Not to be picky here, but they were not "SPOOFED" by The Onion, they were "DUPED".
If they were Spoofed then you would have seen an article on The Onion about Beijing and not an article about some news station in Beijing using a story on The Onion.
Have two computers to demonstrate on. One is a Windows box and one is a Linux box.
Show them how to do something in Windows, which they should be familiar with, then show them the Linux way of doing things. This will help them remember it better and become more comfortable with Linux.
For example, something as simple as changing Screen Resolutions. It's a basic thing and it shows how the two are different.
Why not? Kodak invented the Digital Camera, you would think they would have been just as happy. Maybe even happier since it would promote their digital cameras.
If they know of a site that has child porn on it, why in the hell are they not going after the site instead of just blocking it?
I understand that its not as easy as it sounds, but there are other remidies that I would think would be much more effective such as having the DNS entries yanked, the ISP of the site hosting killing the site. Maybe even the FBI raiding the place (obviously not feasible if located outside the US).
But to require ALL ISP's to block sites seems like a band-aid approach to the problem.
I really wish the government would stop trying to "Protect" us in this manner. If you're stupid enough to trust a web site (or any publication for that matter) without doing your own research, then you deserve what you get.
The only thing that will destroy the movie industry is itself. They keep pumping out crap movies, over charging for movies, and trying to restrict every right we have when it comes to using movies. This will eventually come back to haunt them. Greed kills.
IANAL, however, I would think that they would have to prove that there was a direct correlation to the two. Was the decline in sales directly related to the web page, or was it something else such as Economics?
You would have to ask each person who bought a car if they were interested in the Ford, and if they chose not to buy it, why? It would be possible to link them, but it would be difficult at best.
Commercial Developers are just as bad. If you ever see an "Access Violation" or "Unhandled Exception in blah...", chances are, the programmer didn't do proper error handling or checking for error conditions.
Things like checking pointers to see if they are NULL before using them. Simple basic things that could prevent errors.
Error handling doesn't just mean catching the error after its already happened. It also means being proactive about it before it happens.
A lot of programmers do not do that.
+ and - is better than boolean AND and OR
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This may be a little redundant, but the + and - are far better than the AND and OR used by Altavista.
With the + and - you get AND, OR, NOT, and MAYBE.
Google treats multiple words as OR conditions and also uses them as context indicators.
searching for THIS THAT will find things that have "THIS" or "THAT" or "THIS THAT". Pages where the words are closer together become more relavent. (The OR condition)
searching for +THIS +THAT is the same as saying "THIS and THAT" on AltaVista. Pages won't be returned unless both words appear on the page. (The AND condition)
searching for THIS +THAT is saying search for THAT, and if it has THIS, then include it as well (Thats the MAYBE condition ).
searching for THIS -THAT means return pages that have THIS on them, but do not include any pages that have THAT in them. (The NOT condition)
As you can see, it lends itself to some very powerful searches with very simple syntax. A far better solution than AND and OR IMHO.
I said "Known", not "Suspected". In other words, if they say "Yeah, we blew that up!", well, thats admiting guilt. Thats good enough for me.
If they say, "No we had nothing to do with it" and we investigate it and then prove without a shadow of a doubt that they did it in a court, then we kill them. Doesn't matter if they were the ones who pulled the trigger or helped. If they knowingly helped in anyway, kill them.
I am all for giving people due process, but if they are found guilty, I don't want to see them get 2 life sentences.
If they claim credit for a terrorist act, then thats an automatic guilty plea. Don't like it? Don't admit it.
The more I read on here, other places, listen on the Radio, and watch on TV the more my blood boils.
People are screaming "WE MUST DO SOMETHING!". I agree 100%. We must do something, and that something is THINK. Quit trying to solve problems that don't exist or are just symptoms/side effects of the real problem.
We have to ask the question "Does this fix the problem?".
