Forget FM radio quality, I can tell if I like a song if it's AM radio equivalent. This is central to my solution to this whole mp3 business.
Record companies should put all of their music up for free download. All of it. I want to be able to download entire songs, albums, complete band catalogues for free. Decent database search facilities should give me proper cross-record-company recommendations of bands new to me based on bands I know I already like. In fact, as well as downloading the songs I'd like to chose a CD-rom's (full size or 3" cd) worth of songs that gets automatcially burnt and posted to me for the price of a few pounds. These data files should be in an open format that I can listen to where and when I want, play on my PC or my solid state OGG player for example.
But.
All the songs can and should be _LOW_ quality. Make them mono, make them low data rate make the files small so I can get them conveniently over a 56k modem. Make it sound like a radio in a car on a busy road, or a radio played in the living room when I'm in the kitchen. You get the idea.
In other words. More freedom for me to try before I buy. Yes some people will only download and never buy but they are only getting the equivalent of taping from the radio so that is no fundamental change for the record companies.
I can think of no other way of discovering new-to-me music that I like. If I don't like the top 20 singles that the radio plays and don't know people with similar tastes to me and decent CD collections then I can't discover new bands.[1]
Now these downloaded files can come with a digital key signature thingy which can be used for money off the full price CD if I decide I like the music and wish to place an online order for the CD. But that is not central to the plan. Yes I know that this lets the record companies track my tastes and purchases better but I'd let them if they can use that information to better recommend new music to me. Which if I like I will buy.
Well, that's my plan. Of course the record companies will hate the plan. They will try to claim that these 'perfect digital copies' will destroy their precious industry.
[1] Ok there is one other way but it doesn't really work. Buy lots of CDs in a record shop and use the no-quibble return policy on the 90% you don't like. Officially you can do this in shops here but they _really_ don't like it.
That's/. for you. You either _never_ post comments or simply accept the fact that once in a while you screw up and sit there thinking, "Damn! Why didn't I preview just another 5 times."
But remember that with all software (even free as in speech software), if you don't accept the license you can't use the software.
Bzzzt. Wrong answer. Thank you for playing. Do try again.
Section 0 of the GPL contains:
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted,
and section 5 of the GPL reads:
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
Like many rumours, I was only passing on what I'd read elsewhere. (Or is it that everything on the internet is true if you read it often enough)
What I typed still turns the xbox without game sales into a marginal business case at best. Hence moves made to restrict the usefulness of an xbox without games.
Anyway, I think we'll both agree that the vast ammounts of money that can get made in the video games industry get made by the massive selling games and not by the hardware manufacturers (though in some cases they are one and the same and the hardware company likely gets a nice cut anyway from 3rd party games).
Selling the hardware is normally a loss-leader with the idea being to get you to buy loads of high profit margin games, which even out the overall deal in their favour. As soon as you only buy the hardware (because with a mod-chip it makes a cheap general purpose computer) then the finances get all screwed.
They ask if I have ever considered getting a conservatory. I tell them with a dumb accent, "No, I vote Labour." [1]
Or.
They ask the same question and I excitedly respond, "Yes, I'd love one. I've been saving up thousands to get one but I've never found anyone able to supply just the one I want. There have always been a few problems here or there with other companies." The reply comes back. "Wonderful Sir. I'm sure we could meet all of your needs." "Ok, I'd like a smoked glass roof, with lots of opening windows, double glazed, all round and lovely polished wooden floors with underfloor heating for the winter and power and network sockets so I can use my laptop in there." "Oh I'm sure we can do all that easily for you sir." "One more thing, I almost forgot, but I live in a first floor rented flat." [2] CLICK!
Or.
Not forgetting the classic. They call and say, "Hello is that Mr.." "No, I'll just get him for you." I then place the receiver quietly down beside the phone and walk away.
[1] For non-clued or non-UK readers. Labour and Conservative are the two main political parties here (though some may dispute that). [2] In the UK we have the first floor above the ground floor, if you get that part wrong you won't get the joke.
