If aquisition is anything like Lorenz and [temporarly lack of memory]'s Environmental Aquisition, it's based on object containment (car has door, for example), rather than dynamic call stack (opendoor calls unlockdoor).
The latter is generally considered too confusing for words. The former is untried, but is likely very useful in some circumstances (I understand that early python servers -- bobo? -- used something like it to implement security inheritance. I _think_ bobo became zope.)
If you mean that it opens a security hole, yes I would be concerned too.
If you mean that it doesn't help your network WRT spoofing, well that would seem to be more of a transport issue (get WEP going on that bridge and lock down MAC addresses).
If yopu mean that someone on your local can change what you're playing, well, that would seem to be a choice of security vs convenience, and I think that within the LAN, playing music falls into the convenience is king category.
depends on where the manufacturer put the redline no? I know the s2000 revs like a hummingbird, and the car of my teen dreams, the Lancia Delta HF Integrale, could be chipped to allow it to overrev a 1000rpm. Apparently, with the chip in, it would outpace a ferarri the first couple of seconds off the line (after which all it would see are two ferrari like taillights disappearing over the horison).
Could be I'm misattributing the anecdote and chippage from the CRX, tho.
how deep does the plugin architecture of the GIMP run? Would it be feasible to write a color callibrating plugin? (Actually, you'd likely be better off calibrating the whole display)
Likewise, how hard would it be to write a script-fu for converting to CMYK given the particulars of the paper and process? I'd imagine that the difficulty would be getting the actual details: I seem to recall that Pantone's whole business model is managing these details, but I'm not exactly sure what their value-added is. I mean, you can't copyright facts, and that is precisely what the details about paper absorbtion and dye bleed are.
Or am I completely messing up my base assumptions?
I picked up a hacked iopener from ebay for ~ $70 incl shipping. put midori linux on it, added usb 802.11 ($40) and voila: a wireless mp3 player for close to $100 bucks.
As a bonus, it doubles as a web client for quick googles, and since midori has ssh, I can also check my email with it.
On the flip side, I did absolutely zero hardware hacking. And the UI is not perfect. I've been meaning to write my own front end, but for now, opera + xmms work fine.
I dunno. TeX is turing complete. There is a reason why pdf is preferred over ps: people like knowing that the fractal they're printing isn't being generated on the fly (pretty cool actually).
The thing is that turing completeness makes it undecidable whether a document ever produces output, and makes it basically impossible to reason about the internal structure. PS survived as long as it did because most people stuck to document structuring CONVENTIONS, with semantically meaningful comments.
yuck.
Mind you, that said, I LOVE TeX, but I don't think it's what my sister should use.
Does the hauppage have a sound out cable, or does it capture sound to the system bus?
One of the worst things about the ATI (appart from drivers, misfeatures, performance, and pretty much everything else) is that it outputs captured sound only to a line-out. Which you then have to pipe to a mic-in and sample again if you want sound with your TV.
The windows drivers for ATI AIW (a complete POS BTW) will not even let you WATCH macrovisioned signals. As allowing me to watch old vhs tapes was the only reason to get the damn card in the first place, I was less than pleased.
However, the linux gatos drivers don't suffer the same restriction.
My linksys AP (befw11s4 v2, precisely) has trouble sustaining more than 350Kbs over just a few feet. Which is ok, because I tend to only use it to stream mp3s, but still is but a pale shadow over the paper spec.
I get 100% signal strength. Rebooting the AP will often solve the problem (getting me ~200KBs) temporarily. Rebooting is sometimes necessary just to get it to let my laptop associate. I suspect many of the cheapo APs are just shite, and you really can't expect $50 unit to actually live up to it's specs.
I'd appreciate feedback from others with expecience with both the Linksys and the Netgear, as I've always had good luck with netgear (with the notable exception of the 311 100bT card)
Danny Hillis used his CM-1 to evolve sorting networks for known lengths. Using a predator-prey model (the predator won by generating sequences that the networks failed to sort), he evolved several "optimal" sorters.
