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Maybe they should try real human technicians too (or alien or whatever).
Everyone knows there are several brothels in Pompeii... right ? Pompeii would be peopled by computer-generated characters
That would be cool, for sure. More interesting, immediately.
Or hibernate prisonners so they take less place, surveillance and don't appeal... reminds me of some movie from Spi*lerg and/or book from P. K. D*ck. Frightening ?
I don't remember which one it was, but there was lately a story about a pocketPC running VGA, however, it doubled the font sizes in the same time. You needed a hack to make it run with "four times the previous real estate". It was done because, you could hardly read the text..
The article suggests that they added "White pixels".
Additionally, the problem of dark screen due to the increased pixel density on high resolution panels has been solved using 4-color (R-G-B-W) rendering algorithm, improving the brightness of TFT-LCD panels.
That's radicaly different than ClearType. ClearType uses the normalized RVB subpixels arrangement to triple the "perceived" resolution. That's because the humain eye is more sensitive to luminance than to chrominance (try to recognize colors in the dark, you can't, but you can still read B&W text).
The problem here is not text aesthetics. It's global luminosity, as your backlight often has to battle with sunlignt. They add more "white pixels" to enhance the luminosity. In percentage, the number of "color" pixels are lower in this system. But the eye won't actually see the difference.
So basically, this is like separating Chrominance and Luminance, à la YUV. I always found having crappy and blurry colors, especially with RED, some bad compromise, often encountered on TV. Lavished colors won't help. The biggest problem i encountered with my mobile was reflection from the sun. Maybe they should look at the techs used on PDAs, you know, like transflective screens.
Anyway, not everybody can read at such high resolution (2.4" screens!)
It's an exciting era in the Berkeley Software Distribution world; indeed, things started off with a litigious bang over a decade ago, but now BSD solutions are more varied than ever before and offer the user heretofore unprecedented choice and power. So many are the options today that it's time for a roll call from the various distributions. Paul Webb submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews which takes a look at what each BSD has to offer and also looks at where each is going. --
Each of the four major BSD projects are pushing forward with development and experiencing growth, diversifying the Open Source playing field's offerings Let's take a look at what each project is up to these days.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is in a precarious state. While it has almost hit critical mass in the corporate world, their latest growing pains have left potential adopters confused. The new FreeBSD 5 branch offers some exciting technology, generally regarded as comparable with or superior to what is offered in Linux. The FreeBSD foundation is still upgrading its FreeBSD 4.x line and suggesting its use for production environments over FreeBSD 5. The reasons for this are very simple -- FreeBSD 5 won't be ready for prime time until FreeBSD 5.4 or 5.5 -- but users are left confused and timid.
FreeBSD's last major release, which now sits highly optimized at version 4.10, works just as well as always. For systems already running with FreeBSD 4.x that see no need to adopt the new technology in FreeBSD 5 or jump to Linux, this operating system is a godsend in stability and continued support. FreeBSD 4.11 is scheduled for a February '05 release, while plans for FreeBSD 4.12 are on the backburner should FreeBSD 5 not achieve -STABLE status by the fourth quarter of 2005. But what if you need the technology available in FreeBSD 5 and don't want to jump to Linux?
FreeBSD 5, currently available at FreeBSD 5.2.1 with FreeBSD 5.3 in late beta, tantalizes the BSD world with the culmination of several year's hard work and narrow escapes. Back in the late Nineties, when WindRiver bought BSD/OS (a closed-source BSD operating system owned by the now-defunct BSDI), FreeBSD users were promised a next-generation BSD made possible by crossing the ultra-robust corporate OS with its Open Source counterpart. While WindRiver let go of its plans leaving the future of FreeBSD in peril, the realization of its goal is almost here thanks to the FreeBSD community and Apple Computer, Inc.'s contribution of FreeBSD code.
That almost is a killer, though, in that it now causes potential users to look elsewhere for modern operating system features elsewhere until FreeBSD 5 is blessed as stable. Given FreeBSD's track record and the corporate sponsors now behind its operating system, however, it has a bright future ahead of it despite these stumbling blocks. Sadly, the same can't be said for its two little brothers, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
NetBSD
NetBSD's claims to fame aren't its optimization or secure code -- it's instead known for running on a wider variety of platforms than any other operating system out there, including Linux. NetBSD's binary releases include support for an amazing 40 platforms and an additional 12 platforms in the source code. In other words, it runs on everything but the kitchen sink. NetBSD forked from the 386BSD/4.4 BSD merger in 1993 and continued on its own in parallel to FreeBSD since then, albeit at a slower pace. It's currently at version 2.6.1, with aggressive testing on the new NetBSD 2.0 promising fruition by the first half of 2005.
