"that Leondardo fella" was a master of all trades, which is why we still remember him. Better to do one thing extraordinarily well, them know a bit about 20 things, at least in this job market. Being able to do 20 things extraordinarily well puts you up there with Leondardo da Vinci.
Gif irrelevant? There's about 20 of them on the page you currently reading, and it is by far the most common bitmap format on the web... GIF still seems pretty relevant in the world I live in....
Actually, yes, I would. I would have to have faith in the fact that the world works in a certain way, and that time is linear, that other beings exist outside myself, that cause and effect exist, that my mind can in fact reason in a manner that lines up with things that happen outside my mind, etc. All of life requires faith. In walking I have faith in gravity to pull me forward as I lean forward, and that my leg will have enough strength to stop me when it hits the ground. I have to believe that what I see in front of me is in fact solid and will hold my weight. Life is not as logical as we would like to believe, and logic itself gets us nowhere without assuming or "having faith" in things. Our lives are mostly experiencial, and we have faith that what worked in the past will continue to work, but that isn't necessarily true. It is reasonable though, and is how all of us live.
P.O.D. also follows this method, but is a little less shy about hiding their beliefs. And yes, even as a Christian I can't understand the desire for things like Christian breath mints(Testamints, they are out there) and other stupidly marketed "Christian" items. Makes no sense whatsoever to me, but apparently to someone it does....
The way I see it, the thing with Christian music is the voulme of the artists. Say there are 50,000(numbers pulled out of my butt) "secular" bands, 99% of them suck, and 500 "Christian" bands, 99% of whom suck. That leaves us with about 5 good "Christian" bands, and 500 good "secular" bands, which sound like about the right numbers to me. There is good Christain music out there, just not as much of it as good "secular" music.
Indeed. It's a school robotics project, all of which is quite old hat now, except for trying to read room numbers off the doors and having a fridge attatched. Navigating by reading door numbers will probably be a bit tricky for them, but isn't impossible, and attatching a fridge is simple.
As well as par and par2 files, digital television, ADSL, and many other places. Reed-Solomon coding is one of the most popular methods for data recovery in use today.
as to 1) That's part of my point. No one has all that software installed, and yet since it is availible from whatever distro is being counted for bugs, all that software is included. They points at 99% of software available for linux and quote the bugs in that against a much smaller population of software on Windows, though there is a decent amount of code in Windows proper these days. It's just not a fair comparison. As for 2), yes, I don't have a world visable ftp server anymore, and very few places do except for anonymous FTP service. There is usually only one port open on my computer, and that is for SSH. I don't even allow ICMP through, cuz I am a bit over-paranoid. However, there is only one implementation of SSH available in most distro's, so it didn't make a good example for my point;-)
Yeah, this is what burns me up with these security bug comparisons. In Linux, 99% of software you run on your computer you get from your distribution, while very little of your software under Windows comes as a part of Windows. Of course there are more bugs in a complete computer setup with 10 different ftp servers to choose from, irc clients, a complete development suite(or 3), etc...
I see your benchmark (notice sun makes quite a few showings, but no linux?) and raise your a price/performace winner.
What does this prove? Nothing really, it's a benchmark or limited scope and tells us little about the general performace of the machines in many intended uses.
In my eyes, the NSA is a pretty cool orginization, dealing mostly with technical research that really does enhance our security, both as a nation and individuals. On the other hand, everything the CIA touches turns to shit. Maybe not today, maybe not next week, but sometime in the next 20 years, whatever they're doing in secret today is going to bite us in the ass. Unfortunatly, since they've been doing it for a while, we now need them to keep us safe. We've got the bull by the horns, wishing we could let go, but got no choice but to hang on....
Perhaps in the upcoming standarization they will finally switch to so called "jumbo frames", aka raise the maximum amount of data that can be sent in one chunk. As the singaling rate has gone up from 10Mb-1Gb, there has been a 100x increase in signaling rate and therefore a 100x decrease in the amount of time it takes one packet to cross the network. Since we are still using the same paltry sizes, cpu usage goes way up and throughput is somewhat capped. Switching to a larger frame size would allow higher throughput and lower CPU utilization. Many networking vendors have started adding support for larger frame sizes into their products for these reasons, but being added to the official standard would greatly increase the adoption of such jumbo frames.
For more info, see: http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/ http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0105tolly. htm
Sort of off topic, but anyone know the status of Angry Pixels, the LGP sponsored linux game development company? Their site, www.angry-pixels.com, is down, and haven't heard any news in a LONG time...
