It had a Cid/Sid counterpart. And IIRC some of the spirit beast looked a little like chocobos... check really hard. They'd move pretty fast so you should use the DVD and playback at 1/8th speed. BTW the Gaia theory reminded me of FF7 that energy they were tapping to make materia etc... sure they didn't have magic, but that general reminded me of kefka from ff6. I watched it three times myself only once in theatres. There are a lot of worse movies made in hollywood today.
why FF:TSW could win the 'academy award' First of all The 'Academy' has a history of spurning 'box office success' in favor of money loosing films that were run out of office. FF:TSW fits this model far more than Shrek or Monsters Inc. there is also a deadline to be included, I'm not sure if Monsters Inc. can even be included on this year's ballot because of the timing of the release. I have no idea what the cut off date is though so it could be on there, we'll know when they announce the nominees.
While the Academy has nominated and awarded commercially successful movies over less successful ones, there may be a 'symathy' vote for square pictures because they probably won't even find a buyer for thier failed studio without winning an academy award. If they Win an academy award for FF:TSW all of a sudden they can say "From the academy award winning producers of the final fantasy movie" in blurbs for future movies made by whomever bought Square pictures.
TV shows have been resusrected from the dead because of academy awards, and if the academy believes they can resurect a dead movie studio that might be all the reason they need to vote for FF:TSW.
With over 35 DRAM chips on the american market what good does it do to check only a single type of memory module from a single maker?
However, since I don't want to spend the rest of the day finding out the lowest power DRAM module with the highest capacity, I will assume that the best case Senario is 4GB of ram using approximately the power of two HDs of any capacity after 4GB you would require either a custom DRAM NAS/HD or a second PC. However NAS Dram with multiple gigabit ethernet ports offer the most DRAM storage per watt of electricity. Still it is at least 4x as power hungry as an 8 HD 1TB Raid server. Assuming each DRAM chip in the NAS is 64 Megabytes. To reach one terrabyte we need 16 thousand Dram chips. Obviously if each chip even requires.1 watts to operate they're using 1600 watts of power. While the HD server may need a peak of 500+ watts even under load it still isn't using as much as when all 8 drives spin up so it's probably only using 400 watts total for the whole system under load.
While it's pretty clear that power isn't an area that google can save money using DRAM over HD, and while DRAM is solid state and if it doesn't fail the first 6 months it probably wont fail in the first 100 years, it is still going to become obsolete long before it fails, requiring replacement. I've also figured that at $4 a Dram chip the cost of 1TB is $64,000 Vs $5,000 for a total package 1TB HD server. Even if you replaced the drives every 6 months it would take 15 years before the cost of materials on HDs exceeded the cost of materials on DRAM. However, there is a cost savings. First of all if you're mirroring the drives that doubles the electrical and material cost of the HD storage. Second of all that 1 GB HD server is only going to have it's seek time saturated by only 100 megabit ethernet.
Unless the data is entirely sequential (not requiring seek time) and even in the case of sequential data a single gigabit ethernet is sufficient. That Dram 1TB has at worst 12 NS latency or.000000012 seconds per seek. That provides 83,333,333 seeks per second. The only thing he was wrong about is that DRAM isn't 200,000 times as faster as HD for data that requires seek it's on a magnatute of Millions of times more effcient. 200,000 times is probably based on real world performance differences. based on using DRAM vs HD in a "real world" setting and not just on paper. That means to replicate the Speed of DRAM with hard drives is a futile task.
Far more futile than trying to replicate the capacity of HDs with DRAM.
Google doesn't cache images google doesn't index or cache dynamic (scripted) content google caches PDFs as Plaintext.
However they are definitely on the scale of terrabytes. "Searched the web for a.
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,470,000,000. Search took 0.31 seconds." Assuming an average of ~25k cached per link 1.4 billion links would leave a cache of about 37,632,000,000,000 bytes, However The Cache doesn't necisarily need to be stored on RAMDISKs. He clearly states that it's 200,000 times more efficient for _seekable_ data. This means not the 'cached' data but rather the stuff that the search alagorythm looks at to show you appropriate hits. So the heart of the 'search' engine is using RAM exclusively, but 'cached' data would almost certainly still be stored on HDs, unless of course someone has built google a bunch of 120GB DRAM disks that use conventional HD interfaces (sorta like the Flash memory Drives, only on steroids when it comes to speed).
It could even be misleading Google could have meant flash memory HDs were cheaper but mistakenly refered to them as DRAM.
Part of the problem is that the blessing of a Tivo is a curse. I was watching Book TV one weekend (cspan2's weekend coverage IIRC.) When one author brought up Tivo in response to a question someone in the audience brought up. Basically Tivo Made it too easy to catch all the programs you normally list so all of a sudden you're always 'catching up' on the TV you haven't watched yet. A problem that many people have with books or magazines now is applied to TV viewing. True Tivo eliminates the commertials but that only gains you about 16 minutes on the hour. Compared to all the Extra programming Tivo catches you never catch up. The programming is also only saved to a HD so there is no long term archiving. Even if you put in an 80 gig HD it's only a matter of time before it fills up completely. True VCRs aren't any better since the tapes degrade, but DVD-Recorder units will more than likely replace the Tivo Market due to the lack of understanding by Joe six-pack (who picked VHS over Beta.) Personally I'd rather see a Tivo like unit (subscription free.) With a DVD-R drive to archive the best programs to DVD.
