For goodness sake, read the article. It's not an electron, it's a photon. It's also not the "same" photon. It's a copy of the photon in the same quantum configuration as the original. Now, given quantum configurations are all there is to such things, it effectively is the same - you can't tell the difference.
Note that it's also effectively the same one in probability terms anyway - all electrons are just blips in spacetime's electron density probability.:)
The whole point of teleportation is the transmission of information instantaneously. I.e. effective at infinite speed (or zero distance, depending how you look at it).
Whoops.:) Just let me eat my own words before I get flamed. Yes, I've just realised that that patch is actually a shell script which removes the original package. Hmmm...
Surely you can just remove the offending CGI script instead?
Oh, please read the damned advisories before claiming things that aren't true... The official solution is not to remove the whole package, but to install this patch:
It's fabulous that the technology now exists to put together anyone. Next time I'm in several pieces after a serious traffic accident, I'll feel much happier.:)
People will naturally click on the top-ranked link(s) on a page in the hope that they're useful. If they're not, you've just voted for them, making them even higher ranked.
Google has a much better method for this - it looks to see how many links there are on the web at large to a page. People don't tend to link to stuff unless they like it. Although it's open to some abuse, it's a much better solution.
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Mmmm... 100Gb of OGG? At 128kbps (and I wouldn't imagine you'd encode ogg over this), that's 1820 hours of content. Now, assuming that each music CD you own fills an hour, that's 1820 CDs. At an average price of say $10, that's $18,000 on CDs.
You, er, do own all of those of course, don't you?:)
AWD only really helps when you need more traction for acceleration. This only really occurs out of a slow corner or on loose/wet surfaces. AWD cars are used for rallying precisely for this reason. Formula 1 cars don't have AWD because it adds considerably to the complexity and weight of the car which is enough to offset its advantages on a smooth dry race track.
In fact, there are very few seriously quick cars that use AWD. The Porsche 911 Turbo, Lamborghini Diablo VT and Bugatti EB110 are the only ones I can think of off-hand.
Given a stock Subaru Impreza (front-engined AWD) and a stock Lotus Elise (mid-engined RWD), I wouldn't like to say which would win down a twisty country lane.
Now of course, you Americans don't really have twisty country lanes, which is why you don't really understand the point of a Lotus Elise. They're not even listed on Lotus' US web site.
Corvettes are apparently a joke when it comes to balance and poise. All the UK magazines say that even the latest model, although an improvement on the old, is an absolute joke compared to Porsche 911s and the like.
Basically, Americans don't really have corners. So they don't build cars that go round them very well. FYI, a country lane does not look like this. It looks like this.
Weight distribution has a lot to do with how a car corners. A better balanced car will tend to lose grip at both ends simultaneously (a four wheel drift). This of course means that all the tires are working as well as they can before the car lets go, which means you're going faster round the corner. A well balanced car is also easier to control on that limit.
How quickly you can push a car down a given road has a great deal to do with the characteristics of the road as well as the car. On a very bumpy road, some cars are awful (FWD "hot hatches" in particular - they tend to scrabble for grip coming out of corners). Generally, a well balanced car which is light and powerful will outgun something that's big and heavy with soft soggy suspension, even if the big car has a better power-to-weight ratio. It's not just about 50/50 weight distribution.
> Europe still builds cars with the upper class > in mind since most Europeans use public > transit and don't own cars
Oh, the ignorance.... Most == greater than 50%, right? I have no more recent figures, but in 1998 in England, 78% of households had one or more cars. Go figure.
Call me a karma-whoring idiot if you like, but I thought I'd stick up a copy of this in a format that's not quite so bitmapped. ph33r my l33t OCRing skillz, etc.:)
You *won't* be able to "simply add a voice filter", any more than you can at the moment. Changing the transport protocol doesn't affect the difficulty in programming the embedded hardware.
Viruses won't run rampant. Why should they? Just because something talks IP doesn't mean you can make it execute arbitrary code. Viruses don't run rampant on managed switches, and they talk IP...
I don't understand where you're getting all this rubbish from. If it's so easy to do, why haven't people been doing it with standard GPRS links? What difference does putting IP in make? AFAIK, none at all.
