I think its cute that you've 'gotten used' to the problems with the monitor, but you say yourself it has 16ms response time. DVD movies are 24fps, or 30fps, depending, but play a game that goes over 60fps, and you WILL see frame-smearing. Invert 16ms and tell me what number that gives you..16ms means it can update 60ish times a second and thats just how it is. I dont wanna have to 'get used to' only every beeing allowed 60 frames a second, I dont care if its
I look up the contrast ratio and it's a piss poor 450:1. Not bad FOR LCD, but still horrible compared to CRT. 450:1 means black will be a dark grey. Maybe you now associate that with black on a monitor, but look at a nice CRT and you will see the difference.
Either way, I'm dyin for OLED:) Has all those problems licked.
Less power consumption than backlit LCD, no viewing angle problems, excellent contrast, excellent respons times (in the microseconds)..etc The only problem they dont have licked yet is the lifetime of the blue colour is less than red/green. They have red/green past 20000 hours, but blue is still just under 10000. So it will shift towards yellow at the end of the blue lifetime.
I know they dont compare, the point is, I want something smaller than CRT. I Dont give a rat's ass about the flatness, I want an actuall thin screen flat monitor. Like LCD with without all LCD's shittyness.
Ive been holding off upgrading my 19 inch CRT hoping someone would come out with an OLED monitor. I'm seeing OLED displays in more and more things, so was hoping they had the blue lifetime thing licked...or at least improved.
Unfortunatly my CRT is now failing on me. I think it just might be a loose colour wire (monitor changing colours) so I'm going to poke around to check it out--no warnings about high voltages please, I know what I'm doing--. OLED monitors still seem fairly far away dispite some existing prototypes, but I am really hoping they come out soon.
I want to go flat panel but am very dissatisfied with LCD's economical and technical shortcomings. They have fairly poor contrast, only newly getting the viewing angle thing fixed, have a best possible response time(16ms) thats only barely good enough for a 60fps game (and thats a full on/off transition..transitions to/from partial states take much longer)...and to top it all off are friggin expensive compared to their nicer (bigger) CRT brothers.
SO, I'm holding out for OLED, but it seems I might be holding out for a few years before seeing a decent sized flat panel display based on this technology.
He gives people internet...
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but how does HE get the internet to his laptop ?
Some directional antenna somewhere that he points beforehand ? His own directional antenna that he uses to leech from other free hotspots?
(I obviously didnt RTFA, too lazy to pick thru his site to find out)
I really doubt his stock broker has the buying authority to puchase more than 10% of a companies stock all at once. This is like his stock broker decided when a hostile takeover is in order, and just doing it without consultation.
You can be fairly sure that this move had the OK from Billy, and he just doesnt care about such a paltry fine.
This just isnt true, you are describing traction control. Not ABS.
In non abs systems, all 4 wheels lock at the same time. It's as if the vehicle has stopped as far as the car is concerned.
With abs, thousands of checks per second are done to see if the car is moving when the tires arent. If so, it releases the tires for a little bit and checks again. Etc..
Basically you are sort of right...but if you are skidding, none of the wheels are moving.
GOTO's make spaghetti code. It is very hard to trace through, especially if the code is uncommented. If you end up with a bug, you will have a very hard time trying to trace through your GOTO's to find it.
Loops and functions keep things neet, organized and structured (assuming a half-competant programmer)
This isnt a point of view thing. Some things are confusing and some arent, thats just the way it is.
Yes but with your post, you are suggesting it takes a lot of time to learn microsoft just like it does with linux. This just isnt true. Windows XP can get fairly involved if you want to, but for grandpa joe trying to read his email etc, he just uses OE, or (if i have any say in it) installs a good email program and reads his email.
