I would have thought this to, but what got my attention was the way it handles missing data. The large black boxes are not solid, but have blurry edges. A lossless codec wouldn't normally have that.
Most of the images we see from Mars surface are of the horizon. I don't believe there ever has been an image of the full Mars sky from the surface. Perhaps the sky would be more of a blue colour looking directly up? There would be a lot less dust to give it the usual pinky/red colour.
I know at sunrise/sunset the air around the sun can appear blue.
I'd say the biggest limit on the size of the images is the bandwidth to Earth. The links are getting faster but still nothing compared to a typical DSL line.
One thing I've been wondering, and maybe someone out there knows more. What kind of image compression are they using?
You can buy 4 250Gb drives in the UK for about 648.60 GBP (1,188.69 USD). Not much cheaper but you'd have the 'I did it my way' geek factor! Plus I'd think SATA is a faster than Firewire? For drives that large your gonna need all the speed you can get!
Where this devices really wins tho is moving large amounts of data. A few of these would be great for replacing tape backups!
Now with new digital media, we may find ourselves having to change formats every 6 months!
The good thing about digital audio is old formats are 'transparently' supported. You don't have to go and re-encode (urh!) all your old files. Get the plugin for whatever player you use and bingo.
Anyway MP3 will be around for many many years to come. As will Vorbis. Infact the only files that may be unplayable in the near future are proprietary ones or those with DRM.
I'm pretty sure the highs get well above -40 C in the temperate and equitorial areas.
Apparently it can get up to 25 degrees celsius. We'd be lucky to get that during summer in some northern parts of the UK:) Tho even in the warmest parts of Mars it still get VERY cold at night.
Mars does have a blue atmosphere but there is normally enough dust to give it it's pinkish colour.
During sunrise/sunset however the air around the sun becomes blue. The light is traveling through much more atmosphere so gets a deeper blue colour, and also the dust particles are reflecting the light away from the viewer (your seeing the dark side of the particles) so the blue has a better chance of getting through.
Perhaps now those foolishly idiotic silly ideas about per-email charges to reduce spam will go away now.
This is a much better solution! Sure it's not perfect, but it's a start. And it's not some silly proprietary system like MS would (will? It is inevitable...) force on there users.
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I know it is a lossless format
I would have thought this to, but what got my attention was the way it handles missing data. The large black boxes are not solid, but have blurry edges. A lossless codec wouldn't normally have that.
Most of the images we see from Mars surface are of the horizon. I don't believe there ever has been an image of the full Mars sky from the surface. Perhaps the sky would be more of a blue colour looking directly up? There would be a lot less dust to give it the usual pinky/red colour.
I know at sunrise/sunset the air around the sun can appear blue.
I'd say the biggest limit on the size of the images is the bandwidth to Earth. The links are getting faster but still nothing compared to a typical DSL line.
One thing I've been wondering, and maybe someone out there knows more. What kind of image compression are they using?
the LaCie probably isn't a bad little doo-hickey for making backups of that terabyte array
:)
Plus it looks good! Not a technical reason but still a good one
You can buy 4 250Gb drives in the UK for about 648.60 GBP (1,188.69 USD). Not much cheaper but you'd have the 'I did it my way' geek factor! Plus I'd think SATA is a faster than Firewire? For drives that large your gonna need all the speed you can get!
Where this devices really wins tho is moving large amounts of data. A few of these would be great for replacing tape backups!
Hey SCO, did you seen what we did with mad cows in the UK? Nuff said!
Magnetoplasmadynamic was actually a word? And why didn't Piccard ever use it?
... wrong movie!
Well he *almost* did. Wait
Now with new digital media, we may find ourselves having to change formats every 6 months!
The good thing about digital audio is old formats are 'transparently' supported. You don't have to go and re-encode (urh!) all your old files. Get the plugin for whatever player you use and bingo.
Anyway MP3 will be around for many many years to come. As will Vorbis. Infact the only files that may be unplayable in the near future are proprietary ones or those with DRM.
Good point! For expensive products like this that is understandable.
Thanks!
with different release dates for each region
Why do companies insist on doing that? Surly they'd make more money with a single release date? Would make advertising a lot simpler.
I'm pretty sure the highs get well above -40 C in the temperate and equitorial areas.
:) Tho even in the warmest parts of Mars it still get VERY cold at night.
Apparently it can get up to 25 degrees celsius. We'd be lucky to get that during summer in some northern parts of the UK
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And I thought goatse was disgusting...
I guess his site should be renamed Gatese.
AAC code is open but the format is a patent minefield.
:-)
WMA is completly closed apart from some reverse engineering work recently. It most likely is also a patent minefield.
So far Vorbis is the only truly open format for music. (Unless you count MOD
At the moment they happen to be the LEDs on there router!
That's nothing. Amazon UK has been taking pre-orders for Duke Nukem Forever!
You do know there is a native Linux version of Duke3D now? Google for it. I'm running it here and it works really well.
Mars does have a blue atmosphere but there is normally enough dust to give it it's pinkish colour.
During sunrise/sunset however the air around the sun becomes blue. The light is traveling through much more atmosphere so gets a deeper blue colour, and also the dust particles are reflecting the light away from the viewer (your seeing the dark side of the particles) so the blue has a better chance of getting through.
Here's a good example from the pathfinder lander.
Oh wait! C# only runs on one operating system. Can you name any other development languages that only run on ONE OS, boys and girls? Neither can I.
... that didn't even run properly on the Amiga.
Amiga BASIC?
Wait
Does this support non-Vorbis Ogg codecs such as Speex or FLAC?
Perhaps now those foolishly idiotic silly ideas about per-email charges to reduce spam will go away now.
This is a much better solution! Sure it's not perfect, but it's a start. And it's not some silly proprietary system like MS would (will? It is inevitable...) force on there users.
The Canopy Group sounds supsciously like Umbrella Corporation. -- suddenly I feel very tired
Very tired? You didn't get bitten by anyone today did you?
These USB flash drives will probably take that role. No DRM, moving parts and they are quite fast and most importantly they are fairly cheap.
:)
I'd prefer Compact Flash to become more of a standard myself, but hey what you gonna do?
Microsoft announces Windows 98TE
Terrible Edition? I think they renamed that to Windows Millenium at the last moment.
In that case they can stick it up their arse
... stick it ... oh nevermind)
Nice pun!
(Memory stick
Isn't that what the original Playstation was called? Rather odd choice of name.