Still, the developers of Theora found several glaring mistakes in the reference implementation of VP3 which brought it immediately to the same quality and bit rate level as MPEG-2. Everything since then has been vast improvements on both the encoder and the decoder.
It's like the LAME MP3 encoder. The vast improvements made in the encoder reaped huge benefits without even changing the decoder. With Theora, Ogg (and by extension, we) control both the encoder AND the decoder.
It's really not as bad as you think; it is actually quite better than you'd expect.
In my humble opinion the movie Monsters, Inc., was the very best computer-created cartoon movie ever made. The script, plot elements, and awe-inspiring computer graphics, especially the extended door warehouse scene, are a a really tough act to follow.
The sequel will probably have a colon in its name, too. Sigh.
Newsguy.com is an excellent service. Compared to many other USENET services, Newsguy actually has very little spam because of this really clever program they developed called SpamHippo. I also like them because you can buy bandwidth on demand if you want it and the bandwidth balance rolls over each month. The online readers are very focused on the USENET usage experience, with automatic binary downloaders for those binaries with hundreds of parts (and you download the binary version, not the encoded 7-bit version). Of course port 119 is there, too.
The new buzzword of Virtualization has reached all corners of the US Government IT realm. Blinded by the marketing hype of "consolidation" and "power savings" agencies of the three-letter variety are falling over themselves awarding contracts to "virtualize" the infrastucture. Cross-domain security be damned, VMWare and Microsoft SoftGrid Hyper-v Softricity Whatevers will solve all their problems and help us go green at the very same time, for every application, in every environment, for no reason.
This is the recovery from the client-server binge-and-purge of the 1990s.
Thousands of cables in 1/2 acre buried up to 40 feet deep? You're going to hit something. It's reality. Maybe you need to punch holes in the grond in a densely wired urban metropolis like Northern VA to understand what I'm saying. I doubt Research Triangle Park down there has this kind of density.
Most certainly NOT irrelevant. The GPR isn't as effective in our very rocky clay soil as you believe. You have to understand there are thousands of lines that Metro has to dig through. Lines are under pipes and faults in the soil that obscure them from GPR. Many don't have messenger lines for metal detectors to find. Still more are just too deep. They are going to cut through some lines accidentally. The volume of underground utilities in Tysons is extremely dense. Nobody is perfect. Your comment is silly.
The party responsible for the damage does have some protection if they had already called your area's "one call" utility locator system. In our area it's called "Miss Utility." The name is so clever I had to mention it. Some areas it's even a 3-digit phone number like "811." If the lines weren't marked by the utility locator and you damage them you can get some relief from liability but ONLY if you called the locator and allowed enough time for the lines to be marked.
This is total nonsense. They're telecommunications cables just like the others. They are mapped. They were accidentally cut. There is so much telecom in Tysons Corner it's expected to happen.
The only thing I have to say about your "security through obscurity" comment is that you are wrong. Even with physical access to such fiber, and if you could conceivably receive the optical signal therein with your MWM fiber receiver (that you took 3 days to splice into the data stream), the encryption on the line stops you dead cold.
The real story is that the construction rojects, in particular Metro rail to Dulles, is causing all kinds of logisticaly headaches and accidental fiber cuts. There is no real security concern here, even with regards to denial-of-service.
This fallacious story is featured all over the the local news today here in DC The problem is not that the lines aren't mapped--they ARE mapped just like any other utility. The real problem is that the maps aren't perfect.
Here's the real scoop: There have been nearly 40 cable cuts in Tysons since the Metro line to Dulles started construction. There is a government-owned antenna tower on the highest hill in Tysons, too. The ACTUAL problem is that Tysons Corner is the center of the Eastern USA internet capacity. Sure, MAE-East was here, but it's moved to Ashburn, and those lines still cross through Tysons Corner. Naturally, government lines are part of the rats nest that the Metro must tunnel through.
Bottom line is: all the lines are mapped but the maps aren't perfect. The agencies do not bury secret cables. To do so would not only be dangerous, it would be silly. They're just cables like any other.
In other news, that big hill on Rte. 123 had been restricted to heavy trucks after test cores indicated faulty soil but that restriction has been lifted.
