There's no reason...other than the fact that the connection and communication protocols are different.
You could take your iPod and hook it up and play it through the car speakers-but to transfer MP3 music off the iPod, you'd need a car head unit that speaks OSX and FireWire.
For many other players, this would mean following a tightly-controlled manufactuerer spec and USB support.
Or, you'd have to have a device that can control (SmartMedia/CF/Memory Stick/Digital Media/SD) and read/write to it.
There is no standardized interface-hence why all MP3 players have a special program you generally have to use to put music onto it. That's becuase the communications protocols are PRIVATE.
If that changed, maybe it would be easier--but, you'd still be left with a hardware problem. How much more expensive would a car head unit be, if it had to have an advanced integrated OS that supports plug and play, and has high-speed serial bus controllers?
I may be wrong, but wasn't one of the advantages of Serial ATA the fact that each device had a dedicated channel, meaning it got the full 100?MB of bandwidth -- as opposed to the current IDE archetecture where the slave drive gets less bandwidth then the master, and only 1 device per channel can be used at a time.
If you chain the devices together, you're defeating what I understand the whole purpose of the technology is--not only that, but there aren't really enough wires for a second or higher device, are there? I'd think it would run into data transmission problems.
I'm going out on a limb here, not knowing a lot about networking or Linux, or RAID for that matter.
My understanding of (2-disk) RAID0 is that blocks are written alternating between drives. A simple shell script or very simple program should be able to simply alternate connections...However, as everyone knows, just because the number of connections are equal doesn't mean the loads are the same. There'd need to be checking for which one has more slots left, which has a higher workload, etc.
I wrote an application for an introductory C++ class, and one of the assignments for it was to generate a data file to a certain spec, then swap data files with other classmates and run the second part of your program (a point-of-sale program using dynamic allocation and all of that nifty stuff....really basic for the Slashdot crew I'm sure.)
I did my own test runs, and moved on to the next person's test runs......and my program shit itself. Extra nodes in the list, off-by-1 (or off by more than 1) errors in the names, fields being swapped, etc.
I rewrote my ENTIRE input function AND my entire display function to try and figure out what was wrong with it.
Turns out, the kid who's file I got left out a single blank line after the first element. It read the first 2 fine, then glitched up, read a blank, and then read the fields at an offset that increased each time. By the 5th item, I was reading in random garbage from memory, it was so far off.
I just about killed the kid. Then I got someone else's data and used it instead.
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Impressive-would multipass on DivX 5 have the same effect?
If I had this service, I'd rent the DVD,and rip it to DivX form on my hard drive. I've gotten the procedure down relatively well, to where it only takes me about 8 hours to produce a 640x480 square with MP3 sound. It scales up well to being displayed on a TV_Out and a good stereo system. Takes about 900 megs.
I've encoded a few DVDs I've borrowed from my friends, cuz I like to watch them later. I haven't distributed many of them, only one that I ripped myself did I distribute, and it was a pain to get the size right to fit onto a CD...
A hardcore pirate would LOVE this kind of service, I'm sure.
Actually, you're on to something here. Most comptuers come standard with MORE than enough USB ports.
Maybe if they made it so you could plug in your USB dongle into another computer and bring your saved settings and stats too....on the computer there's the game engine and graphics, but the data and networking code (and CD-Key) are encrypted onto a USB dongle with a few megs of flash memory. This would not only make it extremely easy to transfer the game between PCs, without actually copying it. As long as you made the host software not care *what* dongle was attached, it'd be a lot easier. Just check the CRC of certain files on it.
I bet we'll see something like this in the future.
I disagree-Note that he said there were 34 computers, presumably, this means about 30 kids come to play. That's a sizeable group-bigger than all but two parties I've been to as a high school student.
My peer group (skaters who like computer programming and games...several of us have A+ certs) would undoubtedly love something like that. Because it's at the school, it gives a central location for everyone to come to, and it means that there will be enough facilities for everyone.
In my spare time, I participate in a handful (about 3) different clubs and organizations, and play some "alternative" sports like Paintball.
One note-my school's computer club is considering using WorldCraft to teach an emergent computer technologies class. WorldCraft = the Half-Life SDK+Level Editor for those who aren't aware. The logistics are being worked on...
There are many posibilities for this thing. The kids who are going to come are going to socialize with each other while there-they're just doing the socializing in a more controlled, directed setting-something many people like.
