I tried to connect my cell phone to my WiFi with WPA2. After I entered the password wrong once, I learned how to setup IAS and authentication with certificates.
Well, I had to film long events a few times with my Panasonic VHS-C camera. I have only one battery and that's good for about 30 minutes (when it was new, it had greater capacity). So, I connected a 12V 7Ah lead-acid battery to the DC IN socket and the battery did not run out during the entire filming. The 12V battery is cheaper than the special camera battery, has greater capacity and I can also use it for other things (for example to power my laptop using a 12V->19V adapter).
Now I use a Sony Handycam, it needs a special plug (don't know where to get one) and 7.2V (can be done). I could use a 12V->220V inverter and the AC adapter, but it would be inefficient, though still cheaper than the equivalent of camera batteries.
However, if you only write to it once (i.e. long-term storage) flash storage will never degrade.
The technology is too new to say this for sure. I know that a shellac record lasts at least 94 years for example, because I have one such record. There is no way to know how long flash will last and the accelerated aging tests are unreliable, after all, they showed that a CD-R could hold its data for 50-100 years and we now know that is not true. Hard drives also are not meant for long term storage. I try to store my data on removable media (like magnetic tape) so that if the reader device fails, at least my data is safe.
Every time a spinning disk is plugged in, there is a small chance it will fail just in the act of spinning up. It's tiny sure, but it's there for spinning disks and not for SSDs.
On the other hand, a malfunctioning power supply could fry the electronics. You could repair a hard drive by getting an identical drive and replacing the fried controller. With flash your data is gone.
drives write every bit on the disk before it will go back and re-write
Will the drive write only on free space (somehow knowing where the free space is) or do they rewrite any sector by moving the data to yet another sector? If they rewrite only the free space then, if I keep my drive almost full, I could soon run out of writable sectors. If they write to any sector, wouldn't that cause problems if power fails during the write (I lose not only the file I did not finish writing, but also a part of some other file)?
Plus, when a flash drive fails, the failure does not prevent reads, only writes.
This depends on how it fails. If a faulty PSU sent +12V where it was supposed to be +5V, I don't think there would be a lot of readable data left.
Lastly, the speed boost is HUGE.
As I don't really need a fast hard drive, I did not look into this, so you may be right on this one.
Also, at least at this time, to me, flash drives seem unreliable, I'd rather have my data stored as tiny magnetic fields on a disk or tape that as tiny electric charges in some chip, though this is only my personal opinion, I may be wrong.
I'd pay some money per month so that the rights protectors would keep off me and let me continue download like I do now. I'd pay some money for a legal torrent tracker with good seeds. I'd pay some money for a legal e2dk server (torrents are not that good for finding some old music/movies).
I would still archive everything locally. While I rarely watch TV (usually only music shows that have music that is hard to find for me (old)), I record every show I watch, when a VHS tape is full, I put it in a box. If I had to program my VCR for unattended recording, I will record to another ape while editing out the commercials. The legal tracker/server will probably last for a long time, on the other hand, it is subscription based, so it can be shut down easily (as opposed to a DRM authentication server, where people expect it to last forever after they paid a single time (not monthly)). Also, local storage is faster. While I might some day get a 100mbps fiber connection (if I somehow come to enough money for it) it would still be slower than my tape drive made in 2002 (LTO-1, 15MB/s) and I might upgrade to a newer generation of LTO that's even faster.
The idea here would be to erase the need to amass a "music collection" (on your local hard drive), because you could always just re-download what you want.
No, it will actually increase the need for big hard drives. Well, at least I would use that service the same way as a free-leech time in a private torrent tracker. Download first, sort it out later. In case of this service, I would download everything and then unsubscribe from the service, so I would only have to pay for only a few months of the service and some hard drives or LTO tapes...
OTOH, my ISP provides a FTP server with movies, games and music for free. Though I usually don't find anything interesting there and download using torrents.
TVs and monitors get clogged with dust because they use high voltage (5-30kV) for the anode of the CRT. This high voltage is like static electricity and it attracts dust (usually the dustiest place in a TV is around the flyback transformer).
Nobody I know measures fuel consumption like that.
