The high price of LCDs is a much deeper issue. In a word: yeild. An LCD is basically a very large IC with some crystal on top. Unfortunately, it is hard to get a large IC to come out w/o defects. This is why smaller ICs (such as CPUs) are mass produced with built in testing circuitry to detect errors.
Unfortunately, defect rates rise as the square of the feature size, so a 1x1 inch IC has only 1/4 the defects of a 2x2.
Couple this with a VERY low tolerance for dead pixels (what defects in the IC get you) and you see that the price of a LCD should rise with the square of the size. CRTs have no such scaling issues, so I can't see where your agument that they should technically cost less comes from.
Anyway, this is why LCDs for digital watches cost pennies, and you can buy a 10in LCD for a few bucks, but an Apple Cinema display will set you back a new mortgage.
digital is only the medium. Like people never tire of pointing out, mp3s are digital; doesn't mean they sound better than my cdplayer over analogue line outs.
The thing about the SB is that (or so I have heard), you can't turn off the sound effects processor, so even if you have digital sound, it will be digital sound with a hint (hence the muddiness?) of echo.
here's a challenge. We all know the camera page is on the dynamism site. Now, I challenge you to find a click-path from the entry page that gets you to the page.
I couldn't do it. I wonder what other nifty gadgets are hidden on the site?
I claim that jitter is a myth: you don't need much of a buffer to hide it, and there is an existance proof that bit perfect data extraction from a cd is possible.
So if a good transport adds to the system, then your previous transport must have sucked eggs, because my ~ $500 computer is a PERFECT transport.
And I mean that in the digital, perfection is acheivable and measurable, sense of the word.
However, my SB card is likely a crap DA converter, but that is not jitter related.
This was discussed on k5 a while back, and I think I finally won the argument about the mythical possiblity of jitter influencing digital sound. (short recap: since it is possible to extract a bit-perfect digital copy of a CD in a cdrom drive (ie rip but don't compress) then jitter is by definition not discernable.)
However, what makes a good DAC is seldomly discussed. To this end, I am somewhat thinking of getting a good home theater / amp/preamp so that I can reuse the good dac between the three or so digital sources I have.
You're streaming 100% digital music that BEEN COMPRESSED, thereby completely removing any possible sound quality advantatage from being digital.
The only reason for optical would be convenience; you have one cable instead of two to string to your receiver/amp/home theatre processor.
Since I suspect the mp3 decoding -> analogue is all done on one IC, it probably is a bit of a hassle to add an optical out. And the price for the slimp3 is already up there in the hard-to-justify regions.
Disparaging flames aside, I think you're spot on about the video tho (and there I could see the digital out for AC-3 sound being useful). The Slimp3 guys seem to have that on their roadmap, as this apparently is only the first incarnation of their all-singing all-dancing multimedia firmware. All that from reading between the lines, so YMMV.
Re:DES can be brute-forced much faster than that
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There was a story a couple days ago about IBM's crypto box being broken. That was broken by tricking the box to use a weak 3DES key which was equivalent to a 1DES key and brute forcing that.
The bruteforcing took 2 days on a sub $2000 FPGA running their published wiring schema.
Significantly cheaper than the EFF's machine, but then time does march on.
I envy your access to high quality pasta. I tried to mete out a measly 15 lashes the other day, and the noodle gave out after the first dozen. Had to switch to the comfy pillow. Disgracefull!
If you insist on pasta, I'd recommend Barilla, al dente, perhaps even going to tagiatelle, if that is warranted. You may want to decrease the number of lashes correspondingly - tagiatelle welts are not pretty!
That would seem to go against double jeopardy. Once you've paid the fine, you're off the hook for the crime. And since you're paying the fine ahead of time..
I dunno. It seems like something that wouldn't stand a true legal test. Does anyone know of any cases where this has been brought up?
So what do you get for the royalties you pay for the media?
I would presume (not assume, since, well, statistics aren't on my side) that you are buying the rights to make a legal copy of some music onto that disk.
So using this burner and media, I would be able to make mix-cds for my friends w/o infringing any copyrights? I mean, I am already allowed to make mix-cds for myself, as per fair-use, so I must be getting SOMETHING for the extra money I pay, no? And since you say it is for royalties, that must mean that ANOTHER legal copy was created by my copying (as you only pay royalites on each song once).
