This isn't entirely correct. SonicBlue was being sued over two features: Internet Video Sharing and Commercial Advance. IVS is a distinct feature from in-home sharing, running at a much slower speed and utilizing a custom DNS like service to locate remote replaytvs. It also creates a local copy of the file. Streaming doesn't create a local copy and occurs at full speed (obviously). DVArchive, a popular program, acts just like a ReplayTV, so it's capable of both receiving shows (which are saved rather than played), and streaming the saved shows back to the actualy ReplayTV. AFAIK, the streaming functionality has never been in question.
No, the contest is to demonstrate a mastery of ANSI C. Only someone who truly understands every intricacy of the preprocessor and the compiler can write one of these. A much better comparison might be something like an NBA slam dunk contest -- you'll see stuff that you won't see anywhere else and is completely stunning. Very, very few programmers could hope to create an entry such as these.
This is actually not true in most cases, at least for DVD-Audio. Most DVD-As have an audio track and a DVD-Video track. The sound quality isn't as good as DVD-A on the compatibility track, but it's still a) multi-channel and b) better sounding than CDs. I highly recommend to anyone interested to go out and pick up a DVD-A to try. One disc convinced me to get a full-blown player ($150-$200 -- I got the Toshiba SD4700).
by Brian Greene is probably the best popular physics book I've read recently. From memory (it's been about a year), it's divided into three major parts. The first is an excellent introduction to both relativity and quantum mechanics, as well as explaining why they are ultimately incompatible and must be combined in a new theory (quantum gravity/string theory). The second part is a description of the current state of string theory, and the third is a description of where the theory might go (called M-theory). My only complaint about this book, which is brand new given other books I've read, is it doesn't mention the primary fallacy of string theory, which is that it relies on a static background. M-theory, if workable, could fix this, but I don't recall that ever being made clear in this book.
Actually, this is not the case. DVD players decode MPEG2. MP3 is part of MPEG1 (MPEG1 Audio Layer 3), and thus not needed by a DVD player. The only reason it's being added so cheaply is there are cheap complete solutions to add MP3 cd playback.
Would someone using such a kit on a car be elligible for the AFV tax break despite it being aftermarket? Hybrids, such as the new Civic, Prius, and Insight all are, so clearly some petroleum use is allowed.
I think I remember reading that this episode will be Mulder on trial. As such, it's likely they'll appear in some flashbacks. This doesn't mean they aren't dead.
There is not as of yet. The rumors over on AVSForum are that the new model, previously believed to be the 5000 series, are aimed more towards the common consumer. The biggest manifestation of this is rumored to be the activation of the modem (ReplayTV 4000s have an RJ11 jack, but it's disabled) to eliminate the need for a home network. That the lifetime subscription is not built in to the price is also indicative of this.
The data is indeed encrypted. Tivos will still have to dial-in to get the decryption keys, which presumably will expire to keep people from stealing subscriptions. More info here.
It actually goes beyond Tivo being nice to the hacker community -- it's saving them money. When Tivo dials up each night, it uses a UUNet internet connection, so each call costs Tivo money. By allowing hackers to use their broadband connections, Tivo no longer has to support UUNet for that customer. Support costs don't increase, since I'm sure Tivo won't support a hacked unit. So all in all, its a win-win situation.
On this page on the Rio Receiver, it says it is "Upgradeable to support future audio formats". Has anyone made one of these work with an Ogg Vorbis codec?
If you'd read the article more carefully, you'd have found that Rainmaker's technology operates at OSI level 2, so it's completely independent of the type of wire. All that would be needed would be new modems/routers/NICs/etc.
That address and deadline is for Junkyard Wars (which has been running on both sides of the pond for years). The new program, Ultimate Machine Combat, has a Fed 15 application deadline and is a brand new show.
Here's some more info, from the perspective of a former TA (once for one of the classes in question). First, everyone at GaTech is required to take the first CS class, not just CS majors (== people in the CoC). Second, GaTech doesn't restrict collaboration in all classes. The first tier of classes are strictly individual so everyone has to be in front of the computer. In the second tier, CS2130 - Languages and Translation explicitly allows colloboration as long as people turn in their own code. Going further, later classes involve heavy amounts of group work.
