Another socialist in our midst. How would regulating the communication industry help us get more bandwidth? Well if money wasn't involved and this is the perfect world... Do you really think the US government is going to make regulations that isn't in favor of communications companies when the communication industry has so much invested in lobbyists? Capitalisms does have it's advantages. It's controlled by demand instead of idiots in the federal government who don't know what the "INTERNETS" are.
So I take apart a heating blanket and plug it into the cigarette lighter in my car. Wrap the dummy with the blanket. Technology beaten. Congrats at wasting more of my tax dollars on technology we don't need.
We had all those stupid radar devices in California and now they have to rip all those out because no one wanted to be mailed a ticket. Technology is great, I'm just tired of brain dead ideas. You want people to stop driving in the car pool lane? Heres a solution... QUIT BORROWING FROM THE TRANSPORTATION FUND AND BUILD ME ANOTHER LANE. With that said I don't drive in the carpool lane illegally.
We all would like to believe in this day and age that OS's and applications do not leak memory or become unstable but the fact is that they do. I find that periodically cold-booting my computer keeps things fast and stable. When applications shutdown all memory allocated to it is freed. Memory leaks don't cause problems after the application terminates unless there is something wrong with the OS.
I think windows ME had trouble with this, but windows xp hasn't suffered from it. I just remember windows ME constantly saying I ran out of memory when I left it on too long. Only badly written programs leak memory. OSes are programs too. Windows XP suffers from problems, but memory leaks are not usually the cause.
My Linux machine doesn't leak memory and no applications running on it are leaking memory. Rebooting it is not required to keep it fast an stable. Thats all I'm going to say and hopefully I don't start another Linux vs Microsoft thing.
There was a bug in everquest II when it first came out. I don't know if it's still there. I stopped playing it. If you had a locked door and no key everyone in the party would get their characters walking in a direction and everyone would get their network to drop for a second. The funny thing was that the everquest servers would allow avatar to "drift" through door even though they were closed and locked. That didn't require ANY keyboard input. The funny thing was when the player didn't come back fast enough sometimes he would fall down a hole.
I think a lot of cheating could be solved with a little foresight from the game designers. When it comes to automated cheating devices it's easier to stump an algorithm than a human.
I don't think everyone would want to buy an intel keyboard to play a game, but if they got this thing to work then 2 conditions would have to be met for this to work. 1. Data from the hardware device would have to be sent to the server over the network. 2. Data from the hardware could not be reproduced in software.
As soon as someone figures out how the algorithm works then the product is worthless.
You don't have to trust the client if you trust the hardware, but as soon as someone figures out how the hardware is doing it then it can be reproduced in software.
It's not a matter of can the hardware can be reverse engineered? It's a matter of if someone is going to do it and how long it's going to take them. Some people consider it a challenge.
I'd feel more safe if the thing was running on linux. That being said...
Even the GPL allows linking to C libraries. The runtime does not need to be covered by the GPL. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsRu ntimeAndGPL The reasoning behind this exception would be the same reasoning for why microsoft should be able to keep their code private. Basically you have to trust the runtime, which is used by dozens of applications and has already been tested. They do realtively simple functions and don't in general govern what the program actually does. I don't think microsoft could successfully commit voting fraud simply by supplying the OS and the C libraries.
If the government can't trust microsoft then I demand that they uninstall every single microsoft product from every system(probably not a bad idea anyway).
I want to know how much coding Barbara Lifton has actually done. When will they stop making legislation about things they know nothing about?!?!?!
Vinyl is analog. Your film in your camera is analog. As the quality of digital cameras improve people have bought more digital cameras. Still, a lot of photographers still use film. The problem I have with CDs is that it's quality hasn't improved. The problem I have with MP3 is it's a lossy format. You can buy DVD audio disks with higher sample rates than CD, but the content is not there.
Transistors replace tubes. Qbits replace transistors. Transistors do the same logical job as tubes. Qbits do the same logical job as Transistors. The transistor drastically changed the way electronics were designed. I suspect Qbits will do the same thing. We still use tubes today however, so obviously there are some things that tubes do differently then transistors. When I bought my tube amp I pretty much stopped using one of my transistor amps.
