Yes, in the case of Australia and the US you can be extradited for IP infringement.
This includes cases where the server is located in Australia and the person involved in IP infringement has never set foot in the USA. As given in the Hew Raymond Griffiths example, if you post something on the internet from Australia, then US courts can claim jurisdiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Raymond_Griffiths
That particular example is relevant to copyright but it sets a precedent that IP infringement is worthy of extradition and that the US has authority over what Australians do on the internet.
You may want to check your local extradition laws. Not all countries are as servile to the US as we are.
No 1080i is not half the resolution!
1080i and 1080op displays have the exact same number of pixels. Sure, 1080i updates only half the pixels per frame but it has the same number of pixels on the display.
There's so much disinformation about 1080i vs. 1080p. Guess what format requires more bandwidth and processing on Blu-ray? 1080i does.
1080i Blu-ray plays at 60 frames per second, where each frame updates every second pixel on the 1920x1080 display, a total of 1920x1080x30 full frames per second.
1080p Blu-ray plays 24 full frames per second, where each frame updates every pixel, giving a total of 1920x1080x25 full frames per second.
The same goes for 1080i broadcasts. It actually takes more bandwidth to do a 1080i 60fps broadcast over a 1080p 24fps broadcast. You also need a more somewhat rare 1080i TV to be able to view it correctly. But the end result is you get all the same pixels someone on a 1080p set sees but you also get more frames and the transition between frames appears smoother.
The modern CPUs you call x86s use a non-x86 core with an instruction decoder bolted on to make it run the x86 instruction set. It has been that way since the Pentium Pro, the NextGen chips and the AMD K5.
The AMD K5 in particular was pretty much identical to the Am29000 RISC processor. AMD just put a decoder on it and sold it as an x86.
CISC type instruction sets are considered to be the most optimal for code density (better cache and memory usage). So we pretty much have the best of both worlds. The instruction set is CISC so we get the memory benefits and the code is run as RISC via an instruction decoder which makes it easier to pipeline and for parallelism.
Intel will be screwed if AMD goes bankrupt and the patents on a large part of the x86 tech fall into the hands of someone who has no desire to make x86 chips.
Currently they cross license to avoid a patent war. AMD going bankrupt will screw Intel over big time.
Yes although that iterating mechanism doesn't have to be an instruction. You can simply have the last instruction of the program lead into the first, no explicit iteration instruction is required.
Essentially this is what a CPU does. It runs a cycle of the same NAND instructions every clock cycle.
That's absolutely true. Anyone who has studied CPU logic knows that the CPU is made of NAND gates which can be arranged to make any other gate. A NAND instruction which takes 2 addresses of 2 different bits (has to be bitwise not bytewise) and stores the result can do anything.
One thing i don't get is why it hasn't been done? The wikipedia article on the one instruction computer doesn't list a bitwise AND instruction as being one of the possible instructions for a one instruction computer.
Looking at the eassy provided in the last link i can only think to myself "geez i'm glad i didn't have to write bullshit like that to get into my university".
The world I come from is full of oak trees and rain, warm cats on cold nights, and raucous college parties across the street. The sky over my home matches the grey in my eyes; the barbed wire fence around Lake Sequoyah is commemorated eternally by the disfiguration of my left hip.
I said the exact same thing when mice were taking over from keyboards. You have to take one of your hands off the keyboard to use it- terrible ergonomics if you are typing.
Of course the mouse still became mainstream in the end though, even in word processing programs, as it is simply far more intuitive for newcomers regardless of ergonomics or speed at which you can acomplish a task.
I suspect the same will eventually be true of the touchscreen.
No it is frightening now if you transmit anything that still has to be secret in the future. After all someone might simply record both sides of the encrypted conversation now for later reference.
This is why government agencies want secure quantum links now. As even though there is no way for someone to decrypt their plans right now there's still a chance of the plans getting out once quantum computers do come about.
I have a feeling a lot of criminals will find themselves being arrested for past crimes once quantum computers do come about as all their past recorded conversations, no matter how encrypted, suddenly become decryptable.
Yeah those versions aren't Opera Unite. That's what i'm getting at. Those browser only versions are what people think of when they think of Opera. Small, fast and simple.
Opera Unite on the other hand is a much larger monolithic program with many unrelated features hanging off it. It has system services (that's how it keeps the web server up when you close the browser down) so it stays memory resident and uses resources even when you think you've closed the browser.
Firefox 2 had a bug. Firefox 3 does use less than Opera. Much less. (I'll admit these benchmarks aren't for the latest build of Opera, but Opera has more features now not less so i think it's still accurate).
That's not true in any sense. Current version of Firefox is ~7MB, Opera is ~10MB in size.
Ever since version 3 of Firefox it's been one of the most misely in memory usage. It beats older versions of Opera by a long way (no benchmarks yet for Unite but i don't think it's better than the older versions).
Where do you live?
If you live in America then please shut the fuck up. Those of use in the rest of the world are starting to be allocated private addresses that are being NATed via our ISPs. This means we can't do port forwarding or use our connections for anything other than browsing on port 80.
