now that an integer-based Ogg Vorbis decoder (called Tremor) has been developed, one of the main hurdles for hardware Ogg support has been removed. Tremor source code here. That pretty much leaves two other areas as far as I can tell, artist support and customer demand. Hopefully everyone aware of the benefits of Ogg is making an effort towards one or more of these areas. And thanks to the codec developers and everyone generally involved in Ogg!
you wouldn't be noticably out of sync if the machines synchronized to an atomic clock over the net before they start every song, or checked every hour or day whatever.. unless, perhaps, you got a random bounced signal from far away
I have had this idea before and I think it's great. The notion of song distribution benefits and bootable daily rotations is even better. If I hadn't wasted all my mod points last night, I would mod the parent post up. Perhaps someone can provide more detailed information about range, signal timing, and other technical issues, because the digital aspect of it seems relatively straightforward.
trying to compete with the stranglehold the big labels have on US radio might be just about impossible otherwise..
you know, getting modded down for proving the information and a link to the source, when the original poster couldn't even click the story to see a picture and answer their own question, is pretty rediculous...
the slashdot insanity filter makes it hard to properly format this data so use the link above
Display
2-inch (diagonal) liquid crystal display with orange LED backlight
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Size and Weight
Height: 5.3"
Width: 3.1"
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Environmental Requirements
Operating temperature: -4 to 125 degrees F
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet
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Up to 30 minutes of skip protection
Maximum output power: 60mW rms (30 mW per channel)
Frequency response: 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz
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Upgradeable firmware enables support for future audio formats
Recording
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MP3 format
Input and Output
Full speed USB 1.1
3.5mm stereo headphone jack
3.5mm stereo line-in jack
2.5mm stereo RF jack (for external antenna)
MyFi FM Broadcasting
33 channel selection
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Maximum range: 20 feet
Frequency response: 15Hz-20kHz
Transmission strength: 250 microV/M-2 at 3m
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I agree 3DStudio-MAX is probably the best choice for games, but unfortunately it's not a choice for MacOSX yet... however, when I was at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters; a video tradeshow) a year ago, the discreet rep said their Mac version of combustion was selling much better than the PC port. So this could potentially bode well for an eventual Mac port of MAX, but its not a solution today.. Anyway combustion is a great compositing application, and compositing is an essential skill to effectively doing 3d since rerendering every aspect of every scene for every change is often time consuming and unnecessary. It's now OSX compatible, too.
wouldn't the contents of the car alter the signature? potentially just the number of passengers inside could alter the signature, or certainly power magnets could. so then you could outlaw travel with large amounts of magnetic material (already an interesting proposition considering cars increasing reliance upon computer systems), but it gets pretty hard to outlaw electricity and metal...
This isn't true, unfortunately. When the implementations of strong hash checking are done properly (everything in one chip, ROM a la Xbox), they WILL succeed in locking everyone else out without very expensive hacks.
Personally I think new law is needed to render this illegal, unless it is under the control of the user.
while i concur that the notion of a company removing or limiting features after the purchase of a product is disagreeable, you are incorrect in citing the xbox as a 'hack-proof' design. The gamecube actually has the design you are referring to, where the bios and many/most/all security measures are contained in a single, integral chip such as the CPU, or the graphics chip as is the case with the gamecube iirc.. the gamecube media also contributes to the difficult of hacking the unit to run anything other than nintendo authorized games.
the xbox has been modded to the point where you can not only run games from different territories, you can actually run ftp clients on it and download games and movies onto an upgraded 120gb HDD and play them directly from disc. in the current hardware, the bios chip is seperate from other (more expensive and customized) hardware. the common media and seperate security measures (unencrypted signals travel an accessable path at one point) contribute to the xbox having been hacked.
that said, i believe your proposed legislation would be difficult to implement for at least two reasons; one being that you likely purchase a license to the software rather than the software itself. I guess you could still try and legislate acceptable license terms, but even then the definition of a 'good' or 'bad' feature being added to or removed from a product may be a matter of perspective.
check it out on my site earth2willi.com if you like, the feeds are returning this error from my scripts:
Warning: fopen("http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss","r") - Success in/home2/www/sejus/earth2willi/RSSslashdot.php on line 60 Error reading news headlines from this site.
considering viral mutation and modern airtravel, let alone research and development of biological weapons and sometimes ill-researched genetic manipulation, I don't think its safe to say so certainly that we are abosultely removed from any risk of going the way of the dinosaurs.
theres about a million other ways to go about hypothosizing about our potential extintion, but i think this is one reasonable possibility.
