I also disagree with the original poster about just using DDR 400. Not only a JEDEC specification for DDR 400 ram doesn't exist (and DDR 400 ram is needed to get really a performance improvement out of a DDR 400 FSB), but first boards which support such rams have some stability problems obviously at that speeds (the new asus kt400 board only allows one (!) dimm at DDR400 speed, and 2 at DDR333 speed). So, this would most likely be a nightmare for board manufacturers.
I know the VIA 400 chipset has problems with this, but the new SiS 648 chipset does not have any problems with this at all, and allows for more that one DDR400 chip at the time. See Tom's hardware for more on the SiS chipset.
Not that this has anything to do with the article in question, but fast ram on the video card is essential if you're going to play games in hi-res. The AGP bus can't supply data / textures fast enough to a modern GPU/VPU. Both the bus and the main memory is way to slow. Some business pcs uses shared video and main memory. It works ok for most 2D apps, and will even allow you to play DVDs or streamed video. For games; forget it.
The Inspiron 5000e has the same size agp card as the 8000 series. The problem with changing video card on laptops, is that the videocard bios is part of the bios on the mainboard. The cards must be capable of running with the same bios. I think this is valid for the 8000 series as well.
As far as I can see that means: a) The 8100 has the same bios as 8200 with Gf4GO support.
or b) The GF2Go and GF4Go use the same code in the bios.
The Inspiron 5000 series does not have an option for GF2Go (they are older than that card), so they don't have support for it in the bios. Possible upgrades is M3 8MB to a new M3 16MB card (no mem upgrade, you have to change the whole card I think).
If the new M4 cards (much faster than the M3 atleast) can use the same bios as the M3 cards, then that might be a good upgrade option.
In order to use a GF4Go or GF2Go card, you would have to: a) Improve heat transfere from the GPU, and probably find a way of supplying the card with enough current. and b) Make a new Inspiron 5000(e) bios, with support for the Nvidia cards, and flash your laptop.
Buttom line: if the M4 can't be used out of the box, we are at a dead end upgrade wise.
Sorry, all wrong. Our notion of property is flawed. The creator of an artwork does NOT own every copy of it. The creator is given an exclusive right to reproduce the work for a given time. We (the people) are granting creative individuals this right.
It was nothing to do with giving anything away for free at all, just limiting the time a work can be protected. The protection time is IMHO way too long.
For teleportaion to work, the state and position of all particles in the object must be known.
I think the whole point is that in order to pinpoint a particle with sufficient accuracy, you have to destroy it in the process.
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that position and mass time velocity cannot both be measured accurately at the same time (for subatomic particles). Teleportation only works if you know both the state (including velocity) and the position of all particles in the object to be teleported. Impossible.
Somehow it is possible to work around this limitation, by destroying the particle you are observing. I don't know why this helps, but hey if it works, cool.
But it seems it is impossible to create exact dublicates without destroying the original. There goes the plan to create an army of me...
In most civilized countries, it is a protected right to share cultural important stuff such as music and movies with friends and family. To bad the US isn't part of the civilized world any more...
I have an idea!
Let's raise money to a fund, and pay more to those how are willing to keep their findings to themselves (or even better, publish them after the challenge is over, and the shit is in use?)
Hmmm... the NSA key in WinNT sure springs to mind. And there was that unfortunate "bug" in the first release of Win98, which sent a lot of info to Microsoft, about user activities. Scary.
We'll just have to use Linux and PGP when we plan assassinations and cyber terrorism.
Ost99
The above text is written in Word97.... [Sound of black helicopters]
Look what happend to Jon when he tried to do just that (RE) in Norway.... he's in big trouble, even though what he's done isn't covered by Norwegian law...
...we sent a man into space entirely on our own, something that only Russia (or USSR, or both, actually) and the US have succeeded in doing!", and then feel like a real superpower about it.
The US didn't actually do this entirely on their own? As far as I can remember, most of the pre Gemini projects were run by (or with much aid from) German scientists.
Individual freedom is *way more* important than corperate freedom. Too big companies threatens free speech, democracy and our way of life.
