They have generated anti-electrons (positrons) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron and they are typically considered to be an anti-particle. This happens all the time in the upper atmosphere from cosmic ray collisions with atoms.
Most sci fi geeks yearn for anti-atoms ("true" anti-matter) as a high energy fuel storage or catalyst of yet made technology. Anti-atoms of hydrogen (anti-electron and anti-protons captured in stable anti-atomic formation) were made a few years ago in very small Qty. (approx. 10-100) at Cern I believe. That was much more exciting as with stable containment (I don't know if they managed that) discrepancies in theories of Quantum mechanics and gravity could be tested on these anti-atom counterparts.
Lots of applications for PDE's in modelling non-linear optics in various materials (both cw and pulsed light evolution), but particularly relevant to modern telcom infrastructure is (silica) optical fiber also interesting is the newer photonic crystal fiber. For a good ground work on all the phenomena in the former fiber check out any edition of "Nonlinear fiber optics" by Govind P. Agrawal (Academic Press).
The traction for this will come when someone releases opensource audio, and later, video encoder libraries using GPU acceleration based upon this (or another) abstraction layer.
MP3, OGG, FLAC - get these out the door (especially the first one) and a host of popular GUI and CLI encoders would jump on the bandwagon. If there are huge speed gains and there are no incompatibility issues because the abstraction layer and drivers are *stable* and retain *backwards compatibility* with new releases then more people will see the light and there will be pressure to do the same with video encoders. Before you know it the abstraction layer would become defaco and all GPU makers would follow suit - at that point we (the consumer) would win in having something that works on more than one OS on one particular card from one particular GPU maker and we can get on with some cool innovations.
The losses are large and improvements need to be made.
I believe the good thing that can be reflected upon is that the departments are made to disclose this loss data. If they weren't nobody would know the scale and nobody would be pressing for solutions.
A combination of Netflix , Basic cable and Hulu keep me very happy. Hulu(.com) has some of my favorite shows within a day of going out on air (Daily show etc.), netflix has instant streaming of old movies, and latest movies by DVD, basic cable has all the major networks.
Cable modem Internet + basic Cable analogue channels should be $30 a month if you stand your ground with the cable company - they desperatly want to give you basic cable if you sign up with internet in my area.
It's all well and good to quote the new speed but what will be get int the real world? USB2 never meets expectations due ot the huge (compared to fire wire) host CPU requirements.
Will Intel be integrating the Larabee core into it's USB 3 host chips?
The Beatles models and signatures pear to be the highest level of detail unless there are other "Easter eggs". That level of zoom on any surrounding areas is pixelated. They have stacked multiple high res photos at various scales in this particular area.
3: I would expect a hardware encode/decode for better battery life than using software on a general purpose CPU.
4: 3G phones in more technologically advanced countries have had two cameras on them for this purpose for many years.
1,2,5:
I for one would like it as a feature on a cell phone. Though it will become parodies of verizon commercials... "can you see me now?"
I don't have an iphone, and don't intend to get one - But many things that were dismissed as gimmicky ideas in the past (less buttons? use a touch screen?) apple managed to implement well with the present iphone, and their "halo" effect has ensured a large uptake. Video conferencing on cell phones requires a large install base so you have someone to actually talk too (just like wifi song swapping on a zune). Apple will probably have a large install base, and make the critical mass for it to work, after that it will probably run away with it's self.
3G video conferencing phones have met with some favorable reception for several years in more developed corners of the world. But I am confident apple doing it will make it "new" for those unaware of it in the USA before.
I expect google android and skype not to be too far behind. I for one am grateful that the iphone came along it certainly but the boot up google , HTC, Sony and other "smart phone" makers. I'm hoping video conferencing will do the same and I can get it on my next non-iphone.
One on 3G there is bandwidth to do video conferencing (fit a vga camera on the LCD screen side and off you go). I guess a whole new data plan from AT+T specific for video calls minutes, but punters will snap it up. Win for apple, Win for ATT.
This PR stunt will die in 1-2 years as the stickers and reports I have seen make no mention of appending a date (a year would be enough). Get ready for class actions in 1-2 years when old stocks of AMD game certified machines are on sale and do NOT play the latest games well.
A well thought out system would put the year on the sticker and have a site dedicated to the specs required historically for the year in question.
It occurred to me that it is interesting that restoring data/games/programs from tape (a popular format before 5 1/4 and 3 inch discs became affordable for home computer use) would be easier due to the huge number of consumer (music) tape playback units manufactured and still available and that modern PCs typically have a sound card - some software could decode the WAV file into binary.