Read both CDs out in digital and do a bit-compare of them. You'll find that they are, indeed, extremely differet, because of the MP3 conversion process.
From a technical standpoint, the record legally available for purchase and the downloaded thing are nothing alike.
There are several levels of quality in the underground world:
Cam. Handheld cam for video, audio from cam's mic. Level of insiderness required: None.
TS (Telesync). Handheld cam for video, but the audio is picked up from a "remote source", frequently a lineout in the projection room. Level of insiderness required: Small. You have to work at a theater, but don't have to be important.
Screener. Ripped pre-release copy of the movie, either from a "for-review" copy of the film reels, a preproduction disk, or from the a/v outs of a projector. Quality is usually just below DVD-quality. Level of insiderness required: High.
DVD-Rip. Decoded from a DVD, obviously. Great quality. Level of insiderness required: None. But it takes time for the movie to come out on DVD.
I've seen a bootleg Lord of the Rings that's a screener. DVD-quality audio and video, with an MPAA copyirght warning scrolling randomly down the bottom of the screen about every 20 minutes. It's great.
I've also seen Resident Evil on a Telesync. Crappy quality, sound wasn't bad though. Glitchy, artifacated video stream. Sucked, but it was okay for re-watching after I saw the movie in the theater.
A bootleg's quality is directly proportional to the time spent creating it.
This is more of a specialized service than a standard ISP is. They're broadcasting your content to a large section of geographical area, where theoretically someone else could see it.
If they don't want porn casted over the airwaves (which is illegal according to the FCC) it's their right.
I'd type "? Windows Media Guide" into my address bar and get the site for it, because I could never remember the link and didn't want to favorite place it.
Typing in a search ? $SEARCH usually yielded the RealNames keyword of what I was looking for. This was especially useful searching for band web pages where the band's web site and name don't necessarely coincide.
With the release of an API for the Google database, I'd like to see MS license it and convert addressbar "? $SEARCH" searching using MSN search to using Google search-it'd be a ton better and still do the same thing.
I have to say I was moderately touched...he doe seem right, a lot of the direction and focus isn't apparent any more since the merger. It's sad to see one of the founders of the computer industry being destroyed or changed beyond recognition.
Ask your supervisor to delegate to you the authority needed to set domain policy.
This authority may be pen-and-paper authority to write new regulations that he affixes his name to, or it may be network-level authority in a computer system to edit security policies and permissions on the routers.
Or, do what usually works:
Write what *you* think the ideal proposal for the situation is, and give it to your supervisor saying "I've noticed a problem and I realize you're really busy so it may not have been a priority for you; however, I took an initiative to try to address it. If you find this acceptable, perhaps you could pass it on to someone else?"
South points towards the geosync orbits of the satellites.
I'd say that north might work, but it's more of an issue of dish inclination also. On the tops of gas stations you see the Dish-network sized dishes, but their inclination is almost perfectly horizontal-these are beaming stuff to a central tower, not a satellite.
So you'd use symlinks to do stuff like shortening pathnames and things of commnly used files?
I can see using something like a symlink to point to a DSP in/dev with a big pathname. Or something burried really deep you need access to. But it wouldn't help with something like a web project where multiple sites all had the same data on them, changing that one file would change them all.
I think MS DOS did symlink-type things with whole directories (i.e. SUBST G: $path) but it would display G: in the prompt, not $path. Win2K retains this command. And shourtcuts...while pretty stupid, admittedly, work in File>Open boxes pointing to other places...I don't know about in the filesystem though.
Thanks for explaining that one to me, it took a few minutes to translate the Unix to Win32 but it looks reasonable.
I think 2K defaults to VFAT (FAT32) for backward compatibility, but in installation there is a full screen of information about the two letting you pick. XP installs on NTFS by default (my friend's did, anyway.)
NTFS only has one type of link, I'm unclear on the distinction between symbolic and hard links though. This lets multiple file/folder names point to the same physical location on disk. I.e. foobar.txt in c:\ and Gameplan.txt in c:\Program Files are *the same file* not two seperate files with identical contents. Changes in one change all the other linked files, because it's really the same file.
The API call is CreateHardLink() I believe, and the NTFS Hard Link program, DLL, and installers are a total of 83kb.
NTFS 5 supports symbolic links, but the API call to create them doesn't have a shell extension or command you call; you have to download a small freeware app called "HardLink for NTFS" to use that functionality.
