Lighting, positioning, always on, and of course uberalignment... Almost all of it is the proper alignment -- I'm talking about hardware far beyond those stupid 5$ DVD alignment discs.
If you knew how most companies handle your CC number, you'd stop doing business with everyone, burn your CC, and start keeping all your money under your pillow along with your gun.
In my years as a system admin, I've seen some of the most backwards, stupid, and insane bullshit on the planet. This includes the bounced postmaster email containing several hundred (possibly thousands) of CC numbers from a "secure web site"; that "https" form to which the user's input was sent put all the information -- plain english, ASCII -- in a file and then e-mailed it to someone at the end of the day. (I bet I have a backup tape with hundreds of decade old CC numbers.)
Perhaps they should say, "5% of the registered address space is not reachable." Where reachability is determined from inspection of the routing tables from various providers all over the globe.
I wonder if they took into account the number of address blocks allocated but not assigned and thus not, yet, announced? The last block we were assigned wasn't in the global routing table for several months. And what about NATed networks? Or people who have 50x more addresses than they need (a/24 for an office of seven computers)?
To be completely accurate, the "modern" (gregorian) calander didn't exist then. And if based literally on the word in the bible, I'm absolutely certain it's wrong. However, that doesn't negate the intention of the season -- to celebrate the brith of Christ. The act of giving gifts which has become the new meaning of the season is to symbolize the gifts from the wisemen.
Christmas hasn't had a lot to do with religion for a very long time. When I was a child (I'm 30 now), christmas meant something besides being the time of year when I got a lot of toys. There were christmas plays, recitals, singing christmas trees... basically, fellowship and rejoice. Today, most of my family doesn't want to be in the same room together.
My traffic graphs would say otherwise. There was less activity on the 25th than any weekend (mostly business customers.) The 24th was also a very lite day.
Just make sure your TiVo has about a month of unwatched shows and you'll be fine for a week or so. I've watched three months of Lexx, 5 weeks of CSI, several Nature episodes, a football game or two...
But does your family enjoy your job that much as well? I didn't think so. I wouldn't mind, but my family would object loudly.
If you ask me, I'd say Christmas should be canceled. It's exciting for children with the gifts and being out of school and all, but for adults, it's just a mess -- the hastle of driving hundreds of miles, the shopping, and the number of others ("the idiots") standing in your way.
As I said (you can read, right?)... EDITING Professionals store complete frames so they can edit the thing without having to decode every frame between two reference frames. When they are done, they use a "transcoder" to render a proper MPEG stream.
The reason all those Matrox cards have/had MJPEG was because the Zoran chip for doing it was free compared to an MPEG encoder.
(And DV doesn't have to be compressed at all. The quality is outstanding, but consuming 100GB for "baby's first steps" is a bit excessive.)
Because the MPEG encoder (a Sony CXD1922) is a very expensive chip -- over 100$ in quantity. And it would add a great deal of complexity to the system. Add to that the FCC "must carry" rules, and there's no point in putting one in there.
Actually, it isn't good technical info... the video stream is _M_P_E_G_ -- not _M_otion _J_PEG.
MJPEG is equal to an MPEG I-Frame stream. No idiot transmits 100% I-Frame streams. (Editing systems record that way to allow proper frame-by-frame editing.)
TiVo, Inc. has zero control over what the broadcast network (DISH, Directv, PrimeStar, etc.) sends. It simply records the bit stream directly. In fact, it has no MPEG encoding capabilities at all - period.
The standalone units have an MPEG encoder so it asks how badly you want it to compress things. As those are fixed rates, it knows exactly how much space is available. (Only recently has VBR been added.)
Additionally, the density of photoreceptors in the human eye is too low to reliablly detect one stray photon. However, if the photo hits a receptor, it'll fire.
As an aside, photons aren't the only thing that will fire a human photoreceptor...
As I understand it, you cannot entangle a photon. At any rate, you cannot entangle one of anything -- it's entangled with what? Now a quantum entangled photon emitter... that's a toy! Your "key" becomes one certified photon from said emitter. (Give it a few decades and there would be a quantum photomultiplier rendering the whole mess about as useful as DES.)
Quantum physics dreams up a lot of stuff that exists only on paper. And even after we figure out how to get it off the paper, we cannot figure out how to get any functional utility from it.
Switching wall plates are an interesting idea but those four ports cannot get full speed at the same time. For most homes, no one would notice. And, a four port 100M switch will generate a measurable amount of heat -- esp. in a non-vented electrical box.
And before people start being stupid and suggesting using all the pairs in the cable, please take a moment to find and read the signal specifications for 100base-TX and the cat5 cable being used. The cable was not designed, tested, or certified to carry more than one ethernet connection (certainly not more than one 100B-TX connection.) You can generally get away with two 10M ethernets over one cat5 run. But two 100M etherenets will give you problems -- the longer the run and the more traffic you push over them, the more evident the problems will be.
