"the amount of information that could be stored on optical media would be vastly increased..." I thought that was limited by the wavelength of light used to record and read the information.
Likely what this is referring to (with a couple of layers of BS in the way) would be 'evanescent' waves. As someone who actually read the paper mentioned, this technique amplifies those.
Several weeks back I was listening to a presentation by someone who is working on optical imaging using these. The technique is not limited by wavelength directly; it amounts to measuring the irregularities in the waves when they are close to the surface. The problem is that said irregularities drop off exponentially on the order of a wavelength.
If something were to help with manipulating said 'evanescent' waves, it could concievably remove the wavelength limitation.
The first animatrix works fine in the latest release (rc5) of mplayer with the quicktime codecs. It didn't work in rc3 when I tried, so the patch was applied sometime in between there. (but the fix mentioned elsewhere was applied at some point, I checked the sources)
Google has a very reasonable model based on very well targeted advertisment. That model depends in significant part upon people actually visiting the site to view said advertisments
If enough people started using other search engines based on Googlian policies, it would negatively impact Google.
Obviously, I agree with ancestor post's assertion that publicizing is exactly what needs to be done. People aren't going to change their search engine usage if they don't know anything is happening.
okay, mister "there is no centrifigual force, it's just inertia"...
You can say the same thing about gravity (eg, the effect of inertia on a curved space time). The point is, you reach a point where the "exerts a force outward" model of circular motion is perfectly sufficient, and the fact that the "force" is just inertia is beside the point.
And I've never understood why they think that opening up 6 connections when downloading a file would be quicker than just one. Quite apart from the fact that that insane kind of tactic can get your IP banned from some HTTP servers.
It is, at least when you are dealing with, say, a large campus internet connection. If I get one connection at 50k/s, I can get a second at 50k/s.
(this amounts to taking bandwidth away from all those KaZaA users on campus)
For many (most?) of us, no sort of comic "book" succeeds, no more than Saturday morning cartoons do. Pictures are not necessary if a real writer is involved. Sorry. I'd rather read a book. Anytime.
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that this is a troll. YHBT, everyone else.
When the average on a test is below 50%, it begins to make you wonder what the hell is going on. And in cases like that, I'd assume it's very hard to get a decent distribution for grading.
Actually, I'd think that an average around 50% would be ideal; ask difficult questions, in order to see how well people really understand the material (as opposed to rote memorization)
at the very least, I'd think that an average around 50% would be easier to get a grading distribution for than an average around 85%, due to increased resolution...
from the infinium website: There are currently 32,679 retail game titles available and 418 shareware game titles and this does not include; adult, casino, sequels and new releases in past 6 months.
We will be working with developers to develop a licensing model to distribute all of these titles electronically to our customer's.
Translation: We have a wintel box which runs thousands and thousands of games. However, only thirty of them will agree to our method of distribution after negotiations shake out.
Okay, I'll admit that you could have some sort of future disc hardware that might refuse to run without TCPA, but that wouldn't be a cd-rom or a dvd, in any case.
A new disk format could be created that demands TCPA support in the backend and only sends if it trusts your system, but unless the entire format of the disc were unknown, it would still be possible to create a disc reader that doesn't require TCPA that outputs the encrypted version.
the point being, it's not that simple. (and probably not worth doing, unless the encryption sucks, at which point there isn't that much point in using it in the first place)
Just out of curiosity, if you read it out loud does it help you? Also can you read hiragana without pauses, and fluidly? A bit... although my vocabulary as a whole is a bit weak, so it doesn't help as much as it would otherwise. In large part, the kanji help there because they make it easier to identify parts of speech, making it easier to look stuff up (especially with furigana) or just take from context. I'm not quite at reading hiragana or katakana fluidly, but fairly close; once I start practicing again, I'll probably hit that point fairly quickly.
My kanji vocabulary is probably about 2nd grader or so myself... I know most of the 1st grade kanji, and then a smattering of other stuff. (the flip side is that my vocabulary as a whole is about the same)
Silly man, no one actually USES Linux for their desktop! They only dual-boot with it so they can act cool. Yeah, it's a shame. So many people are using FreeBSD but dual booting Linux just to seem cool.
(of course, why the Japanese don't drop the kanji and use kana exclusively is beyond me -- it seems that it would make all sorts of things easier)
I disagree. In part, kanji offset the lack of spacing between words. As a student of the language, I find that, when I see a huge block of kana, it's next to impossible to read; kanji interspersed through it make it either an order of magnitude easier to read (if I actually know the kanji) or slightly easier(if I don't, because that means I probably don't know the word either)
If you have a fairly recent Windows PC, you can play DW7 using epsxe (I did so)... There is also a linux port of said emulator which works fine, but last I checked there weren't any decent sound plugins.
I get about 10 spams a week now from Argentina. Normal spam is bad enough, but I can't even understand what it is they are supposed to be selling. How silly is that. For the life of me, I can't work out where they could have got my address from. I've never had anything at all to do with Argentina.
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"the amount of information that could be stored on optical media would be vastly increased..." I thought that was limited by the wavelength of light used to record and read the information.
Likely what this is referring to (with a couple of layers of BS in the way) would be 'evanescent' waves. As someone who actually read the paper mentioned, this technique amplifies those.
