THE ROBOT -- dubbed the Chick Rover -- took two hours to crawl through a narrow shaft, drilling through a door at the end and inserting a camera connected to a thin cable to see what was behind it.
"It's another sealed door... This is very important," said an excited Zaphy Smartass, the director of Egypt's Suprised Council of Atrocities..
Well, I've helped a lot of friends and people I've come in touch with with their computer ('doze) problems over the years. Mostly these are either (mostly) gamers or desktop users, both groups only wanting their games/apps to run without much thought-cycles spent in the how/why apartment of computer interaction.
Now, I sat down once with one of those friends that fall into the gaming cathegory, and I tracked the conversation onto the Linux subject.
Basically the dialogoue went on like this: ME-"Have you ever tried linux?"
HIM-(after a lot of thought trying to place the word linux in his mind, says) "What is linux again? Is that some security app?"
ME-"Well it's an OS, like BeOS, OS/2 and Windows.. I use it as my gateway and firewall on my home network.."
HIM-"Oh, firewall (quickly forgetting the OS bit).. I didn't like the one in WinXP, so I completely turned it off.. I have NO use for firewalls (he badly needed a decent firewall on his network, in fact..), and I think I've tried that linux when it came on a cover-disc with a gaming magazine once. I tried to open the linux-kernel-.x.x.x.tar.gz by clicking on it, but it just wouldn't run.."
The article mentioned that the fuel inside the cell could be ignited. What happens when one of those live inside a modern laptop, when just about everyone owning a laptop complain about it generating wast amounts of heat?
That heat is probably not enough by itself, but imagine a defect in the fuel cell on top of that.. =/
How much trouble "our" parents will have when they have to set the video-timer in cron.. =)
They used to have problems with the "normal" video timers...
I actually fucked around with the punch the monkey game for about 1hr, looking for p1ra73 treasure in a tree, just to realize that the "free" magazine subscriptions were for US-only citizens..
HEY! I had to try it.. =)
Isn't it just possible to hoax mp3.com, by making fake rips of original cds (posting media header files on the net..), so that you can fill a cd with garbage, then apply the media file just as if it was the original?
something like this must have been though of, I mean mp3.com can't scan the whole 650-700mb disc over the internet.... !?!
> What is the difference between LOCO-I and JPEG2000? Are they the 2 > different standards?
They are two completely different standards.
ISO/IEC 14495-1 is the JPEG-LS standard (which is based on LOCO) and is a predictive scheme with lossless and near-lossless modes. It is already an international standard.
JPEG 2000 is a proposal in development that is not yet a standard, but is a wavelet based scheme that will include a fully reversible mode using an integer wavelet so that lossless compression (or more significantly, progressive to lossless) can be achieved.
In my experiments with medical images so far, JPEG-LS and JPEG 2000 provide comparable effectiveness of lossless compression (both much better than original lossless JPEG (10918-1) with huffman coding).
JPEG-LS is very easy to implement and has very modest memory requirements. There are several freely available implementations already.
Jpeg2000 : Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards, and Practice (Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Secs 642) by David S. Taubman, Michael W. Marcellin
The JPEG 2000 initiative is intended to provide a new image coding system using state of the art compression techniques, based on the use of wavelet technology. Its architecture should lend itself to a wide range of uses from portable digital cameras through to its use in advanced pre-press, medical imaging and other key sectors.
JPEG 2000 refers to all parts of the standard - current proposals are for 6 parts, with part 1 (the core) to be delivered and agreed as a full ISO International Standard by the end of the year 2000. (Background information). The parts are:
Part 1, JPEG 2000 Image Coding System Part 2, Extensions (adds more features and sophistication to the core) Part 3, Motion JPEG 2000 Part 4, Conformance Part 5, Reference software (currently Java and C implementations are scoped) Part 6, Compound Image file format (for pre-press and fax like applications) There are now a number of existing links to material dealing with both the actual JPEG 2000 standard, and to its underlying technologies. We have divided these into:
Documents issued by the committee - the requirements for JPEG2000 standards, copies of documents up to the final Committee Draft and other agreed public information such as Press Release etc.
