Except that I bet you aren't counting the graphical layer required to run Opera. If you want Opera, you have to run X, or similar. If you want to run lynx, you can do it console only.
To you and the other guy. We've had the service for 2 years now. at $5 a month, for 24 months, that's $120. We've already got our money's worth. It's obviously a concern, but if they gave warning of the service closing, or even if they closed without notice, I still have my own copies of the pictures, so I could just go with another service.
You may be able to copy them in Linux. Use "dd conv=noerror bs=2048 if=/dev/cdrom of=~/ImageFile.iso" . Then mount the resulting file as an IS09660 file, and you should be able to get some of the files off them. There may be some inconsistencies in the files, but most of the data should be there. I'm pretty sure i've used this method to get data off dead CDs.
We use Dropshots. Sure it's not full quality, but good enough to create new prints of the photos. And the videos don't need to be high quality. Just so long as you can clearly see what's going on. We did the $100 for lifetime membership, so over time it works out really well. I agree on the grandparents part. They love going to see the new photos online every day.
As the other guy mentioned, CDs are still readable, almost 20 years later. However, they didn't have a viable alternative until about 10 years ago. I think that you will easily be able to find a DVD drive for many years to come, at least the next 20. The problem becomes ensuring that the actual media doesn't get scratched. I wouldn't trust DVDs to last that long, even if you just leave them on a shelf, away from the sunlight. If I was really interested in saving the stuff, I would put it on hard disks with at least 1 redundant copy, if not 2, stored in different places, and transfer over every 3-4 years. Still, it's going to be a lot of data. Your kid is only 1, and you already have 100 GB of stuff. Just think about how much that will balloon to once the kid has an attention span of more than 43 seconds. The first hockey game, all the school plays, all the other junk you could record.
Personally, I just don't bother with recording much. My wife gets on my case for not taking a lot of pictures with the kids, but I'd rather be interacting and paying attention, rather than trying to ensure we have everything recorded. Sure sometimes like during school plays you can record and not miss anything, but a lot of times, I find when I'm trying to take videos, or photos, I end up missing out on the actual fun.
I was going to say that. Start off with a breadboard, wires, LEDs, and some logic gates, then move up from there. Kits often have the problem of not having something crucial, and making it hard to incorporate things that aren't included with the kit.
How do you explain their buggy implementation of HTML+CSS then? There are multiple Open source projects which support HTML far better than IE. The problem is that they aren't allowed to copy them, because they are mostly GPL (or similar). I imagine the same will happen with ODF.
Remember to get a TV Tuner that does MPEG encoding onboard. For recording two shows at once, you'll need something like the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 500. With a card like this, your processor will hardly get used at all in the encoding process.
Isn't that what MS XNA Game Studio hopes to accomplish. Let the little guys get back into programming games. Sure there's a small fee, but it's not much more than the cost of a couple games. And if you are really into creating games, it's a great way to get started.
However, isn't that kind of like dumping? Put your product out on the market, for less than it costs to make it, so that people will use it, allowing you to take over the market. Even assuming that people have legit copies of windows, they are still dumping copies of Office, and many other programs that don't come included with computers. By tolerating the piracy, they have been able to use their large monopoly, and vast piles of cash to get a stranglehold on the desktop market.
Yeah, I was going to mention that. I think it should be common practice now to re-encrypt the entire message. Computers have gotten fast enough now that it won't make any noticeable difference in processing time, at least for things like email. I'd have to wonder if there's even a reasonable difference for large files. With all the problems lately with people being able to generate identical hashes in a very finite time, I would think that people would want to abandon their use whenever possible.
Also, remember that Alice has to re-encrypt the message with her private key, so that Bob can decrypt the message with Alice's public key, so he can be sure that Alice was the one who sent it. This is what is know as signing the message.
I'm not sure how much more performance you could achieve simply by culling the unused stuff. Java already dynamically loads only the classes you use into memory. We have gotten to a point where people don't want to rewrite their own XML parsers, sorting algorithms, cryptography libraries, UI components, network connection handling functions, and all the other wonderful stuff provided by the.net and Java APIs. We're probably a lot better off because of it. Less time wasted writing code that someone has already written a million times. If you still want a smaller version of the JDK, there's always the Java Micro Edition Platform.
You may want to try installing faad. I don't play any AAC music files, but I know installing libfaad and other libraries lets me watch the trailers on Apple.com with sound. With libfaad, I can see the video, but the sound doesn't work. So it's probably related to that. I'm not sure if faad is available as part of the core repositories, or if you have to add PLF to you list of repositories.
I really don't care how fast the installer is. I don't install things or the whole OS often enough for it to make a difference. Even the slowest of the Linux installers seems to be fast enough. Speed of installation isn't really a selling feature. Ease of installation, configuration, and use are bigger selling features.
