OK - I'm predicting what will happen a few years down the road - Browser based OpenGL exploits based on browsers and/or OS and/or Graphics Vendor Driver and/or GPU hardware bugs in OpenGL implementaiton. Fast forward a few more years and exploits in OpenGL spilling over into running OpenCL / DirectX? code on the graphics cards. Which by then will be defacto and be running some core OS services.
I wonder how many people care about iTunes connectivity when they buy an mp3 player? Is it a requirement or afterthought?I wonder how many people care about iTunes connectivity when they buy an mp3 player? Is it a requirement or afterthought?I wonder how many people care about iTunes connectivity when they buy an mp3 player? Is it a requirement or afterthought?
It is a requirement for me that any mp3 player I buy for my own use does not mandate iTunes.
In the UK you can only buy ~Qty. 10 (I forge the exact number) Acetaminophen at a time at supermarkets, the checkout computer blocks or requires overrides.
I also remember watching "Tomorrows World" as a kid, and one program had mentioned and "invention" of putting the Acetaminophen andtidote in the tablets so you couldn't overdoes or have liver damage. I'm assuming it was N-acetylcysteine (NAC) , but it could have been somethign else. This was TWENTY YEARS AGO. But for some reason lost to me and probably a lot of people it never happened.....
I just want to add that you can initiate a call from your phone directly. You can call your own Google number and then press "2" to dial out to a new number (including international) and end with a "#" to start ringing. I now have a few international numbers on speed dial on my cell phone (I have bought some google credit for this), the entries are in the format:
my_google_number p 2 p destiantion_number #
note that "p" inserts a ~2 second pause on most dialers.
To get this working seamlessly you need to go to your account settings and disable PIN entry for mail box and use caller ID instead to identify your cell phone as authorized to go straight in. If you don't want to do that you need to include the right pauses and pin dialing codes in that example above.
Back in the mid-90;s I was taught Fortran (77?) during my 1st undergraduate year of my Physics Degree at Imperial College, London. We were told not to use the first 4? characters on any line as a left over form the punched cards day. This was quite amusing to myself and my fiends as most of us had been programming for years, and had PDA's that could manage a faster baud rate terminal interface to the mini computer than the 9600 baud green screen terminals we told to use. 2nd year was Fortran 90 on unix workstations so things got a lot better. By the time I was doing my PhD the computer labs Windows PC, with visual studio and C++. The course had got a lot harder during the switch and was teaching more advanced numerical methods and object orientated programing methods.
As I see it the sensible next gen console step for MS and Sony is to just expand on their current technology rather than starting again from scratch and waiting 1-2 years for Developers to catch up.
If Sony's PS4 was a PS3 with 2 cell chips and latest Nvidia Graphics (say 260 derived) and the Xbox (3?) upgraded to a 6-8 core power PC chip from the current 3 core device with latest generation ATI graphics (derived form their latest DirectX11 chip) then maintaining backwards comaptibility should be relatively straight forward compared to the present v last generation (where both Sony and MS changed graphics chip technology and CPU technology). As such all the SDK and debug tools could be carried over in an updated form. Developers could hit the ground running....
My Wife wants a laptop that has a tablet/touch screen. With a graphics card that can do basic gaming (intel integrated graphics are out, Radeon ~3100 or nvidia ~9300M would be fine.).
Also light, small screen size 10-12" preferable.
The HP series of tablet screen note books seem to fit the bill. One without an optical drive would defiantly help on the weight front. Any other suggestions sub $800 (after rebates/offers)?
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DVD's are the disposables of the present day. Well the 4.5GB blanks anyway. Once files/collections get routinely larger then things will get interesting. I'm guessing it takes about the same time to burn 4Gb of data to a DVD at x16 speed as it does to move the files to a USB drive.
eSATA on one side USB on the other?
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When will we see memory stick models with USB on one end and eSATA on the other? I'm sure there must be some demand from professionals for 16MB+ with such features. When you start moving around more than 1-2 Gb the slowness of USB gets to be a pain. And a 2.5" SSD is not as easy to keep on your key chain. (interesting to note that some SSds have both USB and SATA)
...you can send wave file samples and receive them as "packets" using the record button. Start with this 2 way radio approach to talking and see where you can go from there.
Well my home PC's have moved on a lot since XP so a small slow down has been swamped by the speed up I have in CPU/RAM/HD. In fact, my slowest PC (a 1.8Ghz single core, 2GB DDR1 server) is presently runnign Windows 7 RC 32bit in VMware server on top of Windows XP without breaking a sweat. My cpu is still throttled down to 1.0 Ghz most of the time and I still have 1Gb of free ram according to the task manager. (I set up the vmware environment to have 800Mb of RAM and 20Gbb of storage assigned to Windows 7). Even windows 7 task manager is happily using low CPU usage and only 400mb of ram. (I'm doing this so I can try out the new windows media player 12 streaming/transcoding to another WMP12 over the internet feature)
I'm also happily running Windows 7 32bit RC on my 800mhz , 2Gb, Samsung Q1U UMPC. I'd take the advances in desktop look and feel, handwriting and touch screen input any day than go to XP. - This was the speed of my desktop running Windows XP not so long ago.