You probably wanted to say 0.784L/100km. Still more efficient than an average car, except this car doesn't run on gasoline, so there would be a problem of finding a fuel station that has suitable fuel for it.
The electric trolling motor uses 250 amps an hour so if I have a battery with 1000 amps the motor will run for 4 hours.
No, the battery is 1000 Amp-hours, not amps.
The you get: 1000*A*h/(250*A) = 4*h
Phone batteries are small, so their capacity is measured in mAh, where 1Ah=1000mAh. Energy of batteries can be measured in joules (J) or kWh (1kWh=3.6MJ). Energy of small batteries is measured in Wh (1Wh=3.6kJ).
Nokia 1xxx series is very popular. This series (except the old phones like 1611) are very basic and cheap. They are also easier to use (for computer illiterate people) than "normal" phones not to mention smartphones.
OTOH, I have my N93 and I love it. Sure, I'd like HSDPA support, but currently it is the best phone for me, because I don't like touchscreen only phones and llike optical zoom. Sure, the pictures aren't good, but they are good enough to use the phone as a scanner (take a photo of some text). Oh, and I have bought a Bluetooth GPS receiver, so now I have GPS on my phone too:)
With digital: 1) It's easier to have DRM. 2) It's easier to make a lot of copies from a single source. 3) You can make infinite generations of copies (a copy of a copy of...). 4) It's easier to transfer digital signal without distortion.
Analog also has its advantages: 1) No (or easily defeated) DRM. 2) Signal degrades gracefully, while digital either works perfectly or not at all.
Well, mandate that unDRM'd A/D converters are banned. Modify content or display tech to produce detectable patterns for use in the A/D converters. All new recording devices then refuse to record anything with the pattern. Very simplified, but do-able, i think.
1) They probably won't be banned in all countries. All it takes is one country disobeying this ban. 2) People can use their old devices that were made before the ban (unless you are planning to go to everyone's houses and take their camcorders) 3) You can also use a high resolution analog storage medium (W-VHS or something else), no A/D converters needed.
This is for video. For audio, I'll always be able to connect my tape recorder to the speakers (at the very least) and record the music.
I believe monopoly in this case is when market share >90%. If Apple somehow gets this market share, it will have to follow the same laws. Or is it OK for a monopolist to bundle anything with their main product (the product that has a monopoly)?
No, if the serial killer gets out of jail legally (was not sentenced to life) then he should not be brought back in until he kills someone. The same should be applied to MS: 1)stop breaking the law, 2)receive punishment for breaking said law, 3)do not break law again unless you want to be punished again.
I use both Opera and Firefox and they both are good browsers. I don't care about other browsers, however: most of "other browsers" follow standards (be it HTML or CSS). So in theory if I make a web page which complies with all the standards, the page should look and function the same no matter the browser. A non-compliant page should still look the same on all browsers (but may look not like the creator intended).
IE has its own standards, so it you make a complex web page, you have to make two versions of it. One version for IE and one version for all other browsers. Some companies forget to make the version for all other browsers and then non-Windows users get screwed if they need to access the site (as a Windows user, I can still access it, but the site may not work on my cell phone).
How are they different from the regular DVDs? I haven't tried this with a lot of DVDs, but I could rip any DVD I tried (maybe my "special" DVDROM helped).
Also, eztv has a very convenient feature called RSS. I set it up and no longer need to check their site. I wake up and some episode is already on my hard drive, ready for watching.
Choose: If I purchase the media, not the content, then me copying the content onto another media and giving it away/selling it does not deprive the copyright holder of anything (since they are selling plastic disks (not the content) and I am selling FTP access).
If I purchase the content, not the media, then I should be able to access the content even without the media, however, I cannot copy the content and distribute it.
MS broke the law, they will be punished for it, even if they stopped breaking the law.
Or are you saying that if a serial killer stops killing, he shouldn't go to jail?
Forcing MS not to bundle a simple default browser
The problem is that IE is not simple. MS markets it as a fully featured browser, so people use it. If IE was like MSPaint (compared to Photoshop), everything would be OK, people would use it to download a real browser.
Apple and Linux do not have a monopoly, so they can do whatever they want. If Apple or some distribution of Linux replaces Windows in market share, they will be subjected to the same laws.
