If you really want a Toonami channel that doesn't edit, that shows subtitled in the wee hours of the night the only model that can be followed is the premium channel model. In order to get good quality anime on the air you have to provide it by subscription model and Prove that you can make money doing it that way. Toonami has a name advantage and if they keep on having good results with adult swim and midnight run they might be able to manage to run a 24/7 premium uncut anime channel under the toonami brand. As long as advertisers have input on what can be shown and as long as parents can complain and be activists against you then you'll always be forced to edit. The minute you go to subscription model it is the consumers of the content who decide what you can or can't do. If Anime fans are in charge it wouldn't be edited.
There is an old school network it's called 'Boomerang' look for it from you dish or digital cable provider. Perhaps they'll make a toonami channel someday, they've already brought the 'toonami' brand to WB kids. As far as Cartoon Cartoons go, well they're never on when I watch CN.
Cartoon Network isn't running seperate feeds for east coast/west coast. Sceptics should check the showtimes. That means that a show in adult swim is showing in the same time block as primetime, which means they need to keep it to primetime TV standards and that is TV-14. Remember all the trouble MTV got into for not having standards for Beavis and butthead? They aired it in prime time, but had too much swearing and violence and ended up putting the show into the 11 PM eastern time slot. Sticking to the TV-14 standards makes sure the shows are edited down to what you can see in shows like NYPD blues. If they ran the seperate feeds for each coast and aired around the time southpark does they could loosen the standards a little. Oh and the 18+ is what is known as a 'marketing' gimic. They know there are a lot of anime fans out there. If they can get more of them to watch slightly edited 'adult swim' blocks it makes more animes possible to bring over. BTW TV-14 does allow brief nudity, so they could for instance have run un-edited tenchi if it had been an adult swim program instead of a toonami block. I also hope they do more of the uncut midnight run. Gundam wing was shown uncut there and that was really awesome of them. I know you have a Tivo so if they do more uncut midnight runs you'll be sure to catch them.
It can support itself, there have been a ton of improvements. 1. bandwith limitation. Say server X wants to be part of Gnutella and has a T-1, but wants to cap to 6K/second to avoid costly bandwith when they're not actually actively searching for files. All the best gnutella clients have bandwith caps both up and down stream. 2. cached server locations. When you start downloading a file the gnutella client now can cache the address so that even if you loose connection via hubs you can still put in a request to download the file as long as they're still at the same ip and are still running gnutella. 3. shotgun downloads. When files of the exact same size (optionally name too) are found within your search result it is possible to break up the download positions and download from 2-3 even 4 sources at a time. This would work much more effectively if they used MD5 sums instead of file size Or name. 4. ignore search requests. It is now possible for a gnutella client to 'ignore' search results when the number of max uploads has been hit. So a 'busy' server can simply ignore people who ask for a file. 5. the library grows exponentially for small bandwith hits. I can sustain 4 connections for only 3/K sec in both directions and this will provide around 300 gigs of file swapping capacity. However I can sustain 10 connections for 6K/second and get almost 1.2 TB of searchable files. I can flakely connect to between 12-24 servers to achieve a DB from 1TB to 7TB. Currently my upstream cap is 25KB/sec but as I'm on a shared cable modem network I find that I am practically limited to about 7-9KB/sec due to packet loss from collisions. At least at the size packets gnutella uses. Currently I set my minimum direct connections to 6 because then it wastes the least amount of bandwith looking for new servers. I also seem to have attracted some high file size users because I now have 1 TB available from 6 connections. then again I am sharing 20 gigs. BTW I am not on p2p much as I prefer the quality control that one can exert by making a 300 MB DivX of a 24 minute anime episode. Done right a DivX looks much cleaner than SVHS and approaches DVD quality. I don't like the low grade 30-60 MB an ep stuff that is floating on p2p.
I know people who thing that by recording the FBI warning on the front of the cassete to a copy they made for a home library that they're 'obeying' copyright law. Well, you're not. But you're not commiting a Criminal offense of a copyright violation Unless:
(a) Criminal Infringement. - Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either - (1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or (2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
Oh BTW if you're trading under $1,000 worth in a 180 day period with friends you met on the internet make sure that you keep the copyright notice on there because it's an extra $2,500 fine per copy for removing the FBI warning.
It is copyright infringment the minute you start to copy that tape, but it's not a criminal act until you meet the threshold. This is a very important distinction, and if you are trading music or tapes I'd keep good books to ensure compliance with the law. Just a warning though, you can still be sued in civil court. But if it's not a criminal act you won't get any jail time for copyright infringment. Talk about a double standard too, a fraudulent claim of copyright infringment can only be fined $2,500. and that 'fine' would require a high burden of proof. Another downer to criminal copyright infringment is that the court can order all equipment used destroyed. That means by by PC if you're using it for Criminal Copyright infringment and get caught.
Now I can't really argue anything about fair-use case laws, but there is one thing you're wrong about. Supreme court Justices are appointed for Life. They cannot be 'initimidated' by RIAA goons, and accepting bribes from the RIAA is one of the few ways that a justice could actually be removed from a life long job on the supreme court. As far as murdering a justice goes, well They get death threats all the time and generally have to have 24/7 protection from crazy people pissed off over abortion or other spark issues. So no, the RIAA will Never have a supreme court justice's head 'on a platter.' Of course the supreme court probably wouldn't condone 'digital theft.' There is still some hope that they could decide that the artist and not the labels own the digital rights to music much as they own the rights to radio. They could also strike down the contract-writer portion of the DMCA which prevents the copyright on songs from ever reverting to the original song writter. If artists own the rights to music then they could well sign on to a p2p system that was ad supported and paid them fractions of a cent per download. It has to beat what the labels are paying most artists, and the service could even integrate virtual tip-jar to make it more appealing to struggling artists.
