According to the modem howto analog modems use shifts in phase and amplitude (I said frequency) to encode the data.
56k is a digital signal where the modem tries to synchronize itself with the 8kHz 8 bit SLIC (serial line interface circuit) on the telephone company's equipment. As I mentioned before, the phone company may use the least significant bit for in-band management, so you can only count on 56kbps instead of 64kbps.
1. They modulate multiple bits in a single tone (yeah, it probably doesn't count as "real" compression)
A modem working in analog mode shifts the frequency and phase of the carrier. If I recall, there are eight combinations of these shifts and that allows about 3 bits of data to be modulated onto each event. This has nothing to do with the DTMF (dial tone multiple frequency) signals.
The 56k limit comes from the fact that the phone company's A/D converter is 8 bits wide with an 8kHz sampling period. The phone company also has the option of using your least significant bit for in-band traffic management (also called bit-robbing). This leaves you with 7 bits at 8kHz = 56k.
The modem is not the problem. It's the phone company and their standards.
Besides, modems already do this in analog mode (33.6k). The modem shifts the phase an frequency of the carrier signal to cram 30k of data into a 4kHz bandwidth. There's only so far that you can go.
ADSL modems are a different beast entirely and do not use the POTS (plain old telephone service) circuitry. They have a splitter that sends POTS traffic to the POTS circuit and the ADSL signals to an ADSL modem. They use the same wire, but they are separate signals to the phone company.
Unconfirmed sources say that a confidential source, while taking a shit, heard an anonymous executive talking about a meeting with a person who will be unnamed (possibly Jenna Jameson), and at that meeting, the discussion was about the dire financial situation of the company ( the word 'fucked' was heard repeatedly ).
Or maybe someone was commenting about a movie he rented last night.
Most likely it contains previous packet data, which has a higher chance of something sensitive (like login information). But it would still be like putting together a puzzle that is a picture of a broken puzzle.
I think Wine will allow the software to see the underlying hardware. Since most of these activation schemes use things like CPUID and network card M.A.C. addresses, TurboTax would still see a hardware change if you changed machines.
VMWare emulates an Intel chipset motherboard so no matter where you run it, the VMWare machine always looks the same. That's why you can run any operating system on it (not just Windows).
As always, I could be wrong.
However, I read the additional article that Micheal provided and according to Intuit, all you need to do is to keep your original activation number and you will be able to install TurboTax on any new machine. I don't know what this will solve, since casual pirates simply need to distribute the activation number with the copied disk.
I had put in a little blurb at the bottom, but I lazily put it inside angle brackets and the HTML parser tossed it. Funny, since I remembered to use the '<'; and '>'; in the 'later' tag. I gotta get some Dew.
Besides, I don't think anyone would interpret a scripted dialog as an original work on slashdot. I know I certianly don't.
Lead : One, two, three, four, five? My god! That's the same combination I have on my luggage! Retract our challenge and change the combination on my luggage!
I myself would avoid unions because it seems to encourage the "lifetime employment" mentality. If I do not like who I am working for, I'll find another job and if my employer wants to get rid of me (for whatever reason), that's fine. I'll find another job elsewhere where I am wanted. Using this logic, the role of the union should shift to more of a support group for professionals by providing services like training and employment services. I don't like to see companies strongarmed into hiring only union labor. They should be free to hire as they see fit. They should also be able to fire/lay off/retire employees without having to get into lengthy discussions with the union.
Right you are. There are several effects of the 'damn hole' that do the killing.
1) Bleeding - the bullet destroys blood vessels causing internal and external bleeding. This causes blood pressure to drop to the point that the bodies vital organs do not have any blood moving through them. Hitting organs with a large amount of blood vessels (liver, kidneys, lungs) causes this effect to be quite pronounced.
2) Neurological Damage - If critical nervous tissue (brain, spinal cord) that regulates body function is destroyed, then the body simply stops working.
3) Poisoning - related to the bleeding. Puncturing the gastrointestinal tract will release toxins and bacteria into the body cavity.
This is a nonauthoritave list compiled from watching the Discovery channel.
NASA should contract a PR agency to release "information" about how the crackpots are really funded by the CIA in order to draw attention away from the fact that the moon has been occupied since the mid 70's. The CIA, and their cohorts the NSA, have maintained a super-secret observational post and with budgets on the increase they are expanding their capabilites to include a laser which sends subliminal signals to anyone who looks at the moon thereby reducing the resistance to American imperial business units (Disney, RIAA, MPAA, etc) and completing the cultural unification of ze world!
