RAID is using fiberchannel in stead of firewire, as it is better suited for using raid systems.
But high numbers for firewire are interesting for video. Right now uncompressed standard TV is about 400mbit (I guess this is why the first firewire was this speed). So you can imagine what uncompressed HDTV would use.
Luckaly these days we have compressed HDTV that only uses 100mbit over firewire (canon DVCPRO HD cameras), so that we can use standard disks to record on.
But for special effects you will still need uncompressed HD.
You should neither need to do javascript or redirect. You can use a multipart mime-message. First generate a HTML page with "please wait" then calculate the new page and when it is finished push it out on the same connection.
What you could even do is push multible pages, with a continued estimate on how long it is still going to take, say every 10 seconds. It can know this because you are pushing these pages in the same process as the long calculation is.
Well, at least on the BBC you see the occasional streaker (someone who is naked) running in front of the camera at a sporting event. I've even seen it happen at snooker.
So yes, you should be expecting anything in a live broadcast. It could also happen that the sporting arena catches fire and you see people trampled to death by people on live tv.
I rather have sex than violence on tv, but then I'm a european.
I read a lot of one-time-password schemes here, but I didn't see many about challenge-response.
Here in the Netherlands, banks like ABN AMRO (which I am member of) give out generic calculators to everyone who has a internet account.
When you login, they request your account number and card number. and give you a challenge number.
You slide your bank card which has a chip on it in the calculator and press in your PIN. Then you type in the challenge number and you get the response back.
You type in the response on the website and you are authenticated.
When you commit transactions you sign them by responding to a challenge which is a hash from the transaction.
with X11 the display tells the application/library at how much dpi it is running. This way applications like photoshop can display the content at absolute size.
To bad most systems mswindows and even mac os x don't let you specify the actual size of your screen. On my linux system content is showed in absolute size for years on my 1600x1200 15" display. And it is really exact, using a pdf viewer to show an A4 at 100% is only off 1mm.
I would expect apple to change this in the future, as how they right now implemented the graphics in OpenGL, the dpi could change per window.
Resizing a window could have a whole new meaning, like it does in expose, where the windows keep the same width and height in pixels, but the dpi changes.
So the road is paved for apple to go to truly high resolution display, we may finally see 300 dpi displays in our lifetimes.
It is more like people are wearing T-shirts in a crowded shopping mall. now most of these T-shirts are made by microsoft and have some holes in them.
If you shoot a special bullet in that hole the T-shirt begins to magically fire the same kind of bullets all around, and you get a cascade effect where all the T-shirts begin to fire bullets.
Now microsoft offer pieces of cloth to patch up this particular hole in the T-shirt, and you could also have warn a jacket or even a bullet proved vest over this T-shirt which would have solved this particular problem.
There are even people with already firing T-shirts and they walk to an other crowded place and infect the T-shirts there. Granted if you are wearing a blindfold you may not have known your t-shirt is actauly firing bullets.
Now lots of people actually die from these bullets. Now can you say that the people that wear these T-shirts with holes in them are completely free from blame?
Technically you can start your own internet. You just start off with a couple of computers and give them a couple of IP addresses. There are two ways to go about this: completely on your own and just pick some number out of thin air (but you will not be compatible with the current Internet) or get a range from IANA (with IPv6 there are anough to get it straight from the horses mouth).
Now you connect your neighbour's computers to your own with ethernet and two routers. Now in most countries you may not lay cables above or below the street without the nessesary permits, but we have wifi for that. Now, those neighbours will connect to their neighbours, etc.
And slowly as more people get connected like this to your internet, without paying a telco a single dime, you will slowly replace the current Internet.
With the current wifi technology and grid networking getting more mature, this may become the end of telcos.
It is actually much worse. The clapboard only syncs the film/video to audio at a single point, but as time processes during a take the audio and video will slowly get out of sync.
Thus today's syncing technology consists of:
blackburst (which makes sure the video/film camera ticks at a consistent rate)
word clock (which does the same for digital audio equipment)
SMPTE/EBU LTC time-code (uses an audio channel to set the frame number)
The SMPTE LTC code is both recorded on an audio stripe (channel) of a multitrack audio recorder, and on an audio stripe of the film-camera. It is also possible to sync MIDI and DV-timecode to SMPTE time-code.
Now, there is equipment that creates all these signals, or you can build a chain of syncs. Blackburst is often the master, on which the word clock and SMPTE time-code is synced with a PPL (phase locked loop).
