B5 was an amazing series. And strangely prophetic, too, some of the episodes in seasons 2 and 3, about xenophobia, personal freedoms vs government security, free speech, etc.
I encourage everyone to buy the DVD boxed sets to support this man, so he keeps coming up with great scifi stories.
Since google is using GB not GiB to measure their storage space (which is fine...but they're not quite the same thing) we'll play in their units.
1 TB = 1000 GB (remember, 1 TiB = 1024 GiB, just for comparison)
So for every TB of hard drive space, they can serve 1000 customers.
6 TB of hard drive space, would serve 6000 customers. Thus in order to serve every person on the planet with a Gmail account, they'd need something to the tune of 6 billion GB of storage...or 600,000 TB.
Not quite a few thousand dollars...at this point we're looking a few million dollars, probably.
However, Google has the infrastructure to support it, doubtless.
IBM is quite possibly as far from irrelevant as you can get.
They could go toe to toe with Microsoft, probably even beat them, in any kind of a war. They've been around 3 times as long, have that much more cash, and have the weight of name to throw around with that cash.
When IBM Global Services says something is good, it is good to every corporate manager and director in the country, with few exceptions. That's why they are such a powerful ally for the Linux cause: when IBM Global Services says Linux is ready to be used on the corporate desktop, it IS READY.
Companies whose name is not immediately recognizable from history as being associated with a specific product should be required to have what they do in their name.
I.e. SBC should be forced to advertise itself as SBC: The Phone People, or something. (Why not just rename themselves to "PHONE KING!" ?) Companies such as IBM, around for 100-ish years, are a household name, but SBC isn't.
IIRC, Theora is an AVI replacement codec, it's just a file wrapper, much like AVI files can have DivX/XVid/whatever video and MP3, AAC, OGG, WAV sound tracks.
The DirectShow filters means it'll be able to be opened by VirtualDub, and possibly rendered by it.
The reason movies look shitty when upscaled on a monitor is that then they must be interpolated and such.
TVs (non-HD) native resolution, 640x480 interlaced, is the same regardless of how wide the screen is. Thus, the movie would scale to any size *television* assuming it's in *tv resoution* to begin with.
Scaling problems only happen with different resolutions.
i960 is even today the processor of choice for a lot of RAID controllers.
I'm sitting here looking at one right now -- and in my garage there are 150 Fibre Channel SSA RAID cards from an enterprise storage cabinet, each with 2-4 i960 chips per card.
Most indie music I've listened to has no soul, it seems.
There's lyrics and lyrics that include emotional words, but there's no emotion behind them, it seems all cold and calculated.
It's as if the indie music scene, in their trip away from what they hated about the large labels, also left the entire intent of music itself behind -- that is, the ability to convey emotions.
My experiences may not be reflective of all indie music, but the stuff my friend had me listen to while trying to indoctrinate me off music signed to labels and on to independant artists did not appeal to me in the slighest.
Desktop Linux will never happen until dependancies can be quickly and easily resolved (even if it means each app that would run comes with its own copy of every library it needs and keeps it in its local folder -- Windows style) and there's no building from source.
Windows works the way it does because the Kernel is virtually unchanged during updates...the external API and syscalls don't change. (XP SP2 changes a few of them to be more secure, that is however, the last time I can remember an API change in the middle of a revision.)
Linux desktop already works for basic stuff -- but to be a truely multipurpose desktop, we can't have desktop users futz around with dependancies, compling from source./configure;make;make install type things. Too complicated for regular people, although not too bad for people like us.
Since the compiler can automatically tell us where we didn't put a ; or put too many of the same, would it be that hard for it to add or delete as necessry, and put out a "WARNING: Autocorrected syntax (syntax error) on line (x): Inserted Semicolen" or something.
this is tangentially related but I felt it needed to be said.
The United States is powerful enough to be able to cut its own deals with the rest of the world.
Like it or not, that's the truth.
Thus, we don't need the UN. We don't need the UN dictating what we can and cannot do to us.
Additionally, wouldn't a treaty such as this one violate some parts of the Constitution?
My very limited IANAL legal knowledge, the Constitution is the highest, followed by Treaty, then Statute. Thus, if a treaty like this would break the constitutionally protected freedoms of speech and expression and all that, it's invalid.
Not that anyone would actually dare challenge the WIPO but that's just another point to think about.
