I have started an internet collaboration project to develop a next-generation image format for digital photography. It is here: http://geocities.com/repstsb/libima.html
The codec is still in alpha stage. It has lots of features, such as lossless compression of images in the OpenEXR 32 bits per sample floating point format.
My idea for a document format is something like Tex, but with dynamic a.k.a. just-in-time compilation. This way it would be fast enough to be interactive.
Packages would be translated into binary VM code. When a document is opened, they would be dynamically compiled or interpreted and would be able to respond to mouse or keyboard actions.
I think that JIT (which I call dynamic) compilation is a good idea because it would allow binary executables to run on different architectures. I have posted to comp.arch a programming language which would produce the same result on different architectures while retaining the flexibility of C here.
The best 100W incandescent light bulbs I have found produce 1750 lumens. CFLs which are advertised as equivalent to a 100W bulb produce only, if I remember correctly, 1100 lumens, so part of the power saving is from producing less light.
Also, anyone knows what's up with ceiling light sockets that only accept 60W bulbs?
Another theory is ethyl mercury in vaccines. From Wikipedia:
Dr. Mark Geier and his son David Geier have published eleven peer-reviewed studies on the possible link between autistic spectrum disorders and childhood vaccines (TCVs). In their first study, they compared the number of complaints associated with TCVs, administered between 1992 and 2000, to the number of complaints resulting from a thimerosal-free vaccine administered between 1997 and 2000. The children who received greater amounts of ethylmercury from TCVs were more likely to have a complaint filed with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Further studies by the Geiers yielded similar results. In 2006, the Geiers published an article , "Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines", which contends that recent data confirms a reduction in autism diagnoses corresponds directly with the removal of TCVs from childhood vaccination schedules.
I have slackware 7.1, and I wanted to try Yahoo IM, but they only have Debian and Red Hat versions. I think they could have provided a tar archive which could be decompressed relative to the root folder.
I have noticed that applications compiled for glibc 2.1.3 run on systems with glibc 2.3.1, but not the reverse. You can find glibc 2.1.3 and gcc 2.95 on Slackware 7.1.
Netscape 4.8 and Maple 5.0 have been compiled for libc5 and run on many systems.
In linux, "switching between two threads in the same process through a synchronization object" can be done by the first thread doing a system call to increase a semaphore to activate the second thread, and then the first thread doing a system call to lower a semaphore to put itself to sleep.
I suppose Ms-Windows has a way of doing this with only one system call, which might explain the factor of 2 in the parent post.
I have had an idea like this. My idea was for drivers to be written in a language in which the result of programs is independent of instruction set architecture and compiler, like the description here.
The drivers would be distributed as binary code for a virtual machine. This would allow a company to ship one version of the driver for their device, which would work on all architectures, like, x86, PowerPC, Alpha, Itanium, etc.
I remember reading that the GDs cost something like 4 dollars to make and this is why SEGA also added support for games on CD; so they could distribute demo disks cheaper. I have purchased used games on GDs, and most of them were so scratched they were not playable.
The Dreamcast has a noisy fan, and often the games make the CD drive spin continuously, which is noisy too. If you go very slowly in beginner mode in Ferrari 355, the CD stops spinning after a time, to start again when there is a voice.
Ampere's law says that the integral of the magnetic field aver a closed curve is equal to the intensity of the current passing through the curve.
Since the circumference of a circle is proportional to its radius, low-frequency magnetic fields are proportional to the inverse radius from their source.
This post reminded me of a poem.
Others, I Am Not the First
[...]
Agued once like me were they,
But I like them shall win my way
Lastly to the bed of mould
Where there's neither hot nor cold.
[...]
Alfred Edward Housman
Slashdot Mirror
Are there many people who need a lossless alpha channel in lossy images?
I have started an internet collaboration project to develop a next-generation image format for digital photography. It is here:
http://geocities.com/repstsb/libima.html
The codec is still in alpha stage. It has lots of features, such as lossless compression of images in the OpenEXR 32 bits per sample floating point format.
