about the sig... the human body is composed of at least a trillion, upwards to anywhere near 10 trillion cells... noone has carefully cross-sectionend a human into individual cellular layers to count each cell so it's just a rough approximation but it's a hell of a lot more than a billion, that's for sure... a gopher has more than a billion cells, and I'm pretty sure someone has chopped up one of those to count each individual cell*...
*= or just because they'd watched too many caddyshack movies in a row.
out of the 11,029,120* schools I've attended only one actually had a real budget for it/computers, because it was in a high propertax area, with a low population... ahh resort country. a combination k-12 in one building (although k-6 was only attached by a corridor) with a combined total of about 1,400 students... they had one of those live fiber optic classrooms.. way back when fiber optics was unheard of... ('94 I believe) yeah a rural school who's property tax base includes some of the most coveted lake shore property in minnesota... they had an it budget all right.
*= a slight exageration, try moving the decimal over 6 places towards the 11...
Well, he signed on the profits Marvel raked in, not the movie studios... They studios had to 'buy' the rights to make the movie, and if they didn't make a profit at the box office they were hosed. but with $2,700,000,000. in gross raked in by the movie studios for daredevil, spiderman 1 and 2, xmen 1 and 2, and the incredible hulk... well, that's an incredible hulk of cash... supposedly marvel got 50 mil for spiderman 1... who's worldwide sales were $800,000,000 so likely he'll get 15 million on the estimated 150 million marvel collected in royalties... Remember marvel diesn't actually make the movies, they just sell the rights;) and selling rights to movies has always been a guarenteed profit business.
they already do ignore pings. they've always ignored pings. It always annoied me because I had to ping google or yahoo to see if I was lagging;) (usually I wasn't hense it was bliz)
20 512-way IA64 So what you're saying is that this 64-way linux setup is behind the game;) that this article is only news in that YAN computer company is offering a barely there mass CPU enterprise linux server;)
Used fake signup info, but how many anonymizer proxies were used? yahoo would have kept IP logs, and unlesss they used some form of proxy, or connected to insecure wap nodes it's pretty likely the the info retained by yahoo could be used to track down the likely person responsible... especially if they used carnivore/omnivore whatever to track the person down...
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To which I have to say "Do you see any short bald dudes with a big pot belly on any of these boxes either? No, it's all he-man looking dudes busting at the seams with muscles".
Grand parent could have been assuming you were standing on the grass, or could have been referring to your shoes... however you're entirely correct, concrete and asphault can easily withstand the psi of a person picking up even a bus... you don't run into a problem with ground deformation (beneath asphault) until you exceed 40 tons/Sq inch so, unless you're picking up a 400 ton dump truck, you're not at issue with PSI ratings. oh hey, and if you want to walk without deforming the ground a solid inch of tempered steel will do for single, loaded 400 ton truck, but you'd need titanium to handle a loaded 400 ton truck in EACH hand. (this assumes of course your bones are made of solid titanium, and your tendons are made of carbon nanotubes)
He was correct about the mismatch, the innovation that lead to such chips is the application of an 'insulator'* (he calls them pads) between the silicon and GaAs... At no time do Silicon and GaAs ever physically touch each other, for good reasons**.
*=using this term loosly it actually acts as an interconnect
**=which I can't think of at the moment, probably exploding processor, or corrosion issues possibly even a cpu that emits poison gas;)
Well, yeah they've got _some_ compression on the audio, I should have just said they don't tightly compress audio. For the compression ratios they're getting they may as well be using FLAC or some other Lossless codec, that or else go the other way and use really tightly compressed audio... they just kinda picked a compression method outa the hat for 'default' it doesn't seem to serve anyones interests, except whomever owns the format;)
in the terms of lossy encoding converting from lossy compression to lossy compression induces what's known as a 'generation' of loss. try this sometime it's easy. take a.jpg file 'open it' in an editor, 'save as' filename+1.jpg open filename+1.jpg and save as filename+2.jpg etc etc. now run a quick md5 sum on the images. they're different. you can't see the difference, but md5 checksums prove that you've introduced a generation of data loss. In analog, you get a generation of loss just for copying the file, With digital, a generation of loss only occurs when the digital file is Transcoded from a lossy format to a lossy format (even if it's the SAME lossy format)
It's called a directional antenna. Lets say you take a pretty big scyscraper, and point 24 directional antennas off it in 24 directions. that's 24 gbit of bandwith one 1 frequency spectrum, in 1 city, without any problem with interfearance (except for people trying to use gigabit wifi as a home LAN, instead of for internet through Gigabit wifi co.)
