What bothers me is the large lack of adoption of DVD-Audio format media.
It's technically far superior to anything on a CD (24-bit, 96kHz vs 16-bit, 48kHz) and has 6 discrete channels instead of just 2.
However, the only things released on DVD-A, to my knowledge, are "remastered" editions of older bands (Sting, The Police, Pink Floyd, etc.) as well as some live collections of said older bands, and finally, rap albums.
None of the music I listen to (modern rock, alternative, "emo" as much of a misnomer as that is, from a wide selection of RIAA and independant labels) is released on DVD-A. Or, when it is released as a "DVD Audio" it is actually a DVD-Video disc, with very little video in it, just soundtracks. Thus, my DVD-A player can't play it, my DVD-A ripping software can't make sense of it without demuxing the AC3 audio stream from an MPEG video file, and overall, it is far less functional and useful.
I would gladly re-buy my entire CD collection on DVD-A assuming it was resampled at the higher resolution and upmixed to 6 channels, even if these changes were done in the mixing studio in a software program rather than by re-recording. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon.
A damn shame, too. If they promoted DVD-A well enough, it might be the same boom of sales as people re-buy in the new format.
Does anyone know if this comes with an orinico module for the lastest Orinoco Gold cards? (Model 8420), which is an Agere Systems model 0111 card?
It's unrecognized and I was unable to successfully build drivers for it on anything else; ended up using my older rebadged Dell TrueMobile 1150 which is cracked and broken.
Download counters wrap around and go negative, time starts counting backwards or at a negative interval...then the time eventually reaches 0 from the other side, some kind of Divide by 0 error occurs, and the browser crashes with a "403 could not write network stream" little popup message.
(I've replicated that behavior about 5 times downloading >4GB ISO images of Fedora Core 2 and associated Linux OSes.)
Boeing Energy Systems has solar energy towers. I think some of them are based on condensation/evaporation of liquid sodium; but they do have the traditional heliosat and photoelectric models as well.
I feel much safer knowing the provisions of the USA PATRIOT act will allow the United States government to protect me from foreign and domestic threats alike.
I've always said that security is more important than liberty -- after all, what good is my freedom when i'm terrified all the time of a terrorist attack? At least with the Homeland Security alerts, I could make my travel plans around certain areas, but overall, I feel safer knowing that the FBI and other agencies can inspect my muslim neighbor's mail just for being muslims. Those muslims are an abomination against God anyway, and I side with George W. Bush in his brilliant, decisive crusade against their nations and their religious beliefs. It's okay to use false information, as long as the end result is clear. Our great President has obviously got the right idea! We need to stop the muslims from attacking our very way of life and spreading terror everywhere.
So, in conclusion, I fully support the USA PATRIOT act. I'd like to see stricter measures enacted, in fact!
Benefits of having the rendering engine be a part of the OS:
Any application can hook into the rendering engine and use it for HTML rendering. LOTS of applications embed the shdoclc control into their main panels and use it for navigation, etc. It's trivial to do this, and it means it's a lot less work for people to do.
Downsides:
Any vaunerabilities that are discovered in the engine, will effect all the apps that call it.
Internet Explorer is a "front" for the engine. So is MyIE2 (with some other features thrown in there.)
Yes, but using WiFi as a HAM operator, means using encryption becomes a federal crime, as does visiting any web site with obscene content (swearing, pornography, etc.)
Different laws apply to which way you're using it.
I wonder if I could convince any of them to buy me stuff..."my only computer is at my office, and my boss reads my e-mails and he is very greedy, in order to better assist you with this transaction and ensure your funds are safely delivered, I require a private computer for which I can access remotely. You may deduct the cost of the computer from my assistance fee."
Only problem is, getting a safe address to ship it to, where I wouldn't have angry Nigerians coming to kill me.
The P.O. box at my college is probably fairly safe, but I don't know *how* safe. heh.
