Jaguar's have always had automatic gearboxes only, at least as long as I remember. I know the reason I never would buy any of their sport models is because they only have an auto option. The only exception I know of was the "XKR-R" which was cooked up by their engineers in their spare time, and was never actually made.
I am sometimes totally amazed at how much money an individual can have. I can't fathom 150 million USD, let alone be able to pay that much on a tourist trip (no matter how awesome this is). Whoever the two individuals are, they are some lucky b******s!
If this works out, I can hope that the price will go down in time so I can make this trip one day:)
I think it would have been good to mention the fatalities. It adds a whole another scope to the story, from just a equipment malfunction to something far more serious (lives were lost due to it). That's just my opinion though.
I had a lot of trouble with BT keyboard pairing, and I had pretty much given up trying until I borrowed a Apple BT keyboard. That thing worked perfectly! First time, and has worked since! Only quips with it is that there is no "off" switch, so when I put it into my bag I have to pull out the batteries lest it drain them constantly as I carry it around. All the other BT keyboards just didn't work! Additionally the Apple keyboard feel really nice to the touch! If you're having trouble with BT keyboards, try the Apple ones. I'm really impressed with it.
What issue you having with nvidia? I have been using Nvidia for years (primarily due getting into CUDA v.early) and I've not seen any power management problems, or fan issues actually. My fan's generally are quite quiet (I can override this though if I want). If you want to try overriding the fan control then have a look at the "nvclock" program. It can also do over/underclocking if that's your thing.
Um, out of curiosity, where on earth do you live?! And surely if there is nothing around within half a days drive, then a lot of the issues people complain about when driving don't apply. Things like congestion, or morons (if there are any, there will be far fewer as it's a sparsely populated area). What major distractions exist? Anywhere that doesn't have taxi/bus/train service must be really sparsely populated, no?
Why not use both? Nothing prevents you from converting one to the other, keep using government money for paying tax/rent/etc... and use bitcoins for other things/small purchases, whatever you want really. It's not an either/or option.
We call them trains, or buses and taxis (who generally have a professional who is paid to drive and not do anything else). I never got this attitude. I drive because I love driving, I have very little in the car to distract me (only a Radio, and a silent GPS I can glance at to confirm my route). We are getting there as far as self-driving cars, but we already have equivalents now. Sure they are not automatic, but taxis/minicabs in particular already provide the same level of service, just with a human at the wheel.
If you (in general, not parent) are getting distracted by driving, then don't. Get someone else to do it for you.
I'm all for auto-driving cars, as long I'm not forced into using them:P Let them be personal taxis for those for who driving is not that interesting.
Um, unless I'm misunderstanding you (i.e. the emulator actually executes native code, although then it's not really an emulator), this should be obvious. The emulator emulates a different instruction set (arm) on your PC (x86). Virtualisation has nothing to do with that, as that executes native code for the processor on the processor itself. As no instruction translation and emulation is needed, a virtualised OS will run much much faster (assuming no IO/mem bottlenecks, it should run as fast as the host OS).
You have a 1.8GHz x86 processor, well I can tell you that it's highly unlikely to be able to run at anywhere near 600MHz arm speed. If you're lucky it will emulate about 200Mhz arm. Emulation is hard to do, and it's no surprise that it's that slow.
Emulation != Virtualisation. They are very very different beasts. You can't say "Or, my machine can run X on virtualbox really fast, so I should be able to emulate a totally different processor just as fast". Different systems entirely.
The USB port does work as a host, that is why I like it so much. In fact I'm typing this on my n810 now, with a usb hub, usb keyboard, DVD Drive and 120GB disk connected to it (and a 16gb uSD card in the slot). It's really a portable computer you can fit in your pocket.
I was intending on using the rs232 port to connect to a PIC microcontroller, from where I can do what I want. Otherwise a USB hub, and a couple of USB->rs232 converters. If I feel like learning something new, I can try connecting via USB directly with some of the newer ATMEL or PIC uC's.
