C-SPAN has feeds in Windows Media and Real. Dunno how this maps to anything or how you can suck down either feed and "rebroadcast it" over your network. My guess is both Microsoft and Real have some gadget that would support this
VLC will also live convert a stream and multi- , uni- or broadcast it. A T1 connection should be fine for one stream, assuming that you have the local bandwidth. I actually set this up at a previous job. We had some DirectTV feeds going into a computer with a couple of video capture cards, and then re-transmitted it over the company LAN.
Interestingly enough, I am also helping with getting a school set up to watch the inauguration. Our solution, have all the students go into the auditorium, and display the video from an ATSC tuner on two projectors.
Easy to perceive gross generalization in what the original poster said - but also obvious that it wasn't the poster's point. Don't know about you, but I'd rather spend my time being constructive, than arguing semantics.
Ah yes, the horrible memories of downloading, copying to floppies and installing from said floppies because the machine in question didn't have a CD-ROM drive (and no spare drives around). And on dial-up....
Yes to all of the above (at separate times). This was before CD burners were common, so we just downloaded the floppy images. There was one benefit though, when some friends and I got an assignment to install Linux (Slackware was about it back then, except for Yggdrasil and Red Hat) on all the computers in a lab. We got all 60+ floppies, and just went around the lab, assembly-line style. Using floppies actually allowed pipelining (although I didn't know that term for it back then). Side note: our original idea was to use free AOL floppies, but too many of them failed, so we had to buy some:-)
P.S.: while I'm glad "2001" and "2010" were the only Hollywood films to correctly depict outer space as soundless, it makes for crappy cinema when you do so, and as a moviegoer I'm glad they were the last ones to do it.
I have to say, I liked the way they handled this fact in the Firefly tv show (see an explosion in space, no sound) , and the film Serenity. In fact, the sound is really spectacular in Serenity, as there is a scene where the ship is leaving atmosphere, and the noise has been gradually building up, but you don't really notice until they are in space and it's silent. It's not mentioned, and no attention is drawn to it, but once you realize that they thought of it, it's the kind of detail that makes me happy on a very intellectual level.
So you pull out the emergency scroll of teleport and it teleports you right into the middle of the monster room, onto a sleep gas trap. That's when I stop playing the game for a couple more years.and where was your amulet of magical breathing, or of lifesaving. What's that, you forgot to have one? Yes, I am being sarcastic, but the fact is, that if you are sufficiently prepared, you may be able to survive. Also, having teleport control can be very useful:-)
Besides AFAIK the most powerful electromagnets on earth are those used in the LHC.
not even close. The LHC magnets are (according to a quick google search) about 8.3 - 10 T. The magnet lab has a 100T magnet that they routinely run at 85T so it's about 10x more powerful than the LHC magnets.
I've heard good things about Spider Oak (first 2GB free) so you might check them out. (disclosure, some of the people who work there are friends of mine)
A ban on automatic transmissions, at least, would cut down the cel phone crap. However, that would require some competence from drivers.
Lots of people drive a manual transmission and talk on the phone at the same time. I have done it, and seen many others do it. I'm not saying I am a good driver while trying to shift and talk (or even text) at the same time; indeed I know for a fact that my driving while doing it is rather terrible. However, it does show that having a manual transmission does not prevent people from talking.
You've bought into the myth (drunk the Kool Aid) that JKR was poor. While she may have been personally at the moment she sat at that Edinburgh coffee shop with her young child and started HP1, her family isn't and she was never in any danger of starving or being homeless. But then that spoils a great story now, doesn't it?
Sadly, my kids think a solar sail is something you put on a wooden ship to power the ion thrusters. Stupid disney and their stupid wooden ships in outer space...
The annoying part is that other than that, it was actually a fun movie, but that was a little much. I actually much preferred Titan A.E., which wile not exactly super-realistic, did at least have action-reaction in space.
In my opinion, there's really three top-tier keyboards out there for awesome tactile feedback: the M series keyboard (for people that learned on typewriters, not me), this keyboard and its mechanical switches, and those people out there that refuse to use anything but an SGI keyboard, even though their SGI workstation has been unused for years
I can second the Model M (from IBM), they are wonderful big heavy solid keyboards with individual microswitches and a buckling spring under each key for a solid click. I believe the technology was licensed to Northgate, for their OmniUltra series of keyboards. I am using a crappy membrane keyboard at the moment, and it works, but not great. I still occasionally bust out the Model M (with an AT -> PS/2 adapter) though.
