It turns out that one of the terrorists had a copy of MS Flight Simulator! And it wasn't an illegal copy either!
Obviously, MS Flight Simulator is a tool of terrorists, and represents a clear and present danger to New York and Washington!
I propose everyone who has a copy of MS Flight Simulator turn themselves into Ashcroft. After all, giving up a few rights (i.e. the flight simulator owners) for the safety of everyone else is what we must do in this war on terrorism.
Remember - your PC can destroy buildings as surely as a fuel-air bomb.
That is referred to as a SAR design. Of course, it is important to remember that ADCs are generally built up out of comparaters, which are modified op-amps. In a pathalogical case, they would need to put copyright control on all op-amps!
Another thing to remember is high-speed ADCs can put out an astonishing amount of data. 500MSPS ADCs are already on the market - they could fill up a 120GB drive in 2 minutes. Generally, you really can't do real-time processing on them.
I'm pretty sure there will be test modes to disable the copyright control circuits also - during development, they may need to disable the controls to acurately evaluate the device performance.
Also, perhaps some magic marker tricks might do the job too:)
Just when you think those bozos have done enough damage, they come up with something new!
Regulating ADCs! I can see what will happen - a small, efficient, and low noise ADC in a SOT23 package will need an control chip with 500000gates so that it can be legally used!
In my job, I develop ways to make sure ADCs are made properly. One big problem is that the digital circuits produce a lot of noise, and degrade the performance of analog section of the ADC. So, adding on all the extra digital logic for copy-protection will result in lower performance ADCs everywhere.
I've built something like 6 computers. It is not a difficult task by any means. The most challanging part is selecting the components to use and figuring out where to get them.
Just some simple rules: 1) USE A GROUND STRAP. ESD Damage is all to easy with today's chips (and esp. memory). Keep the components in the static-shielding bags when not installed. 2) Don't use the cheapest components, as they are often the weakest link (a $6 sound card may sound like a bargin). 3) Put the memory, cpu, and video card into the motherboard and make sure that works first.
Wrong Answer. Here is a clue. Actually, the plantiffs wanted to collect the information with unique identifcation for every user. So, don't listen to the media companies, as they lie like a cheap linoleum floor.
My company manufactures testing equipment. We were shipping one of our smaller systems to ITC, a trade show. The system was worth ~$750,000 and weighed around 1 ton. A few background details: ITC is on the east coast. My company is on the west coast. ITC happens in the winter. Does anyone see this coming?
So, the truck flips over in Colorado. The system punches through the roof of the truck, breaks out the crate it was in on landing, and winds up in a snowbank. Of course, we DON'T have another system! So what does my company do? Send another truck, and send the system to the trade show anyway. And the greatest thing - the system WORKED! We still have the system around. It didn't look bad at all when I finally saw it.
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This doesn't seem like a troll to me. Just a reminder of what Sony really is about! Remember the aibo incident. Sure, Sony makes some neat stuff. But I would not buy anything from them.
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Up till now I was trying to rationalize getting a Fujitsu. Lots of websites on how to put linux on it and it also comes with a DVD/CD-rw. That and 5 hours on the optional battery....
I'm not a laptop guy - they are like infants - although the actual package is small, all the other junk you need to bring along: power supplies, extra battery, mouse, network cord, phone cord, teething ring... Right now I have a Dell c400 which is small, but still a monster next to the transmeta types.
Oh well, after the recession. I promise I won't waste the next upturn!
Advertisers aren't stupid. They have been modifing the commercial format so that they still get there message across.
First, why do you think that half of all the commercials on are better than the stupid shows? Hell, the super bowl commercials are awesome! Also, advertisers are making commercials which can be 'effective' when fast-forwarded through with a VCR.
Errr - from your own admission, there are two advantages to scsi: 1) faster drives - manufacturer unwillingness or what not. This is because Joe Blow would rather have a 60GB drive for $180 than a good 18GB for $300. And: 2) More drives.
Basically, SCSI drives are better drives. First, bigger caches. Second, better bandwidth. SCSI is going to 320MB/s. Where is IDE - 133MB/s? Third, lower latency. Fourth, you can use several drives better.
To state simply - SCSI is a better engineered interface. IDE is designed to be cheap. No matter how many excuses and FUD is thrown, it is the truth.
What is the real difference between SCSI and IDE? 1) IDE gets you big drives with up to 7200RPM 2) SCSI gets you very fast drives: you can choose 10K RPM or 15K RPM with extra noise and heat. 3) SCSI allows you more drives - which means you have as much disk space as a slower IDE in 2 SCSI faster drives. 4) SCSI loads the CPU less. This used to be a big deal, but since everyone already has GHz+ speed CPUs, it's not such a big deal anymore. Of course, those who agree should consider getting winmodems...
