I finally got that after some other user later on in the thread pointed it out, but I still do not see how it is incorrect.
The action being taken is interesting AND the outcome shall be interesting as well, thus two uses of the word interesting. Not the most well formed sentence out there, but the usage is understandable and I did not even notice the repetition until the 6th or 7th re-reading of it through in an attempt to figure out what people were complaining about.
Then again, maybe I am just used to broken English.:) (the language DOES degrade well after all, heh)
It clicks just fine, though apparently the review does NOT make this clear.
Dan of Dansdata.com did a review of this product quite some time ago, and HIS review kicks ass Thank You So Very Much, and mentions exactly how Dwell clicking works.
Dwell clicking is only available on the deluxe model of the TrackIR system, this guy got the cheap ass model. Next time the reviewer should do some more RESEARCH before asking for a product to review.
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Ignoring that though, I have this strange desire to wire a few of these buggers up together and get a full 3d wireless head tracking system, only problem so far is figuring out tilt, but I figure that two dots put together at different heights should be able to accomplish that, albeit with some difficulty.
But yah, the TRUE potential of this thing has not yet even began to be explored.
Hey, I do not think that anybody has mentioned that these dots can be stuck onto ANYTHING and still work just as well. For the ultimate in simulation, some sort of faux-metal gun could be included with a trigger, reload, and all. Stick a few of these dots on to it in various strategically placed locations and you would have yourself a full 3d range of movement, combine it with the head display and you could EASILY have your gun in a game point in a different direction then from your viewpoint.
Currently that feature is a major pain in the arse to implement in most games, heh.
Hey any developers / funders want to get together with me on this one? ]:D
Bull, Dell places fall limiters on your parts selection to increase their profit margins.
Example, Pentium 4 Laptops are only available with Geforce4 video cards unless you get the one (/. is SOOO going to mess up that link, it is a link to the Inspirion 8200) model that they have that comes with a video card that is NOT insanly powerful AND has a Pentium 4 chip on it.
This model also happens to need a lot of 'other' upgrades to bring it up to the range of the next cheapest laptop and then you end up paying the same price (or greater) then the bottom most default configuration of the next laptop one level up but without a good video card.
it is insane.
Their Pentium 3 based laptops are decent enough, but for anybody who wants to do a lot of CPU intensive work and NO gaming AT ALL, well hell, heh.
That and they only sell Intel kit, Dell has a significant dedication towards caring more about what Intel says then what AMD says.
Getting a well built laptop is NOT easy, and often times to get a REALLY well built one you have to deal with yee as old technology.
See Here for an example of this tendency. Yeesh. Who knew that waterproofing could cost so much? ^_^
Yeesh. That much money and it can just stand a water STREAM. Ugh. Nothing about full immersion.:(
Anybody know of an x86 laptop that has a 15" screen, 1ghz+ chip, assloads of ram, and is fully submersible? No? Until they make one I am not buying a laptop.:(
ps: Firing Jon Katz would make me want to join more.
Last night, a debate on/. about viewers only wanting news they like on their chosen viewing medium, today,/. subscribers wanting to get rid of the news that they don't like.
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I have no problem with Jon Katz, but I _WOULD_ have a problem with them firing him just because some portion of/. users do not like his opinions on things.
If he makes you think about a topic, even if it is only to reply to him point for point showing how wrong he is, then it IS indeed +1 interesting.
Remember just because you don't like it does not mean it does not belong, hell haven't we (the people who generally congregate around on/. ) learned that from our own life experiences?
I am still out of breath, my word, this is. . . . horrible. What the hell is AT&T thinking? Just the other day I was thinking to myself how nice it is that there is such a company still around that is willing to support pure research and development, but now. . . . holy shit.
VNC will live on, but what new ideas might have come this lab? What technology, what science, will now never be invented, or at the very least horribly delayed? This is awful, how could any company get pissy over intellectual property rights when there is so much more at stake? For crying out loud, shutting down not only one of the premier research labs in the world, but a (I think?) profitable one at that!
And the real answer is that MP3 and OGG are designed for music, not voice.
RealAudio has can get "radio-quality" voice over a 30Kbps stream (for modem users). MP3 and OGG can barely make it at 64K and usually gets streamed at 128K.
Somebody give the AC a cookie, or at least mod the above commment up.
Real Audio still does the ONE thing that it started out able to do, namely stream plain old human voice at a low bitrate at passible quality.
Better codecs have come along since Real, but none have gained the same widespread acceptable of Real Audio.
