There have been some good comments about FS/sectors and such. I think it can be dumbed down to 2 options:
Create a file system and sector size to maximise capacity or..... Create a FS and sector combo to maximise perfomance (speed).
As far as the defragmentation issue, this could be lessened by creating a 'system managed' partitioning structure that allows file reads and writes only on the drive surface it actually needs: ie a partition that grows. The less mapping it has to do- the faster it is. I really think that the HD logic can really be tweaked on this one.
Lode Runner has got to be one of the all time great games on this planet, solar system, galaxy and universe! (Apple ][) The amount of creative time I've wasted playing that game and the amount of joysticks I wore out is immense. Tehre goes about 2 years of my life. I must be some kind of loser......
What I really miss are the BBS games. Anyone remember them???
I hope that there would be another opportunity to discuss this, however the science of cryptology has been solved. 'Solved' is an expression referring to the process of decrypting an encryption, where encryption has won over decryption. In other words, in its purest form, encrypted information cannot ever be decrypted. This happened around the turn of this century when quantum encryption was used to send information. I believe that if not in the near future, commonly encrypted information would become impossible to decrypt. This would not rely on skill, but on the nature of the encryption. It is not too far-fetched to assume that all proprietary or licenced media will never be decrypted.
That sounds remarkably expensive. I wonder what the new PS3 games are going to cost if the media itself is so expensive, not to mention a HDDVD movie! Apart from DRM issues, would anyone be willing to pay that kind of premium? Or is all of this targetted for the corporate market? Don't get me wrong, but if I could get my hands on an optical drive that can backup 50 gb of data that was economical ($5/disk would be ok), I would go for it. Hmmm... I wonder how many mp3's I can fit onto one of those?
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"ANDY STEWARD, a successful London computer consultant and sailboat racer, became exasperated when trying to watch his favorite sport on television. There were a few half-hour recaps of some major sailing races, but they were always shown late at night.
Mr. Steward looked into creating a sailing channel on the Sky satellite service in Britain, but his idea was soon dead in the water. He would have had to pay £85,000 (nearly $150,000) to start the channel and £40,000 a month (nearly $70,000), as well as the production costs. That was a lot of money for an untested concept.
But in January, he did introduce a sailing channel, one that is rapidly filling with sailing talk shows, product reviews, programs on sailing techniques and, most important, intense coverage of the sort of smaller races that don't make it onto traditional television.
His new channel, however, will not be available over the air. And it won't be found on cable or even on satellite, at least not yet. The channel, called Sail.tv, is broadcast only on the Internet, which enables video to reach a much larger worldwide audience at a much lower initial cost than a satellite channel. Because "we didn't have any idea how big the audience would be," Mr. Steward said, he wanted to keep his expenses as low as possible. "Internet television is an investment we can grow into," he said.
In the last six months, major media companies have received much attention for starting to move their own programming online, whether downloads for video iPods or streaming programs that can be watched over high-speed Internet connections.
Perhaps more interesting -- and, arguably, more important -- are the thousands of producers whose programming would never make it into prime time but who have very dedicated small audiences. It's a phenomenon that could be called slivercasting.
In 2004, Wired magazine popularized the phrase "the long tail" to refer to the large number of specialized offerings that in themselves appeal to a small number of people, but cumulatively represent a large market that can be easily aggregated on the Internet. Plotted on a graph along with best sellers, these specialized products trail off like a long tail that never reaches zero.
Indeed, the Internet's ability to offer an almost infinite selection is part of what makes it so appealing: people can find things that don't sell well enough to warrant shelf space in a neighborhood music store or video rental shop -- think of the obscure books on Amazon.com. The ease of digital video production and the ubiquity of high-speed Internet connections are sending the long tail of video into the living rooms of the world, live and in color.
