Given that Microwaves and X-rays are even smaller tha blue lasers (spectrum) Why not skip-to-the-end so to speak. I know they have x-ray lasers. And Microwave technology is pretty well known by now. Seems kinda silly to be in the visible spectrum at all anymore.
The longer they can hold it, the more money they will try to squeeze from us.
Did you notice they did not even put the single layer capacity on the chart (it would be 4.7 gb approx)
The 'it's harder to make/more expensive' is not a reason. All new tech is expensive, but that changes.
I think they are afraid of 'we the people' using the HUGE size of the blue format to roll our own.
Just imagine, in Div-X format a single blu-laser disk could hold 84 hours of video.(assuming a 2hr movie fits on a CD-R) That would be the entire 42 volume Robotech series (about) on one disk.
"Moore's law states that computing speeds and densities double every 18 months. In other words, every 18 months we can buy a computer that is twice as fast and has twice as much memory for the same cost. Remarkably, this law has held true for more than a hundred years, from the mechanical card-based computing technology of the 1890 census, to the relay-based computers of the 1940's, to the vacuum tube-based computers of the 1950's, to the transistor-based machines of the 1960's, to all of the generations of integrated circuits since.... Dr. Gordon Moore, who became Intel's CEO in 1975, first observed this phenomenon in the mid 1960's at which time he said the doubling occurred every 24 months. Ten years later, he revised this to to 18 months. There are more than enough new computing technologies being developed to assure a continuation of Moore's law for a very long time."
BTW I would say it's about every 6 months that it doubles anymore.
There was the abbacus, Pascals mechanical computer, and now silicon. Who knows? maybe bio-computers or quantum computing will be the next kid on the block.
Rounded cables and cable wraps - almost all case-mods have those. Helps airflow for one. Also give you a chance to use color.
That fan in front for the power supply makes me wonder about airflow problems. Eg do both blow out/opposite/in? I also think the top fan should be bigger to compensate for the two fans on the bottom pushing air in.
Interesting case design thou. I wonder if you can build one that can be made out of only flat pieces.
If you want to make money from your site, seriously consider spending a few bucks to have someone else host it for you. That includes your e-mail for the site. Its no fun loosing $$$ just because you modem hiccuped that day.
If its for fun you could go a few ways. Use any static space you get from your ISP(and or various free sites) for pics and stuff that don't change (main pages, etc.) Use your home server for dynamic content/databases etc.
You can run a web site behind a dynamic IP that way. I set one up that had my cisco dsl modem send syslog messages to my linux box. The linux box would have a daemon I wrote on it that parsed the syslog for those cicso messages. The syslog deamon would then look for IP changed messages and run a job that would alter any IP references on my web pages to point to the new address and re-load them to the static site. When you hit my static web site it would either just load the page, or auto-redirect to the real page on my server.
If i remember how it worked out in court... Stacker got a huge sum of money (many millions) M$ got a small counter suit. (1 mil. or so for stacker using a undocumented propriatary user interface)
M$ promptly changed DOS 6.0 into DOS 6.1 (with no compression) then changed it to 6.2 where Stacker would not run at all.
Its the reason that 40 bit encryption of no longer considered secure. And why RSa is secure with 1024 bits for now.
When beowolf clusters came out (obligitory reference) lots of 'unbreakable' encryption was considered suspect (eg DES) Any encryption system is only secure for a limited amount of time. When new hardware/software comes out the limit is shortened.
I remember a hardware 'key' system that plugged into the parallel port, and all the circuitry was encased in a solid block of black plastic. It was broken by sampling the data in & out then wedged itself in and emulated the hard key (software replaced hardware). The real trick is to spend a resonable amount of money to protect your data/programs for what you might get in monetary compensation. Eg don't put a $40,000 dollar lock on a $2 product.
I think the real question is this: what are they trying to protect, and for how long? Could you guarantee that some code would get 5 yrs of time where the encryption is unbreakable? A twisty mind may think up a interesting 'unbreakable' codec, but a differently twisted mind can crack it.
tools (convert from avi to mpg, split/join files, add sub titles/CC/OC/alternate audio & video tracks. Convert size/fps/color depth)
Make all the tools pipable (that's the *nix way) That way I can implement the parts based on my hardware, time and disk space constraints.
Don't tell me it can't be done - There are amny pieces already out there. They just need to be put together.
