Description of how to do the same off of Amazon... before Amazon pulls it.
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I researched many upscaling players--including others from Samsung, including the 841 and 950--and decided on the HD941. I've only had the player for a few weeks now, but am very impressed and happy with it. PQ is excellent, even on an HDTV that supposedly does its own upscaling (the Samsung HL-P5063W).
A bonus was being able to make the player region-free using (sometimes conflicting) experiences found elsewhere on the Internet and some of my own ingenuity. I'm posting my detailed experiences here so that others can make their player region-free. The steps may appear long and complicated, but they took less than five minutes to peform.
The most-recent experiences indicate that an Aiwa remote is required to make the 941 region-free. That worked for me! I would love to know why an Aiwa remote is able to do this and how anyone could have stumbled upon this discovery!
Actually, I programmed my Harmony 676 remote to *emulate* the Aiwa remote and then used the Harmony to make my 941 region-free. Talk about multiple levels of indirection!
The Harmony requires the model number of a *device*, not a remote. Not knowing which Aiwa device(s) use the RC-6AS14 remote, I Google'd for "Aiwa RC-6AS14 remote control". One of the hits took me to http://www.dvdremotecontrols.com/Mfrs/Aiwa/AiwaAud ioDVD/RC-6AS14.htm--which not only provided a screen shot of the remote, but also listed the Aiwa devices that the remote actually controls!
I programmatically added the first Aiwa device (the CX-NA10--a "Mini System (DVD)") to my Harmony, and then I performed the following steps:
Note: Make sure the 941 is off. Make sure there is no DVD in the drive.
Using the 941 remote: 1. Turn the player on. 2. Press the OPEN/CLOSE button. The drive door will open.
Using the Harmony remote: 3. Press the DEVICE button. 4. Press the NEXT button until the "Mini System (DVD)" device appears next to one of the soft buttons. 5. Press the "Mini System (DVD)" soft button. 6. Press the NEXT button until "Repeat" appears next to one of the soft buttons. (I had to press the NEXT button seven times to cycle through the choices.) 7. Press the "Repeat" soft button. 8. Press the NEXT button until "Program" appears next to one of the soft buttons. (I had to press the NEXT button eight times to cycle through the choices.) 9. Press the "Program" soft button. 10. Press the NEXT button until "Clock" appears next to one of the soft buttons. (I had to press the NEXT button three times to cycle through the choices.) 11. Press the "Clock" soft button.
The player's LCD will display "ADJUST". There was also a brief mention of something about a 'servo adjustment complete' on the TV.
I used the 941's remote to press "9" (as others have instructed), but this didn't have a visible effect. The drive door did not close. Doesn't hurt to do it, I suppose.
12. Using the buttons on the player, close the drive door and power it down.
Upon powering up the 941, I could play other regions' DVDs. I also double-checked that my own region's DVDs still played ok.
I added the 941 to my Harmony remote and both it and the player itself have been working great!
Notes: -I just purchased my 941 from Amazon.com; not sure which firmware version I have, but I assume it's a relatively current one.
-Other people's experiences said I would need to press a SHIFT button on the Aiwa remote prior to pressing the Repeat, Program, and Clock button--in order to generate the appropriate signals. Since the Harmony emulated the *functions* of the Aiwa remote and not the actual *buttons*, I did not need to emulate or press a SHIFT key.
Yeah, that's great as far as coding standards go. The moral of that article is "some coding standards are actually meaningful and useful". But it's also very easy to create coding standards that are just nauseating.
Most importantly, keep in mind that whatever standards you come up with better stand up over time. Eventually, they'll be being used by a young generation of poli sci majors. It's not the standards, it's who's applying them.
The courses you want are: Intro to AI; NLP; Linguistics; Machine Learning; Discourse Processing; Dialogue Processing; possibly Speech Recognition or Machine Translation.
For more ideas, see the list of courses offered at CMU's Language Technologies Institute, and pick the introductory ones.
To all those saying "why do this in undergrad?", here's why: because a Bachelors degree doesn't matter a whit. You could have a BA in English, and go on to get a job in software engineering; you could have a BS in Chemistry, and go on to work as a journalist. The point is that you put together a major that shows you've got the smarts. Doing an NLP major is not premature overspecialization, but rather a demonstration of interdisciplinary skills and interests.
