In my experience NVRAM (ala Dallas Semiconductor) is usually an SRAM chip with an embedded lithium battery. Flash and EEPROM are usually called "flash" and "eeprom", respectively.
> Certainly the method by which property is > assessed and divvied up during divorces would > seem to imply this.
Yeah, but each party only get's half. Maybe Mr. Hatch and his wife each get a 64kbps mp3 (half quality). Or maybe Mr. Hatch gets the 64kbps mp3 and his wife gets the difference (the other half).:-)
> as an artist i would be more offended that > people were not hearing my music as it was > meant to be heard than that they were hearing > it for free
Silence is just a very, very low quality mp3. You really want that?
Very few script kiddies are stupid enough to run port scans off their own machines (I'm going out on a limb here). I've found that most scans originate from compromised hosts. By calling/emailing the owners I let them know their site has been hacked. About a quarter of replies thank me for discovering a script kiddie.
Have you ever seen a collision where a car hit something head on? Each and every one has a bright red splat where the driver's head hit the windshield. Why don't we mandate helmets for drivers? Helmets would surely save lives in these types of collisions.
Since cars are more dangerous (greater speed) and more deadly (greater number of deaths) they seem to be a natural target for helmet advocates. Yet these people go after bikes. Why? Surely they aren't concerned with safety or they would attack cars too. Hmmmm...
Galileo has been exposed to huge amounts of radiation from Jupiter. Here's a few hundred articles Google(galileo+radiation). Who has better decontamination equipment, nasa or jupiter?
Brian Walker has no wife, no kids. No startup to babysit. Nobody that depends on him. His death wouldn't put anyone in a desperate situation ('cept himself). It may be hard on his parents, but he's 35, all grown up. In other words, he has no moral obligation not to kill himself.
It seems to me that his trip only has two possible outcomes, (a) spectacular success and (b) spectacular failure. If the rocket fails Brian Walker will be instantaneously oxidized by 7000 pounds of 90% H2O2. Which really isn't a bad way to die if you think about it.
It's rather unlikely he will suffer injuries great enough to put him in a wheel chair but small enough not to kill him. Mind you, it isn't my intent to write off the lives of the disabled, but rather to evaluate the 'regret factor.'
It is unlikely Brian Walker will regret his experience, whatever the outcome.
Seen in this light, his rocket may be very 'safe' indeed.:-)
> A jump in RAM prices of the magnitiude which > this story says could quite possibly happen, > would potentially ruin the industry.
Do you actually believe this? The industry thrived on EDO ram. If we had to go back to EDO ram what would happen? Quake would lose a few fps. Google would need another dozen machines in its cluster. Photoshop filters would run 20% slower. Who fucking cares? You really think anything bad will happen?
Let's imagine two lossless audio codecs. Codec A is pkzip. Codec B is 128kbit mp3 with a pkzipped difference stream. You will find that codec B will have a significantly (20%?) better compression ratio than pkzip alone. This is because codec b 'understands' the underlying structure of the audio and can compress it more effectively than a general purpose tool like pkzip. This is a common (I think) trick for creating decent lossless codecs. It's useful because so much research is being done in the area of lossy compression instead of lossless. It lets some of the research spill over into the lossless realm.:)
why not have a dedicated piece of hardware for a web server? [inside a normal computer]
Because my 400MHz celeron can saturate a 10mbit ethernet, that's why. Maybe we should make a notepad.exe accelerator card so I can improve notepad's performance.
Large websites need cpu farms for databases and cgi, not serving. Or were you thinking of running Oracle on the PIC with 50 bytes of ram?
> Hell, I'm willing to bet that in ten years, > people are going to start talking about file > formats that produce better than CD quality.
Sure, just sample 22 bits at 96kHz and compress with a psychoacoustical lossy codec. For any given bitrate a decent lossy codec will have higher apparent quality than a 'lossless' encoding. The term 'lossless' is actually a bit of a misnomer since plenty of information is lost in the analog to digital conversion.