The interesting thing about this is that while it eliminates third-party carriers over the ILEC's laid lines, it actually will increase competition:
Now people can chose from the phone company (DSL, FTTP), the cable company (Docsis), the power company (BPL) or various assorted satellite providers (DirecPC, Starband) plus any community wireless solutions that may be there.
It keeps the companies happy...the ILEC doesn't have to sell its lines at a loss to CLEC, but there are still lots of choices.
WHY is it so difficult to make my cell phone work with my car stereo.
When I'm in my car, right now, I have 3 options, excluding "don't take the call" which frequently, isn't
(1) Use the phone normally. (2) Use oddly-shaped over-ear clip headset thing. Works okay but it's awkward to hear with, the phone's volume doesn't go up high enough to make it comfortable to use this. (3) Pull over
1 is dangerous, 2 means I can't really hear the caller, 3 often isn't feasible (Interstate highway, busy road, no turn-offs, etc.)
I want my cell phone to connect via Bluetooth to some kind of in-dash mic and my car's speakers. Plus, this would allow in-car conference calls too.
If you trash an existing Windows install, to the point where it won't boot, but don't want to reformat, you can perform several different ways of recovering it:
System Restore rolls back all system files and system configurations to the previous time a System Restore was performed. Generally, service packs, MSKB patches, some other minor situations. Driver installs of unsigned drivers seem to prompt this, also.
"Last Known Good" configuration. Every time you start your PC and log on successfully, it marks that configuration as the "good" one to use in the future. If you can't log in, use Last Known Good to roll-back configuration changes. This doesn't always work if you were doing things with GPOs and other things that have system-wide effects, but for hardware configuration changes, it's fairly useful.
Recovery Console, is a simple CLI for repairing single damaged system files, and also for repairing a damaged MBR or boot loader (XP damaged by another installed OS overwriting its partition table)
Finally, you can performa a Repair Reinstall, where all system files and drivers are reset to their defaults (but the registry and installed programs are left intact.) This resets your system's OS state to whatever is on the disk, and leaves its ap state okay.
The only times you need to totally reinstall the OS are, after a major hardware upgrade (and even then, as long as you don't need a new HAL, it can survive, although it will be more unstable) or if you trash your registry, which is not easy to do.
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the CCDs on the mars rover (and probably others) are monochrome CCDs. So, for every color picture, 3 are taken, filtered at 3 specific wavelengths (which happen to be, R, G, and B.) The image data is then recomposed into a full-color image here on earth.
"consumer" CCDs, for the most part, may be "5 megapixels" but they count an individual red, green, and blue sensor element as a pixel, and then interpolate to get the full resolution they claim.
NASA's way of doing it with a monochrome CCD and filters means you get a true 1 mpixel image in stunning detail.
my Belkin equipment has a special mode it says you should enable in high-interference environments. My guess is, it either adds additional error correction, or boosts the output, or something, at the expense of a little bit of speed.
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CMUcam does it in hardware.
It costs about $200 for the two-servo model, $109 for the 1-servo.
It's Team Fortress Classic/TF1.5 all over again.
Ahhhh, the memories.
What bothers me is the large lack of adoption of DVD-Audio format media.
It's technically far superior to anything on a CD (24-bit, 96kHz vs 16-bit, 48kHz) and has 6 discrete channels instead of just 2.
However, the only things released on DVD-A, to my knowledge, are "remastered" editions of older bands (Sting, The Police, Pink Floyd, etc.) as well as some live collections of said older bands, and finally, rap albums.
None of the music I listen to (modern rock, alternative, "emo" as much of a misnomer as that is, from a wide selection of RIAA and independant labels) is released on DVD-A. Or, when it is released as a "DVD Audio" it is actually a DVD-Video disc, with very little video in it, just soundtracks. Thus, my DVD-A player can't play it, my DVD-A ripping software can't make sense of it without demuxing the AC3 audio stream from an MPEG video file, and overall, it is far less functional and useful.
