FF/RW/Pause????? Has the guys at TiVo even looked at the UPnP A/V spec? It defines exactly that... And the TV is listed as a content directory, so FF/RW/Pause of Live-TV is already covered.
And connecting these devices together? Eh? Have they ever heard of UPnP? Heck, even 1394 lets you do that.
I remember our school made a big deal about this... Ok, it was just our dept..:)
Basically the Oxford English Dictionary added an entry for spam to include Spam as it relates to the internet. They said that students in the Computer Science department at the University of Southern California first made the association with the Hormel Meat Product as a way to describe e-mail. I can't remember the exact way it was worded, it was too long ago. But the fact that my dept actually got credit for it was cool:)
When I was in college taking astronomy, they said many many scientists consider this the REAL reason for the cool-down/ice-age periods...
And as the previous poster said, we simply do not know the true answer, and probably never will. There are too many variables, and we do not understand the universe. If we did, einstein's theories would be laws/postulates, not theorems. And there would be one set of "laws of physics", not the "classical newtonian" physics and the "throw out the door everything you know about physics when dealing with Quantum Mechanics" Physics...
When Mt. Pinatubo erupted, more greenhouse gasses spewed into the air then all the green-house gasses man has produced in all of man-kind... And the Earth is still here after how many eruptions? We are not really affecting the earth as much as people say we are. And our fixes are not really fixing anything...
Besides, scientists can't even predict the weather next week, let alone next millenia... For the longest time, scientists in the 70's thought we were on a cooling trend heading for an ice age... Now all of a sudden we are on a warming trend? But aren't emissions output from the 80's and 90's make the 50s'-70's look like a piece of coal?
Besides, when the Earth first formed the atmosphere was like all C0/C02/and other noxious gasses. The earth managed to fix itself just fine, so I doubt the earth wouldn't be able to handle us.
Thats what UWB is for... (UltraWideBand).
Have a UWB antenna mounted on the ceiling of each room or something, in some sort of p-p fashion or something...
I hate to be a PC nag here, but there is a reason that many gay youth commit suicide. While it seams trivial to use gay in a derogatory fashion, it creates non-trivial psychological damage to homosexual youths, especially in the social climate we have here in the states.
In the future, please watch your language. Would it be funny if I said, "Damn, what a nigger of a watch?"
And for the longest time Dork and Geek referred to Penis and Clown who bit off chicken heads. The slang term for its most common meaning was not a formal definition. As for your last comment being funny... Funny you should mention that... When I lived in LA, people actually have used that EXACT SAME SENTENCE... You'd be surprised at the multitude of meanings words like that can have.
Doesn't the constitution also say that it is the law of the land above all other laws. So in which case if you have a treaty that says its ok to murder, it still doesn't mean its now legal to murder. Not any more so, than if a state decided to enact its own "rogue" laws...
For the most part, isn't DiVX illegal, in that it is based on Microsoft Intellectual Property... Namely, their proposal to MPEG-4, which was not accepted? Isn't the DiVX 3.11 codec, just a hack of the MS Codec? I believe 3.11 is just the older version of the Codec that allowed encoding to non.ASF formats or something like that.
This new Codec developed by intel, is open, so there is no immediate legal issues pertaining to its use, unlike DiVX. Also, this may open the doors to commercialization. I mean... How many vendors do you think would want to release something called DiVX;) ? In addition, its hard to defend DiVX in a court battle. I mean, how many teleconferencing apps do you know run DiVX? I'm sure Intel will be able to show that the main purpose of this codec has nothing to do with pirating movies, even though it could be a good use of it;)
I think it would have better market value knowing it was a codec developed by a real company, not a hack of someone else's work.
Besides, isn't the bitrate of DiVX like 910 kb/sec in most applications? I think 200kb/sec for the same quality is awesome.
Key difference being: WMA supposedly offers better/equal quality to MP3 at a lower bitrate, but nobody wants to be sucked into a proprietary format. Likewise Windows Media8 supposedly offers DVD quality video at like 500 kb/sec, but again, who wants to be sucked into a proprietary format? This new codec from Intel on the other hand is open.
Two things... GM has two additional features that are not available in the US. They are only available in South Africa (Car jacking capital of the world)...
Both of these are available in the Corvette:
1.) Integrated Flame-thrower mounted on bottom of car
2.) Alarm system sends 10,000 volts to the drivers seat, rendering driver unconscious if attempt is made to start vehicle without using key while alarm is armed.
I saw it on Car & Driver TV a while back... I think 2 years ago. They showed it functional. I doubt these things would be legal in this country.
We thought the same thing when we were told this statistic at our meeting, but it turns out MS was in fact in the red sometime in the early 1990's. Their profits did not go on an upward trend until after Windows 95 was released, and after Office/Word became the norm. If you recall in the early 1990's Word Perfect was the accepted Word processor of choice, etc...
