This is where all those classics will show up in the next two or three years. This is good and bad news. Good news: you may actually be able to find your old favorites and play them for a quarter on your cell phone. Bad news: these games are ecnimically viable again so there is no way you can make an argument that those ROMS you downloaded are for "historical preservation purposes". Worse yet, if comanies start making real money on these cell phone arcades with retro games, you can expect a crackdown on all those ROM sites.
First off, I'm all for liberalizing the rules for using spectrum, things like allowing people in rural communities where ther are one one or two broadcast TV channels to make use of the wasted spectrum in their area. But, the guy on NPR claimed some stupid statistic like 90% of american homes get have cable or satellite so we don't need broadcast. One of the big groups he is forgetting is all those DSS subscribers who still have to have bunny ears to get local channels. The best had to be though when he was asked why there was so much lobbying to surrounding allocation of television spectrum if it was such an unused commodity. basically he said...well....um...there is always resistance to new ideas. they jsut don't realize how few people are watching.
I've been using grammofile's bplay and another little utility called
wavsplit
along with cdrecord to make CDs from live recordings. Gramofile's mod of bplay is nice since it has a peak level meter, and the average channels option is nice for converting a mono to recording for CD play.
The draw back is that it takes about an hour of processing for each hour of recording and there is no one tool to bring it all together.
What would be really nice would be to have a graphical front end (something like audacity) to record, split and burn the live recording. After presing the record button, you could press a TAG button to mark off where the tracks splits should be. After finishing the recording, you could edit these tag locations. Then, you press a little CD icon that splits the file into tracks based on the tags you made during the recording and burns the tracks to CD using DAO (no pauses).
Any one else have any experience or interest in a program like this?
Hence, business as usual has continued in the ÒhealthÓ
sphere: 1990, for example, it came out that the IHS was inoculating
Inuit children in Alaska with Hepatitis-B vaccine. The vaccine had
already been banned by the World Health Organization as having a
demonstrated correlation with the HIV-virus which is itself correlated
to AIDS. As this is being written, a field test of Hepatitis-A
vaccine, also HIV-correlated, is being conducted on Indian
reservations in the northern Plains region.
Um...maybe you should actually look up some of the most common health problem among Native American's. One of the leading causes of death is liver failure. Nearly all of that liver failure is wither due viral hepatitis (A, B, C, etc...) and/or alcoholic cirrhosis. From a public health perspective it would be almost unthinkable not to vaccinate a population at high risk for liver failure against the two most common forms of hepatitis. You might also want to check your facts about the WHO's recommendation regarding the Hepatitis B vaccine .
The implicationin the article is that since Hep A and B infection is correlated with HIV infection which is correlated with AIDS that vaccinations against Hep A and B must be related to AIDS. The big problem with thie is that CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSALITY! Hepatitis b infection is higly correlated with HIV infection, but that is because both are transmitted by transfer of bodily fluids. Hepatitis A is transmitted primarily by a fecal-oral route which understandably places individuals who participate in anal sex at increase risk (just like HIV). It also places people with poor water treatment and little opportunity to wash their hands after using the restroom at increased risk.
Quite the opposite form the implication in the article, vaccination against Hepatitis A and B would be of great benefit to individuals who drink margninally treated water are likely more succeptible to alcoholic cirrhosis.
That old sun equipment runs forever. I've got an old 4 GB (6 disk) Sun storage box doubles as a wind tunnel but has been running for 10 years. I also have two IBM 36 GB 15kRPM disks that have died on me after less than one year. Yet none of the Maxtor or WD iDE drives I've purchased in the same time period have even hiccuped. For now, I'll go with big 5400 RPM IDE drives at great prices, even if the waranty is shorter.
The situation you describe of not being able to fix your own car is much the way things work in Europe.
For example in the UK you are not allowed to change your own flat tire on the side fo the highway, so you are required to belong to an auto club. In Germany, regular Joe's are not allowed to modify anything on their own cars without special permits from the government. From what I've heard this includes things as simple as changing you window wipers.
Of course they let you drive as fast as you want...
The best coffe is extracted from beans at between 195 and 205 degrees F. So pretty much any coffee tastes better fresh out of the pot scalding hot. It sure does not taste best between your legs!
