Reading the article, I alternate between thinking that the atoms of the gas is store just information and thinking they store energy as well (the actual light). Can anyone clarify? --
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Well, I'm pretty sure space and time are relevant. --
But if Britannica said 'American', they corrected it later on. Since they corrected it, what, exactly, is the problem?
No problem. It was just an argument against THB's assertion that "Real encyclopedias are controlled by editorial boards that provide unbiased, fair and reasonable content."
Well, a "chipset" in the usual sense is always built into the motherboard. With the "integrated" kind, there's more stuff on the mobo that would ordinarily be on expansion cards: video, audio, modem, ethernet and SCSI are some example. The customer gets a motherboard with a CPU and some RAM on it and nothing in the slots. And yes, that's been done for a while now. --
my hauppage TV/vid capture can compress into DivX in real time, which leaves me with a 30 minute 100MB file with great quality
Most excellent. A while back, I wanted to roll my own TiVo, but got stuck on realtime compression. I looked into a couple of mpeg cards, but nothin in my price range went beyond quarter-frame mpeg-1.
What software do you use for DivX;-) recording?
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You're asking the wrong person. He's not looking for sites that use "HTML4, XHTML, CSS, and the rest of the alphabet soup". No-one does. The sites he reads use that stuff. Ask the people who coded them. --
The project also aims to see if scientists can alter the orbit of a comet to protect the Earth from falling matter. The impact would alter the comet's orbit by a ``just barely measurable'' 62 to 620 miles (100 to 1,000 km), A'Hearn said.
Something tells me the 0 digits in "100 to 1,000 km" weren't supposed to be regarded as significant digits. Amazingly, the conversion to miles seems to have increased the accuracy of the estimate.
Actually, what should a reporter write in cases like this one?
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You should hear my father's rant about the Encyclopædia Britannica. You won't hear the word "unbiased" in it. He'll tell you that while the current online version calls Albert Einstein a "German-American physicist", which I suppose is fair enough, his printed version just says "American physicist". (Can someone check their old E.B. and see if this is really true? As I'm writing this, it seems unbelievable.) I wonder though. If Albert had been a bad guy, would he still have been a "German-American physicist" or just a "German physicist"? --
Right. Linux won't "die". However, it may not have a very enjoyable life if something comes along and takes most of its users away. Right now, there are enough people using Linux and Linux is hyped up enough that many hardware vendors think it's a good idea to either write drivers for it or provide the free software community with the necessary documentation to do so. Some vendors would release specs anyway, and their hardware would continue to be supported if the number of Linux users dwindled but, whether we like it or not, some don't and I still want to use their hardware (GeForce2 is a fine example). That's why I, for one, want Linux to be not just alive, but strong and healthy.
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Sorry if this is inaccurate, but I think it's mostly correct.
While adding a new fs is not an infrastructure change, adding a whole other breed of file systems, journalling filesystems, was. Changes to the VFS were required and I think old filesystems had to be modified a bit to adapt to them at one point. This took place a while ago though. Adding reiserfs to 2.4.1 won't cause additional changes in the VFS layer and neither should the addition of ext3, XFS, and all the rest.
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The "Insightful" moderation is justified by the observation that the free software community will put up with lousy fonts in exchange for freedom which can be extrapolated to say that we'll sacrifice quality for freedom in other areas. The way it's presented makes that seem like a bad thing and not everyone will agree to that. I expect the moderator agreed and made the right moderation for the wrong reason. --
I've never really used a trackball, but it looks to me like there's always going to be some rotation of the wrist in the horizontal plane and/or sideways movement of the fingers (or in the case of thumb balls, some weird flexing of the thumb), which doesn't sound nice .
I wonder if people could train themselves to use two parallel tracks that control x and y movement separately. It's nonintuitive but if it's possible without insane amounts of training, the payoff would be great. No hand movement at all, just extend and retract your fingers. It wouldn't take much space and would fit well on a laptop and even (the back of) handhelds.
