Check the graphs in this page. Altough this is not a complete reference, the same data, suggesting the bandwidth of opctical fibers to be growing faster that doubling every 18 months can be found in many other articles.
But I agree that a generalization of fiber capacity to bandwidth must be done with extreme caution.
I believe it was Internetworking with TCP/IP, or perhaps Tanenbaum's Computer Networks, and the "conclusion" of the chapter on SNMP (which uses ASN.1) was that today, it is much more important to make protocols that are simple to handle, than stuff that conserves bandwidth at the price of performance, since the "moore's law for bandwidth" is stronger than the "moore's law for cpu power". You could use (and already uses) compressed communication links, anyway.
This is the same philosophy of IP, ATM, or any modern network technology. Simple, but fast.
I see many people commenting here has no idea what AC3 is all about, and so say how it's Dolby's right to enforce their patent. Well, it could be, except that Dolby is trying to push AC3 as the standard digital surround format.
AC3 is a codec that is used as one of the standard audio formats in america, together with PCM. In Europe, they use PCM and MPEG audio. Well, DVD is a proprietary format, so they (the DVD people) have the right to select the codec they want, and licence it accordingly.
Unfortunately, AC3 is also the standard audio format selected to the american digital TV system. That means that it is a de juris standard, and that this standard is selected by government (FCC) which is elected by you people.
Dolby has claimed that it would licence AC3 under a fair licence. This was required as one of the steps of becomming the standard format.
If today we don't do anything, I doubt that in the future there will be anything like video4linux, since the audio decoding will need to decode AC3.
$ man 1 here
No entry for here in section 1 of the manual
$ man 2 here
No entry for here in section 2 of the manual
$ man 3 here
No entry for here in section 3 of the manual
...they can use this wonderfull "Micronet", with all those pay-per-use video-on-demand, content protection, secure audio path, flashy pages and can give the good old "broken" tcp/ip internet, without all that wonderfull stuff back to those who don't mind using text terminals, and "legacy" stuff. Perhaps then we will be able to use IRC, USENET, even telnet, back again.
Give them (tcp/ip) 10% of the bandwidth. It will be more then enough.
It is very common now to buy CD players with digital outputs. How does this anti-copying mechanisms work with these outputs? Isn't it just the case to connect these outputs to a soundcard with a digital input? I know the SB Live! has such a connector, altough it "upsamples" every input to 48kHZ PCM. I know the Santa Cruz by Turtle Beach also has such an input, but am not sure if it also does this "upsample". Well, you wouldn' lose quality by transforming the 44.1 to 48 sampling rate, but if you would then downsample the 48 back to 44.1 I don't know what the algorithms would do. Would they just take the original 44.1k samples or get some of the "generated" samples?
While GIFs are bad because they use software patented technology, no such thing exists in PDF. I would love to bash Adobe, but PDF is really a good, open standard (like almost any technology that came out of Adobe). We should try to have complete, free implementations of the PDF format (I believe there is no free support for JavaScript in PDF files now, for example, but the use of it is questionable), so that nobody would have to buy the Adobe products. I believe the same approach of what Apple is doing with OS X, except I believe they payed Adobe to use the technology, instead of writting their own implementation. I don't understend why Microsoft didn't include PDF support in windows yet, putting Adobe out of business (well, they are partners in stuff like OpenType, perhaps that is why).
The problem with PDF (and I understand this is a problem just with the ebook format, defined in the latest PDF specification) is not a technology problem (you can implement it freely technologically speaking, you can't do that with GIFs), no patents. The problem is this buggy DMCA. If you are implementing the specification, you may choose to do whatever you want with it, but the DMCA will go after you if make a program that will "break" the security (the DMCA should give provision to interoperability, but they will most likely see you as a criminal, not a hacker (good sense)).
To stop using PDF would really be a step back. PDF is not only a compressed ps, it is a format that tries to overcome problems in the PS language (if you consider that PS and PDF are computer languages it is much harder to make a buggy PDF program then PS, hence, almost all PDF files will open, while PS files from some programs sometimes will *never* print. In PDF, everything in the file is stored as objects in a very "well behaved" way. In PS, you need to use the DSC (document structure conventions), which are special comments on the code with special meaning (comments should not have meaning. It is a hack.) Many programs don't behave well with this DSC comments.
And why use PS? Remember that PS is also a product from Adobe, with the same terms as PDF.
"Definitely, if you make the your source available also."
Can I use Microsoft Shared source in a commercial product?
"No way, how do you dare asking?"
