No, under normal circumstances the pulse would have gotten there many ns later. It's an increase in speed, not time travel. There is still a delay involved in getting the photons to their destination, it's just shorter.
If you put one of these setups next to a light bulb and turned them on at the same time, the laser pulse would get there first.
I would not recommend a TiVo to you. The box has a "Boat Anchor" mode which allows it to run without service but it's not fun, and the level of service has actually gone down with recent releases.
One notable problem is that it is difficult or impossible to name your manual recordings. They show up with time and date in the "Now Playing" menu.
The Trick Play features (rewind, pause live TV) are fully operational, though.
The term applies to any game which is based on a non-game franchise. TV shows, movies, toys. The muttering is due to the fact that 90% of these games end up biting the big one. This is probably because the publishers think they can sell a game based on the license, rather than good gameplay.
Take a look at the triad of MRI images in this article. If you look at the image on the left, it appears to have been scaled up about 2-3x from the original size. If you zoom in on it, you can see that the smallest represented detail in the picture is about 3 pixels across. It looks like they just imported the MRI into Photoshop and did a Bicubic scale to 300%!
They then remove 50% of the data in the second picture, and proceed to mathematically reconstruct it in the third. In my mind, this would be a great feat, except for two things:
- More than 50% of the data was unnecessary to present the data in the first place. The original is quite obviously scaled up from its native size.
- The mathematical reconstruction introduces artifacts that were not even present in the random image, such as huge horizontal pixel smears.
Can someone point to a better demo of this set of algorithms?
After reading the various complaints about all of the panels in this (incomplete) lineup, I wasn't able to get any idea of which ones they really LIKED. Why didn't they give a thumbs-up to any of the monitors? Did they all suck? This review has the Crud nature.
BTW, is it really true that the panels cost around $15? What's so expensive, then, the drive circuitry?
You can get an adapter for that. My grandparents' home has those crazy 4-prong outlets all over the house and they have a great deal of adapters to plug their modular (RJ-11) phones into them.
It's funny to see archaic telephone outlets and broadband in the same house.
Energy in space? Solar energy is better in space than anywhere else. And you could store it in antimatter for use where such energy is not so plentiful. Or if you need to burn energy faster than you can store it.
This all seems terribly impractical to me, though. For the next 100 years, anyway.
One would guess that there are redundant computers onboard, and that they are deep within the airplane and heavily armored.
I am thinking of planes like the "stealth" series which have such a strange shape that controlling them via conventional means would be a difficult-to-impossible task for a human.
Possibly the chips can detect a crisis and blow themselves up.
A remote signal would be dangerous; if the enemy captured and reverse-engineered one such signal they would have a Destruct-O-Ray they could simply point at our planes in the air and cause them to drop like flies (I think that many modern aircraft used by the military cannot be piloted at all except with the help of a computer).
I'm thinking a double solution; one, the central computer (if there is such a thing) transmits a signal using internal power to anything it wants blown up. Two, any chips that were disconnected from the central computer due to crash damage wait for a timeout period and then commit suicide. (They, of course, have a very small packaged power source for this purpose, good only for one use).
Fa? Reminds me too much of "The Land of Fa," a set of stories read on the radio which took place in the Kingdom of Fa where the Fa King was constantly asking "Where's my Fa King Breakfast?" and such.
At least every other bullet point on the new features list has been complained about in at least one message on this article so far, so I thought I'd pick on the last remaining nitpickable item in the announcement.
They announced that the new device will be only 15" wide, rather than the standard 17". While seemingly inocuous, this means that any new TiVo I buy will look like a toy or a low-budget VCR in my equipment stack. And speaking of stacks, I currently have a 17" DVD player stacked on top of my TiVo, and this would no longer be possible with the new box.
Oh, well. My TiVo already does everything I want it to anyway. Until an HD-TiVo comes out I think I'll be doing all my upgrading with a Torx screwdriver rather than my wallet.
It makes sense, considering most people run MySQL on Linux, and Tux the Linux Penguin also lounges around all day, sucking down fish and making loud penguin belching noises. They could be great buddies.
On the other hand, the dolphin has an onboard head-mounted sonar for seeking out data in even the longest INDEXes. It can travel in bursts at up to 25 MPH to rush you the results of your LEFT JOIN. Not to mention that they travel in large groups, making high-availability clustering a breeze.
And elephants are decidedly stupider than dolphins. Indisputable fact. The elephant must rely on its brute force gigantitude while the dolphin is fast, graceful and clever.
But I still can't think of a name for the blasted thing.
To be accurate, the press release also mentions "streaming video," but you're right. This doesn't make it any better, though, Real's CODEC is still very poor and I would much rather buy a device that stores audio and video in efficient, open formats.
You're absolutely right, there may never have been a RealVideo stream encoded at 2-3 mbps for all we know. However, there are two problems:
- It seems that this is not the intended use. TiVo won't ENCODE RealVideo streams but merely download them, and nobody is about to download 2 mbps video streams this decade.