The military doesn't waste time (according to them a waste of time) disarming every mine they come across. They just take care of the ones directly in their way and move on. As long as the mines in the area were not of a very few specific types of the mines out there, it would be great to not have to risk human lives and use the robot to disarm the mines.
what kind of specific mines are you talking about, and why? thanks
How sad then, that America has almost single-handedly prevented the banning of anti-personnel land mines, principally because it is afraid of losing its ability to interfere in Korea.
that and they are a high profit item, or so I hear...
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could this be the beginning of the end of landmines? think about it, if this robot works as well as claimed, military forces will probably be quick to integrate what appears to be inexpensive technology into anything they can. if tanks have this tech built into the front or underside of the vehicle then they could just roll right over landmines. further, footsoldiers could be equipped with the detection aspect of the system and perhaps eventually a variant of the 'smashing' technology itself.
so at that point (sometime in the future obviously), why bother buying and placing landmines that are totally ineffective against military forces? I'm not a big fan of war, so I'm not sure that unstoppable ubertanks are a great idea, but then again I'm not so sure about many of the militarys' plans and ideas. At any rate, the elimination of landmines and the elimination of their use would be a great thing for civilians.
there are also some graphic pictures there of various other trauma he teaches reconstructive medicine in relation to, so be forewarned. and hit up my website and download some music that I am paying these stinky bandwidth bills for while you are at it!
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putting it in a subduction zone sounds interesting, do you have more information on this?
of course, a boat accident would probably be worse than Yucaa mountain being damaged, considering how the ocean currents could really distribute the waste.
your assuming that time is either forwards or backwards, yes or no, one or zero. what if the intermediate boundary was like a gradient? or analog as opposed to digital.
Although power issues remain thorny, control technologies have come a long way over the past decade. In the late 1990s, Pin's group built an artificial arm that responds instantly to commands and can load 4,000-pound bombs into F-15 jet bays. The operator grabs a handlelike device at the end of the arm's framework, and the machine follows his motions, providing force-feedback so he can feel the bomb's weight, shape, and inertia. "We had young guys from the Air Force who had never seen a computer; they were successfully loading bombs with this thing in 15 minutes," Pin says.
just because the RIAA would love for you to buy this album doesn't mean there is no choice in the matter. I may buy it and return it like suggested, and of could would do so tactfully since the retail store employees are probably not choosing the encryption-scheme-of-the-month.
there are alternatives however, and I don't necessarily mean Napster or Kazaa or whatever flavor of P2P client of the month, although there are of course plenty of 'legitimate' uses for these programs as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) - There may not have been much fanfare for a new CD called "More Music from The Fast and the Furious," but that is the album the music industry's heavy hitters have decided to make sure is copy-proof.
for the record, the album appears to be "More Music for The Fast and the Furious". The article makes it sound like a movie soundtrack further down the story, although I am not positive.
while I support the idea of buying and returning these albums to make a point, lets try to realize the people working the cash registers probably aren't the ones deciding what copy protection scheme to implement this month. make a point of enumerating your reasons for a return, but let's also make a point of not getting personally angry with store level employees. if a few of us manage to purchase the cd a couple of times at different stores, I think the bottom line will speak loud enough for itself.
between 15 hour compile times and 20 second load times the average user isn't going to see a huge advantage to this suite unless they are already in support of the open source movement. i realize that these programs have different aims, but one of the nice things about stickies on the mac or notepad on windows (not that it compares to stickies), aside from being built in, is that it launches in around 1 second. sometimes you just need to get it down. hopefully with further modularization of this program, we can see the option for similar load times for simple text entry by loading all formatting functions on demand.
