That brings up a gripe. Why, why, why, did they leave Tom Bombadil and the barrow-wights out of the first movie?
I am still not really clear about the connection between Tom and the Ents (is his forest where all the Entwives went?), but I have to agree. Just how IS Pippin going to slay the Nazgul without the dagger from the wight's mound? "Oh, that? I just found it on the road..."
I wonder what effect this is having on the brain cancer rate in Japan?
It is probably too low to measure. Yes, it is true that the cell phones would tend to block background ionizing radiation and cosmic rays simply by virtue of its mass, but I think it would be hard to prove that cell phone usage reduces the cancer rate enough to be significant.
Estimated cost of 1.142g of lunar material: $5million
amount brought back by EACH mission: 100kg
total value of each lunar mission: $437 billio[n]
Of course, scarcity is the critical factor here. How much is a winning lottery ticket worth? How about a thousand? How much can I get for a 5 carat diamond? How much for 100 pounds of the same diamonds? Now how much for 10,000 pounds? It's funny how the value changes when scarcity is an issue, isn't it?:-)
A tool to track a spanning tree across network backbones would not be hard to write; the broadcaster is simply the root of the tree.
Here is my first thought (maybe 20 seconds worth). The root of the tree is the encoder. Why shouldn't this node also receive a copy of the stream from one of it's downstream nodes? Effectively you have a large circle now, preferably as large as possible. As for identifying all of the nodes in the tree, the nodes may simply indicate whether they can accept new connections without divulging their neighbors. This prevents a trivial tree-walking at least.
What I want is a board for video capturing with a decent mpeg encoder chip on it. No a co-processor... a real mpeg encoder that does correct 3-2 pulldown detection, deinterlacing, etc.
Go to www.pricewatch.com and search for PVR. The bottom entry will be for the Hauppauge PVR USB encoder at $186 after shipping. You can proably get it at Fry's for $200.
This should use the same encoder chip as their earlier PCI card, which is a fairly decent encoder based on the Visiontech KFir design. For comparison, the $750 Sigma Designs RealMagic DVR is based on the same chip design. I have used a (different) board based on this chip, and the quality is pretty good. Not as good as a $7000 encoder from Optivision or Minerva, but still good.
One of my coworkers bought the USB version of this and he did have to fiddle with the registry to get encoding rates not in the software menus, but otherwise he seemed happy with it.
I'll tell you why I want this: I want to build a cheap TiVO like unit. I have an old p2400 right now that's acting as a VCR using a Hauppauge WinTV PCI card and Snapstream to do the capturing. It's hooked up to a TV with a VGA input installed.
The problem I have right now is that I cannot playback and record...
It looks like you have the video capture and encoding taken care of. So all you want now is something to decode? How about buying a $30 MPEG2 decoder card with TV out? The money you save could help buy a hardware MPEG2 encoder too:-) These are going as low as $200 I've heard.
The way the telemarketters work is they are large enough (big call centers) that they have their own system. Caller Id information is generated by the system of origin.
You mean I can get my own PRI and forge the calling number ID information elements? And my PRI vendor won't bother to validate the call setup information elements? COOL!
Also, if a website wants to make impossible to deep link, well, its practically trival to check referrer headers to deny access to a URL if someone isn't following one of your links.
Heh. That suggests a new HTML tag to go with the anchor tag. As well as the URL and ALT tags, we can include a REFERER to advise the browser that it should send an alternate referer to the server:-)
Being a Norwegian company, would they be under the same mandate to hand over all 'suspect' search queries for abuse by the US's new CIAFBINSASSSASD (known in PRSpeak as the Information Awareness Office)?
More seriously, do you have any knowlege that this "mandate" exists? Is it public law? Executive order? Secret executive order? A directive from "high levels"? Or is this more of an "intelligent concern" of yours? There's nothing wrong with that - everyone with half a brain should be concerned about these possibilities.
"Hey, Pinkie! Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Well, I think so, Brain. But how can we launch a VoIP phone directory with just a couple of servers and a database? I mean (NARF!) even before we add the public key fingerprints and web-of-trust links, we are talking about gigabytes! And we're just a couple of mice!"
