Justice? No-one owes you a job, no matter how smart or hard working you are. It's up to you to handle your own life, and find your own way to make a living. It's your choice if you stay in the midst of the layoffs living off your savings - other people might choose to move someplace else where they can get a job.
A whole day? That depends what kind of connection you have! At work I've hit speeds of 1 MB/sec (that's right B, not b!):-)
Who knows how much copying would actually lose in sales - how many people bother to have dual or dual-head VCRs so they can illegally copy tapes? Not too many, I'd guess.
Of course no-one has to download in order to copy - you could just rent a DVD from Blockbuster or NetFlix and rip yourself a copy... Hell, you don't even have to burn it to CD - I see Seagate is now selling 180G drives - enough for a pretty impressive collection of movies (around
200 or so)!
I would have insisted much more on the fact that DeCSS can -not- be used for mass duplication, and that, actually, even for creating single copies is not particularly useful. I think it would have been very good to point out that the encription does not, in any way, prevent pirates from copying software, neither does DeCSS make it any easier. And then, of course, I would bring in a testimony (a technical authority) to confirm this.
Encryptions only doesn't prevent you from copying as long as you have a way of duplicating DVDs.
We all know there's a high level of DVD ripping and copying going on - hence the existence of programs like FlaskMPEG and DVD2AVI. What ripping and recompressing to DivX achieve is to get the file size down to 1 or 2 CD's where you can burn it on a CD (and more easily download it), which is widespread technology, unlike DVD copiers.
No Misha, this is packet 1527. Packet 1257 is next. Find it in that huge pile.
Not a problem actually - TCP/IP takes care of packet order and loss.
This could actually be a genuiinely useful form of wartime or covert communications, as long as you use encryption on the link. Just imagine anyone trying to make sense of all the encrypted TCP/IP packets (literally) flying around, and imagine their frustration when any packet loss they manage to cause doesn't affect the reliability of the communication channel.
Coming soon hamster-IP for your ground-based communications!
Ah, I see! Thanks. Now I wonder if I can find an ISP that would let me hook up via DSL modems and this type of connection... (I'm too far for "official" DSL).
My problem here is that I'm too far (around 18,380') from the CO for my local phone company to qualify me for an ADSL connection, even though I know I should be able to get decent speed up to at least 20,000' or so... IDSL is just too expensive as well as not particularly fast.
Would I be able to just order one of these "alarm circuits", add my own DSL modem, and connect to my ISP that way? Would my ISP need to do anything special to handle me as a DSL customer this way rather than using "official" DSL from the phone company?
How can the phone company lease you a permanent point-to-point connection without permanently tying up a path throught their switch? It's not like there already exists a copper pair directly from my house to anyplace else I'd like to be connected.
There must be something missing from your description - a T-1 for $15/mo is too good to be true.
DivX is the Microsoft codec. OpenDivX (which is incompatible with DivX) is based on the MoMuSys source code, but I think they've rewritten most if not all of the decoder. The problem with MPEG-4 is the same as LZW, GIF, MP3 (why is it always compression algorithms???) - it's patented and it doesn't matter if you wrote the code from scratch - you'd still owe royalties.
I agree - stick with DivX or some truely open source CODEC like ffmpeg (also MPEG-4 compatible) or MPEG2Movie whiuch achieves similar compression (but better speed) in an MPEG-2 format. OpenDivX isn't even MPEG-4 - it's just a basic half-pel motion comp MPEG-1 algorithm plus a deblocking filter. It's amazing how many people confuse the bitstream formats with the codec features - why not call OpenDivX Quicktime since the MPEG-4 bitstream format is Quicktime? Sigh.
The value of an IM system lies in the size of the customer base. Jabber is largely worthless without the ability to talk to AIM/ICQ users, and equally AOL would be less valuable if they provide the ability for existing users to abandon AIM/ICQ by providing Jabber interopability.
The only incentive for AOL to allow Jabber interop. is going to be if the Jabber parent company (Webb somthing?) is willing to pay for that - and one would expect that the price is going to be VERY high.
The 1GHz of a year ago was a PIII which was comparable to an AMD Athlon. Today's "almost 2GHz" P4 comes in SLOWER than a 1.33GHz Athlon in most benchmarks, so it's hardly double the speed.
