Thanks for the defense guys. Any you are correct. A typical 1/2 hour show is taking up.5-.8 gb in my current encoding scheme. The fact that most of the stuff I have it saving are anime, it really hurts the encoders due to ever so slight differences in color from frame to frame. So when I have it in 32bit color, just about every frame has a different color, so very little gets stripped out with MPEG2 or Divix, due to the way they encode and compress the images from frame to frame based on the previous frame's color for that pixel.
Anyway, I've been thinking of getting 2 more hard drives and adding them to my existing raid, but that would max out the space and probably exceede the load on my power supply (I am already out of 12V rails and have 3 splitters already powering different equipment).
Well, I'll have to test it out first, but its a pain encoding in Divix, so I will have to see if this is a little less CPU intensive (or really IDE bus intensive). Capturing and converting live streaming video at 800x600 is intensive...
Anyway it can't hurt especially if it saves me some space (you would be surprised how fast you can fill up 1/2 a terrabyte with video capturing).
They get stuck, and Christianity (as a Jewish sect) is the worst of the lot, as its history dates more or less 4000 years into the past.
I'm still trying to figure out your "4000 years" quote. It has always been my understanding that Christianity developed around 1900 years ago with the spreading of the Christian faith by Paul and Peter during the early 60-100 CE. Heck, the date we currently use is bassed of a rough calculation of the approximate year of the birth of Jesus, so its kind of hard for me to figure out how you have "4000 years into the past" for when Christianity started...
One thing to note is that origionally, Christianity was setup in such a way that there were very few "laws" and "rules" and it flourished as a result of not having any strict "rules". There was the belief in God, his son, and in life after death. Things all changed when the Roman Empire collapsed and anarchy ruled what was left of the known world, and the people turned to the "church" for leadership and created a vast power structure and law structure for ruling and controlling the known world. This is when things solidified into the "Roman Catholic Church", away from the origional ideas and non-structure of the early Christian teachings and belief system.
With that early power struggle, the repression of women was allowed to propogate. The very early Christian church had a very powerful leader, Mary Magdalin, who without her help, Christianity would most likely not exist today. But she fell the victim of the current belief of the time that women should not be allowed to be equals as men, and was summerily deified as a "whore to pity and forgive" for centuries.
Anyway, back on topic, Christianity itself has evolved several times over the 2000 years of its existiance, but there are some forms that have changed less then others. I do think that we will live to see the Roman Catholic Church allow women as priests and to allow priest to marry. These two changes would also be the only difference between the Roman Catholic Church and several others, allowing for the possibility of a reformation of those religions back into the Catholic Church. Yes, religion does change, it has to. Either it changes or society as a whole stagnates, as it is still contains a huge amount of power to guide people.
Go read up on the actual SAT requirements as well as just about every other standardized tests. Calculators that can do symbolic computation are all banned. Now that being said, not all places actually check to make sure that you don't have the 89, but all easily recognise the 92.
Even many colleges ban the 89 from their lower level math classes (and even some upper level classes as well), mainly because the 89 can do just about everything in Calc 1-4, Probability and Statistics, and several other math courses.
This really is true. It was probably the best thing that happened to me. I went to college at a major co-op university (Drexel), mainly for the co-op experience (seriously, you can't beat 1 1/2 years of real work experience as you are handed your diploma).
Anyway, if you can get a clearance then you are very much in demand. It costs around $50-200k for a company to get you a clearance (this is what it costs for the paperwork and background checks, with the costs ranging for the different levels of clearance), and that doesn't even gaurenty that you will even recieve a clearance. So, if you have an oppertunity of working for a place that will get you a clearance, it is in their interest to keep you as happy employee for at least a little while to make up for the huge investment they have already put into you (but take that with a grain of salt as well, since they will be putting up a large investment into you so it can be harder to get hired). But, once you have clearance, you have a VERY BIG TICKET item in negotiations with other companies that also require security clearances.
I don't know about that. Once you cross the line as to saying that code is not speach then where is the actuall line? That was the whole point of the DeCSS Gallery, to prove that there is no line between source code and speach.
In any case, THIS IS EXEMPT! Read the DMCA under 6 exemptions:
2. Reverse engineering (section 1201(f)). This exception permits circumvention, and the development of technological means for such circumvention, by a person who has lawfully obtained a right to use a copy of a computer program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing elements of the program necessary to achieve interoperability with other programs, to the extent that such acts are permitted under copyright law.
PlayFair is needed to allow us to use the protected work in hardware that does not support the FairPlay encryption scheme. While I might not bet my life on that, it at least is a good place to start in challenging this (as well as in the case for DVD's).
