No one questions it. People just give it out freely. They don't care if someone takes their schedule, grades, or degree audit. Simply amazing, yet sad. --Josh
Yes, it is sad. How could things go so wrong that students have to jealously guard their student ID numbers and other numbers.
At my school, I changed my Student ID. They made it rather hard to to. Then, they wouldn't tell me what the new one was after changing it. I couldn't register or do anything. I finally got a friend who had access to the computer system to look it up for me.
Sometimes, I still use the SS#. Like, if a professor says that the computer username is my initials followed by the last 4 digits of my SS# (because he is assuming that people didn't get the Student ID changed), I do exactly what he says, and then cause a lot of trouble over it not working.
It isn't nescesarily that hard. I have several 5.25 drives in storage in case I need them. And I know numerous people with card readers and 8" drives. If you can send me computer media, I can probably get it read.
Oh, there are several companies that still sell and service card readers for companies.
Uhm, where do you get PageMaker for $100? But really, you don't need PageMaker. Find a LaTeX wizard to generate some new macros for you, and just create a LaTeX file which includes the files the articles are in (which are probably already in LaTeX format, at least in the math world they would be). The macros deal with the rest, like the formating, table of contents, indexs, etc. At least, that's how I'm lead to believe that some journals work.
And LaTeX is free, so anyone can use it. Anytime I have to papers with math in them (which isn't uncommon), I use LaTeX. Heck, these days, I just use LaTeX for almost everything, including letters. I think that classifies me as a geek, but it is so easy.
No, none of those numbers are divisible by 42, because if they were, they would also be divisible by 2 and 21, and none of the numbers are divisible by 2.
Now it seems to me, that if a program was written that just sits there guessing, and that program was run on numerous computers, that someone could luck out. There probably could so some optimizations applied to that guessing to help improve acuracy.
Actually, I think I might have an idea (related to above, but not quite the same). I think I shall have to try coding it one of these evenings. Problem is I first need code to allow me to multiply and divide such large numbers.
I fail to see what makes them think it will take a 4 gigs of ram? It seems to me that at the simplest, you wouldn't need much memory at all. Only a few K (you have to old the original number, the factor you are currently looking at, some scratch space for the math, and some misc. other scratch space).
It is called not rereading my opening paragraph after adding a third point. I must remeber to say there are "SEVERAL" things, not 2 or 3, or whatever things.
It's not just the standard batteries. The M100s also could run off of all sorts of batteries easily. It didn't take much to rig them to a car battery for one. And I used to have a stack of batteries that looked what one would now find in a gook UPS, and an adaptor that allowed me to run the M100 off of them. These batteries, one would last nearly over a day of processing.
I used to have 2 until a year ago. I just didn't use them, so I let them go.
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I had a Laserdisc player for about six years before I switched to DVD, and it was *great*. During all the time others were watching crappy VHS, I had uncompressed digital video and CD-quality sound.
Err, Laserdiscs are analog video, and either analog or digital audio (depending on disc). They are about as old as VHS. They were first demonstrated in '72, and hit the market in '78.
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I know a lot of people who use Minidiscs. They didn't take off for music sales, but a lot of people use them to transport audio for radio and video work.
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Off the top of my head, non of the video philes I know use projector screens. They all use CRTs. I haven't heard them complaining too much about the switch from laser disc to DVD. I do hate it when films have compression artifacts though. I was recently watching one film that quite a lot of compression artifacts.
Now, I've recently been reading about DV film production. It seems that Dancer in the Dark (eagerly awaiting the DVD so that I can see it since the week it played locally I was too broke to see it) was shot entirely on DV, and not HD.
And yet, it supposedly looked good (remeber, haven't been able to see it yet) after being transferred to film and projected on the big screen.
So, I'm wondering how much TV studios really really need HD cameras. I mean, how will the evening news benifit from a high resolution broadcast?
For many things, I bet regular DV cameras and software upscaling (like used on dancer and other films) would be enough.
Obviously theatre (of the stage variety) and sports will benifit a lot from HD cameras.
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Well, I'm told that going from regular to HD tv is even more drastic than the transition from VHS to DVD.
Now, when I first went from VHS to DVD, it was a little nicer. A little crisper.
Then, I got a new TV (a measly 27" model at that). This new TV had a SVideo jack on it, and the video quality different was radically amazing.
If HDTV provides that sort of jump, then I'm all for it, when it gets a lot cheaper. Note, my new TV was a cheap 27". I'm not going to be paying several grand for an HD-TV set unless it is really just an HD-TV monitor (for video production work).
I can think of two reasons I'd like a palm to be faster. First, I would like speech recognition. I'd like this so that I can more easily enter long notes (grafity is a pain for more than a sentence or two) and so that I can enter notes while driving.
Second, text to speech would be nice (again for useage while driving).