I would like to point out ACPI works Fine and Dandy on windows XP with Via chipsets. Usually there is a BIOS update. If you're using an ATI card with video capture Get the Latest drivers and MMC for XP. Right now I'm running a Fic AZ-11 (old Via chipset) with a duron 600. I wanted video capture abilities and only recently managed to get that functionality working under XP with an ATI card using the latest software and drivers. I also can point out a problem that a lot of people forget to factor into building an AMD system. When choosing a Power supply it's important to do a tally of the number of CD and HD drives going into the system for each drive add 40 peak/20 sustained watts of power requirments. You also have to consider the power requirements of the motherboard processor and PCI cards. If you use all 5 slots you could need ~250 peak/150 sustained watts of power just for that. Finally you need to add in the power consumption of the fans. Depending on size and speed a fan can consume as much as 60 peak/40 sustained watts. Also remember Power supplies are rated by Peak power -- but a good vendor will provide you with the sustained output at well. There were a few BIOS bugs in my system and I ran across a lot of driver bugs, but the problem that plagued me most was trying to use a 350 sustained/220 peak to power up all my old hard drives. Under powering a system can cause extreme instability. If you've got optical drives that don't get recognized on a cold boot but show up on a warm boot then you've got an underpowering issue. I 'fixed' this problem by unplugging my 120 MM fan, and pulling the second ethernet adapter, I also put a HSF on the chipset, which lended to stability much more than the 120 MM had ever been able to. I will grant you that at Via Quality is job A. (as in Revision A) and that many vendors have to fix BIOSes at least a few times. Also, keep in mind that if you're using 4 layer commodity boards with 4-layer commodity DRAM modules you're just inviting a whole slew of problems to visit you. I admit that I buy cheap hardware, even 4-layer commodity stuff, but I don't blame Via for stability problems that are non-repeatable and that aren't related to Via. My last thought on stability is actually not related to 4-layer design vs. 6-layer. Technically 4-layer should only flip bits about 500% more often than 6-layer designs do, but the problem is with shoddy assembly. There are two problems that one largely finds on commodity hardware. Firstly, there are 'counterfit' capacitors and voltage regulators. Some companies go to extreme lengths to ensure that the product they ship out the door is of the highest quality. They charge a premium for thier components because it's expensive to do so, and they also dispose of many rejected components. Counterfiters make compatable components that 'look' identical but that haven't gone through any testing and 'sell' them as premium tested components. If these counterfit components make it into the finished products you can have an extreme number of DOAs and products that fail within a week. Because some companies might have bought the 'premium' version to avoid legthly testing. It is also more costly to remove a bad components from a board and replace it Vs. having the automatic 1-pass soldiering of components in a robotic assembly line. Counterfit components can be costly and will degrade the quality of any product. Also, commodity DRAM modules are sometimes put together wrong. I've seen chips of differing latencies and voltage requirements before on a commodity stick. The latency combination resulted in a stick of memory that couldn't even be used because the conflict in chips was causing a 1/3 chance of a bit being flipped in a particular register of memory.
Yes, I have, I think it was on a FIC AZ-11, I could be confused though. It took about 5-7 BIOS revisions and the board pre-dated Windows XP but I managed got Hibernate to work at least once. There is a problem though. Answering and fax capability aren't a part of hibernate. The point of hibernate is that if your laptop has about 5 minutes worth of juice left it can write the RAM to HD and turn the whole computer off without loosing anything you were working on. If you want to read more about hibernate Microsoft has a nicely written page in plain english. There is one really nice reason to get hibernate to work on a desktop though. If you've connected an UPS to the system and the UPS can send battery level data to the system you can hibernate the system if the battery runs low.
Obviously the 'sophisticated clustering of CPUs' is generating a heat shield. So the effect must be a server room that causes anyone who attempts to tamper with the systems to collapse from heat stroke and/or suffer second degree burns. Or perhaps a more simple solution that the server nearest the door has a peltier device redistribting heat to the door knob so no one can enter the server room. ;-)
Why should we be so scared of India building some backbone? Considering the central location perhaps they could get into the global bandwith business. The problem with imperialism is that while you can prevent your technologies from 'being stolen.' However, the cost of protecting technology is great. By overly protecting a technology you ensure that one big company no longer has the resoources to develop new technologies, because they are so busy trying to protect older ones. If india can become a huge market of growth by importing some technology from america then it will truly benefit everyone. Look at how companies like Enron can ride market bubbles here in america. The stock market has always had it's share of companies like enron it is impossible to stop all corruption. If Americans try to choke off competition because it isn't from the USA it creates a negative atmosphere. That means that instead of investing capital in 'hot' markets that can grow exponentially legitimately we end up having tons of venture capital looking for a home. People will see this and start up Enron like corperations and get away with billions. The worst case scenario of free markets is that you lose dominance in one market only to find that the country you lost dominace to is importing more goods from you. It's important to realize that money is a reperesentation of the total productive output of the entire world. There can only be 'more' money if the productivity of the world goes up. The result of productivity collapsing is a collapse in the value of the money in circulation. Inflation is caused by governemnts that print more money than actually represents the total productivity of their nation. There is a slight exception to this however. America prints the majority of it's money for export to other countries. Since it's accepteed in so many nations globally they can print the money based on global demand for a stable currency. Without that kind of advanatage America could never sustain a multi-trillion dollar debt. I also have a facinating theory on the 'Internet bubble.' America had been reducing the rate at which we were aquring new debt. Basically for 2-3 years there we were paying the minimum payments on all our debts. This had the effect of freeing up capital. The internet was growning at exponential rates (and still is) and so it was seen as the obvious market for all the venture capital. Any market that gets oversaturated with capital could find itself in a bubble situation. Especially a 'new' market that no one (with money) understands. Then again a new market can cause a bubble without the help of freed capital, so unless we get in a time machine it's hard to prove.
