... at our peak rate we could expect to exhaust the keyspace in 790 days. Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines...
Uh, I think it's going to be a VERY long time before the average laptop / home PC does this in a week.
A: Like other Xiph.org Foundation codec projects such as Vorbis or Tarkin, Theora is named after a fictional character. Theora Jones was the name of Edison Carter's 'controller' on the television series Max Headroom. She was played by Amanda Pays.
DAMN they have cool names for their stuff. I wish other people would follow their lead (bloody "Opteron").
In all my jobs and contracts, I've had only one manager who ever listened to anything I said. The others I could've said "Hey man, your ass is on fire" and they would've peered at me with glazed eyes and then gone to lunch, trailing smoke and bits of burning flesh. As far as they were concerned, orders and information flowed down the tree, military-style, and questioning them was like disobeying orders.
Of course, the one guy who listened... DAMN we got a hell of a lot of good, solid stuff done. Both of us had a really good time, too. He was really rare though, and although your advice is good, I find it usually gets me nowhere.
This doesn't mean I blow whistles and kick asses though, I usually clamp my jaw shut, stick my head down and get their stuff done... and move on.
Well okay, but look what happened to Bruce Perens when he talked down MS at HP... boom, fired. And he was a high-profile dude with quite a bit of influence.
Amongst adult users, in general, females seemed to be more proficient and less complaining than males when given free use of the network. Males complained more, and were less open to learning. This was an overall feeling between us after the 5 days.
Guess they weren't in tune with the Earth Mother, or something...
These are the same problems Sony & Lucasarts are going to have with Star Wars Galaxies. What stops people from ALL becoming Dark Jedi called Darth l33t with double-ended red lightsabers? I'd expect Marvel start players as fairly weak heroes and allow them to improve their powers and run factions (superhero groups) up to the point where the highest level players might be in the realm of the X-Men, Alpha Flight, etc. If they want to be Spider-Man, yay... they'll just suck compared to the real thing. Sony have also indicated in Galaxies that heroes like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo will make the very very rare appearance, but will be impossible to kill, to prevent lame stuff. Of course, that didn't quite happen with Lord British on UO...
I'm not sure Starcraft Ghost is a first-tier title though, it sounds more like a bit of an experiment. I feels like Blizzard are licensing the Starcraft brand, and getting Nihilistic to do all the work. I won't be buying a console system just for this game, unlike if it was... Warcraft 3. Or Starcraft 2.
Instead of pissing away millions on a boat race, maybe the boys should try:
1) Racing each other to a cure for HIV 2) Pitting each other's alternate energy generators against each other in a wide variety of environments 3) Seeing who can feed the largest number of starving people in the third world in a year 4) A competition to donate money to failing urban schools (and NOT for bloody computers)
I certainly hope the new design will lower manufacturing costs, but I'd like that to be the primary, overriding aim of the project. It should not be the creation of a platform to do neato new stuff like have alternate steering interfaces and remote controls. Having the car able to do unique, cool stuff might help to sell it to specialist buyers, but it will never compete with the general market, which considers price to be the most important factor.
Jeez, the more of that article I read, the weirder it got. You'd think the best way to market a new technology like a hydrogen car would be to say "Just like your current car, except great for the environment (and doesn't rely on foreign oil *cough*)". Not "Everything about this car is totally different, so you won't have a clue what to do with it, and therefore won't buy it". I mean, snap on bodies? Relocating the driver's seat? Remote control? Four wheel steering? New interfaces to steer, brake and accelerate? Instead of easing people into it gently, they seem to be creating something that's so un-car-like that it'll hit people's minds and bounce off.
Don't get me wrong, I think the skateboard chassis is an excellent development - it's really really good. There's tonnes of extra space, and it does allow for more flexible designs in the future. Hell, there are tonnes of weirdass things car companies could be doing with a current chassis... but why don't they? Because they know IT WOULDN'T SELL. It's like the frog in a pot - heat the water slowly and he doesn't notice, throw him into a boiling pot and he just hops out.
Of course, conspiracy theorists are already seizing these points as proof that this project is set up to fail... let's hope not.
True... I'd probably melt the glue, or use a solvent... and then re-glue it afterwards, as it's unlikely they're going to examine it and go "HA! THIS IS DIFFERENT GLUE!".
So what we need now is a company that makes money from the establishment, rise and fall of P2P companies. Perhaps a group of law firms, broadband providers and CD-R media companies could band together to keep the flow of disposable P2P companies going?
Just got a question... how do we know? I mean, we obviously won't get to look at the source for Word, so how can we prove that a provided specification is accurate?
