Windows and Mac environments lead them to explore their creativity (Mac especially) without needing to fuck around with an OS that fights you at every turn.
Fuck that, as a young child stuck with DOS I found my creativity in manipulating config files and making BAT files to do repetative tasks for me.
Windows just teachs kids how to click the blue e to get on the internet and check out the scores of their favorite sports team.
Hell even on the old AppleIIs I have more fun playing around with the various system disks then I did with the various traditional 'artsy fartsy' disks that were availble.
Developing innovative methods of solving problems involves creativity to you know.
Those students who are good at art already have control over EVERY OTHER DAMN SUBJECT, let us mathmatical / logical people keep something damnit.
People define science, science does not define itself. People create science, science does not create itself. Seems like a small quibble, but when people start to talk of science in the first person it kind of blows my mind. That is what my post was about.
I am saying that Science DOES define itself, because it is.... whatever reality is.
Or rather it is the study of reality, and the bringing down of facts related to.
It is like a painting of a painting that is perfect in every respect to the original painting.
While it is being painted you can say "that there is going to be (whatever other painting) when it is done."
Of course this is steadily turning into a debate about if something that is an exact atom for atom copy of something else is indeed that something else. . . . hmm. Heh.
Except for that here we are talking about an idea, or a set of ideas, and comparing them to, err;
hey what the f*ck is reality any ways?
Wow that makes finishing the metaphor a total pain! LOL!
Ah, hey wait, Science _IS_ Reality! Or at least an attempt at a steadily increasing reasonable subsection there of.:)
The A+ test is weird, it is easy to 'find' 'copies' of the practice tests online, and suffice to say that it covers some pretty darn weird stuff.
I mean yah I can fix config.sys errors without even having to use a monitor (hell, I've installed windows without a working monitor before, heh, and not using some stinking script either.:) ) but heck, some of the purely esoteric stuff. . ..
I wish I had bothered to get off of my butt and get an A+ before they phased out the DOS stuff as much as they have though, I could have so easily whizzed right on through that.:)
DOS, Win3.1, heh.
Too bad that 4DOS never picked up, defintly overcomplicated, split everything into heck, and the manual was horrid for most of its lifetime, but darnit, it could do some nifty stuff if you could figure out how to get it to do it.
XTree Gold! w00t w00t! Wond r if that was ever on the A+ test. . ..
DOSSHELL, I held back on to using that instead of going to Windows95 for the longest time.. DOSSHELL rocked.:)
Of course an A+ style test will never measure the real types of capabilities that a person has on a computer;
it will not measure if a person is able to hand install a program (heya, installer broken, I hope you can reconstruct that directory structure blindly! Past experience with that particular developer's programming habits and styles as well as experience and guessing what types of file extensions go where could mean the difference between life and death! Or at least the programming running and it not running!), or how well they are able to administer others working under them (you you and you get to imaging those Hard Disks right now! You and you over there start running the CAT5!), and it definitely will not show an employer how dedicated to their job that an employee can and will be.
plus PC sales with which consumers are able to balance checkbooks, play games, and view porn with a computer are mostly over (since either almost everyone has already bought one, and the vast majority of common people don't use a computer for other purposes) it is time for the computer industry to start its steady road down!
Actualy in about another 2 years all of the bearings in the fans will wear out and all of the computers will die almost at once.
The industry will be reinvigorated, and sales will shootup since Grandama needs her Mah-jongg and everybody with a Y chromo needs their pr0n.
Science discovers nothing that was not already there and working quite well without our observation or understanding.
Indeed, Science is the pursuit of that understanding.
Science knows nothing.
Mention that to your doctor next time you get a bacterial infection of some sort, those antibiotics he gives you must not have any more understanding put behind their development then some shamen giving out random herbs.
(sometimes those shamen's herbs do indeed turn out to have some medicial properties. Science is knowing to use an herb to treat a cold and when on the other hand it is going to do fuck all good for brain cancer.)
Science is an application of human knowledge and effort to classify and impose understanding on a system, or THE system, of the observable universe.