Check this out for another linux-based VoIP, standards-compliant (both SIP *and* H323) phone. ... They're cheap (~ $199 each) and they rock.
Cool. Since you seem to have some knowlege about these phones, is there plugin or module of some sort included for encryption? If not, is it easy to tunnel through ssh? It seems to me that a VoIP telephone directory could also serve the public key (or fingerprint at least). It would just be a matter of trust.
Even if you are right, the next version of MS Office won't run on Lindows anyway.
You may be right, but it would be very cool if the Microsoft divisions followed the footsteps of IBM. "Don't tell us not to support that other OS! Our customers want X and your OS preference policy is costing us sales!"
Look at it this way, suppose you have the choice of drinking two kinds of coffee tomorrow morning, one of which is known to be safe, the other may or may not be deadly. Now there's no proof that the second kind is or is not deadly, but you'll probably go with the first.
Now don't be so fast to decide... How do they taste?:-)
How does understanding programming make you more P2P-savvy?
Well, it doesn't:-) I just thought these would be good examples, and that learning to program would be comparable (at least) to learning to use a program. Allow me the chance to make a point by example.
Whenever I get some new software that I expect to use for some useful purpose, I promptly go through all of the menus and dialogs to see what is where. It will usually take me a few times to learn where everything is, but at least I have some idea what is available and what it is called. If there is some printed documentation (not as common nowadays), I also read that when I get the chance. That usually helps me understand the program better, and sometimes I need to read about something "from different angles" to understand it well.
You could argue that a program should be "intuitive", and that everything should be obvious, but that view only works for some things. A word processor should be (at minimum) a fancy extension of a typewriter, and it would be reasonable to expect that a typist should be able to obtain some functionality without having to understand all the features. But that ideal does not work for applications that do something novel, or require previous knowlege or experience. An advanced drawing program will not serve well a user that has no artistic skills - and the menu items may not even make sense.
A CAD program expects that the user has some drafting experience, or at least the willingness to spend the time to learn. I have no drafting skills, but because I wanted to learn, I quickly learned how Autocad worked, and how to use the command line interface to lay out my circuit boards. Remarkable? No. It just boils down to someone wanting to accomplish something. In my opinion, there are too many people who simply do not want to get off their asses to learn even the smallest thing.
I like the way computer geeks think anyone who doesn't know as much about computers as they do are idiots.
Maybe it is just that there are so many idiots.
Can you repair your own car?
Of course. Been there, done that, from clutches to carb overhaul, to head & valve work, to new piston rings and timing chains. Anyone with a brain can do all this and much more.
Build your own house?
Not yet, but a friend of mine has. I probably will someday myself, and look forward to it. Until then, I have built a couple large barn/sheds for practice.
Hell, can you cook your own food?
Of course. I've been cooking since I was a child (say, 7 or 8) at home and camping. I'm no gourmet chef, but it all tastes good:-)
Then why are these people dumb because they aren't computer experts?
Anyone who has spent more than a couple weeks with a computer has had plenty of opportunity to learn the basics of programming. I speak from personal experience. More than 20 years ago, I bought a couple BASIC programming books and was writing working programs in about a week. Within a couple months, I was writing a lot in assembly language. IT ISN'T HARD, FOLKS!
I speak from personal experience that anyone can do these things, plus learn foreign languages, fly an airplane, develop your own film and prints, lay out, etch, and drill your own circuit boards, use a scope, troubleshoot and repair electronic gear, configure routers, and many other things. All it takes is for someone to GET OFF HIS LAZY ASS AND DO IT.
Now, I still have many things that I would like to do when I get a chance, like learning a martial art, how to scuba dive, play a musical instrument, fly a helicopter, understand and design optics (and quantum electrodynamics, of course), and many other things. The important point is that if I needed any of these skills in my daily life, I would get on them IMMEDIATELY, and not whine like a baby that they are too hard to understand (sob!)