HTML is not plaintext. HTML is meant to make it relatively easy to manipulate text and graphics into a well designed site. The problem is that what we're talking about here is flash widgets that can be used in place of javascript rollovers. Sure flash will be lower bandwith for fancy looking roll-over buttons than java but do 'flashy' buttons add anything to the content of a site? no. Does programming an etire site in flash add anything to the content -- no. So what does programming an entire site in flash allow then? Digital rights managment. It's quite easy to make a flash only site have every single bit of text rendered by flash and be locked out from copy-paste operations. You can even lock out printing. So what does Flash-only do? It allows Digital rigts managment on a web site, and on that point alone this will make flash-only sites more and more prevalent to people who want to 'secure' the content they've produced. In my opinion this makes Flash an Enemy of open and free thought on the web. It also 'raises' the bar of entry. Once flash is the 'defacto standard' that has 'replaced' HTML people that want to produce pages will have to pay for the tools to create a website. Sure they can download crippled demo tools to create flash content. Once the first web browser throws out html parsing to only support purely flash generated pages then we're doomed. This is why XML should be supported. XML extends existing html in a way that allows the interoperability between programs and pages. In this way an XML site could have a small program for you to download as well as skins with the program and skins interfacing through an XML renedering engine. Trillian is probablly the best example of a well designed application using XML and compiled applications and skins, and while it is a full application, by using XML it makes modifications easier to make while still allowing skinning.
Interesting how many of the freebies are in an area Microsoft wants to 'extend and embrace' into. .Net is trying to replace Java PocketPC SDK is trying to replace Palm OS DirectX is an attempt to replace 'Open GL' with a windows only solution. Windows Media player is trying to replace winamp. Passport was really there before anyone wanted anything like it and Micrsoft has been trying to get everyone to use it ever since. I've thought about learning programming but I've never really liked anything about programming. I've content myself with a little bit of perl and some shell scripting which is about as close to real programming as I want to get. I was self-taught in basic back in the DOS days, mainly I just fixed text adventures that would crash with syntax errors. Amazing how many text adventures people would circulate that had syntax errors all over them.
DVD standards are not a 'mess' compared to HDTV. DVD is a standard there was some initial problem with first generation products, and many second gen were still shipping region free, but now that we're well past the third generation DVD is pretty solidly hammered out. BTW Dual layer was in the standard long before any drives were EVER built. Each hyphen/plus is an extention to the DVD standard. The extentions get to be a mess but at least DVD-R Tries to stick to the standard and is rewarded with media that will play in most standalone hardware. DVD-R also is DVD standard technology and carries the DVD logo because of that. My take on the Blu-ray Vs. HD-DVD is that Blu-Ray is intended for use in recorders. HD-DVD seems exclusive to pre-packaged stuff. Afterall the fastest computers out there only recently became capable of real-time mpeg-4 compression. Also, playback doesn't really take that much CPU horse power. The jump to mpeg-4 decoding is more like the jump from mpeg-1 hardware decoders to mpeg-2 hardware decoders. They can fit a mpeg-4 decoder into a chip intended for cell phones nowadays so really there is no technological barrier to adding mpeg-4 decoding support. In fact some existing decoder cards are actually able to hardware accelerate the decoding of mpeg-4 now with some modifications to the software. Also technically they only have to engineer for the highest resolution HDTV to ensure that they can support any resolution that becomes standard. However since it's aimed at pre-packaged they can pick a resolution and say everything will be encoded at that resolution, the way they do with MPEG-2 for DVDs now. I think blue lasers will eventually catch on. the only 'cost' that makes them prohibative is that there hasn't been any development in them. Given a few years on the market they'd be as cheap as red laser is now, but with far greater capacity. the trick is to make all the DVD recorders blue laser or something that everyone 'has' to have. adding a red laser read diode or two shouldn't add to the cost much so backward compatability can be preserved, and anything capable of encoding mpeg-2 streams from HD sources in real-time should have no problem decoding mpeg-4 either. A properly designed Blue laser DVD recorder should be able to support any industry standard DVD, even the mpeg-4 ones, although first gen units might not have enough time to tack on mpeg-4 decoding due to timing.
"Registered mail is the most secure service that the USPS offers. It incorporates a system of receipts to monitor the movement of the mail from the point of acceptance to delivery. Registered mail service provides the sender with a mailing receipt, and a delivery record is maintained by the Postal Service" However the sad thing is that as soon as the court clerk Writes the letter in as being mailed it is Legally considered mailed. To overturn on appeal you would suffer the burden of proof that the clerk had conspired to prevent delivery of the summons! They don't have to send via registered mail and certified mail is much more lax than registered mail. I just wish this guy luck on overturning the decision on appeal. Here is the pdf or if you prefer the Google Text based version.