Science also continaly redefines itself so as to be able to make and state those observations.
(why the heck do you think we are stuck with so many differnt forms of notation? Ugh.::sighs:: )
Unfortunately, even when we observe the laws at work and can accurately predict how they will play out in a given circumstance, we still do not always understand WHY they work.
Well duh, inductive VS deductive proofs. I can get FDA approval for a drug if I show it has medicial value by repeated lab testings confirming my claims; that is of the "It worked in 90% of the test subjects throughout all of the lab experiments, so it is likely to work in 90% of cases throughout the populas in general" type of a proof.
That is not ALL science is. Science is also figuring out WHY that medican works the way it does. Once you have accomplished that then you can truely find a cure for the disease. (which is why so much money goes into funding the search for the CAUSES of cancer within the body and not just treatments.)
There are still things that science cannot explain that are of tantamount interest to everyone.
Hey, give it time, people are working around the clock on it.:)
Just because science does not understand NOW, does not mean that it will not understand in the FUTURE.
I'm impressed that you've shared 400k files. You must be sharing tiny files or have access to a huge amount of disk (well over a terabyte if your shared files' average size is similar to the average size of shared files (i.e., ~4 megabytes)).
You are assuming I like MP3s.
Manga and Ebooks compress well.:) Especially the latter, the former tend to already be compressed well.
My 20GB HD used for program files has, err,
well in 1.5GB there is 30k files, so umm. . ..
::notes that this could take awhile::
My pure data drive has a somewhat higher file density;
hmm 60k files and at 2GB. Ok obviously NOT scaling linearly here.:)
Of course these tend to be a lot of small system files as well, so who knows about the density in the end.
Hmm, now for the math.
400,000;
At 1Meg each that is 419,430,400,000 bytes;
oh hey wait,
10GB, 167,679 files.
Ahh, bloat. Heh.
My measly little 20GB app drive (my 80gb data drive is dead at the moment as the partition table is fubared and I can't figure out how to get it working again, any idea of a simple way to write to the drive "Heya, this is a FAT32/not/ a FAT16 drive! Beh, last time I use FAT32 just for compatibility. . ..) has 10,885,496,246 Bytes on it.
419,430,400,000
Ok so I was off by like one measly decimal place, yeesh. Not half bad for talking out of my ass. (ok and a multiple of four. ^_^ )
So the darn thing has the equivalent of 40 or so users on it. Big whoop. On DC many of the higher end sharers have 100GB+ of data up for share, and many of the Manga collectors have who knows how many pure files.
I still say that 400k files is puny, especially since those are 400k worth of untargeted files. Hell since at least half of those are likely MP3s that I have no interest in at all, they really only function as about 200k worth of files. (if even that.)
Then kick out the porn, hey, down to like what, 2 files? Ok so I will give the user base the benefit of the doubt, 150k files or so?
Which is hardly an impressive number, since even then those are just POSSIBLE relevant results and not even guaranteed things that I care about.
But if I code a tool that takes a DVD on one and and produces a DIVX on the other end in one, easy to use, brightly colored package does it change the elements of your argument?
Oh hell tha wouldn't be hard;
Making the DivX of a quality worth watching, now aah, heh, there is the problem.
If you manage to make a product that can, using no more complicated an interface then a big button and a text box for an output file name, create results equivilent in quality to those of the best hand done encodes;
then hell man, you've just invented yourself either one kick ass AI or managed to find a way to mathimaticaly evaluate something for beauty and artistic quality.:)
AC: Then I guess Bitzi [bitzi.com] is safe, 'cause they catalog files but provide no download link unless you're keen to have RDF describing a file instead of the file itself!
From the site: Search information contributed by 12,646 bitizens about 405,604 files
Uh, 400k files?
heh
Hehe.
HEHHEHHAHHAHAHHA!!!
LOL.
Sheesh I have shared more then that, bleh. Not MP3s either. ^_^
400k files, heh. I switch services if I get that few results, mine as well files overall!:P
In digital, you can create perfect copies and send them out to everyone you know... at the click of a button.
