Made me take a look at the first episode (out of 6). Cut out a 30 second clip of the scene of which you speak. It looks to me like sort of a yellow tinted goldfish. Take a look if you wish.
Go to sleep for gosh sakes. You've been posting since Noon yesterday. My god you're right! Timothy has has less than 3.5 hrs between posts for the past 24 hrs! A quick breakdown of Timothy's postings:
Though the article is lean on details, this would fit suspiciously well into Microsoft's plan to have DVD players support Windows audio/video. I'm not a Microsoft fan, but I've got to admit that idea of downloading a 700 MB.wmv file, burning it to a CD and being able to play it back in my DVD player at DVD quality is quite enticing.
This reminds me of the good old says during Maxis' peak, when they released a Sim version of everything, from SimTrain to SimFarm to SimCity, etc. My favorites were SimTower and SimCity 2000, and I think both could be easily tweaked to become more related to public policy.
In SimTower, you were the owner of a high rise building, and your task was to build the biggest possible tower while still pleasing everyone (elevator congestion, pricing, etc). An important part of public policy. Also, in SimCity, you took on the role of a city manager, and if that doesn't relate to public policy, I don't know what does.
This is hardly original. A simple google search and one of the more interesting results here
From the article: Indeed, perhaps only a decade or so hence, Isbell will climb down from his tractor holding a palm-sized computer in direct contact with Earth orbiting satellites.
John Deere is already selling GPS-receiver equipped tractors (marketed as "StarFire receivers") that look about the size of a palm.
More information can be found from the SJ Mercury article from today's paper, although it was written Dan Gillmore, who tends to be quite sensationalist in style but is consistently pro-consumer and anti-DMCA.
I did read the article, thank you very much. She is a licensed attorney, and she wants to go to Mexico to drum up some business, but she "should not be given a passport that would let her... establish potential business contacts with a Peruvian law firm."
Although she is a flight risk, given the circumstances it is unlikely that she would otherwise be able to gather the $25,000 needed to allow her to get a passport without following client leads.
In another article on the same subject from the San Francisco Chronicle, it is noted that as far back as 1998 "as a struggling lawyer, Eunique tried to go to Peru, where she had a lead on some legal work, but she was denied a passport" because of the large debt she had accumulated to her ex-husband.
This was far from an easy decision to make, on the three judge panel, the ruling was made 2-1. The sole judge who ruled in her favor said "The right to leave is among the most important of all human rights." Apparently even the origins of the law back to the 1950's and it was originally intended to "restrict foreign travel by American communists and alleged subversives."
She is indeed a deadbeat parent, but denying her a basic right that would help enable her to pay off her debt, well, that seems just stupid.
There's an interesting thing about filtering software in schools- I know some schools here in the SF Bay Area use some sort of proxy filtering that makes viewing "innapropriate" material impossible. So if you get spammed by somebody for herbal viagra to increase your sex drive or hot young sluts or what have you, you're not going to be able to check your email with a web-based account because it will be deemed "inappropriate".
Looks like they're on the right track though, with blacklists rather than keyword detection. The $33 million quoted is interesting, I wonder if they included maintenance costs in that projection?
The human eye cannot distinguish images at more than 30 Hz, just like the human hear sounds over 20KHz. Yet for hi-fi audio, the bare minimum is considered 44.1 KHz, with 48 KHz and beyond being preferred. The eye will simply create a motion effect between frames that cannot be distinguised, adding to the fluidity of the game.
I don't think this would be a problem if people weren't idiots with their email addresses. If you don't want spam, stop signing up for all the "punch the monkey" banner ads you see! I use ATTBI, and I have never received a SINGLE piece of spam with my ATTBI email account. I suspect ATTBI uses the same filtering service as Worldnet, and I'd have to say it works quite well. The spam problem maybe is due to idiot users, but it's also possible that ATT made the foolish decision to sell the customer email database to spammers and now are forced to deal with the consequences.
I have an excite email address that nicely filters out all the spam the address collects. Excite email did have some problems earlier this year (i.e. change of ownership, hardware failure, etc.) but now it seems to be working great. So maybe ATT should switch over to whatever they're doing?
I find this slightly confusing. So the basic idea is that these tsetse flies will overpower the non genetically engineered flies, but being unable to reproduce they will be the last generation. But when the modified flies die out, if there are even 2 original flies left, they will easily repopulate (and have less competition because the rest of the flies will be dead). So basically all this will do is screw up natural selection a bit, maybe increasing resistances of the remaining flies and what not.
What is the advantage to watching a movie on a digital screen when obviously at some point it was converted from analog? Was the whole movie shot with digital film? I think that would be overwhelmingly expensive. If this is the case, I would think that the analog presentations would be higher quality because they wouldn't have to go through the analog -> digital conversion (kinda like the superiority of LP's over CD's).
