Liquid Nitrogen cooling is a bit of a cheat, didn't Toms Hardware get over 5ghz out of a 3ghz P4 a few years ago by constantly pouring liquid N over it?
I'm gonna wait until you can get 1ghz with a practical cooling solution before getting too excited (tho the way CPUs are heading these days cryogenic cooling may come as stock in a few years!)
Reading the www.ipodsubwaymaps.com it seems that New York MTA are offering a 1 year licence for $500, which seems fairly reasonable to me. I mean it still seems a bit silly, especially as a) MTA are offering the map to download anyway and b) no other metro service is complaining, but it's not like they're demanding some ridiculous per download licence or the like.
So the actual tracker that the bittorrents connect to is written in PHP? I'd always figured it was running as a seperate process, pretty impressive you can run a large torrent site using just PHP (but then I like PHP so that's good:)
Even so the server's definitely Apache so they can log all accesses and can probably weed out cheaters pretty easily (someone suddenly adds a few gigs to their ratio you know something's up;)
The article doesn't go into much detail, but I believe the vunerability is caused by how trackers report back to the website's database, which manages all the ratio recording.
The tracker itsself is self contained and keeps track of the ratios internally, but the website's gonna be running on a proper webserver and to keep a list of all the users and their ratio the 2 need to talk to each other, I guess they chose REST to do it.
I'm pretty sure this isn't a big deal as it should be simple to find fake entries in the web server log and ban users. It would have been better if the site and tracker could be configured with a password that they use when talking to each other tho...
Step 1. Load site logs Step 2. Do a search for these entries Step 3. Ban any cheaters
I'm sure this it should be pretty easy to tell fake entries from real ones as I'm guessing that the tracker software, with a known IP address, is the only thing that should be accessing that url.
Rather then a new take on the mobile phone Apple are simply peddling an average Motorola phone that just happens to be preloaded with an iTunes player. It doesn't even look any good (especially compared to the V3). They may as well have just made a java version of iTunes player.
On the other hand iPod nano looks pretty cool (good in black as well), be interesting to see inside one of them (hopefully pictures should appear any moment:), I'd guess it still uses CF media but that's practically the entire height of the unit.
This was my first thought but if you read the article it mentions this at the end:
The most popular versions of string theory suggest that there are as many as eight extra dimensions, not just three. But thankfully this needn't be a problem. There's no reason why, in addition to the three large extra dimensions predicted by Silk and colleagues, there might not be several other small ones too.
"There are limitations to CRT that are being felt increasingly as the need for higher resolution televisions increase each day. For instance, consider that even the lowest resolution that you can get on the computer monitor you are viewing is 640x480 whereas the best resolution that the finest analog TV can give you is a maximum of 480 horizontal lines."
What are they talking about??
Most computer montiors are CRTs and there's nothing limited about them, IIRC they still beat plasma and LCD displays in terms of resolution (last I remember even really big plasma screens were limited to 1024 px across, and 17" LCDs are usually 1280. My cheap, several years old 17" crt can do 1600x1200 readably
The only reason CRT TVs are limited to 480 lines is because that's the resolution of the legacy TV signal.
I was expecting a load of sales talk about HDTV plasma screens being so much better then these antique CRT displays but instead the rest of it is just a load of Star Trek esq technobable.
I'm sorry but this article isn't informative, it's not even trying to sell something, what's it's point?? Maybe it's just to rack up clicks on the google ads?
There's a good reason for interfaces to look the same and follow the system interface guidelines, it makes them easier to use.
Take for example the DVD software I have. They've made the interface look exactly like a DVD player! Brilliant!... Oh wait it's a complete pain to use. All the buttons are rendered tiny and instead of text labels they have little pictures, most of which are unrecognisable. (Where's the "Open file" menu option??). The volume control is even a knob you have to "rotate" by moving the mouse in little circles. WHATS WRONG WITH A SLIDER???
Using the system default style means that an interface is instantly recognisable with familiar controls (buttons, sliders, scroll bars). Of course it's still easy to design a bad interface even using system controls, but at least it puts you off to a better start.
I'm sure if this guy got his way all program's interfaces would look like Kai's Power Goo, but rather then just being able to install a new program and get on with it you'd need to learn a completely new interface first.
Finally strangely large amount of praise for Comic Life. "Be forewarned: It's likely to drive even the most die-hard Windows user to switch to OS X." Right, so a program that simply provides some Photoshop filters, speech bubble clipart and word art is so revolutionary that people will throw away their computers and buy a mac just to use it?? (Well until OS X86 is released I guess).
That's only true if you're using the analogue output, think the original poster is talking about the digital output.
At any rate why would you spend so much time and effort improving your DVD player if you have it hooked up to a crap amp? It's the equivalent of trying to turn your economy car into a hot rod by simply installing a sports exhaust and air filter (and maybe a huge spoiler and some stripes).