- If RealVideo scales in a logical way, its high bandwidth performance will suck just as bad as its low-bandwidth performance. It will still be worse than MPEG at comparable bitrates.
There must be some kickback in it for TiVo. Because, otherwise, why include another video decoder chip on the board when there's a perfectly good CS22 right there?
I'm having vomitous visions of 56K RealVideo streams playing on a 50" TV. Gross. It'll look like that video phone footage from Afghanistan. *shudder*
Please, PLEASE, TiVo, stay with MPEG! The video on my TiVo looks excellent. I challenge ANYONE to show me a Real video that looks even remotely acceptable. I have never seen one. Seriously.
It would seem to me that these guys have taken the idea of the standard compression scheme and turned it around - so it takes in random data and spits out non-random data. Somehow (possibly through high-speed buzzword factoring) this new data is smaller, though.
I mean the new data must be non-random, right? Because otherwise you could just shove it back in and make it smaller. Oh, but wait, they have a universal first stage that makes any data random. This is all very humorous.
Anyway, does anyone know, how random is the output of a standard compressor like gzip?
Sure, a Perl program can be compressed. Anytime you repeat something (the name of a variable, a function, a pattern of characters) the compressor can replace it with a shorter placeholder to save space.
Their website appears already slashdotted, otherwise I would investigate for myself.
Do I need a 64MB water-cooled graphics card? Will it require an as-yet unreleased 3 GHz processor due to the wealth of debug code? Will the silly arsed Mac users of the world (such as myself) be able to participate? If not, do they ever intend to release a Mac version?
Having read the presentation linked from the link (...), I see that there is some merit to this study. You must admit, however, that the BBC text does not do it justice. I hereby redirect my animosity at the reporter who mangled the meaning of the researchers' work.
This instantly strikes me as sort of dumb. Unreachable? By whom? In what way? What were the methods? Are you talking about IP addresses or domain names? Did you take into account:
Unallocated IP blocks
Unused allocated blocks that are being sat on by their owners
Dialup, DSL and Cable-modem users
Sites that are down
Sites that do not accept ICMP (or whatever protocol they used)
Desktop computers that people turn off
Firewalls that pretend they don't exist
The problem with lost peering agreements between ISPs causing partial 'net outages is well-understood. So what exactly have they measured here?! Seems like a shaky story to get one's name in the news.
Slashdot Mirror
No, under normal circumstances the pulse would have gotten there many ns later. It's an increase in speed, not time travel. There is still a delay involved in getting the photons to their destination, it's just shorter.
If you put one of these setups next to a light bulb and turned them on at the same time, the laser pulse would get there first.
Justin
I would not recommend a TiVo to you. The box has a "Boat Anchor" mode which allows it to run without service but it's not fun, and the level of service has actually gone down with recent releases.
One notable problem is that it is difficult or impossible to name your manual recordings. They show up with time and date in the "Now Playing" menu.
The Trick Play features (rewind, pause live TV) are fully operational, though.
Justin
Hi.
The term applies to any game which is based on a non-game franchise. TV shows, movies, toys. The muttering is due to the fact that 90% of these games end up biting the big one. This is probably because the publishers think they can sell a game based on the license, rather than good gameplay.
Justin
Take a look at the triad of MRI images in this article. If you look at the image on the left, it appears to have been scaled up about 2-3x from the original size. If you zoom in on it, you can see that the smallest represented detail in the picture is about 3 pixels across. It looks like they just imported the MRI into Photoshop and did a Bicubic scale to 300%!
They then remove 50% of the data in the second picture, and proceed to mathematically reconstruct it in the third. In my mind, this would be a great feat, except for two things:
- More than 50% of the data was unnecessary to present the data in the first place. The original is quite obviously scaled up from its native size.
- The mathematical reconstruction introduces artifacts that were not even present in the random image, such as huge horizontal pixel smears.
Can someone point to a better demo of this set of algorithms?
Justin
After reading the various complaints about all of the panels in this (incomplete) lineup, I wasn't able to get any idea of which ones they really LIKED. Why didn't they give a thumbs-up to any of the monitors? Did they all suck? This review has the Crud nature.
BTW, is it really true that the panels cost around $15? What's so expensive, then, the drive circuitry?
Justin
You can get an adapter for that. My grandparents' home has those crazy 4-prong outlets all over the house and they have a great deal of adapters to plug their modular (RJ-11) phones into them.
It's funny to see archaic telephone outlets and broadband in the same house.
Justin
Energy in space? Solar energy is better in space than anywhere else. And you could store it in antimatter for use where such energy is not so plentiful. Or if you need to burn energy faster than you can store it.
This all seems terribly impractical to me, though. For the next 100 years, anyway.
Justin
One would guess that there are redundant computers onboard, and that they are deep within the airplane and heavily armored.
I am thinking of planes like the "stealth" series which have such a strange shape that controlling them via conventional means would be a difficult-to-impossible task for a human.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Justin
Possibly the chips can detect a crisis and blow themselves up.
