there are plenty of reasons to use a raid array of solid state memory to record this stuff, but It's not mandated... so why would they bother? you also have to have the memory chip mounted where it won't overheat, or become kibble in the crash, so having chips in different corners of the device would be advantageous since opposite corners aren't BOTH going to hit the ground first... plus you'll want a corrosion resistant module, so that under water crashes don't become corrupted... and technically, you can 'reverse' engineer the device, by either x-raying it and looking for which way the bits are set, or use some other more high tech type of scan, in the case of a cracked chip, you then program a working chip with that data and you might recover most of what happened... but if the chip is turned to kibble it's not as effective as splicing tape.
on the plus side, switching to solid state media should reduce the size, and, weight, the con though is that adding 11 minutes of 'power' involves incorporating some sort of lithium ion battery UPS device, preferably on the 'outside' of the crash protection device, so as to avoid etching everything inside with the organic solvent used to make the battery work... you might also want that external battery protected against the 'random lithium ion battery explosion phenomenon' which is a freak one in a few hundred million event, but fires aboard planes are far more dangerous than in the changing room at the local mall... besides which the battery will need to be replaced if kept in service long enough, making that portion outside the black box will reduce service costs for repairing black boxes with faulty battery errors.
ebooks can be viewed on a PC as well, you don't need a fancy portable device to read them. drm containing ebooks have done okay through public libraries (public libraries are the number one consumer of drm containing ebooks and audio books with drm) it is kinda sad, but as the article mentioned, the main source of online audio book piracy were from cd sets, or from 'other drmed sources' eg: public libraries allowing download of DRMed audio books. so, yeah, they're selling drm free stuff on their website now, because the pirates find public libraries a 'cheaper' source for pirating content. makes sense to me, why pay to pirate, when your local library can pay for you.
wal-mart.com started something a while back, 'order it online, pick it up at your local wal-mart for free'
so, really all they've done is taken it off the store shelves, and people buying them online pick them up as a special item from guest services at their local wal-mart. this basically allows them to piggyback their e-store on the nationwide distribution channels of wal-mart, without having to dedicate any shelf space, and giving their guest service counter people more to do. The cost of shipping goods for wal-mart on their own semi's rival what even the best parcel service can offer, it's even lower than the USPS because the usps goes to people's homes, the wal-mart semi's only go to wal-marts, and usually loaded with the daily shipment of stuff.
of course, the down side is you have to pay sales tax when you order from wal-mart.com which many states completely leave up the the tax payer to report if they ordered online or through catalogs. but, technically you're supposed to pay tax no matter who ships it, it's just really easy to say, buy an lcd tv, and not pay that $1,000 dollars worth of taxes at all, because most states don't track or monitor those things.
a couple years ago i suggested they start serving Google adsense ads (the unobtrusive text ads to which you refer)
I also suggested having 'corporate sponsors' similar to what PBS does with certain shows, instead of text ads.
Both ideas were shot down, and people instantly suggested they'd fork wikipedia to avoid ads/corporate sponsorship. I guess wikipedia could get desperate enough, to start having an annual telethon on television, but wikipedia is not PBS and they are not the MDA or other agencies that do telethons... PBS is the closest analogy to what wikipedia is trying to do, but again google adsense ads wouldn't 'corrupt' wikipedia, there is no reason not to use them, let google get their hands dirty providing the ads, and dealing with advertisers while you can finally spend money on things that the current wikipedia project can't cover.
If an article is deleted, all history, both of article edits, and discussion are fully deleted. so no, the past version wouldn't be in the history, if the article was deleted then rewritten.
well, it's tangential to linux gaming at least, so, I was reading in the cedega fourms that cedega is very CPU heavy, and was wondering, does cedega support multi-core/multi cpu? and does it work best with 2 cores? or would 4 core cpus work even better? I won't be building a system specifically for cedega soon, but knowing the answer will help me when the time comes. i already tried searching the forums and all i could find out was one person with a 4 cpu/core setup had to use a command to disable frequency scaling to 'double' his framerate in wow. he didn't mention if multi cores helped cedega any though.
"I do think there's something to the argument that Linux users have already self-selected themselves into a group who don't prioritize games highly (or they probably would have stuck with Windows). It's harder to justify that as a group to spend a lot of time and money publishing games to."
I was an early adopter of open source technology, for one simple reason, my isp kept 'auto disabling' my 'ethernet' connection every time i dialed in using windows. the only way for me to get internet wired to multiple computers was to use open source (I specifically used FreeBSD, since my attempts to get Linux working failed at the graphic card stage)
so, I am a gamer, and my disgust with windows and how hard it is to secure a windows pc on the internet these days means that I will Likely soon be building a linux gaming PC with the intent of using cedega. Still, cedega seems to be somewhat selective in the games it runs... but it supports one of my (online multi play) games well, so it will be worth it to not have to put a windows box on the net to play games.
