That is incredible! Although I have trouble telling whether the sound is in front of behind me in that sample, the rest is brilliant, I especially like the up and down movement near the end, you really feel like you can reach down and grab that matchbox!
Could someone explain to me why the americans use trupe or tripe? I fail to see what food has to do with any of this.
dupe = duplicate (the "e" is added for pronunciation)
when there's three of them, it becomes a triplicate, so shortened down, that would be a "trip", not a "trupe" or a "tripe".
Of the rocky planets, Earth is the only one I know of that has a (natural) ring. It is extremely thin and usually ignored, but does exist. My guess, based on the theory that the moon is a result of a collision between an original Earth and some planet of comparable size, is that the ring is debris that was launched by the collision but did not congeal into the moon as it now is.
I'm curious, this is the first I've heard of Earth having a ring. The only reference I can find is a hypothesis of a ring having existed in the past. Unless you made an error, could you point me towards some ressources that talk about it?
Even more impressive is the cost per terabyte estimated for just a few years down the road.
Is it? $100 for 1.6TB works out at around 30 cents for 4.7GB, which is roughly what you pay nowadays for your DVD. So, although it will be nice to have bigger discs, the storage cost of data is still going to stay the same...
Also note: "prototypes of the holographic disk arrays have a data transfer rate of 27MB/sec"
and "Even this first version can store 300GB per disk, and it has 160MB/sec. data throughput rates. That's burning."
I don't get it... It's going to burn at 160MB/sec but only read at 27MB/sec?
I don't know about stretching the display, but my newly aquired (yesterday!) 12" iBook has a DVI out, and I can get an adapter to do s-video out if I want. There is a default adapter to normal monitors included. And it's apparently not something new...
Erm, we've been using adsl2+ for a good year in France (with the ISP Free)... You can get 20Mbps up to around 2km. Afterwards it slowly goes down, but even around 5km away you can still get 2-4Mbps. And the 1Mbps upload isn't really affected by the distance, until you get really far away.
It's odd, 5 years ago, France was far behind, with the US being in the lead. Now France is ahead of Britain which has barely discovered 2Mbps as a general public offer, and the US is drooling over the *British* adsl?
And no, I'm not some snotty French idiot come to be arrogant as Americans seem to think all the French are, I'm a Brit expat.
Oh, did I mention the fact that along with 20Mbps dsl, we get free VoIP (with a phone pugged into the modem, not through the PC), *and* TV? Oh, and it's only 30 euros a month;o)
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That is incredible! Although I have trouble telling whether the sound is in front of behind me in that sample, the rest is brilliant, I especially like the up and down movement near the end, you really feel like you can reach down and grab that matchbox!
Because posting the same thing three times for you is a feat/victory? Ô.o
Could someone explain to me why the americans use trupe or tripe? I fail to see what food has to do with any of this.
dupe = duplicate (the "e" is added for pronunciation)
when there's three of them, it becomes a triplicate, so shortened down, that would be a "trip", not a "trupe" or a "tripe".
I'm curious, this is the first I've heard of Earth having a ring. The only reference I can find is a hypothesis of a ring having existed in the past. Unless you made an error, could you point me towards some ressources that talk about it?
Thanks
Even more impressive is the cost per terabyte estimated for just a few years down the road.
Is it? $100 for 1.6TB works out at around 30 cents for 4.7GB, which is roughly what you pay nowadays for your DVD. So, although it will be nice to have bigger discs, the storage cost of data is still going to stay the same...
Also note:
"prototypes of the holographic disk arrays have a data transfer rate of 27MB/sec"
and
"Even this first version can store 300GB per disk, and it has 160MB/sec. data throughput rates. That's burning."
I don't get it... It's going to burn at 160MB/sec but only read at 27MB/sec?
I don't know about stretching the display, but my newly aquired (yesterday!) 12" iBook has a DVI out, and I can get an adapter to do s-video out if I want. There is a default adapter to normal monitors included. And it's apparently not something new...
Erm, we've been using adsl2+ for a good year in France (with the ISP Free)... You can get 20Mbps up to around 2km. Afterwards it slowly goes down, but even around 5km away you can still get 2-4Mbps. And the 1Mbps upload isn't really affected by the distance, until you get really far away. It's odd, 5 years ago, France was far behind, with the US being in the lead. Now France is ahead of Britain which has barely discovered 2Mbps as a general public offer, and the US is drooling over the *British* adsl? And no, I'm not some snotty French idiot come to be arrogant as Americans seem to think all the French are, I'm a Brit expat. Oh, did I mention the fact that along with 20Mbps dsl, we get free VoIP (with a phone pugged into the modem, not through the PC), *and* TV? Oh, and it's only 30 euros a month ;o)