Are we talking about driving a truck with ipods? No, we're talking about point to point, short-hop wireless. There is negligible transmission latency, and even massive packet sizes would realize no credible latency. It's a non-starter.
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High bandwidth DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN LOW LAG!!!!
Point to point high bandwidth almost certainly does mean low lag. In this case even if it (ridiculously) had 100,000 byte packets (which is ridiculous), that's still only 8ms "lag", or faster than 125 frames per second.
So thanks for the bit of pragmatic wisdom, but unfortunately in this case you're being an idiot.
However, performance will drop on these items, even the fastest wireless gaming mouses have a semi-noticable lag when you use them. This lag in other items could create problems, like obfuscated code going to printers, etc.
At over 100Mbps, I hardly think you're going to be noticing lags with your mouse. The printer thing just makes no sense.
The wheel has been "reinvented" in a million different forms based upon requirements and goals. In this case they say (from TFA) At rates 100 times faster than Bluetooth(TM) technology and with wire-like quality, UWB brings a new wireless option to auto, consumer electronics, and PC/peripheral manufacturers. Using UWB, for example, an MPEG2 movie or HDTV stream can be broadcast in real time wirelessly. This allows consumers new freedom in the use of multimedia-centric products, as they no longer need to be connected with wires.. Seems like they answered the question pretty handily.
Coincidentally enough just last night I put MAME on the media center PC, and had to string a USB hub to the middle of the room so we could be at a reasonable distance with the two USB joysticks.
Or you could use a tripod. You know, like the professionals do.
So if you put your camera on a tripod then all subjects will amazingly stay still as well? That's amazing. It's also nice to know that you can use a tripod in situations and locations where it is thoroughly inappropriate, because, uh, apparently professionals do.
Because Fuji ISO-100 35mm film yields negatives of the same informational quality regardless of camera.
Image optics vary dramatically between amateur and professional lenses, not to mention that without bright (expensive) lenses one often needed to use faster film, accepting the compromise of visible grain. Alternately they could accept motion blue (which was more prevalent), or they had to accept the terrible compromise that is flash photography.
If you spent the money in the 35mm space, there were a lot of things you could do to vastly improve the quality of your work. Even simply buying better film, and then getting better (more expensive) processing hugely altered the quality.
With digital cameras, however, no matter how much work the amateur is willing to do, he cannot make a 3 megapixel camera take 10 megapixel pictures. Other things being equal, a 10 megapixel picture is simply superior to a 3 megapixel picture.
Hmmm...I would think that if one with any sense were engaging in a debate regarding the importance of grammer, they would be foolish not to be double checking their own!
You're above average in intelligence, yet a simple confusion between "to" and "too" stymies you to the point of not understanding what is being communicated?
The English language has both a "to" and a "too" because they have completely different meanings. It causes a hiccup in understanding (regardless of intelligence, and your subtle innuendo that someone would have to be dumb to be caught up by that is inane), distracting from the fluidity of comprehension, when someone needlessly transposes them.
If you don't like the articles, don't read them.
No one likes the pedant who points out every spelling and/or typo in other people's posts. However when you're talking about the Slashdot stories themselves, which purportedly are vetted by editors, even the most liberal level of quality would anticipate better standards than we've seen.
In any case, the defeatist "don't complain!" mantra bleating from the Slashdot is pretty tiring. "Suck it up and like it, or go elsewhere!" Are you people from Soviet Russia or something?
Ah, the classic and thouroughly pathetic non-retort in an attempt to make yourself look/feel clever.
I don't think I look or feel clever at all. In fact, I think I'm just voicing a pretty common opinion. Nonetheless, the tired "don't pick on my grammar or I'll pick on yours" technique is grossly misplaced.
Until then, do something better with your time and effort: add something to the discussion instead of wasting my time reading about how you've found a missing semi-colon.
Quite a few submissions have had terribly obviously mistakes (to the degree that the first 20 posts relate to it). I hardly think the level of quality is such that people are debating the subjective placement of semicolons, or even basic punctuation. Instead it's much more blatant and inexcusable.
The lack of care and concern put into this site by its staff...
As an aside, I'm not saying this in contrast with anything: I'm as annoyed by the Digg/Whatever astroturfers as anyone, and I've yet to see a site that is overall as good as Slashdot. It just seems like the Slashdot crew is demoralized and really doesn't care anymore.
I would worry if every word here was spelt correctly. It would indicate that the editors were more keen on making it clean and pretty, like your usual commercial news site, rather than ensuring good content and moderation.
I intentionally pointed out the very low volume that they're dealing with because I think it's crucial to the point.