I agree that is an interesting point. Especially since Drexel University is only ranked 22nd and it was the 1st college to have a campus wide wireless network in the nation... You can walk from the dorms to class with your laptop on and continuously connected and that was 4 years ago.
Patches should be well-tested, small, localized, reversible, and easy to install. Patches would also not require reboots, use consistent registration methods, include no new features, provide a consistent user experience, and support diverse deployment methods.
The world is falling apart!
That is what I am wondering as well. Supposedly, if their drivers are built to the X11 spec, then I would think they would be easy to port over without much trouble. If, however they have all kinds of hooks into XFree86 specific libraries, then there might be problems.
Notice that the 10-13% increase is in the 2 way system. Now that we have maxed out the FSB, above the 2 way system (i.e. 4 way or greater) since communications have already maxed out, you will not even see an increase in performance with the addition of more CPU's, as there simply isn't a way to get them the data for them to actually process anything. But on the other hand, the AMD opteron's will continue to gain performance with the addition of more CPU's and will gain more and more performance. The benchmarks were not completed in the 4 way systems simply because Intel was approx ~70-80% slower then the AMD. And at 8 way it would approximate the AMD to be 300-400% faster then the Intel simply because at that point Intel is not gaining anything for the additional processors beyond 2 when it maxed out the FSB while AMD is still getting 50-65% of the processing power of each new CPU that it adds on.
WWBBD as in What Would Brian Boitano Do. Seriously, what would Brian Boitano do? If I lived in South Park, he would probably kick some RIAA butt while doing a tripple toe loop, double axle combo. But I don't live in South Park, so I don't know.
Back to topic, I personally would look into some of the Russian sites previously mentioned here. Most countried have laws in place that force the copyrights to be recognized across borders so if you purchase it in one country legally, then it is legally bound in the other country as well. A while back there was a big discussion about some of these sites on/. and the overall consensus was that those songs would be legal in the US if you purchased them from some of those Russian sites, as those sites legally obtained the rights to distribute the content in accordance with Russian copyright laws.
Even though it works out to about $.90 an album, it is a legally obtained album. Most news networks/sites in the US will not cover this topic because many are fully or partly owned by many of the big media corporations, and they don't want you to know that you can do this legally.
The jist of the whole thing is that Intel's achitecture has a huge bottleneck in its FSB. All the processors share the same FSB and quickly max it out if there are more then 2 processors. So anyone building or buying systems with more then 2 processors will get much better performance out of an AMD opteron system then an Intel.
Just as the subject says. If you make an iso of it you can just mount it with the above command in linux and you will see it just like the dvd... You could then setup a small mysql database with all the different info like, title, genre, length, rating, ranking, path to mount point, etc., and then write up a little front end program (be it a website with php, or a java app), which allows you to sort/view/select the movie, and then calls the appropriate software dvd player to play the cooresponding dvd. Shouldn't be that hard, just time consuming to create the iso's and input the info into the database (well, not too time consuming if you only have stuff like title, and mount point, in the database table).
Of course it can be done. The XBox used an OS designed by Microsoft. All MS needs to do is write an emulator driver that reads the standard API that the games used and have functions that do the same or similar effect on the new ATI GPU. All they have to do is basically write all the function calls that were issued to the GPU.
This is not hard to do especially since EVERYTHING here is a "standard" for coding games on XBox and thus all graphic functions are fully documented on their API's and overview of thier output/result. Now if NVidia claims they have sole ownership to the API then we have a new ballgame, but usually this API is not owned by the graphics company (but this is a console, so I don't know for fact), but by the OS or Standard Group (i.e. DirectX, OpenGL, etc.).
There is nothing that says that their drivers must be GPL'ed (at least to my knowledge). They can still release free drivers, and as long as they do not use GPL'ed software and follow the licensing rules to creating software for the linux kernel, they should need to release the source code to the drivers.
Seriously, doesn't Intel even understand the GPL? I mean, I may be mistaken, but as long as they do not use GPL'ed software in their code and release drivers for the different kernel versions, there shouldn't be a problem.
Ok, here is the deal. Comcast has been sending these out over the last few months. There are several HUGE discussions ongoing right now at dslrating.com in these forums. (sorry, I don't have the time to find and link to them).
Basically the jist has been that the people they are sending these out to are ones that do not have an alternative source for broadband (or at least a "competitive source"). This is the only real trend that people have been able to discover. The other trend is that unless you SEVERLY DECREASE your downloads (i.e. basically pull out the plug from your connection for the next 3 weeks for 24 hours a day), you will most likely be terminated and/or forced to pay an additional fee and deal with their support people (well not really the support people but their violations people).