Actually, those are little more then tuning parameters, and do little more then help you target a bitrate. The magic happens in video mostly through only coding the difference between pictures, including an algorithm that moves around parts of your scene. The Psycho-visual part has comes into play in trasmitting the colors in a expontential instead of linear scale, and chosing the quantization matrix used in the DCT. That's basically the part of the compression that is like choosing the quality of a JPEG, as the compression tech. is the same. The biggest savings is in only coding difference between pictures though, and mpeg 4's rather complex motion estimation algorithm.
This is not exactly true. While film is recorded at 24 fps, it's usually shown with a shutter that flashes 2 or 3 times per frame, giving us a refresh rate of 48 or 72 refreshes per second. The reason you don't notice jerky movement so much at the theater is that ambiant light is so much less. Our brains need a much higher refresh rate when our eyes are adjusted to bright light then when they are dark adjusted as in a theater. That's why theaters use 24 fps, tv's use about 60, and computer monitors in bright situations need over 80 to be able to stop seeing the flickering. The reason tv uses interlaced frames is that at the time of standarization, it would have taken too much bandwith to do progressive, so interlacing was the solution. Film also blurs nicely in fast motion, so that's another reason why you don't notice the movement so much. Oh, and BTW, your ability to see the flourescent lights blink depends not only on other ambiant light, but mostly on the quality of the balast. Modern electronic balasts remove most all of the flashing effects, where older and still cheaper passive balasts do not.
At least as much as I could trust a closed source HTTP implemention from ACME Software anyway. You can never fully trust anyone. That is true in closed as well as open source software. However, with open source, it's a lot easier to audit for holes if I am so inclined.
Oh, just little things like being 10 times more stable, having a much better way to run services, and in genereal being a real OS. Not too many sexy new capabilities, but it's a SO much nicer user experience then any previous version of windows(and in my experience, then XP too..)
BTW, I use an older Logitech First Mouse 3 Button, they are still avalible, and are a pretty good quality mechanical mouse. I have been keeping my eyes out for an equivalent optical mouse, but so far no luck. I have a big old ratpadz plastic mouse pad that makes the mechanical mouse ok if I keep it clean, but pure optical would make me happier..
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"that Leondardo fella" was a master of all trades, which is why we still remember him.
Better to do one thing extraordinarily well, them know a bit about 20 things, at least in this job market. Being able to do 20 things extraordinarily well puts you up there with Leondardo da Vinci.
Gif irrelevant?
There's about 20 of them on the page you currently reading, and it is by far the most common bitmap format on the web... GIF still seems pretty relevant in the world I live in....
Actually, yes, I would. I would have to have faith in the fact that the world works in a certain way, and that time is linear, that other beings exist outside myself, that cause and effect exist, that my mind can in fact reason in a manner that lines up with things that happen outside my mind, etc. All of life requires faith.
In walking I have faith in gravity to pull me forward as I lean forward, and that my leg will have enough strength to stop me when it hits the ground. I have to believe that what I see in front of me is in fact solid and will hold my weight.
Life is not as logical as we would like to believe, and logic itself gets us nowhere without assuming or "having faith" in things. Our lives are mostly experiencial, and we have faith that what worked in the past will continue to work, but that isn't necessarily true. It is reasonable though, and is how all of us live.
P.O.D. also follows this method, but is a little less shy about hiding their beliefs.
And yes, even as a Christian I can't understand the desire for things like Christian breath mints(Testamints, they are out there) and other stupidly marketed "Christian" items. Makes no sense whatsoever to me, but apparently to someone it does....
The way I see it, the thing with Christian music is the voulme of the artists. Say there are 50,000(numbers pulled out of my butt) "secular" bands, 99% of them suck, and 500 "Christian" bands, 99% of whom suck. That leaves us with about 5 good "Christian" bands, and 500 good "secular" bands, which sound like about the right numbers to me. There is good Christain music out there, just not as much of it as good "secular" music.
Indeed. It's a school robotics project, all of which is quite old hat now, except for trying to read room numbers off the doors and having a fridge attatched.
Navigating by reading door numbers will probably be a bit tricky for them, but isn't impossible, and attatching a fridge is simple.
As well as par and par2 files, digital television, ADSL, and many other places.
Reed-Solomon coding is one of the most popular methods for data recovery in use today.
as to 1) That's part of my point. No one has all that software installed, and yet since it is availible from whatever distro is being counted for bugs, all that software is included. They points at 99% of software available for linux and quote the bugs in that against a much smaller population of software on Windows, though there is a decent amount of code in Windows proper these days. ;-)
It's just not a fair comparison.
