For me it's the same pays for the violins, but if NASA did pay for russians to get their part done, big deal, the thing that matters is that they got it DONE!
It fuels research & development, and remember: Russians are those who gets there cheap & reliable! It's very important to develop methods to get there cheaper.
Besides, internation space station sounds neater x)
To be serious, it brings the two countries closer together, and rest of the world, now to get ESA participating...
You don't need to transfer at 76Hz, far from it. 24FPS is what eye sees, 29FPS (NTSC) would be staying on the safe side. Data needed drops dramatically. Oh yeah, on that 1.544Mbps you can have way higher res, with full colour and see it live, with audio (ever heard of for example: DivX, Xvid, WMV, Real Media, Quicktime Mov?)
and for those saying that 29FPS for playing a game is too low: You are wrong, why it feels a huge difference being playing on 30FPS and say 90FPS, that there actually is a change, is because your computer doesn't have the computational power and it would go something like this: 1/4seconds: 5 images rendered. 2/4seconds: 1 image rendered. 3/4seconds: 15 images rendered. 1second: 9 images rendered. Total: 30FPS.
That is why. not because your eye could see more. for the Hz then, why you see flickering when Hz is below 85hz? Afaik, it's because the screen goes partially blank / darkened between the refreshes, and below 85Hz there is so much dark period on some parts, that your eye gets it as darkened --> thus flickering. Btw, use 85hz it's better for your eyes. (/me runs on 1600x1200 @85Hz)
Get your terms right! "1Ghz link"?? You mean 1Gbps:)
also, T1 line to every user: 1.544Mbits/sec is SLOW and ANCIENT! For example, i have 8/1Mbps DSL link straight to home, and it costs only 45euros per month. That's quite many times the speed of T1 line. Nevermind the users with cable over here: for years & years many of them have had 10Mbps to home (or whatever the maximum of Motorola's cable tech is).
Also, there is currently more and more people with even faster connections around here. Many who i know have 10Mbps & 100Mbps connections.
Now, next thing: 76Hz is too low, 85Hz so your eyes can take it better (76Hz is too low, and atleast i can see on white the flickering quite easily). and for gaming: no no, most, 98% or so people doesnt' have enough pwoer or good enough monitors for 1600x1200 gaming. I do run on 1600x1200 @85Hz normally, but even my computer is highend, i rarely use higher resolution than 1280x1024 on games.
Next thing: your calculation 76 x 1600 x 1200 x 24bits/second, nope you got it WRONG! you don't need to calculate monitor Hz on it, far from it. You need 24FPS, preferrably a little bit over that so we take NTSC, roughly 29FPS, that's 29 pics per second: 29 * 1600 * 1200 * 24(yes, we don't need alpha channel here) == ~1.244Gbps, now account in compression. For an high quality 1600x1200 image, assume as high as 600kb per image: 29 * 600 = 14,06megs per second. Imo that much is high. That would still equal to be needing atleast 168,75Mbps link, now take in account that you need low latency and to be safe: 2x100Mbps links.
Way less than what you specify, you do have a point there, but if we take in account a efficient real time compression method, you can have that image coming at ie. 2048Kbps, 2Mbps == 256k/s, so you'd need 4Mbps link to be safe.
Now audio, we do have excellent compresison methods already, MP3 & OGG, for lossless FLAC. MP3 @ 128Kbps sounds very good already. Rather use OGG @ 64Kbps per channel(which is same as 128Kbps Stereo), for 5.1:: 384Kbps is 48k/s, a 512Kbps DSL connection would be sufficient. Now, take in account that you can compress waaay higher the subwoofer channel as it only needs frequencies upto 200Hz (no sub should play higher than this imo, i set only weak subs to as high as 120Hz, and i've listened to subs with crossover set at 20Hz, now you don't hear it anymore, you feel it!), so assume 200Hz, from the usual 44Khz. Oh yeah, by the way, even most cheap tweeters don't go even near that high as 44Khz. For example, SONY XS-H03 Car Tweeters (costs here 29euros per pair) has a range of 5Khz to 22Khz only.
So you could cut to 22Khz in most cases, why send data which will never get into air? Now take into accoutn that you need generalyl only 1024x768 video anyways.
The data rate needed has dropped significantly. Find some XVID/DIVX video with a very good image quality, double/triple it's data rate just to be sure for 1024x768, and you got the amount of data needed for that.
Then your next mistake: $200 PC with $100 graphics card... Uhm, you gonna use used parts? (for cpu, mobo, hdd, case, psu) Here in Finland, cheapeast computer goes for around 200 yes, but it's far from game heaven! Actually, you could only play with it couple years old games! Now is that good for playing? LOL!
"Web-appliance capable of rendering nice interfaces isn't going to be a whole lot cheaper than a regular PC." You gonna build a new web appliance for every user and supply computer with it or something???
No no, end user needs a old/cheap computer only: that around 200 PC, and a net connection, actually it would go way sub 200. Buy a mobo with integrated graphics ~50e, CPU & Heatsink ~40e, Case + PSU ~40e, CDROM drive ~20e, RAM 128Mb 20e and a bootable cd. Of course you need keyboard, monitor etc. now. Assume the bootable CD just is the end-user application for getting connect
You are forgetting something very important here... I mean something VERY VERY important.
It's just what you said weight. More weight, the costier it is to send to orbit, and i'm sure they've done their mathematics on which is cheaper solution.
And they use whatever is the cheapest method of getting titanium for sure, whether it be recycling SR-71s, or getting freshly mined:)
Oh yeah, weight in every form is problematic on space missions.
Reduced acceleration(=more fuel usage).
You need more propulsion get by on space(=more fuel usage).
When getting back: deceleration is slower(=less reliability, safety, and steerability).
