From what I've read about memristor's, they don't wear out like Flash does. They are also massively faster than Flash memory. Think of it as a hybrid of RAM and Flash.
In fact, from what I read I think these devices (if they live up to what people are saying about them) will be able to replace both RAM and Disks/SSD's. Instead we'd just have one set of primary memory where everything happens.
Now we just have to see if they can do what is postulated, and how much it will cost to manufacture. If cheap enough to be worth buying due to their benefits, then they will have a huge effect on computing.
Except that wasn't a nation (the Albanians already had a nation, it's called Albania, right underneath). It was a bunch of Terrorists who wanted to annex another countries land. Thanks to NATO they succeeded, and in return NATO got one of their largest european bases smack bang in a sensitive geopolitical area. In fact the Article you liked to pretty much mentions that it wasn't a nation.
Them being muslim's probably had little, if anything to do with it. Likewise the west's messing in the middle east also has little to do with them being muslims. They just want the resources and influence over the region. If being Muslim was a problem for the west, Saudi Arabia would not be as well received, especially as they are one of the primary financiers of terrorism.
I didn't mean the wire protocol, I was referring to the entire standard as a whole. DMA was not part of the USB2 spec, while you could probably design a bespoke controller that did DMA it wasn't exactly part of the standard.
DMA also helps with transfers, which is why Firewire can be considered the superior standard when it comes to high speed applications and/or bulk transfers. USB was not designed for that, hence why it never had a DMA controller specced in from the beginning.
I actually had to write some device drivers to allow remote DMA and Firewire was the only commodity system that allowed this feature. If you know of another one let me know.
Unless USB3 can do DMA transfers (i.e. without needing the CPU's direct involvement) Firewire will stay. Honestly the USB standard seems to be a step backwards to PIO days.
It was a crap standard back when it was released, which is fair enough, as it was designed to replace serial, parallel and the PS/2 ports, all slow devices. It was never designed for connecting disks to (or anything faster than 12mbit/s), which is why it sucks at most high throughput tasks (despite the tacked on bit added to it in USB2 to help it along).
The only thing on the horizon which I can see as being an improvement over Firewire (and a unifying connector for all) is Intel's LightPeak technology, but even that has the limitation of not being able to transfer power to devices through the same cable.
I'm not sure, as time progresses more and more people I know are moving away from BitTorrent due to these actions, but not to more decentralised protocols, but to less decentralised services such as rapidshare, etc...
I personally don't understand why. It's like a massive step back, even worse than going to back to FTP due to all the restrictions unless you pay to be a "premium" member. Not to mention that it's even more centralised than before, it makes no sense to me.
The one I saw was also a Blaupunkt, but this was a phone as well. I know because my uncle put his credit-sized SIM card into it, and could use the keypad to dial phone numbers. The call would be relayed through the car speakers and there was a microphone on the drivers side of the dashboard.
The actual reason was that back then sim cards (and mobile accounts) were expensive as hell. Namely you (as rich dude) were more likely to have multiple phones than multiple sim cards.
As such, a credit-card sized SIM made sense. It's sized to fit in your wallet with the rest of your cards. You would keep it in your wallet and when needed, whip it out and insert into "phone" of choice.
Back in the 80's/early 90's I remember coming across car stereos wondering why they had credit card slots, then I found out they were for sim cards. You slit the card in there, and the radio became a handsfree mobile phone. You didn't have hands free kits, bluetooth or any kind of connectivity back then short of the actual GSM radio. You actually had a separate physical phone for multiple places and events, so it made sense to have a hard to lose, easy to store and insert/remove SIM card.
Imagine having to switch between the phone in your car, your "mobile" on your person, the phone in the jet, the office phone etc... with all the fumbling around with current SIM cards. Logically, when requirements as above were no longer necessary and people had one headset with wired and wireless accessories attached, the SIM was made smaller as people were less likely to need to insert/remove it 10 times a day.
Least dangerous (relatively) is the st.elmos fire produced by static buildup (you are flying through a good static generator at high speed).
Next is the fact that you are flying through ash, which is a bit like sandpaper. The result is your turbines get sand blasted, ruining them in many ways. This is not an instant failure, most aircraft will just continue and get the engines repaired/replaced at next stop.