I would gladly re-buy my entire CD collection on DVD-A assuming it was resampled at the higher resolution and upmixed to 6 channels, even if these changes were done in the mixing studio in a software program rather than by re-recording. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon.
A damn shame, too. If they promoted DVD-A well enough, it might be the same boom of sales as people re-buy in the new format.
IIRC, on Windows, there is a daemon that handles this.
"Computer Browser" service: "Maintains an updated list of computers on the network and supplies this list to computers designated as browsers."
Does anyone know if this comes with an orinico module for the lastest Orinoco Gold cards? (Model 8420), which is an Agere Systems model 0111 card?
It's unrecognized and I was unable to successfully build drivers for it on anything else; ended up using my older rebadged Dell TrueMobile 1150 which is cracked and broken.
Firefox has retarded bugs, at that.
Download counters wrap around and go negative, time starts counting backwards or at a negative interval...then the time eventually reaches 0 from the other side, some kind of Divide by 0 error occurs, and the browser crashes with a "403 could not write network stream" little popup message.
(I've replicated that behavior about 5 times downloading >4GB ISO images of Fedora Core 2 and associated Linux OSes.)
IBM's RVM is a bit of C++ to bootstrap, the rest of the RVM is written in Java.
:)
Java runs itself, basically.
If you update your Linux kernel, you have to reboot too.
Most MS patches for non-Kernel things (although the "kernel" does tend to touch a lot more than the *nix ones.) can deal with a service restart too.
http://www.boeing.com/assocproducts/energy/powerto wer.html
Boeing Energy Systems has solar energy towers. I think some of them are based on condensation/evaporation of liquid sodium; but they do have the traditional heliosat and photoelectric models as well.
We've generated anti-electrons, anti-protons, and anti-hydrogen.
Anti-U235 is way, way, way beyond anything we can generate right now, and for the next bazillion years, unless we get a LOT better at it, real fast.
I feel much safer knowing the provisions of the USA PATRIOT act will allow the United States government to protect me from foreign and domestic threats alike.
I've always said that security is more important than liberty -- after all, what good is my freedom when i'm terrified all the time of a terrorist attack? At least with the Homeland Security alerts, I could make my travel plans around certain areas, but overall, I feel safer knowing that the FBI and other agencies can inspect my muslim neighbor's mail just for being muslims. Those muslims are an abomination against God anyway, and I side with George W. Bush in his brilliant, decisive crusade against their nations and their religious beliefs. It's okay to use false information, as long as the end result is clear. Our great President has obviously got the right idea! We need to stop the muslims from attacking our very way of life and spreading terror everywhere.
So, in conclusion, I fully support the USA PATRIOT act. I'd like to see stricter measures enacted, in fact!
Microsoft Press traditionally has, in my experience, been very knowledgable and extremely clear in their writings.
They're in the business of selling references...biased references are good for almost nothing.
>>That's like saying because I can guess some user's password, I can break 3DES encryption in my head.
You can, can't you?
shdoclc.dll is the mshtml rendering engine.
Benefits of having the rendering engine be a part of the OS:
Any application can hook into the rendering engine and use it for HTML rendering. LOTS of applications embed the shdoclc control into their main panels and use it for navigation, etc. It's trivial to do this, and it means it's a lot less work for people to do.
Downsides:
Any vaunerabilities that are discovered in the engine, will effect all the apps that call it.
Internet Explorer is a "front" for the engine. So is MyIE2 (with some other features thrown in there.)
Integration isn't as bad as you think it is.
Firefox also chokes on CNN.com for me a lot of times...so it's got to be the browser.
You know, that is an extremely interesting approach to this.
Not really feasible, except in small-ish mesh networks,
but very, very, very interesting.
Let the source of the transmission deal with selecting the wavelength; let the laws of physics deal with the actual physical routing.