I just started in the video and film business and I was stunned by all of this.
It shows the drawing you can do most things with the mouse.
But on the bottom of the screen there is a command line interface where you can tell them where to draw the circle and be exact. It is very difficult to position objects on exact positions using the mouse. And filling in dialogue boxes is just slower then typing a command.
Well, I've been a Python programmer for years and I can tell you that it like VB is not only a prototype language, altough people think when they first look at the language.
It is also not a "pure" OO language, you can write linear script like, write procedural, even pure functional and ofource OO, or combine them all. Although the syntax is pretty strikt unlike perl, the way you can program is very open.
I'm not a windows programmer, but I have played with Python under windows, and a large part of the windows API is exposed "as standard" in python.
It is also very easy to add API and callbacks in Python. For example I build in a few days a coupling that alowed python to be used as a TopEnd (Transactional middleware) service/application component. (You were talking about transaction based systems)
Now, I'm sure not everything you mentioned are already exposed to python, but the parent also told about a full decade, that is 10 years. And I am sure You could make everything you put in that list by yourself in a year, including learning python language and concept.
Python is very easy to pick up, even by non-programmers. There are people teaching Python to their 6 year olds. I've noticed there is even turtle graphics (from the old LOGO language) in Python.
Also the interactive python interpreter is very nice, you can test and learn concepts on its command prompt. even making TCP connections, opening windows, changing fields in excel, or connecting to a transaction system.
My languages of choice are Python/C, I know many more languages, but I don't need more. (except for work, but that is not by choice). I use C mostly if things needs to be fast (such as image, video or audio processing) or if I want to expose a API to Python.
Now, I'm certan that technicaly VB can easely be replaced by Python. There are many political reasons that this may not be the case.
Or you could go the way of how formula 1 cameras work. They use a roll of transparent plastic sheet, attached to a single motor. Exactly like a photo roll.
The technology is very sturdy and well proven, as it is used on formula 1 cars.
IEEE kernel discusion happens in a different mailing list too. I have seen a lot of emails of late about some firewire devices failing on 2.6
However I'm running 2.6 with firewire and it works perfectly, especially the storage devices now get assigned a scsi device automatically, instead that you have to tell the scsi system to do it.
See the contact page at: http://www.linux1394.org/
Then again, I live in the Netherlands but I was at work in Belgium and in the hotel I was watching the news.
There was a kidnapping of a rich kid (who lived in the netherlands) and he was found (alive) in belgium. This doesn't happen very much where I live (or at least it isn't reported).
Now the interesting thing was, that the FBI helped in the investigation. The news didn't report why FBI agents helped, so I couldn't comment. It could be just some agents in a foreign exchange program though.
X works perfectly ok, KDE does the wrong thing KDE should ask the X server at what horizontal and vertical DPI the window is renderd. Then it should draw the graphics for buttons, menus and font for this size.
Remember, it used to be that we only had screens with 640 x 480 resolution, now on my notebook I'm running at 1600x1200 on a 15" screen. And I love it that my fonts are the same size on my screen as it is on paper.
BTW, In the future windows on a screen could each have there own DPI settings as windows are now drawn as a texture on a polygon. Resizing a window may have a new meaning in the future.
Interesting point, I guess it is, because it is not intended to be broken.
Then there is the whole artist rights (at least in the netherlands an artist can't give up these rights), about how a work is used, for example if you buy a painting from an artists, he can insist that you won't destroy it.
And I don't think there is an exception for easely copyable items such as CDs.
That is exactly the same as with programming, commenting code is bad.
Even the specification of most function, should not have to be written, and should be clear from the name of the function and the name of the arguments.
I notice this for example if I am writing Java doc comments (I do work for companies that require this) and most of the time I just copy the name of an argument as the description.
Ofource there are exception, we live in the real world ofcource, but we should strive to program without comments and make interfaces without manuals.
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Yes, but we are not talking about DVD-R, real pirates wouldn't make DVD-R's because it takes to much time to make.
No, they make glass masters and press all the DVDs, much cheaper, plus you can make a bit for bit copy.
Acording to "Film Art" a study book about films, propaganda is a sub-genre of documentaries.
RAID is using fiberchannel in stead of firewire, as it is better suited for using raid systems.
But high numbers for firewire are interesting for video. Right now uncompressed standard TV is about 400mbit (I guess this is why the first firewire was this speed). So you can imagine what uncompressed HDTV would use.