What will you do, when Microsoft owns the net, every com. satellite in orbit, reads all your mail with M$echelon 2005, gets Gates elected President (using their global information monopoly) and sends M$gestapo after every rebel Linux user?
I just mailed this to John Forgetta, editor Angeles Times:
Dear Editor
When I read Jack Valentri's article (http://www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/movies /20000130/t000009450.html), I was horrified. He clearly tries to misslead your readers, when he tries to link DVD playback from a computer hard drive with piracy. It is legal to copy DVD's for personal use, even when they are protected agains it.
(Ref, DMCA, Copyright Office Summary, December 1998, Page 4 : [...to assure that the public will have the continued ability to make fair use of copyrighted works. Since copying of a work may be a fair use under appropriate circumstances, section 1201 does not prohibit the act of circumvent-ing a technological measure that prevents copying. By contrast, since the fair use doctrine is not a defense to the act of gaining unauthorized access to a work, the act of circumventing a technological measure in order to gain access is prohibited.]
In the quoted text uses the terms "fair use" and "unauthorized access". Reading and playing a DVD movie I've payed for, can' be described as "unauthorized access".
The main feature of the DeCSS program he describes i to enable playing of DVD movies on PC's not using Windows or MacOS.
In fact, it is just as easy to copy a DVD without the "criminal hacker" made. The only way DeCSS could be used for piracy, is if you want to convert the DVD to a medium with lower density, and quality (like a video CD). So his statement about "perfect copies" is obviously wrong. He also talks about using DVD-R to pirate DVD's, that has absoulutly nothing to to with the DeCSS program, as these copies will not be readable in any stationary DVD player. Furthermore, even with access to a DVD stamper, the DeCSS program would not be of any use. No DVD player will read a decrypted DVD. The "easiest" way to copy a DVD is buying a DVD stamper ($100.000+). You don't need to know what the DVD contains, if you want to make a "presine and pure" copy. Just read the raw encrypted data, and copy it.
This case is about a norwegian boy, aged 16. Who live on a farm, with his famely. And the way MPAA tries to controll the way we watch our movies. This is the real thing, if it doesn't stop here. Where will it end? If a US court of law can clain juristiction in this case (websites outside the US, and a non US "hacker"), what is to stop, let's say China, from prosecuting "criminals", who hosts websites with "illegal" information (like Amnesty etc.)?
Stian /ITK
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
And where did Jon ever promote piracy, or pirate DVD's? I hope you know it is LEGAL in Norway and the US to copy your own CD's, DVD's and even software.
If he ever did anything wrong, it appears to be using the Win2k beta without licence. If every government should come so hard down on every user, not owning licences for all the programs he or she is using, well then the world ecconomy would collapse in a matter of months... (80-90% of all computer users have one or more programs without the proper licence, I bet you have too!)
Ost99
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
Well Norway isn't in recession... we are doing quite good actually. Having the worlds 2. or 3. strongest economy. And the justice system is not that bad. At least we don't put anyone to death...
As I recall you guys just (in Texas) put a mentaly ill man to death for someting he had no way of controlling... don't preach moral, untill you stop behaving like savages and barbarians yourself...
It IS legal to reverse engineer there - but NOT for the purposes of using that info to steal intellectual properties, which he did. ?? For the putposes of stealing ?? I guess we all should worry, if reading DVD's under linux is considered stealing
Ost99 Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
Weel, not in this case. The question was, how long the tunnel has to be, given acceleration 1G, 2G or 5G. You use F=ma to find out how great the force working on the object is, when it's has an acceleration of ??m/s^2. 1G = 9.81 m/s^2
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I know the VIA 400 chipset has problems with this, but the new SiS 648 chipset does not have any problems with this at all, and allows for more that one DDR400 chip at the time. See Tom's hardware for more on the SiS chipset.
- Ost
Perhaps they can use the cloned mammoths to make new elephants; by 2052 they will be extinct.
- Ost
Not that this has anything to do with the article in question, but fast ram on the video card is essential if you're going to play games in hi-res.
The AGP bus can't supply data / textures fast enough to a modern GPU/VPU. Both the bus and the main memory is way to slow. Some business pcs uses shared video and main memory. It works ok for most 2D apps, and will even allow you to play DVDs or streamed video. For games; forget it.