Intelligent life may very well be out there, but it doesn't need to be technilogical. There are a good many human cultures that did not advance and were fairly static with regards to development. Then there are the other species who posess a high degree of intelligence, yet lack any technical ability.
My guess is that we are the first technilogical species.
I believe that lawyers are the main proponents of pseudo-science (if it suits their cause). The lawyer calling enhancement pseudo-science is just good defense lawyering (generate doubt). There are plenty of respected scientists that use enhancement to do their jobs. Ask anyone in astronomy if they only look at the raw images.
All that needs to be done is to document exactly what filters or methods were applied. As long as the originals are maintained intact and anyone can reproduce the results, then it should be legal.
Getting up on the stand and saying "I enhanced it and got this" is unacceptable.
Since we've never fought a large war in an urban setting
I suggest you go down to the local VFW, where you will find some WWII, Korea, and Vietnam vets who will disagree with you.
The principles for urban combat have not changed, even with all our technology, it is still bloody and slow. There may be some new techniques, but the basic operation is still "search the buildings and kill/capture/incapacitate the enemy".
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We're both wrong.
According to the modem howto analog modems use shifts in phase and amplitude (I said frequency) to encode the data.
56k is a digital signal where the modem tries to synchronize itself with the 8kHz 8 bit SLIC (serial line interface circuit) on the telephone company's equipment. As I mentioned before, the phone company may use the least significant bit for in-band management, so you can only count on 56kbps instead of 64kbps.
1. They modulate multiple bits in a single tone (yeah, it probably doesn't count as "real" compression)
A modem working in analog mode shifts the frequency and phase of the carrier. If I recall, there are eight combinations of these shifts and that allows about 3 bits of data to be modulated onto each event. This has nothing to do with the DTMF (dial tone multiple frequency) signals.
The 56k limit comes from the fact that the phone company's A/D converter is 8 bits wide with an 8kHz sampling period. The phone company also has the option of using your least significant bit for in-band traffic management (also called bit-robbing). This leaves you with 7 bits at 8kHz = 56k.
The modem is not the problem. It's the phone company and their standards.
Besides, modems already do this in analog mode (33.6k). The modem shifts the phase an frequency of the carrier signal to cram 30k of data into a 4kHz bandwidth. There's only so far that you can go.
ADSL modems are a different beast entirely and do not use the POTS (plain old telephone service) circuitry. They have a splitter that sends POTS traffic to the POTS circuit and the ADSL signals to an ADSL modem. They use the same wire, but they are separate signals to the phone company.
I think the poster was implying that the new hybrid fuel would not be used in airplanes, not that jet fuel could not be used for rocket applications.
In other words
liquid rocket fuel can = jet fuel
solid rocket fuel != jet fuel (hard to pump into a turbine).
It's probably 780,000 lines when the assembly code is viewed.
Unconfirmed sources say that a confidential source, while taking a shit, heard an anonymous executive talking about a meeting with a person who will be unnamed (possibly Jenna Jameson), and at that meeting, the discussion was about the dire financial situation of the company ( the word 'fucked' was heard repeatedly ).
Or maybe someone was commenting about a movie he rented last night.
Don't go to incompetent fools in search of a deal.
Most likely it contains previous packet data, which has a higher chance of something sensitive (like login information). But it would still be like putting together a puzzle that is a picture of a broken puzzle.
I think Wine will allow the software to see the underlying hardware. Since most of these activation schemes use things like CPUID and network card M.A.C. addresses, TurboTax would still see a hardware change if you changed machines.
VMWare emulates an Intel chipset motherboard so no matter where you run it, the VMWare machine always looks the same. That's why you can run any operating system on it (not just Windows).
As always, I could be wrong.
However, I read the additional article that Micheal provided and according to Intuit, all you need to do is to keep your original activation number and you will be able to install TurboTax on any new machine. I don't know what this will solve, since casual pirates simply need to distribute the activation number with the copied disk.
Here's what I do for nazi software - Run it in a VMWare virtual machine. As far as the program is concerned it is running on the same computer.
The only trick is you need to have VMWare ($300).
