I was very curious why the parameter is "fmt=6" and my mind raced to deduce that Youtube is using the On2 VP6 video codec and not H.264 (or 263 or AVC or whatever). I examined the raw data download from a "fmt=6" URL and according to the meta data the format is actually On2's VP6 codec.
Furthermore, the data *inside* the downloaded data indicates that it is created from one "vp.video.google.com" domain. I wonder what "vp" stands for.
Google is the queen of Distributed Computing. Why do they feel the need to consolidate and build such a massively-dense data center? The idea of building small, dense racks is outweight by power and cooling requirements. I'm sure the math adds up on paper but one thing worries me: at the speed at which Google is hiring new and inexperienced employees are they really doing the space, power, and cooling math correctly?
No, they intended to replace TDMA as soon as GSM came along. TDMA was evolutionary step towards GSM. W-CDMA is based on GSM under the covers, too. It's all about how many users they can fit into the channels they are licensed. CDMA is the undisputed ruler of bandwidth but call audio quality suffers in congested cells, though at least CDMA users are almost guaranteed the ability to complete a call even if you cannot hear the called party clearly. GSM is always good quality at the expense of the bandwidth used per user. GSM errs on the side of user call quality. CDMA errs on the side of user call completion rate. TDMA offers none of this (neither does AMPS for that matter).
This also means that some traffic lights will lose connectivity. The CPDP data protocol, used by many embedded system modems like those in traffic control will also be shut down since it is part of the AMPS network.
One of the more important and not-commonly-know goals of OLPC is for electronic textbooks. The people who stand to benefit from OLPC are popularly seen as becoming computer literate, but the real benefit is the fact that these people do not have access to textbooks. The OLPC project, with its extremely power-efficient ebook reader mode, attemps to solve the problem of out-of-date textbooks (and no textbooks at all). For delivery of electronic textbooks, the Worldspace satellite radio service (http://www.worldspace.com/) already offers 128 kbps for the common good. This bandwidth is available to most of the people who stand to benefit from OLPC (except South America) and is a suitable delivery platform for textbooks.
Do you think that, just maybe, for Slashdot's ten year anniversary we might be able to fix that Atari joystick icon so the button is on the left-hand side like it's supposed to be?
I'm waiting for my XOPC which I ordered at 6:05 AM on day 1 of the Give-One-Get-One program.
The reason for this machine and its unique interface, power saving, and wireless connection is for empowering people who do not have computing expertise, reliable power, or even telephone connections.
An important use for the machine that is overlooked is to provide textbooks to children in areas which simply don't have textbooks. The laptop has an important reflective screen for e-book reading. Imagine having all your courseware on one machine that you transmit to them wirelessly? Furthermore, Worldspace at www.worldspace.com has committed to using part of its satellite radio bandwidth to transmit courseware to areas like Africa, India, and Asia.
The free sharing of textbooks and courseware are far and away the most important aspects of this laptop.
Have you ever taken a class for which the textbooks were on back-order? These children deal with that every school day. The copier is always broken, there is never any paper or toner, and this laptop helps to solve all these problems.
I like your comment but #12 is more than a little bit misleading. Most of the Nullsoft software was integrated into the AOL client software, AIM, and AOL Media Player. It's what AOL Media Player is and what AOL Radio/Radio@AOL became, though nobody would notice that because it's all under the covers. A good example of this is the Ultravox streaming protocol http://ultravox.aol.com/ just to name one.
I still maintain that the most perfect compact keyboard is the SIIG MiniTouch PS/2. It comes in black or grey. Just remap CTRL to CAPSLOCK and it's nearly perfect--even on MacOS X. It costs around $40 and just search for it on Yahoo Shopping or Froogle for the best price along with a PS/2-to-USB converter. For MacOS X the Hawking PS/2-to-USB converter is perfect for this keyboard. For full-sized keyboards any of the Memorex line are just fine. They all have full-sized CAPSLOCK keys which map perfectly to CTRL for Unix folks.
