But phages, unlike antibiotics, are alive so they probably would evolve to beat the resistance - after all, they would no longer have a host and would die out if they couldn't infect the bacteria. And nature doesn't like giving up easily...
On the other hand, phages ability to change themselves could have some unintended consequences, what if it would be easier to evolve into preying different species instead of beating the resistance, and they would then commence to wipe out our beneficial, symbiotic bacteria?
Dunno, I'd think real doesn't have much sympathy for microsoft these days... M$ is embrasing and extending into their ancestral hunting grounds, windows media is probably eating reals marketshare of streaming video and audio very fast. And that's most certainly causing bigger losses than someones reverse engineered linux client. Not to mention real probably makes most of their revenue by selling encoders and servers, not with that horrible ad- and spyware ridden client thingie.
Damn, they even opensourced part of their stuff! They must be REALLY scared of microsoft..
Apple probably can't do anything about it, because MPlayer folks aren't distributing any quicktime code at all, only a piece of code that allows interfacing to the dll's. User must still have those dll's, and compile the support in.
If they could be nailed for that, M$ and others whose codecs are used in the same way probably would've sued them into the oblivion by now...
And encoding is probably possible... at the moment mencoder documentation states that of those win32 binary codecs only oldest vfw ones are currently supported for that, but guess it may eventually be doable with dshow, acm and even this...
The device mentioned in this story has WMA support, though, so it probably doesn't have a dedicated mp3 decoder, and thus could maybe support ogg as well with a software update...
Private use DOES NOT entail owning the original media. Sure, you are "distributing intellectual copyright" but if you are only distributing it to yourself, it's private use. Doesn't matter whether the source material is your own and you are making a backup copy, or it is borrowed from friend or library. Software is specifically excluded from this, though.
Might vary from country to country but that's the way it's here in Finland (for now at least, dunno whether the new EUDCMA is going to change that) so it obviously is not specified in international IP laws.
Stuff is easy enough to read on screen, there's no need for magical bazillion DPI monitor...
What we DO need is a book-sized, CHEAP (PDA's ain't cheap, and they are too small. I'm talking about gizmo priced at maybe/$20, it doesn't have to do anything except display text, though.), light, and preferably has good battery lifespan...
How goes the e-Paper research? No/. stories lately.
Bitrate is bitrate is bitrate. There is no "depending" on anything. You just CAN NOT get anything near one hour at 128kbps. And it takes about twenty minutes at 192, just like I said.
The unit is not in format "kb/s" for nothing. It tells you how much space it takes per second. And it tells it EXACTLY, not any estimates. You can calculate size of any song with its length and bitrate, or any of the three based on two others.
32MB? Hour of music? Please, DON'T tell me that you have an audio player that has several gigs of HD space to spare and that you still deliberately screw your music by encoding it at bitrate of about 64kbps (which would be required for that upwards of an hour).
It would hold about twenty minutes at 192kbps, or about fourteen at 320. That's still long time for shock protection, of course, if the shock protection only meant non-skipping mp3's, but that's not all there is to shock protection, fact is that HD too must be protected - and it's most vulnerable when running - so a best way to keep it from being hurt is to not have it spinning. Thus, lots of RAM it is both shock protection AND battery life extension at once.
The separate chip decoding is offloaded to is mentioned in the specs to be a Micronas MAS3507D. It's a hardware MPEG audio decoder, not a general purpose microprocessor.
That means it's specifically designed to decode MPEG audio, and _ONLY_ MPEG audio, it does its job very well, but it can not do anything else, that's a price you pay for narrow specialization.
Thus no matter how small the CPU requirements, this thing is not going to be able to support any non-MPEG audio codecs. It of course also means you cannot draw any conclusions about OGG being power hungry based on this.
"Processing power" is not a very specific term, and least so when speaking about those set-top boxes and DVD-players. Those tend to have chips specifically designed to decode certain video codec.
Uncompressing for eg. mpeg-2 does take considerably more horsepower if done on "generic" hardware (like pc), than with processor done only for that purpose, I don't see why it wouldn't be the same with whatever compression scheme, including this new one.
Yeah, right. Of course you are rather stuck with them, but who cares if you can get them into a form that is not dangerous?
What are all those substances most of this planet is made of that are not pure elements? Yep. That's right, they are molecules, clumps of same, or different, atoms of elements bound together...
Hint: elements, even two very dangerous ones, can react with each other and the end result can be totally harmless.
