If they don't even the writes across the media, bits will wear out faster at say the beginning of the memory. Go through a few million writes in a hurry. No thanks for me! Or am I wrong about that?
Spammers report massive influx of new email addresses as people sign up on mailing lists in order to get their daily workouts and viagra for their 'other' daily workout.
that assumes the door itself, lock components, frame and surrounding wall are strong enough to withstand an assault. A steel door with steel frame will typically survive a good hearty kick, but if the lock shaft is shoddy, it will be the failure point (or perhaps the hinges). I've seen wooden doors with many internal locks where the hinge side is the failure point (takes a strong dude however).
Anyway, point is, the strongest PKI based lock is pointless on a hollow core door with 1ply and cardboard, or even on vastly stronger doors if it is in a position to have heavy objects rammed at it. If you're in a high security situation that requires that kind of access, it doesn't sound too unreasonable to assume someone would want in badly enough to borrow a fence post driver and try and bash their way through.
For those of you who have either component amplifiers (no decoding builtin) or have an old receiver without DTS, buy an old DTS decoder as long as it was updated to support DVD based DTS (the older firmwares only support laserdisc/CD outputs- think it's something to do with bitstream versus PCM or something). Even the little CD demo of DTS I have blows the pants off of Dolby Digital (which is pretty sweet too, admittedly).
I suppose that the average person who can't tell the difference between 7.1 and 5.1 won't notice the difference between DTS (original, not DTS-ES) and DD 5.1 either. But for anyone else, make sure you have DTS for the handful of titles that support it.
And as an aside to the above, anybody got an updated EEPROM for an ADA DTS-1 that supports DVD based DTS? I'd love a flash image, then I can quit using Dolby Digital and start using discrete audio like my amp and speakers deserve.
the person I replied to was saying that the bank probably runs on closed source OS. I pointed out that I knew for sure that banks did indeed, at least as of 2001. Its entirely likely that there are still machines out there running OS/2 warp in a bank situation.
latin is supposed to be the 'intelligent language' and the foundation of most of the 'romance' languages. The fact that many a Ph.D. (also latin) use latin lends it a certain aire, no doubt.
I personally know maybe 4 or 5 phrases and use them fairly sparingly (except Carpe Cervisi)- to be honest, I have very few uses for them. Some of those phrases I learned the other day in reply to another thread, cant remember what it was about.
I tried to look up "sum ob sum" and couldn't find any references. The one dictionary I found rigidly translated to "to be concerning to be", which I presume is "to be or not to be"? Out of curiosity, is that an official translation, or should I be careful trying to use that one?
my personal view is that there almost has to be something and that creationism and evolution aren't incompatible- what better way to create the best of everything?
I take issue with the most orthodox portion of almost all religions- anybody who has made up their mind that they must hang on every word of a particular book or doctrine and interpret things in a very narrow minded view, I have trouble understanding that. The best example I can think of is, I went to a Baptist church once and they lectured for an hour on "God is love" and how if you do not believe in God, you cannot truly love due to the wording of the phrase. Perhaps if you do not believe in a higher power of some kind, you are not the type of person who can open their hearts to another person either, but I reject the notion that you cannot love due to the wording of that phrase. Especially when you consider that the bible was not even written in english to begin with and how many translations there are, the possibility that the phrase is being over-interpreted into a narrow view seems very high.
I find that there are so many religions, and at the very core of most, there is a supreme being of some sort. Maybe we're all hoping against hope and have convinced ourselves there's something there when there's not, but I find it hard to believe that several billion individuals are wrong. I think ultimately, there must be some kind of supreme being, and that being is whatever we need it to be- jewish, christian, muslim, buddhist, whatever. I would imagine that a being powerful enough to create the universe would also be powerful enough to represent itself in the best manner necessary to communicate with a particular group.
Maybe I'm blasphemous, maybe I'm a heathen, maybe I'm an infidel- but I do believe something is there.