Want a good buisness model? Take someone's GPL code. Modify it a bit. Begin charging to access the "perpetual beta" code. Promise to let people have access to the source once it's finalized...only it'll never be finalized.
I've been watching the Sveasoft saga from the sidelines, and I must say: I love the fact that a company based on a cool hack, a lot of sweat, and a real need for its services is doing well, and is doing well with the help of Linux. At the same time, they're going about it in an insanely antagonistic way. I'm surprised Slashdot hasn't been served with a DMCA notice for hosting TheIndividual's Journal. (Or maybe it has. How would we know?)
Sveasoft could be so much more positive! MandrakeSoft actually does follow the "release to members first" model, but because it holds to its promise of "it'll only be for club members for a very little while", Mandrake is at the same time popular, appreciated, and highly karmic.
Sveasoft, on the other hand, has a version of its Alchemy firmware -- 6.0rc6 is the latest -- that it calls beta, and therefore not open to the public. At the same time, it's started development and is promising features from Talisman, the next release, which is obviously not open to the public either. Things would be so much simpler if, say, Sveasoft actually announced in advance when a release would become publicly available.
There's this algorithm called Latent Semantic Analysis which has been under development for quite some time (freely available!).
LSA is freely available to those who have lotsa $$$. Even if you don't get the original Susan Dumais implementation (from Telcordia -- http://lsi.research.telcordia.com/), the algorithm itself is extremely patented.
There are many nice things about Latex, but here are some downsides.
I recently had the experience of submitting a paper (bioinformatics) written with Latex to one conference, having it get rejected, and then having it get accepted to another conference. The first conference didn't have a style file I could use, and I had to go through a bazillion hoops and custom commands, packages and settings to get Latex to produce something acceptable. It was really painful to get Latex to then produce something acceptable for the second, since merely including a different style file didn't actually do what I needed.
Verdict: use Latex only if the conference or journal provides you with a style file, and you think you'll need to make ZERO formatting changes to the source of your paper.
Another painful moment about Latex is that it only does the basics well. For example, it's easy to create a table, and it's relatively easy (if crude) to create a two-column document. But it's difficult to get Latex to place that table into just one column of your two-column document, and it's a complete hack if you want to place it intellegently so that there aren't huge chunks of unnecessary whitespace due to how pages and sections break.
COBOL and VB, arguably, come from similar philosophies -- they're both very verbose.
COBOL is not tough. It's a relatively ancient, simple programming paradigm. Without various proprietory add-ons, it doesn't get into any of the web integration technologies or anything of the sort. You might actually pick up some useful insights into mainframes and the 'suit' mindset. Despite the FUD about COBOL, it's still going and growing VERY strong. COBOL-2002 is a new standard of the language, and code is still being written in it for many, many legacy applications. For example, here's a recent press release from a COBOL compiler manufacturer.
Analyst firm Gartner estimates that applications managing about 85 percent of the world's business data are written in COBOL. Gartner further estimates that there are approximately 90,000 COBOL programmers in the U.S. and the annual growth of COBOL code over the next four years is 5 billion lines.
VB, on the other hand, is completely proprietary, very up to date, but not nearly as useful server-side, and will have you hunting down advisories on MSDN.
Summary: Focus on both. Neither is really hard. COBOL is easier. And if you really want to learn both, integrate a VB front-end with a COBOL legacy application.
The death of Apache 2 has been greatly exaggerated.
A cursory look at the mod_gzip mailing list shows that there's an independent port of mod_gzip to Apache 2. Look around, other modules are getting ported by the same folks.
McCabe & Associates makes some software that will automatically create a graph for visualizing a large software project, even one using mixed languages. Their marketing department renames the software every other week, but that's what they do. Arthur Watson (PhD, Computer Science, Princeton) did their most interesting research a few years ago, but has since left the company.
Their software will also help re-engineering and testing efforts: it'll tell you how complex your code is (and thus what parts of it are most likely to break), and it'll instrument your source code and show you what logic paths you've hit in your program during testing, and what code remains untested. It used to be pretty solid stuff (and pretty pricey!); I'd love to see some free/open software that does stuff like this.
