The tapes are 1 hour long. You didn't even need to read the article to see that. Four hours is how long it takes to use the start/stop method of transcription. Slowing the tape down to 70% speed and never start / stopping would take 1 hour and 26 minutes.
Well, since JPEG2000 can do lossless encoding it should be able to perfectly reproduce text. Whether it does it efficiently or not, I'd have to run a test down at work to see for sure.
Actually, the main improvement is the fact that JPEG2000 is capable of lossless encoding. Even at lossless, it still knocks the file size considerably down (depending on image complexity).
PNG is a tagged image format. It can be a lot of things, including lossy encoded. There are provisions that allow for inclusion of custom tags. I will refer you to the JNG Image Format, which is just a couple of tags added to the reference PNG spec.
Well, for one JPEG2000 takes forever to encode/decode. There are some really complex computations going on in the background, and regular JPEG is much faster (although the quality isn't nearly as good). As far as PNG goes, the best compression it can get is JPEG'd data. Another interesting where is it is the MNG. The supposed replacement for the animated GIF is barely supported anywhere, and for some reason Mozilla just recently REMOVED support of it.
Hi everybody,
I just figured I'd give a heads up to SCO's job opportunities page. If you'll notice the very first opening is for a Senior Software Engineer in India with the following job description: Design and develop systems-level software for Linux and provide systems support by performing the following duties:...
I'm not making it up. Doesn't this sound really fishy/stupid?
They should send a monkey with your leg. That way the monkey can eat the leg, and the mars mission will be guided in near realtime which is something the scorecard doesn't take into account. Precomputed flight path data isn't always the best to operate off of in the real world (or should I say universe).
They don't need verification data anyways. The fact that they signed the hash (combined with the embedded timestamp) is proof enough.
But damn it, this pisses me off. The real issue here is being ignored. They are trying to patent this process. Does anyone else find this to be a blatantly obvious system. Almost a year ago I literally was thinking about why this exact system didn't already exist. This patent will be a big one if it goes through, I guarantee it.
Mine was Will Smith's - Men in Black song. I was blown away with the amount of quality audio that I got with just a couple 100k of the song. Although, I really hated that song, I still listened to it over and over again. I was really impressed. But eventually my ears got trained to pick out all the artifacts and stuff, and now I am not impressed with anything branded MP3 anymore. OGG or FLAC for me.
Well thats a stupid statement. Companies that publish software are easily held liable for what they publish. International warez rings are pretty hard to prosecute when you say, "I bought this illegal software and it stole all my credit card numbers." It would be very easy for a company pushing warez out the door to do this. And you don't see or hear about pirated software companies doing this because not very many people will publicly review pirated versions of software. You call it a myth because it hasn't come to your attention, or because maybe it hasn't happened to you. But it very easily could (and more than likely does) happen. Some pirates are "normal companies" in the sense that they sell a product (albeit an illegal one), but all pirates are by definition already breaking the law. So exactly what are their incentives not to lace your PEs with some little stealth program that runs without your knowledge collecting private information?
Well, but they wouldn't be porting the asm. Thats the point. They write the code with the assumptions that some functions will be filled in with the appropriate platform specific instructions, whether it be DirectX calls or VU asm. They know what it will be doing. They won't be porting they will be reimplementing, and it wouldn't really be that large a chunk of the program. And it would only be a one time effort. After that they have the codebase for optimized cross-platform game programming for reuse in their other games.
piping through a squid cache would let emerge scale pretty well won't it? It scales just as well as windows update does:-P.
Yeah, I hate the library issue. And one should never be forced to statically link everything. I don't understand why developers can't just change major version numbers when its old usage is deprecated. Not that this is a perfect solution.
I see your point in the folder view also. I personally think 100% conformance to the POSIX standard is not a good thing./bin is fine, but I think if the package contains more than one binary it should be in a subfolder of/bin (or/usr/bin), and it should be the name of the package, and if it has more than one binary there should be a subfolder with the name of the package in there with all its binaries in there.
I don't really have to many problems with the graphical applications, as I usually just set up a link in whatever Desktop I might be using and be done with it (not really much worse than on windows except windows will automatically add it to your menu).
These VUs perform rapid successive floating point multiply accumulate operations which are utilized in all 3d graphics computation. If they are pumping triangles to the screen, texturing them, or calculating light distances and angles (which they all do) then they could easily fully utilize both VUs. Even then if they had some spare cycles left, they could get into audio processing which also could easily saturate a VU.
I really don't understand this. You can abstract out your programming enough to just allow the backend to be replaced with a couple simple T&L pipelines, or whatever you want on the PS2. It really is just the developers being ultrafucking lazy.
Lots of installers, emerge being a good one Backwards compatability in what? kernel drivers?/etc and ~ are about the only directory's really needed to be known about if using a decent installer, also this will never change because of POSIX compliance.
Not to mention decent printer support (cups is really irritating), universal automatic updates system (Gentoo will soon have this), standardized OLE competitor on the desktops, and the recognition that the web browser should have standardized locations and configuration file (I doubt this will ever happen though). Also, the file selectors need some serious work to really compete with windows'.
Yeah, but the amount of "due process" given to individual entities is directly proportional to their monetary delegation to the participation in the process. Does this sound fair to you?
No I agree with your parent poster. But don't just tax offshore outsorcing. You have to tax everything not from here, to the point of value equivalence to our market's value. Really thats the only fair way.
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It would also require that he get a scanner small enough, and resistant to the clap.
I think this is actually just a ploy so the queen can smack him in the face with another cream pie :-P.
The tapes are 1 hour long. You didn't even need to read the article to see that. Four hours is how long it takes to use the start/stop method of transcription. Slowing the tape down to 70% speed and never start / stopping would take 1 hour and 26 minutes.