This problem has been solved already. It's called Ultravox. It's a protocol that is format-agnostic and is used to efficiently multicast a broadcast within the data center up to the point it leaves your network. America Online and Cisco designed and implemented the protocol both in software and in the firmware of specialized Cisco routers and it is used for AOL Radio and for Winamp radio It's very interesting. All your viewers need is Winamp to hear or view your program.
OK. Unfortunately you're wrong about pay-as-you-go mobile phones. Please explain the seven (7) completely free pay-as-you-go mobile phones I obtained in 2005 from legitimate retail outlets. Those are sold at a loss, too, in the hopes I will keep buying more time. In all of those cases they were sold at a loss with no hope of recovery. Even at regular prices they are sold at a loss. In all of those cases I had no commitment to use them, even after activation was completed, but the mobile phone company hopes I will use them at slightly higher per-minute rates.
I can't tell from the photographs--is this socket going to be a pinless processor like Intel's Socket-775 or are we stuck with over 1000 fragile whisker-like pins? I started appreciating my new Socket-775 system after I installed my Socket-754 with all the fragile pins on it. At first I thought it was silly but after straightening out more than a couple whisker-thin pins on my Athlon 64 CPUs I'm hoping Socket-F follows the precedent of using pin pads.
Attack and SSBN boats have stealth as one of their highest priorities. Except for these training exercises you won't have boats on patrol using active sonar at any time.
Didn't the advent of WAAS, the Wide-Area Augmentation System, correct the SA error and thus made the SA feature meaningless? Local municipalities started broadcasting correction signals which were used by their WAAS-enabled GPS receivers for 1-meter accuracy even when SA "dithering" was turned on. The system was ingenius--you determine the exact location of a receiver, such as a low-cost PC, then transmit the correcting factor to a local area on a public safety band. The receivers that are WAAS-enabled receive the correcting factor and the GPS signals to provide accuracy as good as GPS with SA turned off.
Essentially, they cracked the system.
Naturally you needed a WAAS transmitter for each local area since the GPS SA resulted in a different error in each area.
Have you looked at the photographs you've been printing at home over the past few years lately? I've noticed a trend which is why I never recommend in-home photo printing.
1) Consumables are horribly expensive especially after you factor in mistakes and cutting.
2) Cutting required buying a paper cutter.
3) After about a year the ink fades.
4) The ink adheres and usually migrates from the paper to the glass/acetate in albums in all cases.
None of these factors came into play with the commercial services. I'm just happy they accept digital pictures and print them on real photo paper.
I had an interview when they asked me if I had any experience with XP programming. I thought, oh, Windows XP, which had just come out. They said, in the "we KNOW something" way, "Actually we are talking about eXtreme Programming." I didn't think to say that they were being redundant by calling it "eXtreme-Programming-Programming." If it really means everyone sitting around in a kind of inverse round-table of computers, then how does any work get done if all the people involved are intimately close friends?
I am among the many people who are puzzled by nVidia's decision to drop Soundstorm from their IGP chipsets. The original Soundstorm was one of the first, if not THE first, high-quality, 3D-audio, 5.1 chipsets that was integrated on motherboards.
They started the revolution that finally brought high-quality, high-featured audio to nearly all modern integrated motherboard chipsets.
I'm excited to hear they have restarted development.
Umm, no, W-CDMA is not the same as "CDMA technology". It is still based on GSM. It uses CDMA "techniques" for frequency-hopping among GSM channels.
The name is unfortunate, but it's not CDMA. Underneath W-CDMA's covers is still GSM.
It does not mean that GSM has been supplanted by CDMA. Industry buzz says that quite the opposite is happening and there's even a persistent rumor that Vodafone, the world's largest GSM provider and majority owner of Verizon Wireless, may eventually convert VZW to W-CDMA.
Slashdot Mirror
I was very curious why the parameter is "fmt=6" and my mind raced to deduce that Youtube is using the On2 VP6 video codec and not H.264 (or 263 or AVC or whatever).
I examined the raw data download from a "fmt=6" URL and according to the meta data the format is actually On2's VP6 codec.
Furthermore, the data *inside* the downloaded data indicates that it is created from one "vp.video.google.com" domain. I wonder what "vp" stands for.
The "fmt=18" is not the same data, either.
Let the Youtube hype assumption wars begin.
