If you use Firefox then check out the very nice greasemonkey script fluffbuster purity; http://www.fbpurity.com/. It gives you selective control of all the bull that fills up Facebook. (There's some interesting reading there too regarding what facebook thinks of that script...)
Well, for what it's worth, the only thing the camera in the video seems to be doing is threshold compare on a pixel by pixel basis, ie if each pixel changes from the previous frame by more than a certain amount then it's highlighted, which is a pretty simple operation. Still, it's a cool proof of concept.
I've actually been in the same situation myself, two free (as in beer) SPICE derivatives I've found to work well are LTspice and TINA-spice (from linear and Texas Instruments respectively). They are windows binaries but function very well in WINE (in fact the developer(s) for LTspice have designed it to function as well as possible with WINE).
I've mostly used LTspice and it works very well and has a low learning threshold. Of course you can insert spice directives in the schematic to do more advanced functions like basic parameter sweeps as well as monte-carlo simulations and so on and so forth. Check out LTspice's yahoo group for a bunch of documentation.
As far as other recommendations for eagle go I doubt that's what you're looking for as eagle is solely for schematic capture and pcb design, there are no simulation capabilities in it.
I don't buy these numbers. Assuming the summary is correct and one search uses as much energy as boiling half a cup of water, then the total energy dissipated is;
W=delta_T*specific_energy*mass
Which for water gives (assuming 80 degrees of temperature difference and 75g of water, or about half a small cup of tea);
80*4.18*75=25kJ
A few google searches I just did took on average 0.2 seconds each, as reported by google. This would give a power draw of 125kW, for just running the services that handled my single request!
Now, I must say that I don't now a lot pertaining to how much power google's servers draw, and of course running the search engine servers ism't enough, google needs to update it's database and do lots of other maintanence. All in all this strikes me as far too much.
Does anyone happen to have any real knowledge about this?
I do know that sufficiently high intensity IR can be very damaging, coagulating the cornea or "burning" the retina, it's especially dangerous as you can't see the light, you just get your eyes fried. So IR is definitely not inherently safe, on the contrary it's potentially very dangerous, though I'm not at all sure how much light is needed.
Am I the only one somewhat uneased by the though of having an array of 30-40 relatively high-power leds shining in your eyes without ones pupil contracting? Or might it be that the wavelength of the IR leds happens to be absorbed by water in the eye? Anyone with some knowledge?
In that case, I guess no software is ever free, since you have to buy the hardware to run it on.
Yes, but you're free to buy hardware from whichever manufacturer you wish, you're not locked into buying from one single monopoly.
How is proving a 20 year old theorem a "shocking discovery"? Sure, an unexpected realisation/proof of an old theory, but surely not a discovery....Oh, wait, this is/.
Nevermind
IIAS (I am a Swede).
Considering that the vast, vast majority of people in Sweden live in an urbanized city center or near there,you've essentially got a relatively small number of cities with a relatively large population, in contrast to the US, where you have lots of people living in the middle of nowhere, (though with the occasional densely populated city), and as such you can't really make that comparison.
The type of space you're talking about needs to be in the range of mm for air to flow through easily, and seeing how this was in the range of tens of nanometers (10^-9), not a chance. in fact you'd have trouble trying to force much at all through that channel, even if you were to actively pump water through it you'd have issues (not to mention the possible galvanic problems).
Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 has a recommended retail price of 289.99 pounds ($550), but is currently available for 234 pounds ($444).
Vista Business Edition is the corresponding upgrade for Windows XP Professional. Retail price on Vista Business is 289 GBP.... same as XP Professional.
So is Vista really more expensive? Nope... not unless you want a wider feature set.
In my book an OS upgrade entails a wider feature set, so if I understood this correctly, for only $200 I can get a new OS with... exactly the same features! (oh and some nice DRM too!)
Seeing as how most small sized fans (40mm-ish) dont usually take more than 0.1A @ 12V => 1.2 watts (at full speed), compared to the 40-50-ish watts that the rest of the system uses the difference is negligable.
Excuse me for not RTFA, but I am sceptical to the validity of the tests. The previous tests done didn't let the reviewers do anything but use the hardware, OS and apps installed by Intel, making the results anything but trustworthy. What's to say they didn't do the same thing this time?
Probably not very difficult, but getting it to configure itself automatically and emulate way that wikipedia (or any other site) works is no easy task.
What's to stop a spammer/script kiddie from making a script that does all the registering except for the visual code, giving an average reg. time of maybe 5 seconds per site?
Link, points to link, points to link, points to link, points to ad, or wait, there was a link there, points to link... ad infinitum.
And this was supposed to help information overload how????
I didn't even see any pink ponies!!
I want them!
Nooo!!111oneoneone
I wnated PONIES!!!:(:(:(:(
I hoep tehy make make a duke nukem pony edition!!!
that wud so fit in and be perfect!!!! dont you think???????
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If you use Firefox then check out the very nice greasemonkey script fluffbuster purity; http://www.fbpurity.com/. It gives you selective control of all the bull that fills up Facebook. (There's some interesting reading there too regarding what facebook thinks of that script...)
