It doesn't say anywhere in the article that the codec is going to be compatible with
RealPlayer. Furthermore, the TiVo implementation may have rights
management built into it. If you transfer video from the TiVo to your
computer, it may not play on your PC even if it is the same codec.
On a lighter note, maybe I can now watch flash movies on my TV. Hyakugojuuichi!
So I guess the data does have at least some redundancy in it. I'm not an
expert, so I don't if this makes their claim more likely to be true, but I
thought it should be pointed out.
Maybe not. Let's say I wanted to transmit the first 100,000 digits of
pi. If I tried to compress a file containing all of the digits, it
wouldn't compress very well since there aren't any patterns in pi.
However, if I sent you an algorithm to reproduce pi, it would take up
hardly any space whatsoever and could even be compressed by current means.
I'm not saying that this is how their system works, but it is an example that
disproves the above statement.
How does this theory gab you:
Let's say I have number of algorithms that generate strings of pseudo random numbers that are predictable based on the seed. By examining an exsisting a set of numbers, I back myself into determining an algorithm/seed that would generate said string of numbers. All I'd need to cpature is the seed and which algorithm from my library of pseudo-random generating algorithms will generate a match.
PNGs actually come in two flavors: 24 bit (or should I say 32-bit including alpha blending) and 8-bit indexed. When you see a PNG end up larger than its GIF counterpart, it's usually because the graphic was saved as a PNG-24, not PNG-8.
You really don't need a solid state drive. Just give me a BIG RAM cache on the hard drives and it'll be almost as fast. I have a few 64MB PC66 SDRAM modules lying around. Might as well put them to some good use.
Possibly the greatest customer support experience in my entire life was with Wingspan Bank. No matter what problem I had, they were always there with a quick and helpful answer. Sadly, now Wingspan is gone and Bank One is in its place. Even sadder is the intelligence level of the support staff. It took FIVE calls to get them to cancel my bill pay service. They offered a $10 Amazon gift certificate as a promotion when I converted my account and now they have no idea what I'm talking about when I ask them where my GC is. If it wasn't for the high interest rates, I'd have left a long time ago.
In fact, for adults over 55 years of age, the most common cause of
death is cancer (even greater than heart disease, which is second).
So the tolls were right! Stephen King really is dead!
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Self correcting would imply that an account posting at -1 could reverse and start going back up to posting a 0. I've never seen this happen. Then again, maybe it's pratically impossible for a -1 post to get moderated up (assuming it's not a troll).
Most kids struggle just to afford college. Tuition rates at most
private and even many public universities are astronomical. Many students
need to get a part-time job just to make ends meet. If these institutions
of higher learning want to make a profit off their students' coding efforts,
that's fine with me. Just as long as they send those students their
royalty checks when the software those students developed starts making
money. Hey, this will be a great way to beef up the PHD. program!
Get paid while you learn! Granted, you won't make as much as you could in
the "real world," but it's a safe alternative considering the dot-com
bust. And hey, if the software doesn't sell, the student's don't get
paid. Seems fair, right?
I've got the funny feeling universities aren't going to be so "forward
thinking."
Let's say there's a CD with 12 songs on it. I like six of the songs and my friend likes the other six. We buy a CD, rip the tracks, convert
them to MP3, and then throw away the CD to avoid any messy questions regarding who actually owns the original CD. Would that be fair compensation to the artists?
I mean, the end result of what we'd be doing is the same as the Napster
scenario, right? Every song was paid for and we didn't distribute any
duplicate tracks, correct?
Now, what if we both liked the same six songs and hated the other six. We rip
and convert the six songs we like and discard the CD. We each keep only
the six mp3s we like. Is what we did still fair? We each only kept
50% of the CD. Again, this seems to be what the Napster business model
achieves.
But wait a second. What if one song is eight minutes and another is only
three? What if one song is very popular and another three are not?
Who decides how much a song is "worth"? Should the sum of the
individual tracks be equal to the cost of CD? More? Less?
Once I uninstalled MS Messenger, the Passport notices went away, too. Just look for a website with XP tweaks. BTW, disabling ZIP folders sped up file searches dramatically.
