I don't need to slap a label on myself just to satisfy some silly feeling of belonging.
I'm a registered green because right now i feel their platform aligns with mine best. If that were to change, so would I.
If being a Republican/Democrat is your only means of identify, then you'll probably find::some:: way to rationalize whatever choice the republicrats are making.
But if the RIAA were to open up and say "We've lowered the price of CD's, and you're free to copy them and do what you want with them!", they will likely find that going to the store to buy CD's is preferable to waiting to download them.
I, like:::most::: other tech savvy users have broadband. If your intention is to buy an album because of one good song....then you can certainly download it in far less time then it takes to get to the mall and back.
If you're after an album however, it's a bit harder to find whole albums rather then a single pop song. In this case driving to the mall makes a bit more sense. Picking it up used off ebay to save cash and avoiding handing the RIAA more money makes even more sense.
So, as with most things in life...my truth is in the middle.
Well let's see here. I'm sitting in my room typing this on one of my two computers, watching a dvd on my 25" TV and dolby digital setup, and i have no class today. Clearly I have neither the time nor money to spend on software. Hey, Guess what...I pirate software.
:::waits for collective gasp from the room::::
Without piracy, my habits would be slightly different. I would certainly buy my most essential software but for the not-so-essential stuff i'd find alternatives. Linux would start looking much-more-attactive to run 24/7 if I actually had to pay for all the software on my windows machines.
I think i'm not the only one who feels this way either.
This quote perfectly illustrates a major difference between many linux users and most PC users. Assuming the oil and wiper resoviors where moved to the outside, how many average people would ever need to open the hood? If you have a problem with the car, you take it to the dealer or a mechanic.
The linux user of course, would want to get under the hood and tinker with everything. The average PC user just wants the car to get them where they need to go.
In a similar vein, how many people would buy a non user-servicable microwave? Everyone. Why? Because it cooks their mac n cheese in under 2 minutes, and in the end that's all that matters.
Good read but It really doesn't explain how you could use it to say.....
..build a million gallon tank on a starship to transport two humpback whales 200 years into the future in a desperate attempt to save mankind from a strange monolith emitting beached whale sounds.
Jesus....what ever happened to investigative journalism these days? Also, wasn't this guy supposed to speek english?
The original version of divx [ divx;-) ] was a hacked version of the MS MPEG-4 codec with data-rate and play time restrictions removed.
The project mayo codec (Divx 4.x) was a complete re-write from scratch based on the MPEG-4 specification...fully backwards compatable with divx;-) content. Aside from being perfectly legal, it also adds goodies such as VBR and multi-pass encoding.
The article, though desribed poorly on slashdot, is stating that DivxNetworks (The people now behind project mayo) have licensed their divx 4.x codec to Fraunhofer Germany, not the other way around.
I had to listen to 15 minutes or so of baby gurgling on the phone before speaking to a tech they call "mother". Maybe some obscure Dan Aykroyd reference.
Then, finaly, when a tech arrived at my office, all he did was cry and suck on ejector mechanism.
Yeah it's cool they had to money to do this, but they made a number of STUPID Choices on hardware.
1 - I can see using the A7B266 because of it's 64bit PCI slots....but what use is the extra processor for? a 1Ghz Athlon is already Overkill for calculating raid5 parity information, no less two of them
2- If you sprang for the extra cash to avoid saturation, WHY THE HELL would you use a 10/100 NIC? No matter how fast the array is now, your sitll only going to be able to move 12~13MB/sec MAX. Either Save the cash and get a cheaper mobo, or pony up to an all-gigabit backbone.
3-2GB of RAM???? See Above. Given it's cheap...but even 512MB would be overkill.
4-Fasttrack 100Tx2's with Maxtor 160's. Did anyone tell these guys that ata100 only supports up to 137 GB per drive? These guys are wasing 184GB even before disk slack. Their "gigabyte array" is more like 900GB. Either buy the 120's and save some cash, or pony up for ata-133 controllers.
Slashdot actually published this? It's not particulary special, or even clever. These guys just had a bunch of cash to throw at hardware and didn't even take the time to do the basic research.Shame....Shame.
Back in the early days of electrification, the power industry was set up very similarly to broadband of today; Very little regulation and very spuratic coverage.
The problem is then when your trying to make money, you look for the places where you can get the most return on your investment, ie, urban locations and their suburbs. At some point the population density becomes low enough that a rollout in that area would be more liability then benefit. Hence, no rollout.
It wasn't until the us nationalized the power industry and set requirements on coverage that electricity was available to everyone. Even then it took until the 1960's to get electricity into the real boonies.