So what do I do with my extra drives? Well, I can upgrade much easier to new drives, share the load across several (faster) drives. I routinely image my main boot drive onto a backup drive, just in case it were to check out (luckily, none have). Burning a CD-R is never a problem.
My ancedotal proof is when I backup my wife's computer - her IDE drive system can only chug at 75-80MB/min while my SCSI system can cruise around 180 - 220MB/min. Note that this is reading the data on the drive, compressing, and writing out to an image file.
It seems to me that most SCSI haters are simply jealous. They can't afford a real drive, and so they spout 'sour grapes'
Interesting point. Whenever I go to Safeway, I still use my safeway card. Why? Because I'm paying with my credit card - it wouldn't take too long for them to connect the dots. Basically, they already have a huge amount of info on my shopping habits - what is a little more?
In fact, that is why I shop at Albertson's, because they don't have that damn club card.
TI has been pushing the PBCC modulation scheme for years. Recently, PBCC was dumped from the 802.11g spec, so now TI is trying to do an end run around the spec, and making it a done deal. The OFDM method used in 802.11g and 802.11a is more elegant, and provides a higher data rate than the PBCC. Of course, in fairness, Intersil is pushing for OFDM.
Bottom line: if 802.11g isn't out soon, TI will be in a good position to put PBCC back into 802.11g by market pressure. The catch - 802.11g will be slightly (maybe $20) to support this lower performance mode.
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Well, some things should not be for sale. For example, private prisons.
Other services can work quite well under other models. Asserting that 'deregulation of electricity' is better will get loud snorts of derision from the majority of Californians.
Well, beforehand send around 50000000 keys in an email. Or send them compressed and encrypted, with an header that says "Secret Keys - you know the password..."
As for the two problems you refer to, I concur with #1. I think that #2 has always been there, but most people outside of the research never were aware of it until #1 occured. But the whole point of this article is not issues such as cold fusion, rather it is such things are homepathic medicine, which has never had any serious studies.
To me, it seems people are skeptical of science, which has been rather open all along, and yet all to gullible with claims that have no scientific validity.
One of the amazing things is how effective physics is at explaining the universe. Current theories are amazingly effective in the environment we are in. Where they 'breakdown' is in regions such as black holes and such (read 'conditions that do not occur anywhere on or near, or even somewhat far from earth'). And the new theories don't replace the old ones, they are extensions of them. Einstein's theories reduce down to Newton's laws of motion once the effect of approching the speed of light is no longer significant. The reasons why perpetual motion is dismissed outright because: 1) generally, the person who makes that claim know jack about physics. 2) generally, the person making that claim is trying to pull off a scam. 3) generally, the person making that claim doesn't want an investigation into how it works (see 1 & 2). 4) physics does not show any method how it could work. 5) perpetual motion has never been shown to occur anywhere, in spite of a vast number of claims.
Even semi-legitimate claims such as cold fusion and ultrasonic fusion were shown to be erroneous.
Just the other day there was a Slashdot article mentioning how Fermi calculated the yield of a nuclear explosion by throwing bits of paper into the air when the shockwave came through. Maybe I'm wrong, but the fact that can be done indicates that physic's understanding of the universe is better than you portray.
It's amazing how people are skeptical of the wrong things.
Actually, electrical engineers are quite aware of compression. They just do it in hardware. Signals sent using RF cannot be completely compressed. You need some extra sync information and redundancy in the data to actually demodulate the signal and to confirm that a valid packet was received. The power in RF signals is like 1/1000000 of a normal digital signal. There is always noise masking your signal. When you try to amplify the signal to make it easier to process, you are adding more noise in the process.
I hate when comp sci guys talk about RF. RF is hard enough for electrical engineers. You are not simply pushing bits into a register when you transmit signals - you have to deal with InterSymbol Interference, fading, and lots of other fun effects.
What do you want to do - go back to the good ol days of AM and FM? There are only a few blocks of spectrum left after the parcels that have been sold off or reserved for military. The only reason that 2.4GHz is available for Bluetooth and 802.11 is because it was considered "undersirable property" because H2O has a resonance there - so 1000W microwave ovens are working that frequency over.
Finally, it sucks that amateur bands and ham radio keeps getting spectrum stolen.
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Perhaps this is why I can't remember anyone's name - half the people look the same
It turns out that one of the terrorists had a copy of MS Flight Simulator! And it wasn't an illegal copy either!
Obviously, MS Flight Simulator is a tool of terrorists, and represents a clear and present danger to New York and Washington!