Their video codec blows though, and so does their player. . ..
Their third to last restructuring attempt likely failed because they were obviously more interested in taking paying ads to be included in the 'channels' listing them providing users with a real interface to internet radio stations.
Oddly enough Real Audio has had slightly more success over in Japan for use in interactive internet radio stations and even the occasional video broadcast. NIfty stuff actualy, of course when our economy crashed theirs went along with it (or slightly before hand IIRC ) so such things are not as common as they used to be (if they are at all any more, beats me, news of such takes for-friggin-ever to get over to the states, even with the internet.)
I was speaking more of the fact that we did not lose large amounts of troops.
And you said on september 12th, and I am assuming 2001 here. The war you mentioned took place with BILL CLINTON in office and our CURRENT president had NOTHING to do with it.
Wrong war, wrong year, and in both cases regardless of actual livse lost, the missions were carried out succesfuly (in both cases to cause a change over of goverment).
Hell if we didn't kill an assload of people who were most like coerced into joining the army (in Yugoslavia that is) then more power to us, great tactics on our part.
I've always wondered what would have happened if on 9/12 Bush said, "We're going to retaliate, it's a difficult decision, we're anticipating losses will be double that of Vietnam, with half our fleet of aircraft carriers being destroyed, and 60% infantry losses. Chinese communists have provided high altitude Surface-Air missiles to Afghanistan, so we cannot use B-52s or any other aircraft. This is our best scenario, but we've been forced into a situation where we must fight the good fight, as honour dictates. Please be aware that there's a 50% chance that we will have to introduce compulsory drafting of men of fighting age."
That is called lying.
If anything people would have laughed their asses off, we have invented this little thing called the PC since vietnam and it can do wonderious things, like enable missiles to blow shit up with some level of accuracy, or predict the best way to f*ck someones day over without needing to strip an entire region clear of any landscape.
Actualy most users understand save as better then they understand changing extensions.
The user was actualy using WindowsXP, so they had had to specificaly enable file extensions to begin with, something that most users do not do (unfortunatly).
It was a very bizzare case, LOL.
I _NEVER_ want a system automaticaly or even semi-automaticaly applying lossy compression to MY data though. Permanitly damaging a files data is bad, heh. I am VERY specific about ANY sorts of lossy compression that I apply to an image, and I take great strides to ensure that proper versioning methods are used in a loseless format all the way throughout the file's creation.
Having an OS then throw out a good bit of my final product, no thanks! Of course I never WOULD actualy rename a files extension in such a way, but if something should happen (batch renaming gone haywire) it is nice to at least have all of my data still intact, even if it is mislabled.:) (mis-extended? Hmm. . . . LOL)
Folks, pay attention, this is what happens when trolls don't do their research. . ..
(not that the idiot COULD be expected to research it but. . ..)
Not to mention that it is a pretty pathedic attempt at a troll to begin with. There is no argument that a.bmp file just renamed to.jpg keeps the same size, thus in fact you would be unable to incite an argument over this.
Now then if you had replied asking WHY that was so, then you might have gotten a few dozen people to hop on ship and write everything from lengthy polite explanations on the basics of compression and file storage methods, to people flaming you left and right.
Sorry, you lose, don't try again, run out and play in traffic instead.
I for one, would. Imagine having all the recordings of an artist on a single DVD, instead of settling for a single CD greatest hits compilation.
The real reason you don't see this is that record companies could never put the equivalent of 3 or 4 CDs on a single DVD, and still charge the same price as the sum of the individual CDs. They would have to charge less, or nobody would buy it.
So, it'll never happen. But just because it won't, doesn't mean it shouldn't.
Hell they rarely fill up CDs with music now days anyways....
Episodic DVDs are rarely filled up, look at how a ton of TV shows do things. . ..
Not to mention that most CDs are ALREADY _HIGHLY_ over charged. I still see ads on TV for sets of music at $15.95 for tapes or $21.95 for CDs. WTF? Ugh. You figure that they would sell the CDs for LESS then the tapes so as to encourage anybody still with a tape player (even my grandmother uses CDs now. . . . ) to upgrade to CDs so that the music companies could earn their higher profit percentages from each sale that come from the lower media cost.
Not like they (the companies) have any common sense though. . . . just business sense, and we all know which end of the body that comes out of. . . .
Don't forget your network architecture, collision rates, and so forth. Since you are going wireless, what type of other possible issues does this new technology have?
Definitely a ton of questions to be asked, and this is why the OFFICIAL Wireless specs take so damn long to get through committee.
