That mpeg2 decoder is software based. It allows people to play mpeg2s in quicktime.
Of course it's software based. But if it can present mpeg2 video on a low end G3 without dropping frames, it is either coded more tightly than VLC,or takes advantage of the iDCT and motion compensation hardware on the video card. In either case, it might be useful to write code directing VLC to use the MPEG2 quicktime plugin. (I assume it's a plugin/library,rather than an upgraded Quicktime Player.app.) VLC already uses some low level quicktime APIs to overlay video and translate colors.
Use VLC (free, open source) if you are that picky. VLC pretty much requires a G4, as its motion compensation and iDCT routines are very slow without the altivec optimizations. Apple does sell a Quicktime MPEG2 decoder ($29) but I have no idea if VLC can be adapted to work with it.
Another update, another reboot. Sigh.. When is Apple going to stop requiring reboots? And they do require them,as I discovered last night. I wanted to install 10.2.0 on another machine. Rather than try to download a whopping 100Megs of updates, I would use the 6 mini updates I already had to upgrade the computer to 10.2.6. And rather than repeat the install-reboot cycle a half dozen times, I would mount the other machine as a Firewire drive on my 10.2.6 machine. No reboots required, right?
Well, half an hour later, with the 10.2.6 upgrades installed, I boot up. Nothing except a grey screen with an Apple logo. No cyclic symbol. The only way to solve the problem was to reinstall 10.2.0, and upgrade piecemeal, rebooting each time.
Apparently, the Rage (Pro?) cards found in older G3s aren't properly supported in MacOS X.2, meaning that the DVD player doesn't work. I'm hoping to wring some cash out of Apple when I discover that Quartz extreme (found in Jaguar and Panther) doesn't work with my dual USB ibook.
Most of the stuff the spammers post doesn't actually qualify as kiddie porn (naked != porn, even for children. At least not in Canada) However, even being accussed of possessing kiddie porn, means you might as well put a bullet through your head (people just go ballistic over this, and all rationality goes right out the window), so who wants to take the chance?
I really wonder what television is doing to change the public's perception of porn. Certain producers seem to have some kind of obsession with the stuff, so they incorporate "child pornographers" as stock villains. Of course, distribution of such stiff is illegal, so their props tend to incorporate fairly innocuous imagery--although apparently the audience (goaded on by bad music) is supposed to think that such stuff is truly shocking.
Fast forward a few months. A few members of that piece of media are selected for jury duty on a kiddie-porn case. Are they going to be able to determine which material meets the relevant thresholds?
Because, frankly, a God of the Gaps model is scientifically useless. In such a model, the unknown = god. Therefore, scientific investigation should be discouraged, as it diminishes the glory of god or of the gods, and consequently diminishes the power of the priestly caste over the rest of society.
In the scientific worldview. the unknown = the unknown. A scientist does not note the passage of the sun over the horizon, and pray for its return. He or she instead develops a scientific model which correlates the lengths of the day and of the night with the time of year. Such a model might diminish the role of some facet of the divine, but it is considerably more useful to the rest of society.
It may be discomforting to know that some observations cannot be fully explained by current scientific theories, but the proper response to such discomfort should be to continue ones investigations (preferably in a systematic manner) so as to resolve these niggling problems, rather than to retreat to some silly God.
It is particularly irritating that this nonsense is being promulgated in "science" classes. The goal of such classes should be to teach students how to investigate the unknown. not to shy from it.
Maybe companies in poorer countries could aquire it for their internal networking. Stuff like this is real costly right now. You do realize that poorer countries will probably have to make the switch to ipv6, sooner than the countries that will (in your scheme) be donating the routers, don't you?
Following your suggestions, I turned on the zoom feature. It's very pixelated, although I can't say the same will be true of a Quartz extreme display. What's more, the anti-aliasing is now quite distracting.
Every so often, salon publishes an article that can only be described as "slashdot bait." Mildly interesting-- but tarted up to the point where they're practically begging to get a slashdotting, and all the ad revenue that presumably comes with such a distributed denial of service. The basic theme of that salon article was that a skyjacker of today would have an easier time learnng the ins and outs of a modern jet instrument panel with a computer program then he would four or five years ago. Apparently, earlier flight simulators took certain liberties with instrument layout. Additionally, many of the modern simulators also simulate the flight management sytems fairly well, so if a terrorist wanted to automate portions of his flight plan, he would be more prepared to do so. It's slightly more sophisticated than the "Doom trains students to kill" articles of a few years ago, but not by much. (And I say this as a loyal subscriber of Salon.) It might well get debunked by salon's "Ask the Pilot" column.
