Will this update enable my 2x SuperDrive to write at a higher speed?
This update enables you to read from and write to the new media, but it does not increase the speed of the drive. In fact, the updated 2x SuperDrive writes to this new media at 1x. So to obtain the highest performance from your 2x SuperDrive, we recommend that you continue using 2x DVD-R media just as you do today.
No. Many groundbreaking demos are weird. They have strange video modes, odd refresh rates, or require old hardware. To find ways to render these demos in a very professional looking manner, and then to convert it to DVD is difficult. Also, to convert the demos, with quirky framerates, to the DVD framerate without flickers or frame repeats or other mistimings required some work. The audio also needs to be synchronized with the video. Some demos might have needed to be edited for time contraints. Each demo had to be dealt with differently. I can easily imagine that they spent thousands of dollars on hardware, not to mention the money needed to actually manufacture these DVDs.
To quote Mr. Chief Justice Marshall: "Commerce, undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse. It describes the commerical intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse."
To quote Mr. Justice Johnson: "Commerce, in its simplest signification, means an exchange of goods; but in the advancement of society, labour, transportation, intelligence, care, and various mediums of exchange, become commodities, and enter into commerce; the subject, the vehicle, the agent, and their various operations, become the objects of commercial regulation. Ship building, the carrying trade, and propagation of seamen, are such vital agents of commercial prosperity, that the nation which could not legislate over these subjects, would not possess power to regulate commerce."
Uh, actually! There are organized networks that specialize in stealing left socks out of the dryer (while drying). They tend to favor laundromats. Who knows what they'd do when they were to encounter ice.
Though the EFF and the ACLU have *somewhat* one-sided perspectives on such legislation, they're still a great resource. The papers that the EFF produces are always highly detailed and informative in nature. Maybe just stating some choice stats or using the information as background could help you get your point across.
I've got GPG, and I have enigmail to integrate it with Mozilla. If everyone I knew had keys, I'd encrypt every email that I sent. But I can't do that, and simply signing it won't do. People that don't know what PGP is get scared when they see my signed message, with those "weird" "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----" type things and hash identifiers. People will think I've got a virus, so I can really only encrypt or sign my email to a select few people, and I talk to those people via IRC and AIM far more than I do by email. It's got to be much more seamless for people to not get scared by encryption.
FLAC is a very nice lossless audio codec as well, plus it's open and multi-platform. It's got a pretty nice Win32 GUI frontend, too. You can compress audio to about 50%, though some of mine go to 60% occasionally.
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In addition to The Elegant Universe, I really like the book The Quark and the Jaguar, by Murray Gell-Mann. Not completely about quantum mechanics (though a large portion of it is), it delves into basic scientific philosophy, and makes for a very interesting read.
Gaah! I disagree! The CD is becoming obsolete in terms of distribution, with MP3s and such now. But that is not the case with the written word.
Unlike music, books are not "natural." One can't just look at one and understand it. One has to read it, use his brain, comprehend what the squiggles on the page mean. It appeals to our sentience, to be able to understand it. These are words on a page.
And we can take the book with you wherever you go. The paper is portable. One can turn the pages, feel the substance of what he is reading. It feels good. No matter how hard we try, the e-book, computerized text, whatever you want to call it, is not like paper. It doesn't have the same effect as paper. Paper is here to stay for a long time.
Paper is simply the logical representation of our mind. It can be spatially shuffled, moved around, and organized. Now, CD's can be spatially shuffled and organized, but I can safely say that one doesn't get the same sense of completion when he has stacked his CDs in a pile as compared to when he has stacked his tax return in a pile and is ready to send it off. (It's tax day today!)
Windows Privacy Tray seems to be the best Windows GPG GUI, I use it as my PGP replacement at the moment. I also have Mozilla, which doesn't have such great PGP integration, so I relay through GPGrelay, which checks all incoming POP mail for PGP stuff, then decrypts and verifies or encrypts and signs behind the scenes. Mozilla only sees the mail after GPGrelay has dealt with it, so it's the closest I get to seamless integration. I don't have any problems with it.
But we're not taking energy out of a system. The energy's on Earth, isn't it? You move it around a bit, make some use of it. No loss. In the ocean, the tides expend massive energy every time a wave breaks. The little generators have the same general effect. It's like saying that solar cells will cause the premature burnout of the Sun. The energy's there, we can choose to take advantage of it or no.