As far as I've seen "since the begining of time". Server people work with servers not routers. A Solaris box running routed does not make one a router person.
I can point out a half dozen "server people" at work who are next to useless in the arena of routing. (They are even less useful at switching.) However, they are more than proficient at their "server people" jobs.
They would still be in the BGP table(s) -- which are far more costly (on the order of KB per entry instead of bytes) and BGP routing maint. on such huge tables would become a problem.
And "peer" has multiple meaning as well. We're talking about routing here, not servers. If you cannot keep that distinction in your head, please go away.
And no, it is not the case on "almost every IP based firewall". A multi-homed server can pick which interface for the transmition of a packet. Any interface will do (the OS will pick one unless you specify otherwise.) This is completely untrue for a firewall -- packets must go to the correct interface or it won't work.
Actually, it's slightly more complicated than that. The provider(s) will be announcing their CIDR block (/20 or larger) to their peers. If you get the backup provider to announce a/24 (or anything smaller than the CIDR block) that will become the default preferred path -- longest prefix rule. So, everyone involved has to announce your tiny segment. (I find it to be a major pain in the ***.)
ARIN is very clear on the matter./24 is the smallest block of addresses for doing multi-homed BGP. However, only/20 and shorter can be expected to be globally routable -- Sprint will be the most likely problem.
It's human nature to complain. You hear about "so much trouble" because those are the most vocal group(s). There are hundreds of thousands of happy customers but they aren't out saying so. (Well, maybe not hundreds of thousands of Excite@home customers, but you get the idea.)
And then there's also the whole "what? we have to make money?!" business plans to blame as well. It would appear, basic economics is no longer required to get an MBA -- you cannot sell goods or services for less than it costs to create them and expect to stay in business.
And a GeForce3 gfx card -- which will cost as much or more than the XBox. Even as part of a rendering farm, you'd want the GF3 doing the gfx work instead of the PIII.
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Indeed. This was on slashdot before, however, with the nonsensical titles given to things, it's next to impossible to find it again.
Lighting, positioning, always on, and of course uberalignment... Almost all of it is the proper alignment -- I'm talking about hardware far beyond those stupid 5$ DVD alignment discs.
If you knew how most companies handle your CC number, you'd stop doing business with everyone, burn your CC, and start keeping all your money under your pillow along with your gun.
In my years as a system admin, I've seen some of the most backwards, stupid, and insane bullshit on the planet. This includes the bounced postmaster email containing several hundred (possibly thousands) of CC numbers from a "secure web site"; that "https" form to which the user's input was sent put all the information -- plain english, ASCII -- in a file and then e-mailed it to someone at the end of the day. (I bet I have a backup tape with hundreds of decade old CC numbers.)
Perhaps they should say, "5% of the registered address space is not reachable." Where reachability is determined from inspection of the routing tables from various providers all over the globe.
/24 for an office of seven computers)?
I wonder if they took into account the number of address blocks allocated but not assigned and thus not, yet, announced? The last block we were assigned wasn't in the global routing table for several months. And what about NATed networks? Or people who have 50x more addresses than they need (a
To be completely accurate, the "modern" (gregorian) calander didn't exist then. And if based literally on the word in the bible, I'm absolutely certain it's wrong. However, that doesn't negate the intention of the season -- to celebrate the brith of Christ. The act of giving gifts which has become the new meaning of the season is to symbolize the gifts from the wisemen.
Christmas hasn't had a lot to do with religion for a very long time. When I was a child (I'm 30 now), christmas meant something besides being the time of year when I got a lot of toys. There were christmas plays, recitals, singing christmas trees... basically, fellowship and rejoice. Today, most of my family doesn't want to be in the same room together.
My traffic graphs would say otherwise. There was less activity on the 25th than any weekend (mostly business customers.) The 24th was also a very lite day.
Just make sure your TiVo has about a month of unwatched shows and you'll be fine for a week or so. I've watched three months of Lexx, 5 weeks of CSI, several Nature episodes, a football game or two...
But does your family enjoy your job that much as well? I didn't think so. I wouldn't mind, but my family would object loudly.
If you ask me, I'd say Christmas should be canceled. It's exciting for children with the gifts and being out of school and all, but for adults, it's just a mess -- the hastle of driving hundreds of miles, the shopping, and the number of others ("the idiots") standing in your way.
As I said (you can read, right?)... EDITING Professionals store complete frames so they can edit the thing without having to decode every frame between two reference frames. When they are done, they use a "transcoder" to render a proper MPEG stream.
The reason all those Matrox cards have/had MJPEG was because the Zoran chip for doing it was free compared to an MPEG encoder.
