You just _know_ the reds have one up there, just waiting for the chance to read the private.. oh, wait, they'll just look over your shoulder instead.. much cheaper.. never mind:)
Well, if you don't like it and don't care about the 'extra' features (and assuming your box isn't set up to die a hideous death if it can't phone home) go get a $30 or so powered cable amplifier or splitter at radio shack or equivalent. They're commonly used in setups where you inject your own programming into the house cable system, and don't want to annoy the cable company or the neighbors. Cheap and effective.
The "Terminators" that produce sterile offsping would be more effective than the sterile ones, and of course it's possible. e.g. the donkey is a hybrid of a mule and a horse, and donkeys are sterile. So a mate of a Terminator and the normal moths would produce several sterile offspring down the line, meaning you'd only have to buy fewer Terminators to reduce a given population of moths.
<Obnitpick>Horse + donkey = mule. Mules are (mostly) sterile.</Obnitpick>
Well, I studied this for the software CC decoder I'm writing. CC data is on Line 21 of one field, EDS (V-chip, time signals, other stuff) is on the other. CC data contains control codes, that specify what 'channel' the CC data is. CC1 is the normal 'captions' channel. CC2 is occasionally used for bilingual CC, but I have never personally seen it. The URLs and game show data is often on TEXT2. The peak throughput (disregarding necessary control codes) is 60 Bps (7-bit text, even parity). CC data is 'bursty', but I doubt they replace the signal when not used, as there is a good chance of it detecting garbage data. Most likely they use some of the other lines of the VBI, like the 'Internet-over-TV' channels do.
Actually, Texas WAS a Sovereign (sp?) nation for a few years after the colonists pulled away from Mexico. After that they were annexed into the United States by request.
Have you ever worked on a machine with 2 or more scsi controllers, and 512 MB+ of RAM? This is being worked on in relation to their beowulf cluster; believe me, it takes the nodes in our cluster at least 2 minutes to complete a RAM check and a basic bus scan (which is done a 2nd time when the SCSI module is loaded). And they are planning on upgrading the boxes to a GIG apiece.. argh.
(Oh, and moderators: YES, beowulf clusters are on topic in this article:) )
Well, those types of ads are the ones I tune out. Like that scooter whatsit that people were yakking about, or those drug commercials that don't even say what they treat..
The GATOS programs (xatitv et al) are no longer in active development. The current focus is on an Xfree 4.02 Xv module (hopefully to be included in 4.10). Overlay / colorspace conversion, and view-only TV input currently works. I'm working on CC and capture, but intermittently.
Here's another example were *much* effort was wasted by a very popular program: The Gold-making. For centuries many, many people spend their whole live while searching for a simple way to turn some cheap material into gold. Only modern science has showed, that this just can't work.
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Chemically. It's possible with neutron bombardment or fusion of some lighter elements, but nowhere near efficient for something relatively common as gold. However, it is how the extremely low-half life isotopes are made.</ObNitPick>
It's called INSULATION. Put some R-20/R-25 in the wall cavity, and you'll cut back on both noise and thermal leakage.
Besides, if you're that worried about it, look at TLC. They have a show they run every so often (gets good ratings, I guess) about human sexuality (probably showed it on Valentines day, so it may be a while). They have a thermal view of a couple at one point. That's shot using professional cameras and lenses at close range. Figure a wall or two in the way, and all you get is a big blob, if that.
Well, the problem is the federation is only cashless when it is convienient:) Notice all of a sudden when characters suddenly have a stash of gold-plated latinum for gambling or something, and don't get me started on the books (grr.. gave up on those YEARS ago).
Why not? If you can go to any Best Buy (or whatever), plunk down a few hundred bucks, and walk out without signing any kind of contract, what is wrong with it?
And I personally question the fine print on the cards. If you don't sign any contracts at the time of purchase, and there is nothing on the outer box indicating otherwise, then I then OWN the contents of the box. Doesn't mean I can redistribute the IP in it, but it is then my physical property, I can hack (either with an axe or a computer) it, spin, fold, mutilate, or remove tags all I want.