With analog, you actually have to work at it. You'd have to tape the tape (lossy), make copies (lossy), and give it to friends/fellow pirates manually.
Computers make things much easier for pirates. That's why there's so much focus on swapping music digitally. It's much more of a danger to the Music Industry, and they have a right to protect themselves.
Uh huh.
BULLSHIT
It is A LOT easier to make an analog rip (put tape in machine, hit record) then it is to do a digital rip.
First off there isn't any "Big Red Button" solution to doing movie rips that are of a high enough quality that ANY self respecting movie pirate would use.
Doing even a DECENT digital rip requires extensive knowledge of a large variety of programs and a good deal of work, not to mention the patience to wait while your video sits there and encodes at.1 FPS or so on a 1Ghz+ machine.
Now if you want to do a GOOD rip (a GOOD digital rip will look better then the original DVD, many rippers take pride in that they can correct errors made in the original DVDs mastering) then you had better know a ton about mathematics, some basic data theory, a good deal of color theory, have an intuitive understanding of at least some parts of matrix mathematics, and know how to combine it all of those skills together to create one nice highly polished product.
This is not even going into how you are using primitive tools that range from being everything from crash prone to inducing video or audio errors into your stream if you push the wrong button or select the wrong option. (not that that option should induce errors, but. . . . Betas are betas and all, and the programs you are using likely will never be out of beta stage).
Yah sure now the couriers may have a somewhat easy job (though it does depend on how you are transferring the files) but hell;
don't say that making a digital rip it easy, because it is not.
(of course good Analog copiers have to go through similarly difficult troubles, just hitting record on a VCR doesn't cut it if you want quality goods.)
And, err, what religion says you cannot support the big corporations but are still allowed to pump their artifical marketoid produced messages into your head?
Mathematics and all the sciences you mentioned only produce models which don't always tally with reality. Take the weather forecast - that's based on a model and the model isn't always right!
No shit, that is because it is only a PARTIAL model that does NOT incorporate all of the knowledge that we know about weather systems because incorporating all of that knowledge would be a massive pain in the ass that nobody really wants to bother with.:)
I recently was put in charge of a wireless rollout on campus and had to support students. I became very familiar with certain rooms that were no more than 50ft from APs with no access. One building in which the entire building could easily be served by an omnidirectional in the center and be within the spec of 250FT ended up having 16 mounted throughout the building in order to keep sufficient coverage
for a resource that you'll take advantage of, oh, maybe once a week, tops.
It is amazing what you can think up of doing when you have that much spare bandwidth to throw around.:)
Daily drive images of all networked computers is one idea. . . . heh. Currently that is done, but it takes ages for even smaller drive images to get copied over the network when you have tons of computers are chugging data down at once. (of course the smart way to arrange that Scenario is to queue all of the computers up in a line, that way the last computer gets done at the same time it would have if all the computers would have been going at once, and every other computer gets done progressivly faster depending on how far up in the queue they are).
It gives an accurate picture of physics, but not an accurate picture of anything with meaning, i.e. - relationships, love, peace, etc.
When it does, call me.
Ah, one at a time now.
relationships
Sure it does, in fact logical and mathematical modeling of relationships between groups and even between individuals is widely used and has been for sometime.
Just ask the CIA or FBI.:) Establishing the probability (yes probability IS MATH, I know it is only a/chance/ of something happening, but it is still math!) of a person belonging to ideological group Y based upon that persons relationships with persons of interest A, B, and C (along with D, E, F, and G.;) ) is a rather complicated field of study that is very much so within the sciences.
Granted we can't yank information out of a person's head;
yet.
:)
Discovering and mapping out these such relationships is a precursor to the eventual complete mapping out of all interpersonal human emotions and thoughts, but hell, the human mind has had up to 2 million years to evolve (depending on who you want to listen to) complex ways to fudge things up;
you expect things to get done when we have only recently even learned at the very HINTS of what causes the mind to work?
Bah. Give it time. But do not say it is not a science, Science is by definition All That Exists.