17) Downturn in the economy hitting luxury items like CDs 18) End of the "rebuy music collection on CD" era 19) Massive rise of computer gaming as a major money industry, competing with music
This is going to be one great show to watch. I mean, if they'd JUST MADE A DEAL WITH NAPSTER, they might've had a chance. I mean, jeez:
We'll run unauthorized programs. We'll use FTP. We'll hide our IPs. We'll encrypt. We'll use email. We'll burn CD-Rs for our friends. We'll burn DVD-Rs for our good friends. We'll run private servers. We'll run a different OS. We'll hack our device's BIOS. We'll add a mod chip. We'll buy unlocked hardware. We'll build our own hardware. We'll publish the source code.
Wait wait wait... they can make a thimbleful of carbon into a 0.25 carat diamond. How much of a person makes a thimbleful of carbon? The super-villain could cut something off Mr Bond and turn it into a necklace, or a ring, providing it was large enough.
With the standard size of urns, I can't imagine even 007 would be that well-endowed, but maybe a leg or something.
Extremely rich but cracked old dude (Richard Attenborough) decides to make a theme park island with cloned mammoths, re-established by using the DNA of a Siberian mammoth and filling out the rest with that of an Indian Elephant. All of the creatures are created female, but he didn't count on the rare sex-change properties of the Indian Elephant when viewing Sex in the City reruns. The mammoths breed like wildfire, overwhelming the hi-tech pens and security systems during a hurricane, as the fat chief programmer (Wayne Knight) smuggles out a baby mammoth in a tin of shaving cream. Some of the mammoths exhibit unsettlingly high intelligence, hunting as a pack and making musical instruments with their trunks. Luckily a mammoth researcher (Sam Neill) his partner (Laura Dern) and a chaos theorist (Jeff Goldblum) are present and save the day.
I agree, it's pretty darn cool. Before I'd used it, I expected it to have a set scroll speed, which you'd have to adjust from Sleepy Sloth all the way up to Teenage Quake player on Speed. This isn't the case - you have active control over the scrolling speed, AND can go backwards to undo errors or make changes.
In compliance with the RIAA's wishes, Audiogalaxy.com has made its service almost totally useless, paid out most of its funding in fines, and ensured that the great percentage of its users have fled to another, as-yet-unknown, music sharing system.
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... at our peak rate we could expect to exhaust the keyspace in 790 days. Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines...
Uh, I think it's going to be a VERY long time before the average laptop / home PC does this in a week.
Q: Why the name 'Theora?'
A: Like other Xiph.org Foundation codec projects such as Vorbis or Tarkin, Theora is named after a fictional character. Theora Jones was the name of Edison Carter's 'controller' on the television series Max Headroom. She was played by Amanda Pays.
DAMN they have cool names for their stuff. I wish other people would follow their lead (bloody "Opteron").
In all my jobs and contracts, I've had only one manager who ever listened to anything I said. The others I could've said "Hey man, your ass is on fire" and they would've peered at me with glazed eyes and then gone to lunch, trailing smoke and bits of burning flesh. As far as they were concerned, orders and information flowed down the tree, military-style, and questioning them was like disobeying orders.
Of course, the one guy who listened... DAMN we got a hell of a lot of good, solid stuff done. Both of us had a really good time, too. He was really rare though, and although your advice is good, I find it usually gets me nowhere.
This doesn't mean I blow whistles and kick asses though, I usually clamp my jaw shut, stick my head down and get their stuff done... and move on.
Well okay, but look what happened to Bruce Perens when he talked down MS at HP... boom, fired. And he was a high-profile dude with quite a bit of influence.
Amongst adult users, in general, females seemed to be more proficient and less complaining than males when given free use of the network. Males complained more, and were less open to learning. This was an overall feeling between us after the 5 days.
Guess they weren't in tune with the Earth Mother, or something...
These are the same problems Sony & Lucasarts are going to have with Star Wars Galaxies. What stops people from ALL becoming Dark Jedi called Darth l33t with double-ended red lightsabers? I'd expect Marvel start players as fairly weak heroes and allow them to improve their powers and run factions (superhero groups) up to the point where the highest level players might be in the realm of the X-Men, Alpha Flight, etc. If they want to be Spider-Man, yay... they'll just suck compared to the real thing. Sony have also indicated in Galaxies that heroes like Luke Skywalker and Han Solo will make the very very rare appearance, but will be impossible to kill, to prevent lame stuff. Of course, that didn't quite happen with Lord British on UO...
I'm not sure Starcraft Ghost is a first-tier title though, it sounds more like a bit of an experiment. I feels like Blizzard are licensing the Starcraft brand, and getting Nihilistic to do all the work. I won't be buying a console system just for this game, unlike if it was... Warcraft 3. Or Starcraft 2.
How much chance is there of Microsoft releasing Linux drivers for these products, and would they be released under the GNU license?