There's nothing new here. The UltimateTV folks are working on XBOX360 to take over where the PS3 left off: make an affordable "everything" machine for your TV. Microsoft has a golden opportunity to truly achieve where Sony horribly failed.
It's one of the most popular Tracfone models, but those can't be hacked. It's one of the most popular AT&T GoPhone models, and AT&T (then Cingular) had to restrict purchase. They didn't really restrict them... the "quantity" drop-down menu was "restricted" to a mere 10 units per order. Now we know why the restriction existed. And we thought it was for export to drug dealers. Turns out it was something else entirely.
Biden's comments offer an explanation to the obscurity masks placed on the Observatory in applications like Google Earth. Why the USNO but not the White House? Cheney's secret bunker is why.
My real-world experiences with SGI's XFS is that it takes entirely too much time to delete many files. In addition, rsync has had a tendency to corrupt directory files on XFS leaving me with thousands of indistinguishably-named files in the/lost+found directory. I'm giving IBM's JFS a chance after I recover this XFS filesystem.
To describe cell phone privacy an "encryption" mode is really stretching things. GSM uses a severely crippled encryption algorithm all the time, but it's by no means secure. CDMA uses a similar weak encryption scheme along with the fact that the CDMA connection's over-the-air symbols (that they call "chips") are jumbled up in ways that only the cell site and the handset agree to.
Both are not secure and both are already circumvented.
A main goal of the OLPC was for digitized textbooks. The now-bankrupt WorldSpace Satellite Radio was to deliver those textbooks via its satellite radio platform. There's even a driver for the OLPC to read this data from a WorldSpace receiver. Search Slashdot for my old post concerning this matter and the relevant links.
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Symantec Antivirus says it's a trojan.
Doesn't say which one, just that it is.
Still, the developers of Theora found several glaring mistakes in the reference implementation of VP3 which brought it immediately to the same quality and bit rate level as MPEG-2. Everything since then has been vast improvements on both the encoder and the decoder.
It's like the LAME MP3 encoder. The vast improvements made in the encoder reaped huge benefits without even changing the decoder. With Theora, Ogg (and by extension, we) control both the encoder AND the decoder.
It's really not as bad as you think; it is actually quite better than you'd expect.
How about Onlyexistsfortwomillisecondsium.
In my humble opinion the movie Monsters, Inc., was the very best computer-created cartoon movie ever made. The script, plot elements, and awe-inspiring computer graphics, especially the extended door warehouse scene, are a a really tough act to follow.
The sequel will probably have a colon in its name, too. Sigh.
No, sorry, iTunes is not mirrored. It really is all on Akamai.
Newsguy.com is an excellent service. Compared to many other USENET services, Newsguy actually has very little spam because of this really clever program they developed called SpamHippo. I also like them because you can buy bandwidth on demand if you want it and the bandwidth balance rolls over each month. The online readers are very focused on the USENET usage experience, with automatic binary downloaders for those binaries with hundreds of parts (and you download the binary version, not the encoded 7-bit version). Of course port 119 is there, too.
Can't you just write a wrapper class that sanitizes the inputs for you?
It's not difficult and you protect yourself from that lousy other class.
The new buzzword of Virtualization has reached all corners of the US Government IT realm. Blinded by the marketing hype of "consolidation" and "power savings" agencies of the three-letter variety are falling over themselves awarding contracts to "virtualize" the infrastucture. Cross-domain security be damned, VMWare and Microsoft SoftGrid Hyper-v Softricity Whatevers will solve all their problems and help us go green at the very same time, for every application, in every environment, for no reason.
This is the recovery from the client-server binge-and-purge of the 1990s.
Here we go again.
Thousands of cables in 1/2 acre buried up to 40 feet deep?
You're going to hit something. It's reality.
Maybe you need to punch holes in the grond in a densely wired urban metropolis like Northern VA to understand what I'm saying.
I doubt Research Triangle Park down there has this kind of density.
Well, as you can surmise by this obvious urban legend, it did not actually happen. (Ft).
Most certainly NOT irrelevant.
The GPR isn't as effective in our very rocky clay soil as you believe.
You have to understand there are thousands of lines that Metro has to dig through. Lines are under pipes and faults in the soil that obscure them from GPR. Many don't have messenger lines for metal detectors to find. Still more are just too deep.