Third (and this doesn't look like it's going to happen real soon), I'd like Palm to ad least double and preferable quadruple the screen resolution (from 160x160 to 320x320 or even 640x640). They don't need to make the screen larger, just higher res. True gray scale (instead of the faked grey scale that results from flickering pixel quickly) would also be really nice.
The words were also twisted in the submission to give it more controversy - for example, the company never claimed that they had any intention of exacting royalties for "every internet download". This was a statement made by the defendants to win favor with the court!!
If the patent would allow collecting for every internet download, then it should be fought as if the company actually plans to collect on every download, and claiming that they intend to collect on every download (even if they would really only collect from mid sized companies too small to fight, but too big for people to be sympathetic) is also valid.
However, it does appear that in this case that most people think that the patent is actually more limited than that. However, when I went to read the patent (and I consider myself reasonably smart), the whole thing was extremely obtuse. I don't read a lot of patents, but the ones I have always seemed to be a bit more understandable than this one.
Yeah. I know. I just thought I'd mention that program though.
Personally, I want jpeg flipping. Yeah, I know it is lossy, but, for me, I'm trying to figure out my way, and disk space is relatively cramped. I don't care if it just decompresses the files to memory for playback (as opposed to decompressing on the fly), although it seems that if Imlib2 is as optimized as it says it is, then on a dual CPU machine, real time decompression shouldn't be too hard.
Anyway, I'm not familiar with Qt. I still might try adding the features I want to flip rather than start over though.
It isn't linux that is hack and pray. It is XFree. Buy an HP FX linux workstation, and it comes with a different X server that supports the FX card perfectly.
First, your site seems to be slashdotted. Too bad. I would have liked to see it.
As to tiff playback, there is a program called Flip (search freshmeat) that does it. Downside is that it is only from memory, so at tv resolutions, you need approximately 1 gig of ram for every minute of playback. It is written in Qt.
Err, while the people at Ruby Ridge and Waco were definately wierd and probably crazy, I'm not aware of any activities that would count as terroristic. While they had large weapon stashes, I don't remeber hearing them threaten anyone except those that threatened them (like FBI agents).
FF8 is good, but I still haven't beaten it yet. I'm on the second disk, and I've already spent alot more than 50 hours according to the clock it keeps, and that clock doesn't count all the times I played for an hour or more and then died before getting to a save point.
Just wait till you try to save HD-TV streams to disk. Those things (even w/ mpeg 2 compression) are so fat that a DVD-R will seem about as usefull as a zip disk is now.
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No one questions it. People just give it out freely. They don't care if someone takes their schedule, grades, or degree audit. Simply amazing, yet sad. --Josh
Yes, it is sad. How could things go so wrong that students have to jealously guard their student ID numbers and other numbers.
At my school, I changed my Student ID. They made it rather hard to to. Then, they wouldn't tell me what the new one was after changing it. I couldn't register or do anything. I finally got a friend who had access to the computer system to look it up for me.
Sometimes, I still use the SS#. Like, if a professor says that the computer username is my initials followed by the last 4 digits of my SS# (because he is assuming that people didn't get the Student ID changed), I do exactly what he says, and then cause a lot of trouble over it not working.
There is no SS# printed on my PA license. I don't know what is encoded on the magnetic strip though.
It isn't nescesarily that hard. I have several 5.25 drives in storage in case I need them. And I know numerous people with card readers and 8" drives. If you can send me computer media, I can probably get it read. Oh, there are several companies that still sell and service card readers for companies.
Uhm, where do you get PageMaker for $100? But really, you don't need PageMaker. Find a LaTeX wizard to generate some new macros for you, and just create a LaTeX file which includes the files the articles are in (which are probably already in LaTeX format, at least in the math world they would be). The macros deal with the rest, like the formating, table of contents, indexs, etc. At least, that's how I'm lead to believe that some journals work.
And LaTeX is free, so anyone can use it. Anytime I have to papers with math in them (which isn't uncommon), I use LaTeX. Heck, these days, I just use LaTeX for almost everything, including letters. I think that classifies me as a geek, but it is so easy.
No, none of those numbers are divisible by 42, because if they were, they would also be divisible by 2 and 21, and none of the numbers are divisible by 2.
Now it seems to me, that if a program was written that just sits there guessing, and that program was run on numerous computers, that someone could luck out. There probably could so some optimizations applied to that guessing to help improve acuracy.
Actually, I think I might have an idea (related to above, but not quite the same). I think I shall have to try coding it one of these evenings. Problem is I first need code to allow me to multiply and divide such large numbers.
I fail to see what makes them think it will take a 4 gigs of ram? It seems to me that at the simplest, you wouldn't need much memory at all. Only a few K (you have to old the original number, the factor you are currently looking at, some scratch space for the math, and some misc. other scratch space).
It is called not rereading my opening paragraph after adding a third point. I must remeber to say there are "SEVERAL" things, not 2 or 3, or whatever things.
