Er, wouldn't it be enough to haul just the rocket? The launching device shouldn't be that heavy... and if the launch needs to be done from underwater, probably a lake would suffice.
... that the poster needed to include the link to a wikipedia article?
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Er, isn't DivX6 supposed to be a new format released today? In which case, how can my 1-year old DivX player support it?
Ok, I get your point that regular AVI files, compressed with the 6 codec, could still be playable. But I'm pretty sure that DMF files will be useless in it - and that's one of the major points of the new format, isn't it?
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The original format arose when no Set-Top players supported it. In these circumstances, it didn't matter much that the format is changing fast - on your comp, if it can't play the new file, you just download the codec. It was a downhill battle - lots of DivX-4 files were around, and it just made sense to add the support to DVD players.
However, today DivX players are cheap and widespread. Therefore, a DivX-4 file, even having less features than DivX-6, is significantly more usable to me as I can see it on TV. So, it will be an uphill battle: there won't be lots of DivX6 files until players support them, and there won't be lots of such players until the files are ubiquitous.
Hope I'm wrong.
P.S. Anybody notice the analogies to IPv4 vs. IPv6?:)
Things missing from the Slashdot blurb
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At the very least, note that the guys're adding DRM. Bad Thing (or is it?).
This neat Archos toy surely demonstrates the feasibility of HDD video recording. The price is a bit high (could as much as double the camera price), but will probably come down significantly since video cams are produced in SO larger quantities.
It doesn't really matter. They'll just try and click a random button. They'll succeed in 1/100, 1/1000 of tries, who cares? That's enough to have a successful phishing operation.
Consider the current scams running through spam e-mail. The response rates from the users are miniscule, but the volumes are so large and their expenses are so low that they still stay profitable.
And you cannot make a graphical interaction with the user complex enough to make a random guess succeed in less than, say, 1/1000 of cases. Otherwise, it'll be so complex that legit users will get annoyed and go away.
If a time traveler chose to come back to such conference, he/she would obviously come to the first one, as that of the most historic importance. If the first conference was held and none have shown up, this implies that time travelers are, alas, not going to come at all. Not necessarily that time travel is ultimately impossible, but it may be forbidden for some reasons.
On the other hand, all this thing smells faintly of Douglas Adams. Parties come to mind, bricks and don't.
On my computer, the article title shows as "A study on the randomness of the digits of ¼" (that's 1/4 if the character shows incorrectly on your desktop).
I had a teacher who insisted that Pi is exactly 3.14, and that the radiation after nuclear explosion decays by a factor of 2 in exactly 5 hours.
Admittedly, he wasn't a math teacher though...
Won't it be regarded as an embrace-or-extend move by Mozilla? Is there some relevant standard (except for SVG itself) for this? Is there some graceful degradation mechanism built-in for browsers that don't support this feature?
That said, sounds like a cool feature with lots of potential uses.
Good you don't quote off the IOCCC. So C/C++ allows unnatural writing style. But you don't *have* to write that way.
DISCLAIMER: I've never written one line in Ruby, so I cannot comment on that.
;) Well, *that* could be a promising direction in AI.
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Nope, not moving no goal posts, siree. BTW., very strange to hear that Windows wouldn't let him rearrange the physical location of the monitors - IIRC, that's easy and works well.
I say that Windows *worked*, implying that I use Linux on my laptop exclusively. If there is a possibility for such advanced monitor configuration for R40, then I don't know about it (but I would gladly hear. Honestly, I didn't check in the last 1/2 year or so).
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That maybe works on a workstation (even then, question is how much manual tuning you had to do for that). But on laptops things are much worse, at least on my Thinkpad R40 I *never* seen Linux discover the two monitors, much less allow me to do advanced switching (like showing the same/alternate desktop on the monitor connector, disabling it or enabling the video out of the laptop...). On windows it worked like a charm.
Well, I have just one comment to this (and please keep in mind that I write this on a Linux laptop).
Screw session management! Seriously, I'd kill for a proper implementation of sleep functionality - in which case I wouldn't mind even a complete lack of session management - I'd boot the machine once in... don't know... minor OS release?
And that's a thing that Macs invariably get right.
No flames please, I'm still a Linux user.
Consider it in the following way: there is this company and the bunch of geeks. The company doesn't really trust that the geeks won't try and copy its product. On the other hand, the geeks don't really trust the company not to take away the tool that sits in the very base of what they're doing.
This is like the scene with a bunch of cops and a bunch of mafia guys in the same room pointing guns at each other (a-la True Romance): it's a question of when, not whether, someone will wink first.
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Er, wouldn't it be enough to haul just the rocket? The launching device shouldn't be that heavy... and if the launch needs to be done from underwater, probably a lake would suffice.