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Description of how to do the same off of Amazon... before Amazon pulls it.
d ioDVD/RC-6AS14.htm--which not only provided a screen shot of the remote, but also listed the Aiwa devices that the remote actually controls!
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I researched many upscaling players--including others from Samsung, including the 841 and 950--and decided on the HD941. I've only had the player for a few weeks now, but am very impressed and happy with it. PQ is excellent, even on an HDTV that supposedly does its own upscaling (the Samsung HL-P5063W).
A bonus was being able to make the player region-free using (sometimes conflicting) experiences found elsewhere on the Internet and some of my own ingenuity. I'm posting my detailed experiences here so that others can make their player region-free. The steps may appear long and complicated, but they took less than five minutes to peform.
The most-recent experiences indicate that an Aiwa remote is required to make the 941 region-free. That worked for me! I would love to know why an Aiwa remote is able to do this and how anyone could have stumbled upon this discovery!
Actually, I programmed my Harmony 676 remote to *emulate* the Aiwa remote and then used the Harmony to make my 941 region-free. Talk about multiple levels of indirection!
The Harmony requires the model number of a *device*, not a remote. Not knowing which Aiwa device(s) use the RC-6AS14 remote, I Google'd for "Aiwa RC-6AS14 remote control". One of the hits took me to http://www.dvdremotecontrols.com/Mfrs/Aiwa/AiwaAu
I programmatically added the first Aiwa device (the CX-NA10--a "Mini System (DVD)") to my Harmony, and then I performed the following steps:
Note: Make sure the 941 is off. Make sure there is no DVD in the drive.
Using the 941 remote:
1. Turn the player on.
2. Press the OPEN/CLOSE button. The drive door will open.
Using the Harmony remote:
3. Press the DEVICE button.
4. Press the NEXT button until the "Mini System (DVD)" device appears next to one of the soft buttons.
5. Press the "Mini System (DVD)" soft button.
6. Press the NEXT button until "Repeat" appears next to one of the soft buttons. (I had to press the NEXT button seven times to cycle through the choices.)
7. Press the "Repeat" soft button.
8. Press the NEXT button until "Program" appears next to one of the soft buttons. (I had to press the NEXT button eight times to cycle through the choices.)
9. Press the "Program" soft button.
10. Press the NEXT button until "Clock" appears next to one of the soft buttons. (I had to press the NEXT button three times to cycle through the choices.)
11. Press the "Clock" soft button.
The player's LCD will display "ADJUST". There was also a brief mention of something about a 'servo adjustment complete' on the TV.
I used the 941's remote to press "9" (as others have instructed), but this didn't have a visible effect. The drive door did not close. Doesn't hurt to do it, I suppose.
12. Using the buttons on the player, close the drive door and power it down.
Upon powering up the 941, I could play other regions' DVDs. I also double-checked that my own region's DVDs still played ok.
I added the 941 to my Harmony remote and both it and the player itself have been working great!
Notes:
-I just purchased my 941 from Amazon.com; not sure which firmware version I have, but I assume it's a relatively current one.
-Other people's experiences said I would need to press a SHIFT button on the Aiwa remote prior to pressing the Repeat, Program, and Clock button--in order to generate the appropriate signals. Since the Harmony emulated the *functions* of the Aiwa remote and not the actual *buttons*, I did not need to emulate or press a SHIFT key.
You are looking for Unison, at least as far as your notes and non-audio/video data.
Yeah, that's great as far as coding standards go. The moral of that article is "some coding standards are actually meaningful and useful". But it's also very easy to create coding standards that are just nauseating.
Most importantly, keep in mind that whatever standards you come up with better stand up over time. Eventually, they'll be being used by a young generation of poli sci majors. It's not the standards, it's who's applying them.
The courses you want are: Intro to AI; NLP; Linguistics; Machine Learning; Discourse Processing; Dialogue Processing; possibly Speech Recognition or Machine Translation.
For more ideas, see the list of courses offered at CMU's Language Technologies Institute, and pick the introductory ones.