Now, DoS attacks are a different thing entirely. About your only valid point.
Please understand what you're talking about before posting sensationalist drivel like this.
What looks like a fan is clearly visible in the photo of the back of the unit here.
I'll be interesting to see how noisy the box is -I for one wouldn't want to fork out $1000 if it sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
Even if it it reasonably quiet, it can't be silent. Surely the future is in solutions that network home appliances like this to a box with lots of hard disks and fans that can sit making as much noise as it likes, so long as it's not in the living room where I want to listen to my music? It would make the prices of things drop significantly, too.
Enforcing the legislation would be impossible - are you going to stick a police officer in every screen of every movie theatre?
How about simply encasing the building in a small-holed wired mesh? Compared to all the acoustic gear and other cost that goes into making a movie theatre, putting some wire mesh in the walls is cheap.
Or for theatres that aren't still on the drawing board, how about a small microwave jammer. Wouldn't be too expensive, would work a treat. Only there are probably laws about that kind of thing that'd need an exception adding/licensing in place, such that you couldn't just arbitrarily jam people's phones.
Microsoft do indeed have a patent on ASF. It's number 6,041,345 and you can read it here. It's yet another tragic example of why the folks at the US Patent Office should all be fired - things like this have prior art written all over them. I also find it interesting that the patent is dated March 2000, which is quite a long time after the format became ubiquitous. Anybody think they got scared about the reverse engineering around about then and saw a good way to stop it? And MS try to claim they're not anti-competitive...
BTW, I spoke recently with Michael Bohlin (the program manager of Microsoft's digital media division) and he told me that Corona is going RTP/RTSP, so it might well be that by the time anything to do with Helix serving Windows Media files gets dragged through the courts, no one will be using the MMS protocol anyway. This, combined with it not being illegal to reverse engineer stuff on the wire, means that it's extremely unlikely MS will try to nail Real on charges of reverse engineering. I think it'll be this patent if it's anything.
Patent Abstract
An active stream format is defined and adopted for a logical structure that encapsulates multiple data streams. The data streams may be of different media. The data of the data streams is partitioned into packets that are suitable for transmission over a transport medium. The packets may include error correcting information. The packets may also include clock licenses for dictating the advancement of a clock when the data streams are rendered. The format of ASF facilitates flexibility and choice of packet size and in specifying maximum bit rate at which data may be rendered. Error concealment strategies may be employed in the packetization of data to distribute portions of samples to multiple packets. Property information may be replicated and stored in separate packets to enhance its error tolerance. The format facilitates dynamic definition of media types and the packetization of data in such dynamically defined data types within the format.
FYI, MS do have a patent on the ASF format (United States Patent 6,041,345, which is yet another stupid thing to get past the US patent office), so in theory unless you license it, it doesn't matter that you've discovered the protocol by looking at data on the wire.
Many people don't really understand what DivX is. There's the DivX;-) codec, which was a hack of the Microsoft MPG4V3 codec. This allows you to stick MPEG 4 inside AVI files - the MS version only lets you do WMVs and suchlike. There's also the OpenDivX project over at Project Mayo. This is an opensource, cross-platform effort, and hopefully will Take Over The World (tm).
I've been looking into streaming MPEG 4 video off a Linux server and it's still rather immature. FFMpeg looks like it might be getting there, but I quote from the FAQ: "New developments broke ffserver, so don't expect it to work correctly. It is planned to fix it ASAP."
It would be nice to find a good OpenSource (pref. Linux) solution for streaming MPEG 4 content (from a Video4LinuxBTTV device). Does anyone know of one?
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Don't we have teleportation already?
I mean - how else does the pizza get delivered to my door oven-fresh?
For goodness sake, read the article. It's not an electron, it's a photon. It's also not the "same" photon. It's a copy of the photon in the same quantum configuration as the original. Now, given quantum configurations are all there is to such things, it effectively is the same - you can't tell the difference.
:)
Note that it's also effectively the same one in probability terms anyway - all electrons are just blips in spacetime's electron density probability.
The whole point of teleportation is the transmission of information instantaneously. I.e. effective at infinite speed (or zero distance, depending how you look at it).