I propose everyone who has a copy of MS Flight Simulator turn themselves into Ashcroft. After all, giving up a few rights (i.e. the flight simulator owners) for the safety of everyone else is what we must do in this war on terrorism.
Remember - your PC can destroy buildings as surely as a fuel-air bomb.
That is referred to as a SAR design. Of course, it is important to remember that ADCs are generally built up out of comparaters, which are modified op-amps. In a pathalogical case, they would need to put copyright control on all op-amps!
Another thing to remember is high-speed ADCs can put out an astonishing amount of data.
500MSPS ADCs are already on the market - they could fill up a 120GB drive in 2 minutes. Generally, you really can't do real-time processing on them.
I'm pretty sure there will be test modes to disable the copyright control circuits also - during development, they may need to disable the controls to acurately evaluate the device performance.
:)
Also, perhaps some magic marker tricks might do the job too
Just when you think those bozos have done enough damage, they come up with something new!
Regulating ADCs! I can see what will happen - a small, efficient, and low noise ADC in a SOT23 package will need an control chip with 500000gates so that it can be legally used!
In my job, I develop ways to make sure ADCs are made properly. One big problem is that the digital circuits produce a lot of noise, and degrade the performance of analog section of the ADC. So, adding on all the extra digital logic for copy-protection will result in lower performance ADCs everywhere.
My point exactly. Star Wars is so much better than JP. And yes, I just watched A New Hope yesterday (I still think Ep I should have been A New Hype).
I've built something like 6 computers. It is not a difficult task by any means. The most challanging part is selecting the components to use and figuring out where to get them.
Just some simple rules:
1) USE A GROUND STRAP. ESD Damage is all to easy with today's chips (and esp. memory). Keep the components in the static-shielding bags when not installed.
2) Don't use the cheapest components, as they are often the weakest link (a $6 sound card may sound like a bargin).
3) Put the memory, cpu, and video card into the motherboard and make sure that works first.
Oh please. Building a computer from scratch is quite easy. It takes maybe 2 hours. It is harder to install and configure the os!
Wrong Answer.
Here is a clue. Actually, the plantiffs wanted to collect the information with unique identifcation for every user. So, don't listen to the media companies, as they lie like a cheap linoleum floor.
My company manufactures testing equipment. We were shipping one of our smaller systems to ITC, a trade show. The system was worth ~$750,000 and weighed around 1 ton. A few background details: ITC is on the east coast. My company is on the west coast. ITC happens in the winter. Does anyone see this coming?
So, the truck flips over in Colorado. The system punches through the roof of the truck, breaks out the crate it was in on landing, and winds up in a snowbank. Of course, we DON'T have another system! So what does my company do? Send another truck, and send the system to the trade show anyway. And the greatest thing - the system WORKED! We still have the system around. It didn't look bad at all when I finally saw it.
This doesn't seem like a troll to me. Just a reminder of what Sony really is about! Remember the aibo incident.
Sure, Sony makes some neat stuff. But I would not buy anything from them.
Try this link. Doh!
Up till now I was trying to rationalize getting a Fujitsu.
Lots of websites on how to put linux on it and it also comes with a DVD/CD-rw. That and 5 hours on the optional battery....
I'm not a laptop guy - they are like infants - although the actual package is small, all the other junk you need to bring along: power supplies, extra battery, mouse, network cord, phone cord, teething ring...
Right now I have a Dell c400 which is small, but still a monster next to the transmeta types.
Oh well, after the recession. I promise I won't waste the next upturn!
does ftp mean "Financial Transfer Protocol?"
Advertisers aren't stupid. They have been modifing the commercial format so that they still get there message across.
First, why do you think that half of all the commercials on are better than the stupid shows? Hell, the super bowl commercials are awesome! Also, advertisers are making commercials which can be 'effective' when fast-forwarded through with a VCR.
Errr - from your own admission, there are two advantages to scsi:
1) faster drives - manufacturer unwillingness or what not. This is because Joe Blow would rather have a 60GB drive for $180 than a good 18GB for $300.
And:
2) More drives.
Basically, SCSI drives are better drives.
First, bigger caches.
Second, better bandwidth. SCSI is going to 320MB/s. Where is IDE - 133MB/s?
Third, lower latency.
Fourth, you can use several drives better.
To state simply - SCSI is a better engineered interface. IDE is designed to be cheap. No matter how many excuses and FUD is thrown, it is the truth.
My point exactly! Naive users get IDE.
What is the real difference between SCSI and IDE?
1) IDE gets you big drives with up to 7200RPM
2) SCSI gets you very fast drives: you can choose 10K RPM or 15K RPM with extra noise and heat.