If Slashdot was a technology news feed delivering thousands of technology posts a day to various services, then perhaps quality could justifiably suffer. As it is they have a dozen to two dozen postings a day, with a gross word count of perhaps two thousand. To support this tiny volume they have several so-called "editors" (which could be the root of the confusion, and instead they should be called facilitators or something similar). Some of the stuff we've seen has been mind blowingly obvious.
The lack of care and concern put into this site by its staff, and the seemingly apparent contempt for the readership, was evident in the recent six-time reposting of the same story. Several days back a submitter had a Goatse URL as his submitter URL, and again it was completely unnoticed.
Oh, and a professional editor would probably be able to pick up on a couples of mistakes in your post there. Go back and read it.
Ah, the classic, and thoroughly pathetic, retort. Thanks for pulling out that tired chestnut.
Here's the thing, though - I'm not paid to post on Slashdot. This isn't my job. In fact it's distracting me from my real job, which is why quality usually suffers. If, however, I was professionally employed as a full-time Slashdot troll, I assure you that I'd actually bother to carefully scan through every posting, ensuring that there are no grammar, spelling, typos, or "nitpick" mistakes.
Now let us talk about one of my secondary concerns: spelling and grammar. Let me be clear. As you are probably well aware, I don't think these are as important as the things I mentioned above. I want a Slashdot story to be focused, directing your attention to the URL in question. It needs to be not to long, not to short. Links should be clear. Spelling and Grammar are secondary issues.
Slashdot posts, what, maybe two dozen "stories" a day? To support this Slashdot has a crew of paid, therefore professional, "editors". Is it really that much to ask that rudimentary spelling and grammar rules are obeyed?
Why don't you go out and get those classics, and after playing them again tell us what you think.
I did just that, grabbing MAME32 and all of the old greats that I was sure laid waste to anything created today. Boy was I surprised to learn that not only the graphics were crappy, but the gameplay really was crap as well. It was only entertaining then because it was novel, and of course we have a fancy way of remember things much better, or much worse, than they really were.
To me the coolest stuff that is becoming possible is using 3d accel for 2d. As soon as we can generate and composite 2d vector graphics on the chip quickly and in a standard way we will see things such as resolution independent desktops, etc. come full force.
? Graphics cards featured 2D hardware acceleration for things like bezier curves, vector fonts, lines, fills, gradients, etc, a long long time ago. I still remember getting my first Speedstar 24x, which heralded a new generation of 2D graphics.
True, it's mostly porn and it takes a lot of my time but i feel my self-respect is worth it !!!
Are you talking about the goatse as the submitter's link?
Okay, this is flipping hilarious. After the whole brouhaha, Slashdot listened to the tyranny of the majority and added nofollow on submitter links. Now we have glorious links like goatse instead. Awesome.
Because people whose name I'm used to seeing on positively-moderated comments have claimed that their story with the same submission (and often, superior comment text) was submitted earlier
Yet they have absolutely no clue when stories were submitted either. This touches on your incompetent editors comment - stories can take days to go from submission to actually appearing: During that intervening period they might reject a lot of duplicate submissions of one that's already in the queue for posting, and then all of those people are pissed when 18 hours later a story that seems to be "later" was accepted, but actually it was first in.
That said, does it piss me off to see people submit shoddy crap for the purpose of abusing the system?
The onus of quality isn't on the submitter - personal gain or not, people will submit lots of shoddy shit and complain when it isn't put on the front page. The onus of quality is on the editors of Slashdot that should be picking from the tripe, and promoting the good submission. I don't blame Roland at all if 100 of his crappy blog-links are accepted. Instead I blame the editors who posted them.
The problem is that MS (intentionally or not) left a lot of functionality out of the.NET standard libraries _AND_ made it almost trivial to call native code from within.NET.
The.NET Framework is enormously comprehensive, and with additional free libraries you can do just about everything without ever knowingly touching "native" code (though of course most of the Framework is just a think veneer over native code, which was the optimal way of implementing it).
Nonetheless, it was created as a development platform for Windows, and that includes the ability to call native code where it's the best option (just yesterday I hooked HTML Tidy into a.NET project, easily using the Tidy DLL library to process some HTML streams).
The submission is flipping ridiculous - Not only is it completely ignorant of WinFX, but it's ridiculously optimistic about cross-platform capabilities, when the existing Mono framework is woefully incomplete for porting even basic WinForms apps.
As soon as an individual stands to gain something (especially if it can translate to money) the system becomes vulnerable to abuse.
Welcome to reality.