Several weeks back I was listening to a presentation by someone who is working on optical imaging using these. The technique is not limited by wavelength directly; it amounts to measuring the irregularities in the waves when they are close to the surface. The problem is that said irregularities drop off exponentially on the order of a wavelength.
If something were to help with manipulating said 'evanescent' waves, it could concievably remove the wavelength limitation.
The first animatrix works fine in the latest release (rc5) of mplayer with the quicktime codecs. It didn't work in rc3 when I tried, so the patch was applied sometime in between there. (but the fix mentioned elsewhere was applied at some point, I checked the sources)
Presumably they're all encoded similarly...
You can copy the files from another installation. (in fact, the copying of files is not automated at all at this point)
except that a googlewhack has to be precisely two terms.
Google has a very reasonable model based on very well targeted advertisment. That model depends in significant part upon people actually visiting the site to view said advertisments
If enough people started using other search engines based on Googlian policies, it would negatively impact Google.
Obviously, I agree with ancestor post's assertion that publicizing is exactly what needs to be done. People aren't going to change their search engine usage if they don't know anything is happening.
And if they entangle a fourth, maybe they'll be able to factor 15.
okay, mister "there is no centrifigual force, it's just inertia"...
You can say the same thing about gravity (eg, the effect of inertia on a curved space time). The point is, you reach a point where the "exerts a force outward" model of circular motion is perfectly sufficient, and the fact that the "force" is just inertia is beside the point.
And I've never understood why they think that opening up 6 connections when downloading a file would be quicker than just one. Quite apart from the fact that that insane kind of tactic can get your IP banned from some HTTP servers.
It is, at least when you are dealing with, say, a large campus internet connection. If I get one connection at 50k/s, I can get a second at 50k/s.
(this amounts to taking bandwidth away from all those KaZaA users on campus)
with failed first posts.
For many (most?) of us, no sort of comic "book" succeeds, no more than Saturday morning cartoons do. Pictures are not necessary if a real writer is involved. Sorry. I'd rather read a book. Anytime.
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that this is a troll. YHBT, everyone else.
So how many Libraries Of Congress will we be able to save on a medium the size of an O'Reilly book?
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When the average on a test is below 50%, it begins to make you wonder what the hell is going on. And in cases like that, I'd assume it's very hard to get a decent distribution for grading.
Actually, I'd think that an average around 50% would be ideal; ask difficult questions, in order to see how well people really understand the material (as opposed to rote memorization)
at the very least, I'd think that an average around 50% would be easier to get a grading distribution for than an average around 85%, due to increased resolution...
from the infinium website:
There are currently 32,679 retail game titles available and 418 shareware game titles and this does not include; adult, casino, sequels and new releases in past 6 months.
We will be working with developers to develop a licensing model to distribute all of these titles electronically to our customer's.
Translation:
We have a wintel box which runs thousands and thousands of games. However, only thirty of them will agree to our method of distribution after negotiations shake out.
How could you do that?
Okay, I'll admit that you could have some sort of future disc hardware that might refuse to run without TCPA, but that wouldn't be a cd-rom or a dvd, in any case.
A new disk format could be created that demands TCPA support in the backend and only sends if it trusts your system, but unless the entire format of the disc were unknown, it would still be possible to create a disc reader that doesn't require TCPA that outputs the encrypted version.
the point being, it's not that simple. (and probably not worth doing, unless the encryption sucks, at which point there isn't that much point in using it in the first place)
Just out of curiosity, if you read it out loud does it help you? Also can you read hiragana without pauses, and fluidly?
A bit... although my vocabulary as a whole is a bit weak, so it doesn't help as much as it would otherwise. In large part, the kanji help there because they make it easier to identify parts of speech, making it easier to look stuff up (especially with furigana) or just take from context. I'm not quite at reading hiragana or katakana fluidly, but fairly close; once I start practicing again, I'll probably hit that point fairly quickly.
My kanji vocabulary is probably about 2nd grader or so myself... I know most of the 1st grade kanji, and then a smattering of other stuff. (the flip side is that my vocabulary as a whole is about the same)
Silly man, no one actually USES Linux for their desktop! They only dual-boot with it so they can act cool.
Yeah, it's a shame. So many people are using FreeBSD but dual booting Linux just to seem cool.
(of course, why the Japanese don't drop the kanji and use kana exclusively is beyond me -- it seems that it would make all sorts of things easier)
I disagree. In part, kanji offset the lack of spacing between words. As a student of the language, I find that, when I see a huge block of kana, it's next to impossible to read; kanji interspersed through it make it either an order of magnitude easier to read (if I actually know the kanji) or slightly easier(if I don't, because that means I probably don't know the word either)
Kanji are fairly regular, you know...
Leonardo's wasn't that useful because upgraded units lost veteran status; most upgrades cause veteran units to become less powerful...
if your car can go 20 meters per second through a bose einstein condensate, I'm impressed.
(at least if said condensate remains one afterwards)
Why are they taking up the court's time requesting a stay for that? It's not like said program isn't posted in a million other places...
we EAT quantum mechanics.
YOU are lost on joke!
If you have a fairly recent Windows PC, you can play DW7 using epsxe (I did so)... There is also a linux port of said emulator which works fine, but last I checked there weren't any decent sound plugins.
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