Um, you know it's illegal to transmit encrypted data over amateur radio, right? Kind of shoots any security out of the water, which is probably a bad idea for his network..
I once had a customer spec out an application so well that I was almost afraid to write it.
Almost.
The PHB just drew the whole thing on the whiteboard, explained the problem, then handed me the specs document. I had the extreme fear of it since he had just done it all himself. I read it. It was perfect. I quoted it. I wrote it. It works great for them.
It's funny that with all this talk of capitalization and style guidelines, you are all still putting book names inside of quotation marks, when they really should be underlined or italisized.
Well, the problem is that if the colors on the display device you are using to edit the video are out of whack, then you might inadvertently make a mistake and send your video out with oh, say, a red tint on everything, or at the very least, colors other than what you want.
Um, yeah you do need color management for video. Bigtime. You have to 1) Be able to accurately match balance and levels between different cameras (brands or even individual cameras), 2) get a grasp on gamut: NTSC has a shitty colorspace, and 3) be able to accurately tune and correct your color to warm up or cool down all kinds of shots. You can pick out amateur films and videos pretty quickly when you see the total lack of attention to color processing.
On windows, color management sits somewhere in between the operating system and the video card's drivers. It's difficult to get good color management on windows, but it's not exactly rocket sience either. On apple hardware, it basically comes with the OS out of the box. As far as color control goes on desktop video software, IMO final cut does an excellent job for an all-in-one solution, and that's definately another bonus for the mac. I think that probably having both platforms around to do your work is the best way to go.
But, im neither a videographer nor a mac owner, so I'm not terribly qualified to comment I guess...
If you set it up properly (partition type fd, etc.) and backup your raidtab, you can move linux software raid's around very easily. For your situation since you are using raid 0 and redundancy is out the window anyway, what I would recommend is to put a second raid 0 as software raid, then use a jbod raid between the two stripe sets. Then extend your volume onto the new space at the end of the first stripe set. A hadrware controller wont really buy you that much performance with raid 0 anyway unless it has a LOT of cache, and doing it the way i suggested will eliminate your having to juggle any data around at all.
First let me say you are a stupid stupid motherfucker if you try to use this bastard while driving. Plenty of people get in wrecks just trying to change the radio station.
Secondly, you are a dumbass for thinking that IRDA has anything to do with remote controls. Remote controls generally adhere to a standard called CIR (Consumer IR) which is much much different. IRDA ports found in devices such as laptops and palm pilots can, to some degree, transmit and receive CIR through much software trickery, but the range is very limited and the results are poor. There is, to my knowledge, only a very small number of manufacturers that have implemented remotes that use IRDA (Pace is one, and lots of people get pissed off because their universal remotes won't talk to IRDA stuff). Anyway, if you'd read a damn thing about LIRC you'd know that you (in most cases) have to build a special receiver to get the CIR signals.
Finally, im going to answer your (lame) question since you can't seem to use google. First, there are IR keyboards. I'm betting that you know this, and they are too large for your application (one handed button pushing while driving like a fuck.) Anyway, for a one button remote with an alphabet on it you could just pick up most any programmable LED sign. I have quite a few signs with IR remotes that contain an entire alphabet, punctuation, and many other great function keys. I'd bet that 99% of these function with CIR equipment, and I know for a fact that the remote that comes with the BetaBrite (a dumbed down version of the other sign products made by Adaptive) uses the same IR carrier and code format of the remotes that come with Creative products such as their computer speakers and sound cards. If you have a LiveDrive IR or an AudigyDrive, you can point the BetaBrite remote at it and get remote data out of/dev/midi.
If you read the link, you'd obviously see that the 'legal notice' is a bunch of bullshit. Honestly, what pompus-ass lawyer would not write his 'esteemed' name on a letter?
You are already off the ground when one of your engines fails. You are out of runway. You can't fly very well 50 feet up.
You're going to have to get a bit of altitude to turn around and land safely, and you do have one engine working that can maintain your altitude. Thus, the rocket motor can provide the extra oomph to get to that altitude so you can land again.
The interesting thing about this watch, though, is that the dragonball ports of ucLinux run on palm already, so this watch with it's (likely dragonball ez) cpu will run linux out of the box.
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Erm no. Think of it like this: You are a graphics card company and you can pay your developers only so much money to write a driver for your card, meaning they can only support Direct3d or OpenGL. Naturally, they support Direct3d if they are going for gamers/low end since more games will work on a d3d only driver than an opengl driver. They pick OpenGL if they are going for the scientific community. If more game developers used OpenGL, then you'd see lacking opengl performance on cards. It's really no big deal. Vote with your dollars.