(And DV doesn't have to be compressed at all. The quality is outstanding, but consuming 100GB for "baby's first steps" is a bit excessive.)
Because the MPEG encoder (a Sony CXD1922) is a very expensive chip -- over 100$ in quantity. And it would add a great deal of complexity to the system. Add to that the FCC "must carry" rules, and there's no point in putting one in there.
Actually, it isn't good technical info... the video stream is _M_P_E_G_ -- not _M_otion _J_PEG.
MJPEG is equal to an MPEG I-Frame stream. No idiot transmits 100% I-Frame streams. (Editing systems record that way to allow proper frame-by-frame editing.)
- You'd think that Dishnetwork would promote this type of thing.
Why? What on earth makes you think they'd what to make anything even remotely hackable?TiVo, Inc. has zero control over what the broadcast network (DISH, Directv, PrimeStar, etc.) sends. It simply records the bit stream directly. In fact, it has no MPEG encoding capabilities at all - period.
The standalone units have an MPEG encoder so it asks how badly you want it to compress things. As those are fixed rates, it knows exactly how much space is available. (Only recently has VBR been added.)
Additionally, the density of photoreceptors in the human eye is too low to reliablly detect one stray photon. However, if the photo hits a receptor, it'll fire.
As an aside, photons aren't the only thing that will fire a human photoreceptor...
As I understand it, you cannot entangle a photon. At any rate, you cannot entangle one of anything -- it's entangled with what? Now a quantum entangled photon emitter... that's a toy! Your "key" becomes one certified photon from said emitter. (Give it a few decades and there would be a quantum photomultiplier rendering the whole mess about as useful as DES.)
Quantum physics dreams up a lot of stuff that exists only on paper. And even after we figure out how to get it off the paper, we cannot figure out how to get any functional utility from it.
Switching wall plates are an interesting idea but those four ports cannot get full speed at the same time. For most homes, no one would notice. And, a four port 100M switch will generate a measurable amount of heat -- esp. in a non-vented electrical box.
And before people start being stupid and suggesting using all the pairs in the cable, please take a moment to find and read the signal specifications for 100base-TX and the cat5 cable being used. The cable was not designed, tested, or certified to carry more than one ethernet connection (certainly not more than one 100B-TX connection.) You can generally get away with two 10M ethernets over one cat5 run. But two 100M etherenets will give you problems -- the longer the run and the more traffic you push over them, the more evident the problems will be.
Oh, and learn to quote the original text in some fashion so people know it's a quote and not your words.
As far as I've seen "since the begining of time". Server people work with servers not routers. A Solaris box running routed does not make one a router person.
I can point out a half dozen "server people" at work who are next to useless in the arena of routing. (They are even less useful at switching.) However, they are more than proficient at their "server people" jobs.
They would still be in the BGP table(s) -- which are far more costly (on the order of KB per entry instead of bytes) and BGP routing maint. on such huge tables would become a problem.
s/parity/ECC
It'll run with "regular" (read: cheap ass crap) memory. I ran a 7206VXR with "Mighty RAM" for a few days (it's was an intentional joke.)
Cisco has finally realized custom memory modules aren't worth it. (Kingston will clone it anyway.)
And "peer" has multiple meaning as well. We're talking about routing here, not servers. If you cannot keep that distinction in your head, please go away.
And no, it is not the case on "almost every IP based firewall". A multi-homed server can pick which interface for the transmition of a packet. Any interface will do (the OS will pick one unless you specify otherwise.) This is completely untrue for a firewall -- packets must go to the correct interface or it won't work.
Actually, it's slightly more complicated than that. The provider(s) will be announcing their CIDR block (/20 or larger) to their peers. If you get the backup provider to announce a /24 (or anything smaller than the CIDR block) that will become the default preferred path -- longest prefix rule. So, everyone involved has to announce your tiny segment. (I find it to be a major pain in the ***.)
/24 is the smallest block of addresses for doing multi-homed BGP. However, only /20 and shorter can be expected to be globally routable -- Sprint will be the most likely problem.
ARIN is very clear on the matter.
It's human nature to complain. You hear about "so much trouble" because those are the most vocal group(s). There are hundreds of thousands of happy customers but they aren't out saying so. (Well, maybe not hundreds of thousands of Excite@home customers, but you get the idea.)
And then there's also the whole "what? we have to make money?!" business plans to blame as well. It would appear, basic economics is no longer required to get an MBA -- you cannot sell goods or services for less than it costs to create them and expect to stay in business.
Because the GF3's video rendering capabilities FAR outreaches anything a CPU can do.
And a GeForce3 gfx card -- which will cost as much or more than the XBox. Even as part of a rendering farm, you'd want the GF3 doing the gfx work instead of the PIII.