Do i need to continue on?:)
about carbon fiber then.:
It's uasge is different, titanium as a metal you can weld(or atleast so i think), etc. other methods of handling it.
I think it will be cheaper on the production phase to use titanium, as with carbon fiber you cannot as easily mass produce, if i'd remember the name of that TV series about combat fighter production, some euro fighter or something it would help for you to watch it.
It contains a little bit of footage on carbon fiber "massproduction".
They laser cut the every piece, and have very complicated software to calculate what will give the most strength etc., how you need to form it and lay the pieces to get the strength out of it.
They have it robotically automated, but it still seems quite slow to produce the pieces.
And as an material? Yes, carbon fiber is VERY strong also, and it flexes, but i think in this usage they need very stiff materials.
Note that i do not know how much carbon fiber flexes, but i got into thinking it is somewhat flexing material, as in it flexes before it breaks. (ie. opposite to aluminium, which breaks rather than flexes, while indeed aluminium is quite soft metal).
read the article about it at wikipedia at Wikipedia
As you can see, Lockheed martin is an expert at producing fiber stuff already, and it is hard & difficult to mass produce.
Which means higher manufacturement costs.
Yes, i know that manufacturement costs are just one factor for NASA.
reading the wikipedia article about titanium, it somehow gives the image that titanium would be even just slightly lighter than carbon fiber, a quote:
"One of titanium's most notable characteristics is that it is as strong as steel but is less than half its weight.", while in the carbon fiber article there is a statement that half the weight compared to steel.
Not very precise comparison tho. Wikipedia Titanium Article
The bottomline is that there might be not much difference in would they use carbon fibre or titanium in the inner shell, but titanium is just slightly more suitable for it.
Will this be able to help in other kind of inabilities?
I'm not sure about the english name, but i think it is in english also CP inability.
My friend born so that he is inable to correctly move his legs & arms or anything at all, because his nervous system has sustained damage. I'm not sure about the specifics, because we don't talk about it for obvious reasons.
The thing is, his mind is capable of moving correctly etc. but his nervous system & body isn't. Badly spasmic etc which makes it even harder.
He needs someone to help him with everything, he can't even goto WC by himself. He is fortunate enough that his hands etc. work enough to use a computer, eat by himself, even write somehow.
But would this help him to move to more independent life? Those of which know better, what you think?
I happen to administer multiple servers running linux & freebsd DAILY. How about you?
About too many choices i ment that many users are dumb enough to ask questions like "Hey, i extracted this.zip file, and it gave me just more zip files, how do i open those zip files?", "How can i install app XYZ, it won't launch because it complains about something missing application or something".
Indirect comparison, or comparing only the software which work on both.
Never thought of that the OS is useless if you don't have the tools?
About the problems, didn't i mention missing 5.1 support in some cases? Non-working video drivers? Indeed, in this part Red Hat for example is done well, works out of box, but not some distros.
Linux distros have done progress, indeed. But simply not enough. Especially if you are technically savvy guy with too much to do to learn trillion new tricks. For example, GRUB, with first glance you won't know how the hell to configure it, now do you? After looking on it for a bit, okies, you get the info out. Using a Webcam? Oh yeah, what webcam support? searching on google, 15mins later you have some amateurishly coded hack somebody dares to call a driver, which miraculously starts to work after next 15mins and then you get to fiddle around with simply bad piece of software.
You are just trying to neglect that software actually makes most of the productivity. If not, we would be comparing Distros (uncomparable almost, everyone likes different flavour), or perhaps only the core of the os, what kernel has the best prerequisites for productivity?
Oh yeah, that mouse focus thing, you can get that on windows also, and the one curious enough can find all the tools needed to customize the look & feel, and many many deeper aspects, down to many low-level hardware stuff. Ever heard of Litestep, Darkstep, Astonshell? Litestep is stable & very customizeable, a little bit deep learning curve tho. Astonshell then again is one of those "Just Works" apps, and gives plenty of customizeability still.
Or aren't they part of comparison because they do not ship with the os install?;)
There is also PLENTY of little things which are quite annoying. For example, atleast on older distros, it was a hindrance to change resolution, no way to do it on the fly. Also i remember back when using Red Hat 9, X-Windows seemed to just halt now and then for no apparent reason. Then taskbar(you know, the bottom bar where you have application window texts you have running, and some button which opens a menu, clock, system tray where is small icons, and some small icon buttons to launch apps, ever heard of it?), yes it is customizeable but i always feel there is not enough space and it just looks AWKWARD & UGLY on most distros.
some distro i tried, might've been RH8 or 7, had the annoyance of changing virtual desktop when bringing mouse too close to the edge, which i often do to get it out of my sight.
One funny thing is that distro comes with xmms, but no mp3 support, hurray! Do i really need to be swapping audio cds very often? x) Atleast you can find the info to make them play fast on google.
Want me to continue on? I've got plenty of examples, but you don't have any REAL arguments, just imagined scenarios?
You love linux because of what it represents, right? You perhaps have also very old computer, perhaps the classic 233MMX x), and all you do is like read your email, irc a little bit, and then get back to work to clean puke from busses, right?
And you are already jumping around "good solution for you", i'm not trying to push any one to use windows, why so defending? Because you don't really believe linux is so productive as you say?
This also wasn't FEATURE comparison, but PRODUCTIVITY, and software has VERY HUGE impact on productivity.
I don't enjoy flame wars, i simply don't look into them, not worth it.
Okies, what about documentation? On windows comes a lot of documentation with in, on Linux, you gotta know where to look for the documentation, tldp.org and perhaps some docs with the distro (every distro don't include them...)
Then, i said i don't know much about Mac OS, but latest version is basically a *nix system, right? With different gui etc. My experience windows compared to mac os, windows wins.
Software working on any given os is part of the productivity provided by the OS as all software does not work on all OSes.
