I stand corrected.. I thought the L1 and L2 signals were independent, but without the C/A code you can't lock on to the P code transmission? Ah well, more grist for the reading list.
If you said that the signal had the same accuracy, you'd be right. It's not the same signal, and the clear C/A signal can be turned off, leaving only the encrypted signal for "Authorized" users.
Except for the fact that a lot of the GPS units in use by military personel are in fact civilian grade units (or were, last time I checked).
More likely turning off the C/A signal would be theater level jamming, or in a pinch, re-enabling SA (much less fine-grained, though).
Wow. A rational discourse. I'd add you to my friends list, but I already have.:)
From my point of view, the important question is whether it advanced the state of the art. The Wright brothers went on huge publicity tours, and eventually disclosed most of their 'secrets'. They built upon what Langley and others developed, and in turn their designs inspired or directly affected development of the entire industry, as well, as you indicate, the process they used to develop those designs... developing models for propellor design, etc.
And most digital cameras are sensitive to IR; put a mid-range filter on (to keep it from blinding the camera) and boom, visual proof of exactly where the emissions are coming from.
The reverse of that, burying it in capsules near a subduction zone, is a more viable option, but still controversial. Issues include: -rates of subduction (geological processes are _slow_) -no provision for inspection -They are by definition in zones of high seismic activity, increasing probability of containment breach.
Trouble with that is it can easily screw up the soundtrack.. not just vocals, but music. That's one of the reasons that 'extended releases' don't generally do a seamless branch of the original theatrical release. Changing frames is easy.. adding more than a couple is hard. Esp. when you are talking about several hundred copies.
I think the point being made is that a well designed case could certainly reduce damage by reducing the acceleration the laptop endures by spreading the force out over more time, and dampening the collision to avoid bouncing (elastic vs. inelastic).
Bonus points to bags with material that actually absorbs inpact force, although it's typically destructive (think the foam inside helmets, or crumple zones in cars).
Actually, the books make it quite clear that most storm troopers are recruited in that time frame, and that after the clone wars practically all cloning technology is destroyed. (Note: Books are set after endor.)
In fact, I recall the 'Storm trooper training planet' getting blown up.. Jedi Academy trilogy?
I gave up after he had the guy commit murder by STD, and I got tired of (Live happily ever after, no wait, live happily ever after, no wait, live happily ever after, no wait...)
I did like _wizard's first rule_. And I liked _Rhapsody_ by another author, but her followups are not going to get reread by me.
Series Sell(TM). You can either 1) Develop the character more than you can in a single book, or 2) Sell the same stories 12 times over with the serial #s filed off. Barely.
And there's always gratuitous sex scenes.. and romances, female porn.
(There are still authors that do #1. There also are series where there are no continuing characters, only continuing setting.)
Actually, there was a big stir about either the Tolken estate or the LotR movie people suing Iron Crown out of existence. I heard the employees bought back rights to the Rolemaster standard system and started/restarted the company.
Except the new channelized allocation on 60m.. The stated reason is that is what the primary allocation people use (some unspecified government function) and it makes it possible for them to order the channel cleared if they need it.
The ua-5 and similar units do 96khz/24bit/stereo half-duplex; you need something that speaks WDM or ASIO. I like wavelab for field recording, but it's a bit pricey.
You have to power down and power up to change bitrates or input / output; but that helps to avoid hitting the wrong switch in the middle of a session. The pre-amps are actually fairly decent, and it has optical and coax digital I/O (it does reclock, but not too badly). It doesn't do digital passthrough for a backup recorder without mods; that would be useful.
ATI's Xilleon chipsets will do dual HD MPEG2 decoding, overlay, and display. They do have graphics overlay capabilities as well, but are primarlily designed for Set top boxes.
For the "official" word, search ATI's website for "Xilleon".
My comment was in reply to this:
'suffiently accelerated ATI card' has a hardware MPEG decoder. All of them have had it for years, AFAIK - the original Radeon did, and I am pretty sure later Rage Pros also did. So maybe you actually are using a hardware decoder without realizing it?
The Xilleon chipset is an SoC design for set-top boxes and other OEM tasks. It has not been made into a consumer grade video card, as it doesn't do 3D.
There's not much stopping ATI from using a full MPEG-2 core in HW (except licensing/marketing et al) but they haven't, as yet. It would make sense for the AIW cards (right now they do all encoding in SW and much of the decoding) for their TIVO-type functions. Besides, apparently the marketing is doing well enough as is.. people think that ATI cards already decode in HW:)
IIRC, practically all ATI cards have hardware YUV->RGB, deinterlacing, and scaling. Most have motion compensation. Recent ones have iDCT. None will take an mpeg stream and decode it entirely.
The linux drivers don't do iDCT or motion compensation.
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I stand corrected.. I thought the L1 and L2 signals were independent, but without the C/A code you can't lock on to the P code transmission? Ah well, more grist for the reading list.
Except for the fact that a lot of the GPS units in use by military personel are in fact civilian grade units (or were, last time I checked).
More likely turning off the C/A signal would be theater level jamming, or in a pinch, re-enabling SA (much less fine-grained, though).