Same here in Canada. Except that the students are all shoved into the same building. In highschool, classes are separated into 3 levels, with the highest level granting access to university. The middle level is for kids who want to do community college or trade school, and the lowest level is for people who will only ever finish highschool.
When I entered highschool, they just started this new de-streaming program, where all the grade 9 students were put together in one big class, and your results in those classes helped them better decide whether you should take advanced, general, or basic level courses through the rest of highschool. It used to be the case that they would split you up, as soon as you entered grade 9. Grade 9 was a mess. Many of the students didn't care, and the smart kids ended up being bored, and also misbehaving, because they had nothing better to do. I don't think the teachers liked it much either.
I agree. If we continue on with the cake analogy, we have to change it a little bit. Let's assume we have a cake eating contest, and that the goal is to eat the entire cake as fast as possible. It would make sense to give the largest pieces to those who can eat the most cake. For those that don't want to eat as much cake, they can still help out by eating a little. But they shouldn't be given the biggest helping, because it won't help you win the competition. Assuming cake eating is the goal, you shouldn't lower the standards for everyone to make the non-cake eaters feel like they are doing a better job. I'm not so sure I'm ok with the way things are going with kids. We have to treat all the kids like they are the best at everything. When that simply isn't true. When I was a kid, and I played baseball, I always played the field, and was always near the end of the batting lineup. What I learned from that, was that I just wasn't a good baseball player. And I'm ok with that. I was always encouraged to practice, and I wasn't put down. But there was no way I was going to get a chance to play pitcher or shortstop. You see these people on American idle that sing like a cat in heat trapped under a truck, and they think they can sing. That's because everybody has hid the truth from them. That they really can't sing, but people are too afraid to hurt their self esteem.
Kind of reminds me of myself in school. I didn't always get the highest marks, but I almost always finished tests and exams quite quickly. At least when I got to highschool, I could leave the final exams early, and teachers wouldn't mind if I took a 10 minute bathroom break after I finished the in-class tests. I tried some gifted programs, but they really didn't focus enough on what the students were interested in. It was basically like going to another science/math class where you still had no control over what you were learning.
The real WTF is that the kindergarten students have to use a computer to complete a language test. That's the stated reason for spending $8 Million moving back to windows. Why not just commission a new testing program. It would certainly cost less than $8 miliion. Or you know, they could go back to good old paper tests.
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Except that I bet you aren't counting the graphical layer required to run Opera. If you want Opera, you have to run X, or similar. If you want to run lynx, you can do it console only.
To you and the other guy. We've had the service for 2 years now. at $5 a month, for 24 months, that's $120. We've already got our money's worth. It's obviously a concern, but if they gave warning of the service closing, or even if they closed without notice, I still have my own copies of the pictures, so I could just go with another service.
You may be able to copy them in Linux. Use "dd conv=noerror bs=2048 if=/dev/cdrom of=~/ImageFile.iso" . Then mount the resulting file as an IS09660 file, and you should be able to get some of the files off them. There may be some inconsistencies in the files, but most of the data should be there. I'm pretty sure i've used this method to get data off dead CDs.
We use Dropshots. Sure it's not full quality, but good enough to create new prints of the photos. And the videos don't need to be high quality. Just so long as you can clearly see what's going on. We did the $100 for lifetime membership, so over time it works out really well. I agree on the grandparents part. They love going to see the new photos online every day.
As the other guy mentioned, CDs are still readable, almost 20 years later. However, they didn't have a viable alternative until about 10 years ago. I think that you will easily be able to find a DVD drive for many years to come, at least the next 20. The problem becomes ensuring that the actual media doesn't get scratched. I wouldn't trust DVDs to last that long, even if you just leave them on a shelf, away from the sunlight. If I was really interested in saving the stuff, I would put it on hard disks with at least 1 redundant copy, if not 2, stored in different places, and transfer over every 3-4 years. Still, it's going to be a lot of data. Your kid is only 1, and you already have 100 GB of stuff. Just think about how much that will balloon to once the kid has an attention span of more than 43 seconds. The first hockey game, all the school plays, all the other junk you could record.
Personally, I just don't bother with recording much. My wife gets on my case for not taking a lot of pictures with the kids, but I'd rather be interacting and paying attention, rather than trying to ensure we have everything recorded. Sure sometimes like during school plays you can record and not miss anything, but a lot of times, I find when I'm trying to take videos, or photos, I end up missing out on the actual fun.
I was going to say that. Start off with a breadboard, wires, LEDs, and some logic gates, then move up from there. Kits often have the problem of not having something crucial, and making it hard to incorporate things that aren't included with the kit.
How do you explain their buggy implementation of HTML+CSS then? There are multiple Open source projects which support HTML far better than IE. The problem is that they aren't allowed to copy them, because they are mostly GPL (or similar). I imagine the same will happen with ODF.
Remember to get a TV Tuner that does MPEG encoding onboard. For recording two shows at once, you'll need something like the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 500. With a card like this, your processor will hardly get used at all in the encoding process.