Releasing a version of OSX that runs on standard x86 hardware should allow Apple to be in direct competition with Windows (to "switch" is simply case of buying OSX rather then an entirely new computer)
Of course it'll only work if they can get get drivers and software backwards compatibility sorted, which given they announced the switch to Intel in more then a year away they might just make it.
I remember a lot of old arcade driving games that had force-feedback on steering wheels, if the patent was taken out after they came out then that'd be pretty good prior art I'd think.
Also of course for a long time on aeroplanes the control stick used to have a shaker to warn pilots of a stall, I guess that'd probably count as prior art too.
Seems like a nice system, but why on earth are they serving the books as images rater then text if they've OCR'd them all?
Of course I'm pretty sure the answer is to try and stop people copying the books (I see they've pulled out all the stops on the actual page to prevent people getting at the image files too).
Surely it would be much more useful to have the books in text format though.
My bank protects me from keyloggers by only asking for random letters from my password, never the whole password at once.
Of course if would probably be possible to get enough information to withdraw money over the phone by saving a copy of every page I viewed, but that's still a lot more involved then just logging keystrokes
There is no such thing as "cost" per CD (apart from manufacturing, or in this case bandwidth, cost), it all depends how many they sell doesn't it. If they sell 10,000 downloads at $2 a cd, then they'll make almost as much as if they sold 1,000 downloads at $20.
On a serious note this is exactly what other online music sites should offer, like hell I'm paying $1 PER TRACK for DRM restricted files, but if they offered albums for $2-$3 each DRM free then, well, I'd probably never use filesharing again.
That's 640x400 (or 640x512 if your TV is PAL flavour) you insensitive clod, and thats not even counting overscan!
Of course technically TV's can do any horisontal resolution, you used to be able to display 1280x512 on a normal TV with an AGA Amiga, not that you could actually see anything on a TV at that resolution:)
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Too right, where's this guy been? my 5 year old sub £300 POS TV has them, as does EVERY TV.
Liquid Nitrogen cooling is a bit of a cheat, didn't Toms Hardware get over 5ghz out of a 3ghz P4 a few years ago by constantly pouring liquid N over it?
I'm gonna wait until you can get 1ghz with a practical cooling solution before getting too excited (tho the way CPUs are heading these days cryogenic cooling may come as stock in a few years!)
Reading the www.ipodsubwaymaps.com it seems that New York MTA are offering a 1 year licence for $500, which seems fairly reasonable to me. I mean it still seems a bit silly, especially as a) MTA are offering the map to download anyway and b) no other metro service is complaining, but it's not like they're demanding some ridiculous per download licence or the like.
So the actual tracker that the bittorrents connect to is written in PHP? I'd always figured it was running as a seperate process, pretty impressive you can run a large torrent site using just PHP (but then I like PHP so that's good :)
;)
Even so the server's definitely Apache so they can log all accesses and can probably weed out cheaters pretty easily (someone suddenly adds a few gigs to their ratio you know something's up
The article doesn't go into much detail, but I believe the vunerability is caused by how trackers report back to the website's database, which manages all the ratio recording.
The tracker itsself is self contained and keeps track of the ratios internally, but the website's gonna be running on a proper webserver and to keep a list of all the users and their ratio the 2 need to talk to each other, I guess they chose REST to do it.
I'm pretty sure this isn't a big deal as it should be simple to find fake entries in the web server log and ban users. It would have been better if the site and tracker could be configured with a password that they use when talking to each other tho...
The way I look at it is this:
Step 1. Load site logs
Step 2. Do a search for these entries
Step 3. Ban any cheaters
I'm sure this it should be pretty easy to tell fake entries from real ones as I'm guessing that the tracker software, with a known IP address, is the only thing that should be accessing that url.
Rather then a new take on the mobile phone Apple are simply peddling an average Motorola phone that just happens to be preloaded with an iTunes player. It doesn't even look any good (especially compared to the V3). They may as well have just made a java version of iTunes player.
:), I'd guess it still uses CF media but that's practically the entire height of the unit.
On the other hand iPod nano looks pretty cool (good in black as well), be interesting to see inside one of them (hopefully pictures should appear any moment
This was my first thought but if you read the article it mentions this at the end:
The most popular versions of string theory suggest that there are as many as eight extra dimensions, not just three. But thankfully this needn't be a problem. There's no reason why, in addition to the three large extra dimensions predicted by Silk and colleagues, there might not be several other small ones too.
Calm down they're non-lethal. Better that then sprey a crowd with bullets I'd say
"There are limitations to CRT that are being felt increasingly as the need for higher resolution televisions increase each day. For instance, consider that even the lowest resolution that you can get on the computer monitor you are viewing is 640x480 whereas the best resolution that the finest analog TV can give you is a maximum of 480 horizontal lines."
What are they talking about??