BTW, I have a system that can capture TV, DVD, and VCD, play most formats, and record to VCD now. It took multiple tools to do the job, and some are not even the most 'up-to-date' ones that _should_ work. I will soon try recording to digital tape (aka a DAT drive) and see how that works as well.
The real problem on why spam is here and why it stays is simple. Money. The ISP's take the money of the spammer just like your money. Only with a spammer they usually have higher bandwidth to spam ya all. That means more money to the ISP. By the time ou get the spam its too late. Lots of sites have paid money to get it to you.
Now in all fairness most ISP's try to keep up with the flood of ce-mails/calls about spam. However; they are under a deludge to keep up.
The only real way to block this vermin from our net is to have routers block it at the source. if routers implemented RBl you would see those sites, that insist on harassing the rest of us, slowly getting choked out.
What the internet needs is a ruler to smack the hands of those delinquent spammers et al.
Can this tech be put in reverse and cause skates/skis to have less friction? You would have skis and skates that would slide easier resulting in faster times in races etc.
Maybe even a way to replace lubricants in bearings and moving parts?
To ban lawers and judges. All of them. When I see some of the laws in the books, and how lawers are 'interpreting' that law, I want to puke. Believe me, there is a big difference sometimes between how a law is written, and how it is interpreted by judges/lawers. Make everybody settle it with battlebots.
Its kind of a mixed bag. RPG as a language could be implemented as a rpg2c converter. However if you are talking RPG/400 that may be diferent. IBM put in specific stuff for them. for example database access was built into the machine. Therefore; was part of IBM's implementation of RPG.
Could it be done? probably. The AS/400 O/S was implemented as part machine language and part PL/1. There was no CPU in the conventional (read PC) sense in a AS/400, more like a software (microcode) emulation. It might even be possible to run native code binary programs without recompiling. When we upgraded from the S/38 to the AS/400 we only recompiled our code.
The biggest thing would be to emulate the archetecture. For example how screens are handled. Since the AS/400 is a batch proceessing system. It would send data and forms to a controller unit (read node) you would then interact with the controller unit (not the main machine) with a dubmb terminal. Then when you pressed submit it would send all the data back to the main unit for processing. Doing something like file trasfer seems simple until you try to do a program like kermit. There is no such thing as a interrupt on a AS/400.
There were some things I liked about the AS/400 model. Queues for instance (both job and print) you could see what was ready to go, what was running, you could pause, start, resort,move things around very easily. You had lots of control over what was happening. Print queues would tell you what kind of paper needed to be in a certain printer for a print that was ready to go. You could do things like 'print all my taxforms first'
Would it be worth it? depend on what you are doing. If you just want to translate RPG/400 code to somthing more to your likeing, that might be worth it. To totally emualate a RPG/400 & AS/400 in linux would take IBM to do it right.
IMHO is what really killed DivX. Considering how many buisneses crash within the first year. The buisness dies and what does the consumer have? A very expensive paperweight. J. Q. Public was at least smart enought to realize this.
(AP) - Microsoft Exec's have filed a lawsuit against... All of Mankind.
For remembering all of the failure of Microsoft. BIll Gates saw quoted saying "... and also that we were brought to court by the Federal government for employing monopolistic practices against everyone.."
So what if the first players will be $2000? The new DVD-Recorders were also that price, and then the price dropped. Since you can get a DVD-RW drive for $600 bucks now, it dropped in price as well.
Given that there are several companies working on largeer DVD formats, tape will die out. I read recently at Computer edge that Toshiba, Sony and Pioneer are all creating a new format with blue lasers that will blow away CD's and DVD's in size. Toshiba's will be 30-to 35 gb in size. This size can store 3 hours of video on them in raw format.
This could also have the effect that codec wars would die out as well. Why use one when you could record raw onto it? (well except for those Dr Who marathons) A DVD player that would not need decryption/encryption is cheaper to make.
As data backup it would be great I could store approximately 450 CD's in MP3 format on a single disk. Imagine a portable player for that baby! I'm drooling already.
Unfortunatly this tech is still about 2yrs away. I can't wait!
There is a small consolation however - I've seen a new DVD-RW drive showing up here. It's a HP CD-RW drive recently advertised at $599us. Hm.. wonder if it does VCD's as well.
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Just how far will they go? I mean really, ad to hype other ads. What's next? pre-'feminie freshness' ads to prepare us for the real ones?