Since then music storage and computer storage have diverged. You can't normally use a standalone Music/Movie CD,DVD,HD-DVD, Bluray player to play discs congaing PC data/programs.
MS has a beta out for the Windows Smart phone version of this service. However they still have not yet launched a version that will work on PcoketPC's and Windows Phones that have a touch screen (yes that's right the demo only works on smart phones without touchscreens that use hard buttons for navigation).
What an amazing example of dropping the ball by being unable to transition without gaps to a new platform that you also design/own.
I expect Google to overtake them soon with a similar client application.
Of course it just goes to illustrate that windows CE should have had this service / client since the version 6 release for any kind of competition with the iphone.
With an "80%" miss rate by AV tools, It would be very helpful to know what software anti-virus programs do detect Storm and Kraken? So that responsible users can check their PC's.
I hope they do better at getting useful coding tools into the hands of home coders than GPU manufacturers have to utilise the parallel programmable nature of modern GPU's.
WE have all used those interactive web site to test our http speed but does anything more sophisticated + easy exist to check other popular protocols?
I'd love to see some easy to use client / server solution that would do a batch of tests; HTTP, HTTP for >10 seconds, FTP, bit torrent and report back if any are throttled. Perhaps the information could be anonymized and stored in a data base to allow even more stats to be generated such as if there is throttling based on time of day, problems with busy periods of the day, problems with certain localities.
At the very least, some laywers interested in some class action money could invest in providing this service.
I switch off the 5.1 DDL when listening to music and switch the card to 2ch PCM.
I agree that DDL (and EAX and equalizer stuff for that matter) mess up the purity of the music. However with DDL on I have been very statisfied to have working surround sound / sound positioning in FPS games on my media pc over a digital link to my cinema amp.
I have a similar dilema for my home audio solution. I have a 5.1 PCI sound card (Realtek chip) and a 5.1 cinema amp. I would like to drive two different sets of speakers in different locations from my Windows XP server (I would prefer to stick with Media Player or Winamp). I want to be able to select in software which speaker sets are enabled and their relative volumes. At the moment I only have one set of speakers installed and use optical digital from the sound card ot the amp. I am prepared to use the analogue coenctions for ease. Any suggestions for windows XP free software?
I went through SB live and incompatibilities with very popular VIA chip sets.
I bought a Audigy (1) and never got the firewire port working or any drivers to work since XP SP2.
For years I had been annoyed at the rubbish that installs with the drive CD's and how the GUI is totally at odds with Windows.
I switched to Diamond (with DDL optical output) and Via sound cards (24bit / 96kHz) for a fraction of the price. I haven't looked back, updates are available for vista and they work just fine.
Due to my bad experiences with Creative and driver support I actively steer clear of *any* product they make for over 5 years and advise family and friends to do the same.
All Wal-Mart needs to succeed with this is to have one record company break off and decide to join them and have $5 to $10 CDs. Which brings me to this point:
On a more fundamental level, it is notable that since no big label company does offer significantly lower pricing than any other label on a new release is this a case for an investigation into monopolistic business practices?
For example if supply and demand and *fair* market forces was in effect then one Country Music CD is going to be priced lower than another Country Music CD from a rival label in some kind of price war until an equilibrium is reached at what the consumer is prepared to pay vs cost of manufacturing and profit..... (I use Country music CD as an example as they all sound the same so are of equal "value" IMO).
On a more serious note, shouldn't releasing a new album at price much lower than normal cause a larger then usual sales figure which would push the music up the charts and encourage new buyers because of its "popularity" which in turn could generate greater overall profits than a higher price alone?
Movies seem to suffer the same lack of dsicounting (both at the moview theatre and on DVD release). The only time I have seen a price war in action for movies or music is the recent discoutning of block buster movie releases in the Hd-DVD vs Blue-Ray war.
I have read many times that some algorithms are difficult or impossible to multi-thread. I envisage the next logical step is a two socket motherboard, where one socket could be used for a 8+ core cpu running at low clock rate (e.g. 2-3Ghz) and another socket for a single core running at the greatest frequency achievable to the manufacturing process (e.g. x2 to x4 the clock speed of the multi-core) with whatever cache size compromises are required.
This help get around yield issues of getting all cores to work at a very high frequency and the related thermal issues . This could be a boon to general purpose computer that have a mix of hard to multi-thread and easy to multi-thread programs - assuming the OS could be intelligent on which cores the tasks are scheduled on. The cores could or could not have the same instruction sets, but having the same instruction sets would be the easy first step.
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They have generated anti-electrons (positrons) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron and they are typically considered to be an anti-particle. This happens all the time in the upper atmosphere from cosmic ray collisions with atoms.
