It's a bit of apples-to-oranges comparison. Russians do not currently operate a shuttle fleet. They launch the much smaller Soyuz / Progress vehicles, which in turn need less stringent launch conditions.
You're thinking of 'cluster'. This is tied to the file system that is actually used on the disk. Even with the current 512-byte sector, a normal NTFS partition of, say, 200GB, uses 4KB cluster and a single file takes up a minimum of 4KB already.
Well, CD-ROMs use 2352 bytes per sector, ending up with 2048 actual bytes after error correction. Looking at the size of the HDDs these days a 4096-byte sector seems pretty reasonable.
That government is overspending on military hardware?;)
On a more serious note, Grant had his BattleBot robot and Jamie had that soda can shooting vending machine. No wonder these guys were all over that robot kit. I might need to get ahold of one of those things myself.
Apple's 6-button approach is effective, but it DOES miss out on the numeric buttons you see in most TV remotes, so that might pose a bit of problem when Front Row has TV function added for those who channel surf by entering channel numbers. That's about the only argument I can see making sense about the but-it-doesn't-do-TV-or-DVR excuse.
Still, the 6-button approach is better in general over 39-button one IF the buttons are assigned in a clever way. It's obvious that most of those 39 buttons only get pressed once in a while or never get used at all.
There are at least two solutions to decoding WMV3 video stream in OS X. But you know the first one is a horrible Microsoft implementation and the other one is a licensed codec package from Flip4Mac that you have to pay. Currently, neither can't do what everyone wants... WMV3 video + MP3 audio in AVI container, which is the biting deficiency, and compounded by the fact that some anime file releases use exactly THAT format thanks to the existence of WMV9 VCM in Windows. Ugh.
As for VLC, it needs an OPEN-SOURCE decoder. Specifically, it'll be adapting something that ffmpeg guys are doing. That team has been tackling WMV3, a.k.a. VC-1 / VC-3 / WMV9 stuff for about a year now. They put preliminary support in, what, February? Apparently, peeps have so far gotten the key frame to decode, but it freezes there.
So what I'm saying is, it's nice to donate to VLC guys, but help ffmpeg guys first.
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It's a bit of apples-to-oranges comparison. Russians do not currently operate a shuttle fleet. They launch the much smaller Soyuz / Progress vehicles, which in turn need less stringent launch conditions.
...except that the camera itself isn't impressive.
Somehow, I feel I need a 'real' digital camera that has the GPS and the map built-in instead.
Man, you really have to wonder how infinitely close to 8000 that number will go, accompanied with all those wacky suffices. Sigh...
You're thinking of 'cluster'. This is tied to the file system that is actually used on the disk. Even with the current 512-byte sector, a normal NTFS partition of, say, 200GB, uses 4KB cluster and a single file takes up a minimum of 4KB already.
Well, CD-ROMs use 2352 bytes per sector, ending up with 2048 actual bytes after error correction. Looking at the size of the HDDs these days a 4096-byte sector seems pretty reasonable.
In the future, all that Japan will have left would be Gundams... feh.
That government is overspending on military hardware? ;)
On a more serious note, Grant had his BattleBot robot and Jamie had that soda can shooting vending machine. No wonder these guys were all over that robot kit. I might need to get ahold of one of those things myself.
But does it run Linux?
/me runs for the hill of overused clich-ehs
I remember ABC TV's logo getting the Mickey ears on the day Disney acquired them. If Apple takes over Disney, I somehow envision this happening:
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~wgst60/projects/chicago
Apple's 6-button approach is effective, but it DOES miss out on the numeric buttons you see in most TV remotes, so that might pose a bit of problem when Front Row has TV function added for those who channel surf by entering channel numbers. That's about the only argument I can see making sense about the but-it-doesn't-do-TV-or-DVR excuse.
Still, the 6-button approach is better in general over 39-button one IF the buttons are assigned in a clever way. It's obvious that most of those 39 buttons only get pressed once in a while or never get used at all.
For the obligatory 'but will it run Linux?' question, here's an answer I heard:
Being a Quantum computer, it can both run Linux, and NOT run Linux at the same time.
Small company
No wonder they're developing 'nano' stuff.
The armor may survive, but will the wearer be, too?
Me, I'll just use that to serve porn wirelessly so I can watch it on my PSP in my, ah... bed.
There are at least two solutions to decoding WMV3 video stream in OS X. But you know the first one is a horrible Microsoft implementation and the other one is a licensed codec package from Flip4Mac that you have to pay. Currently, neither can't do what everyone wants... WMV3 video + MP3 audio in AVI container, which is the biting deficiency, and compounded by the fact that some anime file releases use exactly THAT format thanks to the existence of WMV9 VCM in Windows. Ugh.
As for VLC, it needs an OPEN-SOURCE decoder. Specifically, it'll be adapting something that ffmpeg guys are doing. That team has been tackling WMV3, a.k.a. VC-1 / VC-3 / WMV9 stuff for about a year now. They put preliminary support in, what, February? Apparently, peeps have so far gotten the key frame to decode, but it freezes there.
So what I'm saying is, it's nice to donate to VLC guys, but help ffmpeg guys first.