Hmm.. It's funny to see the FSF as business friendlier than Microsoft, even if everyone will say that "free software is no good for business". Well, it is not made to be good for business, but good for the community. That doesn't mean it can be good for business (as the "opensource"guys like to say).
You are right. But unfortunately government wants to put machines in schools. If that is unavoidable, why not put cheap (or free, as in beer) machines like these and spend the money on teachers and books?
...for these X terminals would be to be put in public schools here in Brazil. Some public schools don't have even a single PC. If we could make people donate their old hardware to these schools, and buy a powerfull machine as the server, we could make some computer labs, and better, introduce young people to GNU/Linux. Here in my state, in the south of Brazil, public schools are already using preferentialy GNU/Linux, but that's another story.
But the people who should know how to do this are the responsibles for the schools' machines, most of the slashdot crowd had already thought and learned how to do that.
The bad thing is that most 486 didn't have good videocards, and the performance (no XAA?) of XFree86 with ISA cards is not great, even as an X-terminal only. I remember the performance of XFree with my Trident VLB, which sucked, even for that time. The only nice card in a 486 with XFree I used was a S3 VLB, but those are hard to find, even used, of course.
It would also be great if those IDE "disks" based on flash memory were cheaper. We could make very silent, self-sufficient (no network or floppy boot) machines. The devices don't even need a large memory, or "disk". Good to make some "NCs" (fancy name for something that exists for at least 10 years in the X world:) )
Well, they requested public comment on the DMCA also, more than once, and did it work? We are dealing with too strong lobbies. Anyhow, if you are American, you better shout. Loud. This is a battle fought in every country. It only happens to be your time of action this time.
Many people are saying how you could make a mp3 player which would play music coming over NFS, but that is not possible, since sound is not already supported on the Linux dreamcast kernel.
I was talking with a friend today about you, Alex Chiu, and we found a real strange paradox (well, all paradoxes are strange).
If the famous people you cite on your site have been laughed of, and we only really recognize their value today, after they are dead, how can you really be recognized if you will never die? Does this means that you will never been recognized (and hence your rings don't work, so you die, so you are recognized, so your rings did work, so you don't die, so... ad infinitum)?
We got really confused, so we decided not to think on the subject anymore for today, but then we came to slashdot, and here is the topic once again.
I hope you can help us, as you've done with so many subjects already. Perhaps it's explained in the Bible code.
Of course there is much more to security then the operating system. But insurances are always based on statistics. They cannot really represent reality for every single case, but for the average case. That's why you pay more car insurance if you are a male, young driver, than an old woman even if you drive one day in a week and never passes the speed limit. What this article shows, probably, is that they gathered statistics and Linux servers had less security problems than NT. I think the credit is not only to the operating system, as you even say, the personel is also very important. But probably they are linked to the operating system as a statistic, that is, people who run Linux servers tend to be more security conscious sysadmins.
..like bandwidth, etc. Since it is connected to the Internet through a ethernet port I guess it's ok. I've noticed it has a Infrared port. I wonder what protocol it's used: IrCOMM, IrLAN, IrNET. Well, perhaps it's just easier to unplug the phone from the ethernet port and plug your notebook directly.:)
has been revoked by the united corporations of America. It's bad for the economy. Get over it.
It's said how a country with such a beatiful history of defense of citizen's freedom rights is being changed by transnational conglomerates. The fact is that much of the role of the USA in the world economy is determined by these companies (You can't imagine how much intelectual property we get from you. Movies, Music, Cable TV, product brands. That means dollars flowing in your direction. Your government is pretty aware of that).
I guess that if the american citizen has to choose between it's civil rights and a good economy, he will choose the economy, afraid of losing his job. Fortunately I don't know the american citizen enough.:) Unfortunately, the decision may not be in citizen's hands, but politicians, and they will choose the economy.
"Folha Explains... 2001: A Space Odissey", published by the brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo to celebrate the entering in the year 2001, and written by Amir Labaki, this "three-keyed" interpretation is the more common and complementary. It's a very nice, cheap, short, easy-reading (if you can read portuguese;-) ) book, that describes the relationship between the movie and novel, the reception of the movie when it was launched, how it was understood later, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Check the graphs in this page. Altough this is not a complete reference, the same data, suggesting the bandwidth of opctical fibers to be growing faster that doubling every 18 months can be found in many other articles.
But I agree that a generalization of fiber capacity to bandwidth must be done with extreme caution.
