In Finland, and most other countries in Europe (all countries in Europe?)...
In Italy any modification and reverse engineering of the software to improve its functionality is explicitly allowed by law, as long as you own a license for it.
That's not the original reason for interlacing (altough the "interlaced feel" you are describing may now be some legacy like the 24fps motion blur).
NTSC/PAL video is interlaced because it was originally meant for display on CRT TVs. If you display "progressive" video on a CRT, when the electron gun reaches (=lights up) the lines at the bottom of the screen, the phosphors of the lines at the top will already be too dark and this will be perceived like a flashing of the image.
With interlaced video instead the electron gun is passing on every single line 60 times per second, reducing the line fading between a pass and the next one.
In related trivia, did you ever wonder why PAL is 50fps and NTSC 60fps? It's because the field rate of the first TV radio transmissions (in the 1950s) was synchronized with the AC power lines (while now it is sent to the TV set through a glitch in the signal itself). And while in the US the power lines frequency is 60 Hz, in Europe, were PAL was later adopted fixing the color problems of NTSC (at the time nicknamed the "Never Twice Same Color" standard), the frequency is 50 Hz. These number refer of course to the interlaced 60/50 Hz "field rate", and not the progressive 29.97/25 Hz "frame rate".
Historically, the biggest group releasing jailbreaks has been the Dev-Team (guess what? this is not linked on TFS...). But I'd rather say that today security holes are mostly discovered by individuals (some of their twitter accounts are listed on Dev-Team's page) that usually coordinate on the jailbreaks test and release with the original Dev-Team members (MuscleNerd & c.). Along the way tho there were other individuals (like George "Geohot" Hotz and others I can't recall right now) that didn't like the ultra-careful Dev-Team approach on exploits release and went their own way, releasing sometimes unreliable hacks or, in any case, revealing the hole before a major firmware release from Apple or after a minor one. However these days I think everyone understood that the cat and mouse chase is getting dangerous, everyone is a bit more cautious and the hacks are relased only when it's worth it and when they are really proven to be stable for release on the wide range of devices/OS versions.
Today, with most dedicated rippers using "LAME -V0" or 256/320kbps CBR
You may want to consider using VBR (or ABR, if target size or live streaming are a concern). I know that they may sound like exotic technologies (and yeah, I've been through the "Xing encoder" phase 15 years ago too...), but they are very well implemented on LAME and their net effect is saving bits for when they are really needed (so, a medium VBR may in the end be better than a 256 CBR, not being capped a-priori on the maximum bitrate). Same reasonment goes for joint stereo, it's not 1998 anymore and LAME *is* good at high bitrates (for low bitrate stuff however you may want to look at the original Fraunhofer encoder, LAME's algorithm circumvention shows up there...)
It's the sonic equivalent of turning the brightness and contrast on your TV all the way up, now everyone has bright red skin and look like cartoon characters.
Thanks. Now I know how to explain this stuff to Joe Sixpack. Besides, why isn't this analogy anywhere to be found in the article?...
You're looking for quiet sounds amid the louder ones - they might be the little squeaks of guitar strings...
You don't know what dynamic range is until you've heard the guitar player tapping with the thumb on the soundboard keeping tempo. Yeah, on that unplugged recording you've listened to a thousand times before getting a serious pair of headphones (happened to me after getting my Audio Technica's).
Do you realize that space stations are not sold in stores? And do you realize that you do not want to hack one to jailbreak it, but to potentially gater intelligence or hold it to ransom?
Also you can use HTTPTunnel on any PHP enabled server (with almost no other requirements) and connect to it with the multiplatform Perl client to open a local SOCKS server (there are other projects named like this one, but this is the only one that really works). The client supports HTTP proxies and the request are normal HTTP GETs/PUTs (not CONNECTs). The project is not being updated since 2010, but it just works (even tho the SSL part has problems, but you can just configure the PHP folder on an HTTPS web server and use stunnel in front of the client).
Then under Windows many programs do not support the SOCKS protocol to connect to the client (I'm looking at you, Remote Desktop), but you can just run ProxyCap to transparently redirect single programs (or all of them) through any proxy. There are free (as in beer, mostly) alternatives to ProxyCap, but they are either not updated (i.e., they don't work on 64-bit systems) or they are likely to deeply mess up the windows network driver configuration when you remove them (or both).
