The only reason for that was that you couldnt add anything more to the beggining of the stream, unless you broke backwards compatibility. The first (?)128 bytes were assigned for the ID3v1 tag, in the initial MP3 standard, when ID3v2 was designed, adding it to the end of the ID3v1 tag would have resulted in nastly click's and pop's, when an older player didn't understand it. When it was added to the end, past the end of the track, it retained backwards compatibility (without ugly pop's), and allowed unlimited storage of additional data. ID3v2 is scalable enough, that if ID3v3 is realised for some god-foresaken purpose, it could be fitted on the end, without any future problems.
That being said. Foresight that people would need more than what ID3v1 offered shouldnt have been too difficult to muster, an extra forced 256b surely wouldnt extend everyones downloads by too much.
While it is a problem - that AOL has decided to simply leech of Mozilla (however, I'm unsure about their state in regard to the various contract's with MS over using internet explorer - there's at least 3 contracts about that, that I know of) if you look at it, this can only mean more development of Mozilla & friend's, which is now far superiour than what netscape ever was, and can only get bigger and better (and more popular, considering the next IE's going to be bundled with Longhorn)
Yes, but it is not a borderline-illegal monopoly. It's designed for the creation - and sharing, of new technologies, rather than the supression of them, which is where the GPL differ's from the RIAA/MPAA/BSA's use of copyright.
Good Point's, however WINE has been in beta for about a decade now (I Believe the project started in early '93) I dont believe it's going to ever go final:P
That being said, however, I have had excellent experience with WINE, it run's all major application's with minor annoyances if you are willing to spend a little time configuring it. (Ie I run Dreamweaver, MSN Messenger [amsn doesnt work behind the proxy here], and several other program's with almost no issue)
Blatent troll, however: It's false. Look at apache for instance, It's thriving on a BSD license. If I release code, then I want to guaruntee it's usefull to someone, no-point reinventing the wheel so to speak. If someone at a draconian institution can use my code to help him achieve his task, then so be it, I have just made someone's day easier, and at no cost to myself. So what if they can stick a big price tag on it, the original version's still around and availible, and will probably spring competitor's.
However IPv6 is still very structured, like IPv4 before everything was loosened up. Which means things will still be constricted to bands for a while, so the effect wont be as great as you think, but it will help.
As for your suggestion about routers - as soon as routers become more powerfull, to process and examine what they are passing realtime, it will be feasible (try do this on a backbone.) however currently, it would produce far too much lag to counter the benefit of doing so. But on the upside, it would help with things like spam which always originate from a single source and spam the crap out of a massive selection of hosts... Considering that spam is estimated at 30% of traffic passing through the backbones, eliminating it this way could offer performance boosted...
Strange Idea, but, what about using this in encryption for pseudo-random number generation?
It's obviously simple to implement, but requires exponential processor/mem usage to generate each successive generation of pattern's. Would this be effective? would the reduced keyspace be better or worse than the computational requirements?
Hell' if your not looking for Windows compatibility, FTP can work wonders. It's got minimal overhead, has been expanded several times (eg SFTP), has a secure base and run's on any system with minimal problems. Window's is a little less compatible (ie it's not as point and click, as the network neighborhood, but still, it's only typing a url)...
You know, this is a reasonably 'on-topic' post to make a Beowulf cluster joke. Especially considering the time's taken to compute each move. By moving to a distrobuted network (each node calculating a certain set of moves, and rating them on appropriateness) It could help with the time's (the last match, it took about a day for the computer to analyse through all combinations, and select the best one)
It's a dichotomy, all this power, and yet so little of what could benefit from it, is actually availible for mac (I'm speaking high level plugins such as Mental Ray [for 3dsmax], which are x86/Windows binaries, only.)
There is only so much power you can throw at photoshop, and to a lesser extent video editing applications. My AthXP-1800 machine is perfect for photoshop, and nothing takes longer than 15 seconds - with video it's still a concern (and one that is lessening, or being moved to dedicated hardware), but the question is - without an industry like gaming, which demands an up-to-date-system (*cough doom3 cough*), why do apple insist on trying to have the fastest, and not instead focus on widening their compatibility, which is their real enemy.... *hmm*
It's not like our government has actually done anything decent in IT/Telecommunications in the last 20 years, if it's done anything, its stifled development through self-regulation of companies like Tel$tra (who deserve the cliched $/S replacement far more than MS.)
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The only reason for that was that you couldnt add anything more to the beggining of the stream, unless you broke backwards compatibility. The first (?)128 bytes were assigned for the ID3v1 tag, in the initial MP3 standard, when ID3v2 was designed, adding it to the end of the ID3v1 tag would have resulted in nastly click's and pop's, when an older player didn't understand it. When it was added to the end, past the end of the track, it retained backwards compatibility (without ugly pop's), and allowed unlimited storage of additional data. ID3v2 is scalable enough, that if ID3v3 is realised for some god-foresaken purpose, it could be fitted on the end, without any future problems.
That being said. Foresight that people would need more than what ID3v1 offered shouldnt have been too difficult to muster, an extra forced 256b surely wouldnt extend everyones downloads by too much.
-Adam
Any compression advanced enough is indistinguishable from noise. That might be a difficult task then.