Either way, the question always comes up- supreme being or not, it all had to come from somewhere. Even if the question could be answered once and for all how we were created, it would not answer the question of how that event or being was created. Science and religion can chalk it all up to one big bang, a supreme being, a dozen supreme beings, or aliens on mars (perhaps supreme beings too), but there are questions that neither science nor religion can answer. At some point you have to be content with the answers you have. For some people, science is enough. For some people, God is enough. For some people, God explains science. For some people, science explains God. For others, nothing is enough and will remain searching. To be truly happy, you have to believe something- that God is the answer, that science is, or whatever you need to fill in the holes in your life.
as long as there is no resistance. to only say friction is a bit too narrow.
sure, you could put an object in space and spin it and it would keep spinning forever.
-but- to make the object do any work on another object, it would have to sacrifice some of its energy. In the best case, it would give all of its energy to the other object if it were 100% efficient.
at least if I understood physics correctly.
the 'perpetual motion' claims I've heard seem to always fit into two categories 1) device on earth whose only goal is to keep moving - "perpetual motion device" 2) device in general that puts out more energy than it requires and usually performs some work - "perpetual motion machine"
the problems with type 1's are that on earth we have gravity and friction working against us and there's (without anti-gravity discoveries at least) always going to be some loss and at some point even if its a dozen years later, the thing will stop
the problem with type 2's is related to conservation. Energy into the system equals energy out of the system.
anyway, yes- an object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest. If you're willing to be happy with an object that just spins and is in space, congratulations, the universe is a perpetual motion machine.
if you'd like the more classical definition of a machine that does work, well, good luck.
Now for the mind bender- according to the laws of conservation, all the energy in the universe - spinning planets, energy stored in elements, whatever - had to come from somewhere. You can start with our solar system and our sun and move outwards through the universe, but eventually, if you trace the energy back from every object- it has to come from somewhere. So one of three possibilities:
1) there's a God that can create something from nothing and came into being who knows how, just believe it. 2) we are not made of energy, and we do not exist physically- we only think we do 3) we do not exist at all- which seems to be disproven immediately because, well, we exist. Or at least we think we do... *grin* (Cogito ergo sum)
I was under the impression that since the cables are internally reflective, there was no translucence to the mirror finish- eg not transmissive. The way I understood it (or thought I did) was that even a slight bend would change the angle of reflection and cause the signal to fail. Presuming there was some transmission through the mirrors inside the cable, you'd have some light loss in addition to a bend.
Is there a link on Wikipedia or anywhere that might explain to me how those devices work in principle?
Feasibly, someone that had access to the cables could cut them, put a receiver, a transmitter, and a computer that receives, records and retransmits everything in and splice everything up properly when done- aside from a temporary and puzzling outage- no one would be the wiser.
It can be determined from reflectometry exactly where the break is, and someone would go out and check the cable eventually with an ROV or something and find the splice, but I'd imagine for a while you could have a tap in place as long as the interruption was minimal.
Around here, when there's a fiber cut, it takes hours- but I assume some of that is discovering the cut, finding a crew and getting to the site. I would suppose if you put one of the worlds top splicers right there that the interruption could be made fast enough that the techs monitoring the connection would be confused but would chalk it up to some sort of temporary bend or other error.
I am not a fiber tech, but all of that seems fairly reasonable to me.
In other words, I don't think quantum teleportation is necessary or even applicable to straight forward fiber implementations that don't depend on the orientation of photons.
Nearly all scientific names use latin A lot of medicinal applications and names come from latin Every day phrases you've probably heard: "Quid pro quo" - something for something (I think I have that right) "Caveat Emptor" - buyer beware "Veni Vidi Vici" - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered" "Carpe Diem" - sieze the day "Carpe Cervisi" - sieze the beer.. ok so that one's not every day
and then theres a bunch of abbreviations, e.g.: c.f. "compare" et al. "and others" e.g. "for example" i.e. "in other words" vs. "against"
and then of course some english words that derive from latin: virus is a cognate of 'vrus' urban derives from 'urbs' terrestrial derives from 'terra'
Completely true. Until TiVo rubs me the wrong way, I don't think I have the money or the time to get a system like that up and running. I bought a TiVo with a 'lifetime' subscription (thanks to the big $150 rebate) for my wife as a gift and the price was right.