If there had been multi-national corporations in the day and age of the founding fathers, then yes they would have made certain there were exclusions on the power of a corporation right in the constitution. However america was entirely a cottage industry nation, and other than the british textile mills there was hardly anything resembling a modern corporation. So instead there are clauses saying that congress shall have the power to regulate interstate commerce etc. Fortunately 19 states have anti SLAPP laws, including minnesota which allows for up to 3x punative damages. That company couldn't even afford to pay the punitive damages if they lost in a state like minnesota. Minnesota's law is as yet untested, though but the california law has been and prevailed. Any company that is going to take me on for things I supposedly posted to a message board is going to have to pay me not just the cost but punitive damages if I have anything to say about it.
you're confusing Certified mail With _registered_ mail. They could have served the summon to a relative (of the CEO) via 'certified' mail and as long as somone came to the door and signed the letter is handed over. Registered mail is not delivered to your address. Instead a notice of registered mail is delivered to your address. You must now go to the post office show a valid picture id and sign for the letter. If you are not the person this letter was sent to you need to bring a waiver with their signature transferring the right to recieve the letter over to you. With Certified mail you can send it with 'reciept requested' in this case you will be mailed back the signature of the person who accepted the package. It only guarentees that someone at the address listed signed for the letter, they do not do ID checks for 'certified' mail.
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Life is not nearly as limited as that. Tides are not essential to the formation of life. Life can also spread from one solar system to the next. There are 100 Billion stars in the milky way and 200 known galaxies in the "Known" universe. Most of the galaxies we can see from the earth are vastly larger -- and vastly older than any star in our galaxy. Would you like to do the math then? 20 trillion stars in the known universe alone. Evidence supporting that most systems have jovian size planets. Hypothesis that any system with so many jovian systems formed similarly to our own and would have earth style planets. Now, given that what if there were say 2 trillion earth style planetoids in the "Known" universe? Most would be more like Mars or Venus than earth. Say only 5% are M-class. That leaves some 100 billion M-class planets in the Universe. If only 5% of all M-class planets acquire life, either through intra-solar system cross infection, or else through random chance encounters that lead to the formation of DNA based carbon lifeforms. That would leave some 2 billion planets where life developed. Statistically at least 10 million of those would be in our own galaxy. That's pretty a pretty high number, but all the evidence is pointing towards that optimistic presumption about the development of life. Oh but don't get your hopes up about meeting aliens because we're in the the equivalent of the backwoods as far as our own galaxy is concerned. there is hardly a sun within 5 light years of us, much less solar systems where life could develop. On average our solarsystem has a star density 25 stars within one square lightyear. Considering the age of the universe, and the size and scope of it there is no doubt that there was other life out there. However we'd be lucky if our nearest neighbor was within a 2000 light year radius. Star Trek is purely fiction and we'll never see anything remotely like the federation. That doesn't mean we're 'alone' in this universe.
I always misplace the two and I dislike both. Copy protection technology doesn't increase sales or reduce piracy, just as flash animations can't improve the quality of a website.
Pixar needs disney, and It's pretty simple. Think how much money Square dropped into producing Final Fantasy The Spirits within. Now think about how Disney owns all the hardware that pixar is using to make it's movies, and is the one risking that pixar's movies will bomb. Disney is also promoting all the movies that Pixar brings out. True, Pixar does have compitition that isn't run by disney. However DreamWorks was started by Steven Spielburg. You know the guy that turned Jaws from a little film about shark attacks into a Blockbuster film. Pixar would have a hard time leaving disney, however the talent that is making pixar so great could easily find a way out of any contracts they have with disney and work for another studio. Perhaps if a studio buys out Square pictures they'll decide to talent farm at pixar to turn it into a profitable picture group.
The radius of the milky way is 100,000 light years with an average thickness of 10,000 light years. There is a 30,000 light year thick bulge at the center of the galaxy where many of the hundred billion stars in this galaxy reside. I'm basing this on this page. at this rate of planetary discovery it seems that a high rate of stars may have jovian size gas giants. Until we have more data though it's a difficult number to determine. However jovian planets are largely hydrogen and helium gas. Potentially they could form anywhere a star could, while earth type planetoids would require enough dense matter to form into solid planets. these planets also have to form within the stars habitable zone. Still with roughly 4 billion cubic light years of milky way galaxy on average there are 25 stars within one cubic light year of each other. Meanwhile we're at a density rate of about 0.1 stars per cubic light year, meaning that even with an optimistic calcualtion the nearest earth like planet would be 50 light years. The nearest earth like planet in a habitable zone 150 light years away the nearest life inhabited earth like word 450 light years away and the nearest civilization some 1,350 light years away. That means SETI is a worth while project, but that unless we defy physics by coming up with a FTL drive there isn't any way we're meeting any alien races. Note these are Highly optimistic numbers and assume that every star system with as many jovian planets as ours would have as many solid planetoids like our system.
I was anticipiating an accident with a time machine and a condom. Like Zaphod in HHGTTG. I've changed my sig for the time being, but reserve the right to alter it in case of future accidents with time machines and condoms.
This is slashdot if you didn't recognize from the subject that it's a HHGTTG Reference then you don't deserve a pointy hat of geekiness. However if I were posting to a less geeky site then yes I would reference or at least offer points.
There is copy protection in many capture cards. All ATI cards use the copy protection technology that so many tapes and now so many DVDs are equiped with. True that signal can be stripped from the video with about $40 in hardware without loss if you know what you're doing, and some capture cards don't even check for the macromedia signal either.
Actually as I recall the spur behind Charley Pride CDs having Copy protection was when Charley Pride was in his own home town and saw a whole rack of pirate CDs that he wasn't getting a dime of royalties from at a local store. Now the fact of the matter is that the no copy protection scheme is going to stop bogus CDs from being sold at retail channels. Still the labels could have told him it would help, and he might have believed them.
No it's within 60 days of recieving your statement. And you must file a complaint in Writing Or else you risk voiding your rights. The 60 day requirment is also only applicable to companies not run by or affiliated with your credit card, for affiliated companies your rights are preserved for a minimum of one year. Obviously though this scam wasn't affiliated with any credit card company.