I sent this in May this year, enjoy. The original email isn't really needed.
----BEGIN----
To my new and dear friend Barrister Mark Solomon
I was so wonderfully excited to read your interesting and informative email regarding your deliciously lucrative business proposal. May I first suggest though that you take some of the cash you have and nip out to a local computer shop and buy a keyboard where the CAPS-LOCK key is not broken. Before we proceed I was wondering what you would define a reasonable percentage of twenty five million dollars to be? After careful consideration I concluded that at least 20 percent would be acceptable, although with house prices rising so fast where I live that number may have to increase before too long. This is, of course fully open to discussion, I would not want to rule anything out at this stage in the proceedings.
Perhaps another avenue is a sales transaction, you understand that this is strictly confidential but I could offer you some 'interesting' mercendise, much of it aquired after the break-up of the former Soviet Union. Could you use a tank? I expect that those pesky vindictive government officials can call upon tanks of their own but in my experience they usually think twice (and are sometime even become very cooperative, showing complete and total change of loyalties) when faced with a nice T-84. I have 12 for sale right now, enough to invade a medium sized Palestinean town, that could be shipped as soon as funds arrive. They come with full optional extras, 125mm main gun with autoloader, full service history, CD player, air bags, traction control, leather seats and little cup holders. Any colour you wish, I like red ones myself. More can be obtained via my contacts if you need them and are prepared to accept minor detractions from an otherwise perfect armoured fighting vehicle, such as no spare tracks.
Now Anthrax may be a little passé in today's social climate and there are the problems of postal services in developed countries screening for it but nothing quite packs the punch of a bio-terrorist attack on your enemies. Sarin is also a possibility albeit at a higher price. Volume discounts are available. I'm sorry but only last week I sold my last smallpox culture to an arabian gentleman who was willing to pay 'top-dollar'.
I no longer deal in small children, only adult females. There was simply too much attention paid to the child slave market to make it finantially viable. Stocks are low at the moment, autumn is the best season for the kidnapping and brainwashing required and I have already passed on all of last years arrivals. I do have a blond available though, slightly used but nothing that won't polish up. She nags a bit but gets drunk quickly and is quite agreeable after that, if you're into that sort of thing. If you are interested I'll send you the address of the website which contains a complete picture portfolio.
Many people who truly appreciate a quality service have discovered the benefits of eastern medicine. Therefore endangered animal products are experiencing a boom right now. Tiger, Panda and Rhino products are the main areas for medicine but if you are prepared to pay for them, the eggs of the Californian Condor can be used to make excellent omelettes.
I must confess that I view it as a terrible shame that you only have 75 million United States dollars at your disposal. If you could find a further 25 million (preferbly non-sequential) then I may be able to offer you a thermonuclear device. I only supply genuine SS-18 warheads as I appreciate the quality and reliability you can only get with that brand. To paraphrase Samuel L Jackson (a personal friend of mine) in Jackie Brown, "When you absolutely, positively, have to kill every motherf****r in a 12 mile radius, SS-18, accept no substitute." Now I would understand perfectly if you felt alarmed at the seemingly too low price of 100 million dollars for a product of this nature, after all, in the acclaimed docu-drama The Peacemaker, staring George Clooney, an accurate price of 200 million dollars was quoted for a similar device. But with the quashing of the Brook Cartel and the fact that you appear to be a thoroughly nice bloke then 100 million dollars is the price I can offer you.
This is just a small sample of the goods I have available right now or can aquire through my contacts. If you are interested in any of these or have any special requests please do not hesitate to contact me any time day or night.
My very best of regards to you.
"Honest" Ernst Stavro Blofelt International Criminal Mastermind Top Floor London Hilton
P.S. If none of these attract your attention then I understand fully and I appreciate that you will still have a significant ammount of cash that you need to transport away. While I could pick it up in my helicopter one option that you may not have considered is that you could simply fax the bank notes to someone.