Ok actually it is the fact that they ARE a committee, but there _IS_ a review board in there someplace and they do do some good.
This technology here has not yet been properly scrutinized by the community at large, sure it can get twice the data rate, but hell the official specifications could likely have done that to if they just made a few sacrifices. While technology has improved over time and it sounds like this little diddy here is an actual improvement how much of its gain is due to being improved and how much of its gain is due to fudge factor?
Beh, was fun explaining to n00bs on BBSs though why they couldn't get 56k to their local BBSs. LOL. Alls fun, alls fun.
Besides, think of the +5 informative possabilities on/. everytime an article is posted on the topic and somebody gets confused! Hell if this goes through Karma rates will skyrocket!;D (joke there folks, haha laugh)
which leads me to my question, WTF are you guys doing at home on a friday night?!?!?!?!?!?!
High moral standards, whats everybody elses excuse?
(seriously, don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, don't believe in sex out of wedlock, friday night is like monday night just that I stay up later reading)
Use an LCD instead, you should be able to get at least base 16 storage out of it (16 distinguishable colors with 100% accuracy, a ton more are possible of course, but see the next part for more information) your main issue going here is read speed (ways of digitaly capturing light typicaly tend to, uh, suck as far as speed goes) and accuracy.
Hopefuly limiting your color set to 16 widely seperate and distinct colors. . ..
Hey no wait use those older style CCDs that have three seperate parts to them, red green and blue sensors, and just so long as you have your displayed colors split into the three different main visable wavelengths with a good gap between them, you will be able to read three 'bits' at once (not really a 'bi't since, hmm, I would suggest 24 colors, split evenly that would be 8 colors per sensor, but a better term then bit does not exist when talking about 'di'gital data so. . . . hehe. Quanitized quanitized. . ..).
*WAIT*.
Intelligence struck.
Ugh, CCD takes it all in at once, this is not a CD-ROM Read/Write laser here, LOL! So never mind, reading speed is not a problem anyways, LOL! Cycle time deals with the flash memory CCD digital cameras typicaly tend to use, that is the main cause of delay that I was thinking about, no flash memory, no delay.:)
Hopefuly by limiting yourself to a certain color set you would be able to have your CCD setup rapidly proccess the image without a major loss in quality (obviously SOME inaccuracies can be allows just so long as that the color values all end up getting MAPPED to their correct values) and store that data in some nice nifty format.
Obviously now you would be more limited by the cycling rate of the LCDs.:)
Throw cheap and managable out the window (hehe) and you get a 1600x1200 array, which is 1,920,000 'dots' of color, each of which can have any of 24 values, for a total of 46,080,000 bits of data per 'screenful.'
Divide by 8 since working in bits can be a pain, and that is 5,760,000 Bytes. Not half bad.
EVERYBODY right now should be noticing that this SHOULD NOT work out mathmaticaly this way because I have 24 bits and 24 colors and what? Yes I COULD actualy store a 16million color image this way, in a 24 color image. This in itself is rather freaky, uh, fuck. Is that right.
If it is (or is not!) somebody PLEASE tell me because that is pretty damn amazing if I have everything right, but I rarely do math right at 1:27am. ^_^
Anyways. Give yourself a VERY resonable image rate of 20 images displayed per second, and you have a data through-put of 115,200,000Bytes per Second.
Damn nearly beats the shit out of IDE.:) Especialy when you consider that the better LCD screens now days can easily do 60 seperate and distinct images per second, which would be 345,600,000 Bytes Per Second.
(that is over 300MegaBytes per second, I do NOT feel like doing the math right now to get it exact,)
I have posted this before in long detail, so let me make it short;
I FUCKING LIKE BEIGE BOXS DAMNIT
and if this gets moded to +1 funny like it did last time I am SOOO going to hurt someone, I AM SERIOUS. BEIGE IS GOOD DAMNIT.
Beige, Steel, Strong. Full tower, steel, beige cases rock.
Black computers, meh. I would rather go function over form.
Besides since I have computer equipment from so many different eras, I have a pretty darn nice gradient of beige.:) It is pretty darn nifty how the color of computer cases has kept on getting lighter and lighter and lighter and then all of a sudden switched to black!
Its THOSE criminals that the law enforcement agencies are trying to catch with these new tactics.
