I found it interesting that this was a physiological adaptation that could be at least partly learned by the tourist children that were used as a control for the study.
So could we create superhumans by rigorously teaching children all these different tricks instead of genetic engineering?
For those Windows / dual boot users looking a little on the lower end of the performance and price curve, I just found this hacked driver page and this thread that basically turns certain Radeon 9500 cards (~$135) into 9700s (~$200) by unlocking 4 pixel pipelines on the chip. It doesn't work on all cards, producing visual artifacts on some (some workarounds exist for some users) but given the right hardware, you might pull a good deal of performance out of a mid-priced piece of hardware.
I'm not just picking on you, my buddy was going on and on about the dual Xenon he was building for his brother and law and it drives me nuts. Unless he's going to shine his dual xenon lamps on the 5900, he's got a dual xeon box. And searching Google for dual xenon has the first 9 results referring to dual processors instead of the gas or its applications in lamps or elsewhere.
OK, sorry, you can go back to comparing mindless differences between cards that we'll be replacing a year from now.
The video compression in Flash achieves similar ratios at similar quality levels as various flavors of Mpeg4 (MS, divx, xvid, quicktime) and other modern codecs. The Flash compression is very agressive and will tend to generate smaller files with more artifacts than other codecs unless the settings are adjusted to generate comparable file sizes. I think your 126MB video could have easily been compressed to a similar sized AVI or MOV.
I've seen Macromedia presentations touting the amazing compression qualities of Flash, using uncompressed AVI file sizes as a comparison instead of comparing to other modern codecs.
Not long after Flash 6 (MX) came out, there were issues with video and audio sync for files over 3MB, preventing me from using long clips at higher qualities. Have these been solved?
Get on Google and search for Transmeta and blade and see for yourself.
RLX Technologies helped push the 'blade' server concept to the place it is today, with most of the major hardware companies offering something along the same concept in the pages of the trade glossies. RLX started with the original Crusoe chip and continues to make Transmeta servers, as seen in this article.
Al DiMeola's Kiss My Axe is a great modern showcase of one of fusion's greatest guitar players.
Agree on Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, amazing stuff. Stanly Jordan has the chops, definately a pioneer. Wooten has blown me away as well. I must admit to not being as familiar as I should be with Pattatuci's work, maybe I need to 'sample' some.
The videos here look much more 'real' and not so pre-planned.
The 1ms page also has some good video, although I might still question the square / circle demo, as it might just as well keep the circle out of the field of view of the camera. Anyway, this page explains that they are achieving 1ms response time by integrating simple image processing with the photodetection circuitry to elimate having to wait for an entire frame from the CCD.
I completely agree. The learning curve is short. You start by not even programming, but putting HTML together to create your own Geocities page. Then you want rollovers and swipe some JavaScript.
From there you might move on to Flash, where you've gotta learn their ActionScipt to do anything useful. And Flash is pretty much what the Advogato author was describing, play sounds, move graphics. Only it costs money unless the kid snags it from p2p.
Better yet, the kid decides that he wants something on the server so he has to learn about webservers. Somewhere he finds Apache, PHP and MySQL that run on Windows. He gets an introduction to PHP, Perl, maybe some other languages. He finds out that his web server is going to run better on Linux so he grabs a distro and checks it out.
So by now he's decided he likes computers. CompSci for college? Definatly an option. Even if he were to choose a major in some other field, he's got some experiece programming and making complicated systems work.
I think that just maintains the 'barrier to entry' to the warez scene. What with all the p2p and all these days you can't make it too easy to massively infringe on other's copyrights.
Similar experiences with a HP 8550 here. First page takes forever to get out, even without going into the powersaving/cooldown/warmup modes. But once it gets going, it cranks along pretty good. It sucks at printing envelopes though, gotta feed them one at a time. We've had no major issues except for having to change the fuser at $300 or so.
I'd also echo the comments above to look into a print house to do any of your medium and large volume printing. You should find your per-page costs lower than printing it yourself.
I'm a little fuzzy on the geometric and astronomic terms to ask this, but does the plane of the Earth's orbit come close to matching the galactic plane?
If so, Arecibo could cover most of the galaxy, excluding the stars in the local neighborhood to the North or South.
Users of file sharing programs such as Kazaa and iMesh are urged to install a security patch after a serious bug was discovered in their underlying network.
A security researcher recently found a potentially critical vulnerability in the program that drives the FastTrack network. FastTrack is used by peer-to-peer software service including Kazaa and iMesh. Joltid, the maker of FastTrack, initially said the flaw was not serious, but has since done an about-face and plans to plug the loophole.
The makers of Kazaa will release a patch within the next 24 hours and are urging customers to install it as soon as possible.
According to the original security advisory, published on the Full Disclosure security mailing list, attackers can take control of or crash the FastTrack "supernodes" that file swappers connect to.
"It's definitely a serious risk. Just ask anyone if executing arbitrary code is a serious risk or not," the researcher said.
