Try searching on; "Carrier central AC review"
4 out of the first 10 links would qualify, IMHO, as a review of an air conditioner.
Mainly because AC also stands for Alternating Current, used to create....Carrier waves.
Can you say "epileptic seizure"? Can you say 'persistence of vision'? AFAIK, epileptics do not have a problem with cinemas (24fps/Hz) so why should there be a problem with the 25/30/50/60Hz cycle this setup would give?
the effect of these drugs in the absence of pain is very different than when a person uses them while experiencing great pain You're more right than you know. Somebody in severe pain can tolerate doses of opiates which would quickly kill a healthy person. The rule seems to be 'If the patient can still tell you it hurts, it's safe to up the dose.' (sorry, no link [1])
[1] I was told about this effect by my mother, who spent >10 years working in an Intensive Care Unit. Shortly after she started, she was shocked to see the dosages used on people with severe injuries - they were completely off the scale of normal dosage charts.
People can outrun some horses in a very short sprint (though I wouldn't bet on it for quarterhorses). And they can jog down darn near anything. But in the middle distances other animals do better. The BBC has the story.
I shrug and reboot when the whole thing kernel panics You have hardware problems. Seriously, in 3 years of learning Linux by trial and (sometimes very big) error, the only time I have seen a kernel panic was when the sticky pad of alleged heatsink compound on my cpu dried up and flaked out of its gap, allowing my Athlon 1.2GHz to reach unfeasibly high temperatures. Even then, most of the time, only X would die irrecoverably and I'd be left at a login prompt (which made the whole thing a bastard to troubleshoot). I now joke about Linux being the 'vampire operating system' - it just refused to die, even when the cpu stopped working properly. And no, at no point during this debacle did I lose any saved data. As for drivers, I've yet to see a desktop machine not configured properly and automatically at install-time (I've not tried any laptops, YMMV). By the way, could you tell me who all these vendors are that open-source their drivers - can there really be that many?
ADSL download speed: 512kbps
MP3 et al bitrate 128-256kbps
Connection utilisation 80-100% (I feel cheated if it's not!)
I literally do not have time to listen to it all.
So, I download video.
Dr Oct 'putting out' a self-sustaining fusion reaction by immersing it in.....water! H20. Does anyone else see the problem with this? Hint - Hydrogen is a very good fusion 'fuel'. Actually, in both reactor scenes, lots of Iron (plating from walls, structural girders) is shown being drawn in to the fireball. Solution? Let it be. Nothing poisons a fusion reaction better than Iron. Why? Fusion liberates energy from combining small atomic nuclei to make larger ones, H+H=>He or even hotter, He+He=>Be. This works until you get to Iron. Fusing Iron nuclei together to form even bigger ones uses energy, which is why you won't find spectrographic evidence of Iron or heavier elements in 1st-generation stars. These heavy elements are only formed in novae or supernovae (it took a conscious effort to spell that word correctly!)
you can argue that CD-Audio is lossy from the get go, being at only 44.1 kHz and 16-bit I was saying that when CDs were invented - if it has a sample rate and discrete sample levels (and only 65536 of them), its going to lose information - period. When a non-pro app like Audacity can handle samples at up to 96KHz with 32-bit float precision, it's time to wonder where that leaves the good old RedBook CD.
Re:alcohol - You're pretty safe with non-pilsener beers. Why? They tend to contain more than a trace of sugar, which pretty much destroys water conductivity. In pilsener beers 'all of the sugar turns to alcohol' (anyone remember the old Holsten advert?) At a school disco c.14 years ago, someone spilt most of a can of Carlsberg Special Brew into a 1kW Soundcraft amplifier (they only make mixers now, pity). Nobody noticed - until the next day, when the rig had to be dismantled and sent back to Gradav. It stank. It was sticky. Stale beer dripped from the bottom cooling slots. We shat ourselves (this gear was expensive). After much running around, it was decided that the best thing to do was hose it out, let it dry in the sun and hope for the best. Gradav didnt send the heavy mob round to 'extract compensation', so I assume it worked.
Distribute a 250 meg DIVX and let the lamers still using VCDs transcode it themselves. Believe me, I'd love to see a small DivX or Xvid rip, but can you see lamers using transcode? The reason so many CAM and TeleSync rips are distributed as VCDs is for the convenience of end users - 'hang the quality, let's get it out there and get people watching it'. And with TV resolution at 352x288, who can blame them? The multipart rar-chives? Well, from what I've been told, it's to let a legion of 0wnz0red boxes on xDSL connections be as useful as a single big server on a T3, by distributing the bandwidth requirement. I agree though, it's still very annoying, especially on a slow machine (takes time to unroll) or with low disk space (effectively, you need double the space to d/l and then unroll).
