Meh. Screw DivX. Go with FFMPEG's implementation of Mpeg4 using FFDshow. It's faster, can be more complete or more compatible, depending on how you configure it, and can be done from the command line without skew errors.
Well, for best data integrity, I would go with something journaled. HFS, Reiser, NTFS and ext3 all apply here. For most ubiquitous, UDF or iso9660 for your readonlies, and fat/fat32 for read/write. For largely uncompressed data, go with Squashfs - it compresses so you don't have to.
The drive doesn't 'burn through' the media at all. The dye is what ensures data clarity, and the dye phase changes - meaning it's either all black in that one spot, or its all not-black.
In other words, if six years from now, something you burned with your 'crap' drive isn't working, it's either cos the dis was of poor quality, or because the drive didn't burn the disc properly - in which case, it wouldn't have worked six minutes after you burned it.
For example, we can print in color. Given that colors are non-exclusive, we can give up a square block 10kilobytes in size as a color calibration area. Then, we can store three bits (cyan, magenta, yellow - black is generally used in printing to get a more pure black than the dye combination is capable of producing) where only one would previously go, bringing our raw data up to nearly a meg per page per side, and our page count down to about 60,000 pages.
We'll assume that one can reliably retrieve data from a sheet of paper at 200 dpi.
At 200 Dpi, with reasonable page margins of 0.5" per side, you have 1500x2000 (2.86M) potential dots. Assume one bit per dot. That's approximately 0.36MB per page per side. Add one line of dots per side for alignment.
Since a page is evenly divisible by 5000 bytes, lets start there. 75 5000 byte blocks per page; each 5000 bytes will include: 64 bit address (8-bytes) 64 bit CRC (8-bytes) Data (4984 bytes)
Additionally, since paper is (currently) a read-only media, we can preprocess the data using squashfs, thus assume that 4984 bytes is actually holding approximately 4k to 8k of data after compression and filesystem overhead.
(4k to 8k)*75==(300 to 600kB) per page, per side.
Thus, it would take roughly 175,000 pages, printed both sides, to equal a 200Gb hard drive. At 6ppm, which is pretty standard for a cheap laser printer, that would take 20 days to back up, not accounting for paper jams, toner or sleep.
I don't think I can get rover to fart anything coherent, but I'm certain I'll be able to make him fart. Give me two ticks and a shake.
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Hm. Then you won't be interested in my Full Electric Orchestra (Hard drives, floppies, scanners, dot-matrix printers, force-feedback joypads, and video cards, each set in full BWV splendor)
However, I gotta argue with you on the 50% less for 50% of the cost bit.
Say a branded laptop costs 1200 and lasts 6 years. Now, say the cheapy fake is 600 for 3 years. Assume factors other than price and lifespan constant.
Three years down the line, Moore's law states that the computers coming out will be four times the nice.
The person who bought the cheapy fake now is forced into buying a much better computer (his old one failed for one reason or another. Let's hope it's not the harddrive). The dude who got a Dell is still stuck with his relatively old paperweight.
Point is, an very good argument can be made for substandard equipment. Additionally, the situation I've stated isn't realistic. Less lifespan almost always leads to less reliability: the HD may randomly lose a byte here and there; the USB may be noisy; the sound card may be SO obscure that even Linux fails to support it; the network card may not work at all after the first minute of use. I've had this shit happen before.
Which, of course, is why I won't buy high-branded products. You either buy from the manufacturer at a bloated price, or you buy from somewhere else, and can't know where it really came from. It's true for brands less lofty than Creative Labs and Intel, but less likely. Who have you heard of conterfeiting Crystal Semiconductor and VIA products?
Funny. I've never had a virus, piece of spyware, or indeed, an actual person hack my home linux box. My work machine, on the other hand, is a continuous subject of cleaning and maintenance...
No, I'm pretty sure the US Cert study is skewed. Note that They count up the flaws for ALL flavors of unix/linux, and then press that number against windows. Also note that windows only gets its core application flaws listed, while *n?x gets its whole application database.
Yeah. Skewed. Filter it and Linux comes out about 3-4x as secure as any windows distro.
How many applications that pass WMFs (ie: email clients and browsers) do you use under linux that require Wine? Now how many do you use under windows that would be potentially exploited?
This is far less serious for Linux users than Windows users.
It's an API simulation layer. An emulator does the WHOLE environment. Wine does not do this, or you'd be able to use it under ppc linux.
Meanwhile, this tells me one thing: Windows used an OSS vector graphics lib to implement WMF, as did wine. They're both exploitable under the same lib.