If you can't contribute something with nothing in return, then you don't belong in a community.
This is completely nonsensical and contrary to human behaviour, and most of what people do on this planet is for personal gain (either monetary, or reputation that can be easily converted to monetary units).
The problem was Roland's submissions had nothing to do with him pimping his link on his submission - it was that his submissions were TERRIBLE, and it was simply a very visible demonstration that the Slashdot crew perhaps doesn't put enough care and concern into vetting the content. Roland is actually a great eye opener, because it should make people aware that many of the "legitimate" sites are quickly hashing out disposable info purely for the purpose of getting a/. hoarde incoming (often submitting their own stories anonymously). You see the same thing on Digg these days, with a lot of the top-Digged stories being disposable content written entirely to pander to the Digg community (such as "Why 2006 Will Be The Death of Slashdot" that was frontpage material yesterday). This stuff is written entirely to gain from the "contribution".
Exactly, this was missing in CmdrTaco's story, submitting a link on slashdot to your own page (or some page you are related to) may, in this day and age, generate a lot of money!
Slashdot is overloaded with PageRank (courtesy of many of the readers here posting on a link to Slashdot on their site, boosting it to a PR9), however Slashdot has hundreds...neigh thousands of follow outgoing links a day. The value of a single outgoing link is negligible apart from people actually following it, and for a submitter link (I can say because I've had submissions accepted) only a few do.
The submitter's website has nothing to do with Slashdot or the article context. I don't think anyone has any problem with the link being there, but they are using Slashdot to artificially increase the pagerank of a completely unrelated website, possibly for commercial gain.
But the submitter's chosen website does have a relation with Slashdot - they submitted, and they chose that as their link. Anyways you seem to imagine a PageRank that's much more of a meritocrisy than reality would indicate.
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Are we talking about driving a truck with ipods? No, we're talking about point to point, short-hop wireless. There is negligible transmission latency, and even massive packet sizes would realize no credible latency. It's a non-starter.
High bandwidth DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN LOW LAG!!!!
Point to point high bandwidth almost certainly does mean low lag. In this case even if it (ridiculously) had 100,000 byte packets (which is ridiculous), that's still only 8ms "lag", or faster than 125 frames per second.
So thanks for the bit of pragmatic wisdom, but unfortunately in this case you're being an idiot.
However, performance will drop on these items, even the fastest wireless gaming mouses have a semi-noticable lag when you use them. This lag in other items could create problems, like obfuscated code going to printers, etc.
At over 100Mbps, I hardly think you're going to be noticing lags with your mouse. The printer thing just makes no sense.
Isnt this what bluetooth was all about?
Why keep re-inventing the wheel?
The wheel has been "reinvented" in a million different forms based upon requirements and goals. In this case they say (from TFA) At rates 100 times faster than Bluetooth(TM) technology and with wire-like quality, UWB brings a new wireless option to auto, consumer electronics, and PC/peripheral manufacturers. Using UWB, for example, an MPEG2 movie or HDTV stream can be broadcast in real time wirelessly. This allows consumers new freedom in the use of multimedia-centric products, as they no longer need to be connected with wires.. Seems like they answered the question pretty handily.
Coincidentally enough just last night I put MAME on the media center PC, and had to string a USB hub to the middle of the room so we could be at a reasonable distance with the two USB joysticks.
Um, it's pretty safe to say that even in pure cpu performance the intel processor is NOT 2-3x faster then the G5's overall.
How is that "safe to say"? Just because you said it?
You replied to the wrong person.
Or you could use a tripod. You know, like the professionals do.
So if you put your camera on a tripod then all subjects will amazingly stay still as well? That's amazing. It's also nice to know that you can use a tripod in situations and locations where it is thoroughly inappropriate, because, uh, apparently professionals do.
Because Fuji ISO-100 35mm film yields negatives of the same informational quality regardless of camera.
Image optics vary dramatically between amateur and professional lenses, not to mention that without bright (expensive) lenses one often needed to use faster film, accepting the compromise of visible grain. Alternately they could accept motion blue (which was more prevalent), or they had to accept the terrible compromise that is flash photography.
If you spent the money in the 35mm space, there were a lot of things you could do to vastly improve the quality of your work. Even simply buying better film, and then getting better (more expensive) processing hugely altered the quality.
With digital cameras, however, no matter how much work the amateur is willing to do, he cannot make a 3 megapixel camera take 10 megapixel pictures. Other things being equal, a 10 megapixel picture is simply superior to a 3 megapixel picture.