I believe it was Internetworking with TCP/IP, or perhaps Tanenbaum's Computer Networks, and the "conclusion" of the chapter on SNMP (which uses ASN.1) was that today, it is much more important to make protocols that are simple to handle, than stuff that conserves bandwidth at the price of performance, since the "moore's law for bandwidth" is stronger than the "moore's law for cpu power". You could use (and already uses) compressed communication links, anyway.
This is the same philosophy of IP, ATM, or any modern network technology. Simple, but fast.
I see many people commenting here has no idea what AC3 is all about, and so say how it's Dolby's right to enforce their patent. Well, it could be, except that Dolby is trying to push AC3 as the standard digital surround format.
AC3 is a codec that is used as one of the standard audio formats in america, together with PCM. In Europe, they use PCM and MPEG audio. Well, DVD is a proprietary format, so they (the DVD people) have the right to select the codec they want, and licence it accordingly.
Unfortunately, AC3 is also the standard audio format selected to the american digital TV system. That means that it is a de juris standard, and that this standard is selected by government (FCC) which is elected by you people.
Dolby has claimed that it would licence AC3 under a fair licence. This was required as one of the steps of becomming the standard format.
If today we don't do anything, I doubt that in the future there will be anything like video4linux, since the audio decoding will need to decode AC3.
I have already brought up the topic on ask slashdot here, where you can read that Dolby will license AC-3 technology under reasonable terms
No entry for here in section 1 of the manual
$ man 2 here
No entry for here in section 2 of the manual
$ man 3 here
No entry for here in section 3 of the manual
What's up with enumerating your links?
...they can use this wonderfull "Micronet", with all those pay-per-use video-on-demand, content protection, secure audio path, flashy pages and can give the good old "broken" tcp/ip internet, without all that wonderfull stuff back to those who don't mind using text terminals, and "legacy" stuff. Perhaps then we will be able to use IRC, USENET, even telnet, back again.
Give them (tcp/ip) 10% of the bandwidth. It will be more then enough.
It is very common now to buy CD players with digital outputs. How does this anti-copying mechanisms work with these outputs? Isn't it just the case to connect these outputs to a soundcard with a digital input? I know the SB Live! has such a connector, altough it "upsamples" every input to 48kHZ PCM. I know the Santa Cruz by Turtle Beach also has such an input, but am not sure if it also does this "upsample". Well, you wouldn' lose quality by transforming the 44.1 to 48 sampling rate, but if you would then downsample the 48 back to 44.1 I don't know what the algorithms would do. Would they just take the original 44.1k samples or get some of the "generated" samples?
They just had been sick out of luck. Had they used the name in english, perhaps things could be little different ;)
this agnostic OS, has not accepted jesux as his savior OS!
While GIFs are bad because they use software patented technology, no such thing exists in PDF. I would love to bash Adobe, but PDF is really a good, open standard (like almost any technology that came out of Adobe). We should try to have complete, free implementations of the PDF format (I believe there is no free support for JavaScript in PDF files now, for example, but the use of it is questionable), so that nobody would have to buy the Adobe products. I believe the same approach of what Apple is doing with OS X, except I believe they payed Adobe to use the technology, instead of writting their own implementation. I don't understend why Microsoft didn't include PDF support in windows yet, putting Adobe out of business (well, they are partners in stuff like OpenType, perhaps that is why).
The problem with PDF (and I understand this is a problem just with the ebook format, defined in the latest PDF specification) is not a technology problem (you can implement it freely technologically speaking, you can't do that with GIFs), no patents. The problem is this buggy DMCA. If you are implementing the specification, you may choose to do whatever you want with it, but the DMCA will go after you if make a program that will "break" the security (the DMCA should give provision to interoperability, but they will most likely see you as a criminal, not a hacker (good sense)).
To stop using PDF would really be a step back. PDF is not only a compressed ps, it is a format that tries to overcome problems in the PS language (if you consider that PS and PDF are computer languages it is much harder to make a buggy PDF program then PS, hence, almost all PDF files will open, while PS files from some programs sometimes will *never* print. In PDF, everything in the file is stored as objects in a very "well behaved" way. In PS, you need to use the DSC (document structure conventions), which are special comments on the code with special meaning (comments should not have meaning. It is a hack.) Many programs don't behave well with this DSC comments.
And why use PS? Remember that PS is also a product from Adobe, with the same terms as PDF.
Or so they say...
It's natural selection. The survive of the fittest idiot.
"Yes, definitely! Sign here, give us the money, and off you go!"
:)
That's not an option for most of the smaller companies.
Can I use GPLd code in a commercial product?
