I'm required to have Red Hat so customers/partners can't say that their apps don't work because I'm not on the same platform, but I'd never have it otherwise.
I'm going to need to see you grammar license, sir.
Actually, the author qualifies that with "encoded in various ways depending on the media." He also says later in the comments "its not like its straight one pit/land = one bit or anything." I do believe the author understood the way it works, they just did a very poor job of writing up that paragraph.
As for the joystick thing, the author only said "A bit of time later, Creative Labs added a Joystick/MIDI dual function port on their SoundBlaster series of sound cards." They never said Creative invented the non-midi joystick port. I think you're reading more into some of his statements than is actually there, in an attempt to disagree with him.
And what's this about "FireWall"? Clearly, you have no idea what you're talking about.;)
In any case, I'm sure we'll all be anxiously awaiting your writeup of DVD-R vs +R.
What Spacezilla said. I just wanted a chance to post exceptions from wikipedia. It actually started out as other weird words like oneiromancies. But then I decided to just post them all.
My point being that the information from BOTH sides is from people posting on the internet. Seems hypocritical to take your side as truth and label anyone who posts contradictory information as trolls. Then again, it is the internet. I believe Layer 3 is the Hypocrisy Layer.
Well, I can take no credit for the actual information. I was clueless about the real differences before I read the article. It's a very good read and I highly recommend it. The author did a great job.
Strangely enough, I saw this article on digg just recently. It was a repeat of an article that hit digg on Dec 6th and slashdot a few days later. I only saw it because digg is much worse about dupes than even slashdot.:D
So what you're saying is that when you said on the internet that you've had no problems with Blu-ray on your PS3, I should assume you are full of shit?
As I said earlier, DVD-R sucks for data preservation for three reasons: inferior error correction, inferior 'wobble' tracking, and the fact its data writing methods look like an un-needed halfway point between CD-R and DVD+R. The wobble tracking I shall explain first, then the error corrections method, then the specifics of ATIP/pre-pit/ADIP optimum power settings.
For a CD/DVD burner to track where it is on the disc, it uses three things: the 'wobble' of the data track (where it actually wobbles back and forth instead of in a straight line) to tell where it is in the track, the position of the track to tell where it is on the disc, and some additional information on the disc to tell where the track (singular, as CDs and DVDs only have one track, and it is written in a concentric spiral) begins and ends.
This additional information on a CD-R is called the ATIP (Absolute Time In Pregroove), which contains how long the track is, where it begins, what the maximum and minimum writing speeds are, what formula dye it uses, who actually made it, optimum power control settings, and error correction data. The ATIP is stored as a frequency modulation in the wobble itself.
However, since the wobble changes subtly to encode data, it is impossible to use with the small size of tracks DVD requires, as electric noise in the laser pickup and wobbles introduced by the electric motor spinning the disc, these could easily be read as frequency changes in the real track itself.
On DVD-R, they tried to solve the problem with something called 'pre-pits' where spikes in the amplitude of the wobble appear due to pits fully out of phase with the rest of the track (ie, between two spirals of the track, where there is no data). This can be viewed as a simple improvement over CD-R as it makes it easier to track the wobble (since the wobble is constant except for the easy to detect and remove spikes).
Unfortunately, this method as one flaw: due to electric noise in the laser pickup, it would be very easy to miss the pre-pit (or read one that wasn't actually there) if the disc were damaged or spun at fast speeds. The time to read a pre-pit is 1T (roughly.0000000038th of a second), which even for a computer can be easy to miss. DVD-R traded hard to track frequency changes for hard to read wobble-encoded data.
On a DVD+R, however, they came up with a much better method. Instead of changing the frequency of the wobble, or causing amplitude spikes in the wobble, they use complete phase changes. Where CD-R's and DVD-R's methods make you choose between either easy wobble tracking or easy ATIP reading, DVD+R's method makes it very easy to track the wobble, and also very easy to encode data into the wobble. DVD+R's method is called ADIP (ADdress In Pre-groove), which uses a phase change method.
