I'll leave open the question as to if wide adoption actually happens, but considering that a BDR drive is available at the store and seems to be following the same pattern as CDR / DVDR.
Okay let's fast forward 5 years
assuming wide adoption at some point, Blu-Ray blanks eventually cost the same as blank DVR's today, around 15p a disk / 0.30$
(they currently cost around £30 / $60, but remember how much blank CDR's / DVDR's cost when they came out initially?)
Some snazzy new recordable media comes out lets call it yellow ray 5 years down the line, promising 10 times the storage capacity (just an example)
at this point you've got a choice of ether extremely cheap media say 15p for 50Gb a pop, or the new snazzy 10x ultra yellow disk at £30 a disk
for the existing BDR tech
using MPEG4 it should be possible to fit at least 6 full size DVD's onto one of these disks at the moment, probably more with increased compression
(I'm kind of curious as to how many VHS tapes I can fit onto one of these things using Mpeg4, for archival purposes, not to mention the possibility of getting every episode of Dr Who onto just one disk)
also consider that an increased number of layers could be possible at some later point (more than the current 2 via a firmware update)
it's fair to assume that the adoption of the next generation / standard up, could take longer (unless we get bigger room size TV's)
correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure someone will, this is slashdot) also I'm guessing at that point we'll probably be onto cartridges, given the density of data involved
Each next generation of disk format may have the problem of taking longer before having wide adoption / cheap media
given that there's not as much a need for the increased space right away as there was with the initial CDR / DVDR footprint (unless some wonderful new display tech comes out to make use of it)
I'm sufficiently certain that Blu-Ray has enough of it's foot in the door to eventually end up with cheap media, however that's just my own opinion
as for flash storage, I'm kind of reluctant to use something which isn't non-volatile, or magnetically susceptible to interference
(something which isn't permanently burned in)
and yes I am slightly bias given that I've gotten a hold of one of the new LG BDR drives recently:)
Although I did wait until after the format war
A while back I setup an overlay for use on Gentoo / PS3 to try and get some of the more recent kernels / hardware working. I'm in the middle of looking to update it at the moment with 2.6.25, and to try and get some of the stuff I've posted in the forum updated onto a web-site. It looks as if the git repo tree now has tags for 2.6.25 which should make things a lot easier.
Bluetooth is possible, but just needs a couple of patches I think for HID support, this might now already be included in the later releases of bluez-utils (I need to check)
For the RSX / Graphics support, this appears to be a bit crappy at the moment, but it is fun to watch F-Zero / Mario Kart on a HD TV using while using the wireless controller, and there is the option to use a VGA cable for non HDMI monitors
To use the SPU's I think 64bit is required, with gcc 4.3
One of the main uses I could see would be the processor for rendering (e.g. yafray) if it had the support. Although at the moment there's not much that's written to take full advantage of the SPU's potential power, given that it operates under a different architecture than the ppc core (although it does heat the room quite nicely)
It may be a problem eventually, but this assumes all hardware everywhere is using TPM already
Unless software is written to only work with TPM enabled hardware (which might be unlikely for games for a long while, as there's still a lot of hardware out there without TPM I'd guess)
One approach may just be to block any form of access to the TPM chip to force the app into thinking there is no TPM therefore must run in some form of "legacy hardware mode" if there is such a thing.
As far as hacking the software is concerned I'm not sure what avenues are possible for this (virtualization / emulation perhaps), something similar to altering the software not to look for the protection, rather than trying to provide a false key
At the end of the day you get what you pay for,
cheap but cheerful
you pay cheap you get cheap
I have some experience myself working with offshore teams (Indian instead of Chinese) half of the team of which I'm a part is offshore.
Also we have to deal with other technical teams on a regular basis which are also part onshore / part offshore (in a support capacity not programming)
Our role is sort mini-project management (low paid work, which is a cross between project management and a call center, usually for the preparation of quotes for individual PC's / Servers etc, but we typically end up getting involved with things far above our station on a regular basis
Part of the problem can be the language barrier
you see you'll usually get individuals with skills in communication (such as call center staff who need to have good English) or individuals with skills in a technical role (such as server Support)
But it can be quite hard to find someone who has skills in both areas (technical and can speak English fairly well) this is quite rare.
This puts added pressure on the onshore staff that are still remaining to compensate, especially when it comes down to someone who is speaking
very fast in a heavy accent, trying to describe some technical problem about Active Directory in half English. This leaves the on-shore guys trying to do double the work they did originally with the missing staff
(some of the on-shore staff have already left at our place simply because of the added pressure)
The best you can do to get around this is to use something like MS Communicator, or some form of IM which at least cuts out the heavy accent
Another problem is that part of the mentality within these offshore areas is to do exactly what your told to do.
in some ways this is good, in others bad.