A remote signal would be dangerous; if the enemy captured and reverse-engineered one such signal they would have a Destruct-O-Ray they could simply point at our planes in the air and cause them to drop like flies (I think that many modern aircraft used by the military cannot be piloted at all except with the help of a computer).
I'm thinking a double solution; one, the central computer (if there is such a thing) transmits a signal using internal power to anything it wants blown up. Two, any chips that were disconnected from the central computer due to crash damage wait for a timeout period and then commit suicide. (They, of course, have a very small packaged power source for this purpose, good only for one use).
another half-baked idea from Justin
"Slashdot Poster Discovers Primitive Pentium Joke Engraved On Cave Wall"
Can't we find some new humor?
Justin
Fa? Reminds me too much of "The Land of Fa," a set of stories read on the radio which took place in the Kingdom of Fa where the Fa King was constantly asking "Where's my Fa King Breakfast?" and such.
Justin
At least every other bullet point on the new features list has been complained about in at least one message on this article so far, so I thought I'd pick on the last remaining nitpickable item in the announcement.
They announced that the new device will be only 15" wide, rather than the standard 17". While seemingly inocuous, this means that any new TiVo I buy will look like a toy or a low-budget VCR in my equipment stack. And speaking of stacks, I currently have a 17" DVD player stacked on top of my TiVo, and this would no longer be possible with the new box.
Oh, well. My TiVo already does everything I want it to anyway. Until an HD-TiVo comes out I think I'll be doing all my upgrading with a Torx screwdriver rather than my wallet.
Justin
It makes sense, considering most people run MySQL on Linux, and Tux the Linux Penguin also lounges around all day, sucking down fish and making loud penguin belching noises. They could be great buddies.
On the other hand, the dolphin has an onboard head-mounted sonar for seeking out data in even the longest INDEXes. It can travel in bursts at up to 25 MPH to rush you the results of your LEFT JOIN. Not to mention that they travel in large groups, making high-availability clustering a breeze.
And elephants are decidedly stupider than dolphins. Indisputable fact. The elephant must rely on its brute force gigantitude while the dolphin is fast, graceful and clever.
But I still can't think of a name for the blasted thing.
Justin
Dolphin Advocate
To be accurate, the press release also mentions "streaming video," but you're right. This doesn't make it any better, though, Real's CODEC is still very poor and I would much rather buy a device that stores audio and video in efficient, open formats.
Justin
(Download them to a TiVo via modem, that is ;)
Justin
You're absolutely right, there may never have been a RealVideo stream encoded at 2-3 mbps for all we know. However, there are two problems:
- It seems that this is not the intended use. TiVo won't ENCODE RealVideo streams but merely download them, and nobody is about to download 2 mbps video streams this decade.
- If RealVideo scales in a logical way, its high bandwidth performance will suck just as bad as its low-bandwidth performance. It will still be worse than MPEG at comparable bitrates.
Justin
There must be some kickback in it for TiVo. Because, otherwise, why include another video decoder chip on the board when there's a perfectly good CS22 right there?
I'm having vomitous visions of 56K RealVideo streams playing on a 50" TV. Gross. It'll look like that video phone footage from Afghanistan. *shudder*
Justin
Please, PLEASE, TiVo, stay with MPEG! The video on my TiVo looks excellent. I challenge ANYONE to show me a Real video that looks even remotely acceptable. I have never seen one. Seriously.
Justin
As a few thoughtful Anonymous Cowards have pointed out, I am a big idiot. Sorry, I was feeling a bit humorless this morning.
Justin
It would seem to me that these guys have taken the idea of the standard compression scheme and turned it around - so it takes in random data and spits out non-random data. Somehow (possibly through high-speed buzzword factoring) this new data is smaller, though.
I mean the new data must be non-random, right? Because otherwise you could just shove it back in and make it smaller. Oh, but wait, they have a universal first stage that makes any data random. This is all very humorous.
Anyway, does anyone know, how random is the output of a standard compressor like gzip?
Justin
Sure, a Perl program can be compressed. Anytime you repeat something (the name of a variable, a function, a pattern of characters) the compressor can replace it with a shorter placeholder to save space.
Justin
Do I need a 64MB water-cooled graphics card? Will it require an as-yet unreleased 3 GHz processor due to the wealth of debug code? Will the silly arsed Mac users of the world (such as myself) be able to participate? If not, do they ever intend to release a Mac version?
Justin
Kindly reread the article. A rev. B iMac is indeed mentioned. It is in use as a router for the Lisa.
Justin
Having read the presentation linked from the link (...), I see that there is some merit to this study. You must admit, however, that the BBC text does not do it justice. I hereby redirect my animosity at the reporter who mangled the meaning of the researchers' work.
Justin
The problem with lost peering agreements between ISPs causing partial 'net outages is well-understood. So what exactly have they measured here?! Seems like a shaky story to get one's name in the news.
Justin