Why would you buy something like this when you can get a notebook that is faster, quieter, cheaper, smaller, and more power efficient for half the price from Dell?
Maybe the article explains more, but it seems to be/.'ed.
The previous release of DiVX was based on a hacked version of the MS MPEG-4 (actually an interesting story, I believe it originated in a beta version of a MS media encoder program that had MPEG-4 encoding support, but was later removed in the final version). The major issue with this was the fact that it was done without any licensing, meaning the entire DiVX format was illegal. That being said, paying the royalties per encoder or hour of commercial video distributed was the least of the developer's concerns. This with was fixed with the new Open DiVX/DiVX 4.0+ which supposedly were completely re-written and NOT based on the original MPEG-4, therefore bypassing the licensing technicalities. Although the original DiVX 3.11 is still much better than the newer versions, OpenDiVX is open source.
Anyway, divx.com says "DivX is the most widely distributed MPEG-4 compatible", which I take to mean it is similar to MPEG-4 but is a completely different codec.
I could be wrong, but that's what I've gathered from what I've read on the web. If anyone knows more about this, feel free to correct me.
Well, it's certainly less than perfect but it is really fun to play. Totally different strategy from most RTS, the unit limitation seems to be only 90, with many units taking 5-6 although the "Heroes" take only one. I really like the RPG-style element of the Heroes, leveling them up is pretty easy with all the gnolls that are around. A couple things I don't like are the somewhat buggy graphics (and Blizzard usually puts out betas that far more resemble a final product than other companies do) and the fact that it's pretty hard to tell who's actually winning. But, overall it's damn fun to play (I'm only taking a break because the game crashed on me..doh!) and I'll probably buy it. I think where it will really shine is in LAN play, it combines the concept of developing characters thats so enjoyable with friends with the pleasure of getting to whoop someone's ass in a RTS. Oh yeah, resurrecting the heroes is really cool too, but it gets pretty expensive.
I know Myth2 has a lot of fans, but Warcraft III is going to be coming out soon- I got the beta in the mail today, and (suprise surprise) no Linux version on the CD. Oh well, I'm willing to boot Windows for that...
I think this might be able to apply to mp3's as well. For instance, if I have an.m3u mp3 playlist on my web site that links over http to mp3's on another person's website, that is similar to representing the mp3's as my own.
I hope you all realize that the current exchange rate is about $.625 for $1 Canadian. This of course means that $80 Canadian converts to $50.07 US. Not exactly a far cry from the $49.95 a month I fork over to ATTBI. Indeed, as the article states, some people in the U.S. pay as much as $111 Canadian, which is really $69.47 U.S.
Regardless, the bandwidth hogs will be exceed the amount they pay in terms of the cost of bandwidth. Assuming they have 1.5 Mb/s down and the cost of 1 GB is around $4 US, about 16 GB/day can be downloaded and totaling upward of 450 GB/month. That's $1800/month providing access for a customer who pays only $50 a month. Granted, the cable ISP is most likely not paying the full T1 price for bandwidth, but even at 1/4 the utilization and 1/4 the price for bandwidth, the ISP is still losing money on these customers.
I'm just wondering what they're testing the streaming codecs for, "especially for modem users". If you can control the bitrate, why would you need to test the usability on limited bandwidth? Common sense dictates that if bandwidth audio bitrate, it won't stream. I imagine it would be more useful to test the streaming servers rather than the codec itself.
But I think if we look more closely right under our noses at the moon, we'll see that big black monolith. Listen to what it says though and stay away from Europa.
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Made me take a look at the first episode (out of 6). Cut out a 30 second clip of the scene of which you speak. It looks to me like sort of a yellow tinted goldfish. Take a look if you wish.
bababelfish.mpg
FWIW, lynx now has color support.
Go to sleep for gosh sakes. You've been posting since Noon yesterday.
My god you're right! Timothy has has less than 3.5 hrs between posts for the past 24 hrs! A quick breakdown of Timothy's postings:
March 03 3:15 AM
March 03 6:47 AM
March 03 8:29 AM
March 03 11:59 AM
March 03 12:22 PM
March 03 12:57 PM
March 03 2:16 PM
March 03 3:56 PM
March 03 5:19 PM
March 03 5:35 PM
March 03 5:46 PM
March 03 7:47 PM
March 03 10:35 PM
March 03 11:11 PM
March 04 3:17 AM
I say go for another 24 and then see what happens, turn it into a sort of geeky endurance test or something.
There are still no simple ways to use a pair
of computers on the same desk efficiently, why not start there?
Though the article is lean on details, this would fit suspiciously well into Microsoft's plan to have DVD players support Windows audio/video. I'm not a Microsoft fan, but I've got to admit that idea of downloading a 700 MB .wmv file, burning it to a CD and being able to play it back in my DVD player at DVD quality is quite enticing.