PC capture card makers might be under a different set of rules than Tivos etc... But I'm sure as long as they have a method whereby they try to prevent users from copying time shifted material (ATI for instance puts it's timeshifted video into one large raw mpeg stream, seperate from 'captured' video) There is no way built into ATI's apps to permanently save a time shifed program. it rewrites over the file as needed, for ati this kind of timeshifting mode is the kind where you can pause/rewind live tv etc... Anything recorded to the Hard drive as a permanent file might be stopped by the flag, except in PVRs, where access to that file is dictated by the PVRs own internal software. We'll see how the capture card makers decide to handle it, I'm pretty sure what ATI's strategy is (if flag = set, then 'timeshift' mode only) other gutsier manufacturers might say, use a 'proprietary' file format and have DRM capabilities built into their software, and if the flag is set it will only record into a DRMed extention. When people hack said DRM protection scheme, they go after websites sharing it, and say 'hey we did all we could, tried everything not our fault.' Both strategies are pretty strong legally speaking...
Actually, The cost of CDs has remained somewhat constant lately due do numerous lawsuits about price fixing etc, so because of inflation the cost of music has come down, eg: if you could afford to buy 20 CDs last year, this year you can afford to buy 21.. Keep in mind many many people's pay rases are directly tied to inflation (union workers, govt workers etc) and those are the people (besides teens) who do the bulk of CD-shopping... people working at fast foods and wal-marts etc are less 'likely'(unless they're teenaged and have a $0 COL) to have disposable income for as many cd's so they either buy them from second hand stores, or use p2p apps, or most likely of all, have 'friends' burn a copy of music they bought legally. The reason 'statistically' CD sales rose when napster poplarity rose (especially among p2p users) was because disenfranchised music listners could hear 'good' music online Before trying to pay for it. The record labels shot themselves in the foot with all the 'radio tampering' they had commited earlier on, to 'make stars' outa nobodies which lead to music listeners disenfrachisement, and the stagnation of the music market. Eventually P2P methods like napster would have eaten into the record labels bottom lines, because the wal-mart class workers would have stopped buying music entirely in favor of p2p. More affluent users would have initially made up for lost sales, but eventually some of those people would have 'enough' music and would feel they did need to buy anymore... Now, the ITunes store is still vitally important to the growth in the record label sales, because if you start to really the music of an artist then you're going to want to have a physical cd of that person's music for the extras like cover art, etc. So there you go, p2p left unchecked would eventually have a detrimental effect on possible revenues, however, the effect is generally minimal, and only a cold herted greedy bastard would really care so much about something that most artists* wrote and performed to share the feelings and experience to their listeners first and formost, and to make them money and fame as an afterthought.
*=I say most artists because, remember the average performing artist makes about 5k/per year LESS than the average McDonald's employee. Some are in it for the money, some only want fame, and money be damned as long as they get famous. some are in it just because they love performing, and some are in it because they believe in a dream.
So intel lost billions on the itanic. Big deal. Intel has billions in cash reserves even now as we speak... recover? AMD doesn't even Have a cash reserve. Intel doesn't need to 'recover' from the flop that was itanic, they need to recover from maketing/HR decisions that have left them leaderless and without a plan going forward. Intel can have more cash reserves than anyone, but without a plan going forward they're just going to be some ATARI waiting to be replaced by NINTENDO. Note: I am not an Intel employee, therfore Intel may well have a plan going forward, they may well have R&D going on as part of a plan to remain the market leader. All I know is they've dropped the ball on both their itanic and pentium 5 roadmaps that they had released years ago... And I know they've lost a lot of talented people in R&D and managment... AMD is gaining new talent in R&D and managment, or at least they did when they aquired parts of the DEC Alpha team. Intel needs to recover not from one failed processor, but rather from internal problems that have lead to the current state of stagnation within the company.