As for 2), yes, I don't have a world visable ftp server anymore, and very few places do except for anonymous FTP service. There is usually only one port open on my computer, and that is for SSH. I don't even allow ICMP through, cuz I am a bit over-paranoid. However, there is only one implementation of SSH available in most distro's, so it didn't make a good example for my point
Yeah, this is what burns me up with these security bug comparisons. In Linux, 99% of software you run on your computer you get from your distribution, while very little of your software under Windows comes as a part of Windows. Of course there are more bugs in a complete computer setup with 10 different ftp servers to choose from, irc clients, a complete development suite(or 3), etc...
We blame you, you blame the Newfies. It's the pecking order around here, deal with it ;-)
I see your benchmark (notice sun makes quite a few showings, but no linux?) and raise your a price/performace winner.
What does this prove? Nothing really, it's a benchmark or limited scope and tells us little about the general performace of the machines in many intended uses.
Smaller, yes. But will they be more reliable?
You don't buy(or rent, as most seem to be) mainframes for their size characteristics....
In my eyes, the NSA is a pretty cool orginization, dealing mostly with technical research that really does enhance our security, both as a nation and individuals.
On the other hand, everything the CIA touches turns to shit. Maybe not today, maybe not next week, but sometime in the next 20 years, whatever they're doing in secret today is going to bite us in the ass.
Unfortunatly, since they've been doing it for a while, we now need them to keep us safe. We've got the bull by the horns, wishing we could let go, but got no choice but to hang on....
Perhaps in the upcoming standarization they will finally switch to so called "jumbo frames", aka raise the maximum amount of data that can be sent in one chunk. As the singaling rate has gone up from 10Mb-1Gb, there has been a 100x increase in signaling rate and therefore a 100x decrease in the amount of time it takes one packet to cross the network. Since we are still using the same paltry sizes, cpu usage goes way up and throughput is somewhat capped. Switching to a larger frame size would allow higher throughput and lower CPU utilization. Many networking vendors have started adding support for larger frame sizes into their products for these reasons, but being added to the official standard would greatly increase the adoption of such jumbo frames.. htm
For more info, see:
http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html
http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/
http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0105tolly
Sort of off topic, but anyone know the status of Angry Pixels, the LGP sponsored linux game development company? Their site, www.angry-pixels.com, is down, and haven't heard any news in a LONG time...
"Microsoft has made something of a trade-off with the update, focusing on security improvements at the expense of backward compatibility."
Just got back from Hell. It's darn cold down there...
Actually, those are little more then tuning parameters, and do little more then help you target a bitrate.
The magic happens in video mostly through only coding the difference between pictures, including an algorithm that moves around parts of your scene. The Psycho-visual part has comes into play in trasmitting the colors in a expontential instead of linear scale, and chosing the quantization matrix used in the DCT. That's basically the part of the compression that is like choosing the quality of a JPEG, as the compression tech. is the same. The biggest savings is in only coding difference between pictures though, and mpeg 4's rather complex motion estimation algorithm.
This is not exactly true. While film is recorded at 24 fps, it's usually shown with a shutter that flashes 2 or 3 times per frame, giving us a refresh rate of 48 or 72 refreshes per second.
The reason you don't notice jerky movement so much at the theater is that ambiant light is so much less. Our brains need a much higher refresh rate when our eyes are adjusted to bright light then when they are dark adjusted as in a theater.
That's why theaters use 24 fps, tv's use about 60, and computer monitors in bright situations need over 80 to be able to stop seeing the flickering.
The reason tv uses interlaced frames is that at the time of standarization, it would have taken too much bandwith to do progressive, so interlacing was the solution.
Film also blurs nicely in fast motion, so that's another reason why you don't notice the movement so much.
Oh, and BTW, your ability to see the flourescent lights blink depends not only on other ambiant light, but mostly on the quality of the balast. Modern electronic balasts remove most all of the flashing effects, where older and still cheaper passive balasts do not.
At least as much as I could trust a closed source HTTP implemention from ACME Software anyway.
You can never fully trust anyone. That is true in closed as well as open source software. However, with open source, it's a lot easier to audit for holes if I am so inclined.
Darn straight!
Yes, they are getting close to matching the resolution, but no where near matching the dynamic range of film yet, especially slide film.
Fake set? You telling me even the set's a hoax? Man, that's some serious stuff...
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Oh, just little things like being 10 times more stable, having a much better way to run services, and in genereal being a real OS. Not too many sexy new capabilities, but it's a SO much nicer user experience then any previous version of windows(and in my experience, then XP too..)
BTW, I use an older Logitech First Mouse 3 Button, they are still avalible, and are a pretty good quality mechanical mouse. I have been keeping my eyes out for an equivalent optical mouse, but so far no luck.
I have a big old ratpadz plastic mouse pad that makes the mechanical mouse ok if I keep it clean, but pure optical would make me happier..