With regards to the cheater-detecter program (called 'cheatfinder'), it's significantly more complicated than diff(1). It involves checking the structure of the code (ignoring variable names , indentation, and whatnot). Admittedly, I've never seen the source for it (very few people have), but it's been around since at least 1997. The output of the program is a single number indicating the probability that two people colloborated on an assignment. The threshold is typically set fairly high (0.90+), so false-positives are less likely. 187 students, the number caught this time around, is definitely the highest I've heard of, but it's definitely not the first time we've hit a large number -- just the first time it made the cover of the local newspaper.
Interestingly, many students (including myself before becoming a TA) think (well, thought now) cheatfinder is just something the profs made up to scare students.
Well, if we're being technical, everything travels at the speed of light (in a 4 dimensional spacetime). It's just that a vast majority of that velocity vector is along the time axis. When we start moving along the space axes, energy available to move along the time axis is reduced hence time dilation. For instance, a photon moves at C, so all of its momentum is dedicated to the 3 spatial axes.
Yes and no. They have to release the source to the people to whom the product is distributed. However, they don't have to make it publically available. The catch is that the people who receive the source can also redistribute it at will. As someone else pointed out, the source is available here.
I expect, however, that HP has some proprietary stuff that's included in non-GPLd binaries.
As pointed out, it was John Koza, a professor at Stanford. He's built a 1000-node beowulf cluster of PII-300s. You can see pictures of it at www.genetic-programming.com. According to the site (which appears down right now, so this is from memory), they've evolved several (17 sticks out in my mind...) algorithms that are either patented or at the least competitive with the best known solution to the problem. The simple fact that you can say "find me a program that does X" with evolution and have it be competitive with what a human can produce is amazing.
These rules don't take into account the initial conditions and the motivation of individuals. Consider the situation where birds are sitting on a wire and one decides to fly off. Others ready to leave might join a flock with that bird -- it already has a velocity to match, giving it motion. Another situation is the lead birds getting tired. They may head towards a tree, and the rest of the flock will follow. You're entirely correct that if the intial condition is just a bunch of motionless birds suspended in air, the flock very likely will just swarm around that one spot.
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Emergence, which the reviewer didn't seem to cover very well, is not "keep moving backwards until you see something ordered." It is a behavior (usually, from what I've read about, in groups) where rules that pertain only to individuals give rise to complex behaviors.
The canonical example of this is flocking, from Flocks, Herds, and Schools by Craig Reynolds. Basically, if all members of a group avoid collisions (with obstacles and each other), match velocity with locally perceived group members, and stay close to local members, a flocking behavior is achieved. There is good evidence as well that this is how flocking is achieved in nature -- ornithologists (bird people.. may have gotten the word wrong:)) have studied Mr. Reynolds' simulations and found them to be indistinguishable from birds.
Another example is ants finding their way to food. They start off randomly travelling, leaving their pheremone trails everywhere. However, once food is found, the pheremone trail to that food is reinforced over and over, causing more and more ants to travel there. Eventually you see a line of ants going straight for the food -- all because of a "wander unless I sense enough pheremones" behavior.
The point of this is that emergence is not necessarily a global phenomenon -- it occurs at all levels.
Typically, AFAIK, it is, or even more so. In many cases, the studios will release a movie at rental pricing first (around $80/tape I think), then months later reduce it to around $20 -- "sell-through pricing". DVDs, to drive up adoption, have yet to adopt this model.
Most new computers you buy aren't going to be preloaded with Linux. Joe-user at home isn't going to understand why the RoadRunner won't tell him how to set up DHCP on the box he just picked up at BestBuy.
According to the rumors on theforce.net, there will be two teaser trailers and the Harry Potter trailer this month. The first teaser, "Breathing" is attached to Monsters, Inc. The second is supposed to be released on November 9, and trailer "A" is November 16. Trailer B will supposedly show up in March.
25K pixels is nowhere near decend. We're talking about 184x138 pixels or so. In other words, were you to print this out, it would be about the size of a postage stamp.
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It's all so clear now. Can you think of a backup medium that's large enough to hold emacs? I sure as heck can't.