The point is NOT to make your own CPU. At the hobbyist level that IS out of the pricerange. The point is to make designs available that multiple people may want to take advantage of, especially if the group is small enough that commercial development is not feasible (or if it is, only at very high prices because of low volumes).
My current project is an example of that. I'm working on a cockpit for a model airplane controller. The model airplane controls are usually just two sticks and some buttons on a standard radio. I'm interfacing full rudder pedals, and throttles to the controller via microcontroller. There is a video feed from the model going into the display unit (looking for a cheap fresnel for it). Stage 2 is to feed telemetry back over the audio channel, and use a small FPGA to do video overlay and drive the instruments. If I have room, I may ditch the microcontroller and move it all to the FPGA after it's all working.
in the responses posted here so far. Most of the people seem to be whining about how much fab facilities cost, and how developing software is so much easier. Nobody talks about how much presses (both CD and Tree) cost, because we transmit our programs over the internet and run them on our own computers.
Nobody seems to know about the equivalent for hardware: Designs written in a Hardware Description language such as Verilog or VHDL can be worked on as a group. When you want to test it, you download it to an FPGA. Complete development kits including software and a protoboard can be had from Altera or Xylinx for a few hundred dollars (less if you are a student). If you make a mistake, fix your VHDL and recompile.
Also, people fail to consider that the designs for this type of thing rarely are on the level of AMD or Intel. We don't make 22 million-transistor designs, but if you want a custom hardware accelerator (say, an Ogg Vorbis accelerator, or hardware accelerated encryption where you KNOW EXACTLY what it is doing. No NSA backdoors. No worry about getting specs from OEMs.) this is the way to go about it. If your project gets popular, you can get them made in quantity as ASICs from any number of companies.
Please, people, look into these things before you start flaming a project like this.
That's simple.. you just sit on the pot out of habit.. the suit takes care of the rest. Mind you, the catheters aren't that comfortable, but hey, that a small price to pay.
Besides, you won't be sitting too long after your laptop catches on fire (what? No air == no convection?).
No.. I think it's just the higher #s were here before the trolls left the ACs and moved to accounts, so the s/n ratio is slightly higher. High numbers can be just as stupid, and frequently are:)
Explain, in two hundred words or less, why you couldn't do this with a $5.99 joystick from Fry's, and perhaps a keyboard.
Well, you'd also need live video feed, full-telemetry feed, and a set of rudders and throttles (multiple engines). 5.99 joysticks tend to have bad centering; a $40-50 quality one would be better, and a military grade one even better.
This also requires a high-quality, high-bandwidth low-latency wireless connection (no satellite bounces).
Doing this on models is hard enough, much less a modern widebody. And it's usefulness would be restricted to 'Airplane'-type scenarios (Don't eat the fish!) where both pilots are incapacitated without affecting the primary systems. Maybe in a highjacking situation (with ground-based override? There would be SOME way to turn it off unless they integrate it into the flight control computer on a fly-by-wire craft. Plus you then open yourself to highjacking from the GROUND. Lol.)
Can you imaging how loud a room full of coders screaming commands at their computers might be?
"Insert breakpoint!"
"Step!"
"Step!"
"Inspect variable foo!"
"Dammit!"
Lol.. or other choice expletives.. be interesting to decide what the default coding would be..
dammit = "cat $file >>/mnt/hda/windows/win386.swp && rm -f $file"
fu%$it = make random copies, slightly altered
sh%^ = hibernate for 5 minutes, empty/tmp
All those post-modern hippies buying fibre optic cable lamps for their home? This is most likely the cause of severely limited bandwidth on the Internet today.
You forgot the fiber-optic christmas trees, and the little handheld flashlights with the fibers that you wave at night events:)
I don't think it was copy-protection which killed DAT as a consumer platform. Sure, it's bad ("What do you mean I have to pay them a 'tax', even when I make my own recording?!"), but the problem is it didn't offer any significant advantage over CDs in the consumers' minds, while offering the disadvantage of having no random access like CDs. Most consumers were willing to put up with playback-only, until CD-R became popular, and now we can do everything DAT could do, and more, without having to pay a "tax".
