Do they want to learn? (Hopefully) Do the professor have the knowledge? (Hopefully) Do the professor have time to have one-on-one discussions with every singel student? (Unlikely)
Maybe they will have to get used to not recieving instant gratification, or learn some things the hard way.
Even more funny (or tragic) is the reason they found him guilty. Losely translated from my memory:
"The defendant has such peculiar looks that the court finds it unlikely that any young woman would willingly have sex with him."
I agree with the stand up comedian that later stated, "It must be hard having a court judgement declaring that you *are* ugly". No question about it. No doubts. You are legally declared ugly.
It's the application I was thinking of. It seems to be operated by a company and not released as open source. It uses "bouncers", which I read as proxys for privacy. It also has encryption and compression built in. Looks pretty nice at a glance, but I guess it still would have the mentioned speed problems, if you value your privacy. And the privacy is, afaict, dependent of who is running the proxy/bouncer you are using.
Yes, forgot about Freenet, but that is not actually the one I was thinking about. I remember somthing that looked a lot like Kazaa or Emule (in ms windows), but was supposed to include encryption and private IPs. Can't remember the name for the sake of my life. The little I saw, it actually looked pretty decent, only problem was lack of "material".
But your explanation of why it hasn't caught on seems to apply to my home made theories on the drawbacks. Thanks for clearing that up.
This might be a stupid question, but why haven't someone figured out a way of encrypting, or at least not sharing, the IP number of senders and recievers in a file sharing protocol? The only reason I can think of on the top of my head is that some kind of central server is needed, which must be able to handle the load of translating every users IP and thus by beeing the central point, also being vunerable to shutdown/legal actions á la Napster. Am I correct?
I think I remember reading something about such an endavour some years ago, not sure what happened to it and why it didn't gain populariy.
Sure, marketing people never get carried away. I'm sure that all the drivvle to come from Dell, Gateway, NVidia, ATI, VIA, AMD, Intel, and Microsoft is perfectly accurate, and never EVER stretches anything.
Actually, in my experience, most adverisements from PC manufacturers never mention the GPU at all, when it is sub par. If they do, instead of saying it "delivers unparalleled 2D and 3D graphics performance" they more often than not state something alonge the lines of the graphics capabilities are adequate for playing most games. But I am sure you can find exceptions if you search hard enough.
Anyway, as many are keen to point out, this is a computer aimed at people with no particular computer interest. As such, they will probably be pretty upset when their brand new toy can't play the newest games when adverisements promised "unparalleled 2D and 3D graphics performance".
They will then probably ask how much an upgrade of the graphics card to acceptable standards will cost. Imagine their feelings when the salesperson tells them that the brand new iMac G5 has integrated GPU, and for that reason upgrading is not possible.
Cue all the comments about 5200 geforce not being enough -- it's not meant for that.
From Apple's iMac G5 pages.
The iMac G5 offers formidable built-in graphics capabilities. Like, for instance, the gorgeous widescreen display. Mac OS X version 10.3 "Panther," provides you with the world's most advanced -- and most graphics-savvy -- operating system. And then there's the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics processor with 64MB of DDR SDRAM. It's a combination that delivers unparalleled 2D and 3D graphics performance and an immersive, photorealistic gaming experience with three times the frame rate of previous-generation processors.
Ok, it is not a gaming box, but... Unparalleled 2D and 3D graphics performance with a GFFX 5200? That would be the day!
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At that time most of the applications mentioned (with the the OS/HW combo) were much superior to anything you could find on "professional" PCs and Macs at the time, in some ways some of them still are. But sadly, most of the applications mentioned are now dead or only available for Windows/Linux/Mac.
Funny thing is, as far I can remeber it was not superior or cheap PC hardware that killed Amiga. It was not even the mistreatment it was subjected to by Commodore. It was iD software's "Doom" that put the final nail in the coffin. As no acceptable Doom clone appered for the Amiga in reasonable time, every kid around begged their parents to buy PCs instead of Amigas, which in turn led to the decline of the mass market for Amiga hardware and following that, the loss of most software houses.
A beam device is little to worry about. What should cause concern are the possibilities of these babies carrying a bigger kinetic missile or nukes that can be used with little risk of retaliation.
My guess is US military will focus on more powerful kinetic weapons as they are not currently covered by international treaties regarding wmds in space but still as effective as small nukes.
From article: But the satellite will also contain a smaller "kill vehicle," a projectile that takes advantage of the kinetic energy of objects traveling through low-Earth orbit (which move at several times the speed of a bullet) to disable or destroy an oncoming missile or another orbiting satellite.
Sounds to me a lot like the "kinetic harpoons" described in the "Night's Dawn Triology" by Peter F Hamilton.
Well, it is not like Redhat is the only company supporting Linux. They might say what they please, but imho players like IBM and Intel want linux to succeed, and more often than not, they get what they want.
I think the grandparent's last paragraph is interresting. Combine the power of some of the "more geeky" distros with the easy of use of others. Might be a winner.
No, MS had actually bothered to tell us that Windows 2000 is "based on NT technology". Guess Longhorn is New Technology Technology Technology Technology, or something like that then.