Somewhat similar to a machine type mentality, "we follow the process exactly as it's written with no room for flexibility"
you can of course tell them to do something different, but this again still takes time to act as interpreter from an onshore perspective
again this puts added pressure on the remaining onshore teams to compensate when something unexpected comes along which they can't deal with
The above point also leads in some cases to a lack of technical vetting, and experience with the way things such as email accounts are configured
within the company. The onshore staff who usually know what they're doing can usually pick up on something when someone asks them to setup something
that doesn't smell quite right
but for offshore individuals this isn't always the case, who usually take the approach, do it anyway fix it later
One example of this was a test distribution list that was setup recently on the email system, with the number of people working within the company
(we're talking above several thousand here, we have several companies tied into the same network via domains)
you need to be careful about allowing these sorts of lists to feed into higher level lists that include
everyone everywhere. (usually if you do have such a list, it's setup in such a way so that only certain individuals can send to it)
Needles to say a new "test" distribution list was created by one of the offshore team, at which point some moronic project manager decided to send
a "test" email which then went to everyone's mailbox at the same time
This however was not the problem, the problem was when several users decided to hit "Reply-All" which of course sent the reply to all users everywhere
and these replies where then replied to with messages such as "should I be on this list?"
The end result was that the outlook servers ground to a complete and utter halt, with the sheer volume of crap flying around on the system
Meanwhile once the two onshore employees that had been replaced heard about this, they basically laughed they're asses off
One last final comment, another trick they do here over in the UK is to bring the offshore guys onshore, but then still pay them the going cheap r
why does this remind me of talky toaster? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZslRQvv5zM
Oh look your bleeding, don't worry buddy there's always more where that came from, oh come on now cheer up
don't panic or anything, but I have spotted an incy wincy spot fire next to the fuel line
while you start to lose consciousness here's a little ditty to cheer you up
"Always look on the bright side of life..."
I was about to say another idea might be virtulisation via xen for example
start up a new virtual machine with the new kernel, then when your sure it's working, just switch everything across from the old to the new, and shut down the old virtual instance
English humor "what we does" is grammatically incorrect
A north england accent isn't Scottish (think Bolton / ee by gum, emphasis on the o's and u's, "bloody hell", sounds like "bluudy 'ell")
HDPE is one option (the sort of material you'll find in DVD cases for example)
but this requires a higher temperature, which has caused some problems with the way they measure temperature (moving from thermistors to thermocouples should fix this)
I'm hoping to build one of these myself first, a granuale extruder
the idea being
1. get something like a DVD Case / other HDPE material (I think Coke bottles are PET instead)
2. Chop it up into small pieces (perhaps a food mixer)
3. Feed it into the extruder, and then get a thin plastic wire out the end that you can feed into the reprap
I can't believe they didn't mention Stallman the almighty wizard of gnu (come on he does have the beard, and I wouldn't be all that surprised if he had a funny looking hat)
chaotic good
not forgetting the omnipresent torvalds (if that isn't a magic sounding name I don't know what is)
chaotic neutral
One of the best parts I remembered from that was when the scientist (that was constrained to a wheelchair, in a very similar way to Hawking)
decides to build his own rocket to escape, and paints an image of himself on the side of the rocket with a musculature toned / body, leaving all the other scientists behind
(apart from his specially trained research staff, that just happen to be a set of extremely hot girls)
Now all we need is someone to come up with a working design on Hackaday and we're all set
hmmm I wonder if distilling the Americium from fire detectors for a Dirty bomb would be better
Slashdot Mirror
How about a thought powered mouse?
haven't got one of these myself yet but probably will at some point
OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator Controller
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GC-000-OC&groupid=702&catid=23&subcat=&name=OCZ%20Neural%20Impulse%20Actuator%20Controller%20(OCZMSNIA)
I like this one the best
http://incredimazing.com/page/Hi_Im_Vista
Of course the quantum theorists argued they're dancing would have been much better if no-one had been looking at the time
There's also crystalfontz http://www.crystalfontz.com/
there's some more colours available but I think the price tag is a bit more
overclockers are quite good, I managed to get the best pair of headphones I've ever had from there (Razer Barracuda)
I also use http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ http://www.aria.co.uk/ and http://www.scan.co.uk/
as these are close to the Manchester Area in the UK
I'll leave open the question as to if wide adoption actually happens, but considering that a BDR drive is available at the store and seems to be following the same pattern as CDR / DVDR.