As for the project idea. I built gphoto onto my n810. Camera connects to the n810 USB port, and I can control it. The motors would most likely be steppers, and uC controlled. This could be done one of the ways I mentioned above, but I will probably use rs232 in some way (because it's simple, flexible and just about everything supports it).
It's a 400MHz arm, touchscreen lcd, backlit keyboard etc... It also supports wifi, bluetooth, usb host mode and has an rs232 port at the back. Battery lasts for days when idling and comes with debian based distro (maemo) but you can roll and flash your own (some people put Gentoo on it, of all things).
Best thing is, as it's considered quite out of date in the era of smart phones, they are going real cheap. Bought a few of them (ex display unused) for about £40 each, which is really quite cheap for what you're getting. Will probably try building my own custom distro on one when I get some free time.
I'm thinking of using it to control motorised mounts and my DSLR (using gphoto) for astrophotography, but you should be able to do all sorts of things with them. They make excellent embedded systems!
Actually, that sounds like a really easy way to get into some HAM stuff. Do you have any more information on your setup? It sounds like a good beginner project with little initial investment needed. As someone who has no experience with this, $125 is the kind of amount I can just throw at a project and see if it hits my interest.
Can this be done from Europe? Or is NOAA-N Specific to the US?
Which is why I only use Atheros chipsets. Rock solid Linux support since the 2000's using madwifi drivers. Such a same that Broadcom is cheaper, so most integrated chipsets/cheap hardware use it. Intel's wireless is ok on Linux. Not as good as Atheros (prone to firmware resets on my Thinkpad, but with no noticable loss of connection, as it resets immediately) but perfectly usable.
This doesn't help you now, but for future reference (and for other readers), stay the hell away from Broadcom for Linux. Useless wireless drivers (their hardware is kinda useless as well, especially their gigabit ethernet hardware).
Yep, they have both. When new the nonconvertible is cheaper to buy, and as some people wanted the form factor and power without the extra cost of a tablet they don't use. I suspect the hinge is also stronger (The convertible version has one hinge in the middle that has to rotate, which is weaker than two on the side).
You can usually tell the difference by the hinges. The nonconvertible has two ones near the edges, the tablet one big one in the centre.
You kidding me right? Apart from the official music video's, the others are usually:
a) overcompressed so much is sounds like crap, or:
b) a 32kbit mp3 that they thought would sound better if it was re-encoded in aac@128
c) really really quiet, so much so that I have to turn every volume knob to max just to hear it normally, or on the flip side:
d) horribly distorted, due to someone pushing the volume up to 11 when encoding the video without understanding the concept of clipping.
Radio at least has semi-competant people doing the mastering, so that I don't get the above situation (minus the pop music, which is overcompressed by default). If you couldn't tell the difference I'd worry about your concept of quality music:P
Thing is, I'm not talking about the technology here. AAC@128kbit/s is better than FM, you yourself pointed out that the limited range of FM, so much so that you can argue anything with a sample rate better than 32KHz will actually provide better sound quality.
It's just that with Radio, I have music all at the same volume, not distorted and generally with the same quality. With Youtube I don't get this. I will have to jump multiple times to different music videos before I find one that actually sounds ok (ignoring officially released ones, which are good, and what I usually look for. Just that you don't always have them released).
Me? I gave up on radio ages ago due to the huge amount of ads between songs, and the fact they seem to repeat the same songs (in the same order) every 2-3 hours, all day long. I presume they work on the idea that nobody would listen to the radio non-stop for longer:/
I just listen to internet radio in the background, and their streaming mp3 quality is good enough for that. Hope my position makes more sense to you now:)
I sure don't want to listen to the FM Radio round you area then. "Fine" is not what I'd call about 80% of the music rips on youtube. The other 20% are listenable to, but nothing special.
My solution was to write a script that would scan a document, OCR it and store the OCR'd text as a comment in the image header. This way I could do text searches on the documents and then open up the image for a high resolution scanned copy for printing if needed.
