No surprise at all. The company I work for has IPR competitions each year and encourages employees to submit their ideas for cash prizes, etc. It's really quite a charade because it seems like they'll consider, demand in fact, absolutely anything from anyone. My job role isn't the sort where I do any technological development and at no point during my day do I have time to sit around and come up with patentable ideas. I don't receive support for any such activity and I'd never be able to pass it off to management as an excuse for being late with my results, but come IPR time I'm magically supposed to have all of these great ideas and I'm expected to just give them up too?
For what it's worth, I'll openly admit that I'm a bit of a sour employee and that I really don't go out of my way in any regard.:)
I guess the theory is that in a company with 50000 employees, if you forcibly get 10000 submissions and just a couple percent are passable, then you're building the foundation for your company's futurte. Whether it's a foundation made of stone or straw seems functionally irrelevant.
Hydrogen can also be had from ethanol, which can in turn be produced the good old fashioned way: a little yeast, a little hops, a little barley, etc. It's still cheaper to make ethanol from fossil fuels, though, and reform it. I think that the current process of reforming methanol brings hydrogen power down to internal combustion levels of efficiency and still uses petroleum...
Everything I've heard suggests that owners are pretty happy with the phones, despite their varied flaws, and that well over a million have been sold. Looks like people are buying it as a cheap phone instead of a gaming platform, much to Nokia's chagrin (although they'd never say anything like that).
Will they be programmed to command outrageous salaries? "Pay, or fall victim to my pincers!" Would not paying them be some kind of violation of rights?
Seriously, though, who'd bet on this? I'm sure that there are bookies out there right now offering 50:1 against. We were supposed to have flying cars and cities on the moon by now, so I wonder whether the soccer-robot schedule may have to be pushed back while we clear out the backlog of tall orders.
I work in a building that is riddled with radio traffic. Among it, we've got hundreds of Bluetooth devices, phones, headsets, etc. and nary a problem to speak of. Bluetooth isn't quite WiFi in a lot of important respects, I'll grant you that, but it's clearly designed for densely packed radio chaos.
What can Infogrames do except buy enough of Ubisoft to control it entirely or at least deny EA a controlling stake? Either way, this offer of help doesn't exactly sound like charity.
Is there any place on the web where we can get capitalization information and statistics on foreign companies? Both Infogrames and Ubisoft are public, but neither has stock listed in the Americas and I can't seem to find info like floats, capitalizations, insider/institutional holdings, amount of cash available, etc. EA's a pretty big company sitting on a pretty fat wallet (to the tune of 2.5B in cash).
Despite the fact that SCO's stock doesn't literally cost pennies, its capitalization of 70-odd million dollars puts it very firmly into the category of penny stocks. Most investors would consider any stock with a capitalization below $3B a penny stock.
This is definitely true. While Celerons are processors to avoid, as a rule, you can get a great deal out of a Celeron if you know exactly which one(s) to shop for.
I decided to build my passively cooled (well, there's the PSU fan which I dare not remove...) around a Celeron 1.1A simply because it would have been impossible with a Duron. In my case I was willing to sacrifice performance for silence and as it happens, the Tualatin-based Celeron has been a pretty good performer! It's no Duron, but it's also only a 30W chip - no Duron can match that. I love all my AMDs, but for this application it simply had to be a Celeron!
The new Celerons look like very compelling budget chips. Assuming they don't suffer from Prescott's thermal power issues, they appear to have a lot to offer in competition against Durons and low-end AXPs. You just need to know exactly what Celeron you're buying and you could end up with a good deal.
That said, the budget marketspace will change when AMD releases its Sempron.
You have to admit that it's pretty clever. Especially being able to control the games using the same motion sensing technology. We've spent decades twisting and waving gamepads around in the air in fruitless efforts to produce that extra bit of movement in critical gaming moments - how about it actually working for a change! Why can't my console or PC do this?