Most dangerous is the third. The glass, silica and other parts thrown into the air will melt in the high temperature of the turbine combustion chamber. This will then tend to fuse and block further combustion, resulting in the engine shutting down mid-air. Bad situation to be in, made worse by the fact there is no guarantee you can start it up again (normally after a few mins the gunk will solidify and break off, allowing you to restart the engine, but this isn't guaranteed (and this is assuming it breaks off before you impact the ground)
Ironically... Robots are too expensive. Humans are cheaper for unskilled work. This is why automated manufacture hasn't already replaced all the menial jobs.
So like most of Europe then? Or do you think the rest of Europe has no such situations where government invest or own companies, even local monopolies?
Man, I just miss the days before the EU WEEE Directive forced manufacturers to "recycle" the old machines from the customer. Back then I could find 1 or 2 year old machines thrown out after every windows upgrade cycle, essentially getting me a nearly new PC (with no problems, bar Windows) that would run Linux like a champ for years afterwards.
I would have loved to have gotten my hands on one of those HD-ready TV's once the locals decide to splash out on a new 3D TV, but as it stands, the manufacturers now take them back (sometimes for a fee) and resell them in other countries (east-europe/middle east/etc...) leaving me no option but to buy one, thank god for the second-hand market, lest I be forced to buy brand new all the damn time.
I think all of us here on slashdot are aware of that. The problem is that rather than fix their business model, they are claiming every lost sale as being due to piracy, and trying to legislate their business model, effectively giving them a state-granted monopoly on distribution. They are forcing their business model upon us (and one which none of us in particular like the idea of) and that is one the main reasons for the general revulsion shown towards them here.
I know how crap it is, as I am a collector as well. I collect mostly CD's, which is lucky for me as they are DRM and lossless, allowing me to rip them and format shift to my hearts content. Fact is they lost me as a customer in the late 90's/early 2000's.
Even to this day I only really buy second hand CD's from fairs and local shops. Someone already paid money to the record industry so my purchase is not adding to their income, hence I too, am probably put down as a "loss due to piracy" for the last decade. At least I help keep the locals in business.
My main worry is what will happen if they succeed to phase out CD's. Downloads are rarely DRM-free, and never lossless (so far). Plus it entirely kills the second hand market, which I think is their goal (precisely because they don't get any money from it). They are already pushing this with their concept for BD's which are tied to a particular player so you can't resell the disk.
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Um... because it would have been fucking slow? I suspect most people wanted their computers back then to work, and do the job fast. After all, they cost a bomb and for the price, people wanted them to have performance to match. Plus I suspect most CPU's of the time didn't have the required support for a HV, after all, only recently have x86 CPU's got Virtualisation technology. I think for a HV you need a virtualised supervisor state in the CPU, which the CPU's didn't have back then.
That's not to say they didn't know how to do it, they did. They even had Hypervisors running on mainframes (i.e. IBM) back in the 60's, Just now technology has advanced enough for just about everyone to have the ability.
But that is the point. You (as a customer) are the antithesis of what they want. The want people to keep re-buying things all the damn time, in fact in an ideal word, the MPAA/RIAA would charge you for every time you set eyes on a movie or heard one of their songs. Failing that they probably would not mind a rental modal where people pay forever to be able to access the content. As such DRM is designed to fulfil these goals, which is why it ends up being so frustrating that enough people put their heads together to break it.
Ideally they want the transition from one medium to another to be impossible. Failing that, making it so complicated that the majority of people just re-buy it all is an acceptable alternative. Once you realise this, why they implement DRM the way they do (or at all) and their general attitude make a lot more sense.
Nope, just some fools in the Catholic Church (AFAIK in my denomination nobody ever told us not to use condoms). I guess they want more followers, even if they come into being accidentally.
The cars do not have a Manual gearbox or ignition as such. Both are computer controlled. You only get a "start" button for the ignition, and thats about it, the rest is not in your hands. You can't just "shift into neutral" like in existing cars, or just turn a key to cut power to the engine.
Yeah, in fact I built just that for my school many years ago. 10 computers (PIII's), set up as an openmosix terminal cluster. It worked really well. If all terminals were in use people had the power of one PIII just like normal, and if fewer people used it, then there would be more power for everyone. This was far more efficient, especially as the computers would be on anyway, and scaled really well, as we didn't need to invest in really beefy servers to host all the apps on. It really was cost effective, and I thought at the time it would be the way forward.
Unfortunately back then nobody (outside the IT department) heard of Linux, and refused to use it, so the system was eventually reverted back to plain Windows boxes.
Still, it was a great experience, and I learnt a lot building the system, it is a shame openmosix is no longer developed. I think that even today, it would be an awesome system, primarily because of it's cost effectiveness and efficient use of resources.
