The article didn't discuss the merits of other formats vs. JPEG enough. Namely, non-photograhic images, with few colors and mostly large solid areas, such as icons, bullets, line drawings, diagrams, charts, etc. are not optimal for JPEG.
In such cases, GIF and PNG will yield much better compression than JPEG, and also look nicer, since they're lossless. Compressing such images with JPEG will give you ugly "ringing" artifacts, since the lines are essentially infinite-frequency "spikes" which you can't capture completely.
Then how do they achieve those 52x drives... isn't it dangerous close to that level? (not to mention making a hell of a lot of noise -- linear velocity is on the order of 600 km/h!) Or do they use other tricks (multiple laser heads perhaps, or just very aggressive read-ahead caching?)
Do they pay someone to do this, or do US lawmakers have nothing to do better themselves than try to come up with these silly acronyms that are just PR buzz?
Of course, Australia uses PAL, but is that what the XBOX uses as well (most TVs in Australia can display NTSC as well.) maybe I should just import one from Australia.
It wasn't so much typing in the programs for me, as it was playing around with them and modifying them -- they were much more intersting then the dry example programs found in most reference books. This was in the days before I had net access, so there weren't any web sites or anything else with source code that you could download.
I remember a day where almost every popular computer mag, PC Magazine, PC Week, the now-defunct Compute, etc. had source code listings in the back that you typed in yourself, usually in Assembly language. They weren't toy programs either, but usually useful utilities, like file managers, text editors, games, etc. Not commercial quality, but still amazing for something that you could enter in by hand.
Those listings, despite being a pain to enter and debug, taught me most of my early programming and software design knowledge before I formally learned it in school, and probably did so for others.
Now, none of the general mags have software you can program yourself. Not even the programmer mags like Dr. Dobbs journal have full working apps anymore, just little code snippets.
It only has 2 firewire ports, which actually many motherboardss have these days.
Not only is it the standard for digital video and still cameras nowadays, IEEE 1394 aka Firewire/iLink is rapidly eclipsing SCSI as the standard for high-speed external storage devices like hard drives and burners.
Also, USB 2.0 is still not supported in Windows, but Firewire is.
USB is nice, but more Firewire ports -- that would be appealing to me!
Hey 1, listen to me beside that, although this might have nothing to do with the theme thrown to this thread. The other day, I went eat my neighbor YOSHINOYA, yes beef bowl house, YOSHINOYA, to find s-o-o crowded I couldn't get seated first. And close look at the ad flag hung up, it appealed "now discount by 150yen offered!!" Come on, you all s-o-o stupid or s-o-o foolish? How get you rarely coming in to YOSHINOYA by just \150 discount, you ass? Just 150, 150yen! Somebodys been there by family, whole family of 4 together to YOSHINOYA congratulation! Hoop me DADY is oredering special bowl, my dear. So embarresed I can't look.. Hey guys all, get out the seat for my 150yen. YOSHINOYA should get more bloody, boys. It's no strange whenever happen a fight against the guy seated your oppsite side over the U table, I stab you, or you stab me, YOSHINOYA should be in such atomosphere. Get away, kids and Mammys! Then I got seated, and the guy next to me ordered "Omori bowl, with Tsuyudaku more soup" That moment I got fucking fury again. How could you say Tsuyudaku, with a proud face, baby! Tsuyudaku is no fashon today!
I wanna inquire him if you really wish to have with Tsuyudaku. Wanna question close to him, wanna question for an hour. Isn't it just that you wanna say "Tsuyudaku"? If I, YOSHINOYA specialized, could put you opinion, the latest fashion among YOSHINOYA freak is Negidaku-welsh-onion-full, that's it. Omori-bowl with Negidaku and Gyoku-egg, that the way the freak do. Negidaku is a bowl with more welsh onion for less beef and Omori, Gyoku. That's the strongest. However I note that way is with the danger of being marked by the shop boy. the sword of both side edge. I can't recommend this way to the newby. It's just that You 1, Gyu-Shake beef and salmon Table d'hote is enough for you.
When will you guys understand? Windows has always been modular, in that it separates functions nicely into DLLs which export APIs and can be replaced or removed as needed. It's rather that as a standard part of Windows, many MS and non-MS apps use components from IE to do various things, like render HTML (including many non-"web" apps that use the HTML renderer as a quick way to have a nice UI), or do network stuff like HTTP queries without having to "reinvent the wheel" with each app.
If you remove IE (meaning all the dlls that form it, not just the stub executable which is little more than a front-end to the underlying HTML rendering and networking DLLs), sure the OS will still run and you could definitely still use it as a server, BUT a lot of user-level stuff like the shell and applications, not just IE, would suddenly break. So even if it were removed, you would need to have some sort of other implementation of the functionality that IE provides to other apps via COM.
Seems like it's a periodic table of REAL elements with references to where they are used in comics... not imaginary elements that exist in comics only.
If you know the region which the data is intended for (eg, by looking at the region code on a DVD), voila, you just feed the data into whatever algorithm transforms GPS coordinates into the decryption key.