Or even better, be able to spout out mnemonic devices for Kanji. My Japanese textbook's got some really good ones: For KIN/chika (near/nearby), the mnemonic device is "With this huge caterpillar near, you'll need an axe to protect yourself!"
Many people have somehow drawn the premature conclusion that
the reason I do this is because of some sort of ideological zealotry.
What I do with my e-mails was certainly informed by my technical
experience with free software, but it is not done out of a desire to
change anyone.
Ok, so he says that he is NOT doing it to change what mailer people use (hence "chang[ing] anyone") But then...
There are two ways, actually, that one can meet the
crackmonkey mailing list dress code. One is to simply use Free
Software, and not use a mailer that requires you to accept a license
that makes you promise not to share with your friends. Another is to
continue to use your Windows-based mailer, but hack the headers of
your message so as not to betray your use of the software.
So forcing users to have to change mailers or hack the existing one does not constitute a "change" anymore?
Is it really as useful as people think? If its abandonware, then it has fallen so out of date that there is no point in keeping it hidden. Why would Borland release Turbo Pascal 5.5 and Turbo C(++?) 1.01 into the public domain when the "newer" (but still really old) versions of those apps are still private? Because the old ones have lost so much functionality relatively.
Ancient X apps and Windows 3.1 applications? That's great if you're still coding in outdated setups. Current standards seem much more complex, open-ended and harder to emulate. Wine is probably not perfect for a reason.
This has already been done, in a way. A guy took a bunch of newspapers, and tallied up the numbers of times each letter occurred. He did this over a long period of time, and came up with a ranking chart. This list can be used to crack monoalphabetic ciphers, using frequency analysis (the most common code letter would translate to be most common real letter, and so forth). This is how you crack the Cryptoquotes in the newspaper.
In terms of frequency, here are the percentages (out of _The Code Book_, by Simon Singh, page 19):
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The drive does NOT burn any faster!
To quote the Apple page FAQ:
Will this update enable my 2x SuperDrive to write at a higher speed?
This update enables you to read from and write to the new media, but it does not increase the speed of the drive. In fact, the updated 2x SuperDrive writes to this new media at 1x. So to obtain the highest performance from your 2x SuperDrive, we recommend that you continue using 2x DVD-R media just as you do today.
Hee hee, like my sig? :)
No. Many groundbreaking demos are weird. They have strange video modes, odd refresh rates, or require old hardware. To find ways to render these demos in a very professional looking manner, and then to convert it to DVD is difficult. Also, to convert the demos, with quirky framerates, to the DVD framerate without flickers or frame repeats or other mistimings required some work. The audio also needs to be synchronized with the video. Some demos might have needed to be edited for time contraints. Each demo had to be dealt with differently. I can easily imagine that they spent thousands of dollars on hardware, not to mention the money needed to actually manufacture these DVDs.
Read up on Gibbons v. Ogden.
To quote Mr. Chief Justice Marshall:
"Commerce, undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse. It describes the commerical intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse."
To quote Mr. Justice Johnson:
"Commerce, in its simplest signification, means an exchange of goods; but in the advancement of society, labour, transportation, intelligence, care, and various mediums of exchange, become commodities, and enter into commerce; the subject, the vehicle, the agent, and their various operations, become the objects of commercial regulation. Ship building, the carrying trade, and propagation of seamen, are such vital agents of commercial prosperity, that the nation which could not legislate over these subjects, would not possess power to regulate commerce."
Uh, actually!
There are organized networks that specialize in stealing left socks out of the dryer (while drying). They tend to favor laundromats. Who knows what they'd do when they were to encounter ice.
Whoa, your comment and signature both talk about the same thing! And I just read that book about 2 weeks ago.
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
Brown says, "I want some more pie... *chuckle* Brown didn't say that."
Though the EFF and the ACLU have *somewhat* one-sided perspectives on such legislation, they're still a great resource. The papers that the EFF produces are always highly detailed and informative in nature. Maybe just stating some choice stats or using the information as background could help you get your point across.
I've got GPG, and I have enigmail to integrate it with Mozilla. If everyone I knew had keys, I'd encrypt every email that I sent. But I can't do that, and simply signing it won't do. People that don't know what PGP is get scared when they see my signed message, with those "weird" "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----" type things and hash identifiers. People will think I've got a virus, so I can really only encrypt or sign my email to a select few people, and I talk to those people via IRC and AIM far more than I do by email. It's got to be much more seamless for people to not get scared by encryption.