3) SCSI allows you more drives - which means you have as much disk space as a slower IDE in 2 SCSI faster drives.
4) SCSI loads the CPU less. This used to be a big deal, but since everyone already has GHz+ speed CPUs, it's not such a big deal anymore. Of course, those who agree should consider getting winmodems...
So what do I do with my extra drives? Well, I can upgrade much easier to new drives, share the load across several (faster) drives. I routinely image my main boot drive onto a backup drive, just in case it were to check out (luckily, none have). Burning a CD-R is never a problem.
My ancedotal proof is when I backup my wife's computer - her IDE drive system can only chug at 75-80MB/min while my SCSI system can cruise around 180 - 220MB/min. Note that this is reading the data on the drive, compressing, and writing out to an image file.
It seems to me that most SCSI haters are simply jealous. They can't afford a real drive, and so they spout 'sour grapes'
Interesting point. Whenever I go to Safeway, I still use my safeway card. Why? Because I'm paying with my credit card - it wouldn't take too long for them to connect the dots. Basically, they already have a huge amount of info on my shopping habits - what is a little more?
In fact, that is why I shop at Albertson's, because they don't have that damn club card.
TI has been pushing the PBCC modulation scheme for years. Recently, PBCC was dumped from the 802.11g spec, so now TI is trying to do an end run around the spec, and making it a done deal.
The OFDM method used in 802.11g and 802.11a is more elegant, and provides a higher data rate than the PBCC. Of course, in fairness, Intersil is pushing for OFDM.
Bottom line: if 802.11g isn't out soon, TI will be in a good position to put PBCC back into 802.11g by market pressure. The catch - 802.11g will be slightly (maybe $20) to support this lower performance mode.
Well, some things should not be for sale. For example, private prisons.
Other services can work quite well under other models. Asserting that 'deregulation of electricity' is better will get loud snorts of derision from the majority of Californians.
Well, beforehand send around 50000000 keys
in an email. Or send them compressed and encrypted, with an header
that says "Secret Keys - you know the password..."
I guess I jumped a little too hard...
As for the two problems you refer to, I concur with #1. I think that #2 has always been there, but most people outside of the research never were aware of it until #1 occured.
But the whole point of this article is not issues such as cold fusion, rather it is such things are homepathic medicine, which has never had any serious studies.
To me, it seems people are skeptical of science, which has been rather open all along, and yet all to gullible with claims that have no scientific validity.
Errrr - No.
One of the amazing things is how effective physics is at explaining the universe. Current theories are amazingly effective in the environment we are in. Where they 'breakdown' is in regions such as black holes and such (read 'conditions that do not occur anywhere on or near, or even somewhat far from earth'). And the new theories don't replace the old ones, they are extensions of them. Einstein's theories reduce down to Newton's laws of motion once the effect of approching the speed of light is no longer significant. The reasons why perpetual motion is dismissed outright because:
1) generally, the person who makes that claim know jack about physics.
2) generally, the person making that claim is trying to pull off a scam.
3) generally, the person making that claim doesn't want an investigation into how it works (see 1 & 2).
4) physics does not show any method how it could work.
5) perpetual motion has never been shown to occur anywhere, in spite of a vast number of claims.
Even semi-legitimate claims such as cold fusion and ultrasonic fusion were shown to be erroneous.
Just the other day there was a Slashdot article mentioning how Fermi calculated the yield of a nuclear explosion by throwing bits of paper into the air when the shockwave came through. Maybe I'm wrong, but the fact that can be done indicates that physic's understanding of the universe is better than you portray.
It's amazing how people are skeptical of the wrong things.
I only need 1 - Antartica
Actually, electrical engineers are quite aware of compression. They just do it in hardware.
Signals sent using RF cannot be completely compressed. You need some extra sync information and redundancy in the data to actually demodulate the signal and to confirm that a valid packet was received. The power in RF signals is like 1/1000000 of a normal digital signal. There is always noise masking your signal. When you try to amplify the signal to make it easier to process, you are adding more noise in the process.
I hate when comp sci guys talk about RF. RF is hard enough for electrical engineers. You are not simply pushing bits into a register when you transmit signals - you have to deal with InterSymbol Interference, fading, and lots of other fun effects.
What do you want to do - go back to the good ol days of AM and FM? There are only a few blocks of spectrum left after the parcels that have been sold off or reserved for military. The only reason that 2.4GHz is available for Bluetooth and 802.11 is because it was considered "undersirable property" because H2O has a resonance there - so 1000W microwave ovens are working that frequency over.
Finally, it sucks that amateur bands and ham radio keeps getting spectrum stolen.