I disagree. What happens when the new camera, printer or (MS) video standard does not have driver for XP any more?
What happens when the IM system goes to a new protocol and there isn't an XP client?
Hardware and technology move on, the software including the OS) needs to too.
Now I know the ingenious can find ways around all for the above or convince themselves they don't need the options (remember you still have to stick with XP) but you can't tell 90%+ of users (mom and pops) to wait a few months for an ugly hack to help them limp along. Just like we aren't still using 3.11 and mosaic.
2 years ago I was on a flight watching a movie on my Samsung Q1-ultra. The flight attendant leaned over, look at the UMPC (which was in the general direction of my lap) and said "Wow, that's cute, I've never seen one so small".....
I just want to point out, I am not a fan of any of the companies. I think it would be great for us consumers if each of Nvidia, Intel AND AMD were making CPU's AND Graphics cards.
Nvidia is going for gold. They want to make a x86 chip and target the laptop/netbook space with an ION+CPU on a chip before AMD or Intel do something similar. Intel probably needs cross licencing of lots of Nvidia graphics patents for Larabee and there huge market share of integrated graphics chips. Intel needs SLI support to compete with AMD and crossfire in the interim.
I think Nvidia is in a strong position here.
Set all the PC's to wake up on a magic packet to he NIC. Schedule server to issue the magic packets per department as required. Push a profile out to all the PC's on the domain (assuming windows deployment) that standbys occurs after 2 hours (no shutdown even over a long lunch), hibernation after 3 hours. Disable screen savers. Force power off of monitor after 1/2 hour. Ensure all PC have correct CPU driver and active CPU throttling selected in power manager. Schedule PC to server backups during lunch hours.
With the lower cpacity SSD being somewhat greater Gb/$ than the larger drives and the bandwidth improvements of RAID 0 it is important to know whether the TRIM command work through a RAID controller and actually reach the SSD? Likewise will a RAID controller report rotational speed of "0" which the OS may be looking out for before it issues a TRIM command?
I find the windows live mail desktop application does a good job of holding a local copy of my hot mail account. So does my WinMo cell phone (for the last 50 messages).
I happily use Google's Grand Central(in eternal beta, so getting a telephone number may require a wait) it allows me to block all calls with no ID , forward them to a specific spam voice mail box or to my general voice mail (without even ringing my phones). You can even record a custom greeting >;-}
It also carries a known spam caller telephone list that you can subscribe to - they will automatically get dropped or straight to spam voice mail box.
Since changing my cell phone number I have given out my grand central number to everyone but family. It certainly reduces the number of people I need to tell if I switch cell phone provider (and number) in the future too - I'm not going thought the hassle of number porting.
I find labview very very good for experimental work. There are educational licenses and site licenses, and with the compiler you can distribute your programs for free.
At the end of the day I could always justify the expense of the software when the equipment it is controlling is orders of magnitude more expensive and some of the automation I was able to roll out saved weeks if not months of time.
The is also a great community of labview users who freely share (source) code they have developed - many under specific open source licenses.
At the end of the day I wouldn't get to hung up about open source when you are dealing with equipment and budgets where the software is 1% of the cost - just use the best tool to meet the requirement or risk project overrun and funding issues.
I struggle with OO calc not responding to keyboard shortcuts or simple operations in the same way that Excel does. I wish I could find a shortcut / config file for OO that made it "behave" like excel. I *like* having CTRL+SHIFT++ inserting a row or column. I like the delete key deleting the value of a cell without giving me a pop-up window. Is there any project or resource out there that makes calc (and other OO apps) "behave" as close to MS office as possible without having to configure it yourself for an entire evening?
Anyone have any idea when/if....
*HD* Netlfix will come to PC's (Windows, Linux, MAC) ?
Official netflix integration into Vista MCE (unofficial exists) ?
Official or unofficial integration of Hulu in Media Center?
This font obviously has a lot more vector points than typical fonts so rendering both on PC while working with it and printer when printing must contribute to more CPU usage and as such greater electricity usage. Slow rending time on older laser printers must also maintain the roller/heater parts at print temperatures for longer too. The net results is it *may* waste more $ in electricity than it saves in toner....
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yes that would be cool. I look forward to open driver source code on all OS platforms and open GPU hardware descriptions....