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If you really want a Toonami channel that doesn't edit, that shows subtitled in the wee hours of the night the only model that can be followed is the premium channel model.
In order to get good quality anime on the air you have to provide it by subscription model and Prove that you can make money doing it that way. Toonami has a name advantage and if they keep on having good results with adult swim and midnight run they might be able to manage to run a 24/7 premium uncut anime channel under the toonami brand.
As long as advertisers have input on what can be shown and as long as parents can complain and be activists against you then you'll always be forced to edit. The minute you go to subscription model it is the consumers of the content who decide what you can or can't do. If Anime fans are in charge it wouldn't be edited.
There is an old school network it's called 'Boomerang' look for it from you dish or digital cable provider. Perhaps they'll make a toonami channel someday, they've already brought the 'toonami' brand to WB kids. As far as Cartoon Cartoons go, well they're never on when I watch CN.
Cartoon Network isn't running seperate feeds for east coast/west coast. Sceptics should check the showtimes.
That means that a show in adult swim is showing in the same time block as primetime, which means they need to keep it to primetime TV standards and that is TV-14. Remember all the trouble MTV got into for not having standards for Beavis and butthead? They aired it in prime time, but had too much swearing and violence and ended up putting the show into the 11 PM eastern time slot. Sticking to the TV-14 standards makes sure the shows are edited down to what you can see in shows like NYPD blues. If they ran the seperate feeds for each coast and aired around the time southpark does they could loosen the standards a little.
Oh and the 18+ is what is known as a 'marketing' gimic. They know there are a lot of anime fans out there. If they can get more of them to watch slightly edited 'adult swim' blocks it makes more animes possible to bring over.
BTW TV-14 does allow brief nudity, so they could for instance have run un-edited tenchi if it had been an adult swim program instead of a toonami block. I also hope they do more of the uncut midnight run. Gundam wing was shown uncut there and that was really awesome of them. I know you have a Tivo so if they do more uncut midnight runs you'll be sure to catch them.
It can support itself, there have been a ton of improvements.
1. bandwith limitation. Say server X wants to be part of Gnutella and has a T-1, but wants to cap to 6K/second to avoid costly bandwith when they're not actually actively searching for files. All the best gnutella clients have bandwith caps both up and down stream.
2. cached server locations. When you start downloading a file the gnutella client now can cache the address so that even if you loose connection via hubs you can still put in a request to download the file as long as they're still at the same ip and are still running gnutella.
3. shotgun downloads. When files of the exact same size (optionally name too) are found within your search result it is possible to break up the download positions and download from 2-3 even 4 sources at a time. This would work much more effectively if they used MD5 sums instead of file size Or name.
4. ignore search requests. It is now possible for a gnutella client to 'ignore' search results when the number of max uploads has been hit. So a 'busy' server can simply ignore people who ask for a file.
5. the library grows exponentially for small bandwith hits. I can sustain 4 connections for only 3/K sec in both directions and this will provide around 300 gigs of file swapping capacity. However I can sustain 10 connections for 6K/second and get almost 1.2 TB of searchable files. I can flakely connect to between 12-24 servers to achieve a DB from 1TB to 7TB. Currently my upstream cap is 25KB/sec but as I'm on a shared cable modem network I find that I am practically limited to about 7-9KB/sec due to packet loss from collisions. At least at the size packets gnutella uses.
Currently I set my minimum direct connections to 6 because then it wastes the least amount of bandwith looking for new servers. I also seem to have attracted some high file size users because I now have 1 TB available from 6 connections. then again I am sharing 20 gigs. BTW I am not on p2p much as I prefer the quality control that one can exert by making a 300 MB DivX of a 24 minute anime episode. Done right a DivX looks much cleaner than SVHS and approaches DVD quality. I don't like the low grade 30-60 MB an ep stuff that is floating on p2p.
I know people who thing that by recording the FBI warning on the front of the cassete to a copy they made for a home library that they're 'obeying' copyright law.
Well, you're not. But you're not commiting a Criminal offense of a copyright violation Unless:
(a) Criminal Infringement. - Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either -
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
Oh BTW if you're trading under $1,000 worth in a 180 day period with friends you met on the internet make sure that you keep the copyright notice on there because it's an extra $2,500 fine per copy for removing the FBI warning.
It is copyright infringment the minute you start to copy that tape, but it's not a criminal act until you meet the threshold. This is a very important distinction, and if you are trading music or tapes I'd keep good books to ensure compliance with the law. Just a warning though, you can still be sued in civil court. But if it's not a criminal act you won't get any jail time for copyright infringment. Talk about a double standard too, a fraudulent claim of copyright infringment can only be fined $2,500. and that 'fine' would require a high burden of proof. Another downer to criminal copyright infringment is that the court can order all equipment used destroyed. That means by by PC if you're using it for Criminal Copyright infringment and get caught.
Now I can't really argue anything about fair-use case laws, but there is one thing you're wrong about. Supreme court Justices are appointed for Life. They cannot be 'initimidated' by RIAA goons, and accepting bribes from the RIAA is one of the few ways that a justice could actually be removed from a life long job on the supreme court.
As far as murdering a justice goes, well They get death threats all the time and generally have to have 24/7 protection from crazy people pissed off over abortion or other spark issues. So no, the RIAA will Never have a supreme court justice's head 'on a platter.'
Of course the supreme court probably wouldn't condone 'digital theft.' There is still some hope that they could decide that the artist and not the labels own the digital rights to music much as they own the rights to radio. They could also strike down the contract-writer portion of the DMCA which prevents the copyright on songs from ever reverting to the original song writter.
If artists own the rights to music then they could well sign on to a p2p system that was ad supported and paid them fractions of a cent per download. It has to beat what the labels are paying most artists, and the service could even integrate virtual tip-jar to make it more appealing to struggling artists.
