Most of the time you don't need 52x speed out of your CD-ROM dirve. MP3 uses 0.1x(!), video VCD - 1.5x, video DivX;) - up to 1x. Games may be different, but still I don't think they really require more than 8x. 8x seems to be the threshold below which the CD noise isn't a problem, and it is still 1.2Mb/sec.
A number of utilities are available to reduce the max drive speed, although not every drive supports this feature.
Search for keywords "Drivespeed 2000" if you are on Windows or "cdspeed" for Linux.
Re:Ternary has been known to be efficient...
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Modern CMOS logic gates use pairs of transistors at their outputs, not single transistors. If the upper one is conducting, it is 1 state of the gate. If the lower one - 0 state. If neither is conducting, the resulting state is HiZ, used to connect multiple outputs to the same bus. If both are conducting, you can guess what happens:).
Actually, it is relatively easy to create small and efficient ternary gates, using similar structures, but 2 supply voltages. I was thinking about this logic a while ago, when I was approached by physicist working on a problem of finding particle tracks using information from strip detectors. It appears that the problem is solved very easy in ternary logic. We stuck to binary logic anyway, because no commercial ICs are available for ternary logic.
I also used to compare encryption to guns in a sense that it arms citizens against possible abuses of power by the government.
Hovewer, there is a HUGE, IMMESURABLE difference between guns and free information: no single person has ever died or been injured because of improper use of encryption. THOUSANDS are killed and injured in gun accidents annualy.
Government is not afraid of your puny firearms. They are nothing compared to their military machine. So, if you want to protect your right to have effective weapons against government oppression, support weapons that can be very damaging against the government, but don't kill thousands of innocent people. Otherwise, you are a bunch of bloodthirsty hypocrites, using a dead letter of the Constitution to hold to your power over your neighbours' lives instead of fighting for the living spirit of the Constitution.
Back in 70-s in Soviet Union. Well, it wasn't technically illegal, but anyone wearing them was stamped as "bearer of the alien Western ideology" and often was denied some priveledges after publicly humiliated at a Komsomol meeting.
The practice was overwhelmed in early 80-s because of the sheer number of jeans on the street.
The procedure most widely known has been for the two terrorists to get onto the same bus from
different stops, talk quietly on the top floor, and get off at different stops.
Having it gives you some control on the government, having guns doesn't give you this control anymore. The spirit of the Second Amendment is that people should have weapons comparable to those government has. Gun lobby don't fight for the Second Amendment anymore, only for they narrow interests. PGP and SSL users do.
If the certification process is really independent and objective, Windows will never be certified as a secure system. Well, I know, this is a very big IF.
My MPTrip goes for 6 hours on 2 good AA batteries.
I suspect most of the current goes to MP3 decoding, not CD spinning.
Smaller CD should require even less energy to spin.
Battery life is not an issue for me, but smaller form factor would be really nice.
I run the same applications on Ultra 60 (Solaris) and on 1GHz Pentium III (Linux). These are EDA tools from Synopsys and Cadence, integer only.
Programs with small main loop footprint (work from L1 or L2 cache) run faster on Pentium, proportional to the clock speed, i.e. two times faster.
However, when there is a lot of random accesses all over the main RAM, Sun hardware runs slightly faster. Looks like it has better RAM subsystem.
Extend 2nd Amendment to hacking tools!
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American citizens (well, some of them) fight so hard to keep their firearms, all under pretext to keep government under control.
In Internet age, free flow of information is much more dangerous to oppressive government than small firearms.
Don't fight for stupid guns, fight for mightier weapons - censorship-free Internet, public control over media supergiants, etc.!
This is a widespread mistake. Money spent on weapons do create jobs. However, money spent on almost anything else create even more jobs. Skilled people employed by weapon companies would not have trouble to find jobs in other places, where they would be much more useful to society as a whole.
I was expecting something like this. I got most of my MP3s from alt.binaries.sounds.mp3, not from Napster, even when there was a lot of stuff on it. Download speed from news.home.com is way better than from crAAAAAA-a.home.com.
Sory, couldn't find the link to Globe and Mail article.
In a nutshell, they have an unmarked police car patrolling Toronto highways and ticketing for "unsafe driving" cars that go below speed limit+20km/h in the left lane ("left-lane bandits").
This is a strange kind of agreement between police and drivers - nobody gets fined for driving 110-115 in 100km/h zone. They could raise it to 120 and really enforce - this would be honest.
How to get attention to Ogg Vorbis
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1. If a significant number of streaming sites switch to Ogg Vorbis, people will switch to it, too. The question is how to influence webcasters.
2. High profile anti-piracy lawsuit. Many people learned about Napster and started to use it after RIAA first moves against it (and the accompanying media coverage)
I am EE myself. After you learn basic stuff about signals, you will never buy a speaker cable for 1500$/ft.
The problem with audiophiles is :
they never do BLIND tests!!!
