The great thing about digital is that it allows the broadcaster to cram as much or as little shit down their allotted bandwidth as they want - if they want high quality pictures they simply change the settings and show less channels, if they want to maximise the number of channels they just drop the quality. High definition may be picked up by consumers if they start buying new TV's in a rush for 2006, but it will obviously be a scam - the sales people will be saying "hey buy this tv its high definition look at the picture quality (of this test disk)" and when the consumer gets them home in 2006 they will find maybe 5 hdtv channels if they pay through the roof, in fact all the other channels will have dropped in quality because the broadcasters want more channels because more channels = more revenue.
The great thing about all this is that you can just imagine both Forgent and Microsofts lawyers and PHB's in court, neither having any idea what a discrete cosine transform is or how huffman works, sitting their yawning and listening to engineer testimonies while the judge tries to figure what the fuck is going on.
PNG/MNG use lossless compression which generally means they don't get as high compression ratios as JPEG. Not to mention that JPEG is pretty much standard on the web, how could microsoft just dump it? The way I see it this whole thing is ridiculous, I was taught JPEG (DCT, Huffman etc) at university, its practically up there with Fourier and basic maths, Forgent are just milking a decades old 'technology' and the poor cow is running dry.
I have to say, the dialog on last weeks show was beyond cringe-making. I think they can act, but the lines they've been given are just cruel. I can handle the dodgy special effects and the really crappy looking 'organic' tardis (why is it that in every fucking scifi series you here the artists say something like "we were going for a more organic looking ship" its really out of fashion now) but they need some better writing.
AOP basically means that when an object is created, or a method is called you wan't to run some code?
So if we tried to put this into a non-OOP example you would basically be calling something else whenever certain functions were called? Eg calling a 'save', 'load' or 'start' function would result in running the 'logging' function too?
But as I gather (and its pretty hard to find a simple explanation around here) the idea of AOP is that it allows you to do this without having to put any function calls in your code, ie it 'captures events'. So if for example you had to implement some security checks but you were worried that someone in your project would forget to put the 'if(secure)' lines into their modules you could rest assured that AOP would be on the case.
Then theres COME FROM which is basically an event handler that says 'when you get to this line/label in your code, come over here and run me.
I see no problem with this in a relatively high-level environment where the goal is to write less code and where so much crap is going on in the background anyway (dynamic this and managed that) that another overlay is just going to make things look simpler.
Isn't this however almost exactly the same as an interrupt?
Can someone explain where this 'future demand' is? the way I see it, the need for IT workers is going to drop rapidly - the Internet is well established, the 'dot com' boom is over, out-sourcing is growing and faster computers mean high-level memory managed programming is becoming the norm. Im not counting on this industry to pay my bills.
Well not really, thats what internal affairs does - investigates, in accordance with the law. The MPAA allegedly wants the police to investigate with accordance to a brown paper bag.
Now now we all want to think the MPAA are guilty but as TFA says its an allegation thats being investigated. Even so this is hardly the break we've been waiting for - only 2 cops and they would have done their jobs anyway - why would the MPAA pay them afterwards? If it turns out that they were paid to prioritise their policing or to plant extra evidence then yes, but this seems a bit pathetic, why would the MPAA or the cops risk the PR and legal damage of this getting out for something this pathetic?
Reminds me of that 2DTV sketch with Bush and his general:
General: "Its time for your 3 o'clock briefing Mr President" Bush: "Err? Huh?" General (sigh) *pulls out big novelty Mickey Mouse clock with pictures on it* "What time is it sir?" Bush: (excited) "Its mousy time!!"
Slashdot. Seriously its worse than email, at least email has an actual productive purpose, with slashdot we just waste our time posting things that will have no actual benefit - look im doing it now!
I've got a new one: how about the new card gets sent to your local bank, you get off your ass, walk down there and show some ID. If anyone else tries to get your card they'll be on CCTV. Seriously these days fucking idiots seem to sit round tables and come up with technological solutions that sound like something an 8 year old say.
i might be wrong but id hazard a guess that the time taken to compute a hash isnt linearly proportional to the file size - eg a 10mb file might take 10 minutes while 10 x 1mb files might take 5 minutes? actually i could be totally wrong and it could take even longer..