The researchers augmented the ICESat data with other types of data to compensate for the sparse lidar data, the effects of topography and cloud cover. These included estimates of the percentage of global tree cover from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite, elevation data from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, and temperature and precipitation maps from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the WorldClim database.
From a video with a Google Earth overlay you can find on NASA's ICESat mission website, the points from a single pass look more like 100 m apart.
DNS A records (i.e., the ones that provide IP addresses to web browsers) are different from MX records (i.e., the ones that provide IP addresses to MTAs), and in your domain you already have both.
Just keep the ownership of your domain, point the A record to the new guy's server and keep the MX record as it is (or point it to Gmail, to finally move all the email addresses off your SquirrelMail thing...)
Due to some bug on my Linksys WRT120N wireless router, having the DNT header in your HTTP requests screws up basic-auth and there's no way I can log in.
The problem is that the DNT flag (at least in Firefox) is not only enabled in "Options" -> "Privacy" -> "Tell websites I do not want to be tracked", but may be also enabled by AdBlock itself with this hacky rule I found in the EasyPrivacy filters list: *$donottrack,image,~image
Not sure what web server is running on the router, but I'm having this header disabled for now...
The companies that are trying to innovate, the companies that don't want to see *other* companies innovate, or the standardization system that moves at the speed of my grandpa, rocking in his chair while keeping an eye on all these children running around?
paying full price for a game and only getting a temporary license for it.
I remember a game development manager of Ubisoft being asked about piracy some years back during a talk at my university. He said something along the lines of:
The 70% of sales of a single game are made during the first week after the release. The current goal of copy protection mechanisms is not to prevent piracy forever but to gain time.
That made sense.
Now this DRM scheme does absolutely nothing to gain time but only harms legitimate owners on the long run. What is the logic behind this?
to know the percentage of Facebook logins against standard ones, if you have that figure.
If you read the source article at NYT...
on
The Weight of an e-Book
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· Score: 5, Informative
... (which the editors should've linked to), it states:
“Although the total number of electrons in the memory does not change as the stored data changes,” Dr. Kubiatowicz said, the trapped ones have a higher energy than the untrapped ones. A conservative estimate of the difference would be 10^(-15) joules per bit.
As the equation E=mc^2 makes clear, this energy is equivalent to mass and will have weight. Assuming that all these bits in an empty four-gigabyte Kindle are in a lower energy state and that half have a higher energy in a full Kindle, this translates to an energy difference of 1.7 times 10^(-5) joules, Dr. Kubiatowicz calculated. Plugging this into Einstein’s equation yields his rough estimate of 10^(-18) grams.
Of course Kubiatowicz also says that:
[10^(-18) grams] is only about one hundred-millionth as much as the estimated fluctuation from charging and discharging the device’s battery.
Which is a far better comparison than the one obtained from The Guardian where Graeme Ackland of Edinburgh University stated:
"If Prof Kubiatowicz is really struggling with the extra weight, he is welcome to come to Edinburgh where it's cooler, and the lack of thermal energy in his Kindle will more than compensate."
To understand the xkcd joke I suppose you have to both be Italian and read the comic in English (i.e., nobody will understand it).
Full disclosure: I'm Italian.
which would mean a loss of some control and in many cars also disables power steering.
SHUTTING OFF YOUR ENGINE WILL NOT CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR CAR.
TFA was referring to a loss of some control, which is exactly what happens when you lose power steering/brake assist. It was not referring to a total loss of control or "endo"...
Test this by shutting off your engine in your driveway and...
Don't. With modern vehicles, letting the engine rotate while powered off may damage the catalytic converter when it is reached by non-burned/liquid fuel. You should only do that for a 10-20 meters in case of an emergency start (e.g., depleted battery due to age/cold temperatures).
Braking or pressing the cancel button will not work
BRAKING ALWAYS WORKS
TFA, again, is correct since it is explaining that braking will not work for the purpose of disabling cruise control.
What about contacting some advertising company interested in consumers' TV habits. I suppose they would easily pay you enough to upgrade your farm and score some return...
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I can put an array of tubes together for much cheaper than you can put transistors on a board.
Actually, no, you can't. What was your point again?
In Finland, and most other countries in Europe (all countries in Europe?)...
In Italy any modification and reverse engineering of the software to improve its functionality is explicitly allowed by law, as long as you own a license for it.
... This is the era of marketing, not the era of innovation (e.g., people talking of Arduino instead of Atmel, Raspberry Pi instead of Broadcom, etc.)
You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.