This device IS the computer! It has a CPU, memory, storage area, input and output functions... it's got everything you need for a "computer". Therefore, with Linux installed, it can control the USB peripheral to do whatever you want.
what the parent was talking about is that the usb universe is divided into peripherals and hosts. this is not a software or driver issue it is a hardware issue. the usb controller chip on peripherals is not interchangable with those on your motherboard.
i only found this out when i was trying to figure out a way to use a USB microphone with my sony clie. no dice! it turns out that palms and clies all use peripheral controllers and thus cannont receive info from other peripherals without a host to act as intermediary. so basically not im trying to figure out how to finagle some samples of solder tail usb host controllers to hack together a little palm voice recrder.
the problem with this logic is that many of the componens of nuclear waste actually decay to lead. so even after a hundred half lives it will still be "toxic."
I agree with everything in this post except the part about the case. Dell and Micron have some of the best designed cases I have every seen. Single screw or even push button to open designs with all the sharp edges removed. You just can't find these cases at places like Newegg, and the places you do find them, the prices are nuts.
We also hear a lot about smaller caches having lower latency, but what is the size/speed tradeoff to tell if it is a cache hit or miss? As you increase cahce size (N) does the latency increase linearly, log(N), or Nlog(N)? Are these caches unified caches or do data and instructions still have to be stored in their own caches? Can you lock an address in cache like you can lock a page in memory to prevented from being paged out to disk?
Any benchmarks to specifically test the effieincy of the various caches?
I know pausing streches analog tapes, but is this true for digital tapes? It seems unnecesary to reread the tape over and over again once the bits are in a digital buffer, whereas with analog tape there was no buffer to store the image so it had to be constantly reread.
Don't forget that even using that $5/foot cable and tube amps that the major source of distortion in most sound systems is the speakers. Don't believe me. Just ask your high end speaker dealer to give you specs on the amount of distortion that $5000 pair of speakers produces. He won't tell you. Why? Because it is about two orders of magnitude larger than what even a $200 amp at BestBuy produces. Heck, even your ears produce more distortion than most modern transistor based amps. Look up distortion product otoacoustic emissions.
Speakers are the weak link in any audio system, well maybe not one where the amplifier is placed next to a 400W switching power supply, but almost any audio system.
it also sports a non-chemical water purification system in a very Feng Shui way
Read this and tell me that hypochlorous acid isn't a chemical.
Hmm. The description on the Sanyo web site sounds pretty close to swimming pool chlorine generators. They essentailly use electricity to genreate chlorine from good old NaCl.
This system keeps water clean by hypochlorous acid generated through water electrolyzation and also prevents the generation of Legionella bacteria which is harmful to the human body, especially the lungs.M
I think using chlorine to purify the water is a good thing. That waterfall wouldn't be nearly as attractive if it was flowing with raw sewage.
With the priciness of getting space on a tower I started thinking about how practical it would be to use helium ballons as repeater antenas. Has anyone else looked into this? I know weather stations send up ballons twice a day but I wonder what kind of FAA regulations you would have to wory about to get something like this going.
Sure audit the NASA modules and they will jsut move it over to the Russian module. The point being, who actually has legal authority on the space station. I'm sure it's been worked out in a treaty somewhere, but I wonder what would really happen if it were tested.
There are more than 6.6 quadrillion different eight-character passwords using the 95 printable ASCII characters. Though some password-cracking programs can test nearly 8 million combinations every second on the latest Pentium 4 processor, breaking an eight-character password would still take more than 13 years on average.
I'm not sure if this is accurate, but if it is, it sounds like anyone relying on an 8 character password and giving free access to their password file might as well be using a sailor's knot to keep people out of their machine.
If a P4 can crack an average password in 13 years, a midsized network of them could generate all possible hash pairs in less than a year, sort them and store it all on a big drive. Then the problem of cracking any password is just a table lookup.
I'm not sure if current hardware could handle storing this many passwords, but we've got to be getting close.
This reminds me of a stroy a friend of mine told about taking his English cousins to Star Wars. They didn't figure out the Rebels were the good guys until half way through the movie.
I was trying to point out inconsistency in people who want to stop SPAM at all costs (Washington's anti-SPAM law, blocking Asian ISPs) but also oppose placing any censorware on machines in schools or public libraries citing infringment of their free speech rights.
I really don't see any incosistency in the actions you are taking. Filtering your Inbox is your perrogative. It doesn't deny me the right to communicate with others.
You essentially have a consistent, and aprently deeply held, libertarian view on how the internet should be governed. You would likely be against zoning restrictions that would prevent adult book stores from being placed near public spaces such as schools or parks. This is not hypocritical, I just don't agree with it. Again the hypocritical comment was directed at those who look sto stop SPAm at all costs and whine whenever censoware is mentioned.
I think that in fact the free market is working in a nearly ideal way.