The company owning the OS and writing applications to it always has an advantage and Microsoft tried and is succeeding in blurring the border between OS and applications to keep this advantage.
I don't know about you other people, but I'd support Microsoft. Sure, they overcharge massively, and aren't very secure and everything before and after Windows 2000 is buggy, but I enjoy the features that MS has integrated into the OS on a daily basis.
Let's look at a few.
MS Office 2000 integrating into your context menu and adding advanced indexing features, that have saved me time finding Office docs I had no idea of the name.
MSIE 6 image autoresizing, and the small floating toolbar above images to save, e-mail to someone else, resize, etc. This has allowed me to make MSIE my primary image *viewer* instead of Photoshop which takes insanely longer to load. For editing of course, I still use PS or PSP, but I don't have to load 300+ plugins to look at the latest picture of some computer hardware, a digital pic from my friend, or other stuff.
Outlook and Word's integration together has also been very time-saving for me. I do a lot of my word documenting with Outlook open-What do you know, Outlook preloads a background process of Winword.exe that pops up the instant you want it. No loading there-one load, not too. Sure it eats a few megs of RAM but big deal, there's more.
I've used MSN Messanger on occasion, and MS Passport greatly simplifed my life. I could check my Hotmail e-mail automatically, which I'd never od if it wasn't for the MSN feature of being able to do it automatically.
People make out MS to be the devil, but their integrations have made computers simpler to use for new users and faster to use for powerful users. You just have to accept that you're running WINDOWS (I don't have a problem, but some people here do.)
Wasn't there some other type of semi-spyware with a purpose (I think a d/l manager) that also disabled a certain Anti-SpyWare app when installed?
This is the newest incarnation of cyber wars...it used to be web sites being hacked. Now, companies are warring with each other through software on YOUR desktop.
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I have a *handheld* MP3 player that can record up 160kbps Stereo, realtime.
That's good enough quality for a handheld, and almost CD quality.
There's no reason...other than the fact that the connection and communication protocols are different.
You could take your iPod and hook it up and play it through the car speakers-but to transfer MP3 music off the iPod, you'd need a car head unit that speaks OSX and FireWire.
For many other players, this would mean following a tightly-controlled manufactuerer spec and USB support.
Or, you'd have to have a device that can control (SmartMedia/CF/Memory Stick/Digital Media/SD) and read/write to it.
There is no standardized interface-hence why all MP3 players have a special program you generally have to use to put music onto it. That's becuase the communications protocols are PRIVATE.
If that changed, maybe it would be easier--but, you'd still be left with a hardware problem. How much more expensive would a car head unit be, if it had to have an advanced integrated OS that supports plug and play, and has high-speed serial bus controllers?
A lot more expensive than $1,499.
I may be wrong, but wasn't one of the advantages of Serial ATA the fact that each device had a dedicated channel, meaning it got the full 100?MB of bandwidth -- as opposed to the current IDE archetecture where the slave drive gets less bandwidth then the master, and only 1 device per channel can be used at a time.
If you chain the devices together, you're defeating what I understand the whole purpose of the technology is--not only that, but there aren't really enough wires for a second or higher device, are there? I'd think it would run into data transmission problems.
I'm going out on a limb here, not knowing a lot about networking or Linux, or RAID for that matter.
My understanding of (2-disk) RAID0 is that blocks are written alternating between drives. A simple shell script or very simple program should be able to simply alternate connections...However, as everyone knows, just because the number of connections are equal doesn't mean the loads are the same. There'd need to be checking for which one has more slots left, which has a higher workload, etc.
Maybe SNMP would come into play here somewhere?
I wrote an application for an introductory C++ class, and one of the assignments for it was to generate a data file to a certain spec, then swap data files with other classmates and run the second part of your program (a point-of-sale program using dynamic allocation and all of that nifty stuff....really basic for the Slashdot crew I'm sure.)
...and my program shit itself. Extra nodes in the list, off-by-1 (or off by more than 1) errors in the names, fields being swapped, etc.
I did my own test runs, and moved on to the next person's test runs...
I rewrote my ENTIRE input function AND my entire display function to try and figure out what was wrong with it.
Turns out, the kid who's file I got left out a single blank line after the first element. It read the first 2 fine, then glitched up, read a blank, and then read the fields at an offset that increased each time. By the 5th item, I was reading in random garbage from memory, it was so far off.
