I don't at all understand what the benefit of special hardware in the drive would be.
Perhaps an extra speed boost for those files that are sensitive but less sensitive than some other files? Crypto in the drive controller takes some load off the CPU.
working for a government contracter, we are required to have more than 40 bits
Not all your bits have to come from the same source. For example, you can use 128 bit AES on the CPU followed by 40 bit DES on the drive, and you get 168 bit cipher strength barring any meet-in-the-middle[1] attacks.
[1] "Meet in the middle" in symmetric cryptanalysis has absolutely nothing to do with "man in the middle" in public-key infrastructure analysis.
You don't graduate high school without 2 years of a foreign language.
That may be a requirement in your Utah high school, but it's certainly not a requirement at the federal do-what-we-say-or-we-take-away-the-highway-money level in the United States.
I think it would be much better if Java just compiled to native code
There's a reason that intermediate representations such as JVM, MSIL, and Parrot exist. They act as a base from which the operating environment can recompile the code, optimized for a particular microarchitecture.
and we had FAT binaries
That may have worked for Mac OS 7, where a binary typically had two architectures' code (68020 and PowerPC) code, but for portability beyond the Mac, you need more architectures in the binary, to the point where it's bloated beyond belief. Do you really want to have to compile the same code for Alpha, ARM, Athlon 64, IA32, IA64, MIPS32, MIPS64, PowerPC, SPARC, and UltraSPARC architectures every time you release a milestone build to the public?
and no one would bitch about java being slow.
Java technology on the whole isn't slow. Implementations of the Swing GUI are slow. The Microsoft implementation of Windows.Forms GUI isn't nearly as slow as Swing, which is why the.NET framework seems to "feel faster" than Java technology.
Not all television sets sold in the United States have a composite video input connector (commonly called an "RCA in"), which was stratjakt's whole point.
Of course, "transfer" isn't much of an operation, but it is one.:)
Oops... I misused "operations" to mean "ALU operations or shift operations".
When you buy Unreal engine, don't you get updates?
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Although they'd use the current build (2110) if they were real men (and had some additional cash to spend).
I thought that when a company licensed the Unreal engine from Epic, it got future builds as well, and that this was one of the biggest things differentiating the Unreal licensing scheme from the Quake licensing scheme.
However, somebody who wants a Slashdotting could just download the aforementioned tools
I'm sorry; I don't have $1,000 for any version of Microsoft Visual Studio.
Oh, you mean the "standard edition" for $100? That's known to generate inefficient code; Microsoft doesn't even claim that the "standard edition" optimizes your code one bit.
One idea is to create more effective search engines - such as one that can search for the web page of markup language named "shoe" and not return a bunch of results about sneakers.
Though Semantic Web proponents claim that their ideas can achieve great things if implemented, it appears that some of that could be realized on the current Web by training users in creating effective queries for the Google search engine. The trick in this case is to treat proper names such as "shoe" as adjectives in your query. Thus, search not for "shoe" but for shoe language.
Someone needs to just say "Fork it." and build a new obsd.
Though the individual files of the OpenBSD operating environment are free works, the directory layout of OpenBSD is not a free work. You'd have to base the directory layout on FreeBSD or something else. In addition, the maintainer of the fork wouldn't have the right under trademark law to call his operating system "OpenBSD" brand.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Doesn't "Suits at common law" refer to civil cases? Or are there exceptions to this amendment, as there are to the First (such as shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater)?
A lossless coding scheme is one which can be reversed to obtain a bit-identical version of the original.
The definition of "lossless" you refer to is a valid definition of "reversible coding of digital signals", and this is what is generally meant by "lossless" in digital audio coding.
However, the "original" audio signal is not bits. The "original" is vibrations in air, which become bits through the recording process. A signal recorded with 4 bits per sample (such as the sampled recordings used by some video game consoles' sound chips) can be represented with few bits and often coded reversibly. But it'll still sound like crap.
That's why I define "lossless" in an end-to-end fashion, implying that 1. the recorded signal is represented with sufficient SNR to put its noise floor below the quietest detectable sound across the entire frequency spectrum of interest, and 2. the recorded signal is reversibly encoded.
Distributing electronic copies of a copyrighted work, even if you have verified that all recipients own a genuine copy of the work, is copyright infringement (UMG v. MP3.com).
I was talking about downloading the ROMs from the net.
Apparently, from what I've read, the Betamax doctrine that allows legitimate use of ROM dumps in emulators applies only to ROM dumps that haven't been distributed, that is, ROM dumps that have been purchased as computer files (such as some Konami releases of Castlevania and Contra for PC) or ROM dumps created directly from a particular cartridge owned by the user of the ROM dump (such as the dumps I make of my own carts with my Visoly Flash Advance Linker). Whether the data on the dumper's cartridge is identical to the data on the recipient's cartridge does not matter in court; the dumping process cannot include a "distribution" as defined by copyright law.