It amuses me when i read American news reports and posts that claim swine flu will be deadly in autumn/winter. It's currently snowing in Australias capital Canberra right now and swine flu has yet to do any real harm despite over a thousand confirmed cases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak_in_Australia
Most have reported a runny nose as the worst symptom.
Personally i mix and match to make an IDE.
For the code editing i have notepad++.
For the compiling i have the intel core compiler.
For debugging i use Intel Debugger.
There's plugins for notepad++ to make the compiler/debugger only a keyboard shortcut away.
Encoding from multiple different keyframes works when you can seek to any part of the input video but it doesn't help with realtime encoding.
If i'm encoding a signal in realtime from TV i have to start encoding at 0% onwards. The only way to parallelize it is to split the individual frames up into boxes (as done by the Badaboom).
Data compression is an inherantly serial operation. Parts of it can be done in parrallel but in general the way you compress the next bit is based on the patterns observed earlier.
Say you wanted one core to start encoding at 0% and the other at 50% of the way into the movie. The core starting at 50% has to start compression without any of the learned patterns in the 0-50% range. In the example you gave one core encodes half the screen and the other core encodes the other half. If they are running in parrallel the second core can't use the learnt patterns of the first unless it wants to wait for the first core to finish its current frame (thereby making it non-parrallel).
So you have a tradeoff. You can run everything serially, or you can accept that you'll miss a few observed patterns here and there and run more parrallel.
Ahh fair enough, you did say across and that it was small, i should have relised.
In any case doesn't hurt to reiterate that this article has no worth.
I see these spiders all the time, i use a broom to get them out of the house. You don't see me writing a fucking article in the local rag about it. Somehow it then got written up in the UK times (the Brits seem to love us Aussies) and then finally it got written up as a news storey on Slashdot.
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Yes, in the case of Australia and the US you can be extradited for IP infringement. This includes cases where the server is located in Australia and the person involved in IP infringement has never set foot in the USA. As given in the Hew Raymond Griffiths example, if you post something on the internet from Australia, then US courts can claim jurisdiction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Raymond_Griffiths That particular example is relevant to copyright but it sets a precedent that IP infringement is worthy of extradition and that the US has authority over what Australians do on the internet.
You may want to check your local extradition laws. Not all countries are as servile to the US as we are.
1080i is 1920x1080!
Sure every frame only updates every second pixel but the actual display is 1920x1080 pixels.
The idea is to make the transitions between frames appear smoother, update every second pixel but have twice the framerate.
No 1080i is not half the resolution!
1080i and 1080op displays have the exact same number of pixels. Sure, 1080i updates only half the pixels per frame but it has the same number of pixels on the display.
There's so much disinformation about 1080i vs. 1080p. Guess what format requires more bandwidth and processing on Blu-ray? 1080i does.
1080i Blu-ray plays at 60 frames per second, where each frame updates every second pixel on the 1920x1080 display, a total of 1920x1080x30 full frames per second.
1080p Blu-ray plays 24 full frames per second, where each frame updates every pixel, giving a total of 1920x1080x25 full frames per second.
The same goes for 1080i broadcasts. It actually takes more bandwidth to do a 1080i 60fps broadcast over a 1080p 24fps broadcast. You also need a more somewhat rare 1080i TV to be able to view it correctly. But the end result is you get all the same pixels someone on a 1080p set sees but you also get more frames and the transition between frames appears smoother.
That second link is a Rick Roll.
Did you even check it?
It's just an instruction set.
The modern CPUs you call x86s use a non-x86 core with an instruction decoder bolted on to make it run the x86 instruction set. It has been that way since the Pentium Pro, the NextGen chips and the AMD K5.
The AMD K5 in particular was pretty much identical to the Am29000 RISC processor. AMD just put a decoder on it and sold it as an x86.
CISC type instruction sets are considered to be the most optimal for code density (better cache and memory usage). So we pretty much have the best of both worlds. The instruction set is CISC so we get the memory benefits and the code is run as RISC via an instruction decoder which makes it easier to pipeline and for parallelism.
Intel will be screwed if AMD goes bankrupt and the patents on a large part of the x86 tech fall into the hands of someone who has no desire to make x86 chips.
Currently they cross license to avoid a patent war. AMD going bankrupt will screw Intel over big time.
Yes although that iterating mechanism doesn't have to be an instruction. You can simply have the last instruction of the program lead into the first, no explicit iteration instruction is required.
Essentially this is what a CPU does. It runs a cycle of the same NAND instructions every clock cycle.
That's absolutely true. Anyone who has studied CPU logic knows that the CPU is made of NAND gates which can be arranged to make any other gate. A NAND instruction which takes 2 addresses of 2 different bits (has to be bitwise not bytewise) and stores the result can do anything.
One thing i don't get is why it hasn't been done? The wikipedia article on the one instruction computer doesn't list a bitwise AND instruction as being one of the possible instructions for a one instruction computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer
But the fact is simple NAND instuctions can do anything.
