The Peter Jackson movie, also known as 'Brain Dead' outside of the USA. A totally different movie, also called 'Brain Dead', ranks as one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
According to the tldp article, QAM includes the phase shift component. I wasn't aware of that (or maybe I was, but who cares anyway - enough of this, I have work to do!:)
QPSK is basically phase encoding, and the amplitude modulation you mention in this context is called QAM, IIRC. There are more than 8 constellation points too - I forget the relationship between the number of points and the bitrate but it's probably something like 64 points at 9600 baud.
But that's the extent of my experience. Although I've studied this stuff in-depth, I don't recall much of it, and I've never had to implement it.
QPSK (Quadrature/Quaternary Phase Shift Keying) is the basis of 'modern' modem operation I think. It's been a while since I looked at this stuff in a formal context.
Modern dial-up modems already use compression, and as you say, how do you compress what's already compressed? True or false, it's very little if anything to do with compression - that's already been exploited.
The article is about *warnings* of copy protection, not a new kind of CP.
> They'll roll this out, a very vocal, splinter > minority will kick up a loud stink, it'll blow > over, and we'll have lost a little more freedom
Tell me, how does your spiel relate to placing warnings of copy protection on product packaging? How will this 'lose a little more freedom' - surely it gives you more information with which to base your choice? Sounds like more, not less, freedom to me.
It's not about censoring the Internet, it's about engineering better ways to catch child porn offenders. These people encourage the proliferation of child pornography, and therefore directly increase the demand for such material. This in turn, to put it simply, makes more children victims.
NZ is actually a pretty liberal country. We don't have laughable copyright and patent laws, or restrictive constitutional 'rights' basically granting all-and-sundry the privilege of gunning down their neighbour because they were having an 'off day'. It's also not illegal in NZ for an 18 year old to view all kinds of 'adult' material. It's just the really sick stuff that's illegal because *something bad happened to someone*.
errr,... are you refering to the restrictions on alcohol possession and consumption in *specified* public places??
Over the summer, many towns and cities in NZ placed alcohol bans on certain places of congregation - popular beaches, parks, etc. This was due to the large number of oafish teenagers meeting up and causing chaos (including a few deaths as well as a lot of property damage). These restrictions had certain times during which they applied - you just had to get up off your fat backside and go to the supermarket a bit earlier! It's known as 'planning'...
If you want to get your wine to your friends place, give up the weed, go to some lectures for a change, get a proper education (and preferably not in adventure tourism - try something useful instead), get a decent job, get a respectable haircut, buy some decent clothes and quit hanging around with your drunk loser 'buddies'. Then maybe the cops won't home in on you all the time.
They should never have lowered the drinking age to 18 - it's those people under 20 that are causing the most problems, and they brought the liquor bans upon themselves.
You've completely forgotten about market economics - supply and demand:
Child pornography encourages the abuse of children. Making it easier for the authorities to catch these people is a good thing - it is these people who *encourage* the production of such porn, and hence *encourage* the abuse of children (no matter what country they are in). I'm a NZer and I'm more than happy with this - people who view child porn intentionally need to be removed from normal society and prevented from further encouraging the trade.
There's been a fair bit on the media here recently, some TV/radio news articles about how they track down offenders, etc. Justice Minister Phil Goff makes it quite clear that they are *not* talking about 'adult material' - they are mainly concerned with child pornography and the possibility that the problem might become worse. Until very recently, the penalty for trading C.P. was up to 2 years in prison, and for possession - a $2000 fine. It's now up to 10 years for trading and 2 years for possession (IIRC).
The underlying issue here is the exploitation and abuse of children, especially for the purpose of creating sexual material. One of the persons interviewed about this on the national radio programme (I forget who he was - but related to C.P. investigation I think) said he knew of no cases involving the actual abuse of children for the purpose of creating pornography *within* NZ, but we have a fair share of traders, and there's a perceived need to restrict the growth of this destructive vice before people start making the stuff here.
NZ is a fairly safe society I think. We have a commissioner for children too - we like to think we take the safety of our children quite seriously. If you want to view or trade in child porn - go elsewhere, we don't want you here. Yes, the government has a role in protecting us from murderers, rapists and thieves, but that includes putting a stop to any industry that harms an individual or group of society, which is what C.P. does. C.P. is not harmless, it's evil spreads far further than the viewers PC.
I used Octave quite extensively for some DSP work I did last year. It doesn't have a lot of the nice filter design tools that Matlab has, but as far as simple filter design goes, it isn't too bad at all. From a mathematical point of view, I think it's quite adequate for a lot of problems, especially those involving matrices.
There's a similar system operating in Christchurch, New Zealand. I'm not sure if it's fully deployed yet, but it uses a combination of GPS and displays at bus stops to alert waiting passengers of delays and expected arrival times.
I hear there's a slight problem - the bus drivers are said to sometimes unplug the GPS transceiver because it is used by management to keep an eye on them.