Even the OS itself would be super creative, but 3rd party software sucks, then what's the worthiness in productivity for the OS? None.
Next time you prolly say that X-Windows isn't part of the OS, only kernel is. Right?
All problems relate to productivity *DIRECTLY* as all time solving OS problems is away from the productivity. Where is your logic? You perhaps a tall blonde & female?
Just works --> Oh, how so? Almost every software you install on Linux needs some kind of tweaks etc. Sometimes no menu shortcuts created and you got to search for the execution file. Sometimes it is that X-Windows doesn't even start because distro installation isn't intelligent enough to get it work at all (ie. Debian with newer nVidia used to be like this). Some software you need to recompile on some distros, or does not even come for some very popular distros. Again, some time lost from the work itself to solve OS problems.
Ease of Use and Productivity _ARE_ the key things for desktops, not how customizeable.
How windows creates the productivity? Never heard of their studies on how gui should be layed out? Where did the window makers on Linux get their ideas on howto work and howto layout?
On Linux there is A LOT of hindrances considering desktop use. Starting from basic things, auto-focus by pointer UARGH, getting the resolution you want easily on the refresh rate you want, doesn't take much time, but indeed is slower than on windows machine. Also, using this one solution or that another one for this job? Too many choices available for mainstream.
And 95% or more of the applications FOR DESKTOP is at tops mediocre quality, and offers at tops mediocre productivity.
Also some application's linux versions seems start slower also.
Linux isn't all bad, not productive enough for desktop altho.
And one good measurement for OS productivity: What OS does big corporations use in their desktops? They need the maximum productivity. So they are good for measurement.
Yeah yeah, i know, all Linux / Open Source Zealots starts to bash me now.
But it is true: Windows is fast starting from the install.
You get windows box working well in 2hours easily, 3hours if doing some customization other than few settings.
Them there is software support: Photoshop Dreamweaver of the most notable ones. Haven't still foudn anything that can replace those two with atleast the same productivity!
I do a lot of web coding, daily, even it is not my work, about everyday i code something.
Then there is Microsoft Office, in my opinion, open office doesn't come even close to the productivity.
Oh yeah, i have unwillingly been even on office course learning how to use them, after you get how M$ Office works, it's just FAST, and CAPABLE.
Then the OS Gui itself... Well Windows has it's annoyances right where every else GUI but it is fast also. And atleast in my use very rarely crashes.
My puter is up 24/7 most of the time, and i do A LOT of tasks at the sametime, and it is stable enough.
Putty handles connections to server, and i do some of the coding directly with vim on the servers, but most happens on Dreamweaver as it handles colour coding, automatic uploading etc etc.
Photoshop is on the graphics side most creative, GIMP simply SUCKS compared to it.
On Linux after installing it which takes about 1hour, you need to start finding drivers, then possibly even debug them & fiddle around quite a long to get them working. Then you have obscure problems like you can't get 5.1 support (audio) work etc etc. with poor selection of Distro also UTF-8 problems, no application support etc etc etc. BUNCH of hindrances.
I used to like Linux a lot and recommend it into every place possible, but it is just not viable. Linux works well on servers etc. but don't take it even near to desktop if you need to be even somewhat near to today's level in productivity.
Where do i need Linux's stability on desktop? Does my desktop need 100d+ uptime? No. Windows is well stabile enough for desktop with it's average 20d+ uptimes.
Updates are easy to do, no need to compile stuff, simply works.
Tell me where to get something to replace dreamweaver & photoshop which comes even close to their productivity and i might give linux a shot again on desktop. But for sure, it is still not fast as windows because of the GUI.
Linux was made by geeks to geeks. Not by geeks to mainstream. Thus mainstream people will not adapt to linux until some of the geeks understand that productivity & ease of use are key values in desktop success.
About Mac OS i don't know, but given the options i've had so far, Windows takes the winning.
M$ people has worked hard on the productivity & ease of use side:) Where they loose on stability & security they win on those two key values imho.
And let the flame wars begin! Now all Linux advocates comes bashing me, but i don't care, as i get the job done in half the time as they do.
More importantly: There are no colours at the moment, only different shades of blue, to so deep it is almost black.
Ok, they ad more layers to it to get colors. Power consumption goes up again, assume they mix from 3 different colors, it is 3 times the power consumption per pixel in most cases when refresh happens.
It still probably uses a lot less power than other monitor types as it does not refresh all the time, and picture is mostly same in most usage for many many seconds.
For example while i'm writing this, moost of the time changes happen only to very small area of the screen, sometimes a bit larger as it scrolls down, but still a small percentage for couple minutes. When reading text little is changing...
Why doesn't the spammers understand that spamming is NOT the way go.
It destroys the rep of your company totally! But in most cases spammers don't care.
BUT
they should understand that is quite hard to get thru, so that the victim would even bother to open it. SPAM is destroying, and eating the net alive. One finnish professor said not so long ago, that internet will die 2006 because of spam. is he right or not, i don't know, but we are definately heading to that way!
He said that spam would exceed by that so greatly the amount of usefull information, that it would be the death of internet.
There is also some flash cartoons about this heading. Anti spam solutions are being developed all the time, so are they finding more ways to get past them.
More and more spammers are starting to find more ways to spam, ie. using poorly administrated PHPNuke websites with webmail capability to spam! My server also had one of those, i noticed it by accident, seeing that there were tens and tens of smtpd processes, time for a halt for SMTPD and to investigate the problem: bunch of people were spamming thru an website running on my server, PHPNuke with webmail.
About the sametime, couple days before that someone tried to find which accounts at my server were there by BRUTE FORCE! yes brute force, trying account names like fsdur, isau, weivd, weiouv, woidc, tens and tens of records per second!
More against spam needs to be done at the ISP level!