Although it's nice to see that we are, again, a little closer to slashdot's favorite superpower, Australians did this about six months back.
:)
Beats a meter, though.
Actually, I think you mean:
finger johnc@idsoftware.com|less
I dunno, these Windoze lusers...
Whoops. :)
Just let me eat my own words before I get flamed. Yes, I've just realised that that patch is actually a shell script which removes the original package. Hmmm...
Surely you can just remove the offending CGI script instead?
Oh, please read the damned advisories before claiming things that aren't true...
a Q4-en-Security-2.0.1-SHP_REM.pkg
:)
The official solution is not to remove the whole package, but to install this patch:
http://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/packages/raq4/eng/R
Note that it's a flaw in the admin site scripts that causes this problem. So if you don't use that and have disabled it, then no problem.
It's fabulous that the technology now exists to put together anyone. :)
Next time I'm in several pieces after a serious traffic accident, I'll feel much happier.
People will naturally click on the top-ranked link(s) on a page in the hope that they're useful. If they're not, you've just voted for them, making them even higher ranked.
Google has a much better method for this - it looks to see how many links there are on the web at large to a page. People don't tend to link to stuff unless they like it. Although it's open to some abuse, it's a much better solution.
Mmmm... 100Gb of OGG?
:)
At 128kbps (and I wouldn't imagine you'd encode ogg over this), that's 1820 hours of content. Now, assuming that each music CD you own fills an hour, that's 1820 CDs. At an average price of say $10, that's $18,000 on CDs.
You, er, do own all of those of course, don't you?
AWD only really helps when you need more traction for acceleration. This only really occurs out of a slow corner or on loose/wet surfaces. AWD cars are used for rallying precisely for this reason. Formula 1 cars don't have AWD because it adds considerably to the complexity and weight of the car which is enough to offset its advantages on a smooth dry race track.
In fact, there are very few seriously quick cars that use AWD. The Porsche 911 Turbo, Lamborghini Diablo VT and Bugatti EB110 are the only ones I can think of off-hand.
Given a stock Subaru Impreza (front-engined AWD) and a stock Lotus Elise (mid-engined RWD), I wouldn't like to say which would win down a twisty country lane.
Now of course, you Americans don't really have twisty country lanes, which is why you don't really understand the point of a Lotus Elise. They're not even listed on Lotus' US web site.
Corvettes are apparently a joke when it comes to balance and poise. All the UK magazines say that even the latest model, although an improvement on the old, is an absolute joke compared to Porsche 911s and the like.
Basically, Americans don't really have corners. So they don't build cars that go round them very well. FYI, a country lane does not look like this. It looks like this.
Weight distribution has a lot to do with how a car corners. A better balanced car will tend to lose grip at both ends simultaneously (a four wheel drift). This of course means that all the tires are working as well as they can before the car lets go, which means you're going faster round the corner. A well balanced car is also easier to control on that limit.
How quickly you can push a car down a given road has a great deal to do with the characteristics of the road as well as the car. On a very bumpy road, some cars are awful (FWD "hot hatches" in particular - they tend to scrabble for grip coming out of corners). Generally, a well balanced car which is light and powerful will outgun something that's big and heavy with soft soggy suspension, even if the big car has a better power-to-weight ratio. It's not just about 50/50 weight distribution.
> Europe still builds cars with the upper class
> in mind since most Europeans use public
> transit and don't own cars
Oh, the ignorance....
Most == greater than 50%, right?
I have no more recent figures, but in 1998 in England, 78% of households had one or more cars. Go figure.
HTH. HAND.
About the only way to do this is to extract the pages as images (using for example Photoshop, which can batch-convert PDFs to PSDs).
Then convert the images into something more useful (like TIFFs).
Then OCR then using something that preserves formatting roughly, like OmniPage or something.
Then load it into Word and save it out as a PDF using Acrobat.
And even then you need to do some hand tweaking.
Grrrr.
Already done that - see previous post:
HTML version available here
Oh, and when I said "PDF version" in the header, I didn't mean that - I was going to do a PDF, but Acrobat's being rather uncooperative. :(
There's a Word (spit) version too:
Click here for a Word (doc) version
Call me a karma-whoring idiot if you like, but I thought I'd stick up a copy of this in a format that's not quite so bitmapped. ph33r my l33t OCRing skillz, etc. :)
Click here for an HTML version.
