Ogg Vorbis stores its own huffman table in its own stream... Building an optimized huffman table for individual JPEGs will probably yield such improved compression rates too
Which is acceptable, because.ogg files tend to be more than a megabyte in size, so the overhead of storing the Huffman table is small compared to the saving of even a small %ge of file size. With most JPEG image files coming in at less than 200kb, the extra compression you get may well be swamped by the overhead of the huff table.
The PSP is coming to America. I've long thought that America could do with a few stronger influence of pacifism and socialism on its political scene...
Oh wait, you meany "Playstation Portable". In which case *Why Didn't You Say So?* Some of us have interests outside of computer gaming you know (Lives, too, I've heard).
My jaw hit the floor when his reply was "Well, this isn't exactly an atom bomb...."
But he's right. The Atomic Bomb dominated international politics from 1945 to 1990. This is seriously small potatoes by comparison. Kudos to him for keeping his achievement in perspective.
First, burn your tracks onto the data side of the disc. Then open your favorite LightScribe-enabled label-making software and go to the CD template work area. Now you do all of your creative design workcompose pictures, copy, artwork whatever. When you are satisfied with what you have done, take the disc out of your drive, flip it over to the label side and put it back in the drive. Now go back to your label-making software, and simply click print.
So, does slashdot get paid for running such blatant advertising copy for technology that doesn't even seem to exist commercially yet? If so, how much?
Personally I haven't had more than 30-50 spams in the last 3 years or so. I have my main address, which only 'real people' know, friends and family. It never gets any spam because it's totally secret.
I have a gmail account. Only my sisters know the address, and it shows no hits on google, web or usenet. It's received 50 spams in the last month, just from spammers using dictionary attacks (and I know thats what they're from, because the subject line gives it away.)
'No-one's civilisation is put at risk because they can't get to see "Spiderman 2".'
So if it's not important at all,
I didn't say it wasn't important at all. That's just a non sequitor.
It's a criminal act to distribute this information, because the right of distribution is reserved by the creator. In the case when the information is important, a case could be made that the public good outweighs the rights of the creator; when the information is basically inconsequential, then the public good is not an issue, so creator's rights are paramount.
I wouldn't call supporting the free flow of information purely selfish.... Big corporations try to prevent this progress
And if these people were illegally trading patented gene therapies, or copyrighted drugs, I'd support you. Yes information is necessary for progress, but not all information. The relevant information here is not the kind of knowledge that facilitates social and technological progress. No-one's civilisation is put at risk because they can't get to see "Spiderman 2".
As someone much smarter than me said
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom.
#73 : compare the struggle against the MPAA in your attempts to download motion pictures from the Internet with the emancipation of a race of people from racist oppression.
Don't get me wrond, I do understand your point (i.e. that the original post was a massive overgeneralisation) but you don't do yourself any favours comparing what are basically selfish goals with the one of the great heroes of the 20th century.
... by having moderators. If you've got moderators, and they're making absolutely no attempt to curtail copyright infringement, you're pretty much asking to be considered an accessory. No "common carrier" defense if you're actively deleting and moderating your sites content.
it presents three versions of what happened, but only one (the last one) is "right",
I think its pretty clear that the final version is the one with the most modern evidence. (It's still dubious that it's "right" in any meaningful.) And there is still doubt over the children's crusade, despite your contention that its basically a settled issue that it never happened.
"Any software that can index and capture data on a users PC will be subject to virus and Trojan exploits. It is just a matter of time," said an analyst
That's right. Who can forget the terrible slocate worm of 2002, that brought GNU/linux systems crashing to their knees.
If the user being able to cause problems was a bug (some would say it is), then Linux is more buggy than anything else. Windows has the decency to complain if you're deleting anything essential, Linux at best goes "Y/N", and even that can be overridden with a switch.
If you're giving your users write access to the key library files, then yes, they can screw the system. However, this is not a Linux bug; its pretty clearly a bug in your system administration policy. Write access to/lib and/usr/lib is reserved for people who know what they're doing, or point-and-click administration apps (which won't delete libraries you still need).
These passwords are hard to guess, easy to remember, easy to make memorable variants of, and quick to type.
Unfortunately, they're really easy to brute force. 40-odd starting positions, but then a maximum of only 8 directions in which to move for the next letter.