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Well, yeah it is on some cards like 3dfx; but that does not help here of course.
OK. This used to be a valid concern when people had mountains of 1 or 2 megabyte sticks that were still worth about $400 each, but seriously, just buy new RAM. Nobody makes "simm stacker" type devices for large DIMM's. Those 128MB DIMMS you have are what, like $15 new? How much do you think any specialty product like this is going to cost.. Probably more than the $30 of ram you want to stick in it.
It doesn't really make a lot of sense when you can just buy a couple of 256 or 512mb sticks for somwhere between 100-200 bucks.-- Or buy a computer that doesnt suck. (The dells with only two ram slots are pretty budget)
It's not illegal the way they do it. They use a DSSS frequency that is 33mhz wide on the upper half and 33mhz wide on the lower half. This is the same type of usage that you'd get colocating 802.11b dsss ap's on channels 1, 6 and 11. The same laws are not true in canada, though. You are technically only supposed to use a maximum of 50% of the band for your entire setup.
most FHSS radios also use 100% of the spectrum, but they break it up into one of 74 or so chunks that transmit one at a time. The illegal thing to do is to synchronize let's say 74 fhss radios so that they transmit without accidentally hopping on top of one another. These laws are not the same everywhere, though, and in some parts of the world, it's indeed legal and a very good thing to run synchronized fhss radios. Incedentally, the alvarion fhss radios actually support this operation: but you actually have to use them in africa and such other places.
Anyway, kudos to the parent poster. I have been arguing his points for years here on/. (ever since the editors and seemingly everyone else creamed their panties over the bastardized 802.11b). Really, deploying 802.11b for anything more complicated than a single or dual AP installation so you can walk around your house/office with your laptop is probably a bad move. There are a lot of better wireless technologies out there and a lot of them aren't even that much more expensive than 802.11b crap.
They are nice looking, for sure, but there is a company in Japan that does wooden systems and peripherals that blow everything I saw on arbustus's site away. I can't find the site for the life of me. Perhaps they are no longer in business...
Yeah i like the MS engine a lot. It's very easy to call up via whatever you want. I use it in a perl script to read email and stuff. It's a hell of a lot easier than interfacing with festival (seriously i tried hard and im not the worst coder out there)
I just wanted to comment that the speechify voices sound very good... word for word... but the inflections between words and the word spacing still needs a lot of work. The "speechify challenge" prerecorded samples havae undoubtadely undergone quite a bit of hinting. I do have to say though, that they do japanese 10,000% better than they do english. Their japanese TTS is the best TTS I have heard EVER.
No, the oil companies change the prices they charge the gas stations, based primarily on the market (which, granted, they control to a large degree) but which is also affected greatly by government levvys on imported oil, when, for instance, we are about to go to war in the Middle East. Also, it is indeed illegal for stations to jack the price of gas around like they did on Sep. 11th. The fines are actually pretty extreme.
And, just as an aside, I'm not 'owned' by any oil company. I drive a fuel efficient car, and get as miffed as anybody when gasoline prices go nuts. If you don't like the way things go in this country, then move somewhere else where they make you pay the real price for a gallon of gas, which is estimated in the US to be 5-15 dollars per gallon. (http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm) The figure includes the cost of the fuel in terms of environmental impact from drilling to burning and many other externalities. Did you consider that the reason that the oil companies command so much power in congress is in large part because the amercian public (yes not even you, sir) are unwilling to pay $5 for a gallon of gas? Who do you think has to pick up the rest of the bill for you to get dollar gallons of gas - your tax dollars.
Conversions between any platform (web/db/whatever) are generally pretty involved, expensive (from a labor or expense standpoint), and can cause a lot more problems than they solve.
I hate MS SQL server as much as anyone and try to steer clients away from it whenever possible, but I have to say that it's not a completely shitty database. If you have an application that works with it, is tightly integrated with it, and the company you work for is almost down the tubes anyway, you need a hell of a lot more than a platform conversion to save you.
Anyway, for what it's worth your question is unanswerable because you have given no indication of what you actually need this database or web platform to *DO*. (Coincidentally, that's probably the reason the company dug its own grave, but I digress.) There are plenty of application servers out there and plenty of databases. Some are free; some are commercial. I find it interesting that you don't seem to be able to afford to run an SQL server (which costs about $1500 to license for web use) and are looking at the ColdFusion platform (which retails for $5000/server for the enterprise edition, which you will probably need if you want to do anything normal like clustering).