Instead of pissing away millions on a boat race, maybe the boys should try:
1) Racing each other to a cure for HIV
2) Pitting each other's alternate energy generators against each other in a wide variety of environments
3) Seeing who can feed the largest number of starving people in the third world in a year
4) A competition to donate money to failing urban schools (and NOT for bloody computers)
etc...
I certainly hope the new design will lower manufacturing costs, but I'd like that to be the primary, overriding aim of the project. It should not be the creation of a platform to do neato new stuff like have alternate steering interfaces and remote controls. Having the car able to do unique, cool stuff might help to sell it to specialist buyers, but it will never compete with the general market, which considers price to be the most important factor.
Jeez, the more of that article I read, the weirder it got. You'd think the best way to market a new technology like a hydrogen car would be to say "Just like your current car, except great for the environment (and doesn't rely on foreign oil *cough*)". Not "Everything about this car is totally different, so you won't have a clue what to do with it, and therefore won't buy it". I mean, snap on bodies? Relocating the driver's seat? Remote control? Four wheel steering? New interfaces to steer, brake and accelerate? Instead of easing people into it gently, they seem to be creating something that's so un-car-like that it'll hit people's minds and bounce off.
Don't get me wrong, I think the skateboard chassis is an excellent development - it's really really good. There's tonnes of extra space, and it does allow for more flexible designs in the future. Hell, there are tonnes of weirdass things car companies could be doing with a current chassis... but why don't they? Because they know IT WOULDN'T SELL. It's like the frog in a pot - heat the water slowly and he doesn't notice, throw him into a boiling pot and he just hops out.
Of course, conspiracy theorists are already seizing these points as proof that this project is set up to fail... let's hope not.
True... I'd probably melt the glue, or use a solvent... and then re-glue it afterwards, as it's unlikely they're going to examine it and go "HA! THIS IS DIFFERENT GLUE!".
So what we need now is a company that makes money from the establishment, rise and fall of P2P companies. Perhaps a group of law firms, broadband providers and CD-R media companies could band together to keep the flow of disposable P2P companies going?
I misread that as researchers having created a Pubic Anemone...
Got it... here's a mirror of that funky file.
Limited to five simultaneous users at once, should run until my machine starts blowing smoke.
Mirror of that file over here:
ftp://195.149.46.131/gts-divx.avi
Capped to 5 users at once, so you might have to retry...
Just got a question... how do we know? I mean, we obviously won't get to look at the source for Word, so how can we prove that a provided specification is accurate?
17) Downturn in the economy hitting luxury items like CDs
18) End of the "rebuy music collection on CD" era
19) Massive rise of computer gaming as a major money industry, competing with music
This is going to be one great show to watch. I mean, if they'd JUST MADE A DEAL WITH NAPSTER, they might've had a chance. I mean, jeez:
We'll run unauthorized programs.
We'll use FTP.
We'll hide our IPs.
We'll encrypt.
We'll use email.
We'll burn CD-Rs for our friends.
We'll burn DVD-Rs for our good friends.
We'll run private servers.
We'll run a different OS.
We'll hack our device's BIOS.
We'll add a mod chip.
We'll buy unlocked hardware.
We'll build our own hardware.
We'll publish the source code.
Wait wait wait... they can make a thimbleful of carbon into a 0.25 carat diamond. How much of a person makes a thimbleful of carbon? The super-villain could cut something off Mr Bond and turn it into a necklace, or a ring, providing it was large enough.
With the standard size of urns, I can't imagine even 007 would be that well-endowed, but maybe a leg or something.
Extremely rich but cracked old dude (Richard Attenborough) decides to make a theme park island with cloned mammoths, re-established by using the DNA of a Siberian mammoth and filling out the rest with that of an Indian Elephant. All of the creatures are created female, but he didn't count on the rare sex-change properties of the Indian Elephant when viewing Sex in the City reruns. The mammoths breed like wildfire, overwhelming the hi-tech pens and security systems during a hurricane, as the fat chief programmer (Wayne Knight) smuggles out a baby mammoth in a tin of shaving cream. Some of the mammoths exhibit unsettlingly high intelligence, hunting as a pack and making musical instruments with their trunks. Luckily a mammoth researcher (Sam Neill) his partner (Laura Dern) and a chaos theorist (Jeff Goldblum) are present and save the day.
Also-unemployed girlfriend
Heh...
The War on Drugs
The War on Terrorism
and now...
The War on Rocks
I agree, it's pretty darn cool. Before I'd used it, I expected it to have a set scroll speed, which you'd have to adjust from Sleepy Sloth all the way up to Teenage Quake player on Speed. This isn't the case - you have active control over the scrolling speed, AND can go backwards to undo errors or make changes.
In compliance with the RIAA's wishes, Audiogalaxy.com has made its service almost totally useless, paid out most of its funding in fines, and ensured that the great percentage of its users have fled to another, as-yet-unknown, music sharing system.
Film at eleven.