Yes you probably *Can* get it to work; but forget about writing data to the CD-RW. Some CD-RW drives support packet writing, this allows random access for writing to the drive, but it is NOT very fast and there is a limited life-span of the media which may come quickly into play. (Check your disks, some are labeled with the number of re-writes allowed, it is quite low for some, only 10K.). For a mostly read only storage medium this isn't a problem, for a boot disk which would require writing during the process (assuming the packet driver is loaded earlier enough) this could restrict you to a few hundred boots. (remember, if it overwrites the same data several times during 1 boot it will severly restrict the number, etc.).
Creating a RAM drive earlier on and writing to that, and forcing a flush of that to CD-RW during shutdown may be workable.
Windows isn't designed nicely for that though.
Atleast Unix can be tailored for such an environment, as well BeOS is -excelent- in that scenario. They used to sell a demo disc that was designed that way. (only allowed sasving to floppy.). It was a bit slow in accessing the drive though, CD-ROM drives are not good at random access. They are much, much better at large data transfers. (Even on the newer drives random access sucks compared to a hd).
Balsa is a light wood with good tensile strength. It can be frexed significantly before breaking and will return to its former shape unless broken. On the other hand Carbon or Kevlar would be a better choice for a small plane to make a difficult crossing. But their point isn't to make a difficult crossing, their point is to do it in a model, and they need to be small and light.
I'm left-handed and use a mouse right-handed, it is very common. I find it amusing when a right-handed person uses the mouse in their left hand. (I've met several). All of them say it allows them to work better.
There is something about a mouse that allows it to be used nicely by the non-dominant hand, but it does take some getting use to. (Especially if you have been using it in your other hand for a long time).
I won't buy a left-handed mouse, for one I am not use to it, but also oher people use my computer and I would not wish to inconvenience them significantly. But, my latest mouse is not what I would call Ergonomic, it could readily be used in the left hand.
If you can spoof an IP and successfully transfer a movie file *FROM* the spoofed address, please let me know how.. we could re-implement the idea and do it intentionally...
I could be wrong; I don't have a strong background in FAA regulations. But I was, several years ago, talking with someone building a laptop/GPS unit for use in Airplanes. It was my understanding that he was only able to fly it in an aircraft deemed Experimental. It was my further understanding that it applied to all non-approved equipment. It would be my expectation that it would not be within regulations to use an Experimental craft to take people skydiving...
Maybe where you live. I recently read an article outlining a recall of the 5point system in Dodge Viper as it was defective and would be replaced, owners were encouraged to switch to the 3point belt (probably easily swapped by the dealer) until they had a new version of the 5point in the system.).
Now, maybe it is just the Canadian version of the Viper... but I doubt it.
Sounds a lot like the phonecall I got for my 10K/km maintenance. I think I was over by about 100km. Had it not been for the fact I was in recently before that to have something else looked at I would have been really concerned...
Even better; establish a company with his IP (fair enough); but run away from the company after trashing the place because you realized you don't personally own the code any more.
You want me to startup a company with you; and you want me to allow you, whenever you feel like it, to walk away with the IP used to start the company and expect me to NOT sue?
Get Real.
If he had done this because they wouldn't let him put banner ads in NOBODY on Slashdot would be agreeing with him.
If he wanted to control it he should have made sure he had controlling interest in the company at all times.
The point many people seemed to miss, and, the correct aspect of the animation (which someone said was wrong) is that the Solarsail is only used to effect orbit.
Period.
That is all a Solarsail is designed to do. It does it extreemly efficiently. To the point where if the craft is in a stable orbit it can easily be accelterated (increasing it's orbit) or decelterated (decreasing it's orbit). No further push required as it will maintain that orbit like any other object in the solar system.
(Hence the reason the animation shows the sail at the 'wrong' angle to reflect any energy while it continues to orbit. It is only when the orbit is increased, or decreased the the sail is used to reflect the energy received. (either at an angle to accelerate, or decelerate the craft; again increasing or decreasing it's orbit.).
I disagree with that.. Canada didn't get into telecommunications late (Nortel is, aside frm todays Layoffs) one of the big companies in the field and is Canadian.
Canada uses microwave links for longdistance across Canada for years, it has been replaced by fiber.
Our phone system is significantly better (Signal to Noise ratio; I remember hearing people complain theycouldn't get reliable 14,400 connections parts of the U.S. ~10 years ago) than a significant amount of the U.S. and the best easily competes with the best in the U.S.