*sigh* The only worse Ask Slashdot question I can think of is "Alternatives to Microsoft Windows?" COME ON ALREADY!
Well, you may be right about quarterly reports from big companies and whatnot, but you're wrong about gasoline.
Generally, the establishment is lucky to make 5% net on the sale of gasoline, and that's before counting expenses for operating the pumps. Did you know that you play a flat tax of a *minimum* of 0.37 on each gallon no matter what the price is? It doesn't get any cheaper as prices go down, even though it should based on what the taxes are designed to pay for! Aside from that, it's illegal to inflate gasoline prices. I do not agree with the current taxation of gasoline, but I do agree with the price. Here's why:
Relative to the value of a dollar, gasoline is cheaper in the USA now than it has been anywhere in the world, *ever*. Granted, a couple years ago we got to see 76 cent gasoline in some places, but that was abnormilly low. Where is any company in the line from the investors on the drilling rig to the store selling you the gasoline supposed to take a $35 barrel of 50 gallons of oil and turn it into something they can make money with selling it for 38 cents/gallon (not including tax). Gasoline is already being practically given away as it is. People should stop complaining so much about it and rethink their decision to buy a new $45,000 car that gets less than half the gas mileage of the land yachts of the 70's.
1080i is 60 fields/s at 540 lines/field. 1080p is 60 fields/s at 1080 lines. No matter what processor you jam the video through, it's still going to have only half the information as the real thing. They give you 60 fields of line-doubled 1080i. It looks a little nicer for a lot of stuff like movies, but most 1080i HDTV programming content is actually shot for video, which actually looks very good or better interlaced.
Case in point is the Blue Man Group DVD, "Audio"... If you watch it on a progressive scan player, it looks very boring, but on a regular player (interlaced), the still images play with the fields to create strobe effects and animation that is very realistic (if you've been to a Blue Man show anyway)
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Um, you know it's illegal to transmit encrypted data over amateur radio, right? Kind of shoots any security out of the water, which is probably a bad idea for his network..
~GoRK
Well, the LAND-FILL of course!
Here's the way to make pretty much any browser honor your search domain. This works in IE, Moz(win/linux), Opera (win/linux), Netscape:
.. I seem to remember that that works in some of them.
Type as: http://www/
You can also try just typing www/
Also if you disable name completion which I know you can do in Opera (not sure about the others) then just plain www will work.
Enjoy,
~GoRK
Yep, they're purchased with real money until someone figures out how to steal them or counterfit them.
Welcome to the world where you pay for the privilege to be cheated and robbed!
Anyway, it better be a blast otherwise it's just going to suck ASS
The customer is not always an idiot.
I once had a customer spec out an application so well that I was almost afraid to write it.
Almost.
The PHB just drew the whole thing on the whiteboard, explained the problem, then handed me the specs document. I had the extreme fear of it since he had just done it all himself. I read it. It was perfect. I quoted it. I wrote it. It works great for them.
How delightfully refreshing it was!
It's funny that with all this talk of capitalization and style guidelines, you are all still putting book names inside of quotation marks, when they really should be underlined or italisized.
Well, the problem is that if the colors on the display device you are using to edit the video are out of whack, then you might inadvertently make a mistake and send your video out with oh, say, a red tint on everything, or at the very least, colors other than what you want.
Um, yeah you do need color management for video. Bigtime. You have to 1) Be able to accurately match balance and levels between different cameras (brands or even individual cameras), 2) get a grasp on gamut: NTSC has a shitty colorspace, and 3) be able to accurately tune and correct your color to warm up or cool down all kinds of shots. You can pick out amateur films and videos pretty quickly when you see the total lack of attention to color processing.
On windows, color management sits somewhere in between the operating system and the video card's drivers. It's difficult to get good color management on windows, but it's not exactly rocket sience either. On apple hardware, it basically comes with the OS out of the box. As far as color control goes on desktop video software, IMO final cut does an excellent job for an all-in-one solution, and that's definately another bonus for the mac. I think that probably having both platforms around to do your work is the best way to go.
But, im neither a videographer nor a mac owner, so I'm not terribly qualified to comment I guess...
If you set it up properly (partition type fd, etc.) and backup your raidtab, you can move linux software raid's around very easily. For your situation since you are using raid 0 and redundancy is out the window anyway, what I would recommend is to put a second raid 0 as software raid, then use a jbod raid between the two stripe sets. Then extend your volume onto the new space at the end of the first stripe set. A hadrware controller wont really buy you that much performance with raid 0 anyway unless it has a LOT of cache, and doing it the way i suggested will eliminate your having to juggle any data around at all.
