The older analog receivers required more bandwidth per channel. Modern satellite TV is digital, the compression means each channel needs less bandwidth, and will work with lower SNR than the analog channels.
I live in the same area, and from what I can tell, the RDS usage on stations is sketchy at best. I've only seen one station (NPR) use anything other than the station ID field. RDS can actually do so much more, including program type ID (so you can tell your radio to "play the next rock station"), traffic announcements and such.
No mention of the University of Minnesota Mapserver program. It can render GIS data with antialiasing, auto-placing labels, etc. With some work on a configuration file, you can have it produce images that are nearly identical to Google Maps, but can be arbitrarily scaled (ie, not based on tilesets). Support for WMS makes images from Mapserver available to external programs via a simple HTTP-based RPC. You can also query for features using WFS. I use it to generate maps for use with a weather radar display.
Most switches with a management interface of some kind (this includes Netgear units with a "web" interface) allow you to designate a 'monitor' port that will let you do what you're describing.
You also want a digital scope in order to have a readable display when the sweep times are very short and refresh times are long, like for instance when you have the scope with a short time base and a long horizontal delay. I remember having to turn out the room lights to see the traces properly. With digital scopes, you just turn up the intensity.
On my ye-olde 6600GT, glxgears reports ~6000 fps (default window size), but I notice a very high pitched whine (quite faint) coming from my box when it's running. Also, temps start to rise quite sharply (not to dangerous levels, though). I replaced the stock cooler with a Zalman unit some years back, and I make sure the insides are vacuumed regularly.
I found one site that consistently causes both Chrome and FF (on Linux) to hog memory is Facebook. On FF, I have Flashblock and Adblock, so it's not Flash that causes this.
Generally, the people who actually need (not just want) display matrices are those who couldn't care less about gaming performance.
I disagree. There are lots of CAD users who would like additional monitors, and most CAD software these days can take advantage of GPUs for accelerated rendering. For example, I use Altium Designer, a PCB design program. The main layout part uses DirectX rendering for speed, and the board layout can be switched to 3D to examine mechanical layouts etc. A second monitor helps in that you can have both board layout as well as schematic up at the same time.
I'd say that C requires too great a knowledge of how computers work internally to grasp concepts like pointers, which are fundamental to understanding C. I still think kids would need a stepping stone before C to grasp concepts like program flow, branching, etc. Personally, I taught myself BASIC first, then kept bugging my dad, asking him how "real programs" were written. The thing that bothered me was my.BAS files still needed GW or Q basic to run, while everything else just had a.EXE. He mentioned C and Pascal, so I saved up some money and bought a "teach yourself C" book because it was cheaper than the "teach yourself Pascal" book:)
It is *imperative* that NASA TV be boring, because most of a mission is like that.
A side benefit of this is that it keeps away people with short attention spans from having delusions of working at NASA and having an "exciting" career. This way, NASA won't have to blow big bucks to hire and train them, only for them to leave disillusioned after a few months. I have talked to some meteorologists who say that perhaps the worst thing to happen was the movie "Twister", which brought in hordes of new undergrads who thought all they did was chase storms.
Didn't the 56k modems also require FEC? While PAM didn't require as much research as the various QAM/QPSK modes, the FEC algorithms were just as difficult as the older modems, IMO.
Actually, the reason 56 k modems ran at 53.3k is because of restrictions on how much power they could transmit. Any more power than what they were limited to would cause unacceptable crosstalk with nearby lines in bundles.
Also, isn't it possible to put more levels per transition by simply increasing power levels? This would mean that the 56k limit isn't an absolute max, it could theoretically be exceeded.
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The older analog receivers required more bandwidth per channel. Modern satellite TV is digital, the compression means each channel needs less bandwidth, and will work with lower SNR than the analog channels.
In Soviet Russia... oh, wait!
I live in the same area, and from what I can tell, the RDS usage on stations is sketchy at best. I've only seen one station (NPR) use anything other than the station ID field. RDS can actually do so much more, including program type ID (so you can tell your radio to "play the next rock station"), traffic announcements and such.
To say nothing of the "mad scientist" look a Jacob's Ladder would impart to the exam setting.