9-5-1...9-5-1....1-1-1-1-5-5-5-5-9-5-1...yes hello, and thank you for calling. this call is a violation of the dmca, and is being traced. please stay on the line while an officer is dispatched to your location. have a nice day!...
I swear it up and down - RIAA no longer represents music companies, but rather lawyers and looks for their interests instead.
as the commercial music industry as a whole represents music itself? in these days you have to be a model first and a musician second...
you really want to stick it to the riaa, don't bother with their product at all. as a consumer you have an opportunity to voice your opinion in regards to the riaa's practices in ways other than simply writing an email to a government representative already on the riaa paylist. a lot of music is available free for download on the internet, some bad and some quite good. take for example, a website of mine, earth2willi.com, which offers full albums available for download complete with print resolution album artwork graphics. you can download the mp3s, burn them to CD, and print the graphics for a perfect, riaa-untouched, cd.
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it was one hundred, until someone looked at it and it changed...
now that an integer-based Ogg Vorbis decoder (called Tremor) has been developed, one of the main hurdles for hardware Ogg support has been removed. Tremor source code here. That pretty much leaves two other areas as far as I can tell, artist support and customer demand. Hopefully everyone aware of the benefits of Ogg is making an effort towards one or more of these areas. And thanks to the codec developers and everyone generally involved in Ogg!
you wouldn't be noticably out of sync if the machines synchronized to an atomic clock over the net before they start every song, or checked every hour or day whatever.. unless, perhaps, you got a random bounced signal from far away
I have had this idea before and I think it's great. The notion of song distribution benefits and bootable daily rotations is even better. If I hadn't wasted all my mod points last night, I would mod the parent post up. Perhaps someone can provide more detailed information about range, signal timing, and other technical issues, because the digital aspect of it seems relatively straightforward.
trying to compete with the stranglehold the big labels have on US radio might be just about impossible otherwise..
you know, getting modded down for proving the information and a link to the source, when the original poster couldn't even click the story to see a picture and answer their own question, is pretty rediculous...
specs
.21/.28 dot pitch 4 level gray scale
Size and Weight
Height: 5.3"
Width: 3.1"
Depth: 1.3"
Weight: 9.4oz.
Environmental Requirements
Operating temperature: -4 to 125 degrees F
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet
Audio
Up to 30 minutes of skip protection
Maximum output power: 60mW rms (30 mW per channel)
Frequency response: 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz
MP3 format (up to 320 kbps), MP3 Variable Bit Rate (VBR)
Upgradeable firmware enables support for future audio formats
Recording
64-160 kbps
MP3 format
Input and Output
Full speed USB 1.1
3.5mm stereo headphone jack
3.5mm stereo line-in jack
2.5mm stereo RF jack (for external antenna)
MyFi FM Broadcasting
33 channel selection
Mono and stereo modes
Maximum range: 20 feet
Frequency response: 15Hz-20kHz
Transmission strength: 250 microV/M-2 at 3m
Earphones
Earbud type earphones using Neodymium transducer magnets
Frequency response: 20 to 20,000Hz
Impedance: 32 ohms
Wall Power Adapter
AC input: 100V to 125V at 0.4
Frequency: 50 to 60Hz
DC output: 9V at .8 amp
Power and Battery
Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
Playtime: 10 hours when fully charged
Full charge time: 8 hours
Car Power Adapter
DC output: 9V at 1.0 amp
Full charge time: 8 hours
the slashdot insanity filter makes it hard to properly format this data so use the link above
Display 2-inch (diagonal) liquid crystal display with orange LED backlight 128 by 128 pixel resolution
I agree 3DStudio-MAX is probably the best choice for games, but unfortunately it's not a choice for MacOSX yet... however, when I was at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters; a video tradeshow) a year ago, the discreet rep said their Mac version of combustion was selling much better than the PC port. So this could potentially bode well for an eventual Mac port of MAX, but its not a solution today.. Anyway combustion is a great compositing application, and compositing is an essential skill to effectively doing 3d since rerendering every aspect of every scene for every change is often time consuming and unnecessary. It's now OSX compatible, too.
