This would take about ten terabytes (according to Berkeley), twenty terabytes (according to Yahoo), or three petabytes (according to Berkeley again). The first two are based on reresenting the library in text form, whereas the last is based on representing it as full-blown images. [Paraphrased from the parent post]
That actually souds much more realistic than the article itself, which says it estimates that "the scanned images would take up about a terabyte of space and cost about $60,000 (£33,000) to store." I'm not even sure where that price comes from, seeing as a RAID of three or four hard drives that all cost less than a few hundred dollars could store well over a terabyte.
If this is such a wonderful idea why doesn't he get a bunch of artists, musicians and writers to donate their own work to this project and actually prove the concept works?
Because archive.org have already done this, proving it's possible?
yes FLAC is lossless, but the ability to download a.wav just gives me that warm fuzzy "I can do whatever I please with it" feeling.
Just install FLAC and type in flac --decode [whatever].flac. There's your.wav file. Being against downloading a FLACced file because you lose a "warm, fuzzy feeling" is like being against downloading a.txt.gz file because of that warm feeling that uncompressed text gives you. That warm feeling's probably caused by your modem being overused. Let it cool down by downloading compressed files.
Re:the extras dvd is impressive...
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[The documentaries have] the added advantage of being true.
One of the featurettes features a whole bunch of directors acting as if George Lucas invented the whole concept of making sci-fi films, singlehandedly invented computer graphics, and a whole bunch of other things. OK, maybe ey did come up with the idea of producing a lot of merchandise for a film, but I wouldn't say that's such a good idea anyway...
Those documentaries are more like big ego trips than true stories. The main one even starts with a line about how it's "hard to remember a time before Star Wars." Please!
Having said that, the films have been retouched very well, and certainly look a lot cleaner and more modern than the Laserdisc rips floating around online.
...verify the age and gender of a person participating in online chat rooms
I take it that, while you'll have to carry your age and gender on a card with you, there won't be any options for people whose gender lies outside the binary dichotomy... As if the majority of databases that don't have options for these people isn't enough hassle to begin with.
Ah memories. Sometimes I wonder if the tech of the 80's wasn't cooler than the tech we have today.
Yeah, it wasn't as good as today's tech, but I'm sure it was cooler. Pretty much everyone who used a computer did so because they wanted to; people were pushing back the limits of the Commodore C64 (and still are); and BBSs were generally cheaper and easier to access than the internet, and had a quirky ANSI colour charm of their own (it helped that Xmodem over a direct connection was faster than TCP/IP using a dozen hops to get to the other computer).
What, like this one? Personally I'm not holding my breath... British and American humour seem too different to me, it'd be like a British film based on the TV show Seinfeld or something... but I guess I'm content with the radio shows, books, audiobooks and TV shows:)
Now, here comes the big irony: Lucas releases the Star Wars SE DVDs early, over fear for piracy concerns.
No, the big irony is making a film in which people have to buy products for the sake of it, presumably pointing out that this would be a bad idea, then going on to make another film which you proceed to market toys for, do deals with fast food eateries over, and so on.
The content of the page you are referring to can be changed at any time by anybody, wich means that you could just as well refer to some random chalkboard at your school, wich happened to have some piece of information at some given time.
OK, bring up an article on Wikipedia. Now click on the "history" tab at the top right hand corner of the page. You can bookmark or link to whichever version of the article you want to, without worrying that it will change.
I think I'll have to wait a few years before I'm in a position to make a noteworthy contribution in my current field.
I've contributed mainly small bits here and there, like grammatical fixes. These usually don't require that much knowledge of the particular topic the article's about, and if I'm not sure about a change I make, I make a note of that in the comment part so people can change it back if I've made a mistake. So far, that system seems to work pretty well.
How many governments are there which govern entire worlds?
I'd have to guess one: America. What with it trying to police the whole of Earth, that American flag on the moon (not a world, I know, but still pretty significant), and now Mars is in its sights... not to mention that laser that's going to be put in space to attack "terrorists" anywhere on Earth, and presumably they could point it at other planets too...