I had one of those, it was really nice, i'd like better light sensitivity, but you can't get everything.
It had quite good image quality, one socket for SD card, battery, in-build recharger etc.
Night mode and other juicy features.
It costed around 380-420euros here when i got one, altho i didn't pay that much.
It was really great for the price, and with 512mb sd card you can shoot over 2hours of video.
encodes also MPEG4/AAC.
Only thing is: those vids didn't play in BSPlayer, on WMP they played nicely altho, after installing the WMV codecs which came on the CD.
Didn't try other players.
So, basicly we have even worse game than the original.
Don't get me wrong, i love CS, but the fact so damn many cheats, it is really bad. I've been playing only with my friends anymore because of that. I've been playing CS for quite a long time, and wish there would be a reason to play on public servers too, but just so many cheats, and sometimes i just want a relaxing match:)
Oh yeah, and as a player, i'm on top 20% definately, so ain't because i would be loosing to these cheaters i don't like CS anymore at all, but the fact that it won't be a fair match (for them x)
china has big plans for the moon... thinking about that sentence i came up with something...
What IF they make an base there, populated by few dozen to few hundred men, perhaps more, they'd produce their own food there etc. plus manufacture some stuff needed in space, perhaps even mining the minerals!
Perhaps even an colonization model: "farmers" get cash for efficiency to get other stuff. engineers get cash for getting jobs done and to get food under their noses with that cash. farmers getting their common goods from engineers/shipments etc... And perhaps even using "mass driver" style method to get stuff there (played Stars!?;)
moon might be very cost effective pad for launching missions, way lower gravity and all.
The need for breathable air, water and food. this is perhaps the toughest one tho. vegetables etc.. can be farmed on site if you can supply enough water & air...
aww... i let my very well coffeinated brains rest...
Humanity is stronger because we are spread out, and if we actually get the guts to try to go into space permanently we will be stronger still
and we exhaust nature from it's riches...
this just proofs Agent Smith again... we are like a virus, we are an virus.;D
Yes, hopefully we will be going there soon.
also i find interesting that the russian "moonwalker" is almost not known at all! Seems like media got suppressed back then or something... because this would have been very big news at the time, i think.
WLAN access costs not so nice amounts... around 50eur/month for 512/512 connectivity supposed to be 24/7, works barely, a lot of downtimes and in many cases not achieving 512/512 speed at all, plus large costs to close the deal for the connection... so, welcome to finland where everything costs a lot more than it should...
My browser-based game, Paradox @ http://www.paradox-online.net (down currently because of DDoS) doesn't have that much of
forum participation in percentages, but if you
put it ingame, you will have a lot of participation. I tried this and got a lot of positive feedback, also after trying this more people joined the forums also. and i'm getting
more feedback.
http://www.paradox-online.net (down because of DDoS attack currently, but soon back up)
It is still on the beta phase and the player base has affected at making the game a lot, hugely. Still, i as the designer need to make design the bigger chances and come up with them. But all smaller things is affected by the player base etc. going to improve player feedback still a lot more.
well, i haven't seen much of security related stuff in red hat before. They've seemed to like always have exploit or two. Also, i remember that i had kinda a lot of problems when trying Red Hat with newer kernel & grsec. Not sure was it just bad luck. Windows is very hard to manage remotely altho.
Debian gets easy to manage, at initially because of apt (and you can always time apt upgrades), rhn wants registrations and all that not very nice stuff. also at rhn, if you do not have latest distro, it won't offer latest packages neither.
Then add to debian your custom kernel, kinda a lot easier because it doesn't default to grub, yes you can select lilo from rh install but sometimes you just somehow miss the button and forget whole thing. Then add there webmin with SSL, non default port and set firewall to only accept connections to webmin from trusted ips. if you have at home dynamic dns then a little bit of scripting is needed to change the trusted ip(s), i think good way is to get an dyndns acc and auto-update it for your home, and on the server a script which check ie. once in a hour the ip of that address and changes FW accordingly. also, in debian installing new software is very fast, comparing to red hat, just apt-get install
and, yes they are perhaps taking "lead" in security of linux distros now, but security ain't product, it is a process like someone said.
one thing i hate about apt altho is that it always wants me to install some freakin' kernel i don't need! oO; it just wants to install it while i don't want it while updating the system.
But, like said earlier, we could argue over this for months, without conclusion. someone likes RH best, someone Suse and someone debian.
and oh yeah, RH defaults to install XFree even on servers if i remember correctly, i hate that. or do i remember incorrectly?
in my case it does overlap...
I'm an, there is no way around there...
but still i'm also an gamer... sometimes i find
myself playing games all the day instead of
coding like i should...
and i drool over razer boomslang but haven't
still bought it... i would have bought it years
ago, but then it was too hard to get, there were
no reseller at finland. no here is multiple of
them, but couldn't buy it because i've needed
to buy other things (DAMN CARS!!! project still
halfway...)
Still i say boomslang is better gift than MX700,
because it was designed to be very accurate while
still being very fast:D
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oh come on, don't be a jackass!
For me it's the same pays for the violins, but if NASA did pay for russians to get their part done, big deal, the thing that matters is that they got it DONE!
It fuels research & development, and remember: Russians are those who gets there cheap & reliable!
It's very important to develop methods to get there cheaper.
Besides, internation space station sounds neater x)
To be serious, it brings the two countries closer together, and rest of the world, now to get ESA participating...
very intresting, but i wonder how long it'll get these to get really widespread
Do a Mini-ITX beowulf cluster: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/
You don't need to transfer at 76Hz, far from it.
24FPS is what eye sees, 29FPS (NTSC) would be staying on the safe side.
Data needed drops dramatically.