We have high-speed net access in population areas U.S. companies wouldn't generally even consider doing it for.
Problem is, the price of consoles depends on where it is sold, hence quoting it's price in a given currency. It is a little annoying, a comparison chart should be included, and a note as to why the prices are given as such.).
I'm Canadian, and spent almost 2 months in the U.S. recently, I noticed that the price of pop/soda (Pepsi/Coke...) was higher than in Canada. Well, the 'price' was almost the same, but, if you factored in the current exchange rate it was probably 25%-30% more expensive to buy it in the U.S.
(Actually, almost everything which is under $25 is more expensive in the U.S. after doing a price conversion; above $25 it varies depending on product category)
I just purchased a Dreamcast a few weeks ago, was away for a month and needed something to do in my spare time. I figured the $100 was well spent even thought it was discontinued. (I spent a lot of time playing Resident Evil 2).
The graphics are great, the controller is decent (some people have complained, but I despise most other controllers, so this one isn't bad).
What I want is a PC-Hardware compatibility catridge.. something I can plug my VGA monitor, my keyboard, and mouse into. Why? (Dreamcast has VGA out with an awkward pinnout). All of this is available seperately, but I'd love the whole set in one little box.
And I'd like to find the 10baseT adapter somewhere...
My last item on my wishlist is an MP3 player that is good enough I could drop my Dreamcast in the trunk to play MP3s in my car.
(The hardware is damn near perfect for such a concept; really, at $100 it is cheap, the controllers are high-speed serial (2mbit) and support an LCD panel (in VMU) already. So, a little redesign and rebuild and one should have a faceplate with easy, full controls... now if I could only hack hardware.
Actually, this is one of the few of his stories I appreciated.
I agree with you that choosing the types of stories I want to see, etc. But, I've intentially chosen wide so I would be exposed to more than an extreemly narrow range of topics.
It is the synergy of otherwise unrelated news and information which can bring new ideas. How many people do you think fail to see this and instead severly restrict the type of news (here, or elsewhere) that they are exposed to?
On the other hand, if I never see another sports score I'm sure I'll survive...
I disagree. Where I live a large number of System Administrators, Programmers, etc take the bus. Why? It's a 20-25 minute bus ride, its $60 month. It is a 20-25 car ride, and $100+ for parking.
Don't know about you, but the economics suggest bussing is cheaper, and for this particular area efficient. (from the edge of the city, right to downtown by express bus. after the first 10 stops it doesn't stop till it's downtown.)
Lots of riders have cell phones. It is rahther strange to hear a phone ring on a bus the first or second time...
75 Minutes. Hmm. That isn't actually very much time. I mean it is quite a bit of time to be standing at the front lecturing, but to have students login and poke around? That will consume a large amount of time. I'd set aside 20 minutes for that. If 20 minutes isn't enough, too bad, they won't get much done anyway. Better to show them as much as possible. (Run into a minor problem and you can easily consume 20 minutes trying to get users logged in. Horrible waste of time if you have more to say. Say what you have to first, then try and do hands on demo.).
Possibly pick a couple of people to help you demo it, they don't have to know BSD, probably good if 1 or 2 don't, have people watchover their shoulders as they login and look around. Show them X-Windows too. As mentioned by someelse, show it to them over a network. When they compare it to Terminal Server or Citrix correct them on it.
Citrix and Terminal Server are kind of like pcAnywhere, screenscrapers. (They just use virtual screens). X-WIndows sends the drawing commands. Much more efficient, butter use of resources, and, unless bitmps are being sen just simply a better design. (Bitmaps are a hog for everyone, X, Citrix, etc).
Keep pushing them with the year the technology was available.
As the capabilities of Windows has increased to the point where there isn't much difference sitting in front of the screen it bares mentioning that most of Unix technologies have been around for years.
You want Replication, or High-Availability, or Both.
High-Availability generally means your running in an environment where your trying to eliminate any single point of failure, but also that in the event of a failure you wish to be up as seemless as possible, regardless that a very large amount of high throughput transactions have been occuring. Enough that repliaction to a distant location isn't very feasable. (atleast not as a primary solution).
Filesystem, or Database replication is quite feasable if, after looking at the amount of throuput on your database you could transfer the data fast enough you wouldn't get behind. (In many cases this is accomplished by segmenting the data so no 2 sites could update the same data.).
