But MIT isn't just an engineering college. They have significant departments for the humanities too (as do CMU, Berkeley, Stanford, etc). Check out the ratios at engineering only schools like Caltech and Harvey Mudd.
I didn't know about the geek heroes when I started in computers (middle school). If asked to name a geek hero I would probably have said Bill G or some other such nonsense.
I remember when I first got this machine (Celery 366 w/128, IDE disks, Matrox Millenium, NT4). Two things really bothered me: the disk was always clacking and my mp3s skipped.
The mp3s skipped when I scrolled. I was told that this was because the bitblts on the PCI bus starved the isa bus and Nothing Could Be Done.
My disks were always clacking. When I Alt-tabbed from Dev Studio to Acrobat I would often have to wait 500ms or even a second for the screen to redraw. Gee, I guess 128 megs wasn't enough.
I finally got pissed off and, in a fit of rage, installed linux. My mp3s no longer skip and my disks are silent. Why? Is it because vi uses less mem than dev studio (yes)? Is it because xmms is smarted than winamp (doubt it)?
I suspect that linux has better DMA handling and smarter caching. Yes, I actually switched OS because I felt my disk was swapping too much.
I live in unincorporated San Mateo County (California). The gvmt does not pave out road. When the road is in (vary) bad shape, all the neighbors get together and chip in for a private contractor to pave the road. I still can't go over 25 though.
I consider my self quite knowledgeable in electronics and software. However, I still find myself stumped by [presumably] trivial errors on occasion. For instance, I've been trying to make a program work on a small microcontroller board for about three days now (on and off). The program is only five instructions! Fifteen bytes! How many mistakes could there possibly be in fifteen bytes? I bet the Motorola engineers are laughing:
"The idiot didn't clear the DWOM bit, what a fool." or "Hello! OC output, stupid!"
### For those who care ff ; sync 86 01 ; ldaa 1 b7 10 01 ; staa DDRA loop: 7f 10 00 ; clr PORTA b7 10 00 ; staa PORTA 7e 00 05 ; jmp loop Processor is a 68hc11f1cfn3 in special bootstrap mode. 2MHz e-clock. Please help me:)
I tested a low bitrate audio compressor a few years ago (2.4 kbits/s). When fed white noise it would simply encode a noise coefficient and generate white noise at the proper amplitude at the receive end.
Also, all jpeg implementation execute compress and decompress in O(n) time because block size is fixed.
Ha ha. That sample image is composed _entirely_ of gradients. It would be nice to se some results from a standard image. Most of the work I've done is in video compression, but we always used a set of standard images. Lena, Suzie, Mother + Daughter, and the news crew. I'm sure the still picture groups have a standard image set too.
I created a still image compression program for the IOCCC about a month ago. I didn't have access to any standard images so I used this one.[1] It has gradients, steps, fine textures, and most everything else you could want, except color.
[1] Thanks to Phil Greenspun and his great photo site. He is a photographer and a CS professor at MIT. See his work at Photo.net
Heh heh. I brought the floppies. I made 60 copies using the many aol, ms office, and macintosh disks I've accumulated over the years. I was mentioned in the Wired article (yippee). I'll show up on the 14th with even more disks. Email me interesting articles that you want included. My address is stickman AT altavista DOT net. The courtroom is small, only about 50 seats. Let's fill it on the 14th! And the rest of the floor, and the lobby, and the street below.:)
Hi all. I just got back from the hearing in San Jose. There were about 35 of us in a courtroom with 56 seats. The dvd lawyers seemed quite suprised by the turnout. I brought a bag of 60 floppies which included decss, the source, the letter, and pointers to various online news articles (including/.). Everyone got a floppy (or three), including the dvd guys. The dvd lawyers got a few laughs when they requested that one of the floppies be entered in to evidence, SEALED. Apparently they didn't want copies of the floppy available from the county clerk, as that would surely bring about the ruination of the movie industry. Paper printouts were also circulated and were entered as evidence, again sealed.
The judge said almost nothing during the hearing once the procedural bits were taken care of. He'll send his ruling to the lawyers on both sides sometime this afternoon.