Documents from JPEG committee members - varying in scope from basic introductions to detailed technical arguments. These have the advantage that they have been written by our members, who are on the 'inside track' Project related links - projects using (or researching) JPEG 2000 technology to deliver solutions Software and test data - examples including reference software, test images and research results Commercial companies - Companies supporting, or soon to support, JPEG 2000 Other commentary on JPEG 2000 - including press articles, third party input or contributions and related material Background
Following the Maui meeting of JPEG in December 1999, agreement was reached on the first Committee Draft of the JPEG 2000 standard. This was a significant milestone in the standardisation process that will eventually culminate in an ISO International Standard, IS 15444 Part 1. The 'Joint' in Joint Photographic Experts Group refers to the link with ITU-T, and IS 15444-1 will also be an ITU-T Recommendation, T.800 - the texts will be identical.
At the Tokyo meeting of JPEG in March 2000, the Committee Draft was elevated to Final Committee Draft (FCD), and should be accepted for issue as a Draft International Standard in August 2000. This will be put out to all interested national bodies in ISO for vote, and should result in acceptance as a full International Standard (IS) in December 2000. It publication should then follow a few months later, at which time it may be purchased from your national standards body, ISO, or ITU-T.
JPEG make the text of their documents available on this Web site for potential users and implementors to evaluate. Please read the covering notes before downloading FCD for IS 15444-1. Please note that the FCD is the last version of the document that ISO currently permit to be made freely available from the Web site - we cannot respond to requests for the full text as this is copyright of ISO and ITU-T.
It's just like some dork's article I read somewhere, that conspired around the idea that "If games of violence become more and more similar to movies or real life, everyone would go out killing people with no remorse whatsoever."
I mean, seriously... If you're that mentally ill, you are that mentally ill. (PERIOD)
It's clocked up to 495.4 mhz and it never crashes or fail, even when playing OFP for hours.. it's got the original fan that came with it, could problems occur someday?
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THE ROBOT -- dubbed the Chick Rover -- took two hours to crawl through a narrow shaft, drilling through a door at the end and inserting a camera connected to a thin cable to see what was behind it. "It's another sealed door ... This is very important," said an excited Zaphy Smartass, the director of Egypt's Suprised Council of Atrocities..
Just cut the wires on the headphones, and splice it with another cable going to the recording equipment =)
iToilet will be bootable in 2003..
Well, I've helped a lot of friends and people I've come in touch with with their computer ('doze) problems over the years. Mostly these are either (mostly) gamers or desktop users, both groups only wanting their games/apps to run without much thought-cycles spent in the how/why apartment of computer interaction.
:/
Now, I sat down once with one of those friends that fall into the gaming cathegory, and I tracked the conversation onto the Linux subject.
Basically the dialogoue went on like this:
ME-"Have you ever tried linux?"
HIM-(after a lot of thought trying to place the word linux in his mind, says)
"What is linux again? Is that some security app?"
ME-"Well it's an OS, like BeOS, OS/2 and Windows.. I use it as my gateway and firewall on my home network.."
HIM-"Oh, firewall (quickly forgetting the OS bit).. I didn't like the one in WinXP, so I completely turned it off.. I have NO use for firewalls (he badly needed a decent firewall on his network, in fact..), and I think I've tried that linux when it came on a cover-disc with a gaming magazine once. I tried to open the linux-kernel-.x.x.x.tar.gz by clicking on it, but it just wouldn't run.."
GEEZ...
The article mentioned that the fuel inside the cell could be ignited. What happens when one of those live inside a modern laptop, when just about everyone owning a laptop complain about it generating wast amounts of heat? That heat is probably not enough by itself, but imagine a defect in the fuel cell on top of that.. =/
How much trouble "our" parents will have when they have to set the video-timer in cron.. =) They used to have problems with the "normal" video timers...
I actually fucked around with the punch the monkey game for about 1hr, looking for p1ra73 treasure in a tree, just to realize that the "free" magazine subscriptions were for US-only citizens.. HEY! I had to try it.. =)
Isn't it just possible to hoax mp3.com, by making fake rips of original cds (posting media header files on the net..), so that you can fill a cd with garbage, then apply the media file just as if it was the original? something like this must have been though of, I mean mp3.com can't scan the whole 650-700mb disc over the internet.... !?!
"The Little engine that could.."
Does any Linux distribution support Promise Ultra100-TX2 PCI mass-storage cards "out of the box"?
no offence in that last post.. The ones that DO work are very useful..
many of the links on your site is fucked, though.. =)
> What is the difference between LOCO-I and JPEG2000? Are they the 2
> different standards?