I think the idea is that it brings us 'above' the gravity well problem of spaceflight. You know, the whole depression funnel? Get youself ove the saddle, and it's smooth and contiuously faster sailing until your reach the next gravvy well.
More importantly, how powerful is enough for a task like this?
I mean, I've seen EM gliders; extremely lightweight devices that produce enough capacitance drift to lift their own diminutive weight on 50000 volts (for about 5 grams of mass against earth's pull). They're very low current mind you. But honestly, how high voltage would something like this need to be to pull a useful weight - say, the 400 kilos for a human plus equipment?
You can't make 'some' of a chunk of uranium go critical. It either all does or all doesn't.
Meanwhile, to 'ignite' uranium, you have to get it pretty damned active. Dropping it into water will do the trick; plenty of small atoms to fling around and produce heat (or, rather, molecular kinetic energy) and free neutrons.
I believe the guys died; standing close enough to a pile of unshielded uranium - especially long enough to bore you into poking it with a pencil - WILL give you radiation poisoning.
There's a good chance the uranium flashed due to a high-humidity environment. Still, the guy was dead well before then; he just hadn't stopped moving. The government guys probably came in to find out what a pile of uranium granules was doing sitting on the desk.
Yeah, but tap in that case IS an adjective. tap(adj) describes water that comes from a tap(n).
We have lots of multiuse words. Like fuck. And shit.
Actually, you could replace much of the english language by creative combinations of 'fuck', 'shit', 'ass','damn', etc, and your common english particles (is in a the, etc).
Example: Shit, you could fuck a shitload of the fucking shit by damning clusterfucks of 'fuck', 'shit', 'ass', 'damn', damnit, and your damn shitty fucks (is, in, a, the, and shit).
Ok, maybe that was needlessly crude. But my point still stands. Damnit.
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WMV3 is what Windows Movie Maker s(p|h)its out.
Real is shit. WMV is shit. Quicktime is shit.
Tell 'em to go with mpeg-4 low bitrate. It's about the only useful format these days.
And while you're telling 'em, tell 'em to go with matroska as the container.
Meh. Screw DivX. Go with FFMPEG's implementation of Mpeg4 using FFDshow. It's faster, can be more complete or more compatible, depending on how you configure it, and can be done from the command line without skew errors.
Me, I'm waiting for solid-state holographic storage.
'course, that'll probably degrade within minutes and need refreshed... with HUMAN FLESH!!!
Well, for best data integrity, I would go with something journaled. HFS, Reiser, NTFS and ext3 all apply here. For most ubiquitous, UDF or iso9660 for your readonlies, and fat/fat32 for read/write. For largely uncompressed data, go with Squashfs - it compresses so you don't have to.
Wow. Digital bling.
The drive doesn't 'burn through' the media at all. The dye is what ensures data clarity, and the dye phase changes - meaning it's either all black in that one spot, or its all not-black.
In other words, if six years from now, something you burned with your 'crap' drive isn't working, it's either cos the dis was of poor quality, or because the drive didn't burn the disc properly - in which case, it wouldn't have worked six minutes after you burned it.
Meanwhile, we can extend things an eensy bit.
For example, we can print in color. Given that colors are non-exclusive, we can give up a square block 10kilobytes in size as a color calibration area. Then, we can store three bits (cyan, magenta, yellow - black is generally used in printing to get a more pure black than the dye combination is capable of producing) where only one would previously go, bringing our raw data up to nearly a meg per page per side, and our page count down to about 60,000 pages.
Gonna do some math here.
We'll assume that one can reliably retrieve data from a sheet of paper at 200 dpi.
At 200 Dpi, with reasonable page margins of 0.5" per side, you have 1500x2000 (2.86M) potential dots. Assume one bit per dot. That's approximately 0.36MB per page per side. Add one line of dots per side for alignment.
Since a page is evenly divisible by 5000 bytes, lets start there. 75 5000 byte blocks per page; each 5000 bytes will include:
64 bit address (8-bytes)
64 bit CRC (8-bytes)
Data (4984 bytes)
Additionally, since paper is (currently) a read-only media, we can preprocess the data using squashfs, thus assume that 4984 bytes is actually holding approximately 4k to 8k of data after compression and filesystem overhead.
(4k to 8k)*75==(300 to 600kB) per page, per side.
Thus, it would take roughly 175,000 pages, printed both sides, to equal a 200Gb hard drive. At 6ppm, which is pretty standard for a cheap laser printer, that would take 20 days to back up, not accounting for paper jams, toner or sleep.
Don't let the americans fool you. Dearer means 'harder to afford'.