Qbits, transistors and tubes behave differently, but they can do some of the same jobs. Qbits I suspect will slowly replace certain logical blocks on a semiconductor. Qbits and transistors behave differently. They will still be used for the same computational tasks.
I know mpeg. You turn up the bitrate and it looks perfect till you get that extremely complex scene(i.e. try encoding water rippling). It's the same with mp3 and AAC. It generates a psychoacoustic model that makes the mp3 sound "like" the original. The keyword is "like". The acoustics have changes and unless your ear is sensitive enough you'll never know. Mpeg really depends on what video you're watching. Complex scenes take up more bits to make the quality the same. This goes the same with mp3. In certain songs it is a lot easier to hear the distortion. For me though I accept the loss. I trade it for convienence. I'm a musician. I'd rather lisen to live music anyway.
Microsoft has made all their money striking deals with hardware manufacturers. As soon as you use a VM Microsoft loses control. What can Microsoft do that other OSes can't? I'm pretty sure more hardware is supported by windows then any other OS.
Could you imagine if all the molecules in your body suddenly lost cohesion? You'd turn into a pile of goo. Yeah all forms of energy within a local space must be teleported somehow before I'm going to volunteer to be a test subject.
What you are talking about is philosophical issue. With teleportation you no longer exists where you were and you exist where you are now, but thats true as you walk through space. I think the problem occurs when you consider the energy that makes up your matter is part of you.
Let me ask you a question. Isn't it true that your cells are constantly regenerating themselves? The matter you were made up of when you were born no longer is the same matter, but you are still you. So if your qunatum state was duplicated and during the process the original was destroyed then you would still think you are you. Would you still BE you? That just opens a whole can of worms.
The question in my mind is can quantum teleportation bring along your soul? If you don't believe in a soul you have to ask yourself a couple of questions. Are you only you because of that matter that makes you up? The matter that makes you up comes from the stuff you eat. So is the stuff you eat part of you before you eat it? Is it only you when you make food part of your cells and your body? What makes you unconfortable with the idea of your body being made up of different energy? Consider this: Your body is constantly rebuilding itself with new and different energy and disposing of the old parts. Whats the difference?
I bet most people wouldn't step into a teleportation unless the quantum state of your atoms were reconstructed with the SAME energy.
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The downside of MythTV is typically you need a spare PC lying around to get it running.
But there are plenty of upsides. It's free as long as you have the hardware. I have a plextor convertx m402u which works with mythtv. You can use supported capture card. Someone has to write a v4l driver for the device, but there are a bunch. If you have cable or antenna you can record one show per tuner device.
You'll need a linux system to run the backend, but there is a windows frontend for it. The backend saves all the shows and captures the video. The front end is where you view the video. All you do is connect to the backend with a network.
This is a lot of work to setup, but onces it's setup it gives you the freedom of having a portable DVR on your laptop connected wirelessly to a backend DVR sitting in a closet somewhere.
It's definately not for everyone.
I'm not condoning illegal activity. I'm just saying I don't think a country can put up a firewall successfully without only allowing access to very specific trusted resources.
How I think you could get around it.... My guess is they set up monitors that look for standard ways around the firewall. Write a custom proxy protocol that won't set off the government trackers. Doesn't have to be anything complicated. Just make it look benign, but I won't go into the details. Call up a friend in the U.S. who works at a company with more bandwidth you'll ever need. Use your friends computer as a proxy server. I've worked at places where my computer was left on all the time and no one questioned it. Since it's connected to a corporate internet connection it should be fast enough for anything. If both ends of a connection knows eachothers IP address typically you can punch a hole in a NAT(this is how most p2p networks work). Now you're set. The IT guy at the company won't notice anything unless you abuse your priviledge and start hogging bandwidth and the chinese government won't notice a single user connected to a corporate network using a unknown protocol.
I have my doubts about most corporate firewalls. Country firewalls...well thats just sounds rediculous.
