Yes, i guess i should have clarified that.
I think it is more likely that, should fusion ever be used for electricity generation, the electrolisys will be done by stations far away from the fusion plant, powered by its electricity.
He from the fusion reactor can in this case be considered waste.
Still. i prefer this over fission.
I'd rather talk with a high pitched voice, then glow in the dark.
Storage and transport of hydrogen isn't really the problem anymore. Years ago, there were already test with hydrogen tanks that contained alluminium particles, which bind the hydrogen, making it a lot safer to transport and store hydrogen. Safer actually then a tank of gasoline.
(I wouldn't be surprised if these tanks are already widely in use now)
The problem is ofcourse to generate large amounts of hydrogen.
Given the succes of recent tests with fusion reactors, who knows.. we might be using hydrogen to create hydrogen from water.
I still have one old big wooden box (when i was 6 when i got it that box seemed huge) with meccano. I loved that stuff, especially the big wind-up engine, the gears, the tiny nuts and bolts..
It came with wonderfull illustrations which looked like a catalogue, come to think of it, but not much building instructions.
In short, to me, this stuff inspired to design things myself, not just to follow instructions like lego or plastic modelkits.
I am getting very curious now though how i might date the meccano i have. I know its over 80 years old, but thats about it. Not to sell it, i'd never do that. This stuff is still brillaint, and should it ever get that far, i'd love to pass this on to my kids.
This just made me curious now in what shape it started, and which options came along the time line.
'any non-announced project from Microsoft is just that.
many things get looked at, few get chosen.
take any "behind-the-scenes" news like this - take it with a grain of salt -
as until it becomes an announced project its all speculation.'
Which sort of confirms they are working on it, though nothing is definate.
Make of it what you want, but its definatly not 'just games' MS is after.
The sad truth is though, that to be heard, you will need promotion. To make music, you need money, even if it is just to pay for the equipment, the recording, or calling in a pizza during a long recording session.
Most bands i know don't have dreams about tons of money, or superstar status. Sometimes it is even enough reward to see people singing along in the front row, or the chill when you feel connecting to an audience.
But how can you make yourself heard if there is so much out there, the stations only play what they get from the big companies, and there is not enough money coming in to change anything about it.
Music is part of todays society, which relies in a lot of ways on money.
Music should be cheaper, no doubt, but in a lot of cases it is just impossible to make it free.
The OAL may provide some benefits for some musicians, but right now it would be just as easy to put your own music up on audiogalaxy.
Having asked a question about homestation on the MS xbox group, there came an answer from a sender with an IP from within microsoft saying:
'don't believe everything you read'
The real question is ofcourse now 'written by who?'
PC Format has a lot to gain with enormous exposure, but MS has even more to lose if it already shows the 'next step after Xbox' and consumers wait with buying an XBox.
Should microsoft stay silent on it though (officially that is), i think its time to take the article serious, and have another look at the options.
Thank you for this info.
It seems most are claiming a 90% success rate.
That sounds very promising.
Now i am getting Really curious how it works, and if it works in the Netherlands as well.
I guess i'll have to dive into google to find out more about this, and if there are any reactions so far from advertisers.
Probably not untill there is a big installed base of tv's or boxes like this, that will make 'live' add skipping a possibility, will the advertisers spend much time and effort on it.
If this is the general trend, they will retaliate. no doubt.
This is a feature i myself have pondered on quite a while, but every time i think i found some foolproof scheme, advertisers change something:
logo's in the screen appearing later, no jingle for end of commercials, or network advertisement appearing after the End Of Adverts, lovely fades into commercials, followed by fades into the next scene of a movie.. you name it.
The only option i can imagine that will allways work for add skipping is good old FFWD.
Unless ofcourse, you would have to pay the producer of the box to send you markers where commercials are in a program you want to watch.
Maybe there is a way I am not aware of (some statistical analysis or some other smart algo. ) then i'd love to hear so, but before that i have my doubts about usability, or legal status (in case of the marker method).
If they did find an algorithmic way, it will become an nice 'arms race' to watch.
As if a normal computer does a direct stream from media to display device.. and even if it would it would still go trough: storage device cache, several fifo's and possibly display buffer.
in effect this makes running any piece of copyrighted material illegal (by the letter of the law).
Still, the point is, that anybody ~could~ be found guilty for running copyrighted software.
They never will sue on this ofcourse, but it gives the power to do as they see fit. With such a loose terming, anybody can be found guilty, if (s)he does anything to offend the 'big players'.
THAT is my main concern.