Have you taken any EE classes? In Computer Architecture you study different processor architectures.
If you claim that one processor has a better risc design, and allows more flexibility, then HOW can you claim that it will take less operations as well???????????
Being RISC means you break down complex operations into MORE instructions that are SIMPLER. This is where the flexibility comes in, because you can order your operations more efficiently in your pipeline to avoid resource conflicts, and utilize more of the resources available. Since you have more instructions that are simpler, usually you clock the hell out of it. Otherwise how can you be running a slower clock AND get better performance? RISC usually means you need to execute MORE instructions, NOT less...
If you talk about x86 being CISC, then that means it takes LESS instructions to execute, but they are more complex. Usually to accomplish this, your instructions CANNOT utilize resource sharing, otherwise you will NEVER be able to pipeline your instructions. Given this, it means the instruction MUST finish in one clock cycle. Hence typically a CISC processor is supposed to be clocked lower than a RISC processor.
Now before anyone pipes in about the P4 being 2 Ghz, let me mention that the P4 actually has a RISC core... So that is why a P4 clocked at a HIGHER clock is performing about the same as an Athlon with a LOWER clock, because the P4 needs to execute more instructions. The benafits will be realized when/if Intel can runaway from AMD in terms of clock speed.
Of course, I boiled this all down to explain here, but you get the point...
What kinds of school does that? Even back in 1994, when I was in school, everyone had email. Even those that did not live on campus. It only cost 5 bucks for the entire time you are there. Since I was an engineering student, it was waived, since I had to pay all sorts of lab fees.
Heck, even the junior high and high schools around here are giving students email...
Shouldn't the prof be posting important information on the Class Home page? Let me guess, your class doesn't have a homepage? No offense again, but all my classes, even back in 1994 had homepages. Even my freshmen writing classes. They usually post sylabusses on them, in addition to req'd material.
Anyways, you shouldn't be using ISP email addresses anyways. Get your own domain name, and forward it. Or even use hotmail or something.
reminds me of that. Does this mean we will have to get cardboard mock-ups of ourselves to get our answering machine to be believable/fool somebody that you are sick/etc etc?
They lied to me more often... Usually in regards to if I can even get it. Sometimes they say I can, and sometimes they say I cant. One time they even got all the paper work done, I got a user name, and a tech came to my house, and they told me that I can't get it to my face. WTF?!!!
Needless to say, I've been a happy cable camper since then...
In my case the earlier emails said that if service does get pulled:
To reboot your computer, and go onto the internet, and you will arrive at some page on how to configure...
I took this to mean that it was assuming you were using DHCP and you need to get a new IP. So I changed my static IP to dynamic, and got a good address on saturday morning. And since I don't give my ISP email address out to people, but my domain name, which gets forwarded, I changed the forwarding as well. I browsed to the attbi site, and got the new names of all the servers etc. All in all, I woke up at 8:30am, and by 8:40 I had everything back to normal. AT&T called me at 10:00am to tell me my internet wasn't working blah blah blah, but I already resolved it...
for each day you don't have service, you get credited for two days.
FWIW, I'm with AT&T@Home, and the switchover was very non-obtrusive, and took like 2 seconds to do... All I had to do was switch from static to dynamic. I switched myself over before AT&T even called me.
When I got home today, I checked my routing tables, and I found the order of my metrics somehow changed, so I fixed it, and I got my internet back... phew....
Yesterday after midnight, it went belly up. I was able to ping AT&T's gateway. I was able to ping my parents, and I was able to ping my friends down the street, who are also ATT@Home, but the DNS server disappeared, as did our internet connectivity, which included our email. Since the DNS disappeared, how can we resolve the mail server?
And AT&T says to visit help.attbi.com for vital information after a disconnect. How are we supposed to get there if our service is interrupted?
What are you talking about? No matter what fancy tech is in the speaker, you need an analog (+) and (-) to drive the electromagnet...
And even if there was a new-fangled electromagnet that took encrypted input, there is still going to be analog sound coming out of the speaker itself. Get a REALLY good mic, and set up the speaker in a REALLY good acoustical room, and make your copy.
So to ammend the previous statement:
If I can see it or hear it, so can my "recording" device.
They would be hardpressed to link a particular person to that IP address though... Just because its in some kids dormroom. Any kid could've been on at the time. What if that IP was NAT'd? etc etc.
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FF/RW/Pause????? Has the guys at TiVo even looked at the UPnP A/V spec? It defines exactly that... And the TV is listed as a content directory, so FF/RW/Pause of Live-TV is already covered.
And connecting these devices together? Eh? Have they ever heard of UPnP? Heck, even 1394 lets you do that.