'Lossless' compression is really just lossy compression with a particularly stupid method of determining which bits to discard.
I hate those guys! (receipt checkers) I've already paid and I want to go home. The conversation always goes something like this:
checker: [poised with pink pen] me: [walks by, ignores checker] checker: "Sir, I need to check your receipt!" me: [ignore, keep walking] checker: [repeats plea] me "Hmmm, why don't you call the cops?" [keep walking]
not-bruce: US laws aren't labeled "void outside United States." If you, say, sail off to international waters and break a US law, the US WILL prosecute you when you get back. How did you ever get the notion that this wasn't the case? For example, what if Royal Carribean Cruise Lines murdered all their passengers while at sea? You think nothing would happen?
> I completely agree. Characters make the heart > and soul of game, not the engine. Paul provided > that heart and soul.
If Paul provided the heart and soul of id games, maybe he ought to have been fired. id games always seemed a bit dull to me, especially single player. Half life was much better for single player.
He asked about ipc wrt X. I see that you can recite a long list of ipc types, but that's not very useful here. Neither is the Stevens book (no X info). Run along now, karma whore.
I looked at the interlingua page referenced above www.interlingua.com. I only speak English, yet I can understand the text. Damn! I can understand it better than Spanish (and I had a year of that in high school).
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In my experience NVRAM (ala Dallas Semiconductor) is usually an SRAM chip with an embedded lithium battery. Flash and EEPROM are usually called "flash" and "eeprom", respectively.
Ryan
> Certainly the method by which property is
:-)
> assessed and divvied up during divorces would
> seem to imply this.
Yeah, but each party only get's half. Maybe Mr. Hatch and his wife each get a 64kbps mp3 (half quality). Or maybe Mr. Hatch gets the 64kbps mp3 and his wife gets the difference (the other half).
Ryan
> How in the Hell do you cluster a cd player?
Surround sound, silly.
Ryan
> as an artist i would be more offended that
> people were not hearing my music as it was
> meant to be heard than that they were hearing
> it for free
Silence is just a very, very low quality mp3. You really want that?
Ryan
> Yuck. Re-encode just to remove a bit? C'mon,
> that's disgusting!
Oh come on. If these people will put up with ADVERTISEMENTS then they can tolerate a second generation mp3.
Ryan
Very few script kiddies are stupid enough to run port scans off their own machines (I'm going out on a limb here). I've found that most scans originate from compromised hosts. By calling/emailing the owners I let them know their site has been hacked. About a quarter of replies thank me for discovering a script kiddie.
Ryan
Have you ever seen a collision where a car hit something head on? Each and every one has a bright red splat where the driver's head hit the windshield. Why don't we mandate helmets for drivers? Helmets would surely save lives in these types of collisions.
Since cars are more dangerous (greater speed) and more deadly (greater number of deaths) they seem to be a natural target for helmet advocates. Yet these people go after bikes. Why? Surely they aren't concerned with safety or they would attack cars too. Hmmmm...
Ryan
Approx 800 bike deaths / year in the US. Compare to 200 deaths / year due to lightning.
Ryan
Galileo has been exposed to huge amounts of radiation from Jupiter. Here's a few hundred articles Google(galileo+radiation). Who has better decontamination equipment, nasa or jupiter?
Ryan
I can't channel flip with the Tivo! Changing the channel takes something like 800 ms. Yuck!
Ryan
Perhaps you could clothe it as a business plan.
Ryan
Brian Walker has no wife, no kids. No startup to babysit. Nobody that depends on him. His death wouldn't put anyone in a desperate situation ('cept himself). It may be hard on his parents, but he's 35, all grown up. In other words, he has no moral obligation not to kill himself.
:-)
It seems to me that his trip only has two possible outcomes, (a) spectacular success and (b) spectacular failure. If the rocket fails Brian Walker will be instantaneously oxidized by 7000 pounds of 90% H2O2. Which really isn't a bad way to die if you think about it.