Only by using the same methods for bypass as used by pirates for ripping the movies. If the movie studiosmade unbreakable DRM, you would not have able to bypass any messages (or do anything really) without their explicit permission, regardless of software (assuming you can even read it using linux/oss software).
When CUDA came out I went and bought the cheapest GPU I could find (30 euro GeForce 8400 GS) and started learning. If you've never done GPU programming before (like me) and you just want to give it a go, better get the cheapest card to start with. You can always sell it and buy a better card once you get proficient at it (or just keep them both, which is what I did, for multiple GPU jobs at once). I use Linux, but the same should apply to win7 (assuming Nvidia has drivers for the card, which I assume they do).
I disagree. The amount of money you'd have to have to buy enough voting stock of MS to have them unequivocally change the code to your liking is huge. You could probably get an entire programming company, and get them to write you your very own GUI for Linux for a similar price.
Don't know who told you it's bullshit, because it isn't. There are real world implementations of this.
Hell, I built one (small scale example) using FM transmitters. If you know the transmitting power of three points, and you can find out the signal strength from the receiver, then you can triangulate the position rather accurately.
For my project, it was in a field, so the accuracy was really good (to the metre). If you get walls/building/etc... in the way, it's not so good, but generally will be good enough to work out in what area/section you are. From which point I presume other police methods are applicable for narrowing down further.
Yeah, but if I remember correctly, at one point Pumpkin studio's (or the new company that bought them) released all the source once the community asked for it. All they kept was things like in-game movies etc... which were owned by third parties so could not be open sourced.
And I also have to agree that the remake is good. Not only is it more stable than the original, but they have made improvements to gameplay. It was one of my favourite games back in the day as well, and it's cool now that I can play it on any of my linux machines without needing wine or something. Great game!
...called Ronja, only 10-mbits/sec, but ~1.4km range, and it could all be built by yourself. Quite cool IMO. You can find out more info (on the now bit dated) site here: http://ronja.twibright.com/
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From what I've read about memristor's, they don't wear out like Flash does. They are also massively faster than Flash memory. Think of it as a hybrid of RAM and Flash.
In fact, from what I read I think these devices (if they live up to what people are saying about them) will be able to replace both RAM and Disks/SSD's. Instead we'd just have one set of primary memory where everything happens.
Now we just have to see if they can do what is postulated, and how much it will cost to manufacture. If cheap enough to be worth buying due to their benefits, then they will have a huge effect on computing.
Except that wasn't a nation (the Albanians already had a nation, it's called Albania, right underneath). It was a bunch of Terrorists who wanted to annex another countries land. Thanks to NATO they succeeded, and in return NATO got one of their largest european bases smack bang in a sensitive geopolitical area. In fact the Article you liked to pretty much mentions that it wasn't a nation.
Them being muslim's probably had little, if anything to do with it. Likewise the west's messing in the middle east also has little to do with them being muslims. They just want the resources and influence over the region. If being Muslim was a problem for the west, Saudi Arabia would not be as well received, especially as they are one of the primary financiers of terrorism.
I didn't mean the wire protocol, I was referring to the entire standard as a whole. DMA was not part of the USB2 spec, while you could probably design a bespoke controller that did DMA it wasn't exactly part of the standard.
DMA also helps with transfers, which is why Firewire can be considered the superior standard when it comes to high speed applications and/or bulk transfers. USB was not designed for that, hence why it never had a DMA controller specced in from the beginning.
I actually had to write some device drivers to allow remote DMA and Firewire was the only commodity system that allowed this feature. If you know of another one let me know.
Unless USB3 can do DMA transfers (i.e. without needing the CPU's direct involvement) Firewire will stay. Honestly the USB standard seems to be a step backwards to PIO days.
It was a crap standard back when it was released, which is fair enough, as it was designed to replace serial, parallel and the PS/2 ports, all slow devices. It was never designed for connecting disks to (or anything faster than 12mbit/s), which is why it sucks at most high throughput tasks (despite the tacked on bit added to it in USB2 to help it along).
The only thing on the horizon which I can see as being an improvement over Firewire (and a unifying connector for all) is Intel's LightPeak technology, but even that has the limitation of not being able to transfer power to devices through the same cable.
I'm not sure, as time progresses more and more people I know are moving away from BitTorrent due to these actions, but not to more decentralised protocols, but to less decentralised services such as rapidshare, etc...