Filesystem replication is similar. You can't expect to be able to update a file locally, and remotely without having to deal with the consequences of simultaniously updating 2 files differently at 2 different locations.
If you can figure out how to partition everything so this wouldn't be a significantly issue then its easy...
I just purchased a DVD player on Sunday. I've been checking some information about it on the Internet since and have come across some interesting information.
I purchased a Sylvania DV-2000. This DVD player uses the Zoran chipset (Vaddir III I believe). This is common in low-end DVD players (and some others as well). Has excelent picture quality. Plays CD-R/RWs as well, and plays MP3s. Why is this relevent to this discussion? Because it uses the same chipset that the Durun/Hokka, etc. (Not hard to tell, Zoran includes 2 games on the DVD chipset itself, Othello and Tentris. (NOTHING special, no sound effects even). Do a search on google and you'll find a huge list of players that use Zoran (bets search is DVD and Tetris or Othello; it isn't common to anything else).
As an MP3 player it isn't bad, but it doesn't shuffle/randomize. It looks like it supports ISO9660 long filenames, but I haven't tested that yet. Anything with a funny character (tilde for instance) reverts to "SONG 001, SONG 002" etc...
I'll be doing some further tests, but to deal with the lack of randomization I was going to create multiple directories pointing to the same files, but in a different order. Not perfect, but might work ok.)
I've seen a number of DVD players marketed on the net with this chipset that also support the Sega games as described. It does look like the product is legit, licensing issues aside.
Not to say that it would be easy, but, you could do a spectrum analysis of an MP3, and, within certain parameters the same song from different sources, with different encoders would have the same, or highly-similar results.
A remix isn't legal to be distributed without permission from the original copyright holders.
(Of the song/lyrics, etc).
The only 'exception' for derivitive works is something like a parody. While dependant on the existance of the original material is generally something new.
Otherwise it is still partially covered by the original copyright.
Yes, it probably would contribute to the disapearance of free music. (Atleast any which is not approved of by copyright holder).
Yes, a percentage of it would slip underground to be forgotten. But it would slow stuff like Napster considerably since it could, in theory, sample available music from each subscriber and removed any subscribers with Copyrighted material.
None of this is a suprise to me. I was telling my girlfriend I expected to see something like this show up soon.
Whether or not we think RIAA and its members overcharge for CD's (they do!), they do have the right to protect their stuff.
I would rather see them use this to limit something like Napster, than to hunt down and sue individuals.
Which they could also do.
I won't make people happy saying this, but I prefer they do this than SDMI. SDMI limits fair use, this limits distribution.
I have no vested interest in the Election in the United States, but these people are nuts.
Example: They believe that data was rigged in one instance because it would require that 10 people, workin for 3 days at 12hrs a day would have to key more than 1 digit per second.
220,000 numbers, * 7 digits each
1,540,000 / 10 people
154,000 / 3 days
51,333.3 digits per day each.
Which works out to 4,277.78 digits per hour, or, 71.3 digits per minute.
Or, 1.188 digits per second.
So, they figure people hired to do data entry can only do 14.26 words per minute?
Even assuming they are not optimum and could not keep up high rate for the full 12hrs, I would expect the average to be potentially hire than this, not lower.
And this would be the same company which has an application (Microsoft Excel 2K) create multiple entries on the task bar for each file open. (Yes, multiple spreadsheets open adds more 'applications' to the taskbar...)
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Creating a RAM drive earlier on and writing to that, and forcing a flush of that to CD-RW during shutdown may be workable.
Windows isn't designed nicely for that though.
Atleast Unix can be tailored for such an environment, as well BeOS is -excelent- in that scenario. They used to sell a demo disc that was designed that way. (only allowed sasving to floppy.). It was a bit slow in accessing the drive though, CD-ROM drives are not good at random access. They are much, much better at large data transfers. (Even on the newer drives random access sucks compared to a hd).
There is something about a mouse that allows it to be used nicely by the non-dominant hand, but it does take some getting use to. (Especially if you have been using it in your other hand for a long time).
I won't buy a left-handed mouse, for one I am not use to it, but also oher people use my computer and I would not wish to inconvenience them significantly. But, my latest mouse is not what I would call Ergonomic, it could readily be used in the left hand.
(Microsoft Optical Mouse)
The only thing Microsoft does right.