wouldn't the contents of the car alter the signature? potentially just the number of passengers inside could alter the signature, or certainly power magnets could. so then you could outlaw travel with large amounts of magnetic material (already an interesting proposition considering cars increasing reliance upon computer systems), but it gets pretty hard to outlaw electricity and metal...
This isn't true, unfortunately. When the implementations of strong hash checking are done properly (everything in one chip, ROM a la Xbox), they WILL succeed in locking everyone else out without very expensive hacks.
Personally I think new law is needed to render this illegal, unless it is under the control of the user.
while i concur that the notion of a company removing or limiting features after the purchase of a product is disagreeable, you are incorrect in citing the xbox as a 'hack-proof' design. The gamecube actually has the design you are referring to, where the bios and many/most/all security measures are contained in a single, integral chip such as the CPU, or the graphics chip as is the case with the gamecube iirc.. the gamecube media also contributes to the difficult of hacking the unit to run anything other than nintendo authorized games.
the xbox has been modded to the point where you can not only run games from different territories, you can actually run ftp clients on it and download games and movies onto an upgraded 120gb HDD and play them directly from disc. in the current hardware, the bios chip is seperate from other (more expensive and customized) hardware. the common media and seperate security measures (unencrypted signals travel an accessable path at one point) contribute to the xbox having been hacked.
that said, i believe your proposed legislation would be difficult to implement for at least two reasons; one being that you likely purchase a license to the software rather than the software itself. I guess you could still try and legislate acceptable license terms, but even then the definition of a 'good' or 'bad' feature being added to or removed from a product may be a matter of perspective.
and visit my website goddammit!!@!
check it out on my site earth2willi.com if you like, the feeds are returning this error from my scripts:
/home2/www/sejus/earth2willi/RSSslashdot.php on line 60
Warning: fopen("http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss","r") - Success in
Error reading news headlines from this site.
considering viral mutation and modern airtravel, let alone research and development of biological weapons and sometimes ill-researched genetic manipulation, I don't think its safe to say so certainly that we are abosultely removed from any risk of going the way of the dinosaurs.
theres about a million other ways to go about hypothosizing about our potential extintion, but i think this is one reasonable possibility.
The military doesn't waste time (according to them a waste of time) disarming every mine they come across. They just take care of the ones directly in their way and move on. As long as the mines in the area were not of a very few specific types of the mines out there, it would be great to not have to risk human lives and use the robot to disarm the mines.
what kind of specific mines are you talking about, and why? thanks
riaa untouched. no login required. advertisement free.
How sad then, that America has almost single-handedly prevented the banning of anti-personnel land mines, principally because it is afraid of losing its ability to interfere in Korea.
that and they are a high profit item, or so I hear...
riaa untouched. no login required. advertisement free.
could this be the beginning of the end of landmines? think about it, if this robot works as well as claimed, military forces will probably be quick to integrate what appears to be inexpensive technology into anything they can. if tanks have this tech built into the front or underside of the vehicle then they could just roll right over landmines. further, footsoldiers could be equipped with the detection aspect of the system and perhaps eventually a variant of the 'smashing' technology itself.
so at that point (sometime in the future obviously), why bother buying and placing landmines that are totally ineffective against military forces? I'm not a big fan of war, so I'm not sure that unstoppable ubertanks are a great idea, but then again I'm not so sure about many of the militarys' plans and ideas. At any rate, the elimination of landmines and the elimination of their use would be a great thing for civilians.
in case you didn't know its usually civilians who end up finding the land mines. Actually, I have a doctor friend who travels to areas heavily ridden with landmines in order to teach reconstructive medicine because so many civilians not only find the mines, but are then unable to recieve proper medical care.