Guess what? Restrict internet access, they'll just use this little old thing called
Mail The Human Voice ILLEGAL* ENCRYPTION (yes thats right folks, you can make keeping secrets illegal, but since they are secret YOU DO NOT FUCKING KNOW ABOUT THEM::sigh::
*if made such, would be useless to do so (see above)
Encrypted Messages (key phrases and such)
Telephone calls using key phrases (tap all you want, wouldn't do you much if any good)
Plan these damn things BEFORE they leave home. Now there is a thought for ya, eh? Just pick out a date and some targets BEFORE they leave their training camps. Yeesh. Sure it would require ADVANCED planning and being DECISIVE, but hell, they are terrorists and assholes, not idiots. It doesn't exactly take a friggin rocket scientist to schedule 40 or so (business party reservations even, hell schedule it a few years ahead on the date that some major business convention is going to happen, say you are just planning ahead to beat the rush that happens every year. )plane tickets the maximum amount ahead of time that a airplane company allows for.
If it is a bunch of people say going to some large convention, hell, the airlines likely wouldn't even bat an eye. Party of 14 to Comdex? What is so unusual about that. . . . (maybe a BIT large, but nothing much, yeesh)
The thing is that they ALREADY do this, they just use MS Outlook instead of Worldcome MCI.
Bugging the Internet is NOT going to make ANYBODY _ANY_ more safe, ensuring that the screeners have to have at least a high school education and having them stop f*cking unplugging machines WOULD help though. As would a requirement for big huge as stainless steel bullet proof doors on ALL airplanes. That should have been the FIRST requirement passed, and IF somebody HAD MADE it go through by now, we WOULD BE A LOT SAFER
Hell we are getting too damn high tech about this whole situation. Some Good Old American Made Steel would solve A LOT of problems right here and now.
The idea is not to track WHO but to track WHAT _WHO_ has.
Somebody could still place a bug on the wire to your wireless transceiver, or place a small range receiver right outside of your transceiver that is keyed to only pick up messages from your transceiver so as that they knew what you were searching for.
The anti-child porn law that was kinda-sorta-maybe-ruled unconstitutional just a few days ago actually had a provision in there FOR THOUGHT CRIMES. No shit, seriously. Some people were convicted for having INCORRECT THOUGHTS about clothing models in a regular clothing magazine. How did the police know? Past track record, the person had previously been convicted of rape (15+ years ago IIRC) and thus if they had a magazine with picture in it that the person MUST be viewing those pictures as porn.
Well now it isn't very far from owning a magazine listing clothing to running through a database now is it? How far from arresting people who search for child porn on google to arresting people who search for some other 'bad' topic on Google? Hell, FBI could very well start keeping a counter for every time you search for the phrases crack AND {name of software product goes here}
Enjoy your liberty. . ..
*COUGH* *PUKE* *HACK* (no pun intended on that last on there)
Annnyways. 2 or 3 years ago I would have said no way (hell 2 or 3 years ago I likely DID say no way to some dude sounding just like I do, LOL) but hell, {insert law enforcement agency here} has already proven that they don't give a frig about civil liberties.
Hey, what the fuck ARE they protecting anyways? I mean I can understand say actual LAW MAKERS wanting to do this shit, big business money and all, but WHY THE HELL does the FBI give a woot?
I guess that maybe they are all self delusional as in that they have to do this so that they can get the money to fight real crimes. . ..
:(
That and a good deal of people now days are being brought up brainwashed as in to believing how evil software piracy is. . . . Yes some people actually DO believe that! Ugh. As in throw them in jail for a looong time style evil.
It may be wrong, but fuck, little johnny shouldn't go to jail, they should be busy hunting down those damn assholes who sell illegal software for large PROFIT. Now THOSE scum bags ARE evil. Can I get an amen out there? No? Darnit.
Still though, I guess that little johnny doesn't have a defense fund like a real software pirate has. . . . and an arrest on paper looks good no matter whose name is plastered all over it. And a conviction looks even better. . . .
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I finally got that after some other user later on in the thread pointed it out, but I still do not see how it is incorrect.
:) (the language DOES degrade well after all, heh)
The action being taken is interesting AND the outcome shall be interesting as well, thus two uses of the word interesting. Not the most well formed sentence out there, but the usage is understandable and I did not even notice the repetition until the 6th or 7th re-reading of it through in an attempt to figure out what people were complaining about.
Then again, maybe I am just used to broken English.
Huh? What in the world is 'weird' about that sentance? I was able to parase it the first time through.
Mabye your eyes are crossed? ^_^
It clicks just fine, though apparently the review does NOT make this clear.
Dan of Dansdata.com did a review of this product quite some time ago, and HIS review kicks ass Thank You So Very Much, and mentions exactly how Dwell clicking works.
