And you are not stuck with the typical iTMS low-quality 128Kbit file. Most of the Russian sites let you choose your quality and give you the option to do "online encoding" where you can select the settings you want. When the pop up screen shows up you can hit switch to advanced mode toward the bottm and you get the following options:
You can choose between the LAME or BLADE codec and 128, 160, 192, 256, and 320 kbps for each (constant bitrate). Or you can choose LAME variable bitrate at 128, 160, 192, or 256.
If you enjoy these services, 3MP3 should be your first stop to see if you can find what you are looking for at the lowest price. Then I'd move to allofmp3, followed by clubmp3.ru, and then DELit.
look at the environmental impact of humans living on land - do you really think having them live under water is a good idea?
I share your concerns regarding pollution, but I do see that with more lebesraum, especially compared with the increasingly crowded surface, we get to distribute the carrying capacity a bit more.
I think the issue with pressure is serious, but can be solved with engineering and sub-sea floor enclosures. The solution of this is left as an exercise for the reader.
I think the issue with replacement/recycling is a function of our limited knowledge of how to manage the oceans responsibly, rather than the primitive slash/burn hunter-gatherer approach of modern fishing. We have evolved many continuous, renewable ways to farm the surface that do not involve industrialized monoculture and we could evolve similar techniques for ocean farming.
Replacement for both obsolete 32bit 33MHz PCI and AGP. Try fitting two top of the line (AGP) graphics cards on one motherboard.
You're right, but PCI Express goes even further than this. PCI Express point-to-point connections can run around 5 metres. So you can have external PCI Express connectors and so stack your graphics cards outside your CPU box.
Given the increasingly hot and power-hungry graphics card GPUs, perhaps an external, self-powered, self-cooled graphics box(s) might become mandatory for super-high-end gaming rigs?
is nowhere remotely inhabitable anywhere near us we could have any hope of colonizing in a sustainable way in the time frame.
I agree with you that spending money on space for the "purpose" of colonization and lebensraum is useless. However I think there is somewhere we could expand human living space: under the oceans. We have hundreds of thousands of hectares of submerged, convenient continental shelf floor waiting for exploration and colonization.
I find it absurd that we have spent so much mapping Mars in exquisite detail but spent so little that most of our own planet's deep ocean floor remains unmapped with any precision.
That is, until the PC gets hit by a ton of viruses, spyware, adware, trojans... which slow it down to half the speed of the Mac.
Had a PC since 1990 - never got a virus. A little prevention goes a long way.
You know OSX people are not invulnerable to viruses or trojans. I remember the Morris Worm infected mostly BSD. The current relatively safe OSX situation occurs because with with 2% market share it's not worth the ego boost for most virus kiddies to target the platform. Basically, when it comes to Macs no kiddies really care... or cared.
However, I recall in the late 1980s when Macs had quite a large market share relative to today that there were several Mac-specific viruses. But personally I'd say it's just a matter of time before OSX gets its own virus. I'd actually see the release of an OSX-specific virus or trojan as evidence of increasing market share!
iPod, if nothing else is advertisement for Apple Technology.
Really? I thought it was more a brilliant advert for PortalPlayer. Apple doesn't have an exclusive contract with PP - their OS is already being used by Samsung, Philips, and others. The real winners out of this are PP - they look well placed to remain the largest mp3 player systems provider no matter whose box is currently the market leader.
Plato (400 BCE) - Everything Is Dying
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So, when did it become fashionable to predict the deaths of everything?
What now remains of the formerly rich land is like the skeleton of a
sick man. Formerly, many of the
mountains were arable. The plains that were full of rich soil are now
marshes. Hills that were once covered
with forests and produced abundant pasture now produce only food for
bees. Once the land was enriched
by yearly rains, which were not lost, as they are now, by flowing from
the bare land into the sea. The soil
was deep, it absorbed and kept the water in loamy soil, and the water
that soaked into the hills fed
springs and running streams everywhere. Now the abandoned shrines at
spots where formerly there were
springs attest that our description of the land is true.
flexibility for managing their content, and having a 'library' capability that doesn't fall short at the size of the TiVO box.
I'll second the DVArchive comment! My HTPC has its own capture cards, but also runs DVArchive with ReplayTVs connected on the network. Java-based, no silly DRM, enables remote control of the ReplayTVs. Effectively converts them into loosely coupled capture devices with their own on-board *huge* buffers and streaming.
