Buy one of those radio cards. Hauppage has a WinTV+radio card for $100. Despite the name the TV card is very cross platform compatible, not sure about the radio aspect. It should be a piece of cake to record programs on a given schedule, and you could probably encode to MP3 in real time just like the MP3 broadcasters do.
I think it's the same principle as those carnival games where one hits a hammer on a piston and depending on how high the ball goes, you get a prize. In my experience the winners use the lighter mallet, though most go for the heavier one since you would think it will hit harder. the key is that kinetic energy is 1/2 * m * v^2 where m is the masss of the object and v is the objects speed. Thus the velocity is more important in determing the strengh of the resulting blow. A heavier mallet (or sword) will be much more difficult to get to a high speed (except for using gravity).
Which court decided that copying from one memory to another was infringing? Do you have any further information?
MAI Systems Corp v. Peak Computer, Inc, 991 F.2d 511, 518 (9th Cir. 1993)
I hope that's the proper way to cite a court decision, I'm just copying it from a text. Basically a third party repair company was barred from repairing computers running a certain OS because they had to load the OS into RAM to repair it - thus breaking copyright. This is similar to the Sega v. Acclaim case in which Sega claimed Acclaim violated their copyright in the process of reverse engineering because they must have made a copy of the software. Sega lost that one. Pretty lame methinks. I believe that the Copyright act of 1980 was ammended in 1998 to fix this stupidity, but I'm not sure if decisions after this date were saner.
There's an RFC covering an extension to TCP for LFPs (long, fat pipes). It allows larger packets to be sent by increasing the space used to hold packet size info (I think it uses some unused field). I don't know which RFC exactly, but it should be easy to look up.
The reason this is an issue is because a link that can transfer a huge amount of data but with high latency will end up being limited by having to wait for ACKs before advancing the window. Of course you have more ACKs to wait for if you have more, smaller packets. The easy fix is to increase the packet size. You have to counter this however with the reliability of the link, or you end up constantly resending a huge amount of data.
By silencing the "elitist pigs" you are actually introducing elitism, by making a subjective judgement that something is worthless and therefore ought to be silenced.
Your post pointed out an obvious flaw in logic. It was redundant and thus decreased the S/N ratio.
Do you have any well-reasoned criticism of my post, or are you just going waste my time by posting flames and poor logic?
Why? Because we can have quality websites filled with stuff that we can appreciate? Because rather than having to pander to corporate whims we can design the web to suit us? What about this fills you with such fear?
Hey dumbass, how about you don't visit the big evil corporate sites that are invading your world. The next time you see a link to www.spendallyourmoney.com don't click on it! And when you set up a public server, make it only run gopher and transmit data in EBCDIC; so only you and your l33t friends can see it. Last I checked, no one forced you to put up a web site that used Oracle to serve up dynamically generated Flash animations to a Java applet.
Although I'm sure you knew everything about the Internet the first time you logged onto a public terminal, there are many who are just learning. Even if only 1% becomes familar with the underlying technologies, would you deny them the chance?
You forgot the l33t w4r3z that would turn a 2400 bps modem into a 9600.
The only one of these dubious apps that I used was the disk doubler thingy. I grew to hate the misreported free space, and completely abandond it when the whole partition (actually a single compressed file) was inexplicably hosed.
I'm not always clear about Java's automatic variable initialization since the compiler won't let me do anything without initializing all my variables. It gets annoying when I declare a variable in a particular place for scoping and conditionally initialize it later, but I guess String s = null; isn't such a big deal. Is the only place automatic initialization occur when you aren't initializing an instance variable in a constructor?
My favorite C bug is when a novice depends on local variables being initialized to 0 (without explicitly doing so), and it works usually but doesn't on a recursive call. It kills them to see code that normally works break later with the exact same arguments.
The Hatfield and McCoy clans. They're so legendary that they've become virtually synonymous with "blood feud". And they were 100% American.
The story is somewhat apocryphal. Most of their conflict originated because of Civil War disputes (one family fighting for the North, one for the South). I recently heard a radio report about a friendly softball match between the two families.