God, I know that just from listening to 'When I'm 64' by the Beatles. Damn kids.
I don't think I can get rover to fart anything coherent, but I'm certain I'll be able to make him fart. Give me two ticks and a shake.
Hm. Then you won't be interested in my Full Electric Orchestra (Hard drives, floppies, scanners, dot-matrix printers, force-feedback joypads, and video cards, each set in full BWV splendor)
Agreed. Crap for Real-deal prices is horrible.
However, I gotta argue with you on the 50% less for 50% of the cost bit.
Say a branded laptop costs 1200 and lasts 6 years. Now, say the cheapy fake is 600 for 3 years. Assume factors other than price and lifespan constant.
Three years down the line, Moore's law states that the computers coming out will be four times the nice.
The person who bought the cheapy fake now is forced into buying a much better computer (his old one failed for one reason or another. Let's hope it's not the harddrive). The dude who got a Dell is still stuck with his relatively old paperweight.
Point is, an very good argument can be made for substandard equipment. Additionally, the situation I've stated isn't realistic. Less lifespan almost always leads to less reliability: the HD may randomly lose a byte here and there; the USB may be noisy; the sound card may be SO obscure that even Linux fails to support it; the network card may not work at all after the first minute of use. I've had this shit happen before.
Which, of course, is why I won't buy high-branded products. You either buy from the manufacturer at a bloated price, or you buy from somewhere else, and can't know where it really came from. It's true for brands less lofty than Creative Labs and Intel, but less likely. Who have you heard of conterfeiting Crystal Semiconductor and VIA products?
Not just that, but Morgan and Adam are freaking CRUEL when it comes to a game that's literally full of shit.
Funny. I've never had a virus, piece of spyware, or indeed, an actual person hack my home linux box. My work machine, on the other hand, is a continuous subject of cleaning and maintenance...
No, I'm pretty sure the US Cert study is skewed. Note that They count up the flaws for ALL flavors of unix/linux, and then press that number against windows. Also note that windows only gets its core application flaws listed, while *n?x gets its whole application database.
Yeah. Skewed. Filter it and Linux comes out about 3-4x as secure as any windows distro.
Think statistics.
How many applications that pass WMFs (ie: email clients and browsers) do you use under linux that require Wine? Now how many do you use under windows that would be potentially exploited?
This is far less serious for Linux users than Windows users.
It's an API simulation layer. An emulator does the WHOLE environment. Wine does not do this, or you'd be able to use it under ppc linux.
Meanwhile, this tells me one thing: Windows used an OSS vector graphics lib to implement WMF, as did wine. They're both exploitable under the same lib.
Betcha the Wine team comes out with a fix before Microsoft does.
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Just the most talented guitarist ever born.
I think the idea is that it brings us 'above' the gravity well problem of spaceflight. You know, the whole depression funnel? Get youself ove the saddle, and it's smooth and contiuously faster sailing until your reach the next gravvy well.
Jiga who?
More importantly, how powerful is enough for a task like this?
I mean, I've seen EM gliders; extremely lightweight devices that produce enough capacitance drift to lift their own diminutive weight on 50000 volts (for about 5 grams of mass against earth's pull). They're very low current mind you. But honestly, how high voltage would something like this need to be to pull a useful weight - say, the 400 kilos for a human plus equipment?
*blink*
You can't make 'some' of a chunk of uranium go critical. It either all does or all doesn't.
Meanwhile, to 'ignite' uranium, you have to get it pretty damned active. Dropping it into water will do the trick; plenty of small atoms to fling around and produce heat (or, rather, molecular kinetic energy) and free neutrons.
I believe the guys died; standing close enough to a pile of unshielded uranium - especially long enough to bore you into poking it with a pencil - WILL give you radiation poisoning.
There's a good chance the uranium flashed due to a high-humidity environment. Still, the guy was dead well before then; he just hadn't stopped moving. The government guys probably came in to find out what a pile of uranium granules was doing sitting on the desk.
*large object stabbitiness*
Yeah, but tap in that case IS an adjective. tap(adj) describes water that comes from a tap(n).
We have lots of multiuse words. Like fuck. And shit.
Actually, you could replace much of the english language by creative combinations of 'fuck', 'shit', 'ass','damn', etc, and your common english particles (is in a the, etc).
Example:
Shit, you could fuck a shitload of the fucking shit by damning clusterfucks of 'fuck', 'shit', 'ass', 'damn', damnit, and your damn shitty fucks (is, in, a, the, and shit).
Ok, maybe that was needlessly crude. But my point still stands. Damnit.