there are wiki-nazis who go around quick deleting anything they deem 'unfit for an encyclopedia' quick deleting and the regular page deletion both destroy the any discussion or argument against deletion, and leave only the username of who quick-deleted or deleted the article. they give no quarter, they even remove 'requests for information' about companies etc. just because a person wants to know more about an 'online library provider' doesn't mean it's an ad:p
it's sick how fast any argument against the position of the wiki-nazis are destroyed completely, with no record of what the wiki-nazis have done. They even deleted the entry on wiki-nazis, because they can't handle the criticism against their position that wiki should be 'only what printed encyclopedias cover'
upload costs aren't more expensive than download costs, the reason for asynchronous design has nothing to do with cost, it has everything to do with making the service appear faster than it is to the typical user. if the normal user uploads very little and downloads very much (this is the way websites are designed, e-mail etc. only p2p applications are synchronous in bandwidth usage) then it will seem faster if the download link is designed fatter than the upload link. the fallacy is that this is designed that way due to cost, when i reality the bandwidth costs the same up or down, whichever needs to be bigger costs more, because you need more fiber optic cables and faster/better fiber optic routers.
it may be true that p2p applications shift the cost to the consumer, (or rather their isp) but I've already done comparisons where the 'typical' user did 60 GB a month in p2p (30 down 30 up) and the cost for doing that would at most wind up moving the price of top tier cable access to $100 a month. It's really hard to maintain a 1:1 ratio over cable with more than 60GB/ month because of the upload design, (i should know, I used to do 20/20gb a month on fansubs. I also played online video games, though, so i throttled the upload when playing games, and didn't download at all while playing the video games)
anyways, the point is that distributors of online content save astronomical costs by using p2p, and because you don't need to centralize the bandwidth the Actual cost of bandwidth becomes cheaper, because you don't need multiple OC-whatever connections multiplexed at a central distribution farm.
"Do you need expert skill and knowledge to run windows properly and safely or not?"
Actually yes, the argument you're making is that it's easy to run as administrator, use internet explorer, stop paying for the anti virus updates when the free trial period ends, or even unistall it because it slows your pc down, and you know you wouldn't think of ad-ware removal programs, or say, anti-botnet software, which clearly from anti virus vendors these are separate subscription requiring services beyond anti-virus.... and who can be bothered with a firewall that Asks Tough Questions about which program to give internet to...
so within i week to a month the 'typical' user will have their system nicely rooted by pick your favorite. A. the Mafia B. the Chinese C. the Yakuza D. the Russians E. African hackers F. 'script kiddies' G. black hats not in the employ of any mafia style organization. H. 'the sony rootkit fiasco'
security under Linux is too difficult? hrm, I would think an operating system where you need privileges to install software, and a password would be more secure than a (vista) that makes a little popup, or 'just lets it run' (windows ce, me, nt, 2k, xp, 98, 95, 3.11, etc et al)
if you mean having a password to log in and install software, then maybe. If you mean 'switching to linux' then definitely. if you mean 'troubleshooting things that don't work' then they're in the same boat as when windows doesn't behave nicely. as far as 'using' linux goes, it's not hard at all. just tape up a password/log in reminder for the bad of memory, and they're good to go. e-mail, web, installing software via synaptic package manger, all easy as pie. playing card games, using open office, all easy...
the place they're likely to run into problems (most likely) is playing dvds, burning dvds, sending documents from open office to a ms word user. trying to install mpeg encoders, trying to rip dvds, trying to play back drmed audio, etc... but for a lot of users not one of those issues is going to come up. it really depends on who's using the computer and what for. 'the internet' in general works a bit better with linux, so many people who 'just want to use this internet thing' convincing them to use linux isn't that hard. as long as someone else sets it up for them.
"ea, really. Name a famous hospital, one doing cutting edge work..... that isn't in the US"
name one eh? well these are only facilities doing STEM CELL Research mind you, but I removed all the US ones.
North America
U Toronto; Robarts Research Inst.; McMaster U, Ontario; Ottawa Health Research Institute
South America
U São Paulo Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Laranjeiras U Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland
Hammersmith Hospital, London; Imperial College London; King's College London Medical Research Council (MRC); Regenerative Medicine Institute, Galway Roslin Institute, Edinburgh; U Birmingham U Cambridge; U College London U Durham; U Edinburgh U Glasgow; U Liverpool U Manchester; U Newcastle U Oxford; U Sheffield; U York
Continental Europe
Genopole, Evry, France; INSERM, Reims, France IRB, Montpellier, France; U Valencia, Spain Geneva U Hospitals, Switzerland; San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy U Dusseldorf, Germany; U Cologne, Germany Max-Planck Institute, Germany; Fraunhofer Institute, Germany Hubrecht Laboratory, The Netherlands; Catholic U Leuven, Belgium Norwegian Center for Stem Cell Research; Odense U Hospital, Denmark U Goteborg, Sweden; U Lund, Sweden Karolinska Institute, Sweden; Mendel U, Czech Republic Oulu U, Finland; U Tampere, Finland U Helsinki, Finland
Mideast
Istanbul Memorial Hospital, Turkey; Hadassah Medical Center, Israel The Technion, Israel; Jeddah BioCity, Saudi Arabia Royan Institute, Iran
Asia-Pacific
U Beijing, China; Peking Union Medical College Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Ctr, Beijing; Shanghai Second Medical University Chinese National Human Genome Center Shanghai; Shanghai Huashan Institute Xiangya Reproduction & Genetics Hospital, China; Sun Yat-sen U, China National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan; Biomedical Engineering Center, Taiwan Seoul National U, Korea; Miz-Medi Medical Research Center, Korea Maria Biotechnology Institute, Korea; Stem Cell Research Centre, Korea RIKEN Institute, Japan; Kyoto U, Japan Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute, Japan; Keio U, Japan Osaka U Medical School, Japan; Genome Institute of Singapore Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore U Kebangsaan, Malaysia; Mahidol U, Thailand NCBS Bangalore, India; National Centre for Cell Science, India Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
Australia
Australian Stem Cell Centre; Howard Florey Institute Monash U Stem Cell Labs; Murdoch Childrens Research Institute NSW Stem Cell Network; Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre U Adelaide; U New South Wales U Queensland; Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
interesting... when 'hughesnet' was part of directv originally the upload was done over dialup, is this 'new' satellite company using some sort of method to use both dial up and satellite? bigger dish, too, so it should offer more stable internet than the 'other' satellite providers. hugesnet with the fap is the worst, no clue about the one that targets gas stations etc, and the other satellite company has a 30 day roll-over fap, which is better if you say, only download linux and patches, worse if you have kids who like you tube..