Absolutely not. Why? Because there was no such thing as the 1400 ST. Now a 1040 ST...there's a possibilty. I think you'll need to format the floppy to 82 tracks with 10 sectors per track in order to fit Apache on it.
This is a problem when you consider the following:
1. PNG transparency support is not properly supported in a lot of still-popular
browsers, so if you want images to blend in properly with the background, you
must actually have a background colour
This is true, so just don't use PNGs when you need transparency. However,
that's not stopping you from using them otherwise.
2. HTML cannot be colour-corrected in the ways that PNGs are, which causes
background colours of web pages to change from machine to machine - sometimes
subtly, sometimes not.
It might be happening due to the gamma correction settings. Just filter it
out using PNGCRUSH.
3. The GIMP does not have (that I could find) an option to disable this
feature of PNG images when saving as PNG. I haven't checked to see if Photoshop
does, but even if it does, that leaves a few options
Again, use PNGCRUSH to filter out all of the other stuff like gamma correction,
etc. if it's giving you grief.
Just type:
pngcrush -reduce -cc -brute -rem alla Source.png Dest.png
The point is tolerance. Anything that increases tolerance in the society
is OK, anything that restricts the freedom is bad. I let these freaks publish
their own religious crap even though I hate all forms of religion because I
believe in the complete freedom of speech. Burning books is 100% against the
freedom of the speech and should therefore be a serious crime.
I hate intolerance! How dare they?! If there is one thing I won't tolerate,
it's intolerance!
This was a test of the Emergency Sarcasm Network... If this were a real
point of view, it would be considered idiotic. Remember, this is only a
test...
What banks' ATMs are you people using? Every modern ATM I use has a simple swipe mechanism. I haven't run across a "grab and hold" type of ATM in years.
I remember going from an Atari 300 baud acoustic modem to a US Robotics 2400 baud courier
modem. The acoustic modem was a lot like the ones in used as props in
movies and TV. You had to plunk the telephone handset down on a pair of rubber
gaskets. The "answer" and "originate" modes were
controlled by a hard switch. Ironically, the cable needed to connect an
RS-232 device to the Atari 850 interface was a 25-to-9 pin cable, which was hard
to find in those days.
I first found out about BBSes from a magazine. Before that, I thought the
only online worlds were Compuserve, the Source, Delphi, and the WSJ. My Atari
800 computer came with the world's crappiest terminal program ever made:
Telelink. Thank God some local SYSOP took mercy on my soul and
snail-mailed me a copy of Atarimodem. ATASCII graphics! Xmodem
upload/downloading! W0007!
I paid $400 for the 2400 baud Courier which was considered a steal in those days.
I've heard stories that IBM had a choice between the Intel 8088/8086 and the
Motorolla 68000 for the first PC. We all know they went with Intel, but
why? The 68000 is a superior chip. Why didn't IBM realize how bad
the 8088/8086 architecture was? Imagine what the computing world would
have been like today if IBM went with the 68000.
When it [IBM] got into the desktop PC market some 20 years ago, it got in
by accident not knowing what the result would be.
Say what? They didn't get in by accident. The planned to take
over the entire industry! In fact, the only reason they outsourced parts,
like the CPU from Intel, is because they new they had to get a product to market
quickly. Outsourcing went against everything IBM was used to doing.
They did it because they knew they couldn't develop a PC from the ground up on
their own in time.
I can't real time action games working like this. What's going to happen
if you are playing while riding in a car or bus and go out of range? What
happens to your game? Not to mention the latency problems with P2P vs. a
dedicated server.
I realize that anything I say about "Ghost in the shell" will
ruin something. The first 15 minutes hold some mind-fucking surprises that
have scarred me for life:)
Ugh. "Twilight of the Cockroaches" and "Grave of the Fireflies" always come up. I've seen both and they are NOT good for Anime first timers. They are both slow moving stories that will bore many people. Check out some of the shows on Toonami (Cartoon Network). Hell, they're free.