Except to record. Recordable CDs have only become a viable technology in the past few years. DAT was out for much longer than that. And is much better suited to general consumer use (Hit record, it works. Need to pause it, go ahead. Stop and record more later? Sure. No need for multisession, and playable in any DAT machine. Made a mistake? Rewind and try again.) What killed DAT was the high-cost and low-available of media, players and pre-recorded content, combined with SCMS.
CD's are used a lot more for other purposes than copying music so the fee for these CD's is a bit `unreasonable' but I think it's fair enough...by the way...the fee is NLG 1,08 per hour (less than USD 0.5).
Considering that's what I pay for the CD-R itself for decent quality 4x Media, I do consider that unreasonable (100% price increase.)
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You just _know_ the reds have one up there, just waiting for the chance to read the private.. oh, wait, they'll just look over your shoulder instead.. much cheaper.. never mind :)
Well, if you don't like it and don't care about the 'extra' features (and assuming your box isn't set up to die a hideous death if it can't phone home) go get a $30 or so powered cable amplifier or splitter at radio shack or equivalent. They're commonly used in setups where you inject your own programming into the house cable system, and don't want to annoy the cable company or the neighbors. Cheap and effective.
Actually, they sued AMD over trademark infringment over 80486, 486, etc, and were told they couldn't trademark a number.
<Obnitpick>Horse + donkey = mule. Mules are (mostly) sterile.</Obnitpick>
Well, I studied this for the software CC decoder I'm writing. CC data is on Line 21 of one field, EDS (V-chip, time signals, other stuff) is on the other. CC data contains control codes, that specify what 'channel' the CC data is. CC1 is the normal 'captions' channel. CC2 is occasionally used for bilingual CC, but I have never personally seen it. The URLs and game show data is often on TEXT2. The peak throughput (disregarding necessary control codes) is 60 Bps (7-bit text, even parity). CC data is 'bursty', but I doubt they replace the signal when not used, as there is a good chance of it detecting garbage data. Most likely they use some of the other lines of the VBI, like the 'Internet-over-TV' channels do.
Actually, Texas WAS a Sovereign (sp?) nation for a few years after the colonists pulled away from Mexico. After that they were annexed into the United States by request.
Have you ever worked on a machine with 2 or more scsi controllers, and 512 MB+ of RAM? This is being worked on in relation to their beowulf cluster; believe me, it takes the nodes in our cluster at least 2 minutes to complete a RAM check and a basic bus scan (which is done a 2nd time when the SCSI module is loaded). And they are planning on upgrading the boxes to a GIG apiece.. argh.
:) )
(Oh, and moderators: YES, beowulf clusters are on topic in this article
Well, those types of ads are the ones I tune out. Like that scooter whatsit that people were yakking about, or those drug commercials that don't even say what they treat..
The GATOS programs (xatitv et al) are no longer in active development. The current focus is on an Xfree 4.02 Xv module (hopefully to be included in 4.10). Overlay / colorspace conversion, and view-only TV input currently works. I'm working on CC and capture, but intermittently.
Besides, if you're that worried about it, look at TLC. They have a show they run every so often (gets good ratings, I guess) about human sexuality (probably showed it on Valentines day, so it may be a while). They have a thermal view of a couple at one point. That's shot using professional cameras and lenses at close range. Figure a wall or two in the way, and all you get is a big blob, if that.
And of course the episode where all their minds get wiped or something and he has sex with Tasha..
Well, the problem is the federation is only cashless when it is convienient :) Notice all of a sudden when characters suddenly have a stash of gold-plated latinum for gambling or something, and don't get me started on the books (grr.. gave up on those YEARS ago).
Why not? If you can go to any Best Buy (or whatever), plunk down a few hundred bucks, and walk out without signing any kind of contract, what is wrong with it?
And I personally question the fine print on the cards. If you don't sign any contracts at the time of purchase, and there is nothing on the outer box indicating otherwise, then I then OWN the contents of the box. Doesn't mean I can redistribute the IP in it, but it is then my physical property, I can hack (either with an axe or a computer) it, spin, fold, mutilate, or remove tags all I want.