Take a look through Flickr's interesting picture catalog, paying attention to the camera used to take the pictures. More often than not it's an almost disposable low-end camera, not an ultra-expensive pro camera. It really is eye opening that the equipment isn't as important as some people imagine it to be.
Hmmm...I would think that if one with any sense were engaging in a debate regarding the importance of grammer, they would be foolish not to be double checking their own!
So now I'm a paid editor at Slashdot! Shit yeah!
Where can I pick up my check?
I found your linked article in need of more depth; should we believe that spelling matters simpley to whore page-rank?
Slashdot has added nofollow on comments for years - there is no pagerank whatsoever gained from that, and you're hardly uncovering a big secret there.
You're above average in intelligence, yet a simple confusion between "to" and "too" stymies you to the point of not understanding what is being communicated?
The English language has both a "to" and a "too" because they have completely different meanings. It causes a hiccup in understanding (regardless of intelligence, and your subtle innuendo that someone would have to be dumb to be caught up by that is inane), distracting from the fluidity of comprehension, when someone needlessly transposes them.
If you don't like the articles, don't read them.
No one likes the pedant who points out every spelling and/or typo in other people's posts. However when you're talking about the Slashdot stories themselves, which purportedly are vetted by editors, even the most liberal level of quality would anticipate better standards than we've seen.
In any case, the defeatist "don't complain!" mantra bleating from the Slashdot is pretty tiring. "Suck it up and like it, or go elsewhere!" Are you people from Soviet Russia or something?
Am I debating an AC CmdrTaco here?
Ah, the classic and thouroughly pathetic non-retort in an attempt to make yourself look/feel clever.
I don't think I look or feel clever at all. In fact, I think I'm just voicing a pretty common opinion. Nonetheless, the tired "don't pick on my grammar or I'll pick on yours" technique is grossly misplaced.
Until then, do something better with your time and effort: add something to the discussion instead of wasting my time reading about how you've found a missing semi-colon.
Quite a few submissions have had terribly obviously mistakes (to the degree that the first 20 posts relate to it). I hardly think the level of quality is such that people are debating the subjective placement of semicolons, or even basic punctuation. Instead it's much more blatant and inexcusable.
The lack of care and concern put into this site by its staff...
As an aside, I'm not saying this in contrast with anything: I'm as annoyed by the Digg/Whatever astroturfers as anyone, and I've yet to see a site that is overall as good as Slashdot. It just seems like the Slashdot crew is demoralized and really doesn't care anymore.
I would worry if every word here was spelt correctly. It would indicate that the editors were more keen on making it clean and pretty, like your usual commercial news site, rather than ensuring good content and moderation.
I intentionally pointed out the very low volume that they're dealing with because I think it's crucial to the point.
If Slashdot was a technology news feed delivering thousands of technology posts a day to various services, then perhaps quality could justifiably suffer. As it is they have a dozen to two dozen postings a day, with a gross word count of perhaps two thousand. To support this tiny volume they have several so-called "editors" (which could be the root of the confusion, and instead they should be called facilitators or something similar). Some of the stuff we've seen has been mind blowingly obvious.
The lack of care and concern put into this site by its staff, and the seemingly apparent contempt for the readership, was evident in the recent six-time reposting of the same story. Several days back a submitter had a Goatse URL as his submitter URL, and again it was completely unnoticed.
Oh, and a professional editor would probably be able to pick up on a couples of mistakes in your post there. Go back and read it.
Ah, the classic, and thoroughly pathetic, retort. Thanks for pulling out that tired chestnut.
Here's the thing, though - I'm not paid to post on Slashdot. This isn't my job. In fact it's distracting me from my real job, which is why quality usually suffers. If, however, I was professionally employed as a full-time Slashdot troll, I assure you that I'd actually bother to carefully scan through every posting, ensuring that there are no grammar, spelling, typos, or "nitpick" mistakes.
Now let us talk about one of my secondary concerns: spelling and grammar. Let me be clear. As you are probably well aware, I don't think these are as important as the things I mentioned above. I want a Slashdot story to be focused, directing your attention to the URL in question. It needs to be not to long, not to short. Links should be clear. Spelling and Grammar are secondary issues.
Slashdot posts, what, maybe two dozen "stories" a day? To support this Slashdot has a crew of paid, therefore professional, "editors". Is it really that much to ask that rudimentary spelling and grammar rules are obeyed?
Give me the classics any day of the week!
Why don't you go out and get those classics, and after playing them again tell us what you think.
I did just that, grabbing MAME32 and all of the old greats that I was sure laid waste to anything created today. Boy was I surprised to learn that not only the graphics were crappy, but the gameplay really was crap as well. It was only entertaining then because it was novel, and of course we have a fancy way of remember things much better, or much worse, than they really were.