With ADIPs' phase changes, the direction of the wobble changes and continues on going in the exact opposite direction (ie, counter-clockwise to clockwise, or the reverse). For example, if the wobble was 'going up', the phase change causes it to instantly reverse direction start 'going down' no matter where it in the wobble cycle. The phase change is very easy to detect, and also continues for a set period (in this case, one 32T section of the track, or 32 times longer than the pre-pit method of DVD-R).
The state of the phase change (clockwise or counter-clockwise) encodes the individual bits in each block In essence, with the phase change method, not only do you have an easy way of tracking the wobble, but you now have an easy way of reading wobble-encoded data.
As I mentioned earlier, this wobble-encoded data includes error correction of wobble-en
You should get the stick out of your ass. Discuss...;) Seriously, when they said Web 2.0, I knew what they were talking about (it's the "Under Seige" part that I felt was dumb). I knew they were talking about javascript and XMLHttpRequest stuff that is frequently called AJAX (another term which some people whine about). Do you even know what a buzzword is? It's something you add to a product because it's popular. Like "object oriented" or "xml" when it's irrelevant to the actual functioning of the product. On the other hand Web 2.0/AJAX defines web applications that function in quite a different manner than non Web 2.0/AJAX ones.
Personally, I have favored Blu-ray due to the higher capacity. What becomes popular as a movie standard will also drive what becomes popular as a computer peripheral standard. I'd rather do my backups/offline storage to a higher capacity media. Sony has pissed me off in their treatment of the PS3, but I don't hold that against Blu-ray in general.
But you have to admit, these are the same problems that happened with the first generation of DVD. There were certain discs that would blow up certain players. Manufacturers learned and they fixed them in the next generation. The xbox will probably be able to fix it via a firmware upgrade.
Claiming that this is somehow a harbinger of doom for HD-DVD is doing just what you are accusing the other side of doing. You are letting your rabid hatred of HD-DVD shape your interpretation of something that's just history repeating itself.
And DVD's, hey, the instructions for burning System Restore disks on the computer my wife just bought say--WITHOUT EXPLANATION--only to use DVD+R's, "even if your DVD writer is capable of burning other formats."
You may already know this, but the reason why is error correction. The DVD+R format is far superior to the DVD-R format when it comes to error correction. So if you get a scratch on a backup disc, you are much more likely to not lose anything if it's a DVD+R. It's probably they didn't want to explain error correction in an instruction manual written for people who would have just skimmed over it anyway. Any explanation for the masses would have just boiled down to "it's better, trust us."
Of course, the OP did mention that they had two Blu-Ray players (Samsung and LG). If both players are bad, that's not exactly a strong endorsement of Blu-Ray.
Of course, I'd still like something to burn those gigs of HD movies to that I download digitally. Storing them all on hard drives is not going to be very cost effective. I'm already hurting from downloading the DivX/Xvid version of Planet Earth in 720p. They're 2.2 gigs each. Oh, and when I play them on my regular media PC, it tends to get a little jerky.
This coming from someone who claimed Stalin and Lenin used the word "terrorist?"
Lenin and Stalin actively used the term 'terrorism'
But yeah, if you're ready to give up, go ahead and have at the ad hominems. When you get it out of your system and want to talk with the grown-ups again, I'll be here.
Kind of missed the point, eh? Lenin and Stalin didn't use the word "terrorism." Apparently some translator who was grasping for a literal translation did. That's like translating "Reign of Terror" to "terrorism." Yeah, terror was involved, but it's a whole different kettle of fish. Not everything that involves fear should be called "terrorism." Otherwise, that bad neighborhood down the street is full of "terrorists."
Of course, this is getting pretty far away from what started my posting - the inane term "economic terrorism"...