Any law should be reasonable, and not open for misinterpretation (woohoo big word) or left at the whims of the prosecution.
Though there it is more the MIPS count.
Since DSP's are in 99% of the case full RISC engines, it would make no sense in putting in CPI, since almost every single instruction takes 1 cycle. (i gather most i386 cores will go the same way, though i'd love to see a div or sqrt that works in one tick).
What has been abused it the amount of instructions, and what constitutes an instruction.
Especially TI has been blamed by some people that its MIPS ratings are not thruthfull since they use instructions that are normally one instruction on other DSP's, but here are split in several instruction. Hence generating a much higher MIPS number.
I think any indicator is open for abuse, let alone the trouble marketing would have with explaining multi-stage pipelines/parallel executing units, or the (dis)advantages of RISC versus CISC.
Years ago, in the golden age of the speccie and the C64, kilobytes seemed to indicate to the 'normal man' the performance of a computer. now its Mhz.
How about Akira ?
You can't really get much better known then that.
That already used computer animation as well, and is together with Lensman one of the oldest animes i can recall having computer graphics mixed with cgi.
both around the half eighties.
i guess it all depends on your definition of unique.
exclusive being the only game with that name on Xbox probably.
Sort of like the 'exclusive' version of Dead Or Alive 2 for dreamcast, with the 'exclusive' Dead or alive 2 -Hardcore- for PS2.
For all what its worth.. did anybody notice this is the first US console release after Trip Hawkins 3D0 and the Atari Jaguar?
Now compare the marketing money of Microsoft (500M$) versus the worldwide economical slowdown, and you must agree, that the best marketing ploy is to give away 2 million Xboxes. How's that for creating goodwill ?
anal note:
chello.at is part of chello worldwide, which is part of UPC. Given the current share price of UPC (
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I think you'r underestimating the game developers.
MS gives a big bundle of money for developers to make games for Xbox (ever wondered why the list was so big anyway?)
At the moment though it seems that a lot of the developers are not using this money just to develop Xbox games, but a multi-format game.
A nice example of this might be Malice, which was pushed by MS a long time as an exclusive title, and is now to be released on PS2 as well.
Furthermore, i doubt developers have any intrest in choosing sides in a console battle, unless they are going for some die-hard platform fans (mostly niche games anyway), or are directly funded by the console manufacturer.
Developers (well.. the companies, not the persons) dont care where they develop for, as long as the money comes in.
Draw your own conclusions, make your own predictions, and prepare yourself for the same discussion in 3-4 years.
Being dutch, knowing a bit about recent cases involving computer crime in holland, and the attitude towards research, it is extremely unlikely that he would be prosecuted under dutch law.
The only things that he fears is to be arrested when he travels to the US, which he does frequently, as it said in the article.
Sentry23
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totally off-topic, but the website is not morpheus.com but musiccity.com.
not that it is that good or anything...
i think the point trying to be made was that encrypted p2p networks over a 'policed' internet would still allow some bypass over the control.
Let alone other standards that would emerge from such actions.
Maybe a very dangerous comparison, but lets look at something everybody is against (or should be); child pornography.
Its illegal in (as far as i know) every country, its monitored by special intrest groups, its actively prosecuted, but its still here. also on the net.
Is there any way this could be prevented by using more active filtering techniques ?
extremely doubtfull. No single filtering mechanism i have used or have been demonstrated is waterproof. Not to mention the extreme processing power that would be needed to filter complete countries. Which ofcourse would allways be bypassed if some network protocol was abused that would be filtered in a different way.
(and godforbid i hope we will never be stuck with port 80 for everything)
Would less anonimity prevent this from happening ?
No bigger motivation then human perversion, so people would find other ways, like logging on to public systems, hopping free internet providers, borrowing the neighbours phone line, or name a few other ways.
To put this into perspective of the atricle again..
The internet is more then the US.
Even though many countries signed the Den Haag treaty, not many are enforcing it. There are bigger problems in most countries then the loss of money for some foreign record companies.
Let alone sue their occupants for listening to the latest Britney Spears. (I don't have my own country.. Yet:( )
If there's demand, there's a profit to be made, and somebody will jump in.
Though the thought of organised crime running 'illegal' unfiltered internet seems a bit to farfetched for me yet.
A globally controlled internet would have global rules. If not the whole discussion is useless anyway.
That would mean (besides intelectual property issues) that countries will have to agree what is deemed illegal.
Documents on China and the way its government acts ?
Soft porn ?
