people get more radiation from radon gas in their houses than anywhere else. Radon is a daughter of Uranium and has a half life of 3.8 days.
When you inhale radon or its progeny into your lungs while they are emitting alpha particles, its a bad thing.
I am doing some research right now on CRTs and radon gas. Since radon's progeny have a charge, and the front of your crt does too (it attracts dust and stuff), there could be a fair amount of radon in front of your monitor(right where you put your head!)
Digital Digest has this bit about creating DivX files from dvd even. You can get all the necessary software for windows from the site too, including the stuff you use to downmix from 5.1 to 2 channels of audio and so on.
I was under the impression that asf was mpeg4 and DivX is mpeg4 which would make video quality the same? perhaps the ASFs you saw were just encoded at lower quality than the DiVXs.
I think it's supposed to be ironic; A popular use for the DivX codec is bootlegging DVDs or other movies. its ironic because they called the format that could screw over the movie industry (to the same extent mp3 screws over music industry, which is not really known) is named after that technology that screwed with consumers.
when I said it costs 50 cents manufacture the cd i meant that is how much it costs to stamp a cd and print a cover and put it in a shrink wrapped jewel case.
then when I said they have already recouped whatever it cost to produce them I meant they have sold so many copies that they have got their investment out of whatever they put into recording etc, and everything they make now is pure profit.
I can't wait to see what the new model is as well, because this one sure isn't going to last much longer. Somebody said this is going to be a common problem for all content (movies etc) and i agree with that as well...
I read that it costs only 50 cents to manufacture a CD. I went to Sam's yesterday to buy a Neil Young CD and it was at 14.99 marked down from 21.99... I bought then and looked around a bit. 2pac's greatest hits was going for 44.99, his album R U still down was going for 41.99... these albums are years old, they have already recouped whatever it cost to produce them.
On another note: I doubt I would have bought that Neil Young album if I could have found it on line, but i wouldn't have even known that I would like it if I hadn't listened to all kinds of his previous work online. You can't really get a feel for an artist standing up in the store with those headphones on..
do you _really_ need to use that many trees? How often do you refer to all these emails after the first day?
I have never really understood why people insist on printing web pages and emails when they don't need to. They end up reading the printed copies right beside the computer anyway!
I hope the Xerox electronic paper comes along soon.
As an extension of this 'ask slashdot', I have been writing a perl script that spiders FTP servers in an attempt to make an FTP search engine. Ufortunately, many windows ftp servers don't understand ls -lR which is the mechanism used by all all the FTP search engines I have seen to date. Obviously I would rather use a search engine already written then work on my own. I think I am going to end up using glimpse for storing and searching.
YOUR WIFE IS PROBABLY A BITCH, EXPERT SAYS! DETROIT, Mich. -- Guys, before you shell out big bucks for marriage counseling, hold everything -- because the problem may simply be that your wife is a bitch, an expert says.
or how bout any of these: Who Wants To Be a Millionaire Nightmare 'I LOOK JUST LIKE REGIS PHILBIN -- & IT'S MAKING MY LFE HELL!' 3,021 LBS. OF FLAB! NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD! i think they should give the average/. reader a fairly good indication of how they might believe that your computer can be exploded via email.
Napster (only does MP3) would open each file in the chosen directories to get the bitrate and Khz of the MP3. This made it very slow if you were adding network drives to what you were sharing. Gnutella doesn't scan files so it's nice and fast, but you also can't search with bitrates.
I wonder how much of Wrapster is trojan? I was thinking that if clients like Wrapster or (servants) Gnutella had some kind of distributed DoS attack built into them people could be unwittingly participating in an attack. Napster had a few thousand people the other day and gnutella 700...
at the bottom of that daily radar article it says:
Daily Radar has experienced Ridge Racer V saved game files wiping out the PS2's DVD drivers. We were able to replace the old drivers using the Utilities disc, but the memory card bug is still a significant flaw that Sony has not yet addressed.
All is not well in PSX2 land apparently. Are the DVD drivers stored on the memory card? I would have thought they would be in flashable rom or something.
When is the book NOT better than the movie? Can anyone give some examples of movies that were better than the books?
I thought they tried to include the inner workings of richard's head... he was 'crazy' for a while anyway. Maybe they just put that in to tie up loose ends (to show why daffi duck left in the first place). The soundtrack was good anyay, I am using the song Porcelain by Moby in a movie I am currently making.
I was hoping he would have discovered that the net was segregated into different continents based on connectivity.