Google is the queen of Distributed Computing.
Why do they feel the need to consolidate and build such a massively-dense data center?
The idea of building small, dense racks is outweight by power and cooling requirements.
I'm sure the math adds up on paper but one thing worries me: at the speed at which Google is hiring new and inexperienced employees are they really doing the space, power, and cooling math correctly?
No, they intended to replace TDMA as soon as GSM came along. TDMA was evolutionary step towards GSM. W-CDMA is based on GSM under the covers, too.
It's all about how many users they can fit into the channels they are licensed.
CDMA is the undisputed ruler of bandwidth but call audio quality suffers in congested cells, though at least CDMA users are almost guaranteed the ability to complete a call even if you cannot hear the called party clearly.
GSM is always good quality at the expense of the bandwidth used per user.
GSM errs on the side of user call quality.
CDMA errs on the side of user call completion rate.
TDMA offers none of this (neither does AMPS for that matter).
This also means that some traffic lights will lose connectivity.
The CPDP data protocol, used by many embedded system modems like those in traffic control will also be shut down since it is part of the AMPS network.
Good thing it's Presidents' Day on Monday!
One of the more important and not-commonly-know goals of OLPC is for electronic textbooks.
The people who stand to benefit from OLPC are popularly seen as becoming computer literate, but the real benefit is the fact that these people do not have access to textbooks.
The OLPC project, with its extremely power-efficient ebook reader mode, attemps to solve the problem of out-of-date textbooks (and no textbooks at all).
For delivery of electronic textbooks, the Worldspace satellite radio service (http://www.worldspace.com/) already offers 128 kbps for the common good. This bandwidth is available to most of the people who stand to benefit from OLPC (except South America) and is a suitable delivery platform for textbooks.
Do you think that, just maybe, for Slashdot's ten year anniversary we might be able to fix that Atari joystick icon so the button is on the left-hand side like it's supposed to be?
That is all.
In case we might have all forgotten, Paul Allen was one of the founding investors in Ricochet/Metricom.
I'm waiting for my XOPC which I ordered at 6:05 AM on day 1 of the Give-One-Get-One program.
The reason for this machine and its unique interface, power saving, and wireless connection is for empowering people who do not have computing expertise, reliable power, or even telephone connections.
An important use for the machine that is overlooked is to provide textbooks to children in areas which simply don't have textbooks.
The laptop has an important reflective screen for e-book reading.
Imagine having all your courseware on one machine that you transmit to them wirelessly?
Furthermore, Worldspace at www.worldspace.com has committed to using part of its satellite radio bandwidth to transmit courseware to areas like Africa, India, and Asia.
The free sharing of textbooks and courseware are far and away the most important aspects of this laptop.
Have you ever taken a class for which the textbooks were on back-order? These children deal with that every school day. The copier is always broken, there is never any paper or toner, and this laptop helps to solve all these problems.
The file's been up for several hours at:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/
and:
http://frei.ubuntu.com/feisty/
I like your comment but #12 is more than a little bit misleading. Most of the Nullsoft software was integrated into the AOL client software, AIM, and AOL Media Player. It's what AOL Media Player is and what AOL Radio/Radio@AOL became, though nobody would notice that because it's all under the covers. A good example of this is the Ultravox streaming protocol http://ultravox.aol.com/ just to name one.
I still maintain that the most perfect compact keyboard is the SIIG MiniTouch PS/2. It comes in black or grey. Just remap CTRL to CAPSLOCK and it's nearly perfect--even on MacOS X. It costs around $40 and just search for it on Yahoo Shopping or Froogle for the best price along with a PS/2-to-USB converter. For MacOS X the Hawking PS/2-to-USB converter is perfect for this keyboard. For full-sized keyboards any of the Memorex line are just fine. They all have full-sized CAPSLOCK keys which map perfectly to CTRL for Unix folks.
Enjoy!
