While it's nice to have fansubs a few days after the episode is aired in Japan, it would be even better if the people doing the fansubs took the time to learn basic English. Or at the very least, find an English IRC channel and have someone look over the script. Or better yet, don't rasterize the subtitles into the video stream. Save it as a seperate subtitle (normally in ASCII) file so that people can edit it. While this would add an extra file, it would greatly improve the quality of fansubs. If they used Ogg [whatever the video container is called] or some other similar system, then each release could have multiple fansubs for various languages or by various groups in addition to the pure captured video.
That's only part of the tech. Their friend-of-friend feature informs people who are near you. This isn't possible if you just give them a text string to work with.
I'm guessing they use the same tech which lets cellphone towers figure out your location for 911 calls. Is there anyway to access this locational information without having to pay the cell companies for the technology?
Ack...damn HTML. The full post was: Bastarding a research network? I disagree. All they were doing was... uhh, stress testing the network by sending random bits of data that just happened to look like movies and porn when viewed with a media player.
On a more serious note, while the file swapping was illegal, it did help network engineers figure out how to prepare for the future when everyone has the same bandwidth to their homes as university dorms. When people can send a full CD of data in < 2 minutes (it choked on the 100mbit link to my computer), the modern movie industry will have to adapt just like the modern music industry has with iTunes. This gets worse for the *AA when everyone has a terabyte hard drive and can just ask friends to IM the files rather than search on a P2P network. Legal action just pushes the crimes further underground like banning alcohol with the Prohibition.
Bastarding a research network? I disagree. All they were doing was... uhh, stress testing the network by sending random bits of data that just happened to look like movies and porn when viewed with a media player.
On a more serious note, while the file swapping was illegal, it did help network engineers figure out how to prepare for the future when everyone has the same bandwidth to their homes as university dorms. When people can send a full CD of data in -- Want a free Nintendo DS, GC, PS2, Xbox. (you only need 4 referrals) Wired article as proof
The article says "Hard Drive(s): This is an easy one. Buy the biggest 7200 rpm IDE drive that you can afford." which is a bad choice. While it is good to have a fast main hard drive, it might be better to invest in a nice tower case and cram it with multiple slower hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Since a terrabyte (5x250GB in RAID 5) is only around $500, it might be worth it to have a central media server. This lets you rip your DVDs and CDs for easy access. These hard drives don't have to be fast since you won't normally be writing a live stream to them but just using them as a slow storage. The 7200 HD would contain the OS and enough temp space to capture and play live video without a problem.
Other "hacks" include... playing multiplayer games with only one copy of the game.
That hack involves creating the WiFi game (I've done this with Tony Hawk) on one PSP, moving the UMD into another PSP, having that other person join that WiFi game, switching the UMD back to the original PSP as the original player starts the session (it asks you if you want to quit when you take out the UMD) and then the second player starts the session. It's not as good of a trick as the DS's single game/ multiplayer setup, but it gets the job done if you want to spend the time.
The major issue with nanotech in the next few decades won't be a grey goo problem or any other sci-fi apocalypse. The biggest problem will be the toxic garbage mentioned in the article. Self replicating nanobots are still in the distant (20+ years) future but the problem with nanoparticles exists now. Some of the artifical dust being created by the nanotech manufacturing processes is small enough to pass through the various safeguards that organisms have evolved to protect against the environment. Very few things in nature are self contained objects on a nanometer scale so organisms never had a chance to evolve protection against the things we are creating. There is a valid risk of a problem similar to asbestos related cancers and DDT if nanotech becomes widespread before the proper safeguards are in place. I fully support nanotech and do believe the grey goo fears are overstated, but toxic dust is something that people should figure out how to deal with before it becomes dangerous.
I don't want to start a language flamewar, but I just finished reading a slashdot article comparing Ruby on Rails to Java + Spring/Hibernate and was wondering if anyone with experience in both would like to recast this book into that context.
There is still very little known information about the cool hardware features like the touchpad, WiFi, etc. While they (the hacker community in general) have figured out how to tweak things like model data in Metroid Prime, they still haven't figured out how to get the WiFi to work fully. Based on what is currently known the DS doesn't support IPv4 or any public protocols on a higher layer than OSI Layer 2. This means it might still be a while before someone gets a working web browser or telnet client on the DS. However, given the amount of hacks available for the GBA, I'm confident that they'll figure out all the cool tricks pretty soon. Then I won't have to worry about buying a PDA and I'll have an excude for having "using" my DS during work.
I can't believe people think this is an April Fool's story. They even have a picture on their site to prove that their story is true. We must rise up against our British Overlords who wish to control our information and tax our tea. Please, think of the children!
How the hell is that insightful? I would hope that slashdotters have enough common sense to be able to figure out a real story from a joke one. (Yes, I'm a rabid optimist. Why do you ask?) Even if the blurb is confusing due to the nature of the strange stories that are sometimes posted, it should become obvious once you actually click the link whether the story is serious or not. Then again, maybe that's too much to hope for.
is that they require a surgical procedure which makes it risky at the moment and hard to reverse. While it's good for disabled patients (until we can biologically fix neural damage) it's still not the magic neural link that some geeks want it to be. The more interesting research with alternative interfaces comes from tech like subvocalization and other virtual input that NASA is working on. This includes movement recognition where sensors on the surface of the skin (no surgery required) can pick up subtle gestures that would be invsible to others. That would allow you to work your wearable computer without anyone noticing since all of your motions would be subtle.