I am not even talking about double blind tests, which is the really scientific method for subjective measurements. These guys have to see the equipment and know the price before they agree to listen and compare. This is why I think they are insane.
You can use 4-20kHz range
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This will not interfere with phone signal.
Anyway, it looks like this will work on dedicated copper pairs, not on regular phone lines.
This is actually one of the most stable currencies for the last two years or so. It is effectively tied to USD, unlike most of the other european currencies. The rate changed from 27RUR/1USD two years ago to 29RUR/1USD now. I agree though, its long-term stability is questionable. This is why everyone there have their savings in US cash, even though short-term interest rates on RUR accounts are very attractive (10-20%!).
"Linux spreads like cancer, killing proprietary software" sounds catchy. The same way they say on CNN "people download music from Napster" or "DeCSS allows to make illegal copies of DVD's". It is not true, but after being repeated million times, it becomes the "public opinion".
Dissemination of knowledge ("educated public") is recognizeded to be Public Good by the US Constitution. While the Constitution limits dissemination of "Useful Arts and Inventions" for a limited period of time, after that period any means of distribution must be acknowledged as serving Public Good.
American ingenuity vs Russian "combattivness"
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I am a Russian engineer. I was working for joint high-energy physics experiments in Fermilab, USA in 1991-1995. There was a number of situations, when we had to fix something or to come up with a solution to a problem under tight time and budget constraints. Usually, it was Russians who solved the problem in a non-standard way, without waiting for lengthy approval or purchasing process, going instead to the heap of old scrap for parts and materials.
This tradition comes from the days of the centrally planned Soviet economy, when aproving and purchasing something might take 1-1.5 years(!), especially in non-military fundamental science area. We had to reuse everything, sometimes in very interesting ways.
It doesn't matter how you share the spectrum - using narrow frequency bands or using uniquely shaped pulses. Amount of information that can be transferred over the same part of the spectrum will be the same. You can try to transfer more, but all you will see is more interference and higher Bit Error Rate.
Code division/ time division (the invention is an extreme case of time division) actually has some advantages over frequency division, but only under moderate to above moderate saturation of the spectrum. Under high saturation, the data rate and error rate degrade even faster than with frequency division.
Sorry, no miracles here. This area is studied very well.
Also worth mentioning, that pulse transmitters will cause a lot of interference with existing systems. They will only live well with each other, but not with narrowband systems. They will give a lot of annoying clicks in your FM radio.
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Most of the time you don't need 52x speed out of your CD-ROM dirve. MP3 uses 0.1x(!), video VCD - 1.5x, video DivX;) - up to 1x. Games may be different, but still I don't think they really require more than 8x. 8x seems to be the threshold below which the CD noise isn't a problem, and it is still 1.2Mb/sec.
A number of utilities are available to reduce the max drive speed, although not every drive supports this feature.
Search for keywords "Drivespeed 2000" if you are on Windows or "cdspeed" for Linux.
Modern CMOS logic gates use pairs of transistors at their outputs, not single transistors. If the upper one is conducting, it is 1 state of the gate. If the lower one - 0 state. If neither is conducting, the resulting state is HiZ, used to connect multiple outputs to the same bus. If both are conducting, you can guess what happens:).
Actually, it is relatively easy to create small and efficient ternary gates, using similar structures, but 2 supply voltages. I was thinking about this logic a while ago, when I was approached by physicist working on a problem of finding particle tracks using information from strip detectors. It appears that the problem is solved very easy in ternary logic. We stuck to binary logic anyway, because no commercial ICs are available for ternary logic.
I also used to compare encryption to guns in a sense that it arms citizens against possible abuses of power by the government.
Hovewer, there is a HUGE, IMMESURABLE difference between guns and free information: no single person has ever died or been injured because of improper use of encryption. THOUSANDS are killed and injured in gun accidents annualy.
Government is not afraid of your puny firearms. They are nothing compared to their military machine. So, if you want to protect your right to have effective weapons against government oppression, support weapons that can be very damaging against the government, but don't kill thousands of innocent people. Otherwise, you are a bunch of bloodthirsty hypocrites, using a dead letter of the Constitution to hold to your power over your neighbours' lives instead of fighting for the living spirit of the Constitution.
Back in 70-s in Soviet Union. Well, it wasn't technically illegal, but anyone wearing them was stamped as "bearer of the alien Western ideology" and often was denied some priveledges after publicly humiliated at a Komsomol meeting.
The practice was overwhelmed in early 80-s because of the sheer number of jeans on the street.
The procedure most widely known has been for the two terrorists to get onto the same bus from different stops, talk quietly on the top floor, and get off at different stops.
Those doubledeckers must be outlawed!
Having it gives you some control on the government, having guns doesn't give you this control anymore. The spirit of the Second Amendment is that people should have weapons comparable to those government has. Gun lobby don't fight for the Second Amendment anymore, only for they narrow interests. PGP and SSL users do.
If the certification process is really independent and objective, Windows will never be certified as a secure system. Well, I know, this is a very big IF.