Well here's the thing about PDA/cellphones: They're too wide. The total volume is fine, it's just that they could easily add an inch to the length if that made the thing correspondingly narrower. (not that this would help your or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me situation)
Of course, now you don't have room for the screen size you need for pda (ok, we're back in the bananna-in-the-pocket issue) activities. I imagine that a fold-out system would work well. If the screen were something flexible, you wouldn't have the seam down the middle.
So I agree that something flexible is the way to go, but perhaps not for the whole unit, but only for the screen.
That advice is so bad it is almost legendary. One day, it will be ranked among the greats like "It's only a wooden horse, albeit somewhat large and unexpected. Let's bring it inside the gates and go to sleep!" or "Go ahead, taste it, it won't kill you!".
Or have you forgotten the fate of Jon Johansen and his reverse engineered DeCSS code? I believe he was in Norway at the time.
Normally I wouldn't flame, but c'mon, that was a Big Deal and it wasn't THAT long ago. And more than a little pertinent.
If you like "ideas" SF (like bear) and don't mind somewhat sloppy plotting, Greg Egan is a master.
For these reasons, he tends to come accross better in shorts than in novels.
I recommend Permutation City. You can stop half way, tho, as it all falls appart about there (which is kinda incongruous, given that I'm recommending it..), but by then you'll have been wowed by great ideas behind the story.
which one? the TV miniseries with Hurt or the Lynch movie.
I recently saw both, and as much as I like kyle mch@#45lan (how DO you spell that name?), the Lynch movie is crap. Much worse than the miniseries, mainly because so much of it was left on the cutting room floor.
the miniseries is cut too, but there they at least TRY to mark the passage of time between chapters. In the Lynch movie, if you haven't read and memorized much of the book(s), your SOL.
They are both beautiful tho. Great use of color. Both are (ok contradicting myself now) worth seeing for the visiuals, but again, the miniseries is better.
I used to think so. But on a complete whim, I picked up the belgariad a few weeks ago and reread it. It was not at all as rich and complex as I had recalled. The plot was plodding, the characters dull. (*)
I guess it is a superbly written fantasy series for young adults, but it is NOT adult fiction.
For that, I prefer the Magician trilogy (first three books only, after that it becomes a franchise) by Raymond Fiest. I mean, a hero called "Pug". What name is less heroic than Pug?
(*) I failed to find the second quintology, so it could be that the depth I recall the series having was mainly taken from those books.
While stephenson has an uncanny knack for setting up a plot (the beginning of snow crash, with the description of the deliverator, with contact patches larger than a fat woman's thighs is true genius), he seems unable (at least in the 3 out of 4 books I have read) to wrap it up.
I suspect that is what the orignal poster was refering to. In time, he'll get the whole book right, not just the first 90%.
IMHO, of course.
Re:Peter Jackson? The Peter Jackson?
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For anyone who is in the slightest amused by B movies, I wholeheartedly recommend Bad Taste. It just requires a strong stomache, but is truly one of the funniest movies of all time (or at least was when I was in highschool).
but an unused shared library page will be dropped, not swapped (as it will be clean). In fact, it will likely never be read into memory at all, just mapped.
So it seems that you use the two concepts of swapping and mapping as if they were one, when they are not. It is perfectly feasible to have a system with VM but no swap. This system will of course die at unpredicable times because of [temporary] overcommit that you could have survived with a swap file.
I can't see how you could have a system with swap but no VM, tho. Arguably, this is what overlays and banks do for you.
so if I read you correctly, the post-not-really-a-fork-but-almost -ac kernels (2.4.5?) have gotten progressively better at dealing with high memory commitments, and are now back into the regions of usability? (where usability is somewhat arbitrarily defined as being able to have working sets that are very close to physical RAM without having to wait several minutes for top to fire up to tell me which process is the memory hog (pan, if you must know)).
'cause I have no intuition at all about these things:
Roughly how much of the kernel/drivers/whatever that constitute the source tree we call the kernel has to know about virtual memory implementation? I would have thought that even the most low-level driver would interact with the VM system at the API level, so it wouldn't matter which VM implementation manages the pages as all the driver cares about is that this page is locked in physical RAM, while those pages can be moved as the VM sees fit.
Slashdot Mirror
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The high price of LCDs is a much deeper issue. In a word: yeild. An LCD is basically a very large IC with some crystal on top. Unfortunately, it is hard to get a large IC to come out w/o defects. This is why smaller ICs (such as CPUs) are mass produced with built in testing circuitry to detect errors.