:)
Okay let's fast forward 5 years
assuming wide adoption at some point, Blu-Ray blanks eventually cost the same as blank DVR's today, around 15p a disk / 0.30$
(they currently cost around £30 / $60, but remember how much blank CDR's / DVDR's cost when they came out initially?)
Some snazzy new recordable media comes out lets call it yellow ray 5 years down the line, promising 10 times the storage capacity (just an example)
at this point you've got a choice of ether extremely cheap media say 15p for 50Gb a pop, or the new snazzy 10x ultra yellow disk at £30 a disk
for the existing BDR tech using MPEG4 it should be possible to fit at least 6 full size DVD's onto one of these disks at the moment, probably more with increased compression
(I'm kind of curious as to how many VHS tapes I can fit onto one of these things using Mpeg4, for archival purposes, not to mention the possibility of getting every episode of Dr Who onto just one disk)
also consider that an increased number of layers could be possible at some later point (more than the current 2 via a firmware update)
it's fair to assume that the adoption of the next generation / standard up, could take longer (unless we get bigger room size TV's)
correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure someone will, this is slashdot) also I'm guessing at that point we'll probably be onto cartridges, given the density of data involved
Each next generation of disk format may have the problem of taking longer before having wide adoption / cheap media
given that there's not as much a need for the increased space right away as there was with the initial CDR / DVDR footprint (unless some wonderful new display tech comes out to make use of it)
I'm sufficiently certain that Blu-Ray has enough of it's foot in the door to eventually end up with cheap media, however that's just my own opinion
as for flash storage, I'm kind of reluctant to use something which isn't non-volatile, or magnetically susceptible to interference
(something which isn't permanently burned in)
and yes I am slightly bias given that I've gotten a hold of one of the new LG BDR drives recently
Although I did wait until after the format war
Given the state of Moore's law, and how powerful hardware should be around this time.
I'd say Wine should be Vista compatible around 2012, well okay maybe 2013
Sorry I ment Soilent as in Soilent Green
A good name for a company marketing this product
Solient Oil
In Soviet Russia the Oil consumes you
more to the point how this will affect split brain DNS?
A while back I setup an overlay for use on Gentoo / PS3 to try and get some of the more recent kernels / hardware working. I'm in the middle of looking to update it at the moment with 2.6.25, and to try and get some of the stuff I've posted in the forum updated onto a web-site. It looks as if the git repo tree now has tags for 2.6.25 which should make things a lot easier.
Bluetooth is possible, but just needs a couple of patches I think for HID support, this might now already be included in the later releases of bluez-utils (I need to check)
For the RSX / Graphics support, this appears to be a bit crappy at the moment, but it is fun to watch F-Zero / Mario Kart on a HD TV using while using the wireless controller, and there is the option to use a VGA cable for non HDMI monitors
To use the SPU's I think 64bit is required, with gcc 4.3
One of the main uses I could see would be the processor for rendering (e.g. yafray) if it had the support. Although at the moment there's not much that's written to take full advantage of the SPU's potential power, given that it operates under a different architecture than the ppc core (although it does heat the room quite nicely)
It may be a problem eventually, but this assumes all hardware everywhere is using TPM already
Unless software is written to only work with TPM enabled hardware (which might be unlikely for games for a long while, as there's still a lot of hardware out there without TPM I'd guess)
One approach may just be to block any form of access to the TPM chip to force the app into thinking there is no TPM therefore must run in some form of "legacy hardware mode" if there is such a thing. As far as hacking the software is concerned I'm not sure what avenues are possible for this (virtualization / emulation perhaps), something similar to altering the software not to look for the protection, rather than trying to provide a false key
At the end of the day you get what you pay for, cheap but cheerful
you pay cheap you get cheap
I have some experience myself working with offshore teams (Indian instead of Chinese) half of the team of which I'm a part is offshore. Also we have to deal with other technical teams on a regular basis which are also part onshore / part offshore (in a support capacity not programming) Our role is sort mini-project management (low paid work, which is a cross between project management and a call center, usually for the preparation of quotes for individual PC's / Servers etc, but we typically end up getting involved with things far above our station on a regular basis
Part of the problem can be the language barrier you see you'll usually get individuals with skills in communication (such as call center staff who need to have good English) or individuals with skills in a technical role (such as server Support) But it can be quite hard to find someone who has skills in both areas (technical and can speak English fairly well) this is quite rare. This puts added pressure on the onshore staff that are still remaining to compensate, especially when it comes down to someone who is speaking very fast in a heavy accent, trying to describe some technical problem about Active Directory in half English. This leaves the on-shore guys trying to do double the work they did originally with the missing staff (some of the on-shore staff have already left at our place simply because of the added pressure) The best you can do to get around this is to use something like MS Communicator, or some form of IM which at least cuts out the heavy accent
Another problem is that part of the mentality within these offshore areas is to do exactly what your told to do.
in some ways this is good, in others bad.