Those familiar with NetBSD swear by it, though its use in serious environments is limited. It is not secure and device driver support is paltry at best. NetBSD's true usefulness comes in providing developers of other operating systems -- such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux -- with hardware support to base their own new ports off of. For instance, much of the code for the PowerPC FreeBSD port comes from NetBSD. OpenBSD implemented support for A
"There are now 40 conferencebikes in the world" Well, even Segway does better. Using a Segway made you look like an alien on wheels. Using this make you look a pack of dangerous fools. "this thing will change your life"... already heard that before.
Besides this, do they care of people using PDAs or lynx ?
That's really crazy that folks just walk around so easily. Bungie/MS people keep just whining staring at their leaked game. The warez scene, AFAIK, can be infiltrated, and if they really want to catch their pirates, they should invest themselves in studying the underground movement, instead of crying : ho please get me these mean guys! they're bad bad bad. I will ban you otherwise ! A link or offer to give out a link via private media on the forums will get you banned permanently. The same goes for any kind of leak-related spoiler information. Further, you risk having your XBox Live account's ability to play Halo 2 crippled as we can and will ban gamertags from access to vital parts of Halo 2's online experience.
That's really hypocrite, closing you eyes won't help you.
Here's what those folks have to say. And yes MS is 0wn3d. http://www.nforce.nl/index.php?m=nfo&id=77364
(Some dumb lameness filter won't let me post the NFO...)
Well the British High Court will issue a request through their government agency to the FBI, which will make diplomatic contacts with China so they send some people to seize these 28 customers' hard disks. What's wrong with this?
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The spending is measured in terms of percentage of income. Period.
Check out what those guys do at Wikipedia. Don't forget to look at their useful links at the bottom.
Or maybe it's overkill.
I was heading to Suprnova for the BitTorrent link, but they're down too. I bet LucasFilm adopted preemptive strategies too.
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Maybe they should try real human technicians too (or alien or whatever).
To be exact, he said : "Quand la Chine s'éveillera, le monde tremblera", which translates into : "when Chine will awake, the world will tremble".
Yes I went there...
...and you're robot won't need to pay tickets!
Everyone knows there are several brothels in Pompeii... right ?
Pompeii would be peopled by computer-generated characters
That would be cool, for sure. More interesting, immediately.
Or hibernate prisonners so they take less place, surveillance and don't appeal... reminds me of some movie from Spi*lerg and/or book from P. K. D*ck. Frightening ?
In France, the Research and Development dept of France Telecom has been doing this since 2002.
Here's some nice flash presentation, some documentation and a PDF
And they use H263+ and G722 !
"potential problems based on the byproducts they gave off"
..does making people laugh makes a problem ?
I don't remember which one it was, but there was lately a story about a pocketPC running VGA, however, it doubled the font sizes in the same time. You needed a hack to make it run with "four times the previous real estate". It was done because, you could hardly read the text..
The article suggests that they added "White pixels". Additionally, the problem of dark screen due to the increased pixel density on high resolution panels has been solved using 4-color (R-G-B-W) rendering algorithm, improving the brightness of TFT-LCD panels. That's radicaly different than ClearType. ClearType uses the normalized RVB subpixels arrangement to triple the "perceived" resolution. That's because the humain eye is more sensitive to luminance than to chrominance (try to recognize colors in the dark, you can't, but you can still read B&W text). The problem here is not text aesthetics. It's global luminosity, as your backlight often has to battle with sunlignt. They add more "white pixels" to enhance the luminosity. In percentage, the number of "color" pixels are lower in this system. But the eye won't actually see the difference.
So basically, this is like separating Chrominance and Luminance, à la YUV. I always found having crappy and blurry colors, especially with RED, some bad compromise, often encountered on TV. Lavished colors won't help. The biggest problem i encountered with my mobile was reflection from the sun. Maybe they should look at the techs used on PDAs, you know, like transflective screens. Anyway, not everybody can read at such high resolution (2.4" screens!)
It's an exciting era in the Berkeley Software Distribution world; indeed, things started off with a litigious bang over a decade ago, but now BSD solutions are more varied than ever before and offer the user heretofore unprecedented choice and power. So many are the options today that it's time for a roll call from the various distributions. Paul Webb submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews which takes a look at what each BSD has to offer and also looks at where each is going.