Unfortunately, defect rates rise as the square of the feature size, so a 1x1 inch IC has only 1/4 the defects of a 2x2.
Couple this with a VERY low tolerance for dead pixels (what defects in the IC get you) and you see that the price of a LCD should rise with the square of the size. CRTs have no such scaling issues, so I can't see where your agument that they should technically cost less comes from.
Anyway, this is why LCDs for digital watches cost pennies, and you can buy a 10in LCD for a few bucks, but an Apple Cinema display will set you back a new mortgage.
digital is only the medium. Like people never tire of pointing out, mp3s are digital; doesn't mean they sound better than my cdplayer over analogue line outs.
The thing about the SB is that (or so I have heard), you can't turn off the sound effects processor, so even if you have digital sound, it will be digital sound with a hint (hence the muddiness?) of echo.
ah. Their page is so wide, I had no idea there was a right column.
Grumble. Not sure I accept fault about this. It's not like my browser window is 40 pixels wide -- more like 650.
OK!
here's a challenge. We all know the camera page is on the dynamism site. Now, I challenge you to find a click-path from the entry page that gets you to the page.
I couldn't do it. I wonder what other nifty gadgets are hidden on the site?
more likely than not, the prizes were correspondingly smaller back then too, so each year the same fraction of the interest accrued is given away.
I claim that jitter is a myth: you don't need much of a buffer to hide it, and there is an existance proof that bit perfect data extraction from a cd is possible.
So if a good transport adds to the system, then your previous transport must have sucked eggs, because my ~ $500 computer is a PERFECT transport.
And I mean that in the digital, perfection is acheivable and measurable, sense of the word.
However, my SB card is likely a crap DA converter, but that is not jitter related.
good point.
/preamp so that I can reuse the good dac between the three or so digital sources I have.
This was discussed on k5 a while back, and I think I finally won the argument about the mythical possiblity of jitter influencing digital sound. (short recap: since it is possible to extract a bit-perfect digital copy of a CD in a cdrom drive (ie rip but don't compress) then jitter is by definition not discernable.)
However, what makes a good DAC is seldomly discussed. To this end, I am somewhat thinking of getting a good home theater / amp
erm.
You're streaming 100% digital music that BEEN COMPRESSED, thereby completely removing any possible sound quality advantatage from being digital.
The only reason for optical would be convenience; you have one cable instead of two to string to your receiver/amp/home theatre processor.
Since I suspect the mp3 decoding -> analogue is all done on one IC, it probably is a bit of a hassle to add an optical out. And the price for the slimp3 is already up there in the hard-to-justify regions.
Disparaging flames aside, I think you're spot on about the video tho (and there I could see the digital out for AC-3 sound being useful). The Slimp3 guys seem to have that on their roadmap, as this apparently is only the first incarnation of their all-singing all-dancing multimedia firmware. All that from reading between the lines, so YMMV.
There was a story a couple days ago about IBM's crypto box being broken. That was broken by tricking the box to use a weak 3DES key which was equivalent to a 1DES key and brute forcing that.
The bruteforcing took 2 days on a sub $2000 FPGA running their published wiring schema.
Significantly cheaper than the EFF's machine, but then time does march on.
I envy your access to high quality pasta. I tried to mete out a measly 15 lashes the other day, and the noodle gave out after the first dozen. Had to switch to the comfy pillow. Disgracefull!
If you insist on pasta, I'd recommend Barilla, al dente, perhaps even going to tagiatelle, if that is warranted. You may want to decrease the number of lashes correspondingly - tagiatelle welts are not pretty!
That would seem to go against double jeopardy. Once you've paid the fine, you're off the hook for the crime. And since you're paying the fine ahead of time..
I dunno. It seems like something that wouldn't stand a true legal test. Does anyone know of any cases where this has been brought up?
So what do you get for the royalties you pay for the media?
I would presume (not assume, since, well, statistics aren't on my side) that you are buying the rights to make a legal copy of some music onto that disk.
So using this burner and media, I would be able to make mix-cds for my friends w/o infringing any copyrights? I mean, I am already allowed to make mix-cds for myself, as per fair-use, so I must be getting SOMETHING for the extra money I pay, no? And since you say it is for royalties, that must mean that ANOTHER legal copy was created by my copying (as you only pay royalites on each song once).
Well here's the thing about PDA/cellphones: They're too wide. The total volume is fine, it's just that they could easily add an inch to the length if that made the thing correspondingly narrower. (not that this would help your or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me situation)
Of course, now you don't have room for the screen size you need for pda (ok, we're back in the bananna-in-the-pocket issue) activities. I imagine that a fold-out system would work well. If the screen were something flexible, you wouldn't have the seam down the middle.