They are two completely different standards.
ISO/IEC 14495-1 is the JPEG-LS standard (which is based on LOCO) and
is a predictive scheme with lossless and near-lossless modes. It is
already an international standard.
JPEG 2000 is a proposal in development that is not yet a standard,
but is a wavelet based scheme that will include a fully reversible
mode using an integer wavelet so that lossless compression (or more
significantly, progressive to lossless) can be achieved.
In my experiments with medical images so far, JPEG-LS and JPEG 2000
provide comparable effectiveness of lossless compression (both much
better than original lossless JPEG (10918-1) with huffman coding).
JPEG-LS is very easy to implement and has very modest memory
requirements. There are several freely available implementations
already.
Jpeg2000 : Image Compression Fundamentals, Standards, and Practice (Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Secs 642)
by David S. Taubman, Michael W. Marcellin
The JPEG 2000 initiative is intended to provide a new image coding system using state of the art compression techniques, based on the use of wavelet technology. Its architecture should lend itself to a wide range of uses from portable digital cameras through to its use in advanced pre-press, medical imaging and other key sectors.
JPEG 2000 refers to all parts of the standard - current proposals are for 6 parts, with part 1 (the core) to be delivered and agreed as a full ISO International Standard by the end of the year 2000. (Background information). The parts are:
Part 1, JPEG 2000 Image Coding System
Part 2, Extensions (adds more features and sophistication to the core)
Part 3, Motion JPEG 2000
Part 4, Conformance
Part 5, Reference software (currently Java and C implementations are scoped)
Part 6, Compound Image file format (for pre-press and fax like applications)
There are now a number of existing links to material dealing with both the actual JPEG 2000 standard, and to its underlying technologies. We have divided these into:
Documents issued by the committee - the requirements for JPEG2000 standards, copies of documents up to the final Committee Draft and other agreed public information such as Press Release etc.
Documents from JPEG committee members - varying in scope from basic introductions to detailed technical arguments. These have the advantage that they have been written by our members, who are on the 'inside track'
Project related links - projects using (or researching) JPEG 2000 technology to deliver solutions
Software and test data - examples including reference software, test images and research results
Commercial companies - Companies supporting, or soon to support, JPEG 2000
Other commentary on JPEG 2000 - including press articles, third party input or contributions and related material
Background
Following the Maui meeting of JPEG in December 1999, agreement was reached on the first Committee Draft of the JPEG 2000 standard. This was a significant milestone in the standardisation process that will eventually culminate in an ISO International Standard, IS 15444 Part 1. The 'Joint' in Joint Photographic Experts Group refers to the link with ITU-T, and IS 15444-1 will also be an ITU-T Recommendation, T.800 - the texts will be identical.
At the Tokyo meeting of JPEG in March 2000, the Committee Draft was elevated to Final Committee Draft (FCD), and should be accepted for issue as a Draft International Standard in August 2000. This will be put out to all interested national bodies in ISO for vote, and should result in acceptance as a full International Standard (IS) in December 2000. It publication should then follow a few months later, at which time it may be purchased from your national standards body, ISO, or ITU-T.
JPEG make the text of their documents available on this Web site for potential users and implementors to evaluate. Please read the covering notes before downloading FCD for IS 15444-1. Please note that the FCD is the last version of the document that ISO currently permit to be made freely available from the Web site - we cannot respond to requests for the full text as this is copyright of ISO and ITU-T.
..I gave my dog an X-Box, but it soon got tired and went back to it's bone again..
I've set my computer to crash whenever the high-pitches of Celine Dion appears anyway. Way to go Sony! ... =)
hehehe first..
It's just like some dork's article I read somewhere, that conspired around the idea that "If games of violence become more and more similar to movies or real life, everyone would go out killing people with no remorse whatsoever."
I mean, seriously... If you're that mentally ill, you are that mentally ill. (PERIOD)
second post =)
My school own 1 domain.
mee regard school as my domain
/me "0wnz" 2 domains.
cheers to one sick individual.. (I thought they locked you in?)
damn.. Stuff like this gotta break some rule of "personal preferences" (or whatever..)
what about Operation Flashpoint? Their fade implementation seems to work so far..
It's clocked up to 495.4 mhz and it never crashes or fail, even when playing OFP for hours.. it's got the original fan that came with it, could problems occur someday?