Intel's 386 protected mode has "code" segments and "data" segments. Writes to code cause a segfault. Branches into data cause a segfault. But if the OS points the code and data segments at the same area of RAM, the 386 doesn't care. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
The Internet standard for stereograms is right eye on the left, left eye on the right. Cross-eyed. That's how the 3d South Park images at www.sweeet.com are presented. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
If you look at just the title of Fraunhofer's patent, it says "Digital Encoding Process".
The "Process" detailed in the claims is general enough to cover all MP3 encoding and is necessary and irreplaceable for creating an MP3 bitstream. LAME infringes.
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MPEG compresses motion by taking 16x16 pixel blocks from the previous frame and storing the (small) difference. Perhaps this same technique could be used to store the differences between the left and right eyes.
Run the image through a low-pass and a high-pass filter. Compress the high-pass information into tiny wavelets. Repeat the process on the low-pass signal a few times. Quantize and encode the images, and you have a bitstream. This works so well because the eye is believed to use wavelets to recognize features in images. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Stereo pairs could probably use a system similar to the MPEG motion compensation, where a frame is generated based on moving 16x16 pixel blocks around in another frame and storing the small difference. <O ( \ XGNOME vs. KDE: the game!
Why don't the napster users just move over [to alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.*]?
Many ISPs don't subscribe to alt.binaries.* You generally have to pay to get binaries access from a third party.
it's not centralized so there's no one to shut down
But it makes it easy to shut down the news accounts of everybody who posts. Most news providers include tracing information in the headers, and this tracing information can be reported to the provider, shutting down the infringer's access to the binaries server.
Can you create a beowolf cluster of these?... I'd rather see normal size cameras come down in price and be better in quality.
Actually, a cluster of the CCDs in these tiny cameras would add up to a high-resolution CCD for a bigger camera with film-like (6 megapixel) resolution.
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Seriously, futurists have hypothesized that we are evolving larger brains (and associated larger heads). Because our machines do more of our work for us, we can get by with smaller bodies. And with overpopulation, competition for the opposite sex is becoming fierce; teardrop-shaped eyes tend to attract chicks. Someday all our moments will be...
Newer SETI@home clients don't compute the graphics if the client window is minimized. However, by default, they wait until screen saver time to kick in. <O ( \ X Adopt a bird today!
...some discs take 10 minutes to load? For example, insert a Disney disc and the player locks up (becomes unresponsive to panel or remote control input) for 10 minutes while displaying advertisements. <O ( \ X Adopt a bird today!
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Intel's 386 protected mode has "code" segments and "data" segments. Writes to code cause a segfault. Branches into data cause a segfault. But if the OS points the code and data segments at the same area of RAM, the 386 doesn't care.
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Napster BUYcott
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The Internet standard for stereograms is right eye on the left, left eye on the right. Cross-eyed. That's how the 3d South Park images at www.sweeet.com are presented.
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If you look at just the title of Fraunhofer's patent, it says "Digital Encoding Process".
The "Process" detailed in the claims is general enough to cover all MP3 encoding and is necessary and irreplaceable for creating an MP3 bitstream. LAME infringes.
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(this reply will suck; slash has been eating my replies)
MPEG compresses motion by taking 16x16 pixel blocks from the previous frame and storing the (small) difference. Perhaps this same technique could be used to store the differences between the left and right eyes.
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Run the image through a low-pass and a high-pass filter. Compress the high-pass information into tiny wavelets. Repeat the process on the low-pass signal a few times. Quantize and encode the images, and you have a bitstream. This works so well because the eye is believed to use wavelets to recognize features in images.
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Stereo pairs could probably use a system similar to the MPEG motion compensation, where a frame is generated based on moving 16x16 pixel blocks around in another frame and storing the small difference.
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You used a closed-source BIOS to load your operating system, didn't you?
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Thomson Multimedia controls MP3 patent licensing. If the RIAA wants to stop MPEG Audio Layer 3, it could just work with Thomson to get the patent royalties upped. This will cause League for Programming Freedom to throw up a site called Burn All MP3s Day and everyone will go download Vorbis software from Xiph.org and re-rip their CDs.
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Why don't the napster users just move over [to alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.*]?
Many ISPs don't subscribe to alt.binaries.* You generally have to pay to get binaries access from a third party.
it's not centralized so there's no one to shut down
But it makes it easy to shut down the news accounts of everybody who posts. Most news providers include tracing information in the headers, and this tracing information can be reported to the provider, shutting down the infringer's access to the binaries server.
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And it belongs to Turkmenistan.
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Nowadays, alta-vista.com redirects properly to altavista.com.
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Can you create a beowolf cluster of these? ... I'd rather see normal size cameras come down in price and be better in quality.
Actually, a cluster of the CCDs in these tiny cameras would add up to a high-resolution CCD for a bigger camera with film-like (6 megapixel) resolution.
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At least with photos, you can scan them at whatever resolution you want; you're not limited as much
Most film begins to show its grain at resolutions higher than about 3072x2048.
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Didn't Q pass the torch to R in TWINE? Q's dead anyway.
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(nt)
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Haiku is 575 about nature. Senryu is 575 about human nature.
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The world of Precious Moments is "a world with only healthy, cheerful, smart and attractive inhabitants." Vote YES to Precious Moments!
Seriously, futurists have hypothesized that we are evolving larger brains (and associated larger heads). Because our machines do more of our work for us, we can get by with smaller bodies. And with overpopulation, competition for the opposite sex is becoming fierce; teardrop-shaped eyes tend to attract chicks. Someday all our moments will be...
PRECIOUS MOMENTS®.<O
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Newer SETI@home clients don't compute the graphics if the client window is minimized. However, by default, they wait until screen saver time to kick in.
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SETI@home is looking for radar pulses. Those are likely to be at a constant frequency and perhaps easy to detect.
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Yes, he said lyrics.
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No; they'd be Free, like these.
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...some discs take 10 minutes to load? For example, insert a Disney disc and the player locks up (becomes unresponsive to panel or remote control input) for 10 minutes while displaying advertisements.
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and they allow very straightforward access and many special features. I just don't see how DVD is not consumer-friendly
You have to wait ten minutes for e.g. Disney discs to even load while your television is turned off while the disc's ads play.
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Intel has hardly every had problems with bad microprocessor cores
Then who's fault was the FDIV bug in the early original Pentium?
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