I think I've read somewhere that solar panels cost more in energy to create than they ever produce. Is this correct?
Although I can't find the exact answer to this rumour (thankfully other people have beaten me to it anyway, see the other replies to your post), there's a lot of interesting information about solar cells there.
I've also read that the Chinese were not responsible for chopsticks, although they were responsible for fortune cookies. Apparently chopsticks were invented just 200 years ago in San Francisco.
I think the whole copyright issue is the problem, not a lack of people remixing. I've remixed the Streets of Rage theme (Streets of Rage has a great soundtrack and wonderful example of what can be done with just a few channels of FM synthesis and one of PCM samples), and I know someone who's remixed the Bubble Bobble theme. If companies would state that this kind of thing is OK when it's not for profit, we'd all see a lot of old remixes for the first time as well as many new ones.
Now a live jazz band playing the Starlight Zone music from Sonic would be interesting...
Yeah, I'll admit I taped a lot of the soundtrack too. The underwater music was very nice, and comparable to Brian Eno's An Ending (Ascent) in terms of sublime background music.
OK, that's not what lossless means in this context. Technically every format is lossy compared to the original source because any recording is inferior to actually being next to whatever's making the original sound. Microphones aren't perfect. Headphones, speakers and even studio monitors aren't perfect. Let alone the recording formats.
In this context, lossless means that when you transfer a clip of audio (or video for that matter) from one format to another, the two versions of that clip are completely identical. As far as I know, this is impossible with all analogue formats.
If you copy a twelve track master tape of an album onto a record or a CD, it will lose some of its fidelity. If you copy a record to tape or a CD to tape, it will lose fidelity.
This is the important part: transferring one digital copy of a file to another. Encoding a CD audio track or.wav or.aiff file to.mp3 or Ogg Vorbis is lossy, because cunning trickery is used to get rid of all the parts of the sound that most human beings can't hear. FLAC and Shorten, however, are lossless because they preserve the data exactly.
The first line encodes a wave file losslessly. The second line decodes it. The third line compares the two. They are identical.
This is useful for several reasons. None of the reasons are how good it sounds; Ogg Vorbis quality three can probably convince most people (I know I can't tell the difference between that and the original audio). However, say you want to encode your CD collection to mp3, and then a year later you want to encode it to Ogg Vorbis instead. Transcoding (that is, transferring a file from one lossy format to another) sounds terrible. It's best to keep a lossless copy of your songs so that if you change your mind about the lossy format to listen to them in, you can automate the process.
Another, less likely, advantage is this: you can use steganography to hide data in wave files (steghide does this, for example). Losslessly compressed wave files retain this hidden data. Now you can stash your porn or ROMs where no one will think of looking, and even keep a backup on a P2P client.
But he tried to do it just the same? Seriously, If he really didn't want to do it he wouldn't had the two attempts to rename it and have spent all of those years "correcting" people.
RMS never tried to rename Linux. Linux is a kernal. GNU is a bunch of little programmes that will be a complete OS once the Herd kernal is finished. GNU/Linux is what RMS is trying to get people to call an operating system that comprises the Linux kernal and a lot of GNU programmes that Linux won't work without.
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This would take about ten terabytes (according to Berkeley), twenty terabytes (according to Yahoo), or three petabytes (according to Berkeley again). The first two are based on reresenting the library in text form, whereas the last is based on representing it as full-blown images. [Paraphrased from the parent post]
That actually souds much more realistic than the article itself, which says it estimates that "the scanned images would take up about a terabyte of space and cost about $60,000 (£33,000) to store." I'm not even sure where that price comes from, seeing as a RAID of three or four hard drives that all cost less than a few hundred dollars could store well over a terabyte.
If this is such a wonderful idea why doesn't he get a bunch of artists, musicians and writers to donate their own work to this project and actually prove the concept works?