considering how expensive hugesnet is their fap is ridiculous, they're printing money on the people who sign with them.
Sir, there are plenty of hackers who are entirely motivated by greed. Most of those, probably have nightmares about being shot if they talk about what they do every day, that earns them good money without working hard. If they're the type who don't have nightmares then sir you should be worried. Those Are the type of people who Enjoy their work, breaking the law, and have no qualms about staying hush hush. It didn't take long for organized crime to realize the potential of the internet, and depending on how you count the score they're taking a couple billion, to tens of billions each year from the people who earned it, to the people who knew how to steal it.
of course, this practice is just pr, and most of what's been done has done almost nothing about the crimes being committed online, or ways to stop them... this is all just practice preparing for what if scenarios that pale in comparison to what's really being done. exploits that install rootkits that can't be detected, neither while it's being installed, nor while it's running, not even by the best of anti virus or anti rootkit technology... that puts the data in places that can't even be read much less submitted to anti virus/anti rootkit vendors... really quite scary stuff.
I am in the process of trying to figure out how to submit just such a rootkit, right now I'm running dd with special options so it can read and write the whole cd-rom, then i have to figure out how to submit such a large file, i can use the unix split command to make them 19 mb a piece so i can e-mail it through gmail, but that's a lot of work... might be easier to find some place to upload it, that i could give a password to dl it from there... but dd is getting stuck at 133 MB even though i know the disc has more than 200 mb of data... k3b was only able to extract 3 of the 4 tracks... the 4th one is 'incomplete' but that doesn't prevent it from installing a rootkit on windows.
well yes, but you only have to store it on hd for 2 years. since then, burners for BD media will be cheap... i can't remember if hd-dvd does dual layer, so it's like 15-30 gb per movie. as for not playing it on standalone players, you can still play it back on a 'cheap' pc player with a bd-rom bd rom drives are still spendy too, they will be cheaper in 2 years though.
well, if the detector is the size of a penny, then yes probably pretty rare to detect cosmic rays... but if the detector is the size of a pc case, it will get hits every few seconds. cosmic rays ARE very common, and not all of them are magnetically deflected, or stopped by the atmosphere. they just happen to be very small, and the frequency of hits to a small target is less than to a large target. about 8% of the radiation humans are exposed to each year are from cosmic rays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray
so clearly to a human sized target, the impact ratio is significant.
aacs has been cracked, while BD+ hasn't so everything on 'hd-dvd' can be backed up to a computer, then sold on e-bay or whatever. you can even burn the backed up hd-dvd to a bd-r, if you're willing to pay $600 for a bd-writer...
To put it simply, the cost savings is astronomical, while 'hosting' companies have in the past 'played down' the 'cost savings of bittorrent' saying that with dial-up users etc, that a company would only save 50% of the cost. but the fact that a television broadcaster was able to save a DRASTIC amount of money (41,000 vs 2,000!!!) that's 1/20th the original cost! way better than 50% savings that have been bandied about by people expecting bt to not be a significant savings. if in a real world test, the real world savings are 96% of the cost, then think about how much You Tube would save by transparently included a BT client into their distribution system... if in 2006 they were paying a million dollars a month, they'd easily be saving about 20-30 million dollars a year now. all of a sudden serving ads to pay for it becomes Profitable. no need for huge VC investments to 'eek by'
sir, how expensive do you think bandwidth is? if bittorrent user A pays $50 a month for 'high speed cable internet' (after promotional fees end) and is downloading 30 GB a month, and uploading about the same GB/month... is the cable company taking a loss? no i don't thinks so.
why? well I'll cite an article, yes a bit old, but here is my point, a site where 13 million people download the same 15 MB video... (this is just the most popular my friend!) and Forbes estimates their bandwidth cost at $1 million dollars a month? they probably were serving 10x that many clips, or 1,950 million megabytes to put it simply, 1.81607902 petabytes of bandwidth costs $1 million dollars.
so now i did the math that means the combined upload/download costs of 32,000 'bittorrent' users doing 30 GB/30 GB a month, Vs $50 a month costs, guess what? the costs were $1,000,000 but the income taken is was $1,600,000 a month. true that's only the bandwidth costs, and cable companies have many other costs, maintaining the network hardware admins etc.. but my point is this, if $50 a month isn't enough they'll just go to $75 a month, if that's not enough they'll go to $100 a month... and keep in mind the bt users right now are few and far between, the typical user uses like 100 MB a month 'surfing websites' and maybe 1-5 gb a month for 'heavy you tube' users...