An interesting comparison: Despite up to 150 people simultaneously bagging free copies of its most valuable property at any given time 24 hours a day, Lions Gate says it has no plans to oppose the practice
Checking suprnova just now, over 8,000 people are downloading one or another of the 4 packages up there. When I pulled down my copy there were over 30,000 leechers (the only time I've seen more is when ROTK went up - over 50k). Now I don't know where the '150 people' figure came from, but either way, this is creating a lot of publicity for Lions Gate. Maybe that's why they don't care?
I've got the CAM-POT copy from suprnova, and there is only one scene where the rip quality detracts from the experience of the film [1]. This is because the majority of the film is made up of clips of news broadcasts (some captured post-transmission).
[1] An interview with an Iraqi woman where the subtitles are off the bottom of the screen.
Sure, won't be DVD quality, but, in home conditions, the quality will beat telesync =) No, it will beat CAM, not TeleSync. TeleSync is the method used to transfer film (8,16 or 32mm) to an electronic (VHS,DV,MPEG) medium. The official method. The method used by studios to create a DVD release from a film. It involves direct capture of every frame individually, these frames then being concatenated into an mjpeg or DV file. Audio is grabbed via a wired interface into the playback equipment, not by microphones. At this stage, depending on the equipment used, it is likely that the quality is better than an 'official' DVD release would be, mainly due to greater bitrate and lighter compression. However, TeleSync rips are almost invariably distributed as SVCDs, reducing the 'final cut' quality considerably.
Thats the problem, while these highly manufactured junk boxes (not feeling them) are being announced to use DivX, everyone else has moved to XviD This shouldn't be a problem for a properly constructed box. Both DivX and XviD are implementations of the MPEG-4 standard, and as such, it shouldn't matter to the player which was actually used for encoding. AFAIK, the latest version of DivXPlayer supports XviD and as far as I can work out, mplayer uses the same codec for both. A device which may be of interest is KISS's DP-1500 player, which, in addition to playing any media file format (except Quicktime) is networkable and can stream media from a remote server. Oh, and by the way - the streaming app is written in Java (gentlemen, choose not only your platform, but also your architecture - this will run on damn near anything!)
Microsoft controls technology for compressing video onto high-definition discs AFAIK, the only relevant tech here is WMV, which is merely an implementation of the MPEG-4 standard, and as such cannot be patented or otherwise encumbered. Methinks he'd be better off (read less likely to be screwed over) by talking to the good people at XviD. Indeed, if he can arrange licensing to permit official binary distribution of the best MPEG-4 codec, we could all win.
From 'Real Programmers don't use Pascal':
'Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter.'
I like your description: the Grey Man. Where did that reference come from, incidentally? No idea if it's the original (probably not), but I first saw it in Andy McNab's book Bravo Two-Zero, in the section about SAS selection, where he is not so much trying to show why he should be in as trying to give no reason to be singled out.
Totally offtopic now, but perhaps somebody knows.... There was a rumour circulating about ten years ago that someone was trying to build ether a massively-parallel system or a neural-net processor using up to 64 6502s. I'd be interested to know if anything came of it. RGreene, you seem to be in the loop. Heard anything?
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Something like this?
4 out of the first 10 links would qualify, IMHO, as a review of an air conditioner.
Mainly because AC also stands for Alternating Current, used to create....Carrier waves.
Can you say 'persistence of vision'? AFAIK, epileptics do not have a problem with cinemas (24fps/Hz) so why should there be a problem with the 25/30/50/60Hz cycle this setup would give?
You're more right than you know. Somebody in severe pain can tolerate doses of opiates which would quickly kill a healthy person. The rule seems to be 'If the patient can still tell you it hurts, it's safe to up the dose.' (sorry, no link [1])
[1] I was told about this effect by my mother, who spent >10 years working in an Intensive Care Unit. Shortly after she started, she was shocked to see the dosages used on people with severe injuries - they were completely off the scale of normal dosage charts.
The BBC has the story.
You have hardware problems.
Seriously, in 3 years of learning Linux by trial and (sometimes very big) error, the only time I have seen a kernel panic was when the sticky pad of alleged heatsink compound on my cpu dried up and flaked out of its gap, allowing my Athlon 1.2GHz to reach unfeasibly high temperatures. Even then, most of the time, only X would die irrecoverably and I'd be left at a login prompt (which made the whole thing a bastard to troubleshoot). I now joke about Linux being the 'vampire operating system' - it just refused to die, even when the cpu stopped working properly. And no, at no point during this debacle did I lose any saved data.
As for drivers, I've yet to see a desktop machine not configured properly and automatically at install-time (I've not tried any laptops, YMMV). By the way, could you tell me who all these vendors are that open-source their drivers - can there really be that many?
No point. Silver is the best non-superconductor
MP3 et al bitrate 128-256kbps
Connection utilisation 80-100% (I feel cheated if it's not!)
I literally do not have time to listen to it all.
So, I download video.
Oh, the irony.