Also, anyone know if you can get satellite internet in China? I doubt the chinese government would be able to block that.
I completely understand why the oil industry wants to hold onto its monopoly. Just wish people didn't argue the politics incessantly without offering solutions. Thats how get stuff like ethanol which isn't much better than the oil industry.
If enough people are pissed off and know about the solutions then once in a while we can get something done as a community. I for one am a proud citizen of the United States, but I'm not a fan of the oil companies. I think most Americans wouldn't mind funding a feasible alternative to oil.
Last I heard richard bussard is still looking for funding.
I bet even if he was being funded we probably wouldn't hear anything about it anyway.
It's rediculous that no one would fund $200 million to create a working fusion reactor.
Relatively thats not much money and if we could put it into our powerplants we would reduce the need for oil.
I wonder who was the person who jumped to the conclusion that the earth was flat.
Just because we can't see over the horizon doesn't mean it drops off into nothingness.
I told a girl once she didn't existed unless I was looking at her. Not the best move on my part.
On a lighter note... a flat earth sounds silly now. I wish I could be alive in like 200 years so I could know how silly our theories are today. If only they could figure out time travel and I'd be set.
It's called the Disney Channel.
Yeah I can't watch the disney channel anymore. I used to think Hilary Duff was hot when she played lizzie macquire. Now I kinda feel creepy watching reruns. Hilary Duff is actually one year younger than me. We share the same birthday.
Thats why I have a little switch on my box that automatically self destructs the hard drive if anyone tries to open or move the case. Maybe I've played too many hacker games.;-P
Americans should have the choice to watch positive news as well. currently it's whatever the news networks want to show you. How bout the all positive network on TV. Wheres that?
Have you ever seen anyone really proficient at emacs? Thats one example that would make switching a pain. Dvorak was not designed with emacs in mind. I've seen mentioned remapping game keybindings are a pain.
Letters are easy to type. It's the punctionation that slows me down. In anycase I spend more time thinking about the code I'm writing then actually writing it. Think about how many operators in C require a shift key.
I know both keyboard layouts have similar problems. I just can't wait use the excuse "If I had a faster keyboard I could write more code." Idon't think a keyboard layout would really effect the amount of code I could write and debug in a day.
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Another socialist in our midst. How would regulating the communication industry help us get more bandwidth? Well if money wasn't involved and this is the perfect world... Do you really think the US government is going to make regulations that isn't in favor of communications companies when the communication industry has so much invested in lobbyists? Capitalisms does have it's advantages. It's controlled by demand instead of idiots in the federal government who don't know what the "INTERNETS" are.
So I take apart a heating blanket and plug it into the cigarette lighter in my car. Wrap the dummy with the blanket. Technology beaten. Congrats at wasting more of my tax dollars on technology we don't need.
We had all those stupid radar devices in California and now they have to rip all those out because no one wanted to be mailed a ticket. Technology is great, I'm just tired of brain dead ideas. You want people to stop driving in the car pool lane? Heres a solution... QUIT BORROWING FROM THE TRANSPORTATION FUND AND BUILD ME ANOTHER LANE. With that said I don't drive in the carpool lane illegally.
There was a bug in everquest II when it first came out. I don't know if it's still there. I stopped playing it. If you had a locked door and no key everyone in the party would get their characters walking in a direction and everyone would get their network to drop for a second. The funny thing was that the everquest servers would allow avatar to "drift" through door even though they were closed and locked. That didn't require ANY keyboard input. The funny thing was when the player didn't come back fast enough sometimes he would fall down a hole.
I think a lot of cheating could be solved with a little foresight from the game designers. When it comes to automated cheating devices it's easier to stump an algorithm than a human.
I don't think everyone would want to buy an intel keyboard to play a game, but if they got this thing to work then 2 conditions would have to be met for this to work.
1. Data from the hardware device would have to be sent to the server over the network.
2. Data from the hardware could not be reproduced in software.
As soon as someone figures out how the algorithm works then the product is worthless.
You don't have to trust the client if you trust the hardware, but as soon as someone figures out how the hardware is doing it then it can be reproduced in software.
