...submitting that the group's albums were designed to be listened to from beginning to end
So, where was all the outrage when radio stations were playing one song at a time? You know, the one or two good songs that people actually wanted to listen to?
Not only that, but what about the compilation albums? Weren't they just an attempt to sell more records with minimal work? How were they put together?
What a non-story. It says in the article that they began using this technology in the 2010 Vancouver Games.
" Beginning at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, OMEGA switched to the current "silent" pistol technology, erasing the thousandths of of a second that stood between runner nine and runner one."
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is in Maryland, and Glenn Research Center (GRC) is in Ohio. There is also GISS (which is technically part of GSFC) in New York.
I used the random number generator from truerandom.org to make all of my choices for a quick game. 20-5-14, I won. I figured that if the computer was trying to analyze my previous moves to predict future performance, I'd give it something to chew on. I think the statistical analysis that the computer does assumes some sort of rational play by the human.
Even if it could detect the 'random play', the human could try to fool the computer by using RNG for a while, and then switch to his own choice, and back (randomly, of course).
And if I don't have hard drives full of ripped movies? I obviously can't rip BluRay disks to the hard drive with a Mac Mini, and even DVDs are becoming a real pain to rip.
The main sources of my video are television and NetFlix. The Mac Mini helps me with neither. The only source of video that I get with the Mini is the iTunes store.
I don't torrent stuff illegally, so that's not even an option.
Unless I'm missing something, this seems like a really stupid mistake that would be a deal breaker for any use in the living room.
"and if you have a separate sound system, you can use the audio out 3.5mm jack (no real surround sound here, unfortunately) for your home cinema."
It seems they made a mistake in the description. Wouldn't the HDMI cable also carry the 7.1 audio (if available)? If you have a true surround sound system with HDMI inputs, you can plug the HDMI cable into that, and have the output from the audio receiver send video to the TV.
Blu-Ray is dead, it just doesn't know it yet.
Remember, Apple doesn't plan a couple quarters ahead, it plans years ahead. And it knows that you can already stream an HD movie or TV show faster than you could get up off your couch and go buy or rent it physically.
Also, there's nothing to stop you buying an external BD player. Newegg has 'em under $150.
Right now, BluRay disks have much better quality than streaming movies does. I watch a lot of NetFlix streamed to my PS3, and I get RluRays in the mail as well. If the Mini could take the place of a PS3, It'd be worth the price.
I also have an older computer hooked up to the TV that records television off of the analog cable channels (I haven't gotten a digital tuner card yet). The Mac can't do that without yet another box (EyeTV).
The Mini would actually be a good deal for me if it could replace either of the boxes already on my entertainment center. As it sits now, it replaces neither. But it does have an HDMI connector to eliminate one audio wire.
Without a BluRay player, even as an option, its a deal breaker. If the only way they expect me to get content onto the device is to go through iTunes, then I'm not buying.
Even something like EyeTV for recording television seems like a half assed solution, when Apple has the opportunity to do it right.
I don't know if manufacturers would put a cut off system in manual cars. It certainly doesn't make a lot of sense. But if the cutoff is there in the 'base' (read: automatic) configuration, is it worth taking out? I would personally say 'yes', but I don't know about the manufacturers' lawyers.
You are correct about trail braking in the strictest sense. Some people accomplish trail braking by left-foot braking so that they can keep RPMs up going through the apex.
What I was really talking about was left-foot braking, but most times I've seen it done is when trail braking.
Very true. People race what they have. How this could be implemented is with a timeout. The car also brake/throttle overlap for a set time, and then if it goes over that time, cut the throttle. That system wouldn't impact heel-toeing at all, and not trail braking either (I guess it depends on the specific corner).
But then you would have people saying that the delay in cutting throttle may cost lives. Somebody with an out-of-control car would have (say) 4 seconds less to get back in control.
Are you serious? That's not what this does at all. What would happen is that it would cut out your throttle if you are on the brakes, not shut off the car.
There's a lot of cars that have the 'brake takes precedence' feature. The only real reason to not have such a feature is because of trail-braking or hell-toe shifting. Both are racing/performance driving techniques you won't be doing in your Camry. Plus, it is a pure software feature in that if it detects you braking, it will cut throttle. So there's no big issue there.
Also, cars have their computers updated all the time, and it has never been a big deal in the past. The Nissan GTR was the last example that made the news (to cut down on the RPM the launch control used). But really, cars are reflashed all the time. Its not a big deal.
Yeah, me too. I have a netbook that I only take on vacation with me or use when my other computers are taken. No personal data is stored on it, so I wouldn't mind a free one from Google.
The 'Frickin' comment wasn't in an official announcement. If you watched the actual footage of the launch, you would understand. One of the controllers (I assume) told the rest of the group that it was a 'frickin fantastic' launch, and congratulated everyone on a great job. It just so happened that his microphone was piped through to NASA TV, so everyone heard it.