... that the poster needed to include the link to a wikipedia article?
Ok, I get your point that regular AVI files, compressed with the 6 codec, could still be playable. But I'm pretty sure that DMF files will be useless in it - and that's one of the major points of the new format, isn't it?
However, today DivX players are cheap and widespread. Therefore, a DivX-4 file, even having less features than DivX-6, is significantly more usable to me as I can see it on TV. So, it will be an uphill battle: there won't be lots of DivX6 files until players support them, and there won't be lots of such players until the files are ubiquitous.
Hope I'm wrong.
P.S. Anybody notice the analogies to IPv4 vs. IPv6? :)
At the very least, note that the guys're adding DRM. Bad Thing (or is it?).
This neat Archos toy surely demonstrates the feasibility of HDD video recording. The price is a bit high (could as much as double the camera price), but will probably come down significantly since video cams are produced in SO larger quantities.
It doesn't really matter. They'll just try and click a random button. They'll succeed in 1/100, 1/1000 of tries, who cares? That's enough to have a successful phishing operation.
Consider the current scams running through spam e-mail. The response rates from the users are miniscule, but the volumes are so large and their expenses are so low that they still stay profitable.
And you cannot make a graphical interaction with the user complex enough to make a random guess succeed in less than, say, 1/1000 of cases. Otherwise, it'll be so complex that legit users will get annoyed and go away.
- Monitor everybody's traffic,
- Speed up sites,
- Use traffic for better page rank calculaiton,
They could just plain simple set up a proxy, and then ALL the brwsers, on ALL the OSs would be able to access it. I just don't get it.Mods! MODS! MOOOOODS!
It wouldn't be ironic. It would actually be moronic.
In which case, this conference wouldn't make sense anyway.
Cars that cannot crash, heh. Running Microsoft software. M-m, now that's funny.
If a time traveler chose to come back to such conference, he/she would obviously come to the first one, as that of the most historic importance. If the first conference was held and none have shown up, this implies that time travelers are, alas, not going to come at all. Not necessarily that time travel is ultimately impossible, but it may be forbidden for some reasons.
On the other hand, all this thing smells faintly of Douglas Adams. Parties come to mind, bricks and don't.
It's a Firefox 1.0.3 on a Mandrake 10.2.
I had a teacher who insisted that Pi is exactly 3.14, and that the radiation after nuclear explosion decays by a factor of 2 in exactly 5 hours.
Admittedly, he wasn't a math teacher though...
Won't it be regarded as an embrace-or-extend move by Mozilla? Is there some relevant standard (except for SVG itself) for this? Is there some graceful degradation mechanism built-in for browsers that don't support this feature?
That said, sounds like a cool feature with lots of potential uses.
Good you don't quote off the IOCCC. So C/C++ allows unnatural writing style. But you don't *have* to write that way.
DISCLAIMER: I've never written one line in Ruby, so I cannot comment on that.
;) Well, *that* could be a promising direction in AI.
Nope, not moving no goal posts, siree. BTW., very strange to hear that Windows wouldn't let him rearrange the physical location of the monitors - IIRC, that's easy and works well. I say that Windows *worked*, implying that I use Linux on my laptop exclusively. If there is a possibility for such advanced monitor configuration for R40, then I don't know about it (but I would gladly hear. Honestly, I didn't check in the last 1/2 year or so).
That maybe works on a workstation (even then, question is how much manual tuning you had to do for that). But on laptops things are much worse, at least on my Thinkpad R40 I *never* seen Linux discover the two monitors, much less allow me to do advanced switching (like showing the same/alternate desktop on the monitor connector, disabling it or enabling the video out of the laptop...). On windows it worked like a charm.
How long until bots appear that wander the game, collecting items for sale on the auction? As a result, we may see VERY strong novel AI algorithms.
Well, I have just one comment to this (and please keep in mind that I write this on a Linux laptop). Screw session management! Seriously, I'd kill for a proper implementation of sleep functionality - in which case I wouldn't mind even a complete lack of session management - I'd boot the machine once in ... don't know ... minor OS release?
And that's a thing that Macs invariably get right.
No flames please, I'm still a Linux user.
Ok then, I'm interested. Any links to Skypecasts or sites indexing them?
But none of the jokes back then was nearly as funny as this one ;)
Consider it in the following way: there is this company and the bunch of geeks. The company doesn't really trust that the geeks won't try and copy its product. On the other hand, the geeks don't really trust the company not to take away the tool that sits in the very base of what they're doing.
This is like the scene with a bunch of cops and a bunch of mafia guys in the same room pointing guns at each other (a-la True Romance): it's a question of when, not whether, someone will wink first.