It was the same story all over again for cell phone coverage, and it'll be the same for broadband. In order for broadband to become a utility and not a comodity, government regulation is required. Ask the Canucks.
I'm not exactly sure on this, but isn't one aspect of neural networks that they can be applied to exactly the "black box" scenerios you describe?
You Don't Need to know what's in the box. Nerual networks are often used to model systems to complex to understand. When we impliment the nn in software, we're implimenting the model directly; not the physical. Furthurmore, if the fitness function is still meaningful with changes in temperature, then ambient temperature doesn't matter either.
As long as the system has a port to use for input, and an output port to evaulate fitness, the contents of the "box" are irelavant.
Microsoft has made IM a key component of Windows XP: Besides sending simple text messages, with Windows Messenger you can exchange files, conduct audio or video conferences, and collaborate on documents over the Net
ICQ and AIM have had all of these features for well over 3 years now. Yet another user who never ventured outside of what came on their start menu.
I don't think *anyone* can distinguish 65,535 levels of amplitude for sound, much less 16.7 million. Yet it takes up 150% the space (uncompressed).
This might have been a good point if the human ear is linear, but it's not. We may not be able to differentiate two amplitude levels at 20HZ, but could easily at 1Khz.
Most digital techniques right now all use equal quantized steps between amplitudes, frequencys, etc. Adding more samples across the entire band adds more resolution in the bands that we can discern.
More advanced variable-step approaches have been used in compression codecs, but generaly not at the hardware level as timing issues would make the hardware particularly complex.
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I...quite simply.....am Me.
::some:: way to rationalize whatever choice the republicrats are making.
I don't need to slap a label on myself just to satisfy some silly feeling of belonging.
I'm a registered green because right now i feel their platform aligns with mine best. If that were to change, so would I.
If being a Republican/Democrat is your only means of identify, then you'll probably find
-Chris
I, like :::most::: other tech savvy users have broadband. If your intention is to buy an album because of one good song....then you can certainly download it in far less time then it takes to get to the mall and back.
If you're after an album however, it's a bit harder to find whole albums rather then a single pop song. In this case driving to the mall makes a bit more sense. Picking it up used off ebay to save cash and avoiding handing the RIAA more money makes even more sense.
So, as with most things in life...my truth is in the middle.
-Chris
Well let's see here. I'm sitting in my room typing this on one of my two computers, watching a dvd on my 25" TV and dolby digital setup, and i have no class today. Clearly I have neither the time nor money to spend on software. Hey, Guess what...I pirate software.
:::waits for collective gasp from the room::::
Without piracy, my habits would be slightly different. I would certainly buy my most essential software but for the not-so-essential stuff i'd find alternatives. Linux would start looking much-more-attactive to run 24/7 if I actually had to pay for all the software on my windows machines.
I think i'm not the only one who feels this way either.
-Chris
It seems to me.....that the guy ::did:: post something that could be considered libel on a public forum.
It seems to me.....that we DON'T KNOW if he did recieve the letter or not.
It seems to me....that if the scenerio was reversed, the 40'th post would have mentioned this and not the 400'th
Here you are planning to rally and boycot when YOU DON'T KNOW THE FOGGIEST what actually happened.
You may now mod me as a troll.
-Chris
"Maybe by next year they'll report on the 2000 USA elections."
That's good....i'd really like to find out who actually won.
I agree completely. The CoyBoyNeal kernel optimizations have been pending approval since nearly 2.2.10.
I've got them running right now; they tend to make everything you do real, real cheesy.
Woka Woka Woka.
That's just silly. You don't see "Though Shalt Not Kill" engraved on each hand gun; do you?
Man, the article hit a brick wall somewhere around the word "paradigm". :-)
We don't need a new paradigm, just a paperclip exterminator.
"No one would buy a car with a welded-shut hood".
This quote perfectly illustrates a major difference between many linux users and most PC users. Assuming the oil and wiper resoviors where moved to the outside, how many average people would ever need to open the hood? If you have a problem with the car, you take it to the dealer or a mechanic.
The linux user of course, would want to get under the hood and tinker with everything. The average PC user just wants the car to get them where they need to go.
In a similar vein, how many people would buy a non user-servicable microwave? Everyone. Why? Because it cooks their mac n cheese in under 2 minutes, and in the end that's all that matters.
-Chris
Good read but It really doesn't explain how you could use it to say.....
..build a million gallon tank on a starship to transport two humpback whales 200 years into the future in a desperate attempt to save mankind from a strange monolith emitting beached whale sounds.
Jesus....what ever happened to investigative journalism these days? Also, wasn't this guy supposed to speek english?
-Chris
you know.....if you look at it from an angle.....and squint you're eyes slightly....