"Definitely, if you make the your source available also."
Can I use Microsoft Shared source in a commercial product?
"No way, how do you dare asking?"
Hmm.. It's funny to see the FSF as business friendlier than Microsoft, even if everyone will say that "free software is no good for business". Well, it is not made to be good for business, but good for the community. That doesn't mean it can be good for business (as the "opensource"guys like to say).
..as budha said.
I don't think so.... Ok, it's a minor mistake, but they call it a 1.0 release.
You are right. But unfortunately government wants to put machines in schools. If that is unavoidable, why not put cheap (or free, as in beer) machines like these and spend the money on teachers and books?
...for these X terminals would be to be put in public schools here in Brazil. Some public schools don't have even a single PC. If we could make people donate their old hardware to these schools, and buy a powerfull machine as the server, we could make some computer labs, and better, introduce young people to GNU/Linux. Here in my state, in the south of Brazil, public schools are already using preferentialy GNU/Linux, but that's another story.
:) )
But the people who should know how to do this are the responsibles for the schools' machines, most of the slashdot crowd had already thought and learned how to do that.
The bad thing is that most 486 didn't have good videocards, and the performance (no XAA?) of XFree86 with ISA cards is not great, even as an X-terminal only. I remember the performance of XFree with my Trident VLB, which sucked, even for that time. The only nice card in a 486 with XFree I used was a S3 VLB, but those are hard to find, even used, of course.
It would also be great if those IDE "disks" based on flash memory were cheaper. We could make very silent, self-sufficient (no network or floppy boot) machines. The devices don't even need a large memory, or "disk". Good to make some "NCs" (fancy name for something that exists for at least 10 years in the X world
Well, they requested public comment on the DMCA also, more than once, and did it work? We are dealing with too strong lobbies. Anyhow, if you are American, you better shout. Loud. This is a battle fought in every country. It only happens to be your time of action this time.
Many people are saying how you could make a mp3 player which would play music coming over NFS, but that is not possible, since sound is not already supported on the Linux dreamcast kernel.
But it has great hack value, definitely.
Hi,
I was talking with a friend today about you, Alex Chiu, and we found a real strange paradox (well, all paradoxes are strange).
If the famous people you cite on your site have been laughed of, and we only really recognize their value today, after they are dead, how can you really be recognized if you will never die? Does this means that you will never been recognized (and hence your rings don't work, so you die, so you are recognized, so your rings did work, so you don't die, so... ad infinitum)?
We got really confused, so we decided not to think on the subject anymore for today, but then we came to slashdot, and here is the topic once again.
I hope you can help us, as you've done with so many subjects already. Perhaps it's explained in the Bible code.
Thanks,
Of course there is much more to security then the operating system. But insurances are always based on statistics. They cannot really represent reality for every single case, but for the average case. That's why you pay more car insurance if you are a male, young driver, than an old woman even if you drive one day in a week and never passes the speed limit. What this article shows, probably, is that they gathered statistics and Linux servers had less security problems than NT. I think the credit is not only to the operating system, as you even say, the personel is also very important. But probably they are linked to the operating system as a statistic, that is, people who run Linux servers tend to be more security conscious sysadmins.
..like bandwidth, etc. Since it is connected to the Internet through a ethernet port I guess it's ok. I've noticed it has a Infrared port. I wonder what protocol it's used: IrCOMM, IrLAN, IrNET. Well, perhaps it's just easier to unplug the phone from the ethernet port and plug your notebook directly. :)
has been revoked by the united corporations of America. It's bad for the economy. Get over it.
:) Unfortunately, the decision may not be in citizen's hands, but politicians, and they will choose the economy.
It's said how a country with such a beatiful history of defense of citizen's freedom rights is being changed by transnational conglomerates. The fact is that much of the role of the USA in the world economy is determined by these companies (You can't imagine how much intelectual property we get from you. Movies, Music, Cable TV, product brands. That means dollars flowing in your direction. Your government is pretty aware of that).
I guess that if the american citizen has to choose between it's civil rights and a good economy, he will choose the economy, afraid of losing his job. Fortunately I don't know the american citizen enough.
'nough said.
"Folha Explains... 2001: A Space Odissey", published by the brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo to celebrate the entering in the year 2001, and written by Amir Labaki, this "three-keyed" interpretation is the more common and complementary. It's a very nice, cheap, short, easy-reading (if you can read portuguese ;-) ) book, that describes the relationship between the movie and novel, the reception of the movie when it was launched, how it was understood later, etc.