I'm sure that there are many Americans who have held onto multi-generational vendettas, but it's not really part of our culture. We have too short of an attention span to hate people for long;)
Wouldn't that make his IQ even larger? When using bases other than ten we usually keep the one digit/symbol per power. So an IQ of 4749935 in base 4749935 would be 5*4749935^0 + 3*4749935^1 + 9*4749935^2 +... Just like 0x16 = 22. The dificult part would be coming up with 4749900 symbols. Even all the characters in UNICODE wouldn't come close.
I used to watch it purely in Japanese (no dubbing or subtitles) on the Los Angeles international station. Somehow I found it more enjoyable when I wasn't hearing the ditzy announcers trying to guess what everyone was cooking. It was fun just to watch the food and silliness.
I will second someone else's suggestion: go to your local Japan-town and find a video store.
Second, I'm not saying open standards didn't help the net. But they didn't build it. Like I originally said, open systems are good for getting ideas flowing, but it's Big Business (in this case AT&T) that can actually implement these ideas.
AT&T created UNIX (more a research project than a business initiative), but who wrote the TCP/IP stack that made the internet route and forward? Was it K&R, no....was it Bill Gates, no...was it Steve Jobs, no....it was Bill Joy, working as a grad student at UC Berkeley. His group was under a grant from DARPA to create an open system with these new fangled packet switching networks that had been developed in several universities. Big business that had been hired to develop a TCP/IP stack ended up using Joy's implementation since theres sucked.
Business has its place, but I think that business is extremely compatible with open source projects, even though the goals are sometimes orthogonal.
young programmer once asked Stallman: "How can I do Rapid Application Development for Linux?" To which Stallman replied: "If you want to develop applications rapidly, I suggest looking into Scheme."
I like scheme as much as the next guy, ok probably lots more. But are there any standard I/O and graphics libraries for it? There doesn't seem to be any consensus across different products and platforms and thus it is useless for real work. I'd like to be corrected if I'm wrong...
Just a quick note about RISC: another of the original motivations was to trade complexity of the chip for complexity of the compiler. The compiler has to do a bit more work optimizing things for out of order execution and branch prediction, but it has a bunch of registers to play around with. Also it is damn hard to do effective pipelining unless your instructions are the same length and go through the same stages, which is hard to do unless all the instructions are pretty simple.
A few years ago I was a much less careful programmer. I had a number of sprintf calls writing outside the bounds of an array. Stupid, I know, but it happens. Under WinNT 4.0 the program would crash and just dissappear!! No core dump, no GPF, no nothing. Just gone. Under win9x it would at least throw up a GPF and a useless stack trace. Under a UNIX system I would at least get a core dump and the ubiquitous segfault message. It would also be easy to trap this by typing 'gdb a.out' then 'run'.
While debugging with Visual Studio 5.0 I would have to restart after about 5 or 6 compile+executions of the program. I should never have to restart the OS because my program screws up. Especially if I am running this through a debugger. I have never gotten gdb to crash on a properly configured system (which is to say 99% of them).
So now I do all of my non win32 development on a Linux box. Java development and pure C++ stuff.
My only gripe is that the statement about pdf. This is a closed,and with-held format.
I agree with you completely! If only that damned Adobe would open the file specification. Obviously they are trying to get a stranglehold on the market and blight out the common man.
We need open programs that can read and create pdf files. Without such programs, the PDF format is useless.
So let's fight the power and boycott Adobe until they free the format!
So what do you spend more time teaching, programming or C++ syntax? A beginning language should have as little syntax as possible so that the student can concentrate on learning how to break problems down rather than how to please the parser from hell. I have a certain respect for C++, but the more I have studied and used it, the more I fear it.
Is there a reason why they chose the name DIVX? Maybe they should call it Matt instead:)
I believe the creators are French and had never heard of the Circuit City product when they named it. It is DivX not DIVX so all the UNIX people here should be fine with it.
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Wow, that's a completely brilliant idea! Just keep that in mind the next time you move your machine to a different subnet.
Why not see what the following sites do:
www.juston.com
www.idrive.com
www.freespace.com
Buy one of those radio cards. Hauppage has a WinTV+radio card for $100. Despite the name the TV card is very cross platform compatible, not sure about the radio aspect. It should be a piece of cake to record programs on a given schedule, and you could probably encode to MP3 in real time just like the MP3 broadcasters do.