...It looks kinda like OS-X.
The original version of divx [ divx ;-) ] was a hacked version of the MS MPEG-4 codec with data-rate and play time restrictions removed.
;-) content. Aside from being perfectly legal, it also adds goodies such as VBR and multi-pass encoding.
The project mayo codec (Divx 4.x) was a complete re-write from scratch based on the MPEG-4 specification...fully backwards compatable with divx
The article, though desribed poorly on slashdot, is stating that DivxNetworks (The people now behind project mayo) have licensed their divx 4.x codec to Fraunhofer Germany, not the other way around.
-Chris
...yeah but their technical support is aweful.
I had to listen to 15 minutes or so of baby gurgling on the phone before speaking to a tech they call "mother". Maybe some obscure Dan Aykroyd reference.
Then, finaly, when a tech arrived at my office, all he did was cry and suck on ejector mechanism.
I'm never buying from this company again.
Ahh....but does it sport a six nines availability rating? From the looks of it, more like 4,5 tops. Maybe it just needs a little hot glue...
Yeah it's cool they had to money to do this, but they made a number of STUPID Choices on hardware.
1 - I can see using the A7B266 because of it's 64bit PCI slots....but what use is the extra processor for? a 1Ghz Athlon is already Overkill for calculating raid5 parity information, no less two of them
2- If you sprang for the extra cash to avoid saturation, WHY THE HELL would you use a 10/100 NIC? No matter how fast the array is now, your sitll only going to be able to move 12~13MB/sec MAX. Either Save the cash and get a cheaper mobo, or pony up to an all-gigabit backbone.
3-2GB of RAM???? See Above. Given it's cheap...but even 512MB would be overkill.
4-Fasttrack 100Tx2's with Maxtor 160's. Did anyone tell these guys that ata100 only supports up to 137 GB per drive? These guys are wasing 184GB even before disk slack. Their "gigabyte array" is more like 900GB. Either buy the 120's and save some cash, or pony up for ata-133 controllers.
Slashdot actually published this? It's not particulary special, or even clever. These guys just had a bunch of cash to throw at hardware and didn't even take the time to do the basic research.Shame....Shame.
-Chris
Where else can you go from 3500 to 10 when your radiator falls off.
What is that, like 30 G's?
"LEIA: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Draw parallels as you wish.
-Chris
Back in the early days of electrification, the power industry was set up very similarly to broadband of today; Very little regulation and very spuratic coverage.
The problem is then when your trying to make money, you look for the places where you can get the most return on your investment, ie, urban locations and their suburbs. At some point the population density becomes low enough that a rollout in that area would be more liability then benefit. Hence, no rollout.
It wasn't until the us nationalized the power industry and set requirements on coverage that electricity was available to everyone. Even then it took until the 1960's to get electricity into the real boonies.
It was the same story all over again for cell phone coverage, and it'll be the same for broadband. In order for broadband to become a utility and not a comodity, government regulation is required. Ask the Canucks.
-Chris
If it's not true random noise, so what? Random noise contains no information; why would you want to compress it?
So long as the input data isn't hand picked for their claims, but rather is representative of an actual application...what's the problem?
Who cares about 6GB when 1MB Compact Flash cards are due out soon?
I mean...aside from the fact you'd need 6000 of em...
Progressive Metal
Techno
Folk
Industrial
All four generes which have been active as hell the past decade, and have produced lots of good stuff.
I'm not all that into the others, but in progressive metal: Dream Theater, Symphony X and Vanden Plas all come to mind.
Just because you only listen to the Top20 playlist all day, doesn't mean good stuff isn't out there.
-Chris
I'm not exactly sure on this, but isn't one aspect of neural networks that they can be applied to exactly the "black box" scenerios you describe?
You Don't Need to know what's in the box. Nerual networks are often used to model systems to complex to understand. When we impliment the nn in software, we're implimenting the model directly; not the physical. Furthurmore, if the fitness function is still meaningful with changes in temperature, then ambient temperature doesn't matter either.
As long as the system has a port to use for input, and an output port to evaulate fitness, the contents of the "box" are irelavant.
This might have been a good point if the human ear is linear, but it's not. We may not be able to differentiate two amplitude levels at 20HZ, but could easily at 1Khz.
Most digital techniques right now all use equal quantized steps between amplitudes, frequencys, etc. Adding more samples across the entire band adds more resolution in the bands that we can discern.
More advanced variable-step approaches have been used in compression codecs, but generaly not at the hardware level as timing issues would make the hardware particularly complex.
-Chris
Apparently evergreens are immune to the slashdot effect...
::::scrabbles off to buy 52U of potting soil::::