I had put in a little blurb at the bottom, but I lazily put it inside angle brackets and the HTML parser tossed it. Funny, since I remembered to use the '<'; and '>'; in the 'later' tag. I gotta get some Dew.
Besides, I don't think anyone would interpret a scripted dialog as an original work on slashdot. I know I certianly don't.
Code monkey 1: I found the combination!
Code monkey 2 : What's the combination?
Code monkey 1: One, two, three, four, five.
Code monkey 2 : One, two, three, four, five? That's the combination that an idiot has on his luggage.
<later>
Neo Lead Developer : Have you got the combination?
Code monkey 1 : Yes, sir. It's 'one, two, three, four, five'.
Lead : One, two, three, four, five? My god! That's the same combination I have on my luggage! Retract our challenge and change the combination on my luggage!
I myself would avoid unions because it seems to encourage the "lifetime employment" mentality. If I do not like who I am working for, I'll find another job and if my employer wants to get rid of me (for whatever reason), that's fine. I'll find another job elsewhere where I am wanted. Using this logic, the role of the union should shift to more of a support group for professionals by providing services like training and employment services. I don't like to see companies strongarmed into hiring only union labor. They should be free to hire as they see fit. They should also be able to fire/lay off/retire employees without having to get into lengthy discussions with the union.
Right you are. There are several effects of the 'damn hole' that do the killing.
1) Bleeding - the bullet destroys blood vessels causing internal and external bleeding. This causes blood pressure to drop to the point that the bodies vital organs do not have any blood moving through them. Hitting organs with a large amount of blood vessels (liver, kidneys, lungs) causes this effect to be quite pronounced.
2) Neurological Damage - If critical nervous tissue (brain, spinal cord) that regulates body function is destroyed, then the body simply stops working.
3) Poisoning - related to the bleeding. Puncturing the gastrointestinal tract will release toxins and bacteria into the body cavity.
This is a nonauthoritave list compiled from watching the Discovery channel.
If you are making a TV show, the graphics can be added in post-production.
Read number 5!
NASA should contract a PR agency to release "information" about how the crackpots are really funded by the CIA in order to draw attention away from the fact that the moon has been occupied since the mid 70's. The CIA, and their cohorts the NSA, have maintained a super-secret observational post and with budgets on the increase they are expanding their capabilites to include a laser which sends subliminal signals to anyone who looks at the moon thereby reducing the resistance to American imperial business units (Disney, RIAA, MPAA, etc) and completing the cultural unification of ze world!
Intelligent life may very well be out there, but it doesn't need to be technilogical. There are a good many human cultures that did not advance and were fairly static with regards to development. Then there are the other species who posess a high degree of intelligence, yet lack any technical ability.
My guess is that we are the first technilogical species.
Why am I better than that guy over there just because I got to the check-in counter 5 minutes sooner?
Why am I better than that guy over there just because I got to the travel agent 5 minutes sooner?
Seriously, what difference does it make? Is it really going to end your life if you can't sit in 15C?
I believe that lawyers are the main proponents of pseudo-science (if it suits their cause). The lawyer calling enhancement pseudo-science is just good defense lawyering (generate doubt). There are plenty of respected scientists that use enhancement to do their jobs. Ask anyone in astronomy if they only look at the raw images.
All that needs to be done is to document exactly what filters or methods were applied. As long as the originals are maintained intact and anyone can reproduce the results, then it should be legal.
Getting up on the stand and saying "I enhanced it and got this" is unacceptable.
One button mouse masterstroke to be followed by one button keyboard
Joe: What does the one button do?
Salesman : Whoa! I'm getting in over my head. Here's the number for technical support.
Since we've never fought a large war in an urban setting
I suggest you go down to the local VFW, where you will find some WWII, Korea, and Vietnam vets who will disagree with you.
The principles for urban combat have not changed, even with all our technology, it is still bloody and slow. There may be some new techniques, but the basic operation is still "search the buildings and kill/capture/incapacitate the enemy".
I'm fairly certain that this is true, though I can't quite remember the name. Mostik?
I thought Netscape was developed from Mosaic which came from The National Center for Supercomputing Applications. But I could be wrong.
All somebody has to do is post a ftp://chips.nasa.gov/pub
link.
It may become the orbital equivalant of goatse.cx, plagueing scientists forever.