Identifying himself only by his pseudonym, Random Nut, he said he went public with the vulnerability after waiting nearly two weeks for Kazaa and Joltid to get back to him.
"On Tue 13 May I e-mailed a guy at Joltid, and about two days later I filed a bug report at [the Kazaa Web site]. Yesterday, after reading it on Full Disclosure, someone working for Joltid contacted me. He told me that the guy I e-mailed had been on a long honeymoon," he said.
Although he has exploited the vulnerability, he will not make the exploit code public.
"I haven't released the exploit code. I don't want some little script-kiddie to close down all of the network or parts of it," he said.
A representative for Sharman Networks, the company behind Kazaa, said the company had been informed by Joltid that the issue wasn't serious.
"As a licensee, Sharman Networks has been advised that the security of the FastTrack peer-to-peer technology is not under any significant risk," she said. Kazaa will use information provided by Joltid in authoring a patch.
"Sharman Networks has been provided with an update from the FastTrack's licensors which addresses this issue," the company said in a statement. "The latest update will be available for download within 24 hours, and we encourage users to install it as soon as possible."
If I used some extension cords would it be Grid Computing? Aside from the power grid that is.
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I like the concept of the third option the best, make it as transparant as possible to content creators (unless they wish to play with httpd.conf or.htaccess files) and of course the end user.
But then again I don't know enough about bittorrent and the.torrent files to really suggest much.
Could the mod_torrent pull the support information out of the request headers? Browser version or an indicator in the User Agent string would be a bit kludgy but might work.
Could the mod_torrent supply torrents of all the files over a certain size, possibly grouping them by directories. Of course, providing a means to manually specify torrents would be nice as well.
How many torrent capable browsers would it take to make this worthwhile? Of course, if using a torrent capable browser meant the difference between getting to a/.'d site I'm sure a few more people would be happy to upgrade to whatever version of Mozilla they needed to support it. Best part is, if it is built into the browser there are going to be pleny of peers to pull from.
second half would be torrent support built into Mozilla so that stuff could display inline with the page.
at worst it would only slightly lessen the bandwidth used by the site, at best it would help sites cope with being slashdotted, farked or whatever. of course, the database driven sites that choke something between apache, php and mysql wouldn't be helped but the ones with big downloads might stay up.
Yeah, I had a couple of friends over for a mini LAN party and one of them is pretty good at CS. Not awesome by any means but much better than I am. He had been playing exclusively at Internet Cafes and university labs and didn't have the game set up on the computer he brought over so I got to watch him set it up, cheat free.
Nevertheless, one public server with a bunch of mediocre players started accusing him of cheating. When I came to his defense suddenly I was a cheater too.
Thats how cheats ruin games, the mere suggestion of their existence makes any good player suspect.
Remember that not everything in a distribution has to be GPL'd or even Free Software. The Apache that comes with Debian is not GPL'd, for instance. Various other Linux distributors distinguish themselves by including proprietary softare in the distribution.
Of course, SCO hasn't bothered to provide us or the courts with any hard facts so we can't the technical merits of their claims, but just because they bundled their special source code with a Linux distribution doesn't mean that they've shot themselves in that particular toe. However, I've got a feeling SCO's proverbial foot is already perforated.
It appears to be Windows 2000 running cygwin, running WindowMaker. Now that could very well be a remote desktop but at first I was thinking this was running under w2k.
At any rate, my head is spinning with the layers of emulation, JIT, network transparency and translation taking place.
Interesting thought. I think a very strong copyright culture has already been created among many musicians.
The musicians I hung around with growing up were pretty paranoid about copyrights and such. Filling out copyright registration forms for the library of congress, mailing yourself registered copies of your casettes and whining about your songs being stolen were often topics for discussion.
While that is no different from the commercial software industry, these same musicians were making extra $$ cranking out cover songs and had learned by picking up music off LPs and casettes.
I think many musicians would have no concept of 'copylefting' any of their music, while retaining traditional ownership of the rest.
Exceptions are out there, the strong sampling/remixing culture in electronic and rap music and the taper culture for many varieties of music are the first that come to mind. But I think the vast majority of musicians have come to believe that the current model is the only way.
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So could we create superhumans by rigorously teaching children all these different tricks instead of genetic engineering?
For those Windows / dual boot users looking a little on the lower end of the performance and price curve, I just found this hacked driver page and this thread that basically turns certain Radeon 9500 cards (~$135) into 9700s (~$200) by unlocking 4 pixel pipelines on the chip. It doesn't work on all cards, producing visual artifacts on some (some workarounds exist for some users) but given the right hardware, you might pull a good deal of performance out of a mid-priced piece of hardware.
I'm not just picking on you, my buddy was going on and on about the dual Xenon he was building for his brother and law and it drives me nuts. Unless he's going to shine his dual xenon lamps on the 5900, he's got a dual xeon box. And searching Google for dual xenon has the first 9 results referring to dual processors instead of the gas or its applications in lamps or elsewhere.