I wonder who actually starting calling "prohibited copiers", pirtates.
I think it was around 1984 or so that a friend of mine told me about a BBS back east (Boston?) called "Pirate's Bay" or "Pirate's Cove". I don't know if there are many earlier references, but that is what I remember.
I may also know one of the earliest computer viruses (Apple II, around 1983), but that's another story:-)
I have a 24 and 36 volt inverters. To add additional capacity all I need to do is add more batteries. The only thing to make sure is that there is proper ventalation for the batteries.
Even though you specifically mention that you provide ventilation, I bet you will still get people yapping at you that your setup is dangerous because of the hydrogen:-)
Just out of curiousity, how do you connect the batteries together? Do you use ordinary automotive cables connected to two huge bus bars? Or do you have some fancy connection blocks? I thought about doing something like this myself, but I never saw any really elegant way of connecting the batteries together.
It is a much lower cost solution and not as risky as there is not really high voltages.
The current can be absolutely amazing, though! I might not be so worried about touching an exposed contact, but I would be paranoid about letting any kind of metal object anywhere near the battereies!
So do you think the RIAA would be stupid enough to come after me if I distribute this song on a Napster-like system?
Why not? After all, everyone knows that MP3's are illegal. And [1] this song is copyrighted, so you would be "guilty of distributing copyrighted material" [2]. So maybe we shouldn't be surprised if the RIAA did want to get involved... [3]
[1] Every creative work has an automatic copyright, and I presume that EFF has not made a point of abandoning their copyright to the public domain. AFAIK, all GNU software is copyrighted, for instance.
[2] Forget that the copyright holder may authorize anyone and everyone to distribute their work... The point is that "people are distributing copyrighted material"! Oh, the humanity! (No, make that stupidity.)
[3] Sometimes I wonder if it will someday be a crime for me to distribute my OWN copyrighted material...
Get rid of the land line. Cell phones are cheaper and easier. Telemarketers don't have cell phone numbers.
That's an excellent point. I carry my cell phone everywhere, and everyone I know has the number. (I guess "they" can track me, now...) Recently I have stopped answering my home phone, and let my 2-year old answer it instead. She loves it! "Hewwwwooo?" babble babble babble. I figure that if she is still talking after a minute or so, it is someone in the family, and I can take over. Otherwise, who cares?:-)
Try DirectNIC.... And their responses are from experienced people and not simply canned generic messages.
I second that. I had a problem staying logged in to their web site, and their rep sent back a polite and informed answer promptly. Their web site works fine with Konqueror, which should be a given, but often is not with some web sites.
I just transfered a half dozen domains from NetSol, and it was no trouble at all. I had to confirm with Directnic with a web link, and reply to the Verisign confirmation email. I was really expecting to have all kinds of grief prying them loose from NetSol.
The funny thing is that Joker is being such a pain in the ass. Not only do I have to sign in with my login and password and pre-approve the transfer, but they impose a 5-day "cooling off" period, like I was buying a gun...
If I were a parent with young kids, and didn't have much money, the PS1 would seem like a good plan to me.
Exactly! That is what I did. First, I am NOT goin to spend $40 or more on a single game, period. Over the last couple months, I have bought all kinds of PS1 games off ebay for $6 to $20 each (after shipping). Also, I have burned copies of most of them so that my two year old can safely play games while the originals are kept out of reach.
The license is still free, you can get one for HPUX 11i right here:
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parse r. cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B9088A C
I think your link lost something in the translation - it didn't work for me. But it's good to know that it is still free to use. I never saw any need to go for 11, because all my 735 systems are all 32 bit, but this could be helpful for those with 64 bit machines.
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1 cm cubed of water weighs 1 gram and it takes 1 joule of energy to raise its temerature by 1 degree celcius.
Actually, 1 cc of water weighs about 1/100 of a newton, and one calorie will raise the cc of water by 1 degree celcius (about 4.2 joules).
That brings up a gripe. Why, why, why, did they leave Tom Bombadil and the barrow-wights out of the first movie?