In any case, I just tested this by ripping a track 3 times on my machine (cdparanoia on a Plextor drive), and all 3 copies have the same md5 hash. Maybe newer drives have special ripping modes that now allow "perfect" CD audio rips. 10-to-15 years ago, this certainly wasn't the case, as I distinctly remember being tweaked by the test above resulting in 3 slightly different files (though they all sounded the same). Still, I can imagine that enough older (and cheaper, perhaps) hardware is out there in circulation which could result in different files each rip. The key factor in that statement is cdparanoia. It is called CD Paranoia because it is designed to anticipate all the jitter and random noise which could appear, as well as transient failures caused by dust, etc. and still get a completely clean and exact bit-for-big digital copy of the digital audio tracks on a CD. In fact, anyone ripping from the same CD using cdparanoia should get the same file every time unless there is a deep scratch or something like that in the disc. What is more likely is that they used a different encoding algorithm, or different parameters. for instance if you rip to mp3 using linux, you will probably be using LAME, other software may create a different mp3. That being said, if programs like LimeWire do their own CD ripping, chances are that they use the same parameters across all copies of the software, so anyone who uses that same software to rip the same CD should get an identical mp3. I don't use it so I don't know its capabilities, though.
You don't even know that it's encrypted; the virus could just replace the file with random data. Unless he's actually planning to give people something for their money (fat chance) you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference I agree 100%. There is no incentive for the virus writer to ever have any more contact with the victim, assuming they have a way to anonymously pick up the money Now they may try to pull some kind of Nigerian scam instead, you know, send us your bank account number, and we will send you the key. But just like Nigerian scams involving splitting big money with you, the thing the victim wants doesn't exist at all.
I know it goes both ways, but I don't like the fact that we try to artificially put everyone on a level playing field when the playing field never is, was or will be level. I feel this way about most aspects of life. We try to legislate equality in the wrong ways. Analogy time...even if Yao Ming and Mini-Mee had never played basketball in their life, who do you think would win that matchup? Why do we, metaphorically, try to make it so that Mini-Mee can compete by again, metaphorically, making Yao play with one arm behind his back...or if he still wins, both arms? The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal....
If you have line of sight and you're one to tinker at all, there's also an optical link like RONJA I want to second this. RONJA seems like a perfect project if you have line of sight. The performance is apparently quite good, and the plans are totally open and free. I think that would be much better than trying to pull / blow 1km of cabling. There is more info on the project page or on wikipedia's article on RONJA
Currently there is no single device that is sensitive to the whole visible spectrum Then why not have some sort of dichroic reflector pass specific wavelengths to specific PV cell banks? Good idea, but someone beat you to it
It depends on the program displaying the data. Some programs allow you to to click on the row and get that one row highlighted. That is a huge help. Others like tables on a web page don't allow that. In that case I say it does help. In Firefox, when looking at html tables, you can hold down ctrl and select the row. I find this to be fairly helpful.
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C-SPAN has feeds in Windows Media and Real. Dunno how this maps to anything or how you can suck down either feed and "rebroadcast it" over your network. My guess is both Microsoft and Real have some gadget that would support this
VLC will also live convert a stream and multi- , uni- or broadcast it. A T1 connection should be fine for one stream, assuming that you have the local bandwidth. I actually set this up at a previous job. We had some DirectTV feeds going into a computer with a couple of video capture cards, and then re-transmitted it over the company LAN.
Interestingly enough, I am also helping with getting a school set up to watch the inauguration. Our solution, have all the students go into the auditorium, and display the video from an ATSC tuner on two projectors.
Easy to perceive gross generalization in what the original poster said - but also obvious that it wasn't the poster's point. Don't know about you, but I'd rather spend my time being constructive, than arguing semantics.
You may be on the wrong site, this is slashdot.
Like a Linux nativity, centered around an OS conceived by a God and ultimately delivered by virgins in a stable (source branch).
Hail, Linus, full of Source. Blessed art thou among coders, and blessed is the fruit of thy code, Linux.