Most sci fi geeks yearn for anti-atoms ("true" anti-matter) as a high energy fuel storage or catalyst of yet made technology. Anti-atoms of hydrogen (anti-electron and anti-protons captured in stable anti-atomic formation) were made a few years ago in very small Qty. (approx. 10-100) at Cern I believe. That was much more exciting as with stable containment (I don't know if they managed that) discrepancies in theories of Quantum mechanics and gravity could be tested on these anti-atom counterparts.
Lots of applications for PDE's in modelling non-linear optics in various materials (both cw and pulsed light evolution), but particularly relevant to modern telcom infrastructure is (silica) optical fiber also interesting is the newer photonic crystal fiber. For a good ground work on all the phenomena in the former fiber check out any edition of "Nonlinear fiber optics" by Govind P. Agrawal (Academic Press).
The traction for this will come when someone releases opensource audio, and later, video encoder libraries using GPU acceleration based upon this (or another) abstraction layer.
MP3, OGG, FLAC - get these out the door (especially the first one) and a host of popular GUI and CLI encoders would jump on the bandwagon. If there are huge speed gains and there are no incompatibility issues because the abstraction layer and drivers are *stable* and retain *backwards compatibility* with new releases then more people will see the light and there will be pressure to do the same with video encoders. Before you know it the abstraction layer would become defaco and all GPU makers would follow suit - at that point we (the consumer) would win in having something that works on more than one OS on one particular card from one particular GPU maker and we can get on with some cool innovations.
The losses are large and improvements need to be made.
I believe the good thing that can be reflected upon is that the departments are made to disclose this loss data. If they weren't nobody would know the scale and nobody would be pressing for solutions.
A combination of Netflix , Basic cable and Hulu keep me very happy. Hulu(.com) has some of my favorite shows within a day of going out on air (Daily show etc.), netflix has instant streaming of old movies, and latest movies by DVD, basic cable has all the major networks. Cable modem Internet + basic Cable analogue channels should be $30 a month if you stand your ground with the cable company - they desperatly want to give you basic cable if you sign up with internet in my area.
It's all well and good to quote the new speed but what will be get int the real world? USB2 never meets expectations due ot the huge (compared to fire wire) host CPU requirements.
Will Intel be integrating the Larabee core into it's USB 3 host chips?
And how are you supposed to work out which way is "up" with a socket that is on a tower case or PCI bracket?
I can't see it on the timeline because of the slashdot effect....
The Beatles models and signatures pear to be the highest level of detail unless there are other "Easter eggs". That level of zoom on any surrounding areas is pixelated. They have stacked multiple high res photos at various scales in this particular area.
3: I would expect a hardware encode/decode for better battery life than using software on a general purpose CPU.
4: 3G phones in more technologically advanced countries have had two cameras on them for this purpose for many years.
1,2,5: I for one would like it as a feature on a cell phone. Though it will become parodies of verizon commercials... "can you see me now?"
I don't have an iphone, and don't intend to get one - But many things that were dismissed as gimmicky ideas in the past (less buttons? use a touch screen?) apple managed to implement well with the present iphone, and their "halo" effect has ensured a large uptake. Video conferencing on cell phones requires a large install base so you have someone to actually talk too (just like wifi song swapping on a zune). Apple will probably have a large install base, and make the critical mass for it to work, after that it will probably run away with it's self.
3G video conferencing phones have met with some favorable reception for several years in more developed corners of the world. But I am confident apple doing it will make it "new" for those unaware of it in the USA before.
I expect google android and skype not to be too far behind. I for one am grateful that the iphone came along it certainly but the boot up google , HTC, Sony and other "smart phone" makers. I'm hoping video conferencing will do the same and I can get it on my next non-iphone.
One on 3G there is bandwidth to do video conferencing (fit a vga camera on the LCD screen side and off you go). I guess a whole new data plan from AT+T specific for video calls minutes, but punters will snap it up. Win for apple, Win for ATT.
This PR stunt will die in 1-2 years as the stickers and reports I have seen make no mention of appending a date (a year would be enough). Get ready for class actions in 1-2 years when old stocks of AMD game certified machines are on sale and do NOT play the latest games well.
A well thought out system would put the year on the sticker and have a site dedicated to the specs required historically for the year in question.
It occurred to me that it is interesting that restoring data/games/programs from tape (a popular format before 5 1/4 and 3 inch discs became affordable for home computer use) would be easier due to the huge number of consumer (music) tape playback units manufactured and still available and that modern PCs typically have a sound card - some software could decode the WAV file into binary.
