Although I was not personally involved in it, I had many friends who were. When I left, it was still considered an independent study course, with people taking it multiple times to get farther in their game development. For example, the first semester students would learn how generally game design works and program a simple game, while the second semester students would concentrate on improving their first game or building a better one from scratch. One year, they tried to get artists from the Arts and Sciences school to help out, and I helped one of the groups by composing some music for their game. I think this would be a fun elective once it achieves official course status (but there's just so many hoops and hurldes the professor had to jump through to even get the department to start considering it a real course).
Microsoft Boss: "I'm sorry, but we can't let you use any open source utility at work." Microsoft Programmer: "Oh noes! I can't sed out the comments!" --- Microsoft Boss: "Wait a minute, what's with these comments? We can't release the source code now." (evil grin)
I wonder how they will solve the issue of slow searches because it is a decentralized network. Do I have to propagate my search through several users, who may be really slow, before I can find what I want? One of the good things about a centralized list of torrents is that you can find the results really quickly even though the central tracker is the key vulnerability in the network. If the searches don't propagate fast enough, not enough people will get into using this new network unless they are forced to (if all the major popular tracker sites got shut down).
Maybe what they can do is propogate torrent lists too, but then they would have to make sure they are properly signed, or else anyone can simply start propogating false lists.
Most of these busts were done out of band. For example, it's ridiculously easy to find the guy who wrote it because he runs a freaking website. Plus, the two idiots that got busted before were boasting on an internet webboard... While WinNY will not be robust and probably cannot be proven so, it seems to me that the problem lies out of band rather than with WinNY.
Is there a limit on the number of emails GMail will store for you? Would it be possible to do some sort of block based FS on top of GMail, so you have about 1kB pieces of email. Furthermore, use a log based file system design to reduce the amount of rewriting. That way, you'd get rid of the 10MB limit, but it does require a bit more work than simply mailing attachments.
How much would it cost Intel to enable the WiFi? I mean... if it's a small cost, then they'd get their wireless access points into computers instantly so people don't have to go out and buy wireless APs. I mean, if my computer came with a wireless access point, then I certainly wouldn't go out and buy another one (unless it was terrible). It's the same deal with firewire. Most people don't use it, but it's sure a lot more convenient if it was there when you needed it. Hate to be suggesting monopolistic marketing ideas, but Intel can really get a lot of their wireless AP into computers by bundling it.
Can Quicktime actually do that, say, with a MPEG4 file that has an average distance of 400 frames between I-frames? What would be nice, though, would be to jump to the closest I-frame and then start rendering the current frame if the user pauses for more than say 1 second.
People who want their software to be as lean and efficient as possible care. It's not the fact that he can download less, it's that it has enough features and occupies less space in memory and on disk and probably runs faster too.
Given the amount of electronics and sensors the soldier is wearing, would the army also incorporate "feedback units" like adrenaline injectors and tranquilizers or would it be too prone to hacking?
Not exactly. It all depends on how they learn to perform the forward process. For example, if scientists "discover" that they can shatter glass by throwing a hard object at it, all it tells them is that they need to keep glass away from hard objects. However, if scientists "discover" a weak-spot in this supposedly shatter-proof glass, then they'll have something they can concentrate on fixing to make it less shatter-prone.
It seems to me that the scientists figured out a way to develop a prion and show that it causes disease, but it wasn't concentrated on finding out which parts of mice were susceptible.
Actually, it's not that bad with all the headphones. One reason is that now that everyone has their own headphone, they can customize it however they like it. Different people have different hearing curves, and may want to boost different frequencies. Some people might prefer softer sounds while others may want louder ones. You can probably fit a DSP easily into a headset that can do HRTF's, motion detection and custom equalization and maybe even allow the customers to buy prepackaged audio shapers (like if they want extra processing filters between the output and their ears). Granted, the motion detection may still be a little too expensive, but then again, we won't be seeing this new Fraunhoffer technology implemented in full force any time soon.
That's because a lot of pop artists can't sing, and distorting their voices will make them sound cool and distract you from their singing or the artifacts created from pitch matching.
Alpine says that the "MediaXpander" technology featured on its system "restores lost detail" to compressed digital media, as well. Alpine's receivers also sport the company's "Bass Engine" technology, which it says will tune the system for the best sound quality in the vehicle. Does anyone know how this would actually work? Is this kind of like postprocessing for video files but applied to audio? Or is this just more marketing hype for an equalizer/dynamics expander?
Might video compression work if the first scanning pass is done on one computer and the keyframe locations are extracted and then each computer in the grid/cluster would render the chunks between keyframes in parallel?
So theoretically, you can shoot these things farther than you can see on the horizon, if the velocity's high enough. Does this mean air support would be crucial in relaying information about targets below the horizon and that the naval ships can technically hit ships that have no way of retaliating.
This is really hyped. This is not compression in the sense of MP3, where you have to decode it. It's just replacing lots of small trianges that make up a flatish surface, with fewer large triangles or polygons. Big deal!
Uh... using your analogy, DCT+quantization based video compression is just replacing lots of different frequencies of similar magnitudes with one magnitude. Transforms aren't necessary for compression, especially if the input data is already in a somewhat analyzed state, like triangle vertex data.
The subbing/translation groups aren't there to make it cheaper for you to obtain Japanese media. The original intent is to give you translations of things that you would otherwise never understand.
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Although I was not personally involved in it, I had many friends who were. When I left, it was still considered an independent study course, with people taking it multiple times to get farther in their game development. For example, the first semester students would learn how generally game design works and program a simple game, while the second semester students would concentrate on improving their first game or building a better one from scratch. One year, they tried to get artists from the Arts and Sciences school to help out, and I helped one of the groups by composing some music for their game. I think this would be a fun elective once it achieves official course status (but there's just so many hoops and hurldes the professor had to jump through to even get the department to start considering it a real course).