-Adam
He does own substantial stock, it could seem very likely.
-Gwala
While it is a problem - that AOL has decided to simply leech of Mozilla (however, I'm unsure about their state in regard to the various contract's with MS over using internet explorer - there's at least 3 contracts about that, that I know of) if you look at it, this can only mean more development of Mozilla & friend's, which is now far superiour than what netscape ever was, and can only get bigger and better (and more popular, considering the next IE's going to be bundled with Longhorn)
-Gwala
No, he's being paid $25,000 extra if he win's, I think that's a good incentive, and if it isnt, it bloody well should be.
-Gwala
And nobody is abusing those laws
IANAL, however, AFAIK, IBM can walk in, say 'I would like to file 500,000,000 subpeona's', and be done with it.
-Gwala
Yes, but it is not a borderline-illegal monopoly. It's designed for the creation - and sharing, of new technologies, rather than the supression of them, which is where the GPL differ's from the RIAA/MPAA/BSA's use of copyright.
-Gwala
Not entirely sure what OS licensing has to do with music piracy.
They are both hated by people with copyright-based monopolies.
Good Point's, however WINE has been in beta for about a decade now (I Believe the project started in early '93) I dont believe it's going to ever go final :P
That being said, however, I have had excellent experience with WINE, it run's all major application's with minor annoyances if you are willing to spend a little time configuring it. (Ie I run Dreamweaver, MSN Messenger [amsn doesnt work behind the proxy here], and several other program's with almost no issue)
-Gwala
THAT is the reason why we need the ability to mod higher than +5 ...
-Gwala
Blatent troll, however: It's false. Look at apache for instance, It's thriving on a BSD license. If I release code, then I want to guaruntee it's usefull to someone, no-point reinventing the wheel so to speak. If someone at a draconian institution can use my code to help him achieve his task, then so be it, I have just made someone's day easier, and at no cost to myself. So what if they can stick a big price tag on it, the original version's still around and availible, and will probably spring competitor's.
-Gwala
I think some of the idiots^H^H^H^H^Hvictims might take you up on that offer ... :P
-Gwala
However IPv6 is still very structured, like IPv4 before everything was loosened up. Which means things will still be constricted to bands for a while, so the effect wont be as great as you think, but it will help.
... Considering that spam is estimated at 30% of traffic passing through the backbones, eliminating it this way could offer performance boosted ...
As for your suggestion about routers - as soon as routers become more powerfull, to process and examine what they are passing realtime, it will be feasible (try do this on a backbone.) however currently, it would produce far too much lag to counter the benefit of doing so. But on the upside, it would help with things like spam which always originate from a single source and spam the crap out of a massive selection of hosts
-Gwala
Why not just search for the word 'the'. It would be far easier...
-Gwala
Strange Idea, but, what about using this in encryption for pseudo-random number generation?
It's obviously simple to implement, but requires exponential processor/mem usage to generate each successive generation of pattern's. Would this be effective? would the reduced keyspace be better or worse than the computational requirements?
Dan's Data: Step by Step 3: How to destroy your computer
:)
It's a much funnier article - and still relevant, despite the fact that it's been there for ~5 years now.
Hell' if your not looking for Windows compatibility, FTP can work wonders. It's got minimal overhead, has been expanded several times (eg SFTP), has a secure base and run's on any system with minimal problems. Window's is a little less compatible (ie it's not as point and click, as the network neighborhood, but still, it's only typing a url)...
-Gwala
It's nice to see them flex their muscles for once. Telstra (scum of the earth, etc.) still hasnt made them blink an eyelid..
-Gwala
You know, this is a reasonably 'on-topic' post to make a Beowulf cluster joke. Especially considering the time's taken to compute each move. By moving to a distrobuted network (each node calculating a certain set of moves, and rating them on appropriateness) It could help with the time's (the last match, it took about a day for the computer to analyse through all combinations, and select the best one)
-Gwala
Prehaps that has something to do with the fact that most budgets and deadline's are horribly out of proportion to begin with?
-Gwala
Actually for once this isnt microsoft's full responsibility. We can blame software patents, for this one.
-Gwala
It's a dichotomy, all this power, and yet so little of what could benefit from it, is actually availible for mac (I'm speaking high level plugins such as Mental Ray [for 3dsmax], which are x86/Windows binaries, only.)
... *hmm*
There is only so much power you can throw at photoshop, and to a lesser extent video editing applications. My AthXP-1800 machine is perfect for photoshop, and nothing takes longer than 15 seconds - with video it's still a concern (and one that is lessening, or being moved to dedicated hardware), but the question is - without an industry like gaming, which demands an up-to-date-system (*cough doom3 cough*), why do apple insist on trying to have the fastest, and not instead focus on widening their compatibility, which is their real enemy.
-Gwala
It's not like our government has actually done anything decent in IT/Telecommunications in the last 20 years, if it's done anything, its stifled development through self-regulation of companies like Tel$tra (who deserve the cliched $/S replacement far more than MS.)
-Gwala
they're just doing it to keep good relations with the technical community.
So, it has nothing to do with the three lawsuits by godaddy, netster and their ilk?
Riight.
-Gwala