The P4 may be a good chip one day, but it sure isn't there yet.
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Yeah -really! I don't think you want to make it easy for terrorists to go shopping in Walmart for bags of plutonium fuel pebbles. Bad idea.
If you don't think that stuff (like books, patents, software, games, movies, music) that can be represented digitally should be paid for, then how do you propose that anyone gets paid to product this stuff?
I'd love to see what happens to any of these fields when the only way of getting paid is via pay-pal donations. Geez.
Personally I'd rather pay $20 to buy the Matrix on DVD than to download some free-the-bits moviemaker's amateur effort and give him a 25c donation. Luckily it'll never happen, but it sure would suck it the law came down on your side and destroyed the business model for high quality digital content.
Drugs may not be made out of metal, but they still have detectors for them! These are the same systems used for detection of explosives. The detector you walk through uses backscatter from X-rays to fingerprint chemicals. These detectors are already installed at a number of major airports, although their current cost precludes them from being used everywhere.
The Russians really have had minimal success in their space program. For example, they never made it to the moon like we did. Also, they had numerous disasters aboard the Mir space station, only to have it plummet out of orbit last month!
Huh? Even NASA said they had faith in the planned Mir deorbit since the Russians have more experience in space than they did!
The NASA web site also has full details of the Russian moon landings, including the Lunakhod moon rovers and the unmanned lunar rock retrieval.
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Nah - if he was a real geek he'd have got the 701 series upgrade with 5000lb of wheel lift!
Yeah, baby!
http://dynamicmfg.com/bdw.htm
Justice? No-one owes you a job, no matter how smart or hard working you are. It's up to you to handle your own life, and find your own way to make a living. It's your choice if you stay in the midst of the layoffs living off your savings - other people might choose to move someplace else where they can get a job.
A whole day? That depends what kind of connection you have! At work I've hit speeds of 1 MB/sec (that's right B, not b!) :-)
Who knows how much copying would actually lose in sales - how many people bother to have dual or dual-head VCRs so they can illegally copy tapes? Not too many, I'd guess.
Of course no-one has to download in order to copy - you could just rent a DVD from Blockbuster or NetFlix and rip yourself a copy... Hell, you don't even have to burn it to CD - I see Seagate is now selling 180G drives - enough for a pretty impressive collection of movies (around
200 or so)!
I would have insisted much more on the fact that DeCSS can -not- be used for mass duplication, and that, actually, even for creating single copies is not particularly useful. I think it would have been very good to point out that the encription does not, in any way, prevent pirates from copying software, neither does DeCSS make it any easier. And then, of course, I would bring in a testimony (a technical authority) to confirm this.
Encryptions only doesn't prevent you from copying as long as you have a way of duplicating DVDs.
We all know there's a high level of DVD ripping and copying going on - hence the existence of programs like FlaskMPEG and DVD2AVI. What ripping and recompressing to DivX achieve is to get the file size down to 1 or 2 CD's where you can burn it on a CD (and more easily download it), which is widespread technology, unlike DVD copiers.
No Misha, this is packet 1527. Packet 1257 is next. Find it in that huge pile.
Not a problem actually - TCP/IP takes care of packet order and loss.
This could actually be a genuiinely useful form of wartime or covert communications, as long as you use encryption on the link. Just imagine anyone trying to make sense of all the encrypted TCP/IP packets (literally) flying around, and imagine their frustration when any packet loss they manage to cause doesn't affect the reliability of the communication channel.
Coming soon hamster-IP for your ground-based communications!
Thanks for the info - I'm going to look into this. Maybe if my current ISP won't work with me, I can find a smaller one that's more flexible.
Ah, I see! Thanks. Now I wonder if I can find an ISP that would let me hook up via DSL modems and this type of connection... (I'm too far for "official" DSL).
Hmm...
My problem here is that I'm too far (around 18,380') from the CO for my local phone company to qualify me for an ADSL connection, even though I know I should be able to get decent speed up to at least 20,000' or so... IDSL is just too expensive as well as not particularly fast.