Luckaly these days we have compressed HDTV that only uses 100mbit over firewire (canon DVCPRO HD cameras), so that we can use standard disks to record on.
But for special effects you will still need uncompressed HD.
You should neither need to do javascript or redirect. You can use a multipart mime-message. First generate a HTML page with "please wait" then calculate the new page and when it is finished push it out on the same connection.
What you could even do is push multible pages, with a continued estimate on how long it is still going to take, say every 10 seconds. It can know this because you are pushing these pages in the same process as the long calculation is.
The only problem I see, is that people will use their computer to calculate some useless, and will actually use more electricity/energy doing so.
Now, if this could be combined with grid computing, then we may find ET faster.
Well, at least on the BBC you see the occasional streaker (someone who is naked) running in front of the camera at a sporting event. I've even seen it happen at snooker.
So yes, you should be expecting anything in a live broadcast. It could also happen that the sporting arena catches fire and you see people trampled to death by people on live tv.
I rather have sex than violence on tv, but then I'm a european.
I've seen on the BBC website about submitting content for BBC World, is that they do HDTV 1080i broadcast in some regions.
I read a lot of one-time-password schemes here, but I didn't see many about challenge-response.
Here in the Netherlands, banks like ABN AMRO (which I am member of) give out generic calculators to everyone who has a internet account.
When you login, they request your account number and card number. and give you a challenge number.
You slide your bank card which has a chip on it in the calculator and press in your PIN. Then you type in the challenge number and you get the response back.
You type in the response on the website and you are authenticated.
When you commit transactions you sign them by responding to a challenge which is a hash from the transaction.
with X11 the display tells the application/library at how much dpi it is running. This way applications like photoshop can display the content at absolute size.
To bad most systems mswindows and even mac os x don't let you specify the actual size of your screen. On my linux system content is showed in absolute size for years on my 1600x1200 15" display. And it is really exact, using a pdf viewer to show an A4 at 100% is only off 1mm.
I would expect apple to change this in the future, as how they right now implemented the graphics in OpenGL, the dpi could change per window.
Resizing a window could have a whole new meaning, like it does in expose, where the windows keep the same width and height in pixels, but the dpi changes.
So the road is paved for apple to go to truly high resolution display, we may finally see 300 dpi displays in our lifetimes.
To complete your bullet proof vest analogy.
It is more like people are wearing T-shirts in a crowded shopping mall. now most of these T-shirts are made by microsoft and have some holes in them.
If you shoot a special bullet in that hole the T-shirt begins to magically fire the same kind of bullets all around, and you get a cascade effect where all the T-shirts begin to fire bullets.
Now microsoft offer pieces of cloth to patch up this particular hole in the T-shirt, and you could also have warn a jacket or even a bullet proved vest over this T-shirt which would have solved this particular problem.
There are even people with already firing T-shirts and they walk to an other crowded place and infect the T-shirts there. Granted if you are wearing a blindfold you may not have known your t-shirt is actauly firing bullets.
Now lots of people actually die from these bullets.
Now can you say that the people that wear these T-shirts with holes in them are completely free from blame?
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Technically you can start your own internet.
You just start off with a couple of computers and give them a couple of IP addresses. There are two ways to go about this: completely on your own and just pick some number out of thin air (but you will not be compatible with the current Internet) or get a range from IANA (with IPv6 there are anough to get it straight from the horses mouth).
Now you connect your neighbour's computers to your own with ethernet and two routers. Now in most countries you may not lay cables above or below the street without the nessesary permits, but we have wifi for that. Now, those neighbours will connect to their neighbours, etc.
And slowly as more people get connected like this to your internet, without paying a telco a single dime, you will slowly replace the current Internet.
With the current wifi technology and grid networking getting more mature, this may become the end of telcos.
Thus today's syncing technology consists of:
The SMPTE LTC code is both recorded on an audio stripe (channel) of a multitrack audio recorder, and on an audio stripe of the film-camera. It is also possible to sync MIDI and DV-timecode to SMPTE time-code.
Now, there is equipment that creates all these signals, or you can build a chain of syncs. Blackburst is often the master, on which the word clock and SMPTE time-code is synced with a PPL (phase locked loop).
I just started in the video and film business and I was stunned by all of this.
I actualy just got a movie on DVD with my sereal box. here in the netherlands.
some animation with scooby doo.
a CAD program has both.
It shows the drawing you can do most things with the mouse.