There was a point were food scientist stopped producing useful foods like orange juice
I'd say that time was somewhere BEFORE the production of orange juice. Orange juice is a sugary drink. Yes, it's fruit sugar, but it's still sugar. It's far and away a less beneficial drink than water. And drinking a glass of OJ is not the same as eating an orange, no matter what the OJ producers have tried to make people think. A very small glass of OJ a day is ok, but you'll never hear the OJ industry suggesting you stop there.
"Economic terrorism" is a buzzword. It's part of the "stick terrorism on the end to make people listen to your ranting" movement. I've even heard "judicial terrorism" and "legistlative terrorism" before.
The term "terrorism" means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.
That aside your science degree should equip you to ask tough questions. Just understanding conservation of energy would put you at the 99th percentile of working journalists.
That's great, only I didn't learn about it in college. I learned about it in high school. In college, I took biology and chemistry and the laws of thermodynamics were never covered.
For example one of the questions that should be asked about any numeric model is how well it 'back casts'
Again, something that wasn't part of college for me. To me, it's common sense. But I sure didn't pick that up at college.
You wouldn't report perpetual motion as straight news would you?
Nope. But once again, that was covered in high school.
In today's educational system (at least in America), I don't put stock in ANY sort of degree. Okay, maybe engineering, but only if followed by a P.E. exam. I've seen enough dumbasses with science degrees to know college is mostly about perseverance, not intelligence.
I could rebut your argument by saying I've never met a scientist who was ever able to perform investigative journalism worth a damn.
Also, I have a science degree, but I'm at a loss as to how that qualifies me to research a story on the biasing of science in the fields of global warming or environmental protection regulations. And I was one of the SHARPER ones in the bunch.
In reality, some journalists are competent and some aren't, no matter what their major.
I would think the best person to write such a report would be a journalist. They dig into stories like this, interviewing people and getting input from experts in various fields. They look into the background of the people involved and try to find inside information like leaked documents.
If a non-scientist can clearly present to other non-scientists a case of scientists being pressured by administrators with a politcal bent, then that is very compelling. It's much less compelling if it takes a scientist to understand the issues involved. Hopefully that makes sense.
I speak on a theoretical basis, never having read any of Mooney's writings. But theoretically, there's no surprise as to his background being in liberal arts.
I can't wait until I'm elderly and in a nursing home with a computer and internet connection. It will be nothing but gaming all day and all night ("all night" being 4pm-8pm). And I'll have someone to bring me food and clean up after me. It will be just like NES years. Only with more organ failure.
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Actually, the author qualifies that with "encoded in various ways depending on the media." He also says later in the comments "its not like its straight one pit/land = one bit or anything." I do believe the author understood the way it works, they just did a very poor job of writing up that paragraph.
;)
As for the joystick thing, the author only said "A bit of time later, Creative Labs added a Joystick/MIDI dual function port on their SoundBlaster series of sound cards." They never said Creative invented the non-midi joystick port. I think you're reading more into some of his statements than is actually there, in an attempt to disagree with him.
And what's this about "FireWall"? Clearly, you have no idea what you're talking about.
In any case, I'm sure we'll all be anxiously awaiting your writeup of DVD-R vs +R.
What Spacezilla said. I just wanted a chance to post exceptions from wikipedia. It actually started out as other weird words like oneiromancies. But then I decided to just post them all.
My point being that the information from BOTH sides is from people posting on the internet. Seems hypocritical to take your side as truth and label anyone who posts contradictory information as trolls. Then again, it is the internet. I believe Layer 3 is the Hypocrisy Layer.
Well, I can take no credit for the actual information. I was clueless about the real differences before I read the article. It's a very good read and I highly recommend it. The author did a great job.
:D
Strangely enough, I saw this article on digg just recently. It was a repeat of an article that hit digg on Dec 6th and slashdot a few days later. I only saw it because digg is much worse about dupes than even slashdot.
So what you're saying is that when you said on the internet that you've had no problems with Blu-ray on your PS3, I should assume you are full of shit?
Duly noted.
Yes.