The great great gandparent was talking about archiving DVD-quality video. Mpeg-4 is not intended for 'dvd quality' video, although in fact you can encode DVD quality into Mpeg-4 and create something that scales to 1080 Better than current DVD technology, however at that point it no longer 'saves' oodles of space. Currently Mpeg-4 is used by hobbyists(and pirates) mainly, who in general don't have access to undamaged* video files, and as a result create sub-par Mpeg-4 files. So Unless you want to make 'vhs' grade digital archives, there is no reason to transcode to mpeg-4 you don't have access to the original source so any transcode will drop quality. If you have more than 400 DVDs in your personal library then you have the cash to up the data storage to any number of TB as needed... and if you're 'pirating' then hell who cares you're gonna be trying to make the files as small as posible, so there ain't a chance in hell they'll be DVD quality. so you might as well burn the mpeg-4's to DVD-r and screw the RAID array...
*=losslessly compressed There are only 2 ways to 'obtain' undamaged video frames. 1. take analog print, scan into computer with your choice of lossless format (HUFFVUY comes to mind, to 'keep it video' and avoid compiling a billion image files into one video file) 2. drop half a million on a camera like This one In some cases DVD authoring companies don't even get access to the original prints, which results in shoddy sub-standard lossily transcoded garbage akin to DivX files being traded on the net.
Try making a Full resolution DivX stream some time. Here a side by side comparision... Channel 41 (oct 22).mpg Video Compression Mpeg-2 Resolution 480x480 2.30Mbit/sec, Audio compression MPEG layer 3 Size 1,224,147 KB Channel 41 (oct 29).avi Video Compression MPEG-4 (DivX) Resolution 480x360 Audio compression Mpeg-layer 3 Size 1,091,350 KB Despite using a 12.5% lower resolution the file size is still a mere 11% smaller... side by side real world comparision... of mpeg-2 Vs DivX at comperable resolutions. DivX can in fact produce lower bit-rate lower res files than mpeg-2 and lower res and lower bitrate look 'better' than mpeg-2 but at higher resolution, and Higher bitrates MPEG-4 can't compete with mpeg 2, because it was NEVER designed to encode full resolution data streams.
It has to do With Referrer handling. You for whatever reason aren't telling the websites you go to who linked you to them. I clicked the link straight off of slashdot, and slashdot.org was used as 'referrer' by my browser. therefor thier server thought you were someone who had gotten the urly some other way, while they knew i came from/.
The broadcast flag will allow PRV units to record the video 'for time shifting useage' what it will probabbly prevent is allowing you to 'copy' that data to a Personal Video Player/PC etc... Time shifting is a non-infringing use, The big thing they want is for PVRs to see the broadcast flag and say 'okay you can timeshift this event, but you can't copy it off my drive...' Of course, hackers could gain access to that content anyways, but they don't want any 'official' way for people to access the data except by hitting 'play'
It doesn't matter how 'good' DivX encoding is, Mpeg-2 is a lossy format. Since mpeg-2 is a lossy format, conversion to any other lossy format (including mpeg-2) will result in 'further' degredation of the video quality. in the case of DivX since DivX and mpeg-2 throw away different bits of data, the lossy conversion will be worse, than encoding from a lossless codec like HuffYUV. So to anwser your question, converting to DivX will result in both a generational loss, and some mpeg-4 specific loss of quality. Would DivX be smaller? in the same resolution the space saving is marginal*, you actually need to down scale resolution to achieve 'impressive' down scaling of files. Also, to make the 'best' mpeg-4s you'd need access to a lossless master of the video. Converting mpeg-2 to mpeg-4 is like taking an mp3 and 'converting' it into an ogg vorbis. And Granny Ogg Doesn't approve** of transcoding mp3's to.OGG.
*= Properly compressed MPEG-2 streams are only 10% larger than comperable (read same resolution) MPEG-4 stream, however DVDs don't usually compress the audio at all, and generally don't compress the video as much as it 'could' be. Also, DivX 'scales' better than mpeg-2 making a 200% magnification mpeg-4 'appear' better than a 200% magnification mpeg-2... **= If you wouldn't like being turned into a toad, you'd better listen to Granny Ogg.