Next you will see the pre-pre-pre-ad for the pre-pre-pre-trailer of Star Wars 3
Given that Microwaves and X-rays are even smaller tha blue lasers (spectrum)
Why not skip-to-the-end so to speak. I know they have x-ray lasers. And Microwave technology is pretty well known by now. Seems kinda silly to be in the visible spectrum at all anymore.
The longer they can hold it, the more money they will try to squeeze from us.
Did you notice they did not even put the single layer capacity on the chart (it would be 4.7 gb approx)
The 'it's harder to make/more expensive' is not a reason. All new tech is expensive, but that changes.
I think they are afraid of 'we the people' using the HUGE size of the blue format to roll our own.
Just imagine, in Div-X format a single blu-laser disk could hold 84 hours of video.(assuming a 2hr movie fits on a CD-R) That would be the entire 42 volume Robotech series (about) on one disk.
"Moore's law states that computing speeds and densities double every 18 months. In other words, every 18 months we can buy a computer that is twice as fast and has twice as much memory for the same cost. Remarkably, this law has held true for more than a hundred years, from the mechanical ... Dr. Gordon Moore, who became Intel's CEO in 1975, first observed this phenomenon in the mid 1960's at which time he said the doubling occurred every 24 months. Ten years later, he revised this to to 18 months. There are more than enough new computing technologies being developed to assure a continuation of Moore's law for a very long time."
card-based computing technology of the 1890 census, to the relay-based computers of the 1940's, to the vacuum tube-based computers of the 1950's, to the transistor-based machines of the 1960's, to all of the generations of integrated circuits since.
BTW I would say it's about every 6 months that it doubles anymore.
Well for big boards Micronics 486 was very large. The biggest I've seen so far was from a Compaq server. Almost 3 ft long.
There was the abbacus, Pascals mechanical computer, and now silicon. Who knows? maybe bio-computers or quantum computing will be the next kid on the block.
Actaully I would say the case is about 2ft on each size in size max. I use the ATX MB size as a reference so it's maybe a bit smaller.
Rounded cables and cable wraps - almost all case-mods have those. Helps airflow for one. Also give you a chance to use color.
That fan in front for the power supply makes me wonder about airflow problems. Eg do both blow out/opposite/in? I also think the top fan should be bigger to compensate for the two fans on the bottom pushing air in.
Interesting case design thou. I wonder if you can build one that can be made out of only flat pieces.
If you want to make money from your site, seriously consider spending a few bucks to have someone else host it for you. That includes your e-mail for the site. Its no fun loosing $$$ just because you modem hiccuped that day.
If its for fun you could go a few ways. Use any static space you get from your ISP(and or various free sites) for pics and stuff that don't change (main pages, etc.) Use your home server for dynamic content/databases etc.
You can run a web site behind a dynamic IP that way. I set one up that had my cisco dsl modem send syslog messages to my linux box. The linux box would have a daemon I wrote on it that parsed the syslog for those cicso messages. The syslog deamon would then look for IP changed messages and run a job that would alter any IP references on my web pages to point to the new address and re-load them to the static site. When you hit my static web site it would either just load the page, or auto-redirect to the real page on my server.
Just my 2 cents worth.
If i remember how it worked out in court... Stacker got a huge sum of money (many millions) M$ got a small counter suit. (1 mil. or so for stacker using a undocumented propriatary user interface)
M$ promptly changed DOS 6.0 into DOS 6.1 (with no compression) then changed it to 6.2 where Stacker would not run at all.
Its the reason that 40 bit encryption of no longer considered secure. And why RSa is secure with 1024 bits for now.
When beowolf clusters came out (obligitory reference) lots of 'unbreakable' encryption was considered suspect (eg DES) Any encryption system is only secure for a limited amount of time. When new hardware/software comes out the limit is shortened.
I remember a hardware 'key' system that plugged into the parallel port, and all the circuitry was encased in a solid block of black plastic. It was broken by sampling the data in & out then wedged itself in and emulated the hard key (software replaced hardware). The real trick is to spend a resonable amount of money to protect your data/programs for what you might get in monetary compensation. Eg don't put a $40,000 dollar lock on a $2 product.
I think the real question is this: what are they trying to protect, and for how long? Could you guarantee that some code would get 5 yrs of time where the encryption is unbreakable? A twisty mind may think up a interesting 'unbreakable' codec, but a differently twisted mind can crack it.
Make all the tools pipable (that's the *nix way) That way I can implement the parts based on my hardware, time and disk space constraints.
Don't tell me it can't be done - There are amny pieces already out there. They just need to be put together.