With means the size of the 8-character password space has been reduced by a factor of about 80,000. Yuck.
I believe that Guardian Newspaper ran a small campaign a few months
They did, in their excellent "Bad Science" section. You can read the pieces here and here Funnily enough, in one piece the journalist obtains one of McKeith's qualifications... in the name of his cat.
Tell your facts to shut up, they're contradicting my dogma. America is number one at everything, and any statistics that show otherwise are clearly flawed.
That's the exception, because investigation of that forgery had two advantages: i) Geek skills (e.g. font identification) were a positive boon. ii) It didn't require getting up off your arse and moving away from the computer.
This made it the perfect blog story, and a million miles removed from the majority of investigative journalism.
The trouble with blogs, is that no-one writing them has the time to follow up these stories. If a mainstream journalist breaks them there's a chance (albeit not much of one in the present climate) that they'll keep digging away, and uncover a Watergate-style conspiracy (which isn't to say that this is necessarily one of those).
But if Woodward and Bernstein were bloggers, they'd've been happy to publish the skimpy information that started their investigation -- smug that they put one over on the press -- and let the whole thing degenerate into a partisan "Nixon Sucks!" style-flamewar.
What's more: if you really don't like google groups, just stop using it. For pete's sake, you can just use trn or Mozilla or any of a dozen other clients to feed off your ISP.
If you're talking to me (as opposed to just replying to my post to appear high up the page), there are a few important things you've missed:
i) I don't dislike google groups, or the user interface changes. I don't care about those in the least, as they're almost entirely eye candy. ii) trn, mozilla and all the newsreaders in the world (gnus! baby) won't get you the old deja archive.
Slashdot Mirror
And welcome to KBTR (formerly K/.), all Bit-Torrent stories, all the time.
Enough, already!
The PSP is coming to America. I've long thought that America could do with a few stronger influence of pacifism and socialism on its political scene...
Oh wait, you meany "Playstation Portable". In which case *Why Didn't You Say So?* Some of us have interests outside of computer gaming you know (Lives, too, I've heard).
Hey, good spot. I hadn't looked closely enough at the headers.
It's a criminal act to distribute this information, because the right of distribution is reserved by the creator. In the case when the information is important, a case could be made that the public good outweighs the rights of the creator; when the information is basically inconsequential, then the public good is not an issue, so creator's rights are paramount.
As someone much smarter than me said
101 idiotic ways make a point:
#73 : compare the struggle against the MPAA in your attempts to download motion pictures from the Internet with the emancipation of a race of people from racist oppression.
Don't get me wrond, I do understand your point (i.e. that the original post was a massive overgeneralisation) but you don't do yourself any favours comparing what are basically selfish goals with the one of the great heroes of the 20th century.
... by having moderators. If you've got moderators, and they're making absolutely no attempt to curtail copyright infringement, you're pretty much asking to be considered an accessory. No "common carrier" defense if you're actively deleting and moderating your sites content.
Idiots.
With means the size of the 8-character password space has been reduced by a factor of about 80,000. Yuck.
Funnily enough, in one piece the journalist obtains one of McKeith's qualifications
Tell your facts to shut up, they're contradicting my dogma. America is number one at everything, and any statistics that show otherwise are clearly flawed.
Sheesh.
i) Geek skills (e.g. font identification) were a positive boon.
ii) It didn't require getting up off your arse and moving away from the computer.
This made it the perfect blog story, and a million miles removed from the majority of investigative journalism.
The trouble with blogs, is that no-one writing them has the time to follow up these stories. If a mainstream journalist breaks them there's a chance (albeit not much of one in the present climate) that they'll keep digging away, and uncover a Watergate-style conspiracy (which isn't to say that this is necessarily one of those).
But if Woodward and Bernstein were bloggers, they'd've been happy to publish the skimpy information that started their investigation -- smug that they put one over on the press -- and let the whole thing degenerate into a partisan "Nixon Sucks!" style-flamewar.
You're the 10th person to point that out. Illiterate or simply couldn't be bothered to read the other replies? You decide.
Aolution by the photographer
i) I don't dislike google groups, or the user interface changes. I don't care about those in the least, as they're almost entirely eye candy.
ii) trn, mozilla and all the newsreaders in the world (gnus! baby) won't get you the old deja archive.