- Ost
Hmm. I don't have any problems with the M3 card in my 5000e. Perhaps you should have your fans cleaned or the heat transfere metal plate checked?
- Ost
The Inspiron 5000e has the same size agp card as the 8000 series. The problem with changing video card on laptops, is that the videocard bios is part of the bios on the mainboard. The cards must be capable of running with the same bios. I think this is valid for the 8000 series as well.
As far as I can see that means:
a) The 8100 has the same bios as 8200 with Gf4GO support.
or b) The GF2Go and GF4Go use the same code in the bios.
The Inspiron 5000 series does not have an option for GF2Go (they are older than that card), so they don't have support for it in the bios. Possible upgrades is M3 8MB to a new M3 16MB card (no mem upgrade, you have to change the whole card I think).
If the new M4 cards (much faster than the M3 atleast) can use the same bios as the M3 cards, then that might be a good upgrade option.
In order to use a GF4Go or GF2Go card, you would have to:
a) Improve heat transfere from the GPU, and probably find a way of supplying the card with enough current.
and b) Make a new Inspiron 5000(e) bios, with support for the Nvidia cards, and flash your laptop.
Buttom line: if the M4 can't be used out of the box, we are at a dead end upgrade wise.
- Ost
- Ost
Sorry, all wrong.
Our notion of property is flawed.
The creator of an artwork does NOT own every copy of it. The creator is given an exclusive right to reproduce the work for a given time. We (the people) are granting creative individuals this right.
It was nothing to do with giving anything away for free at all, just limiting the time a work can be protected. The protection time is IMHO way too long.
For teleportaion to work, the state and position of all particles in the object must be known.
I think the whole point is that in order to pinpoint a particle with sufficient accuracy, you have to destroy it in the process.
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle states that position and mass time velocity cannot both be measured accurately at the same time (for subatomic particles). Teleportation only works if you know both the state (including velocity) and the position of all particles in the object to be teleported. Impossible.
Somehow it is possible to work around this limitation, by destroying the particle you are observing. I don't know why this helps, but hey if it works, cool.
But it seems it is impossible to create exact dublicates without destroying the original. There goes the plan to create an army of me...
- Ost
In most civilized countries, it is a protected right to share cultural important stuff such as music and movies with friends and family. To bad the US isn't part of the civilized world any more...
- Ost
I have an idea!
Let's raise money to a fund, and pay more to those how are willing to keep their findings to themselves (or even better, publish them after the challenge is over, and the shit is in use?)
Ost99
Hmmm... the NSA key in WinNT sure springs to mind. And there was that unfortunate "bug" in the first release of Win98, which sent a lot of info to Microsoft, about user activities. Scary.
We'll just have to use Linux and PGP when we plan assassinations and cyber terrorism.
Ost99
The above text is written in Word97.... [Sound of black helicopters]
Nah...
Still a way to go. Microwave ovens uses 2.405Ghz. Perhaps in 2-3 years.... would be fun though.
Just imagine having to use radiation shielding in a PC...
Ost99
Look what happend to Jon when he tried to do just that (RE) in Norway.... he's in big trouble, even though what he's done isn't covered by Norwegian law...
Ost99
...we sent a man into space entirely on our own, something that only Russia (or USSR, or both, actually) and the US have succeeded in doing!", and then feel like a real superpower about it.
The US didn't actually do this entirely on their own? As far as I can remember, most of the pre Gemini projects were run by (or with much aid from) German scientists.
Ost99
Get your facts right...
From NASA: (http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/ history/mercury/flight-summary.txt)
That's the 60's not the 40's. Back in the 40's the little green men had all of space to them self.
Ost99
Individual freedom is *way more* important than corperate freedom. Too big companies threatens free speech, democracy and our way of life.
What will you do, when Microsoft owns the net, every com. satellite in orbit, reads all your mail with M$echelon 2005, gets Gates elected President (using their global information monopoly) and sends M$gestapo after every rebel Linux user?