BTW, I have a system that can capture TV, DVD, and VCD, play most formats, and record to VCD now. It took multiple tools to do the job, and some are not even the most 'up-to-date' ones that _should_ work. I will soon try recording to digital tape (aka a DAT drive) and see how that works as well.
Remember Doublespace? I do. Was in direct violation with Stacker.
The real problem on why spam is here and why it stays is simple. Money. The ISP's take the money of the spammer just like your money. Only with a spammer they usually have higher bandwidth to spam ya all. That means more money to the ISP. By the time ou get the spam its too late. Lots of sites have paid money to get it to you.
Now in all fairness most ISP's try to keep up with the flood of ce-mails/calls about spam. However; they are under a deludge to keep up.
The only real way to block this vermin from our net is to have routers block it at the source. if routers implemented RBl you would see those sites, that insist on harassing the rest of us, slowly getting choked out.
What the internet needs is a ruler to smack the hands of those delinquent spammers et al.
Can this tech be put in reverse and cause skates/skis to have less friction? You would have skis and skates that would slide easier resulting in faster times in races etc.
Maybe even a way to replace lubricants in bearings and moving parts?
To ban lawers and judges. All of them. When I see some of the laws in the books, and how lawers are 'interpreting' that law, I want to puke. Believe me, there is a big difference sometimes between how a law is written, and how it is interpreted by judges/lawers. Make everybody settle it with battlebots.
what Pamela Andersons navel looks like from orbit
Its kind of a mixed bag. RPG as a language could be implemented as a rpg2c converter. However if you are talking RPG/400 that may be diferent. IBM put in specific stuff for them. for example database access was built into the machine. Therefore; was part of IBM's implementation of RPG.
Could it be done? probably. The AS/400 O/S was implemented as part machine language and part PL/1. There was no CPU in the conventional (read PC) sense in a AS/400, more like a software (microcode) emulation. It might even be possible to run native code binary programs without recompiling. When we upgraded from the S/38 to the AS/400 we only recompiled our code.
The biggest thing would be to emulate the archetecture. For example how screens are handled. Since the AS/400 is a batch proceessing system. It would send data and forms to a controller unit (read node) you would then interact with the controller unit (not the main machine) with a dubmb terminal. Then when you pressed submit it would send all the data back to the main unit for processing. Doing something like file trasfer seems simple until you try to do a program like kermit. There is no such thing as a interrupt on a AS/400.
There were some things I liked about the AS/400 model. Queues for instance (both job and print) you could see what was ready to go, what was running, you could pause, start, resort,move things around very easily. You had lots of control over what was happening. Print queues would tell you what kind of paper needed to be in a certain printer for a print that was ready to go. You could do things like 'print all my taxforms first'
Would it be worth it? depend on what you are doing. If you just want to translate RPG/400 code to somthing more to your likeing, that might be worth it. To totally emualate a RPG/400 & AS/400 in linux would take IBM to do it right.
Yeah, but lots of degrees in Hell(tm) ;)
Now if they would only go after the other annoying bits in my computer...
The Cue::Dog will chase the Cue:Cat up the Cue:Tree for eating the Cue:Bird, but that would be the Q-bert game...
IMHO is what really killed DivX. Considering how many buisneses crash within the first year. The buisness dies and what does the consumer have? A very expensive paperweight. J. Q. Public was at least smart enought to realize this.
(AP) - Microsoft Exec's have filed a lawsuit against... All of Mankind.
... and also that we were brought to court by the Federal government for employing monopolistic practices against everyone .."
For remembering all of the failure of Microsoft. BIll Gates saw quoted saying "
Oh wait... it already happened.
So what if the first players will be $2000? The new DVD-Recorders were also that price, and then the price dropped. Since you can get a DVD-RW drive for $600 bucks now, it dropped in price as well.
I stand by what I say, tape is doomed.
This could also have the effect that codec wars would die out as well. Why use one when you could record raw onto it? (well except for those Dr Who marathons) A DVD player that would not need decryption/encryption is cheaper to make.
As data backup it would be great I could store approximately 450 CD's in MP3 format on a single disk. Imagine a portable player for that baby! I'm drooling already.
Unfortunatly this tech is still about 2yrs away. I can't wait!
There is a small consolation however - I've seen a new DVD-RW drive showing up here. It's a HP CD-RW drive recently advertised at $599us. Hm.. wonder if it does VCD's as well.