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It doesn't say anywhere in the article that the codec is going to be compatible with RealPlayer. Furthermore, the TiVo implementation may have rights management built into it. If you transfer video from the TiVo to your computer, it may not play on your PC even if it is the same codec.
On a lighter note, maybe I can now watch flash movies on my TV. Hyakugojuuichi!
So I guess the data does have at least some redundancy in it. I'm not an expert, so I don't if this makes their claim more likely to be true, but I thought it should be pointed out.
Maybe not. Let's say I wanted to transmit the first 100,000 digits of pi. If I tried to compress a file containing all of the digits, it wouldn't compress very well since there aren't any patterns in pi. However, if I sent you an algorithm to reproduce pi, it would take up hardly any space whatsoever and could even be compressed by current means. I'm not saying that this is how their system works, but it is an example that disproves the above statement.
How does this theory gab you: Let's say I have number of algorithms that generate strings of pseudo random numbers that are predictable based on the seed. By examining an exsisting a set of numbers, I back myself into determining an algorithm/seed that would generate said string of numbers. All I'd need to cpature is the seed and which algorithm from my library of pseudo-random generating algorithms will generate a match.
PNGs actually come in two flavors: 24 bit (or should I say 32-bit including alpha blending) and 8-bit indexed. When you see a PNG end up larger than its GIF counterpart, it's usually because the graphic was saved as a PNG-24, not PNG-8.
Those "proprietary" plugs are just USB ports in disguise.
You really don't need a solid state drive. Just give me a BIG RAM cache on the hard drives and it'll be almost as fast. I have a few 64MB PC66 SDRAM modules lying around. Might as well put them to some good use.
Possibly the greatest customer support experience in my entire life was with Wingspan Bank. No matter what problem I had, they were always there with a quick and helpful answer. Sadly, now Wingspan is gone and Bank One is in its place. Even sadder is the intelligence level of the support staff. It took FIVE calls to get them to cancel my bill pay service. They offered a $10 Amazon gift certificate as a promotion when I converted my account and now they have no idea what I'm talking about when I ask them where my GC is. If it wasn't for the high interest rates, I'd have left a long time ago.
In fact, for adults over 55 years of age, the most common cause of death is cancer (even greater than heart disease, which is second).
So the tolls were right! Stephen King really is dead!
Self correcting would imply that an account posting at -1 could reverse and start going back up to posting a 0. I've never seen this happen. Then again, maybe it's pratically impossible for a -1 post to get moderated up (assuming it's not a troll).
Most kids struggle just to afford college. Tuition rates at most private and even many public universities are astronomical. Many students need to get a part-time job just to make ends meet. If these institutions of higher learning want to make a profit off their students' coding efforts, that's fine with me. Just as long as they send those students their royalty checks when the software those students developed starts making money. Hey, this will be a great way to beef up the PHD. program! Get paid while you learn! Granted, you won't make as much as you could in the "real world," but it's a safe alternative considering the dot-com bust. And hey, if the software doesn't sell, the student's don't get paid. Seems fair, right?
I've got the funny feeling universities aren't going to be so "forward thinking."
Let's say there's a CD with 12 songs on it. I like six of the songs and my friend likes the other six. We buy a CD, rip the tracks, convert them to MP3, and then throw away the CD to avoid any messy questions regarding who actually owns the original CD. Would that be fair compensation to the artists? I mean, the end result of what we'd be doing is the same as the Napster scenario, right? Every song was paid for and we didn't distribute any duplicate tracks, correct?
Now, what if we both liked the same six songs and hated the other six. We rip and convert the six songs we like and discard the CD. We each keep only the six mp3s we like. Is what we did still fair? We each only kept 50% of the CD. Again, this seems to be what the Napster business model achieves.
But wait a second. What if one song is eight minutes and another is only three? What if one song is very popular and another three are not? Who decides how much a song is "worth"? Should the sum of the individual tracks be equal to the cost of CD? More? Less?
Once I uninstalled MS Messenger, the Passport notices went away, too. Just look for a website with XP tweaks. BTW, disabling ZIP folders sped up file searches dramatically.