Yeah It could take almost 40 ms less to load the page. that's.04 seconds BTW. My current latency to Google 47MS to my router.2ms So assuming you're on the lan over at google, your latency should be around.2 to 7 MS depending on length of ethernet, number of switches you're hopping through etc... I'm going 20 feet, to get.2 MS, I'm assuming that google is in a building larger than 20'x20' wide, so presumablly if you've got 1000 feet of cable, and latency remains constant per foot of ethernet the latency could rise to 2 ms. but that's not considering the possiblitiy they're using lower latency fiber optic netowrks for thier entire lan.
Sure it can be automatic! just have the player contact the mother MPAA ship^H^H^Herver every week to 'report back every movie you've watched, every cd you've played' proceed to sell that data to Columbia house so they can send you a custom movie selection list... based on the kind of movies you play most often, and then see if you've got a compromized key and need a firmware update... oh, but you've got to be a registered user, and if your movie watching data gets supsicius maybe they'll think you're working on compromising keys and then they'll come in the big black vans and helicoptors to beat the truth into you that you're an awful pirate... or something like that.
Except the bios gets this information from the chip. and the chip has been tampered with, to make it tell the bios it's a faster chip than originally sold as... and no the chip won't burn up... well unless they took the slowest chips, and remarked them as the fastest... normally what you'd get is a few chips that worked fine, and a bunch of chips that are being under voltaged, which would result in a lower stability rate, more crashing etc. Remeber the only physical difference between a 2100+ and a 2600+ is a handful of leads on the top of the cpu, that were cut by a laser. Oh and generally the 'fastest' cpus come from the 'sweet spot' of the silicon, where the quality of the silicon is purest... So I imagine that on a volume of a million they probabbly had a sophisticated process going on to rebridge cut leads...
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about the sig... the human body is composed of at least a trillion, upwards to anywhere near 10 trillion cells... noone has carefully cross-sectionend a human into individual cellular layers to count each cell so it's just a rough approximation but it's a hell of a lot more than a billion, that's for sure... a gopher has more than a billion cells, and I'm pretty sure someone has chopped up one of those to count each individual cell*...
*= or just because they'd watched too many caddyshack movies in a row.
out of the 11,029,120* schools I've attended only one actually had a real budget for it/computers, because it was in a high propertax area, with a low population... ahh resort country. a combination k-12 in one building (although k-6 was only attached by a corridor) with a combined total of about 1,400 students... they had one of those live fiber optic classrooms.. way back when fiber optics was unheard of... ('94 I believe) yeah a rural school who's property tax base includes some of the most coveted lake shore property in minnesota... they had an it budget all right.
*= a slight exageration, try moving the decimal over 6 places towards the 11...
Well, he signed on the profits Marvel raked in, not the movie studios... They studios had to 'buy' the rights to make the movie, and if they didn't make a profit at the box office they were hosed. but with $2,700,000,000. in gross raked in by the movie studios for daredevil, spiderman 1 and 2, xmen 1 and 2, and the incredible hulk... well, that's an incredible hulk of cash... supposedly marvel got 50 mil for spiderman 1... who's worldwide sales were $800,000,000 so likely he'll get 15 million on the estimated 150 million marvel collected in royalties... ;) and selling rights to movies has always been a guarenteed profit business.
Remember marvel diesn't actually make the movies, they just sell the rights
they already do ignore pings. they've always ignored pings. It always annoied me because I had to ping google or yahoo to see if I was lagging ;) (usually I wasn't hense it was bliz)
20 512-way IA64 ;) that this article is only news in that YAN computer company is offering a barely there mass CPU enterprise linux server ;)
So what you're saying is that this 64-way linux setup is behind the game
Used fake signup info, but how many anonymizer proxies were used? yahoo would have kept IP logs, and unlesss they used some form of proxy, or connected to insecure wap nodes it's pretty likely the the info retained by yahoo could be used to track down the likely person responsible... especially if they used carnivore/omnivore whatever to track the person down...