An obvious extension to generic lengths is to use these precomputed networks as recursion base cases for quicksort, instead of switching to selection sort for lengths x (x ~ 5 typically).
IIRC shellsort works similarly: recursively sorting subsequences and merging results.
There are easily two ways they can leverage their status:
1) remove ads as separate entities. Expect product placement to become more prominent. Digital post-processing will enable companies to sell regional advertising slots in a very similar manner to how it is done now: the lead character drinks *a beverage*. Depending on who buys the placement, this is post processed to a can of beer, glass of milk....
and/or
2) replace the cable box with ones with PVRs built in. People won't buy a TiVo when they get one for free. Since it's free, they the sheep^h^h^h^h^h consumers won't mind the limited functionality, that it accurately records exactly what they watch, and that they must watch 3 minutes of personalized commercials _before_ each show (I think people don't mind commercials so much as the interruptions).
You heard it here first: The revolution will not only be televised, it'll be personalized.
I WANTED a netwinder, which came in a sleek case and with a 275MHz strong arm.
Unfortunately, it also came with a pricetag that was about 3-5 times the going rate for a similarly configured PC. The premium for the form factor was just WAY too high.
There was a bit of a discussion about this more than two years ago on the vorbis mailing list. As of that discussion, I got the impression that mpeg-4 had bitrate peeling.
http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200005/0023. ht ml (no space between "ht" and "ml", of course: thank/. for that)
I appreciate them for exactly the gung-ho jingoism that you [correctly] trash them for. There is really nothing that gets you through a 6 hour flight like a dirk pitt novel. And mr. Cussler churns 'em out about as often as I fly, so we're a perfect match. C'mon it just _has_ to make you grin when you read it.
However, I also like the _really_ low budget sci-fi flix of the 60s, with googly eyed aliens and ufos dangling from fishing lines, so YMMV.
For baxter, there is no such excuse. Where cussler is ed wood, writing cheap and enjoyable trash (he may even agree with this himself), baxter is george lucas, taking good ideas and running with them, but in the wrong direction.
(self awareness note: before re-reading and editing this post, EVERY paragraph started with "However,". scary)
It sucks, but that is your fault. no, hear me out, this isn't one of those "so fix it" rants:
I've been building my own kernel since 1.2.13 days. I've [until recently] never built a crap kernel (sometimes left things out I wanted in, like sound, but it always worked smoothly, even under load).
I recently tried to roll my own 2.4.{7,18} kernels under RH 7.2, and it did exactly what you describe. The slightest bit of IO concurrent with load would stutter up the entire system.
However, redhat's kernels (based on the same version) would NOT have this problem. Smooth as astroglide on a banana peel.
So the conclusion is that the kernel broke sometime during the 2.4 task-switcher/vm mapper debacle, but not in a "no longer works" sense, but rather in that deep wizardry is neeeded to build a "good" kernel. Obviously you and I forgot to check the "do not fuck up" box.(*)
I would totally go for *BSD, but a clean RH install works ok, and I judge the overhead of applying updates to keep the system secure less than a complete OS shift and learning to administer a new not-quite-the-same system.
(*)The first instance of the "do not fuck up" box was found on the LaserWriter driver for System 7.x: if you unchecked download fonts, then _nothing_ would come out, otherwise it worked like a charm. Likewise, acrobat reader has an "avoid Level-1 PS like the plague" option that allows you to print what appears on screen even when it contains greek letters.
The problem is that each configuration dialog has this box hidden as something else, but it is always there, somewhere.
I've been trying to remember where I read about "Caleban", the giant super-intelligent squid / supercomputer. No wait, you're referring to the unfinished (?) cosmonaut keep series.
I like Ken MacLeod: Even though I apparently have an genetic inability to remember his titles, I've liked all I've read of his, and I believe I've exhausted his output.