You should have read the articles. The cost of building this beast is only equal to the cost of a Single Year of Global space launch costs. Second of all the elevator works in cloudy and even stormy weather. Something most rockets not designed to bring about the death and distruction of all humanity are capable of. And those designed to bring about the end of humanity are calculated to have an acceptable number of lost warheads should the be fired under the worst of inclement conditions.
As for the payload 20 tons of Payload is Huge! Nothing capable of carrying humans or delicate electronics can support a 20 ton payload. you're confusing the weight of the fuel with the weight of the payload. This elevator is electric and doesn't need to carry any fuel just some shielding against impacts. It could even be designed to make one-way trips with speperate rentry or to be recycled in space.
For 1-way trips it only has to average 66 miles per hour to maintain a trip every other week. That is 520 tons a year. Once they can figure out a way to bond carbon nanotubes in a strip 22,000 miles long, without comprimising strength it's a pretty safe bet that this will kill 99% of all conventional rocket traffic. Especially after more and more of these things go up.
Although consumers probably won't like a trip that takes 2 weeks to complete (1-way) so they had better figure out a way to get these things to travel 600 mph or so average (~1.7 days) just to make the trips palateable to consumers, otherwise they'll loose favor with consumers as better technology comes along.
First off 22,000 Miles is ~= 35,398 KM
So that would put it only 388 KM away from a True geosync orbit of 35,786 km. Although for counterweighting they may have to make a 23,000 mile (37,007 KM) long cable just to make it easier to hold a geosync orbit
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``In fact,'' she said, ``we found that he became quite reluctant to move his arm to the reach command once the cursor was introduced into the game. Apparently it was easier just to think about reaching.'' Apparently they just hooked the brain into as a mouse cursor instead of the previous Touch sensitive screen the money had been using -- the monkey thought and the cursor moved faster than it could move its arm pretty simple.
It does have me worried though if we're using systems like this on robotics there isn't any buffer like the spinal column to allow us to rethink an action prior to it acting out it would just happen. You think of strangling your abusive boss and the robotic arm does it before you have time to think not to. Perhaps we need to program the three laws of robotics into robotic arms before we put human minds in direct controll of them. Lest we find an army of quadriplegic terminators in our midst.
I have a dell i8100 and yes the case seems pretty flimsy, althought the only problem I've had is with the built in ethernet/modem I left the ethernet plugged in and tripped over the wire. It left the socket dislocated and the ethernet port cracked so now I have numerous cable-ties propped in the port so the ethernet cable doesn't pop free when wiggled. I also had to plug in the modem with a cable tie to ensure the ethernet would stay connected/aligned. I've also had numerous crashes related to the NVidia graphic driver getting stuck in an infinite loop. Keep in mind a P-3 1ghz-M is performing on a par with a duron 600 too so don't expect much for performance. It will play quake III but anything new coming out is going to run horribly -- You're better off waiting for the new Geforce-3 mobile chipset and getting it configured with a 1.3 Ghz (1500+) Athlon '4.' Which dell won't do, but maybe some other vendor will combine the fastest laptop CPU with the fastest graphics chipset.
Of course Lexx explains this pretty simply We're a type 13 planet in the middle of the darkest part of the dark universe. Meaning any other habitable planets nearby would also have been type 13 or close to a type 13 that generally blow themselves up, or dissapear (into a black hole) when attempting to create singularities to study.
Disclaimer: they didn't use that wording exactly, but I took it to mean as such.
Modchips and EA Daughter Cards (since EA games come with additional protection.) Work by esentially taking over the boot process when a backed up DVD-r is detected by the DVD-rom in the PS2. They are all Stealth nowadays so when an original from the same region as your PS2 is inserted it pretends like it doesn't exist and isn't wired into the PS2. Since sony and EA and the like are mostly concerned with backed up games being played they try to find a way to make backed up games identify themselves as backed up or to reveal that a modchip is installed and then halts the program with an Anti-piracy message. Usually within 2 weeks of any circumvention there is a patch available to the modchip code that lets it fool even the newest software. For a while the original Stealth-1 modchip for the PSX allowed the reset button to be used to alter the behavior of the modchip to avoid any possible detection method. I have yet to see a single game that can't be made to work with the Stealth-1 although many require 3-4 resets. FFIX actually requires seperate CD-Rs be burned of disc 1 to circumvent the copyprotection code with the stealth-1 but there are Stealth V models now that work with anything, without any annoying tricks. Also sockets have become very common because the more sony/etc change the protection the more modchips the modchip sellers can sell.
I've known quite a few people who run a side buisness in college of installing modchips.
I'm not sure why EA games (like FFX) require a whole daughtercard to be run (from a backup or import) on a modified PS2, but the card also promises the ability to play Backed up DVD movies too. So they're worth looking into once DVD-r prices drop to the $3 or less price range.
BTW the modchips/daughtercards will allow cd-r PSX games to play too, although it's much cheaper to get a PS One and modchip if you're not going to use the PS2 modchip abilities.