To which I have to say "Do you see any short bald dudes with a big pot belly on any of these boxes either? No, it's all he-man looking dudes busting at the seams with muscles".
Doh!
Grand parent could have been assuming you were standing on the grass, or could have been referring to your shoes... however you're entirely correct, concrete and asphault can easily withstand the psi of a person picking up even a bus... you don't run into a problem with ground deformation (beneath asphault) until you exceed 40 tons/Sq inch so, unless you're picking up a 400 ton dump truck, you're not at issue with PSI ratings. oh hey, and if you want to walk without deforming the ground a solid inch of tempered steel will do for single, loaded 400 ton truck, but you'd need titanium to handle a loaded 400 ton truck in EACH hand. (this assumes of course your bones are made of solid titanium, and your tendons are made of carbon nanotubes)
He was correct about the mismatch, the innovation that lead to such chips is the application of an 'insulator'* (he calls them pads) between the silicon and GaAs... At no time do Silicon and GaAs ever physically touch each other, for good reasons**.
;)
*=using this term loosly it actually acts as an interconnect
**=which I can't think of at the moment, probably exploding processor, or corrosion issues possibly even a cpu that emits poison gas
Well, yeah they've got _some_ compression on the audio, I should have just said they don't tightly compress audio. For the compression ratios they're getting they may as well be using FLAC or some other Lossless codec, that or else go the other way and use really tightly compressed audio... they just kinda picked a compression method outa the hat for 'default' it doesn't seem to serve anyones interests, except whomever owns the format ;)
in the terms of lossy encoding converting from lossy compression to lossy compression induces what's known as a 'generation' of loss. try this sometime it's easy. take a .jpg file 'open it' in an editor, 'save as' filename+1.jpg open filename+1.jpg and save as filename+2.jpg etc etc. now run a quick md5 sum on the images. they're different. you can't see the difference, but md5 checksums prove that you've introduced a generation of data loss. In analog, you get a generation of loss just for copying the file, With digital, a generation of loss only occurs when the digital file is Transcoded from a lossy format to a lossy format (even if it's the SAME lossy format)
Tivo Is the PVR in most satelite bundled systems...
not true for cable, but in the case of satelite, it's Tivo...
It's called a directional antenna. Lets say you take a pretty big scyscraper, and point 24 directional antennas off it in 24 directions. that's 24 gbit of bandwith one 1 frequency spectrum, in 1 city, without any problem with interfearance (except for people trying to use gigabit wifi as a home LAN, instead of for internet through Gigabit wifi co.)
PC capture card makers might be under a different set of rules than Tivos etc... But I'm sure as long as they have a method whereby they try to prevent users from copying time shifted material (ATI for instance puts it's timeshifted video into one large raw mpeg stream, seperate from 'captured' video) There is no way built into ATI's apps to permanently save a time shifed program. it rewrites over the file as needed, for ati this kind of timeshifting mode is the kind where you can pause/rewind live tv etc... Anything recorded to the Hard drive as a permanent file might be stopped by the flag, except in PVRs, where access to that file is dictated by the PVRs own internal software. We'll see how the capture card makers decide to handle it, I'm pretty sure what ATI's strategy is (if flag = set, then 'timeshift' mode only) other gutsier manufacturers might say, use a 'proprietary' file format and have DRM capabilities built into their software, and if the flag is set it will only record into a DRMed extention. When people hack said DRM protection scheme, they go after websites sharing it, and say 'hey we did all we could, tried everything not our fault.' Both strategies are pretty strong legally speaking...
Actually, The cost of CDs has remained somewhat constant lately due do numerous lawsuits about price fixing etc, so because of inflation the cost of music has come down, eg: if you could afford to buy 20 CDs last year, this year you can afford to buy 21.. Keep in mind many many people's pay rases are directly tied to inflation (union workers, govt workers etc) and those are the people (besides teens) who do the bulk of CD-shopping... people working at fast foods and wal-marts etc are less 'likely'(unless they're teenaged and have a $0 COL) to have disposable income for as many cd's so they either buy them from second hand stores, or use p2p apps, or most likely of all, have 'friends' burn a copy of music they bought legally. The reason 'statistically' CD sales rose when napster poplarity rose (especially among p2p users) was because disenfranchised music listners could hear 'good' music online Before trying to pay for it. The record labels shot themselves in the foot with all the 'radio tampering' they had commited earlier on, to 'make stars' outa nobodies
which lead to music listeners disenfrachisement, and the stagnation of the music market.