P.P.S Your website addresses don't work, I understand that quality IT staff are hard to find and even harder to keep in this modern 'dot com' age.
I know you can't put a quantum crytography signal through an EDFA, thus making lots of copies of the signal photons and giving you enough chances to beamsplit and measure the polarisation states.
How do I know this? Because it wouldn't be a good system if you could. What I want to know is why doesn't this work? What fundamentally stops this happening?
It can't be that Eve might NOT split off all but one of the amplified bunch of photons for any individual bit and thus giving the game away to Alice because Eve could just retransmit from scratch. Is it instead something about the beamsplitting process? I seem to remember a presentation at Uni from one of the theory guys which implied that 2 identical photons (such as the original and a copy out of an amplifier) are not independantly beamsplit but that instead take to reflection or transmission output path from the beamsplitter as a pair. Is that right? Or is it something else entirely.
If there is anyone who can reply, that would be great. I know all the experimental side of these things, I built Erbium fibre ring lasers and looked at their output polarisation states for my PhD. I just don't have the quantum theory knowledge.
Yeah right! Or rather yeah wrong. I don't trust you at all.
My top-of-the-line-2-years-ago Sony diskman never ever ever no-sireee-not-even-once skips. At all. No matter how hard you shake it or for how long. No matter which axis you shake it in either, even twisting it back and forth in the cd rotation axis. Put it this way, if you can make it skip while out jogging you have probably just been run over by a truck so the music doesn't really matter any more. All this and the player docs make no mention of any buffer size, I think the head seek technology is simply that good. (Willing to be corrected)
Of course, it only takes CDs[1] and therefore won't last long enough for serious running[2]. And light as it is, it's still probably too heavy/big not to be annoying while jogging.
So the conclusion is still probably correct, don't use a CD player, but your reasoning is off, you CAN get players that don't skip.
Cheers
[1] CDs. Compact Disks. Those things _other_ people put into their computers to make mp3s for us to download. [2] I couldn't jog 8 miles FULL STOP never mind 8 miles in less than a full CD time.
You don't put the whole thing in your living room, that would be like trying to cool your kitchen by leaving the fridge door open. Try it!
It would work just like a regular air-con unit, ie it is placed in an outside wall. The part of the box that is inside your living room has air blown across the cold side of the chip (well, across a heatsink stuck to the cold side but you get the idea) while the hot side is outside your house and has air from outside blown across it. The clever bit is that the cooling part is only a couple of square inches in area, before fans and air-hoses are added to actually get the air across the heatsink and back out into your room.
And to those you say this is rubbish because it puts the 'hot' and 'cold' only millimeters apart obviously have not seen peltier coolers, which are only millimeters thick anyway and are stupidly inefficient, but are still used becuae they are all we have have when you need to put _that_ component at exactly _this_ temperature (like a telecomms DWDM laser).
Juggle is a photomosaic program a friend wrote (in Java, GPL'd, used in LIMP, check it out)
He has a doc on his website which explains some of the problems and gives the algorithms (with refs) which he used to work out which colours were closest for the purposes of matching sub-tiles to parts of the target image. You want the algorithms.pdf link.
(Sorry about the tagging, I couldn't work out how to lose the hannover bit in the comment)
Maybe build photonic band gap structures out of carbon. Search the web for 'holey fibre' and look at the pictures of honeycomb holes down the length of fibres. The light goes down the holes through the glass and not down the glass itself as in a normal fibre.
No, 2 is the max. Circular polarisation is just horizontal AND vertical at the same time, with the same amplitude and 90 out of phase. So you will not be able to discriminate the channels if you add in extra horizonal and vertically polarised light as well.
And yes, fibre can handle circular modes, or any other polarisation state for that matter.
Last geeky point. Orthogonal can be rephrased as '2 polarisation states occupying antipodean points on the Poincaré Sphere'
At least you don't live in the UK. Here we have some CDs at 17 UKP. So that's ~24 USD for recordings like 'Kill Em All' by Metallica. Granted some are cheaper, but most are in the 14 to 17 UKP range, even (see previous example) for old recordings.