There were a couple reporters at the hearing. Chris Oakes from Wired showed up early and sat through the hearing. His story is here. He misspelled my name though, it's Salsbury. I also chatted for some length with Deborah Kong from the San Jose Mercury. I explained the difference between bit-for-bit copying and decryption and why decryption is not necessary for piracy. Her article will probably be in tomorrow's paper. There was also a reporter from kcbs 740, I don't remember his name.
After dinner we had lunch at the Habana Cuba. Mmmm, bananas and sheep.
############################## BTW: I forgot my bag of floppies and a blue jacket in the back of someone's car when we went to Habana. If you find it, please email me at stickman AT altavista DOT net. We can arrange a mutually convienent place to meet, like the hearing on the 14th. ##############################
Whenever I see the term 'reverse-engineering' I think of the talking paperclip, the mdi interface, and are-you-really-really-sure dialog boxes. These misfeatures illustrate real reverse engineering.
I'll be there. If anyone wants a ride from Menlo Park / Palo Alto / Woodside / Redwood City / etc send email to stickman at altavista dot net. Include your phone number. I have room for four. Did I just break an internet rule?
Has everyone forgotten their right hand rules? Media Fusion is smoking crack! You can't change just the B field without affecting the E field or the current in the wire. Besides, the noise on the line will kill your latency. The bits will have to be spread... Why am I even trying to refute this?
I read the article and was digusted. I can't remember the last time I saw such obvious pseudoscience marketing. They ought to throw in a tesla coil for good measure.
I've done some work on a spider and these are the types of pages I spider: html htm asp php shtml php3 I guess I'll add phtml:)
Other extensions and urls with query strings are ignored. This is mainly for self defense. There are many, many infinite loops and blackholes on the web and they're hard to avoid. For instance, my spider once got stuck on a server that would return the contents of/index.html for any non-existent path. Also, all links on the homepage were relative (not a bad thing) and one was invalid. The call sequence is below. GET/index.html found foo/broken.html GET/foo/broken.html webserver couldn't find path, so returns/index.html GET/foo/foo/broken.html etc.
What was the programmer thinking?
This is just one example of the blackholes that lurk on the web. It was completely unexpected and pretty difficult to detect. What if someone wanted to write a search engine trap? I don't believe there is a simple solution to this problem.
This "baggage" is probably rejected because it is detrimental to the organism. Even genetic NOPs have a cretain caloric penalty associated with them. If the genetic snippet in question confers no advantage to the organism then organisms without it will be more efficient. This theory has interesting implications for the evolution of intelligence. Organisms won't growing bigger and bigger brains forever. Brains are expensive and eventually the extra energy to fire off those neurons will outweigh the advantages of intelligence.
I use linux. I love linux. BUT... Windows is very keyboard friendly. Much more so than any WM I've used. I think it all comes down to consistency. Alt-Tab, Alt-Esc, menu access, hot keys, all are very regular across windows applications. When I used to use windows I never touched the mouse, keyboard was faster. Linux could learn a few things from windows (and vice versa:)
I think it's safe to say that most car drivers go over the speed limit every now and then. Also, car manufacturers make cars that can go well beyond the speed limit. Even a corolla can hit 110mph (been there, done that). Why do the car manufacturers make cars that can go so fast? Shouldn't the fuel injectors cut off if your speed is greater than 85? Aren't the car manufacturers encouraging speeding just like Napster is encouraging pirating?
Slashdot Mirror
But MIT isn't just an engineering college. They have significant departments for the humanities too (as do CMU, Berkeley, Stanford, etc). Check out the ratios at engineering only schools like Caltech and Harvey Mudd.
I didn't know about the geek heroes when I started in computers (middle school). If asked to name a geek hero I would probably have said Bill G or some other such nonsense.
Ryan
> too bad the fresnel lens is used for light
> dispersion, not focusing into a tight beam.
Hmmm? Works like a magnifying glass, but lighter. Hah, hah.
Ryan
We don't need accurate maps of the whole freakin' planet to land a probe. A smallish patch around the target landing site should be plenty...