Since GPS location is not random and is known, you can spoof the data, and not even have to do a brute force search over a random keyspace as you would with a normal cryptoscheme...
I was thinking at least round-robin DNS cluster but it seems like A root server is just one box. I'd worry about hardware failure more than terrorism if it was just ONE machine running the zone. What kind of hardware does the A server run on anyways?
Why not just order one from the USA instead?
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following past trends of Sony, this handheld probably won't be available for at least 6 months for us Canadians *grumbles*.
It's not like the CLIE handheld is a export restricted item, you know?
Wasn't one of the touted features of BeOS its low latency, single-user kernel optimized for multimedia stuff? Demos had multiple video players all playing smoothly, while 3-D animations occured in other windows.
How well can the Linux kernel deliver such performance?
AOL has a large global network BUT international access numbers are NOT supported with the current AOL software under Windows NT/2000/XP. I repeat -- Win NT/2000/XP does NOT support this. NOWHERE in the documentation or web site is this mentioned!
I have no idea why this silly restriction exists, but it does.
I found this out the hard way, when I was travelling in Malaysia, I had to get online at night, and I had an AOL account. I called AOL tech support (toll call) and then they mentioned it to me. Since I had to get online for urgent business, I was forced to make an international charge call to a AOL access number in the US, and wound up costing me about $100 in phone charges.
You can call AOL international tech support at 703-264-1184 to verify this.
First off, you must boot off of Sony's bootloader disc. The code on the bootloader, which runs before the kernel gets loaded, is basically a NT-like hardware abstraction layer that prevents you from getting direct register-level access to the GS (graphics/sound coprocessor) chip, the DVD CSS mechanism on the DVD-ROM (so no CSS-supported DVD player possible in Linux), memory card (Linux uses a special memory card format different than normal Playstation games, probably to prevent you from getting at and modifying saved game data), and possibly others as well.
The VGA box is only supported under Linux as well -- a shame, as Dreamcast has a VGA box which is actually supported by most of its commercial titles, and really makes them look better.
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The article didn't discuss the merits of other formats vs. JPEG enough. Namely, non-photograhic images, with few colors and mostly large solid areas, such as icons, bullets, line drawings, diagrams, charts, etc. are not optimal for JPEG.
In such cases, GIF and PNG will yield much better compression than JPEG, and also look nicer, since they're lossless. Compressing such images with JPEG will give you ugly "ringing" artifacts, since the lines are essentially infinite-frequency "spikes" which you can't capture completely.
Then how do they achieve those 52x drives... isn't it dangerous close to that level? (not to mention making a hell of a lot of noise -- linear velocity is on the order of 600 km/h!) Or do they use other tricks (multiple laser heads perhaps, or just very aggressive read-ahead caching?)
Who comes up with these contrived names anyways?
Do they pay someone to do this, or do US lawmakers have nothing to do better themselves than try to come up with these silly acronyms that are just PR buzz?
You need to buy a DVD accessory (about US $30) to have DVD playback functions. It does not work straight out of the box, like Playstation 2.
in terms of software, etc...
Of course, Australia uses PAL, but is that what the XBOX uses as well (most TVs in Australia can display NTSC as well.) maybe I should just import one from Australia.
unless there's a crack for it first...
It wasn't so much typing in the programs for me, as it was playing around with them and modifying them -- they were much more intersting then the dry example programs found in most reference books. This was in the days before I had net access, so there weren't any web sites or anything else with source code that you could download.
DIY nuclear reactor, no joke.
:-)
He almost turned his backyard into a federal toxic waste site, and shortened his life by 5 years or so, but hey, it almost worked!
I remember a day where almost every popular computer mag, PC Magazine, PC Week, the now-defunct Compute, etc. had source code listings in the back that you typed in yourself, usually in Assembly language. They weren't toy programs either, but usually useful utilities, like file managers, text editors, games, etc. Not commercial quality, but still amazing for something that you could enter in by hand.
Those listings, despite being a pain to enter and debug, taught me most of my early programming and software design knowledge before I formally learned it in school, and probably did so for others.
Now, none of the general mags have software you can program yourself. Not even the programmer mags like Dr. Dobbs journal have full working apps anymore, just little code snippets.
Anyone else miss those days?
And Linux and many PHP versions too! Aren't we forgetting something here?
It only has 2 firewire ports, which actually many motherboardss have these days.
Not only is it the standard for digital video and still cameras nowadays, IEEE 1394 aka Firewire/iLink is rapidly eclipsing SCSI as the standard for high-speed external storage devices like hard drives and burners.
Also, USB 2.0 is still not supported in Windows, but Firewire is.
USB is nice, but more Firewire ports -- that would be appealing to me!
Hey 1, listen to me beside that, although this might have nothing
to do with
the theme thrown to this thread.
The other day, I went eat my neighbor YOSHINOYA, yes beef bowl
house, YOSHINOYA,
to find s-o-o crowded I couldn't get seated first.
And close look at the ad flag hung up, it appealed "now discount
by 150yen offered!!"