BTW I do buy games -- just not the sucky ones. so really the modchip only saves rental fees, but considering I just spent $7 renting FFX for a week that could probably add up on the games I don't want to buy. I don't buy FF games til they're on the discount/rerelease rack, because I know they'll never have collecter value. Even if I'm wrong about that I'm sure there will be more value in my more rare hard to find RPG games.
If you have 200+ anime DVDs believe you me you don't want to mpeg-4 compress them. Burnt in subtitles suck so that adds an extra step of ripping the subtitles with vobsub (several extra steps on most DVDs). you have to rip Two audio tracks (english and japanese) because you want to have both. Plus you loose all those extra features.
I'd put money on the UPS or FedEX guy delivering Taco with the needed hardware shortly. The ability to access some 200 Anime DVDs over the network with the full features of the DVD *drools* the cost of the hardware is only $25 per DVD too. Although if you go with a single processor system with only 2 IDE controllers and only 5400 rpm 40 GB drives (*8) you can build a system for under $1,000 that has 1/3 the capacity of this monster $5,000 system.
While the maxtor engineer was right about 160 GB drives (needing an entire bus to themselves) the older slower 40 gig drives don't throttle ata100 quite the same. At anyrate I can't see my potential need for storage being alieviated until I can obtain 1TB for under $75. By then who knows what people will dream up to fill my storage capacity.
I thought they were talking about Cyber-sex cheaters and using keyloggers to catch spouses that use the internet to cheat.
Then again I'd just use tcpdump and grep to do that. If I had the need to snoop on anyone.
The only references I have are the fact that glacial ice core samples from the last ice age had nearly triple the pollen count of 'recently' formed glacial ice This generallly infers that there was a massively greater amount of plant life at the time of the last ice age -- which would infer that the last global ice age caused global warming. There is of course the possibility that global warming is not due to an ice age, but ice ages DO cause global warming and while this does cause glaciers to melt faster there is more evidince in the form of lake agazis whish was about 10 times greater in volume than the current great lakes and made entirely of glacial meltwaters. The grand canyon was Also carved out as a result of the torential flooding during the summers.
I could be wrong, but since ice ages Do cause global warming and there is evidence of this then we need to better understand if the global warming affect is due to an ice age.
Often times environmentalists forget to caluclate in crucial calculations into 'doomsday' predictions. Like the fact that a major volcanic eruption depeletes more ozone than mankind has since the invention of a CFC. Or that lightning which strikes every second somewhere on the earth creates ozone In the upper atmosphere. Or that CFCs can bond with other radicals like the resulting O2 left over from the destruction of an ozone molecule. Or that most trees used in paper production are grown in vast tree farms.
This is why we get predictions like no trees left by 2001 or no ozone layer over southern california by 2004... They only look at half the science involved.
They also forget that coniferous forest thrive at a 3% increase in atmospheric CO2 and can easily produce vastly greater amounts of o2 than conventional trees.
While I would say the ecosystem that supports human life may indeed be fragile the ecosystem of life itself has no room for weakness. If we can't maintain an evironment suitable for humankind then we're as obsolete as the dinosaur.
It isn't a patent but I could have sworn that singing was a violation of the DMCA in some way, especially if it is infringing on a copyrighted lullaby. I mean the sound waves are being freely reproduced so that anyone in the room can share even if they haven't paid the mandatory license fee this week.
(BTW this is a joke -- It's only applicable under the DMCA if the mother is a songwriter or is using a webcam.)
The year 2005, a Jovian (jupiter native) counterstrike for the nuclear satelite sent crashing into thier homeworld finally arrives on earth, and promptly only the bacteria we were so afraid of contaminating europa survive.
But seriously after reading the article I'd have to wonder if it's even Possible to build and launch a space probe Without some bacterial contamination at some point. Considering various forms of bacteria can survive heat, cold, vaccume, pressure, radiation, dehydration. Anything you can use to kill one form bacteria there is another form that will survive. They can metabolise anything from iron to sulpher, and live in acidic enviroments. So how exactly does one build a biologically uncontaminatated instrument. It has to be a Very expensive process and the slightest mistake means a start over from day one.
To block SuperCookies requires changing an obscure option in WMP which is barely documented.
Does that mean I'm obscure? I've been disabling that option for 2 years since I stopped bothering to download 'AOL' winamp on windows boxes. I mean it's hidden right there in plain sight. Although most of my mp3s I listen to using xmms, since it's easier to control over telnet.
I hate to tell you this but Sony is dead set against people playing PSX games on PCs. First off, why would you put the hardware inside an optical drive when a PC already has a more than decent nvidia graphics chip inside that can do everything the PSX can at a minimum? Especially when the optical drive lacks a good connection for the video signal, and has in most cases a poor audio signal solution.
Sony actually bought out one company selling emulator software for the PSX because they couldn't litigate them out of buisness.
Interact has a fine line of memory card readers, and most gamesharks can transfer files to a PC when a link cable is bought.
The real next logical step is of course the clock radio. If CD players can infiltrate this field then the next logical step for the PSX is the clock radio. It even has some practical applications, like pausing the game and warning the user when it's time to go to work or something equally important.
Then again I use a BSD box (in the other room) with about 200 days uptime as my alarm clock, so maybe I'm an exception.