If it exists Science will find it out. If the current methodologies or languages of Science cannot be used to describe whatever it is that is discovered, then new languages will be developed and new methods of research will be created.
Science may be full of crotchety old inflexible men, but those crotchety old men die sooner or latter, and even better some of them are not as inflexible as you may think.
love
Science has already identified the cause for love (inherently necessary in order to keep the two parent long term system of child baring functional, not that hard to figure that one out), and is well on its way to discovering the various causes.
Already Science has isolated various chemicals that are responsible for a few of the physical incarnations of love ('that tingly feeling' and such), and soon hopefully science shall discover the remaining information as well.
Peace
Depends on what kind of peace you want.
If you mean peace as in 'no guns shooting people' then simple statistical analysis will give you the rates of death by various causes.
If you mean peace as in not being stressed out to hell then Science has had that one for quite some time, tons of chemicals involved ya (actually not that many) but hardly a secret.
Hell even the hippies had that one down.:P
If you mean peace as in inner wellbeing;
well heck then you are asking for bare level metaphysics, and that is just a state of mind any ways;
And science knows the causes of self delusion as well.:)
Minor detail - we already do rule the world. People just don'd understand it yet.
Yah I know I know, the problem is that managment is managing to quickly convince many of us how much we suck and or need them (management) to survive.:(
The local CC recently replaced their C/C++ courses with visual basic courses.
Another one lost for us.:( Not to mention how many future Nerds will likely not be created or at least spurred on now that the one intuitive wonderful lesson plans taught by an old timer (punch card era, knew pretty much every programming language that had come along since) has been replaced by somebody who makes the students dislike learning. . . .:(
We have to rise up against those kinds of negative action.
MPEG-4 found to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Animal rights agencies were barred from the laboratory during this test.
Hehe, LOL!
Love it.:)
If some idiot exec ever gets it in his head that high quality HDTV screens hooked up to hardware MPEG4 encoders could be a bad thing then we may very well see this headline in the actual newspapers.:)
"Plasma screens in conjuction with the radiowaves that playing MPEG4 movies causes have been possibly linked to the same type of serious damage that cell phone use causes!"
Heh.
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Anyways, I am not a videophile. As long as the image is smooth enough [at say 5ft] and I can read the text its all good.
Amen.:)
A lot of VCDs do have horrible sound though, very hollow sounding even on cheap speakers.
Yuck.
The better done ones do not though.:)
Actually I encode at 320x240x29.97fps and it does indeed look very good. Sure if you look upclose you can see the gibbs phenonemen but text/high freq stuff still comes up good.
Use a good encoder and you can do 512xwhatever x29.97FPS.
Actualy run IVTC (inverse Telecine) and get your videos back to the PROPER 24 FPS.:) They were likely originalt made at 24 FPS, the remaining frames are all just redudent information that takes up extra bandwidth when encoding, since you are doing things digitaly there is no reason to keep that extra waste. Especialy since most DVD players and what not can play 24 FPS videos just fine.:)
This is for MPEG4 encoding of course, doing the above with VCDs will likely break the spec (I think,) and is to be avoided.
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Sulu is also shown to have gotten his own ship in the future.
:)
Then there is Guinan in TNG who all of the white males are continuously coming to beg advice from.
or finding out you just did it with some guy pretending to be a Ferengi female. *shudder*
.
Or C:
The thought of having sex with a Ferengi at all. . .
(EEEW!)
Windows and Mac environments lead them to explore their creativity (Mac especially) without needing to fuck around with an OS that fights you at every turn.
Fuck that, as a young child stuck with DOS I found my creativity in manipulating config files and making BAT files to do repetative tasks for me.
Windows just teachs kids how to click the blue e to get on the internet and check out the scores of their favorite sports team.
Hell even on the old AppleIIs I have more fun playing around with the various system disks then I did with the various traditional 'artsy fartsy' disks that were availble.
Developing innovative methods of solving problems involves creativity to you know.
Those students who are good at art already have control over EVERY OTHER DAMN SUBJECT, let us mathmatical / logical people keep something damnit.
but linus flying into the center of microsofts building in his jet fighter would be in bad taste wouldn't it?