Oh yeah, on that 1.544Mbps you can have way higher res, with full colour and see it live, with audio (ever heard of for example: DivX, Xvid, WMV, Real Media, Quicktime Mov?)
and for those saying that 29FPS for playing a game is too low:
You are wrong, why it feels a huge difference being playing on 30FPS and say 90FPS, that there actually is a change, is because your
computer doesn't have the computational power and it would go something like this:
1/4seconds: 5 images rendered.
2/4seconds: 1 image rendered.
3/4seconds: 15 images rendered.
1second: 9 images rendered.
Total: 30FPS.
That is why. not because your eye could see more.
for the Hz then, why you see flickering when Hz is below 85hz?
Afaik, it's because the screen goes partially blank / darkened between the refreshes, and below 85Hz there is so much dark period on
some parts, that your eye gets it as darkened --> thus flickering.
Btw, use 85hz it's better for your eyes. (/me runs on 1600x1200 @85Hz)
Get your terms right! :)
:: 384Kbps is 48k/s, a 512Kbps DSL connection would be
"1Ghz link"?? You mean 1Gbps
also, T1 line to every user: 1.544Mbits/sec is SLOW and ANCIENT!
For example, i have 8/1Mbps DSL link straight to home, and it costs only 45euros per month. That's quite many times the speed of T1 line.
Nevermind the users with cable over here: for years & years many of them have had 10Mbps to home (or whatever the maximum of Motorola's
cable tech is).
Also, there is currently more and more people with even faster connections around here.
Many who i know have 10Mbps & 100Mbps connections.
Now, next thing: 76Hz is too low, 85Hz so your eyes can take it better (76Hz is too low, and atleast i can see on white the flickering
quite easily). and for gaming: no no, most, 98% or so people doesnt' have enough pwoer or good enough monitors for 1600x1200 gaming.
I do run on 1600x1200 @85Hz normally, but even my computer is highend, i rarely use higher resolution than 1280x1024 on games.
Next thing: your calculation 76 x 1600 x 1200 x 24bits/second, nope you got it WRONG! you don't need to calculate monitor Hz on it,
far from it.
You need 24FPS, preferrably a little bit over that so we take NTSC, roughly 29FPS, that's 29 pics per second:
29 * 1600 * 1200 * 24(yes, we don't need alpha channel here) == ~1.244Gbps, now account in compression.
For an high quality 1600x1200 image, assume as high as 600kb per image: 29 * 600 = 14,06megs per second. Imo that much is high.
That would still equal to be needing atleast 168,75Mbps link, now take in account that you need low latency and to be safe: 2x100Mbps
links.
Way less than what you specify, you do have a point there, but if we take in account a efficient real time compression method, you can
have that image coming at ie. 2048Kbps, 2Mbps == 256k/s, so you'd need 4Mbps link to be safe.
Now audio, we do have excellent compresison methods already, MP3 & OGG, for lossless FLAC.
MP3 @ 128Kbps sounds very good already.
Rather use OGG @ 64Kbps per channel(which is same as 128Kbps Stereo), for 5.1
sufficient.
Now, take in account that you can compress waaay higher the subwoofer channel as it only needs frequencies upto 200Hz (no sub should
play higher than this imo, i set only weak subs to as high as 120Hz, and i've listened to subs with crossover set at 20Hz, now you
don't hear it anymore, you feel it!), so assume 200Hz, from the usual 44Khz.
Oh yeah, by the way, even most cheap tweeters don't go even near that high as 44Khz.
For example, SONY XS-H03 Car Tweeters (costs here 29euros per pair) has a range of 5Khz to 22Khz only.
So you could cut to 22Khz in most cases, why send data which will never get into air?
Now take into accoutn that you need generalyl only 1024x768 video anyways.
The data rate needed has dropped significantly.
Find some XVID/DIVX video with a very good image quality, double/triple it's data rate just to be sure for 1024x768, and you got the
amount of data needed for that.
Then your next mistake: $200 PC with $100 graphics card... Uhm, you gonna use used parts? (for cpu, mobo, hdd, case, psu)
Here in Finland, cheapeast computer goes for around 200 yes, but it's far from game heaven!
Actually, you could only play with it couple years old games! Now is that good for playing? LOL!
"Web-appliance capable of rendering nice interfaces isn't going to be a whole lot cheaper than a regular PC."
You gonna build a new web appliance for every user and supply computer with it or something???
No no, end user needs a old/cheap computer only: that around 200 PC, and a net connection, actually it would go way sub 200.
Buy a mobo with integrated graphics ~50e, CPU & Heatsink ~40e, Case + PSU ~40e, CDROM drive ~20e, RAM 128Mb 20e and a bootable cd.
Of course you need keyboard, monitor etc. now.
Assume the bootable CD just is the end-user application for getting connect
Yeah, and marketing firms would just LOVE and pay ANYTHING to get their hands on all of that information.
/me smacks himself in the head remembering that he bought last night to his car a brand new spanking DVD player car stereos & TFT screen...
It's a little bit specific, but oh wow, would they learn TONS of new tricks to sell us stuff we don't really need...
You are forgetting something very important here... I mean something VERY VERY important.
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It's just what you said weight. More weight, the costier it is to send to orbit, and i'm sure they've done their mathematics on which is cheaper solution.
And they use whatever is the cheapest method of getting titanium for sure, whether it be recycling SR-71s, or getting freshly mined
Oh yeah, weight in every form is problematic on space missions.
Reduced acceleration(=more fuel usage).
You need more propulsion get by on space(=more fuel usage).
When getting back: deceleration is slower(=less reliability, safety, and steerability).
Do i need to continue on?
about carbon fiber then.:
It's uasge is different, titanium as a metal you can weld(or atleast so i think), etc. other methods of handling it.
I think it will be cheaper on the production phase to use titanium, as with carbon fiber you cannot as easily mass produce, if i'd remember the name of that TV series about combat fighter production, some euro fighter or something it would help for you to watch it.
