MCS could be compiled, but that the resultant executable immediately crashes.
I guess it's sort of like that classic definition of a species: it's not enough for the creature simply to be able to reproduce -- the offspring has to be fertile as well!
It's not that off base. Quake 3 uses motion video cutscenes. And it's certainly conceivable that Doom 3 could use a video compression format for in-game animated textures.
Q3 uses a format called RoQ, which I guess was developed in-house at id. Some weekend project for Carmack, I suppose. "Hmm. Next item on my to-do list, 'develop video codec from scratch'."
...have identified less than 2 million distinct species with from 10 million to more than 100 million still undiscovered. Likening this dearth of information to doing chemistry knowing only one third of the periodic table
That's a bit of a stretch I think.
How many of these species are "leaf nodes" on the evolutionary tree, with only minute differences between the specific species of that family/genus? Our progress in biology isn't *that* severely hampered by not having catalogued all two hundred thousand dung beetle species, each of which differ only in color and antenna length.
Actually, it's the poseur idiots that are more likely to use Toslink. Given that they're exactly equal in performance, Toslink is more expensive and more "gee-whiz" impressive. After all, it must be better to pay $5 a foot than $0.10, right?
That's not really an obscure hack. You just described a piece of hardware called a format convertor, and several companies produce them. It's not quite as simple as wiring an LED or sensor to the electrical SPDIF connector, but the circuit is very simple.
I had to buy one recently (optical -> electrical) so that I could connect my Xbox to my older Dolby Digital reciever.
It's a question of whether the indicator is what the article terms a "Class II" device (signal based on activity) or a "Class III" indicator (signal based on data). You, and everyone else that failed to read the article before posting hunches, can read go read page 10, which has a list of various devices shows those that have class III indicators that are susceptible to the snooping in question.
The Cisco 4000 and 7000 IP Routers are "Class III" devices, and they're relatively popular.
I've seen my lights blink, and I don't think that there's any way...
I'm throwing in the towell and saying I don't think so....
"+1, informative"? Heh, mods are on crack again.
Have a look into a Toslink digital audio connector some time. It's using a plain old LED to transmit information. It looks to the naked eye like it's on solid, there's no flicker whatsoever. What would you "think" if you saw that? Your gut reaction is totally off base here.
I have issues? - why, because I did a quick search to see if perhaps I was wrong and all HDTVs were $10,000 in your neck of the woods?
No, because you turned an innocent observation I made about a weekend experience into a some sort of religious battle, fueled by your paranoid delusions of the systematic oppression of the HDTV standard.
Wow, you've got some issues. I don't give a flying rat's ass how cheap you can find a TV. I said that I saw a TV, was impressed, but not with respect to the said TV's $10k price tag. End of story.
Everyone expects everything for nothing on the net,
But that swings both ways. Site admins have been expecting to make a profit (in the long term) from something that people are simply not willing to pay for. It sucks, but it's simple economics and crying about it won't change the fact.
and thats a culture that's about to change.
The change will not be that people will suddenly pay for all the sites that used to be free. The change will be that all the free sites that lose money will disappear.
I'm still convinced that the only solution to the "free site" problem is not on the profit end of the equation, but rather on the cost end. When bandwidth is of negligible cost (and it has to get there eventually, I'm very surprised it's taking so long) then sites will be able to stay afloat on the lower profit margins.
I watched figure skating (which doesn't interest me as a sport) on a 60-something inch HDTV at a Sony Store this weekend. It was the first time I saw a reason for wanting to own one of them. There was a real sense of being there, it really made the sport more interesting, giving it some of that "human" quality you get from watching a game or concert live instead of on regular TV.
At this stage of the game, E-books have no advantage over paper books.
Searchable. Indexable. Orders of magnitude smaller and lighter. Configurable display settings. Easier to transmit over distance. ALL of which stand to get better and better over time.
There are undeniable advantages to paper books, but to say there are NO advantages to ebooks requires monumental ignorance and probably a large amount of pompous holier-than-thou conceit.
In a society that can ensure life's basic needs for any child abortion will become distasteful and then taboo.
Western society is there right now. Abortion is certainly distasteful, but has become less taboo. Abortion-as-contraception will always be an issue, in any society I can think of, since even people with freely available birth-control, the resources to raise any number of children, and the best intentions will still end up with "undesired" pregnancies from time to time.
This says nothing of being able to move a fetus between real and artifical wombs. Read the article please!
This is about starting the embryo out in the artifical womb, and having it stay there.