The main complaint is that they are advertizing as unlimited downloads, when in fact they mean "read your email and browse to cnn.com, and/or msnbc.com, but if you do anything else with your bandwidth you will be violating the TOS". But like I said, it seems to be targeted at areas that do not have alternatives like DSL or other cable modem broadband services (because they would definitly lose their customers in those areas).
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Anyway, I've been thinking of getting 2 more hard drives and adding them to my existing raid, but that would max out the space and probably exceede the load on my power supply (I am already out of 12V rails and have 3 splitters already powering different equipment).
Anyway it can't hurt especially if it saves me some space (you would be surprised how fast you can fill up 1/2 a terrabyte with video capturing).
I'm still trying to figure out your "4000 years" quote. It has always been my understanding that Christianity developed around 1900 years ago with the spreading of the Christian faith by Paul and Peter during the early 60-100 CE. Heck, the date we currently use is bassed of a rough calculation of the approximate year of the birth of Jesus, so its kind of hard for me to figure out how you have "4000 years into the past" for when Christianity started...
One thing to note is that origionally, Christianity was setup in such a way that there were very few "laws" and "rules" and it flourished as a result of not having any strict "rules". There was the belief in God, his son, and in life after death. Things all changed when the Roman Empire collapsed and anarchy ruled what was left of the known world, and the people turned to the "church" for leadership and created a vast power structure and law structure for ruling and controlling the known world. This is when things solidified into the "Roman Catholic Church", away from the origional ideas and non-structure of the early Christian teachings and belief system.
With that early power struggle, the repression of women was allowed to propogate. The very early Christian church had a very powerful leader, Mary Magdalin, who without her help, Christianity would most likely not exist today. But she fell the victim of the current belief of the time that women should not be allowed to be equals as men, and was summerily deified as a "whore to pity and forgive" for centuries.
Anyway, back on topic, Christianity itself has evolved several times over the 2000 years of its existiance, but there are some forms that have changed less then others. I do think that we will live to see the Roman Catholic Church allow women as priests and to allow priest to marry. These two changes would also be the only difference between the Roman Catholic Church and several others, allowing for the possibility of a reformation of those religions back into the Catholic Church. Yes, religion does change, it has to. Either it changes or society as a whole stagnates, as it is still contains a huge amount of power to guide people.
Even many colleges ban the 89 from their lower level math classes (and even some upper level classes as well), mainly because the 89 can do just about everything in Calc 1-4, Probability and Statistics, and several other math courses.
Anyway, if you can get a clearance then you are very much in demand. It costs around $50-200k for a company to get you a clearance (this is what it costs for the paperwork and background checks, with the costs ranging for the different levels of clearance), and that doesn't even gaurenty that you will even recieve a clearance. So, if you have an oppertunity of working for a place that will get you a clearance, it is in their interest to keep you as happy employee for at least a little while to make up for the huge investment they have already put into you (but take that with a grain of salt as well, since they will be putting up a large investment into you so it can be harder to get hired). But, once you have clearance, you have a VERY BIG TICKET item in negotiations with other companies that also require security clearances.
In any case, THIS IS EXEMPT! Read the DMCA under 6 exemptions:
2. Reverse engineering (section 1201(f)). This exception permits circumvention, and the development of technological means for such circumvention, by a person who has lawfully obtained a right to use a copy of a computer program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing elements of the program necessary to achieve interoperability with other programs, to the extent that such acts are permitted under copyright law.
PlayFair is needed to allow us to use the protected work in hardware that does not support the FairPlay encryption scheme. While I might not bet my life on that, it at least is a good place to start in challenging this (as well as in the case for DVD's).
Look again at that list, #33 is clearly Philadelphia, PA not #53 Memphis, TN...
I agree that is an interesting point. Especially since Drexel University is only ranked 22nd and it was the 1st college to have a campus wide wireless network in the nation... You can walk from the dorms to class with your laptop on and continuously connected and that was 4 years ago.
ever think to complain to the tcpdump developers who used snoop's interface as the basis for their interface :P
Personally I prefer Solaris's snoop. Linux has built in sniffers as well. And they are free (as in GPL).
Patches should be well-tested, small, localized, reversible, and easy to install. Patches would also not require reboots, use consistent registration methods, include no new features, provide a consistent user experience, and support diverse deployment methods. The world is falling apart!
That is what I am wondering as well. Supposedly, if their drivers are built to the X11 spec, then I would think they would be easy to port over without much trouble. If, however they have all kinds of hooks into XFree86 specific libraries, then there might be problems.