I remember our school made a big deal about this... Ok, it was just our dept.. :)
:)
Basically the Oxford English Dictionary added an entry for spam to include Spam as it relates to the internet. They said that students in the Computer Science department at the University of Southern California first made the association with the Hormel Meat Product as a way to describe e-mail. I can't remember the exact way it was worded, it was too long ago. But the fact that my dept actually got credit for it was cool
You can set a desk fan next to it, to blow on it at full blast to ease your overclocking/cooling needs :)
:)
I have one side door open, with a desk fan pointed at it
When I was in college taking astronomy, they said many many scientists consider this the REAL reason for the cool-down/ice-age periods...
And as the previous poster said, we simply do not know the true answer, and probably never will. There are too many variables, and we do not understand the universe. If we did, einstein's theories would be laws/postulates, not theorems. And there would be one set of "laws of physics", not the "classical newtonian" physics and the "throw out the door everything you know about physics when dealing with Quantum Mechanics" Physics...
When Mt. Pinatubo erupted, more greenhouse gasses spewed into the air then all the green-house gasses man has produced in all of man-kind... And the Earth is still here after how many eruptions? We are not really affecting the earth as much as people say we are. And our fixes are not really fixing anything...
Besides, scientists can't even predict the weather next week, let alone next millenia... For the longest time, scientists in the 70's thought we were on a cooling trend heading for an ice age... Now all of a sudden we are on a warming trend? But aren't emissions output from the 80's and 90's make the 50s'-70's look like a piece of coal?
Besides, when the Earth first formed the atmosphere was like all C0/C02/and other noxious gasses. The earth managed to fix itself just fine, so I doubt the earth wouldn't be able to handle us.
My 396SS Chevelle only gets 9 mpg most of the time ;)
I like how there is no thermostat on the A/C... Last time I measured the temp, when I was charging it, it was a cooool 27 degrees f.
I would suggesting just using VPN...
Either use nothing, or use VPN.... Don't bother with WEP, it won't do anything for you, other than give you a fake sense of security...
Thats what UWB is for... (UltraWideBand).
Have a UWB antenna mounted on the ceiling of each room or something, in some sort of p-p fashion or something...
I hate to be a PC nag here, but there is a reason that many gay youth commit suicide. While it seams trivial to use gay in a derogatory fashion, it creates non-trivial psychological damage to homosexual youths, especially in the social climate we have here in the states.
In the future, please watch your language. Would it be funny if I said, "Damn, what a nigger of a watch?"
And for the longest time Dork and Geek referred to Penis and Clown who bit off chicken heads. The slang term for its most common meaning was not a formal definition. As for your last comment being funny... Funny you should mention that... When I lived in LA, people actually have used that EXACT SAME SENTENCE... You'd be surprised at the multitude of meanings words like that can have.
Doesn't the constitution also say that it is the law of the land above all other laws. So in which case if you have a treaty that says its ok to murder, it still doesn't mean its now legal to murder. Not any more so, than if a state decided to enact its own "rogue" laws...
For the most part, isn't DiVX illegal, in that it is based on Microsoft Intellectual Property... Namely, their proposal to MPEG-4, which was not accepted? Isn't the DiVX 3.11 codec, just a hack of the MS Codec? I believe 3.11 is just the older version of the Codec that allowed encoding to non .ASF formats or something like that.
;) ? In addition, its hard to defend DiVX in a court battle. I mean, how many teleconferencing apps do you know run DiVX? I'm sure Intel will be able to show that the main purpose of this codec has nothing to do with pirating movies, even though it could be a good use of it ;)
This new Codec developed by intel, is open, so there is no immediate legal issues pertaining to its use, unlike DiVX. Also, this may open the doors to commercialization. I mean... How many vendors do you think would want to release something called DiVX
I think it would have better market value knowing it was a codec developed by a real company, not a hack of someone else's work.
Besides, isn't the bitrate of DiVX like 910 kb/sec in most applications? I think 200kb/sec for the same quality is awesome.
Key difference being: WMA supposedly offers better/equal quality to MP3 at a lower bitrate, but nobody wants to be sucked into a proprietary format. Likewise Windows Media8 supposedly offers DVD quality video at like 500 kb/sec, but again, who wants to be sucked into a proprietary format? This new codec from Intel on the other hand is open.
Just my two bits...
Two things... GM has two additional features that are not available in the US. They are only available in South Africa (Car jacking capital of the world)...
Both of these are available in the Corvette:
1.) Integrated Flame-thrower mounted on bottom of car
2.) Alarm system sends 10,000 volts to the drivers seat, rendering driver unconscious if attempt is made to start vehicle without using key while alarm is armed.
I saw it on Car & Driver TV a while back... I think 2 years ago. They showed it functional. I doubt these things would be legal in this country.