This has nothing to do with ASCII it has to do with compression, all real compression works on the actual binary file, or in this case on the file in hexidecimal. Also considering that there are actually 1,099,511,627,776 possible sequences of 0123456789ABCDEF when given in 10 number lengths it could take quite a while to figure out which 254 are worth applying to pi to maximize the compression ability.
Slight error in my math I forgot to include a way to recognize this data apart from 'normaly compressed sequences' However, by using one of the tr table entries you can use xff as an indication that the following xxxx bytes are compressed using an alternative method. You can also only use three bytes for alternatively compressed data, by doing a simple check on the first byte first.
This reduces the number of possible ways to 16,711,680 while minimizing overhead. Also, there is no guarentee that there aren't exact matches withing the possible methods afterall we are using predefined charachter translation tables. Additionally my method provides 16,711,680 ways of compressing data chinks between say 100 bytes and 64k for 'maximum' effectiveness. However actually processing even a single uncompressed bitmap of 640x480x24bpp resolution while only checking for matches between 100 and 103 charachters long would take 218,306 calculations. 100 character strings take about 75,000 calculations while 64k calulation takes only 112 calculations through the algorythm. Obviouslly if the algorythm has to be run trillions of times just to compress a TV resolution bitmap it isn't going to be fast enough for the one this thread is talking about, however there is a lot of 'clean up' work to be done on my simple algorythm for instance determining which codes are duplicates and eliminating the anylisis of duplicates. Also, uncompressing the data only requres a sparce two calculations, since pi is a known variable, and the translation table used is passed along and known by the decoder. I would have to say though that this open source thing the greeks came up with is way better than a closed source 100:1 'maximum' mathimatically compressed algorythm from some company looking for hype.
I mean really I only have to find pi (to 65,536 places) 112 times in a bitmap to get better than 100:1 compression.
One byte allows you to specify the start point up to the 256 places. Two bytes allows the start point to be 65,536 places. The length of the sequence follows the same rule. As does the translation tables. So for the sake of argument the first byte represents the tr table we define 256 variations on the representation of pi. The next two bytes represent size of the sequence. The final two bytes represent the place at which one starts. In hex previous examples can be represented as x0000090000 x0100090000 x0200090000 Each is only 5 bytes to represent a 9 byte string. I used a small string for example only, because as you see those five bytes can represent 256^3 strings of 64 Killobytes in length. In other words 16,777,216 ways to achieve 13,702.1:1 compression with zero mathematical loss. Mind you this method Is Not suitable for packet compression as the CPU overhead is insanely beyond the capacity of anything out there today, even if the compression is performed on each individual PC instead of on a server level.
Pi is not restricted to numerical representation.
On a practical level anylisis for pi alone can provide you with any sequence of 10 characters that can be expressed through pi.
For example the first nine digits of pi 314159265
run through tr 0-9 a-j is dbebfjcgf and can be represented with four bytes. tr is not limited to this however, you can also use tr 0-9 abc123dfg4 and recieve 1b2b34cd3. So pi More than exceeds the ability to find a thousand random sequences of data as long as they match between 30-150 characters of pi through an internal translation table.
Furthermore a more sophisticaded codec could analyse the data for internal tr tables, and segments of pi. This increases the amount of data sent but also increases the probablility of finding somthing that matches the 100-200th digits of pi.
While I doubt this program relies on finding 'pi like data' within data streams it is a feasible method of compressing random data. It also expands much more quickly than it compresses and remains mathematically perfect. Making this type of method almost ideal for lossless video codecs.
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In two bytes I've Exceded 500000:1 ratio on transmitting truly rasndom compressed data to you -- were I to use the ASCII code character for pi I could double that thruput.
This proves that in theory at least that one can compress random data sequences.
One tool I would like to see is one that running from a cd checks md5's stored on the cd against the md5s of the local binaries. One nice feature would be bugtraq integrating, by maintaining a database of exploitable binary md5 sums and warning for any matches. It should also md5 catalog any new binaries and archive this information to a new CD (a new CD being made every time it runs for archival reasons.)
Linux will need better tools to help novice users maintain a secure box, especially if linux is running on a firewall/router for someone's DSL or cable modem. It just isn't enough to tell the person you helped set up a router that they shouldn't run anything as root. If linux seriously wants to be a secure router then there needs to be a one stop tool that I can tell someone to 'run this every month, and store the old CDs some place safe.' Command line is fine, I reccomend more costly hardware firewalls for anyone unwilling to use a command line tool.
Warmer seas melt polar ice, polar ice firmly entrenched on land doe not melt, and only is pushed off by new ice formation. Also, warmer seas give off more water vapor, and lead to higher rates of evaporation, more than compensating for the expantion rate, since this leads to higher precipitation it then leads to greater ice formation near the polar caps, causing giant ice sheets to cover the land, and to some extent even the ocean.
'Global warming' is merely a misinterpertation of the global tempererature shift required to enter a global ice age. Ice ages move slowly, and I would guess that this one will take another 1000 years to get up to speed with oceans warming enough to cause enough ice formation for continental ice sheets to form.
Your arguments remind me of the people who said the last tree would be cut down in 2001. Well it's 2002 now and I can see thousands of trees just from where I live alone.