Christian material? (as it is a quite some muslim countries)
Nazi material (as it is in a lot of european countries)
hacking tools (as it seems to be in the US, depending on what it is)
Cryptography tools .
anything you can think of actually..
For an agreement on such scale, there would be so many compromises and understanding that it might even bring world peace..
Thats about the only thing i would trade in for a free internet anyway.
Sentry23
The most scary thing to me about that document encryption using ROT-13, was the fact that it used a dongle and costed $3000 per document. Anybody who pays this much for securing documents has a damn good reason to do so. (any ideas which companies actually used this format ?)
Exposing this sort of information is not a crime, but a way of exposing frauds.
(Then again, it was adobe who sued him, not -whats the name of that company- ).
The fact remains though, that he was arrested for software sold outside the US, by a non-US company, and not for his seminar.
If he is convicted, it would set a strange precident; to be convicted for crimes that are punishable in the US, but were done outside the US, by a non US inhabitant, only because he was in the US.
As i live in.nl, there are a lot of things here i could get arrested for in the USA then.
But we're still talking about nuclear weapons.. right ?
How close do you have to be with 40 megaton ?
After that first hit, because of a massive EMP the system will most likely be off the air for a long time (i dont know how fast a new civilisation will be able rebuild it anyway), so if youre sending a strike with nukes that rely on GPS, you will have to send a whole load in the first strike, and hope somebody doesnt shut off the system while they are airborne.
For a reliable system you will need a wholly selfcontained system that can verify its position against stationary objects or have a reliable inertial navigation system. The latter is most likely to be used in most systems. When talking about BIG nukes, the main issue is that they work, and that they blow pretty close to where you want them.
Only for small precision attacks with conventional explosives is it likely to use very smart hardware/software to find and destruct targets.
You could not take videotapes of screens. Rather you must have 100% digital copies of the original media. If you don't have the 100% copies, the files themselves may be slightly modified & render your copy useless
And on the subject of the copyright act.. if you would point a video camera at the television, isnt this considered as altering the content (borders around the screen, possible reflections, camera movement) and therefore illegal as well ?
In any case, it is in the best intrest of the media firms to have their material allways appear in the best possible form. Hence the name copy, and not the word downgrade in the law.
Sentry23
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Yes, i guess i should have clarified that.
I think it is more likely that, should fusion ever be used for electricity generation, the electrolisys will be done by stations far away from the fusion plant, powered by its electricity.
He from the fusion reactor can in this case be considered waste.
Still. i prefer this over fission.
I'd rather talk with a high pitched voice, then glow in the dark.
Sentry23
Storage and transport of hydrogen isn't really the problem anymore. Years ago, there were already test with hydrogen tanks that contained alluminium particles, which bind the hydrogen, making it a lot safer to transport and store hydrogen. Safer actually then a tank of gasoline.
(I wouldn't be surprised if these tanks are already widely in use now)
The problem is ofcourse to generate large amounts of hydrogen.
Given the succes of recent tests with fusion reactors, who knows.. we might be using hydrogen to create hydrogen from water.
quite a big if, but who knows.
I still have one old big wooden box (when i was 6 when i got it that box seemed huge) with meccano. I loved that stuff, especially the big wind-up engine, the gears, the tiny nuts and bolts..
It came with wonderfull illustrations which looked like a catalogue, come to think of it, but not much building instructions.
In short, to me, this stuff inspired to design things myself, not just to follow instructions like lego or plastic modelkits.
I am getting very curious now though how i might date the meccano i have. I know its over 80 years old, but thats about it. Not to sell it, i'd never do that. This stuff is still brillaint, and should it ever get that far, i'd love to pass this on to my kids.
This just made me curious now in what shape it started, and which options came along the time line.
Sentry23
-no brain, no pain
which said:
'any non-announced project from Microsoft is just that.
many things get looked at, few get chosen.
take any "behind-the-scenes" news like this - take it with a grain of salt -
as until it becomes an announced project its all speculation.'
Which sort of confirms they are working on it, though nothing is definate.
Make of it what you want, but its definatly not 'just games' MS is after.
Leon
-no brain, no pain
The sad truth is though, that to be heard, you will need promotion. To make music, you need money, even if it is just to pay for the equipment, the recording, or calling in a pizza during a long recording session.
Most bands i know don't have dreams about tons of money, or superstar status. Sometimes it is even enough reward to see people singing along in the front row, or the chill when you feel connecting to an audience.
But how can you make yourself heard if there is so much out there, the stations only play what they get from the big companies, and there is not enough money coming in to change anything about it.
Music is part of todays society, which relies in a lot of ways on money.