Notice that the 10-13% increase is in the 2 way system. Now that we have maxed out the FSB, above the 2 way system (i.e. 4 way or greater) since communications have already maxed out, you will not even see an increase in performance with the addition of more CPU's, as there simply isn't a way to get them the data for them to actually process anything. But on the other hand, the AMD opteron's will continue to gain performance with the addition of more CPU's and will gain more and more performance. The benchmarks were not completed in the 4 way systems simply because Intel was approx ~70-80% slower then the AMD. And at 8 way it would approximate the AMD to be 300-400% faster then the Intel simply because at that point Intel is not gaining anything for the additional processors beyond 2 when it maxed out the FSB while AMD is still getting 50-65% of the processing power of each new CPU that it adds on.
Back to topic, I personally would look into some of the Russian sites previously mentioned here. Most countried have laws in place that force the copyrights to be recognized across borders so if you purchase it in one country legally, then it is legally bound in the other country as well. A while back there was a big discussion about some of these sites on /. and the overall consensus was that those songs would be legal in the US if you purchased them from some of those Russian sites, as those sites legally obtained the rights to distribute the content in accordance with Russian copyright laws.
Even though it works out to about $.90 an album, it is a legally obtained album. Most news networks/sites in the US will not cover this topic because many are fully or partly owned by many of the big media corporations, and they don't want you to know that you can do this legally.
the 1980's 32lb "portable" computers. It even has 8 inches more screen and color graphics (let alone the greater then 64k memory).
When can I get my "Mr. Fusion" for my DeLorean?
The jist of the whole thing is that Intel's achitecture has a huge bottleneck in its FSB. All the processors share the same FSB and quickly max it out if there are more then 2 processors. So anyone building or buying systems with more then 2 processors will get much better performance out of an AMD opteron system then an Intel.
I mean what better timing then the day of the quarterly earnings report then to have the counter suit filed against SCO by whomever they try to sue :)
Just as the subject says. If you make an iso of it you can just mount it with the above command in linux and you will see it just like the dvd... You could then setup a small mysql database with all the different info like, title, genre, length, rating, ranking, path to mount point, etc., and then write up a little front end program (be it a website with php, or a java app), which allows you to sort/view/select the movie, and then calls the appropriate software dvd player to play the cooresponding dvd. Shouldn't be that hard, just time consuming to create the iso's and input the info into the database (well, not too time consuming if you only have stuff like title, and mount point, in the database table).
Of course it can be done. The XBox used an OS designed by Microsoft. All MS needs to do is write an emulator driver that reads the standard API that the games used and have functions that do the same or similar effect on the new ATI GPU. All they have to do is basically write all the function calls that were issued to the GPU. This is not hard to do especially since EVERYTHING here is a "standard" for coding games on XBox and thus all graphic functions are fully documented on their API's and overview of thier output/result. Now if NVidia claims they have sole ownership to the API then we have a new ballgame, but usually this API is not owned by the graphics company (but this is a console, so I don't know for fact), but by the OS or Standard Group (i.e. DirectX, OpenGL, etc.).
There is nothing that says that their drivers must be GPL'ed (at least to my knowledge). They can still release free drivers, and as long as they do not use GPL'ed software and follow the licensing rules to creating software for the linux kernel, they should need to release the source code to the drivers.
Seriously, doesn't Intel even understand the GPL? I mean, I may be mistaken, but as long as they do not use GPL'ed software in their code and release drivers for the different kernel versions, there shouldn't be a problem.
Yes :) That is it, sorry I did mean dslreports.com (I'm at work still, and didn't have my bookmarks available). Thanks for the link.
Ok, here is the deal. Comcast has been sending these out over the last few months. There are several HUGE discussions ongoing right now at dslrating.com in these forums. (sorry, I don't have the time to find and link to them). Basically the jist has been that the people they are sending these out to are ones that do not have an alternative source for broadband (or at least a "competitive source"). This is the only real trend that people have been able to discover. The other trend is that unless you SEVERLY DECREASE your downloads (i.e. basically pull out the plug from your connection for the next 3 weeks for 24 hours a day), you will most likely be terminated and/or forced to pay an additional fee and deal with their support people (well not really the support people but their violations people). The main complaint is that they are advertizing as unlimited downloads, when in fact they mean "read your email and browse to cnn.com, and/or msnbc.com, but if you do anything else with your bandwidth you will be violating the TOS". But like I said, it seems to be targeted at areas that do not have alternatives like DSL or other cable modem broadband services (because they would definitly lose their customers in those areas).
They mainly focused on the price/performance ratio as it is truely a killer to everything out there.
Link to Anandtech Article
Basically, they are predicting the death of the AMD FX51 as the 3400+ has equal or better performance and MUCH cheaper.
Just make sure you don't work or live in Philadelphia, otherwise the Philly Wage taxes will more then eat up any money saved with this scholarship.