First let me say you are a stupid stupid motherfucker if you try to use this bastard while driving. Plenty of people get in wrecks just trying to change the radio station.
/dev/midi.
Secondly, you are a dumbass for thinking that IRDA has anything to do with remote controls. Remote controls generally adhere to a standard called CIR (Consumer IR) which is much much different. IRDA ports found in devices such as laptops and palm pilots can, to some degree, transmit and receive CIR through much software trickery, but the range is very limited and the results are poor. There is, to my knowledge, only a very small number of manufacturers that have implemented remotes that use IRDA (Pace is one, and lots of people get pissed off because their universal remotes won't talk to IRDA stuff). Anyway, if you'd read a damn thing about LIRC you'd know that you (in most cases) have to build a special receiver to get the CIR signals.
Finally, im going to answer your (lame) question since you can't seem to use google. First, there are IR keyboards. I'm betting that you know this, and they are too large for your application (one handed button pushing while driving like a fuck.) Anyway, for a one button remote with an alphabet on it you could just pick up most any programmable LED sign. I have quite a few signs with IR remotes that contain an entire alphabet, punctuation, and many other great function keys. I'd bet that 99% of these function with CIR equipment, and I know for a fact that the remote that comes with the BetaBrite (a dumbed down version of the other sign products made by Adaptive) uses the same IR carrier and code format of the remotes that come with Creative products such as their computer speakers and sound cards. If you have a LiveDrive IR or an AudigyDrive, you can point the BetaBrite remote at it and get remote data out of
Tons o fun.
~GoRK
If you read the link, you'd obviously see that the 'legal notice' is a bunch of bullshit. Honestly, what pompus-ass lawyer would not write his 'esteemed' name on a letter?
You are already off the ground when one of your engines fails. You are out of runway. You can't fly very well 50 feet up.
You're going to have to get a bit of altitude to turn around and land safely, and you do have one engine working that can maintain your altitude. Thus, the rocket motor can provide the extra oomph to get to that altitude so you can land again.
It was a research project.
The interesting thing about this watch, though, is that the dragonball ports of ucLinux run on palm already, so this watch with it's (likely dragonball ez) cpu will run linux out of the box.
Erm no. Think of it like this: You are a graphics card company and you can pay your developers only so much money to write a driver for your card, meaning they can only support Direct3d or OpenGL. Naturally, they support Direct3d if they are going for gamers/low end since more games will work on a d3d only driver than an opengl driver. They pick OpenGL if they are going for the scientific community. If more game developers used OpenGL, then you'd see lacking opengl performance on cards. It's really no big deal. Vote with your dollars.
Well, yeah it is on some cards like 3dfx; but that does not help here of course.
Why don't you get rid of your Capital One card because they are a shitty company with no ethics and your interest rate sucks? Forget their website.
OK. This used to be a valid concern when people had mountains of 1 or 2 megabyte sticks that were still worth about $400 each, but seriously, just buy new RAM. Nobody makes "simm stacker" type devices for large DIMM's. Those 128MB DIMMS you have are what, like $15 new? How much do you think any specialty product like this is going to cost.. Probably more than the $30 of ram you want to stick in it.
It doesn't really make a lot of sense when you can just buy a couple of 256 or 512mb sticks for somwhere between 100-200 bucks.-- Or buy a computer that doesnt suck. (The dells with only two ram slots are pretty budget)
It's not illegal the way they do it. They use a DSSS frequency that is 33mhz wide on the upper half and 33mhz wide on the lower half. This is the same type of usage that you'd get colocating 802.11b dsss ap's on channels 1, 6 and 11. The same laws are not true in canada, though. You are technically only supposed to use a maximum of 50% of the band for your entire setup.
/. (ever since the editors and seemingly everyone else creamed their panties over the bastardized 802.11b). Really, deploying 802.11b for anything more complicated than a single or dual AP installation so you can walk around your house/office with your laptop is probably a bad move. There are a lot of better wireless technologies out there and a lot of them aren't even that much more expensive than 802.11b crap.
most FHSS radios also use 100% of the spectrum, but they break it up into one of 74 or so chunks that transmit one at a time. The illegal thing to do is to synchronize let's say 74 fhss radios so that they transmit without accidentally hopping on top of one another. These laws are not the same everywhere, though, and in some parts of the world, it's indeed legal and a very good thing to run synchronized fhss radios. Incedentally, the alvarion fhss radios actually support this operation: but you actually have to use them in africa and such other places.