Ryan
I remember when I first got this machine (Celery 366 w/128, IDE disks, Matrox Millenium, NT4). Two things really bothered me: the disk was always clacking and my mp3s skipped.
The mp3s skipped when I scrolled. I was told that this was because the bitblts on the PCI bus starved the isa bus and Nothing Could Be Done.
My disks were always clacking. When I Alt-tabbed from Dev Studio to Acrobat I would often have to wait 500ms or even a second for the screen to redraw. Gee, I guess 128 megs wasn't enough.
I finally got pissed off and, in a fit of rage, installed linux. My mp3s no longer skip and my disks are silent. Why? Is it because vi uses less mem than dev studio (yes)? Is it because xmms is smarted than winamp (doubt it)?
I suspect that linux has better DMA handling and smarter caching. Yes, I actually switched OS because I felt my disk was swapping too much.
Ryan
I live in unincorporated San Mateo County (California). The gvmt does not pave out road. When the road is in (vary) bad shape, all the neighbors get together and chip in for a private contractor to pave the road. I still can't go over 25 though.
Ryan
I consider my self quite knowledgeable in electronics and software. However, I still find myself stumped by [presumably] trivial errors on occasion. For instance, I've been trying to make a program work on a small microcontroller board for about three days now (on and off). The program is only five instructions! Fifteen bytes! How many mistakes could there possibly be in fifteen bytes? I bet the Motorola engineers are laughing:
:)
"The idiot didn't clear the DWOM bit, what a fool."
or
"Hello! OC output, stupid!"
###
For those who care
ff ; sync
86 01 ; ldaa 1
b7 10 01 ; staa DDRA
loop:
7f 10 00 ; clr PORTA
b7 10 00 ; staa PORTA
7e 00 05 ; jmp loop
Processor is a 68hc11f1cfn3 in special bootstrap mode. 2MHz e-clock. Please help me
Ryan
Re: low bitrate audio
What about G723 5.6 and 6.4 kbits/s? These are often used for cuseeme-type video conferencing systems. Quality is lower, of course.
Ryan
I tested a low bitrate audio compressor a few years ago (2.4 kbits/s). When fed white noise it would simply encode a noise coefficient and generate white noise at the proper amplitude at the receive end.
Also, all jpeg implementation execute compress and decompress in O(n) time because block size is fixed.
Ryan
Ha ha. That sample image is composed _entirely_ of gradients. It would be nice to se some results from a standard image. Most of the work I've done is in video compression, but we always used a set of standard images. Lena, Suzie, Mother + Daughter, and the news crew. I'm sure the still picture groups have a standard image set too.
I created a still image compression program for the IOCCC about a month ago. I didn't have access to any standard images so I used this one.[1] It has gradients, steps, fine textures, and most everything else you could want, except color.
[1] Thanks to Phil Greenspun and his great photo site. He is a photographer and a CS professor at MIT. See his work at Photo.net
Ryan
.thank.you.for.choosing.ms
Solves the sub versioning problem.
Ryan
Ack. No ties for me. Khakis and a shirt with buttons is as far as I'll go. I don't remember when I last wore a tie. It was at least 6 years ago.
Ryan
Heh heh. I brought the floppies. I made 60 copies using the many aol, ms office, and macintosh disks I've accumulated over the years. I was mentioned in the Wired article (yippee). I'll show up on the 14th with even more disks. Email me interesting articles that you want included. My address is stickman AT altavista DOT net. The courtroom is small, only about 50 seats. Let's fill it on the 14th! And the rest of the floor, and the lobby, and the street below. :)
Ryan Salsbury
Hi all. I just got back from the hearing in San Jose. There were about 35 of us in a courtroom with 56 seats. The dvd lawyers seemed quite suprised by the turnout. I brought a bag of 60 floppies which included decss, the source, the letter, and pointers to various online news articles (including /.). Everyone got a floppy (or three), including the dvd guys. The dvd lawyers got a few laughs when they requested that one of the floppies be entered in to evidence, SEALED. Apparently they didn't want copies of the floppy available from the county clerk, as that would surely bring about the ruination of the movie industry. Paper printouts were also circulated and were entered as evidence, again sealed.