In linux sometimes stuff just works. Then again...sometimes you have a library problem..or maybe the wrong kernel version/module. Or maybe some driver wasnt loaded right, etc etc. For an ignorant person's peace of mind..nothing beats NEXT NEXT NEXT when installing. Ive used linux for a long time and could fix these things, but I still wouldnt recommend any variation on it to someone who hasnt used a computer, or knows nothing about them.
It doesnt do ANY crc checking. Just try sending a few files..stopping them..then resuming them. Do a diff and its pretty much sure that one of them will be corrupted.
Try canada. Downloading music is free. No DMCA, and basically legal pot. The new land of the free. Untill our laws catch up to your draconian ones I guess... Enjoy:)
Ads? OHHH like banners. I havent seen those for months since i got the Adblock extension for firefox. Will even block iframes so the page just looks like there never was an ad there.
Leonardo's car, 1.68m long and 1.49m wide (5ft 6ins by 4ft 11ins), runs on clockwork. The springs are wound up by rotating the wheels in the opposite direction to the one in which it is meant to go.
Like those little toys you pull back, then let them go. I guess I've been playing with scale models of the da Vinci's 'car' since I was VERY young.
And since I said it first I hereby copyright the idea. All users, past or present, of such vehicles will have to pay me for my IP, for the unauthorized memories in their heads.
none@none.com send cash for licences or lawsuits will be filed.
Actually, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the ipod battery other than its low milliamp hour rating.
ANY Li Ion cell will do 3-5 hundred recharge cycles. If your device lasts 16 hours compared to 8, then you will recharge half the amount of times.
Therefore the battery will last twice as long.
This is the same battery technology in tons of mp3 players..many of which are non-replacable. Also same as in laptops..which obviosuly are replacable...just not cheap.
I dont understand why everyone bitches about this..its just the way it is. If you want a big bulky player find one that uses AA's... If you want a slgihtly less bulky one that has shitty batt. life, find a AAA one. Li Ion is just the best we have right now because of a SEVERE lack of research into batteries.
As far as using an Ipod battery, I doubt it..unless the voltage is the same, dimentions compatible, milliamp hour ratings where you want them to be, etc.
Thanks for clarifying yourself, it helps quite a bit..but still:
Tesla was a genious at invention, that is hard to deny.
He believe in a lot of stuff people thought was very crazy.
He believed stuff could be controlled remotely, without wires or anything! He later proved this by beeing the first person to use an RC anything, with a little boat. He was taken for insane before showing this.
He invented AC generators and motors which enable everyone to have electricity today.
He is probably the most unsung genious in history (at least in contribution to our age versus popularity)
He also demonstrated various 'free' energy devices and believed that there was energy out there to tap. He built a car that aparently harnesed some of this, demonstrated it, and had it photographed by a newspaper. These can be found if you look hard enough.
He ivented amazing things like the radio, ac power etc...the inventor of x-ray photography actually names tesla as having done most of the work before him (with teslas 'shadowgraphs')
All of these things were considered basically impossible untill telsa invented them. Yet he suggests something like getting power from an external source and again he is called crazy.
This of course has nothing to do with some of the modern people who look at their zero point energy stuff and say they got it from tesla. Kind of like the religeus saying 'Oh jesus please save me from your followers' except tesla contributed basically the lifestyle we all enjoy, and jesus contributed mostly war, pain, and suffering.
The whole point of this wildly rambling post(it is 3am here after all:) is I just cant understand how someone would benifet every day of their lives from teslas genious and amazing inventions, then call him crazy for his other inventions/ideas.
You just posted like 10 twenty-paragraph comments..some of which i would have had to click a link to read. I've never seen anyone post so much.
Either way, I agree with most of what you say, except the nanotechnology stuff, you are way off on some points.
With the input of energy, life basically works against entropy. If a car burns gas to form various gasses, etc..If you captured those gasses, or only took those certain gasses from the air, air would never be a comodity. We breathe a fixed amount of air now, burning gas produces more. Plants etc change the C02 into oxygen and steal the carbon for building..They die the carbon is released..
