I used Ricochet in the Bay area and had fast latency.
It was good enough that:
1. I used it for terminal services (running the NT desktop through it), so I could work from home or a cafe and could edit, compile and run my programs without noticing any latency problems.
2.I had disk/network sharing over Ricochet without major problems. It's true that Windows NT network sharing is a dog, but it worked.
I now use Verizon 3G with 150k throughput and...
LATENCY MAKES THOSE USES COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE!!!
I get a minimum.5 seconds ping time for large packets...
Terminal services is too slow to allow editing.
Network/file sharing locks up the computer so that no program is usable.
I understand losing some freedoms in wartime, temporarily, but this isn't worth it because the "war against terror" will never be over. I'm going to lose all my privacy rights and my great-great-great grandkids STILL won't have gotten them back.
It's also amazing to me that the Islamic fundimentalists are going to hand our country over to the Christian fundamentalists, lock stock and barrel.
We had all sorts of freedoms from those rediculous victimless crime laws that are really religous laws because no one was going to be caught when no one was going to complain to the law... You could safely hire a hooker or buy drugs. Now that the feds are going to (of course) record every phone call and email, you won't have any freedom from laws based on religion rather than actual justice. And that separation of church and state stuff will become pointless.
Ok the US and Europe won't become the Taliban's Afganistan, but it will be pretty close to being the Ahatolla's Iran. Say hi to your local, neighborhood homeland security spy. It reminds me of good old Red China that way.
It should be REALLY easy to hide data in a JPEG without loss of quality or change in measurable statistics if you're encoding from the original uncompressed source.
When a compressor reduces an image to a JPEG there's a loss of information in the quantization.
Some coefficients will be almost exactly between two quantization levels, so either choice would be equally bad. In those cases you have the freedom of one bit without loss of quality.
Let's say you encode data by grouping coeficients into bundles of 20, and expect to get a single bit of information out of each bundle by xoring all of members together. Odds are that at least one of those coeficients had the freedom to change.
Easy.
No I didn't find the paper listed. I posted this idea on slashdot a long time ago.
I'm not sure if it'd be laughter at people's code or just evil laughter when you ask where the missing semicolon is, but they'd all definately be too busy laughing to speak.
"Basic tromped, and C++ tromped, and Java cleaned and tromped and cleaned again"
Who woulda thought that garbage collection makes a great running gag.
While the slashdotted page loaded (very slowly) I tried to image what C would say. I knew it would have to be very crude.
I was SOOO happy when it turned out to be "bite me". It's so perfect.
God, I hate C.
Not enough academic languages. I think ML and some variants are important languages.
Prolog deserved a kick in the pants too. I imagine Prolog as the original Rube Goldburg cludge. Something that always malfunctions. Perhaps it could be a dyslexic who can't say anything clearly and tends to repeat itself.
This is NOT a man Vs. machine matchup in any way. This, like all the previous ones, is between the human chess player and the human computer scientist.
It's an interesting position... What IDIOT modded it down as redundant!!!!
Anyway, so your position is that until a program can LEARN chess on its own then we're just playing against the programmers, one off.
Feynman's the real thing. Most other books for laymen are washouts - words not information.
And don't listen to the people who say you have to be a math genius to read them. Feyman pretty much avoided going into math geekdom in those books. As Einstein said, things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
A while ago I looked at the Ogg Vorbis pages and read a rant by that Ogg developer guy about how he listened to Microsoft's examples for WMA 8 and couldn't understand why they were posted at all...
I have to wonder if he has two ears. All of the samples were showing off some sort of stereo imaging technology. WMA 8 has infinitely better imaging at 80-192k(its highest rate) than any other compression technique. It makes a difference to ME anyway.
It's also true that WMA isn't better otherwise: 1. it occasionally gets too agressive with masking 2. ogg is better at 80k 3. ogg is better at near lossless (real high bit rates)
Does anyone know how to improve the stereo imaging? I wonder what WMA does anyway.
The problem is that Farscape had an involved story (unlike other TV shows). That's what made it good. But you needed to see all the episodes to make any sense of what was happening.
Combine that with expensive, high quality production and the most incompetent marketing department in history and you have a huge money hole.
They needed world wide distribution to make their money back, but their God damn incompetent marketing dept. couldn't understand that you have to treat a program like this differently than Bonanza.
They wouldn't let outside networks get season 1 & season 2 episodes without which the series made no sense!
Real8 64k is Sony's ATAC3 which sounds pretty good at that rate.
WMA V8 at 80k and above has incredible stereo imaging - something missing from all the other codecs. It's odd how some people don't seem to notice imaging. It makes a big difference to me.
Each codec has their sweet spots in terms of bit rate vs. sample rate etc. For streams from 60k to 192k I'd use WMA8, above 240k I'd use Ogg Vorbis or (if I had to use a commericial codec) I'd use Real. Mp3 is not the best at anything anymore, it's basically obsolete. At the higher bandwidths Ogg, and to a lesser extent Real, approach lossless compression.
