Simple answer - every file would then have a minimum size of 4MB
Not necessarily, that depends on the partition system - two files could share a same sector. Personally I'm against huge block sizes, there are people with huge collections of small files (web designers for example), wasting resources.
IBM succeeded in creating a ring oscillator, a test circuit used to evaluate the performance of new materials and semiconductor manufacturing techniques, out of a combination of the CMOS circuitry used by the majority of today's chips and a single carbon nanotube.
OK here's the explanation in 1337:
Carbon nanotubes = t3h w00t CMOS = reality Ring oscillator = first tests to integrate t3h w00t into reality
It means that before this, nanotubes and nanotube transistors were only tested in the lab, using microscopic clamps, cables, probes, etc. But this is the first time that a carbon nanotube can be integrated into a working CMOS chip (a small step for chips, a giant leap for mankind). Once CMOS manufacturing can be adjusted for carbon nanotubes, we'll be able to manufacture nanotube memory, nanotube chipsets, and finally, nanotube CPU's!
This is what i've been waiting for since i ever heard about nanotube transistors (however, i think that using graphene sheets instead of nanotubes will be much more effective).
I doubt that 1 in 10000 windows boxes would run an email server.
We're running hMailServer (F/OSS) on our XP box, works like charm, has relaying controls and spam protection. Great for those with Apache/PHP/MySQL on windows.
What I'd really like to see is improved content creation tools. How about 3D scanners, so Joe Artmajor can easily scan his sculptures into modelling programs?
And I'm still waiting for the do-it-yourself anime rendering program:(
Anyway, mod parent up. He's so right about this one.
Yes, because computers can't design software. Humans are the ones have to do it.
I've said before that there are still algorithms that need to be designed - intelligent audio compression thru sampling (if there's a piano, strip the necessary information and just store the notes and variations, if it's a voice, just store the vowels / consonants and pitch changes, of course, with the rest of the "noise" as high-fidelity info), sprite-based video compression (that's part of the MPEG4 standard)... speech recognition algorithms that WORK and can understand context...
What happened with all those wonderful futuristic predictions? Perhaps they belong to the future - the one that will never arrive.
To insert a new scene you require voice acting and a lot of rendering. Yesterday's games just required animating some sprites and adding more text.
This is why, IMHO, pixelated games have a yet unexplored potential with today's machines. Imagine hundreds of megabytes of scenes, unexplored territories, dialogues with new characters...
I'd say there is a Moore's Law of videogaming: The data requirements of videogames gameplay is proportional to the data storage improvements. In other words, gameplay must be sacrificed for multimedia.
To break this limit, we must advance software capabilities in speech synthesis, realistic facial expressions and of course, sync (you don't want videogames to look like dubbed chinese martial arts movies, would you?)
This is ESSENTIAL. We can't let our imagination be limited by our consoles' memory capacity.
In college I worked with a speech synthesis program using General Regression Neural Nets. (Record words and assign them text - then split the syllables, and let the AI do the magic). Because to play a syllable the AI included the context before chosing, there were no clicks and it was able to synthesize new words without any problems. And this was 12 years ago!
If we can add expressions and moods to the voices, like mad, confused, curious, etc, I'm pretty sure we could make a giant leap. Now combine this with MP3 compression and we'd get a helluva voice synthesis engine. Maybe all the data needed for voice acting could be stored in a few megabytes.
Of course, we could get lazy and say that a few gigabytes "ought to be enough for everybody"... but we know where that road goes - right Billy?
Space radiation helped my joints get more flexible, and all the wrinkles on my wife's face disappeared. If that wasn't enough, my brother-in-law can arrive to his job in practically no time, and my friend Ben got much stronger.
Have fun dropping out of school to pursue your ideals.
Have you forgotten that teachers are not OUR BOSSES? WE are THEIR CUSTOMERS. They offer us a SERVICE for which we PAY, with our money AND taxes. If anyone must go, it should be the inefficient teachers, not the students.
Successful people don't require a SPECIFIC school to pursue their ideals. And if they do, then it's not only the school, but the whole country that has a problem.