Dwell clicking is only available on the deluxe model of the TrackIR system, this guy got the cheap ass model. Next time the reviewer should do some more RESEARCH before asking for a product to review.
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Ignoring that though, I have this strange desire to wire a few of these buggers up together and get a full 3d wireless head tracking system, only problem so far is figuring out tilt, but I figure that two dots put together at different heights should be able to accomplish that, albeit with some difficulty.
But yah, the TRUE potential of this thing has not yet even began to be explored.
Think wireless LCD display glasses and with some of the Track IR dots, well heck, talk about a great time!
Hey, I do not think that anybody has mentioned that these dots can be stuck onto ANYTHING and still work just as well. For the ultimate in simulation, some sort of faux-metal gun could be included with a trigger, reload, and all. Stick a few of these dots on to it in various strategically placed locations and you would have yourself a full 3d range of movement, combine it with the head display and you could EASILY have your gun in a game point in a different direction then from your viewpoint.
Currently that feature is a major pain in the arse to implement in most games, heh.
Hey any developers / funders want to get together with me on this one? ]:D
Bull, Dell places fall limiters on your parts selection to increase their profit margins.
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Example, Pentium 4 Laptops are only available with Geforce4 video cards unless you get the one (/. is SOOO going to mess up that link, it is a link to the Inspirion 8200) model that they have that comes with a video card that is NOT insanly powerful AND has a Pentium 4 chip on it.
This model also happens to need a lot of 'other' upgrades to bring it up to the range of the next cheapest laptop and then you end up paying the same price (or greater) then the bottom most default configuration of the next laptop one level up but without a good video card.
it is insane.
Their Pentium 3 based laptops are decent enough, but for anybody who wants to do a lot of CPU intensive work and NO gaming AT ALL, well hell, heh.
That and they only sell Intel kit, Dell has a significant dedication towards caring more about what Intel says then what AMD says.
Getting a well built laptop is NOT easy, and often times to get a REALLY well built one you have to deal with yee as old technology.
See Here for an example of this tendency. Yeesh. Who knew that waterproofing could cost so much? ^_^
Here is another example
Yeesh. That much money and it can just stand a water STREAM. Ugh. Nothing about full immersion.
Anybody know of an x86 laptop that has a 15" screen, 1ghz+ chip, assloads of ram, and is fully submersible? No? Until they make one I am not buying a laptop.
ps: Firing Jon Katz would make me want to join more.
/. about viewers only wanting news they like on their chosen viewing medium, today, /. subscribers wanting to get rid of the news that they don't like.
/. users do not like his opinions on things.
/. ) learned that from our own life experiences?
Last night, a debate on
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I have no problem with Jon Katz, but I _WOULD_ have a problem with them firing him just because some portion of
If he makes you think about a topic, even if it is only to reply to him point for point showing how wrong he is, then it IS indeed +1 interesting.
Remember just because you don't like it does not mean it does not belong, hell haven't we (the people who generally congregate around on
I am still out of breath, my word, this is. . . . horrible. What the hell is AT&T thinking? Just the other day I was thinking to myself how nice it is that there is such a company still around that is willing to support pure research and development, but now. . . . holy shit.
VNC will live on, but what new ideas might have come this lab? What technology, what science, will now never be invented, or at the very least horribly delayed? This is awful, how could any company get pissy over intellectual property rights when there is so much more at stake? For crying out loud, shutting down not only one of the premier research labs in the world, but a (I think?) profitable one at that!
And the real answer is that MP3 and OGG are designed for music, not voice.
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RealAudio has can get "radio-quality" voice over a 30Kbps stream (for modem users). MP3 and OGG can barely make it at 64K and usually gets streamed at 128K.
Somebody give the AC a cookie, or at least mod the above commment up.
Real Audio still does the ONE thing that it started out able to do, namely stream plain old human voice at a low bitrate at passible quality.
Better codecs have come along since Real, but none have gained the same widespread acceptable of Real Audio.
Their video codec blows though, and so does their player. . .
Their third to last restructuring attempt likely failed because they were obviously more interested in taking paying ads to be included in the 'channels' listing them providing users with a real interface to internet radio stations.
Oddly enough Real Audio has had slightly more success over in Japan for use in interactive internet radio stations and even the occasional video broadcast. NIfty stuff actualy, of course when our economy crashed theirs went along with it (or slightly before hand IIRC ) so such things are not as common as they used to be (if they are at all any more, beats me, news of such takes for-friggin-ever to get over to the states, even with the internet.)