OK - I'm predicting what will happen a few years down the road - Browser based OpenGL exploits based on browsers and/or OS and/or Graphics Vendor Driver and/or GPU hardware bugs in OpenGL implementaiton.
Fast forward a few more years and exploits in OpenGL spilling over into running OpenCL / DirectX? code on the graphics cards. Which by then will be defacto and be running some core OS services.
Boy things are going to get interesting....
I wonder how many people care about iTunes connectivity when they buy an mp3 player? Is it a requirement or afterthought?I wonder how many people care about iTunes connectivity when they buy an mp3 player? Is it a requirement or afterthought?I wonder how many people care about iTunes connectivity when they buy an mp3 player? Is it a requirement or afterthought?
It is a requirement for me that any mp3 player I buy for my own use does not mandate iTunes.
In the UK you can only buy ~Qty. 10 (I forge the exact number) Acetaminophen at a time at supermarkets, the checkout computer blocks or requires overrides.
I also remember watching "Tomorrows World" as a kid, and one program had mentioned and "invention" of putting the Acetaminophen andtidote in the tablets so you couldn't overdoes or have liver damage. I'm assuming it was N-acetylcysteine (NAC) , but it could have been somethign else. This was TWENTY YEARS AGO. But for some reason lost to me and probably a lot of people it never happened.....
I just want to add that you can initiate a call from your phone directly. You can call your own Google number and then press "2" to dial out to a new number (including international) and end with a "#" to start ringing. I now have a few international numbers on speed dial on my cell phone (I have bought some google credit for this), the entries are in the format:
my_google_number p 2 p destiantion_number #
note that "p" inserts a ~2 second pause on most dialers.
To get this working seamlessly you need to go to your account settings and disable PIN entry for mail box and use caller ID instead to identify your cell phone as authorized to go straight in. If you don't want to do that you need to include the right pauses and pin dialing codes in that example above.
Back in the mid-90;s I was taught Fortran (77?) during my 1st undergraduate year of my Physics Degree at Imperial College, London. We were told not to use the first 4? characters on any line as a left over form the punched cards day. This was quite amusing to myself and my fiends as most of us had been programming for years, and had PDA's that could manage a faster baud rate terminal interface to the mini computer than the 9600 baud green screen terminals we told to use. 2nd year was Fortran 90 on unix workstations so things got a lot better. By the time I was doing my PhD the computer labs Windows PC, with visual studio and C++. The course had got a lot harder during the switch and was teaching more advanced numerical methods and object orientated programing methods.
As I see it the sensible next gen console step for MS and Sony is to just expand on their current technology rather than starting again from scratch and waiting 1-2 years for Developers to catch up.
If Sony's PS4 was a PS3 with 2 cell chips and latest Nvidia Graphics (say 260 derived) and the Xbox (3?) upgraded to a 6-8 core power PC chip from the current 3 core device with latest generation ATI graphics (derived form their latest DirectX11 chip) then maintaining backwards comaptibility should be relatively straight forward compared to the present v last generation (where both Sony and MS changed graphics chip technology and CPU technology). As such all the SDK and debug tools could be carried over in an updated form. Developers could hit the ground running....
My Wife wants a laptop that has a tablet/touch screen. With a graphics card that can do basic gaming (intel integrated graphics are out, Radeon ~3100 or nvidia ~9300M would be fine.).
Also light, small screen size 10-12" preferable.
The HP series of tablet screen note books seem to fit the bill. One without an optical drive would defiantly help on the weight front. Any other suggestions sub $800 (after rebates/offers)?
DVD's are the disposables of the present day. Well the 4.5GB blanks anyway. Once files/collections get routinely larger then things will get interesting. I'm guessing it takes about the same time to burn 4Gb of data to a DVD at x16 speed as it does to move the files to a USB drive.
When will we see memory stick models with USB on one end and eSATA on the other? I'm sure there must be some demand from professionals for 16MB+ with such features. When you start moving around more than 1-2 Gb the slowness of USB gets to be a pain. And a 2.5" SSD is not as easy to keep on your key chain. (interesting to note that some SSds have both USB and SATA)
Or will USB 3 kill this idea?
...you can send wave file samples and receive them as "packets" using the record button. Start with this 2 way radio approach to talking and see where you can go from there.
Well my home PC's have moved on a lot since XP so a small slow down has been swamped by the speed up I have in CPU/RAM/HD. In fact, my slowest PC (a 1.8Ghz single core, 2GB DDR1 server) is presently runnign Windows 7 RC 32bit in VMware server on top of Windows XP without breaking a sweat. My cpu is still throttled down to 1.0 Ghz most of the time and I still have 1Gb of free ram according to the task manager. (I set up the vmware environment to have 800Mb of RAM and 20Gbb of storage assigned to Windows 7). Even windows 7 task manager is happily using low CPU usage and only 400mb of ram.