Secondly, what exactly is MS supposed to do if NOT bundling their browser isn't even enough for the EC?
Well, the EC was considering the option to force MS to include a program that lets the consumer choose a browser (and have more than one choice).
They whole thing seems more like a grudge than a public service.
The whole thing will reduce the number of IE users and less IE users is good, so they are doing a public service.
1) The websites would tend to load eight by eight. You would read the first one that loads up. There aren't that many people in the world who can read 20 websites at the same time AND do it quickly.
On the other hand, if I am reading some website and find some interesting-looking links, I may click all of them with the middle mouse button (=open in background tab).
Or I could instruct my torrent client to only open 8 connections.
2) Uploading a video = 1 upload stream. Opening websites - 8 downloads. chatting = 1 voice stream. I don't see a problem there. It does not look like P2P.
Really? Am I doing what you listed or downloading a torrent while I am connected to 8 seeds and 1 peer?
It hurts bittorrent since each connection will be transferring different pieces.
Bittorrent uses a lot of connections because it is faster, also the network can make use of people with bad connections (I can get a decent speed if I am downloading from 50 dialuppers). Instructing the client to use a small number of connections is easy. Or you can devise a new system that, say, does this.
1. Divide the torrent into small pieces. 2. Connect to n-1 peers (n - max allowed number of connections by the ISP) 3. Connect to new peer using the nth connection. 4. Try to download a piece from this peer. 5a. If it is slower than all of the other peers, goto 3. 5b. If it is faster or same speed but more complete, dfinish downloading from the slowest peer, disconnect from it, goto 3.
This will screw the people with slow connections, but will still allow me to download fast...
If I can't use BT, I might as well drop that fastest subscription and get the basic one...
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What, you mean it is possible to get high on this? Where I live you can get it without prescription, I use it when my head hurts, works really well.
And they were strip-searching for it?
I tried to connect my cell phone to my WiFi with WPA2. After I entered the password wrong once, I learned how to setup IAS and authentication with certificates.
Well, I had to film long events a few times with my Panasonic VHS-C camera. I have only one battery and that's good for about 30 minutes (when it was new, it had greater capacity). So, I connected a 12V 7Ah lead-acid battery to the DC IN socket and the battery did not run out during the entire filming. The 12V battery is cheaper than the special camera battery, has greater capacity and I can also use it for other things (for example to power my laptop using a 12V->19V adapter).
Now I use a Sony Handycam, it needs a special plug (don't know where to get one) and 7.2V (can be done). I could use a 12V->220V inverter and the AC adapter, but it would be inefficient, though still cheaper than the equivalent of camera batteries.
However, if you only write to it once (i.e. long-term storage) flash storage will never degrade.
The technology is too new to say this for sure. I know that a shellac record lasts at least 94 years for example, because I have one such record. There is no way to know how long flash will last and the accelerated aging tests are unreliable, after all, they showed that a CD-R could hold its data for 50-100 years and we now know that is not true.
Hard drives also are not meant for long term storage. I try to store my data on removable media (like magnetic tape) so that if the reader device fails, at least my data is safe.
Every time a spinning disk is plugged in, there is a small chance it will fail just in the act of spinning up. It's tiny sure, but it's there for spinning disks and not for SSDs.
On the other hand, a malfunctioning power supply could fry the electronics. You could repair a hard drive by getting an identical drive and replacing the fried controller. With flash your data is gone.
drives write every bit on the disk before it will go back and re-write
Will the drive write only on free space (somehow knowing where the free space is) or do they rewrite any sector by moving the data to yet another sector?
If they rewrite only the free space then, if I keep my drive almost full, I could soon run out of writable sectors. If they write to any sector, wouldn't that cause problems if power fails during the write (I lose not only the file I did not finish writing, but also a part of some other file)?
Plus, when a flash drive fails, the failure does not prevent reads, only writes.
This depends on how it fails. If a faulty PSU sent +12V where it was supposed to be +5V, I don't think there would be a lot of readable data left.
Lastly, the speed boost is HUGE.
As I don't really need a fast hard drive, I did not look into this, so you may be right on this one.
Also, at least at this time, to me, flash drives seem unreliable, I'd rather have my data stored as tiny magnetic fields on a disk or tape that as tiny electric charges in some chip, though this is only my personal opinion, I may be wrong.