My MPTrip goes for 6 hours on 2 good AA batteries.
I suspect most of the current goes to MP3 decoding, not CD spinning.
Smaller CD should require even less energy to spin.
Battery life is not an issue for me, but smaller form factor would be really nice.
I run the same applications on Ultra 60 (Solaris) and on 1GHz Pentium III (Linux). These are EDA tools from Synopsys and Cadence, integer only. Programs with small main loop footprint (work from L1 or L2 cache) run faster on Pentium, proportional to the clock speed, i.e. two times faster. However, when there is a lot of random accesses all over the main RAM, Sun hardware runs slightly faster. Looks like it has better RAM subsystem.
American citizens (well, some of them) fight so hard to keep their firearms, all under pretext to keep government under control.
In Internet age, free flow of information is much more dangerous to oppressive government than small firearms.
Don't fight for stupid guns, fight for mightier weapons - censorship-free Internet, public control over media supergiants, etc.!
He holds H1B visa only. It takes several years to get a green card being on H1B.
This is why I went to Canada instead.
This is a widespread mistake. Money spent on weapons do create jobs. However, money spent on almost anything else create even more jobs. Skilled people employed by weapon companies would not have trouble to find jobs in other places, where they would be much more useful to society as a whole.
At least alt.binaries.movies is still there.
I was expecting something like this. I got most of my MP3s from alt.binaries.sounds.mp3, not from Napster, even when there was a lot of stuff on it. Download speed from news.home.com is way better than from crAAAAAA-a.home.com.
Sory, couldn't find the link to Globe and Mail article. In a nutshell, they have an unmarked police car patrolling Toronto highways and ticketing for "unsafe driving" cars that go below speed limit+20km/h in the left lane ("left-lane bandits"). This is a strange kind of agreement between police and drivers - nobody gets fined for driving 110-115 in 100km/h zone. They could raise it to 120 and really enforce - this would be honest.
1. If a significant number of streaming sites switch to Ogg Vorbis, people will switch to it, too. The question is how to influence webcasters.
2. High profile anti-piracy lawsuit. Many people learned about Napster and started to use it after RIAA first moves against it (and the accompanying media coverage)
I am EE myself. After you learn basic stuff about signals, you will never buy a speaker cable for 1500$/ft.
The problem with audiophiles is :
they never do BLIND tests!!!
I am not even talking about double blind tests, which is the really scientific method for subjective measurements. These guys have to see the equipment and know the price before they agree to listen and compare. This is why I think they are insane.
This will not interfere with phone signal. Anyway, it looks like this will work on dedicated copper pairs, not on regular phone lines.
This is actually one of the most stable currencies for the last two years or so. It is effectively tied to USD, unlike most of the other european currencies. The rate changed from 27RUR/1USD two years ago to 29RUR/1USD now. I agree though, its long-term stability is questionable. This is why everyone there have their savings in US cash, even though short-term interest rates on RUR accounts are very attractive (10-20%!).
"Linux spreads like cancer, killing proprietary software" sounds catchy. The same way they say on CNN "people download music from Napster" or "DeCSS allows to make illegal copies of DVD's". It is not true, but after being repeated million times, it becomes the "public opinion".
33.6k and 56k modems can change their speed based on line conditions. I believe there is about 20 different possible values in 21600..56000 range.
They will fall soon.
Dissemination of knowledge ("educated public") is recognizeded to be Public Good by the US Constitution. While the Constitution limits dissemination of "Useful Arts and Inventions" for a limited period of time, after that period any means of distribution must be acknowledged as serving Public Good.
I am a Russian engineer. I was working for joint high-energy physics experiments in Fermilab, USA in 1991-1995. There was a number of situations, when we had to fix something or to come up with a solution to a problem under tight time and budget constraints. Usually, it was Russians who solved the problem in a non-standard way, without waiting for lengthy approval or purchasing process, going instead to the heap of old scrap for parts and materials.
This tradition comes from the days of the centrally planned Soviet economy, when aproving and purchasing something might take 1-1.5 years(!), especially in non-military fundamental science area. We had to reuse everything, sometimes in very interesting ways.
It doesn't matter how you share the spectrum - using narrow frequency bands or using uniquely shaped pulses. Amount of information that can be transferred over the same part of the spectrum will be the same. You can try to transfer more, but all you will see is more interference and higher Bit Error Rate.
Code division/ time division (the invention is an extreme case of time division) actually has some advantages over frequency division, but only under moderate to above moderate saturation of the spectrum. Under high saturation, the data rate and error rate degrade even faster than with frequency division.
Sorry, no miracles here. This area is studied very well.
Also worth mentioning, that pulse transmitters will cause a lot of interference with existing systems. They will only live well with each other, but not with narrowband systems. They will give a lot of annoying clicks in your FM radio.
They don't need a warrant, right? It's not their jurisdiction!
If somebody doesn't have jurisdiction somewhere, it doesn't mean he can do anything. This means he can do nothing.