"The next wave of media is to unleash the power of serving people's special interests," said John Hendricks, the chief executive of Discovery Communications, which is developing a series of specialized video services. "Every time I walk into a Borders bookstore, I spend a lot of time looking at the magazine rack -- because staring at you are all the passions of America. The bride who is about to get married, there is a magazine for her. And for the person who is a little older, there are wonderful travel and leisure magazines."
Already, there are specialized video services serving hundreds of specialties, including poker, bicycling, lacrosse, photography, vegetarian cooking, fine wine, horror films, obscure sitcoms and Japanese anime. There is also a growing market for Webcasts of local news and entertainment from every country and in every language, aimed at expatriates.
"We're adding two or three new channels a week," s
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I've emuled more than enough video/music to find that they've been put into a share folder and they've been DRMed. Impossible to view. These are mainly WMF- which I would really like to filter out of searches. This is only going to get worse. I wouldn't mind paying a fee for content I want. I do that now. But I'm not happy with the conditions I forsee that all of us will have to put up with in the future.
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"Watch for a la carte TV to become a reality in the next 2-3 years. The reason being that as all of this competition heats up, networks (think Turner or Discovery) will start to wake-up to the fact that there is a niche of viewers out there who would like to pay them directly for delivery of a reasonable-quality stream over the broadband connection they already have.."
I most certainly hope so. Currently, sat and cable packages are a waste of money and channel space. Many of us would like to customise content which is not possible to do now. I don't want to pay for channel content I don't watch. But why do providers sell packages rather than individual channels? I too would like al la carte to happen soon. But will IPTV or other provide that?
What about DRM? If I pay for content, then I want to back it up and watch it wherever and on whatever I want to watch it on. In fact, the whole media development is regressing to the early 60's when there was no consumer recording available. DRM will do that in the sense that it is pay-per-view and then view again (if your lucky and if it is not streamed) using DRM licences. If your HD crashes then you've lost it all. The technology to provide a backup of content and licences is expensive to buy and maintain. Not a very clear and easy future by any means. Methinks that the golden age is passing before our eyes.
Haven't you heard of Soylent Red? Just squeeze the oil out of those soy beans and make delicious soy steaks with the pulp! Eradicate world hunger AND opec with one single plant!
Hey! In Australia we get 6" subs from Subway! (but not from FedX UPS DHL or for that matter any freight service....) Hmmm... Maybe I'll take the 5" sub in that case- Do you get to choose the fillings?
I have an AST Bravo P75 mhz with 2 gb HD and 2x32 + 2x16 mb P100 sticks with Win9x and WinME (for a short while). Each 32mb stick cost me (2nd hand) about $64 AUS each in 1997. I think the exchange rate was about 80c to the US dollar. I've still got it, but I think I'll install a Linnux on it. I wonder if FreeBSD will run on it?
I think we are talking about the same thing. In the quoted explanation, it stated that in a hard vacuum, it works as described. You yourself and this site: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Ligh tMill/light-mill.html explains that. In a partial vacuum, (evacuated to a pressure of 10-3 to 10-4 (to the minus 3 and 4 respectively) atmospheres), it also works, due to a reaction of the remaining gasses at the edges of the black vane, overpowering the light reaction when in a vacuum. It's the same physical experiment yet a single variation causes 2 opposite results in rotation. Interestingly enough, if the lightsail ship would be composed of reflective and absorbative surfaces, it may slow/stop and possibly reverse if it strikes 'dirty' vacuum.
"do you think that is also unfair that one must pay more for a nicer car over a basic car? They both get you from point A to point B, but one has more amenities that some people want."
Yes, you are right. But what about distros like Mepis? or Lindows (R.I.P)? Mepis comes with hundreds of apps and games and utilities, ready to run. The point here is also marketing. Microsoft are good at that. Its imaginable that Apple's OS is heading towards competing with Windows. There are also a few distros of that too.
Historically, Microsoft have been against piracy from the start. They have cleverly engineered old VLMs out of the registration-activation-update processes, they support FULL DRM and will in the future pursue technologies to defeat piracy.