Well, I'd rather have a mp3 cd player scratch a $.30 CD-R than a head crash on a $100 hard drive. I don't worry about the -R or -RW.
Wow. A rational discourse. I'd add you to my friends list, but I already have. :)
From my point of view, the important question is whether it advanced the state of the art. The Wright brothers went on huge publicity tours, and eventually disclosed most of their 'secrets'. They built upon what Langley and others developed, and in turn their designs inspired or directly affected development of the entire industry, as well, as you indicate, the process they used to develop those designs... developing models for propellor design, etc.
I think the page break does not cross thread bounds; it will keep the top of the thread on the page even if it's been displayed.
But a lot of printers do not include the printheads in the cartridge, making this argument invalid. Most Canon and Epson inkjets, for example.
The rootless and multiwindow modes have gotten quite good; you may want to check out a devel build.
And most digital cameras are sensitive to IR; put a mid-range filter on (to keep it from blinding the camera) and boom, visual proof of exactly where the emissions are coming from.
The reverse of that, burying it in capsules near a subduction zone, is a more viable option, but still controversial. Issues include:
-rates of subduction (geological processes are _slow_)
-no provision for inspection
-They are by definition in zones of high seismic activity, increasing probability of containment breach.
Trouble with that is it can easily screw up the soundtrack.. not just vocals, but music. That's one of the reasons that 'extended releases' don't generally do a seamless branch of the original theatrical release. Changing frames is easy.. adding more than a couple is hard. Esp. when you are talking about several hundred copies.
I think the point being made is that a well designed case could certainly reduce damage by reducing the acceleration the laptop endures by spreading the force out over more time, and dampening the collision to avoid bouncing (elastic vs. inelastic).
Bonus points to bags with material that actually absorbs inpact force, although it's typically destructive (think the foam inside helmets, or crumple zones in cars).
Actually it does use libdvdnav, but I haven't actually tried it to see how well it works.
Actually, the books make it quite clear that most storm troopers are recruited in that time frame, and that after the clone wars practically all cloning technology is destroyed. (Note: Books are set after endor.)
In fact, I recall the 'Storm trooper training planet' getting blown up.. Jedi Academy trilogy?
Because you then have to remaster _each_ dvd, and have to burn each one, not press it. Money.
I gave up after he had the guy commit murder by STD, and I got tired of (Live happily ever after, no wait, live happily ever after, no wait, live happily ever after, no wait...)
I did like _wizard's first rule_. And I liked _Rhapsody_ by another author, but her followups are not going to get reread by me.
Series Sell(TM). You can either 1) Develop the character more than you can in a single book, or 2) Sell the same stories 12 times over with the serial #s filed off. Barely.
And there's always gratuitous sex scenes.. and romances, female porn.
(There are still authors that do #1. There also are series where there are no continuing characters, only continuing setting.)
Generator, not alternator? Electro-Mechanical voltage regulator?
Actually, there was a big stir about either the Tolken estate or the LotR movie people suing Iron Crown out of existence. I heard the employees bought back rights to the Rolemaster standard system and started/restarted the company.
Anyone have details?
Except the new channelized allocation on 60m.. The stated reason is that is what the primary allocation people use (some unspecified government function) and it makes it possible for them to order the channel cleared if they need it.
The ua-5 and similar units do 96khz/24bit/stereo half-duplex; you need something that speaks WDM or ASIO. I like wavelab for field recording, but it's a bit pricey.
You have to power down and power up to change bitrates or input / output; but that helps to avoid hitting the wrong switch in the middle of a session. The pre-amps are actually fairly decent, and it has optical and coax digital I/O (it does reclock, but not too badly). It doesn't do digital passthrough for a backup recorder without mods; that would be useful.
is gaining popularity with the USB ADC/DACs. I'm quite happy with my UA-5.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laptop-tapers/
MD is lossy and has no decent digital outs.
The nomad is fairly popular, except for recurring reports of dropped samples. I haven't heard if it's been fixed.
Generally speaking, I think Greenpeace deserves whatever they got. A pirate's den (in the literal sense).
My rule of thumb is that if they won't post the price with the software, it's almost certainly unreasonable and it's time to look for an alternative.
That, and this guy is trying to break into a pretty saturated market. I use gqview on linux, and irfanview on windows.
My comment was in reply to this:
The Xilleon chipset is an SoC design for set-top boxes and other OEM tasks. It has not been made into a consumer grade video card, as it doesn't do 3D.
There's not much stopping ATI from using a full MPEG-2 core in HW (except licensing/marketing et al) but they haven't, as yet. It would make sense for the AIW cards (right now they do all encoding in SW and much of the decoding) for their TIVO-type functions. Besides, apparently the marketing is doing well enough as is.. people think that ATI cards already decode in HW
IIRC, practically all ATI cards have hardware YUV->RGB, deinterlacing, and scaling. Most have motion compensation. Recent ones have iDCT. None will take an mpeg stream and decode it entirely.
The linux drivers don't do iDCT or motion compensation.
Former GATOS core team member.