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It had a Cid/Sid counterpart. And IIRC some of the spirit beast looked a little like chocobos... check really hard. They'd move pretty fast so you should use the DVD and playback at 1/8th speed. BTW the Gaia theory reminded me of FF7 that energy they were tapping to make materia etc... sure they didn't have magic, but that general reminded me of kefka from ff6. I watched it three times myself only once in theatres. There are a lot of worse movies made in hollywood today.
why FF:TSW could win the 'academy award' First of all The 'Academy' has a history of spurning 'box office success' in favor of money loosing films that were run out of office. FF:TSW fits this model far more than Shrek or Monsters Inc. there is also a deadline to be included, I'm not sure if Monsters Inc. can even be included on this year's ballot because of the timing of the release. I have no idea what the cut off date is though so it could be on there, we'll know when they announce the nominees.
While the Academy has nominated and awarded commercially successful movies over less successful ones, there may be a 'symathy' vote for square pictures because they probably won't even find a buyer for thier failed studio without winning an academy award. If they Win an academy award for FF:TSW all of a sudden they can say "From the academy award winning producers of the final fantasy movie" in blurbs for future movies made by whomever bought Square pictures.
TV shows have been resusrected from the dead because of academy awards, and if the academy believes they can resurect a dead movie studio that might be all the reason they need to vote for FF:TSW.
With over 35 DRAM chips on the american market what good does it do to check only a single type of memory module from a single maker? .1 watts to operate they're using 1600 watts of power. While the HD server may need a peak of 500+ watts even under load it still isn't using as much as when all 8 drives spin up so it's probably only using 400 watts total for the whole system under load.
.000000012 seconds per seek. That provides 83,333,333 seeks per second. The only thing he was wrong about is that DRAM isn't 200,000 times as faster as HD for data that requires seek it's on a magnatute of Millions of times more effcient. 200,000 times is probably based on real world performance differences. based on using DRAM vs HD in a "real world" setting and not just on paper. That means to replicate the Speed of DRAM with hard drives is a futile task.
However, since I don't want to spend the rest of the day finding out the lowest power DRAM module with the highest capacity, I will assume that the best case Senario is 4GB of ram using approximately the power of two HDs of any capacity after 4GB you would require either a custom DRAM NAS/HD or a second PC. However NAS Dram with multiple gigabit ethernet ports offer the most DRAM storage per watt of electricity. Still it is at least 4x as power hungry as an 8 HD 1TB Raid server. Assuming each DRAM chip in the NAS is 64 Megabytes. To reach one terrabyte we need 16 thousand Dram chips. Obviously if each chip even requires
While it's pretty clear that power isn't an area that google can save money using DRAM over HD, and while DRAM is solid state and if it doesn't fail the first 6 months it probably wont fail in the first 100 years, it is still going to become obsolete long before it fails, requiring replacement. I've also figured that at $4 a Dram chip the cost of 1TB is $64,000 Vs $5,000 for a total package 1TB HD server. Even if you replaced the drives every 6 months it would take 15 years before the cost of materials on HDs exceeded the cost of materials on DRAM. However, there is a cost savings. First of all if you're mirroring the drives that doubles the electrical and material cost of the HD storage. Second of all that 1 GB HD server is only going to have it's seek time saturated by only 100 megabit ethernet.
Unless the data is entirely sequential (not requiring seek time) and even in the case of sequential data a single gigabit ethernet is sufficient. That Dram 1TB has at worst 12 NS latency or
Far more futile than trying to replicate the capacity of HDs with DRAM.
Google doesn't cache images google doesn't index or cache dynamic (scripted) content google caches PDFs as Plaintext.
However they are definitely on the scale of terrabytes. "Searched the web for a.
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,470,000,000. Search took 0.31 seconds." Assuming an average of ~25k cached per link 1.4 billion links would leave a cache of about 37,632,000,000,000 bytes, However The Cache doesn't necisarily need to be stored on RAMDISKs. He clearly states that it's 200,000 times more efficient for _seekable_ data. This means not the 'cached' data but rather the stuff that the search alagorythm looks at to show you appropriate hits. So the heart of the 'search' engine is using RAM exclusively, but 'cached' data would almost certainly still be stored on HDs, unless of course someone has built google a bunch of 120GB DRAM disks that use conventional HD interfaces (sorta like the Flash memory Drives, only on steroids when it comes to speed).
It could even be misleading Google could have meant flash memory HDs were cheaper but mistakenly refered to them as DRAM.
Part of the problem is that the blessing of a Tivo is a curse. I was watching Book TV one weekend (cspan2's weekend coverage IIRC.) When one author brought up Tivo in response to a question someone in the audience brought up. Basically Tivo Made it too easy to catch all the programs you normally list so all of a sudden you're always 'catching up' on the TV you haven't watched yet. A problem that many people have with books or magazines now is applied to TV viewing. True Tivo eliminates the commertials but that only gains you about 16 minutes on the hour. Compared to all the Extra programming Tivo catches you never catch up. The programming is also only saved to a HD so there is no long term archiving. Even if you put in an 80 gig HD it's only a matter of time before it fills up completely. True VCRs aren't any better since the tapes degrade, but DVD-Recorder units will more than likely replace the Tivo Market due to the lack of understanding by Joe six-pack (who picked VHS over Beta.) Personally I'd rather see a Tivo like unit (subscription free.) With a DVD-R drive to archive the best programs to DVD.