I for one, welcome the 8 versions of Vista!
There are so many 'users' out there that find computers complicated, that a simple operating system is all they want, visually, minimum options, easy to navigate, install and run apps. The first OS that can do that will be very popular with many people, including Linnux GUI, Apple OS for Intel etc.
Does anybody know if there is a speed difference between Linnux kernel(s) and XP or Vista? Do apps work faster? Are copying/network/file transfers/AV rendering faster? Notwithstanding the GUI, does Linnux have an advantage of Windos xx in computing terms?
"Um, yeah, thus showing that light pressure is not the mechanism by which these things spin, since they spin the wrong way (they also reverse directions if you allow them to cool)"
Yes, but only in an atmosphere as the rest of the quoted explanation states.
Oh for goodness sake! "The photons hitting the black side of the vanes will be absorbed transferring their momentum to the vane. Those hitting the white surface will be reflected transferring up to TWICE their momentum to the vanes.
1) In a vacuum: The above concept dominates and the white vanes trail the black vanes.
2) In a poor vacuum: the air on the black side of the vane gets heated and the air molecules give an extra "kick" to the black vane side overriding the photon momentum transfer causing the black vanes to trail. I.e. the air molecules transfer more momentum to the vane than the photons do."
Now if the vacumm version was in space with zero gravity and NOT fixed (like a giant paddlewheel in space), then the vanes would spin indefinitely and be propelled in a straight Newtonian line away from light sources. If there are a few light sources, (eg The Sun, reflection of the Moon etc), then you can use force vectors to plot its course and modify them with shades Now, if you apply that to a lightsail ship, it would be possible to spin the craft as well. If it were large enough, then the spinning would create artificial gravity for its occupants. There are other ways that rotary motion can be employed within the ship itself.
Quote: "ATHENS (AFP) - Greek archaeologists excavating an ancient Macedonian city in the foothills of Mount Olympus have uncovered a 2,600-metre defensive wall whose design was "inspired by the glories of Alexander the Great," the site supervisor said Thursday. Built into the wall were dozens of fragments from statues honouring ancient Greek gods, including Zeus, Hephaestus and possibly Dionysus, archaeologist Dimitrios Pantermalis told a conference in the northern port city of Salonika, according to the Athens News Agency. Early work on the fortification is believed to have begun under Cassander, the fourth-century BC king of Macedon who succeeded Alexander the Great. Cassander is believed to have ordered the murders of Alexander's mother, wife and infant son, Pantermalis said. The wall's design suggests that it was "inspired by the glory of Alexander the Great in the East," as the young king sought to emulate grandiose structures encountered during his campaigns, Pantermalis told the conference. Bronze coins from the period of Theodosius, the 4th-century AD Byzantine Emperor who abolished the ancient Olympic Games, were also found hidden inside the wall.
The discovery was made in the archaeological site of Dion, an ancient fortified city and key religious sanctuary of the Macedonian civilisation, which ruled much of Greece until Roman times. Prior excavations at Dion have already revealed two theatres, a stadium, and shrines to a variety of gods, including Egyptian deities Sarapis, Isis and Anubis, whose influence in the Greek world grew in the wake of Alexander's conquest of Egypt." End quote.
Typical Darwinian explanation, except that the shorter legged Cane toads aren't being eaten/killed/culled. The long legs seems to be a response to their environment.
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There have been some good comments about FS/sectors and such. I think it can be dumbed down to 2 options:
Create a file system and sector size to maximise capacity or.....
Create a FS and sector combo to maximise perfomance (speed).
As far as the defragmentation issue, this could be lessened by creating a 'system managed' partitioning structure that allows file reads and writes only on the drive surface it actually needs: ie a partition that grows. The less mapping it has to do- the faster it is. I really think that the HD logic can really be tweaked on this one.