But on the bottom of the screen there is a command line interface where you can tell them where to draw the circle and be exact. It is very difficult to position objects on exact positions using the mouse. And filling in dialogue boxes is just slower then typing a command.
As soon as you are a public traded company your customers are not the ones that buy your product or service, but the stock holders.
I've seen this now with a lot of companies, no more long term vision, because the stock holders don't have long term vision.
Well, I've been a Python programmer for years and I can tell you that it like VB is not only a prototype language, altough people think when they first look at the language.
It is also not a "pure" OO language, you can write linear script like, write procedural, even pure functional and ofource OO, or combine them all. Although the syntax is pretty strikt unlike perl, the way you can program is very open.
I'm not a windows programmer, but I have played with Python under windows, and a large part of the windows API is exposed "as standard" in python.
It is also very easy to add API and callbacks in Python. For example I build in a few days a coupling that alowed python to be used as a TopEnd (Transactional middleware) service/application component. (You were talking about transaction based systems)
Now, I'm sure not everything you mentioned are already exposed to python, but the parent also told about a full decade, that is 10 years.
And I am sure You could make everything you put in that list by yourself in a year, including learning python language and concept.
Python is very easy to pick up, even by non-programmers. There are people teaching Python to their 6 year olds. I've noticed there is even turtle graphics (from the old LOGO language) in Python.
Also the interactive python interpreter is very nice, you can test and learn concepts on its command prompt. even making TCP connections, opening windows, changing fields in excel, or connecting to a transaction system.
My languages of choice are Python/C, I know many more languages, but I don't need more. (except for work, but that is not by choice). I use C mostly if things needs to be fast (such as image, video or audio processing) or if I want to expose a API to Python.
Now, I'm certan that technicaly VB can easely be replaced by Python. There are many political reasons that this may not be the case.
Or you could go the way of how formula 1 cameras work. They use a roll of transparent plastic sheet, attached to a single motor. Exactly like a photo roll.
The technology is very sturdy and well proven, as it is used on formula 1 cars.
IEEE kernel discusion happens in a different mailing list too. I have seen a lot of emails of late about some firewire devices failing on 2.6
However I'm running 2.6 with firewire and it works perfectly, especially the storage devices now get assigned a scsi device automatically, instead that you have to tell the scsi system to do it.
See the contact page at:
http://www.linux1394.org/
Then again, I live in the Netherlands but I was at work in Belgium and in the hotel I was watching the news.
There was a kidnapping of a rich kid (who lived in the netherlands) and he was found (alive) in belgium. This doesn't happen very much where I live (or at least it isn't reported).
Now the interesting thing was, that the FBI helped in the investigation. The news didn't report why FBI agents helped, so I couldn't comment. It could be just some agents in a foreign exchange program though.
X works perfectly ok, KDE does the wrong thing
KDE should ask the X server at what horizontal and vertical DPI the window is renderd.
Then it should draw the graphics for buttons, menus and font for this size.
Remember, it used to be that we only had screens with 640 x 480 resolution, now on my notebook I'm running at 1600x1200 on a 15" screen. And I love it that my fonts are the same size on my screen as it is on paper.
BTW, In the future windows on a screen could each have there own DPI settings as windows are now drawn as a texture on a polygon. Resizing a window may have a new meaning in the future.
Thank you very much, I've been looking for the title of this movie for about 5 years.
It was one which I remember from my youth, and had a big impact on me.
hmm, but if everyone is using the mesh, then the internet is the mesh, no need to have an isp anymore.
Problem is then that the telcos are out of a job, except maybe for laying cables for some private high-end connections.
Actually I've seen these things in europe too, there are very handy at these rock festivals.
But with little practice and shaping, girls can pee standing up, without these extra tools. I've seen this shown on tv.
But then again, I'm not a girl, so what do I know.
Interesting point, I guess it is, because it is not intended to be broken.
Then there is the whole artist rights (at least in the netherlands an artist can't give up these rights), about how a work is used, for example if you buy a painting from an artists, he can insist that you won't destroy it.
And I don't think there is an exception for easely copyable items such as CDs.
That is exactly the same as with programming, commenting code is bad.
Even the specification of most function, should not have to be written, and should be clear from the name of the function and the name of the arguments.
I notice this for example if I am writing Java doc comments (I do work for companies that require this) and most of the time I just copy the name of an argument as the description.
Ofource there are exception, we live in the real world ofcource, but we should strive to program without comments and make interfaces without manuals.