It's not just the standard batteries. The M100s also could run off of all sorts of batteries easily. It didn't take much to rig them to a car battery for one. And I used to have a stack of batteries that looked what one would now find in a gook UPS, and an adaptor that allowed me to run the M100 off of them. These batteries, one would last nearly over a day of processing.
I used to have 2 until a year ago. I just didn't use them, so I let them go.
Err, Laserdiscs are analog video, and either analog or digital audio (depending on disc). They are about as old as VHS. They were first demonstrated in '72, and hit the market in '78.
I know a lot of people who use Minidiscs. They didn't take off for music sales, but a lot of people use them to transport audio for radio and video work.
Off the top of my head, non of the video philes I know use projector screens. They all use CRTs. I haven't heard them complaining too much about the switch from laser disc to DVD. I do hate it when films have compression artifacts though. I was recently watching one film that quite a lot of compression artifacts.
Now, I've recently been reading about DV film production. It seems that Dancer in the Dark (eagerly awaiting the DVD so that I can see it since the week it played locally I was too broke to see it) was shot entirely on DV, and not HD.
And yet, it supposedly looked good (remeber, haven't been able to see it yet) after being transferred to film and projected on the big screen.
So, I'm wondering how much TV studios really really need HD cameras. I mean, how will the evening news benifit from a high resolution broadcast?
For many things, I bet regular DV cameras and software upscaling (like used on dancer and other films) would be enough.
Obviously theatre (of the stage variety) and sports will benifit a lot from HD cameras.
Well, I'm told that going from regular to HD tv is even more drastic than the transition from VHS to DVD.
Now, when I first went from VHS to DVD, it was a little nicer. A little crisper.
Then, I got a new TV (a measly 27" model at that). This new TV had a SVideo jack on it, and the video quality different was radically amazing.
If HDTV provides that sort of jump, then I'm all for it, when it gets a lot cheaper. Note, my new TV was a cheap 27". I'm not going to be paying several grand for an HD-TV set unless it is really just an HD-TV monitor (for video production work).
True. But the OS doesn't yet support the higher resolutions. We need OS 5 for that I believe.
I can think of two reasons I'd like a palm to be faster. First, I would like speech recognition. I'd like this so that I can more easily enter long notes (grafity is a pain for more than a sentence or two) and so that I can enter notes while driving.
Second, text to speech would be nice (again for useage while driving).
Third (and this doesn't look like it's going to happen real soon), I'd like Palm to ad least double and preferable quadruple the screen resolution (from 160x160 to 320x320 or even 640x640). They don't need to make the screen larger, just higher res. True gray scale (instead of the faked grey scale that results from flickering pixel quickly) would also be really nice.
Err, shouldn't that be $50k? I don't know what Machrone said, but the computers I've wanted tend to be around $50-100k (think Onyx2, Octane2, etc).
If the patent would allow collecting for every internet download, then it should be fought as if the company actually plans to collect on every download, and claiming that they intend to collect on every download (even if they would really only collect from mid sized companies too small to fight, but too big for people to be sympathetic) is also valid.
However, it does appear that in this case that most people think that the patent is actually more limited than that. However, when I went to read the patent (and I consider myself reasonably smart), the whole thing was extremely obtuse. I don't read a lot of patents, but the ones I have always seemed to be a bit more understandable than this one.
What 14 year old nerdy guy needs to actually be manipulated into doing that for any sort of female?
Yeah. I know. I just thought I'd mention that program though. Personally, I want jpeg flipping. Yeah, I know it is lossy, but, for me, I'm trying to figure out my way, and disk space is relatively cramped. I don't care if it just decompresses the files to memory for playback (as opposed to decompressing on the fly), although it seems that if Imlib2 is as optimized as it says it is, then on a dual CPU machine, real time decompression shouldn't be too hard. Anyway, I'm not familiar with Qt. I still might try adding the features I want to flip rather than start over though.
It isn't linux that is hack and pray. It is XFree. Buy an HP FX linux workstation, and it comes with a different X server that supports the FX card perfectly.
First, your site seems to be slashdotted. Too bad. I would have liked to see it.
As to tiff playback, there is a program called Flip (search freshmeat) that does it. Downside is that it is only from memory, so at tv resolutions, you need approximately 1 gig of ram for every minute of playback. It is written in Qt.
Err, while the people at Ruby Ridge and Waco were definately wierd and probably crazy, I'm not aware of any activities that would count as terroristic. While they had large weapon stashes, I don't remeber hearing them threaten anyone except those that threatened them (like FBI agents).
FF8 is good, but I still haven't beaten it yet. I'm on the second disk, and I've already spent alot more than 50 hours according to the clock it keeps, and that clock doesn't count all the times I played for an hour or more and then died before getting to a save point.
Just wait till you try to save HD-TV streams to disk. Those things (even w/ mpeg 2 compression) are so fat that a DVD-R will seem about as usefull as a zip disk is now.