All he ever wanted to do was help you improve your sex life, get a great deal on a mortgage, and improve your job prospects with an instant Ph.D. from the University of Southern Uganda. Now look at how we shun this man among men.
Which coffee has the highest concentration of mountain crystals? Right, now that that's out of the way, at least you can justify the prices at gourmet coffee places by saying that it's a better caffeine/dollar value!
When they say existing PC games, they must really mean it! Not current, but existing. The question is how long do those games have to have existed for? The hardware config is totally insufficient, aesthetics and usability aside.
Actually, I really like my N-Gage. There isn't any phone on the market now that I'd rather have. Granted, I use it as a phone more than anything, but it's the only gadget I carry around anymore.
Actually, part of the reason is also market demand. I work for a major cell phone manufacturer and we've canceled the American versions of numerous advanced phone models because Americans simply don't buy. The American market wants (in order of priority):
Flip phones
Free phones
Small phones
Silver phones
Camera phones
We're working on features like *real* internet browsing, streaming video and audio, full PDA functionality, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, etc. It can all work on existing North American networks, it just doesn't work in the North American market.
On Discovery in Canada, they showed this guy and his latest invention: Fire Paste. This guy's a certifiable looney, although the Fire Paste does work remarkably well. You have to watch him sell it to see what I mean because he's like an infomercial salesman on crack. He sells the product like snake oil.
Among his suggestions is that the use of Fire Paste would have prevented both the World Trade Center collapse and the destruction of Columbia on re-entry to Earth. Another of his claims is that Fire Paste is non-toxic and he put it in his mouth to demonstrate, but when he finally had it analyzed at a local university they suggested that he should not put it in his mouth.
As long as you're going to assign value to Moore's Law, which really isn't a law at all, you might as well get it correct. "Moore's Law" is a phrase coined by the press, and it's transistor count that should double every 18 months, not computing power. The two are not necessarily proportional.
It's too bad that a defenseless program like this is just the sort that would be hacked apart if some hackney news agency decided to do an expose on the $4m it gets. I'm sure John Stossel could paint horns on it.
Even outlandish ideas deserve study. This isn't "duh" stuff like the speed at which ketchup comes out of the bottle, etc. I think it's important to keep an eye out on the horizon and if a couple bucks is enough motivation, then go for it!
What I mean to say is there simply aren't enough truly distinct genres of music to necessitate thousands, or really even dozens, of radio stations. Highly specific genres probably couldn't provide sufficient content for a radio station, and broad genres already experience station overlaps in most cities. Do you need dozens of pirates jamming the airwaves with the same old stuff?
How many of the unfeasible thousands of tiny radio stations do you figure would be playing Top-40 anyway? There really isn't enough diversity in music to support even a modest number of unique radio stations. Most of them would be playing dead-air or else experiencing wide overlaps in content.
Beyond that, what are the chances that this technology could be used for evil instead of good? Does anyone remember the hooligans who usurped a Burger King drive through system and berated customers for being fat? Unfortunately, a tool like radio would probably inspire the worst in poorly mannered people rather than the best in mild mannered ones.
The technical aspect is very interesting and well worth teaching. The social aspect needs a disclaimer.
Actually, because of the way CPUs are binned to meet market demand, overclocking a CPU isn't necessarily doing anything to it that's bad. All CPUs are tested after fabrication and sold according to their capabilities. In the event that demand for a lower end processor is high, a processor that tests well can be marked as and sold as a lower-end model.
It's still the same processor it was when it was tested, though. In this case, you might drop a CPU into your computer and experience exceptional overclocking potential. I have an XP1600+ that overclocks to 2200+ at default voltage and works ideally under a torturous FAH load. In fact, you could view the chip as being underclocked at the factory instead of overclocked by the user!:)
Cooling is an important factor, but its nowhere near as important as good luck (or picking a good stepping).
Voltage is a squared term in the general power function for a CPU. Lowering the voltage will have a significant effect on power consumption. As you might imagine, the chip's operating frequency is another term in the function.