The Galleon+TiVo Desktop combo works quite well and adds some nice features that were otherwise lacking.
I do look forward to Gen 3 TiVo's but perhaps by then I'll be ready to build a system like you're speaking of. Unfortunately, I didn't organize my other post very well and it was disjointed and grouped things together that shouldn't have been. Basically, with my TiVo, I can transfer files off to my pc when my 140 hour gets too full, burn em to DVD, check the weather, play mp3s from my desktop, show pictures from my desktop, transfer correctly encoded (there's a page on tivo's site somewhere that says how) files back on to the tivo to play, and with my other TiVo that we keep in the bedroom (got it for $11 thanks to the same rebate) I can record two shows at once or play shows from the main tivo (and vice versa), among other things. All in all, TiVo works quite well for us and the extras that a custom system would provide just aren't worth the cost or time at the moment.
Btw, we are behind a hardware firewall, and I suppose a linux box would be less likely to need updates once you got it working happily (as long as you didnt need/want a new feature). I'm sort of leery of doing auto-updates at least with fedora core since the kernel changes every time the wind blows and theres often something that breaks something else or gcc changes and the rpms for various packages dont have the libs or don't rebuild correctly.. etc etc..
For the record, I was referring to the First Post, which sure beat the hell out of the "FRIST POST" or "FROSTY PISS" BS that I (and most others) hate so much.
It's fantastic to see one that is insightful and well thought out (as well as interesting to see such a long one). If you call that off topic, then you are probably one of the ones who posts "FRIST POST". Forgive me for praising what seems to be a rare commodity around here.
Btw, the...'s were supposed to be imitating the comic store owner on the Simpsons.
With TiVo Desktop, you can upload correctly encoded files back on to the tivo, as well as tell it not to delete shows. It only deletes shows not marked as keep until i delete when there isn't enough space left. DirecTiVo allows multiple shows at once, and TiVo Generation 3 boxes will do this as well.
It would also take something very out of the ordinary to knock tivo into oblivion overnight. TiVo is a friendly and conveniant tv recording mechanism. All my DVDs are on DVD and I dont mind sticking in a disk and pushing the button on my receiver remote to change inputs.
Also TiVo -CAN- play mp3 format. I have my entire collection in apple lossless, and until TiVO & Apple make a deal, I have another copy in mp3, which is a small price to pay (well, 100gb at 128kbit which is good enough for me and if I really want something in high quality I listen to the original CD or fire up iTunes and play the apple lossless version).
TiVo's not all bad and definately has its place in my home. My wife's not a computer geek and doesn't want to mess with the rest of the problems that come from having a windows based machine that needs you to accept updates, run virus scans and spyware scans, etc. TiVo changed our life for the better (we always missed our shows due to our 16 month old son getting crabby or wanting to play or something). We live on our own schedule thanks to TiVo. Granted, it could be done with a PC based solution, but TiVo really is simple.
You also -can- check the weather with galleon installed on a home PC that sends the java programs to the TiVo for use.
Not everybody needs to emulate old games (though I have a dreamcast and xbox for that occasional use). I can also play some fun games on the TiVo. I don't see why someone couldnt make a java NES emulator either, though playing with the remote might be strange, granted.
Anyway, the TiVo isn't a swiss army knife, but it's definately more than you think.
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If they don't even the writes across the media, bits will wear out faster at say the beginning of the memory. Go through a few million writes in a hurry. No thanks for me! Or am I wrong about that?
You haven't watched "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" lately, have you?
don't forget to test the charge on the cap by licking!
Spammers report massive influx of new email addresses as people sign up on mailing lists in order to get their daily workouts and viagra for their 'other' daily workout.
true- was mostly an illustrative device ;o)
On the other hand, I've personally kicked in a solid exterior door- the door was fine and the doorjam splintered.