I am still not really clear about the connection between Tom and the Ents (is his forest where all the Entwives went?), but I have to agree. Just how IS Pippin going to slay the Nazgul without the dagger from the wight's mound? "Oh, that? I just found it on the road..."
I wonder what effect this is having on the brain cancer rate in Japan?
It is probably too low to measure. Yes, it is true that the cell phones would tend to block background ionizing radiation and cosmic rays simply by virtue of its mass, but I think it would be hard to prove that cell phone usage reduces the cancer rate enough to be significant.
Estimated cost of 1.142g of lunar material: $5million
:-)
amount brought back by EACH mission: 100kg
total value of each lunar mission: $437 billio[n]
Of course, scarcity is the critical factor here. How much is a winning lottery ticket worth? How about a thousand? How much can I get for a 5 carat diamond? How much for 100 pounds of the same diamonds? Now how much for 10,000 pounds? It's funny how the value changes when scarcity is an issue, isn't it?
A tool to track a spanning tree across network backbones would not be hard to write; the broadcaster is simply the root of the tree.
Here is my first thought (maybe 20 seconds worth). The root of the tree is the encoder. Why shouldn't this node also receive a copy of the stream from one of it's downstream nodes? Effectively you have a large circle now, preferably as large as possible. As for identifying all of the nodes in the tree, the nodes may simply indicate whether they can accept new connections without divulging their neighbors. This prevents a trivial tree-walking at least.
What I want is a board for video capturing with a decent mpeg encoder chip on it. No a co-processor... a real mpeg encoder that does correct 3-2 pulldown detection, deinterlacing, etc.
Go to www.pricewatch.com and search for PVR. The bottom entry will be for the Hauppauge PVR USB encoder at $186 after shipping. You can proably get it at Fry's for $200.
This should use the same encoder chip as their earlier PCI card, which is a fairly decent encoder based on the Visiontech KFir design. For comparison, the $750 Sigma Designs RealMagic DVR is based on the same chip design. I have used a (different) board based on this chip, and the quality is pretty good. Not as good as a $7000 encoder from Optivision or Minerva, but still good.
One of my coworkers bought the USB version of this and he did have to fiddle with the registry to get encoding rates not in the software menus, but otherwise he seemed happy with it.
I'll tell you why I want this: I want to build a cheap TiVO like unit. I have an old p2400 right now that's acting as a VCR using a Hauppauge WinTV PCI card and Snapstream to do the capturing. It's hooked up to a TV with a VGA input installed.
:-) These are going as low as $200 I've heard.
The problem I have right now is that I cannot playback and record...
It looks like you have the video capture and encoding taken care of. So all you want now is something to decode? How about buying a $30 MPEG2 decoder card with TV out? The money you save could help buy a hardware MPEG2 encoder too
The way the telemarketters work is they are large enough (big call centers) that they have their own system. Caller Id information is generated by the system of origin.
You mean I can get my own PRI and forge the calling number ID information elements? And my PRI vendor won't bother to validate the call setup information elements? COOL!
Also, if a website wants to make impossible to deep link, well, its practically trival to check referrer headers to deny access to a URL if someone isn't following one of your links.
:-)
Heh. That suggests a new HTML tag to go with the anchor tag. As well as the URL and ALT tags, we can include a REFERER to advise the browser that it should send an alternate referer to the server
Being a Norwegian company, would they be under the same mandate to hand over all 'suspect' search queries for abuse by the US's new CIAFBINSASSSASD (known in PRSpeak as the Information Awareness Office)?
I would hope not, but perhaps there might be a profit angle involved.
More seriously, do you have any knowlege that this "mandate" exists? Is it public law? Executive order? Secret executive order? A directive from "high levels"? Or is this more of an "intelligent concern" of yours? There's nothing wrong with that - everyone with half a brain should be concerned about these possibilities.
"Hey, Pinkie! Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Well, I think so, Brain. But how can we launch a VoIP phone directory with just a couple of servers and a database? I mean (NARF!) even before we add the public key fingerprints and web-of-trust links, we are talking about gigabytes! And we're just a couple of mice!"