The point is, its all a closed system, and as long as we have the sun burning, it is infinitly recyclable. All it takes is life, and energy.
The world would basically become a utopia. One person with an assembler could make another with freely available atoms, and give them out. You would never have to pay 20 dollars if your income is 0.
Money would cease to matter, proverty would dissapear, quality of living would probably skyrocket, or at least even out at a decent level. The production of near perfect materials (semiconductors, anything) would be possible.
Technology development time would be vastly reduced. New ideas could be built and tested as fast as the assemblers could make them. There would be no more need for garbage because assemblers could re-use all waste to make the original product.
Either way, the important thing to remember is, its a closed system. Any natural system tends towards disorder, entropy. Life is basically the thing that combats this. With energy and nanotechnology like this, humanity would skyrocket way more than any previous development in its history. Our limits would be how much stuff can exist at one time without wanting to recycle the old stuff.
Then of course population. We would NEED to begin colonization of planets because without poverty (and maybe disease?:D) to keep population in check, it would skyrocket. We would eventually hit the limit of what earth has. Population groth is exponential, and supply never is. Terraforming might be a lot easier, specially if we dumped these nanos on a world and told them to make themselves for x amount of time, then begin terraforming.
I dont really have that kind of faith in humanity though. I'm sure this stuff would be used as weaponry..or something would go wrong, or some virus would be made, etc.
I know I know we are WAY back from this stage, but a guy can dream.
Either way, again the point is, its a closed system, the stuff isnt going anywhere, so untill the population hits the point where it cant support itself, we arent going to be 'paying rates to breath' etc.
The canadian legal system is still fucked up. (I'm canadian BTW)
There was some guy here, stabbed his wife some insane amount of times..like almost 50 I think. He got 4-5 years in jail.
Then take lattimer. His daughter was in pain every damn day, severely retarded, constantly drugged up. He put her out of her misery. He gets 25 years.
You can argue whether he was right or wrong in doing this (I think he should have been given a medal) but compared to the above crime, and many others which recieve lighter sentances, this is total BS.
Its all about beeing rich, getting a good lawyer, etc. Pretty F'd up.
Lets not forget Mineral Oil. This is available at any drugstore, its completely inert, wont harm the environement, wont harm electronics, etc. Works great for immersion cooling. I'm not sure about it's heat transfer propreties, but I sumberged an old pentium for fun. Just left the drives out (hard drives are NOT sealed incase someone didn't know) and the power supply. Changed the cpu fan for something a bit stronger, and put the whole thing in a glass box with some bubbles. Looked very cute, ran decently well. I pumped all the fluid through a small radiator so it wouldnt get too hot. Put some LED's in there..looked nice.
Whats really funny is, thanks to the fact that you cannot get points from funny moderations, your karma is probably knocked down a good few pegs dispite having posted a +5 comment. Good ole slashdot moderation.
People don't maybe mod this because its talking about piracy or something, but this really contributes to the discussion.
This really IS the reason people will use this. Since you can install Linux on the Xbox, you can do most anything on it (although playing network games without Xbox live would be nice)...improve the development of Xbox titles? Yeah right..
Possibly let you port games to Xbox titles, but who's going to do that.
The REAL reason for people to use emulators is they can just download whatever games they want and play it on a computer they have already paid for.
Hell, with a serious Xbox game collection, the computer could pay for itself!:)
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I think its cute that you've 'gotten used' to the problems with the monitor, but you say yourself it has 16ms response time. DVD movies are 24fps, or 30fps, depending, but play a game that goes over 60fps, and you WILL see frame-smearing. Invert 16ms and tell me what number that gives you..16ms means it can update 60ish times a second and thats just how it is. I dont wanna have to 'get used to' only every beeing allowed 60 frames a second, I dont care if its
:) Has all those problems licked.