I think it's the same principle as those carnival games where one hits a hammer on a piston and depending on how high the ball goes, you get a prize. In my experience the winners use the lighter mallet, though most go for the heavier one since you would think it will hit harder. the key is that kinetic energy is 1/2 * m * v^2 where m is the masss of the object and v is the objects speed. Thus the velocity is more important in determing the strengh of the resulting blow. A heavier mallet (or sword) will be much more difficult to get to a high speed (except for using gravity).
Which court decided that copying from one memory to another was infringing? Do you have any further information?
MAI Systems Corp v. Peak Computer, Inc, 991 F.2d 511, 518 (9th Cir. 1993)
I hope that's the proper way to cite a court decision, I'm just copying it from a text. Basically a third party repair company was barred from repairing computers running a certain OS because they had to load the OS into RAM to repair it - thus breaking copyright. This is similar to the Sega v. Acclaim case in which Sega claimed Acclaim violated their copyright in the process of reverse engineering because they must have made a copy of the software. Sega lost that one. Pretty lame methinks. I believe that the Copyright act of 1980 was ammended in 1998 to fix this stupidity, but I'm not sure if decisions after this date were saner.
There's an RFC covering an extension to TCP for LFPs (long, fat pipes). It allows larger packets to be sent by increasing the space used to hold packet size info (I think it uses some unused field). I don't know which RFC exactly, but it should be easy to look up.
The reason this is an issue is because a link that can transfer a huge amount of data but with high latency will end up being limited by having to wait for ACKs before advancing the window. Of course you have more ACKs to wait for if you have more, smaller packets. The easy fix is to increase the packet size. You have to counter this however with the reliability of the link, or you end up constantly resending a huge amount of data.
By silencing the "elitist pigs" you are actually introducing elitism, by making a subjective judgement that something is worthless and therefore ought to be silenced.
Your post pointed out an obvious flaw in logic. It was redundant and thus decreased the S/N ratio.
Do you have any well-reasoned criticism of my post, or are you just going waste my time by posting flames and poor logic?
I'll give you 3 guesses.
Why? Because we can have quality websites filled with stuff that we can appreciate? Because rather than having to pander to corporate whims we can design the web to suit us? What about this fills you with such fear?
Hey dumbass, how about you don't visit the big evil corporate sites that are invading your world. The next time you see a link to www.spendallyourmoney.com don't click on it! And when you set up a public server, make it only run gopher and transmit data in EBCDIC; so only you and your l33t friends can see it. Last I checked, no one forced you to put up a web site that used Oracle to serve up dynamically generated Flash animations to a Java applet.
Although I'm sure you knew everything about the Internet the first time you logged onto a public terminal, there are many who are just learning. Even if only 1% becomes familar with the underlying technologies, would you deny them the chance?
I read my email from an IMAP server. Maybe the search engines I'm most likely to use are archie or veronica?
You forgot the l33t w4r3z that would turn a 2400 bps modem into a 9600.
The only one of these dubious apps that I used was the disk doubler thingy. I grew to hate the misreported free space, and completely abandond it when the whole partition (actually a single compressed file) was inexplicably hosed.
I bet Bob Metcalfe wrote the headline.
I'm not always clear about Java's automatic variable initialization since the compiler won't let me do anything without initializing all my variables. It gets annoying when I declare a variable in a particular place for scoping and conditionally initialize it later, but I guess
String s = null;
isn't such a big deal. Is the only place automatic initialization occur when you aren't initializing an instance variable in a constructor?
My favorite C bug is when a novice depends on local variables being initialized to 0 (without explicitly doing so), and it works usually but doesn't on a recursive call. It kills them to see code that normally works break later with the exact same arguments.
The Hatfield and McCoy clans. They're so legendary that they've become virtually synonymous with "blood feud". And they were 100% American.
;)
The story is somewhat apocryphal. Most of their conflict originated because of Civil War disputes (one family fighting for the North, one for the South). I recently heard a radio report about a friendly softball match between the two families.