:)
:)
Aren't we supposed to be on the cutting edge of technology here?
Fuck that.
I want a Mothership to call my own AND some decent anti-virus software installed on it. (and no way in hell am I installing AppleTalk!)
It would be MUCH more impressive if Linus flew around the Microsoft campus in a saucer.
Hmm, RMS would likely be the dude in the Monoplane though, hehe. Eccentric but saves the day when it counts.
My Matrox G400 Max is going to be SOOO fucked.
:)
LOL.
2D forever!
People define science, science does not define itself. People create science, science does not create itself. Seems like a small quibble, but when people start to talk of science in the first person it kind of blows my mind. That is what my post was about.
.... whatever reality is.
:)
I am saying that Science DOES define itself, because it is
Or rather it is the study of reality, and the bringing down of facts related to.
It is like a painting of a painting that is perfect in every respect to the original painting.
While it is being painted you can say "that there is going to be (whatever other painting) when it is done."
Of course this is steadily turning into a debate about if something that is an exact atom for atom copy of something else is indeed that something else. . . . hmm. Heh.
Except for that here we are talking about an idea, or a set of ideas, and comparing them to, err;
hey what the f*ck is reality any ways?
Wow that makes finishing the metaphor a total pain! LOL!
Ah, hey wait, Science _IS_ Reality! Or at least an attempt at a steadily increasing reasonable subsection there of.
The A+ test is weird, it is easy to 'find' 'copies' of the practice tests online, and suffice to say that it covers some pretty darn weird stuff.
:) ) but heck, some of the purely esoteric stuff. . . .
:)
.
:)
I mean yah I can fix config.sys errors without even having to use a monitor (hell, I've installed windows without a working monitor before, heh, and not using some stinking script either.
I wish I had bothered to get off of my butt and get an A+ before they phased out the DOS stuff as much as they have though, I could have so easily whizzed right on through that.
DOS, Win3.1, heh.
Too bad that 4DOS never picked up, defintly overcomplicated, split everything into heck, and the manual was horrid for most of its lifetime, but darnit, it could do some nifty stuff if you could figure out how to get it to do it.
XTree Gold! w00t w00t! Wond r if that was ever on the A+ test. . .
DOSSHELL, I held back on to using that instead of going to Windows95 for the longest time.. DOSSHELL rocked.
Of course an A+ style test will never measure the real types of capabilities that a person has on a computer;
it will not measure if a person is able to hand install a program (heya, installer broken, I hope you can reconstruct that directory structure blindly! Past experience with that particular developer's programming habits and styles as well as experience and guessing what types of file extensions go where could mean the difference between life and death! Or at least the programming running and it not running!), or how well they are able to administer others working under them (you you and you get to imaging those Hard Disks right now! You and you over there start running the CAT5!), and it definitely will not show an employer how dedicated to their job that an employee can and will be.
plus PC sales with which consumers are able to balance checkbooks, play games, and view porn with a computer are mostly over (since either almost everyone has already bought one, and the vast majority of common people don't use a computer for other purposes) it is time for the computer industry to start its steady road down!
Actualy in about another 2 years all of the bearings in the fans will wear out and all of the computers will die almost at once.
The industry will be reinvigorated, and sales will shootup since Grandama needs her Mah-jongg and everybody with a Y chromo needs their pr0n.
Start up either a rendering farm or network app server and sell off your CPU cycles.
:)
Hell even if they are all older computers, there is still a lot of them.
Science discovers nothing that was not already there and working quite well without our observation or understanding.
::sighs:: )
:)
Indeed, Science is the pursuit of that understanding.
Science knows nothing.
Mention that to your doctor next time you get a bacterial infection of some sort, those antibiotics he gives you must not have any more understanding put behind their development then some shamen giving out random herbs.
(sometimes those shamen's herbs do indeed turn out to have some medicial properties. Science is knowing to use an herb to treat a cold and when on the other hand it is going to do fuck all good for brain cancer.)