This actually works pretty well, even if the OCR is not 100% correct, it's usually correct enough to come up on the search when I ask for it, and I have all the text anyway. As OCR technology improves I can re-OCR the scans and store new comments.
I have scanned hundreds of documents this way, and I'm hoping I will get rid of all the paper currently sitting round in a mess. It's a semi automated process, but once I did the bulk of the text, new documents that come in are done quite quickly. It would take about a minute of my time (perhaps more if I have to flip pages) to actually do this. So I'm happy, and will hopefully refine the process in future:)
Oh, and this all uses open source software, so another plus for me (and others who care about it).
What's wrong with running Linux on the G4/G5's? I've been buying up the PPC macs and using them for Linux workstations and servers. They are most excellent hardware wise, and are quite quiet too! They are also cheap for what you get. Installing Linux on them was actually pretty easy (I Run a mixture of Debian an Gentoo on them) and have yet to feel constrained by the different architecture.
Or bio-butanol, which will work in any petrol ICE without modification. It also has similar energy density to petrol, so you would not lose much power. Currently there is research into producing it in bulk, but at the moment it's more expensive then petrol, so nobody has brought it to market.
Maemo, IMO. Not only does it no do this kind of stuff. It doesn't even support the software that is loaded onto your SIM card and executed from there. Shame it's EOL, but I don't care. I will use my n900 till it falls apart and I can no longer fix it.
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Jaguar's have always had automatic gearboxes only, at least as long as I remember. I know the reason I never would buy any of their sport models is because they only have an auto option. The only exception I know of was the "XKR-R" which was cooked up by their engineers in their spare time, and was never actually made.
Phew... and here I thought I was the only one that thought that when I saw the year... at least I'm not alone, I guess.
I am sometimes totally amazed at how much money an individual can have. I can't fathom 150 million USD, let alone be able to pay that much on a tourist trip (no matter how awesome this is). Whoever the two individuals are, they are some lucky b******s!
If this works out, I can hope that the price will go down in time so I can make this trip one day :)
But the Oslo bombing did get reported on Slashdot: http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/07/22/1556211/Terror-Attack-On-Norwegian-Government
I think it would have been good to mention the fatalities. It adds a whole another scope to the story, from just a equipment malfunction to something far more serious (lives were lost due to it). That's just my opinion though.
I had a lot of trouble with BT keyboard pairing, and I had pretty much given up trying until I borrowed a Apple BT keyboard. That thing worked perfectly! First time, and has worked since! Only quips with it is that there is no "off" switch, so when I put it into my bag I have to pull out the batteries lest it drain them constantly as I carry it around. All the other BT keyboards just didn't work! Additionally the Apple keyboard feel really nice to the touch! If you're having trouble with BT keyboards, try the Apple ones. I'm really impressed with it.
What issue you having with nvidia? I have been using Nvidia for years (primarily due getting into CUDA v.early) and I've not seen any power management problems, or fan issues actually. My fan's generally are quite quiet (I can override this though if I want). If you want to try overriding the fan control then have a look at the "nvclock" program. It can also do over/underclocking if that's your thing.
Um, out of curiosity, where on earth do you live?! And surely if there is nothing around within half a days drive, then a lot of the issues people complain about when driving don't apply. Things like congestion, or morons (if there are any, there will be far fewer as it's a sparsely populated area). What major distractions exist? Anywhere that doesn't have taxi/bus/train service must be really sparsely populated, no?
Why not use both? Nothing prevents you from converting one to the other, keep using government money for paying tax/rent/etc... and use bitcoins for other things/small purchases, whatever you want really. It's not an either/or option.
Tell me about it. My second most powerful machine meets those specs, and I use it every single day! Perhaps this is what getting old feels like... :(
Don't worry, if you default they won't be able to afford the fuel to get to Washington, let alone do anything else.