:)
I look up the contrast ratio and it's a piss poor 450:1. Not bad FOR LCD, but still horrible compared to CRT. 450:1 means black will be a dark grey. Maybe you now associate that with black on a monitor, but look at a nice CRT and you will see the difference.
Either way, I'm dyin for OLED
Less power consumption than backlit LCD, no viewing angle problems, excellent contrast, excellent respons times (in the microseconds)..etc
The only problem they dont have licked yet is the lifetime of the blue colour is less than red/green. They have red/green past 20000 hours, but blue is still just under 10000. So it will shift towards yellow at the end of the blue lifetime.
Oh well, more waiting
I know they dont compare, the point is, I want something smaller than CRT. I Dont give a rat's ass about the flatness, I want an actuall thin screen flat monitor. Like LCD with without all LCD's shittyness.
Ive been holding off upgrading my 19 inch CRT hoping someone would come out with an OLED monitor. I'm seeing OLED displays in more and more things, so was hoping they had the blue lifetime thing licked...or at least improved.
Unfortunatly my CRT is now failing on me. I think it just might be a loose colour wire (monitor changing colours) so I'm going to poke around to check it out--no warnings about high voltages please, I know what I'm doing--. OLED monitors still seem fairly far away dispite some existing prototypes, but I am really hoping they come out soon.
I want to go flat panel but am very dissatisfied with LCD's economical and technical shortcomings. They have fairly poor contrast, only newly getting the viewing angle thing fixed, have a best possible response time(16ms) thats only barely good enough for a 60fps game (and thats a full on/off transition..transitions to/from partial states take much longer)...and to top it all off are friggin expensive compared to their nicer (bigger) CRT brothers.
SO, I'm holding out for OLED, but it seems I might be holding out for a few years before seeing a decent sized flat panel display based on this technology.
but how does HE get the internet to his laptop ?
Some directional antenna somewhere that he points beforehand ? His own directional antenna that he uses to leech from other free hotspots?
(I obviously didnt RTFA, too lazy to pick thru his site to find out)
I really doubt his stock broker has the buying authority to puchase more than 10% of a companies stock all at once. This is like his stock broker decided when a hostile takeover is in order, and just doing it without consultation.
You can be fairly sure that this move had the OK from Billy, and he just doesnt care about such a paltry fine.
This just isnt true, you are describing traction control. Not ABS.
In non abs systems, all 4 wheels lock at the same time. It's as if the vehicle has stopped as far as the car is concerned.
With abs, thousands of checks per second are done to see if the car is moving when the tires arent. If so, it releases the tires for a little bit and checks again. Etc..
Basically you are sort of right...but if you are skidding, none of the wheels are moving.
GOTO's make spaghetti code. It is very hard to trace through, especially if the code is uncommented. If you end up with a bug, you will have a very hard time trying to trace through your GOTO's to find it.
Loops and functions keep things neet, organized and structured (assuming a half-competant programmer)
This isnt a point of view thing. Some things are confusing and some arent, thats just the way it is.
Try maintaining code full of goto's. Good luck.
Yes but with your post, you are suggesting it takes a lot of time to learn microsoft just like it does with linux. This just isnt true. Windows XP can get fairly involved if you want to, but for grandpa joe trying to read his email etc, he just uses OE, or (if i have any say in it) installs a good email program and reads his email.
;)
In linux sometimes stuff just works. Then again...sometimes you have a library problem..or maybe the wrong kernel version/module. Or maybe some driver wasnt loaded right, etc etc. For an ignorant person's peace of mind..nothing beats NEXT NEXT NEXT when installing. Ive used linux for a long time and could fix these things, but I still wouldnt recommend any variation on it to someone who hasnt used a computer, or knows nothing about them.
But then, who pays for windows anyways?
MRAM uses spintronics to store data. Its supposed to be very fast (dram speeds), dense, and not too expensive.
;)
Oh did I mention non-volatile ?