UT runs fine for me.
Once I got it working that is. DRI gave me a lot a grief but I finally got 3D working properly and can snipe in CTF-Face all day if I want. And sometimes do, although last-man-standing is my fave at the moment.
BP6 w/ 2x533 and a G400Max. I never need to create a dedicated login or stop any processes except the obvious ones like xine or oggenc.
Did the dedicated login back when I had a Cyrix166 trying to run CivCTP at 1280x1024.
Present deployed undersea cables are pushing into the terrabits, you can't easily transmit more than 40Gb/s in one wavelength. Hence they do use DWDM tech for these cables.
One of the latest transatlantic cables that went down had 64 channels at 10Gig per channel. Future cables will (roughly) double the number of channels to 100ish and double the data rate per channel. After that the plans are to polarization combine two signals at the same wavelength, one signal horizontally polarized the other vertically polarized.
In this whole area the commercially deployed systems are catching up with lab tech at an alarming rate. The 'field' is now only about 2 years behind the 'lab'.
Slashdot Mirror
Forget FM radio quality, I can tell if I like a song if it's AM radio equivalent. This is central to my solution to this whole mp3 business.
Record companies should put all of their music up for free download. All of it. I want to be able to download entire songs, albums, complete band catalogues for free. Decent database search facilities should give me proper cross-record-company recommendations of bands new to me based on bands I know I already like. In fact, as well as downloading the songs I'd like to chose a CD-rom's (full size or 3" cd) worth of songs that gets automatcially burnt and posted to me for the price of a few pounds. These data files should be in an open format that I can listen to where and when I want, play on my PC or my solid state OGG player for example.
But.
All the songs can and should be _LOW_ quality. Make them mono, make them low data rate make the files small so I can get them conveniently over a 56k modem. Make it sound like a radio in a car on a busy road, or a radio played in the living room when I'm in the kitchen. You get the idea.
In other words. More freedom for me to try before I buy. Yes some people will only download and never buy but they are only getting the equivalent of taping from the radio so that is no fundamental change for the record companies.
I can think of no other way of discovering new-to-me music that I like. If I don't like the top 20 singles that the radio plays and don't know people with similar tastes to me and decent CD collections then I can't discover new bands.[1]
Now these downloaded files can come with a digital key signature thingy which can be used for money off the full price CD if I decide I like the music and wish to place an online order for the CD. But that is not central to the plan. Yes I know that this lets the record companies track my tastes and purchases better but I'd let them if they can use that information to better recommend new music to me. Which if I like I will buy.
Well, that's my plan. Of course the record companies will hate the plan. They will try to claim that these 'perfect digital copies' will destroy their precious industry.
[1] Ok there is one other way but it doesn't really work. Buy lots of CDs in a record shop and use the no-quibble return policy on the 90% you don't like. Officially you can do this in shops here but they _really_ don't like it.
That's /. for you. You either _never_ post comments or simply accept the fact that once in a while you screw up and sit there thinking, "Damn! Why didn't I preview just another 5 times."
But remember that with all software (even free as in speech software), if you don't accept the license you can't use the software.
Bzzzt. Wrong answer. Thank you for playing. Do try again.
Section 0 of the GPL contains:
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of
running the Program is not restricted,
and section 5 of the GPL reads:
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by
modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
the Program or works based on it.
Like many rumours, I was only passing on what I'd read elsewhere. (Or is it that everything on the internet is true if you read it often enough)
What I typed still turns the xbox without game sales into a marginal business case at best. Hence moves made to restrict the usefulness of an xbox without games.
Anyway, I think we'll both agree that the vast ammounts of money that can get made in the video games industry get made by the massive selling games and not by the hardware manufacturers (though in some cases they are one and the same and the hardware company likely gets a nice cut anyway from 3rd party games).
Selling the hardware is normally a loss-leader with the idea being to get you to buy loads of high profit margin games, which even out the overall deal in their favour.