National ID Cards What genius thought this one up? What problem is this going to solve? "Can I see your papers please?", "Uh I forgot my ID at home". Off to jail you go. I already have a "National ID", is called a Social Security Number.
Curb-Side Check-in Discontinued What problem does this solve? Does anyone know if the terrorists even had luggage? I know that I have taken several trips with only a carry-on. The person doing the curb-side check-in still looks up my information on the computer and verifies everything before hand. This solves nothing, except to give the public a "Warm Fuzzy Feeling" that we have "Heightened Security".
Banning Knives, Box Cutters, etc.. Would this solve the problem? Doubtful. The problem is the conditioning of the public that if the plane is hijacked, the best thing to do is just sit there. The hijackers will make their demands, and eventually, we'll all get to go home. This incident changed that. The next time someone tries to hijack a plane, (hopefully) everyone on the plane will try to take them down.
Banning knives and such wont fix the problem. A pencil is just as good a weapon as a knife. Should we also ban these? What about people trained in Hand-to-Hand combat? People can kill with their hands, feet, etc...
Back-Doors in Encryption How is this going to help? Has it even been proven that they used encryption? What type did they use? How did it help them? Everything I have read so far has been 100% speculation.
Do you think the Government is going to have back doors in THEIR encryption? I don't think so.
What chilling effects are going to come out of this? Banks encrypt their transactions such as money transfers, etc... Now what happens if that "Back-Door" falls into the wrong hands? What about e-Commerce? Will your on-line transactions be safe anymore? Faith in on-line transactions such as buying goods, paying bills, etc.. will plummet if the "Back-Door" becomes public knowledge.
But then again, as one radio talk show host here in Phoenix, put it "Who cares?". These are things about convenience, right? No, these things are about Freedom. The Freedom to do as we want when we want to. The only time we are not allowed to do that is when it infringes on the rights of others. This is true for the most part, however, there are plenty of exceptions to this rule, take the DMCA for example.
Again, how is this going to solve the problem? So we put back-doors in our encryption, now what? The terrorist simply change to other methods. They drop a letter in the mail, and it arrives at the destination in as little as a day. Are we going to allow the government to open every single letter that travels through the post office?
Who says they have to use typical Modern-day encryption? There are many ways to send "coded" messages that appear harmless to anyone looking at them.
Problem: Hijackers took over the controls of the plane Solution: There are several that I have read about that actually make sense and would probably help this problem. Make the cockpit self-contained. No access to it AT ALL from the rest of the plane. If you can't get to the controls, you can't take them over and fly the plane into a building.
Problem: Hijackers take hostages and claim to have a [insert device here] Solution: Everyone on the plane attack that person or persons. After the event on September 11, you would have to be stupid to just sit there.
Problem: Security check-points at the airport are a joke Solution: Do not leave security to people who have no clue about it. The private sector is not interested in security; they are interested in the bottom line. The government either federal or local needs to be in charge of security. Pay the people who do the security better.
Problem: This person is a known terrorist Solution: Kill them before they can do it again.
Before you go and piss away your rights, take the time to think about whether or not its actually going to help things, or just make life for most Americans that much more difficult. If it really had a good logical reasoning behind it, I'd take it into consideration, and might even vote for it. The problem is, is that everything that people have been suggesting is knee-jerk reactions that only give the perception of "Solving" a problem when in fact they actually don't solve anything.
Do we really need more laws? The government has already found 180+ people that might be involved with this with the laws we already have. Would adding new laws make that much of a difference? The terrorists worked with-in the system, and if the system changes, they will probably adapt as well.
The more I read on here, other places, listen on the Radio, and watch on TV the more my blood boils.
People are screaming "WE MUST DO SOMETHING!". I agree 100%. We must do something, and that something is THINK. Quit trying to solve problems that don't exist or are just symptoms/side effects of the real problem.
We have to ask the question "Does this fix the problem?".