It's rather unlikely he will suffer injuries great enough to put him in a wheel chair but small enough not to kill him. Mind you, it isn't my intent to write off the lives of the disabled, but rather to evaluate the 'regret factor.'
It is unlikely Brian Walker will regret his experience, whatever the outcome.
Seen in this light, his rocket may be very 'safe' indeed.
Ryan
> A jump in RAM prices of the magnitiude which
> this story says could quite possibly happen,
> would potentially ruin the industry.
Do you actually believe this? The industry thrived on EDO ram. If we had to go back to EDO ram what would happen? Quake would lose a few fps. Google would need another dozen machines in its cluster. Photoshop filters would run 20% slower. Who fucking cares? You really think anything bad will happen?
Ryan
> 8khz 1 bit audio
Hey! My HP48 can do that! Twee-dee-dee-dee Wee-wee-wee-wee
Ryan
Let's imagine two lossless audio codecs. Codec A is pkzip. Codec B is 128kbit mp3 with a pkzipped difference stream. You will find that codec B will have a significantly (20%?) better compression ratio than pkzip alone. This is because codec b 'understands' the underlying structure of the audio and can compress it more effectively than a general purpose tool like pkzip. This is a common (I think) trick for creating decent lossless codecs. It's useful because so much research is being done in the area of lossy compression instead of lossless. It lets some of the research spill over into the lossless realm. :)
Ryan
why not have a dedicated piece of hardware for a web server? [inside a normal computer]
Because my 400MHz celeron can saturate a 10mbit ethernet, that's why. Maybe we should make a notepad.exe accelerator card so I can improve notepad's performance.
Large websites need cpu farms for databases and cgi, not serving. Or were you thinking of running Oracle on the PIC with 50 bytes of ram?
Ryan
> Hell, I'm willing to bet that in ten years,
:)
> people are going to start talking about file
> formats that produce better than CD quality.
Sure, just sample 22 bits at 96kHz and compress with a psychoacoustical lossy codec. For any given bitrate a decent lossy codec will have higher apparent quality than a 'lossless' encoding. The term 'lossless' is actually a bit of a misnomer since plenty of information is lost in the analog to digital conversion.
'Lossless' compression is really just lossy compression with a particularly stupid method of determining which bits to discard.
BTW, video compression is where it's at
Ryan
Microsoft is taking a cue from the auto manufacturers.
Ryan
I hate those guys! (receipt checkers)
I've already paid and I want to go home. The conversation always goes something like this:
checker: [poised with pink pen]
me: [walks by, ignores checker]
checker: "Sir, I need to check your receipt!"
me: [ignore, keep walking]
checker: [repeats plea]
me "Hmmm, why don't you call the cops?" [keep walking]
Quite efficient (for both sides).
Ryan
I am slightly near sighted, not enough to warrant the inconvenience of glasses or contacts.
I love photography because my camera sees a sharper, more colorful world than I do.
Ryan
Iridium is leo, not geosync. Get your buzzwords straight.
Ryan
not-bruce:
US laws aren't labeled "void outside United States." If you, say, sail off to international waters and break a US law, the US WILL prosecute you when you get back. How did you ever get the notion that this wasn't the case? For example, what if Royal Carribean Cruise Lines murdered all their passengers while at sea? You think nothing would happen?
Ryan
> I completely agree. Characters make the heart
> and soul of game, not the engine. Paul provided
> that heart and soul.
If Paul provided the heart and soul of id games, maybe he ought to have been fired. id games always seemed a bit dull to me, especially single player. Half life was much better for single player.
Ryan
He asked about ipc wrt X. I see that you can recite a long list of ipc types, but that's not very useful here. Neither is the Stevens book (no X info). Run along now, karma whore.
Ryan
I looked at the interlingua page referenced above www.interlingua.com. I only speak English, yet I can understand the text. Damn! I can understand it better than Spanish (and I had a year of that in high school).
Wow.
Ryan