I think a better summary would be that this is not entirely a new protocol. Rather, it's a variant on TCP with changes to the window increasing portion of the code. Basically, they claim that there currently exists an unfairness in allocation of bandwidth of two connections sharing a pipe. Basically that having different round trip times causes them to share the bandwidth unfairly. Their protocol supposedly alleviates this problem in high bandwidth pipes whereas TCP does not.
Screw that! We need more programmers aware of vulnerabilities in systems and to be able to deal with it. Dumbing down a language at the expensive of performance is only going to dumb down the programmers. Well, to a point. My ideal programming language would be something that allows me to do practically anything with it and leaving its internals exposed. You can program with a safe subset if you're beginning, but you can then expand to advanced programming without the language limiting what you can do.
Would it be possible to adapt this type of lens to eyewear by enlarging the size? Instead of using bifocals or trifocals, you might be able to have just one lens that changes shape according to a microcontroller, which is then hooked to either a button, or perhaps tapped into a nerve, which can then be trained to send the appropriate signals.
Theoretically, if their audio signature software works intuitively, false positives would indicate songs that sound pretty much the same. If you can get the technology fine tuned enough, they might turn around and claim that you're infringing on their "song ideas."
The problem is, XP is already loaded with lots of pretty graphics and effects. There IS a reason why the version number change between Windows 2000 and Windows XP was so small. Now, XP does have a few nice things here and there which I like, but not enough to upgrade to it. Windows 2000 still works fine for me.
I remember having fun programming an old one to say amusing things using its phonemes and playing with the pitch/sample rate adjuster. We ended up programming it to say "dying" and then bring the pitch up to maximum and slowly drop it down.
The first time I can confirm is when Slashdot had an outage (or maybe the network had an outage), and I decided to google for slashdot, resulting in a link to slashdot.jp. At first I thought it was just a translation. It was quite amusing to see what Japanese geeks are interested it;)
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"how it feels in the hand, for long periods of time"...
I don't know about you, but I don't get attached to things that feel good in my hand... except for certain bod- errr nevermind
I'm sorry, but even if it's easy to arrive at these errors, it's still SLOPPY. Many people these days don't know how to program robustly. All they know is to patch together blocks and hope that it works.
With the advent of object oriented programming, and all the higher level implementation ideas, being able to program something like a C64 using assembly is starting to border on the level of a wizard. It's kinda sad, really. People just plopping down code blocks without realizing how bloated things have become. This is why I like embedded programming a lot more than the standard "software development" type programming out there.
There really wouldn't be much of an effect. I gather a lot of people on Slashdot don't visit the sites anyways. In any case, the strength of a Slashdot effect is due to the fact that all of a sudden, the number of visitors (per time frame) increases many times as to overwhelm the servers. In order to notice this type of effect, the change in the number of people visiting must be comparable in magnitude to the number of people already visiting. A negative Slashdot effect won't work on these pages because the majority of people who visit them aren't Slashdot regulars, so you won't see an appreciable drop in volume.
But increasing the blit rate is still not going to do you any good if the LCDs can't physically "turn on" that fast. All you're going to get is a blurred mess.
Is the LCD on that thing supposed to be able to keep up with 60fps? I mean, I don't think they were designing the LCD on the MP3 with Video playback in mind...
I believe there is already a way for set top satellite HDTV boxes to spew the MPEG2 stream straight into a computer. It might be a hack in some instances but I think it's possible.
That reminds me of that Family Guy episode, when he gets a theme tune attributed to him:)
More like a sampler than a synth
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From the article, it seems that it was not synthesizing the singing from scratch, but was rather using a complicated sample set to recreate the voice. What I thought they were going to do was bring to fruition physically-based synthesis of the human voice. By the way, using a sample set IMO is going to reduce the amount of expression you can get with a song, especially if one were to use a very limited set of samples. And I really hope I don't start hearing the SAME VOICE in every freaking song because of this.
Even though you would be in a predicament even if the code were open sourced, you would still have some options, namely the two mentioned ones. However, if you have no source to begin with, your options become very limited.
The Japanese peer to peer application Winny seems to be some sort of software based on Freenet, or so I've heard. It works remarkably well. You'd basically park it overnight and tell it what to look for.
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I think a better summary would be that this is not entirely a new protocol. Rather, it's a variant on TCP with changes to the window increasing portion of the code. Basically, they claim that there currently exists an unfairness in allocation of bandwidth of two connections sharing a pipe. Basically that having different round trip times causes them to share the bandwidth unfairly. Their protocol supposedly alleviates this problem in high bandwidth pipes whereas TCP does not.