National ID Cards What genius thought this one up? What problem is this going to solve? "Can I see your papers please?", "Uh I forgot my ID at home". Off to jail you go. I already have a "National ID", is called a Social Security Number.
Curb-Side Check-in Discontinued What problem does this solve? Does anyone know if the terrorists even had luggage? I know that I have taken several trips with only a carry-on. The person doing the curb-side check-in still looks up my information on the computer and verifies everything before hand. This solves nothing, except to give the public a "Warm Fuzzy Feeling" that we have "Heightened Security".
Banning Knives, Box Cutters, etc.. Would this solve the problem? Doubtful. The problem is the conditioning of the public that if the plane is hijacked, the best thing to do is just sit there. The hijackers will make their demands, and eventually, we'll all get to go home. This incident changed that. The next time someone tries to hijack a plane, (hopefully) everyone on the plane will try to take them down.
Banning knives and such wont fix the problem. A pencil is just as good a weapon as a knife. Should we also ban these? What about people trained in Hand-to-Hand combat? People can kill with their hands, feet, etc...
Back-Doors in Encryption How is this going to help? Has it even been proven that they used encryption? What type did they use? How did it help them? Everything I have read so far has been 100% speculation.
Do you think the Government is going to have back doors in THEIR encryption? I don't think so.
What chilling effects are going to come out of this? Banks encrypt their transactions such as money transfers, etc... Now what happens if that "Back-Door" falls into the wrong hands? What about e-Commerce? Will your on-line transactions be safe anymore? Faith in on-line transactions such as buying goods, paying bills, etc.. will plummet if the "Back-Door" becomes public knowledge.
But then again, as one radio talk show host here in Phoenix, put it "Who cares?". These are things about convenience, right? No, these things are about Freedom. The Freedom to do as we want when we want to. The only time we are not allowed to do that is when it infringes on the rights of others. This is true for the most part, however, there are plenty of exceptions to this rule, take the DMCA for example.
Again, how is this going to solve the problem? So we put back-doors in our encryption, now what? The terrorist simply change to other methods. They drop a letter in the mail, and it arrives at the destination in as little as a day. Are we going to allow the government to open every single letter that travels through the post office?
Who says they have to use typical Modern-day encryption? There are many ways to send "coded" messages that appear harmless to anyone looking at them.
Problem: Hijackers took over the controls of the plane Solution: There are several that I have read about that actually make sense and would probably help this problem. Make the cockpit self-contained. No access to it AT ALL from the rest of the plane. If you can't get to the controls, you can't take them over and fly the plane into a building.
Problem: Hijackers take hostages and claim to have a [insert device here] Solution: Everyone on the plane attack that person or persons. After the event on September 11, you would have to be stupid to just sit there.
Problem: Security check-points at the airport are a joke Solution: Do not leave security to people who have no clue about it. The private sector is not interested in security; they are interested in the bottom line. The government either federal or local needs to be in charge of security. Pay the people who do the security better.
Problem: This person is a known terrorist Solution: Kill them before they can do it again.
Before you go and piss away your rights, take the time to think about whether or not its actually going to help things, or just make life for most Americans that much more difficult. If it really had a good logical reasoning behind it, I'd take it into consideration, and might even vote for it. The problem is, is that everything that people have been suggesting is knee-jerk reactions that only give the perception of "Solving" a problem when in fact they actually don't solve anything.
Do we really need more laws? The government has already found 180+ people that might be involved with this with the laws we already have. Would adding new laws make that much of a difference? The terrorists worked with-in the system, and if the system changes, they will probably adapt as well.
The research by the team at MIT is part of their efforts to create a world where desires and intentions are enough to get computers to act on our behalf.
Just ask Clippy, your favorite "Assistant".
User:Dear Bob,
Clippy:Looks like you're typing a letter! Do you want some help!
User: No shit Clippy, now piss off!