As long as you're not tresspassing while taking those photos, you're 100% in the legal right if you take pics of her naked in the bedroom with a zoom lense.
If they worked on reducing the network overhead, it'd be much easier to host larger games.
Update packets for some FPS games seem to be un-necessarely complicated. They have to keep updating the models and the positioning.
Some packets should be always sent at an update on a clock.
PlayerID X Y Z HDirectionVector VDirectionVector
for where the player is and which way they're looking.
But everything else should be sent as a delta; established at the beginning of the match and assumed to stay constant the rest of the time -- for example, what weapon the player is holding, etc.
Instead of getting fatter pipes, if they leave more of the mundane details to the client and only transmit (encrypted) game state information, they can require less power and less bandwidth to do the same thing.
Re:brings to mind an old question I once had.
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The readback rate on AGP is abysmially slow. That's why it's only for graphics cards.
It's got an amazingly high downstream rate, GBps, but reading back from the card can be as low as 256 KB/sec in some models.
Far too slow to do any kind of processing on a high-bandwidth stream at a time, although the circuitry of a GPU (matrix optimizations) would be useful in crypto, the rate at which data could be returned from the card would choke the stream, and the buffer would fill up, and you'd start losing data.
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Garibaldi and Doctor Franklin (the actor who played him just died, unfortunately) were also great actors in my opinion.
I agree 100% about the emotional connection thing.
I've got the entire series on my hard drive right now (and on some DVDs) and I just think it's too bad it was never more popular.
B5 was an amazing series. And strangely prophetic, too, some of the episodes in seasons 2 and 3, about xenophobia, personal freedoms vs government security, free speech, etc.
I encourage everyone to buy the DVD boxed sets to support this man, so he keeps coming up with great scifi stories.
VHF frequencies are in MHz; human flesh is mostly transparent to this frequency.
Thus 110w @ 200 MHz (or something) is going to be absorbed little to not at all by a human.
Good point you made, but there's a bit more to RF than just power output.
My phone I have broadcasts at its maximum of 750mW for 30 seconds, after which it chirps 750mW for 1 sec every 30 trying to find a cell site.
Verizon CDMA
Not too worried.
Since google is using GB not GiB to measure their storage space (which is fine...but they're not quite the same thing) we'll play in their units.
1 TB = 1000 GB (remember, 1 TiB = 1024 GiB, just for comparison)
So for every TB of hard drive space, they can serve 1000 customers.
6 TB of hard drive space, would serve 6000 customers. Thus in order to serve every person on the planet with a Gmail account, they'd need something to the tune of 6 billion GB of storage...or 600,000 TB.
Not quite a few thousand dollars...at this point we're looking a few million dollars, probably.
However, Google has the infrastructure to support it, doubtless.
RJ11 has the same connector as RJ45, just narrower. It will snap in place just fine.
So, wire your RJ45 using only the center 4 wires, exactly like an RJ11 jack. The phone cables will snap in, lock, and connect just fine.
Shcrodinger's Paradox, iirc. is what you're referring to.
IBM is quite possibly as far from irrelevant as you can get.
They could go toe to toe with Microsoft, probably even beat them, in any kind of a war. They've been around 3 times as long, have that much more cash, and have the weight of name to throw around with that cash.
When IBM Global Services says something is good, it is good to every corporate manager and director in the country, with few exceptions. That's why they are such a powerful ally for the Linux cause: when IBM Global Services says Linux is ready to be used on the corporate desktop, it IS READY.
Companies whose name is not immediately recognizable from history as being associated with a specific product should be required to have what they do in their name.
I.e. SBC should be forced to advertise itself as SBC: The Phone People, or something. (Why not just rename themselves to "PHONE KING!" ?) Companies such as IBM, around for 100-ish years, are a household name, but SBC isn't.
IIRC, Theora is an AVI replacement codec, it's just a file wrapper, much like AVI files can have DivX/XVid/whatever video and MP3, AAC, OGG, WAV sound tracks.
The DirectShow filters means it'll be able to be opened by VirtualDub, and possibly rendered by it.
Open Source != open source.
Capitalization does matter, and it changes the program from a F/OSS one to one you get source code with.
That's it.
Just FYI,
The reason movies look shitty when upscaled on a monitor is that then they must be interpolated and such.
