You're basically talking about Apple's "retina display" scaled up to a 10" tablet. That would require a fair bit of power to push those pixels around, a fair bit of storage space for 1080p video, and then you're just stuck scaling smaller video up.
A more reasonable current goal would be better hardware scaling.
I got a touchpad on firesale. It came in handy for preloading videos to watch on long trips since the battery life is substantially better than my laptop. It's also *very* useful for reading at night when I've got a toddler in my lap and I don't want to turn on a light for fear of waking him.
That's basically what the old Aureal technology did a decade ago--took the 3D scene data and passed it to the audio card for processing. It was awesome--Half-Life with four speakers was eerily realistic.
The answer depends on the circumstances--total amount of driving, relative frequency of each sort of trip, availability of alternate means of transportation, etc. In New York neither makes sense--you take the subway or a taxi.
I live in a city of 300000 people in the Canadian prairies. Around here there's a tendency for a certain type of male to drive ludicrously large pickup trucks (F-350s and such) with gigantic fuel tanks in the bed. Originally this was because they worked in the oil fields and were driving out to well sites, but then I think it became a status symbol. As it stands, I suspect the majority of these vehicles will never leave pavement or haul anything more than a few sheets of drywall or plywood.
How about: 1) look for a driver on the manufacturer's site (works great for intel adapters, they're all on sourceforge) 2) google for a prebuilt package made available by another user 3) build the driver as an external module 4) try a newer distro version
Of course, if you have a crappy wifi card with no linux support whatsoever then you're screwed...but I haven't run into that in a long time, at least for retail network adapters.
My second stage kicks in if the thermostat is set 2 degrees more than the current temperature (or if the furnace runs for a certain amount of time and the temperature hasn't reached the set-point).
I have a fancy programmable thermostat, and it actually does allow you to specify in the setup menu how much you want it to "lie", and in which direction.
The device (phone/tablet) vendor may not actually have the source. I've personally had to deal with sub-device vendors that only provide the driver in binary form. The only thing I can think of is that they're terrified someone will steal the code and make a cheap clone of their hardware.
Alternately, the drivers may be licensed from a third party and the device vendor may not have the legal right to redistribute the source.
I read an article about this scheme...due to prevailing wind patterns you actually want the balloons in the north and south hemispheres. Interestingly, right about over the Alberta/Saskatchewan tar sands would be pretty much perfect, which is handy because they have *huge* piles of waste sulfur just sitting there ready to be sprayed up into the atmosphere.
Noting the comment that anything less than 16GB would benefit from an SSD, I suspect the issue is that there are many small files and so the seek latency of spinning disks are what causes the pain.
It should work just fine, might take twice as long though. (Which is still not bad, our whole system takes many hours to build because we're basically building up a whole distro for multiple architectures and machine types.)
I love that reasoning. It essentially makes global warming impossible to disprove or challenge. There is no evidence that can be used to argue against it.
Not so. It's fairly straightforward to look for more "extreme" weather--you simply compare the actual weather against the "average". If the differences increase over time, there's your effect.
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Like 10x a standard consumer connection.
First there aren't a lot of $750 ultrabooks that I'm seeing. A Samsung series 9 is more like $1000.
Second, even an ultrabook is going to be heavier and physically larger (especially when opened) than a tablet and the battery life won't be as good.
You're basically talking about Apple's "retina display" scaled up to a 10" tablet. That would require a fair bit of power to push those pixels around, a fair bit of storage space for 1080p video, and then you're just stuck scaling smaller video up.
A more reasonable current goal would be better hardware scaling.
I got a touchpad on firesale. It came in handy for preloading videos to watch on long trips since the battery life is substantially better than my laptop. It's also *very* useful for reading at night when I've got a toddler in my lap and I don't want to turn on a light for fear of waking him.
That's basically what the old Aureal technology did a decade ago--took the 3D scene data and passed it to the audio card for processing. It was awesome--Half-Life with four speakers was eerily realistic.
Because moving to Linux on the same hardware was pretty much crash-free for me.
VMware has a free tool called vCenter Converter that will do the migration, at which point you can use anything that understands VMware vms.
The answer depends on the circumstances--total amount of driving, relative frequency of each sort of trip, availability of alternate means of transportation, etc. In New York neither makes sense--you take the subway or a taxi.
I live in a city of 300000 people in the Canadian prairies. Around here there's a tendency for a certain type of male to drive ludicrously large pickup trucks (F-350s and such) with gigantic fuel tanks in the bed. Originally this was because they worked in the oil fields and were driving out to well sites, but then I think it became a status symbol. As it stands, I suspect the majority of these vehicles will never leave pavement or haul anything more than a few sheets of drywall or plywood.
Any system that shows how you voted after the fact opens up the possibility of purchasing votes.
How about:
1) look for a driver on the manufacturer's site (works great for intel adapters, they're all on sourceforge)
2) google for a prebuilt package made available by another user
3) build the driver as an external module
4) try a newer distro version
Of course, if you have a crappy wifi card with no linux support whatsoever then you're screwed...but I haven't run into that in a long time, at least for retail network adapters.
If you have any skill at all you should be able to put something together for less than $250 that'll do exactly what you need.
My second stage kicks in if the thermostat is set 2 degrees more than the current temperature (or if the furnace runs for a certain amount of time and the temperature hasn't reached the set-point).
I have a fancy programmable thermostat, and it actually does allow you to specify in the setup menu how much you want it to "lie", and in which direction.
The device (phone/tablet) vendor may not actually have the source. I've personally had to deal with sub-device vendors that only provide the driver in binary form. The only thing I can think of is that they're terrified someone will steal the code and make a cheap clone of their hardware.
Alternately, the drivers may be licensed from a third party and the device vendor may not have the legal right to redistribute the source.
or SCTP, or TIPC, or RDS. There are lots of message-based protocols out there. Why use TCP if you don't want streams?
I was fairly impressed when the touchpad detected my 5GHz network. Great buy for $99, will be even better when they port ICS to it.
I read an article about this scheme...due to prevailing wind patterns you actually want the balloons in the north and south hemispheres. Interestingly, right about over the Alberta/Saskatchewan tar sands would be pretty much perfect, which is handy because they have *huge* piles of waste sulfur just sitting there ready to be sprayed up into the atmosphere.
The stable repo appears to be at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
Noting the comment that anything less than 16GB would benefit from an SSD, I suspect the issue is that there are many small files and so the seek latency of spinning disks are what causes the pain.
It should work just fine, might take twice as long though. (Which is still not bad, our whole system takes many hours to build because we're basically building up a whole distro for multiple architectures and machine types.)
If the researchers can do it, the bad guys may already be doing it.
I would have thought that even in a loosely-knit group of states like the USA, you'd want to have some standardization of weights and measures.
Just cut out all the security before the flight and issue a taser to each passenger over the age of 18.
Why not give it bluetooth or wifi and then write an Android app to allow any android tablet/phone to control your "black boxes"?
Tigerdirect has Kingston 8GB PC3-8500 for $125.
I love that reasoning. It essentially makes global warming impossible to disprove or challenge. There is no evidence that can be used to argue against it.
Not so. It's fairly straightforward to look for more "extreme" weather--you simply compare the actual weather against the "average". If the differences increase over time, there's your effect.