Ah yes, the horrible memories of downloading, copying to floppies and installing from said floppies because the machine in question didn't have a CD-ROM drive (and no spare drives around). And on dial-up....
Yes to all of the above (at separate times). This was before CD burners were common, so we just downloaded the floppy images. There was one benefit though, when some friends and I got an assignment to install Linux (Slackware was about it back then, except for Yggdrasil and Red Hat) on all the computers in a lab. We got all 60+ floppies, and just went around the lab, assembly-line style. Using floppies actually allowed pipelining (although I didn't know that term for it back then). Side note: our original idea was to use free AOL floppies, but too many of them failed, so we had to buy some :-)
P.S.: while I'm glad "2001" and "2010" were the only Hollywood films to correctly depict outer space as soundless, it makes for crappy cinema when you do so, and as a moviegoer I'm glad they were the last ones to do it.
I have to say, I liked the way they handled this fact in the Firefly tv show (see an explosion in space, no sound) , and the film Serenity. In fact, the sound is really spectacular in Serenity, as there is a scene where the ship is leaving atmosphere, and the noise has been gradually building up, but you don't really notice until they are in space and it's silent. It's not mentioned, and no attention is drawn to it, but once you realize that they thought of it, it's the kind of detail that makes me happy on a very intellectual level.
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I am not on fire?
Diff works fine with ssh.
ssh $remote_system cat remotefile | diff - localfile
cat localfile | ssh $remote_system diff - remotefile
It's bash specific, but I like to do this as so:
diff <(ssh $remote system cat remotefile) localfile
So you pull out the emergency scroll of teleport and it teleports you right into the middle of the monster room, onto a sleep gas trap. That's when I stop playing the game for a couple more years.and where was your amulet of magical breathing, or of lifesaving. What's that, you forgot to have one? Yes, I am being sarcastic, but the fact is, that if you are sufficiently prepared, you may be able to survive. Also, having teleport control can be very useful :-)
Besides AFAIK the most powerful electromagnets on earth are those used in the LHC.
not even close. The LHC magnets are (according to a quick google search) about 8.3 - 10 T. The magnet lab has a 100T magnet that they routinely run at 85T so it's about 10x more powerful than the LHC magnets.
What I'm trying to understand is why you're using a pharmacy to manage your data. Doesn't really sound like their specialty.
You mean like this? Of course it hasn't been updated in a while...
I've heard good things about Spider Oak (first 2GB free) so you might check them out. (disclosure, some of the people who work there are friends of mine)
A ban on automatic transmissions, at least, would cut down the cel phone crap. However, that would require some competence from drivers.
Lots of people drive a manual transmission and talk on the phone at the same time. I have done it, and seen many others do it. I'm not saying I am a good driver while trying to shift and talk (or even text) at the same time; indeed I know for a fact that my driving while doing it is rather terrible. However, it does show that having a manual transmission does not prevent people from talking.
It would seem to me that either the air is moving insanely fast or the dust particle size is tiny. Any ideas/information?
I believe the dust is quite fine.
now it just needs to be atomic and fit in the palm of your hand :-)
You've bought into the myth (drunk the Kool Aid) that JKR was poor. While she may have been personally at the moment she sat at that Edinburgh coffee shop with her young child and started HP1, her family isn't and she was never in any danger of starving or being homeless. But then that spoils a great story now, doesn't it?
It was on Robot Chicken, it must be true!
Sadly, my kids think a solar sail is something you put on a wooden ship to power the ion thrusters. Stupid disney and their stupid wooden ships in outer space...
The annoying part is that other than that, it was actually a fun movie, but that was a little much. I actually much preferred Titan A.E., which wile not exactly super-realistic, did at least have action-reaction in space.
In my opinion, there's really three top-tier keyboards out there for awesome tactile feedback: the M series keyboard (for people that learned on typewriters, not me), this keyboard and its mechanical switches, and those people out there that refuse to use anything but an SGI keyboard, even though their SGI workstation has been unused for years
I can second the Model M (from IBM), they are wonderful big heavy solid keyboards with individual microswitches and a buckling spring under each key for a solid click. I believe the technology was licensed to Northgate, for their OmniUltra series of keyboards. I am using a crappy membrane keyboard at the moment, and it works, but not great. I still occasionally bust out the Model M (with an AT -> PS/2 adapter) though.
Don't forget the F-Ray