My HTPC has its own capture cards, but also runs DVArchive with ReplayTVs connected on the network. Java-based, no silly DRM, enables remote control of the ReplayTVs. Effectively converts them into loosely coupled capture devices with their own on-board *huge* buffers and streaming.
Loosely Coupled Tivo-Like Devices
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Why can't I buy TiVo software to run on my own hardware? My HTPC?
My HTPC has its own capture cards, but also runs DVArchive with ReplayTVs connected on the network. Java-based, no silly DRM, enables remote control of the ReplayTVs. Effectively converts them into loosely coupled capture devices with their own on-board *huge* buffers and streaming.
What is the BW of an (analog) video signal, like about 10 MHz, 20 Mbps for optimal (Shannon) encoding? Throw in some ECC and you get back down to 10+ Mbps, which would give you 10M/s*3600s=36 Gb/tape for one hour tape.
Or you could take the approach of RCA with their vinyl videodisc system and just encode straight onto the vinyl...
The apex of multimedia vinyl technology in the 1980s was probably RCA's videodisc system. This vinyl-based analog video system competed against early Laserdisc.
I already use a HTPC with J River Media Center and a 7.1 Envy chipset to pump out audio to the amp over TOSLINK anyway at home, so no SPDIF out for me on a portable device was not a deal breaker.
WotW was written by Wells, an avowed Socialist, as a critique of Colonialism. In the story, *we* are the natives of New Zealand, Australia, the Americas, and Africa and the Aliens are the invading Europeans, bringing with them fearsome new technolgies and introducing exotic, destructive new species such as the "Red Weed".
Many people during Wells's day observed very well how invasive Eurasian biologies swarmed astonishingly quickly across the Americas and Oceania, obliterating everything in their path and upsetting or destroying native ecologies and agricultural systems.
Wells himself referred to the invading Martians sowing their "Red Weed" on earth, and how devoted a lot of space to the narrator's horror as the new plant spread relentlessly across the Earth. Wells was alluding most directly to the then-recent experience of the Maori in New Zealand, who witnessed their entire agricultural system annihilated by invasive Eurasian species, especially the terribly efficient synergy of clover and bees.
derived by Boltzmann and ridiculed by people like you. He committed suicide because of the pressure
Interesting, I can't ever recall publicly ridiculing dear Ludwig. Maybe in another life?
I always thought he killed himself in that particularly selfish, cruel, and public way in front of his wife and daughter because he suffered from lifelong bipolar disorder.
Your statement of the 2nd law in vague generalities is next to useless. It's really all about ergodics - the 2nd law falls out of the Gibbs relation by considering both the ergodic nature of the time spent in local regions of the microstate phase space or, alternatively, by considering that quantum collapse during measurement will tend to increase the entropy of the macro ensemble.
You failed my test a long time ago. A little knowledge is indeed a dangerous thing.
Considering that I'm still alive and not burnt to a crisp
You can hold a pound of TNT in your hands. The temperature will remain ambient and this tells you nothing about the potential energy ueld. Likewise, you can lift a bag of nitrogen-based fertiliser and check its temperature, but this still tells you nothing about its potential energy yield. And again for a gallon of petrol/gasoline.
In all cases, your recommendation to measure the potential energy yield (and by extension, estimate the energy inputs required to create the compounds) by a simple temperature check is a basic science error I might expect from an 8-year-old, but I would grade very badly coming from anyone aged 12 or over.
And by the way, your total energy output for the Sun ignores the real value of the quantity of solar energy intercepted by the Earth, and the efficiency of the conversion of this solar energy into carbon compounds. This is the NPP or Net Primary Productivity of the Earth's ecology and a far more interesting, and difficult number to calculate, than facile numbers relating to the rate of fusion in the sun's core. Follow some of the links, you may learn something.
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All hail FatWallet:
Here are some legal (in Russia!) MP3 download sites - most flat fee:
allofmp3.com
This site is locally legit and songs can be downloaded for as little as $0.01 per MB. That's around 3 cents per song.
DELit
Unusual emphasis on hard rock and metal acts (east European and Russian youth apparently worship metal acts)
3MP3.ru
$4.55 per month for unlimited downloads.
And you are not stuck with the typical iTMS low-quality 128Kbit file. Most of the Russian sites let you choose your quality and give you the option to do "online encoding" where you can select the settings you want. When the pop up screen shows up you can hit switch to advanced mode toward the bottm and you get the following options:
You can choose between the LAME or BLADE codec and 128, 160, 192, 256, and 320 kbps for each (constant bitrate). Or you can choose LAME variable bitrate at 128, 160, 192, or 256.