TVs (non-HD) native resolution, 640x480 interlaced, is the same regardless of how wide the screen is. Thus, the movie would scale to any size *television* assuming it's in *tv resoution* to begin with.
Scaling problems only happen with different resolutions.
IIRC, Half Life had a "LAN ONLY" key which disallowed all Internet play but would allow LAN games.
It was something to the effect of 123456789012345 or something like that. (digit groupings obviously not right)
I think they figured that if people wanted to play it at a LAN, let em; to get the real functionality they'd still need to buy.
i960 is even today the processor of choice for a lot of RAID controllers.
I'm sitting here looking at one right now -- and in my garage there are 150 Fibre Channel SSA RAID cards from an enterprise storage cabinet, each with 2-4 i960 chips per card.
Most indie music I've listened to has no soul, it seems.
There's lyrics and lyrics that include emotional words, but there's no emotion behind them, it seems all cold and calculated.
It's as if the indie music scene, in their trip away from what they hated about the large labels, also left the entire intent of music itself behind -- that is, the ability to convey emotions.
My experiences may not be reflective of all indie music, but the stuff my friend had me listen to while trying to indoctrinate me off music signed to labels and on to independant artists did not appeal to me in the slighest.
Desktop Linux will never happen until dependancies can be quickly and easily resolved (even if it means each app that would run comes with its own copy of every library it needs and keeps it in its local folder -- Windows style) and there's no building from source.
./configure;make;make install type things. Too complicated for regular people, although not too bad for people like us.
Windows works the way it does because the Kernel is virtually unchanged during updates...the external API and syscalls don't change. (XP SP2 changes a few of them to be more secure, that is however, the last time I can remember an API change in the middle of a revision.)
Linux desktop already works for basic stuff -- but to be a truely multipurpose desktop, we can't have desktop users futz around with dependancies, compling from source
Why don't we have autocorrecting compilers?
Since the compiler can automatically tell us where we didn't put a ; or put too many of the same, would it be that hard for it to add or delete as necessry, and put out a "WARNING: Autocorrected syntax (syntax error) on line (x): Inserted Semicolen" or something.
this is tangentially related but I felt it needed to be said.
The United States is powerful enough to be able to cut its own deals with the rest of the world.
Like it or not, that's the truth.
Thus, we don't need the UN. We don't need the UN dictating what we can and cannot do to us.
Additionally, wouldn't a treaty such as this one violate some parts of the Constitution?
My very limited IANAL legal knowledge, the Constitution is the highest, followed by Treaty, then Statute. Thus, if a treaty like this would break the constitutionally protected freedoms of speech and expression and all that, it's invalid.
Not that anyone would actually dare challenge the WIPO but that's just another point to think about.
As long as you're not tresspassing while taking those photos, you're 100% in the legal right if you take pics of her naked in the bedroom with a zoom lense.
If they worked on reducing the network overhead, it'd be much easier to host larger games.
Update packets for some FPS games seem to be un-necessarely complicated. They have to keep updating the models and the positioning.
Some packets should be always sent at an update on a clock.
PlayerID X Y Z HDirectionVector VDirectionVector
for where the player is and which way they're looking.
But everything else should be sent as a delta; established at the beginning of the match and assumed to stay constant the rest of the time -- for example, what weapon the player is holding, etc.
Instead of getting fatter pipes, if they leave more of the mundane details to the client and only transmit (encrypted) game state information, they can require less power and less bandwidth to do the same thing.
I'm thinking isotope decay power sources would be a bit better. They power satellites, why couldn't they power a rover?
damn politics getting in the way of science.
there's some truth to that but it's not biological...some games base rates of movement and jump distances on your framerate.
thus, higher framerate actually makes the game move faster.
Microsoft Action Pack Subscription, baby ;)
The readback rate on AGP is abysmially slow. That's why it's only for graphics cards.
It's got an amazingly high downstream rate, GBps, but reading back from the card can be as low as 256 KB/sec in some models.
Far too slow to do any kind of processing on a high-bandwidth stream at a time, although the circuitry of a GPU (matrix optimizations) would be useful in crypto, the rate at which data could be returned from the card would choke the stream, and the buffer would fill up, and you'd start losing data.
I hold a few Microsoft certifications and own a consulting company. As such, I get a discounted subscription price for the $2000 software.
Very legit, just happens to be at a steep discount.