This isn't entirely correct. SonicBlue was being sued over two features: Internet Video Sharing and Commercial Advance. IVS is a distinct feature from in-home sharing, running at a much slower speed and utilizing a custom DNS like service to locate remote replaytvs. It also creates a local copy of the file. Streaming doesn't create a local copy and occurs at full speed (obviously). DVArchive, a popular program, acts just like a ReplayTV, so it's capable of both receiving shows (which are saved rather than played), and streaming the saved shows back to the actualy ReplayTV. AFAIK, the streaming functionality has never been in question.
SciFi is rerunning the entire series from the start beginning March 31, 4 or 5 days a week at midnight.
No, the contest is to demonstrate a mastery of ANSI C. Only someone who truly understands every intricacy of the preprocessor and the compiler can write one of these. A much better comparison might be something like an NBA slam dunk contest -- you'll see stuff that you won't see anywhere else and is completely stunning. Very, very few programmers could hope to create an entry such as these.
This is actually not true in most cases, at least for DVD-Audio. Most DVD-As have an audio track and a DVD-Video track. The sound quality isn't as good as DVD-A on the compatibility track, but it's still a) multi-channel and b) better sounding than CDs. I highly recommend to anyone interested to go out and pick up a DVD-A to try. One disc convinced me to get a full-blown player ($150-$200 -- I got the Toshiba SD4700).
- The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene is probably the best popular physics book I've read recently. From memory (it's been about a year), it's divided into three major parts. The first is an excellent introduction to both relativity and quantum mechanics, as well as explaining why they are ultimately incompatible and must be combined in a new theory (quantum gravity/string theory). The second part is a description of the current state of string theory, and the third is a description of where the theory might go (called M-theory). My only complaint about this book, which is brand new given other books I've read, is it doesn't mention the primary fallacy of string theory, which is that it relies on a static background. M-theory, if workable, could fix this, but I don't recall that ever being made clear in this book.Actually, this is not the case. DVD players decode MPEG2. MP3 is part of MPEG1 (MPEG1 Audio Layer 3), and thus not needed by a DVD player. The only reason it's being added so cheaply is there are cheap complete solutions to add MP3 cd playback.
Would someone using such a kit on a car be elligible for the AFV tax break despite it being aftermarket? Hybrids, such as the new Civic, Prius, and Insight all are, so clearly some petroleum use is allowed.
I think I remember reading that this episode will be Mulder on trial. As such, it's likely they'll appear in some flashbacks. This doesn't mean they aren't dead.
There is not as of yet. The rumors over on AVSForum are that the new model, previously believed to be the 5000 series, are aimed more towards the common consumer. The biggest manifestation of this is rumored to be the activation of the modem (ReplayTV 4000s have an RJ11 jack, but it's disabled) to eliminate the need for a home network. That the lifetime subscription is not built in to the price is also indicative of this.
The data is indeed encrypted. Tivos will still have to dial-in to get the decryption keys, which presumably will expire to keep people from stealing subscriptions. More info here.
It actually goes beyond Tivo being nice to the hacker community -- it's saving them money. When Tivo dials up each night, it uses a UUNet internet connection, so each call costs Tivo money. By allowing hackers to use their broadband connections, Tivo no longer has to support UUNet for that customer. Support costs don't increase, since I'm sure Tivo won't support a hacked unit. So all in all, its a win-win situation.
On this page on the Rio Receiver, it says it is "Upgradeable to support future audio formats". Has anyone made one of these work with an Ogg Vorbis codec?
If you'd read the article more carefully, you'd have found that Rainmaker's technology operates at OSI level 2, so it's completely independent of the type of wire. All that would be needed would be new modems/routers/NICs/etc.
That address and deadline is for Junkyard Wars (which has been running on both sides of the pond for years). The new program, Ultimate Machine Combat, has a Fed 15 application deadline and is a brand new show.
Here's some more info, from the perspective of a former TA (once for one of the classes in question). First, everyone at GaTech is required to take the first CS class, not just CS majors (== people in the CoC). Second, GaTech doesn't restrict collaboration in all classes. The first tier of classes are strictly individual so everyone has to be in front of the computer. In the second tier, CS2130 - Languages and Translation explicitly allows colloboration as long as people turn in their own code. Going further, later classes involve heavy amounts of group work.