You can't read a barcode except at very close range. RFIDs have a range of 3--5m (best case). Legally, SSNs aren't supposed to be used as sorting keys, and if you press hard enough, it's not required.
But yes, basically, "The Mark of the Beast" (tm), is upon us.
Actually, the deposition requirements are limited to the first and last 25 pages of source code, reproduced in a visually perceptible form, together with the page containing the copyright notice. (Source.
The legal ground for SCO v IBM is "breach of contract." If, all of a sudden SCO registers System V, that would be a sign that further lawsuits, this time under the copyright laws, are not only possible, but probable.
RFID tags are cheap. If Nike wants to embed a RFID in the sole of a sneaker (to aid in assembly line management), Walmart can use that tag to track where that item is within the store. Later on, some persons will discover that "John Smith bought Nike #3456271621-09552" is a salable piece of information. Now, whenever John Smith walks through a scanner, the owner of that scanner will be able to identify (with a certain degree of uncertainty) a previous anonymous persona with John Smith. The film "Minority Report" gives this business model a bad name.
RFID tags are applied by a retailer or manufacturer. The consumer has no choice in the matter, and may not be able to remove them. The WOZ tags, on the other hand, will presumably be bought by individuals who will be able to decide for themselves which items to track, and which to simply ignore.
Copyright registration is a legal formality. It allows the holder to pursue a copyright infringement claim in US courts. If a copyright is registered within 90 days of publication, or prior to an alleged infringement, the holder is eligible for an additional award of legal fees. Source
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Custom Apps? Wouldn't the AppKit be a bit of an asset for internal developer teams?
That mpeg2 decoder is software based. It allows people to play mpeg2s in quicktime.
Of course it's software based. But if it can present mpeg2 video on a low end G3 without dropping frames, it is either coded more tightly than VLC,or takes advantage of the iDCT and motion compensation hardware on the video card. In either case, it might be useful to write code directing VLC to use the MPEG2 quicktime plugin. (I assume it's a plugin/library,rather than an upgraded Quicktime Player.app.) VLC already uses some low level quicktime APIs to overlay video and translate colors.
Use VLC (free, open source) if you are that picky.
VLC pretty much requires a G4, as its motion compensation and iDCT routines are very slow without the altivec optimizations. Apple does sell a Quicktime MPEG2 decoder ($29) but I have no idea if VLC can be adapted to work with it.
Another update, another reboot. Sigh.. When is Apple going to stop requiring reboots?
And they do require them,as I discovered last night. I wanted to install 10.2.0 on another machine. Rather than try to download a whopping 100Megs of updates, I would use the 6 mini updates I already had to upgrade the computer to 10.2.6. And rather than repeat the install-reboot cycle a half dozen times, I would mount the other machine as a Firewire drive on my 10.2.6 machine. No reboots required, right?
Well, half an hour later, with the 10.2.6 upgrades installed, I boot up. Nothing except a grey screen with an Apple logo. No cyclic symbol. The only way to solve the problem was to reinstall 10.2.0, and upgrade piecemeal, rebooting each time.
Apparently, the Rage (Pro?) cards found in older G3s aren't properly supported in MacOS X.2, meaning that the DVD player doesn't work. I'm hoping to wring some cash out of Apple when I discover that Quartz extreme (found in Jaguar and Panther) doesn't work with my dual USB ibook.
Most of the stuff the spammers post doesn't actually qualify as kiddie porn (naked != porn, even for children. At least not in Canada) However, even being accussed of possessing kiddie porn, means you might as well put a bullet through your head (people just go ballistic over this, and all rationality goes right out the window), so who wants to take the chance?
I really wonder what television is doing to change the public's perception of porn. Certain producers seem to have some kind of obsession with the stuff, so they incorporate "child pornographers" as stock villains. Of course, distribution of such stiff is illegal, so their props tend to incorporate fairly innocuous imagery--although apparently the audience (goaded on by bad music) is supposed to think that such stuff is truly shocking.
Fast forward a few months. A few members of that piece of media are selected for jury duty on a kiddie-porn case. Are they going to be able to determine which material meets the relevant thresholds?
shhhh. trust the cowboy.
It was a lot easier to trust him when I was receiving packets of 10 mod points, every 3 days.