I just about killed the kid. Then I got someone else's data and used it instead.
Impressive-would multipass on DivX 5 have the same effect?
If I had this service, I'd rent the DVD,and rip it to DivX form on my hard drive. I've gotten the procedure down relatively well, to where it only takes me about 8 hours to produce a 640x480 square with MP3 sound. It scales up well to being displayed on a TV_Out and a good stereo system. Takes about 900 megs.
I've encoded a few DVDs I've borrowed from my friends, cuz I like to watch them later. I haven't distributed many of them, only one that I ripped myself did I distribute, and it was a pain to get the size right to fit onto a CD...
A hardcore pirate would LOVE this kind of service, I'm sure.
Actually, you're on to something here. Most comptuers come standard with MORE than enough USB ports.
Maybe if they made it so you could plug in your USB dongle into another computer and bring your saved settings and stats too....on the computer there's the game engine and graphics, but the data and networking code (and CD-Key) are encrypted onto a USB dongle with a few megs of flash memory. This would not only make it extremely easy to transfer the game between PCs, without actually copying it. As long as you made the host software not care *what* dongle was attached, it'd be a lot easier. Just check the CRC of certain files on it.
I bet we'll see something like this in the future.
I disagree-Note that he said there were 34 computers, presumably, this means about 30 kids come to play. That's a sizeable group-bigger than all but two parties I've been to as a high school student.
My peer group (skaters who like computer programming and games...several of us have A+ certs) would undoubtedly love something like that. Because it's at the school, it gives a central location for everyone to come to, and it means that there will be enough facilities for everyone.
In my spare time, I participate in a handful (about 3) different clubs and organizations, and play some "alternative" sports like Paintball.
One note-my school's computer club is considering using WorldCraft to teach an emergent computer technologies class. WorldCraft = the Half-Life SDK+Level Editor for those who aren't aware. The logistics are being worked on...
There are many posibilities for this thing. The kids who are going to come are going to socialize with each other while there-they're just doing the socializing in a more controlled, directed setting-something many people like.
Read both CDs out in digital and do a bit-compare of them. You'll find that they are, indeed, extremely differet, because of the MP3 conversion process.
From a technical standpoint, the record legally available for purchase and the downloaded thing are nothing alike.
Muvico 20 in Cityplace here in West Palm Beach was Dolby Digital certified-not THX.
Still sounded fine to me, and picture quality was above-average for film movies.
Bootleg is a relatively ambigious term here.
There are several levels of quality in the underground world:
Cam. Handheld cam for video, audio from cam's mic. Level of insiderness required: None.
TS (Telesync). Handheld cam for video, but the audio is picked up from a "remote source", frequently a lineout in the projection room. Level of insiderness required: Small. You have to work at a theater, but don't have to be important.
Screener. Ripped pre-release copy of the movie, either from a "for-review" copy of the film reels, a preproduction disk, or from the a/v outs of a projector. Quality is usually just below DVD-quality. Level of insiderness required: High.
DVD-Rip. Decoded from a DVD, obviously. Great quality. Level of insiderness required: None. But it takes time for the movie to come out on DVD.
I've seen a bootleg Lord of the Rings that's a screener. DVD-quality audio and video, with an MPAA copyirght warning scrolling randomly down the bottom of the screen about every 20 minutes. It's great.
I've also seen Resident Evil on a Telesync. Crappy quality, sound wasn't bad though. Glitchy, artifacated video stream. Sucked, but it was okay for re-watching after I saw the movie in the theater.
A bootleg's quality is directly proportional to the time spent creating it.
This is more of a specialized service than a standard ISP is. They're broadcasting your content to a large section of geographical area, where theoretically someone else could see it.
If they don't want porn casted over the airwaves (which is illegal according to the FCC) it's their right.
I liked RealNames. Especially because it worked.
I'd type "? Windows Media Guide" into my address bar and get the site for it, because I could never remember the link and didn't want to favorite place it.
Typing in a search ? $SEARCH usually yielded the RealNames keyword of what I was looking for. This was especially useful searching for band web pages where the band's web site and name don't necessarely coincide.
With the release of an API for the Google database, I'd like to see MS license it and convert addressbar "? $SEARCH" searching using MSN search to using Google search-it'd be a ton better and still do the same thing.
Plus if MS dropped it, google wouldn't go under.