The lack of perfect infromation and transparency is not a insurmountable hurdle for free markets to deal with. You make a rational decision to allocate your time and effort to find information about decisions in line with how much you value that information. If you do not place a high value on non-monetary costs, then you don't invest your time or resources to find out the full extent of what they are. If you have money to burn and place a high value on privacy, you will almost certainly put in the effort to find out the privacy costs of any contract you sign.
As far as I can tell, the biggest obstacle to free market efficienty is deception. When lies are intentionally used to mislead agents in the market, eiceincies are lost because agents no longer have even good information. Strong penalties for misinforming consumers are essentiall to the efficiency of free markets.
How many people at the consumer level are actually paying on a per byte basis for their e-mail? Not many. Its been tough to sell usage based internet access for about five years. They are still out there but are tough to find and almost always have a small amount of free usage time included which will not be filled by SPAM.
And how can an admittedly small cost to you trump my right to freely communicate with a friend in the ROC?
Direct mail and telemarketing are good analogies for this. Junk mail obviously fills up your mailbox,making it necessary to have a bigger one than you really need, and most people pay for phone access on flat rate per month just like with an ISP. So does your miniscule increase in costs justify denying all mail or phone calls from another state with different laws?
I think your idea about self selected communities is interesting. The RSAC and other rating systems are one way peple have tried to do this. I think most "adult" sites are pretty compliant with labeling themselves (helps get more hits I would expect), but since it's not in the setup wizard for IE or netscape most people don't even know about it. Since it would be an easy way to block impulese seeking ads, popups would never use it of course.
The other problem is that most web developers don't rate their content, so the block all sites except those with a good rating strategy doesn't work. Maybe if search engines started requiring new submissions to use it it would actaully catch on.
To be honest, something like the system you describe could be a a great value added service for AOL or another ISP with the resources to rate and direct its users to content.
saying you can't censor the net is like saying you can't censor the U.S. mail or telephones. As the majority's decision said, interstate mail and phone service are both governed by "community standars." Why not the Net? Is it any more reasonable to expect that an adult magazine company or dial-a-porn service conform to local standards of regions where it sends its products than an internet company?
People make it sound like ISPs and proxy servers make it impossible to track where a request is coming from, but they don't. Few ISPs have a phone bank that serves more than one state let alone area code. And if the phonebank spans areacodes, you can be sure they can find out the number a user is calling from quickly. And how many users can a free anonymizing proxy server actually support? Not enough to put a web site out of business if they block all users connecting through the proxy server. The other workable solution is to install censorware on publically accessible sites that requires you to provide some form of "adult ID" (drivers license number, credit card number, etc.) to disable teh censorware. This will prevent kids form using the library to surf for porn and let adults and teens know how to examine themselves for breast/testicular cancer.
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This is where all those classics will show up in the next two or three years. This is good and bad news. Good news: you may actually be able to find your old favorites and play them for a quarter on your cell phone. Bad news: these games are ecnimically viable again so there is no way you can make an argument that those ROMS you downloaded are for "historical preservation purposes". Worse yet, if comanies start making real money on these cell phone arcades with retro games, you can expect a crackdown on all those ROM sites.
First off, I'm all for liberalizing the rules for using spectrum, things like allowing people in rural communities where ther are one one or two broadcast TV channels to make use of the wasted spectrum in their area.
But, the guy on NPR claimed some stupid statistic like 90% of american homes get have cable or satellite so we don't need broadcast. One of the big groups he is forgetting is all those DSS subscribers who still have to have bunny ears to get local channels. The best had to be though when he was asked why there was so much lobbying to surrounding allocation of television spectrum if it was such an unused commodity. basically he said...well....um...there is always resistance to new ideas. they jsut don't realize how few people are watching.
The draw back is that it takes about an hour of processing for each hour of recording and there is no one tool to bring it all together.
What would be really nice would be to have a graphical front end (something like audacity) to record, split and burn the live recording. After presing the record button, you could press a TAG button to mark off where the tracks splits should be. After finishing the recording, you could edit these tag locations. Then, you press a little CD icon that splits the file into tracks based on the tags you made during the recording and burns the tracks to CD using DAO (no pauses).
Any one else have any experience or interest in a program like this?
So what are prions to be classified as?
Infectious toxins maybe.
There are some very simple viruses for which you could make almost the same argument for.
Though I guess if you classified prions as living, you would have to call plasmids living as well.
Um...maybe you should actually look up some of the most common health problem among Native American's. One of the leading causes of death is liver failure. Nearly all of that liver failure is wither due viral hepatitis (A, B, C, etc...) and/or alcoholic cirrhosis. From a public health perspective it would be almost unthinkable not to vaccinate a population at high risk for liver failure against the two most common forms of hepatitis. You might also want to check your facts about the WHO's recommendation regarding the Hepatitis B vaccine .