I personally don't understand why. It's like a massive step back, even worse than going to back to FTP due to all the restrictions unless you pay to be a "premium" member. Not to mention that it's even more centralised than before, it makes no sense to me.
The one I saw was also a Blaupunkt, but this was a phone as well. I know because my uncle put his credit-sized SIM card into it, and could use the keypad to dial phone numbers. The call would be relayed through the car speakers and there was a microphone on the drivers side of the dashboard.
The actual reason was that back then sim cards (and mobile accounts) were expensive as hell. Namely you (as rich dude) were more likely to have multiple phones than multiple sim cards.
As such, a credit-card sized SIM made sense. It's sized to fit in your wallet with the rest of your cards. You would keep it in your wallet and when needed, whip it out and insert into "phone" of choice.
Back in the 80's/early 90's I remember coming across car stereos wondering why they had credit card slots, then I found out they were for sim cards. You slit the card in there, and the radio became a handsfree mobile phone. You didn't have hands free kits, bluetooth or any kind of connectivity back then short of the actual GSM radio. You actually had a separate physical phone for multiple places and events, so it made sense to have a hard to lose, easy to store and insert/remove SIM card.
Imagine having to switch between the phone in your car, your "mobile" on your person, the phone in the jet, the office phone etc... with all the fumbling around with current SIM cards. Logically, when requirements as above were no longer necessary and people had one headset with wired and wireless accessories attached, the SIM was made smaller as people were less likely to need to insert/remove it 10 times a day.
T.B.H. It sounds like it is some long running practical joke just to mess with our heads.
...and we can watch the nerds scramble to upgrade their home and work enterprises so they can access it. :-P
I'm joking, or at least I think I am. If Slashdot did that I'm sure I would put more effort into getting an ipv6 address.
It's dangerous in three main ways to an aircraft:
Least dangerous (relatively) is the st.elmos fire produced by static buildup (you are flying through a good static generator at high speed).
Next is the fact that you are flying through ash, which is a bit like sandpaper. The result is your turbines get sand blasted, ruining them in many ways. This is not an instant failure, most aircraft will just continue and get the engines repaired/replaced at next stop.
Most dangerous is the third. The glass, silica and other parts thrown into the air will melt in the high temperature of the turbine combustion chamber. This will then tend to fuse and block further combustion, resulting in the engine shutting down mid-air. Bad situation to be in, made worse by the fact there is no guarantee you can start it up again (normally after a few mins the gunk will solidify and break off, allowing you to restart the engine, but this isn't guaranteed (and this is assuming it breaks off before you impact the ground)
Ironically... Robots are too expensive. Humans are cheaper for unskilled work. This is why automated manufacture hasn't already replaced all the menial jobs.
So like most of Europe then? Or do you think the rest of Europe has no such situations where government invest or own companies, even local monopolies?
Man, I just miss the days before the EU WEEE Directive forced manufacturers to "recycle" the old machines from the customer. Back then I could find 1 or 2 year old machines thrown out after every windows upgrade cycle, essentially getting me a nearly new PC (with no problems, bar Windows) that would run Linux like a champ for years afterwards.
I would have loved to have gotten my hands on one of those HD-ready TV's once the locals decide to splash out on a new 3D TV, but as it stands, the manufacturers now take them back (sometimes for a fee) and resell them in other countries (east-europe/middle east/etc...) leaving me no option but to buy one, thank god for the second-hand market, lest I be forced to buy brand new all the damn time.
I think all of us here on slashdot are aware of that. The problem is that rather than fix their business model, they are claiming every lost sale as being due to piracy, and trying to legislate their business model, effectively giving them a state-granted monopoly on distribution. They are forcing their business model upon us (and one which none of us in particular like the idea of) and that is one the main reasons for the general revulsion shown towards them here.
I know how crap it is, as I am a collector as well. I collect mostly CD's, which is lucky for me as they are DRM and lossless, allowing me to rip them and format shift to my hearts content. Fact is they lost me as a customer in the late 90's/early 2000's.
Even to this day I only really buy second hand CD's from fairs and local shops. Someone already paid money to the record industry so my purchase is not adding to their income, hence I too, am probably put down as a "loss due to piracy" for the last decade. At least I help keep the locals in business.
My main worry is what will happen if they succeed to phase out CD's. Downloads are rarely DRM-free, and never lossless (so far). Plus it entirely kills the second hand market, which I think is their goal (precisely because they don't get any money from it). They are already pushing this with their concept for BD's which are tied to a particular player so you can't resell the disk.