Absolutely not. Why? Because there was no such thing as the 1400 ST. Now a 1040 ST...there's a possibilty. I think you'll need to format the floppy to 82 tracks with 10 sectors per track in order to fit Apache on it.
This is a problem when you consider the following:
1. PNG transparency support is not properly supported in a lot of still-popular browsers, so if you want images to blend in properly with the background, you must actually have a background colour
This is true, so just don't use PNGs when you need transparency. However, that's not stopping you from using them otherwise.
2. HTML cannot be colour-corrected in the ways that PNGs are, which causes background colours of web pages to change from machine to machine - sometimes subtly, sometimes not.
It might be happening due to the gamma correction settings. Just filter it out using PNGCRUSH.
3. The GIMP does not have (that I could find) an option to disable this feature of PNG images when saving as PNG. I haven't checked to see if Photoshop does, but even if it does, that leaves a few options
Again, use PNGCRUSH to filter out all of the other stuff like gamma correction, etc. if it's giving you grief.
Just type:
pngcrush -reduce -cc -brute -rem alla Source.png Dest.png
To compress your file the max.
The point is tolerance. Anything that increases tolerance in the society is OK, anything that restricts the freedom is bad. I let these freaks publish their own religious crap even though I hate all forms of religion because I believe in the complete freedom of speech. Burning books is 100% against the freedom of the speech and should therefore be a serious crime.
I hate intolerance! How dare they?! If there is one thing I won't tolerate, it's intolerance!
This was a test of the Emergency Sarcasm Network... If this were a real point of view, it would be considered idiotic. Remember, this is only a test...
What banks' ATMs are you people using? Every modern ATM I use has a simple swipe mechanism. I haven't run across a "grab and hold" type of ATM in years.
Except on a taxi.
I can beat that :)
I remember going from an Atari 300 baud acoustic modem to a US Robotics 2400 baud courier modem. The acoustic modem was a lot like the ones in used as props in movies and TV. You had to plunk the telephone handset down on a pair of rubber gaskets. The "answer" and "originate" modes were controlled by a hard switch. Ironically, the cable needed to connect an RS-232 device to the Atari 850 interface was a 25-to-9 pin cable, which was hard to find in those days.
I first found out about BBSes from a magazine. Before that, I thought the only online worlds were Compuserve, the Source, Delphi, and the WSJ. My Atari 800 computer came with the world's crappiest terminal program ever made: Telelink. Thank God some local SYSOP took mercy on my soul and snail-mailed me a copy of Atarimodem. ATASCII graphics! Xmodem upload/downloading! W0007!
I paid $400 for the 2400 baud Courier which was considered a steal in those days.
I've heard stories that IBM had a choice between the Intel 8088/8086 and the Motorolla 68000 for the first PC. We all know they went with Intel, but why? The 68000 is a superior chip. Why didn't IBM realize how bad the 8088/8086 architecture was? Imagine what the computing world would have been like today if IBM went with the 68000.
When it [IBM] got into the desktop PC market some 20 years ago, it got in by accident not knowing what the result would be.
Say what? They didn't get in by accident. The planned to take over the entire industry! In fact, the only reason they outsourced parts, like the CPU from Intel, is because they new they had to get a product to market quickly. Outsourcing went against everything IBM was used to doing. They did it because they knew they couldn't develop a PC from the ground up on their own in time.
Just use the 40X motorized cupholder, silly!
Wow! All this cool technology at our fingertips and yet I still can't get the soda machine to take my worn dollar bill.
...P2P wireless gaming,...
I can't real time action games working like this. What's going to happen if you are playing while riding in a car or bus and go out of range? What happens to your game? Not to mention the latency problems with P2P vs. a dedicated server.
I realize that anything I say about "Ghost in the shell" will ruin something. The first 15 minutes hold some mind-fucking surprises that have scarred me for life:)
:)
I think you are confusing Ghost in the Shell with Urotsukidoji.
Ugh. "Twilight of the Cockroaches" and "Grave of the Fireflies" always come up. I've seen both and they are NOT good for Anime first timers. They are both slow moving stories that will bore many people. Check out some of the shows on Toonami (Cartoon Network). Hell, they're free.