Music should be cheaper, no doubt, but in a lot of cases it is just impossible to make it free.
The OAL may provide some benefits for some musicians, but right now it would be just as easy to put your own music up on audiogalaxy.
Leon
Having asked a question about homestation on the MS xbox group, there came an answer from a sender with an IP from within microsoft saying:
'don't believe everything you read'
The real question is ofcourse now 'written by who?'
PC Format has a lot to gain with enormous exposure, but MS has even more to lose if it already shows the 'next step after Xbox' and consumers wait with buying an XBox.
Should microsoft stay silent on it though (officially that is), i think its time to take the article serious, and have another look at the options.
Leon
Thank you for this info.
It seems most are claiming a 90% success rate.
That sounds very promising.
Now i am getting Really curious how it works, and if it works in the Netherlands as well.
I guess i'll have to dive into google to find out more about this, and if there are any reactions so far from advertisers.
Probably not untill there is a big installed base of tv's or boxes like this, that will make 'live' add skipping a possibility, will the advertisers spend much time and effort on it.
If this is the general trend, they will retaliate. no doubt.
Leon
-no brain, no pain
This is a feature i myself have pondered on quite a while, but every time i think i found some foolproof scheme, advertisers change something:
logo's in the screen appearing later, no jingle for end of commercials, or network advertisement appearing after the End Of Adverts, lovely fades into commercials, followed by fades into the next scene of a movie.. you name it.
The only option i can imagine that will allways work for add skipping is good old FFWD.
Unless ofcourse, you would have to pay the producer of the box to send you markers where commercials are in a program you want to watch.
Maybe there is a way I am not aware of (some statistical analysis or some other smart algo. ) then i'd love to hear so, but before that i have my doubts about usability, or legal status (in case of the marker method).
If they did find an algorithmic way, it will become an nice 'arms race' to watch.
Leon
-no brain, no pain
As if a normal computer does a direct stream from media to display device.. and even if it would it would still go trough: storage device cache, several fifo's and possibly display buffer.
in effect this makes running any piece of copyrighted material illegal (by the letter of the law).
Still, the point is, that anybody ~could~ be found guilty for running copyrighted software.
They never will sue on this ofcourse, but it gives the power to do as they see fit. With such a loose terming, anybody can be found guilty, if (s)he does anything to offend the 'big players'.
THAT is my main concern.
Any law should be reasonable, and not open for misinterpretation (woohoo big word) or left at the whims of the prosecution.
Sentry23
Though there it is more the MIPS count.
Since DSP's are in 99% of the case full RISC engines, it would make no sense in putting in CPI, since almost every single instruction takes 1 cycle. (i gather most i386 cores will go the same way, though i'd love to see a div or sqrt that works in one tick).
What has been abused it the amount of instructions, and what constitutes an instruction.
Especially TI has been blamed by some people that its MIPS ratings are not thruthfull since they use instructions that are normally one instruction on other DSP's, but here are split in several instruction. Hence generating a much higher MIPS number.
I think any indicator is open for abuse, let alone the trouble marketing would have with explaining multi-stage pipelines/parallel executing units, or the (dis)advantages of RISC versus CISC.
Years ago, in the golden age of the speccie and the C64, kilobytes seemed to indicate to the 'normal man' the performance of a computer. now its Mhz.
who knows.. maybe in a year its vertexes/second.
or gigaflops.
Whoever gets it wrong will be the latter.
Sentry23
How about Akira ?
You can't really get much better known then that.
That already used computer animation as well, and is together with Lensman one of the oldest animes i can recall having computer graphics mixed with cgi.
both around the half eighties.
i guess it all depends on your definition of unique.
exclusive being the only game with that name on Xbox probably.
Sort of like the 'exclusive' version of Dead Or Alive 2 for dreamcast, with the 'exclusive' Dead or alive 2 -Hardcore- for PS2.
For all what its worth.. did anybody notice this is the first US console release after Trip Hawkins 3D0 and the Atari Jaguar?
Now compare the marketing money of Microsoft (500M$) versus the worldwide economical slowdown, and you must agree, that the best marketing ploy is to give away 2 million Xboxes.
How's that for creating goodwill ?
anal note:
chello.at is part of chello worldwide, which is part of UPC.
Given the current share price of UPC (
MS gives a big bundle of money for developers to make games for Xbox (ever wondered why the list was so big anyway?)
At the moment though it seems that a lot of the developers are not using this money just to develop Xbox games, but a multi-format game.