With regards to the cheater-detecter program (called 'cheatfinder'), it's significantly more complicated than diff(1). It involves checking the structure of the code (ignoring variable names , indentation, and whatnot). Admittedly, I've never seen the source for it (very few people have), but it's been around since at least 1997. The output of the program is a single number indicating the probability that two people colloborated on an assignment. The threshold is typically set fairly high (0.90+), so false-positives are less likely. 187 students, the number caught this time around, is definitely the highest I've heard of, but it's definitely not the first time we've hit a large number -- just the first time it made the cover of the local newspaper.
Interestingly, many students (including myself before becoming a TA) think (well, thought now) cheatfinder is just something the profs made up to scare students.
Well, if we're being technical, everything travels at the speed of light (in a 4 dimensional spacetime). It's just that a vast majority of that velocity vector is along the time axis. When we start moving along the space axes, energy available to move along the time axis is reduced hence time dilation. For instance, a photon moves at C, so all of its momentum is dedicated to the 3 spatial axes.
Yes and no. They have to release the source to the people to whom the product is distributed. However, they don't have to make it publically available. The catch is that the people who receive the source can also redistribute it at will. As someone else pointed out, the source is available here.
I expect, however, that HP has some proprietary stuff that's included in non-GPLd binaries.
As pointed out, it was John Koza, a professor at Stanford. He's built a 1000-node beowulf cluster of PII-300s. You can see pictures of it at www.genetic-programming.com. According to the site (which appears down right now, so this is from memory), they've evolved several (17 sticks out in my mind...) algorithms that are either patented or at the least competitive with the best known solution to the problem. The simple fact that you can say "find me a program that does X" with evolution and have it be competitive with what a human can produce is amazing.
These rules don't take into account the initial conditions and the motivation of individuals. Consider the situation where birds are sitting on a wire and one decides to fly off. Others ready to leave might join a flock with that bird -- it already has a velocity to match, giving it motion. Another situation is the lead birds getting tired. They may head towards a tree, and the rest of the flock will follow. You're entirely correct that if the intial condition is just a bunch of motionless birds suspended in air, the flock very likely will just swarm around that one spot.
Emergence, which the reviewer didn't seem to cover very well, is not "keep moving backwards until you see something ordered." It is a behavior (usually, from what I've read about, in groups) where rules that pertain only to individuals give rise to complex behaviors.
The canonical example of this is flocking, from Flocks, Herds, and Schools by Craig Reynolds. Basically, if all members of a group avoid collisions (with obstacles and each other), match velocity with locally perceived group members, and stay close to local members, a flocking behavior is achieved. There is good evidence as well that this is how flocking is achieved in nature -- ornithologists (bird people.. may have gotten the word wrong:)) have studied Mr. Reynolds' simulations and found them to be indistinguishable from birds.
Another example is ants finding their way to food. They start off randomly travelling, leaving their pheremone trails everywhere. However, once food is found, the pheremone trail to that food is reinforced over and over, causing more and more ants to travel there. Eventually you see a line of ants going straight for the food -- all because of a "wander unless I sense enough pheremones" behavior.
The point of this is that emergence is not necessarily a global phenomenon -- it occurs at all levels.
Typically, AFAIK, it is, or even more so. In many cases, the studios will release a movie at rental pricing first (around $80/tape I think), then months later reduce it to around $20 -- "sell-through pricing". DVDs, to drive up adoption, have yet to adopt this model.
Most new computers you buy aren't going to be preloaded with Linux. Joe-user at home isn't going to understand why the RoadRunner won't tell him how to set up DHCP on the box he just picked up at BestBuy.
According to the rumors on theforce.net, there will be two teaser trailers and the Harry Potter trailer this month. The first teaser, "Breathing" is attached to Monsters, Inc. The second is supposed to be released on November 9, and trailer "A" is November 16. Trailer B will supposedly show up in March.
25K pixels is nowhere near decend. We're talking about 184x138 pixels or so. In other words, were you to print this out, it would be about the size of a postage stamp.