One example? You can compress some of the most beautiful images in the world in a few lines of code and some parameters.. It's called a fractal. I don't have to send you a PNG; I give you the parameters, and you generate it, given the 'specialized compression algorithm'..
Generic fractal compression works only with fractals created by hand. It cannot compress a scene captured with a camera.
So Barnsley came up with a special case of fractal compression called the fractal transform. Guess what: It's 1. patented with no available royalty-free license, and 2. not as efficient as JPEG 2000.
even theoretically perfect equipment will not reveal differences your ears aren't capable of perceiving.
Your ears are not my ears, and my ears are not CmdrTaco's ears, and CmdrTaco's ears are not Trent Reznor's ears, and Trent Reznor's ears are not Britney Spears's producer's ears, etc. Different ears hear different artifacts. Lossless audio coding, which I define as audio coding where coding noise is smaller than the room's background noise, is the only way to please every ear now known or hereinafter built.
Seamless play. Mp3 by its very nature will cause a pop or blip or something if you rip, say two consecutive tracks from a continuous mix into two files, and then encode them.
MP3 and Ogg Vorbis are overlapping-transform codecs, and overlapping-transform codecs need a short period of silence before and after the signal. The MP3 specification doesn't specify what to do with the silence.
It might be possible to get it right if you engineered your whole ripping process around it (rip an extra mp3 frame of overlap on each file and then throw out that frame once you've done the encoding?) but I don't think anyone's done that.
Xiph.org has done something like that. Vorbis always encodes exactly n samples of silence before and after the audio and then discards them on playback, producing a gapless result. FLAC has been gapless from the start, as each block of samples is independently coded. Thus, Ogg audio as we know it is gapless.
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I don't at all understand what the benefit of special hardware in the drive would be.
Perhaps an extra speed boost for those files that are sensitive but less sensitive than some other files? Crypto in the drive controller takes some load off the CPU.
working for a government contracter, we are required to have more than 40 bits
Not all your bits have to come from the same source. For example, you can use 128 bit AES on the CPU followed by 40 bit DES on the drive, and you get 168 bit cipher strength barring any meet-in-the-middle[1] attacks.
[1] "Meet in the middle" in symmetric cryptanalysis has absolutely nothing to do with "man in the middle" in public-key infrastructure analysis.
You don't graduate high school without 2 years of a foreign language.
That may be a requirement in your Utah high school, but it's certainly not a requirement at the federal do-what-we-say-or-we-take-away-the-highway-money level in the United States.
I think it would be much better if Java just compiled to native code
There's a reason that intermediate representations such as JVM, MSIL, and Parrot exist. They act as a base from which the operating environment can recompile the code, optimized for a particular microarchitecture.
and we had FAT binaries
That may have worked for Mac OS 7, where a binary typically had two architectures' code (68020 and PowerPC) code, but for portability beyond the Mac, you need more architectures in the binary, to the point where it's bloated beyond belief. Do you really want to have to compile the same code for Alpha, ARM, Athlon 64, IA32, IA64, MIPS32, MIPS64, PowerPC, SPARC, and UltraSPARC architectures every time you release a milestone build to the public?
and no one would bitch about java being slow.
Java technology on the whole isn't slow. Implementations of the Swing GUI are slow. The Microsoft implementation of Windows.Forms GUI isn't nearly as slow as Swing, which is why the .NET framework seems to "feel faster" than Java technology.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has had a DMCA-clone on the books for nearly fifteen years: Section 296 of the Copyright Act
Or you use the RCA in on your TV
Not all television sets sold in the United States have a composite video input connector (commonly called an "RCA in"), which was stratjakt's whole point.
Of course, "transfer" isn't much of an operation, but it is one. :)
Oops... I misused "operations" to mean "ALU operations or shift operations".
Although they'd use the current build (2110) if they were real men (and had some additional cash to spend).
I thought that when a company licensed the Unreal engine from Epic, it got future builds as well, and that this was one of the biggest things differentiating the Unreal licensing scheme from the Quake licensing scheme.
should be "NOT going to disclose the key" karma suicide
But now The Neo Project is going to disclose the Xbox signing key if it is found.
However, somebody who wants a Slashdotting could just download the aforementioned tools
I'm sorry; I don't have $1,000 for any version of Microsoft Visual Studio.
Oh, you mean the "standard edition" for $100? That's known to generate inefficient code; Microsoft doesn't even claim that the "standard edition" optimizes your code one bit.
One idea is to create more effective search engines - such as one that can search for the web page of markup language named "shoe" and not return a bunch of results about sneakers.