It contains a little bit of footage on carbon fiber "massproduction".
They laser cut the every piece, and have very complicated software to calculate what will give the most strength etc., how you need to form it and lay the pieces to get the strength out of it.
They have it robotically automated, but it still seems quite slow to produce the pieces.
And as an material? Yes, carbon fiber is VERY strong also, and it flexes, but i think in this usage they need very stiff materials.
Note that i do not know how much carbon fiber flexes, but i got into thinking it is somewhat flexing material, as in it flexes before it breaks. (ie. opposite to aluminium, which breaks rather than flexes, while indeed aluminium is quite soft metal).
read the article about it at wikipedia at Wikipedia
As you can see, Lockheed martin is an expert at producing fiber stuff already, and it is hard & difficult to mass produce.
Which means higher manufacturement costs.
Yes, i know that manufacturement costs are just one factor for NASA.
reading the wikipedia article about titanium, it somehow gives the image that titanium would be even just slightly lighter than carbon fiber, a quote: "One of titanium's most notable characteristics is that it is as strong as steel but is less than half its weight.", while in the carbon fiber article there is a statement that half the weight compared to steel.
Not very precise comparison tho.
Wikipedia Titanium Article
The bottomline is that there might be not much difference in would they use carbon fibre or titanium in the inner shell, but titanium is just slightly more suitable for it.
Do your own conclusions of what i wrote here
Will this be able to help in other kind of inabilities?
I'm not sure about the english name, but i think it is in english also CP inability.
My friend born so that he is inable to correctly move his legs & arms or anything at all, because his nervous system has sustained damage. I'm not sure about the specifics, because we don't talk about it for obvious reasons.
The thing is, his mind is capable of moving correctly etc. but his nervous system & body isn't.
Badly spasmic etc which makes it even harder.
He needs someone to help him with everything, he can't even goto WC by himself.
He is fortunate enough that his hands etc. work enough to use a computer, eat by himself, even write somehow.
But would this help him to move to more independent life?
Those of which know better, what you think?
Going to personalities?
.zip file, and it gave me just more zip files, how do i open those zip files?",
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I happen to administer multiple servers running linux & freebsd DAILY. How about you?
About too many choices i ment that many users are dumb enough to ask questions like "Hey, i extracted this
"How can i install app XYZ, it won't launch because it complains about something missing application or something".
Indirect comparison, or comparing only the software which work on both.
Never thought of that the OS is useless if you don't have the tools?
About the problems, didn't i mention missing 5.1 support in some cases?
Non-working video drivers? Indeed, in this part Red Hat for example is done well, works out of box, but not some distros.
Linux distros have done progress, indeed.
But simply not enough.
Especially if you are technically savvy guy with too much to do to learn trillion new tricks.
For example, GRUB, with first glance you won't know how the hell to configure it, now do you?
After looking on it for a bit, okies, you get the
info out.
Using a Webcam? Oh yeah, what webcam support? searching on google, 15mins later you have some amateurishly coded hack somebody dares to call a driver, which miraculously starts to work after next 15mins and then you get to fiddle around with simply bad piece of software.
You are just trying to neglect that software actually makes most of the productivity.
If not, we would be comparing Distros (uncomparable almost, everyone likes different flavour), or perhaps only the core of the os, what kernel has the best prerequisites for productivity?
Oh yeah, that mouse focus thing, you can get that on windows also, and the one curious enough can find all the tools needed to customize the look & feel, and many many deeper aspects, down to many low-level hardware stuff.
Ever heard of Litestep, Darkstep, Astonshell?
Litestep is stable & very customizeable, a little bit deep learning curve tho.
Astonshell then again is one of those "Just Works" apps, and gives plenty of customizeability still.
Or aren't they part of comparison because they do not ship with the os install?
There is also PLENTY of little things which are quite annoying.
For example, atleast on older distros, it was a hindrance to change resolution, no way to do it on the fly.
Also i remember back when using Red Hat 9, X-Windows seemed to just halt now and then for no apparent reason.
Then taskbar(you know, the bottom bar where you have application window texts you have running, and some button which opens a menu, clock, system tray where is small icons, and some small icon buttons to launch apps, ever heard of it?), yes it is customizeable but i always feel there is not enough space and it just looks AWKWARD & UGLY on most distros.
some distro i tried, might've been RH8 or 7, had the annoyance of changing virtual desktop when bringing mouse too close to the edge, which i often do to get it out of my sight.
One funny thing is that distro comes with xmms, but no mp3 support, hurray!
Do i really need to be swapping audio cds very often? x)
Atleast you can find the info to make them play fast on google.
Want me to continue on?
I've got plenty of examples, but you don't have any REAL arguments, just imagined scenarios?
You love linux because of what it represents, right?
You perhaps have also very old computer, perhaps the classic 233MMX x), and all you do is like read your email, irc a little bit, and then get back to work to clean puke from busses, right?
And you are already jumping around "good solution for you", i'm not trying to push any one to use windows, why so defending? Because you don't really believe linux is so productive as you say?
This also wasn't FEATURE comparison, but PRODUCTIVITY, and software has VERY HUGE impact on productivity.
How about if i bring you a home-brewn dis
I don't enjoy flame wars, i simply don't look into them, not worth it.
Okies, what about documentation?
On windows comes a lot of documentation with in, on Linux, you gotta know where to look for the documentation, tldp.org and perhaps some docs with the distro (every distro don't include them...)
Then, i said i don't know much about Mac OS, but latest version is basically a *nix system, right?
With different gui etc.
My experience windows compared to mac os, windows wins.
Software working on any given os is part of the productivity provided by the OS as all software does not work on all OSes.