I have to say I was moderately touched...he doe seem right, a lot of the direction and focus isn't apparent any more since the merger. It's sad to see one of the founders of the computer industry being destroyed or changed beyond recognition.
Ask your supervisor to delegate to you the authority needed to set domain policy.
This authority may be pen-and-paper authority to write new regulations that he affixes his name to, or it may be network-level authority in a computer system to edit security policies and permissions on the routers.
Or, do what usually works:
Write what *you* think the ideal proposal for the situation is, and give it to your supervisor saying "I've noticed a problem and I realize you're really busy so it may not have been a priority for you; however, I took an initiative to try to address it. If you find this acceptable, perhaps you could pass it on to someone else?"
You'll get points for initiative at least.
South points towards the geosync orbits of the satellites.
I'd say that north might work, but it's more of an issue of dish inclination also. On the tops of gas stations you see the Dish-network sized dishes, but their inclination is almost perfectly horizontal-these are beaming stuff to a central tower, not a satellite.
No no no, he's projecting a religious statement.
Just try to ignore it.
So you'd use symlinks to do stuff like shortening pathnames and things of commnly used files?
/dev with a big pathname. Or something burried really deep you need access to. But it wouldn't help with something like a web project where multiple sites all had the same data on them, changing that one file would change them all.
I can see using something like a symlink to point to a DSP in
I think MS DOS did symlink-type things with whole directories (i.e. SUBST G: $path) but it would display G: in the prompt, not $path. Win2K retains this command. And shourtcuts...while pretty stupid, admittedly, work in File>Open boxes pointing to other places...I don't know about in the filesystem though.
Thanks for explaining that one to me, it took a few minutes to translate the Unix to Win32 but it looks reasonable.
I think 2K defaults to VFAT (FAT32) for backward compatibility, but in installation there is a full screen of information about the two letting you pick. XP installs on NTFS by default (my friend's did, anyway.)
NTFS only has one type of link, I'm unclear on the distinction between symbolic and hard links though. This lets multiple file/folder names point to the same physical location on disk. I.e. foobar.txt in c:\ and Gameplan.txt in c:\Program Files are *the same file* not two seperate files with identical contents. Changes in one change all the other linked files, because it's really the same file.
The API call is CreateHardLink() I believe, and the NTFS Hard Link program, DLL, and installers are a total of 83kb.
NTFS 5 supports symbolic links, but the API call to create them doesn't have a shell extension or command you call; you have to download a small freeware app called "HardLink for NTFS" to use that functionality.
I don't know about you other people, but I'd support Microsoft. Sure, they overcharge massively, and aren't very secure and everything before and after Windows 2000 is buggy, but I enjoy the features that MS has integrated into the OS on a daily basis.
Let's look at a few.
MS Office 2000 integrating into your context menu and adding advanced indexing features, that have saved me time finding Office docs I had no idea of the name.
MSIE 6 image autoresizing, and the small floating toolbar above images to save, e-mail to someone else, resize, etc. This has allowed me to make MSIE my primary image *viewer* instead of Photoshop which takes insanely longer to load. For editing of course, I still use PS or PSP, but I don't have to load 300+ plugins to look at the latest picture of some computer hardware, a digital pic from my friend, or other stuff.
Outlook and Word's integration together has also been very time-saving for me. I do a lot of my word documenting with Outlook open-What do you know, Outlook preloads a background process of Winword.exe that pops up the instant you want it. No loading there-one load, not too. Sure it eats a few megs of RAM but big deal, there's more.
I've used MSN Messanger on occasion, and MS Passport greatly simplifed my life. I could check my Hotmail e-mail automatically, which I'd never od if it wasn't for the MSN feature of being able to do it automatically.
People make out MS to be the devil, but their integrations have made computers simpler to use for new users and faster to use for powerful users. You just have to accept that you're running WINDOWS (I don't have a problem, but some people here do.)
Wasn't there some other type of semi-spyware with a purpose (I think a d/l manager) that also disabled a certain Anti-SpyWare app when installed?
This is the newest incarnation of cyber wars...it used to be web sites being hacked. Now, companies are warring with each other through software on YOUR desktop.
I'm running Win2K Pro SP2 SRP1 and I don't have any special folders for digital media...let alone displaying with ID3 tags!
This sounds like it's a Windows XP thing, and we all know that XP is the devil.
IANA Physicist, but seeing as photons have no mass, they would have no effect on any orbits or acceleration?