Microsoft Boss: "I'm sorry, but we can't let you use any open source utility at work."
Microsoft Programmer: "Oh noes! I can't sed out the comments!"
---
Microsoft Boss: "Wait a minute, what's with these comments? We can't release the source code now." (evil grin)
I believe that's called an external sound card, like one of these: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/SonicaTheate r-main-1.html
Google indexes everything. Sites which knowingly serve torrents which point to trackers that serve copyright infringing materials do not.
What... did the producers look at R.E. and went wow, let's incorporate some ideas from that as well so that we have a bigger fanbase!
I wonder how they will solve the issue of slow searches because it is a decentralized network. Do I have to propagate my search through several users, who may be really slow, before I can find what I want? One of the good things about a centralized list of torrents is that you can find the results really quickly even though the central tracker is the key vulnerability in the network. If the searches don't propagate fast enough, not enough people will get into using this new network unless they are forced to (if all the major popular tracker sites got shut down).
Maybe what they can do is propogate torrent lists too, but then they would have to make sure they are properly signed, or else anyone can simply start propogating false lists.
Most of these busts were done out of band. For example, it's ridiculously easy to find the guy who wrote it because he runs a freaking website. Plus, the two idiots that got busted before were boasting on an internet webboard... While WinNY will not be robust and probably cannot be proven so, it seems to me that the problem lies out of band rather than with WinNY.
Is Wal-Mart part of the leak? Apparently they can ship on the 2nd.
Is there a limit on the number of emails GMail will store for you? Would it be possible to do some sort of block based FS on top of GMail, so you have about 1kB pieces of email. Furthermore, use a log based file system design to reduce the amount of rewriting. That way, you'd get rid of the 10MB limit, but it does require a bit more work than simply mailing attachments.
Does this mean we have to convince AMD to stick WiFi in their devices before we can get it into an Intel chipset?
How much would it cost Intel to enable the WiFi? I mean... if it's a small cost, then they'd get their wireless access points into computers instantly so people don't have to go out and buy wireless APs. I mean, if my computer came with a wireless access point, then I certainly wouldn't go out and buy another one (unless it was terrible). It's the same deal with firewire. Most people don't use it, but it's sure a lot more convenient if it was there when you needed it.
Hate to be suggesting monopolistic marketing ideas, but Intel can really get a lot of their wireless AP into computers by bundling it.
Can Quicktime actually do that, say, with a MPEG4 file that has an average distance of 400 frames between I-frames? What would be nice, though, would be to jump to the closest I-frame and then start rendering the current frame if the user pauses for more than say 1 second.
However, what would be scary is if the 2^80 complexity needed to find a collision in SHA-1 all of a sudden became 80^2.
People who want their software to be as lean and efficient as possible care. It's not the fact that he can download less, it's that it has enough features and occupies less space in memory and on disk and probably runs faster too.
I think I just started automatically filtering those people out, so now I only see cute cosplayers.
What's coming up next, Duke Nukem Forever or Doom 3- .... oh wait...
Given the amount of electronics and sensors the soldier is wearing, would the army also incorporate "feedback units" like adrenaline injectors and tranquilizers or would it be too prone to hacking?
Not exactly. It all depends on how they learn to perform the forward process. For example, if scientists "discover" that they can shatter glass by throwing a hard object at it, all it tells them is that they need to keep glass away from hard objects. However, if scientists "discover" a weak-spot in this supposedly shatter-proof glass, then they'll have something they can concentrate on fixing to make it less shatter-prone.
It seems to me that the scientists figured out a way to develop a prion and show that it causes disease, but it wasn't concentrated on finding out which parts of mice were susceptible.
Actually, it's not that bad with all the headphones. One reason is that now that everyone has their own headphone, they can customize it however they like it. Different people have different hearing curves, and may want to boost different frequencies. Some people might prefer softer sounds while others may want louder ones. You can probably fit a DSP easily into a headset that can do HRTF's, motion detection and custom equalization and maybe even allow the customers to buy prepackaged audio shapers (like if they want extra processing filters between the output and their ears). Granted, the motion detection may still be a little too expensive, but then again, we won't be seeing this new Fraunhoffer technology implemented in full force any time soon.
That's because a lot of pop artists can't sing, and distorting their voices will make them sound cool and distract you from their singing or the artifacts created from pitch matching.
Alpine says that the "MediaXpander" technology featured on its system "restores lost detail" to compressed digital media, as well. Alpine's receivers also sport the company's "Bass Engine" technology, which it says will tune the system for the best sound quality in the vehicle.
Does anyone know how this would actually work? Is this kind of like postprocessing for video files but applied to audio? Or is this just more marketing hype for an equalizer/dynamics expander?
Might video compression work if the first scanning pass is done on one computer and the keyframe locations are extracted and then each computer in the grid/cluster would render the chunks between keyframes in parallel?
So theoretically, you can shoot these things farther than you can see on the horizon, if the velocity's high enough. Does this mean air support would be crucial in relaying information about targets below the horizon and that the naval ships can technically hit ships that have no way of retaliating.
This is really hyped. This is not compression in the sense of MP3, where you have to decode it. It's just replacing lots of small trianges that make up a flatish surface, with fewer large triangles or polygons. Big deal! Uh... using your analogy, DCT+quantization based video compression is just replacing lots of different frequencies of similar magnitudes with one magnitude. Transforms aren't necessary for compression, especially if the input data is already in a somewhat analyzed state, like triangle vertex data.
The subbing/translation groups aren't there to make it cheaper for you to obtain Japanese media. The original intent is to give you translations of things that you would otherwise never understand.