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No surprise at all. The company I work for has IPR competitions each year and encourages employees to submit their ideas for cash prizes, etc. It's really quite a charade because it seems like they'll consider, demand in fact, absolutely anything from anyone. My job role isn't the sort where I do any technological development and at no point during my day do I have time to sit around and come up with patentable ideas. I don't receive support for any such activity and I'd never be able to pass it off to management as an excuse for being late with my results, but come IPR time I'm magically supposed to have all of these great ideas and I'm expected to just give them up too?
:)
For what it's worth, I'll openly admit that I'm a bit of a sour employee and that I really don't go out of my way in any regard.
I guess the theory is that in a company with 50000 employees, if you forcibly get 10000 submissions and just a couple percent are passable, then you're building the foundation for your company's futurte. Whether it's a foundation made of stone or straw seems functionally irrelevant.
Hydrogen can also be had from ethanol, which can in turn be produced the good old fashioned way: a little yeast, a little hops, a little barley, etc. It's still cheaper to make ethanol from fossil fuels, though, and reform it. I think that the current process of reforming methanol brings hydrogen power down to internal combustion levels of efficiency and still uses petroleum...
Everything I've heard suggests that owners are pretty happy with the phones, despite their varied flaws, and that well over a million have been sold. Looks like people are buying it as a cheap phone instead of a gaming platform, much to Nokia's chagrin (although they'd never say anything like that).
Will they be programmed to command outrageous salaries? "Pay, or fall victim to my pincers!" Would not paying them be some kind of violation of rights? Seriously, though, who'd bet on this? I'm sure that there are bookies out there right now offering 50:1 against. We were supposed to have flying cars and cities on the moon by now, so I wonder whether the soccer-robot schedule may have to be pushed back while we clear out the backlog of tall orders.
I work in a building that is riddled with radio traffic. Among it, we've got hundreds of Bluetooth devices, phones, headsets, etc. and nary a problem to speak of. Bluetooth isn't quite WiFi in a lot of important respects, I'll grant you that, but it's clearly designed for densely packed radio chaos.
What can Infogrames do except buy enough of Ubisoft to control it entirely or at least deny EA a controlling stake? Either way, this offer of help doesn't exactly sound like charity.
Is there any place on the web where we can get capitalization information and statistics on foreign companies? Both Infogrames and Ubisoft are public, but neither has stock listed in the Americas and I can't seem to find info like floats, capitalizations, insider/institutional holdings, amount of cash available, etc. EA's a pretty big company sitting on a pretty fat wallet (to the tune of 2.5B in cash).
Despite the fact that SCO's stock doesn't literally cost pennies, its capitalization of 70-odd million dollars puts it very firmly into the category of penny stocks. Most investors would consider any stock with a capitalization below $3B a penny stock.
I read Analog too!
This is definitely true. While Celerons are processors to avoid, as a rule, you can get a great deal out of a Celeron if you know exactly which one(s) to shop for. I decided to build my passively cooled (well, there's the PSU fan which I dare not remove...) around a Celeron 1.1A simply because it would have been impossible with a Duron. In my case I was willing to sacrifice performance for silence and as it happens, the Tualatin-based Celeron has been a pretty good performer! It's no Duron, but it's also only a 30W chip - no Duron can match that. I love all my AMDs, but for this application it simply had to be a Celeron! The new Celerons look like very compelling budget chips. Assuming they don't suffer from Prescott's thermal power issues, they appear to have a lot to offer in competition against Durons and low-end AXPs. You just need to know exactly what Celeron you're buying and you could end up with a good deal. That said, the budget marketspace will change when AMD releases its Sempron.
You have to admit that it's pretty clever. Especially being able to control the games using the same motion sensing technology. We've spent decades twisting and waving gamepads around in the air in fruitless efforts to produce that extra bit of movement in critical gaming moments - how about it actually working for a change! Why can't my console or PC do this?