Somewhat similar to a machine type mentality, "we follow the process exactly as it's written with no room for flexibility"
you can of course tell them to do something different, but this again still takes time to act as interpreter from an onshore perspective
again this puts added pressure on the remaining onshore teams to compensate when something unexpected comes along which they can't deal with
The above point also leads in some cases to a lack of technical vetting, and experience with the way things such as email accounts are configured within the company. The onshore staff who usually know what they're doing can usually pick up on something when someone asks them to setup something that doesn't smell quite right but for offshore individuals this isn't always the case, who usually take the approach, do it anyway fix it later
One example of this was a test distribution list that was setup recently on the email system, with the number of people working within the company (we're talking above several thousand here, we have several companies tied into the same network via domains) you need to be careful about allowing these sorts of lists to feed into higher level lists that include everyone everywhere. (usually if you do have such a list, it's setup in such a way so that only certain individuals can send to it) Needles to say a new "test" distribution list was created by one of the offshore team, at which point some moronic project manager decided to send a "test" email which then went to everyone's mailbox at the same time This however was not the problem, the problem was when several users decided to hit "Reply-All" which of course sent the reply to all users everywhere and these replies where then replied to with messages such as "should I be on this list?" The end result was that the outlook servers ground to a complete and utter halt, with the sheer volume of crap flying around on the system
Meanwhile once the two onshore employees that had been replaced heard about this, they basically laughed they're asses off
One last final comment, another trick they do here over in the UK is to bring the offshore guys onshore, but then still pay them the going cheap r
why does this remind me of talky toaster? ..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZslRQvv5zM
Oh look your bleeding, don't worry buddy there's always more where that came from, oh come on now cheer up
don't panic or anything, but I have spotted an incy wincy spot fire next to the fuel line
while you start to lose consciousness here's a little ditty to cheer you up
"Always look on the bright side of life
Now all you need is some cardboard and some sticky back plastic
to make a 1 button mouse
and your all set
I was about to say another idea might be virtulisation via xen for example
start up a new virtual machine with the new kernel, then when your sure it's working, just switch everything across from the old to the new, and shut down the old virtual instance
I'm sure it was
"Nyet Nyet, metric I tell you metric"
in a robot with a teadybear head
(for anyone that remembers the last story that went through)
English humor "what we does" is grammatically incorrect
A north england accent isn't Scottish (think Bolton / ee by gum, emphasis on the o's and u's, "bloody hell", sounds like "bluudy 'ell")
(in a deep Northern Brittish Accent)
Those Americans, they aught to talk proper, like what we does
HDPE is one option (the sort of material you'll find in DVD cases for example)
but this requires a higher temperature, which has caused some problems with the way they measure temperature (moving from thermistors to thermocouples should fix this)
I'm hoping to build one of these myself first, a granuale extruder
the idea being
1. get something like a DVD Case / other HDPE material (I think Coke bottles are PET instead)
2. Chop it up into small pieces (perhaps a food mixer)
3. Feed it into the extruder, and then get a thin plastic wire out the end that you can feed into the reprap
I can't believe they didn't mention Stallman the almighty wizard of gnu (come on he does have the beard, and I wouldn't be all that surprised if he had a funny looking hat)
chaotic good
not forgetting the omnipresent torvalds (if that isn't a magic sounding name I don't know what is)
chaotic neutral
One of the best parts I remembered from that was when the scientist (that was constrained to a wheelchair, in a very similar way to Hawking)
decides to build his own rocket to escape, and paints an image of himself on the side of the rocket with a musculature toned / body, leaving all the other scientists behind
(apart from his specially trained research staff, that just happen to be a set of extremely hot girls)
Now all we need is someone to come up with a working design on Hackaday and we're all set
hmmm I wonder if distilling the Americium from fire detectors for a Dirty bomb would be better
I must admit when I first glanced at this I read it as
"Bill Allows Teachers to Contract Evolution"
as if they've caught some sort of disease