This reminds me of the good old says during Maxis' peak, when they released a Sim version of everything, from SimTrain to SimFarm to SimCity, etc. My favorites were SimTower and SimCity 2000, and I think both could be easily tweaked to become more related to public policy.
In SimTower, you were the owner of a high rise building, and your task was to build the biggest possible tower while still pleasing everyone (elevator congestion, pricing, etc). An important part of public policy. Also, in SimCity, you took on the role of a city manager, and if that doesn't relate to public policy, I don't know what does.
This is hardly original. A simple google search and one of the more interesting results here
From the article:
Indeed, perhaps only a decade or so hence, Isbell will climb down from his tractor holding a palm-sized computer in direct contact with Earth orbiting satellites.
John Deere is already selling GPS-receiver equipped tractors (marketed as "StarFire receivers") that look about the size of a palm.
A screenplay written by Jack Valenti?
More information can be found from the SJ Mercury article from today's paper, although it was written Dan Gillmore, who tends to be quite sensationalist in style but is consistently pro-consumer and anti-DMCA.
I did read the article, thank you very much. She is a licensed attorney, and she wants to go to Mexico to drum up some business, but she "should not be given a passport that would let her ... establish potential business contacts with a Peruvian law firm."
Although she is a flight risk, given the circumstances it is unlikely that she would otherwise be able to gather the $25,000 needed to allow her to get a passport without following client leads.
In another article on the same subject from the San Francisco Chronicle, it is noted that as far back as 1998 "as a struggling lawyer, Eunique tried to go to Peru, where she had a lead on some legal work, but she was denied a passport" because of the large debt she had accumulated to her ex-husband.
This was far from an easy decision to make, on the three judge panel, the ruling was made 2-1. The sole judge who ruled in her favor said "The right to leave is among the most important of all human rights." Apparently even the origins of the law back to the 1950's and it was originally intended to "restrict foreign travel by American communists and alleged subversives."
She is indeed a deadbeat parent, but denying her a basic right that would help enable her to pay off her debt, well, that seems just stupid.
There's an interesting thing about filtering software in schools- I know some schools here in the SF Bay Area use some sort of proxy filtering that makes viewing "innapropriate" material impossible. So if you get spammed by somebody for herbal viagra to increase your sex drive or hot young sluts or what have you, you're not going to be able to check your email with a web-based account because it will be deemed "inappropriate".
Looks like they're on the right track though, with blacklists rather than keyword detection. The $33 million quoted is interesting, I wonder if they included maintenance costs in that projection?
Hey, it's a free country. For a start, you're free to leave.
:-p
Not if you're her!
The human eye cannot distinguish images at more than 30 Hz, just like the human hear sounds over 20KHz. Yet for hi-fi audio, the bare minimum is considered 44.1 KHz, with 48 KHz and beyond being preferred. The eye will simply create a motion effect between frames that cannot be distinguised, adding to the fluidity of the game.
As far as I can tell the address space DoubleClick uses is
199.95.206.0 - 199.95.210.255
208.211.225.0 - 208.211.225.255
Double Click, Inc. (NETBLK-DOUBLECLICK3)
41 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10010-5201
US
Netname: DOUBLECLICK3
Netblock: 199.95.206.0 - 199.95.209.255
Coordinator:
Ng, Alex (AN1068-ARIN) ang@DOUBLECLICK.NET
(212) 683-0001 x
Record last updated on 15-May-1998.
Database last updated on 24-Feb-2002 19:56:16 EDT.
Double Click, Inc. (NETBLK-DOUBLECLICK-210-08)
41 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10010-5201
US
Netname: DOUBLECLICK-210-08
Netblock: 199.95.210.0 - 199.95.210.255
Coordinator:
Ng, Alex (AN1068-ARIN) ang@DOUBLECLICK.NET
(212) 683-0001 x
Record last updated on 15-May-1998.
Database last updated on 24-Feb-2002 19:56:16 EDT.
Double Click (NETBLK-UU-208-211-225)
41 Madison Avenue, 32nd Floor
New York, NY 10010
US
Netname: UU-208-211-225
Netblock: 208.211.225.0 - 208.211.225.255
Coordinator:
Welch, Dave (DW2827-ARIN) dwelch@DOUBLECLICK.NET
212 683 0001 x 410
Record last updated on 03-Jan-1997.
Database last updated on 24-Feb-2002 19:56:16 EDT.
I don't think this would be a problem if people weren't idiots with their email addresses. If you don't want spam, stop signing up for all the "punch the monkey" banner ads you see! I use ATTBI, and I have never received a SINGLE piece of spam with my ATTBI email account. I suspect ATTBI uses the same filtering service as Worldnet, and I'd have to say it works quite well. The spam problem maybe is due to idiot users, but it's also possible that ATT made the foolish decision to sell the customer email database to spammers and now are forced to deal with the consequences.