that would be why servers etc all use ECC type RAM, with that extra parity bit, it's easy to detect the corruption of memory, and re-do whatever needs to be redone. the difference is that now intel is putting in some sort of cosmic ray detector, rather than detecting what happens to the ram...
it seems painfully inefficient to 'redo' stuff that doesn't seem to be wrong just because a cosmic ray was detected. it's not like cosmic rays can be easily blocked, either, you could put the computers under a mountain, or design some sort of force field... that would drastically increase the electric draw.. the easiest solution is to simply stop shrinking transistors before they become unreliable.
about 2 hours after i read about the Tennessee library thing, i realized overdrive.com was selling their product to most public library systems in America, as well as seven other countries. But my public library isn't in a deal with overdrive, mainly because its a 'poor' county sigh, and it's not like people can just 'move' anywhere for any whim... in my case it's not advisable until after i get disability... moving now, when I've finally got a came manager who understands mental illness a little would be very counter productive. i can move, but there are waiting lists to get on, wait until my turn comes up, and then arrange to move and redo tons of paperwork... and with my disability hearing not yet come up, the other county could just reject me, saying to stay in my current county of residence.
it would be far easier for me to find a relative willing to give me their library card id so i can use a different county's 'deal' with overdrive.com. of course, that is well dishonest, but it's easier, and overdrive still makes it's money...
it really boils down to how does a galaxy form. compare a true 3-d object and nebula very round, nothing attracting anything to the middle. so nothing coalesces into planets, stars, and asteroids.
the trick here is the spiral galaxies all have a VERY large gravity source in the center. everything without sufficient angular momentum gets sucked in. so things in odd orbits, that aren't on a narrow plane... get sucked in to the middle. EVEN way out here on the edge of the spiral galaxy, things not on the plane of central gravity mass are imbalanced, and get sucked in, so stuff stays flat... round objects, stars, planets, gas giants form. even asteroid belts, even debris belts far outside the solar system. it all happened way before our star was even finished forming, when the super galaxies that formed all the heavy metals (uranium etc) dissolved into nebula and spiral and normal galaxies, and 'dark matter'
we're in spiral galaxy, so things tend to form in rings and other flat things. if you slowed something down, or put it in an odd orbit it would eventually reach the middle of the galaxy just from gravity. no angular momentum, and it's gone. the closer it gets the faster it goes. I'm not so sure about how non spiral galaxies are, but then the science on non spiral galaxies are far less, we basically only get the stars to look at, and the black holes if any...
"Is there anything that we as humans can make or do that doesn't utilize the ideas of other people?"
well that's a tough question, but I'd definitely go with spitting up milk. after all nobody teaches a baby to spit up, they're not using any other human idea, of what to make or do... a close second is 'wee ourselves' and 'poo ourselves in the pants' although doing so in a toilet is obviously using someone else's idea, and doing so intentionally then you have to wonder where you got past your training of not to do so intentionally and who's thought it was to go against something ingrained in children by their parents when they're most vulnerable.
this involves cryptography. let's say that you use 128-bit encryption that's 128 gates per bit of the key/unlock mechanism. 128 gates is nothing on a large, say graphic processor, even 20,000 gates is nothing on a large graphic or general purpose cpu. so how are you going to crack this when each chip has it's own key/lock pair? and the 'key' pair, only goes across a trusted network in another country?
yeah, this isn't dvd movie crypto where the 'client' has to have access to a way to decrypt the movie.
this is the kind of crypto that can't be broken without a backdoor. of course since epic is built into the original chip blue print, just 'masking off that part' renders in a cpu that only spits out 'error, epic not found, halt now' that locks the chip from running. depending on how the chip maker designs this into chips, it's not like they can just engineer a 'mod chip' that tells the cpu everything is okay and to run code... the cost of trying to circumvent 'epic' instantly becomes more than you'd get for say, a pirate dvd player chip.
this is a big deal, really big, because right now sub standard dvd players around the globe are using 'pirate' chips, and usually 'pirate' code to run those chips. Prior to epic they were resorting to programming the firmware of retail dvd players to try and thwart piracy, but then the pirates just waited for a system to come out with the 'real' chip, and steal the firmware so they could program the pirate players themselves. or even worse just program them with 'firmware' downloaded off the net from god only knows the source..
epic will be used by countless dvd and blu-ray chip fabs, so they can benefit from low cost Chinese fabrication, and never have to worry about the design being stolen again.
i've tried to think of ways to break epic, but if it's on chip, tearing apart the chip to see what gets written on chip (especially if it's Different For Every chip) isn't going to work, a mod chip solution could work, but then you need to design a special chip, that only works with revision x. of the 'real' chip, and the cost of doing this is going to be somewhere in the $50 per modchip if you only sell a few hundred thousand of the pirate chip... the cost goes down if you sell millions of units, but most pirate chip stuff is so substandard that it only gets bought when it's 'carrying' a name brand that it isn't, and they do try their best to catch that kind of fraud.... and a big old mod-chip that isn't in the 'real' system makes it a really easy spot for guys with x-ray viewers to screen the stuff. so then you have to hide the 'mod-chip' as say a flash reader
so yeah, epic will very likely reduce the amount of counterfeit dvd players etc. of course, they can always just counterfeit the pre-epic designs, but better blu-ray designs are going to come along, and those will all (i'm guessing) feature epic.