For the really low sample rates, I'm not sure which I'd recommend. If you really need stereo, WMA8 at the lowest possible sample rate is probably the best - nothing else comes close to whatever kind of stereo optimization they're doing. At the lower sample rates, Real falls back on their old codecs. If you have enough bandwidth for the lowest bandwidth ogg, it beats the others in it's little sweet spot.
All of these arguments that the lack of time travelers is evidence that there is no backwards time travel got me thinking: Maybe there are time travelers, but we've given them no reason to show themselves publicly. So...
We need to prepare if we want to find out if backwards time travel is possible.
Here what we to do. We set up a well publicized botique for time travelers, a place that sells tee shirts that says "My parents went backwards in time and all I got was this lousy tee shirt!" If anyone buys the tee shirt then we know that time travel is happening.
Slashdot Mirror
I used Ricochet in the Bay area and had fast latency.
.5 seconds ping time for large packets...
It was good enough that:
1. I used it for terminal services (running the NT desktop through it), so I could work from home or a cafe and could edit, compile and run my programs without noticing any latency problems.
2.I had disk/network sharing over Ricochet without major problems. It's true that Windows NT network sharing is a dog, but it worked.
I now use Verizon 3G with 150k throughput and...
LATENCY MAKES THOSE USES COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE!!!
I get a minimum
Terminal services is too slow to allow editing.
Network/file sharing locks up the computer so that no program is usable.
I understand losing some freedoms in wartime, temporarily, but this isn't worth it because the "war against terror" will never be over. I'm going to lose all my privacy rights and my great-great-great grandkids STILL won't have gotten them back.
It's also amazing to me that the Islamic fundimentalists are going to hand our country over to the Christian fundamentalists, lock stock and barrel.
We had all sorts of freedoms from those rediculous victimless crime laws that are really religous laws because no one was going to be caught when no one was going to complain to the law... You could safely hire a hooker or buy drugs. Now that the feds are going to (of course) record every phone call and email, you won't have any freedom from laws based on religion rather than actual justice. And that separation of church and state stuff will become pointless.
Ok the US and Europe won't become the Taliban's Afganistan, but it will be pretty close to being the Ahatolla's Iran. Say hi to your local, neighborhood homeland security spy. It reminds me of good old Red China that way.
Rocky J. Squirrel
Last time I checked (years ago), the Eiffel's garbage collector didn't handle objects shared between different threads.
Does anyone know whether this was fixed and/or how what SmartEiffel's garbage collector is like?
Rocky J. Squirrel
I've noticed that older LCD monitors weren't calibrated and did have a bluish cast.
Of course the newest ones are calibrated to be indistinguishable from regular monitors.
It sounds like a REALLY dumb excuse. Someone would have had to fuck up big time to correct the colors on an uncalibrated display.
Rocky J. Squirrel
It should be REALLY easy to hide data in a JPEG without loss of quality or change in measurable statistics if you're encoding from the original uncompressed source.
When a compressor reduces an image to a JPEG there's a loss of information in the quantization.
Some coefficients will be almost exactly between two quantization levels, so either choice would be equally bad. In those cases you have the freedom of one bit without loss of quality.
Let's say you encode data by grouping coeficients into bundles of 20, and expect to get a single bit of information out of each bundle by xoring all of members together. Odds are that at least one of those coeficients had the freedom to change.
Easy.
No I didn't find the paper listed. I posted this idea on slashdot a long time ago.
Rocky J. Squirrel
what do you think verilog / VHDL will say?
Every time you asked it a question, it would split into a number of entities, all of whom would reply "Bite me" simultaneously.
It would split into "naughty bits" each of which would actually bite you.
(Hardware's lower level than bytes, right? Bits, not bytes... darn it, byte me!)
Uhhh, how much closer can a human come to machine language than assembler?
You can't physically plug hex into a file, hoping to make it run.
we don't have punchcards anymore:)
TOGGLE SWITCHES!
Who says I can't physically plug hex into a file Jeeze.
Is the "first post" thing imagining Assembler and Machine as Tweedledum and Tweedledee?
Rocky J. Squirrel
(progn (()())
((resent I that)
(is Lisp (that-deserves (a language)
(a-lot-more-than respect (it-is-getting-from
(this-boorish crowd)))))
(is-much-easier-to (syntax-of Lisp) parse
English math (anything-but Forth))
(but
(can-use-to you (macros-of Lisp)
(turn into
(absolutely-any
(unreadable language))))
(ever-does no-one))
))
Rocky J. Squirrel
Searched a few, made up a few
:- Prolog(x) , honking(car);
.h -text honk ; pack .h}
Smalltalk love ifTrue: [ car honk ]
love(x)
SELECT honk FROM TABLE you WHERE love = SQL;
(and (love you lisp) (honk))
$Love{PERL} = "You" if ($Honk);
if {[HEART $env(USER)] == {tcl}} {button
And finally the impossible to understand, C++ runtime template version:
template
class You
{
static bool honking = false;
};
template
class You
{
static bool honking = true;
};
Rocky J. Squirrel
I'm not sure if it'd be laughter at people's code or just evil laughter when you ask where the missing semicolon is, but they'd all definately be too busy laughing to speak.