Even the OS itself would be super creative, but 3rd party software sucks, then what's the worthiness in productivity for the OS? None.
Next time you prolly say that X-Windows isn't part of the OS, only kernel is. Right?
All problems relate to productivity *DIRECTLY* as all time solving OS problems is away from the productivity. Where is your logic? You perhaps a tall blonde & female?
Just works --> Oh, how so?
Almost every software you install on Linux needs some kind of tweaks etc.
Sometimes no menu shortcuts created and you got to search for the execution file.
Sometimes it is that X-Windows doesn't even start because distro installation isn't intelligent enough to get it work at all (ie. Debian with newer nVidia used to be like this).
Some software you need to recompile on some distros, or does not even come for some very popular distros.
Again, some time lost from the work itself to solve OS problems.
Ease of Use and Productivity _ARE_ the key things for desktops, not how customizeable.
How windows creates the productivity?
Never heard of their studies on how gui should be layed out?
Where did the window makers on Linux get their ideas on howto work and howto layout?
On Linux there is A LOT of hindrances considering desktop use. Starting from basic things, auto-focus by pointer UARGH, getting the resolution you want easily on the refresh rate you want, doesn't take much time, but indeed is
slower than on windows machine.
Also, using this one solution or that another one for this job?
Too many choices available for mainstream.
And 95% or more of the applications FOR DESKTOP is at tops mediocre quality, and offers at tops
mediocre productivity.
Also some application's linux versions seems start slower also.
Linux isn't all bad, not productive enough for desktop altho.
And one good measurement for OS productivity:
What OS does big corporations use in their desktops? They need the maximum productivity.
So they are good for measurement.
Windows, Windows, Windows.
:) Where they loose on stability & security they win on those two key values imho.
Yeah yeah, i know, all Linux / Open Source Zealots starts to bash me now.
But it is true:
Windows is fast starting from the install.
You get windows box working well in 2hours easily, 3hours if doing some customization other than few settings.
Them there is software support:
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
of the most notable ones.
Haven't still foudn anything that can replace those two with atleast the same productivity!
I do a lot of web coding, daily, even it is not my work, about everyday i code something.
Then there is Microsoft Office, in my opinion,
open office doesn't come even close to the productivity.
Oh yeah, i have unwillingly been even on office course learning how to use them, after you get how M$ Office works, it's just FAST, and CAPABLE.
Then the OS Gui itself... Well Windows has it's annoyances right where every else GUI but it is fast also.
And atleast in my use very rarely crashes.
My puter is up 24/7 most of the time, and i do A LOT of tasks at the sametime, and it is stable enough.
Putty handles connections to server, and i do some of the coding directly with vim on the servers, but most happens on Dreamweaver as it
handles colour coding, automatic uploading etc etc.
Photoshop is on the graphics side most creative, GIMP simply SUCKS compared to it.
On Linux after installing it which takes about 1hour, you need to start finding drivers, then possibly even debug them & fiddle around quite a long to get them working.
Then you have obscure problems like you can't get 5.1 support (audio) work etc etc.
with poor selection of Distro also UTF-8 problems, no application support etc etc etc.
BUNCH of hindrances.
I used to like Linux a lot and recommend it into every place possible, but it is just not viable.
Linux works well on servers etc. but don't take
it even near to desktop if you need to be even
somewhat near to today's level in productivity.
Where do i need Linux's stability on desktop? Does my desktop need 100d+ uptime? No.
Windows is well stabile enough for desktop with it's average 20d+ uptimes.
Updates are easy to do, no need to compile stuff, simply works.
Tell me where to get something to replace
dreamweaver & photoshop which comes even close
to their productivity and i might give linux
a shot again on desktop.
But for sure, it is still not fast as windows because of the GUI.
Linux was made by geeks to geeks. Not by geeks to mainstream.
Thus mainstream people will not adapt to linux until some of the geeks understand that productivity & ease of use are key values in desktop success.
About Mac OS i don't know, but given the options
i've had so far, Windows takes the winning.
M$ people has worked hard on the productivity & ease of use side
And let the flame wars begin!
Now all Linux advocates comes bashing me, but i don't care, as i get the job done in half the time as they do.
"Soldier Not Included" well, daa!
More importantly: There are no colours at the moment, only different shades of blue, to so deep it is almost black.
Ok, they ad more layers to it to get colors. Power consumption goes up again, assume they mix from 3 different colors, it is 3 times the power consumption per pixel in most cases when refresh happens.
It still probably uses a lot less power than other monitor types as it does not refresh all the time,
and picture is mostly same in most usage for many many seconds.
For example while i'm writing this, moost of the time changes happen only to very small area of the screen, sometimes a bit larger as it scrolls down, but still a small percentage for couple minutes.
When reading text little is changing...
Why doesn't the spammers understand that spamming is NOT the way go.
It destroys the rep of your company totally! But in most cases spammers don't care.
BUT
they should understand that is quite hard to get thru, so that the victim would even bother to open it. SPAM is destroying, and eating the net alive.
One finnish professor said not so long ago, that internet will die 2006 because of spam. is he right or not, i don't know, but we are definately heading to that way!
He said that spam would exceed by that so greatly the amount of usefull information, that it would be the death of internet.
There is also some flash cartoons about this heading. Anti spam solutions are being developed all the time, so are they finding more ways to get past them.
More and more spammers are starting to find more ways to spam, ie. using poorly administrated PHPNuke websites with webmail capability to spam!
My server also had one of those, i noticed it by accident, seeing that there were tens and tens of smtpd processes, time for a halt for SMTPD and to investigate the problem: bunch of people were spamming thru an website running on my server, PHPNuke with webmail.
About the sametime, couple days before that someone tried to find which accounts at my server were there by BRUTE FORCE! yes brute force, trying account names like fsdur, isau, weivd, weiouv, woidc, tens and tens of records per second!