Hint - Hydrogen is a very good fusion 'fuel'.
Actually, in both reactor scenes, lots of Iron (plating from walls, structural girders) is shown being drawn in to the fireball. Solution? Let it be. Nothing poisons a fusion reaction better than Iron. Why?
Fusion liberates energy from combining small atomic nuclei to make larger ones, H+H=>He or even hotter, He+He=>Be. This works until you get to Iron. Fusing Iron nuclei together to form even bigger ones uses energy, which is why you won't find spectrographic evidence of Iron or heavier elements in 1st-generation stars. These heavy elements are only formed in novae or supernovae (it took a conscious effort to spell that word correctly!)
you can argue that CD-Audio is lossy from the get go, being at only 44.1 kHz and 16-bit
I was saying that when CDs were invented - if it has a sample rate and discrete sample levels (and only 65536 of them), its going to lose information - period.
When a non-pro app like Audacity can handle samples at up to 96KHz with 32-bit float precision, it's time to wonder where that leaves the good old RedBook CD.
At a school disco c.14 years ago, someone spilt most of a can of Carlsberg Special Brew into a 1kW Soundcraft amplifier (they only make mixers now, pity). Nobody noticed - until the next day, when the rig had to be dismantled and sent back to Gradav. It stank. It was sticky. Stale beer dripped from the bottom cooling slots. We shat ourselves (this gear was expensive). After much running around, it was decided that the best thing to do was hose it out, let it dry in the sun and hope for the best. Gradav didnt send the heavy mob round to 'extract compensation', so I assume it worked.
Believe me, I'd love to see a small DivX or Xvid rip, but can you see lamers using transcode?
The reason so many CAM and TeleSync rips are distributed as VCDs is for the convenience of end users - 'hang the quality, let's get it out there and get people watching it'. And with TV resolution at 352x288, who can blame them?
The multipart rar-chives? Well, from what I've been told, it's to let a legion of 0wnz0red boxes on xDSL connections be as useful as a single big server on a T3, by distributing the bandwidth requirement. I agree though, it's still very annoying, especially on a slow machine (takes time to unroll) or with low disk space (effectively, you need double the space to d/l and then unroll).
Despite up to 150 people simultaneously bagging free copies of its most valuable property at any given time 24 hours a day, Lions Gate says it has no plans to oppose the practice
Checking suprnova just now, over 8,000 people are downloading one or another of the 4 packages up there. When I pulled down my copy there were over 30,000 leechers (the only time I've seen more is when ROTK went up - over 50k).
Now I don't know where the '150 people' figure came from, but either way, this is creating a lot of publicity for Lions Gate. Maybe that's why they don't care?
[1] An interview with an Iraqi woman where the subtitles are off the bottom of the screen.
No, it will beat CAM, not TeleSync. TeleSync is the method used to transfer film (8,16 or 32mm) to an electronic (VHS,DV,MPEG) medium. The official method. The method used by studios to create a DVD release from a film.
It involves direct capture of every frame individually, these frames then being concatenated into an mjpeg or DV file. Audio is grabbed via a wired interface into the playback equipment, not by microphones.
At this stage, depending on the equipment used, it is likely that the quality is better than an 'official' DVD release would be, mainly due to greater bitrate and lighter compression. However, TeleSync rips are almost invariably distributed as SVCDs, reducing the 'final cut' quality considerably.
Thats the problem, while these highly manufactured junk boxes (not feeling them) are being announced to use DivX, everyone else has moved to XviD
This shouldn't be a problem for a properly constructed box. Both DivX and XviD are implementations of the MPEG-4 standard, and as such, it shouldn't matter to the player which was actually used for encoding. AFAIK, the latest version of DivXPlayer supports XviD and as far as I can work out, mplayer uses the same codec for both.
A device which may be of interest is KISS's DP-1500 player, which, in addition to playing any media file format (except Quicktime) is networkable and can stream media from a remote server. Oh, and by the way - the streaming app is written in Java (gentlemen, choose not only your platform, but also your architecture - this will run on damn near anything!)
AFAIK, the only relevant tech here is WMV, which is merely an implementation of the MPEG-4 standard, and as such cannot be patented or otherwise encumbered.
Methinks he'd be better off (read less likely to be screwed over) by talking to the good people at XviD. Indeed, if he can arrange licensing to permit official binary distribution of the best MPEG-4 codec, we could all win.
As if anybody here hasn't heard of it.
Not yet. Checking Suprnova daily though.
'Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter.'
No idea if it's the original (probably not), but I first saw it in Andy McNab's book Bravo Two-Zero, in the section about SAS selection, where he is not so much trying to show why he should be in as trying to give no reason to be singled out.
There was a rumour circulating about ten years ago that someone was trying to build ether a massively-parallel system or a neural-net processor using up to 64 6502s. I'd be interested to know if anything came of it. RGreene, you seem to be in the loop. Heard anything?