Yes, but using WiFi as a HAM operator, means using encryption becomes a federal crime, as does visiting any web site with obscene content (swearing, pornography, etc.)
Different laws apply to which way you're using it.
I wonder if I could convince any of them to buy me stuff..."my only computer is at my office, and my boss reads my e-mails and he is very greedy, in order to better assist you with this transaction and ensure your funds are safely delivered, I require a private computer for which I can access remotely. You may deduct the cost of the computer from my assistance fee."
Only problem is, getting a safe address to ship it to, where I wouldn't have angry Nigerians coming to kill me.
The P.O. box at my college is probably fairly safe, but I don't know *how* safe. heh.
The interesting thing about this is that while it eliminates third-party carriers over the ILEC's laid lines, it actually will increase competition:
Now people can chose from the phone company (DSL, FTTP), the cable company (Docsis), the power company (BPL) or various assorted satellite providers (DirecPC, Starband) plus any community wireless solutions that may be there.
It keeps the companies happy...the ILEC doesn't have to sell its lines at a loss to CLEC, but there are still lots of choices.
What I wonder is:
WHY is it so difficult to make my cell phone work with my car stereo.
When I'm in my car, right now, I have 3 options, excluding "don't take the call" which frequently, isn't
(1) Use the phone normally.
(2) Use oddly-shaped over-ear clip headset thing. Works okay but it's awkward to hear with, the phone's volume doesn't go up high enough to make it comfortable to use this.
(3) Pull over
1 is dangerous, 2 means I can't really hear the caller, 3 often isn't feasible (Interstate highway, busy road, no turn-offs, etc.)
I want my cell phone to connect via Bluetooth to some kind of in-dash mic and my car's speakers. Plus, this would allow in-car conference calls too.
If you trash an existing Windows install, to the point where it won't boot, but don't want to reformat, you can perform several different ways of recovering it:
System Restore rolls back all system files and system configurations to the previous time a System Restore was performed. Generally, service packs, MSKB patches, some other minor situations. Driver installs of unsigned drivers seem to prompt this, also.
"Last Known Good" configuration. Every time you start your PC and log on successfully, it marks that configuration as the "good" one to use in the future. If you can't log in, use Last Known Good to roll-back configuration changes. This doesn't always work if you were doing things with GPOs and other things that have system-wide effects, but for hardware configuration changes, it's fairly useful.
Recovery Console, is a simple CLI for repairing single damaged system files, and also for repairing a damaged MBR or boot loader (XP damaged by another installed OS overwriting its partition table)
Finally, you can performa a Repair Reinstall, where all system files and drivers are reset to their defaults (but the registry and installed programs are left intact.) This resets your system's OS state to whatever is on the disk, and leaves its ap state okay.
The only times you need to totally reinstall the OS are, after a major hardware upgrade (and even then, as long as you don't need a new HAL, it can survive, although it will be more unstable) or if you trash your registry, which is not easy to do.
Also,
the CCDs on the mars rover (and probably others) are monochrome CCDs. So, for every color picture, 3 are taken, filtered at 3 specific wavelengths (which happen to be, R, G, and B.) The image data is then recomposed into a full-color image here on earth.
"consumer" CCDs, for the most part, may be "5 megapixels" but they count an individual red, green, and blue sensor element as a pixel, and then interpolate to get the full resolution they claim.
NASA's way of doing it with a monochrome CCD and filters means you get a true 1 mpixel image in stunning detail.
Think final solution, without the connotations that implies.
(note for those who think I'm trolling: no capital F and S. this is not the holocaust.)
Nothing you can really do in this case.
However,
my Belkin equipment has a special mode it says you should enable in high-interference environments. My guess is, it either adds additional error correction, or boosts the output, or something, at the expense of a little bit of speed.
We designed neural networks to follow how brains work.
:)
Now we're using a brain to run a neural network.
Chicken-egg problem, anyone?