So, who am I referring to? From sketchy memory: the story is that the protagonist ends up falling in love with the daughter of a hyper-achieving space baron, and thereby gets an otherwise impossible invitation to come up to the space station. The station is next to a black hole, so to protect against radiation, they have encased it in water (makes sense: water is almost the perfect shielding against debris and radiation from space). The interior of the water is fluid: the realm of caleban the giant squid/computer.
This is not just some idle question: Have you ever tried to google for "sci-fi caliban"? Caliban may be the single most popular character name in science fiction, right after multivac.
I skimmed the vstipple website, and it appears to be a montecarlo algorithm: depending on the inensity of a voxel, it has a proportional probability of being drawn.
The thing is, calling it "stippling" ignores the pre-existing term "montecarlo", which is precisely what is going on.
Similar techniques have been used in the 2D world to generate half-tone images without the use of regular half-tone screens. I believe in that context, it is called generating pseudo random halftones. Floyd-Steinberg is a deterministic version of the same idea.
Are you kidding me? The AIW is the most kludgey thing I've ever seen. Ok, so it tunes tv, which it's supposed to do, and has mpeg codec support, but having to plug a cable into the microphone in on my soundcard to get sound?! that's absurd!
The quality of the image isn't that great. On windows, it refuses to play macrovisioned vhs tapes --- which is the only reason I bought it. Luckily the fantastic GATOS drivers don't have this restriction.
I am to this day appaled that I bought one. What a letdown. I recommend that anyone on the market for such a card get a real video card and a real tuner card rather than this ill-begotten monstrosity.
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hrm. A small niggle.
If aquisition is anything like Lorenz and [temporarly lack of memory]'s Environmental Aquisition, it's based on object containment (car has door, for example), rather than dynamic call stack (opendoor calls unlockdoor).
The latter is generally considered too confusing for words. The former is untried, but is likely very useful in some circumstances (I understand that early python servers -- bobo? -- used something like it to implement security inheritance. I _think_ bobo became zope.)
insecure?
If you mean that it opens a security hole, yes I would be concerned too.
If you mean that it doesn't help your network WRT spoofing, well that would seem to be more of a transport issue (get WEP going on that bridge and lock down MAC addresses).
If yopu mean that someone on your local can change what you're playing, well, that would seem to be a choice of security vs convenience, and I think that within the LAN, playing music falls into the convenience is king category.
depends on where the manufacturer put the redline no? I know the s2000 revs like a hummingbird, and the car of my teen dreams, the Lancia Delta HF Integrale, could be chipped to allow it to overrev a 1000rpm. Apparently, with the chip in, it would outpace a ferarri the first couple of seconds off the line (after which all it would see are two ferrari like taillights disappearing over the horison).
Could be I'm misattributing the anecdote and chippage from the CRX, tho.
how deep does the plugin architecture of the GIMP run? Would it be feasible to write a color callibrating plugin? (Actually, you'd likely be better off calibrating the whole display)
Likewise, how hard would it be to write a script-fu for converting to CMYK given the particulars of the paper and process? I'd imagine that the difficulty would be getting the actual details: I seem to recall that Pantone's whole business model is managing these details, but I'm not exactly sure what their value-added is. I mean, you can't copyright facts, and that is precisely what the details about paper absorbtion and dye bleed are.
Or am I completely messing up my base assumptions?
I picked up a hacked iopener from ebay for ~ $70 incl shipping. put midori linux on it, added usb 802.11 ($40) and voila: a wireless mp3 player for close to $100 bucks.
As a bonus, it doubles as a web client for quick googles, and since midori has ssh, I can also check my email with it.
On the flip side, I did absolutely zero hardware hacking. And the UI is not perfect. I've been meaning to write my own front end, but for now, opera + xmms work fine.
I dunno. TeX is turing complete. There is a reason why pdf is preferred over ps: people like knowing that the fractal they're printing isn't being generated on the fly (pretty cool actually).