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there are plenty of reasons to use a raid array of solid state memory to record this stuff, but It's not mandated... so why would they bother? you also have to have the memory chip mounted where it won't overheat, or become kibble in the crash, so having chips in different corners of the device would be advantageous since opposite corners aren't BOTH going to hit the ground first... plus you'll want a corrosion resistant module, so that under water crashes don't become corrupted... and technically, you can 'reverse' engineer the device, by either x-raying it and looking for which way the bits are set, or use some other more high tech type of scan, in the case of a cracked chip, you then program a working chip with that data and you might recover most of what happened... but if the chip is turned to kibble it's not as effective as splicing tape.
on the plus side, switching to solid state media should reduce the size, and, weight, the con though is that adding 11 minutes of 'power' involves incorporating some sort of lithium ion battery UPS device, preferably on the 'outside' of the crash protection device, so as to avoid etching everything inside with the organic solvent used to make the battery work... you might also want that external battery protected against the 'random lithium ion battery explosion phenomenon' which is a freak one in a few hundred million event, but fires aboard planes are far more dangerous than in the changing room at the local mall... besides which the battery will need to be replaced if kept in service long enough, making that portion outside the black box will reduce service costs for repairing black boxes with faulty battery errors.
ebooks can be viewed on a PC as well, you don't need a fancy portable device to read them. drm containing ebooks have done okay through public libraries (public libraries are the number one consumer of drm containing ebooks and audio books with drm) it is kinda sad, but as the article mentioned, the main source of online audio book piracy were from cd sets, or from 'other drmed sources' eg: public libraries allowing download of DRMed audio books. so, yeah, they're selling drm free stuff on their website now, because the pirates find public libraries a 'cheaper' source for pirating content. makes sense to me, why pay to pirate, when your local library can pay for you.
wal-mart.com started something a while back, 'order it online, pick it up at your local wal-mart for free'
so, really all they've done is taken it off the store shelves, and people buying them online pick them up as a special item from guest services at their local wal-mart. this basically allows them to piggyback their e-store on the nationwide distribution channels of wal-mart, without having to dedicate any shelf space, and giving their guest service counter people more to do. The cost of shipping goods for wal-mart on their own semi's rival what even the best parcel service can offer, it's even lower than the USPS because the usps goes to people's homes, the wal-mart semi's only go to wal-marts, and usually loaded with the daily shipment of stuff.
of course, the down side is you have to pay sales tax when you order from wal-mart.com which many states completely leave up the the tax payer to report if they ordered online or through catalogs. but, technically you're supposed to pay tax no matter who ships it, it's just really easy to say, buy an lcd tv, and not pay that $1,000 dollars worth of taxes at all, because most states don't track or monitor those things.
a couple years ago i suggested they start serving Google adsense ads (the unobtrusive text ads to which you refer)
I also suggested having 'corporate sponsors' similar to what PBS does with certain shows, instead of text ads.
Both ideas were shot down, and people instantly suggested they'd fork wikipedia to avoid ads/corporate sponsorship. I guess wikipedia could get desperate enough, to start having an annual telethon on television, but wikipedia is not PBS and they are not the MDA or other agencies that do telethons... PBS is the closest analogy to what wikipedia is trying to do, but again google adsense ads wouldn't 'corrupt' wikipedia, there is no reason not to use them, let google get their hands dirty providing the ads, and dealing with advertisers while you can finally spend money on things that the current wikipedia project can't cover.
If an article is deleted, all history, both of article edits, and discussion are fully deleted. so no, the past version wouldn't be in the history, if the article was deleted then rewritten.
well, it's tangential to linux gaming at least, so, I was reading in the cedega fourms that cedega is very CPU heavy, and was wondering, does cedega support multi-core/multi cpu? and does it work best with 2 cores? or would 4 core cpus work even better? I won't be building a system specifically for cedega soon, but knowing the answer will help me when the time comes. i already tried searching the forums and all i could find out was one person with a 4 cpu/core setup had to use a command to disable frequency scaling to 'double' his framerate in wow. he didn't mention if multi cores helped cedega any though.
"I do think there's something to the argument that Linux users have already self-selected themselves into a group who don't prioritize games highly (or they probably would have stuck with Windows). It's harder to justify that as a group to spend a lot of time and money publishing games to."
I was an early adopter of open source technology, for one simple reason, my isp kept 'auto disabling' my 'ethernet' connection every time i dialed in using windows. the only way for me to get internet wired to multiple computers was to use open source (I specifically used FreeBSD, since my attempts to get Linux working failed at the graphic card stage)
so, I am a gamer, and my disgust with windows and how hard it is to secure a windows pc on the internet these days means that I will Likely soon be building a linux gaming PC with the intent of using cedega. Still, cedega seems to be somewhat selective in the games it runs... but it supports one of my (online multi play) games well, so it will be worth it to not have to put a windows box on the net to play games.
there are wiki-nazis who go around quick deleting anything they deem 'unfit for an encyclopedia' quick deleting and the regular page deletion both destroy the any discussion or argument against deletion, and leave only the username of who quick-deleted or deleted the article. they give no quarter, they even remove 'requests for information' about companies etc. just because a person wants to know more about an 'online library provider' doesn't mean it's an ad :p
it's sick how fast any argument against the position of the wiki-nazis are destroyed completely, with no record of what the wiki-nazis have done. They even deleted the entry on wiki-nazis, because they can't handle the criticism against their position that wiki should be 'only what printed encyclopedias cover'
upload costs aren't more expensive than download costs, the reason for asynchronous design has nothing to do with cost, it has everything to do with making the service appear faster than it is to the typical user. if the normal user uploads very little and downloads very much (this is the way websites are designed, e-mail etc. only p2p applications are synchronous in bandwidth usage) then it will seem faster if the download link is designed fatter than the upload link. the fallacy is that this is designed that way due to cost, when i reality the bandwidth costs the same up or down, whichever needs to be bigger costs more, because you need more fiber optic cables and faster/better fiber optic routers.