Screw that! We need more programmers aware of vulnerabilities in systems and to be able to deal with it. Dumbing down a language at the expensive of performance is only going to dumb down the programmers. Well, to a point. My ideal programming language would be something that allows me to do practically anything with it and leaving its internals exposed. You can program with a safe subset if you're beginning, but you can then expand to advanced programming without the language limiting what you can do.
Would it be possible to adapt this type of lens to eyewear by enlarging the size? Instead of using bifocals or trifocals, you might be able to have just one lens that changes shape according to a microcontroller, which is then hooked to either a button, or perhaps tapped into a nerve, which can then be trained to send the appropriate signals.
Theoretically, if their audio signature software works intuitively, false positives would indicate songs that sound pretty much the same. If you can get the technology fine tuned enough, they might turn around and claim that you're infringing on their "song ideas."
The problem is, XP is already loaded with lots of pretty graphics and effects. There IS a reason why the version number change between Windows 2000 and Windows XP was so small. Now, XP does have a few nice things here and there which I like, but not enough to upgrade to it. Windows 2000 still works fine for me.
Apparently they won't let you finish the sentence either. Ah... the joys of mind control :D
I remember having fun programming an old one to say amusing things using its phonemes and playing with the pitch/sample rate adjuster. We ended up programming it to say "dying" and then bring the pitch up to maximum and slowly drop it down.
The first time I can confirm is when Slashdot had an outage (or maybe the network had an outage), and I decided to google for slashdot, resulting in a link to slashdot.jp. At first I thought it was just a translation. It was quite amusing to see what Japanese geeks are interested it ;)
This just in:
Scientists at an unknown and undisclosed location are researching into how to create giant bugs that clean up pollution. Plans have been made for a test run of these bugs in New Jersey. Details at 10!
"how it feels in the hand, for long periods of time"... I don't know about you, but I don't get attached to things that feel good in my hand... except for certain bod- errr nevermind
I'm sorry, but even if it's easy to arrive at these errors, it's still SLOPPY. Many people these days don't know how to program robustly. All they know is to patch together blocks and hope that it works.
With the advent of object oriented programming, and all the higher level implementation ideas, being able to program something like a C64 using assembly is starting to border on the level of a wizard. It's kinda sad, really. People just plopping down code blocks without realizing how bloated things have become. This is why I like embedded programming a lot more than the standard "software development" type programming out there.
Sure, but that only applies to girlfrieds. Girlfriends come with various CPU requirements.
No, that's 'Eru' not Eno. Don't you read your Tolkien? =P
There really wouldn't be much of an effect. I gather a lot of people on Slashdot don't visit the sites anyways. In any case, the strength of a Slashdot effect is due to the fact that all of a sudden, the number of visitors (per time frame) increases many times as to overwhelm the servers. In order to notice this type of effect, the change in the number of people visiting must be comparable in magnitude to the number of people already visiting. A negative Slashdot effect won't work on these pages because the majority of people who visit them aren't Slashdot regulars, so you won't see an appreciable drop in volume.
The central server would defeat the purpose of a distributed P2P system. You could have various sites distribute node lists a la Winny.
Actually, it's not quite a limit of 1 child per family anymore. The number of siblings you have in part determines how many children you can have.
But increasing the blit rate is still not going to do you any good if the LCDs can't physically "turn on" that fast. All you're going to get is a blurred mess.
Is the LCD on that thing supposed to be able to keep up with 60fps? I mean, I don't think they were designing the LCD on the MP3 with Video playback in mind...
I believe there is already a way for set top satellite HDTV boxes to spew the MPEG2 stream straight into a computer. It might be a hack in some instances but I think it's possible.
That reminds me of that Family Guy episode, when he gets a theme tune attributed to him :)
From the article, it seems that it was not synthesizing the singing from scratch, but was rather using a complicated sample set to recreate the voice. What I thought they were going to do was bring to fruition physically-based synthesis of the human voice. By the way, using a sample set IMO is going to reduce the amount of expression you can get with a song, especially if one were to use a very limited set of samples. And I really hope I don't start hearing the SAME VOICE in every freaking song because of this.
Even though you would be in a predicament even if the code were open sourced, you would still have some options, namely the two mentioned ones. However, if you have no source to begin with, your options become very limited.
The Japanese peer to peer application Winny seems to be some sort of software based on Freenet, or so I've heard. It works remarkably well. You'd basically park it overnight and tell it what to look for.
So... the solar flare that reached us a few years ago brought about the Earth? Maybe I should start believing those Douglas Adams books...