For 16bit 44.1kHz stereo you'd need 1.411 Mbit/s speed... I'm not sure whether bluetooth can go upto that speeds.
Bluetooth sends at 1Mbps (that's megaBIT), but the maximum data rate (after overhead) is 721Kbps. That maximum data rate can only be achieved through asynchronous communications-- you can send at 721Kbps but only receive at ~20Kbps (forget the exact number). Oh, and that's without error correction. I believe the maximum synchronous speed is about 300Kbps in each direction.
I would go to movies if people knew how to SHUT THEIR DAMN MOUTHS!
I feel your pain, man. My favorite movie theater is this one in a lecture hall on campus. No, it doesn't have a THX-certified sound system. No, they don't sell popcorn. Heck, they still use the two-projector system, so you occasionally notice the reel change if the projectionist is off. But, it's dead quiet.
I can't really satiate my desire for first-run movies there-- almost everything they show is independent, and the few big-name movies that come there are about a year old. But gosh darn it, that's the best theater I've ever been in.
(In case you're wondering, I go to the University of Colorado in Boulder, and I'm talking about the International Film Series.)
What I'm getting at is that if a game is directed at the types of activities they're good at, they'll enjoy it more. Guys like shooting stuff, cos they're good at it. I would imagine girls would like a game with lots of parallel activities to take care of. That's probably why they like Sims.
Yeah... I'm gonna have to sort of, uh, disagree with you there.:-)
I'm a guy. I don't really play computer games anymore (I think I ODed in high school), but when I was into them I played FPSes and RTS games (Unreal, Half-Life, Myth I and II, WarCraft II, StarCraft, etc), along with a few of the Sim series (SimCity 2000, SimTower).
I didn't play Half-Life because I was a good marksman. (I can't even shoot a gun). I didn't play Myth because I was a brilliant military strategist. I didn't play SimTower because I knew how to manage an office building. I played the games because the challenge was fun, not because they had any connection to reality.
Why was the challenge of shooting other people or destroying their armies fun? Because a little competition against friends is enjoyable. Why was designing a city of millions of people fun? Because I like tweaking and optimizing things... SimCity was a game with a lot of patterns and order, but with enough chaos to keep you on your toes.
Man, now I'm missing my games... *thumbs through CD binder*. Must... resist... urge... must... do... homework...
My initial reaction to this article was, "Big whoopitydoo... this guy can take screenshots."
But then another point from his mini-essay leapt out at me. How many millions of dollars have companies spent on creating "copy-protected" file formats, and how pointless is this pursuit? Heck, that's the business to go into... the snake oil of the 21st century.
)I know many people have made this point before, but it just hit me in an interesting way today, and I thought I'd throw it out there for all to see.)
How does an 11Mbps access point bring down three floors of a network? Because the go-tards who configured it allowed it to act as a DHCP server. Most students get dynamic IPs from the school DHCP server, but if there's a WAP on the network handing out IPs also, then mass chaos ensues. Bad, bad news.
On another note, I go to CU Boulder and I've noticed that the campus network is dreadfully slow sometimes (at least when browsing the web and downloading stuff... intra-campus file transfers are very fast). If bandwidth is the bottleneck, I wish they'd cap speeds of P2P clients. If our DNS server sucks, I hope they replace it.
I'm really happy with ITS overall though... they are doing a great job of giving us wireless around the campus, and have an excellent track record with respect to network downtime (almost never).
A while ago, I read Neal Stephenson's The Big U. The protagonist (well, one of them) was named Casimir, and, if I remember correctly, he built a rail gun.
Did Stephenson have a special reason for naming his protagonist after this strange force? Was it a metaphor for how he was mysteriously attracted to his female friend? Or am I just trying too hard to explain an author's choice of names?;-)
Actually, I've been really pleased with the radio station at CU Boulder, radio 1190. They play a HUGE variety of music, are mostly listener-supported, and have live mp3 streams at various bitrates.
You guys should check them out-- everything from Japanese pop to reggae to industrial to "world music." (Actually, I think the J-pop host is away for the summer, but I bet she'll be back in the fall)
If companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia provided free licenses, or even cheap sub 100$ licenses to individuals not seeking to profit from the use of the software I guarantee they would see an extreme decrease in piracy.
Two words: academic licences. Yes, they are often over $100, but they're still typically 50% or less of the full-version cost. (The one caveat: you can only use the software non-commercially).
Case in point: Wolfram Research's Mathematica. Invaluable for doing complex computations and making pretty pictures out of equations. I paid $150 for my academic copy last year, but the commercial version costs $1500. Yes, that's one-thousand-five-hundred.