I'm sure that there are many Americans who have held onto multi-generational vendettas, but it's not really part of our culture. We have too short of an attention span to hate people for long
Wouldn't that make his IQ even larger? When using bases other than ten we usually keep the one digit/symbol per power. So an IQ of 4749935 in base 4749935 would be 5*4749935^0 + 3*4749935^1 + 9*4749935^2 + ...
Just like 0x16 = 22.
The dificult part would be coming up with 4749900 symbols. Even all the characters in UNICODE wouldn't come close.
I used to watch it purely in Japanese (no dubbing or subtitles) on the Los Angeles international station. Somehow I found it more enjoyable when I wasn't hearing the ditzy announcers trying to guess what everyone was cooking. It was fun just to watch the food and silliness.
I will second someone else's suggestion: go to your local Japan-town and find a video store.
Second, I'm not saying open standards didn't help the net. But they didn't build it. Like I originally said, open systems are good for getting ideas flowing, but it's Big Business (in this case AT&T) that can actually implement these ideas.
AT&T created UNIX (more a research project than a business initiative), but who wrote the TCP/IP stack that made the internet route and forward? Was it K&R, no....was it Bill Gates, no...was it Steve Jobs, no....it was Bill Joy, working as a grad student at UC Berkeley. His group was under a grant from DARPA to create an open system with these new fangled packet switching networks that had been developed in several universities. Big business that had been hired to develop a TCP/IP stack ended up using Joy's implementation since theres sucked.
Business has its place, but I think that business is extremely compatible with open source projects, even though the goals are sometimes orthogonal.
C is already portable assembler!
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
young programmer once asked Stallman: "How can I do Rapid Application Development for Linux?" To which Stallman replied: "If you want to develop applications rapidly, I suggest looking into Scheme."
I like scheme as much as the next guy, ok probably lots more. But are there any standard I/O and graphics libraries for it? There doesn't seem to be any consensus across different products and platforms and thus it is useless for real work. I'd like to be corrected if I'm wrong...
Just a quick note about RISC: another of the original motivations was to trade complexity of the chip for complexity of the compiler. The compiler has to do a bit more work optimizing things for out of order execution and branch prediction, but it has a bunch of registers to play around with. Also it is damn hard to do effective pipelining unless your instructions are the same length and go through the same stages, which is hard to do unless all the instructions are pretty simple.
A few years ago I was a much less careful programmer. I had a number of sprintf calls writing outside the bounds of an array. Stupid, I know, but it happens. Under WinNT 4.0 the program would crash and just dissappear!! No core dump, no GPF, no nothing. Just gone. Under win9x it would at least throw up a GPF and a useless stack trace. Under a UNIX system I would at least get a core dump and the ubiquitous segfault message. It would also be easy to trap this by typing 'gdb a.out' then 'run'.
While debugging with Visual Studio 5.0 I would have to restart after about 5 or 6 compile+executions of the program. I should never have to restart the OS because my program screws up. Especially if I am running this through a debugger. I have never gotten gdb to crash on a properly configured system (which is to say 99% of them).
So now I do all of my non win32 development on a Linux box. Java development and pure C++ stuff.
My only gripe is that the statement about pdf. This is a closed,and with-held format.
I agree with you completely! If only that damned Adobe would open the file specification. Obviously they are trying to get a stranglehold on the market and blight out the common man.
We need open programs that can read and create pdf files. Without such programs, the PDF format is useless.
So let's fight the power and boycott Adobe until they free the format!
So what do you spend more time teaching, programming or C++ syntax? A beginning language should have as little syntax as possible so that the student can concentrate on learning how to break problems down rather than how to please the parser from hell. I have a certain respect for C++, but the more I have studied and used it, the more I fear it.
In almost every other country in the world, Bungie are plural.
Would the singular be Bungus?
:)
I know some wrist execises you can do under desk, but you have to beware of chafing and I'm not sure if you should do them at work...
Is there a reason why they chose the name DIVX? Maybe they should call it Matt instead :)
I believe the creators are French and had never heard of the Circuit City product when they named it. It is DivX not DIVX so all the UNIX people here should be fine with it.