Hint2: all living organism can do, and must do those things to get energy it needs to grow and stay alive. Oxygen is an element and carbon is an element. Still your very own body does burn those two elements together and forms co2, and you stay alive by energy released of that chemical reaction. Hardly impossible.
The article also mentions a brown dwarf, which would be helluva lot harder to find than a red one...
What about the pioneer "anomalies", are they far enough yet that the speculated companion star (if you can even call brown dwarf a star) could be lurking around there and be unnoticed.
If god(s) decide(s) to whack us with a rock he/they have munitions helluva lot closer than an entire freaking planetoid somewhere very far away.
It's about 400000 kilometers from us and twice the size of this newly-found baby... you might've actually heard of it once or twice, it's called "The Moon" by most people.
Actually, that was one of the points in the book... don't remember correctly whether it was from the beginning of the program or after some kind of concerns from some people.. anyway, all of the destination planets for seed ships were not supposed to have any higher native lifeforms so that Earth life wouldn't suppress their evolution.
Well, the colony novel takes place in, Thalassaa was some kind of error (or one of the earliest ones, in case of the other possibility) and quite certainly did have advanced life.
That it "had died" seems to imply that it did work at some point and then cease to function. Thus obviously there were batteries, maybe drained enough for it not to work any more but batteries nevertheless, with probably enough power to cause sparking.
If only the disk read head has failed there may be some change of getting data back. Any further damage and it's gone, forever, unless it's something that is worth tens of millions of dollars, or euros.
I recently followed a thread in finnish usenet group. Someone had Maxtor D540X 40GB drive with failed disk head, and was searching for replacement disk of exactly same model.
Well, they found what they were looking at, took the new and working head to data recovery professionals (Norman Ibas, and the nearest lab being no further than damn two countries away, Norway), only to notice that disk had corrupt "maintenance track"... that track carried something like necessary calibrating data for mechanical parts... and thus, not even a now physically fully functional drive was not able to read its own content.
Current drives have data densities so huge that reading anything off a disk that can not read itself can only be done by something like a very good magnetic field microscope, and that itself doesn't produce any usable data, but many terabytes of raw data that must be analyzed to get the original bits out - and none of that is easy, or cheap.
So be sure to have damn deep pockets if you need to get your data from failed drive. No one is going to spend millions for family photo album.
No one, and i mean NO ONE is stupid enought to buy latest, fastest and most expensive 3d card on the market with intention of putting that beast into a stone age machine.
Whether or not it does hardware decoding just doesn't matter, everyone who buys things like this already have CPU horsepower to decode anything without difficulties.
Probably because there is no violation... or at least there isn't if they are not lying.
They claim in the FAQ of commercial version that they are not linking, only bundling separate closed source software alongside the GPL'd version, which is very much possible, as there are ways other than direct linking to get two different software components to speak with each other.
Has anyone ever done any comparison between virtual machines, concerning mostly speed.
So how do x86 versions of vmware, win4lin, virtualpc, plex86, etc. relate with each other?
I've only used VMware (Workstation) (both winnt and linux versions), and PowerMac version of VirtualPC (which was pretty damn fast considering that it can't use existing hardware like vmware does... gotta simulate whole x86, more like Bochs).
The choice of desktop is probably there to make that "change your default settings and menus and do your favorite desktop" thingy for the more experienced users easier and faster.
So if an old KDE/Gnome user doesn't like the unified desktop look or selection of apps, he can just select his favourite DE, and then put all the default stuff of that desktop into settings... assuming it ("correct" defaults) doesn't happen automatically. It's damn hard to say anything for sure, as there's so much FUD and hype and so few people who have actually used the thing and managed to tell anything reasonable about it.
Why don't we just sit calm and wait for monday, try it, and base our opinions on real thing instead of rumours.
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But phages, unlike antibiotics, are alive so they probably would evolve to beat the resistance - after all, they would no longer have a host and would die out if they couldn't infect the bacteria. And nature doesn't like giving up easily...
On the other hand, phages ability to change themselves could have some unintended consequences, what if it would be easier to evolve into preying different species instead of beating the resistance, and they would then commence to wipe out our beneficial, symbiotic bacteria?
Dunno, I'd think real doesn't have much sympathy for microsoft these days... M$ is embrasing and extending into their ancestral hunting grounds, windows media is probably eating reals marketshare of streaming video and audio very fast. And that's most certainly causing bigger losses than someones reverse engineered linux client. Not to mention real probably makes most of their revenue by selling encoders and servers, not with that horrible ad- and spyware ridden client thingie.