I do sympathize with you, however-- I would gladly pay a little to dink around with Photoshop 7 Academic, but it's $300.
About 7 or 8 years ago, my parents owned a children's toy and software store, so they could order almost any software wholesale. They got me Photoshop 3.0 Academic for-- get this-- $50. *sigh*... those were the days...
Salient features: Kazaa + Gnutella = 15% of our traffic (in and out), people run more FTP servers than they download from (4.2% up, 2.7% down), and pr0n-searching newsgroup readers account for 4.4% of downstream bandwidth usage.
Oh, don't forget to check out the graph labeled "Campus I/O By Network" (towards the bottom, mostly green). ResNet is the on-campus dorm network, JILA is a huge government research thing on campus, and I have no idea what Johnson is)
Denver is extending some of its new commuter rails and a proposed monorail downtown is a subject of fervent debate.
Well, sort of. Denver is indeed expanding its Light Rail system. However, the section of track that just opened has little to do with commuters-- it passes by Mile High (our new stadium), the Pepsi Center (our new-ish arena-- go Avs!), and Elitch Gardens (the local Six Flags franchise). Basically, it's for people looking for entertainment, not working schmucks.
However, the next expansion (which will be completed in a few years, IIRC) is a link between Denver and a large suburb to the south. A benefit to commuters, but also greatly welcomed by shoppers.
Also the proposed monorail is meant to connect Denver with the ski resorts-- it isn't meant to be a "downtown monorail" as the article implies.
I use Opera as my main web browser, and the "refuse pop-ups" option comes in handy sometimes. However, many legit sites also use JavaScript popups as an integral part of their site (displaying products, etc), so it's definitely a tradeoff.
I can't tell you how many times I sat there clicking a link on a website, wondering why it wouldn't work, because I had disabled popups...:-)
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Best quote from the article:
"Me-wann' download quicky-quicky now!"
Weeeeeeeee! I noticed you're using Opera... good choice! It's a fantastic browser.
Okay, back to homework now.
Just mail your backup CDs to me. I need some more frisbees.
Honestly, people. A thong?
Just to clarify, POS refers to "Point-of-Sale" (as in cash register). Though I think NineNine also has a double-entendre thing going on too, hehe.
I would go to movies if people knew how to SHUT THEIR DAMN MOUTHS!
I feel your pain, man. My favorite movie theater is this one in a lecture hall on campus. No, it doesn't have a THX-certified sound system. No, they don't sell popcorn. Heck, they still use the two-projector system, so you occasionally notice the reel change if the projectionist is off. But, it's dead quiet.
I can't really satiate my desire for first-run movies there-- almost everything they show is independent, and the few big-name movies that come there are about a year old. But gosh darn it, that's the best theater I've ever been in.
(In case you're wondering, I go to the University of Colorado in Boulder, and I'm talking about the International Film Series.)
What I'm getting at is that if a game is directed at the types of activities they're good at, they'll enjoy it more. Guys like shooting stuff, cos they're good at it. I would imagine girls would like a game with lots of parallel activities to take care of. That's probably why they like Sims.
:-)
Yeah... I'm gonna have to sort of, uh, disagree with you there.
I'm a guy. I don't really play computer games anymore (I think I ODed in high school), but when I was into them I played FPSes and RTS games (Unreal, Half-Life, Myth I and II, WarCraft II, StarCraft, etc), along with a few of the Sim series (SimCity 2000, SimTower).
I didn't play Half-Life because I was a good marksman. (I can't even shoot a gun). I didn't play Myth because I was a brilliant military strategist. I didn't play SimTower because I knew how to manage an office building. I played the games because the challenge was fun, not because they had any connection to reality.
Why was the challenge of shooting other people or destroying their armies fun? Because a little competition against friends is enjoyable. Why was designing a city of millions of people fun? Because I like tweaking and optimizing things... SimCity was a game with a lot of patterns and order, but with enough chaos to keep you on your toes.
Man, now I'm missing my games... *thumbs through CD binder*. Must... resist... urge... must... do... homework...
My initial reaction to this article was, "Big whoopitydoo... this guy can take screenshots."
But then another point from his mini-essay leapt out at me. How many millions of dollars have companies spent on creating "copy-protected" file formats, and how pointless is this pursuit? Heck, that's the business to go into... the snake oil of the 21st century.
)I know many people have made this point before, but it just hit me in an interesting way today, and I thought I'd throw it out there for all to see.)
"My name... is The Plague"
"Uh, sorry Mr. The Plague, we've got a situation here."
Tee hee hee... that movie amuses me to no end...
How does an 11Mbps access point bring down three floors of a network? Because the go-tards who configured it allowed it to act as a DHCP server. Most students get dynamic IPs from the school DHCP server, but if there's a WAP on the network handing out IPs also, then mass chaos ensues. Bad, bad news.
