You think every race in the universe decided on a standard AND they all use it? HAH!!!
Well, apparently every race in the universe decided on a standard for video and audio formats! So it isn't too far of a stretch...
Unless maybe the viewscreens in all these ships automatically swap codecs written in a 'universal programming language' - Universal Java Space Edition - UJSE?
What is NOT fiction is that not many people seem to like the Kurds.
Interesting thing is that it seems that the Kurds are not liked by almost
EVERYONE. Even Winston Churchill authorized the use of Mustard Gas
against the Kurds.
Turkey already has troops in Northern Iraq (buffer
zone) to hold back the Kurds. The current U.K. government is pushing for
the 'Ilisu Dam' project in Turkey which will be devastating to the Kurds,
many of their villages and their culture. If the Kurds were in
Afghanistan, we would have been bombing and sniping the
Kurds - for apparently a large portion of the fundamentalist Kurds are Bin Laden
supporters, regardless of the fact that they are fighting along side U.S. troops for now.
The 'Metadata' should include the sales tax algorithm, not just the percentage.
For instance, the crazy Goods and Services Tax (GST) here in Canada has weird rules in it like: 3 donuts are taxable, but 12 donuts are not. Encoding a plain 7% in the 'metadata' is not sufficient.
The problem is that Microsoft had already committed to supplying security patches until next year. They are violating that, and it seems like they are violating their own contracts just so they could push more people to buy and use XP Server.
There are MANY companies that have MANY NT installations with no intent to upgrade them until compatible hardware is no longer available. Why spend money if you don't need to? That would be plain bad business sense.
But unfortunately anyone who has played games using EvenBalance's Punkbuster system has found that there is often a new version of the 'cheat' code out within a few days after a punkbuster update. Some kids bragged about it one DAY after a major PB update last week, as they shot everyone in the head from a large distance.
it's been said all along that 64 bit isn't for the desktop. it's for the server room. the big ones with co2, disel generators, etc, etc.
But that is exactly what they said about the 32 MHz Motorola 68020 when it first came out!
You will be surprised at what 64 bits will do for the desktop.
--jeff++
Lunar eclipse pagan party interruption
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Family Tech Support
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· Score: 3, Funny
ABout 6 years ago when I was married and living in a small town, there was a lunar eclipse and a somewhat pagan/alternative religion lunar eclipse party 15 miles up in the woods that my wife wanted to go to.
There was a nice big log cabin with a stream running through it, a wood stove, and a big bonfire outside. A whole bunch of people were dancing around the fire, playing drums and various musical instruments and singing songs about the moon. Even the local Anglican minister was there! He was cool.
If it were warmer outside, most of the people would have been skyclad.
So I am standing near the fire and the dancing singing people in the middle of nowhere.... and this guy walks up to me who I do not recognize.
"Are you Jeff Koftinoff?" He asks.
"Yup." I reply.
"My computer doesn't boot. How do I fix it?"
Now I know how doctors feel at parties. I felt like throwing him into the fire.
Someone needs to make a script to feed that report.php a huge list of urls!
--jeff++
Re:DVD-A and SACD aren't much better anyway
on
The Future of the CD
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· Score: 1
I did blind tests between 24 bit 96 khz and the same material on 44.1khz 16 bit. I was surprised that I COULD hear a difference. My personal opinion is that the difference that I heard was because of the 24 bits, not the 96 khz. The dynamic range was noticably different, and the distortion of quiet sounds was noticable on the 16 bit audio.
BUT, in order to hear the difference the studio has GOT to keep everything much much better quality down the whole line.
The Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio for the TMS 6701 DSP is only available for windows. For this project everything else is compiled for Linux-386 as well as embedded Linux-PPC.
Running the command line tools under wine works fine, and now I am able to have one intel linux box compile all the DSP and PPC firmware as well as the Linux GUI code in a cron job from the daily cvs snapshots.
Doing this has made things SO much nicer. I would prefer if TI had a linux version of their DSP compiler, and will continue to pester them for one, but in the meantime WINE saves the day and allows me to NOT run windows for weeks on end!
My Win2000 anti-uptime is around 3 weeks now. I am weaning myself off windows!
Running command line tools like compilers is one of the EASIEST things for WINE to do - All they have to do is read and write files and allocate memory.
Biggest hassle for me: having to make special sed scripts to deal with mixed case file names in the auto-generated makefile dependency list that are incorrect since the compiler assumes case insensitive filesystems.