FLAC is a very nice lossless audio codec as well, plus it's open and multi-platform. It's got a pretty nice Win32 GUI frontend, too. You can compress audio to about 50%, though some of mine go to 60% occasionally.
In addition to The Elegant Universe, I really like the book The Quark and the Jaguar, by Murray Gell-Mann. Not completely about quantum mechanics (though a large portion of it is), it delves into basic scientific philosophy, and makes for a very interesting read.
Gaah! I disagree! The CD is becoming obsolete in terms of distribution, with MP3s and such now. But that is not the case with the written word.
Unlike music, books are not "natural." One can't just look at one and understand it. One has to read it, use his brain, comprehend what the squiggles on the page mean. It appeals to our sentience, to be able to understand it. These are words on a page.
And we can take the book with you wherever you go. The paper is portable. One can turn the pages, feel the substance of what he is reading. It feels good. No matter how hard we try, the e-book, computerized text, whatever you want to call it, is not like paper. It doesn't have the same effect as paper. Paper is here to stay for a long time.
Paper is simply the logical representation of our mind. It can be spatially shuffled, moved around, and organized. Now, CD's can be spatially shuffled and organized, but I can safely say that one doesn't get the same sense of completion when he has stacked his CDs in a pile as compared to when he has stacked his tax return in a pile and is ready to send it off. (It's tax day today!)
You might find you'll need to hand-edit the sources provided a bit to get the results advertised in the screenshots.
Windows Privacy Tray seems to be the best Windows GPG GUI, I use it as my PGP replacement at the moment. I also have Mozilla, which doesn't have such great PGP integration, so I relay through GPGrelay, which checks all incoming POP mail for PGP stuff, then decrypts and verifies or encrypts and signs behind the scenes. Mozilla only sees the mail after GPGrelay has dealt with it, so it's the closest I get to seamless integration. I don't have any problems with it.
Wait a second here, doesn't "spam" = unsolicted email, while "SPAM" = potted meat?
:)
So are you saying that processed meat will spontaneously combust well before 2006, and that only a political solution can solve this problem?
Hey! They could rename it to the iiPod! :)
But we're not taking energy out of a system. The energy's on Earth, isn't it? You move it around a bit, make some use of it. No loss. In the ocean, the tides expend massive energy every time a wave breaks. The little generators have the same general effect. It's like saying that solar cells will cause the premature burnout of the Sun. The energy's there, we can choose to take advantage of it or no.
Yeah, but a lot of laptops are built with insufficient cooling, so they will overheat if they are kept on for too long.
Or even better, be able to spout out mnemonic devices for Kanji. My Japanese textbook's got some really good ones:
For KIN/chika (near/nearby), the mnemonic device is "With this huge caterpillar near, you'll need an axe to protect yourself!"
On that note, this month's issue of Scientific American features an article on augmented reality. It's a good read.
Look at the NASA MODIS site here if you want to actually see the pictures...
Many people have somehow drawn the premature conclusion that
the reason I do this is because of some sort of ideological zealotry.
What I do with my e-mails was certainly informed by my technical
experience with free software, but it is not done out of a desire to
change anyone.
Ok, so he says that he is NOT doing it to change what mailer people use (hence "chang[ing] anyone") But then...
There are two ways, actually, that one can meet the
crackmonkey mailing list dress code. One is to simply use Free
Software, and not use a mailer that requires you to accept a license
that makes you promise not to share with your friends. Another is to
continue to use your Windows-based mailer, but hack the headers of
your message so as not to betray your use of the software.
So forcing users to have to change mailers or hack the existing one does not constitute a "change" anymore?
Is it really as useful as people think? If its abandonware, then it has fallen so out of date that there is no point in keeping it hidden. Why would Borland release Turbo Pascal 5.5 and Turbo C(++?) 1.01 into the public domain when the "newer" (but still really old) versions of those apps are still private? Because the old ones have lost so much functionality relatively.
Ancient X apps and Windows 3.1 applications? That's great if you're still coding in outdated setups. Current standards seem much more complex, open-ended and harder to emulate. Wine is probably not perfect for a reason.
In terms of frequency, here are the percentages (out of _The Code Book_, by Simon Singh, page 19):