They are going to cut through some lines accidentally. The volume of underground utilities in Tysons is extremely dense.
Nobody is perfect.
Your comment is silly.
The party responsible for the damage does have some protection if they had already called your area's "one call" utility locator system. In our area it's called "Miss Utility." The name is so clever I had to mention it. Some areas it's even a 3-digit phone number like "811." If the lines weren't marked by the utility locator and you damage them you can get some relief from liability but ONLY if you called the locator and allowed enough time for the lines to be marked.
This is total nonsense. They're telecommunications cables just like the others. They are mapped. They were accidentally cut. There is so much telecom in Tysons Corner it's expected to happen.
The only thing I have to say about your "security through obscurity" comment is that you are wrong. Even with physical access to such fiber, and if you could conceivably receive the optical signal therein with your MWM fiber receiver (that you took 3 days to splice into the data stream), the encryption on the line stops you dead cold.
The real story is that the construction rojects, in particular Metro rail to Dulles, is causing all kinds of logisticaly headaches and accidental fiber cuts.
There is no real security concern here, even with regards to denial-of-service.
This fallacious story is featured all over the the local news today here in DC
The problem is not that the lines aren't mapped--they ARE mapped just like any other utility.
The real problem is that the maps aren't perfect.
Here's the real scoop:
There have been nearly 40 cable cuts in Tysons since the Metro line to Dulles started construction.
There is a government-owned antenna tower on the highest hill in Tysons, too.
The ACTUAL problem is that Tysons Corner is the center of the Eastern USA internet capacity. Sure, MAE-East was here, but it's moved to Ashburn, and those lines still cross through Tysons Corner.
Naturally, government lines are part of the rats nest that the Metro must tunnel through.
Bottom line is: all the lines are mapped but the maps aren't perfect.
The agencies do not bury secret cables. To do so would not only be dangerous, it would be silly.
They're just cables like any other.
In other news, that big hill on Rte. 123 had been restricted to heavy trucks after test cores indicated faulty soil but that restriction has been lifted.
There's nothing new here. The UltimateTV folks are working on XBOX360 to take over where the PS3 left off: make an affordable "everything" machine for your TV. Microsoft has a golden opportunity to truly achieve where Sony horribly failed.
It's one of the most popular Tracfone models, but those can't be hacked.
It's one of the most popular AT&T GoPhone models, and AT&T (then Cingular) had to restrict purchase.
They didn't really restrict them... the "quantity" drop-down menu was "restricted" to a mere 10 units per order.
Now we know why the restriction existed. And we thought it was for export to drug dealers. Turns out it was something else entirely.
But only one of the two can claim both SQL86 and SQL99 compliance.
It's irrelevant. We moved everything to PostgreSQL and life is as uncomplicated and standards-compliant as life can get.
Biden's comments offer an explanation to the obscurity masks placed on the Observatory in applications like Google Earth. Why the USNO but not the White House? Cheney's secret bunker is why.
Don't forget Duke It Out In DC.
Will there be an updated Novell fork, too?
It seems your sarcasm detector wasn't working.
Incidentally, why do people still use the Three World Theory? Isn't that Chairman Mao's idea?
My real-world experiences with SGI's XFS is that it takes entirely too much time to delete many files. /lost+found directory.
In addition, rsync has had a tendency to corrupt directory files on XFS leaving me with thousands of indistinguishably-named files in the
I'm giving IBM's JFS a chance after I recover this XFS filesystem.
To describe cell phone privacy an "encryption" mode is really stretching things.
GSM uses a severely crippled encryption algorithm all the time, but it's by no means secure.
CDMA uses a similar weak encryption scheme along with the fact that the CDMA connection's over-the-air symbols (that they call "chips") are jumbled up in ways that only the cell site and the handset agree to.
Both are not secure and both are already circumvented.
A main goal of the OLPC was for digitized textbooks.
The now-bankrupt WorldSpace Satellite Radio was to deliver those textbooks via its satellite radio platform. There's even a driver for the OLPC to read this data from a WorldSpace receiver.
Search Slashdot for my old post concerning this matter and the relevant links.