Thats how TelstraClearSaturnJupiterOpaque-whatever-the-hell- they're-called-now does their pricing in New Zealand. For $NZ66 a month (or something like that - haven't sat down to work it out exactly) I get 5 Gigs a month international traffic at 256kbit/sec. If you go over the 5 Gigs, you start getting charged at some phenomenally high rate (I got an extra $75 on my bill last month for stupidly running an unattended debian apt-get distupgrade overnight... doh).
Yes, Forgotten Silver and the footage shown was fake, but the event did happen. At the time, Richard Pearse didn't realise the significance of his achievement and didn't bother to publicise it, which is why it didn't become a more famous event.
well, I got a compact self-contained picnic blanket, which was pretty cool because a week before my girlfriend got a picnic 'pack' complete with chiller pouch and cutlery from her company. The two complement each other nicely. Now we are both looking forward to picnicing near Lake Taupo over New Years.
Far more useful than a silly gift, although I did get a huge Christmas ham a few years back, which was cool.
It's been 100 years and 9 months since the first man-made powered flight, made not by the Wright brothers, but Richard Pearse, a New Zealander.
On March 31st, 1902, he flew a short distance with a primitive aircraft powered by a petrol engine. Some argue that this wasn't really technically a 'flight', however he made several more in the months before the Wright Brothers officially got off the ground, including one over 1km long. Resources are abundant on Google but here's an interesting one
So the NASA Centennial of Flight will be 21 months late... unless of course they are merely celebrating coming second.
Richard Pearse is relatively unknown outside of New Zealand, thanks largely to the United States who refuses to admit to the truth.
I can't speak for this particular patent, but a US patent will only affect you if you are operating within the US jurisdiction (for example exporting goods to the USA). US patents generally will not affect you in NZ unless they have taken out a patent there also.
My understanding is that there is no such thing as a 'global' patent - you have to register your invention in every country you have an interest in. It gets quite costly.
It's been this way in New Zealand for as long as I can remember. I don't understood why cellular communications is still so expensive. Consider a text message - at 150 characters long for 20 cents, that's a bandwidth cost of approx NZ$1400 a megabyte!
Someone's raking it in...
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Flight of the Navigator was a NZ movie too - a little strange but it makes an impression.
A few classic NZ movies:
Peter Jackson's 'Brain Dead' (aka Dead Alive).
Also, Bad Taste (classic!).
The Quiet Earth (starring Bruno Lawrence and hardly anybody else).
Never Say Die (wow there's been a lot of movies with this name - I'm referring to the hilarious NZ one starring Temuera Morrison).
The Peter Jackson movie, also known as 'Brain Dead' outside of the USA. A totally different movie, also called 'Brain Dead', ranks as one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
According to the tldp article, QAM includes the phase shift component. I wasn't aware of that (or maybe I was, but who cares anyway - enough of this, I have work to do! :)
Well, actually I was half right ;)
QPSK is basically phase encoding, and the amplitude modulation you mention in this context is called QAM, IIRC. There are more than 8 constellation points too - I forget the relationship between the number of points and the bitrate but it's probably something like 64 points at 9600 baud.
But that's the extent of my experience. Although I've studied this stuff in-depth, I don't recall much of it, and I've never had to implement it.
QPSK (Quadrature/Quaternary Phase Shift Keying) is the basis of 'modern' modem operation I think. It's been a while since I looked at this stuff in a formal context.
Images of constellation points spring to mind...
Would you have preferred 'post-modern'? ;)
Modern dial-up modems already use compression, and as you say, how do you compress what's already compressed? True or false, it's very little if anything to do with compression - that's already been exploited.
... we see that you should definitely eat an apple today because it comes in more colours.
The article is about *warnings* of copy protection, not a new kind of CP.
> They'll roll this out, a very vocal, splinter
> minority will kick up a loud stink, it'll blow
> over, and we'll have lost a little more freedom
Tell me, how does your spiel relate to placing warnings of copy protection on product packaging? How will this 'lose a little more freedom' - surely it gives you more information with which to base your choice? Sounds like more, not less, freedom to me.
It's not about censoring the Internet, it's about engineering better ways to catch child porn offenders. These people encourage the proliferation of child pornography, and therefore directly increase the demand for such material. This in turn, to put it simply, makes more children victims. NZ is actually a pretty liberal country. We don't have laughable copyright and patent laws, or restrictive constitutional 'rights' basically granting all-and-sundry the privilege of gunning down their neighbour because they were having an 'off day'. It's also not illegal in NZ for an 18 year old to view all kinds of 'adult' material. It's just the really sick stuff that's illegal because *something bad happened to someone*.
errr, ... are you refering to the restrictions on alcohol possession and consumption in *specified* public places??
Over the summer, many towns and cities in NZ placed alcohol bans on certain places of congregation - popular beaches, parks, etc. This was due to the large number of oafish teenagers meeting up and causing chaos (including a few deaths as well as a lot of property damage). These restrictions had certain times during which they applied - you just had to get up off your fat backside and go to the supermarket a bit earlier! It's known as 'planning'...