The judge said almost nothing during the hearing once the procedural bits were taken care of. He'll send his ruling to the lawyers on both sides sometime this afternoon.
There were a couple reporters at the hearing. Chris Oakes from Wired showed up early and sat through the hearing. His story is here. He misspelled my name though, it's Salsbury. I also chatted for some length with Deborah Kong from the San Jose Mercury. I explained the difference between bit-for-bit copying and decryption and why decryption is not necessary for piracy. Her article will probably be in tomorrow's paper.
There was also a reporter from kcbs 740, I don't remember his name.
After dinner we had lunch at the Habana Cuba. Mmmm, bananas and sheep.
##############################
BTW: I forgot my bag of floppies and a blue jacket in the back of someone's car when we went to Habana. If you find it, please email me at stickman AT altavista DOT net. We can arrange a mutually convienent place to meet, like the hearing on the 14th.
##############################
Ryan
Whenever I see the term 'reverse-engineering' I think of the talking paperclip, the mdi interface, and are-you-really-really-sure dialog boxes. These misfeatures illustrate real reverse engineering.
RYan
I'll be there. If anyone wants a ride from Menlo Park / Palo Alto / Woodside / Redwood City / etc send email to stickman at altavista dot net. Include your phone number. I have room for four. Did I just break an internet rule?
Ryan
Has everyone forgotten their right hand rules? Media Fusion is smoking crack! You can't change just the B field without affecting the E field or the current in the wire. Besides, the noise on the line will kill your latency. The bits will have to be spread... Why am I even trying to refute this?
Ryan KE6FFQ
I read the article and was digusted. I can't remember the last time I saw such obvious pseudoscience marketing. They ought to throw in a tesla coil for good measure.
Ryan KE6FFQ
I love that!
I guarantee 90% are safe
ROTFLOL!
Ryan
I've done some work on a spider and these are the types of pages I spider: :)
/index.html for any non-existent path. Also, all links on the homepage were relative (not a bad thing) and one was invalid. The call sequence is below. /index.html /foo/broken.html /index.html /foo/foo/broken.html
html htm asp php shtml php3
I guess I'll add phtml
Other extensions and urls with query strings are ignored. This is mainly for self defense. There are many, many infinite loops and blackholes on the web and they're hard to avoid. For instance, my spider once got stuck on a server that would return the contents of
GET
found foo/broken.html
GET
webserver couldn't find path, so returns
GET
etc.
What was the programmer thinking?
This is just one example of the blackholes that lurk on the web. It was completely unexpected and pretty difficult to detect. What if someone wanted to write a search engine trap? I don't believe there is a simple solution to this problem.
Ryan
The MIT robotic micro ants have mood lights. They are used for debugging. Link to ants.
Ryan
This "baggage" is probably rejected because it is detrimental to the organism. Even genetic NOPs have a cretain caloric penalty associated with them. If the genetic snippet in question confers no advantage to the organism then organisms without it will be more efficient. This theory has interesting implications for the evolution of intelligence. Organisms won't growing bigger and bigger brains forever. Brains are expensive and eventually the extra energy to fire off those neurons will outweigh the advantages of intelligence.
Ryan
Send in your registration card with serial number to get the 1 year warranty (and $50 rebate).
Ryan
I use linux. I love linux. BUT... Windows is very keyboard friendly. Much more so than any WM I've used. I think it all comes down to consistency. Alt-Tab, Alt-Esc, menu access, hot keys, all are very regular across windows applications. When I used to use windows I never touched the mouse, keyboard was faster. Linux could learn a few things from windows (and vice versa :)
Ryan
Let's compare car companies with Napster:
I think it's safe to say that most car drivers go over the speed limit every now and then. Also, car manufacturers make cars that can go well beyond the speed limit. Even a corolla can hit 110mph (been there, done that). Why do the car manufacturers make cars that can go so fast? Shouldn't the fuel injectors cut off if your speed is greater than 85? Aren't the car manufacturers encouraging speeding just like Napster is encouraging pirating?
Ryan