I was speaking more of the fact that we did not lose large amounts of troops.
And you said on september 12th, and I am assuming 2001 here. The war you mentioned took place with BILL CLINTON in office and our CURRENT president had NOTHING to do with it.
Wrong war, wrong year, and in both cases regardless of actual livse lost, the missions were carried out succesfuly (in both cases to cause a change over of goverment).
Hell if we didn't kill an assload of people who were most like coerced into joining the army (in Yugoslavia that is) then more power to us, great tactics on our part.
I've always wondered what would have happened if on 9/12 Bush said, "We're going to retaliate, it's a difficult decision, we're anticipating losses will be double that of Vietnam, with half our fleet of aircraft carriers being destroyed, and 60% infantry losses. Chinese communists have provided high altitude Surface-Air missiles to Afghanistan, so we cannot use B-52s or any other aircraft. This is our best scenario, but we've been forced into a situation where we must fight the good fight, as honour dictates. Please be aware that there's a 50% chance that we will have to introduce compulsory drafting of men of fighting age."
That is called lying.
If anything people would have laughed their asses off, we have invented this little thing called the PC since vietnam and it can do wonderious things, like enable missiles to blow shit up with some level of accuracy, or predict the best way to f*ck someones day over without needing to strip an entire region clear of any landscape.
Heh.
:) (mis-extended? Hmm. . . . LOL)
Actualy most users understand save as better then they understand changing extensions.
The user was actualy using WindowsXP, so they had had to specificaly enable file extensions to begin with, something that most users do not do (unfortunatly).
It was a very bizzare case, LOL.
I _NEVER_ want a system automaticaly or even semi-automaticaly applying lossy compression to MY data though. Permanitly damaging a files data is bad, heh. I am VERY specific about ANY sorts of lossy compression that I apply to an image, and I take great strides to ensure that proper versioning methods are used in a loseless format all the way throughout the file's creation.
Having an OS then throw out a good bit of my final product, no thanks! Of course I never WOULD actualy rename a files extension in such a way, but if something should happen (batch renaming gone haywire) it is nice to at least have all of my data still intact, even if it is mislabled.
Actualy smartass I use Windows.
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.bmp file just renamed to .jpg keeps the same size, thus in fact you would be unable to incite an argument over this.
Folks, pay attention, this is what happens when trolls don't do their research. . .
(not that the idiot COULD be expected to research it but. . .
Not to mention that it is a pretty pathedic attempt at a troll to begin with. There is no argument that a
Now then if you had replied asking WHY that was so, then you might have gotten a few dozen people to hop on ship and write everything from lengthy polite explanations on the basics of compression and file storage methods, to people flaming you left and right.
Sorry, you lose, don't try again, run out and play in traffic instead.
I for one, would. Imagine having all the recordings of an artist on a single DVD, instead of settling for a single CD greatest hits compilation.
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The real reason you don't see this is that record companies could never put the equivalent of 3 or 4 CDs on a single DVD, and still charge the same price as the sum of the individual CDs. They would have to charge less, or nobody would buy it.
So, it'll never happen. But just because it won't, doesn't mean it shouldn't.
Hell they rarely fill up CDs with music now days anyways....
Episodic DVDs are rarely filled up, look at how a ton of TV shows do things. . .
Not to mention that most CDs are ALREADY _HIGHLY_ over charged. I still see ads on TV for sets of music at $15.95 for tapes or $21.95 for CDs. WTF? Ugh. You figure that they would sell the CDs for LESS then the tapes so as to encourage anybody still with a tape player (even my grandmother uses CDs now. . . . ) to upgrade to CDs so that the music companies could earn their higher profit percentages from each sale that come from the lower media cost.
Not like they (the companies) have any common sense though. . . . just business sense, and we all know which end of the body that comes out of. . . .
Compression? I'd just been renaming my .bmp's to .jpg - you mean I actually have to "compress" them to a .jpg to gain any benefit?
.bmp by renaming it .jpg. . . .
Don't laugh, I have had this happen to me before, people 'compress' a
I have had people aiming for CS degrees do this. . .
Ok admittedly it was late at night and the person in question was having a VERY bad day. ^_-
Don't forget your network architecture, collision rates, and so forth. Since you are going wireless, what type of other possible issues does this new technology have?
Definitely a ton of questions to be asked, and this is why the OFFICIAL Wireless specs take so damn long to get through committee.
Ok actually it is the fact that they ARE a committee, but there _IS_ a review board in there someplace and they do do some good.