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It looks to me like the police thought this would be a nice thing to publicize even though it has no bearing on the case, because it makes the suspect look bad.
Anyone wanna bet those seven books included Firewalls and Internet Security? Surely anyone who has that must be a "hacker"!
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Well, maybe. It's a common opinion that while the Fraunhofer mp3 encoder is the best for making low bitrate mp3 files(64kbps and down), it sucks for higher bitrates. Fraunhofer doesn't appear that interested in high bitrate encoding. So, there's no guarantee that 128kbps files in the new format will sound good compared to 128kbps mp3's encoded with LAME. But then again, if that doesn't happen, maybe we'll see LAMEPRO appear before long:-)
No new compressed audio format is likely to excite me, at least not while "CD quality" is the standard benchmark. I have a large stash of 256 and 192 kbps mp3's. I don't think I've ever been able to tell the difference between a CD and 256kbps mp3 version of the same song*, and very rarely do I hear flaws in the 192kbps mp3's. So all I'd gain from tighter compression is disk space and transfer speed, which aren't too limiting now and becoming less so all the time.
* The funny thing is, a few time's I've been listening to music and thought to myself "Damn, this sounds a little off. Is 256 not enough?", only to realise I was actually listening to a CD. --
Does anyone know why they are the way they are? I guess one of he design considerations was to fill out the cell more than our regular symbols so that it would be clearer whether a "white" pixel was part of a symbol or not. This makes spacing easier to comprehend. Any other thoughts? --
Somebody said "Freenet ripoff". It's not quite that but close. Parts of the article suggests that this is intended to be used for secure storage as well as publication, while Freenet seems to be intended exclusively for publication. If a document on Freenet is not requested every now and then, it doesn't spread and is eventually discarded. You don't want that to happen to your archives.
But I think Freenet can pretty easily be used as a basis for a system like OceanStore. A subnetwork of Freenet servers could agree to request your document for you periodically, ensuring that it stays available in their caches.
And, of course, this doesn't have the privacy and free speech elements that Freenet has. Unfortunately, I think those will make it hard for Freenet to truly prosper. ISP's will be afraid to run Freenet nodes.
For ages, I've wanted to be able to request data based on what it is, rather than where it is. For example, I wanted to write an installer that would ask for a dll by key, and the system would figure out where best to get it from. If the product CDROM is in the drive, get it from there. If you installed the product on another machine on the lan earlier, get it from a local cache. If another user of your ISP installed it recently, get it from the ISP's cache. Otherwise, find it on the Internet, either on my company's site or a closer mirror (maybe one that's been created automatically based on download patterns).
If Freenet doesn't grow to provide this, maybe OceanStore will. I'll be happy if either one does.
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Thanks for all your help. I appreciate it.
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Reading the article, I alternate between thinking that the atoms of the gas is store just information and thinking they store energy as well (the actual light). Can anyone clarify?
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Well, I'm pretty sure space and time are relevant.
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Well, if it doesn't show bias, then it shows lack of proofreading instead :-)
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Well, a "chipset" in the usual sense is always built into the motherboard. With the "integrated" kind, there's more stuff on the mobo that would ordinarily be on expansion cards: video, audio, modem, ethernet and SCSI are some example. The customer gets a motherboard with a CPU and some RAM on it and nothing in the slots. And yes, that's been done for a while now.
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What software do you use for DivX ;-) recording?
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Funny? That is the real name. Looks like using it would prevent some confusion too.
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You're asking the wrong person. He's not looking for sites that use "HTML4, XHTML, CSS, and the rest of the alphabet soup". No-one does. The sites he reads use that stuff. Ask the people who coded them.
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Actually, what should a reporter write in cases like this one?