I would like to point out ACPI works Fine and Dandy on windows XP with Via chipsets. Usually there is a BIOS update. If you're using an ATI card with video capture Get the Latest drivers and MMC for XP.
Right now I'm running a Fic AZ-11 (old Via chipset) with a duron 600. I wanted video capture abilities and only recently managed to get that functionality working under XP with an ATI card using the latest software and drivers. I also can point out a problem that a lot of people forget to factor into building an AMD system. When choosing a Power supply it's important to do a tally of the number of CD and HD drives going into the system for each drive add 40 peak/20 sustained watts of power requirments. You also have to consider the power requirements of the motherboard processor and PCI cards. If you use all 5 slots you could need ~250 peak/150 sustained watts of power just for that. Finally you need to add in the power consumption of the fans. Depending on size and speed a fan can consume as much as 60 peak/40 sustained watts. Also remember Power supplies are rated by Peak power -- but a good vendor will provide you with the sustained output at well.
There were a few BIOS bugs in my system and I ran across a lot of driver bugs, but the problem that plagued me most was trying to use a 350 sustained/220 peak to power up all my old hard drives. Under powering a system can cause extreme instability. If you've got optical drives that don't get recognized on a cold boot but show up on a warm boot then you've got an underpowering issue. I 'fixed' this problem by unplugging my 120 MM fan, and pulling the second ethernet adapter, I also put a HSF on the chipset, which lended to stability much more than the 120 MM had ever been able to.
I will grant you that at Via Quality is job A. (as in Revision A) and that many vendors have to fix BIOSes at least a few times. Also, keep in mind that if you're using 4 layer commodity boards with 4-layer commodity DRAM modules you're just inviting a whole slew of problems to visit you. I admit that I buy cheap hardware, even 4-layer commodity stuff, but I don't blame Via for stability problems that are non-repeatable and that aren't related to Via.
My last thought on stability is actually not related to 4-layer design vs. 6-layer. Technically 4-layer should only flip bits about 500% more often than 6-layer designs do, but the problem is with shoddy assembly. There are two problems that one largely finds on commodity hardware. Firstly, there are 'counterfit' capacitors and voltage regulators. Some companies go to extreme lengths to ensure that the product they ship out the door is of the highest quality. They charge a premium for thier components because it's expensive to do so, and they also dispose of many rejected components. Counterfiters make compatable components that 'look' identical but that haven't gone through any testing and 'sell' them as premium tested components. If these counterfit components make it into the finished products you can have an extreme number of DOAs and products that fail within a week. Because some companies might have bought the 'premium' version to avoid legthly testing. It is also more costly to remove a bad components from a board and replace it Vs. having the automatic 1-pass soldiering of components in a robotic assembly line. Counterfit components can be costly and will degrade the quality of any product. Also, commodity DRAM modules are sometimes put together wrong. I've seen chips of differing latencies and voltage requirements before on a commodity stick. The latency combination resulted in a stick of memory that couldn't even be used because the conflict in chips was causing a 1/3 chance of a bit being flipped in a particular register of memory.
Yes, I have, I think it was on a FIC AZ-11, I could be confused though. It took about 5-7 BIOS revisions and the board pre-dated Windows XP but I managed got Hibernate to work at least once. There is a problem though. Answering and fax capability aren't a part of hibernate. The point of hibernate is that if your laptop has about 5 minutes worth of juice left it can write the RAM to HD and turn the whole computer off without loosing anything you were working on.
If you want to read more about hibernate Microsoft has a nicely written page in plain english.
There is one really nice reason to get hibernate to work on a desktop though. If you've connected an UPS to the system and the UPS can send battery level data to the system you can hibernate the system if the battery runs low.
Obviously the 'sophisticated clustering of CPUs' is generating a heat shield. So the effect must be a server room that causes anyone who attempts to tamper with the systems to collapse from heat stroke and/or suffer second degree burns. Or perhaps a more simple solution that the server nearest the door has a peltier device redistribting heat to the door knob so no one can enter the server room.
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Why should we be so scared of India building some backbone? Considering the central location perhaps they could get into the global bandwith business. The problem with imperialism is that while you can prevent your technologies from 'being stolen.' However, the cost of protecting technology is great. By overly protecting a technology you ensure that one big company no longer has the resoources to develop new technologies, because they are so busy trying to protect older ones.
If india can become a huge market of growth by importing some technology from america then it will truly benefit everyone. Look at how companies like Enron can ride market bubbles here in america. The stock market has always had it's share of companies like enron it is impossible to stop all corruption. If Americans try to choke off competition because it isn't from the USA it creates a negative atmosphere. That means that instead of investing capital in 'hot' markets that can grow exponentially legitimately we end up having tons of venture capital looking for a home. People will see this and start up Enron like corperations and get away with billions. The worst case scenario of free markets is that you lose dominance in one market only to find that the country you lost dominace to is importing more goods from you.
It's important to realize that money is a reperesentation of the total productive output of the entire world. There can only be 'more' money if the productivity of the world goes up. The result of productivity collapsing is a collapse in the value of the money in circulation. Inflation is caused by governemnts that print more money than actually represents the total productivity of their nation. There is a slight exception to this however. America prints the majority of it's money for export to other countries. Since it's accepteed in so many nations globally they can print the money based on global demand for a stable currency. Without that kind of advanatage America could never sustain a multi-trillion dollar debt. I also have a facinating theory on the 'Internet bubble.' America had been reducing the rate at which we were aquring new debt. Basically for 2-3 years there we were paying the minimum payments on all our debts. This had the effect of freeing up capital. The internet was growning at exponential rates (and still is) and so it was seen as the obvious market for all the venture capital. Any market that gets oversaturated with capital could find itself in a bubble situation. Especially a 'new' market that no one (with money) understands. Then again a new market can cause a bubble without the help of freed capital, so unless we get in a time machine it's hard to prove.