Because archive.org have already done this, proving it's possible?
(Shameless plug: my music at arvhive.org)
Well, perhaps God has written fewer lines of code
...but at least comments it properly.
The website explains Windows and Mac installation pretty well; you'lll have to figure it out on your own for Linux
It's pretty easy on FreeBSD: pkg_add -r jzip.
Are you an uptalker or are those questions.
Are you a downtalker or is that not a question?
yes FLAC is lossless, but the ability to download a .wav just gives me that warm fuzzy "I can do whatever I please with it" feeling.
Just install FLAC and type in flac --decode [whatever].flac. There's your .wav file. Being against downloading a FLACced file because you lose a "warm, fuzzy feeling" is like being against downloading a .txt.gz file because of that warm feeling that uncompressed text gives you. That warm feeling's probably caused by your modem being overused. Let it cool down by downloading compressed files.
[The documentaries have] the added advantage of being true.
One of the featurettes features a whole bunch of directors acting as if George Lucas invented the whole concept of making sci-fi films, singlehandedly invented computer graphics, and a whole bunch of other things. OK, maybe ey did come up with the idea of producing a lot of merchandise for a film, but I wouldn't say that's such a good idea anyway...
Those documentaries are more like big ego trips than true stories. The main one even starts with a line about how it's "hard to remember a time before Star Wars." Please!
Having said that, the films have been retouched very well, and certainly look a lot cleaner and more modern than the Laserdisc rips floating around online.
Either this is an insidious attempt at a pilot of some sort of "internet ID" or a completely dumb idea.
More than likely, it's both.
I take it that, while you'll have to carry your age and gender on a card with you, there won't be any options for people whose gender lies outside the binary dichotomy... As if the majority of databases that don't have options for these people isn't enough hassle to begin with.
Ah memories. Sometimes I wonder if the tech of the 80's wasn't cooler than the tech we have today.
Yeah, it wasn't as good as today's tech, but I'm sure it was cooler. Pretty much everyone who used a computer did so because they wanted to; people were pushing back the limits of the Commodore C64 (and still are); and BBSs were generally cheaper and easier to access than the internet, and had a quirky ANSI colour charm of their own (it helped that Xmodem over a direct connection was faster than TCP/IP using a dozen hops to get to the other computer).
Seriously, they should make a movie or something.
What, like this one? Personally I'm not holding my breath... British and American humour seem too different to me, it'd be like a British film based on the TV show Seinfeld or something... but I guess I'm content with the radio shows, books, audiobooks and TV shows :)
Now, here comes the big irony: Lucas releases the Star Wars SE DVDs early, over fear for piracy concerns.
No, the big irony is making a film in which people have to buy products for the sake of it, presumably pointing out that this would be a bad idea, then going on to make another film which you proceed to market toys for, do deals with fast food eateries over, and so on.
The content of the page you are referring to can be changed at any time by anybody, wich means that you could just as well refer to some random chalkboard at your school, wich happened to have some piece of information at some given time.
OK, bring up an article on Wikipedia. Now click on the "history" tab at the top right hand corner of the page. You can bookmark or link to whichever version of the article you want to, without worrying that it will change.
That article on leetspeak is interesting... what other fun toys are Google hiding?
I think I'll have to wait a few years before I'm in a position to make a noteworthy contribution in my current field.
I've contributed mainly small bits here and there, like grammatical fixes. These usually don't require that much knowledge of the particular topic the article's about, and if I'm not sure about a change I make, I make a note of that in the comment part so people can change it back if I've made a mistake. So far, that system seems to work pretty well.
Didn't MS say, if "hackers" can see the code, it would be easier to write exploits for it? Why are they exposing their own code then?!?
Because they know it's FUD, because they're the ones who made it up? I seriously doubt they expect the code to not be leaked.
How many governments are there which govern entire worlds?