(I'm doing this so I can try out the new windows media player 12 streaming/transcoding to another WMP12 over the internet feature)
I'm also happily running Windows 7 32bit RC on my 800mhz , 2Gb, Samsung Q1U UMPC. I'd take the advances in desktop look and feel, handwriting and touch screen input any day than go to XP. - This was the speed of my desktop running Windows XP not so long ago.
I disagree. What happens when the new camera, printer or (MS) video standard does not have driver for XP any more?
What happens when the IM system goes to a new protocol and there isn't an XP client?
Hardware and technology move on, the software including the OS) needs to too.
Now I know the ingenious can find ways around all for the above or convince themselves they don't need the options (remember you still have to stick with XP) but you can't tell 90%+ of users (mom and pops) to wait a few months for an ugly hack to help them limp along. Just like we aren't still using 3.11 and mosaic.
...or Quantum mechanics at work. By publishing this story we can't now read it.
/. editors won't implement it, why not a user with a bot looking for fresh stories and doing a ~1st post linking to cached copy?
Why can't it become routine to (also) link to a cached copy?
If the
..with the OP.
2 years ago I was on a flight watching a movie on my Samsung Q1-ultra. The flight attendant leaned over, look at the UMPC (which was in the general direction of my lap) and said "Wow, that's cute, I've never seen one so small".....
I just want to point out, I am not a fan of any of the companies. I think it would be great for us consumers if each of Nvidia, Intel AND AMD were making CPU's AND Graphics cards.
Nvidia is going for gold. They want to make a x86 chip and target the laptop/netbook space with an ION+CPU on a chip before AMD or Intel do something similar. Intel probably needs cross licencing of lots of Nvidia graphics patents for Larabee and there huge market share of integrated graphics chips. Intel needs SLI support to compete with AMD and crossfire in the interim. I think Nvidia is in a strong position here.
Set all the PC's to wake up on a magic packet to he NIC. Schedule server to issue the magic packets per department as required. Push a profile out to all the PC's on the domain (assuming windows deployment) that standbys occurs after 2 hours (no shutdown even over a long lunch), hibernation after 3 hours. Disable screen savers. Force power off of monitor after 1/2 hour. Ensure all PC have correct CPU driver and active CPU throttling selected in power manager. Schedule PC to server backups during lunch hours.
With the lower cpacity SSD being somewhat greater Gb/$ than the larger drives and the bandwidth improvements of RAID 0 it is important to know whether the TRIM command work through a RAID controller and actually reach the SSD? Likewise will a RAID controller report rotational speed of "0" which the OS may be looking out for before it issues a TRIM command?
I find the windows live mail desktop application does a good job of holding a local copy of my hot mail account. So does my WinMo cell phone (for the last 50 messages).
I happily use Google's Grand Central(in eternal beta, so getting a telephone number may require a wait) it allows me to block all calls with no ID , forward them to a specific spam voice mail box or to my general voice mail (without even ringing my phones). You can even record a custom greeting >;-}
It also carries a known spam caller telephone list that you can subscribe to - they will automatically get dropped or straight to spam voice mail box.
Since changing my cell phone number I have given out my grand central number to everyone but family. It certainly reduces the number of people I need to tell if I switch cell phone provider (and number) in the future too - I'm not going thought the hassle of number porting.
I find labview very very good for experimental work. There are educational licenses and site licenses, and with the compiler you can distribute your programs for free.
At the end of the day I could always justify the expense of the software when the equipment it is controlling is orders of magnitude more expensive and some of the automation I was able to roll out saved weeks if not months of time.
The is also a great community of labview users who freely share (source) code they have developed - many under specific open source licenses.
At the end of the day I wouldn't get to hung up about open source when you are dealing with equipment and budgets where the software is 1% of the cost - just use the best tool to meet the requirement or risk project overrun and funding issues.
I struggle with OO calc not responding to keyboard shortcuts or simple operations in the same way that Excel does. I wish I could find a shortcut / config file for OO that made it "behave" like excel.
I *like* having CTRL+SHIFT++ inserting a row or column. I like the delete key deleting the value of a cell without giving me a pop-up window. Is there any project or resource out there that makes calc (and other OO apps) "behave" as close to MS office as possible without having to configure it yourself for an entire evening?
Anyone have any idea when/if....
*HD* Netlfix will come to PC's (Windows, Linux, MAC) ?
Official netflix integration into Vista MCE (unofficial exists) ?
Official or unofficial integration of Hulu in Media Center?
This font obviously has a lot more vector points than typical fonts so rendering both on PC while working with it and printer when printing must contribute to more CPU usage and as such greater electricity usage. Slow rending time on older laser printers must also maintain the roller/heater parts at print temperatures for longer too. The net results is it *may* waste more $ in electricity than it saves in toner....