Well, since JPEG2000 can do lossless encoding it should be able to perfectly reproduce text. Whether it does it efficiently or not, I'd have to run a test down at work to see for sure.
Actually, the main improvement is the fact that JPEG2000 is capable of lossless encoding. Even at lossless, it still knocks the file size considerably down (depending on image complexity).
PNG is a tagged image format. It can be a lot of things, including lossy encoded. There are provisions that allow for inclusion of custom tags. I will refer you to the JNG Image Format, which is just a couple of tags added to the reference PNG spec.
Well, for one JPEG2000 takes forever to encode/decode. There are some really complex computations going on in the background, and regular JPEG is much faster (although the quality isn't nearly as good). As far as PNG goes, the best compression it can get is JPEG'd data. Another interesting where is it is the MNG. The supposed replacement for the animated GIF is barely supported anywhere, and for some reason Mozilla just recently REMOVED support of it.
The position is in India. It doesn't get better than that does it? Trying to screw over the linux folk, and outsourcing to India. Ha!
And here is the Google cache.
Hi everybody,
I just figured I'd give a heads up to SCO's job opportunities page. If you'll notice the very first opening is for a Senior Software Engineer in India with the following job description:
Design and develop systems-level software for Linux and provide systems support by performing the following duties:...
I'm not making it up. Doesn't this sound really fishy/stupid?
It was AuthentiDate that was trying to patent it though. It should be on their site somewhere but I can't find where now (at work).
I still think the old Paranoia game is far more interesting.
They should send a monkey with your leg. That way the monkey can eat the leg, and the mars mission will be guided in near realtime which is something the scorecard doesn't take into account. Precomputed flight path data isn't always the best to operate off of in the real world (or should I say universe).
They don't need verification data anyways. The fact that they signed the hash (combined with the embedded timestamp) is proof enough.
But damn it, this pisses me off. The real issue here is being ignored. They are trying to patent this process. Does anyone else find this to be a blatantly obvious system. Almost a year ago I literally was thinking about why this exact system didn't already exist. This patent will be a big one if it goes through, I guarantee it.
Mine was Will Smith's - Men in Black song. I was blown away with the amount of quality audio that I got with just a couple 100k of the song. Although, I really hated that song, I still listened to it over and over again. I was really impressed. But eventually my ears got trained to pick out all the artifacts and stuff, and now I am not impressed with anything branded MP3 anymore. OGG or FLAC for me.
Well thats a stupid statement. Companies that publish software are easily held liable for what they publish. International warez rings are pretty hard to prosecute when you say, "I bought this illegal software and it stole all my credit card numbers." It would be very easy for a company pushing warez out the door to do this. And you don't see or hear about pirated software companies doing this because not very many people will publicly review pirated versions of software. You call it a myth because it hasn't come to your attention, or because maybe it hasn't happened to you. But it very easily could (and more than likely does) happen. Some pirates are "normal companies" in the sense that they sell a product (albeit an illegal one), but all pirates are by definition already breaking the law. So exactly what are their incentives not to lace your PEs with some little stealth program that runs without your knowledge collecting private information?
Well, but they wouldn't be porting the asm. Thats the point. They write the code with the assumptions that some functions will be filled in with the appropriate platform specific instructions, whether it be DirectX calls or VU asm. They know what it will be doing. They won't be porting they will be reimplementing, and it wouldn't really be that large a chunk of the program. And it would only be a one time effort. After that they have the codebase for optimized cross-platform game programming for reuse in their other games.
piping through a squid cache would let emerge scale pretty well won't it? It scales just as well as windows update does :-P.
/bin is fine, but I think if the package contains more than one binary it should be in a subfolder of /bin (or /usr/bin), and it should be the name of the package, and if it has more than one binary there should be a subfolder with the name of the package in there with all its binaries in there.
Yeah, I hate the library issue. And one should never be forced to statically link everything. I don't understand why developers can't just change major version numbers when its old usage is deprecated. Not that this is a perfect solution.
I see your point in the folder view also. I personally think 100% conformance to the POSIX standard is not a good thing.
I don't really have to many problems with the graphical applications, as I usually just set up a link in whatever Desktop I might be using and be done with it (not really much worse than on windows except windows will automatically add it to your menu).
These VUs perform rapid successive floating point multiply accumulate operations which are utilized in all 3d graphics computation. If they are pumping triangles to the screen, texturing them, or calculating light distances and angles (which they all do) then they could easily fully utilize both VUs. Even then if they had some spare cycles left, they could get into audio processing which also could easily saturate a VU.
I really don't understand this. You can abstract out your programming enough to just allow the backend to be replaced with a couple simple T&L pipelines, or whatever you want on the PS2. It really is just the developers being ultrafucking lazy.
Lots of installers, emerge being a good one /etc and ~ are about the only directory's really needed to be known about if using a decent installer, also this will never change because of POSIX compliance.
Backwards compatability in what? kernel drivers?
Not to mention decent printer support (cups is really irritating), universal automatic updates system (Gentoo will soon have this), standardized OLE competitor on the desktops, and the recognition that the web browser should have standardized locations and configuration file (I doubt this will ever happen though). Also, the file selectors need some serious work to really compete with windows'.
Yeah, but the amount of "due process" given to individual entities is directly proportional to their monetary delegation to the participation in the process. Does this sound fair to you?
No I agree with your parent poster. But don't just tax offshore outsorcing. You have to tax everything not from here, to the point of value equivalence to our market's value. Really thats the only fair way.
And furthermore, you can buy USB->Serial adapters that work without a hitch. Beat that bizatch.
I still prefer the CCYY-MM-DD format. It makes everything sort easier, and it is much nicer on the eyes.