As soon as you only buy the hardware (because with a mod-chip it makes a cheap general purpose computer) then the finances get all screwed.
They ask if I have ever considered getting a conservatory. I tell them with a dumb accent, "No, I vote Labour." [1]
."
Or.
They ask the same question and I excitedly respond, "Yes, I'd love one. I've been saving up thousands to get one but I've never found anyone able to supply just the one I want. There have always been a few problems here or there with other companies."
The reply comes back. "Wonderful Sir. I'm sure we could meet all of your needs."
"Ok, I'd like a smoked glass roof, with lots of opening windows, double glazed, all round and lovely polished wooden floors with underfloor heating for the winter and power and network sockets so I can use my laptop in there."
"Oh I'm sure we can do all that easily for you sir."
"One more thing, I almost forgot, but I live in a first floor rented flat." [2]
CLICK!
Or.
Not forgetting the classic.
They call and say, "Hello is that Mr.
"No, I'll just get him for you."
I then place the receiver quietly down beside the phone and walk away.
[1] For non-clued or non-UK readers. Labour and Conservative are the two main political parties here (though some may dispute that).
[2] In the UK we have the first floor above the ground floor, if you get that part wrong you won't get the joke.
I sent this in May this year, enjoy. The original email isn't really needed.
----BEGIN----
To my new and dear friend Barrister Mark Solomon
I was so wonderfully excited to read your interesting and informative email regarding your deliciously lucrative business proposal. May I first suggest though that you take some of the cash you have and nip out to a local computer shop and buy a keyboard where the CAPS-LOCK key is not broken.
Before we proceed I was wondering what you would define a reasonable percentage of twenty five million dollars to be? After careful consideration I concluded that at least 20 percent would be acceptable, although with house prices rising so fast where I live that number may have to increase before too long. This is, of course fully open to discussion, I would not want to rule anything out at this stage in the proceedings.
Perhaps another avenue is a sales transaction, you understand that this is strictly confidential but I could offer you some 'interesting' mercendise, much of it aquired after the break-up of the former Soviet Union. Could you use a tank? I expect that those pesky vindictive government officials can call upon tanks of their own but in my experience they usually think twice (and are sometime even become very cooperative, showing complete and total change of loyalties) when faced with a nice T-84. I have 12 for sale right now, enough to invade a medium sized Palestinean town, that could be shipped as soon as funds arrive. They come with full optional extras, 125mm main gun with autoloader, full service history, CD player, air bags, traction control, leather seats and little cup holders. Any colour you wish, I like red ones myself. More can be obtained via my contacts if you need them and are prepared to accept minor detractions from an otherwise perfect armoured fighting vehicle, such as no spare tracks.
Now Anthrax may be a little passé in today's social climate and there are the problems of postal services in developed countries screening for it but nothing quite packs the punch of a bio-terrorist attack on your enemies. Sarin is also a possibility albeit at a higher price. Volume discounts are available. I'm sorry but only last week I sold my last smallpox culture to an arabian gentleman who was willing to pay 'top-dollar'.
I no longer deal in small children, only adult females. There was simply too much attention paid to the child slave market to make it finantially viable. Stocks are low at the moment, autumn is the best season for the kidnapping and brainwashing required and I have already passed on all of last years arrivals. I do have a blond available though, slightly used but nothing that won't polish up. She nags a bit but gets drunk quickly and is quite agreeable after that, if you're into that sort of thing. If you are interested I'll send you the address of the website which contains a complete picture portfolio.
Many people who truly appreciate a quality service have discovered the benefits of eastern medicine. Therefore endangered animal products are experiencing a boom right now. Tiger, Panda and Rhino products are the main areas for medicine but if you are prepared to pay for them, the eggs of the Californian Condor can be used to make excellent omelettes.
I must confess that I view it as a terrible shame that you only have 75 million United States dollars at your disposal. If you could find a further 25 million (preferbly non-sequential) then I may be able to offer you a thermonuclear device. I only supply genuine SS-18 warheads as I appreciate the quality and reliability you can only get with that brand. To paraphrase Samuel L Jackson (a personal friend of mine) in Jackie Brown, "When you absolutely, positively, have to kill every motherf****r in a 12 mile radius, SS-18, accept no substitute."