Yes, I had made the jump in my mind through to an obvious extension of this sort of technology to its limit of making the transition possible at any point in time.
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I guess it's sort of like that classic definition of a species: it's not enough for the creature simply to be able to reproduce -- the offspring has to be fertile as well!
Q3 uses a format called RoQ, which I guess was developed in-house at id. Some weekend project for Carmack, I suppose. "Hmm. Next item on my to-do list, 'develop video codec from scratch'."
That's a bit of a stretch I think.
How many of these species are "leaf nodes" on the evolutionary tree, with only minute differences between the specific species of that family/genus? Our progress in biology isn't *that* severely hampered by not having catalogued all two hundred thousand dung beetle species, each of which differ only in color and antenna length.
Actually, it's the poseur idiots that are more likely to use Toslink. Given that they're exactly equal in performance, Toslink is more expensive and more "gee-whiz" impressive. After all, it must be better to pay $5 a foot than $0.10, right?
I had to buy one recently (optical -> electrical) so that I could connect my Xbox to my older Dolby Digital reciever.
He asked no question. He merely called the paper a hoax and the authors frauds, with no proof.
Troll.
The Cisco 4000 and 7000 IP Routers are "Class III" devices, and they're relatively popular.
"+1, informative"? Heh, mods are on crack again.
Have a look into a Toslink digital audio connector some time. It's using a plain old LED to transmit information. It looks to the naked eye like it's on solid, there's no flicker whatsoever. What would you "think" if you saw that? Your gut reaction is totally off base here.
You mean "Netscape". You think AOL had _anything_ to do with the open-sourcing of Mozilla? Ha!
acquiring fringe technology with rebellious attitudes (Winamp)
Yeah, this enlightened view must be why they shitcanned official gnutella development the second they got a whiff of Nullsoft's new toy.
The trouble is that RC blimps don't scale down (below the 10 foot range) very well. They tend to be very delicate, spidery contraptions.
"The Internet regards censorship as a hardware failure and just works around it."
No, because you turned an innocent observation I made about a weekend experience into a some sort of religious battle, fueled by your paranoid delusions of the systematic oppression of the HDTV standard.
Nope. It's spelled "Wega", pronounced "Vega".
Wow, you've got some issues. I don't give a flying rat's ass how cheap you can find a TV. I said that I saw a TV, was impressed, but not with respect to the said TV's $10k price tag. End of story.
Oh, I also forgot to take your "The-US-is-the-internet" arrogance into account, too.
But that swings both ways. Site admins have been expecting to make a profit (in the long term) from something that people are simply not willing to pay for. It sucks, but it's simple economics and crying about it won't change the fact.
and thats a culture that's about to change.
The change will not be that people will suddenly pay for all the sites that used to be free. The change will be that all the free sites that lose money will disappear.
I'm still convinced that the only solution to the "free site" problem is not on the profit end of the equation, but rather on the cost end. When bandwidth is of negligible cost (and it has to get there eventually, I'm very surprised it's taking so long) then sites will be able to stay afloat on the lower profit margins.
I don't think it was $10,000 impressive though. :)
Until he was corrupted by the One Pokeball. Twisted and evil, he is now known as Gorrum.
The Proust bit was but the tip of that snobbish arrogant iceberg of a post. "Hemingway, maybe. But Faulkner? Melville?" Please.
Searchable. Indexable. Orders of magnitude smaller and lighter. Configurable display settings. Easier to transmit over distance. ALL of which stand to get better and better over time.
There are undeniable advantages to paper books, but to say there are NO advantages to ebooks requires monumental ignorance and probably a large amount of pompous holier-than-thou conceit.
"Would"?
Have a look for "potter" in alt.binaries.e-book.*, gnutella, or Morpheus. Choose from plain text, Word document, PDF, or spoken-word MP3.
Yeah, so did sailing ships and horses & carts.
BTW, can anyone actually imagine reading Proust as an e-book?
Careful Fauntleroy, you're gonna pull a muscle playing that pretentious twit act so hard.
As opposed to breathing the fluorinert itself, of course!
Western society is there right now. Abortion is certainly distasteful, but has become less taboo. Abortion-as-contraception will always be an issue, in any society I can think of, since even people with freely available birth-control, the resources to raise any number of children, and the best intentions will still end up with "undesired" pregnancies from time to time.
Yes, I had made the jump in my mind through to an obvious extension of this sort of technology to its limit of making the transition possible at any point in time.