I can live without this kind of crap. The computer is a tool that is supposed to allow me to do my work more efficently. Crap like this gets in the way. It sounds really good on paper, but in the real world it causes more problems then it helps.
You are talking about two different types of compression. Compression of a bitmap of your screen is going to be A LOT smaller than a bitmap of the video.
The reason? The bitmap of the screen is going to contain A LOT of the same exact colors. NTSC (Never The Same Color) has lots and lots of color variations which makes it even more difficult to compress.
As for terminal server, they also use a trick where they only send the sections of the screen that have changed. Therefore they are only sending small chunks (after the intial first chunk).
We were able to get 50:1 compression on scientific image data, with 12-bit dynamic range.
Ok, what is "Scientfic Image Data"? Pictures of planets?
What is "12-bit dynamic range"?
At 30 fps, 0.33 MB per frame, that's 10 MB of image data per second. Compressed 1000 to one, you're only talking about 10 kilobytes per second.
Ok, what is your source resolution and color depth? How did you come to.33MB per frame?
Even assuming you could get that down to 10K, a 28.8K modem runs at about 2.8K a second. It would take you 3.5 seconds to download those 30 frames. That would bring your frame rate down to 8.5FPS. This doesn't even include Audio.
If you're willing to suffer with less dynamic range around spike bits of data, it's not unreasonable to think that another factor of four could come out of that...
So now you are talking about a 4000:1 compression ratio? Sign me up! The highest I've read about is between 10:1 and 20:1 compression for MPEG4!
Even if you had a typo and meant 100:1 then another factor of four would put the compression ration at 400:1. That is hardly realistic.
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Screw Halo! Imagine playing PONG on this thing!
Take a look at Duke Nukem Forever.
They are trying to perfect both, in the mean time, everyone else will have passed them by.
If they were Spoofed then you would have seen an article on The Onion about Beijing and not an article about some news station in Beijing using a story on The Onion.
Have two computers to demonstrate on. One is a Windows box and one is a Linux box.
Show them how to do something in Windows, which they should be familiar with, then show them the Linux way of doing things. This will help them remember it better and become more comfortable with Linux.
For example, something as simple as changing Screen Resolutions. It's a basic thing and it shows how the two are different.
Why not? Kodak invented the Digital Camera, you would think they would have been just as happy. Maybe even happier since it would promote their digital cameras.
If they know of a site that has child porn on it, why in the hell are they not going after the site instead of just blocking it?
I understand that its not as easy as it sounds, but there are other remidies that I would think would be much more effective such as having the DNS entries yanked, the ISP of the site hosting killing the site. Maybe even the FBI raiding the place (obviously not feasible if located outside the US).
But to require ALL ISP's to block sites seems like a band-aid approach to the problem.
access for the price of only two spam's a day
I want to lower my SPAM to only two a day! Where can I get that kind of service?
"A fool and his money are soon departed"?
I really wish the government would stop trying to "Protect" us in this manner. If you're stupid enough to trust a web site (or any publication for that matter) without doing your own research, then you deserve what you get.
The only thing that will destroy the movie industry is itself. They keep pumping out crap movies, over charging for movies, and trying to restrict every right we have when it comes to using movies. This will eventually come back to haunt them. Greed kills.
The US has declassified Project 90210. Rummors have it that anyone who has seen this project have become violently ill and many have died.
Of course Microsoft would require those teachers to be MCSE's.
Didn't they learn anything from the Alien movies? Alien was great, Aliens was even better, then Aliens 3 came along and sucked hind tit.
I can't think of too many movies that the third one has been all that good. Star Wars is the only thing that really comes to mind.
IANAL, however, I would think that they would have to prove that there was a direct correlation to the two. Was the decline in sales directly related to the web page, or was it something else such as Economics?
You would have to ask each person who bought a car if they were interested in the Ford, and if they chose not to buy it, why? It would be possible to link them, but it would be difficult at best.