No mention of the University of Minnesota Mapserver program. It can render GIS data with antialiasing, auto-placing labels, etc. With some work on a configuration file, you can have it produce images that are nearly identical to Google Maps, but can be arbitrarily scaled (ie, not based on tilesets). Support for WMS makes images from Mapserver available to external programs via a simple HTTP-based RPC. You can also query for features using WFS. I use it to generate maps for use with a weather radar display.
You think they'd have learned that after the early '90s i860 fiasco....
So that's where Zapp's Jergens went...
Some military trucks do this, they deflate the tires slightly when travelling over sandy areas.
Most switches with a management interface of some kind (this includes Netgear units with a "web" interface) allow you to designate a 'monitor' port that will let you do what you're describing.
You also want a digital scope in order to have a readable display when the sweep times are very short and refresh times are long, like for instance when you have the scope with a short time base and a long horizontal delay. I remember having to turn out the room lights to see the traces properly. With digital scopes, you just turn up the intensity.
On my ye-olde 6600GT, glxgears reports ~6000 fps (default window size), but I notice a very high pitched whine (quite faint) coming from my box when it's running. Also, temps start to rise quite sharply (not to dangerous levels, though). I replaced the stock cooler with a Zalman unit some years back, and I make sure the insides are vacuumed regularly.
I found one site that consistently causes both Chrome and FF (on Linux) to hog memory is Facebook. On FF, I have Flashblock and Adblock, so it's not Flash that causes this.
With a magma-powered computer?
Generally, the people who actually need (not just want) display matrices are those who couldn't care less about gaming performance.
I disagree. There are lots of CAD users who would like additional monitors, and most CAD software these days can take advantage of GPUs for accelerated rendering. For example, I use Altium Designer, a PCB design program. The main layout part uses DirectX rendering for speed, and the board layout can be switched to 3D to examine mechanical layouts etc. A second monitor helps in that you can have both board layout as well as schematic up at the same time.
It's bulldozers all the way down!
Mod parent up. I wonder why ECIL didn't do this in the first place.
Why not use user groups, with only members of the staff user group allowed to access flash drives or run arbitrary unsigned software?
Until they include a box that will shred the old "Paper", melt down and extrude new paper, this is worthless.
Does one have to sing "Stamp it, file it, send it overnight" to make this work? Ah, the cycle of bureaucracy is complete!
Hence the warning "do not look into laser with remaining eye"
Or in this case, don't look at laser with remaining 1,999 eyes.
Quit trying to fix Leela up with fly mutant!
I get a popup saying I'm about to close 16 tabs... zomg! Someone is hacking me!
I'd say that C requires too great a knowledge of how computers work internally to grasp concepts like pointers, which are fundamental to understanding C. I still think kids would need a stepping stone before C to grasp concepts like program flow, branching, etc. Personally, I taught myself BASIC first, then kept bugging my dad, asking him how "real programs" were written. The thing that bothered me was my .BAS files still needed GW or Q basic to run, while everything else just had a .EXE. He mentioned C and Pascal, so I saved up some money and bought a "teach yourself C" book because it was cheaper than the "teach yourself Pascal" book :)
Oblig. Futurama quote:
Oh oh! It's Hubert Farnsworth! He's looking fab in a standard white lab coat and dark slacks! His wristwatch is a Casio.
It is *imperative* that NASA TV be boring, because most of a mission is like that.
A side benefit of this is that it keeps away people with short attention spans from having delusions of working at NASA and having an "exciting" career. This way, NASA won't have to blow big bucks to hire and train them, only for them to leave disillusioned after a few months. I have talked to some meteorologists who say that perhaps the worst thing to happen was the movie "Twister", which brought in hordes of new undergrads who thought all they did was chase storms.
Didn't the 56k modems also require FEC? While PAM didn't require as much research as the various QAM/QPSK modes, the FEC algorithms were just as difficult as the older modems, IMO.
Actually, the reason 56 k modems ran at 53.3k is because of restrictions on how much power they could transmit. Any more power than what they were limited to would cause unacceptable crosstalk with nearby lines in bundles.
Also, isn't it possible to put more levels per transition by simply increasing power levels? This would mean that the 56k limit isn't an absolute max, it could theoretically be exceeded.