OK, sorry, you can go back to comparing mindless differences between cards that we'll be replacing a year from now.
I've seen Macromedia presentations touting the amazing compression qualities of Flash, using uncompressed AVI file sizes as a comparison instead of comparing to other modern codecs.
Not long after Flash 6 (MX) came out, there were issues with video and audio sync for files over 3MB, preventing me from using long clips at higher qualities. Have these been solved?
this article...
RLX Technologies helped push the 'blade' server concept to the place it is today, with most of the major hardware companies offering something along the same concept in the pages of the trade glossies. RLX started with the original Crusoe chip and continues to make Transmeta servers, as seen in this article.
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No ground breaking crypto solving or Beowulfs yet but some solid calculations going on.
Agree on Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, amazing stuff. Stanly Jordan has the chops, definately a pioneer. Wooten has blown me away as well. I must admit to not being as familiar as I should be with Pattatuci's work, maybe I need to 'sample' some.
The 1ms page also has some good video, although I might still question the square / circle demo, as it might just as well keep the circle out of the field of view of the camera. Anyway, this page explains that they are achieving 1ms response time by integrating simple image processing with the photodetection circuitry to elimate having to wait for an entire frame from the CCD.
From there you might move on to Flash, where you've gotta learn their ActionScipt to do anything useful. And Flash is pretty much what the Advogato author was describing, play sounds, move graphics. Only it costs money unless the kid snags it from p2p.
Better yet, the kid decides that he wants something on the server so he has to learn about webservers. Somewhere he finds Apache, PHP and MySQL that run on Windows. He gets an introduction to PHP, Perl, maybe some other languages. He finds out that his web server is going to run better on Linux so he grabs a distro and checks it out.
So by now he's decided he likes computers. CompSci for college? Definatly an option. Even if he were to choose a major in some other field, he's got some experiece programming and making complicated systems work.
Na, your friends are pansies. The real hard core gamers are playing WarcraftII over Kali.
Pages and pages of pretty graphs and charts all to tell us that yes, higher clock speeds mean higher performance.
I think that just maintains the 'barrier to entry' to the warez scene. What with all the p2p and all these days you can't make it too easy to massively infringe on other's copyrights.
I'd also echo the comments above to look into a print house to do any of your medium and large volume printing. You should find your per-page costs lower than printing it yourself.
If so, Arecibo could cover most of the galaxy, excluding the stars in the local neighborhood to the North or South.
Look for SCOX to drop down below the $1.50 / share January levels before the real celebrations can start.
If I used some extension cords would it be Grid Computing? Aside from the power grid that is.
But then again I don't know enough about bittorrent and the .torrent files to really suggest much.
Could the mod_torrent pull the support information out of the request headers? Browser version or an indicator in the User Agent string would be a bit kludgy but might work.
Could the mod_torrent supply torrents of all the files over a certain size, possibly grouping them by directories. Of course, providing a means to manually specify torrents would be nice as well.
How many torrent capable browsers would it take to make this worthwhile? Of course, if using a torrent capable browser meant the difference between getting to a /.'d site I'm sure a few more people would be happy to upgrade to whatever version of Mozilla they needed to support it. Best part is, if it is built into the browser there are going to be pleny of peers to pull from.
second half would be torrent support built into Mozilla so that stuff could display inline with the page.
at worst it would only slightly lessen the bandwidth used by the site, at best it would help sites cope with being slashdotted, farked or whatever. of course, the database driven sites that choke something between apache, php and mysql wouldn't be helped but the ones with big downloads might stay up.
Nevertheless, one public server with a bunch of mediocre players started accusing him of cheating. When I came to his defense suddenly I was a cheater too.
Thats how cheats ruin games, the mere suggestion of their existence makes any good player suspect.
There is also a torrent link in the discussion posted by another /.'er, you might see which one has the most seeds and the fasted downloads.
Of course, SCO hasn't bothered to provide us or the courts with any hard facts so we can't the technical merits of their claims, but just because they bundled their special source code with a Linux distribution doesn't mean that they've shot themselves in that particular toe. However, I've got a feeling SCO's proverbial foot is already perforated.
It appears to be Windows 2000 running cygwin, running WindowMaker. Now that could very well be a remote desktop but at first I was thinking this was running under w2k.
At any rate, my head is spinning with the layers of emulation, JIT, network transparency and translation taking place.
The musicians I hung around with growing up were pretty paranoid about copyrights and such. Filling out copyright registration forms for the library of congress, mailing yourself registered copies of your casettes and whining about your songs being stolen were often topics for discussion.
While that is no different from the commercial software industry, these same musicians were making extra $$ cranking out cover songs and had learned by picking up music off LPs and casettes.
I think many musicians would have no concept of 'copylefting' any of their music, while retaining traditional ownership of the rest.
Exceptions are out there, the strong sampling/remixing culture in electronic and rap music and the taper culture for many varieties of music are the first that come to mind. But I think the vast majority of musicians have come to believe that the current model is the only way.