Funny thing is that in Sweden, Telia is for ISPs, what Microsoft is for desktop operating systems in general. Abusing monopolistic power is run of the mill business practice for Telia and has been like that for the last 20 years.
Microsoft vs Telia would be a case in which I'd very much like to see both parties loose.:)
The amount of bandwidth needed would vary enormously depending on how much movement is around the unit. For instance, if it's a quiet afternoon and there's 5 people in visual range, it'll hardly need any bandwidth as it's only having to send scene changes across the line.
Yes, that *might* be true. But the article stated that they would place these devices at the centre of the biggest cities in europe. In these places a quiet afternoon with five people moving about is a rare event. By curiosity people would probably tend to move close to the thing to check it out, by that occupying a large part of the cameras FOV = lots of changes. And I think I remember from my courses that every shift in amount of light (clouds, cars's headlights) would cause most of the frame to be redrawn.
Also, the keyframe technology is accounted for in the estimated 1:100 compression rate of DivX/MPEG4.
Add to that 22 channels of sound, and you'll have to have massive bandwidth available. I don't think 100 MBits will be enough.
I'd be willing to bet that on a parade day with it's cameras full of moving people, it'll run terribly because they likely didn't build it to run 23-30fps, sending an entirely redrawn scene every frame.
Agreed.
Don't get me wrong, I think these thingies would be mighty cool, I am just a little bit sceptical to the workings of them, given the very diffuse specs given by the company.
Ah, but then you forget that I forgot that we need at least 15 to 20 images/second for anything resembling life-like video. My calculations was based on 1 frame/s. (not likely)
We would get 20971520*24*20=9600 MB raw data every sec. Which at a 1:100 compression rate would be 96 MB/s. Still way too much for a 100MBit network to handle, excluding audio.
Of course it is not "20971520*24*3 = 1440 MB/s, uncompressed". It is 20971520*24 = 480 MB/s. 24 MB/s , compressed 20 times without audio. Still, a bit much for a 100 MBit network to handle.
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Maybe China has need for some sweets?
An elegant weapon... For a more civilized age...
Interest isn't relevant.
Do they want to learn? (Hopefully) Do the professor have the knowledge? (Hopefully) Do the professor have time to have one-on-one discussions with every singel student? (Unlikely)
Maybe they will have to get used to not recieving instant gratification, or learn some things the hard way.
Sorry, but no mistake.
Here in Sweden it is illegal using twin vowels and now that everything we write or read on the internet is monitored 24/7, I am very careful.
Chances are that I am in big trouble already, for reading your double "o".
Even more funny (or tragic) is the reason they found him guilty. Losely translated from my memory:
"The defendant has such peculiar looks that the court finds it unlikely that any young woman would willingly have sex with him."
I agree with the stand up comedian that later stated, "It must be hard having a court judgement declaring that you *are* ugly". No question about it. No doubts. You are legally declared ugly.
I do enjoy the sight of Henrik's... sorry... Pirate's nice anti-piracy Gestapo leather coat.
Try sending this googles' way:
numerical wave equation "three dimensional"
Filetopia
It's the application I was thinking of. It seems to be operated by a company and not released as open source. It uses "bouncers", which I read as proxys for privacy. It also has encryption and compression built in. Looks pretty nice at a glance, but I guess it still would have the mentioned speed problems, if you value your privacy. And the privacy is, afaict, dependent of who is running the proxy/bouncer you are using.
Not quite the holy grail yet, but...
Yes, forgot about Freenet, but that is not actually the one I was thinking about. I remember somthing that looked a lot like Kazaa or Emule (in ms windows), but was supposed to include encryption and private IPs. Can't remember the name for the sake of my life. The little I saw, it actually looked pretty decent, only problem was lack of "material".
But your explanation of why it hasn't caught on seems to apply to my home made theories on the drawbacks. Thanks for clearing that up.
This might be a stupid question, but why haven't someone figured out a way of encrypting, or at least not sharing, the IP number of senders and recievers in a file sharing protocol? The only reason I can think of on the top of my head is that some kind of central server is needed, which must be able to handle the load of translating every users IP and thus by beeing the central point, also being vunerable to shutdown/legal actions á la Napster. Am I correct?
I think I remember reading something about such an endavour some years ago, not sure what happened to it and why it didn't gain populariy.
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Can't say I've read anything written by him either, and neither have most of IBLists users, it would seem.
Maybe he is starring in a very small legend?
Sure, marketing people never get carried away. I'm sure that all the drivvle to come from Dell, Gateway, NVidia, ATI, VIA, AMD, Intel, and Microsoft is perfectly accurate, and never EVER stretches anything.
Actually, in my experience, most adverisements from PC manufacturers never mention the GPU at all, when it is sub par. If they do, instead of saying it "delivers unparalleled 2D and 3D graphics performance" they more often than not state something alonge the lines of the graphics capabilities are adequate for playing most games. But I am sure you can find exceptions if you search hard enough.
Anyway, as many are keen to point out, this is a computer aimed at people with no particular computer interest. As such, they will probably be pretty upset when their brand new toy can't play the newest games when adverisements promised "unparalleled 2D and 3D graphics performance".