If you enjoy these services, 3MP3 should be your first stop to see if you can find what you are looking for at the lowest price. Then I'd move to allofmp3, followed by clubmp3.ru, and then DELit.
look at the environmental impact of humans living on land - do you really think having them live under water is a good idea?
I share your concerns regarding pollution, but I do see that with more lebesraum, especially compared with the increasingly crowded surface, we get to distribute the carrying capacity a bit more.
I think the issue with pressure is serious, but can be solved with engineering and sub-sea floor enclosures. The solution of this is left as an exercise for the reader.
I think the issue with replacement/recycling is a function of our limited knowledge of how to manage the oceans responsibly, rather than the primitive slash/burn hunter-gatherer approach of modern fishing. We have evolved many continuous, renewable ways to farm the surface that do not involve industrialized monoculture and we could evolve similar techniques for ocean farming.
Replacement for both obsolete 32bit 33MHz PCI and AGP. Try fitting two top of the line (AGP) graphics cards on one motherboard.
You're right, but PCI Express goes even further than this. PCI Express point-to-point connections can run around 5 metres. So you can have external PCI Express connectors and so stack your graphics cards outside your CPU box.
Given the increasingly hot and power-hungry graphics card GPUs, perhaps an external, self-powered, self-cooled graphics box(s) might become mandatory for super-high-end gaming rigs?
But how does it compare to the crappy biofeedback controls in MindSkier?
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
And a few other people, both before and after the movie.
is nowhere remotely inhabitable anywhere near us we could have any hope of colonizing in a sustainable way in the time frame.
I agree with you that spending money on space for the "purpose" of colonization and lebensraum is useless. However I think there is somewhere we could expand human living space: under the oceans. We have hundreds of thousands of hectares of submerged, convenient continental shelf floor waiting for exploration and colonization.
I find it absurd that we have spent so much mapping Mars in exquisite detail but spent so little that most of our own planet's deep ocean floor remains unmapped with any precision.
That is, until the PC gets hit by a ton of viruses, spyware, adware, trojans... which slow it down to half the speed of the Mac.
Had a PC since 1990 - never got a virus. A little prevention goes a long way.
You know OSX people are not invulnerable to viruses or trojans. I remember the Morris Worm infected mostly BSD. The current relatively safe OSX situation occurs because with with 2% market share it's not worth the ego boost for most virus kiddies to target the platform. Basically, when it comes to Macs no kiddies really care... or cared.
However, I recall in the late 1980s when Macs had quite a large market share relative to today that there were several Mac-specific viruses. But personally I'd say it's just a matter of time before OSX gets its own virus. I'd actually see the release of an OSX-specific virus or trojan as evidence of increasing market share!
These are the same people driving Hyundais but want BMWs. Some things cost more.
Yes, but that Beamer runs faster than the Hyundai, with more torque.
The cheapest Macs run several times the price of a low-end PC but run slower.
iPod, if nothing else is advertisement for Apple Technology.
Really? I thought it was more a brilliant advert for PortalPlayer. Apple doesn't have an exclusive contract with PP - their OS is already being used by Samsung, Philips, and others. The real winners out of this are PP - they look well placed to remain the largest mp3 player systems provider no matter whose box is currently the market leader.
Oh since at least 400 BCE. Plato wrote:
flexibility for managing their content, and having a 'library' capability that doesn't fall short at the size of the TiVO box.
I'll second the DVArchive comment! My HTPC has its own capture cards, but also runs DVArchive with ReplayTVs connected on the network. Java-based, no silly DRM, enables remote control of the ReplayTVs. Effectively converts them into loosely coupled capture devices with their own on-board *huge* buffers and streaming.
In fact, the DVArchive author has remarked on the similarities.
Tivo is just as interoperable as it ever was.
Doesn't Tivo HMO come with DRM?
My HTPC has its own capture cards, but also runs DVArchive with ReplayTVs connected on the network. Java-based, no silly DRM, enables remote control of the ReplayTVs. Effectively converts them into loosely coupled capture devices with their own on-board *huge* buffers and streaming.
Why can't I buy TiVo software to run on my own hardware? My HTPC?
My HTPC has its own capture cards, but also runs DVArchive with ReplayTVs connected on the network. Java-based, no silly DRM, enables remote control of the ReplayTVs. Effectively converts them into loosely coupled capture devices with their own on-board *huge* buffers and streaming.