Isn't that what MS XNA Game Studio hopes to accomplish. Let the little guys get back into programming games. Sure there's a small fee, but it's not much more than the cost of a couple games. And if you are really into creating games, it's a great way to get started.
However, isn't that kind of like dumping? Put your product out on the market, for less than it costs to make it, so that people will use it, allowing you to take over the market. Even assuming that people have legit copies of windows, they are still dumping copies of Office, and many other programs that don't come included with computers. By tolerating the piracy, they have been able to use their large monopoly, and vast piles of cash to get a stranglehold on the desktop market.
Yeah, I was going to mention that. I think it should be common practice now to re-encrypt the entire message. Computers have gotten fast enough now that it won't make any noticeable difference in processing time, at least for things like email. I'd have to wonder if there's even a reasonable difference for large files. With all the problems lately with people being able to generate identical hashes in a very finite time, I would think that people would want to abandon their use whenever possible.
Also, remember that Alice has to re-encrypt the message with her private key, so that Bob can decrypt the message with Alice's public key, so he can be sure that Alice was the one who sent it. This is what is know as signing the message.
Get fired for reading the email of other employees? No way. Some companies even hire people to read employee email.
I'm not sure how much more performance you could achieve simply by culling the unused stuff. Java already dynamically loads only the classes you use into memory. We have gotten to a point where people don't want to rewrite their own XML parsers, sorting algorithms, cryptography libraries, UI components, network connection handling functions, and all the other wonderful stuff provided by the .net and Java APIs. We're probably a lot better off because of it. Less time wasted writing code that someone has already written a million times. If you still want a smaller version of the JDK, there's always the Java Micro Edition Platform.
It wasn't intentional. It was a nice Freudian slip though.
You may want to try installing faad. I don't play any AAC music files, but I know installing libfaad and other libraries lets me watch the trailers on Apple.com with sound. With libfaad, I can see the video, but the sound doesn't work. So it's probably related to that. I'm not sure if faad is available as part of the core repositories, or if you have to add PLF to you list of repositories.
I really don't care how fast the installer is. I don't install things or the whole OS often enough for it to make a difference. Even the slowest of the Linux installers seems to be fast enough. Speed of installation isn't really a selling feature. Ease of installation, configuration, and use are bigger selling features.
In my experience, Mandriva all does all 5 of those quite well.
Same here in Canada. Except that the students are all shoved into the same building. In highschool, classes are separated into 3 levels, with the highest level granting access to university. The middle level is for kids who want to do community college or trade school, and the lowest level is for people who will only ever finish highschool.
When I entered highschool, they just started this new de-streaming program, where all the grade 9 students were put together in one big class, and your results in those classes helped them better decide whether you should take advanced, general, or basic level courses through the rest of highschool. It used to be the case that they would split you up, as soon as you entered grade 9. Grade 9 was a mess. Many of the students didn't care, and the smart kids ended up being bored, and also misbehaving, because they had nothing better to do. I don't think the teachers liked it much either.
I agree. If we continue on with the cake analogy, we have to change it a little bit. Let's assume we have a cake eating contest, and that the goal is to eat the entire cake as fast as possible. It would make sense to give the largest pieces to those who can eat the most cake. For those that don't want to eat as much cake, they can still help out by eating a little. But they shouldn't be given the biggest helping, because it won't help you win the competition. Assuming cake eating is the goal, you shouldn't lower the standards for everyone to make the non-cake eaters feel like they are doing a better job. I'm not so sure I'm ok with the way things are going with kids. We have to treat all the kids like they are the best at everything. When that simply isn't true. When I was a kid, and I played baseball, I always played the field, and was always near the end of the batting lineup. What I learned from that, was that I just wasn't a good baseball player. And I'm ok with that. I was always encouraged to practice, and I wasn't put down. But there was no way I was going to get a chance to play pitcher or shortstop. You see these people on American idle that sing like a cat in heat trapped under a truck, and they think they can sing. That's because everybody has hid the truth from them. That they really can't sing, but people are too afraid to hurt their self esteem.
Kind of reminds me of myself in school. I didn't always get the highest marks, but I almost always finished tests and exams quite quickly. At least when I got to highschool, I could leave the final exams early, and teachers wouldn't mind if I took a 10 minute bathroom break after I finished the in-class tests. I tried some gifted programs, but they really didn't focus enough on what the students were interested in. It was basically like going to another science/math class where you still had no control over what you were learning.
Yeah, but if you're going to use the cheap route and just use GPL'd code, why not just put a tarball up on your website?
Only 22 digits? I swear in the pre-mp3 days I had more than that many midi tracks sitting around on my computer.
The real WTF is that the kindergarten students have to use a computer to complete a language test. That's the stated reason for spending $8 Million moving back to windows. Why not just commission a new testing program. It would certainly cost less than $8 miliion. Or you know, they could go back to good old paper tests.