This problem has been solved already. It's called Ultravox. It's a protocol that is format-agnostic and is used to efficiently multicast a broadcast within the data center up to the point it leaves your network. America Online and Cisco designed and implemented the protocol both in software and in the firmware of specialized Cisco routers and it is used for AOL Radio and for Winamp radio It's very interesting. All your viewers need is Winamp to hear or view your program.
http://ultravox.aol.com/
OK. Unfortunately you're wrong about pay-as-you-go mobile phones. Please explain the seven (7) completely free pay-as-you-go mobile phones I obtained in 2005 from legitimate retail outlets. Those are sold at a loss, too, in the hopes I will keep buying more time. In all of those cases they were sold at a loss with no hope of recovery. Even at regular prices they are sold at a loss. In all of those cases I had no commitment to use them, even after activation was completed, but the mobile phone company hopes I will use them at slightly higher per-minute rates.
Re-releasing discs is cheap and at least the system itself has upgradeable firmware.
Speaking of which--what's the line on when XBOX 360 will be hacked?
I'd love to see how Safehouse from www.pcdynamics.com will do. Encrypt file-based real drive volumes with AES, Twofish, Blowfish, 3DES, and DES.
Kris
Umm, thanks, smart one, but it came out of the OEM packaging with bent pins.
I'm sure I'm better at inserting CPUs than YOU are.
Sheesh.
I can't tell from the photographs--is this socket going to be a pinless processor like Intel's Socket-775 or are we stuck with over 1000 fragile whisker-like pins? I started appreciating my new Socket-775 system after I installed my Socket-754 with all the fragile pins on it. At first I thought it was silly but after straightening out more than a couple whisker-thin pins on my Athlon 64 CPUs I'm hoping Socket-F follows the precedent of using pin pads.
Attack and SSBN boats have stealth as one of their highest priorities. Except for these training exercises you won't have boats on patrol using active sonar at any time.
Cool, thanks for the correction!
Didn't the advent of WAAS, the Wide-Area Augmentation System, correct the SA error and thus made the SA feature meaningless? Local municipalities started broadcasting correction signals which were used by their WAAS-enabled GPS receivers for 1-meter accuracy even when SA "dithering" was turned on. The system was ingenius--you determine the exact location of a receiver, such as a low-cost PC, then transmit the correcting factor to a local area on a public safety band. The receivers that are WAAS-enabled receive the correcting factor and the GPS signals to provide accuracy as good as GPS with SA turned off.
Essentially, they cracked the system.
Naturally you needed a WAAS transmitter for each local area since the GPS SA resulted in a different error in each area.
Have you looked at the photographs you've been printing at home over the past few years lately? I've noticed a trend which is why I never recommend in-home photo printing.
1) Consumables are horribly expensive especially after you factor in mistakes and cutting.
2) Cutting required buying a paper cutter.
3) After about a year the ink fades.
4) The ink adheres and usually migrates from the paper to the glass/acetate in albums in all cases.
None of these factors came into play with the commercial services. I'm just happy they accept digital pictures and print them on real photo paper.
Convert the Buffalo to a Kuruo Box!
http://penguinppc.org/embedded/kuro/
I had an interview when they asked me if I had any experience with XP programming. I thought, oh, Windows XP, which had just come out. They said, in the "we KNOW something" way, "Actually we are talking about eXtreme Programming." I didn't think to say that they were being redundant by calling it "eXtreme-Programming-Programming." If it really means everyone sitting around in a kind of inverse round-table of computers, then how does any work get done if all the people involved are intimately close friends?
I am among the many people who are puzzled by nVidia's decision to drop Soundstorm from their IGP chipsets. The original Soundstorm was one of the first, if not THE first, high-quality, 3D-audio, 5.1 chipsets that was integrated on motherboards.
They started the revolution that finally brought high-quality, high-featured audio to nearly all modern integrated motherboard chipsets.
I'm excited to hear they have restarted development.
Umm, no, W-CDMA is not the same as "CDMA technology". It is still based on GSM. It uses CDMA "techniques" for frequency-hopping among GSM channels.
The name is unfortunate, but it's not CDMA. Underneath W-CDMA's covers is still GSM.
It does not mean that GSM has been supplanted by CDMA. Industry buzz says that quite the opposite is happening and there's even a persistent rumor that Vodafone, the world's largest GSM provider and majority owner of Verizon Wireless, may eventually convert VZW to W-CDMA.