Now I would understand perfectly if you felt alarmed at the seemingly too low price of 100 million dollars for a product of this nature, after all, in the acclaimed docu-drama The Peacemaker, staring George Clooney, an accurate price of 200 million dollars was quoted for a similar device. But with the quashing of the Brook Cartel and the fact that you appear to be a thoroughly nice bloke then 100 million dollars is the price I can offer you.
This is just a small sample of the goods I have available right now or can aquire through my contacts. If you are interested in any of these or have any special requests please do not hesitate to contact me any time day or night.
My very best of regards to you.
"Honest" Ernst Stavro Blofelt
International Criminal Mastermind
Top Floor
London Hilton
P.S. If none of these attract your attention then I understand fully and I appreciate that you will still have a significant ammount of cash that you need to transport away. While I could pick it up in my helicopter one option that you may not have considered is that you could simply fax the bank notes to someone.
P.P.S Your website addresses don't work, I understand that quality IT staff are hard to find and even harder to keep in this modern 'dot com' age.
----END----
I have a question on that anyway.
I know you can't put a quantum crytography signal through an EDFA, thus making lots of copies of the signal photons and giving you enough chances to beamsplit and measure the polarisation states.
How do I know this? Because it wouldn't be a good system if you could. What I want to know is why doesn't this work? What fundamentally stops this happening?
It can't be that Eve might NOT split off all but one of the amplified bunch of photons for any individual bit and thus giving the game away to Alice because Eve could just retransmit from scratch.
Is it instead something about the beamsplitting process? I seem to remember a presentation at Uni from one of the theory guys which implied that 2 identical photons (such as the original and a copy out of an amplifier) are not independantly beamsplit but that instead take to reflection or transmission output path from the beamsplitter as a pair.
Is that right? Or is it something else entirely.
If there is anyone who can reply, that would be great. I know all the experimental side of these things, I built Erbium fibre ring lasers and looked at their output polarisation states for my PhD. I just don't have the quantum theory knowledge.
Otherwise known as 'Just plain wrong'.
Repeat after me.
This is not Quantum Crytography.
Now write it out 500 times. Cut and paste is not allowed.
(unless we figure out how to retransmit photons with the same polarisation.)
Not even close. That part is easy
The trick with QKD is not Eve retransmitting on the right poln state, it is knowing which state the incoming photon arrived in.
Bzzzt.
We need a 'Just plain wrong' moderation.
As many others have typed, this is not quantum crypto.
At last!
Typing as someone who built erbium fibre ring lasers for his PhD it is so good to finally read a message from somone else with a clue.
Or even take an idea from the old days when there was the 'images' button.
Have a default no-javascript setup with 2 reload buttons. Reload as normal and reload with javascript enabled for this domain/site/page etc.
Yeah right! Or rather yeah wrong.
I don't trust you at all.
My top-of-the-line-2-years-ago Sony diskman never ever ever no-sireee-not-even-once skips. At all. No matter how hard you shake it or for how long. No matter which axis you shake it in either, even twisting it back and forth in the cd rotation axis. Put it this way, if you can make it skip while out jogging you have probably just been run over by a truck so the music doesn't really matter any more.
All this and the player docs make no mention of any buffer size, I think the head seek technology is simply that good. (Willing to be corrected)
Of course, it only takes CDs[1] and therefore won't last long enough for serious running[2]. And light as it is, it's still probably too heavy/big not to be annoying while jogging.
So the conclusion is still probably correct, don't use a CD player, but your reasoning is off, you CAN get players that don't skip.
Cheers
[1] CDs. Compact Disks. Those things _other_ people put into their computers to make mp3s for us to download.
[2] I couldn't jog 8 miles FULL STOP never mind 8 miles in less than a full CD time.