The world I come from is full of oak trees and rain, warm cats on cold nights, and raucous college parties across the street. The sky over my home matches the grey in my eyes; the barbed wire fence around Lake Sequoyah is commemorated eternally by the disfiguration of my left hip.
Am i the only one who puked at that?
I said the exact same thing when mice were taking over from keyboards. You have to take one of your hands off the keyboard to use it- terrible ergonomics if you are typing.
Of course the mouse still became mainstream in the end though, even in word processing programs, as it is simply far more intuitive for newcomers regardless of ergonomics or speed at which you can acomplish a task.
I suspect the same will eventually be true of the touchscreen.
No it is frightening now if you transmit anything that still has to be secret in the future. After all someone might simply record both sides of the encrypted conversation now for later reference.
This is why government agencies want secure quantum links now. As even though there is no way for someone to decrypt their plans right now there's still a chance of the plans getting out once quantum computers do come about.
I have a feeling a lot of criminals will find themselves being arrested for past crimes once quantum computers do come about as all their past recorded conversations, no matter how encrypted, suddenly become decryptable.
Yeah those versions aren't Opera Unite. That's what i'm getting at. Those browser only versions are what people think of when they think of Opera. Small, fast and simple.
Opera Unite on the other hand is a much larger monolithic program with many unrelated features hanging off it. It has system services (that's how it keeps the web server up when you close the browser down) so it stays memory resident and uses resources even when you think you've closed the browser.
Firefox 2 had a bug. Firefox 3 does use less than Opera. Much less. (I'll admit these benchmarks aren't for the latest build of Opera, but Opera has more features now not less so i think it's still accurate).
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/03/firefox-3-goes-on-a-diet-eats-less-memory-than-ie-and-opera.ars
http://avencius.nl/content/firefox-3-vs-opera-950-memory-usage
No it isn't. That's something so easy to verify i can't beleive you're at +4 right now.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
http://unite.opera.com/
Opera Unite is a 40% larger download than Firefox.
That's not true in any sense. Current version of Firefox is ~7MB, Opera is ~10MB in size.
Ever since version 3 of Firefox it's been one of the most misely in memory usage. It beats older versions of Opera by a long way (no benchmarks yet for Unite but i don't think it's better than the older versions).
http://avencius.nl/content/firefox-3-vs-opera-950-memory-usage
So much for Opera being a small, simple, fast web browser. It now has a browser, an email client, a jukebox and a web server all built in.
Hooray for feature bloat and big monolithic applications that try to do everything!
Where do you live?
If you live in America then please shut the fuck up. Those of use in the rest of the world are starting to be allocated private addresses that are being NATed via our ISPs. This means we can't do port forwarding or use our connections for anything other than browsing on port 80.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/981410.html
Normally I absolutely agree. Most vulnerabilities are overhyped. Not this one though. Read this article and click the link to a page that runs /usr/bin/say on your unpatched machine.
http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/CVE-2008-5353.20090519.html
It amuses me when i read American news reports and posts that claim swine flu will be deadly in autumn/winter. It's currently snowing in Australias capital Canberra right now and swine flu has yet to do any real harm despite over a thousand confirmed cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak_in_Australia
Most have reported a runny nose as the worst symptom.
Personally i mix and match to make an IDE.
For the code editing i have notepad++.
For the compiling i have the intel core compiler.
For debugging i use Intel Debugger.
There's plugins for notepad++ to make the compiler/debugger only a keyboard shortcut away.
Encoding from multiple different keyframes works when you can seek to any part of the input video but it doesn't help with realtime encoding.
If i'm encoding a signal in realtime from TV i have to start encoding at 0% onwards. The only way to parallelize it is to split the individual frames up into boxes (as done by the Badaboom).
Data compression is an inherantly serial operation. Parts of it can be done in parrallel but in general the way you compress the next bit is based on the patterns observed earlier.
Say you wanted one core to start encoding at 0% and the other at 50% of the way into the movie. The core starting at 50% has to start compression without any of the learned patterns in the 0-50% range. In the example you gave one core encodes half the screen and the other core encodes the other half. If they are running in parrallel the second core can't use the learnt patterns of the first unless it wants to wait for the first core to finish its current frame (thereby making it non-parrallel).
So you have a tradeoff. You can run everything serially, or you can accept that you'll miss a few observed patterns here and there and run more parrallel.
Ahh fair enough, you did say across and that it was small, i should have relised.
In any case doesn't hurt to reiterate that this article has no worth.
They're only 6 inches
CENTIMETERS!!!!
/Just in case you thought this article had any worthyness whatsoever.
They are 6 CENTIMETERS! We Australians were one of the first to convert to metric and that's a metric ruler in the article.
I see these spiders all the time, i use a broom to get them out of the house. You don't see me writing a fucking article in the local rag about it. Somehow it then got written up in the UK times (the Brits seem to love us Aussies) and then finally it got written up as a news storey on Slashdot.
WHAT THE HELL!?