Instead of going with a permanent implant, why not just get a stylish gold ring or watch or other thing with an RFID chip? I never take off my watch so it would give me almost the same functionality. Or maybe a false fingernail or something that is semipermament. This allows me to opt out without having to cut myself open.
My main gripe is the transfer times CDs and DVDs require you to manipulate plastic to get to your information so if you want to copy your entire DVD library to the new HD-Ultraviolent-Blu-Ray media disc, you have to pick up each disk and place it into a DVD drive. However, with a RAID system, you just cp a directory over the network. If you have one of those automated backup system with moving arms, I guess it's similar but that's a bit extreme for home use. I have a lot of VHS tapes, CDs, and physical photos sitting at home because I'm too lazy to manually copy them to an easy to access digital system. If they were already on my home data server and I wanted to send them to a physically offsite backup, I could just ftp them overnight assuming I have the bandwith. The latter method makes it easier to have backups and backups to protect important data. I'm more concerned with data loss due to fire or a localized physical problem. If I could easily replicate data between my PDA, my home server, and a few offsite backups, I don't need my physical media to be able to last for years since I can just replace the components as tech gets better or parts start to fail.
Wouldn't it be better to switch to a RAID style hard drive system? As long as the data can be transferred quickly (no CD swapping) I don't need the hardware to last for decades if I can move the data over to another system without a problem before it fails. The whole point of digital data is so that it can be replicated and transfered rather than for the hardware to last forever. In the future, we could just have multiple personal petabyte data archives in various places that store all of our personal information where the physical system isn't such a big deal because bandwith makes it easy to move the data to my PDA or to my bank's digital data vault.
Why does Sony seem to have a higher level of complaints than all the other LCD makers? Was it a rushed process resulting in dropped quality or do they have the same quality as others and the media is just picking up on their problems? BTW, requisite PA comic on the topic -- Want a free iPod? Or try a free Nintendo DS, GC, PS2, Xbox. (you only need 4 referrals) Wired article as proof
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While it's nice to have fansubs a few days after the episode is aired in Japan, it would be even better if the people doing the fansubs took the time to learn basic English. Or at the very least, find an English IRC channel and have someone look over the script. Or better yet, don't rasterize the subtitles into the video stream. Save it as a seperate subtitle (normally in ASCII) file so that people can edit it. While this would add an extra file, it would greatly improve the quality of fansubs. If they used Ogg [whatever the video container is called] or some other similar system, then each release could have multiple fansubs for various languages or by various groups in addition to the pure captured video.
That's only part of the tech. Their friend-of-friend feature informs people who are near you. This isn't possible if you just give them a text string to work with.
I'm guessing they use the same tech which lets cellphone towers figure out your location for 911 calls. Is there anyway to access this locational information without having to pay the cell companies for the technology?
Did anyone notice that the images aren't on a coral cache server? They're hosted on the same server as the images for the original site so it will still be slashdotted. OTOH, mirrordot cached the images properly: http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/7bb0bea011df80856 9857f1175b25bee/index.html
They hope to increase their pagerank by sucking up to Google?
No support for DHL yet.
Ack...damn HTML. The full post was: ... uhh, stress testing the network by sending random bits of data that just happened to look like movies and porn when viewed with a media player.
Bastarding a research network? I disagree. All they were doing was
On a more serious note, while the file swapping was illegal, it did help network engineers figure out how to prepare for the future when everyone has the same bandwidth to their homes as university dorms. When people can send a full CD of data in < 2 minutes (it choked on the 100mbit link to my computer), the modern movie industry will have to adapt just like the modern music industry has with iTunes. This gets worse for the *AA when everyone has a terabyte hard drive and can just ask friends to IM the files rather than search on a P2P network. Legal action just pushes the crimes further underground like banning alcohol with the Prohibition.
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Bastarding a research network? I disagree. All they were doing was ... uhh, stress testing the network by sending random bits of data that just happened to look like movies and porn when viewed with a media player.
On a more serious note, while the file swapping was illegal, it did help network engineers figure out how to prepare for the future when everyone has the same bandwidth to their homes as university dorms. When people can send a full CD of data in
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The article says "Hard Drive(s): This is an easy one. Buy the biggest 7200 rpm IDE drive that you can afford." which is a bad choice. While it is good to have a fast main hard drive, it might be better to invest in a nice tower case and cram it with multiple slower hard drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Since a terrabyte (5x250GB in RAID 5) is only around $500, it might be worth it to have a central media server. This lets you rip your DVDs and CDs for easy access. These hard drives don't have to be fast since you won't normally be writing a live stream to them but just using them as a slow storage. The 7200 HD would contain the OS and enough temp space to capture and play live video without a problem.
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Other "hacks" include ... playing multiplayer games with only one copy of the game.