Home Media Option, or as I like to call it, an over priced package of all the cool hacks we stole from the community
Try DVArchive with ReplayTV - you'll like it. All the networking goodies, Java-based, no silly DRM.
A nice story about the technicalities here.
This is an outstandingly clear and concise explanation of the issues involved. Someone with Karma bump the parent!
Or you could take the approach of RCA with their vinyl videodisc system and just encode straight onto the vinyl...
From the Videodisc FAQ:
What are the technical specifications of the RCA VideoDisc system?
The apex of multimedia vinyl technology in the 1980s was probably RCA's videodisc system. This vinyl-based analog video system competed against early Laserdisc.
Of *course* people are still fleabaying them. You can even get the Original Star Wars Trilogy on black vinyl videodisc...
the new (v2) model does NOT have digital out
That's sadly true, but... $67!
I already use a HTPC with J River Media Center and a 7.1 Envy chipset to pump out audio to the amp over TOSLINK anyway at home, so no SPDIF out for me on a portable device was not a deal breaker.
WoW is about xenophobia
.
WotW was written by Wells, an avowed Socialist, as a critique of Colonialism. In the story, *we* are the natives of New Zealand, Australia, the Americas, and Africa and the Aliens are the invading Europeans, bringing with them fearsome new technolgies and introducing exotic, destructive new species such as the "Red Weed".
One of the first people to link Euro hegemony over the past 1000 years to the successful displacement of other global ecologies before the Euro portmanteau biota was Alfred Crosby in Ecological Imperialism : The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Many people during Wells's day observed very well how invasive Eurasian biologies swarmed astonishingly quickly across the Americas and Oceania, obliterating everything in their path and upsetting or destroying native ecologies and agricultural systems.
Wells himself referred to the invading Martians sowing their "Red Weed" on earth, and how devoted a lot of space to the narrator's horror as the new plant spread relentlessly across the Earth. Wells was alluding most directly to the then-recent experience of the Maori in New Zealand, who witnessed their entire agricultural system annihilated by invasive Eurasian species, especially the terribly efficient synergy of clover and bees.
More recently, Ian McDonald has written some good stories about an invasive botanical Alien called "Chaga" that spreads across the Earth. It's a common theme in scifi, I hope the new movie uses it.
I agree. After seeing how happy my girlfriend was with an Archos for the past 18 months, I decided to get one.
On Amazon you can get a 20GB Archos Recorder for $67 (!) after rebates, coupons, and stuff. That's an amazingly sweet deal.
derived by Boltzmann and ridiculed by people like you. He committed suicide because of the pressure
Interesting, I can't ever recall publicly ridiculing dear Ludwig. Maybe in another life?
I always thought he killed himself in that particularly selfish, cruel, and public way in front of his wife and daughter because he suffered from lifelong bipolar disorder.
You failed my test
Your statement of the 2nd law in vague generalities is next to useless. It's really all about ergodics - the 2nd law falls out of the Gibbs relation by considering both the ergodic nature of the time spent in local regions of the microstate phase space or, alternatively, by considering that quantum collapse during measurement will tend to increase the entropy of the macro ensemble.
You failed my test a long time ago. A little knowledge is indeed a dangerous thing.
thermodynamics
Considering that I'm still alive and not burnt to a crisp
You can hold a pound of TNT in your hands. The temperature will remain ambient and this tells you nothing about the potential energy ueld. Likewise, you can lift a bag of nitrogen-based fertiliser and check its temperature, but this still tells you nothing about its potential energy yield. And again for a gallon of petrol/gasoline.
In all cases, your recommendation to measure the potential energy yield (and by extension, estimate the energy inputs required to create the compounds) by a simple temperature check is a basic science error I might expect from an 8-year-old, but I would grade very badly coming from anyone aged 12 or over.
And by the way, your total energy output for the Sun ignores the real value of the quantity of solar energy intercepted by the Earth, and the efficiency of the conversion of this solar energy into carbon compounds. This is the NPP or Net Primary Productivity of the Earth's ecology and a far more interesting, and difficult number to calculate, than facile numbers relating to the rate of fusion in the sun's core. Follow some of the links, you may learn something.
How's develpment on the transporter coming?
Quantum teleportation is progressing slowly. Teleporting electrons using quantum entanglment has been done. Scaling it up to macroscopic sizes and massively superposed states is not trivial.