--
Each of the four major BSD projects are pushing forward with development and experiencing growth, diversifying the Open Source playing field's offerings Let's take a look at what each project is up to these days.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is in a precarious state. While it has almost hit critical mass in the corporate world, their latest growing pains have left potential adopters confused. The new FreeBSD 5 branch offers some exciting technology, generally regarded as comparable with or superior to what is offered in Linux. The FreeBSD foundation is still upgrading its FreeBSD 4.x line and suggesting its use for production environments over FreeBSD 5. The reasons for this are very simple -- FreeBSD 5 won't be ready for prime time until FreeBSD 5.4 or 5.5 -- but users are left confused and timid.
FreeBSD's last major release, which now sits highly optimized at version 4.10, works just as well as always. For systems already running with FreeBSD 4.x that see no need to adopt the new technology in FreeBSD 5 or jump to Linux, this operating system is a godsend in stability and continued support. FreeBSD 4.11 is scheduled for a February '05 release, while plans for FreeBSD 4.12 are on the backburner should FreeBSD 5 not achieve -STABLE status by the fourth quarter of 2005. But what if you need the technology available in FreeBSD 5 and don't want to jump to Linux?
FreeBSD 5, currently available at FreeBSD 5.2.1 with FreeBSD 5.3 in late beta, tantalizes the BSD world with the culmination of several year's hard work and narrow escapes. Back in the late Nineties, when WindRiver bought BSD/OS (a closed-source BSD operating system owned by the now-defunct BSDI), FreeBSD users were promised a next-generation BSD made possible by crossing the ultra-robust corporate OS with its Open Source counterpart. While WindRiver let go of its plans leaving the future of FreeBSD in peril, the realization of its goal is almost here thanks to the FreeBSD community and Apple Computer, Inc.'s contribution of FreeBSD code.
That almost is a killer, though, in that it now causes potential users to look elsewhere for modern operating system features elsewhere until FreeBSD 5 is blessed as stable. Given FreeBSD's track record and the corporate sponsors now behind its operating system, however, it has a bright future ahead of it despite these stumbling blocks. Sadly, the same can't be said for its two little brothers, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
NetBSD
NetBSD's claims to fame aren't its optimization or secure code -- it's instead known for running on a wider variety of platforms than any other operating system out there, including Linux. NetBSD's binary releases include support for an amazing 40 platforms and an additional 12 platforms in the source code. In other words, it runs on everything but the kitchen sink. NetBSD forked from the 386BSD/4.4 BSD merger in 1993 and continued on its own in parallel to FreeBSD since then, albeit at a slower pace. It's currently at version 2.6.1, with aggressive testing on the new NetBSD 2.0 promising fruition by the first half of 2005.
Those familiar with NetBSD swear by it, though its use in serious environments is limited. It is not secure and device driver support is paltry at best. NetBSD's true usefulness comes in providing developers of other operating systems -- such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux -- with hardware support to base their own new ports off of. For instance, much of the code for the PowerPC FreeBSD port comes from NetBSD. OpenBSD implemented support for A
FeedReader (windows) does this.
Anyway, you can easily find this kind of PHP script.
Maybe they should put the DVDs in a spindle, or it just won't fit in the box..
You mention : "the jukebox will be too slow to run X"
If you can't get X to run smoothly, how do you expect to encode you CDs ?
"C code that appears correct but does the wrong thing when counting votes"
Beware of Diebold suing you for infringing one of their patents !
I need to see to believe
..but will you live to see it ?
"There are now 40 conferencebikes in the world"
Well, even Segway does better. Using a Segway made you look like an alien on wheels. Using this make you look a pack of dangerous fools.
"this thing will change your life"... already heard that before.
Besides this, do they care of people using PDAs or lynx ?
Hey i got the bills for every single bit of my internet cache !
That's really crazy that folks just walk around so easily. Bungie/MS people keep just whining staring at their leaked game. The warez scene, AFAIK, can be infiltrated, and if they really want to catch their pirates, they should invest themselves in studying the underground movement, instead of crying : ho please get me these mean guys! they're bad bad bad. I will ban you otherwise !
A link or offer to give out a link via private media on the forums will get you banned permanently. The same goes for any kind of leak-related spoiler information. Further, you risk having your XBox Live account's ability to play Halo 2 crippled as we can and will ban gamertags from access to vital parts of Halo 2's online experience.
That's really hypocrite, closing you eyes won't help you.
Here's what those folks have to say. And yes MS is 0wn3d.
http://www.nforce.nl/index.php?m=nfo&id=77364 (Some dumb lameness filter won't let me post the NFO...)
Well the British High Court will issue a request through their government agency to the FBI, which will make diplomatic contacts with China so they send some people to seize these 28 customers' hard disks. What's wrong with this?
Well at least i'm avoiding the /. effect.