HTML is not plaintext.
HTML is meant to make it relatively easy to manipulate text and graphics into a well designed site.
The problem is that what we're talking about here is flash widgets that can be used in place of javascript rollovers. Sure flash will be lower bandwith for fancy looking roll-over buttons than java but do 'flashy' buttons add anything to the content of a site? no.
Does programming an etire site in flash add anything to the content -- no. So what does programming an entire site in flash allow then?
Digital rights managment. It's quite easy to make a flash only site have every single bit of text rendered by flash and be locked out from copy-paste operations. You can even lock out printing. So what does Flash-only do? It allows Digital rigts managment on a web site, and on that point alone this will make flash-only sites more and more prevalent to people who want to 'secure' the content they've produced.
In my opinion this makes Flash an Enemy of open and free thought on the web. It also 'raises' the bar of entry. Once flash is the 'defacto standard' that has 'replaced' HTML people that want to produce pages will have to pay for the tools to create a website. Sure they can download crippled demo tools to create flash content. Once the first web browser throws out html parsing to only support purely flash generated pages then we're doomed. This is why XML should be supported. XML extends existing html in a way that allows the interoperability between programs and pages. In this way an XML site could have a small program for you to download as well as skins with the program and skins interfacing through an XML renedering engine. Trillian is probablly the best example of a well designed application using XML and compiled applications and skins, and while it is a full application, by using XML it makes modifications easier to make while still allowing skinning.
Interesting how many of the freebies are in an area Microsoft wants to 'extend and embrace' into.
.Net is trying to replace Java
PocketPC SDK is trying to replace Palm OS
DirectX is an attempt to replace 'Open GL' with a windows only solution.
Windows Media player is trying to replace winamp.
Passport was really there before anyone wanted anything like it and Micrsoft has been trying to get everyone to use it ever since.
I've thought about learning programming but I've never really liked anything about programming. I've content myself with a little bit of perl and some shell scripting which is about as close to real programming as I want to get. I was self-taught in basic back in the DOS days, mainly I just fixed text adventures that would crash with syntax errors. Amazing how many text adventures people would circulate that had syntax errors all over them.
DVD standards are not a 'mess' compared to HDTV.
DVD is a standard there was some initial problem with first generation products, and many second gen were still shipping region free, but now that we're well past the third generation DVD is pretty solidly hammered out. BTW Dual layer was in the standard long before any drives were EVER built. Each hyphen/plus is an extention to the DVD standard. The extentions get to be a mess but at least DVD-R Tries to stick to the standard and is rewarded with media that will play in most standalone hardware. DVD-R also is DVD standard technology and carries the DVD logo because of that.
My take on the Blu-ray Vs. HD-DVD is that Blu-Ray is intended for use in recorders. HD-DVD seems exclusive to pre-packaged stuff. Afterall the fastest computers out there only recently became capable of real-time mpeg-4 compression. Also, playback doesn't really take that much CPU horse power. The jump to mpeg-4 decoding is more like the jump from mpeg-1 hardware decoders to mpeg-2 hardware decoders. They can fit a mpeg-4 decoder into a chip intended for cell phones nowadays so really there is no technological barrier to adding mpeg-4 decoding support. In fact some existing decoder cards are actually able to hardware accelerate the decoding of mpeg-4 now with some modifications to the software.
Also technically they only have to engineer for the highest resolution HDTV to ensure that they can support any resolution that becomes standard.
However since it's aimed at pre-packaged they can pick a resolution and say everything will be encoded at that resolution, the way they do with MPEG-2 for DVDs now.
I think blue lasers will eventually catch on. the only 'cost' that makes them prohibative is that there hasn't been any development in them. Given a few years on the market they'd be as cheap as red laser is now, but with far greater capacity.
the trick is to make all the DVD recorders blue laser or something that everyone 'has' to have. adding a red laser read diode or two shouldn't add to the cost much so backward compatability can be preserved, and anything capable of encoding mpeg-2 streams from HD sources in real-time should have no problem decoding mpeg-4 either. A properly designed Blue laser DVD recorder should be able to support any industry standard DVD, even the mpeg-4 ones, although first gen units might not have enough time to tack on mpeg-4 decoding due to timing.
"Registered mail is the most secure service that the USPS offers. It incorporates a system of receipts to monitor the movement of the mail from the point of acceptance to delivery. Registered mail service provides the sender with a mailing receipt, and a delivery record is maintained by the Postal Service"
However the sad thing is that as soon as the court clerk Writes the letter in as being mailed it is Legally considered mailed. To overturn on appeal you would suffer the burden of proof that the clerk had conspired to prevent delivery of the summons! They don't have to send via registered mail and certified mail is much more lax than registered mail.
I just wish this guy luck on overturning the decision on appeal.
Here is the pdf or if you prefer the Google Text based version.
If there had been multi-national corporations in the day and age of the founding fathers, then yes they would have made certain there were exclusions on the power of a corporation right in the constitution. However america was entirely a cottage industry nation, and other than the british textile mills there was hardly anything resembling a modern corporation. So instead there are clauses saying that congress shall have the power to regulate interstate commerce etc.
Fortunately 19 states have anti SLAPP laws, including minnesota which allows for up to 3x punative damages. That company couldn't even afford to pay the punitive damages if they lost in a state like minnesota.