Where do you plug everything in? or are we going to have to use microscopic keyboards and mice?
Things like checking pointers to see if they are NULL before using them. Simple basic things that could prevent errors.
Error handling doesn't just mean catching the error after its already happened. It also means being proactive about it before it happens.
A lot of programmers do not do that.
With the + and - you get AND, OR, NOT, and MAYBE.
Google treats multiple words as OR conditions and also uses them as context indicators.
searching for THIS THAT will find things that have "THIS" or "THAT" or "THIS THAT". Pages where the words are closer together become more relavent. (The OR condition)
searching for +THIS +THAT is the same as saying "THIS and THAT" on AltaVista. Pages won't be returned unless both words appear on the page. (The AND condition)
searching for THIS +THAT is saying search for THAT, and if it has THIS, then include it as well (Thats the MAYBE condition ).
searching for THIS -THAT means return pages that have THIS on them, but do not include any pages that have THAT in them. (The NOT condition)
As you can see, it lends itself to some very powerful searches with very simple syntax. A far better solution than AND and OR IMHO.
Maybe we should be asking this question instead.
Who is going to define what encryption is?
I said "Known", not "Suspected". In other words, if they say "Yeah, we blew that up!", well, thats admiting guilt. Thats good enough for me.
If they say, "No we had nothing to do with it" and we investigate it and then prove without a shadow of a doubt that they did it in a court, then we kill them. Doesn't matter if they were the ones who pulled the trigger or helped. If they knowingly helped in anyway, kill them.
I am all for giving people due process, but if they are found guilty, I don't want to see them get 2 life sentences.
If they claim credit for a terrorist act, then thats an automatic guilty plea. Don't like it? Don't admit it.
The more I read on here, other places, listen on the Radio, and watch on TV the more my blood boils.
People are screaming "WE MUST DO SOMETHING!". I agree 100%. We must do something, and that something is THINK. Quit trying to solve problems that don't exist or are just symptoms/side effects of the real problem.
We have to ask the question "Does this fix the problem?".
National ID Cards
What genius thought this one up? What problem is this going to solve? "Can I see your papers please?", "Uh I forgot my ID at home". Off to jail you go. I already have a "National ID", is called a Social Security Number.
Curb-Side Check-in Discontinued
What problem does this solve? Does anyone know if the terrorists even had luggage? I know that I have taken several trips with only a carry-on. The person doing the curb-side check-in still looks up my information on the computer and verifies everything before hand. This solves nothing, except to give the public a "Warm Fuzzy Feeling" that we have "Heightened Security".
Banning Knives, Box Cutters, etc..
Would this solve the problem? Doubtful. The problem is the conditioning of the public that if the plane is hijacked, the best thing to do is just sit there. The hijackers will make their demands, and eventually, we'll all get to go home. This incident changed that. The next time someone tries to hijack a plane, (hopefully) everyone on the plane will try to take them down.
Banning knives and such wont fix the problem. A pencil is just as good a weapon as a knife. Should we also ban these? What about people trained in Hand-to-Hand combat? People can kill with their hands, feet, etc...
Back-Doors in Encryption
How is this going to help? Has it even been proven that they used encryption? What type did they use? How did it help them? Everything I have read so far has been 100% speculation.
Do you think the Government is going to have back doors in THEIR encryption? I don't think so.
What chilling effects are going to come out of this? Banks encrypt their transactions such as money transfers, etc... Now what happens if that "Back-Door" falls into the wrong hands? What about e-Commerce? Will your on-line transactions be safe anymore? Faith in on-line transactions such as buying goods, paying bills, etc.. will plummet if the "Back-Door" becomes public knowledge.
But then again, as one radio talk show host here in Phoenix, put it "Who cares?". These are things about convenience, right? No, these things are about Freedom. The Freedom to do as we want when we want to. The only time we are not allowed to do that is when it infringes on the rights of others. This is true for the most part, however, there are plenty of exceptions to this rule, take the DMCA for example.