(Especially when greed is involved.)
That's not the original reason for interlacing (altough the "interlaced feel" you are describing may now be some legacy like the 24fps motion blur).
NTSC/PAL video is interlaced because it was originally meant for display on CRT TVs. If you display "progressive" video on a CRT, when the electron gun reaches (=lights up) the lines at the bottom of the screen, the phosphors of the lines at the top will already be too dark and this will be perceived like a flashing of the image.
With interlaced video instead the electron gun is passing on every single line 60 times per second, reducing the line fading between a pass and the next one.
In related trivia, did you ever wonder why PAL is 50fps and NTSC 60fps? It's because the field rate of the first TV radio transmissions (in the 1950s) was synchronized with the AC power lines (while now it is sent to the TV set through a glitch in the signal itself). And while in the US the power lines frequency is 60 Hz, in Europe, were PAL was later adopted fixing the color problems of NTSC (at the time nicknamed the "Never Twice Same Color" standard), the frequency is 50 Hz. These number refer of course to the interlaced 60/50 Hz "field rate", and not the progressive 29.97/25 Hz "frame rate".
Historically, the biggest group releasing jailbreaks has been the Dev-Team (guess what? this is not linked on TFS...). But I'd rather say that today security holes are mostly discovered by individuals (some of their twitter accounts are listed on Dev-Team's page) that usually coordinate on the jailbreaks test and release with the original Dev-Team members (MuscleNerd & c.). Along the way tho there were other individuals (like George "Geohot" Hotz and others I can't recall right now) that didn't like the ultra-careful Dev-Team approach on exploits release and went their own way, releasing sometimes unreliable hacks or, in any case, revealing the hole before a major firmware release from Apple or after a minor one. However these days I think everyone understood that the cat and mouse chase is getting dangerous, everyone is a bit more cautious and the hacks are relased only when it's worth it and when they are really proven to be stable for release on the wide range of devices/OS versions.
Today, with most dedicated rippers using "LAME -V0" or 256/320kbps CBR
You may want to consider using VBR (or ABR, if target size or live streaming are a concern). I know that they may sound like exotic technologies (and yeah, I've been through the "Xing encoder" phase 15 years ago too...), but they are very well implemented on LAME and their net effect is saving bits for when they are really needed (so, a medium VBR may in the end be better than a 256 CBR, not being capped a-priori on the maximum bitrate). Same reasonment goes for joint stereo, it's not 1998 anymore and LAME *is* good at high bitrates (for low bitrate stuff however you may want to look at the original Fraunhofer encoder, LAME's algorithm circumvention shows up there...)
It's the sonic equivalent of turning the brightness and contrast on your TV all the way up, now everyone has bright red skin and look like cartoon characters.
Thanks. Now I know how to explain this stuff to Joe Sixpack. Besides, why isn't this analogy anywhere to be found in the article?...
You're looking for quiet sounds amid the louder ones - they might be the little squeaks of guitar strings...
You don't know what dynamic range is until you've heard the guitar player tapping with the thumb on the soundboard keeping tempo. Yeah, on that unplugged recording you've listened to a thousand times before getting a serious pair of headphones (happened to me after getting my Audio Technica's).
Do you realize that space stations are not sold in stores? And do you realize that you do not want to hack one to jailbreak it, but to potentially gater intelligence or hold it to ransom?
Also you can use HTTPTunnel on any PHP enabled server (with almost no other requirements) and connect to it with the multiplatform Perl client to open a local SOCKS server (there are other projects named like this one, but this is the only one that really works). The client supports HTTP proxies and the request are normal HTTP GETs/PUTs (not CONNECTs). The project is not being updated since 2010, but it just works (even tho the SSL part has problems, but you can just configure the PHP folder on an HTTPS web server and use stunnel in front of the client).
Then under Windows many programs do not support the SOCKS protocol to connect to the client (I'm looking at you, Remote Desktop), but you can just run ProxyCap to transparently redirect single programs (or all of them) through any proxy. There are free (as in beer, mostly) alternatives to ProxyCap, but they are either not updated (i.e., they don't work on 64-bit systems) or they are likely to deeply mess up the windows network driver configuration when you remove them (or both).
From TFA:
The researchers augmented the ICESat data with other types of data to compensate for the sparse lidar data, the effects of topography and cloud cover. These included estimates of the percentage of global tree cover from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite, elevation data from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, and temperature and precipitation maps from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the WorldClim database.