there are also some graphic pictures there of various other trauma he teaches reconstructive medicine in relation to, so be forewarned. and hit up my website and download some music that I am paying these stinky bandwidth bills for while you are at it!
riaa untouched. no login required. advertisement free.
putting it in a subduction zone sounds interesting, do you have more information on this?
of course, a boat accident would probably be worse than Yucaa mountain being damaged, considering how the ocean currents could really distribute the waste.
wouldn't what its made of affect how its created?
your assuming that time is either forwards or backwards, yes or no, one or zero. what if the intermediate boundary was like a gradient? or analog as opposed to digital.
just jabbering...
Although power issues remain thorny, control technologies have come a long way over the past decade. In the late 1990s, Pin's group built an artificial arm that responds instantly to commands and can load 4,000-pound bombs into F-15 jet bays. The operator grabs a handlelike device at the end of the arm's framework, and the machine follows his motions, providing force-feedback so he can feel the bomb's weight, shape, and inertia. "We had young guys from the Air Force who had never seen a computer; they were successfully loading bombs with this thing in 15 minutes," Pin says.
and this is a good thing?
just because the RIAA would love for you to buy this album doesn't mean there is no choice in the matter. I may buy it and return it like suggested, and of could would do so tactfully since the retail store employees are probably not choosing the encryption-scheme-of-the-month.
there are alternatives however, and I don't necessarily mean Napster or Kazaa or whatever flavor of P2P client of the month, although there are of course plenty of 'legitimate' uses for these programs as well.
for example, nearly 3 full albums of music is available for download complete with print resolution artwork, advertisment free, no login required, and wholly untouched by the RIAA.
slashdot gets lots of 'wacky' submissions about free energy? free energy is to life as linux is to computers.. even open source code needs power..
WASHINGTON (AP) - There may not have been much fanfare for a new CD called "More Music from The Fast and the Furious," but that is the album the music industry's heavy hitters have decided to make sure is copy-proof.
for the record, the album appears to be "More Music for The Fast and the Furious". The article makes it sound like a movie soundtrack further down the story, although I am not positive.
while I support the idea of buying and returning these albums to make a point, lets try to realize the people working the cash registers probably aren't the ones deciding what copy protection scheme to implement this month. make a point of enumerating your reasons for a return, but let's also make a point of not getting personally angry with store level employees. if a few of us manage to purchase the cd a couple of times at different stores, I think the bottom line will speak loud enough for itself.
"...for now the working groups punningly refer to "CD-MRW". "
I can't wait to tell people about this. "Theres this great new super easy cd format!" "oh yeah? whats it called?" "CD-MRW!" "CD-huh?"
heh
between 15 hour compile times and 20 second load times the average user isn't going to see a huge advantage to this suite unless they are already in support of the open source movement. i realize that these programs have different aims, but one of the nice things about stickies on the mac or notepad on windows (not that it compares to stickies), aside from being built in, is that it launches in around 1 second. sometimes you just need to get it down. hopefully with further modularization of this program, we can see the option for similar load times for simple text entry by loading all formatting functions on demand.
what about playing hot cross buns on the pad?
9-5-1...9-5-1....1-1-1-1-5-5-5-5-9-5-1...yes hello, and thank you for calling. this call is a violation of the dmca, and is being traced. please stay on the line while an officer is dispatched to your location. have a nice day!...
well that will teach me not to test my own links..obviously its earth2willi.com
as the commercial music industry as a whole represents music itself? in these days you have to be a model first and a musician second...
you really want to stick it to the riaa, don't bother with their product at all. as a consumer you have an opportunity to voice your opinion in regards to the riaa's practices in ways other than simply writing an email to a government representative already on the riaa paylist. a lot of music is available free for download on the internet, some bad and some quite good. take for example, a website of mine, earth2willi.com , which offers full albums available for download complete with print resolution album artwork graphics. you can download the mp3s, burn them to CD, and print the graphics for a perfect, riaa-untouched, cd.