it may be true that p2p applications shift the cost to the consumer, (or rather their isp) but I've already done comparisons where the 'typical' user did 60 GB a month in p2p (30 down 30 up) and the cost for doing that would at most wind up moving the price of top tier cable access to $100 a month. It's really hard to maintain a 1:1 ratio over cable with more than 60GB/ month because of the upload design, (i should know, I used to do 20/20gb a month on fansubs. I also played online video games, though, so i throttled the upload when playing games, and didn't download at all while playing the video games)
anyways, the point is that distributors of online content save astronomical costs by using p2p, and because you don't need to centralize the bandwidth the Actual cost of bandwidth becomes cheaper, because you don't need multiple OC-whatever connections multiplexed at a central distribution farm.
"Do you need expert skill and knowledge to run windows properly and safely or not?"
Actually yes, the argument you're making is that it's easy to run as administrator, use internet explorer, stop paying for the anti virus updates when the free trial period ends, or even unistall it because it slows your pc down, and you know you wouldn't think of ad-ware removal programs, or say, anti-botnet software, which clearly from anti virus vendors these are separate subscription requiring services beyond anti-virus.... and who can be bothered with a firewall that Asks Tough Questions about which program to give internet to...
so within i week to a month the 'typical' user will have their system nicely rooted by pick your favorite.
A. the Mafia
B. the Chinese
C. the Yakuza
D. the Russians
E. African hackers
F. 'script kiddies'
G. black hats not in the employ of any mafia style organization.
H. 'the sony rootkit fiasco'
security under Linux is too difficult? hrm, I would think an operating system where you need privileges to install software, and a password would be more secure than a (vista) that makes a little popup, or 'just lets it run' (windows ce, me, nt, 2k, xp, 98, 95, 3.11, etc et al)
"Linux is too difficult for the average person"
/log in reminder for the bad of memory, and they're good to go. e-mail, web, installing software via synaptic package manger, all easy as pie. playing card games, using open office, all easy...
if you mean having a password to log in and install software, then maybe. If you mean 'switching to linux' then definitely. if you mean 'troubleshooting things that don't work' then they're in the same boat as when windows doesn't behave nicely. as far as 'using' linux goes, it's not hard at all. just tape up a password
the place they're likely to run into problems (most likely) is playing dvds, burning dvds, sending documents from open office to a ms word user. trying to install mpeg encoders, trying to rip dvds, trying to play back drmed audio, etc... but for a lot of users not one of those issues is going to come up. it really depends on who's using the computer and what for. 'the internet' in general works a bit better with linux, so many people who 'just want to use this internet thing' convincing them to use linux isn't that hard. as long as someone else sets it up for them.
"ea, really. Name a famous hospital, one doing cutting edge work..... that isn't in the US"
name one eh? well these are only facilities doing STEM CELL Research mind you, but I removed all the US ones.
North America
U Toronto; Robarts Research Inst.; McMaster U, Ontario; Ottawa Health Research Institute
South America
U São Paulo
Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Laranjeiras
U Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland
Hammersmith Hospital, London; Imperial College London; King's College London
Medical Research Council (MRC); Regenerative Medicine Institute, Galway
Roslin Institute, Edinburgh; U Birmingham
U Cambridge; U College London
U Durham; U Edinburgh
U Glasgow; U Liverpool
U Manchester; U Newcastle
U Oxford; U Sheffield; U York
Continental Europe
Genopole, Evry, France; INSERM, Reims, France
IRB, Montpellier, France; U Valencia, Spain
Geneva U Hospitals, Switzerland; San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy
U Dusseldorf, Germany; U Cologne, Germany
Max-Planck Institute, Germany; Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Hubrecht Laboratory, The Netherlands; Catholic U Leuven, Belgium
Norwegian Center for Stem Cell Research; Odense U Hospital, Denmark
U Goteborg, Sweden; U Lund, Sweden
Karolinska Institute, Sweden; Mendel U, Czech Republic
Oulu U, Finland; U Tampere, Finland
U Helsinki, Finland
Mideast
Istanbul Memorial Hospital, Turkey; Hadassah Medical Center, Israel
The Technion, Israel; Jeddah BioCity, Saudi Arabia
Royan Institute, Iran
Asia-Pacific
U Beijing, China; Peking Union Medical College
Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Ctr, Beijing; Shanghai Second Medical University
Chinese National Human Genome Center Shanghai; Shanghai Huashan Institute
Xiangya Reproduction & Genetics Hospital, China; Sun Yat-sen U, China
National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan; Biomedical Engineering Center, Taiwan
Seoul National U, Korea; Miz-Medi Medical Research Center, Korea
Maria Biotechnology Institute, Korea; Stem Cell Research Centre, Korea
RIKEN Institute, Japan; Kyoto U, Japan
Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute, Japan; Keio U, Japan
Osaka U Medical School, Japan; Genome Institute of Singapore
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
U Kebangsaan, Malaysia; Mahidol U, Thailand
NCBS Bangalore, India; National Centre for Cell Science, India
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
Australia
Australian Stem Cell Centre; Howard Florey Institute
Monash U Stem Cell Labs; Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
NSW Stem Cell Network; Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
U Adelaide; U New South Wales
U Queensland; Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
interesting... when 'hughesnet' was part of directv originally the upload was done over dialup, is this 'new' satellite company using some sort of method to use both dial up and satellite? bigger dish, too, so it should offer more stable internet than the 'other' satellite providers. hugesnet with the fap is the worst, no clue about the one that targets gas stations etc, and the other satellite company has a 30 day roll-over fap, which is better if you say, only download linux and patches, worse if you have kids who like you tube..