Check this out for another linux-based VoIP, standards-compliant (both SIP *and* H323) phone.
... They're cheap (~ $199 each) and they rock.
Cool. Since you seem to have some knowlege about these phones, is there plugin or module of some sort included for encryption? If not, is it easy to tunnel through ssh? It seems to me that a VoIP telephone directory could also serve the public key (or fingerprint at least). It would just be a matter of trust.
Even if you are right, the next version of MS Office won't run on Lindows anyway.
You may be right, but it would be very cool if the Microsoft divisions followed the footsteps of IBM. "Don't tell us not to support that other OS! Our customers want X and your OS preference policy is costing us sales!"
Look at it this way, suppose you have the choice of drinking two kinds of coffee tomorrow morning, one of which is known to be safe, the other may or may not be deadly. Now there's no proof that the second kind is or is not deadly, but you'll probably go with the first.
:-)
Now don't be so fast to decide... How do they taste?
How does understanding programming make you more P2P-savvy?
:-) I just thought these would be good examples, and that learning to program would be comparable (at least) to learning to use a program. Allow me the chance to make a point by example.
Well, it doesn't
Whenever I get some new software that I expect to use for some useful purpose, I promptly go through all of the menus and dialogs to see what is where. It will usually take me a few times to learn where everything is, but at least I have some idea what is available and what it is called. If there is some printed documentation (not as common nowadays), I also read that when I get the chance. That usually helps me understand the program better, and sometimes I need to read about something "from different angles" to understand it well.
You could argue that a program should be "intuitive", and that everything should be obvious, but that view only works for some things. A word processor should be (at minimum) a fancy extension of a typewriter, and it would be reasonable to expect that a typist should be able to obtain some functionality without having to understand all the features. But that ideal does not work for applications that do something novel, or require previous knowlege or experience. An advanced drawing program will not serve well a user that has no artistic skills - and the menu items may not even make sense.
A CAD program expects that the user has some drafting experience, or at least the willingness to spend the time to learn. I have no drafting skills, but because I wanted to learn, I quickly learned how Autocad worked, and how to use the command line interface to lay out my circuit boards. Remarkable? No. It just boils down to someone wanting to accomplish something. In my opinion, there are too many people who simply do not want to get off their asses to learn even the smallest thing.
I like the way computer geeks think anyone who doesn't know as much about computers as they do are idiots.
:-)
Maybe it is just that there are so many idiots.
Can you repair your own car?
Of course. Been there, done that, from clutches to carb overhaul, to head & valve work, to new piston rings and timing chains. Anyone with a brain can do all this and much more.
Build your own house?
Not yet, but a friend of mine has. I probably will someday myself, and look forward to it. Until then, I have built a couple large barn/sheds for practice.
Hell, can you cook your own food?
Of course. I've been cooking since I was a child (say, 7 or 8) at home and camping. I'm no gourmet chef, but it all tastes good
Then why are these people dumb because they aren't computer experts?
Anyone who has spent more than a couple weeks with a computer has had plenty of opportunity to learn the basics of programming. I speak from personal experience. More than 20 years ago, I bought a couple BASIC programming books and was writing working programs in about a week. Within a couple months, I was writing a lot in assembly language. IT ISN'T HARD, FOLKS!
I speak from personal experience that anyone can do these things, plus learn foreign languages, fly an airplane, develop your own film and prints, lay out, etch, and drill your own circuit boards, use a scope, troubleshoot and repair electronic gear, configure routers, and many other things. All it takes is for someone to GET OFF HIS LAZY ASS AND DO IT.
Now, I still have many things that I would like to do when I get a chance, like learning a martial art, how to scuba dive, play a musical instrument, fly a helicopter, understand and design optics (and quantum electrodynamics, of course), and many other things. The important point is that if I needed any of these skills in my daily life, I would get on them IMMEDIATELY, and not whine like a baby that they are too hard to understand (sob!)
I wonder who actually starting calling "prohibited copiers", pirtates.