You should have read the articles. The cost of building this beast is only equal to the cost of a Single Year of Global space launch costs. Second of all the elevator works in cloudy and even stormy weather. Something most rockets not designed to bring about the death and distruction of all humanity are capable of. And those designed to bring about the end of humanity are calculated to have an acceptable number of lost warheads should the be fired under the worst of inclement conditions.
As for the payload 20 tons of Payload is Huge! Nothing capable of carrying humans or delicate electronics can support a 20 ton payload. you're confusing the weight of the fuel with the weight of the payload. This elevator is electric and doesn't need to carry any fuel just some shielding against impacts. It could even be designed to make one-way trips with speperate rentry or to be recycled in space.
For 1-way trips it only has to average 66 miles per hour to maintain a trip every other week. That is 520 tons a year. Once they can figure out a way to bond carbon nanotubes in a strip 22,000 miles long, without comprimising strength it's a pretty safe bet that this will kill 99% of all conventional rocket traffic. Especially after more and more of these things go up.
Although consumers probably won't like a trip that takes 2 weeks to complete (1-way) so they had better figure out a way to get these things to travel 600 mph or so average (~1.7 days) just to make the trips palateable to consumers, otherwise they'll loose favor with consumers as better technology comes along.
First off 22,000 Miles is ~= 35,398 KM
So that would put it only 388 KM away from a True geosync orbit of 35,786 km. Although for counterweighting they may have to make a 23,000 mile (37,007 KM) long cable just to make it easier to hold a geosync orbit
``In fact,'' she said, ``we found that he became quite reluctant to move his arm to the reach command once the cursor was introduced into the game. Apparently it was easier just to think about reaching.''
Apparently they just hooked the brain into as a mouse cursor instead of the previous Touch sensitive screen the money had been using -- the monkey thought and the cursor moved faster than it could move its arm pretty simple.
It does have me worried though if we're using systems like this on robotics there isn't any buffer like the spinal column to allow us to rethink an action prior to it acting out it would just happen. You think of strangling your abusive boss and the robotic arm does it before you have time to think not to. Perhaps we need to program the three laws of robotics into robotic arms before we put human minds in direct controll of them. Lest we find an army of quadriplegic terminators in our midst.
I have a dell i8100 and yes the case seems pretty flimsy, althought the only problem I've had is with the built in ethernet/modem I left the ethernet plugged in and tripped over the wire. It left the socket dislocated and the ethernet port cracked so now I have numerous cable-ties propped in the port so the ethernet cable doesn't pop free when wiggled. I also had to plug in the modem with a cable tie to ensure the ethernet would stay connected/aligned. I've also had numerous crashes related to the NVidia graphic driver getting stuck in an infinite loop. Keep in mind a P-3 1ghz-M is performing on a par with a duron 600 too so don't expect much for performance. It will play quake III but anything new coming out is going to run horribly -- You're better off waiting for the new Geforce-3 mobile chipset and getting it configured with a 1.3 Ghz (1500+) Athlon '4.' Which dell won't do, but maybe some other vendor will combine the fastest laptop CPU with the fastest graphics chipset.
Of course Lexx explains this pretty simply We're a type 13 planet in the middle of the darkest part of the dark universe. Meaning any other habitable planets nearby would also have been type 13 or close to a type 13 that generally blow themselves up, or dissapear (into a black hole) when attempting to create singularities to study.
Disclaimer: they didn't use that wording exactly, but I took it to mean as such.
Modchips and EA Daughter Cards (since EA games come with additional protection.) Work by esentially taking over the boot process when a backed up DVD-r is detected by the DVD-rom in the PS2. They are all Stealth nowadays so when an original from the same region as your PS2 is inserted it pretends like it doesn't exist and isn't wired into the PS2. Since sony and EA and the like are mostly concerned with backed up games being played they try to find a way to make backed up games identify themselves as backed up or to reveal that a modchip is installed and then halts the program with an Anti-piracy message. Usually within 2 weeks of any circumvention there is a patch available to the modchip code that lets it fool even the newest software. For a while the original Stealth-1 modchip for the PSX allowed the reset button to be used to alter the behavior of the modchip to avoid any possible detection method. I have yet to see a single game that can't be made to work with the Stealth-1 although many require 3-4 resets. FFIX actually requires seperate CD-Rs be burned of disc 1 to circumvent the copyprotection code with the stealth-1 but there are Stealth V models now that work with anything, without any annoying tricks. Also sockets have become very common because the more sony/etc change the protection the more modchips the modchip sellers can sell.
I've known quite a few people who run a side buisness in college of installing modchips.
I'm not sure why EA games (like FFX) require a whole daughtercard to be run (from a backup or import) on a modified PS2, but the card also promises the ability to play Backed up DVD movies too. So they're worth looking into once DVD-r prices drop to the $3 or less price range.
BTW the modchips/daughtercards will allow cd-r PSX games to play too, although it's much cheaper to get a PS One and modchip if you're not going to use the PS2 modchip abilities.