Damn, they even opensourced part of their stuff! They must be REALLY scared of microsoft..
Apple probably can't do anything about it, because MPlayer folks aren't distributing any quicktime code at all, only a piece of code that allows interfacing to the dll's. User must still have those dll's, and compile the support in.
If they could be nailed for that, M$ and others whose codecs are used in the same way probably would've sued them into the oblivion by now...
And encoding is probably possible... at the moment mencoder documentation states that of those win32 binary codecs only oldest vfw ones are currently supported for that, but guess it may eventually be doable with dshow, acm and even this...
The device mentioned in this story has WMA support, though, so it probably doesn't have a dedicated mp3 decoder, and thus could maybe support ogg as well with a software update...
Private use DOES NOT entail owning the original media. Sure, you are "distributing intellectual copyright" but if you are only distributing it to yourself, it's private use. Doesn't matter whether the source material is your own and you are making a backup copy, or it is borrowed from friend or library. Software is specifically excluded from this, though.
Might vary from country to country but that's the way it's here in Finland (for now at least, dunno whether the new EUDCMA is going to change that) so it obviously is not specified in international IP laws.
Then it won't boot on your "saved" current hardware you are talking about in previous post either.
No difference whether its too old to support DRM or the thing is deliberately turned off. Right?
Wish you were right, but on the other hand EU too seems to be happily implementing their version of DMCA, and anti-privacy laws.
Stuff is easy enough to read on screen, there's no need for magical bazillion DPI monitor...
/$20, it doesn't have to do anything except display text, though.), light, and preferably has good battery lifespan...
/. stories lately.
What we DO need is a book-sized, CHEAP (PDA's ain't cheap, and they are too small. I'm talking about gizmo priced at maybe
How goes the e-Paper research? No
Bitrate is bitrate is bitrate. There is no "depending" on anything. You just CAN NOT get anything near one hour at 128kbps. And it takes about twenty minutes at 192, just like I said.
The unit is not in format "kb/s" for nothing. It tells you how much space it takes per second. And it tells it EXACTLY, not any estimates. You can calculate size of any song with its length and bitrate, or any of the three based on two others.
128kbps = 16kB/s
192kbps = 24kB/s
1 hour = 3600s
½ hours = 1800s
3600*16 = 57600kB = 56.25MB.
1800*24 = 43200kB = 42.2MB.
56.25 != 42 != 32
nuff said.
32MB? Hour of music? Please, DON'T tell me that you have an audio player that has several gigs of HD space to spare and that you still deliberately screw your music by encoding it at bitrate of about 64kbps (which would be required for that upwards of an hour).
It would hold about twenty minutes at 192kbps, or about fourteen at 320. That's still long time for shock protection, of course, if the shock protection only meant non-skipping mp3's, but that's not all there is to shock protection, fact is that HD too must be protected - and it's most vulnerable when running - so a best way to keep it from being hurt is to not have it spinning. Thus, lots of RAM it is both shock protection AND battery life extension at once.
The separate chip decoding is offloaded to is mentioned in the specs to be a Micronas MAS3507D. It's a hardware MPEG audio decoder, not a general purpose microprocessor.
That means it's specifically designed to decode MPEG audio, and _ONLY_ MPEG audio, it does its job very well, but it can not do anything else, that's a price you pay for narrow specialization.
Thus no matter how small the CPU requirements, this thing is not going to be able to support any non-MPEG audio codecs. It of course also means you cannot draw any conclusions about OGG being power hungry based on this.
Hope this helps to make things bit more clear.
"Processing power" is not a very specific term, and least so when speaking about those set-top boxes and DVD-players. Those tend to have chips specifically designed to decode certain video codec.
Uncompressing for eg. mpeg-2 does take considerably more horsepower if done on "generic" hardware (like pc), than with processor done only for that purpose, I don't see why it wouldn't be the same with whatever compression scheme, including this new one.
Yeah, right. Of course you are rather stuck with them, but who cares if you can get them into a form that is not dangerous?
What are all those substances most of this planet is made of that are not pure elements? Yep. That's right, they are molecules, clumps of same, or different, atoms of elements bound together...
Hint: elements, even two very dangerous ones, can react with each other and the end result can be totally harmless.