I'd pay some money per month so that the rights protectors would keep off me and let me continue download like I do now.
I'd pay some money for a legal torrent tracker with good seeds.
I'd pay some money for a legal e2dk server (torrents are not that good for finding some old music/movies).
I would still archive everything locally. While I rarely watch TV (usually only music shows that have music that is hard to find for me (old)), I record every show I watch, when a VHS tape is full, I put it in a box. If I had to program my VCR for unattended recording, I will record to another ape while editing out the commercials.
The legal tracker/server will probably last for a long time, on the other hand, it is subscription based, so it can be shut down easily (as opposed to a DRM authentication server, where people expect it to last forever after they paid a single time (not monthly)). Also, local storage is faster. While I might some day get a 100mbps fiber connection (if I somehow come to enough money for it) it would still be slower than my tape drive made in 2002 (LTO-1, 15MB/s) and I might upgrade to a newer generation of LTO that's even faster.
The idea here would be to erase the need to amass a "music collection" (on your local hard drive), because you could always just re-download what you want.
No, it will actually increase the need for big hard drives. Well, at least I would use that service the same way as a free-leech time in a private torrent tracker. Download first, sort it out later. In case of this service, I would download everything and then unsubscribe from the service, so I would only have to pay for only a few months of the service and some hard drives or LTO tapes...
OTOH, my ISP provides a FTP server with movies, games and music for free. Though I usually don't find anything interesting there and download using torrents.
TVs and monitors get clogged with dust because they use high voltage (5-30kV) for the anode of the CRT. This high voltage is like static electricity and it attracts dust (usually the dustiest place in a TV is around the flyback transformer).
Failing to provide sufficient resistance (think unsplit keyboards are bad? Try hammering on a laptop keyboard where each key bottoms out after .5cm.)
I like laptop style keyboards, that's why I am using Logitech UltraX flat as my desktop keyboard.
Nobody I know measures fuel consumption like that.
You probably wanted to say 0.784L/100km.
Still more efficient than an average car, except this car doesn't run on gasoline, so there would be a problem of finding a fuel station that has suitable fuel for it.
So if you hit a tree or a wall you're dead?
The electric trolling motor uses 250 amps an hour so if I have a battery with 1000 amps the motor will run for 4 hours.
No, the battery is 1000 Amp-hours, not amps.
The you get:
1000*A*h/(250*A) = 4*h
Phone batteries are small, so their capacity is measured in mAh, where 1Ah=1000mAh. Energy of batteries can be measured in joules (J) or kWh (1kWh=3.6MJ). Energy of small batteries is measured in Wh (1Wh=3.6kJ).
Nokia 1xxx series is very popular. This series (except the old phones like 1611) are very basic and cheap. They are also easier to use (for computer illiterate people) than "normal" phones not to mention smartphones.
OTOH, I have my N93 and I love it. Sure, I'd like HSDPA support, but currently it is the best phone for me, because I don't like touchscreen only phones and llike optical zoom. Sure, the pictures aren't good, but they are good enough to use the phone as a scanner (take a photo of some text). Oh, and I have bought a Bluetooth GPS receiver, so now I have GPS on my phone too :)
With digital: ...).
1) It's easier to have DRM.
2) It's easier to make a lot of copies from a single source.
3) You can make infinite generations of copies (a copy of a copy of
4) It's easier to transfer digital signal without distortion.
Analog also has its advantages:
1) No (or easily defeated) DRM.
2) Signal degrades gracefully, while digital either works perfectly or not at all.
Well, mandate that unDRM'd A/D converters are banned. Modify content or display tech to produce detectable patterns for use in the A/D converters. All new recording devices then refuse to record anything with the pattern. Very simplified, but do-able, i think.
1) They probably won't be banned in all countries. All it takes is one country disobeying this ban.
2) People can use their old devices that were made before the ban (unless you are planning to go to everyone's houses and take their camcorders)
3) You can also use a high resolution analog storage medium (W-VHS or something else), no A/D converters needed.
This is for video. For audio, I'll always be able to connect my tape recorder to the speakers (at the very least) and record the music.
Apple does not have a monopoly, so the antitrust laws do not apply to them.