I'd have to guess one: America. What with it trying to police the whole of Earth, that American flag on the moon (not a world, I know, but still pretty significant), and now Mars is in its sights... not to mention that laser that's going to be put in space to attack "terrorists" anywhere on Earth, and presumably they could point it at other planets too...
Try using online resources such as Wikipedia:
I think I've read somewhere that solar panels cost more in energy to create than they ever produce. Is this correct?
Although I can't find the exact answer to this rumour (thankfully other people have beaten me to it anyway, see the other replies to your post), there's a lot of interesting information about solar cells there.
I've also read that the Chinese were not responsible for chopsticks, although they were responsible for fortune cookies. Apparently chopsticks were invented just 200 years ago in San Francisco.
Chopsticks were developed about 3000 to 5000 years ago in China (the exact date is unknown).
Do you have to go do a confession in a theater to become innocent again?
Forgive me MPAA, for I have watched a bootleg...
Mars will need women.
Not to mention, more specifically, mars will need lesbians.
I think the whole copyright issue is the problem, not a lack of people remixing. I've remixed the Streets of Rage theme (Streets of Rage has a great soundtrack and wonderful example of what can be done with just a few channels of FM synthesis and one of PCM samples), and I know someone who's remixed the Bubble Bobble theme. If companies would state that this kind of thing is OK when it's not for profit, we'd all see a lot of old remixes for the first time as well as many new ones.
Now a live jazz band playing the Starlight Zone music from Sonic would be interesting...
Yeah, I'll admit I taped a lot of the soundtrack too. The underwater music was very nice, and comparable to Brian Eno's An Ending (Ascent) in terms of sublime background music.
CD's are not lossless compared with vinyl
OK, that's not what lossless means in this context. Technically every format is lossy compared to the original source because any recording is inferior to actually being next to whatever's making the original sound. Microphones aren't perfect. Headphones, speakers and even studio monitors aren't perfect. Let alone the recording formats.
In this context, lossless means that when you transfer a clip of audio (or video for that matter) from one format to another, the two versions of that clip are completely identical. As far as I know, this is impossible with all analogue formats.
If you copy a twelve track master tape of an album onto a record or a CD, it will lose some of its fidelity. If you copy a record to tape or a CD to tape, it will lose fidelity.
This is the important part: transferring one digital copy of a file to another. Encoding a CD audio track or .wav or .aiff file to .mp3 or Ogg Vorbis is lossy, because cunning trickery is used to get rid of all the parts of the sound that most human beings can't hear. FLAC and Shorten, however, are lossless because they preserve the data exactly.
For example, try this on a *nix machine:
The first line encodes a wave file losslessly. The second line decodes it. The third line compares the two. They are identical.
This is useful for several reasons. None of the reasons are how good it sounds; Ogg Vorbis quality three can probably convince most people (I know I can't tell the difference between that and the original audio). However, say you want to encode your CD collection to mp3, and then a year later you want to encode it to Ogg Vorbis instead. Transcoding (that is, transferring a file from one lossy format to another) sounds terrible. It's best to keep a lossless copy of your songs so that if you change your mind about the lossy format to listen to them in, you can automate the process.
Another, less likely, advantage is this: you can use steganography to hide data in wave files (steghide does this, for example). Losslessly compressed wave files retain this hidden data. Now you can stash your porn or ROMs where no one will think of looking, and even keep a backup on a P2P client.
Rick Berman has been well ahead of Lucas for years now, due to the sheer volume of crap that can be produced with a weekly TV show.
It's (lack of) quality, not quantity. Four words: Star Wars Holiday Special.
RMS does not want to rename Linux anything at all
But he tried to do it just the same? Seriously, If he really didn't want to do it he wouldn't had the two attempts to rename it and have spent all of those years "correcting" people.
RMS never tried to rename Linux. Linux is a kernal. GNU is a bunch of little programmes that will be a complete OS once the Herd kernal is finished. GNU/Linux is what RMS is trying to get people to call an operating system that comprises the Linux kernal and a lot of GNU programmes that Linux won't work without.