BTW I do buy games -- just not the sucky ones. so really the modchip only saves rental fees, but considering I just spent $7 renting FFX for a week that could probably add up on the games I don't want to buy. I don't buy FF games til they're on the discount/rerelease rack, because I know they'll never have collecter value. Even if I'm wrong about that I'm sure there will be more value in my more rare hard to find RPG games.
If you have 200+ anime DVDs believe you me you don't want to mpeg-4 compress them. Burnt in subtitles suck so that adds an extra step of ripping the subtitles with vobsub (several extra steps on most DVDs). you have to rip Two audio tracks (english and japanese) because you want to have both. Plus you loose all those extra features.
I'd put money on the UPS or FedEX guy delivering Taco with the needed hardware shortly. The ability to access some 200 Anime DVDs over the network with the full features of the DVD *drools* the cost of the hardware is only $25 per DVD too. Although if you go with a single processor system with only 2 IDE controllers and only 5400 rpm 40 GB drives (*8) you can build a system for under $1,000 that has 1/3 the capacity of this monster $5,000 system.
While the maxtor engineer was right about 160 GB drives (needing an entire bus to themselves) the older slower 40 gig drives don't throttle ata100 quite the same. At anyrate I can't see my potential need for storage being alieviated until I can obtain 1TB for under $75. By then who knows what people will dream up to fill my storage capacity.
I thought they were talking about Cyber-sex cheaters and using keyloggers to catch spouses that use the internet to cheat.
Then again I'd just use tcpdump and grep to do that. If I had the need to snoop on anyone.
The only references I have are the fact that glacial ice core samples from the last ice age had nearly triple the pollen count of 'recently' formed glacial ice This generallly infers that there was a massively greater amount of plant life at the time of the last ice age -- which would infer that the last global ice age caused global warming. There is of course the possibility that global warming is not due to an ice age, but ice ages DO cause global warming and while this does cause glaciers to melt faster there is more evidince in the form of lake agazis whish was about 10 times greater in volume than the current great lakes and made entirely of glacial meltwaters. The grand canyon was Also carved out as a result of the torential flooding during the summers.
I could be wrong, but since ice ages Do cause global warming and there is evidence of this then we need to better understand if the global warming affect is due to an ice age.
Often times environmentalists forget to caluclate in crucial calculations into 'doomsday' predictions. Like the fact that a major volcanic eruption depeletes more ozone than mankind has since the invention of a CFC. Or that lightning which strikes every second somewhere on the earth creates ozone In the upper atmosphere. Or that CFCs can bond with other radicals like the resulting O2 left over from the destruction of an ozone molecule. Or that most trees used in paper production are grown in vast tree farms.
This is why we get predictions like no trees left by 2001 or no ozone layer over southern california by 2004... They only look at half the science involved.
They also forget that coniferous forest thrive at a 3% increase in atmospheric CO2 and can easily produce vastly greater amounts of o2 than conventional trees.
While I would say the ecosystem that supports human life may indeed be fragile the ecosystem of life itself has no room for weakness. If we can't maintain an evironment suitable for humankind then we're as obsolete as the dinosaur.
It isn't a patent but I could have sworn that singing was a violation of the DMCA in some way, especially if it is infringing on a copyrighted lullaby. I mean the sound waves are being freely reproduced so that anyone in the room can share even if they haven't paid the mandatory license fee this week.
(BTW this is a joke -- It's only applicable under the DMCA if the mother is a songwriter or is using a webcam.)
The year 2005, a Jovian (jupiter native) counterstrike for the nuclear satelite sent crashing into thier homeworld finally arrives on earth, and promptly only the bacteria we were so afraid of contaminating europa survive.
But seriously after reading the article I'd have to wonder if it's even Possible to build and launch a space probe Without some bacterial contamination at some point. Considering various forms of bacteria can survive heat, cold, vaccume, pressure, radiation, dehydration. Anything you can use to kill one form bacteria there is another form that will survive. They can metabolise anything from iron to sulpher, and live in acidic enviroments. So how exactly does one build a biologically uncontaminatated instrument. It has to be a Very expensive process and the slightest mistake means a start over from day one.
To block SuperCookies requires changing an obscure option in WMP which is barely documented.
Does that mean I'm obscure? I've been disabling that option for 2 years since I stopped bothering to download 'AOL' winamp on windows boxes. I mean it's hidden right there in plain sight. Although most of my mp3s I listen to using xmms, since it's easier to control over telnet.
I hate to tell you this but Sony is dead set against people playing PSX games on PCs. First off, why would you put the hardware inside an optical drive when a PC already has a more than decent nvidia graphics chip inside that can do everything the PSX can at a minimum? Especially when the optical drive lacks a good connection for the video signal, and has in most cases a poor audio signal solution.
Sony actually bought out one company selling emulator software for the PSX because they couldn't litigate them out of buisness.
Interact has a fine line of memory card readers, and most gamesharks can transfer files to a PC when a link cable is bought.
The real next logical step is of course the clock radio. If CD players can infiltrate this field then the next logical step for the PSX is the clock radio. It even has some practical applications, like pausing the game and warning the user when it's time to go to work or something equally important.
Then again I use a BSD box (in the other room) with about 200 days uptime as my alarm clock, so maybe I'm an exception.