More against spam needs to be done at the ISP level!
Ever heard of http://www.dvdrhelp.com (or whatever their name is nowadays, changing all the time but all the old ones working too).
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There is a lot of help on this kind of situations, and there is always a way to convert an video file
WMV is pain in the ass sometimes, just update the codecs of it and should work fine
True, dual monitor is just piece of cake.
;)
I've been running years back 3 monitor system, and i were planning on upgrading to 4 or 5 monitor system, just for gigs of it.
This article is worthless, show me 12 monitors on single desktop PC with normal hardware
Mustek DV-4000, see it at http://www.mustek.com/html/prod_camra/dv4000/dv400 0.html
I had one of those, it was really nice, i'd like better light sensitivity, but you can't get everything.
It had quite good image quality, one socket for SD card, battery, in-build recharger etc. Night mode and other juicy features.
It costed around 380-420euros here when i got one, altho i didn't pay that much.
It was really great for the price, and with 512mb sd card you can shoot over 2hours of video. encodes also MPEG4/AAC.
Only thing is: those vids didn't play in BSPlayer, on WMP they played nicely altho, after installing the WMV codecs which came on the CD. Didn't try other players.
So, basicly we have even worse game than the original.
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Don't get me wrong, i love CS, but the fact so damn many cheats, it is really bad.
I've been playing only with my friends anymore because of that.
I've been playing CS for quite a long time, and wish there would be a reason to play on public servers too, but just so many cheats, and sometimes i just want a relaxing match
Oh yeah, and as a player, i'm on top 20% definately, so ain't because i would be loosing to these cheaters i don't like CS anymore at all, but the fact that it won't be a fair match (for them x)
china has big plans for the moon...
/shipments etc...
thinking about that sentence i came up with something...
What IF they make an base there, populated by few dozen to few hundred men, perhaps more, they'd produce their own food there etc. plus manufacture some stuff needed in space, perhaps even mining the minerals!
Perhaps even an colonization model: "farmers" get cash for efficiency to get other stuff. engineers get cash for getting jobs done and to get food under their noses with that cash. farmers getting their common goods from engineers
And perhaps even using "mass driver" style method to get stuff there (played Stars!?;)
moon might be very cost effective pad for launching missions, way lower gravity and all.
The need for breathable air, water and food. this is perhaps the toughest one tho. vegetables etc.. can be farmed on site if you can supply enough water & air...
aww... i let my very well coffeinated brains rest...
Humanity is stronger because we are spread out, and if we actually get the guts to try to go into space permanently we will be stronger still
;D
and we exhaust nature from it's riches...
this just proofs Agent Smith again... we are like a virus, we are an virus.
Yes, hopefully we will be going there soon.
also i find interesting that the russian "moonwalker" is almost not known at all!
Seems like media got suppressed back then or something... because this would have been very big news at the time, i think.
WLAN access costs not so nice amounts...
around 50eur/month for 512/512 connectivity supposed to be 24/7, works barely, a lot of downtimes and in many cases not achieving 512/512 speed at all, plus large costs to close the deal for the connection...
so, welcome to finland where everything costs a lot more than it should...
My browser-based game, Paradox @ http://www.paradox-online.net (down currently because of DDoS) doesn't have that much of forum participation in percentages, but if you put it ingame, you will have a lot of participation. I tried this and got a lot of positive feedback, also after trying this more people joined the forums also. and i'm getting more feedback.
This is actually what i'm doing on Paradox.
http://www.paradox-online.net (down because of DDoS attack currently, but soon back up)
It is still on the beta phase and the player base has affected at making the game a lot, hugely. Still, i as the designer need to make design the bigger chances and come up with them.
But all smaller things is affected by the player base etc. going to improve player feedback still
a lot more.
well, i haven't seen much of security related
stuff in red hat before. They've seemed to like
always have exploit or two.
Also, i remember that i had kinda a lot of problems when trying Red Hat with newer kernel &
grsec. Not sure was it just bad luck.
Windows is very hard to manage remotely altho.
Debian gets easy to manage, at initially because
of apt (and you can always time apt upgrades),
rhn wants registrations and all that not very
nice stuff. also at rhn, if you do not have latest distro, it won't offer latest packages
neither.
Then add to debian your custom kernel, kinda a
lot easier because it doesn't default to grub,
yes you can select lilo from rh install but
sometimes you just somehow miss the button and
forget whole thing.
Then add there webmin with SSL, non default port
and set firewall to only accept connections to
webmin from trusted ips. if you have at home
dynamic dns then a little bit of scripting is
needed to change the trusted ip(s), i think
good way is to get an dyndns acc and auto-update
it for your home, and on the server a script
which check ie. once in a hour the ip of that
address and changes FW accordingly.
also, in debian installing new software is very
fast, comparing to red hat, just apt-get install
and, yes they are perhaps taking "lead" in security of linux distros now, but security ain't
product, it is a process like someone said.
one thing i hate about apt altho is that it always wants me to install some freakin' kernel
i don't need! oO; it just wants to install it
while i don't want it while updating the system.
But, like said earlier, we could argue over this
for months, without conclusion. someone likes
RH best, someone Suse and someone debian.
and oh yeah, RH defaults to install XFree even on
servers if i remember correctly, i hate that. or
do i remember incorrectly?
in my case it does overlap... I'm an, there is no way around there... but still i'm also an gamer... sometimes i find myself playing games all the day instead of coding like i should... and i drool over razer boomslang but haven't still bought it... i would have bought it years ago, but then it was too hard to get, there were no reseller at finland. no here is multiple of them, but couldn't buy it because i've needed to buy other things (DAMN CARS!!! project still halfway...) Still i say boomslang is better gift than MX700, because it was designed to be very accurate while still being very fast :D