Most computer montiors are CRTs and there's nothing limited about them, IIRC they still beat plasma and LCD displays in terms of resolution (last I remember even really big plasma screens were limited to 1024 px across, and 17" LCDs are usually 1280. My cheap, several years old 17" crt can do 1600x1200 readably
The only reason CRT TVs are limited to 480 lines is because that's the resolution of the legacy TV signal.
I was expecting a load of sales talk about HDTV plasma screens being so much better then these antique CRT displays but instead the rest of it is just a load of Star Trek esq technobable.
I'm sorry but this article isn't informative, it's not even trying to sell something, what's it's point?? Maybe it's just to rack up clicks on the google ads?
Given the amount of time it would take to terraform Mars I can't see why both projects couldn't be run simultainously
Well they're going home anyway, it's not like they're doing the trip just to take the rubbish back
It's probably useful to know what happens when you keep rubbish in space for several years anyway
http://www.traktor.com/musicvideos/low/Fatboy_Slim .mov
There's a good reason for interfaces to look the same and follow the system interface guidelines, it makes them easier to use.
... Oh wait it's a complete pain to use. All the buttons are rendered tiny and instead of text labels they have little pictures, most of which are unrecognisable. (Where's the "Open file" menu option??). The volume control is even a knob you have to "rotate" by moving the mouse in little circles. WHATS WRONG WITH A SLIDER???
Take for example the DVD software I have. They've made the interface look exactly like a DVD player! Brilliant!
Using the system default style means that an interface is instantly recognisable with familiar controls (buttons, sliders, scroll bars). Of course it's still easy to design a bad interface even using system controls, but at least it puts you off to a better start.
I'm sure if this guy got his way all program's interfaces would look like Kai's Power Goo, but rather then just being able to install a new program and get on with it you'd need to learn a completely new interface first.
Finally strangely large amount of praise for Comic Life. "Be forewarned: It's likely to drive even the most die-hard Windows user to switch to OS X." Right, so a program that simply provides some Photoshop filters, speech bubble clipart and word art is so revolutionary that people will throw away their computers and buy a mac just to use it?? (Well until OS X86 is released I guess).
That's only true if you're using the analogue output, think the original poster is talking about the digital output.
At any rate why would you spend so much time and effort improving your DVD player if you have it hooked up to a crap amp? It's the equivalent of trying to turn your economy car into a hot rod by simply installing a sports exhaust and air filter (and maybe a huge spoiler and some stripes).
Releasing a version of OSX that runs on standard x86 hardware should allow Apple to be in direct competition with Windows (to "switch" is simply case of buying OSX rather then an entirely new computer)
Of course it'll only work if they can get get drivers and software backwards compatibility sorted, which given they announced the switch to Intel in more then a year away they might just make it.
When was this patent taken out?
I remember a lot of old arcade driving games that had force-feedback on steering wheels, if the patent was taken out after they came out then that'd be pretty good prior art I'd think.
Also of course for a long time on aeroplanes the control stick used to have a shaker to warn pilots of a stall, I guess that'd probably count as prior art too.
Seems like a nice system, but why on earth are they serving the books as images rater then text if they've OCR'd them all?
Of course I'm pretty sure the answer is to try and stop people copying the books (I see they've pulled out all the stops on the actual page to prevent people getting at the image files too).
Surely it would be much more useful to have the books in text format though.
My bank protects me from keyloggers by only asking for random letters from my password, never the whole password at once.
Of course if would probably be possible to get enough information to withdraw money over the phone by saving a copy of every page I viewed, but that's still a lot more involved then just logging keystrokes
There is no such thing as "cost" per CD (apart from manufacturing, or in this case bandwidth, cost), it all depends how many they sell doesn't it. If they sell 10,000 downloads at $2 a cd, then they'll make almost as much as if they sold 1,000 downloads at $20.
That's where I get most my MP3s from!
On a serious note this is exactly what other online music sites should offer, like hell I'm paying $1 PER TRACK for DRM restricted files, but if they offered albums for $2-$3 each DRM free then, well, I'd probably never use filesharing again.
Lian-Li make a sound-proof case. It's got sound padding round the inside and rubber seals round the door on the front.
It's not completely silent but it is a fair bit quieter, and it comes with a built in dust filter so it keeps the inside nice and clean too.
At least I qualified my Beowulf cluster joke with an actual use for a Beowulf cluster of projectors :)
Anyway it doesn't matter because in Soviet Russia LCD projects you!
My next project is with a laptop screen and an overhead projector with a one of those builders halogen lights
Em, you've been beaten to it
(Well apart from the OTT bulb :)
That's 640x400 (or 640x512 if your TV is PAL flavour) you insensitive clod, and thats not even counting overscan!
:)
Of course technically TV's can do any horisontal resolution, you used to be able to display 1280x512 on a normal TV with an AGA Amiga, not that you could actually see anything on a TV at that resolution