It's not a matter of can the hardware can be reverse engineered? It's a matter of if someone is going to do it and how long it's going to take them. Some people consider it a challenge.
AMPUTEES!!!! I consider it an invasion of privacy for the government to track where I go. Whats next RFIDS? oh wait wrong article.
I'd feel more safe if the thing was running on linux. That being said...
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Even the GPL allows linking to C libraries. The runtime does not need to be covered by the GPL.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsR
The reasoning behind this exception would be the same reasoning for why microsoft should be able to keep their code private.
Basically you have to trust the runtime, which is used by dozens of applications and has already been tested. They do realtively simple functions and don't in general govern what the program actually does. I don't think microsoft could successfully commit voting fraud simply by supplying the OS and the C libraries.
If the government can't trust microsoft then I demand that they uninstall every single microsoft product from every system(probably not a bad idea anyway).
I want to know how much coding Barbara Lifton has actually done. When will they stop making legislation about things they know nothing about?!?!?!
Vinyl is analog. Your film in your camera is analog. As the quality of digital cameras improve people have bought more digital cameras. Still, a lot of photographers still use film. The problem I have with CDs is that it's quality hasn't improved. The problem I have with MP3 is it's a lossy format. You can buy DVD audio disks with higher sample rates than CD, but the content is not there.
Anyone who would actually understand and appreciate the words that the GPL uses have probably already read it. They did a good job at dumbing it down.
Transistors replace tubes. Qbits replace transistors. Transistors do the same logical job as tubes. Qbits do the same logical job as Transistors. The transistor drastically changed the way electronics were designed. I suspect Qbits will do the same thing. We still use tubes today however, so obviously there are some things that tubes do differently then transistors. When I bought my tube amp I pretty much stopped using one of my transistor amps. Qbits, transistors and tubes behave differently, but they can do some of the same jobs. Qbits I suspect will slowly replace certain logical blocks on a semiconductor. Qbits and transistors behave differently. They will still be used for the same computational tasks.
I know mpeg. You turn up the bitrate and it looks perfect till you get that extremely complex scene(i.e. try encoding water rippling). It's the same with mp3 and AAC. It generates a psychoacoustic model that makes the mp3 sound "like" the original. The keyword is "like". The acoustics have changes and unless your ear is sensitive enough you'll never know. Mpeg really depends on what video you're watching. Complex scenes take up more bits to make the quality the same. This goes the same with mp3. In certain songs it is a lot easier to hear the distortion. For me though I accept the loss. I trade it for convienence. I'm a musician. I'd rather lisen to live music anyway.
That amazes me. How many of you clicked on that ad to make the site worth $1 million?
Wait how do they make money?
Microsoft has made all their money striking deals with hardware manufacturers. As soon as you use a VM Microsoft loses control. What can Microsoft do that other OSes can't? I'm pretty sure more hardware is supported by windows then any other OS.
Could you imagine if all the molecules in your body suddenly lost cohesion? You'd turn into a pile of goo. Yeah all forms of energy within a local space must be teleported somehow before I'm going to volunteer to be a test subject.
What you are talking about is philosophical issue. With teleportation you no longer exists where you were and you exist where you are now, but thats true as you walk through space. I think the problem occurs when you consider the energy that makes up your matter is part of you.
Let me ask you a question. Isn't it true that your cells are constantly regenerating themselves? The matter you were made up of when you were born no longer is the same matter, but you are still you. So if your qunatum state was duplicated and during the process the original was destroyed then you would still think you are you. Would you still BE you? That just opens a whole can of worms.
The question in my mind is can quantum teleportation bring along your soul? If you don't believe in a soul you have to ask yourself a couple of questions. Are you only you because of that matter that makes you up? The matter that makes you up comes from the stuff you eat. So is the stuff you eat part of you before you eat it? Is it only you when you make food part of your cells and your body? What makes you unconfortable with the idea of your body being made up of different energy? Consider this: Your body is constantly rebuilding itself with new and different energy and disposing of the old parts. Whats the difference?