Hate middle I also endian.
I think that perfectly explains my opinion.
"Oh no, Pikachu's not up to this!
"Yoda, I choose you."
You don't put the whole thing in your living room, that would be like trying to cool your kitchen by leaving the fridge door open. Try it!
It would work just like a regular air-con unit, ie it is placed in an outside wall. The part of the box that is inside your living room has air blown across the cold side of the chip (well, across a heatsink stuck to the cold side but you get the idea) while the hot side is outside your house and has air from outside blown across it. The clever bit is that the cooling part is only a couple of square inches in area, before fans and air-hoses are added to actually get the air across the heatsink and back out into your room.
And to those you say this is rubbish because it puts the 'hot' and 'cold' only millimeters apart obviously have not seen peltier coolers, which are only millimeters thick anyway and are stupidly inefficient, but are still used becuae they are all we have have when you need to put _that_ component at exactly _this_ temperature (like a telecomms DWDM laser).
If a paper gets accepted for presentation at a conference like this one did, then it is always going to be a step forward.
Juggle is a photomosaic program a friend wrote (in Java, GPL'd, used in LIMP, check it out)
He has a doc on his website which explains some of the problems and gives the algorithms (with refs) which he used to work out which colours were closest for the purposes of matching sub-tiles to parts of the target image. You want the algorithms.pdf link.
(Sorry about the tagging, I couldn't work out how to lose the hannover bit in the comment)
From my friendly neighbourhood Ximian mirror.
mozilla-0.9.7-ximian.2.i386.rpm 22-Jan-2002
mozilla-chat-0.9.7-ximian.2.i386.rpm 22-Jan-2002
mozilla-devel-0.9.7-ximian.2.i386.rpm 22-Jan-2002
mozilla-mail-0.9.7-ximian.2.i386.rpm 22-Jan-2002
mozilla-psm-0.9.7-ximian.2.i386.rpm 22-Jan-2002
mozilla-xmlterm-0.9.7-ximian.2.i386.rpm 22-Jan-2002
Guess you should have typed, "Damn Ximian, make a release only 2 weeks before the new one comes out"
Maybe build photonic band gap structures out of carbon. Search the web for 'holey fibre' and look at the pictures of honeycomb holes down the length of fibres. The light goes down the holes through the glass and not down the glass itself as in a normal fibre.
No, 2 is the max. Circular polarisation is just horizontal AND vertical at the same time, with the same amplitude and 90 out of phase. So you will not be able to discriminate the channels if you add in extra horizonal and vertically polarised light as well.
And yes, fibre can handle circular modes, or any other polarisation state for that matter.
Last geeky point. Orthogonal can be rephrased as '2 polarisation states occupying antipodean points on the Poincaré Sphere'
Stop moaning.
At least you don't live in the UK. Here we have some CDs at 17 UKP. So that's ~24 USD for recordings like 'Kill Em All' by Metallica. Granted some are cheaper, but most are in the 14 to 17 UKP range, even (see previous example) for old recordings.
UT runs fine for me.
Once I got it working that is. DRI gave me a lot a grief but I finally got 3D working properly and can snipe in CTF-Face all day if I want. And sometimes do, although last-man-standing is my fave at the moment.
BP6 w/ 2x533 and a G400Max. I never need to create a dedicated login or stop any processes except the obvious ones like xine or oggenc.
Did the dedicated login back when I had a Cyrix166 trying to run CivCTP at 1280x1024.
Present deployed undersea cables are pushing into the terrabits, you can't easily transmit more than 40Gb/s in one wavelength. Hence they do use DWDM tech for these cables.
One of the latest transatlantic cables that went down had 64 channels at 10Gig per channel. Future cables will (roughly) double the number of channels to 100ish and double the data rate per channel. After that the plans are to polarization combine two signals at the same wavelength, one signal horizontally polarized the other vertically polarized.
In this whole area the commercially deployed systems are catching up with lab tech at an alarming rate. The 'field' is now only about 2 years behind the 'lab'.