If it says "untested" when you buy it, then that means you either have to test it yourself or not buy it. If you buy untested memory and then test it and find it doesn't work you should be able to get a refund because theres nothing saying "your consumer rights are null and void if this product doesn't work". If it says "tested" or doesn't say anything then you should assume its tested and if it doesn't work it should be replaced for free. Isn't this pretty standard law?
The question is if the white balance is encrypted to protect copyright on the picture or to make it hard for people like adobe? if its the second then adobe have every legal right to reverse engineer under the DMCA, but they'd be sensible to step carefully and get some lawyers in..
Yes a properly maintained phone network is more reliable and part of the price you pay, in theory, is for being able to depend on the network working everywhere all the time. In practice though it must be only the special premium customers that get this service because my network certainly isn't dependable. Wifi will definitely be an add-on and it will definitely be utilised allot, not only for voip but for games, and file sharing. I reckon some people will just not bother using real phone networks and they'll live with the patchiness. It might not be that bad though, considering these routers don't need to be connected to anything except a power supply and there will be overlap in most areas it should be pretty reliable.
The only problem is that all phone networks and entertainment industries will not want wifi becoming common place in phones and they'll use whatever it takes to make sure this never happens - i don't blame them because its basically going to make people think twice "do i really really need to spend all that money on a phone company? can i get away with just waiting until i get home to make those long distance calls? can i afford 'quality service'?" - it happened with cheap airlines and pay as you go, and it will happen with wifi.
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The great thing about digital is that it allows the broadcaster to cram as much or as little shit down their allotted bandwidth as they want - if they want high quality pictures they simply change the settings and show less channels, if they want to maximise the number of channels they just drop the quality. High definition may be picked up by consumers if they start buying new TV's in a rush for 2006, but it will obviously be a scam - the sales people will be saying "hey buy this tv its high definition look at the picture quality (of this test disk)" and when the consumer gets them home in 2006 they will find maybe 5 hdtv channels if they pay through the roof, in fact all the other channels will have dropped in quality because the broadcasters want more channels because more channels = more revenue.
The great thing about all this is that you can just imagine both Forgent and Microsofts lawyers and PHB's in court, neither having any idea what a discrete cosine transform is or how huffman works, sitting their yawning and listening to engineer testimonies while the judge tries to figure what the fuck is going on.
PNG/MNG use lossless compression which generally means they don't get as high compression ratios as JPEG. Not to mention that JPEG is pretty much standard on the web, how could microsoft just dump it? The way I see it this whole thing is ridiculous, I was taught JPEG (DCT, Huffman etc) at university, its practically up there with Fourier and basic maths, Forgent are just milking a decades old 'technology' and the poor cow is running dry.
I have to say, the dialog on last weeks show was beyond cringe-making. I think they can act, but the lines they've been given are just cruel. I can handle the dodgy special effects and the really crappy looking 'organic' tardis (why is it that in every fucking scifi series you here the artists say something like "we were going for a more organic looking ship" its really out of fashion now) but they need some better writing.
So let me get this straight..
AOP basically means that when an object is created, or a method is called you wan't to run some code?
So if we tried to put this into a non-OOP example you would basically be calling something else whenever certain functions were called? Eg calling a 'save', 'load' or 'start' function would result in running the 'logging' function too?
But as I gather (and its pretty hard to find a simple explanation around here) the idea of AOP is that it allows you to do this without having to put any function calls in your code, ie it 'captures events'. So if for example you had to implement some security checks but you were worried that someone in your project would forget to put the 'if(secure)' lines into their modules you could rest assured that AOP would be on the case.
Then theres COME FROM which is basically an event handler that says 'when you get to this line/label in your code, come over here and run me.
I see no problem with this in a relatively high-level environment where the goal is to write less code and where so much crap is going on in the background anyway (dynamic this and managed that) that another overlay is just going to make things look simpler.
Isn't this however almost exactly the same as an interrupt?