Lode Runner has got to be one of the all time great games on this planet, solar system, galaxy and universe! (Apple ][)
The amount of creative time I've wasted playing that game and the amount of joysticks I wore out is immense. Tehre goes about 2 years of my life. I must be some kind of loser......
What I really miss are the BBS games. Anyone remember them???
I for one, welcome our breath-smelling robot overlords!
I hope that there would be another opportunity to discuss this, however the science of cryptology has been solved.
'Solved' is an expression referring to the process of decrypting an encryption, where encryption has won over decryption.
In other words, in its purest form, encrypted information cannot ever be decrypted. This happened around the turn of this century when quantum encryption was used to send information.
I believe that if not in the near future, commonly encrypted information would become impossible to decrypt.
This would not rely on skill, but on the nature of the encryption. It is not too far-fetched to assume that all proprietary or licenced media will never be decrypted.
Which is right? Brung or Brang?
I brung an apple to school.
I brang an apple to school.
That sounds remarkably expensive.
I wonder what the new PS3 games are going to cost if the media itself is so expensive, not to mention a HDDVD movie!
Apart from DRM issues, would anyone be willing to pay that kind of premium? Or is all of this targetted for the corporate market?
Don't get me wrong, but if I could get my hands on an optical drive that can backup 50 gb of data that was economical ($5/disk would be ok), I would go for it.
Hmmm... I wonder how many mp3's I can fit onto one of those?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/business/yourmon ey/12sliver.html?ex=1299819600&en=b93a73a9426aeb16 &ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
And for those who won't RTFA:
"ANDY STEWARD, a successful London computer consultant and sailboat racer, became exasperated when trying to watch his favorite sport on television. There were a few half-hour recaps of some major sailing races, but they were always shown late at night.
Mr. Steward looked into creating a sailing channel on the Sky satellite service in Britain, but his idea was soon dead in the water. He would have had to pay £85,000 (nearly $150,000) to start the channel and £40,000 a month (nearly $70,000), as well as the production costs. That was a lot of money for an untested concept.
But in January, he did introduce a sailing channel, one that is rapidly filling with sailing talk shows, product reviews, programs on sailing techniques and, most important, intense coverage of the sort of smaller races that don't make it onto traditional television.
His new channel, however, will not be available over the air. And it won't be found on cable or even on satellite, at least not yet. The channel, called Sail.tv, is broadcast only on the Internet, which enables video to reach a much larger worldwide audience at a much lower initial cost than a satellite channel. Because "we didn't have any idea how big the audience would be," Mr. Steward said, he wanted to keep his expenses as low as possible. "Internet television is an investment we can grow into," he said.
In the last six months, major media companies have received much attention for starting to move their own programming online, whether downloads for video iPods or streaming programs that can be watched over high-speed Internet connections.
Perhaps more interesting -- and, arguably, more important -- are the thousands of producers whose programming would never make it into prime time but who have very dedicated small audiences. It's a phenomenon that could be called slivercasting.
In 2004, Wired magazine popularized the phrase "the long tail" to refer to the large number of specialized offerings that in themselves appeal to a small number of people, but cumulatively represent a large market that can be easily aggregated on the Internet. Plotted on a graph along with best sellers, these specialized products trail off like a long tail that never reaches zero.
Indeed, the Internet's ability to offer an almost infinite selection is part of what makes it so appealing: people can find things that don't sell well enough to warrant shelf space in a neighborhood music store or video rental shop -- think of the obscure books on Amazon.com. The ease of digital video production and the ubiquity of high-speed Internet connections are sending the long tail of video into the living rooms of the world, live and in color.
"The next wave of media is to unleash the power of serving people's special interests," said John Hendricks, the chief executive of Discovery Communications, which is developing a series of specialized video services. "Every time I walk into a Borders bookstore, I spend a lot of time looking at the magazine rack -- because staring at you are all the passions of America. The bride who is about to get married, there is a magazine for her. And for the person who is a little older, there are wonderful travel and leisure magazines."