They will then probably ask how much an upgrade of the graphics card to acceptable standards will cost. Imagine their feelings when the salesperson tells them that the brand new iMac G5 has integrated GPU, and for that reason upgrading is not possible.
Cue all the comments about 5200 geforce not being enough -- it's not meant for that.
From Apple's iMac G5 pages.
The iMac G5 offers formidable built-in graphics capabilities. Like, for instance, the gorgeous widescreen display. Mac OS X version 10.3 "Panther," provides you with the world's most advanced -- and most graphics-savvy -- operating system. And then there's the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics processor with 64MB of DDR SDRAM. It's a combination that delivers unparalleled 2D and 3D graphics performance and an immersive, photorealistic gaming experience with three times the frame rate of previous-generation processors.
Ok, it is not a gaming box, but... Unparalleled 2D and 3D graphics performance with a GFFX 5200? That would be the day!
Really.
;P
The movie "The running man" might even have been a nice one if the production team had at least bothered to read the book before making the movie.
Btw, the rumors of Stephen King's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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At that time most of the applications mentioned (with the the OS/HW combo) were much superior to anything you could find on "professional" PCs and Macs at the time, in some ways some of them still are. But sadly, most of the applications mentioned are now dead or only available for Windows/Linux/Mac.
Funny thing is, as far I can remeber it was not superior or cheap PC hardware that killed Amiga. It was not even the mistreatment it was subjected to by Commodore. It was iD software's "Doom" that put the final nail in the coffin. As no acceptable Doom clone appered for the Amiga in reasonable time, every kid around begged their parents to buy PCs instead of Amigas, which in turn led to the decline of the mass market for Amiga hardware and following that, the loss of most software houses.
A beam device is little to worry about. What should cause concern are the possibilities of these babies carrying a bigger kinetic missile or nukes that can be used with little risk of retaliation.
My guess is US military will focus on more powerful kinetic weapons as they are not currently covered by international treaties regarding wmds in space but still as effective as small nukes.
From article: But the satellite will also contain a smaller "kill vehicle," a projectile that takes advantage of the kinetic energy of objects traveling through low-Earth orbit (which move at several times the speed of a bullet) to disable or destroy an oncoming missile or another orbiting satellite.
Sounds to me a lot like the "kinetic harpoons" described in the "Night's Dawn Triology" by Peter F Hamilton.
A recommended SF read too, if you like the genre.
The lost brothers of a;GRUMH?
Well, it is not like Redhat is the only company supporting Linux. They might say what they please, but imho players like IBM and Intel want linux to succeed, and more often than not, they get what they want.
I think the grandparent's last paragraph is interresting. Combine the power of some of the "more geeky" distros with the easy of use of others. Might be a winner.
No, MS had actually bothered to tell us that Windows 2000 is "based on NT technology". Guess Longhorn is New Technology Technology Technology Technology, or something like that then.
Funny thing is that in Sweden, Telia is for ISPs, what Microsoft is for desktop operating systems in general. Abusing monopolistic power is run of the mill business practice for Telia and has been like that for the last 20 years.
:)
Microsoft vs Telia would be a case in which I'd very much like to see both parties loose.
Thanks for the corrections. Just made some quick esitmations for the sake of discussion.
Although to my understanding the 20 MegaPix was meant to cover data from all three cams?
The amount of bandwidth needed would vary enormously depending on how much movement is around the unit. For instance, if it's a quiet afternoon and there's 5 people in visual range, it'll hardly need any bandwidth as it's only having to send scene changes across the line.
Yes, that *might* be true. But the article stated that they would place these devices at the centre of the biggest cities in europe. In these places a quiet afternoon with five people moving about is a rare event. By curiosity people would probably tend to move close to the thing to check it out, by that occupying a large part of the cameras FOV = lots of changes. And I think I remember from my courses that every shift in amount of light (clouds, cars's headlights) would cause most of the frame to be redrawn.
Also, the keyframe technology is accounted for in the estimated 1:100 compression rate of DivX/MPEG4.
Add to that 22 channels of sound, and you'll have to have massive bandwidth available. I don't think 100 MBits will be enough.
I'd be willing to bet that on a parade day with it's cameras full of moving people, it'll run terribly because they likely didn't build it to run 23-30fps, sending an entirely redrawn scene every frame.
Agreed.
Don't get me wrong, I think these thingies would be mighty cool, I am just a little bit sceptical to the workings of them, given the very diffuse specs given by the company.
Ah, but then you forget that I forgot that we need at least 15 to 20 images/second for anything resembling life-like video. My calculations was based on 1 frame/s. (not likely)
We would get 20971520*24*20=9600 MB raw data every sec. Which at a 1:100 compression rate would be 96 MB/s. Still way too much for a 100MBit network to handle, excluding audio.
Of course it is not "20971520*24*3 = 1440 MB/s, uncompressed". It is 20971520*24 = 480 MB/s. 24 MB/s , compressed 20 times without audio. Still, a bit much for a 100 MBit network to handle.