Can't fault a guy for 'letting go' when he poured his heart and sole into this project. Or aren't NASA engineers human?
What ever happened to personal responsibility? Why should this device protect the user from doing something stupid? Isn't that what the user is for? We are trusting the drive to pilot a 2 ton projectile already.
That being said, most people are idiots.
I don't want to watch TV while I'm driving, but my passengers might.
To tell you the truth, I just have more experience with RTEMS. Back before the real time extension were available, Linux of any variant wasn't truly a real-time OS, and that pushed it from consideration from projects.
Now there are a lot of real time Linux variants out there, but the ball got rolling with RTEMS before Linux ocould be considered seriously.
Now whether or not a specific mission needs 'real-time' as in 'hard real time' or as in 'really fast' is a totally different topic.
JPL uses VxWorks on a lot of projects and almost has WindRiver people constantly on site. Even with this JPL developed their own file system to address the inadequacies of the filesystems VxWorks comes with (dosFS, HRFS, etc).
Beyond that there are a lot of other NASA centers that use VxWorks that don't have as nearly a good relationship with WindRiver as JPL. There has been a lot of time spent mucking with the source code of VxWorks to enhance performance to acceptable levels.
I wonder how this is going to affect VxWorks' PPC support. The PPC architecture is used on a lot of spacecraft. If WindRiver slowly gets 'nudged' to drop PPC support/updates/new versions of VxWorks and boost x86 support, then that may be enough to get us off the VxWorks teat and on to something more open, like RTEMS.
You have something a bit wrong. The big boat wagons did disappear because of the fuel crisis in the 70's, but fuel economy standards haven;t kept them down.
CAFE standards work differently than you might think. Cars like the Chrysler PT Cruiser and the Dodge Magnum are classified as 'light trucks' as far as the CAFE standards go, so they are helping offset the Dodge Rams and Durangos as far as average mileage goes.
But why can't there be a big station wagon? There's nothing preventing it. It wouldn't drive down the CAFE average for cars, but it would usually boost the average for trucks. It's just that not a statistically relevant number of buyers want a huge station wagon over the crossover SUV and truck-based SUVs we have today.
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Not only that, but what about the compilation albums? Weren't they just an attempt to sell more records with minimal work? How were they put together?
Have they actually done any compilation albums? I'm not aware of one, and TFA seems to agree.
I can think of two. Who Made Who and the Iron Man 2 soundtrack.
...submitting that the group's albums were designed to be listened to from beginning to end
So, where was all the outrage when radio stations were playing one song at a time? You know, the one or two good songs that people actually wanted to listen to?
Not only that, but what about the compilation albums? Weren't they just an attempt to sell more records with minimal work? How were they put together?
NOVA and Nature are two that I enjoy. But they're on PBS, so I guess they don't count since no one watches PBS.
What a non-story. It says in the article that they began using this technology in the 2010 Vancouver Games.
" Beginning at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, OMEGA switched to the current "silent" pistol technology, erasing the thousandths of of a second that stood between runner nine and runner one."
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is in Maryland, and Glenn Research Center (GRC) is in Ohio. There is also GISS (which is technically part of GSFC) in New York.
I used the random number generator from truerandom.org to make all of my choices for a quick game. 20-5-14, I won. I figured that if the computer was trying to analyze my previous moves to predict future performance, I'd give it something to chew on. I think the statistical analysis that the computer does assumes some sort of rational play by the human.
Even if it could detect the 'random play', the human could try to fool the computer by using RNG for a while, and then switch to his own choice, and back (randomly, of course).
I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet: http://xkcd.com/627/
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And if I don't have hard drives full of ripped movies? I obviously can't rip BluRay disks to the hard drive with a Mac Mini, and even DVDs are becoming a real pain to rip.
The main sources of my video are television and NetFlix. The Mac Mini helps me with neither. The only source of video that I get with the Mini is the iTunes store.
I don't torrent stuff illegally, so that's not even an option.
Unless I'm missing something, this seems like a really stupid mistake that would be a deal breaker for any use in the living room.
"and if you have a separate sound system, you can use the audio out 3.5mm jack (no real surround sound here, unfortunately) for your home cinema."
It seems they made a mistake in the description. Wouldn't the HDMI cable also carry the 7.1 audio (if available)? If you have a true surround sound system with HDMI inputs, you can plug the HDMI cable into that, and have the output from the audio receiver send video to the TV.
Blu-Ray is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Remember, Apple doesn't plan a couple quarters ahead, it plans years ahead. And it knows that you can already stream an HD movie or TV show faster than you could get up off your couch and go buy or rent it physically. Also, there's nothing to stop you buying an external BD player. Newegg has 'em under $150.
Right now, BluRay disks have much better quality than streaming movies does. I watch a lot of NetFlix streamed to my PS3, and I get RluRays in the mail as well. If the Mini could take the place of a PS3, It'd be worth the price.