We call them trains, or buses and taxis (who generally have a professional who is paid to drive and not do anything else). I never got this attitude. I drive because I love driving, I have very little in the car to distract me (only a Radio, and a silent GPS I can glance at to confirm my route). We are getting there as far as self-driving cars, but we already have equivalents now. Sure they are not automatic, but taxis/minicabs in particular already provide the same level of service, just with a human at the wheel.
If you (in general, not parent) are getting distracted by driving, then don't. Get someone else to do it for you.
I'm all for auto-driving cars, as long I'm not forced into using them :P Let them be personal taxis for those for who driving is not that interesting.
Um, unless I'm misunderstanding you (i.e. the emulator actually executes native code, although then it's not really an emulator), this should be obvious. The emulator emulates a different instruction set (arm) on your PC (x86). Virtualisation has nothing to do with that, as that executes native code for the processor on the processor itself. As no instruction translation and emulation is needed, a virtualised OS will run much much faster (assuming no IO/mem bottlenecks, it should run as fast as the host OS).
You have a 1.8GHz x86 processor, well I can tell you that it's highly unlikely to be able to run at anywhere near 600MHz arm speed. If you're lucky it will emulate about 200Mhz arm. Emulation is hard to do, and it's no surprise that it's that slow.
Emulation != Virtualisation. They are very very different beasts. You can't say "Or, my machine can run X on virtualbox really fast, so I should be able to emulate a totally different processor just as fast". Different systems entirely.
The USB port does work as a host, that is why I like it so much. In fact I'm typing this on my n810 now, with a usb hub, usb keyboard, DVD Drive and 120GB disk connected to it (and a 16gb uSD card in the slot). It's really a portable computer you can fit in your pocket.
I was intending on using the rs232 port to connect to a PIC microcontroller, from where I can do what I want. Otherwise a USB hub, and a couple of USB->rs232 converters. If I feel like learning something new, I can try connecting via USB directly with some of the newer ATMEL or PIC uC's.
As for the project idea. I built gphoto onto my n810. Camera connects to the n810 USB port, and I can control it. The motors would most likely be steppers, and uC controlled. This could be done one of the ways I mentioned above, but I will probably use rs232 in some way (because it's simple, flexible and just about everything supports it).
Have you looked at the Nokia n810? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810
It's a 400MHz arm, touchscreen lcd, backlit keyboard etc... It also supports wifi, bluetooth, usb host mode and has an rs232 port at the back. Battery lasts for days when idling and comes with debian based distro (maemo) but you can roll and flash your own (some people put Gentoo on it, of all things).
Best thing is, as it's considered quite out of date in the era of smart phones, they are going real cheap. Bought a few of them (ex display unused) for about £40 each, which is really quite cheap for what you're getting. Will probably try building my own custom distro on one when I get some free time.
I'm thinking of using it to control motorised mounts and my DSLR (using gphoto) for astrophotography, but you should be able to do all sorts of things with them. They make excellent embedded systems!
Um, they do have their own compiler: http://developer.amd.com/tools/open64/Pages/default.aspx
Seems to be both free to download, and comes with source code so you can go over it if you wish.
Actually, that sounds like a really easy way to get into some HAM stuff. Do you have any more information on your setup? It sounds like a good beginner project with little initial investment needed. As someone who has no experience with this, $125 is the kind of amount I can just throw at a project and see if it hits my interest.
Can this be done from Europe? Or is NOAA-N Specific to the US?
Do you have any schematics/instructions/etc...?
Which is why I only use Atheros chipsets. Rock solid Linux support since the 2000's using madwifi drivers. Such a same that Broadcom is cheaper, so most integrated chipsets/cheap hardware use it. Intel's wireless is ok on Linux. Not as good as Atheros (prone to firmware resets on my Thinkpad, but with no noticable loss of connection, as it resets immediately) but perfectly usable.
This doesn't help you now, but for future reference (and for other readers), stay the hell away from Broadcom for Linux. Useless wireless drivers (their hardware is kinda useless as well, especially their gigabit ethernet hardware).