Why would you need that on a glass door? My foot is a better key.. What if the knocker shatters the glass?
that assumes the door itself, lock components, frame and surrounding wall are strong enough to withstand an assault. A steel door with steel frame will typically survive a good hearty kick, but if the lock shaft is shoddy, it will be the failure point (or perhaps the hinges). I've seen wooden doors with many internal locks where the hinge side is the failure point (takes a strong dude however).
Anyway, point is, the strongest PKI based lock is pointless on a hollow core door with 1ply and cardboard, or even on vastly stronger doors if it is in a position to have heavy objects rammed at it. If you're in a high security situation that requires that kind of access, it doesn't sound too unreasonable to assume someone would want in badly enough to borrow a fence post driver and try and bash their way through.
For those of you who have either component amplifiers (no decoding builtin) or have an old receiver without DTS, buy an old DTS decoder as long as it was updated to support DVD based DTS (the older firmwares only support laserdisc/CD outputs- think it's something to do with bitstream versus PCM or something). Even the little CD demo of DTS I have blows the pants off of Dolby Digital (which is pretty sweet too, admittedly).
I suppose that the average person who can't tell the difference between 7.1 and 5.1 won't notice the difference between DTS (original, not DTS-ES) and DD 5.1 either. But for anyone else, make sure you have DTS for the handful of titles that support it.
And as an aside to the above, anybody got an updated EEPROM for an ADA DTS-1 that supports DVD based DTS? I'd love a flash image, then I can quit using Dolby Digital and start using discrete audio like my amp and speakers deserve.
NSA could throw a whopper cluster/machine at it and crack that in seconds one would think. Why haven't they?
the person I replied to was saying that the bank probably runs on closed source OS. I pointed out that I knew for sure that banks did indeed, at least as of 2001. Its entirely likely that there are still machines out there running OS/2 warp in a bank situation.
WAMU (Washington Mutual) used to run OS/2 (warp?) 1999 (or earlier) to 2001, at least on teller and agent computers.
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latin is supposed to be the 'intelligent language' and the foundation of most of the 'romance' languages. The fact that many a Ph.D. (also latin) use latin lends it a certain aire, no doubt.
I personally know maybe 4 or 5 phrases and use them fairly sparingly (except Carpe Cervisi)- to be honest, I have very few uses for them. Some of those phrases I learned the other day in reply to another thread, cant remember what it was about.
I tried to look up "sum ob sum" and couldn't find any references. The one dictionary I found rigidly translated to "to be concerning to be", which I presume is "to be or not to be"? Out of curiosity, is that an official translation, or should I be careful trying to use that one?
my personal view is that there almost has to be something and that creationism and evolution aren't incompatible- what better way to create the best of everything?
I take issue with the most orthodox portion of almost all religions- anybody who has made up their mind that they must hang on every word of a particular book or doctrine and interpret things in a very narrow minded view, I have trouble understanding that. The best example I can think of is, I went to a Baptist church once and they lectured for an hour on "God is love" and how if you do not believe in God, you cannot truly love due to the wording of the phrase. Perhaps if you do not believe in a higher power of some kind, you are not the type of person who can open their hearts to another person either, but I reject the notion that you cannot love due to the wording of that phrase. Especially when you consider that the bible was not even written in english to begin with and how many translations there are, the possibility that the phrase is being over-interpreted into a narrow view seems very high.
I find that there are so many religions, and at the very core of most, there is a supreme being of some sort. Maybe we're all hoping against hope and have convinced ourselves there's something there when there's not, but I find it hard to believe that several billion individuals are wrong. I think ultimately, there must be some kind of supreme being, and that being is whatever we need it to be- jewish, christian, muslim, buddhist, whatever. I would imagine that a being powerful enough to create the universe would also be powerful enough to represent itself in the best manner necessary to communicate with a particular group.
Maybe I'm blasphemous, maybe I'm a heathen, maybe I'm an infidel- but I do believe something is there.