Tiff uses lossless compression
I think we can all agree this has just one application: more porn.
Can someone explain where this 'future demand' is? the way I see it, the need for IT workers is going to drop rapidly - the Internet is well established, the 'dot com' boom is over, out-sourcing is growing and faster computers mean high-level memory managed programming is becoming the norm. Im not counting on this industry to pay my bills.
Well not really, thats what internal affairs does - investigates, in accordance with the law. The MPAA allegedly wants the police to investigate with accordance to a brown paper bag.
Now now we all want to think the MPAA are guilty but as TFA says its an allegation thats being investigated. Even so this is hardly the break we've been waiting for - only 2 cops and they would have done their jobs anyway - why would the MPAA pay them afterwards? If it turns out that they were paid to prioritise their policing or to plant extra evidence then yes, but this seems a bit pathetic, why would the MPAA or the cops risk the PR and legal damage of this getting out for something this pathetic?
Reminds me of that 2DTV sketch with Bush and his general:
General: "Its time for your 3 o'clock briefing Mr President"
Bush: "Err? Huh?"
General (sigh) *pulls out big novelty Mickey Mouse clock with pictures on it* "What time is it sir?"
Bush: (excited) "Its mousy time!!"
Slashdot. Seriously its worse than email, at least email has an actual productive purpose, with slashdot we just waste our time posting things that will have no actual benefit - look im doing it now!
But windows already only just works!? Im sticking with 2000...
What an idiot, he's going to give it to Intel for $10K, atleast up it to 40.
Did anyone read this like a tabloid line: Microsoft abandons Bill Gates because hes pro-gay-rights?
I think most of Europe has gay-rights discrimination laws but we're just a bunch of stoners and drunks...
I've got a new one: how about the new card gets sent to your local bank, you get off your ass, walk down there and show some ID. If anyone else tries to get your card they'll be on CCTV. Seriously these days fucking idiots seem to sit round tables and come up with technological solutions that sound like something an 8 year old say.
And that is a perfect reason to do the hashes on blocks that can fit in ram before being put to disk...
Ok but at to the mix that unless you're on a fast connection chances are your cpu will be hashing faster than even your broadband modem can deliver..
interesting, but considering the average p2p file is a 3mb mp3 thats not too slow?
i might be wrong but id hazard a guess that the time taken to compute a hash isnt linearly proportional to the file size - eg a 10mb file might take 10 minutes while 10 x 1mb files might take 5 minutes? actually i could be totally wrong and it could take even longer..
but they can pry our right to link to news sites from our cold dead hands (or do referer checking)
If it says "untested" when you buy it, then that means you either have to test it yourself or not buy it. If you buy untested memory and then test it and find it doesn't work you should be able to get a refund because theres nothing saying "your consumer rights are null and void if this product doesn't work". If it says "tested" or doesn't say anything then you should assume its tested and if it doesn't work it should be replaced for free. Isn't this pretty standard law?
The question is if the white balance is encrypted to protect copyright on the picture or to make it hard for people like adobe? if its the second then adobe have every legal right to reverse engineer under the DMCA, but they'd be sensible to step carefully and get some lawyers in..
Yes a properly maintained phone network is more reliable and part of the price you pay, in theory, is for being able to depend on the network working everywhere all the time. In practice though it must be only the special premium customers that get this service because my network certainly isn't dependable. Wifi will definitely be an add-on and it will definitely be utilised allot, not only for voip but for games, and file sharing. I reckon some people will just not bother using real phone networks and they'll live with the patchiness. It might not be that bad though, considering these routers don't need to be connected to anything except a power supply and there will be overlap in most areas it should be pretty reliable.
The only problem is that all phone networks and entertainment industries will not want wifi becoming common place in phones and they'll use whatever it takes to make sure this never happens - i don't blame them because its basically going to make people think twice "do i really really need to spend all that money on a phone company? can i get away with just waiting until i get home to make those long distance calls? can i afford 'quality service'?" - it happened with cheap airlines and pay as you go, and it will happen with wifi.
I think they do hashes on blocks not the whole file at once, it might still take time but you can use the blocks that have already been done.