:-)
I think it was around 1984 or so that a friend of mine told me about a BBS back east (Boston?) called "Pirate's Bay" or "Pirate's Cove". I don't know if there are many earlier references, but that is what I remember.
I may also know one of the earliest computer viruses (Apple II, around 1983), but that's another story
I have a 24 and 36 volt inverters. To add additional capacity all I need to do is add more batteries. The only thing to make sure is that there is proper ventalation for the batteries.
:-)
Even though you specifically mention that you provide ventilation, I bet you will still get people yapping at you that your setup is dangerous because of the hydrogen
Just out of curiousity, how do you connect the batteries together? Do you use ordinary automotive cables connected to two huge bus bars? Or do you have some fancy connection blocks? I thought about doing something like this myself, but I never saw any really elegant way of connecting the batteries together.
It is a much lower cost solution and not as risky as there is not really high voltages.
The current can be absolutely amazing, though! I might not be so worried about touching an exposed contact, but I would be paranoid about letting any kind of metal object anywhere near the battereies!
So do you think the RIAA would be stupid enough to come after me if I distribute this song on a Napster-like system?
Why not? After all, everyone knows that MP3's are illegal. And [1] this song is copyrighted, so you would be "guilty of distributing copyrighted material" [2]. So maybe we shouldn't be surprised if the RIAA did want to get involved... [3]
[1] Every creative work has an automatic copyright, and I presume that EFF has not made a point of abandoning their copyright to the public domain. AFAIK, all GNU software is copyrighted, for instance.
[2] Forget that the copyright holder may authorize anyone and everyone to distribute their work... The point is that "people are distributing copyrighted material"! Oh, the humanity! (No, make that stupidity.)
[3] Sometimes I wonder if it will someday be a crime for me to distribute my OWN copyrighted material...
Sprinkling holy water on it while it's making those noises will likely put it to rest, permanently. :)
Try explaining THAT to Microsoft Support... "Yeah, my data is still there, but all the system files are now gone!."
Dorthy Denning is the biggest kisass in academi...
...
"I've never seen a systematic study that showed open source to be more secure," said Dorothy Denning,
After her "trust me, it's secure" quotes supporting Clipper/capstone, I can reach no other conclusion than Dorothy Denning is a political whore.
Get rid of the land line. Cell phones are cheaper and easier. Telemarketers don't have cell phone numbers.
:-)
That's an excellent point. I carry my cell phone everywhere, and everyone I know has the number. (I guess "they" can track me, now...) Recently I have stopped answering my home phone, and let my 2-year old answer it instead. She loves it! "Hewwwwooo?" babble babble babble. I figure that if she is still talking after a minute or so, it is someone in the family, and I can take over. Otherwise, who cares?
Try DirectNIC. ... And their responses are from experienced people and not simply canned generic messages.
I second that. I had a problem staying logged in to their web site, and their rep sent back a polite and informed answer promptly. Their web site works fine with Konqueror, which should be a given, but often is not with some web sites.
I just transfered a half dozen domains from NetSol, and it was no trouble at all. I had to confirm with Directnic with a web link, and reply to the Verisign confirmation email. I was really expecting to have all kinds of grief prying them loose from NetSol.
The funny thing is that Joker is being such a pain in the ass. Not only do I have to sign in with my login and password and pre-approve the transfer, but they impose a 5-day "cooling off" period, like I was buying a gun...
If I were a parent with young kids, and didn't have much money, the PS1 would seem like a good plan to me.
Exactly! That is what I did. First, I am NOT goin to spend $40 or more on a single game, period. Over the last couple months, I have bought all kinds of PS1 games off ebay for $6 to $20 each (after shipping). Also, I have burned copies of most of them so that my two year old can safely play games while the originals are kept out of reach.
The license is still free, you can get one for HPUX 11i right here:
e r. cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B9088A C
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_pars
I think your link lost something in the translation - it didn't work for me. But it's good to know that it is still free to use. I never saw any need to go for 11, because all my 735 systems are all 32 bit, but this could be helpful for those with 64 bit machines.