To all those saying "why do this in undergrad?", here's why: because a Bachelors degree doesn't matter a whit. You could have a BA in English, and go on to get a job in software engineering; you could have a BS in Chemistry, and go on to work as a journalist. The point is that you put together a major that shows you've got the smarts. Doing an NLP major is not premature overspecialization, but rather a demonstration of interdisciplinary skills and interests.
Will there be a video stream of the panel? Or a downloadable recording post-factum? Or at least a transcript? Inquiring minds want to know.
I've been watching the Sveasoft saga from the sidelines, and I must say: I love the fact that a company based on a cool hack, a lot of sweat, and a real need for its services is doing well, and is doing well with the help of Linux. At the same time, they're going about it in an insanely antagonistic way. I'm surprised Slashdot hasn't been served with a DMCA notice for hosting TheIndividual's Journal. (Or maybe it has. How would we know?)
Sveasoft could be so much more positive! MandrakeSoft actually does follow the "release to members first" model, but because it holds to its promise of "it'll only be for club members for a very little while", Mandrake is at the same time popular, appreciated, and highly karmic.
Sveasoft, on the other hand, has a version of its Alchemy firmware -- 6.0rc6 is the latest -- that it calls beta, and therefore not open to the public. At the same time, it's started development and is promising features from Talisman, the next release, which is obviously not open to the public either. Things would be so much simpler if, say, Sveasoft actually announced in advance when a release would become publicly available.
There's this algorithm called Latent Semantic Analysis which has been under development for quite some time (freely available!).
LSA is freely available to those who have lotsa $$$. Even if you don't get the original Susan Dumais implementation (from Telcordia -- http://lsi.research.telcordia.com/), the algorithm itself is extremely patented.
There are many nice things about Latex, but here are some downsides.
I recently had the experience of submitting a paper (bioinformatics) written with Latex to one conference, having it get rejected, and then having it get accepted to another conference. The first conference didn't have a style file I could use, and I had to go through a bazillion hoops and custom commands, packages and settings to get Latex to produce something acceptable. It was really painful to get Latex to then produce something acceptable for the second, since merely including a different style file didn't actually do what I needed.
Verdict: use Latex only if the conference or journal provides you with a style file, and you think you'll need to make ZERO formatting changes to the source of your paper.
Another painful moment about Latex is that it only does the basics well. For example, it's easy to create a table, and it's relatively easy (if crude) to create a two-column document. But it's difficult to get Latex to place that table into just one column of your two-column document, and it's a complete hack if you want to place it intellegently so that there aren't huge chunks of unnecessary whitespace due to how pages and sections break.
COBOL is not tough. It's a relatively ancient, simple programming paradigm. Without various proprietory add-ons, it doesn't get into any of the web integration technologies or anything of the sort. You might actually pick up some useful insights into mainframes and the 'suit' mindset. Despite the FUD about COBOL, it's still going and growing VERY strong. COBOL-2002 is a new standard of the language, and code is still being written in it for many, many legacy applications. For example, here's a recent press release from a COBOL compiler manufacturer.
VB, on the other hand, is completely proprietary, very up to date, but not nearly as useful server-side, and will have you hunting down advisories on MSDN.
Summary: Focus on both. Neither is really hard. COBOL is easier. And if you really want to learn both, integrate a VB front-end with a COBOL legacy application.
The death of Apache 2 has been greatly exaggerated. A cursory look at the mod_gzip mailing list shows that there's an independent port of mod_gzip to Apache 2. Look around, other modules are getting ported by the same folks.
Shadow netWorkspace http://sns.internetschools.org/ is an Open Source e-learning / CSCL tool.
McCabe & Associates makes some software that will automatically create a graph for visualizing a large software project, even one using mixed languages. Their marketing department renames the software every other week, but that's what they do. Arthur Watson (PhD, Computer Science, Princeton) did their most interesting research a few years ago, but has since left the company.
Their software will also help re-engineering and testing efforts: it'll tell you how complex your code is (and thus what parts of it are most likely to break), and it'll instrument your source code and show you what logic paths you've hit in your program during testing, and what code remains untested. It used to be pretty solid stuff (and pretty pricey!); I'd love to see some free/open software that does stuff like this.
Disclaimer: I'm a former intern.