Those syntax errors probably tickle.
Rocky J. Squirrel
Beat me to it, you did!
Bumper sticker (I've seen):
Forth love if honk then
Rocky J. Squirrel
"Basic tromped, and C++ tromped, and Java cleaned and tromped and cleaned again"
Who woulda thought that garbage collection makes a great running gag.
While the slashdotted page loaded (very slowly) I tried to image what C would say. I knew it would have to be very crude.
I was SOOO happy when it turned out to be "bite me". It's so perfect.
God, I hate C.
Not enough academic languages. I think ML and some variants are important languages.
Prolog deserved a kick in the pants too. I imagine Prolog as the original Rube Goldburg cludge. Something that always malfunctions. Perhaps it could be a dyslexic who can't say anything clearly and tends to repeat itself.
Rocky J. Squirrel
cough cough (hacking up blood).
All your jokes are...
Rocky Da Squirel
This is NOT a man Vs. machine matchup in any way. This, like all the previous ones, is between the human chess player and the human computer scientist.
It's an interesting position... What IDIOT modded it down as redundant!!!!
Anyway, so your position is that until a program can LEARN chess on its own then we're just playing against the programmers, one off.
Rocky J. Squirrel
What's the legality if the copies are given away or sold as copies?
Rocky J. Squirrel
Thoughtcrimes are double plus ungood.
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
Rocky J. Squirrel
The official subtitles are often not as well translated as "fan subs"
Cool if we can get better translations on our movies..
Rocky J. Squirrel
What sort of madness is it in the United States were we claim that we always need automated machines, because counting by hand would be too expensive.
What sort of twisted idiot decides that the basics of democracy are "too expensive" to be worthwhile.
Just pay to do it right, and shut the fuck up.
Rocky J. Squirrel
Feynman's the real thing. Most other books for laymen are washouts - words not information.
And don't listen to the people who say you have to be a math genius to read them. Feyman pretty much avoided going into math geekdom in those books. As Einstein said, things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Rocky J. Squirrel
A while ago I looked at the Ogg Vorbis pages and read a rant by that Ogg developer guy about how he listened to Microsoft's examples for WMA 8 and couldn't understand why they were posted at all...
I have to wonder if he has two ears. All of the samples were showing off some sort of stereo imaging technology. WMA 8 has infinitely better imaging at 80-192k(its highest rate) than any other compression technique. It makes a difference to ME anyway.
It's also true that WMA isn't better otherwise:
1. it occasionally gets too agressive with masking
2. ogg is better at 80k
3. ogg is better at near lossless (real high bit rates)
Does anyone know how to improve the stereo imaging? I wonder what WMA does anyway.
Rocky J. Squirrel
Money only sorta.
The problem is that Farscape had an involved story (unlike other TV shows). That's what made it good. But you needed to see all the episodes to make any sense of what was happening.
Combine that with expensive, high quality production and the most incompetent marketing department in history and you have a huge money hole.
They needed world wide distribution to make their money back, but their God damn incompetent marketing dept. couldn't understand that you have to treat a program like this differently than Bonanza.
They wouldn't let outside networks get season 1 & season 2 episodes without which the series made no sense!
100% incompetent marking.
100%
Real8 64k is Sony's ATAC3 which sounds pretty good at that rate.
WMA V8 at 80k and above has incredible stereo imaging - something missing from all the other codecs. It's odd how some people don't seem to notice imaging. It makes a big difference to me.
Each codec has their sweet spots in terms of bit rate vs. sample rate etc. For streams from 60k to 192k I'd use WMA8, above 240k I'd use Ogg Vorbis or (if I had to use a commericial codec) I'd use Real. Mp3 is not the best at anything anymore, it's basically obsolete. At the higher bandwidths Ogg, and to a lesser extent Real, approach lossless compression.
For the really low sample rates, I'm not sure which I'd recommend. If you really need stereo, WMA8 at the lowest possible sample rate is probably the best - nothing else comes close to whatever kind of stereo optimization they're doing. At the lower sample rates, Real falls back on their old codecs. If you have enough bandwidth for the lowest bandwidth ogg, it beats the others in it's little sweet spot.
Rocky J. Squirrel
All of these arguments that the lack of time travelers is evidence that there is no backwards time travel got me thinking: Maybe there are time travelers, but we've given them no reason to show themselves publicly. So...
We need to prepare if we want to find out if backwards time travel is possible.
Here what we to do. We set up a well publicized botique for time travelers, a place that sells tee shirts that says "My parents went backwards in time and all I got was this lousy tee shirt!" If anyone buys the tee shirt then we know that time travel is happening.
Rocky J. Squirrel
I've always thought the same, although the lack of time travelers might mean that the universe ends next Wednesday.
Rocky J. Squirrel
Despite all of the obvious jokes and the extremely creepy web site), I think the idea is kind of sweet.
God, the web site is creepy, though! Americans have no sense of digity or restraint at all! It all drowns in sacarine! Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!
Rocky J. Squirrel