The thing is that turing completeness makes it undecidable whether a document ever produces output, and makes it basically impossible to reason about the internal structure. PS survived as long as it did because most people stuck to document structuring CONVENTIONS, with semantically meaningful comments.
yuck.
Mind you, that said, I LOVE TeX, but I don't think it's what my sister should use.
Does the hauppage have a sound out cable, or does it capture sound to the system bus?
One of the worst things about the ATI (appart from drivers, misfeatures, performance, and pretty much everything else) is that it outputs captured sound only to a line-out. Which you then have to pipe to a mic-in and sample again if you want sound with your TV.
Not true!
The windows drivers for ATI AIW (a complete POS BTW) will not even let you WATCH macrovisioned signals. As allowing me to watch old vhs tapes was the only reason to get the damn card in the first place, I was less than pleased.
However, the linux gatos drivers don't suffer the same restriction.
My linksys AP (befw11s4 v2, precisely) has trouble sustaining more than 350Kbs over just a few feet. Which is ok, because I tend to only use it to stream mp3s, but still is but a pale shadow over the paper spec.
I get 100% signal strength. Rebooting the AP will often solve the problem (getting me ~200KBs) temporarily. Rebooting is sometimes necessary just to get it to let my laptop associate. I suspect many of the cheapo APs are just shite, and you really can't expect $50 unit to actually live up to it's specs.
I'd appreciate feedback from others with expecience with both the Linksys and the Netgear, as I've always had good luck with netgear (with the notable exception of the 311 100bT card)
Danny Hillis used his CM-1 to evolve sorting networks for known lengths. Using a predator-prey model (the predator won by generating sequences that the networks failed to sort), he evolved several "optimal" sorters.
An obvious extension to generic lengths is to use these precomputed networks as recursion base cases for quicksort, instead of switching to selection sort for lengths x (x ~ 5 typically).
IIRC shellsort works similarly: recursively sorting subsequences and merging results.
well,
There are easily two ways they can leverage their status:
1) remove ads as separate entities. Expect product placement to become more prominent. Digital post-processing will enable companies to sell regional advertising slots in a very similar manner to how it is done now: the lead character drinks *a beverage*. Depending on who buys the placement, this is post processed to a can of beer, glass of milk....
and/or
2) replace the cable box with ones with PVRs built in. People won't buy a TiVo when they get one for free. Since it's free, they the sheep^h^h^h^h^h consumers won't mind the limited functionality, that it accurately records exactly what they watch, and that they must watch 3 minutes of personalized commercials _before_ each show (I think people don't mind commercials so much as the interruptions).
You heard it here first: The revolution will not only be televised, it'll be personalized.
I WANTED a netwinder, which came in a sleek case and with a 275MHz strong arm.
Unfortunately, it also came with a pricetag that was about 3-5 times the going rate for a similarly configured PC. The premium for the form factor was just WAY too high.
There was a bit of a discussion about this more than two years ago on the vorbis mailing list. As of that discussion, I got the impression that mpeg-4 had bitrate peeling.
. ht ml (no space between "ht" and "ml", of course: thank /. for that)
http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/200005/0023
I LOVE cussler.
I appreciate them for exactly the gung-ho jingoism that you [correctly] trash them for. There is really nothing that gets you through a 6 hour flight like a dirk pitt novel. And mr. Cussler churns 'em out about as often as I fly, so we're a perfect match. C'mon it just _has_ to make you grin when you read it.
However, I also like the _really_ low budget sci-fi flix of the 60s, with googly eyed aliens and ufos dangling from fishing lines, so YMMV.
For baxter, there is no such excuse. Where cussler is ed wood, writing cheap and enjoyable trash (he may even agree with this himself), baxter is george lucas, taking good ideas and running with them, but in the wrong direction.
(self awareness note: before re-reading and editing this post, EVERY paragraph started with "However,". scary)
yes!
It sucks, but that is your fault. no, hear me out, this isn't one of those "so fix it" rants:
I've been building my own kernel since 1.2.13 days. I've [until recently] never built a crap kernel (sometimes left things out I wanted in, like sound, but it always worked smoothly, even under load).