Yep, they have both. When new the nonconvertible is cheaper to buy, and as some people wanted the form factor and power without the extra cost of a tablet they don't use. I suspect the hinge is also stronger (The convertible version has one hinge in the middle that has to rotate, which is weaker than two on the side).
You can usually tell the difference by the hinges. The nonconvertible has two ones near the edges, the tablet one big one in the centre.
Have a look at the picture here to see what I mean (tablet is on the right): http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/23058.jpg
They sell them as the X61s and X61 Tablet respectively, but most people just put them down as X61, hence the confusion. Hope this helps :)
You kidding me right? Apart from the official music video's, the others are usually:
a) overcompressed so much is sounds like crap, or:
b) a 32kbit mp3 that they thought would sound better if it was re-encoded in aac@128
c) really really quiet, so much so that I have to turn every volume knob to max just to hear it normally, or on the flip side:
d) horribly distorted, due to someone pushing the volume up to 11 when encoding the video without understanding the concept of clipping.
Radio at least has semi-competant people doing the mastering, so that I don't get the above situation (minus the pop music, which is overcompressed by default). If you couldn't tell the difference I'd worry about your concept of quality music :P
Thing is, I'm not talking about the technology here. AAC@128kbit/s is better than FM, you yourself pointed out that the limited range of FM, so much so that you can argue anything with a sample rate better than 32KHz will actually provide better sound quality.
It's just that with Radio, I have music all at the same volume, not distorted and generally with the same quality. With Youtube I don't get this. I will have to jump multiple times to different music videos before I find one that actually sounds ok (ignoring officially released ones, which are good, and what I usually look for. Just that you don't always have them released).
Me? I gave up on radio ages ago due to the huge amount of ads between songs, and the fact they seem to repeat the same songs (in the same order) every 2-3 hours, all day long. I presume they work on the idea that nobody would listen to the radio non-stop for longer :/
I just listen to internet radio in the background, and their streaming mp3 quality is good enough for that. Hope my position makes more sense to you now :)
I sure don't want to listen to the FM Radio round you area then. "Fine" is not what I'd call about 80% of the music rips on youtube. The other 20% are listenable to, but nothing special.
Thinkpad X61 Works for me. Wacom convertable tablet with Intel Core Duo. More powerful than I think I'll ever need, lol
My solution was to write a script that would scan a document, OCR it and store the OCR'd text as a comment in the image header. This way I could do text searches on the documents and then open up the image for a high resolution scanned copy for printing if needed.
This actually works pretty well, even if the OCR is not 100% correct, it's usually correct enough to come up on the search when I ask for it, and I have all the text anyway. As OCR technology improves I can re-OCR the scans and store new comments.
I have scanned hundreds of documents this way, and I'm hoping I will get rid of all the paper currently sitting round in a mess. It's a semi automated process, but once I did the bulk of the text, new documents that come in are done quite quickly. It would take about a minute of my time (perhaps more if I have to flip pages) to actually do this. So I'm happy, and will hopefully refine the process in future :)
Oh, and this all uses open source software, so another plus for me (and others who care about it).
What's wrong with running Linux on the G4/G5's? I've been buying up the PPC macs and using them for Linux workstations and servers. They are most excellent hardware wise, and are quite quiet too! They are also cheap for what you get. Installing Linux on them was actually pretty easy (I Run a mixture of Debian an Gentoo on them) and have yet to feel constrained by the different architecture.
Or bio-butanol, which will work in any petrol ICE without modification. It also has similar energy density to petrol, so you would not lose much power. Currently there is research into producing it in bulk, but at the moment it's more expensive then petrol, so nobody has brought it to market.
Maemo, IMO. Not only does it no do this kind of stuff. It doesn't even support the software that is loaded onto your SIM card and executed from there. Shame it's EOL, but I don't care. I will use my n900 till it falls apart and I can no longer fix it.