Science is an application of human knowledge and effort to classify and impose understanding on a system, or THE system, of the observable universe.
Science also continaly redefines itself so as to be able to make and state those observations.
(why the heck do you think we are stuck with so many differnt forms of notation? Ugh.
Unfortunately, even when we observe the laws at work and can accurately predict how they will play out in a given circumstance, we still do not always understand WHY they work.
Well duh, inductive VS deductive proofs. I can get FDA approval for a drug if I show it has medicial value by repeated lab testings confirming my claims; that is of the "It worked in 90% of the test subjects throughout all of the lab experiments, so it is likely to work in 90% of cases throughout the populas in general" type of a proof.
That is not ALL science is. Science is also figuring out WHY that medican works the way it does. Once you have accomplished that then you can truely find a cure for the disease. (which is why so much money goes into funding the search for the CAUSES of cancer within the body and not just treatments.)
There are still things that science cannot explain that are of tantamount interest to everyone.
Hey, give it time, people are working around the clock on it.
Just because science does not understand NOW, does not mean that it will not understand in the FUTURE.
I'm impressed that you've shared 400k files. You must be sharing tiny files or have access to a huge amount of disk (well over a terabyte if your shared files' average size is similar to the average size of shared files (i.e., ~4 megabytes)).
:) Especially the latter, the former tend to already be compressed well.
.
:)
/not/ a FAT16 drive! Beh, last time I use FAT32 just for compatibility. . . .) has 10,885,496,246 Bytes on it.
:)
You are assuming I like MP3s.
Manga and Ebooks compress well.
My 20GB HD used for program files has, err,
well in 1.5GB there is 30k files, so umm. . .
::notes that this could take awhile::
My pure data drive has a somewhat higher file density;
hmm 60k files and at 2GB. Ok obviously NOT scaling linearly here.
Of course these tend to be a lot of small system files as well, so who knows about the density in the end.
Hmm, now for the math.
400,000;
At 1Meg each that is 419,430,400,000 bytes;
oh hey wait,
10GB, 167,679 files.
Ahh, bloat. Heh.
My measly little 20GB app drive (my 80gb data drive is dead at the moment as the partition table is fubared and I can't figure out how to get it working again, any idea of a simple way to write to the drive "Heya, this is a FAT32
419,430,400,000
Ok so I was off by like one measly decimal place, yeesh. Not half bad for talking out of my ass. (ok and a multiple of four. ^_^ )
So the darn thing has the equivalent of 40 or so users on it. Big whoop. On DC many of the higher end sharers have 100GB+ of data up for share, and many of the Manga collectors have who knows how many pure files.
By comparison DC has, err, well. heh. their Animated GIF say sit well.
I still say that 400k files is puny, especially since those are 400k worth of untargeted files. Hell since at least half of those are likely MP3s that I have no interest in at all, they really only function as about 200k worth of files. (if even that.)
Then kick out the porn, hey, down to like what, 2 files? Ok so I will give the user base the benefit of the doubt, 150k files or so?
Which is hardly an impressive number, since even then those are just POSSIBLE relevant results and not even guaranteed things that I care about.
But if I code a tool that takes a DVD on one and and produces a DIVX on the other end in one, easy to use, brightly colored package does it change the elements of your argument?
:)
Oh hell tha wouldn't be hard;
Making the DivX of a quality worth watching, now aah, heh, there is the problem.
If you manage to make a product that can, using no more complicated an interface then a big button and a text box for an output file name, create results equivilent in quality to those of the best hand done encodes;
then hell man, you've just invented yourself either one kick ass AI or managed to find a way to mathimaticaly evaluate something for beauty and artistic quality.
Ripping from DVD and then encoding into MPEG2 is just silly.
I am talking about MPEG4 encoding;
of course MPEG2 encoding is easy, yeesh.
AC:
Then I guess Bitzi [bitzi.com] is safe, 'cause they catalog files but provide no download link unless you're keen to have RDF describing a file instead of the file itself!
From the site:
Search information contributed by 12,646 bitizens about 405,604 files
Uh, 400k files?
heh
Hehe.