How do you know that slashdot management won't rig the pool of moderators on that day, or any other?
Because, frankly, a God of the Gaps model is scientifically useless. In such a model, the unknown = god. Therefore, scientific investigation should be discouraged, as it diminishes the glory of god or of the gods, and consequently diminishes the power of the priestly caste over the rest of society.
In the scientific worldview. the unknown = the unknown. A scientist does not note the passage of the sun over the horizon, and pray for its return. He or she instead develops a scientific model which correlates the lengths of the day and of the night with the time of year. Such a model might diminish the role of some facet of the divine, but it is considerably more useful to the rest of society.
It may be discomforting to know that some observations cannot be fully explained by current scientific theories, but the proper response to such discomfort should be to continue ones investigations (preferably in a systematic manner) so as to resolve these niggling problems, rather than to retreat to some silly God.
It is particularly irritating that this nonsense is being promulgated in "science" classes. The goal of such classes should be to teach students how to investigate the unknown. not to shy from it.
Hmm... I doubt it'll be allowed in exams or tests if it's got infra-red capabilities.
Perhaps teachers should simply increase the amount of ambient infra red noise in their classrooms.
Sometimes, it's best if you learn by doing. So, I want you to login as root. Now type /*"
"rm -rf
That's not far from the truth in the consumer market. People want art that matches the drapes and or couch.
Something like this, perhaps?
The first "commandment" should be struck down, as it pretty much violates the first amendment's establishment clause.
It's IEEE1394. Apparently their advertising department believes this can be shortened to IEEE.
What? My vented diaphragm headphones don't seal in all the noise? I'm shocked!
Maybe companies in poorer countries could aquire it for their internal networking. Stuff like this is real costly right now.
You do realize that poorer countries will probably have to make the switch to ipv6, sooner than the countries that will (in your scheme) be donating the routers, don't you?
Following your suggestions, I turned on the zoom feature. It's very pixelated, although I can't say the same will be true of a Quartz extreme display. What's more, the anti-aliasing is now quite distracting.
Every so often, salon publishes an article that can only be described as "slashdot bait." Mildly interesting-- but tarted up to the point where they're practically begging to get a slashdotting, and all the ad revenue that presumably comes with such a distributed denial of service.
The basic theme of that salon article was that a skyjacker of today would have an easier time learnng the ins and outs of a modern jet instrument panel with a computer program then he would four or five years ago. Apparently, earlier flight simulators took certain liberties with instrument layout. Additionally, many of the modern simulators also simulate the flight management sytems fairly well, so if a terrorist wanted to automate portions of his flight plan, he would be more prepared to do so.
It's slightly more sophisticated than the "Doom trains students to kill" articles of a few years ago, but not by much. (And I say this as a loyal subscriber of Salon.) It might well get debunked by salon's "Ask the Pilot" column.
You can't read a barcode except at very close range. RFIDs have a range of 3--5m (best case).
Legally, SSNs aren't supposed to be used as sorting keys, and if you press hard enough, it's not required.
But yes, basically, "The Mark of the Beast" (tm), is upon us.
Actually, the deposition requirements are limited to the first and last 25 pages of source code, reproduced in a visually perceptible form, together with the page containing the copyright notice. (Source.
WordPerfect corporation was bought first by Novell, and then by Corel, by which time WordPerfect was already losing out to Microsoft's products.
The legal ground for SCO v IBM is "breach of contract." If, all of a sudden SCO registers System V, that would be a sign that further lawsuits, this time under the copyright laws, are not only possible, but probable.
RFID tags are cheap. If Nike wants to embed a RFID in the sole of a sneaker (to aid in assembly line management), Walmart can use that tag to track where that item is within the store. Later on, some persons will discover that "John Smith bought Nike #3456271621-09552" is a salable piece of information. Now, whenever John Smith walks through a scanner, the owner of that scanner will be able to identify (with a certain degree of uncertainty) a previous anonymous persona with John Smith. The film "Minority Report" gives this business model a bad name.
RFID tags are applied by a retailer or manufacturer. The consumer has no choice in the matter, and may not be able to remove them. The WOZ tags, on the other hand, will presumably be bought by individuals who will be able to decide for themselves which items to track, and which to simply ignore.
Copyright registration is a legal formality. It allows the holder to pursue a copyright infringement claim in US courts. If a copyright is registered within 90 days of publication, or prior to an alleged infringement, the holder is eligible for an additional award of legal fees.
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