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You should hear my father's rant about the Encyclopædia Britannica. You won't hear the word "unbiased" in it. He'll tell you that while the current online version calls Albert Einstein a "German-American physicist", which I suppose is fair enough, his printed version just says "American physicist". (Can someone check their old E.B. and see if this is really true? As I'm writing this, it seems unbelievable.) I wonder though. If Albert had been a bad guy, would he still have been a "German-American physicist" or just a "German physicist"?
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Right. Linux won't "die". However, it may not have a very enjoyable life if something comes along and takes most of its users away. Right now, there are enough people using Linux and Linux is hyped up enough that many hardware vendors think it's a good idea to either write drivers for it or provide the free software community with the necessary documentation to do so. Some vendors would release specs anyway, and their hardware would continue to be supported if the number of Linux users dwindled but, whether we like it or not, some don't and I still want to use their hardware (GeForce2 is a fine example). That's why I, for one, want Linux to be not just alive, but strong and healthy.
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Still confusing thorn with eth, I see (or was that intentional? I forget)
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While adding a new fs is not an infrastructure change, adding a whole other breed of file systems, journalling filesystems, was. Changes to the VFS were required and I think old filesystems had to be modified a bit to adapt to them at one point. This took place a while ago though. Adding reiserfs to 2.4.1 won't cause additional changes in the VFS layer and neither should the addition of ext3, XFS, and all the rest.
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The "Insightful" moderation is justified by the observation that the free software community will put up with lousy fonts in exchange for freedom which can be extrapolated to say that we'll sacrifice quality for freedom in other areas. The way it's presented makes that seem like a bad thing and not everyone will agree to that. I expect the moderator agreed and made the right moderation for the wrong reason.
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It isn't.
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I wonder if people could train themselves to use two parallel tracks that control x and y movement separately. It's nonintuitive but if it's possible without insane amounts of training, the payoff would be great. No hand movement at all, just extend and retract your fingers. It wouldn't take much space and would fit well on a laptop and even (the back of) handhelds.
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You think Slashdot has credibility?
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Anyone wanna bet those seven books included Firewalls and Internet Security? Surely anyone who has that must be a "hacker"!
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I'm too lazy to discover this myself. Anybody remember when the source was released?
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No new compressed audio format is likely to excite me, at least not while "CD quality" is the standard benchmark. I have a large stash of 256 and 192 kbps mp3's. I don't think I've ever been able to tell the difference between a CD and 256kbps mp3 version of the same song*, and very rarely do I hear flaws in the 192kbps mp3's. So all I'd gain from tighter compression is disk space and transfer speed, which aren't too limiting now and becoming less so all the time.
* The funny thing is, a few time's I've been listening to music and thought to myself "Damn, this sounds a little off. Is 256 not enough?", only to realise I was actually listening to a CD.
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Does anyone know why they are the way they are? I guess one of he design considerations was to fill out the cell more than our regular symbols so that it would be clearer whether a "white" pixel was part of a symbol or not. This makes spacing easier to comprehend. Any other thoughts?
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I'd skip DIAMETER support and put my money on CIRCUMFERENCE?
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Are these supposed to be the new hot grits and Natalie Portman naked and petrified? I'd rather have the classics.
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But I think Freenet can pretty easily be used as a basis for a system like OceanStore. A subnetwork of Freenet servers could agree to request your document for you periodically, ensuring that it stays available in their caches.
And, of course, this doesn't have the privacy and free speech elements that Freenet has. Unfortunately, I think those will make it hard for Freenet to truly prosper. ISP's will be afraid to run Freenet nodes.
For ages, I've wanted to be able to request data based on what it is, rather than where it is. For example, I wanted to write an installer that would ask for a dll by key, and the system would figure out where best to get it from. If the product CDROM is in the drive, get it from there. If you installed the product on another machine on the lan earlier, get it from a local cache. If another user of your ISP installed it recently, get it from the ISP's cache. Otherwise, find it on the Internet, either on my company's site or a closer mirror (maybe one that's been created automatically based on download patterns).
If Freenet doesn't grow to provide this, maybe OceanStore will. I'll be happy if either one does.
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