To me the coolest stuff that is becoming possible is using 3d accel for 2d. As soon as we can generate and composite 2d vector graphics on the chip quickly and in a standard way we will see things such as resolution independent desktops, etc. come full force.
? Graphics cards featured 2D hardware acceleration for things like bezier curves, vector fonts, lines, fills, gradients, etc, a long long time ago. I still remember getting my first Speedstar 24x, which heralded a new generation of 2D graphics.
True, it's mostly porn and it takes a lot of my time but i feel my self-respect is worth it !!!
Are you talking about the goatse as the submitter's link?
Okay, this is flipping hilarious. After the whole brouhaha, Slashdot listened to the tyranny of the majority and added nofollow on submitter links. Now we have glorious links like goatse instead. Awesome.
Because people whose name I'm used to seeing on positively-moderated comments have claimed that their story with the same submission (and often, superior comment text) was submitted earlier
Yet they have absolutely no clue when stories were submitted either. This touches on your incompetent editors comment - stories can take days to go from submission to actually appearing: During that intervening period they might reject a lot of duplicate submissions of one that's already in the queue for posting, and then all of those people are pissed when 18 hours later a story that seems to be "later" was accepted, but actually it was first in.
Thanks for setting me straight.
That said, does it piss me off to see people submit shoddy crap for the purpose of abusing the system?
The onus of quality isn't on the submitter - personal gain or not, people will submit lots of shoddy shit and complain when it isn't put on the front page. The onus of quality is on the editors of Slashdot that should be picking from the tripe, and promoting the good submission. I don't blame Roland at all if 100 of his crappy blog-links are accepted. Instead I blame the editors who posted them.
The problem is that MS (intentionally or not) left a lot of functionality out of the .NET standard libraries _AND_ made it almost trivial to call native code from within .NET.
.NET Framework is enormously comprehensive, and with additional free libraries you can do just about everything without ever knowingly touching "native" code (though of course most of the Framework is just a think veneer over native code, which was the optimal way of implementing it).
.NET project, easily using the Tidy DLL library to process some HTML streams).
The
Nonetheless, it was created as a development platform for Windows, and that includes the ability to call native code where it's the best option (just yesterday I hooked HTML Tidy into a
The submission is flipping ridiculous - Not only is it completely ignorant of WinFX, but it's ridiculously optimistic about cross-platform capabilities, when the existing Mono framework is woefully incomplete for porting even basic WinForms apps.
As soon as an individual stands to gain something (especially if it can translate to money) the system becomes vulnerable to abuse.
/. hoarde incoming (often submitting their own stories anonymously). You see the same thing on Digg these days, with a lot of the top-Digged stories being disposable content written entirely to pander to the Digg community (such as "Why 2006 Will Be The Death of Slashdot" that was frontpage material yesterday). This stuff is written entirely to gain from the "contribution".
Welcome to reality.
If you can't contribute something with nothing in return, then you don't belong in a community.
This is completely nonsensical and contrary to human behaviour, and most of what people do on this planet is for personal gain (either monetary, or reputation that can be easily converted to monetary units).
The problem was Roland's submissions had nothing to do with him pimping his link on his submission - it was that his submissions were TERRIBLE, and it was simply a very visible demonstration that the Slashdot crew perhaps doesn't put enough care and concern into vetting the content. Roland is actually a great eye opener, because it should make people aware that many of the "legitimate" sites are quickly hashing out disposable info purely for the purpose of getting a
Exactly, this was missing in CmdrTaco's story, submitting a link on slashdot to your own page (or some page you are related to) may, in this day and age, generate a lot of money!
Slashdot is overloaded with PageRank (courtesy of many of the readers here posting on a link to Slashdot on their site, boosting it to a PR9), however Slashdot has hundreds...neigh thousands of follow outgoing links a day. The value of a single outgoing link is negligible apart from people actually following it, and for a submitter link (I can say because I've had submissions accepted) only a few do.
The submitter's website has nothing to do with Slashdot or the article context. I don't think anyone has any problem with the link being there, but they are using Slashdot to artificially increase the pagerank of a completely unrelated website, possibly for commercial gain.
But the submitter's chosen website does have a relation with Slashdot - they submitted, and they chose that as their link. Anyways you seem to imagine a PageRank that's much more of a meritocrisy than reality would indicate.
We have one guy already this month who for 7 straight storys had HIS pcked over others who submitted them first. THATS a problem.
How in the world do you know who submitted what when?