Already, there are specialized video services serving hundreds of specialties, including poker, bicycling, lacrosse, photography, vegetarian cooking, fine wine, horror films, obscure sitcoms and Japanese anime. There is also a growing market for Webcasts of local news and entertainment from every country and in every language, aimed at expatriates.
"We're adding two or three new channels a week," s
I've emuled more than enough video/music to find that they've been put into a share folder and they've been DRMed. Impossible to view. These are mainly WMF- which I would really like to filter out of searches.
This is only going to get worse.
I wouldn't mind paying a fee for content I want. I do that now. But I'm not happy with the conditions I forsee that all of us will have to put up with in the future.
"Watch for a la carte TV to become a reality in the next 2-3 years. The reason being that as all of this competition heats up, networks (think Turner or Discovery) will start to wake-up to the fact that there is a niche of viewers out there who would like to pay them directly for delivery of a reasonable-quality stream over the broadband connection they already have .."
I most certainly hope so. Currently, sat and cable packages are a waste of money and channel space.
Many of us would like to customise content which is not possible to do now. I don't want to pay for channel content I don't watch. But why do providers sell packages rather than individual channels? I too would like al la carte to happen soon.
But will IPTV or other provide that?
What about DRM? If I pay for content, then I want to back it up and watch it wherever and on whatever I want to watch it on.
In fact, the whole media development is regressing to the early 60's when there was no consumer recording available. DRM will do that in the sense that it is pay-per-view and then view again (if your lucky and if it is not streamed) using DRM licences. If your HD crashes then you've lost it all. The technology to provide a backup of content and licences is expensive to buy and maintain. Not a very clear and easy future by any means.
Methinks that the golden age is passing before our eyes.
All these systems will cause the death of Free-To-Air TV. Even though FTA is mostly crap, it is still free.
Haven't you heard of Soylent Red?
Just squeeze the oil out of those soy beans and make delicious soy steaks with the pulp! Eradicate world hunger AND opec with one single plant!
I, for one welcome, our Soy Bean Plant Overlords!
Naaaah! They'll just DRM it
Hey! In Australia we get 6" subs from Subway! (but not from FedX UPS DHL or for that matter any freight service....)
Hmmm... Maybe I'll take the 5" sub in that case- Do you get to choose the fillings?
He'll have to fly her to a red sun (or whatever colour he loses his powers) or to live in a dark room for the term.
I have an AST Bravo P75 mhz with 2 gb HD and 2x32 + 2x16 mb P100 sticks with Win9x and WinME (for a short while).
Each 32mb stick cost me (2nd hand) about $64 AUS each in 1997. I think the exchange rate was about 80c to the US dollar.
I've still got it, but I think I'll install a Linnux on it. I wonder if FreeBSD will run on it?
Yeah,, And look where it's got us!
I think we are talking about the same thing.h tMill/light-mill.html explains that.
In the quoted explanation, it stated that in a hard vacuum, it works as described. You yourself and this site: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Lig
In a partial vacuum, (evacuated to a pressure of 10-3 to 10-4 (to the minus 3 and 4 respectively) atmospheres), it also works, due to a reaction of the remaining gasses at the edges of the black vane, overpowering the light reaction when in a vacuum.
It's the same physical experiment yet a single variation causes 2 opposite results in rotation.
Interestingly enough, if the lightsail ship would be composed of reflective and absorbative surfaces, it may slow/stop and possibly reverse if it strikes 'dirty' vacuum.
"do you think that is also unfair that one must pay more for a nicer car over a basic car? They both get you from point A to point B, but one has more amenities that some people want."
Yes, you are right. But what about distros like Mepis? or Lindows (R.I.P)?
Mepis comes with hundreds of apps and games and utilities, ready to run.
The point here is also marketing. Microsoft are good at that. Its imaginable that Apple's OS is heading towards competing with Windows. There are also a few distros of that too.