My idea for a document format is something like Tex, but with dynamic a.k.a. just-in-time compilation. This way it would be fast enough to be interactive.
Packages would be translated into binary VM code. When a document is opened, they would be dynamically compiled or interpreted and would be able to respond to mouse or keyboard actions.
I think that JIT (which I call dynamic) compilation is a good idea because it would allow binary executables to run on different architectures. I have posted to comp.arch a programming language which would produce the same result on different architectures while retaining the flexibility of C here.
The best 100W incandescent light bulbs I have found produce 1750 lumens. CFLs which are advertised as equivalent to a 100W bulb produce only, if I remember correctly, 1100 lumens, so part of the power saving is from producing less light.
Also, anyone knows what's up with ceiling light sockets that only accept 60W bulbs?
"Word" is a generic term in word processing. WordStar existed before Microsoft Word.
I picked a paragraph from Wikipedia hastily and had not realised that it is only about the work of two people.
Another theory is ethyl mercury in vaccines. From Wikipedia:
Dr. Mark Geier and his son David Geier have published eleven peer-reviewed studies on the possible link between autistic spectrum disorders and childhood vaccines (TCVs). In their first study, they compared the number of complaints associated with TCVs, administered between 1992 and 2000, to the number of complaints resulting from a thimerosal-free vaccine administered between 1997 and 2000. The children who received greater amounts of ethylmercury from TCVs were more likely to have a complaint filed with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Further studies by the Geiers yielded similar results. In 2006, the Geiers published an article , "Early Downward Trends in Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Removal of Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines", which contends that recent data confirms a reduction in autism diagnoses corresponds directly with the removal of TCVs from childhood vaccination schedules.
I have created a group for discussing the programming of an open-source media player. It is here:
http://groups.google.com/group/media-player
I have slackware 7.1, and I wanted to try Yahoo IM, but they only have Debian and Red Hat versions. I think they could have provided a tar archive which could be decompressed relative to the root folder.
I meant that applications compiled for glibc 2.1.3 run on systems with glibc 2.3.4. I have not tried 2.3.1.
I have noticed that applications compiled for glibc 2.1.3 run on systems with glibc 2.3.1, but not the reverse. You can find glibc 2.1.3 and gcc 2.95 on Slackware 7.1.
Netscape 4.8 and Maple 5.0 have been compiled for libc5 and run on many systems.
In linux, "switching between two threads in the same process through a synchronization object" can be done by the first thread doing a system call to increase a semaphore to activate the second thread, and then the first thread doing a system call to lower a semaphore to put itself to sleep.
I suppose Ms-Windows has a way of doing this with only one system call, which might explain the factor of 2 in the parent post.
I have had an idea like this. My idea was for drivers to be written in a language in which the result of programs is independent of instruction set architecture and compiler, like the description here .
The drivers would be distributed as binary code for a virtual machine. This would allow a company to ship one version of the driver for their device, which would work on all architectures, like, x86, PowerPC, Alpha, Itanium, etc.
Is there a store which sells LCDs with dead pixels cheaper than those with no defects?
I remember reading that the GDs cost something like 4 dollars to make and this is why SEGA also added support for games on CD; so they could distribute demo disks cheaper. I have purchased used games on GDs, and most of them were so scratched they were not playable.
The Dreamcast has a noisy fan, and often the games make the CD drive spin continuously, which is noisy too. If you go very slowly in beginner mode in Ferrari 355, the CD stops spinning after a time, to start again when there is a voice.
...future chips to be bigger and consume more electricity, which in turn shall allow them to support more junk instruction sets.
Ampere's law says that the integral of the magnetic field aver a closed curve is equal to the intensity of the current passing through the curve.
Since the circumference of a circle is proportional to its radius, low-frequency magnetic fields are proportional to the inverse radius from their source.
This post reminded me of a poem. Others, I Am Not the First [...] Agued once like me were they, But I like them shall win my way Lastly to the bed of mould Where there's neither hot nor cold. [...] Alfred Edward Housman
In my opinion, some of the difference is made by using a 1/r^2 radiation law instead of the 1/r in Quake. Mihai