#include <stddisclaimers.h>
The point is NOT to make your own CPU. At the hobbyist level that IS out of the pricerange. The point is to make designs available that multiple people may want to take advantage of, especially if the group is small enough that commercial development is not feasible (or if it is, only at very high prices because of low volumes).
My current project is an example of that. I'm working on a cockpit for a model airplane controller. The model airplane controls are usually just two sticks and some buttons on a standard radio. I'm interfacing full rudder pedals, and throttles to the controller via microcontroller. There is a video feed from the model going into the display unit (looking for a cheap fresnel for it). Stage 2 is to feed telemetry back over the audio channel, and use a small FPGA to do video overlay and drive the instruments. If I have room, I may ditch the microcontroller and move it all to the FPGA after it's all working.
in the responses posted here so far. Most of the people seem to be whining about how much fab facilities cost, and how developing software is so much easier. Nobody talks about how much presses (both CD and Tree) cost, because we transmit our programs over the internet and run them on our own computers.
Nobody seems to know about the equivalent for hardware: Designs written in a Hardware Description language such as Verilog or VHDL can be worked on as a group. When you want to test it, you download it to an FPGA. Complete development kits including software and a protoboard can be had from Altera or Xylinx for a few hundred dollars (less if you are a student). If you make a mistake, fix your VHDL and recompile.
Also, people fail to consider that the designs for this type of thing rarely are on the level of AMD or Intel. We don't make 22 million-transistor designs, but if you want a custom hardware accelerator (say, an Ogg Vorbis accelerator, or hardware accelerated encryption where you KNOW EXACTLY what it is doing. No NSA backdoors. No worry about getting specs from OEMs.) this is the way to go about it. If your project gets popular, you can get them made in quantity as ASICs from any number of companies.
Please, people, look into these things before you start flaming a project like this.
That's simple.. you just sit on the pot out of habit.. the suit takes care of the rest. Mind you, the catheters aren't that comfortable, but hey, that a small price to pay.
Besides, you won't be sitting too long after your laptop catches on fire (what? No air == no convection?).
Well, technically there's SCMS, but there's a lot of stuff out there that doesn't honor it (like pro-grade dat machines.)
No.. I think it's just the higher #s were here before the trolls left the ACs and moved to accounts, so the s/n ratio is slightly higher. High numbers can be just as stupid, and frequently are :)
:)
And don't worry, I don't get modded up either.
This also requires a high-quality, high-bandwidth low-latency wireless connection (no satellite bounces).
Doing this on models is hard enough, much less a modern widebody. And it's usefulness would be restricted to 'Airplane'-type scenarios (Don't eat the fish!) where both pilots are incapacitated without affecting the primary systems. Maybe in a highjacking situation (with ground-based override? There would be SOME way to turn it off unless they integrate it into the flight control computer on a fly-by-wire craft. Plus you then open yourself to highjacking from the GROUND. Lol.)
dammit = "cat $file >>
fu%$it = make random copies, slightly altered
sh%^ = hibernate for 5 minutes, empty
All those post-modern hippies buying fibre optic cable lamps for their home? This is most likely the cause of severely limited bandwidth on the Internet today.
:)
You forgot the fiber-optic christmas trees, and the little handheld flashlights with the fibers that you wave at night events
I don't think it was copy-protection which killed DAT as a consumer platform. Sure, it's bad ("What do you mean I have to pay them a 'tax', even when I make my own recording?!"), but the problem is it didn't offer any significant advantage over CDs in the consumers' minds, while offering the disadvantage of having no random access like CDs. Most consumers were willing to put up with playback-only, until CD-R became popular, and now we can do everything DAT could do, and more, without having to pay a "tax". Except to record. Recordable CDs have only become a viable technology in the past few years. DAT was out for much longer than that. And is much better suited to general consumer use (Hit record, it works. Need to pause it, go ahead. Stop and record more later? Sure. No need for multisession, and playable in any DAT machine. Made a mistake? Rewind and try again.) What killed DAT was the high-cost and low-available of media, players and pre-recorded content, combined with SCMS.
Considering that's what I pay for the CD-R itself for decent quality 4x Media, I do consider that unreasonable (100% price increase.)