no damage to the TGV track after either the 512 km/h test or the 575 km/h test, the 'ballast cloud' you describe is only dust. Do you have a reliable source for your claim ?
You're hopelessly wrong about the origin of Copts. The term itself comes from the 'gpt' consonants in Egypt.
They were living in Egypt before Muslims ever existed, and they still live there because even int the 9th century, Muslim invaders understood that expelling the vast majority of its population is not the right way to do a conquest. They resisted islamic assimilation for 14 centuries, including periods when they were violently reprimed for this. Except for a short period during the Crusades, there has been no direct conflict between Western Christians and Copts, and there was never any significant movement of population from Europe to Egypt.
I just want my packets to make it to their destination, uninspected and un-fucked with, and I want the same for the packets coming back to me.
Unfortunately, this means that all remote servers you interact with need to use HTTPS or the appropriate secure version of the protocol used - but is there an encrypted version of VoIP available ? Barring that, if you only mistrust your local network provider, you need a VPN. With some work, you could also rent a colocated box to install your own.
This quote reminds me of the 19th century Carte du CIel program, where massive numbers of scientists have continued to work on tedious measurements for vanishingly small results.
Who thinks the EU doesn't spy on the US?
Just for measure, as you may not understand the EU institutions.The European Council is composed of the governments of the states of the EU. It usually works by organizing reunions of ministers for each political domain, as well as reunions of the heads of government, and that's currently the place where important decisions are taken. Given that there are 27 members, it is a piece of cake for the US to know what is said in there, and some countries' governments will gladly tell the US if they ask. Except that they may distort the message to fit their interests. Thus, it is interesting for US spys to get the information directly.
But on the political level, this spying is tantamount to bugging the White House's main conference room.
We may make a difference between government and distinct individuals, but in the end, the only thing that can stop a government is its own people. As long as the citizens of the States of the Union continue to tolerate unlimited corruption in name of "campaign contributions", broken election methods for representatives, and as long as this corruption leads them to elect a leadership with the same behaviour, the rest of the world can only conclude that the people of the USA wants it.
the confirmation dialog would have to present some identifying information about the device
It's not really possible with USB out of the box. In this case the charger is the host, and is at the origin of all transactions. You need to add another layer over the existing protocols to require the host to give some credentials, before changing the device profile and exporting the interesting interfaces. This means a new WHQL certification / kernel update for your drivers, and ensures that it will not happen immediately.
But OpenGL is even more relevant on all non-PC devices. Whether it's done by software rendering in the old J2ME games, or now by hardware-acceleration on iOS and Android, the common point for all new platforms has been OpenGL ES. It will continue to see evolution and improvement, and nothing will prevent these improvements from going back to the PC. Notably because there is no hard distinction left between a Linux PC and an Android device nowadays.
they sure knew how to engineer a damn solid network.
That's what regulated, cost-oriented prices in a monopoly do. Gold plate everything, spare no expense in the research of perfection, and earn a fixed percentage on it. Nowadays, we spend money on advertisement instead, because it's much more efficient at recruiting clients than quality in a competitive market.
I recognize I was wrong in linking the low bandwidth problem with the number of pins, because I referred to the HDMI/DP standards, that used multiple lanes to increase the bandwidth, instead of USB3 or MHL, discussed elsewhere in this thread, that prove that the feature is possible.I spend long enough with hardware controllers to know that there is a wide set of protocols to interconnect two systems, and in my opinion the serial/parallel classification is not interesting.
In the end, others manufacturers achieve to do what Apple doesn't: a small, standard connector with good A/V support. It is Apple's choice when upgrading its connector to degrade a working feature, adding latency and artifacts, while producing a proprietary connector. You see it as a good thing because cables are useless; I don't.
The serial/parallel distinction is completely useless in here. But you're right on the pin count.
There are 9 pins in a full size USB3 connector, and 8 pins in a Lightning connector. But when the lightning connector has two data pairs, USB3 has a bidirectional pair for legacy, and two single-direction pairs for high-speed traffic. HDMI, and Displayport respectively have 3 pairs (+ 1 differential clock) and 4 pairs.
The real question is the nature of the signal on those pairs. USB2 is 480Mb/s with a lot of protocol overhead, HDMI has 3.40 Gb/s with only error correction, and USB3 is 5 Gb/s, but still has (parts of) its inefficient protocol. Depending from what Apple is doing, it could route only the high-speed signaling of USB3 on the Lightning connector's two pairs, and provide the same performance as a standard USB3 cable.
However, since Apple keeps all information about Lightning under wraps, only insiders can tell. And until now, all we've seen is quite underwhelming, with USB2 data cables, and now this adapter.
Don't get confused. The high-tech Intel interconnect once known as LightPeak is called Thunderbolt. Here, we are talking the proprietary, low-tech, USB-like symmetrical connector Apple uses on their recent iOS devices, whose name is on purpose confusing everyone with its better counterpart.
And from what we see here, it's markedly worse than the alternatives Apple shunned, but that were based on standards (MHL, USB3), because those would have prevented Apple from imposing drastic licensing conditions on accessory manufacturers.
Was the change really worth it?
With its limited pin count, it's not a surprise that the Lightning connector does not have the bandwidth to transfer uncompressed video. But it's disappointing for it to be so bad at compression, with the MPEG artifacts shown in the article, plus latency issues with encoding/decoding. On that point, the old connector was better, and micro-USB3 would have had enough bandwidth to avoid the issue completely.
If lots of people who are not you bought them, it wouldn't be an "indie" studio, would it?
Minecraft is a good example of indie game. It has no editor, the game is not sold on the physical retail market. It only sold 9,531,112 copies.
Unfortunately, the page you cite is utterly broken: Combined European GDP is below the sole German GDP. The value for the EU should be $17 Triillion, not the puny $3.6 trillion shown on the data.
It was a standard Soviet rhetoric tactic, and earned the nickname of "whataboutism".
The Canadian rules can be stupid too. If you're Canadian because you're born from Canadian parents outside of Canada, you need to be careful. Your children will only be Canadians if they are born in Canada.