This technology here has not yet been properly scrutinized by the community at large, sure it can get twice the data rate, but hell the official specifications could likely have done that to if they just made a few sacrifices. While technology has improved over time and it sounds like this little diddy here is an actual improvement how much of its gain is due to being improved and how much of its gain is due to fudge factor?
Beh, was fun explaining to n00bs on BBSs though why they couldn't get 56k to their local BBSs. LOL. Alls fun, alls fun.
/. everytime an article is posted on the topic and somebody gets confused! Hell if this goes through Karma rates will skyrocket! ;D (joke there folks, haha laugh)
Besides, think of the +5 informative possabilities on
Oooooh, I just had a thought worthy of alt.tasteless.
Pregnent moms should NOT use this product! *evil grin*
Ok ok sorry sorry.
::hangs head in shame::
happened to early batchs of Diablo (I think that was the Blizzard game. ^_^ ) CDs,
:) (heh, in other words some asshole likely skimped on the CD Production budget and got reamed. )
later batchs 'fixed' that problem.
which leads me to my question, WTF are you guys doing at home on a friday night?!?!?!?!?!?!
High moral standards, whats everybody elses excuse?
(seriously, don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, don't believe in sex out of wedlock, friday night is like monday night just that I stay up later reading)
Use an LCD instead, you should be able to get at least base 16 storage out of it (16 distinguishable colors with 100% accuracy, a ton more are possible of course, but see the next part for more information) your main issue going here is read speed (ways of digitaly capturing light typicaly tend to, uh, suck as far as speed goes) and accuracy.
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:) Especialy when you consider that the better LCD screens now days can easily do 60 seperate and distinct images per second, which would be 345,600,000 Bytes Per Second.
Hopefuly limiting your color set to 16 widely seperate and distinct colors. . .
Hey no wait use those older style CCDs that have three seperate parts to them, red green and blue sensors, and just so long as you have your displayed colors split into the three different main visable wavelengths with a good gap between them, you will be able to read three 'bits' at once (not really a 'bi't since, hmm, I would suggest 24 colors, split evenly that would be 8 colors per sensor, but a better term then bit does not exist when talking about 'di'gital data so. . . . hehe. Quanitized quanitized. . .
*WAIT*.
Intelligence struck.
Ugh, CCD takes it all in at once, this is not a CD-ROM Read/Write laser here, LOL! So never mind, reading speed is not a problem anyways, LOL! Cycle time deals with the flash memory CCD digital cameras typicaly tend to use, that is the main cause of delay that I was thinking about, no flash memory, no delay.
Hopefuly by limiting yourself to a certain color set you would be able to have your CCD setup rapidly proccess the image without a major loss in quality (obviously SOME inaccuracies can be allows just so long as that the color values all end up getting MAPPED to their correct values) and store that data in some nice nifty format.
Obviously now you would be more limited by the cycling rate of the LCDs.
Throw cheap and managable out the window (hehe) and you get a 1600x1200 array, which is 1,920,000 'dots' of color, each of which can have any of 24 values, for a total of 46,080,000 bits of data per 'screenful.'
Divide by 8 since working in bits can be a pain, and that is 5,760,000 Bytes. Not half bad.
EVERYBODY right now should be noticing that this SHOULD NOT work out mathmaticaly this way because I have 24 bits and 24 colors and what? Yes I COULD actualy store a 16million color image this way, in a 24 color image. This in itself is rather freaky, uh, fuck. Is that right.
If it is (or is not!) somebody PLEASE tell me because that is pretty damn amazing if I have everything right, but I rarely do math right at 1:27am. ^_^
Anyways. Give yourself a VERY resonable image rate of 20 images displayed per second, and you have a data through-put of 115,200,000Bytes per Second.
Damn nearly beats the shit out of IDE.
(that is over 300MegaBytes per second, I do NOT feel like doing the math right now to get it exact,)
I am starting to wish that somebody would port Mplayer to windows so us ms peons would have a decent media player. ^_^
::evil grin::
nah, the mac people need it more, they actualy think that quicktime is worth a shit, heh.
Ok I can get that VSD is BSD, but what the heck is BFP?
and gets a haircut once a month...
Only since he married.
I have posted this before in long detail, so let me make it short;
:) It is pretty darn nifty how the color of computer cases has kept on getting lighter and lighter and lighter and then all of a sudden switched to black!
I FUCKING LIKE BEIGE BOXS DAMNIT
and if this gets moded to +1 funny like it did last time I am SOOO going to hurt someone, I AM SERIOUS. BEIGE IS GOOD DAMNIT.