Either way, the question always comes up- supreme being or not, it all had to come from somewhere. Even if the question could be answered once and for all how we were created, it would not answer the question of how that event or being was created. Science and religion can chalk it all up to one big bang, a supreme being, a dozen supreme beings, or aliens on mars (perhaps supreme beings too), but there are questions that neither science nor religion can answer. At some point you have to be content with the answers you have. For some people, science is enough. For some people, God is enough. For some people, God explains science. For some people, science explains God. For others, nothing is enough and will remain searching. To be truly happy, you have to believe something- that God is the answer, that science is, or whatever you need to fill in the holes in your life.
as long as there is no resistance. to only say friction is a bit too narrow.
sure, you could put an object in space and spin it and it would keep spinning forever.
-but- to make the object do any work on another object, it would have to sacrifice some of its energy. In the best case, it would give all of its energy to the other object if it were 100% efficient.
at least if I understood physics correctly.
the 'perpetual motion' claims I've heard seem to always fit into two categories
1) device on earth whose only goal is to keep moving - "perpetual motion device"
2) device in general that puts out more energy than it requires and usually performs some work - "perpetual motion machine"
the problems with type 1's are that on earth we have gravity and friction working against us and there's (without anti-gravity discoveries at least) always going to be some loss and at some point even if its a dozen years later, the thing will stop
the problem with type 2's is related to conservation. Energy into the system equals energy out of the system.
anyway, yes- an object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest. If you're willing to be happy with an object that just spins and is in space, congratulations, the universe is a perpetual motion machine.
if you'd like the more classical definition of a machine that does work, well, good luck.
Now for the mind bender- according to the laws of conservation, all the energy in the universe - spinning planets, energy stored in elements, whatever - had to come from somewhere. You can start with our solar system and our sun and move outwards through the universe, but eventually, if you trace the energy back from every object- it has to come from somewhere. So one of three possibilities:
1) there's a God that can create something from nothing and came into being who knows how, just believe it.
2) we are not made of energy, and we do not exist physically- we only think we do
3) we do not exist at all- which seems to be disproven immediately because, well, we exist. Or at least we think we do... *grin* (Cogito ergo sum)
I was under the impression that since the cables are internally reflective, there was no translucence to the mirror finish- eg not transmissive. The way I understood it (or thought I did) was that even a slight bend would change the angle of reflection and cause the signal to fail. Presuming there was some transmission through the mirrors inside the cable, you'd have some light loss in addition to a bend.
Is there a link on Wikipedia or anywhere that might explain to me how those devices work in principle?
I'll feed the troll..
Feasibly, someone that had access to the cables could cut them, put a receiver, a transmitter, and a computer that receives, records and retransmits everything in and splice everything up properly when done- aside from a temporary and puzzling outage- no one would be the wiser.
It can be determined from reflectometry exactly where the break is, and someone would go out and check the cable eventually with an ROV or something and find the splice, but I'd imagine for a while you could have a tap in place as long as the interruption was minimal.
Around here, when there's a fiber cut, it takes hours- but I assume some of that is discovering the cut, finding a crew and getting to the site. I would suppose if you put one of the worlds top splicers right there that the interruption could be made fast enough that the techs monitoring the connection would be confused but would chalk it up to some sort of temporary bend or other error.
I am not a fiber tech, but all of that seems fairly reasonable to me.
In other words, I don't think quantum teleportation is necessary or even applicable to straight forward fiber implementations that don't depend on the orientation of photons.
Nearly all scientific names use latin
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A lot of medicinal applications and names come from latin
Every day phrases you've probably heard:
"Quid pro quo" - something for something (I think I have that right)
"Caveat Emptor" - buyer beware
"Veni Vidi Vici" - "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered"
"Carpe Diem" - sieze the day
"Carpe Cervisi" - sieze the beer.. ok so that one's not every day
and then theres a bunch of abbreviations, e.g.:
c.f. "compare"
et al. "and others"
e.g. "for example"
i.e. "in other words"
vs. "against"
and then of course some english words that derive from latin:
virus is a cognate of 'vrus'
urban derives from 'urbs'
terrestrial derives from 'terra'
and many more...