Damn, looks like my StarTac 7797 isn't on the list of supported phones. (It Can do SMS messages though... makes you wonder.)
It won't happen.
Now, maybe it is just the Canadian version of the Viper... but I doubt it.
Sounds a lot like the phonecall I got for my 10K/km maintenance. I think I was over by about 100km. Had it not been for the fact I was in recently before that to have something else looked at I would have been really concerned...
So x is 9. Question is.. why?
You want me to startup a company with you; and you want me to allow you, whenever you feel like it, to walk away with the IP used to start the company and expect me to NOT sue?
Get Real.
If he had done this because they wouldn't let him put banner ads in NOBODY on Slashdot would be agreeing with him.
If he wanted to control it he should have made sure he had controlling interest in the company at all times.
Period.
That is all a Solarsail is designed to do. It does it extreemly efficiently. To the point where if the craft is in a stable orbit it can easily be accelterated (increasing it's orbit) or decelterated (decreasing it's orbit). No further push required as it will maintain that orbit like any other object in the solar system.
(Hence the reason the animation shows the sail at the 'wrong' angle to reflect any energy while it continues to orbit. It is only when the orbit is increased, or decreased the the sail is used to reflect the energy received. (either at an angle to accelerate, or decelerate the craft; again increasing or decreasing it's orbit.).
Canada uses microwave links for longdistance across Canada for years, it has been replaced by fiber.
Our phone system is significantly better (Signal to Noise ratio; I remember hearing people complain theycouldn't get reliable 14,400 connections parts of the U.S. ~10 years ago) than a significant amount of the U.S. and the best easily competes with the best in the U.S.
We have high-speed net access in population areas U.S. companies wouldn't generally even consider doing it for.
Problem is, the price of consoles depends on where it is sold, hence quoting it's price in a given currency. It is a little annoying, a comparison chart should be included, and a note as to why the prices are given as such.). I'm Canadian, and spent almost 2 months in the U.S. recently, I noticed that the price of pop/soda (Pepsi/Coke...) was higher than in Canada. Well, the 'price' was almost the same, but, if you factored in the current exchange rate it was probably 25%-30% more expensive to buy it in the U.S. (Actually, almost everything which is under $25 is more expensive in the U.S. after doing a price conversion; above $25 it varies depending on product category)
The graphics are great, the controller is decent (some people have complained, but I despise most other controllers, so this one isn't bad).
What I want is a PC-Hardware compatibility catridge.. something I can plug my VGA monitor, my keyboard, and mouse into. Why? (Dreamcast has VGA out with an awkward pinnout). All of this is available seperately, but I'd love the whole set in one little box.
And I'd like to find the 10baseT adapter somewhere...
My last item on my wishlist is an MP3 player that is good enough I could drop my Dreamcast in the trunk to play MP3s in my car. (The hardware is damn near perfect for such a concept; really, at $100 it is cheap, the controllers are high-speed serial (2mbit) and support an LCD panel (in VMU) already. So, a little redesign and rebuild and one should have a faceplate with easy, full controls... now if I could only hack hardware.
I agree with you that choosing the types of stories I want to see, etc. But, I've intentially chosen wide so I would be exposed to more than an extreemly narrow range of topics.
It is the synergy of otherwise unrelated news and information which can bring new ideas. How many people do you think fail to see this and instead severly restrict the type of news (here, or elsewhere) that they are exposed to?
On the other hand, if I never see another sports score I'm sure I'll survive...
Don't know about you, but the economics suggest bussing is cheaper, and for this particular area efficient. (from the edge of the city, right to downtown by express bus. after the first 10 stops it doesn't stop till it's downtown.)
Lots of riders have cell phones. It is rahther strange to hear a phone ring on a bus the first or second time...
Gasoline is far more dangerous than hydrogen.