Well, for what it's worth, the only thing the camera in the video seems to be doing is threshold compare on a pixel by pixel basis, ie if each pixel changes from the previous frame by more than a certain amount then it's highlighted, which is a pretty simple operation. Still, it's a cool proof of concept.
I've actually been in the same situation myself, two free (as in beer) SPICE derivatives I've found to work well are LTspice and TINA-spice (from linear and Texas Instruments respectively). They are windows binaries but function very well in WINE (in fact the developer(s) for LTspice have designed it to function as well as possible with WINE).
I've mostly used LTspice and it works very well and has a low learning threshold. Of course you can insert spice directives in the schematic to do more advanced functions like basic parameter sweeps as well as monte-carlo simulations and so on and so forth. Check out LTspice's yahoo group for a bunch of documentation.
As far as other recommendations for eagle go I doubt that's what you're looking for as eagle is solely for schematic capture and pcb design, there are no simulation capabilities in it.
I don't buy these numbers. Assuming the summary is correct and one search uses as much energy as boiling half a cup of water, then the total energy dissipated is;
W=delta_T*specific_energy*mass
Which for water gives (assuming 80 degrees of temperature difference and 75g of water, or about half a small cup of tea);
80*4.18*75=25kJ
A few google searches I just did took on average 0.2 seconds each, as reported by google.
This would give a power draw of 125kW, for just running the services that handled my single request!
Now, I must say that I don't now a lot pertaining to how much power google's servers draw, and of course running the search engine servers ism't enough, google needs to update it's database and do lots of other maintanence. All in all this strikes me as far too much.
Does anyone happen to have any real knowledge about this?
So in one night you and a couple friends farted a total of 35 times? That must have been some good food you had that evening, so, what did you eat?
I do know that sufficiently high intensity IR can be very damaging, coagulating the cornea or "burning" the retina, it's especially dangerous as you can't see the light, you just get your eyes fried. So IR is definitely not inherently safe, on the contrary it's potentially very dangerous, though I'm not at all sure how much light is needed.
Am I the only one somewhat uneased by the though of having an array of 30-40 relatively high-power leds shining in your eyes without ones pupil contracting? Or might it be that the wavelength of the IR leds happens to be absorbed by water in the eye? Anyone with some knowledge?
In that case, I guess no software is ever free, since you have to buy the hardware to run it on. Yes, but you're free to buy hardware from whichever manufacturer you wish, you're not locked into buying from one single monopoly.
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Shelley the Republican is satire, fortunately.
How is proving a 20 year old theorem a "shocking discovery"? Sure, an unexpected realisation/proof of an old theory, but surely not a discovery. ...Oh, wait, this is /.
Nevermind
Apparently the second derivative of biodiversity (wrt. to time) had a minima 3 years ago. Co-incidently bush got re-elected.
IIAS (I am a Swede). Considering that the vast, vast majority of people in Sweden live in an urbanized city center or near there,you've essentially got a relatively small number of cities with a relatively large population, in contrast to the US, where you have lots of people living in the middle of nowhere, (though with the occasional densely populated city), and as such you can't really make that comparison.
The type of space you're talking about needs to be in the range of mm for air to flow through easily, and seeing how this was in the range of tens of nanometers (10^-9), not a chance. in fact you'd have trouble trying to force much at all through that channel, even if you were to actively pump water through it you'd have issues (not to mention the possible galvanic problems).
How the HELL did parent get modded +5 Informative?
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Oh, wait. this is
Right, that makes things clearer.
You do know stuff like that is prohibited in most countries, especially in "protect-the-children-from-the-adult-body america", right?
Vista Business Edition is the corresponding upgrade for Windows XP Professional. Retail price on Vista Business is 289 GBP.... same as XP Professional.
So is Vista really more expensive? Nope... not unless you want a wider feature set.
In my book an OS upgrade entails a wider feature set, so if I understood this correctly, for only $200 I can get a new OS with... exactly the same features! (oh and some nice DRM too!)
Seeing as how most small sized fans (40mm-ish) dont usually take more than 0.1A @ 12V => 1.2 watts (at full speed), compared to the 40-50-ish watts that the rest of the system uses the difference is negligable.
Excuse me for not RTFA, but I am sceptical to the validity of the tests. The previous tests done didn't let the reviewers do anything but use the hardware, OS and apps installed by Intel, making the results anything but trustworthy. What's to say they didn't do the same thing this time?
The part about MTV is true, whereas the part about apple was much more in jest.
I'm not sure what's funnier, that parent should be modded +4, Funny, or that parent was modded interesting.
I'm not sure what is more frightening, that the parent thinks the way he does or that he got moderated +4, insightful, rather than +5, funny.
Probably not very difficult, but getting it to configure itself automatically and emulate way that wikipedia (or any other site) works is no easy task.
What's to stop a spammer/script kiddie from making a script that does all the registering except for the visual code, giving an average reg. time of maybe 5 seconds per site?
Link, points to link, points to link, points to link, points to ad, or wait, there was a link there, points to link... ad infinitum. And this was supposed to help information overload how???? I didn't even see any pink ponies!! I want them!
Nooo!!111oneoneone I wnated PONIES!!! :(:(:(:(
I hoep tehy make make a duke nukem pony edition!!!
that wud so fit in and be perfect!!!! dont you think???????