The current BluRay discs are encoded with MPEG-2, possibly on a 25 GB single layer disc.
Wow, now that I didn't know. This is the exact same format as DVD. I wonder why they haven't started using H.264 yet? Maybe a processing capability issue? In certain ways I would rather see BluRay win, simply because they are using standardised video format (except the VC-1). VC-1 is Microsoft owned and not much in the way of a published standard.
Actually, there is a good reason why 'and' and 'but' aren't considered well placed at the start of a sentence: they are joining words. If you place them at the beginning of the sentence you are no longer joining. Examples:
1. ok: I have a car. I have a bicycle. 2. ok: I have a car and a bicycle. 3. not ok: I have a car. And I have a bicycle. 4. not ok: And I have a car.
5. ok: I have a car. I can't drive. 6. ok: I have a car, but I can't drive. 7. not ok: I have a car. But I can't drive. 8. not ok: But I can't drive.
The problem with items 3 and 7 is that you would have been better off droping the full-stop (period). In items 4 and 8 there is no idea to join.
I mean...how long would it take a non-majority-party voter who isn't happy with the way that the voting in his/her precinct is going to decide to cause trouble by doing a little "non-violent protest" when alone in the booth?
Fair enough. Possible solutions:
- paper trail:)
- tamper alarm
- have the whole unit under a pane of plastic, to prevent voter tamper. The other two solutions are organiser tamper oriented.
Insurance takes the risk of one individual and spreads it across an entire population.
Well that is the general approach and should be seen more of a community bank, where the idea is less people will withdraw large sums, than people putting in small sums. Its also why there is so much small print. If a situation happens which affects more than a fair percentage, and it isn't accounted for in the contract, then they get hurt, so they compensate by increasing the insurance fee (either indivually or globaly) and add a clause if it is likely to happen too often.
For example, if they covered flood damage and discovered that a small percentage of people kept on claiming on yearly damage then they either put up the fee for this group or stop covering them. They are in the business of risk management, which is not the same thing as being in the business of being totally stupid.
Given taxi meters and electricity meters both have tamper seals, you would have thought that these would have visible tamper seals as well. If in doubt you could even have two tamper seals: one from Diebold and another from the voting commission, in order to ensure that both parties are satisfied with the state of the machine.
Newton enjoys over 30 hours of continuous battery life, compared to the Q1's 2.5 hours.
Actually this is a really important. You don't want to be finding yourself a power socket to charge your PDA every two and half hours. Gray scale screens are usually very high quality in commparison to colour screens, with the omission of colour.
The entire revue is probably biased, but the general gist is that if you think of how your device will be used you will be better off. Trying to fudge a solution may provide a working solution, but not necessarily one which is worth using. The fact that the Newton is still being using by people today is a testiment to how well it was thought out - what was against it were: size, price and the fact it was too early to market for most.
I suppose you could also add a frame to every page and then sell advertising space. Since you probably know a bit about your neighbour it is much easier make targeted advertising. Of course you could always make the top frame read:
"This is borrowed bandwidth. Have you thought about getting your own connection."
Oh and make sure it is flashing. Actually you could make it so that the whole content flash. Now that would be annoying.
My provider prevents me from sending to SMTP ports outside of my domain, for better or for worse. This got me thinking:
- would it be possible to selectivley block ports?
- provide an ISP based UI, where you could unblock ports based on your account?
- if both above are doable, what over head would this provide?
- maybe provide different default configurations based on the type of user you are (technophobe, newbie, average home user, business user, power user, etc)
- how well would such a solution go down?
Sure you could ask everyone to install the equivalent of zone alarms, but this is not always going to happen.
The Mac should be able to find printers shared with SMB. Otherwise take a look at sharing the printer as LPR on your PC, and then using the "Printer Setup Utility" to access it.