Come on, you all s-o-o stupid or s-o-o foolish? How get you
rarely coming in to
YOSHINOYA by just \150 discount, you ass? Just 150, 150yen!
Somebodys been there by family, whole family of 4 together to
YOSHINOYA congratulation!
Hoop me DADY is oredering special bowl, my dear. So embarresed I
can't look..
Hey guys all, get out the seat for my 150yen.
YOSHINOYA should get more bloody, boys. It's no strange whenever
happen a fight
against the guy seated your oppsite side over the U table, I stab
you, or you stab me,
YOSHINOYA should be in such atomosphere. Get away, kids and
Mammys!
Then I got seated, and the guy next to me ordered "Omori bowl,
with Tsuyudaku
more soup" That moment I got fucking fury again. How could you
say
Tsuyudaku, with a proud face, baby! Tsuyudaku is no fashon today!
I wanna inquire him if you really wish to have with Tsuyudaku.
Wanna
question close to him, wanna question for an hour. Isn't it just
that
you wanna say "Tsuyudaku"?
If I, YOSHINOYA specialized, could put you opinion, the latest
fashion
among YOSHINOYA freak is Negidaku-welsh-onion-full, that's it.
Omori-bowl with Negidaku and Gyoku-egg, that the way the freak
do.
Negidaku is a bowl with more welsh onion for less beef and Omori,
Gyoku.
That's the strongest.
However I note that way is with the danger of being marked by the
shop boy.
the sword of both side edge.
I can't recommend this way to the newby.
It's just that You 1, Gyu-Shake beef and salmon Table d'hote is
enough for you.
When will you guys understand? Windows has always been modular, in that it separates functions nicely into DLLs which export APIs and can be replaced or removed as needed. It's rather that as a standard part of Windows, many MS and non-MS apps use components from IE to do various things, like render HTML (including many non-"web" apps that use the HTML renderer as a quick way to have a nice UI), or do network stuff like HTTP queries without having to "reinvent the wheel" with each app.
If you remove IE (meaning all the dlls that form it, not just the stub executable which is little more than a front-end to the underlying HTML rendering and networking DLLs), sure the OS will still run and you could definitely still use it as a server, BUT a lot of user-level stuff like the shell and applications, not just IE, would suddenly break. So even if it were removed, you would need to have some sort of other implementation of the functionality that IE provides to other apps via COM.
Seems like it's a periodic table of REAL elements with references to where they are used in comics... not imaginary elements that exist in comics only.
evildude# ping -f
==> $$$$$$$ for them!!!
If you know the region which the data is intended for (eg, by looking at the region code on a DVD), voila, you just feed the data into whatever algorithm transforms GPS coordinates into the decryption key.
Since GPS location is not random and is known, you can spoof the data, and not even have to do a brute force search over a random keyspace as you would with a normal cryptoscheme...
Forget Konqueror, I want CSS and Javascript for Lynx, dammit! :-)
Aren't all the REALLY critical systems (defense, air traffic, etc) already air-gapped from public networks like the Internet?
Look at the pic in the CNN article -- they look like my grandma and grandpa! Not exactly our typical college students, huh? =P
I was thinking at least round-robin DNS cluster but it seems like A root server is just one box. I'd worry about hardware failure more than terrorism if it was just ONE machine running the zone. What kind of hardware does the A server run on anyways?
It's not like the CLIE handheld is a export restricted item, you know?
Wasn't one of the touted features of BeOS its low latency, single-user kernel optimized for multimedia stuff? Demos had multiple video players all playing smoothly, while 3-D animations occured in other windows.
How well can the Linux kernel deliver such performance?
AOL has a large global network BUT international access numbers are NOT supported with the current AOL software under Windows NT/2000/XP. I repeat -- Win NT/2000/XP does NOT support this. NOWHERE in the documentation or web site is this mentioned!
I have no idea why this silly restriction exists, but it does.
I found this out the hard way, when I was travelling in Malaysia, I had to get online at night, and I had an AOL account. I called AOL tech support (toll call) and then they mentioned it to me. Since I had to get online for urgent business, I was forced to make an international charge call to a AOL access number in the US, and wound up costing me about $100 in phone charges.
You can call AOL international tech support at 703-264-1184 to verify this.
You have been warned.
Any DVD player app that can play such a custom audio track instead of the DVD audio? Playing it with a separate app seems cheezy.
First off, you must boot off of Sony's bootloader disc. The code on the bootloader, which runs before the kernel gets loaded, is basically a NT-like hardware abstraction layer that prevents you from getting direct register-level access to the GS (graphics/sound coprocessor) chip, the DVD CSS mechanism on the DVD-ROM (so no CSS-supported DVD player possible in Linux), memory card (Linux uses a special memory card format different than normal Playstation games, probably to prevent you from getting at and modifying saved game data), and possibly others as well.
The VGA box is only supported under Linux as well -- a shame, as Dreamcast has a VGA box which is actually supported by most of its commercial titles, and really makes them look better.