considering how expensive hugesnet is their fap is ridiculous, they're printing money on the people who sign with them.
Sir, there are plenty of hackers who are entirely motivated by greed. Most of those, probably have nightmares about being shot if they talk about what they do every day, that earns them good money without working hard. If they're the type who don't have nightmares then sir you should be worried. Those Are the type of people who Enjoy their work, breaking the law, and have no qualms about staying hush hush. It didn't take long for organized crime to realize the potential of the internet, and depending on how you count the score they're taking a couple billion, to tens of billions each year from the people who earned it, to the people who knew how to steal it.
of course, this practice is just pr, and most of what's been done has done almost nothing about the crimes being committed online, or ways to stop them... this is all just practice preparing for what if scenarios that pale in comparison to what's really being done. exploits that install rootkits that can't be detected, neither while it's being installed, nor while it's running, not even by the best of anti virus or anti rootkit technology... that puts the data in places that can't even be read much less submitted to anti virus/anti rootkit vendors... really quite scary stuff.
I am in the process of trying to figure out how to submit just such a rootkit, right now I'm running dd with special options so it can read and write the whole cd-rom, then i have to figure out how to submit such a large file, i can use the unix split command to make them 19 mb a piece so i can e-mail it through gmail, but that's a lot of work... might be easier to find some place to upload it, that i could give a password to dl it from there... but dd is getting stuck at 133 MB even though i know the disc has more than 200 mb of data... k3b was only able to extract 3 of the 4 tracks... the 4th one is 'incomplete' but that doesn't prevent it from installing a rootkit on windows.
well yes, but you only have to store it on hd for 2 years. since then, burners for BD media will be cheap... i can't remember if hd-dvd does dual layer, so it's like 15-30 gb per movie. as for not playing it on standalone players, you can still play it back on a 'cheap' pc player with a bd-rom bd rom drives are still spendy too, they will be cheaper in 2 years though.
well, if the detector is the size of a penny, then yes probably pretty rare to detect cosmic rays... but if the detector is the size of a pc case, it will get hits every few seconds. cosmic rays ARE very common, and not all of them are magnetically deflected, or stopped by the atmosphere. they just happen to be very small, and the frequency of hits to a small target is less than to a large target. about 8% of the radiation humans are exposed to each year are from cosmic rays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray
so clearly to a human sized target, the impact ratio is significant.
aacs has been cracked, while BD+ hasn't so everything on 'hd-dvd' can be backed up to a computer, then sold on e-bay or whatever. you can even burn the backed up hd-dvd to a bd-r, if you're willing to pay $600 for a bd-writer...
"In other words, why is this news?"
To put it simply, the cost savings is astronomical, while 'hosting' companies have in the past 'played down' the 'cost savings of bittorrent' saying that with dial-up users etc, that a company would only save 50% of the cost. but the fact that a television broadcaster was able to save a DRASTIC amount of money (41,000 vs 2,000!!!) that's 1/20th the original cost! way better than 50% savings that have been bandied about by people expecting bt to not be a significant savings. if in a real world test, the real world savings are 96% of the cost, then think about how much You Tube would save by transparently included a BT client into their distribution system... if in 2006 they were paying a million dollars a month, they'd easily be saving about 20-30 million dollars a year now. all of a sudden serving ads to pay for it becomes Profitable. no need for huge VC investments to 'eek by'
sir, how expensive do you think bandwidth is? if bittorrent user A pays $50 a month for 'high speed cable internet' (after promotional fees end) and is downloading 30 GB a month, and uploading about the same GB/month... is the cable company taking a loss? no i don't thinks so.
why? well I'll cite an article, yes a bit old, but here is my point, a site where 13 million people download the same 15 MB video... (this is just the most popular my friend!) and Forbes estimates their bandwidth cost at $1 million dollars a month? they probably were serving 10x that many clips, or 1,950 million megabytes to put it simply, 1.81607902 petabytes of bandwidth costs $1 million dollars.
so now i did the math that means the combined upload/download costs of 32,000 'bittorrent' users doing 30 GB/30 GB a month, Vs $50 a month costs, guess what? the costs were $1,000,000 but the income taken is was $1,600,000 a month. true that's only the bandwidth costs, and cable companies have many other costs, maintaining the network hardware admins etc.. but my point is this, if $50 a month isn't enough they'll just go to $75 a month, if that's not enough they'll go to $100 a month... and keep in mind the bt users right now are few and far between, the typical user uses like 100 MB a month 'surfing websites' and maybe 1-5 gb a month for 'heavy you tube' users...