We thought the same thing when we were told this statistic at our meeting, but it turns out MS was in fact in the red sometime in the early 1990's. Their profits did not go on an upward trend until after Windows 95 was released, and after Office/Word became the norm. If you recall in the early 1990's Word Perfect was the accepted Word processor of choice, etc...
Have you taken any EE classes? In Computer Architecture you study different processor architectures.
If you claim that one processor has a better risc design, and allows more flexibility, then HOW can you claim that it will take less operations as well???????????
Being RISC means you break down complex operations into MORE instructions that are SIMPLER. This is where the flexibility comes in, because you can order your operations more efficiently in your pipeline to avoid resource conflicts, and utilize more of the resources available. Since you have more instructions that are simpler, usually you clock the hell out of it. Otherwise how can you be running a slower clock AND get better performance? RISC usually means you need to execute MORE instructions, NOT less...
If you talk about x86 being CISC, then that means it takes LESS instructions to execute, but they are more complex. Usually to accomplish this, your instructions CANNOT utilize resource sharing, otherwise you will NEVER be able to pipeline your instructions. Given this, it means the instruction MUST finish in one clock cycle. Hence typically a CISC processor is supposed to be clocked lower than a RISC processor.
Now before anyone pipes in about the P4 being 2 Ghz, let me mention that the P4 actually has a RISC core... So that is why a P4 clocked at a HIGHER clock is performing about the same as an Athlon with a LOWER clock, because the P4 needs to execute more instructions. The benafits will be realized when/if Intel can runaway from AMD in terms of clock speed.
Of course, I boiled this all down to explain here, but you get the point...
That of all the Fortune 500 companies, only THREE have stayed in the black every quarter for the last 10 years.
They are (in no particular order):
1.) General Electric
2.) Intel
3.) Wal-Mart
What kinds of school does that? Even back in 1994, when I was in school, everyone had email. Even those that did not live on campus. It only cost 5 bucks for the entire time you are there. Since I was an engineering student, it was waived, since I had to pay all sorts of lab fees.
Heck, even the junior high and high schools around here are giving students email...
Shouldn't the prof be posting important information on the Class Home page? Let me guess, your class doesn't have a homepage? No offense again, but all my classes, even back in 1994 had homepages. Even my freshmen writing classes. They usually post sylabusses on them, in addition to req'd material.
Anyways, you shouldn't be using ISP email addresses anyways. Get your own domain name, and forward it. Or even use hotmail or something.
reminds me of that. Does this mean we will have to get cardboard mock-ups of ourselves to get our answering machine to be believable/fool somebody that you are sick/etc etc?
They lied to me more often... Usually in regards to if I can even get it. Sometimes they say I can, and sometimes they say I cant. One time they even got all the paper work done, I got a user name, and a tech came to my house, and they told me that I can't get it to my face. WTF?!!!
Needless to say, I've been a happy cable camper since then...
In my case the earlier emails said that if service does get pulled:
To reboot your computer, and go onto the internet, and you will arrive at some page on how to configure...
I took this to mean that it was assuming you were using DHCP and you need to get a new IP. So I changed my static IP to dynamic, and got a good address on saturday morning. And since I don't give my ISP email address out to people, but my domain name, which gets forwarded, I changed the forwarding as well. I browsed to the attbi site, and got the new names of all the servers etc. All in all, I woke up at 8:30am, and by 8:40 I had everything back to normal. AT&T called me at 10:00am to tell me my internet wasn't working blah blah blah, but I already resolved it...
for each day you don't have service, you get credited for two days.
FWIW, I'm with AT&T@Home, and the switchover was very non-obtrusive, and took like 2 seconds to do... All I had to do was switch from static to dynamic. I switched myself over before AT&T even called me.
When I got home today, I checked my routing tables, and I found the order of my metrics somehow changed, so I fixed it, and I got my internet back... phew....
I have AT&T@Home...
Yesterday after midnight, it went belly up. I was able to ping AT&T's gateway. I was able to ping my parents, and I was able to ping my friends down the street, who are also ATT@Home, but the DNS server disappeared, as did our internet connectivity, which included our email. Since the DNS disappeared, how can we resolve the mail server?
And AT&T says to visit help.attbi.com for vital information after a disconnect. How are we supposed to get there if our service is interrupted?
didn't it say they were losing 6 million per week? So that would be 40-46 = -6. So their expenses are 46 million per week.
What are you talking about? No matter what fancy tech is in the speaker, you need an analog (+) and (-) to drive the electromagnet...
And even if there was a new-fangled electromagnet that took encrypted input, there is still going to be analog sound coming out of the speaker itself. Get a REALLY good mic, and set up the speaker in a REALLY good acoustical room, and make your copy.
So to ammend the previous statement:
If I can see it or hear it, so can my "recording" device.
They would be hardpressed to link a particular person to that IP address though... Just because its in some kids dormroom. Any kid could've been on at the time. What if that IP was NAT'd? etc etc.