It's a story because the students PROTESTED. They say that if one teacher is allowed to do that, then other teachers will follow. If you want my opinion, I'd give the students an A+ in politics (it's a Law School).
Oh boy. I would agree with taking notes on MATH class, like typing equation or ennumerating procedures, things which are easily written.
But this is a LAW CLASS, notes are very important and students have more important things to do than hurting their wrists with pencil and paper (I still remember those dreadful days in high school).
Fire that woman, she obviously doesn't know how to teach.
But at least we can - and should - build a cage for the scorpions.
Exactly. This is the point of having institutions, to prevent people from getting smart and screw everyone around. The problem with american politics is that the system WAS DESIGNED to let the scorpion be free while caging everyone else. The bipartisan system and "electoral" votes are just an example.
Sometimes fanfics are better than games (or anime) because they explore the endless possibilities of the games they're inspired in.
But yes, I like games with multiple stories. Imagine that in say, FF-X you would be able to get involved with Rikku instead of Yuna, and you could see different scenes about it and the story evolved...
That would be great for Square-Enix games, for a change.
I don't see anything "brutal" in the article. It's just a "yeah i like it but it needs a bit more of this and that" kind of review. No advantages, disadvantages, complaints, specifics. It's just a one-page recommendation.
Well, I'm a non-native english speaker, so I missed the english word used for today's entertainment-places-where-you-listen-to-music-wit h-your-friends.
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Simple answer - every file would then have a minimum size of 4MB
Not necessarily, that depends on the partition system - two files could share a same sector. Personally I'm against huge block sizes, there are people with huge collections of small files (web designers for example), wasting resources.
OK here's the explanation in 1337:
Carbon nanotubes = t3h w00t
CMOS = reality
Ring oscillator = first tests to integrate t3h w00t into reality
It means that before this, nanotubes and nanotube transistors were only tested in the lab, using microscopic clamps, cables, probes, etc. But this is the first time that a carbon nanotube can be integrated into a working CMOS chip (a small step for chips, a giant leap for mankind). Once CMOS manufacturing can be adjusted for carbon nanotubes, we'll be able to manufacture nanotube memory, nanotube chipsets, and finally, nanotube CPU's!
This is what i've been waiting for since i ever heard about nanotube transistors (however, i think that using graphene sheets instead of nanotubes will be much more effective).
Tried to follow the link in the story, but the server put me on hold....
:P
And by the time you get to it, the server's gonna be a complete mess
I doubt that 1 in 10000 windows boxes would run an email server.
We're running hMailServer (F/OSS) on our XP box, works like charm, has relaying controls and spam protection. Great for those with Apache/PHP/MySQL on windows.
Begin test in 3...2...1... START!
-At-choo!
-Dude, WTF? Hit the RECORD BUTTON!
-What?
*CRASH*
-Ah, nevermind.
What I'd really like to see is improved content creation tools. How about 3D scanners, so Joe Artmajor can easily scan his sculptures into modelling programs?
:(
And I'm still waiting for the do-it-yourself anime rendering program
Anyway, mod parent up. He's so right about this one.
Software is hard -- perhaps fundamentally so.
Yes, because computers can't design software. Humans are the ones have to do it.
I've said before that there are still algorithms that need to be designed - intelligent audio compression thru sampling (if there's a piano, strip the necessary information and just store the notes and variations, if it's a voice, just store the vowels / consonants and pitch changes, of course, with the rest of the "noise" as high-fidelity info), sprite-based video compression (that's part of the MPEG4 standard)... speech recognition algorithms that WORK and can understand context...
What happened with all those wonderful futuristic predictions? Perhaps they belong to the future - the one that will never arrive.
I have just one question - Is it really so heard to just turn off the damn gadgets? Technology was made to be used by man, not the other way.
To insert a new scene you require voice acting and a lot of rendering. Yesterday's games just required animating some sprites and adding more text.
This is why, IMHO, pixelated games have a yet unexplored potential with today's machines. Imagine hundreds of megabytes of scenes, unexplored territories, dialogues with new characters...