Um... because it would have been fucking slow? I suspect most people wanted their computers back then to work, and do the job fast. After all, they cost a bomb and for the price, people wanted them to have performance to match. Plus I suspect most CPU's of the time didn't have the required support for a HV, after all, only recently have x86 CPU's got Virtualisation technology. I think for a HV you need a virtualised supervisor state in the CPU, which the CPU's didn't have back then.
That's not to say they didn't know how to do it, they did. They even had Hypervisors running on mainframes (i.e. IBM) back in the 60's, Just now technology has advanced enough for just about everyone to have the ability.
But that is the point. You (as a customer) are the antithesis of what they want. The want people to keep re-buying things all the damn time, in fact in an ideal word, the MPAA/RIAA would charge you for every time you set eyes on a movie or heard one of their songs. Failing that they probably would not mind a rental modal where people pay forever to be able to access the content. As such DRM is designed to fulfil these goals, which is why it ends up being so frustrating that enough people put their heads together to break it.
Ideally they want the transition from one medium to another to be impossible. Failing that, making it so complicated that the majority of people just re-buy it all is an acceptable alternative. Once you realise this, why they implement DRM the way they do (or at all) and their general attitude make a lot more sense.
Nope, just some fools in the Catholic Church (AFAIK in my denomination nobody ever told us not to use condoms). I guess they want more followers, even if they come into being accidentally.
The cars do not have a Manual gearbox or ignition as such. Both are computer controlled. You only get a "start" button for the ignition, and thats about it, the rest is not in your hands. You can't just "shift into neutral" like in existing cars, or just turn a key to cut power to the engine.
For more info on the system, you can read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Synergy_Drive
Yeah, in fact I built just that for my school many years ago. 10 computers (PIII's), set up as an openmosix terminal cluster. It worked really well. If all terminals were in use people had the power of one PIII just like normal, and if fewer people used it, then there would be more power for everyone. This was far more efficient, especially as the computers would be on anyway, and scaled really well, as we didn't need to invest in really beefy servers to host all the apps on. It really was cost effective, and I thought at the time it would be the way forward.
Unfortunately back then nobody (outside the IT department) heard of Linux, and refused to use it, so the system was eventually reverted back to plain Windows boxes.
Still, it was a great experience, and I learnt a lot building the system, it is a shame openmosix is no longer developed. I think that even today, it would be an awesome system, primarily because of it's cost effectiveness and efficient use of resources.
Only by using the same methods for bypass as used by pirates for ripping the movies. If the movie studiosmade unbreakable DRM, you would not have able to bypass any messages (or do anything really) without their explicit permission, regardless of software (assuming you can even read it using linux/oss software).
When CUDA came out I went and bought the cheapest GPU I could find (30 euro GeForce 8400 GS) and started learning. If you've never done GPU programming before (like me) and you just want to give it a go, better get the cheapest card to start with. You can always sell it and buy a better card once you get proficient at it (or just keep them both, which is what I did, for multiple GPU jobs at once). I use Linux, but the same should apply to win7 (assuming Nvidia has drivers for the card, which I assume they do).
This is assuming you just want it for GPU work, rather than as a gaming/graphics card. Wikipedia has a list of CUDA cards, of varying price/performance.
I disagree. The amount of money you'd have to have to buy enough voting stock of MS to have them unequivocally change the code to your liking is huge. You could probably get an entire programming company, and get them to write you your very own GUI for Linux for a similar price.
Don't know who told you it's bullshit, because it isn't. There are real world implementations of this.
Hell, I built one (small scale example) using FM transmitters. If you know the transmitting power of three points, and you can find out the signal strength from the receiver, then you can triangulate the position rather accurately.
For my project, it was in a field, so the accuracy was really good (to the metre). If you get walls/building/etc... in the way, it's not so good, but generally will be good enough to work out in what area/section you are. From which point I presume other police methods are applicable for narrowing down further.
Yeah, but if I remember correctly, at one point Pumpkin studio's (or the new company that bought them) released all the source once the community asked for it. All they kept was things like in-game movies etc... which were owned by third parties so could not be open sourced.
And I also have to agree that the remake is good. Not only is it more stable than the original, but they have made improvements to gameplay. It was one of my favourite games back in the day as well, and it's cool now that I can play it on any of my linux machines without needing wine or something. Great game!
...called Ronja, only 10-mbits/sec, but ~1.4km range, and it could all be built by yourself. Quite cool IMO. You can find out more info (on the now bit dated) site here: http://ronja.twibright.com/