Eventually P2P methods like napster would have eaten into the record labels bottom lines, because the wal-mart class workers would have stopped buying music entirely in favor of p2p. More affluent users would have initially made up for lost sales, but eventually some of those people would have 'enough' music and would feel they did need to buy anymore...
Now, the ITunes store is still vitally important to the growth in the record label sales, because if you start to really the music of an artist then you're going to want to have a physical cd of that person's music for the extras like cover art, etc.
So there you go, p2p left unchecked would eventually have a detrimental effect on possible revenues, however, the effect is generally minimal, and only a cold herted greedy bastard would really care so much about something that most artists* wrote and performed to share the feelings and experience to their listeners first and formost, and to make them money and fame as an afterthought.
*=I say most artists because, remember the average performing artist makes about 5k/per year LESS than the average McDonald's employee. Some are in it for the money, some only want fame, and money be damned as long as they get famous. some are in it just because they love performing, and some are in it because they believe in a dream.
So intel lost billions on the itanic. Big deal. Intel has billions in cash reserves even now as we speak... recover? AMD doesn't even Have a cash reserve. Intel doesn't need to 'recover' from the flop that was itanic, they need to recover from maketing/HR decisions that have left them leaderless and without a plan going forward. Intel can have more cash reserves than anyone, but without a plan going forward they're just going to be some ATARI waiting to be replaced by NINTENDO. Note: I am not an Intel employee, therfore Intel may well have a plan going forward, they may well have R&D going on as part of a plan to remain the market leader. All I know is they've dropped the ball on both their itanic and pentium 5 roadmaps that they had released years ago... And I know they've lost a lot of talented people in R&D and managment... AMD is gaining new talent in R&D and managment, or at least they did when they aquired parts of the DEC Alpha team.
Intel needs to recover not from one failed processor, but rather from internal problems that have lead to the current state of stagnation within the company.
The great great gandparent was talking about archiving DVD-quality video. Mpeg-4 is not intended for 'dvd quality' video, although in fact you can encode DVD quality into Mpeg-4 and create something that scales to 1080 Better than current DVD technology, however at that point it no longer 'saves' oodles of space. Currently Mpeg-4 is used by hobbyists(and pirates) mainly, who in general don't have access to undamaged* video files, and as a result create sub-par Mpeg-4 files. So Unless you want to make 'vhs' grade digital archives, there is no reason to transcode to mpeg-4 you don't have access to the original source so any transcode will drop quality. If you have more than 400 DVDs in your personal library then you have the cash to up the data storage to any number of TB as needed... and if you're 'pirating' then hell who cares you're gonna be trying to make the files as small as posible, so there ain't a chance in hell they'll be DVD quality. so you might as well burn the mpeg-4's to DVD-r and screw the RAID array...
*=losslessly compressed There are only 2 ways to 'obtain' undamaged video frames. 1. take analog print, scan into computer with your choice of lossless format (HUFFVUY comes to mind, to 'keep it video' and avoid compiling a billion image files into one video file) 2. drop half a million on a camera like This one In some cases DVD authoring companies don't even get access to the original prints, which results in shoddy sub-standard lossily transcoded garbage akin to DivX files being traded on the net.
Try making a Full resolution DivX stream some time.
Here a side by side comparision...
Channel 41 (oct 22).mpg
Video Compression Mpeg-2 Resolution 480x480 2.30Mbit/sec, Audio compression MPEG layer 3 Size 1,224,147 KB
Channel 41 (oct 29).avi
Video Compression MPEG-4 (DivX) Resolution 480x360 Audio compression Mpeg-layer 3
Size 1,091,350 KB
Despite using a 12.5% lower resolution the file size is still a mere 11% smaller... side by side real world comparision... of mpeg-2 Vs DivX at comperable resolutions.