Since then music storage and computer storage have diverged. You can't normally use a standalone Music/Movie CD,DVD,HD-DVD, Bluray player to play discs congaing PC data/programs.
MS has a beta out for the Windows Smart phone version of this service. However they still have not yet launched a version that will work on PcoketPC's and Windows Phones that have a touch screen (yes that's right the demo only works on smart phones without touchscreens that use hard buttons for navigation).
What an amazing example of dropping the ball by being unable to transition without gaps to a new platform that you also design/own.
I expect Google to overtake them soon with a similar client application.
Of course it just goes to illustrate that windows CE should have had this service / client since the version 6 release for any kind of competition with the iphone.
With an "80%" miss rate by AV tools, It would be very helpful to know what software anti-virus programs do detect Storm and Kraken? So that responsible users can check their PC's.
I hope they do better at getting useful coding tools into the hands of home coders than GPU manufacturers have to utilise the parallel programmable nature of modern GPU's.
Sorry, I I keep forgetting I'm not in the UK any more... lol.
Would this be classed as "interfering with a police investigation(s)" ?
WE have all used those interactive web site to test our http speed but does anything more sophisticated + easy exist to check other popular protocols?
I'd love to see some easy to use client / server solution that would do a batch of tests; HTTP, HTTP for >10 seconds, FTP, bit torrent and report back if any are throttled. Perhaps the information could be anonymized and stored in a data base to allow even more stats to be generated such as if there is throttling based on time of day, problems with busy periods of the day, problems with certain localities.
At the very least, some laywers interested in some class action money could invest in providing this service.
I switch off the 5.1 DDL when listening to music and switch the card to 2ch PCM.
I agree that DDL (and EAX and equalizer stuff for that matter) mess up the purity of the music. However with DDL on I have been very statisfied to have working surround sound / sound positioning in FPS games on my media pc over a digital link to my cinema amp.
I have a similar dilema for my home audio solution. I have a 5.1 PCI sound card (Realtek chip) and a 5.1 cinema amp. I would like to drive two different sets of speakers in different locations from my Windows XP server (I would prefer to stick with Media Player or Winamp). I want to be able to select in software which speaker sets are enabled and their relative volumes. At the moment I only have one set of speakers installed and use optical digital from the sound card ot the amp. I am prepared to use the analogue coenctions for ease.
Any suggestions for windows XP free software?
I went through SB live and incompatibilities with very popular VIA chip sets.
I bought a Audigy (1) and never got the firewire port working or any drivers to work since XP SP2.
For years I had been annoyed at the rubbish that installs with the drive CD's and how the GUI is totally at odds with Windows.
I switched to Diamond (with DDL optical output) and Via sound cards (24bit / 96kHz) for a fraction of the price. I haven't looked back, updates are available for vista and they work just fine.
Due to my bad experiences with Creative and driver support I actively steer clear of *any* product they make for over 5 years and advise family and friends to do the same.
On a more fundamental level, it is notable that since no big label company does offer significantly lower pricing than any other label on a new release is this a case for an investigation into monopolistic business practices?
For example if supply and demand and *fair* market forces was in effect then one Country Music CD is going to be priced lower than another Country Music CD from a rival label in some kind of price war until an equilibrium is reached at what the consumer is prepared to pay vs cost of manufacturing and profit..... (I use Country music CD as an example as they all sound the same so are of equal "value" IMO).
On a more serious note, shouldn't releasing a new album at price much lower than normal cause a larger then usual sales figure which would push the music up the charts and encourage new buyers because of its "popularity" which in turn could generate greater overall profits than a higher price alone?
Movies seem to suffer the same lack of dsicounting (both at the moview theatre and on DVD release). The only time I have seen a price war in action for movies or music is the recent discoutning of block buster movie releases in the Hd-DVD vs Blue-Ray war.
I have read many times that some algorithms are difficult or impossible to multi-thread. I envisage the next logical step is a two socket motherboard, where one socket could be used for a 8+ core cpu running at low clock rate (e.g. 2-3Ghz) and another socket for a single core running at the greatest frequency achievable to the manufacturing process (e.g. x2 to x4 the clock speed of the multi-core) with whatever cache size compromises are required.
This help get around yield issues of getting all cores to work at a very high frequency and the related thermal issues . This could be a boon to general purpose computer that have a mix of hard to multi-thread and easy to multi-thread programs - assuming the OS could be intelligent on which cores the tasks are scheduled on. The cores could or could not have the same instruction sets, but having the same instruction sets would be the easy first step.
Apart from the addition of a simple digital sound carrier to later discs the video and most audio tracks of Laserdiscs were analogue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_disk#Technical_information