The implicationin the article is that since Hep A and B infection is correlated with HIV infection which is correlated with AIDS that vaccinations against Hep A and B must be related to AIDS. The big problem with thie is that CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSALITY! Hepatitis b infection is higly correlated with HIV infection, but that is because both are transmitted by transfer of bodily fluids. Hepatitis A is transmitted primarily by a fecal-oral route which understandably places individuals who participate in anal sex at increase risk (just like HIV). It also places people with poor water treatment and little opportunity to wash their hands after using the restroom at increased risk.
Quite the opposite form the implication in the article, vaccination against Hepatitis A and B would be of great benefit to individuals who drink margninally treated water are likely more succeptible to alcoholic cirrhosis.
That old sun equipment runs forever. I've got an old 4 GB (6 disk) Sun storage box doubles as a wind tunnel but has been running for 10 years. I also have two IBM 36 GB 15kRPM disks that have died on me after less than one year. Yet none of the Maxtor or WD iDE drives I've purchased in the same time period have even hiccuped. For now, I'll go with big 5400 RPM IDE drives at great prices, even if the waranty is shorter.
The situation you describe of not being able to fix your own car is much the way things work in Europe.
For example in the UK you are not allowed to change your own flat tire on the side fo the highway, so you are required to belong to an auto club. In Germany, regular Joe's are not allowed to modify anything on their own cars without special permits from the government. From what I've heard this includes things as simple as changing you window wipers.
Of course they let you drive as fast as you want...
The best coffe is extracted from beans at between 195 and 205 degrees F. So pretty much any coffee tastes better fresh out of the pot scalding hot. It sure does not taste best between your legs!
See http://coffeefaq.com/coffaq1.htm#WhatIsBest
what the parent was talking about is that the usb universe is divided into peripherals and hosts. this is not a software or driver issue it is a hardware issue. the usb controller chip on peripherals is not interchangable with those on your motherboard.
i only found this out when i was trying to figure out a way to use a USB microphone with my sony clie. no dice! it turns out that palms and clies all use peripheral controllers and thus cannont receive info from other peripherals without a host to act as intermediary. so basically not im trying to figure out how to finagle some samples of solder tail usb host controllers to hack together a little palm voice recrder.
the problem with this logic is that many of the componens of nuclear waste actually decay to lead. so even after a hundred half lives it will still be "toxic."
I agree with everything in this post except the part about the case. Dell and Micron have some of the best designed cases I have every seen. Single screw or even push button to open designs with all the sharp edges removed. You just can't find these cases at places like Newegg, and the places you do find them, the prices are nuts.
either that or they are all under NDAs
So soes anyone have good numbers on the relative speed of register, L1, L2, L3, and main memory?
Something along the lines of filling out this chart
Chip Type Size Buswidth Clock Latency
P4
L1
L2
DDR
RDRAM
Athlon
L1
L2
DDR
We also hear a lot about smaller caches having lower latency, but what is the size/speed tradeoff to tell if it is a cache hit or miss? As you increase cahce size (N) does the latency increase linearly, log(N), or Nlog(N)?
Are these caches unified caches or do data and instructions still have to be stored in their own caches? Can you lock an address in cache like you can lock a page in memory to prevented from being paged out to disk?
Any benchmarks to specifically test the effieincy of the various caches?
I know pausing streches analog tapes, but is this true for digital tapes? It seems unnecesary to reread the tape over and over again once the bits are in a digital buffer, whereas with analog tape there was no buffer to store the image so it had to be constantly reread.
Nice explanation of intermodulation distortion.
Don't forget that even using that $5/foot cable and tube amps that the major source of distortion in most sound systems is the speakers. Don't believe me. Just ask your high end speaker dealer to give you specs on the amount of distortion that $5000 pair of speakers produces. He won't tell you. Why? Because it is about two orders of magnitude larger than what even a $200 amp at BestBuy produces. Heck, even your ears produce more distortion than most modern transistor based amps. Look up distortion product otoacoustic emissions.
Speakers are the weak link in any audio system, well maybe not one where the amplifier is placed next to a 400W switching power supply, but almost any audio system.
Read this and tell me that hypochlorous acid isn't a chemical.
Hmm. The description on the Sanyo web site sounds pretty close to swimming pool chlorine generators. They essentailly use electricity to genreate chlorine from good old NaCl.
I think using chlorine to purify the water is a good thing. That waterfall wouldn't be nearly as attractive if it was flowing with raw sewage.