Though Semantic Web proponents claim that their ideas can achieve great things if implemented, it appears that some of that could be realized on the current Web by training users in creating effective queries for the Google search engine. The trick in this case is to treat proper names such as "shoe" as adjectives in your query. Thus, search not for "shoe" but for shoe language.
"Death Star Productions"
No, that'd be AT&T.
Someone needs to just say "Fork it." and build a new obsd.
Though the individual files of the OpenBSD operating environment are free works, the directory layout of OpenBSD is not a free work. You'd have to base the directory layout on FreeBSD or something else. In addition, the maintainer of the fork wouldn't have the right under trademark law to call his operating system "OpenBSD" brand.
It is not true in civil cases.
Here's the text of the Seventh Amendment:
Doesn't "Suits at common law" refer to civil cases? Or are there exceptions to this amendment, as there are to the First (such as shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater)?
A lossless coding scheme is one which can be reversed to obtain a bit-identical version of the original.
The definition of "lossless" you refer to is a valid definition of "reversible coding of digital signals", and this is what is generally meant by "lossless" in digital audio coding.
However, the "original" audio signal is not bits. The "original" is vibrations in air, which become bits through the recording process. A signal recorded with 4 bits per sample (such as the sampled recordings used by some video game consoles' sound chips) can be represented with few bits and often coded reversibly. But it'll still sound like crap.
That's why I define "lossless" in an end-to-end fashion, implying that 1. the recorded signal is represented with sufficient SNR to put its noise floor below the quietest detectable sound across the entire frequency spectrum of interest, and 2. the recorded signal is reversibly encoded.
Distributing electronic copies of a copyrighted work, even if you have verified that all recipients own a genuine copy of the work, is copyright infringement (UMG v. MP3.com).
SDRAM is old news, and most new computers use DDR
Which is a form of SDRAM (when it's not a dance simulation or part of Germany).
which will not be affected by this ruling.
What makes you believe that this ruling does not affect double data rate SDRAM?
You did know that the right to a "jury of peers" doesn't always apply in civil court cases, didn't you?
Nit: Amendment 7 guarantees Americans the right to a trial by jury.
Maybe $3-5 pisses you off a whole lot
Now watch Rambus charge $3-5 per stick of RDRAM but charge $30-$50 per stick of SDRAM or DDR SDRAM.
I was talking about downloading the ROMs from the net.
Apparently, from what I've read, the Betamax doctrine that allows legitimate use of ROM dumps in emulators applies only to ROM dumps that haven't been distributed, that is, ROM dumps that have been purchased as computer files (such as some Konami releases of Castlevania and Contra for PC) or ROM dumps created directly from a particular cartridge owned by the user of the ROM dump (such as the dumps I make of my own carts with my Visoly Flash Advance Linker). Whether the data on the dumper's cartridge is identical to the data on the recipient's cartridge does not matter in court; the dumping process cannot include a "distribution" as defined by copyright law.
One example? You can compress some of the most beautiful images in the world in a few lines of code and some parameters.. It's called a fractal. I don't have to send you a PNG; I give you the parameters, and you generate it, given the 'specialized compression algorithm'..
Generic fractal compression works only with fractals created by hand. It cannot compress a scene captured with a camera.
So Barnsley came up with a special case of fractal compression called the fractal transform. Guess what: It's 1. patented with no available royalty-free license, and 2. not as efficient as JPEG 2000.
even theoretically perfect equipment will not reveal differences your ears aren't capable of perceiving.
Your ears are not my ears, and my ears are not CmdrTaco's ears, and CmdrTaco's ears are not Trent Reznor's ears, and Trent Reznor's ears are not Britney Spears's producer's ears, etc. Different ears hear different artifacts. Lossless audio coding, which I define as audio coding where coding noise is smaller than the room's background noise, is the only way to please every ear now known or hereinafter built.
There's enough proof that many things which is said at r3mix site is false if you look for it
Not everybody reading your comment is an expert at forming search engine queries. Please back up your assertions with URLs.
Seamless play. Mp3 by its very nature will cause a pop or blip or something if you rip, say two consecutive tracks from a continuous mix into two files, and then encode them.
MP3 and Ogg Vorbis are overlapping-transform codecs, and overlapping-transform codecs need a short period of silence before and after the signal. The MP3 specification doesn't specify what to do with the silence.
It might be possible to get it right if you engineered your whole ripping process around it (rip an extra mp3 frame of overlap on each file and then throw out that frame once you've done the encoding?) but I don't think anyone's done that.
Xiph.org has done something like that. Vorbis always encodes exactly n samples of silence before and after the audio and then discards them on playback, producing a gapless result. FLAC has been gapless from the start, as each block of samples is independently coded. Thus, Ogg audio as we know it is gapless.