A quick look seems to indicate that this is a GDI based printer, and therefore does not support Postscript. For this reason I took a look for "CUP" & "GDI" and came up with this:
Sounds like a bad policy. Cameras are small enough that it's probably trivial for someone who WANTS to take illicit pictures to sneak one in, anyway. So they are penalizing folks with camera phones and camera-equipped laptops to try to stop something they won't be able to stop *anyway*.
This why cameras on computer should be equipped with manual sliders to cover them. The idea being you can be confident that it is not seeing anything.
Tell us your printer model and I am sure someone will point you in the right direction:) You'd be surprised what works, even if it isn't officially supported.
This is where I like the 'wind turbine' unit of measure. How many wind turbines would we need to deal with an increasing energy demand. The truth is we consume far more energy than we need to. While on person using energy doesn't seem like much, a population of 500 000 is.
I have been to China and have been able to buy myself a portable VCD player, that would accept regular rechargable batteries. You could then slide a switch on the back to indicate that there are rechargab;e batteries in there and it would recharge them when plugged in. I am sure that this solution could be applied to the Wii-remote.
Either way, it would be nice if they were put into the public domain. It doesn't matter whether the resultant format is DVD or onlin MP4. That way anyone could copy them if they wanted.
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I voted for Kodos.
:)
Well, kudos to you
The current BluRay discs are encoded with MPEG-2, possibly on a 25 GB single layer disc.
Wow, now that I didn't know. This is the exact same format as DVD. I wonder why they haven't started using H.264 yet? Maybe a processing capability issue? In certain ways I would rather see BluRay win, simply because they are using standardised video format (except the VC-1). VC-1 is Microsoft owned and not much in the way of a published standard.
It would be interesting to ask the publisher why they varied the content so much.
You'll probably find that the issue is with the tools used to develop the content or one was rushed?
Better image quality. Honestly I am perfectly happy with DVD quality, therefore I will be saving my money for something better.
/. favourite: more DRM, oh and they both still have region encoding.
You forget the
Truth be told if it wasn't for the region encoding, I wouldn't have a good reason to using solutions that get round the DRM.
Actually, there is a good reason why 'and' and 'but' aren't considered well placed at the start of a sentence: they are joining words. If you place them at the beginning of the sentence you are no longer joining. Examples:
1. ok: I have a car. I have a bicycle.
2. ok: I have a car and a bicycle.
3. not ok: I have a car. And I have a bicycle.
4. not ok: And I have a car.
5. ok: I have a car. I can't drive.
6. ok: I have a car, but I can't drive.
7. not ok: I have a car. But I can't drive.
8. not ok: But I can't drive.
The problem with items 3 and 7 is that you would have been better off droping the full-stop (period). In items 4 and 8 there is no idea to join.
I mean...how long would it take a non-majority-party voter who isn't happy with the way that the voting in his/her precinct is going to decide to cause trouble by doing a little "non-violent protest" when alone in the booth?
:)
Fair enough. Possible solutions:
- paper trail
- tamper alarm
- have the whole unit under a pane of plastic, to prevent voter tamper. The other two solutions are organiser tamper oriented.
Insurance takes the risk of one individual and spreads it across an entire population.
Well that is the general approach and should be seen more of a community bank, where the idea is less people will withdraw large sums, than people putting in small sums. Its also why there is so much small print. If a situation happens which affects more than a fair percentage, and it isn't accounted for in the contract, then they get hurt, so they compensate by increasing the insurance fee (either indivually or globaly) and add a clause if it is likely to happen too often.
For example, if they covered flood damage and discovered that a small percentage of people kept on claiming on yearly damage then they either put up the fee for this group or stop covering them. They are in the business of risk management, which is not the same thing as being in the business of being totally stupid.
Given taxi meters and electricity meters both have tamper seals, you would have thought that these would have visible tamper seals as well. If in doubt you could even have two tamper seals: one from Diebold and another from the voting commission, in order to ensure that both parties are satisfied with the state of the machine.
Newton enjoys over 30 hours of continuous battery life, compared to the Q1's 2.5 hours.