This latin language lesson brought to you by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrase
-1 Redundant. Doh. You know, I did a search for McDonalds right before and somehow didn't find the other post.
McDonald's got sued over Hot Coffee too, and we all know how that went!
Or pay OnTrac Data Recovery $100+/gb to restore the drive... I'll start saving up for my first HD Crash.
Completely true. Until TiVo rubs me the wrong way, I don't think I have the money or the time to get a system like that up and running. I bought a TiVo with a 'lifetime' subscription (thanks to the big $150 rebate) for my wife as a gift and the price was right.
The Galleon+TiVo Desktop combo works quite well and adds some nice features that were otherwise lacking.
I do look forward to Gen 3 TiVo's but perhaps by then I'll be ready to build a system like you're speaking of. Unfortunately, I didn't organize my other post very well and it was disjointed and grouped things together that shouldn't have been. Basically, with my TiVo, I can transfer files off to my pc when my 140 hour gets too full, burn em to DVD, check the weather, play mp3s from my desktop, show pictures from my desktop, transfer correctly encoded (there's a page on tivo's site somewhere that says how) files back on to the tivo to play, and with my other TiVo that we keep in the bedroom (got it for $11 thanks to the same rebate) I can record two shows at once or play shows from the main tivo (and vice versa), among other things. All in all, TiVo works quite well for us and the extras that a custom system would provide just aren't worth the cost or time at the moment.
Btw, we are behind a hardware firewall, and I suppose a linux box would be less likely to need updates once you got it working happily (as long as you didnt need/want a new feature). I'm sort of leery of doing auto-updates at least with fedora core since the kernel changes every time the wind blows and theres often something that breaks something else or gcc changes and the rpms for various packages dont have the libs or don't rebuild correctly.. etc etc..
Anyway, thanks for your response.
For the record, I was referring to the First Post, which sure beat the hell out of the "FRIST POST" or "FROSTY PISS" BS that I (and most others) hate so much.
...'s were supposed to be imitating the comic store owner on the Simpsons.
It's fantastic to see one that is insightful and well thought out (as well as interesting to see such a long one). If you call that off topic, then you are probably one of the ones who posts "FRIST POST". Forgive me for praising what seems to be a rare commodity around here.
Btw, the
With TiVo Desktop, you can upload correctly encoded files back on to the tivo, as well as tell it not to delete shows. It only deletes shows not marked as keep until i delete when there isn't enough space left. DirecTiVo allows multiple shows at once, and TiVo Generation 3 boxes will do this as well.
It would also take something very out of the ordinary to knock tivo into oblivion overnight. TiVo is a friendly and conveniant tv recording mechanism. All my DVDs are on DVD and I dont mind sticking in a disk and pushing the button on my receiver remote to change inputs.
Also TiVo -CAN- play mp3 format. I have my entire collection in apple lossless, and until TiVO & Apple make a deal, I have another copy in mp3, which is a small price to pay (well, 100gb at 128kbit which is good enough for me and if I really want something in high quality I listen to the original CD or fire up iTunes and play the apple lossless version).
TiVo's not all bad and definately has its place in my home. My wife's not a computer geek and doesn't want to mess with the rest of the problems that come from having a windows based machine that needs you to accept updates, run virus scans and spyware scans, etc. TiVo changed our life for the better (we always missed our shows due to our 16 month old son getting crabby or wanting to play or something). We live on our own schedule thanks to TiVo. Granted, it could be done with a PC based solution, but TiVo really is simple.
You also -can- check the weather with galleon installed on a home PC that sends the java programs to the TiVo for use.
Not everybody needs to emulate old games (though I have a dreamcast and xbox for that occasional use). I can also play some fun games on the TiVo. I don't see why someone couldnt make a java NES emulator either, though playing with the remote might be strange, granted.
Anyway, the TiVo isn't a swiss army knife, but it's definately more than you think.
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