http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/27/video-youtube-myspace_cx_df_0428video.html
that would be why servers etc all use ECC type RAM, with that extra parity bit, it's easy to detect the corruption of memory, and re-do whatever needs to be redone. the difference is that now intel is putting in some sort of cosmic ray detector, rather than detecting what happens to the ram...
it seems painfully inefficient to 'redo' stuff that doesn't seem to be wrong just because a cosmic ray was detected. it's not like cosmic rays can be easily blocked, either, you could put the computers under a mountain, or design some sort of force field... that would drastically increase the electric draw.. the easiest solution is to simply stop shrinking transistors before they become unreliable.
about 2 hours after i read about the Tennessee library thing, i realized overdrive.com was selling their product to most public library systems in America, as well as seven other countries. But my public library isn't in a deal with overdrive, mainly because its a 'poor' county sigh, and it's not like people can just 'move' anywhere for any whim... in my case it's not advisable until after i get disability... moving now, when I've finally got a came manager who understands mental illness a little would be very counter productive. i can move, but there are waiting lists to get on, wait until my turn comes up, and then arrange to move and redo tons of paperwork... and with my disability hearing not yet come up, the other county could just reject me, saying to stay in my current county of residence.
it would be far easier for me to find a relative willing to give me their library card id so i can use a different county's 'deal' with overdrive.com. of course, that is well dishonest, but it's easier, and overdrive still makes it's money...
despite what many have said...
it really boils down to how does a galaxy form. compare a true 3-d object and nebula very round, nothing attracting anything to the middle. so nothing coalesces into planets, stars, and asteroids.
the trick here is the spiral galaxies all have a VERY large gravity source in the center. everything without sufficient angular momentum gets sucked in. so things in odd orbits, that aren't on a narrow plane... get sucked in to the middle. EVEN way out here on the edge of the spiral galaxy, things not on the plane of central gravity mass are imbalanced, and get sucked in, so stuff stays flat... round objects, stars, planets, gas giants form. even asteroid belts, even debris belts far outside the solar system. it all happened way before our star was even finished forming, when the super galaxies that formed all the heavy metals (uranium etc) dissolved into nebula and spiral and normal galaxies, and 'dark matter'
we're in spiral galaxy, so things tend to form in rings and other flat things. if you slowed something down, or put it in an odd orbit it would eventually reach the middle of the galaxy just from gravity. no angular momentum, and it's gone. the closer it gets the faster it goes. I'm not so sure about how non spiral galaxies are, but then the science on non spiral galaxies are far less, we basically only get the stars to look at, and the black holes if any...
"Is there anything that we as humans can make or do that doesn't utilize the ideas of other people?"
well that's a tough question, but I'd definitely go with spitting up milk. after all nobody teaches a baby to spit up, they're not using any other human idea, of what to make or do... a close second is 'wee ourselves' and 'poo ourselves in the pants' although doing so in a toilet is obviously using someone else's idea, and doing so intentionally then you have to wonder where you got past your training of not to do so intentionally and who's thought it was to go against something ingrained in children by their parents when they're most vulnerable.
this involves cryptography. let's say that you use 128-bit encryption that's 128 gates per bit of the key/unlock mechanism. 128 gates is nothing on a large, say graphic processor, even 20,000 gates is nothing on a large graphic or general purpose cpu. so how are you going to crack this when each chip has it's own key/lock pair? and the 'key' pair, only goes across a trusted network in another country?
yeah, this isn't dvd movie crypto where the 'client' has to have access to a way to decrypt the movie.
this is the kind of crypto that can't be broken without a backdoor. of course since epic is built into the original chip blue print, just 'masking off that part' renders in a cpu that only spits out 'error, epic not found, halt now' that locks the chip from running. depending on how the chip maker designs this into chips, it's not like they can just engineer a 'mod chip' that tells the cpu everything is okay and to run code... the cost of trying to circumvent 'epic' instantly becomes more than you'd get for say, a pirate dvd player chip.
this is a big deal, really big, because right now sub standard dvd players around the globe are using 'pirate' chips, and usually 'pirate' code to run those chips. Prior to epic they were resorting to programming the firmware of retail dvd players to try and thwart piracy, but then the pirates just waited for a system to come out with the 'real' chip, and steal the firmware so they could program the pirate players themselves. or even worse just program them with 'firmware' downloaded off the net from god only knows the source..
epic will be used by countless dvd and blu-ray chip fabs, so they can benefit from low cost Chinese fabrication, and never have to worry about the design being stolen again.
i've tried to think of ways to break epic, but if it's on chip, tearing apart the chip to see what gets written on chip (especially if it's Different For Every chip) isn't going to work, a mod chip solution could work, but then you need to design a special chip, that only works with revision x. of the 'real' chip, and the cost of doing this is going to be somewhere in the $50 per modchip if you only sell a few hundred thousand of the pirate chip... the cost goes down if you sell millions of units, but most pirate chip stuff is so substandard that it only gets bought when it's 'carrying' a name brand that it isn't, and they do try their best to catch that kind of fraud.... and a big old mod-chip that isn't in the 'real' system makes it a really easy spot for guys with x-ray viewers to screen the stuff. so then you have to hide the 'mod-chip' as say a flash reader
so yeah, epic will very likely reduce the amount of counterfeit dvd players etc. of course, they can always just counterfeit the pre-epic designs, but better blu-ray designs are going to come along, and those will all (i'm guessing) feature epic.