Actually this is a really important. You don't want to be finding yourself a power socket to charge your PDA every two and half hours. Gray scale screens are usually very high quality in commparison to colour screens, with the omission of colour.
The entire revue is probably biased, but the general gist is that if you think of how your device will be used you will be better off. Trying to fudge a solution may provide a working solution, but not necessarily one which is worth using. The fact that the Newton is still being using by people today is a testiment to how well it was thought out - what was against it were: size, price and the fact it was too early to market for most.
I suppose you could also add a frame to every page and then sell advertising space. Since you probably know a bit about your neighbour it is much easier make targeted advertising. Of course you could always make the top frame read:
"This is borrowed bandwidth. Have you thought about getting your own connection."
Oh and make sure it is flashing. Actually you could make it so that the whole content flash. Now that would be annoying.
We actually did something in the spirit of cooperation with other countries.
;)
I am not sure whether that is more amazing or the fact there is acceptance that there are nations beyond the frontiers of the USA
Either way this is a good thing.
MAC OS is cool and all, but is this really necessary?
:)
Too early for existential type questions. I think I need my coffee
My provider prevents me from sending to SMTP ports outside of my domain, for better or for worse. This got me thinking:
- would it be possible to selectivley block ports?
- provide an ISP based UI, where you could unblock ports based on your account?
- if both above are doable, what over head would this provide?
- maybe provide different default configurations based on the type of user you are (technophobe, newbie, average home user, business user, power user, etc)
- how well would such a solution go down?
Sure you could ask everyone to install the equivalent of zone alarms, but this is not always going to happen.
The Mac should be able to find printers shared with SMB. Otherwise take a look at sharing the printer as LPR on your PC, and then using the "Printer Setup Utility" to access it.
1 4085/Samsung-ML-1710-Printer-Driver-Mac-OS-X-10.3. html
A quick look seems to indicate that this is a GDI based printer, and therefore does not support Postscript. For this reason I took a look for "CUP" & "GDI" and came up with this:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/samsung-gdi/
Another possibility, lookimg for "ML-1710" and "OS X", was this:
http://printers.free-driver-download.com/Samsung/
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3
Let me know if you get it working.
Sounds like a bad policy. Cameras are small enough that it's probably trivial for someone who WANTS to take illicit pictures to sneak one in, anyway. So they are penalizing folks with camera phones and camera-equipped laptops to try to stop something they won't be able to stop *anyway*.
This why cameras on computer should be equipped with manual sliders to cover them. The idea being you can be confident that it is not seeing anything.
Tell us your printer model and I am sure someone will point you in the right direction :) You'd be surprised what works, even if it isn't officially supported.
I hope Apple will also be forced to allow you to use other web servers, other than .Mac, when publishing stuff with their iLife software.
This is where I like the 'wind turbine' unit of measure. How many wind turbines would we need to deal with an increasing energy demand. The truth is we consume far more energy than we need to. While on person using energy doesn't seem like much, a population of 500 000 is.
Given that the batteries are in the back...
;) Okay, make that someone rear-ending your car then.
Just being picky now?
I would hate to see the devestation after a head on collision.
I have been to China and have been able to buy myself a portable VCD player, that would accept regular rechargable batteries. You could then slide a switch on the back to indicate that there are rechargab;e batteries in there and it would recharge them when plugged in. I am sure that this solution could be applied to the Wii-remote.
Either way, it would be nice if they were put into the public domain. It doesn't matter whether the resultant format is DVD or onlin MP4. That way anyone could copy them if they wanted.
Sounds like someone needs to take these tapes and copy them to DVD, if they are found again.
How about another application--- ;)
Discs that "auto expire" if not kept in the fridge
I thought we already decided with the original DivX that this was not such a good idea.
Your username: 192939495969798999
If that's your username, I can't imagine how crazy your password is!
Looking at it, it is actually very simple: incrementing digits, spaced by the number nine.