So I agree that something flexible is the way to go, but perhaps not for the whole unit, but only for the screen.
That advice is so bad it is almost legendary. One day, it will be ranked among the greats like "It's only a wooden horse, albeit somewhat large and unexpected. Let's bring it inside the gates and go to sleep!" or "Go ahead, taste it, it won't kill you!".
Or have you forgotten the fate of Jon Johansen and his reverse engineered DeCSS code? I believe he was in Norway at the time.
Normally I wouldn't flame, but c'mon, that was a Big Deal and it wasn't THAT long ago. And more than a little pertinent.
Memepool (www ... com) currently has a link to the invisiblelibrary (also www ... com) consisting of books in other books.
made me smile for a lil bit at least.
*grin*
You'll like the derivative work:
Toad Head.
It just goes to show, that even Gates is a deep, touching author, if only we could read between the lines.
If you like Borges (and what geek doesn't, what with the library of babel), you might like Umberto Eco.
I've been told that I'd like Calvino, but haven't had a chance to try him yet.
If you like "ideas" SF (like bear) and don't mind somewhat sloppy plotting, Greg Egan is a master.
For these reasons, he tends to come accross better in shorts than in novels.
I recommend Permutation City. You can stop half way, tho, as it all falls appart about there (which is kinda incongruous, given that I'm recommending it..), but by then you'll have been wowed by great ideas behind the story.
which one? the TV miniseries with Hurt or the Lynch movie.
I recently saw both, and as much as I like kyle mch@#45lan (how DO you spell that name?), the Lynch movie is crap. Much worse than the miniseries, mainly because so much of it was left on the cutting room floor.
the miniseries is cut too, but there they at least TRY to mark the passage of time between chapters. In the Lynch movie, if you haven't read and memorized much of the book(s), your SOL.
They are both beautiful tho. Great use of color. Both are (ok contradicting myself now) worth seeing for the visiuals, but again, the miniseries is better.
erm.
I used to think so. But on a complete whim, I picked up the belgariad a few weeks ago and reread it. It was not at all as rich and complex as I had recalled. The plot was plodding, the characters dull. (*)
I guess it is a superbly written fantasy series for young adults, but it is NOT adult fiction.
For that, I prefer the Magician trilogy (first three books only, after that it becomes a franchise) by Raymond Fiest. I mean, a hero called "Pug". What name is less heroic than Pug?
(*) I failed to find the second quintology, so it could be that the depth I recall the series having was mainly taken from those books.
well, and there lies the rub.
While stephenson has an uncanny knack for setting up a plot (the beginning of snow crash, with the description of the deliverator, with contact patches larger than a fat woman's thighs is true genius), he seems unable (at least in the 3 out of 4 books I have read) to wrap it up.
I suspect that is what the orignal poster was refering to. In time, he'll get the whole book right, not just the first 90%.
IMHO, of course.
For anyone who is in the slightest amused by B movies, I wholeheartedly recommend Bad Taste. It just requires a strong stomache, but is truly one of the funniest movies of all time (or at least was when I was in highschool).
but an unused shared library page will be dropped, not swapped (as it will be clean). In fact, it will likely never be read into memory at all, just mapped.
So it seems that you use the two concepts of swapping and mapping as if they were one, when they are not. It is perfectly feasible to have a system with VM but no swap. This system will of course die at unpredicable times because of [temporary] overcommit that you could have survived with a swap file.
I can't see how you could have a system with swap but no VM, tho. Arguably, this is what overlays and banks do for you.
ah!
so if I read you correctly, the post-not-really-a-fork-but-almost -ac kernels (2.4.5?) have gotten progressively better at dealing with high memory commitments, and are now back into the regions of usability? (where usability is somewhat arbitrarily defined as being able to have working sets that are very close to physical RAM without having to wait several minutes for top to fire up to tell me which process is the memory hog (pan, if you must know)).
'cause I have no intuition at all about these things:
Roughly how much of the kernel/drivers/whatever that constitute the source tree we call the kernel has to know about virtual memory implementation? I would have thought that even the most low-level driver would interact with the VM system at the API level, so it wouldn't matter which VM implementation manages the pages as all the driver cares about is that this page is locked in physical RAM, while those pages can be moved as the VM sees fit.
eh?