With the priciness of getting space on a tower I started thinking about how practical it would be to use helium ballons as repeater antenas. Has anyone else looked into this? I know weather stations send up ballons twice a day but I wonder what kind of FAA regulations you would have to wory about to get something like this going.
Sure audit the NASA modules and they will jsut move it over to the Russian module. The point being, who actually has legal authority on the space station. I'm sure it's been worked out in a treaty somewhere, but I wonder what would really happen if it were tested.
I'm not sure if this is accurate, but if it is, it sounds like anyone relying on an 8 character password and giving free access to their password file might as well be using a sailor's knot to keep people out of their machine.
If a P4 can crack an average password in 13 years, a midsized network of them could generate all possible hash pairs in less than a year, sort them and store it all on a big drive. Then the problem of cracking any password is just a table lookup.
I'm not sure if current hardware could handle storing this many passwords, but we've got to be getting close.
This reminds me of a stroy a friend of mine told about taking his English cousins to Star Wars. They didn't figure out the Rebels were the good guys until half way through the movie.
This is probably a dumb question, but for copying from disk to disk, why does the data have to travel across the PCI bus at all?
I was trying to point out inconsistency in people who want to stop SPAM at all costs (Washington's anti-SPAM law, blocking Asian ISPs) but also oppose placing any censorware on machines in schools or public libraries citing infringment of their free speech rights.
I really don't see any incosistency in the actions you are taking. Filtering your Inbox is your perrogative. It doesn't deny me the right to communicate with others.
You essentially have a consistent, and aprently deeply held, libertarian view on how the internet should be governed. You would likely be against zoning restrictions that would prevent adult book stores from being placed near public spaces such as schools or parks. This is not hypocritical, I just don't agree with it. Again the hypocritical comment was directed at those who look sto stop SPAm at all costs and whine whenever censoware is mentioned.
I think that in fact the free market is working in a nearly ideal way.
The lack of perfect infromation and transparency is not a insurmountable hurdle for free markets to deal with. You make a rational decision to allocate your time and effort to find information about decisions in line with how much you value that information. If you do not place a high value on non-monetary costs, then you don't invest your time or resources to find out the full extent of what they are. If you have money to burn and place a high value on privacy, you will almost certainly put in the effort to find out the privacy costs of any contract you sign.
As far as I can tell, the biggest obstacle to free market efficienty is deception. When lies are intentionally used to mislead agents in the market, eiceincies are lost because agents no longer have even good information. Strong penalties for misinforming consumers are essentiall to the efficiency of free markets.
How many people at the consumer level are actually paying on a per byte basis for their e-mail? Not many. Its been tough to sell usage based internet access for about five years. They are still out there but are tough to find and almost always have a small amount of free usage time included which will not be filled by SPAM.
And how can an admittedly small cost to you trump my right to freely communicate with a friend in the ROC?
Direct mail and telemarketing are good analogies for this. Junk mail obviously fills up your mailbox,making it necessary to have a bigger one than you really need, and most people pay for phone access on flat rate per month just like with an ISP. So does your miniscule increase in costs justify denying all mail or phone calls from another state with different laws?
I think your idea about self selected communities is interesting. The RSAC and other rating systems are one way peple have tried to do this. I think most "adult" sites are pretty compliant with labeling themselves (helps get more hits I would expect), but since it's not in the setup wizard for IE or netscape most people don't even know about it. Since it would be an easy way to block impulese seeking ads, popups would never use it of course.
The other problem is that most web developers don't rate their content, so the block all sites except those with a good rating strategy doesn't work. Maybe if search engines started requiring new submissions to use it it would actaully catch on.
To be honest, something like the system you describe could be a a great value added service for AOL or another ISP with the resources to rate and direct its users to content.
saying you can't censor the net is like saying you can't censor the U.S. mail or telephones. As the majority's decision said, interstate mail and phone service are both governed by "community standars." Why not the Net? Is it any more reasonable to expect that an adult magazine company or dial-a-porn service conform to local standards of regions where it sends its products than an internet company?
People make it sound like ISPs and proxy servers make it impossible to track where a request is coming from, but they don't. Few ISPs have a phone bank that serves more than one state let alone area code. And if the phonebank spans areacodes, you can be sure they can find out the number a user is calling from quickly. And how many users can a free anonymizing proxy server actually support? Not enough to put a web site out of business if they block all users connecting through the proxy server.
The other workable solution is to install censorware on publically accessible sites that requires you to provide some form of "adult ID" (drivers license number, credit card number, etc.) to disable teh censorware. This will prevent kids form using the library to surf for porn and let adults and teens know how to examine themselves for breast/testicular cancer.