Would I be able to just order one of these "alarm circuits", add my own DSL modem, and connect to my ISP that way? Would my ISP need to do anything special to handle me as a DSL customer this way rather than using "official" DSL from the phone company?
Thanks for any educational insights!
How can the phone company lease you a permanent point-to-point connection without permanently tying up a path throught their switch? It's not like there already exists a copper pair directly from my house to anyplace else I'd like to be connected.
There must be something missing from your description - a T-1 for $15/mo is too good to be true.
DivX is the Microsoft codec. OpenDivX (which is incompatible with DivX) is based on the MoMuSys source code, but I think they've rewritten most if not all of the decoder. The problem with MPEG-4 is the same as LZW, GIF, MP3 (why is it always compression algorithms???) - it's patented and it doesn't matter if you wrote the code from scratch - you'd still owe royalties.
I agree - stick with DivX or some truely open source CODEC like ffmpeg (also MPEG-4 compatible) or MPEG2Movie whiuch achieves similar compression (but better speed) in an MPEG-2 format. OpenDivX isn't even MPEG-4 - it's just a basic half-pel motion comp MPEG-1 algorithm plus a deblocking filter. It's amazing how many people confuse the bitstream formats with the codec features - why not call OpenDivX Quicktime since the MPEG-4 bitstream format is Quicktime? Sigh.
http://www.xiph.org/archives/tarkin-dev/index.htm
http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/
Are you saying that HZ=1024 (as well as HZ=100) is explicitly supported, but that other values such as HZ=4096 (or 1000) are not??
Create a deadlock? Only if there's a bug in the kernel. The potential for deadlocks shouldn't be timing related - it's a design issue.
The value of an IM system lies in the size of the customer base. Jabber is largely worthless without the ability to talk to AIM/ICQ users, and equally AOL would be less valuable if they provide the ability for existing users to abandon AIM/ICQ by providing Jabber interopability.
The only incentive for AOL to allow Jabber interop. is going to be if the Jabber parent company (Webb somthing?) is willing to pay for that - and one would expect that the price is going to be VERY high.
The 1GHz of a year ago was a PIII which was comparable to an AMD Athlon. Today's "almost 2GHz" P4 comes in SLOWER than a 1.33GHz Athlon in most benchmarks, so it's hardly double the speed.
The P4 may be a good chip one day, but it sure isn't there yet.
Yeah -really! I don't think you want to make it easy for terrorists to go shopping in Walmart for bags of plutonium fuel pebbles. Bad idea.
If you don't think that stuff (like books, patents, software, games, movies, music) that can be represented digitally should be paid for, then how do you propose that anyone gets paid to product this stuff?
I'd love to see what happens to any of these fields when the only way of getting paid is via pay-pal donations. Geez.
Personally I'd rather pay $20 to buy the Matrix on DVD than to download some free-the-bits moviemaker's amateur effort and give him a 25c donation. Luckily it'll never happen, but it sure would suck it the law came down on your side and destroyed the business model for high quality digital content.
Drugs may not be made out of metal, but they still have detectors for them! These are the same systems used for detection of explosives. The detector you walk through uses backscatter from X-rays to fingerprint chemicals. These detectors are already installed at a number of major airports, although their current cost precludes them from being used everywhere.
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http://www.us.net/signal/Archive/Aug97/detection-
1) Intel has better OEM vendors lined up for their market (Dell/Compaq/IBM). This channel is the key. AMD primarily gets what's left (home/soho/BYOB).
Huh? Dell is the only AMD holdout. In fact IBM and Compaq are some of the more aggressive AMD OEMs.
Are you encoding on Windows or Linux?
Is there a Windows ACM CODEC available for Vorbis?
The Russians really have had minimal success in their space program. For example, they never made it to the moon like we did. Also, they had numerous disasters aboard the Mir space station, only to have it plummet out of orbit last month!
Huh? Even NASA said they had faith in the planned Mir deorbit since the Russians have more experience in space than they did!
The NASA web site also has full details of the Russian moon landings, including the Lunakhod moon rovers and the unmanned lunar rock retrieval.
I suppose your post was a troll anyway.
I never realized it was created by a crawler!
Pretty impressive!
For computer science papers, there's also:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/directory.html