I believe monopoly in this case is when market share >90%. If Apple somehow gets this market share, it will have to follow the same laws. Or is it OK for a monopolist to bundle anything with their main product (the product that has a monopoly)?
No, if the serial killer gets out of jail legally (was not sentenced to life) then he should not be brought back in until he kills someone. The same should be applied to MS: 1)stop breaking the law, 2)receive punishment for breaking said law, 3)do not break law again unless you want to be punished again.
I use both Opera and Firefox and they both are good browsers. I don't care about other browsers, however: most of "other browsers" follow standards (be it HTML or CSS). So in theory if I make a web page which complies with all the standards, the page should look and function the same no matter the browser. A non-compliant page should still look the same on all browsers (but may look not like the creator intended).
IE has its own standards, so it you make a complex web page, you have to make two versions of it. One version for IE and one version for all other browsers. Some companies forget to make the version for all other browsers and then non-Windows users get screwed if they need to access the site (as a Windows user, I can still access it, but the site may not work on my cell phone).
And that's why I play games on my PC with a 21" CRT monitor capable of 2048x1536.
How are they different from the regular DVDs? I haven't tried this with a lot of DVDs, but I could rip any DVD I tried (maybe my "special" DVDROM helped).
Also, eztv has a very convenient feature called RSS. I set it up and no longer need to check their site. I wake up and some episode is already on my hard drive, ready for watching.
Choose:
If I purchase the media, not the content, then me copying the content onto another media and giving it away/selling it does not deprive the copyright holder of anything (since they are selling plastic disks (not the content) and I am selling FTP access).
If I purchase the content, not the media, then I should be able to access the content even without the media, however, I cannot copy the content and distribute it.
MS broke the law, they will be punished for it, even if they stopped breaking the law.
Or are you saying that if a serial killer stops killing, he shouldn't go to jail?
Forcing MS not to bundle a simple default browser
The problem is that IE is not simple. MS markets it as a fully featured browser, so people use it. If IE was like MSPaint (compared to Photoshop), everything would be OK, people would use it to download a real browser.
Apple and Linux do not have a monopoly, so they can do whatever they want. If Apple or some distribution of Linux replaces Windows in market share, they will be subjected to the same laws.
Secondly, what exactly is MS supposed to do if NOT bundling their browser isn't even enough for the EC?
Well, the EC was considering the option to force MS to include a program that lets the consumer choose a browser (and have more than one choice).
They whole thing seems more like a grudge than a public service.
The whole thing will reduce the number of IE users and less IE users is good, so they are doing a public service.
The same way you install network card drivers: CD, floppy, flash, RS232...
1) The websites would tend to load eight by eight. You would read the first one that loads up. There aren't that many people in the world who can read 20 websites at the same time AND do it quickly.
On the other hand, if I am reading some website and find some interesting-looking links, I may click all of them with the middle mouse button (=open in background tab).
Or I could instruct my torrent client to only open 8 connections.
2) Uploading a video = 1 upload stream. Opening websites - 8 downloads. chatting = 1 voice stream. I don't see a problem there. It does not look like P2P.
Really? Am I doing what you listed or downloading a torrent while I am connected to 8 seeds and 1 peer?
It hurts bittorrent since each connection will be transferring different pieces.
Bittorrent uses a lot of connections because it is faster, also the network can make use of people with bad connections (I can get a decent speed if I am downloading from 50 dialuppers).
Instructing the client to use a small number of connections is easy. Or you can devise a new system that, say, does this.
1. Divide the torrent into small pieces.
2. Connect to n-1 peers (n - max allowed number of connections by the ISP)
3. Connect to new peer using the nth connection.
4. Try to download a piece from this peer.
5a. If it is slower than all of the other peers, goto 3.
5b. If it is faster or same speed but more complete, dfinish downloading from the slowest peer, disconnect from it, goto 3.
This will screw the people with slow connections, but will still allow me to download fast...
If I can't use BT, I might as well drop that fastest subscription and get the basic one...
Or, you know, he can fix the player or buy a used one.
How can I fix/buy a DRM server after the company goes under?
The proposal would be to make watermark detection a mandatory feature of all ADCs.
Let's see that work on any of my tape recorders or my current sound card...