75 Minutes. Hmm. That isn't actually very much time. I mean it is quite a bit of time to be standing at the front lecturing, but to have students login and poke around? That will consume a large amount of time. I'd set aside 20 minutes for that. If 20 minutes isn't enough, too bad, they won't get much done anyway. Better to show them as much as possible. (Run into a minor problem and you can easily consume 20 minutes trying to get users logged in. Horrible waste of time if you have more to say. Say what you have to first, then try and do hands on demo.). Possibly pick a couple of people to help you demo it, they don't have to know BSD, probably good if 1 or 2 don't, have people watchover their shoulders as they login and look around. Show them X-Windows too. As mentioned by someelse, show it to them over a network. When they compare it to Terminal Server or Citrix correct them on it. Citrix and Terminal Server are kind of like pcAnywhere, screenscrapers. (They just use virtual screens). X-WIndows sends the drawing commands. Much more efficient, butter use of resources, and, unless bitmps are being sen just simply a better design. (Bitmaps are a hog for everyone, X, Citrix, etc). Keep pushing them with the year the technology was available. As the capabilities of Windows has increased to the point where there isn't much difference sitting in front of the screen it bares mentioning that most of Unix technologies have been around for years.
You want Replication, or High-Availability, or Both. High-Availability generally means your running in an environment where your trying to eliminate any single point of failure, but also that in the event of a failure you wish to be up as seemless as possible, regardless that a very large amount of high throughput transactions have been occuring. Enough that repliaction to a distant location isn't very feasable. (atleast not as a primary solution). Filesystem, or Database replication is quite feasable if, after looking at the amount of throuput on your database you could transfer the data fast enough you wouldn't get behind. (In many cases this is accomplished by segmenting the data so no 2 sites could update the same data.). Filesystem replication is similar. You can't expect to be able to update a file locally, and remotely without having to deal with the consequences of simultaniously updating 2 files differently at 2 different locations. If you can figure out how to partition everything so this wouldn't be a significantly issue then its easy...
I just purchased a DVD player on Sunday. I've been checking some information about it on the Internet since and have come across some interesting information.
I purchased a Sylvania DV-2000. This DVD player uses the Zoran chipset (Vaddir III I believe). This is common in low-end DVD players (and some others as well). Has excelent picture quality. Plays CD-R/RWs as well, and plays MP3s. Why is this relevent to this discussion? Because it uses the same chipset that the Durun/Hokka, etc. (Not hard to tell, Zoran includes 2 games on the DVD chipset itself, Othello and Tentris. (NOTHING special, no sound effects even). Do a search on google and you'll find a huge list of players that use Zoran (bets search is DVD and Tetris or Othello; it isn't common to anything else).
As an MP3 player it isn't bad, but it doesn't shuffle/randomize. It looks like it supports ISO9660 long filenames, but I haven't tested that yet. Anything with a funny character (tilde for instance) reverts to "SONG 001, SONG 002" etc...
I'll be doing some further tests, but to deal with the lack of randomization I was going to create multiple directories pointing to the same files, but in a different order. Not perfect, but might work ok.)
I've seen a number of DVD players marketed on the net with this chipset that also support the Sega games as described. It does look like the product is legit, licensing issues aside.
It's about the music (frequencies) itself.
Not to say that it would be easy, but, you could do a spectrum analysis of an MP3, and, within certain parameters the same song from different sources, with different encoders would have the same, or highly-similar results.
Thats the theory anyway.
(Of the song/lyrics, etc).
The only 'exception' for derivitive works is something like a parody. While dependant on the existance of the original material is generally something new.
Otherwise it is still partially covered by the original copyright.
Yes, a percentage of it would slip underground to be forgotten. But it would slow stuff like Napster considerably since it could, in theory, sample available music from each subscriber and removed any subscribers with Copyrighted material.
None of this is a suprise to me. I was telling my girlfriend I expected to see something like this show up soon.
Whether or not we think RIAA and its members overcharge for CD's (they do!), they do have the right to protect their stuff.
I would rather see them use this to limit something like Napster, than to hunt down and sue individuals.
Which they could also do.
I won't make people happy saying this, but I prefer they do this than SDMI. SDMI limits fair use, this limits distribution.
They are nuts.
Certifiable.
I have no vested interest in the Election in the United States, but these people are nuts.
Example: They believe that data was rigged in one instance because it would require that 10 people, workin for 3 days at 12hrs a day would have to key more than 1 digit per second.
220,000 numbers, * 7 digits each
1,540,000 / 10 people
154,000 / 3 days
51,333.3 digits per day each.
Which works out to 4,277.78 digits per hour, or, 71.3 digits per minute.
Or, 1.188 digits per second.
So, they figure people hired to do data entry can only do 14.26 words per minute?
Even assuming they are not optimum and could not keep up high rate for the full 12hrs, I would expect the average to be potentially hire than this, not lower.
Talk about paranoid