This has nothing to do with ASCII it has to do with compression, all real compression works on the actual binary file, or in this case on the file in hexidecimal. Also considering that there are actually 1,099,511,627,776 possible sequences of 0123456789ABCDEF when given in 10 number lengths it could take quite a while to figure out which 254 are worth applying to pi to maximize the compression ability.
At least we finally have a use for that Supercomputer in ever garage.
Slight error in my math I forgot to include a way to recognize this data apart from 'normaly compressed sequences' However, by using one of the tr table entries you can use xff as an indication that the following xxxx bytes are compressed using an alternative method. You can also only use three bytes for alternatively compressed data, by doing a simple check on the first byte first.
This reduces the number of possible ways to 16,711,680 while minimizing overhead. Also, there is no guarentee that there aren't exact matches withing the possible methods afterall we are using predefined charachter translation tables. Additionally my method provides 16,711,680 ways of compressing data chinks between say 100 bytes and 64k for 'maximum' effectiveness. However actually processing even a single uncompressed bitmap of 640x480x24bpp resolution while only checking for matches between 100 and 103 charachters long would take 218,306 calculations. 100 character strings take about 75,000 calculations while 64k calulation takes only 112 calculations through the algorythm. Obviouslly if the algorythm has to be run trillions of times just to compress a TV resolution bitmap it isn't going to be fast enough for the one this thread is talking about, however there is a lot of 'clean up' work to be done on my simple algorythm for instance determining which codes are duplicates and eliminating the anylisis of duplicates. Also, uncompressing the data only requres a sparce two calculations, since pi is a known variable, and the translation table used is passed along and known by the decoder. I would have to say though that this open source thing the greeks came up with is way better than a closed source 100:1 'maximum' mathimatically compressed algorythm from some company looking for hype.
I mean really I only have to find pi (to 65,536 places) 112 times in a bitmap to get better than 100:1 compression.
One byte allows you to specify the start point up to the 256 places. Two bytes allows the start point to be 65,536 places. The length of the sequence follows the same rule. As does the translation tables. So for the sake of argument the first byte represents the tr table we define 256 variations on the representation of pi. The next two bytes represent size of the sequence. The final two bytes represent the place at which one starts. In hex previous examples can be represented as x0000090000 x0100090000 x0200090000 Each is only 5 bytes to represent a 9 byte string. I used a small string for example only, because as you see those five bytes can represent 256^3 strings of 64 Killobytes in length. In other words 16,777,216 ways to achieve 13,702.1:1 compression with zero mathematical loss. Mind you this method Is Not suitable for packet compression as the CPU overhead is insanely beyond the capacity of anything out there today, even if the compression is performed on each individual PC instead of on a server level.
Pi is not restricted to numerical representation.
On a practical level anylisis for pi alone can provide you with any sequence of 10 characters that can be expressed through pi.
For example the first nine digits of pi 314159265
run through tr 0-9 a-j is dbebfjcgf and can be represented with four bytes. tr is not limited to this however, you can also use tr 0-9 abc123dfg4 and recieve 1b2b34cd3. So pi More than exceeds the ability to find a thousand random sequences of data as long as they match between 30-150 characters of pi through an internal translation table.
Furthermore a more sophisticaded codec could analyse the data for internal tr tables, and segments of pi. This increases the amount of data sent but also increases the probablility of finding somthing that matches the 100-200th digits of pi.
While I doubt this program relies on finding 'pi like data' within data streams it is a feasible method of compressing random data. It also expands much more quickly than it compresses and remains mathematically perfect. Making this type of method almost ideal for lossless video codecs.
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In two bytes I've Exceded 500000:1 ratio on transmitting truly rasndom compressed data to you -- were I to use the ASCII code character for pi I could double that thruput.
This proves that in theory at least that one can compress random data sequences.
One tool I would like to see is one that running from a cd checks md5's stored on the cd against the md5s of the local binaries. One nice feature would be bugtraq integrating, by maintaining a database of exploitable binary md5 sums and warning for any matches. It should also md5 catalog any new binaries and archive this information to a new CD (a new CD being made every time it runs for archival reasons.)
Linux will need better tools to help novice users maintain a secure box, especially if linux is running on a firewall/router for someone's DSL or cable modem. It just isn't enough to tell the person you helped set up a router that they shouldn't run anything as root. If linux seriously wants to be a secure router then there needs to be a one stop tool that I can tell someone to 'run this every month, and store the old CDs some place safe.' Command line is fine, I reccomend more costly hardware firewalls for anyone unwilling to use a command line tool.
Warmer seas melt polar ice, polar ice firmly entrenched on land doe not melt, and only is pushed off by new ice formation. Also, warmer seas give off more water vapor, and lead to higher rates of evaporation, more than compensating for the expantion rate, since this leads to higher precipitation it then leads to greater ice formation near the polar caps, causing giant ice sheets to cover the land, and to some extent even the ocean.
'Global warming' is merely a misinterpertation of the global tempererature shift required to enter a global ice age. Ice ages move slowly, and I would guess that this one will take another 1000 years to get up to speed with oceans warming enough to cause enough ice formation for continental ice sheets to form.
Your arguments remind me of the people who said the last tree would be cut down in 2001. Well it's 2002 now and I can see thousands of trees just from where I live alone.