I'd say there is a Moore's Law of videogaming: The data requirements of videogames gameplay is proportional to the data storage improvements. In other words, gameplay must be sacrificed for multimedia.
To break this limit, we must advance software capabilities in speech synthesis, realistic facial expressions and of course, sync (you don't want videogames to look like dubbed chinese martial arts movies, would you?)
This is ESSENTIAL. We can't let our imagination be limited by our consoles' memory capacity.
In college I worked with a speech synthesis program using General Regression Neural Nets. (Record words and assign them text - then split the syllables, and let the AI do the magic). Because to play a syllable the AI included the context before chosing, there were no clicks and it was able to synthesize new words without any problems. And this was 12 years ago!
If we can add expressions and moods to the voices, like mad, confused, curious, etc, I'm pretty sure we could make a giant leap. Now combine this with MP3 compression and we'd get a helluva voice synthesis engine. Maybe all the data needed for voice acting could be stored in a few megabytes.
Of course, we could get lazy and say that a few gigabytes "ought to be enough for everybody"... but we know where that road goes - right Billy?
To those who don't know what is redundancy...
:)
You must be new here
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2. DMCA
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Space radiation helped my joints get more flexible, and all the wrinkles on my wife's face disappeared. If that wasn't enough, my brother-in-law can arrive to his job in practically no time, and my friend Ben got much stronger.
Sincerely,
Reed Richards.
Personally, I learned more by asking questions of a professor and interacting with them inside and outside of the classroom.
In that case, you'd LOVE to read "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!".
http://www.drjez.com/uco/Feynman.pdf
In his essay, he criticizes that schools have become more like tape recordings and that students memorize knowledge without understanding it.
Have fun dropping out of school to pursue your ideals.
Have you forgotten that teachers are not OUR BOSSES? WE are THEIR CUSTOMERS. They offer us a SERVICE for which we PAY, with our money AND taxes. If anyone must go, it should be the inefficient teachers, not the students.
Successful people don't require a SPECIFIC school to pursue their ideals. And if they do, then it's not only the school, but the whole country that has a problem.
Why is this a Story?
It's a story because the students PROTESTED. They say that if one teacher is allowed to do that, then other teachers will follow. If you want my opinion, I'd give the students an A+ in politics (it's a Law School).
Oh boy. I would agree with taking notes on MATH class, like typing equation or ennumerating procedures, things which are easily written.
But this is a LAW CLASS, notes are very important and students have more important things to do than hurting their wrists with pencil and paper (I still remember those dreadful days in high school).
Fire that woman, she obviously doesn't know how to teach.
THEIR interest is the security and protection of their property.
Wrong. THEIR true interest is OUR money.
But at least we can - and should - build a cage for the scorpions.
Exactly. This is the point of having institutions, to prevent people from getting smart and screw everyone around. The problem with american politics is that the system WAS DESIGNED to let the scorpion be free while caging everyone else. The bipartisan system and "electoral" votes are just an example.
Sometimes fanfics are better than games (or anime) because they explore the endless possibilities of the games they're inspired in.
But yes, I like games with multiple stories. Imagine that in say, FF-X you would be able to get involved with Rikku instead of Yuna, and you could see different scenes about it and the story evolved...
That would be great for Square-Enix games, for a change.
Are we witnessing the beginning of an era where ALL software will be open source?
Hackers cause problems to Microsoft's OS.
:P
Ex-hackers cause problems to Microsoft's lawyers.
Poor Microsoft, hackers are so bad with you!
I mean, 640K ought to be enough for everybody...
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
:P
There's your credit!
I don't see anything "brutal" in the article. It's just a "yeah i like it but it needs a bit more of this and that" kind of review. No advantages, disadvantages, complaints, specifics. It's just a one-page recommendation.
Wow, that's classic. Welcome to 1981.
t h-your-friends.
Well, I'm a non-native english speaker, so I missed the english word used for today's entertainment-places-where-you-listen-to-music-wi