This isnt some fancy technology thats going to maybe apear in ten years.
There are preliminary datasheets out now right here.
I cant wait to change my hdd over to this stuff (welll, that may be years away
FINE?
It doesnt do ANY crc checking. Just try sending a few files..stopping them..then resuming them. Do a diff and its pretty much sure that one of them will be corrupted.
Its a damn pain in the ass.
Try canada. Downloading music is free. No DMCA, and basically legal pot. The new land of the free. Untill our laws catch up to your draconian ones I guess... Enjoy :)
Ads? OHHH like banners. I havent seen those for months since i got the Adblock extension for firefox. Will even block iframes so the page just looks like there never was an ad there.
Try it out
Leonardo's car, 1.68m long and 1.49m wide (5ft 6ins by 4ft 11ins), runs on clockwork. The springs are wound up by rotating the wheels in the opposite direction to the one in which it is meant to go.
Like those little toys you pull back, then let them go. I guess I've been playing with scale models of the da Vinci's 'car' since I was VERY young.
And since I said it first I hereby copyright the idea. All users, past or present, of such vehicles will have to pay me for my IP, for the unauthorized memories in their heads.
none@none.com
send cash for licences or lawsuits will be filed.
I've said it 100 times.., and ill say it again! :)
Actually, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the ipod battery other than its low milliamp hour rating.
ANY Li Ion cell will do 3-5 hundred recharge cycles. If your device lasts 16 hours compared to 8, then you will recharge half the amount of times.
Therefore the battery will last twice as long.
This is the same battery technology in tons of mp3 players..many of which are non-replacable. Also same as in laptops..which obviosuly are replacable...just not cheap.
I dont understand why everyone bitches about this..its just the way it is. If you want a big bulky player find one that uses AA's... If you want a slgihtly less bulky one that has shitty batt. life, find a AAA one. Li Ion is just the best we have right now because of a SEVERE lack of research into batteries.
As far as using an Ipod battery, I doubt it..unless the voltage is the same, dimentions compatible, milliamp hour ratings where you want them to be, etc.
Good ole compromise :)
Thats cool tho, if anyone diserves it, tesla does.
Thanks for clarifying yourself, it helps quite a bit..but still:
Tesla was a genious at invention, that is hard to deny.
He believe in a lot of stuff people thought was very crazy.
He believed stuff could be controlled remotely, without wires or anything! He later proved this by beeing the first person to use an RC anything, with a little boat. He was taken for insane before showing this.
He invented AC generators and motors which enable everyone to have electricity today.
He is probably the most unsung genious in history (at least in contribution to our age versus popularity)
He also demonstrated various 'free' energy devices and believed that there was energy out there to tap. He built a car that aparently harnesed some of this, demonstrated it, and had it photographed by a newspaper. These can be found if you look hard enough.
He ivented amazing things like the radio, ac power etc...the inventor of x-ray photography actually names tesla as having done most of the work before him (with teslas 'shadowgraphs')
All of these things were considered basically impossible untill telsa invented them. Yet he suggests something like getting power from an external source and again he is called crazy.
This of course has nothing to do with some of the modern people who look at their zero point energy stuff and say they got it from tesla. Kind of like the religeus saying 'Oh jesus please save me from your followers' except tesla contributed basically the lifestyle we all enjoy, and jesus contributed mostly war, pain, and suffering.
The whole point of this wildly rambling post(it is 3am here after all:) is I just cant understand how someone would benifet every day of their lives from teslas genious and amazing inventions, then call him crazy for his other inventions/ideas.
Uhhh, this driver?
v er s/Others/7083/BIN/SBA2_EAX4DRV_031031.exe
http://files.americas.creative.com/manualdn/Dri
This is THE windows 2000 driver, no cd required.
Not sure what you're talking about.
Are you sure you have a job?