For instance i thought i was going to be reading that if you were australia, the only way to reach US servers was through certain links, isolating.au from the rest of the internet. Or the only way out of certain towns was through say some ISPs network, which would then dump you onto some slow packet loss plagued public exchange (Mae-????), effectively crossing an ocean or something.
i could see @home cable subscribers being one continent, People on CA*NET or i guess just divided by different backbones. would have been more interesting than content divisions...
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When you inhale radon or its progeny into your lungs while they are emitting alpha particles, its a bad thing.
I am doing some research right now on CRTs and radon gas. Since radon's progeny have a charge, and the front of your crt does too (it attracts dust and stuff), there could be a fair amount of radon in front of your monitor(right where you put your head!)
I thought ASF was microsofts mpeg4 and DivX was pretty much the same thing except with mp3/wma audio.
and VCD is just normal old mpeg ?
Digital Digest has this bit about creating DivX files from dvd even. You can get all the necessary software for windows from the site too, including the stuff you use to downmix from 5.1 to 2 channels of audio and so on.
I was under the impression that asf was mpeg4 and DivX is mpeg4 which would make video quality the same?
perhaps the ASFs you saw were just encoded at lower quality than the DiVXs.
I think it's supposed to be ironic; A popular use for the DivX codec is bootlegging DVDs or other movies. its ironic because they called the format that could screw over the movie industry (to the same extent mp3 screws over music industry, which is not really known) is named after that technology that screwed with consumers.
I love how the internet is not 'real life'
then when I said they have already recouped whatever it cost to produce them I meant they have sold so many copies that they have got their investment out of whatever they put into recording etc, and everything they make now is pure profit.
I can't wait to see what the new model is as well, because this one sure isn't going to last much longer. Somebody said this is going to be a common problem for all content (movies etc) and i agree with that as well...
I read that it costs only 50 cents to manufacture a CD. I went to Sam's yesterday to buy a Neil Young CD and it was at 14.99 marked down from 21.99 ... I bought then and looked around a bit. 2pac's greatest hits was going for 44.99, his album R U still down was going for 41.99 ... these albums are years old, they have already recouped whatever it cost to produce them.
On another note:
I doubt I would have bought that Neil Young album if I could have found it on line, but i wouldn't have even known that I would like it if I hadn't listened to all kinds of his previous work online. You can't really get a feel for an artist standing up in the store with those headphones on..
do you _really_ need to use that many trees? How often do you refer to all these emails after the first day?
I have never really understood why people insist on printing web pages and emails when they don't need to. They end up reading the printed copies right beside the computer anyway!
I hope the Xerox electronic paper comes along soon.
Oh.
I didn't see that anywhere, I guess that is why it didn't seem to like the 35 meg tarball i was sending it.
I wonder how they are going to deal with all the porn people will throw up there.
Obviously I would rather use a search engine already written then work on my own. I think I am going to end up using glimpse for storing and searching.
Any thoughts?
YOUR WIFE IS PROBABLY A BITCH, EXPERT SAYS!
DETROIT, Mich. -- Guys, before you shell out big bucks for marriage counseling, hold everything -- because the problem may simply be that your wife is a bitch, an expert says.
or how bout any of these: /. reader a fairly good indication of how they might believe that your computer can be exploded via email.
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire Nightmare 'I LOOK JUST LIKE REGIS PHILBIN -- & IT'S MAKING MY LFE HELL!'
3,021 LBS. OF FLAB!
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD!
i think they should give the average
Why dont you complete the support for CSS 2.0 in Mozilla for us?
Personally I can't wait for Mozilla to be the browser of choice for all platforms (info appliances too!)
Napster (only does MP3) would open each file in the chosen directories to get the bitrate and Khz of the MP3. This made it very slow if you were adding network drives to what you were sharing. Gnutella doesn't scan files so it's nice and fast, but you also can't search with bitrates.
For your information Wrapster is here
I thought they tried to include the inner workings of richard's head ... he was 'crazy' for a while anyway. Maybe they just put that in to tie up loose ends (to show why daffi duck left in the first place). The soundtrack was good anyay, I am using the song Porcelain by Moby in a movie I am currently making.
For instance i thought i was going to be reading that if you were australia, the only way to reach US servers was through certain links, isolating .au from the rest of the internet. Or the only way out of certain towns was through say some ISPs network, which would then dump you onto some slow packet loss plagued public exchange (Mae-????), effectively crossing an ocean or something.
i could see @home cable subscribers being one continent, People on CA*NET or i guess just divided by different backbones.
would have been more interesting than content divisions...