HEHHEHHAHHAHAHHA!!!
LOL.
Sheesh I have shared more then that, bleh. Not MP3s either. ^_^
400k files, heh. I switch services if I get that few results, mine as well files overall!
In digital, you can create perfect copies and send them out to everyone you know... at the click of a button.
.1 FPS or so on a 1Ghz+ machine.
With analog, you actually have to work at it. You'd have to tape the tape (lossy), make copies (lossy), and give it to friends/fellow pirates manually.
Computers make things much easier for pirates. That's why there's so much focus on swapping music digitally. It's much more of a danger to the Music Industry, and they have a right to protect themselves.
Uh huh.
BULLSHIT
It is A LOT easier to make an analog rip (put tape in machine, hit record) then it is to do a digital rip.
First off there isn't any "Big Red Button" solution to doing movie rips that are of a high enough quality that ANY self respecting movie pirate would use.
Doing even a DECENT digital rip requires extensive knowledge of a large variety of programs and a good deal of work, not to mention the patience to wait while your video sits there and encodes at
Now if you want to do a GOOD rip (a GOOD digital rip will look better then the original DVD, many rippers take pride in that they can correct errors made in the original DVDs mastering) then you had better know a ton about mathematics, some basic data theory, a good deal of color theory, have an intuitive understanding of at least some parts of matrix mathematics, and know how to combine it all of those skills together to create one nice highly polished product.
This is not even going into how you are using primitive tools that range from being everything from crash prone to inducing video or audio errors into your stream if you push the wrong button or select the wrong option. (not that that option should induce errors, but. . . . Betas are betas and all, and the programs you are using likely will never be out of beta stage).
Yah sure now the couriers may have a somewhat easy job (though it does depend on how you are transferring the files) but hell;
don't say that making a digital rip it easy, because it is not.
(of course good Analog copiers have to go through similarly difficult troubles, just hitting record on a VCR doesn't cut it if you want quality goods.)
What religion is that? ^_^
And, err, what religion says you cannot support the big corporations but are still allowed to pump their artifical marketoid produced messages into your head?
::sighs::
Mathematics and all the sciences you mentioned only produce models which don't always tally with reality. Take the weather forecast - that's based on a model and the model isn't always right!
:)
No shit, that is because it is only a PARTIAL model that does NOT incorporate all of the knowledge that we know about weather systems because incorporating all of that knowledge would be a massive pain in the ass that nobody really wants to bother with.
I recently was put in charge of a wireless rollout on campus and had to support students. I became very familiar with certain rooms that were no more than 50ft from APs with no access. One building in which the entire building could easily be served by an omnidirectional in the center and be within the spec of 250FT ended up having 16 mounted throughout the building in order to keep sufficient coverage
:)
next time use a Pringle's can.
for a resource that you'll take advantage of, oh, maybe once a week, tops.
:)
It is amazing what you can think up of doing when you have that much spare bandwidth to throw around.
Daily drive images of all networked computers is one idea. . . . heh. Currently that is done, but it takes ages for even smaller drive images to get copied over the network when you have tons of computers are chugging data down at once.
(of course the smart way to arrange that Scenario is to queue all of the computers up in a line, that way the last computer gets done at the same time it would have if all the computers would have been going at once, and every other computer gets done progressivly faster depending on how far up in the queue they are).
I was thinking how cool it would be to have a GPRS cell phone with Bluetooth support.
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I would be rather amazed just to see a bluetooth device period. . .
My motherboard supports bluetooth, err, I don't know if any DEVICES support it though.
Have any working Bluetooth devices come out yet, or are they all still crashing left and right?
The article says that the book has in it a way to violate the second law of thermodynamics (or at least that the author claims such.)
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Uh, any confirmations on this? I mean if it IS true wouldn't that alone be like one of the biggest contributions so science, err, well, uh, ever? Heh.
(or at least it would cut down my power bill.
It gives an accurate picture of physics, but not an accurate picture of anything with meaning, i.e. - relationships, love, peace, etc.