From a video with a Google Earth overlay you can find on NASA's ICESat mission website, the points from a single pass look more like 100 m apart.
We're talkin what battles will be like in 100-200 years. Not in 2012 when these things already take months.
But I have to agree that this is a quite rare exception...
DNS A records (i.e., the ones that provide IP addresses to web browsers) are different from MX records (i.e., the ones that provide IP addresses to MTAs), and in your domain you already have both.
Just keep the ownership of your domain, point the A record to the new guy's server and keep the MX record as it is (or point it to Gmail, to finally move all the email addresses off your SquirrelMail thing...)
Due to some bug on my Linksys WRT120N wireless router, having the DNT header in your HTTP requests screws up basic-auth and there's no way I can log in.
The problem is that the DNT flag (at least in Firefox) is not only enabled in "Options" -> "Privacy" -> "Tell websites I do not want to be tracked", but may be also enabled by AdBlock itself with this hacky rule I found in the EasyPrivacy filters list: *$donottrack,image,~image
Not sure what web server is running on the router, but I'm having this header disabled for now...
It also shifts the system risk to the ground handling crews, where we can deal with it (as opposed to shifting it to on-orbit failures.)
I suppose the goal here is take that risk out of ground handling, not to have on-orbit failures...
The companies that are trying to innovate, the companies that don't want to see *other* companies innovate, or the standardization system that moves at the speed of my grandpa, rocking in his chair while keeping an eye on all these children running around?
how much energy from the Sun hits the Earth every year that all just goes to waste
Try living for a couple of weeks facing nothing but deep space (e.g., south pole in June), then you'll learn what that energy is wasted for...
paying full price for a game and only getting a temporary license for it.
I remember a game development manager of Ubisoft being asked about piracy some years back during a talk at my university. He said something along the lines of:
The 70% of sales of a single game are made during the first week after the release. The current goal of copy protection mechanisms is not to prevent piracy forever but to gain time.
That made sense.
Now this DRM scheme does absolutely nothing to gain time but only harms legitimate owners on the long run. What is the logic behind this?
"I cnduo't bvleiee taht..."
What actually amazes me is that I immediatly recognized that there was a missing L...
to know the percentage of Facebook logins against standard ones, if you have that figure.
“Although the total number of electrons in the memory does not change as the stored data changes,” Dr. Kubiatowicz said, the trapped ones have a higher energy than the untrapped ones. A conservative estimate of the difference would be 10^(-15) joules per bit.
As the equation E=mc^2 makes clear, this energy is equivalent to mass and will have weight. Assuming that all these bits in an empty four-gigabyte Kindle are in a lower energy state and that half have a higher energy in a full Kindle, this translates to an energy difference of 1.7 times 10^(-5) joules, Dr. Kubiatowicz calculated. Plugging this into Einstein’s equation yields his rough estimate of 10^(-18) grams.
Of course Kubiatowicz also says that:
[10^(-18) grams] is only about one hundred-millionth as much as the estimated fluctuation from charging and discharging the device’s battery.
Which is a far better comparison than the one obtained from The Guardian where Graeme Ackland of Edinburgh University stated:
"If Prof Kubiatowicz is really struggling with the extra weight, he is welcome to come to Edinburgh where it's cooler, and the lack of thermal energy in his Kindle will more than compensate."
Slashdot, home of crowdediting.
To understand the xkcd joke I suppose you have to both be Italian and read the comic in English (i.e., nobody will understand it). Full disclosure: I'm Italian.
which would mean a loss of some control and in many cars also disables power steering.
SHUTTING OFF YOUR ENGINE WILL NOT CAUSE YOU TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR CAR.
TFA was referring to a loss of some control, which is exactly what happens when you lose power steering/brake assist. It was not referring to a total loss of control or "endo"...
Test this by shutting off your engine in your driveway and...
Don't. With modern vehicles, letting the engine rotate while powered off may damage the catalytic converter when it is reached by non-burned/liquid fuel. You should only do that for a 10-20 meters in case of an emergency start (e.g., depleted battery due to age/cold temperatures).
Braking or pressing the cancel button will not work
BRAKING ALWAYS WORKS
TFA, again, is correct since it is explaining that braking will not work for the purpose of disabling cruise control.
A packet radio network. Forget about streaming videos tho...
What about contacting some advertising company interested in consumers' TV habits. I suppose they would easily pay you enough to upgrade your farm and score some return...