I have an excite email address that nicely filters out all the spam the address collects. Excite email did have some problems earlier this year (i.e. change of ownership, hardware failure, etc.) but now it seems to be working great. So maybe ATT should switch over to whatever they're doing?
I find this slightly confusing. So the basic idea is that these tsetse flies will overpower the non genetically engineered flies, but being unable to reproduce they will be the last generation. But when the modified flies die out, if there are even 2 original flies left, they will easily repopulate (and have less competition because the rest of the flies will be dead). So basically all this will do is screw up natural selection a bit, maybe increasing resistances of the remaining flies and what not.
Maybe to make this more relevant to the current situations, try replacing the word "fire" with the word "terrorist". Does it make more sense now?
What is the advantage to watching a movie on a digital screen when obviously at some point it was converted from analog? Was the whole movie shot with digital film? I think that would be overwhelmingly expensive. If this is the case, I would think that the analog presentations would be higher quality because they wouldn't have to go through the analog -> digital conversion (kinda like the superiority of LP's over CD's).
Why would you buy something like this when you can get a notebook that is faster, quieter, cheaper, smaller, and more power efficient for half the price from Dell?
/.'ed.
Maybe the article explains more, but it seems to be
The previous release of DiVX was based on a hacked version of the MS MPEG-4 (actually an interesting story, I believe it originated in a beta version of a MS media encoder program that had MPEG-4 encoding support, but was later removed in the final version). The major issue with this was the fact that it was done without any licensing, meaning the entire DiVX format was illegal. That being said, paying the royalties per encoder or hour of commercial video distributed was the least of the developer's concerns. This with was fixed with the new Open DiVX/DiVX 4.0+ which supposedly were completely re-written and NOT based on the original MPEG-4, therefore bypassing the licensing technicalities. Although the original DiVX 3.11 is still much better than the newer versions, OpenDiVX is open source.
Anyway, divx.com says "DivX is the most widely distributed MPEG-4 compatible", which I take to mean it is similar to MPEG-4 but is a completely different codec.
I could be wrong, but that's what I've gathered from what I've read on the web. If anyone knows more about this, feel free to correct me.
Well, it's certainly less than perfect but it is really fun to play. Totally different strategy from most RTS, the unit limitation seems to be only 90, with many units taking 5-6 although the "Heroes" take only one. I really like the RPG-style element of the Heroes, leveling them up is pretty easy with all the gnolls that are around. A couple things I don't like are the somewhat buggy graphics (and Blizzard usually puts out betas that far more resemble a final product than other companies do) and the fact that it's pretty hard to tell who's actually winning. But, overall it's damn fun to play (I'm only taking a break because the game crashed on me..doh!) and I'll probably buy it. I think where it will really shine is in LAN play, it combines the concept of developing characters thats so enjoyable with friends with the pleasure of getting to whoop someone's ass in a RTS. Oh yeah, resurrecting the heroes is really cool too, but it gets pretty expensive.
I know Myth2 has a lot of fans, but Warcraft III is going to be coming out soon- I got the beta in the mail today, and (suprise surprise) no Linux version on the CD. Oh well, I'm willing to boot Windows for that...
I think this might be able to apply to mp3's as well. For instance, if I have an .m3u mp3 playlist on my web site that links over http to mp3's on another person's website, that is similar to representing the mp3's as my own.
I hope you all realize that the current exchange rate is about $.625 for $1 Canadian. This of course means that $80 Canadian converts to $50.07 US. Not exactly a far cry from the $49.95 a month I fork over to ATTBI. Indeed, as the article states, some people in the U.S. pay as much as $111 Canadian, which is really $69.47 U.S.
Regardless, the bandwidth hogs will be exceed the amount they pay in terms of the cost of bandwidth. Assuming they have 1.5 Mb/s down and the cost of 1 GB is around $4 US, about 16 GB/day can be downloaded and totaling upward of 450 GB/month. That's $1800/month providing access for a customer who pays only $50 a month. Granted, the cable ISP is most likely not paying the full T1 price for bandwidth, but even at 1/4 the utilization and 1/4 the price for bandwidth, the ISP is still losing money on these customers.
I'm just wondering what they're testing the streaming codecs for, "especially for modem users". If you can control the bitrate, why would you need to test the usability on limited bandwidth? Common sense dictates that if bandwidth audio bitrate, it won't stream. I imagine it would be more useful to test the streaming servers rather than the codec itself.
But I think if we look more closely right under our noses at the moon, we'll see that big black monolith. Listen to what it says though and stay away from Europa.