Minnesota's law is as yet untested, though but the california law has been and prevailed. Any company that is going to take me on for things I supposedly posted to a message board is going to have to pay me not just the cost but punitive damages if I have anything to say about it.
you're confusing Certified mail With _registered_ mail. They could have served the summon to a relative (of the CEO) via 'certified' mail and as long as somone came to the door and signed the letter is handed over.
Registered mail is not delivered to your address. Instead a notice of registered mail is delivered to your address. You must now go to the post office show a valid picture id and sign for the letter. If you are not the person this letter was sent to you need to bring a waiver with their signature transferring the right to recieve the letter over to you.
With Certified mail you can send it with 'reciept requested' in this case you will be mailed back the signature of the person who accepted the package. It only guarentees that someone at the address listed signed for the letter, they do not do ID checks for 'certified' mail.
Life is not nearly as limited as that. Tides are not essential to the formation of life. Life can also spread from one solar system to the next.
There are 100 Billion stars in the milky way and 200 known galaxies in the "Known" universe. Most of the galaxies we can see from the earth are vastly larger -- and vastly older than any star in our galaxy.
Would you like to do the math then? 20 trillion stars in the known universe alone. Evidence supporting that most systems have jovian size planets. Hypothesis that any system with so many jovian systems formed similarly to our own and would have earth style planets. Now, given that what if there were say 2 trillion earth style planetoids in the "Known" universe? Most would be more like Mars or Venus than earth. Say only 5% are M-class. That leaves some 100 billion M-class planets in the Universe. If only 5% of all M-class planets acquire life, either through intra-solar system cross infection, or else through random chance encounters that lead to the formation of DNA based carbon lifeforms. That would leave some 2 billion planets where life developed. Statistically at least 10 million of those would be in our own galaxy.
That's pretty a pretty high number, but all the evidence is pointing towards that optimistic presumption about the development of life.
Oh but don't get your hopes up about meeting aliens because we're in the the equivalent of the backwoods as far as our own galaxy is concerned. there is hardly a sun within 5 light years of us, much less solar systems where life could develop.
On average our solarsystem has a star density 25 stars within one square lightyear.
Considering the age of the universe, and the size and scope of it there is no doubt that there was other life out there. However we'd be lucky if our nearest neighbor was within a 2000 light year radius. Star Trek is purely fiction and we'll never see anything remotely like the federation.
That doesn't mean we're 'alone' in this universe.
I always misplace the two and I dislike both.
Copy protection technology doesn't increase sales or reduce piracy, just as flash animations can't improve the quality of a website.
Pixar needs disney, and It's pretty simple. Think how much money Square dropped into producing Final Fantasy The Spirits within. Now think about how Disney owns all the hardware that pixar is using to make it's movies, and is the one risking that pixar's movies will bomb. Disney is also promoting all the movies that Pixar brings out.
True, Pixar does have compitition that isn't run by disney. However DreamWorks was started by Steven Spielburg. You know the guy that turned Jaws from a little film about shark attacks into a Blockbuster film. Pixar would have a hard time leaving disney, however the talent that is making pixar so great could easily find a way out of any contracts they have with disney and work for another studio. Perhaps if a studio buys out Square pictures they'll decide to talent farm at pixar to turn it into a profitable picture group.
The radius of the milky way is 100,000 light years with an average thickness of 10,000 light years. There is a 30,000 light year thick bulge at the center of the galaxy where many of the hundred billion stars in this galaxy reside. I'm basing this on this page. at this rate of planetary discovery it seems that a high rate of stars may have jovian size gas giants. Until we have more data though it's a difficult number to determine. However jovian planets are largely hydrogen and helium gas. Potentially they could form anywhere a star could, while earth type planetoids would require enough dense matter to form into solid planets.
these planets also have to form within the stars habitable zone. Still with roughly 4 billion cubic light years of milky way galaxy on average there are 25 stars within one cubic light year of each other. Meanwhile we're at a density rate of about 0.1 stars per cubic light year, meaning that even with an optimistic calcualtion the nearest earth like planet would be 50 light years. The nearest earth like planet in a habitable zone 150 light years away the nearest life inhabited earth like word 450 light years away and the nearest civilization some 1,350 light years away. That means SETI is a worth while project, but that unless we defy physics by coming up with a FTL drive there isn't any way we're meeting any alien races.
Note these are Highly optimistic numbers and assume that every star system with as many jovian planets as ours would have as many solid planetoids like our system.
I was anticipiating an accident with a time machine and a condom. Like Zaphod in HHGTTG. I've changed my sig for the time being, but reserve the right to alter it in case of future accidents with time machines and condoms.
This is slashdot if you didn't recognize from the subject that it's a HHGTTG Reference then you don't deserve a pointy hat of geekiness.
However if I were posting to a less geeky site then yes I would reference or at least offer points.
There is copy protection in many capture cards. All ATI cards use the copy protection technology that so many tapes and now so many DVDs are equiped with. True that signal can be stripped from the video with about $40 in hardware without loss if you know what you're doing, and some capture cards don't even check for the macromedia signal either.
Actually as I recall the spur behind Charley Pride CDs having Copy protection was when Charley Pride was in his own home town and saw a whole rack of pirate CDs that he wasn't getting a dime of royalties from at a local store.
Now the fact of the matter is that the no copy protection scheme is going to stop bogus CDs from being sold at retail channels. Still the labels could have told him it would help, and he might have believed them.
No it's within 60 days of recieving your statement. And you must file a complaint in Writing Or else you risk voiding your rights.
The 60 day requirment is also only applicable to companies not run by or affiliated with your credit card, for affiliated companies your rights are preserved for a minimum of one year.
Obviously though this scam wasn't affiliated with any credit card company.