I bet most people wouldn't step into a teleportation unless the quantum state of your atoms were reconstructed with the SAME energy.
The downside of MythTV is typically you need a spare PC lying around to get it running. But there are plenty of upsides. It's free as long as you have the hardware. I have a plextor convertx m402u which works with mythtv. You can use supported capture card. Someone has to write a v4l driver for the device, but there are a bunch. If you have cable or antenna you can record one show per tuner device. You'll need a linux system to run the backend, but there is a windows frontend for it. The backend saves all the shows and captures the video. The front end is where you view the video. All you do is connect to the backend with a network. This is a lot of work to setup, but onces it's setup it gives you the freedom of having a portable DVR on your laptop connected wirelessly to a backend DVR sitting in a closet somewhere. It's definately not for everyone.
I'm not condoning illegal activity. I'm just saying I don't think a country can put up a firewall successfully without only allowing access to very specific trusted resources.
How I think you could get around it....
My guess is they set up monitors that look for standard ways around the firewall. Write a custom proxy protocol that won't set off the government trackers. Doesn't have to be anything complicated. Just make it look benign, but I won't go into the details. Call up a friend in the U.S. who works at a company with more bandwidth you'll ever need. Use your friends computer as a proxy server. I've worked at places where my computer was left on all the time and no one questioned it. Since it's connected to a corporate internet connection it should be fast enough for anything. If both ends of a connection knows eachothers IP address typically you can punch a hole in a NAT(this is how most p2p networks work). Now you're set. The IT guy at the company won't notice anything unless you abuse your priviledge and start hogging bandwidth and the chinese government won't notice a single user connected to a corporate network using a unknown protocol.
I have my doubts about most corporate firewalls. Country firewalls...well thats just sounds rediculous.
Also, anyone know if you can get satellite internet in China? I doubt the chinese government would be able to block that.
I've never gotten sick from keyboards, but seriously I will never use some of my friends keyboards. Maybe I'll buy them a sealshield.
I completely understand why the oil industry wants to hold onto its monopoly. Just wish people didn't argue the politics incessantly without offering solutions. Thats how get stuff like ethanol which isn't much better than the oil industry.
If enough people are pissed off and know about the solutions then once in a while we can get something done as a community. I for one am a proud citizen of the United States, but I'm not a fan of the oil companies. I think most Americans wouldn't mind funding a feasible alternative to oil.
Last I heard richard bussard is still looking for funding. I bet even if he was being funded we probably wouldn't hear anything about it anyway. It's rediculous that no one would fund $200 million to create a working fusion reactor. Relatively thats not much money and if we could put it into our powerplants we would reduce the need for oil.
I wonder who was the person who jumped to the conclusion that the earth was flat.
Just because we can't see over the horizon doesn't mean it drops off into nothingness.
I told a girl once she didn't existed unless I was looking at her. Not the best move on my part.
On a lighter note...
a flat earth sounds silly now. I wish I could be alive in like 200 years so I could know how silly our theories are today. If only they could figure out time travel and I'd be set.
It's called the Disney Channel. Yeah I can't watch the disney channel anymore. I used to think Hilary Duff was hot when she played lizzie macquire. Now I kinda feel creepy watching reruns. Hilary Duff is actually one year younger than me. We share the same birthday.
Thats why I have a little switch on my box that automatically self destructs the hard drive if anyone tries to open or move the case. Maybe I've played too many hacker games. ;-P
Americans should have the choice to watch positive news as well. currently it's whatever the news networks want to show you. How bout the all positive network on TV. Wheres that?
Have you ever seen anyone really proficient at emacs? Thats one example that would make switching a pain. Dvorak was not designed with emacs in mind. I've seen mentioned remapping game keybindings are a pain. Letters are easy to type. It's the punctionation that slows me down. In anycase I spend more time thinking about the code I'm writing then actually writing it. Think about how many operators in C require a shift key. I know both keyboard layouts have similar problems. I just can't wait use the excuse "If I had a faster keyboard I could write more code." Idon't think a keyboard layout would really effect the amount of code I could write and debug in a day.