Anyway, kudos to the parent poster. I have been arguing his points for years here on
~GoRK
They are nice looking, for sure, but there is a company in Japan that does wooden systems and peripherals that blow everything I saw on arbustus's site away. I can't find the site for the life of me. Perhaps they are no longer in business...
Yeah i like the MS engine a lot. It's very easy to call up via whatever you want. I use it in a perl script to read email and stuff. It's a hell of a lot easier than interfacing with festival (seriously i tried hard and im not the worst coder out there)
I just wanted to comment that the speechify voices sound very good ... word for word ... but the inflections between words and the word spacing still needs a lot of work. The "speechify challenge" prerecorded samples havae undoubtadely undergone quite a bit of hinting. I do have to say though, that they do japanese 10,000% better than they do english. Their japanese TTS is the best TTS I have heard EVER.
No, the oil companies change the prices they charge the gas stations, based primarily on the market (which, granted, they control to a large degree) but which is also affected greatly by government levvys on imported oil, when, for instance, we are about to go to war in the Middle East. Also, it is indeed illegal for stations to jack the price of gas around like they did on Sep. 11th. The fines are actually pretty extreme.
And, just as an aside, I'm not 'owned' by any oil company. I drive a fuel efficient car, and get as miffed as anybody when gasoline prices go nuts. If you don't like the way things go in this country, then move somewhere else where they make you pay the real price for a gallon of gas, which is estimated in the US to be 5-15 dollars per gallon. (http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm) The figure includes the cost of the fuel in terms of environmental impact from drilling to burning and many other externalities. Did you consider that the reason that the oil companies command so much power in congress is in large part because the amercian public (yes not even you, sir) are unwilling to pay $5 for a gallon of gas? Who do you think has to pick up the rest of the bill for you to get dollar gallons of gas - your tax dollars.
Conversions between any platform (web/db/whatever) are generally pretty involved, expensive (from a labor or expense standpoint), and can cause a lot more problems than they solve.
I hate MS SQL server as much as anyone and try to steer clients away from it whenever possible, but I have to say that it's not a completely shitty database. If you have an application that works with it, is tightly integrated with it, and the company you work for is almost down the tubes anyway, you need a hell of a lot more than a platform conversion to save you.
Anyway, for what it's worth your question is unanswerable because you have given no indication of what you actually need this database or web platform to *DO*. (Coincidentally, that's probably the reason the company dug its own grave, but I digress.) There are plenty of application servers out there and plenty of databases. Some are free; some are commercial. I find it interesting that you don't seem to be able to afford to run an SQL server (which costs about $1500 to license for web use) and are looking at the ColdFusion platform (which retails for $5000/server for the enterprise edition, which you will probably need if you want to do anything normal like clustering).
*sigh* The only worse Ask Slashdot question I can think of is "Alternatives to Microsoft Windows?" COME ON ALREADY!
~GoRK
Well, you may be right about quarterly reports from big companies and whatnot, but you're wrong about gasoline.
Generally, the establishment is lucky to make 5% net on the sale of gasoline, and that's before counting expenses for operating the pumps. Did you know that you play a flat tax of a *minimum* of 0.37 on each gallon no matter what the price is? It doesn't get any cheaper as prices go down, even though it should based on what the taxes are designed to pay for! Aside from that, it's illegal to inflate gasoline prices. I do not agree with the current taxation of gasoline, but I do agree with the price. Here's why:
Relative to the value of a dollar, gasoline is cheaper in the USA now than it has been anywhere in the world, *ever*. Granted, a couple years ago we got to see 76 cent gasoline in some places, but that was abnormilly low. Where is any company in the line from the investors on the drilling rig to the store selling you the gasoline supposed to take a $35 barrel of 50 gallons of oil and turn it into something they can make money with selling it for 38 cents/gallon (not including tax). Gasoline is already being practically given away as it is. People should stop complaining so much about it and rethink their decision to buy a new $45,000 car that gets less than half the gas mileage of the land yachts of the 70's.
1080i is 60 fields/s at 540 lines/field. 1080p is 60 fields/s at 1080 lines. No matter what processor you jam the video through, it's still going to have only half the information as the real thing. They give you 60 fields of line-doubled 1080i. It looks a little nicer for a lot of stuff like movies, but most 1080i HDTV programming content is actually shot for video, which actually looks very good or better interlaced.
Case in point is the Blue Man Group DVD, "Audio"... If you watch it on a progressive scan player, it looks very boring, but on a regular player (interlaced), the still images play with the fields to create strobe effects and animation that is very realistic (if you've been to a Blue Man show anyway)
~GoRK