Can they legally shut down this discussion on slashdot just because we are talking about the intimate details of 'track 0, sector 33'? Now that we know this, the protection scheme is broken, anyone can write a crack for this program that simply writes the appropriate data on sector 33.
Public libraries, no matter how much they are 'anti-censorship' and 'for freedom of speech' most DEFINITELY do not stock Hustler Magazine or Penthouse Forum Magazine. They don't even stock 'Naked Teens With Older Men' Magazine.
So why would they want to allow people to look up those very same magazine's websites on the computer at the library?
Libraries already DO perform censorship, just by their choice of books and magazines that they do not bring in.
Maybe the websites that the internet terminals are allowed to go to should be specifically 'pre-approved' by the library? Give the Librarian the control, not the filter companies, and not the government. Allow patrons of the library to request websites to be approved.
Maybe, the internet is NOT a suitable thing to place into a library? The internet is NOT an on-line library anymore, that concept was ruined 7 years ago.
False positives, in the sense of a specific attempt at a message not getting through, are an absolute inevitability in any anti-spam system, period.
No... Vipul's Razor works quite well and never gives a false positive! It is not 100% effective though. But it does cut down my incoming spam from 120+ spams a day to 20 or so.
Sorry, you won't be sending the audio over the internet with much reliability. Packet jitter is totally important with this system. The packet's timing on the receive end is used to set the exact proper sample rate for the output D/A via a Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator (VCXO). Just setting both ends to the same sample rate with a plain crystal oscillator is not good enough, both ends will never be the same exact frequency. Both ends must be locked, otherwise you will end up with slippage on one end.
But... IF That were the case, in my mind it is even MORE scary! That would mean that the Bank Of America is NOT UPDATING there systems! Security holes abound! In a BANK's DATABASE???
Slashdot Mirror
Well, apparently every race in the universe decided on a standard for video and audio formats! So it isn't too far of a stretch...
Unless maybe the viewscreens in all these ships automatically swap codecs written in a 'universal programming language' - Universal Java Space Edition - UJSE?
--jeff++
"Providing hackers with security holes for DECADES" --jeff++
--jeff++
What is NOT fiction is that not many people seem to like the Kurds. Interesting thing is that it seems that the Kurds are not liked by almost EVERYONE. Even Winston Churchill authorized the use of Mustard Gas against the Kurds.
Turkey already has troops in Northern Iraq (buffer zone) to hold back the Kurds. The current U.K. government is pushing for the 'Ilisu Dam' project in Turkey which will be devastating to the Kurds, many of their villages and their culture. If the Kurds were in Afghanistan, we would have been bombing and sniping the Kurds - for apparently a large portion of the fundamentalist Kurds are Bin Laden supporters, regardless of the fact that they are fighting along side U.S. troops for now.
This whole thing is a big mess.
--jeff++
There is more to it, though.
The 'Metadata' should include the sales tax algorithm, not just the percentage.
For instance, the crazy Goods and Services Tax (GST) here in Canada has weird rules in it like: 3 donuts are taxable, but 12 donuts are not. Encoding a plain 7% in the 'metadata' is not sufficient.
--jeff++
The problem is that Microsoft had already committed to supplying security patches until next year. They are violating that, and it seems like they are violating their own contracts just so they could push more people to buy and use XP Server.
There are MANY companies that have MANY NT installations with no intent to upgrade them until compatible hardware is no longer available. Why spend money if you don't need to? That would be plain bad business sense.
--jeff++
Not much of a plot??
The plot for "Strange Brew" was a ripoff of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'!!! Really!
--jeff++
But unfortunately anyone who has played games using EvenBalance's Punkbuster system has found that there is often a new version of the 'cheat' code out within a few days after a punkbuster update. Some kids bragged about it one DAY after a major PB update last week, as they shot everyone in the head from a large distance.
--jeff++
But that is exactly what they said about the 32 MHz Motorola 68020 when it first came out!
You will be surprised at what 64 bits will do for the desktop.
--jeff++
ABout 6 years ago when I was married and living in a small town, there was a lunar eclipse and a somewhat pagan/alternative religion lunar eclipse party 15 miles up in the woods that my wife wanted to go to.
There was a nice big log cabin with a stream running through it, a wood stove, and a big bonfire outside. A whole bunch of people were dancing around the fire, playing drums and various musical instruments and singing songs about the moon. Even the local Anglican minister was there! He was cool.
If it were warmer outside, most of the people would have been skyclad.