From http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/10/30/how-t o-choose-cddvd-archival-media/
You should get the stick out of your ass. Discuss... ;)
Seriously, when they said Web 2.0, I knew what they were talking about (it's the "Under Seige" part that I felt was dumb). I knew they were talking about javascript and XMLHttpRequest stuff that is frequently called AJAX (another term which some people whine about). Do you even know what a buzzword is? It's something you add to a product because it's popular. Like "object oriented" or "xml" when it's irrelevant to the actual functioning of the product. On the other hand Web 2.0/AJAX defines web applications that function in quite a different manner than non Web 2.0/AJAX ones.
Or oneiromancies. Or deficiencies and zeitgeist.
Or fancied, policies, conscience, prescient, ancient, efficiency, financier, glacier, society, caffeine, protein, Keith, Leith, Sheila, deindustrialize, reignite, being, seeing, keister, neither, obeisance, seize, sheikh, species, feisty, kaleidoscope, height, seismic, counterfeit, foreign, reveille, sovereign, heifer, leisure, atheist, onomatopoeia.
That rule is actually fairly misleading. The British one is a little better, but still has problems.
Personally, I have favored Blu-ray due to the higher capacity. What becomes popular as a movie standard will also drive what becomes popular as a computer peripheral standard. I'd rather do my backups/offline storage to a higher capacity media. Sony has pissed me off in their treatment of the PS3, but I don't hold that against Blu-ray in general.
But you have to admit, these are the same problems that happened with the first generation of DVD. There were certain discs that would blow up certain players. Manufacturers learned and they fixed them in the next generation. The xbox will probably be able to fix it via a firmware upgrade.
Claiming that this is somehow a harbinger of doom for HD-DVD is doing just what you are accusing the other side of doing. You are letting your rabid hatred of HD-DVD shape your interpretation of something that's just history repeating itself.
Of course, I'd still like something to burn those gigs of HD movies to that I download digitally. Storing them all on hard drives is not going to be very cost effective. I'm already hurting from downloading the DivX/Xvid version of Planet Earth in 720p. They're 2.2 gigs each. Oh, and when I play them on my regular media PC, it tends to get a little jerky.
Kind of missed the point, eh? Lenin and Stalin didn't use the word "terrorism." Apparently some translator who was grasping for a literal translation did. That's like translating "Reign of Terror" to "terrorism." Yeah, terror was involved, but it's a whole different kettle of fish. Not everything that involves fear should be called "terrorism." Otherwise, that bad neighborhood down the street is full of "terrorists."
Of course, this is getting pretty far away from what started my posting - the inane term "economic terrorism"...
I didn't realize Lenin and Stalin gave their methods English names. You learn something new every day.
In today's educational system (at least in America), I don't put stock in ANY sort of degree. Okay, maybe engineering, but only if followed by a P.E. exam. I've seen enough dumbasses with science degrees to know college is mostly about perseverance, not intelligence.
I could rebut your argument by saying I've never met a scientist who was ever able to perform investigative journalism worth a damn.
Also, I have a science degree, but I'm at a loss as to how that qualifies me to research a story on the biasing of science in the fields of global warming or environmental protection regulations. And I was one of the SHARPER ones in the bunch.
In reality, some journalists are competent and some aren't, no matter what their major.
I would think the best person to write such a report would be a journalist. They dig into stories like this, interviewing people and getting input from experts in various fields. They look into the background of the people involved and try to find inside information like leaked documents.
If a non-scientist can clearly present to other non-scientists a case of scientists being pressured by administrators with a politcal bent, then that is very compelling. It's much less compelling if it takes a scientist to understand the issues involved. Hopefully that makes sense.
I speak on a theoretical basis, never having read any of Mooney's writings. But theoretically, there's no surprise as to his background being in liberal arts.
I can't wait until I'm elderly and in a nursing home with a computer and internet connection. It will be nothing but gaming all day and all night ("all night" being 4pm-8pm). And I'll have someone to bring me food and clean up after me. It will be just like NES years. Only with more organ failure.
You forgot "Where are you going?" Amateur!