I recently tried to roll my own 2.4.{7,18} kernels under RH 7.2, and it did exactly what you describe. The slightest bit of IO concurrent with load would stutter up the entire system.
However, redhat's kernels (based on the same version) would NOT have this problem. Smooth as astroglide on a banana peel.
So the conclusion is that the kernel broke sometime during the 2.4 task-switcher/vm mapper debacle, but not in a "no longer works" sense, but rather in that deep wizardry is neeeded to build a "good" kernel. Obviously you and I forgot to check the "do not fuck up" box.(*)
I would totally go for *BSD, but a clean RH install works ok, and I judge the overhead of applying updates to keep the system secure less than a complete OS shift and learning to administer a new not-quite-the-same system.
(*)The first instance of the "do not fuck up" box was found on the LaserWriter driver for System 7.x: if you unchecked download fonts, then _nothing_ would come out, otherwise it worked like a charm. Likewise, acrobat reader has an "avoid Level-1 PS like the plague" option that allows you to print what appears on screen even when it contains greek letters.
The problem is that each configuration dialog has this box hidden as something else, but it is always there, somewhere.
Ah!
I've been trying to remember where I read about "Caleban", the giant super-intelligent squid / supercomputer. No wait, you're referring to the unfinished (?) cosmonaut keep series.
I like Ken MacLeod: Even though I apparently have an genetic inability to remember his titles, I've liked all I've read of his, and I believe I've exhausted his output.
So, who am I referring to? From sketchy memory: the story is that the protagonist ends up falling in love with the daughter of a hyper-achieving space baron, and thereby gets an otherwise impossible invitation to come up to the space station. The station is next to a black hole, so to protect against radiation, they have encased it in water (makes sense: water is almost the perfect shielding against debris and radiation from space). The interior of the water is fluid: the realm of caleban the giant squid/computer.
This is not just some idle question: Have you ever tried to google for "sci-fi caliban"? Caliban may be the single most popular character name in science fiction, right after multivac.
ugh.
Believable science would force us to read baxter from now on. I prefer the somewhat romantiscised universes of egan, bear, and their ilk.
... but you said the validated ones screw up a lot, which seems to contradict the "sure it is right" bit.
I'm confused.
lallie, c'est quoi ca?
s/implied/inferred/
in your example. I may imply something when I say it, but you infer it when you hear.
You seem to use "validated" in a precise way. What do you mean? Does that mean it has special-case logic for the boundary conditions?
Can anyone suggest a cheap touch screen overlay for 10.4" lcds? I've been looking for one for my i-opener for a long time.
I skimmed the vstipple website, and it appears to be a montecarlo algorithm: depending on the inensity of a voxel, it has a proportional probability of being drawn.
The thing is, calling it "stippling" ignores the pre-existing term "montecarlo", which is precisely what is going on.
Similar techniques have been used in the 2D world to generate half-tone images without the use of regular half-tone screens. I believe in that context, it is called generating pseudo random halftones. Floyd-Steinberg is a deterministic version of the same idea.
My DVD driver can easily put the audio on the bus, there is no reason why a tuner card couldn't do that.
The current solution is just too... inelegant. The audio signal goes through something like 3 a/d/a stages -- just on my end.
Rock solid?
Are you kidding me? The AIW is the most kludgey thing I've ever seen. Ok, so it tunes tv, which it's supposed to do, and has mpeg codec support, but having to plug a cable into the microphone in on my soundcard to get sound?! that's absurd!
The quality of the image isn't that great. On windows, it refuses to play macrovisioned vhs tapes --- which is the only reason I bought it. Luckily the fantastic GATOS drivers don't have this restriction.
I am to this day appaled that I bought one. What a letdown. I recommend that anyone on the market for such a card get a real video card and a real tuner card rather than this ill-begotten monstrosity.
I'll be damned if I do business with them again.