:) Establishing the probability (yes probability IS MATH, I know it is only a /chance/ of something happening, but it is still math!) of a person belonging to ideological group Y based upon that persons relationships with persons of interest A, B, and C (along with D, E, F, and G. ;) ) is a rather complicated field of study that is very much so within the sciences.
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When it does, call me.
Ah, one at a time now.
relationships
Sure it does, in fact logical and mathematical modeling of relationships between groups and even between individuals is widely used and has been for sometime.
Just ask the CIA or FBI.
Granted we can't yank information out of a person's head;
yet.
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Discovering and mapping out these such relationships is a precursor to the eventual complete mapping out of all interpersonal human emotions and thoughts, but hell, the human mind has had up to 2 million years to evolve (depending on who you want to listen to) complex ways to fudge things up;
you expect things to get done when we have only recently even learned at the very HINTS of what causes the mind to work?
Bah. Give it time. But do not say it is not a science, Science is by definition All That Exists.
If it exists Science will find it out. If the current methodologies or languages of Science cannot be used to describe whatever it is that is discovered, then new languages will be developed and new methods of research will be created.
Science may be full of crotchety old inflexible men, but those crotchety old men die sooner or latter, and even better some of them are not as inflexible as you may think.
love
Science has already identified the cause for love (inherently necessary in order to keep the two parent long term system of child baring functional, not that hard to figure that one out), and is well on its way to discovering the various causes.
Already Science has isolated various chemicals that are responsible for a few of the physical incarnations of love ('that tingly feeling' and such), and soon hopefully science shall discover the remaining information as well.
Peace
Depends on what kind of peace you want.
If you mean peace as in 'no guns shooting people' then simple statistical analysis will give you the rates of death by various causes.
If you mean peace as in not being stressed out to hell then Science has had that one for quite some time, tons of chemicals involved ya (actually not that many) but hardly a secret.
Hell even the hippies had that one down.
If you mean peace as in inner wellbeing;
well heck then you are asking for bare level metaphysics, and that is just a state of mind any ways;
And science knows the causes of self delusion as well.
Minor detail - we already do rule the world. People just don'd understand it yet.
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:( Not to mention how many future Nerds will likely not be created or at least spurred on now that the one intuitive wonderful lesson plans taught by an old timer (punch card era, knew pretty much every programming language that had come along since) has been replaced by somebody who makes the students dislike learning. . . . :(
Yah I know I know, the problem is that managment is managing to quickly convince many of us how much we suck and or need them (management) to survive.
The local CC recently replaced their C/C++ courses with visual basic courses.
Another one lost for us.
We have to rise up against those kinds of negative action.
MPEG-4 found to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Animal rights agencies were barred from the laboratory during this test.
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Hehe, LOL!
Love it.
If some idiot exec ever gets it in his head that high quality HDTV screens hooked up to hardware MPEG4 encoders could be a bad thing then we may very well see this headline in the actual newspapers.
"Plasma screens in conjuction with the radiowaves that playing MPEG4 movies causes have been possibly linked to the same type of serious damage that cell phone use causes!"
Heh.
Anyways, I am not a videophile. As long as the image is smooth enough [at say 5ft] and I can read the text its all good.
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:) They were likely originalt made at 24 FPS, the remaining frames are all just redudent information that takes up extra bandwidth when encoding, since you are doing things digitaly there is no reason to keep that extra waste. Especialy since most DVD players and what not can play 24 FPS videos just fine. :)
Amen.
A lot of VCDs do have horrible sound though, very hollow sounding even on cheap speakers.
Yuck.
The better done ones do not though.
Actually I encode at 320x240x29.97fps and it does indeed look very good. Sure if you look upclose you can see the gibbs phenonemen but text/high freq stuff still comes up good.
Use a good encoder and you can do 512xwhatever x29.97FPS.
Actualy run IVTC (inverse Telecine) and get your videos back to the PROPER 24 FPS.
This is for MPEG4 encoding of course, doing the above with VCDs will likely break the spec (I think,) and is to be avoided.