Historically, Microsoft have been against piracy from the start. They have cleverly engineered old VLMs out of the registration-activation-update processes, they support FULL DRM and will in the future pursue technologies to defeat piracy.
I for one, welcome the 8 versions of Vista!
There are so many 'users' out there that find computers complicated, that a simple operating system is all they want, visually, minimum options, easy to navigate, install and run apps.
The first OS that can do that will be very popular with many people, including Linnux GUI, Apple OS for Intel etc.
Does anybody know if there is a speed difference between Linnux kernel(s) and XP or Vista?
Do apps work faster? Are copying/network/file transfers/AV rendering faster?
Notwithstanding the GUI, does Linnux have an advantage of Windos xx in computing terms?
"Um, yeah, thus showing that light pressure is not the mechanism by which these things spin, since they spin the wrong way (they also reverse directions if you allow them to cool)"
Yes, but only in an atmosphere as the rest of the quoted explanation states.
Oh for goodness sake!
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"The photons hitting the black side of the vanes will be absorbed transferring their momentum to the vane. Those hitting the white surface will be reflected transferring up to TWICE their momentum to the vanes.
1) In a vacuum: The above concept dominates and the white vanes trail the black vanes.
2) In a poor vacuum: the air on the black side of the vane gets heated and the air molecules give an extra "kick" to the black vane side overriding the photon momentum transfer causing the black vanes to trail. I.e. the air molecules transfer more momentum to the vane than the photons do."
Answered by: Pete Karpius, Physics Grad Student, UNH, Durham
from: http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae67
Now if the vacumm version was in space with zero gravity and NOT fixed (like a giant paddlewheel in space), then the vanes would spin indefinitely and be propelled in a straight Newtonian line away from light sources. If there are a few light sources, (eg The Sun, reflection of the Moon etc), then you can use force vectors to plot its course and modify them with shades
Now, if you apply that to a lightsail ship, it would be possible to spin the craft as well. If it were large enough, then the spinning would create artificial gravity for its occupants.
There are other ways that rotary motion can be employed within the ship itself.
Incorrect statement. The date mentioned in the article is 3rd century AD, not BC.
Quote: "ATHENS (AFP) - Greek archaeologists excavating an ancient Macedonian city in the foothills of Mount Olympus have uncovered a 2,600-metre defensive wall whose design was "inspired by the glories of Alexander the Great," the site supervisor said Thursday.
Built into the wall were dozens of fragments from statues honouring ancient Greek gods, including Zeus, Hephaestus and possibly Dionysus, archaeologist Dimitrios Pantermalis told a conference in the northern port city of Salonika, according to the Athens News Agency.
Early work on the fortification is believed to have begun under Cassander, the fourth-century BC king of Macedon who succeeded Alexander the Great. Cassander is believed to have ordered the murders of Alexander's mother, wife and infant son, Pantermalis said.
The wall's design suggests that it was "inspired by the glory of Alexander the Great in the East," as the young king sought to emulate grandiose structures encountered during his campaigns, Pantermalis told the conference.
Bronze coins from the period of Theodosius, the 4th-century AD Byzantine Emperor who abolished the ancient Olympic Games, were also found hidden inside the wall.
The discovery was made in the archaeological site of Dion, an ancient fortified city and key religious sanctuary of the Macedonian civilisation, which ruled much of Greece until Roman times.
Prior excavations at Dion have already revealed two theatres, a stadium, and shrines to a variety of gods, including Egyptian deities Sarapis, Isis and Anubis, whose influence in the Greek world grew in the wake of Alexander's conquest of Egypt." End quote.
It sort of answers it all doesn't it?
Wrong.
"Thus, by culling the slowest cane toads...."
Typical Darwinian explanation, except that the shorter legged Cane toads aren't being eaten/killed/culled. The long legs seems to be a response to their environment.