By identifying the 30 of the 36 Final Four participants in the past nine years of tournaments, the method has achieved 83 percent accuracy. In comparison, the seedings and polls have correctly identified only 23 of the 36 NCAA Final Four participants in the same nine year stretch, and the currently used Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) formula identified 21.
I was about to chastise you for being overly cynical, but then I visited the website of the author:
Anagran eliminates congestion in the worldâ(TM)s busiest networks with Fast Flow Technologyâ, developed from the ground-up to specifically eliminate and resolve congestion created by the proliferation of todayâ(TM)s broadband applications such as video, P2P, voice, gaming, YouTube etc. â" anywhere in the network.
You misread the summary (so did I, at first). It's not "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be For 64-Bit Windows Only," it's "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only."
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Hm, I'm glad you pointed that out, about the credits, I hadn't noticed that. Also, I am not sure if that kit is compatible with HID equipment (there's something about that in the forums, too).
They use HID equipment where I am, and while I don't really care about reading/writing to our HID cards, I do need to find out if HID readers can read other brand cards (e.g. Atmel, etc). It may be the case they cannot, which would mean we are out of luck:-(
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I would love to copy the RFID element onto a keyfob like I have for the office, so I can just dig out my keychain - easy to find, easy to retrieve from a pocket - instead of a big flat card. Is this a service anyone offers, or is it something I can do on my own with the right equipment (preferably $50 of course)?
It depends on the card technology. Most stuff these days (transit passes, etc.) seem to be using 13.56 MHz equipment, but some low-security access applications still use the old 125 kHz technology. I don't really know anything about 13.56 MHz equipment. As for 125 kHz stuff, it's trivial to read the data from the card, and there are a lot of RFID kits out there that will let you write data to cards. I am specifically looking at this kit for writing to 125 kHz cards.
First thing you'd need to do is to find out what kind of reader it is - get the brand name, go to the website, and find the model that looks like your reader. Check the datasheet to find out what kind of cards it reads, etc. That'll get you started. All that said, it'll probably be a lot simpler (and for one or two cards, cheaper) just to buy them:-)
That reminds me of a sign I saw in the Wal-Mart checkout line: "Buying cigarettes for minors: It's not just wrong, it's illegal." Obviously because something being wrong just isn't enough to stop you from doing it these days...
HDTV specs should define a bit rate that has to be required to have HD.
I could be way off base here, but I just don't think that's possible given the compression algorithms that are used. The whole point of variable bit-rate compression is to use lower bit rates when you need to convey less information, and higher bit rates when you need to convey more (thus why action scenes can get so blocky). Defining a minimum bit-rate would be like saying, "You can only be so efficient." What if i want to transmit 1920 x 1080 pixels of pure black? I have to do it at a minimum of 2 Mbps?
This is actually something I wonder about. The increasing complexity of consumer computer hardware means it's quickly becoming infeasible (or at least an order of magnitude more complex) for people to build their own hardware. For someone who's learning about electronics, the parallel port is great - you can interface to pretty much anything with hardly any intervening hardware. The same can't be said of the USB port.
I agree with GP, parallel ports are easier to work with at a low level, especially if you want to go beyond LEDs. It's very easy to interface a standard HD44780 LCD directly to a parallel port with no intervening electronics.
It doesn't even have to be SCSI, and you certainly don't have to rip it out:-), I've noticed that with regular IDE drives - hold them as you turn off the computer, and rotate as you say, you'll notice it.
Well if by "Centronics" you mean the other side of the printer cable, they did mention the parallel port. As for RS-232, one big use for these "legacy" ports (parallel and serial) is for hobbyists.
For example, I'm lucky to have a motherboard that includes a serial header, which is attached to my PIC programmer. Also, for simple projects, interfacing directly to a parallel port is often simpler than interfacing to a serial port. Hopefully there will always be add-on cards for those of us who use these "legacy" ports.
I think the point is that the idea of the mainframe is old, and many of the naysayers predicted that once smaller computers became affordable, they would replace the centralized mainframe model.
It could also be that the products they have acquired are encumbered in such a way that prevents them from releasing them as open-source. I think that was the position of ATI or nVidia for a while on the graphics drivers - they licensed technology from other places that wouldn't let them release the code.
If companies start sharing code, there will be less code that needs to be written in-house, which means some people are going to be losing their jobs. I'm sure they'll be really thankful to Red Hat.
I already moderated in this article, but I'm willing to lose the moderations just to reply to this.
Analogy: if universities start sharing research, there will be less research that needs to be done in-house.
Um, yeah. Unnecessary duplication of effort is wasteful. Yeah, they could lay off people, or you know, they could use the same number of coders and now accomplish more tasks.
That's part of my point, though - even if you don't have a radio or television, you are still being exposed to EM waves that are being broadcast. Even if there are no broadcasting facilities in the town, what about regional television stations? Given the prevalence of RF these days, regardless of what technology you use or don't use, you're going to be exposed to lots of RF waves.