So I am standing near the fire and the dancing singing people in the middle of nowhere.... and this guy walks up to me who I do not recognize.
"Are you Jeff Koftinoff?" He asks.
"Yup." I reply.
"My computer doesn't boot. How do I fix it?"
Now I know how doctors feel at parties. I felt like throwing him into the fire.
--jeff++
Someone needs to make a script to feed that report.php a huge list of urls!
--jeff++
I did blind tests between 24 bit 96 khz and the same material on 44.1khz 16 bit. I was surprised that I COULD hear a difference. My personal opinion is that the difference that I heard was because of the 24 bits, not the 96 khz. The dynamic range was noticably different, and the distortion of quiet sounds was noticable on the 16 bit audio.
BUT, in order to hear the difference the studio has GOT to keep everything much much better quality down the whole line.
--jeff++
The Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio for the TMS 6701 DSP is only available for windows. For this project everything else is compiled for Linux-386 as well as embedded Linux-PPC.
Running the command line tools under wine works fine, and now I am able to have one intel linux box compile all the DSP and PPC firmware as well as the Linux GUI code in a cron job from the daily cvs snapshots.
Doing this has made things SO much nicer. I would prefer if TI had a linux version of their DSP compiler, and will continue to pester them for one, but in the meantime WINE saves the day and allows me to NOT run windows for weeks on end!
My Win2000 anti-uptime is around 3 weeks now. I am weaning myself off windows!
Running command line tools like compilers is one of the EASIEST things for WINE to do - All they have to do is read and write files and allocate memory.
Biggest hassle for me: having to make special sed scripts to deal with mixed case file names in the auto-generated makefile dependency list that are incorrect since the compiler assumes case insensitive filesystems.
--jeff++
check out http://www.airlinemeals.net/ for reviews of in-flight meals! Use it to choose the next airline that you use!
--jeff++
Can they legally shut down this discussion on slashdot just because we are talking about the intimate details of 'track 0, sector 33'? Now that we know this, the protection scheme is broken, anyone can write a crack for this program that simply writes the appropriate data on sector 33.
--jeff++
Because she reads slashdot, and there was a front page article about her a few years back. Read the salon article about her.
--jeff++
Actually, a "High Class Hooker" is much more expensive that $6k.
http://www.educatedescort.com/
$12K/day, 2 day min.
--jeff++
It is not (or should not) be about moral values.
Public libraries, no matter how much they are 'anti-censorship' and 'for freedom of speech' most DEFINITELY do not stock Hustler Magazine or Penthouse Forum Magazine. They don't even stock 'Naked Teens With Older Men' Magazine.
So why would they want to allow people to look up those very same magazine's websites on the computer at the library?
Libraries already DO perform censorship, just by their choice of books and magazines that they do not bring in.
Maybe the websites that the internet terminals are allowed to go to should be specifically 'pre-approved' by the library? Give the Librarian the control, not the filter companies, and not the government. Allow patrons of the library to request websites to be approved.
Maybe, the internet is NOT a suitable thing to place into a library? The internet is NOT an on-line library anymore, that concept was ruined 7 years ago.
--jeff++
I am CANADIAN.
Yes I vote, doesn't seem to matter anyways.
U.S. policy ends up dictating Canadian policy.
--jeff++
I'll just read freshmeat.net and hope for the best. Not much I can do about this stuff anyways.
--jeff++
Is there a remake of Atari 2600 Combat for multiplayer net play? I think there is one, but can't find it. That would be fun!
I'm starting to get tired of the 3d-super-graphics-run-shoot games now. I wanna get back to the basics of fun gameplay!
--jeff++
No... Vipul's Razor works quite well and never gives a false positive! It is not 100% effective though. But it does cut down my incoming spam from 120+ spams a day to 20 or so.
--jeff++
Sorry, you won't be sending the audio over the internet with much reliability. Packet jitter is totally important with this system. The packet's timing on the receive end is used to set the exact proper sample rate for the output D/A via a Voltage Controlled Crystal Oscillator (VCXO). Just setting both ends to the same sample rate with a plain crystal oscillator is not good enough, both ends will never be the same exact frequency. Both ends must be locked, otherwise you will end up with slippage on one end.
--jeff++
2^64 = 17,179,869,184 gigabytes!
17,179,869,184 gigabytes ought to be enough for ANYBODY!
--jeff++
But... IF That were the case, in my mind it is even MORE scary! That would mean that the Bank Of America is NOT UPDATING there systems! Security holes abound! In a BANK's DATABASE???
--jeff++