DivX can in fact produce lower bit-rate lower res files than mpeg-2 and lower res and lower bitrate look 'better' than mpeg-2 but at higher resolution, and Higher bitrates MPEG-4 can't compete with mpeg 2, because it was NEVER designed to encode full resolution data streams.
It has to do With Referrer handling. You for whatever reason aren't telling the websites you go to who linked you to them. I clicked the link straight off of slashdot, and slashdot.org was used as 'referrer' by my browser. therefor thier server thought you were someone who had gotten the urly some other way, while they knew i came from /.
The broadcast flag will allow PRV units to record the video 'for time shifting useage' what it will probabbly prevent is allowing you to 'copy' that data to a Personal Video Player/PC etc... Time shifting is a non-infringing use, The big thing they want is for PVRs to see the broadcast flag and say 'okay you can timeshift this event, but you can't copy it off my drive...' Of course, hackers could gain access to that content anyways, but they don't want any 'official' way for people to access the data except by hitting 'play'
It doesn't matter how 'good' DivX encoding is, Mpeg-2 is a lossy format. Since mpeg-2 is a lossy format, conversion to any other lossy format (including mpeg-2) will result in 'further' degredation of the video quality. in the case of DivX since DivX and mpeg-2 throw away different bits of data, the lossy conversion will be worse, than encoding from a lossless codec like HuffYUV. .OGG.
So to anwser your question, converting to DivX will result in both a generational loss, and some mpeg-4 specific loss of quality. Would DivX be smaller? in the same resolution the space saving is marginal*, you actually need to down scale resolution to achieve 'impressive' down scaling of files. Also, to make the 'best' mpeg-4s you'd need access to a lossless master of the video. Converting mpeg-2 to mpeg-4 is like taking an mp3 and 'converting' it into an ogg vorbis. And Granny Ogg Doesn't approve** of transcoding mp3's to
*= Properly compressed MPEG-2 streams are only 10% larger than comperable (read same resolution) MPEG-4 stream, however DVDs don't usually compress the audio at all, and generally don't compress the video as much as it 'could' be. Also, DivX 'scales' better than mpeg-2 making a 200% magnification mpeg-4 'appear' better than a 200% magnification mpeg-2...
**= If you wouldn't like being turned into a toad, you'd better listen to Granny Ogg.
Yeah It could take almost 40 ms less to load the page. that's .04 seconds BTW. .2ms .2 to 7 MS depending on length of ethernet, number of switches you're hopping through etc... I'm going 20 feet, to get .2 MS, I'm assuming that google is in a building larger than 20'x20' wide, so presumablly if you've got 1000 feet of cable, and latency remains constant per foot of ethernet the latency could rise to 2 ms. but that's not considering the possiblitiy they're using lower latency fiber optic netowrks for thier entire lan.
My current latency to Google 47MS to my router
So assuming you're on the lan over at google, your latency should be around
Actually What I got was Dear Slashdotter,
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We're sorry we missed you.
In your infinite bounty, you have brought down our server.
Please check back once the
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Sure it can be automatic! just have the player contact the mother MPAA ship^H^H^Herver every week to 'report back every movie you've watched, every cd you've played' proceed to sell that data to Columbia house so they can send you a custom movie selection list... based on the kind of movies you play most often, and then see if you've got a compromized key and need a firmware update... oh, but you've got to be a registered user, and if your movie watching data gets supsicius maybe they'll think you're working on compromising keys and then they'll come in the big black vans and helicoptors to beat the truth into you that you're an awful pirate...
or something like that.
Except the bios gets this information from the chip.
and the chip has been tampered with, to make it tell the bios it's a faster chip than originally sold as... and no the chip won't burn up... well unless they took the slowest chips, and remarked them as the fastest... normally what you'd get is a few chips that worked fine, and a bunch of chips that are being under voltaged, which would result in a lower stability rate, more crashing etc.
Remeber the only physical difference between a 2100+ and a 2600+ is a handful of leads on the top of the cpu, that were cut by a laser. Oh and generally the 'fastest' cpus come from the 'sweet spot' of the silicon, where the quality of the silicon is purest...
So I imagine that on a volume of a million they probabbly had a sophisticated process going on to rebridge cut leads...