If you want to get your wine to your friends place, give up the weed, go to some lectures for a change, get a proper education (and preferably not in adventure tourism - try something useful instead), get a decent job, get a respectable haircut, buy some decent clothes and quit hanging around with your drunk loser 'buddies'. Then maybe the cops won't home in on you all the time.
They should never have lowered the drinking age to 18 - it's those people under 20 that are causing the most problems, and they brought the liquor bans upon themselves.
...but we get unlimited free local calls :)
You've completely forgotten about market economics - supply and demand: Child pornography encourages the abuse of children. Making it easier for the authorities to catch these people is a good thing - it is these people who *encourage* the production of such porn, and hence *encourage* the abuse of children (no matter what country they are in). I'm a NZer and I'm more than happy with this - people who view child porn intentionally need to be removed from normal society and prevented from further encouraging the trade. There's been a fair bit on the media here recently, some TV/radio news articles about how they track down offenders, etc. Justice Minister Phil Goff makes it quite clear that they are *not* talking about 'adult material' - they are mainly concerned with child pornography and the possibility that the problem might become worse. Until very recently, the penalty for trading C.P. was up to 2 years in prison, and for possession - a $2000 fine. It's now up to 10 years for trading and 2 years for possession (IIRC). The underlying issue here is the exploitation and abuse of children, especially for the purpose of creating sexual material. One of the persons interviewed about this on the national radio programme (I forget who he was - but related to C.P. investigation I think) said he knew of no cases involving the actual abuse of children for the purpose of creating pornography *within* NZ, but we have a fair share of traders, and there's a perceived need to restrict the growth of this destructive vice before people start making the stuff here. NZ is a fairly safe society I think. We have a commissioner for children too - we like to think we take the safety of our children quite seriously. If you want to view or trade in child porn - go elsewhere, we don't want you here. Yes, the government has a role in protecting us from murderers, rapists and thieves, but that includes putting a stop to any industry that harms an individual or group of society, which is what C.P. does. C.P. is not harmless, it's evil spreads far further than the viewers PC.
The original author was trolling/trying-to-be-funny - and I can only assume you were too...
I used Octave quite extensively for some DSP work I did last year. It doesn't have a lot of the nice filter design tools that Matlab has, but as far as simple filter design goes, it isn't too bad at all. From a mathematical point of view, I think it's quite adequate for a lot of problems, especially those involving matrices.
There's a similar system operating in Christchurch, New Zealand. I'm not sure if it's fully deployed yet, but it uses a combination of GPS and displays at bus stops to alert waiting passengers of delays and expected arrival times. I hear there's a slight problem - the bus drivers are said to sometimes unplug the GPS transceiver because it is used by management to keep an eye on them.
Thats how TelstraClearSaturnJupiterOpaque-whatever-the-hell- they're-called-now does their pricing in New Zealand. For $NZ66 a month (or something like that - haven't sat down to work it out exactly) I get 5 Gigs a month international traffic at 256kbit/sec. If you go over the 5 Gigs, you start getting charged at some phenomenally high rate (I got an extra $75 on my bill last month for stupidly running an unattended debian apt-get distupgrade overnight... doh).
did the previous posts mention the IEEE article?
this is why SIM cards are useful. Sell your phone, but keep your number. Buy a second-hand phone, use a new SIM card.
Yes, Forgotten Silver and the footage shown was fake, but the event did happen. At the time, Richard Pearse didn't realise the significance of his achievement and didn't bother to publicise it, which is why it didn't become a more famous event.
well, I got a compact self-contained picnic blanket, which was pretty cool because a week before my girlfriend got a picnic 'pack' complete with chiller pouch and cutlery from her company. The two complement each other nicely. Now we are both looking forward to picnicing near Lake Taupo over New Years. Far more useful than a silly gift, although I did get a huge Christmas ham a few years back, which was cool.
It's been 100 years and 9 months since the first man-made powered flight, made not by the Wright brothers, but Richard Pearse, a New Zealander. On March 31st, 1902, he flew a short distance with a primitive aircraft powered by a petrol engine. Some argue that this wasn't really technically a 'flight', however he made several more in the months before the Wright Brothers officially got off the ground, including one over 1km long. Resources are abundant on Google but here's an interesting one So the NASA Centennial of Flight will be 21 months late... unless of course they are merely celebrating coming second. Richard Pearse is relatively unknown outside of New Zealand, thanks largely to the United States who refuses to admit to the truth.
I can't speak for this particular patent, but a US patent will only affect you if you are operating within the US jurisdiction (for example exporting goods to the USA). US patents generally will not affect you in NZ unless they have taken out a patent there also.
My understanding is that there is no such thing as a 'global' patent - you have to register your invention in every country you have an interest in. It gets quite costly.
It's been this way in New Zealand for as long as I can remember. I don't understood why cellular communications is still so expensive. Consider a text message - at 150 characters long for 20 cents, that's a bandwidth cost of approx NZ$1400 a megabyte! Someone's raking it in...