If they're so worried, they should probably get rid of cell phone towers, and petition radio and television broadcasters to turn off their transmitters, too?
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Or it could be incompetent fraud.
Here's the link that should have been in the summary, to the post in Ed Felten's blog, Freedom to Tinker, complete with images of the paper tape in question.
Not true. They just added some chat-like feature the other day. I haven't bothered to try it, but it looks to be like an internal Facebook IM client.
From TFA:
By identifying the 30 of the 36 Final Four participants in the past nine years of tournaments, the method has achieved 83 percent accuracy. In comparison, the seedings and polls have correctly identified only 23 of the 36 NCAA Final Four participants in the same nine year stretch, and the currently used Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) formula identified 21.You misread the summary (so did I, at first). It's not "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be For 64-Bit Windows Only," it's "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only."
You must be... no, scratch that, you ARE new here.
No sound? Lame...
Hm, I'm glad you pointed that out, about the credits, I hadn't noticed that. Also, I am not sure if that kit is compatible with HID equipment (there's something about that in the forums, too).
They use HID equipment where I am, and while I don't really care about reading/writing to our HID cards, I do need to find out if HID readers can read other brand cards (e.g. Atmel, etc). It may be the case they cannot, which would mean we are out of luck :-(
It depends on the card technology. Most stuff these days (transit passes, etc.) seem to be using 13.56 MHz equipment, but some low-security access applications still use the old 125 kHz technology. I don't really know anything about 13.56 MHz equipment. As for 125 kHz stuff, it's trivial to read the data from the card, and there are a lot of RFID kits out there that will let you write data to cards. I am specifically looking at this kit for writing to 125 kHz cards.
First thing you'd need to do is to find out what kind of reader it is - get the brand name, go to the website, and find the model that looks like your reader. Check the datasheet to find out what kind of cards it reads, etc. That'll get you started. All that said, it'll probably be a lot simpler (and for one or two cards, cheaper) just to buy them :-)
That reminds me of a sign I saw in the Wal-Mart checkout line: "Buying cigarettes for minors: It's not just wrong, it's illegal." Obviously because something being wrong just isn't enough to stop you from doing it these days...
I could be way off base here, but I just don't think that's possible given the compression algorithms that are used. The whole point of variable bit-rate compression is to use lower bit rates when you need to convey less information, and higher bit rates when you need to convey more (thus why action scenes can get so blocky). Defining a minimum bit-rate would be like saying, "You can only be so efficient." What if i want to transmit 1920 x 1080 pixels of pure black? I have to do it at a minimum of 2 Mbps?
Great, now they'll be getting a bunch of prayer requests from /.
"Dear God, please let my next emerge go without error..."
It's a time honored tradition, you HEATHEN! :-)
This is actually something I wonder about. The increasing complexity of consumer computer hardware means it's quickly becoming infeasible (or at least an order of magnitude more complex) for people to build their own hardware. For someone who's learning about electronics, the parallel port is great - you can interface to pretty much anything with hardly any intervening hardware. The same can't be said of the USB port.
I agree with GP, parallel ports are easier to work with at a low level, especially if you want to go beyond LEDs. It's very easy to interface a standard HD44780 LCD directly to a parallel port with no intervening electronics.
It doesn't even have to be SCSI, and you certainly don't have to rip it out :-), I've noticed that with regular IDE drives - hold them as you turn off the computer, and rotate as you say, you'll notice it.
PCMCIA also seems to be alive and well in most modern e-voting machines, which I always found weird.
Well if by "Centronics" you mean the other side of the printer cable, they did mention the parallel port. As for RS-232, one big use for these "legacy" ports (parallel and serial) is for hobbyists.
For example, I'm lucky to have a motherboard that includes a serial header, which is attached to my PIC programmer. Also, for simple projects, interfacing directly to a parallel port is often simpler than interfacing to a serial port. Hopefully there will always be add-on cards for those of us who use these "legacy" ports.
Also, according to the image on page 4, in 2015, we STILL won't be using Vista.
I think the point is that the idea of the mainframe is old, and many of the naysayers predicted that once smaller computers became affordable, they would replace the centralized mainframe model.
It could also be that the products they have acquired are encumbered in such a way that prevents them from releasing them as open-source. I think that was the position of ATI or nVidia for a while on the graphics drivers - they licensed technology from other places that wouldn't let them release the code.
I already moderated in this article, but I'm willing to lose the moderations just to reply to this.
Analogy: if universities start sharing research, there will be less research that needs to be done in-house.
Um, yeah. Unnecessary duplication of effort is wasteful. Yeah, they could lay off people, or you know, they could use the same number of coders and now accomplish more tasks.
That's part of my point, though - even if you don't have a radio or television, you are still being exposed to EM waves that are being broadcast. Even if there are no broadcasting facilities in the town, what about regional television stations? Given the prevalence of RF these days, regardless of what technology you use or don't use, you're going to be exposed to lots of RF waves.
If they're so worried, they should probably get rid of cell phone towers, and petition radio and television broadcasters to turn off their transmitters, too?