All he ever wanted to do was help you improve your sex life, get a great deal on a mortgage, and improve your job prospects with an instant Ph.D. from the University of Southern Uganda. Now look at how we shun this man among men.
Which coffee has the highest concentration of mountain crystals? Right, now that that's out of the way, at least you can justify the prices at gourmet coffee places by saying that it's a better caffeine/dollar value!
When they say existing PC games, they must really mean it! Not current, but existing. The question is how long do those games have to have existed for? The hardware config is totally insufficient, aesthetics and usability aside.
Actually, I really like my N-Gage. There isn't any phone on the market now that I'd rather have. Granted, I use it as a phone more than anything, but it's the only gadget I carry around anymore.
My N-Gage just scuttled back into the comforting environment of my pocket. I think it's crying.
- Flip phones
- Free phones
- Small phones
- Silver phones
- Camera phones
We're working on features like *real* internet browsing, streaming video and audio, full PDA functionality, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, etc. It can all work on existing North American networks, it just doesn't work in the North American market.On Discovery in Canada, they showed this guy and his latest invention: Fire Paste. This guy's a certifiable looney, although the Fire Paste does work remarkably well. You have to watch him sell it to see what I mean because he's like an infomercial salesman on crack. He sells the product like snake oil.
Among his suggestions is that the use of Fire Paste would have prevented both the World Trade Center collapse and the destruction of Columbia on re-entry to Earth. Another of his claims is that Fire Paste is non-toxic and he put it in his mouth to demonstrate, but when he finally had it analyzed at a local university they suggested that he should not put it in his mouth.
Apparently, Diet Coke is the main ingredient...
As long as you're going to assign value to Moore's Law, which really isn't a law at all, you might as well get it correct. "Moore's Law" is a phrase coined by the press, and it's transistor count that should double every 18 months, not computing power. The two are not necessarily proportional.
It's too bad that a defenseless program like this is just the sort that would be hacked apart if some hackney news agency decided to do an expose on the $4m it gets. I'm sure John Stossel could paint horns on it.
Even outlandish ideas deserve study. This isn't "duh" stuff like the speed at which ketchup comes out of the bottle, etc. I think it's important to keep an eye out on the horizon and if a couple bucks is enough motivation, then go for it!
What I mean to say is there simply aren't enough truly distinct genres of music to necessitate thousands, or really even dozens, of radio stations. Highly specific genres probably couldn't provide sufficient content for a radio station, and broad genres already experience station overlaps in most cities. Do you need dozens of pirates jamming the airwaves with the same old stuff?
No one would tune into Top-40 radio
How many of the unfeasible thousands of tiny radio stations do you figure would be playing Top-40 anyway? There really isn't enough diversity in music to support even a modest number of unique radio stations. Most of them would be playing dead-air or else experiencing wide overlaps in content.
Beyond that, what are the chances that this technology could be used for evil instead of good? Does anyone remember the hooligans who usurped a Burger King drive through system and berated customers for being fat? Unfortunately, a tool like radio would probably inspire the worst in poorly mannered people rather than the best in mild mannered ones.
The technical aspect is very interesting and well worth teaching. The social aspect needs a disclaimer.
Actually, because of the way CPUs are binned to meet market demand, overclocking a CPU isn't necessarily doing anything to it that's bad. All CPUs are tested after fabrication and sold according to their capabilities. In the event that demand for a lower end processor is high, a processor that tests well can be marked as and sold as a lower-end model. It's still the same processor it was when it was tested, though. In this case, you might drop a CPU into your computer and experience exceptional overclocking potential. I have an XP1600+ that overclocks to 2200+ at default voltage and works ideally under a torturous FAH load. In fact, you could view the chip as being underclocked at the factory instead of overclocked by the user! :)
Cooling is an important factor, but its nowhere near as important as good luck (or picking a good stepping).
Voltage is a squared term in the general power function for a CPU. Lowering the voltage will have a significant effect on power consumption. As you might imagine, the chip's operating frequency is another term in the function.