Again, how is this going to solve the problem? So we put back-doors in our encryption, now what? The terrorist simply change to other methods. They drop a letter in the mail, and it arrives at the destination in as little as a day. Are we going to allow the government to open every single letter that travels through the post office?
Who says they have to use typical Modern-day encryption? There are many ways to send "coded" messages that appear harmless to anyone looking at them.
Problem: Hijackers took over the controls of the plane
Solution: There are several that I have read about that actually make sense and would probably help this problem. Make the cockpit self-contained. No access to it AT ALL from the rest of the plane. If you can't get to the controls, you can't take them over and fly the plane into a building.
Problem: Hijackers take hostages and claim to have a [insert device here]
Solution: Everyone on the plane attack that person or persons. After the event on September 11, you would have to be stupid to just sit there.
Problem: Security check-points at the airport are a joke
Solution: Do not leave security to people who have no clue about it. The private sector is not interested in security; they are interested in the bottom line. The government either federal or local needs to be in charge of security. Pay the people who do the security better.
Problem: This person is a known terrorist
Solution: Kill them before they can do it again.
Before you go and piss away your rights, take the time to think about whether or not its actually going to help things, or just make life for most Americans that much more difficult. If it really had a good logical reasoning behind it, I'd take it into consideration, and might even vote for it. The problem is, is that everything that people have been suggesting is knee-jerk reactions that only give the perception of "Solving" a problem when in fact they actually don't solve anything.
Do we really need more laws? The government has already found 180+ people that might be involved with this with the laws we already have. Would adding new laws make that much of a difference? The terrorists worked with-in the system, and if the system changes, they will probably adapt as well.
The more I read on here, other places, listen on the Radio, and watch on TV the more my blood boils.
People are screaming "WE MUST DO SOMETHING!". I agree 100%. We must do something, and that something is THINK. Quit trying to solve problems that don't exist or are just symptoms/side effects of the real problem.
We have to ask the question "Does this fix the problem?".
National ID Cards
What genius thought this one up? What problem is this going to solve? "Can I see your papers please?", "Uh I forgot my ID at home". Off to jail you go. I already have a "National ID", is called a Social Security Number.
Curb-Side Check-in Discontinued
What problem does this solve? Does anyone know if the terrorists even had luggage? I know that I have taken several trips with only a carry-on. The person doing the curb-side check-in still looks up my information on the computer and verifies everything before hand. This solves nothing, except to give the public a "Warm Fuzzy Feeling" that we have "Heightened Security".
Banning Knives, Box Cutters, etc..
Would this solve the problem? Doubtful. The problem is the conditioning of the public that if the plane is hijacked, the best thing to do is just sit there. The hijackers will make their demands, and eventually, we'll all get to go home. This incident changed that. The next time someone tries to hijack a plane, (hopefully) everyone on the plane will try to take them down.
Banning knives and such wont fix the problem. A pencil is just as good a weapon as a knife. Should we also ban these? What about people trained in Hand-to-Hand combat? People can kill with their hands, feet, etc...
Back-Doors in Encryption
How is this going to help? Has it even been proven that they used encryption? What type did they use? How did it help them? Everything I have read so far has been 100% speculation.
Do you think the Government is going to have back doors in THEIR encryption? I don't think so.
What chilling effects are going to come out of this? Banks encrypt their transactions such as money transfers, etc... Now what happens if that "Back-Door" falls into the wrong hands? What about e-Commerce? Will your on-line transactions be safe anymore? Faith in on-line transactions such as buying goods, paying bills, etc.. will plummet if the "Back-Door" becomes public knowledge.
But then again, as one radio talk show host here in Phoenix, put it "Who cares?". These are things about convenience, right? No, these things are about Freedom. The Freedom to do as we want when we want to. The only time we are not allowed to do that is when it infringes on the rights of others. This is true for the most part, however, there are plenty of exceptions to this rule, take the DMCA for example.