Beige, Steel, Strong. Full tower, steel, beige cases rock.
Black computers, meh. I would rather go function over form.
Besides since I have computer equipment from so many different eras, I have a pretty darn nice gradient of beige.
No wait, that black part is bad.
I LIKE BEIGE DAMNIT.
Its THOSE criminals that the law enforcement agencies are trying to catch with these new tactics.
::sigh::
Guess what? Restrict internet access, they'll just use this little old thing called
Mail
The Human Voice
ILLEGAL* ENCRYPTION (yes thats right folks, you can make keeping secrets illegal, but since they are secret YOU DO NOT FUCKING KNOW ABOUT THEM
*if made such, would be useless to do so (see above)
Encrypted Messages (key phrases and such)
Telephone calls using key phrases (tap all you want, wouldn't do you much if any good)
Plan these damn things BEFORE they leave home. Now there is a thought for ya, eh? Just pick out a date and some targets BEFORE they leave their training camps. Yeesh. Sure it would require ADVANCED planning and being DECISIVE, but hell, they are terrorists and assholes, not idiots. It doesn't exactly take a friggin rocket scientist to schedule 40 or so (business party reservations even, hell schedule it a few years ahead on the date that some major business convention is going to happen, say you are just planning ahead to beat the rush that happens every year. )plane tickets the maximum amount ahead of time that a airplane company allows for.
If it is a bunch of people say going to some large convention, hell, the airlines likely wouldn't even bat an eye. Party of 14 to Comdex? What is so unusual about that. . . . (maybe a BIT large, but nothing much, yeesh)
The thing is that they ALREADY do this, they just use MS Outlook instead of Worldcome MCI.
Bugging the Internet is NOT going to make ANYBODY _ANY_ more safe, ensuring that the screeners have to have at least a high school education and having them stop f*cking unplugging machines WOULD help though. As would a requirement for big huge as stainless steel bullet proof doors on ALL airplanes. That should have been the FIRST requirement passed, and IF somebody HAD MADE it go through by now, we WOULD BE A LOT SAFER
Hell we are getting too damn high tech about this whole situation. Some Good Old American Made Steel would solve A LOT of problems right here and now.
Ugh, no duuude, you don't get it.
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The idea is not to track WHO but to track WHAT _WHO_ has.
Somebody could still place a bug on the wire to your wireless transceiver, or place a small range receiver right outside of your transceiver that is keyed to only pick up messages from your transceiver so as that they knew what you were searching for.
The anti-child porn law that was kinda-sorta-maybe-ruled unconstitutional just a few days ago actually had a provision in there FOR THOUGHT CRIMES. No shit, seriously. Some people were convicted for having INCORRECT THOUGHTS about clothing models in a regular clothing magazine. How did the police know? Past track record, the person had previously been convicted of rape (15+ years ago IIRC) and thus if they had a magazine with picture in it that the person MUST be viewing those pictures as porn.
Well now it isn't very far from owning a magazine listing clothing to running through a database now is it? How far from arresting people who search for child porn on google to arresting people who search for some other 'bad' topic on Google? Hell, FBI could very well start keeping a counter for every time you search for the phrases crack AND {name of software product goes here}
Enjoy your liberty. . .
*COUGH* *PUKE* *HACK* (no pun intended on that last on there)
Annnyways. 2 or 3 years ago I would have said no way (hell 2 or 3 years ago I likely DID say no way to some dude sounding just like I do, LOL) but hell, {insert law enforcement agency here} has already proven that they don't give a frig about civil liberties.
Hey, what the fuck ARE they protecting anyways? I mean I can understand say actual LAW MAKERS wanting to do this shit, big business money and all, but WHY THE HELL does the FBI give a woot?
I guess that maybe they are all self delusional as in that they have to do this so that they can get the money to fight real crimes. . .
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That and a good deal of people now days are being brought up brainwashed as in to believing how evil software piracy is. . . . Yes some people actually DO believe that! Ugh. As in throw them in jail for a looong time style evil.
It may be wrong, but fuck, little johnny shouldn't go to jail, they should be busy hunting down those damn assholes who sell illegal software for large PROFIT. Now THOSE scum bags ARE evil. Can I get an amen out there? No? Darnit.
Still though, I guess that little johnny doesn't have a defense fund like a real software pirate has. . . . and an arrest on paper looks good no matter whose name is plastered all over it. And a conviction looks even better. . . .