I also have an older computer hooked up to the TV that records television off of the analog cable channels (I haven't gotten a digital tuner card yet). The Mac can't do that without yet another box (EyeTV).
The Mini would actually be a good deal for me if it could replace either of the boxes already on my entertainment center. As it sits now, it replaces neither. But it does have an HDMI connector to eliminate one audio wire.
Without a BluRay player, even as an option, its a deal breaker. If the only way they expect me to get content onto the device is to go through iTunes, then I'm not buying.
Even something like EyeTV for recording television seems like a half assed solution, when Apple has the opportunity to do it right.
I don't know if manufacturers would put a cut off system in manual cars. It certainly doesn't make a lot of sense. But if the cutoff is there in the 'base' (read: automatic) configuration, is it worth taking out? I would personally say 'yes', but I don't know about the manufacturers' lawyers.
The Audi system sounds like a good one.
You are correct about trail braking in the strictest sense. Some people accomplish trail braking by left-foot braking so that they can keep RPMs up going through the apex.
What I was really talking about was left-foot braking, but most times I've seen it done is when trail braking.
Very true. People race what they have. How this could be implemented is with a timeout. The car also brake/throttle overlap for a set time, and then if it goes over that time, cut the throttle. That system wouldn't impact heel-toeing at all, and not trail braking either (I guess it depends on the specific corner).
But then you would have people saying that the delay in cutting throttle may cost lives. Somebody with an out-of-control car would have (say) 4 seconds less to get back in control.
Are you serious? That's not what this does at all. What would happen is that it would cut out your throttle if you are on the brakes, not shut off the car.
There's a lot of cars that have the 'brake takes precedence' feature. The only real reason to not have such a feature is because of trail-braking or hell-toe shifting. Both are racing/performance driving techniques you won't be doing in your Camry. Plus, it is a pure software feature in that if it detects you braking, it will cut throttle. So there's no big issue there.
Also, cars have their computers updated all the time, and it has never been a big deal in the past. The Nissan GTR was the last example that made the news (to cut down on the RPM the launch control used). But really, cars are reflashed all the time. Its not a big deal.
Yeah, me too. I have a netbook that I only take on vacation with me or use when my other computers are taken. No personal data is stored on it, so I wouldn't mind a free one from Google.
Firefox doesn't include an ad blocker either. But Firefox has ad blockers available as a plug in. Oh, So does Chrome. http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/adblock/
I agree with you about trusting everything to Google, but your only complaint about Chrome just got shot down in flames.
The 'Frickin' comment wasn't in an official announcement. If you watched the actual footage of the launch, you would understand. One of the controllers (I assume) told the rest of the group that it was a 'frickin fantastic' launch, and congratulated everyone on a great job. It just so happened that his microphone was piped through to NASA TV, so everyone heard it. Can't fault a guy for 'letting go' when he poured his heart and sole into this project. Or aren't NASA engineers human?
What ever happened to personal responsibility? Why should this device protect the user from doing something stupid? Isn't that what the user is for? We are trusting the drive to pilot a 2 ton projectile already. That being said, most people are idiots. I don't want to watch TV while I'm driving, but my passengers might.
To tell you the truth, I just have more experience with RTEMS. Back before the real time extension were available, Linux of any variant wasn't truly a real-time OS, and that pushed it from consideration from projects. Now there are a lot of real time Linux variants out there, but the ball got rolling with RTEMS before Linux ocould be considered seriously. Now whether or not a specific mission needs 'real-time' as in 'hard real time' or as in 'really fast' is a totally different topic.
JPL uses VxWorks on a lot of projects and almost has WindRiver people constantly on site. Even with this JPL developed their own file system to address the inadequacies of the filesystems VxWorks comes with (dosFS, HRFS, etc). Beyond that there are a lot of other NASA centers that use VxWorks that don't have as nearly a good relationship with WindRiver as JPL. There has been a lot of time spent mucking with the source code of VxWorks to enhance performance to acceptable levels.
I wonder how this is going to affect VxWorks' PPC support. The PPC architecture is used on a lot of spacecraft. If WindRiver slowly gets 'nudged' to drop PPC support/updates/new versions of VxWorks and boost x86 support, then that may be enough to get us off the VxWorks teat and on to something more open, like RTEMS.
You have something a bit wrong. The big boat wagons did disappear because of the fuel crisis in the 70's, but fuel economy standards haven;t kept them down. CAFE standards work differently than you might think. Cars like the Chrysler PT Cruiser and the Dodge Magnum are classified as 'light trucks' as far as the CAFE standards go, so they are helping offset the Dodge Rams and Durangos as far as average mileage goes. But why can't there be a big station wagon? There's nothing preventing it. It wouldn't drive down the CAFE average for cars, but it would usually boost the average for trucks. It's just that not a statistically relevant number of buyers want a huge station wagon over the crossover SUV and truck-based SUVs we have today.