Again, how is this going to solve the problem? So we put back-doors in our encryption, now what? The terrorist simply change to other methods. They drop a letter in the mail, and it arrives at the destination in as little as a day. Are we going to allow the government to open every single letter that travels through the post office?
Who says they have to use typical Modern-day encryption? There are many ways to send "coded" messages that appear harmless to anyone looking at them.
Problem: Hijackers took over the controls of the plane
Solution: There are several that I have read about that actually make sense and would probably help this problem. Make the cockpit self-contained. No access to it AT ALL from the rest of the plane. If you can't get to the controls, you can't take them over and fly the plane into a building.
Problem: Hijackers take hostages and claim to have a [insert device here]
Solution: Everyone on the plane attack that person or persons. After the event on September 11, you would have to be stupid to just sit there.
Problem: Security check-points at the airport are a joke
Solution: Do not leave security to people who have no clue about it. The private sector is not interested in security; they are interested in the bottom line. The government either federal or local needs to be in charge of security. Pay the people who do the security better.
Problem: This person is a known terrorist
Solution: Kill them before they can do it again.
Before you go and piss away your rights, take the time to think about whether or not its actually going to help things, or just make life for most Americans that much more difficult. If it really had a good logical reasoning behind it, I'd take it into consideration, and might even vote for it. The problem is, is that everything that people have been suggesting is knee-jerk reactions that only give the perception of "Solving" a problem when in fact they actually don't solve anything.
Do we really need more laws? The government has already found 180+ people that might be involved with this with the laws we already have. Would adding new laws make that much of a difference? The terrorists worked with-in the system, and if the system changes, they will probably adapt as well.
Famous last words that go along with "The Titanic is Unsikable".
They can plan all they want and simulate all they want, but until it actually happens, they really don't know EXACTLY what is going to happen.
I've seen "Earth quake Proof" builds collapse durring earth quakes. Engineers can only predict so much.
The research by the team at MIT is part of their efforts to create a world where desires and intentions are enough to get computers to act on our behalf.
Just ask Clippy, your favorite "Assistant".
User:Dear Bob,
Clippy:Looks like you're typing a letter! Do you want some help!
User: No shit Clippy, now piss off!
I can live without this kind of crap. The computer is a tool that is supposed to allow me to do my work more efficently. Crap like this gets in the way. It sounds really good on paper, but in the real world it causes more problems then it helps.
You are talking about two different types of compression. Compression of a bitmap of your screen is going to be A LOT smaller than a bitmap of the video.
The reason? The bitmap of the screen is going to contain A LOT of the same exact colors. NTSC (Never The Same Color) has lots and lots of color variations which makes it even more difficult to compress.
As for terminal server, they also use a trick where they only send the sections of the screen that have changed. Therefore they are only sending small chunks (after the intial first chunk).
We were able to get 50:1 compression on scientific image data, with 12-bit dynamic range.
.33MB per frame?
Ok, what is "Scientfic Image Data"? Pictures of planets?
What is "12-bit dynamic range"?
At 30 fps, 0.33 MB per frame, that's 10 MB of image data per second. Compressed 1000 to one, you're only talking about 10 kilobytes per second.
Ok, what is your source resolution and color depth? How did you come to
Even assuming you could get that down to 10K, a 28.8K modem runs at about 2.8K a second. It would take you 3.5 seconds to download those 30 frames. That would bring your frame rate down to 8.5FPS. This doesn't even include Audio.
If you're willing to suffer with less dynamic range around spike bits of data, it's not unreasonable to think that another factor of four could come out of that...
So now you are talking about a 4000:1 compression ratio? Sign me up! The highest I've read about is between 10:1 and 20:1 compression for MPEG4!
Even if you had a typo and meant 100:1 then another factor of four would put the compression ration at 400:1. That is hardly realistic.