That hack involves creating the WiFi game (I've done this with Tony Hawk) on one PSP, moving the UMD into another PSP, having that other person join that WiFi game, switching the UMD back to the original PSP as the original player starts the session (it asks you if you want to quit when you take out the UMD) and then the second player starts the session. It's not as good of a trick as the DS's single game/ multiplayer setup, but it gets the job done if you want to spend the time.
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The major issue with nanotech in the next few decades won't be a grey goo problem or any other sci-fi apocalypse. The biggest problem will be the toxic garbage mentioned in the article. Self replicating nanobots are still in the distant (20+ years) future but the problem with nanoparticles exists now. Some of the artifical dust being created by the nanotech manufacturing processes is small enough to pass through the various safeguards that organisms have evolved to protect against the environment. Very few things in nature are self contained objects on a nanometer scale so organisms never had a chance to evolve protection against the things we are creating. There is a valid risk of a problem similar to asbestos related cancers and DDT if nanotech becomes widespread before the proper safeguards are in place. I fully support nanotech and do believe the grey goo fears are overstated, but toxic dust is something that people should figure out how to deal with before it becomes dangerous.
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I don't want to start a language flamewar, but I just finished reading a slashdot article comparing Ruby on Rails to Java + Spring/Hibernate and was wondering if anyone with experience in both would like to recast this book into that context.
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Ignore the previous post. I clicked on the wrong button.
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You're thinking of Linux on the T-mobile Sidekick
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You're thinking of Linux on the T-mobile Sidekick
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There is still very little known information about the cool hardware features like the touchpad, WiFi, etc. While they (the hacker community in general) have figured out how to tweak things like model data in Metroid Prime, they still haven't figured out how to get the WiFi to work fully. Based on what is currently known the DS doesn't support IPv4 or any public protocols on a higher layer than OSI Layer 2. This means it might still be a while before someone gets a working web browser or telnet client on the DS. However, given the amount of hacks available for the GBA, I'm confident that they'll figure out all the cool tricks pretty soon. Then I won't have to worry about buying a PDA and I'll have an excude for having "using" my DS during work.
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I can't believe people think this is an April Fool's story. They even have a picture on their site to prove that their story is true. We must rise up against our British Overlords who wish to control our information and tax our tea. Please, think of the children!
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How the hell is that insightful? I would hope that slashdotters have enough common sense to be able to figure out a real story from a joke one. (Yes, I'm a rabid optimist. Why do you ask?) Even if the blurb is confusing due to the nature of the strange stories that are sometimes posted, it should become obvious once you actually click the link whether the story is serious or not. Then again, maybe that's too much to hope for.
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is that they require a surgical procedure which makes it risky at the moment and hard to reverse. While it's good for disabled patients (until we can biologically fix neural damage) it's still not the magic neural link that some geeks want it to be. The more interesting research with alternative interfaces comes from tech like subvocalization and other virtual input that NASA is working on. This includes movement recognition where sensors on the surface of the skin (no surgery required) can pick up subtle gestures that would be invsible to others. That would allow you to work your wearable computer without anyone noticing since all of your motions would be subtle.
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It's a joke that came up after the '04 elections. http://yglesias.typepad.com/matthew/2004/11/a_mode st_propos.html
Instead of going with a permanent implant, why not just get a stylish gold ring or watch or other thing with an RFID chip? I never take off my watch so it would give me almost the same functionality. Or maybe a false fingernail or something that is semipermament. This allows me to opt out without having to cut myself open.
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Local fires won't damage the offsite backups ("my bank's digital data vault") if the bank has the backup scattered all around the world.
My main gripe is the transfer times CDs and DVDs require you to manipulate plastic to get to your information so if you want to copy your entire DVD library to the new HD-Ultraviolent-Blu-Ray media disc, you have to pick up each disk and place it into a DVD drive. However, with a RAID system, you just cp a directory over the network. If you have one of those automated backup system with moving arms, I guess it's similar but that's a bit extreme for home use. I have a lot of VHS tapes, CDs, and physical photos sitting at home because I'm too lazy to manually copy them to an easy to access digital system. If they were already on my home data server and I wanted to send them to a physically offsite backup, I could just ftp them overnight assuming I have the bandwith. The latter method makes it easier to have backups and backups to protect important data. I'm more concerned with data loss due to fire or a localized physical problem. If I could easily replicate data between my PDA, my home server, and a few offsite backups, I don't need my physical media to be able to last for years since I can just replace the components as tech gets better or parts start to fail.
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Wouldn't it be better to switch to a RAID style hard drive system? As long as the data can be transferred quickly (no CD swapping) I don't need the hardware to last for decades if I can move the data over to another system without a problem before it fails. The whole point of digital data is so that it can be replicated and transfered rather than for the hardware to last forever. In the future, we could just have multiple personal petabyte data archives in various places that store all of our personal information where the physical system isn't such a big deal because bandwith makes it easy to move the data to my PDA or to my bank's digital data vault.
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Why does Sony seem to have a higher level of complaints than all the other LCD makers? Was it a rushed process resulting in dropped quality or do they have the same quality as others and the media is just picking up on their problems?
BTW, requisite PA comic on the topic
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