:D) to keep population in check, it would skyrocket. We would eventually hit the limit of what earth has. Population groth is exponential, and supply never is. Terraforming might be a lot easier, specially if we dumped these nanos on a world and told them to make themselves for x amount of time, then begin terraforming.
You just posted like 10 twenty-paragraph comments..some of which i would have had to click a link to read. I've never seen anyone post so much.
Either way, I agree with most of what you say, except the nanotechnology stuff, you are way off on some points.
With the input of energy, life basically works against entropy. If a car burns gas to form various gasses, etc..If you captured those gasses, or only took those certain gasses from the air, air would never be a comodity. We breathe a fixed amount of air now, burning gas produces more. Plants etc change the C02 into oxygen and steal the carbon for building..They die the carbon is released..
The point is, its all a closed system, and as long as we have the sun burning, it is infinitly recyclable. All it takes is life, and energy.
The world would basically become a utopia. One person with an assembler could make another with freely available atoms, and give them out. You would never have to pay 20 dollars if your income is 0.
Money would cease to matter, proverty would dissapear, quality of living would probably skyrocket, or at least even out at a decent level. The production of near perfect materials (semiconductors, anything) would be possible.
Technology development time would be vastly reduced. New ideas could be built and tested as fast as the assemblers could make them. There would be no more need for garbage because assemblers could re-use all waste to make the original product.
Either way, the important thing to remember is, its a closed system. Any natural system tends towards disorder, entropy. Life is basically the thing that combats this. With energy and nanotechnology like this, humanity would skyrocket way more than any previous development in its history. Our limits would be how much stuff can exist at one time without wanting to recycle the old stuff.
Then of course population. We would NEED to begin colonization of planets because without poverty (and maybe disease?
I dont really have that kind of faith in humanity though. I'm sure this stuff would be used as weaponry..or something would go wrong, or some virus would be made, etc.
I know I know we are WAY back from this stage, but a guy can dream.
Either way, again the point is, its a closed system, the stuff isnt going anywhere, so untill the population hits the point where it cant support itself, we arent going to be 'paying rates to breath' etc.
If there were times where a +6 should be allowed, it's now.
VERY funny man.
The canadian legal system is still fucked up. (I'm canadian BTW)
There was some guy here, stabbed his wife some insane amount of times..like almost 50 I think. He got 4-5 years in jail.
Then take lattimer. His daughter was in pain every damn day, severely retarded, constantly drugged up. He put her out of her misery. He gets 25 years.
You can argue whether he was right or wrong in doing this (I think he should have been given a medal) but compared to the above crime, and many others which recieve lighter sentances, this is total BS.
Its all about beeing rich, getting a good lawyer, etc. Pretty F'd up.
Lets not forget Mineral Oil. This is available at any drugstore, its completely inert, wont harm the environement, wont harm electronics, etc. Works great for immersion cooling. I'm not sure about it's heat transfer propreties, but I sumberged an old pentium for fun. Just left the drives out (hard drives are NOT sealed incase someone didn't know) and the power supply. Changed the cpu fan for something a bit stronger, and put the whole thing in a glass box with some bubbles. Looked very cute, ran decently well. I pumped all the fluid through a small radiator so it wouldnt get too hot. Put some LED's in there..looked nice.
(Score: 5, Funny)
Whats really funny is, thanks to the fact that you cannot get points from funny moderations, your karma is probably knocked down a good few pegs dispite having posted a +5 comment. Good ole slashdot moderation.
That is a great article!
People don't maybe mod this because its talking about piracy or something, but this really contributes to the discussion.
:)
This really IS the reason people will use this. Since you can install Linux on the Xbox, you can do most anything on it (although playing network games without Xbox live would be nice)...improve the development of Xbox titles? Yeah right..
Possibly let you port games to Xbox titles, but who's going to do that.
The REAL reason for people to use emulators is they can just download whatever games they want and play it on a computer they have already paid for.
Hell, with a serious Xbox game collection, the computer could pay for itself!