On another note, I go to CU Boulder and I've noticed that the campus network is dreadfully slow sometimes (at least when browsing the web and downloading stuff... intra-campus file transfers are very fast). If bandwidth is the bottleneck, I wish they'd cap speeds of P2P clients. If our DNS server sucks, I hope they replace it.
I'm really happy with ITS overall though... they are doing a great job of giving us wireless around the campus, and have an excellent track record with respect to network downtime (almost never).
A while ago, I read Neal Stephenson's The Big U . The protagonist (well, one of them) was named Casimir, and, if I remember correctly, he built a rail gun.
;-)
Did Stephenson have a special reason for naming his protagonist after this strange force? Was it a metaphor for how he was mysteriously attracted to his female friend? Or am I just trying too hard to explain an author's choice of names?
...for posting a link to the Google cache in the story description on the main page! mfago, you are a genius!
Perhaps more article submitters (or editors) could add these links more frequenly?
Actually, I've been really pleased with the radio station at CU Boulder, radio 1190. They play a HUGE variety of music, are mostly listener-supported, and have live mp3 streams at various bitrates.
You guys should check them out-- everything from Japanese pop to reggae to industrial to "world music." (Actually, I think the J-pop host is away for the summer, but I bet she'll be back in the fall)
If companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia provided free licenses, or even cheap sub 100$ licenses to individuals not seeking to profit from the use of the software I guarantee they would see an extreme decrease in piracy.
Two words: academic licences. Yes, they are often over $100, but they're still typically 50% or less of the full-version cost. (The one caveat: you can only use the software non-commercially).
Case in point: Wolfram Research's Mathematica. Invaluable for doing complex computations and making pretty pictures out of equations. I paid $150 for my academic copy last year, but the commercial version costs $1500. Yes, that's one-thousand-five-hundred.
I do sympathize with you, however-- I would gladly pay a little to dink around with Photoshop 7 Academic, but it's $300.
About 7 or 8 years ago, my parents owned a children's toy and software store, so they could order almost any software wholesale. They got me Photoshop 3.0 Academic for-- get this-- $50. *sigh*... those were the days...
Okay, maybe I'm just a weirdo, but I sure wouldn't bid US$6 mil when the seller has zero feedback!
it takes an honest effort and lots of digging to come up with sites that actually have anything
:-)
This is true for the web, but there are other ways that require much less effort... *cough* IRC *cough*
I saw Mission to Mars digitally also, and I didn't see any make up at all.
;-)
Maybe the fact that it was a VCD copy of a VHS screener tape had something to do with it?
Instead of throttling the users' bandwidth, why don't they just throttle the users?
I think the threat of a severe beating would keep habitual Kazaa idi^H^H^Husers in check.
Check out these pretty pictures of the bandwidth usage at CU Boulder.
Salient features: Kazaa + Gnutella = 15% of our traffic (in and out), people run more FTP servers than they download from (4.2% up, 2.7% down), and pr0n-searching newsgroup readers account for 4.4% of downstream bandwidth usage.
Oh, don't forget to check out the graph labeled "Campus I/O By Network" (towards the bottom, mostly green). ResNet is the on-campus dorm network, JILA is a huge government research thing on campus, and I have no idea what Johnson is)
However, the next expansion (which will be completed in a few years, IIRC) is a link between Denver and a large suburb to the south. A benefit to commuters, but also greatly welcomed by shoppers.
Also the proposed monorail is meant to connect Denver with the ski resorts-- it isn't meant to be a "downtown monorail" as the article implies.
PGP (freeware) integrates nicely with Eudora-- just right-click a message and type in your passphrase to encrypt or decrypt it.
About as easy as it gets.
This message brought to you by the Council for an Evil Free America.
You meant Evil-Free America, right? Or, *raises eyebrow dramatically*, did you?
- Their 224-gigabyte Solid State Disk (SSD) can hold 27 copies of the Human Genome
- The SSD can transfer data at 80 gigabytes per second, a rate equivalent to 100 Human Genomes per second.
#1 yields a Human Genome size of 8.3GB (224GB holds 27 genomes), but for #2 to be true, the genome would have to be 800MB (80GB/s == 100 genomes/s).Did they bork their numbers, or am I just misunderstanding?
I use Opera as my main web browser, and the "refuse pop-ups" option comes in handy sometimes. However, many legit sites also use JavaScript popups as an integral part of their site (displaying products, etc), so it's definitely a tradeoff.
:-)
I can't tell you how many times I sat there clicking a link on a website, wondering why it wouldn't work, because I had disabled popups...