Hint2: all living organism can do, and must do those things to get energy it needs to grow and stay alive. Oxygen is an element and carbon is an element. Still your very own body does burn those two elements together and forms co2, and you stay alive by energy released of that chemical reaction. Hardly impossible.
The article also mentions a brown dwarf, which would be helluva lot harder to find than a red one...
What about the pioneer "anomalies", are they far enough yet that the speculated companion star (if you can even call brown dwarf a star) could be lurking around there and be unnoticed.
Dunno if you've ever heard of them, but they have these nifty things called "radars" nowaways.
"Earth" in the present form may be an exception, but even if most used, it's not the only name this planet is called with...
Terra is roman goddess "Mother Earth", so she too fits into the convention.
If god(s) decide(s) to whack us with a rock he/they have munitions helluva lot closer than an entire freaking planetoid somewhere very far away.
It's about 400000 kilometers from us and twice the size of this newly-found baby... you might've actually heard of it once or twice, it's called "The Moon" by most people.
Actually, that was one of the points in the book... don't remember correctly whether it was from the beginning of the program or after some kind of concerns from some people .. anyway, all of the destination planets for seed ships were not supposed to have any higher native lifeforms so that Earth life wouldn't suppress their evolution.
Well, the colony novel takes place in, Thalassaa was some kind of error (or one of the earliest ones, in case of the other possibility) and quite certainly did have advanced life.
That it "had died" seems to imply that it did work at some point and then cease to function. Thus obviously there were batteries, maybe drained enough for it not to work any more but batteries nevertheless, with probably enough power to cause sparking.
She just didn't know about them.
If only the disk read head has failed there may be some change of getting data back. Any further damage and it's gone, forever, unless it's something that is worth tens of millions of dollars, or euros.
... and thus, not even a now physically fully functional drive was not able to read its own content.
I recently followed a thread in finnish usenet group. Someone had Maxtor D540X 40GB drive with failed disk head, and was searching for replacement disk of exactly same model.
Well, they found what they were looking at, took the new and working head to data recovery professionals (Norman Ibas, and the nearest lab being no further than damn two countries away, Norway), only to notice that disk had corrupt "maintenance track"... that track carried something like necessary calibrating data for mechanical parts
Current drives have data densities so huge that reading anything off a disk that can not read itself can only be done by something like a very good magnetic field microscope, and that itself doesn't produce any usable data, but many terabytes of raw data that must be analyzed to get the original bits out - and none of that is easy, or cheap.
So be sure to have damn deep pockets if you need to get your data from failed drive. No one is going to spend millions for family photo album.
Png:s you want and png:s you get... so here. The fonts look nice. Which is of course a matter of taste, but...
What comes to using something than the default GUI... well, at least GTK2 and QT3 programs compile right away with AA support, others may or may not.
You can see in one shot that even mozilla (which uses gtk 1.2) and thus galeon don't have AA fonts... yet.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/voas0113/rh8/
What does Pentium 133 have to do with R300?
No one, and i mean NO ONE is stupid enought to buy latest, fastest and most expensive 3d card on the market with intention of putting that beast into a stone age machine.
Whether or not it does hardware decoding just doesn't matter, everyone who buys things like this already have CPU horsepower to decode anything without difficulties.
Probably because there is no violation... or at least there isn't if they are not lying.
They claim in the FAQ of commercial version that they are not linking, only bundling separate closed source software alongside the GPL'd version, which is very much possible, as there are ways other than direct linking to get two different software components to speak with each other.
Not directly related to topic, but...
Has anyone ever done any comparison between virtual machines, concerning mostly speed.
So how do x86 versions of vmware, win4lin, virtualpc, plex86, etc. relate with each other?
I've only used VMware (Workstation) (both winnt and linux versions), and PowerMac version of VirtualPC (which was pretty damn fast considering that it can't use existing hardware like vmware does... gotta simulate whole x86, more like Bochs).
The choice of desktop is probably there to make that "change your default settings and menus and do your favorite desktop" thingy for the more experienced users easier and faster.
So if an old KDE/Gnome user doesn't like the unified desktop look or selection of apps, he can just select his favourite DE, and then put all the default stuff of that desktop into settings... assuming it ("correct" defaults) doesn't happen automatically. It's damn hard to say anything for sure, as there's so much FUD and hype and so few people who have actually used the thing and managed to tell anything reasonable about it.
Why don't we just sit calm and wait for monday, try it, and base our opinions on real thing instead of rumours.