You *won't* be able to "simply add a voice filter", any more than you can at the moment. Changing the transport protocol doesn't affect the difficulty in programming the embedded hardware.
:)
Viruses won't run rampant. Why should they? Just because something talks IP doesn't mean you can make it execute arbitrary code. Viruses don't run rampant on managed switches, and they talk IP...
I don't understand where you're getting all this rubbish from. If it's so easy to do, why haven't people been doing it with standard GPRS links? What difference does putting IP in make? AFAIK, none at all.
Now, DoS attacks are a different thing entirely. About your only valid point.
Please understand what you're talking about before posting sensationalist drivel like this.
Perhaps you should get a job as a journalist?
What looks like a fan is clearly visible in the photo of the back of the unit here.
I'll be interesting to see how noisy the box is -I for one wouldn't want to fork out $1000 if it sounds like a vacuum cleaner.
Even if it it reasonably quiet, it can't be silent. Surely the future is in solutions that network home appliances like this to a box with lots of hard disks and fans that can sit making as much noise as it likes, so long as it's not in the living room where I want to listen to my music? It would make the prices of things drop significantly, too.
Enforcing the legislation would be impossible - are you going to stick a police officer in every screen of every movie theatre?
How about simply encasing the building in a small-holed wired mesh? Compared to all the acoustic gear and other cost that goes into making a movie theatre, putting some wire mesh in the walls is cheap.
Or for theatres that aren't still on the drawing board, how about a small microwave jammer. Wouldn't be too expensive, would work a treat. Only there are probably laws about that kind of thing that'd need an exception adding/licensing in place, such that you couldn't just arbitrarily jam people's phones.
Microsoft do indeed have a patent on ASF. It's number 6,041,345 and you can read it here. It's yet another tragic example of why the folks at the US Patent Office should all be fired - things like this have prior art written all over them. I also find it interesting that the patent is dated March 2000, which is quite a long time after the format became ubiquitous. Anybody think they got scared about the reverse engineering around about then and saw a good way to stop it? And MS try to claim they're not anti-competitive...
BTW, I spoke recently with Michael Bohlin (the program manager of Microsoft's digital media division) and he told me that Corona is going RTP/RTSP, so it might well be that by the time anything to do with Helix serving Windows Media files gets dragged through the courts, no one will be using the MMS protocol anyway. This, combined with it not being illegal to reverse engineer stuff on the wire, means that it's extremely unlikely MS will try to nail Real on charges of reverse engineering. I think it'll be this patent if it's anything.
Patent Abstract
An active stream format is defined and adopted for a logical structure that encapsulates multiple data streams. The data streams may be of different media. The data of the data streams is partitioned into packets that are suitable for transmission over a transport medium. The packets may include error correcting information. The packets may also include clock licenses for dictating the advancement of a clock when the data streams are rendered. The format of ASF facilitates flexibility and choice of packet size and in specifying maximum bit rate at which data may be rendered. Error concealment strategies may be employed in the packetization of data to distribute portions of samples to multiple packets. Property information may be replicated and stored in separate packets to enhance its error tolerance. The format facilitates dynamic definition of media types and the packetization of data in such dynamically defined data types within the format.
FYI, MS do have a patent on the ASF format (United States Patent 6,041,345, which is yet another stupid thing to get past the US patent office), so in theory unless you license it, it doesn't matter that you've discovered the protocol by looking at data on the wire.
Our company has been running a similar service for a very long time. It's free, and you canget it here. It's called NewsScape.
Many people don't really understand what DivX is. There's the DivX
I've been looking into streaming MPEG 4 video off a Linux server and it's still rather immature. FFMpeg looks like it might be getting there, but I quote from the FAQ: "New developments broke ffserver, so don't expect it to work correctly. It is planned to fix it ASAP."
It would be nice to find a good OpenSource (pref. Linux) solution for streaming MPEG 4 content (from a Video4Linux BTTV device). Does anyone know of one?
It's at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html.