A nice example of this might be Malice, which was pushed by MS a long time as an exclusive title, and is now to be released on PS2 as well.
Furthermore, i doubt developers have any intrest in choosing sides in a console battle, unless they are going for some die-hard platform fans (mostly niche games anyway), or are directly funded by the console manufacturer.
Developers (well.. the companies, not the persons) dont care where they develop for, as long as the money comes in.
Draw your own conclusions, make your own predictions, and prepare yourself for the same discussion in 3-4 years.
Sentry23
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Too much of it makes you sick
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The only things that he fears is to be arrested when he travels to the US, which he does frequently, as it said in the article.
Sentry23
and the land of the freeeee
play ball!
not that it is that good or anything...
i think the point trying to be made was that encrypted p2p networks over a 'policed' internet would still allow some bypass over the control. Let alone other standards that would emerge from such actions.
Maybe a very dangerous comparison, but lets look at something everybody is against (or should be); child pornography. Its illegal in (as far as i know) every country, its monitored by special intrest groups, its actively prosecuted, but its still here. also on the net. Is there any way this could be prevented by using more active filtering techniques ? extremely doubtfull. No single filtering mechanism i have used or have been demonstrated is waterproof. Not to mention the extreme processing power that would be needed to filter complete countries. Which ofcourse would allways be bypassed if some network protocol was abused that would be filtered in a different way. (and godforbid i hope we will never be stuck with port 80 for everything) Would less anonimity prevent this from happening ? No bigger motivation then human perversion, so people would find other ways, like logging on to public systems, hopping free internet providers, borrowing the neighbours phone line, or name a few other ways.
To put this into perspective of the atricle again.. :( )
The internet is more then the US. Even though many countries signed the Den Haag treaty, not many are enforcing it. There are bigger problems in most countries then the loss of money for some foreign record companies. Let alone sue their occupants for listening to the latest Britney Spears. (I don't have my own country.. Yet
If there's demand, there's a profit to be made, and somebody will jump in. Though the thought of organised crime running 'illegal' unfiltered internet seems a bit to farfetched for me yet.
A globally controlled internet would have global rules. If not the whole discussion is useless anyway. That would mean (besides intelectual property issues) that countries will have to agree what is deemed illegal. Documents on China and the way its government acts ? Soft porn ? Christian material? (as it is a quite some muslim countries) Nazi material (as it is in a lot of european countries) hacking tools (as it seems to be in the US, depending on what it is) Cryptography tools .
anything you can think of actually..
For an agreement on such scale, there would be so many compromises and understanding that it might even bring world peace..
Thats about the only thing i would trade in for a free internet anyway.
Sentry23
The next logical step would be to disable the windows scripting component in windows. (actually before Java would be more obvious)
The most scary thing to me about that document encryption using ROT-13, was the fact that it used a dongle and costed $3000 per document. Anybody who pays this much for securing documents has a damn good reason to do so. (any ideas which companies actually used this format ?) .nl, there are a lot of things here i could get arrested for in the USA then.
Exposing this sort of information is not a crime, but a way of exposing frauds.
(Then again, it was adobe who sued him, not -whats the name of that company- ).
The fact remains though, that he was arrested for software sold outside the US, by a non-US company, and not for his seminar.
If he is convicted, it would set a strange precident; to be convicted for crimes that are punishable in the US, but were done outside the US, by a non US inhabitant, only because he was in the US.
As i live in
But we're still talking about nuclear weapons.. right ?
How close do you have to be with 40 megaton ? After that first hit, because of a massive EMP the system will most likely be off the air for a long time (i dont know how fast a new civilisation will be able rebuild it anyway), so if youre sending a strike with nukes that rely on GPS, you will have to send a whole load in the first strike, and hope somebody doesnt shut off the system while they are airborne.
For a reliable system you will need a wholly selfcontained system that can verify its position against stationary objects or have a reliable inertial navigation system. The latter is most likely to be used in most systems. When talking about BIG nukes, the main issue is that they work, and that they blow pretty close to where you want them.
Only for small precision attacks with conventional explosives is it likely to use very smart hardware/software to find and destruct targets.
You could not take videotapes of screens. Rather you must have 100% digital copies of the original media. If you don't have the 100% copies, the files themselves may be slightly modified & render your copy useless
And on the subject of the copyright act.. if you would point a video camera at the television, isnt this considered as altering the content (borders around the screen, possible reflections, camera movement) and therefore illegal as well ? In any case, it is in the best intrest of the media firms to have their material allways appear in the best possible form. Hence the name copy, and not the word downgrade in the law. Sentry23