Ost99
/Happy NON US citizen
I just mailed this to John Forgetta, editor Angeles Times:
s /20000130/t000009450.html),
/ITK
Dear Editor
When I read Jack Valentri's article
(http://www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/movie
I was horrified. He clearly tries to misslead your readers, when he tries
to link DVD playback from a computer hard drive with piracy. It is legal
to copy DVD's for personal use, even when they are protected agains it.
(Ref, DMCA, Copyright Office Summary, December 1998, Page 4 :
[...to assure that the public will have the continued ability to make fair
use of copyrighted works. Since copying of a work may be a fair use
under appropriate circumstances, section 1201 does not prohibit the act of
circumvent-ing a technological measure that prevents copying. By contrast,
since the fair use doctrine is not a defense to the act of gaining
unauthorized access to a work, the act of circumventing a technological
measure in order to gain access is prohibited.]
In the quoted text uses the terms "fair use" and "unauthorized access".
Reading and playing a DVD movie I've payed for, can' be described as
"unauthorized access".
The main feature of the DeCSS program he describes i to enable playing of
DVD movies on PC's not using Windows or MacOS.
In fact, it is just as easy to copy a DVD without the "criminal hacker"
made. The only way DeCSS could be used for piracy, is if you want to
convert the DVD to a medium with lower density, and quality (like a video
CD). So his statement about "perfect copies" is obviously wrong. He also
talks about using DVD-R to pirate DVD's, that has absoulutly nothing to to
with the DeCSS program, as these copies will not be readable in any
stationary DVD player. Furthermore, even with access to a DVD stamper,
the DeCSS program would not be of any use. No DVD player will read a
decrypted DVD. The "easiest" way to copy a DVD is buying a DVD stamper
($100.000+). You don't need to know what the DVD contains, if you want to
make a "presine and pure" copy. Just read the raw encrypted data, and copy
it.
This case is about a norwegian boy, aged 16. Who live on a farm, with his
famely. And the way MPAA tries to controll the way we watch our movies.
This is the real thing, if it doesn't stop here. Where will it end? If a
US court of law can clain juristiction in this case (websites outside the
US, and a non US "hacker"), what is to stop, let's say China, from
prosecuting "criminals", who hosts websites with "illegal" information
(like Amnesty etc.)?
Stian
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
The encryption was only 40 bit strong. So it would be possible to break whitout the master key (from Xing).
Ost99
And where did Jon ever promote piracy, or pirate DVD's? I hope you know it is LEGAL in Norway and the US to copy your own CD's, DVD's and even software.
If he ever did anything wrong, it appears to be using the Win2k beta without licence. If every government should come so hard down on every user, not owning licences for all the programs he or she is using, well then the world ecconomy would collapse in a matter of months... (80-90% of all computer users have one or more programs without the proper licence, I bet you have too!)
Ost99
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
Well Norway isn't in recession... we are doing quite good actually. Having the worlds 2. or 3. strongest economy. And the justice system is not that bad. At least we don't put anyone to death...
As I recall you guys just (in Texas) put a mentaly ill man to death for someting he had no way of controlling... don't preach moral, untill you stop behaving like savages and barbarians yourself...
It IS legal to reverse engineer there - but NOT for the purposes of using that info to steal intellectual properties, which he did.
?? For the putposes of stealing ??
I guess we all should worry, if reading DVD's under linux is considered stealing
Ost99
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
No one have been put to death in Norway since just after WWII. The last death sentences in Norway was for war crimes in 46 (or thereabout).
More interesting: The re software laws in Norway doesn't apply in this case. It's a DUD
-Ost99
This proves my fist numbers are wrong...
Somehow I failed to use the bc command right.
Sorry
-Stian
Nope.
(1) distance = v(0) + 0.5 * a * t^2
(2) v(final) = v(0) + a * t
From (1) and (2) we find:
distance (given v(0)= 0) = v(final)^2/(2*a)
a= g = 9.81 m/s^2
-Stian
Weel, not in this case. The question was, how long the tunnel
has to be, given acceleration 1G, 2G or 5G.
You use F=ma to find out how great the force
working on the object is, when it's has an acceleration of ??m/s^2.
1G = 9.81 m/s^2
-Stian