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by mbell 15y ago
This is not correct. "Blu-Ray" was officially released in June 2006, individual title/production house keys were cracked during 2006 and AACS was cracked at its root in the beginning of 2007. Both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD were cracked wide open
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by mbell 15y ago
HDMI is "protected" for the same reason HDCP lasted as long as it did. There was simply a more efficient way to access the data. Also, HDMI's data rate rose to ~3.56 TB/hour in the 1.3 release (circa 2006ish).
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by mbell 15y ago
I should add that this topic made me take a second look at giant squid data (what can i say, i think they are really interesting creatures). It does appear that large giant squid have been found dead but never seen alive or caught. Those
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by mbell 15y ago
Interestingly this, combined with scars is really the only way we know how big giant squid can get. The largest that has been actually observed or caught is really quite small in comparison to the sizes indicated from sperm whale data.
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by mbell 15y ago
It depends heavily on how its implemented. I use primefaces[0] for java development and find it amazingly easy to build data based sites quickly, its also very fast. It uses jQuery UI for many components so it is very easy to extend / mod
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by mbell 15y ago
Link below to their white paper, it has some more data on durability. Sounds pretty impressive and apparently it is already in use by some refrigerator companies (spillproof shelves). [0] http://www3.neverwet.com/l/4762/hite-Paper---Marine
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by mbell 15y ago
maybe i don't have experience with many other mail programs but this is what thunderbird does also, its not unique to outlook. I hate outlook because its slow (UI search and UIwise) and because its stupid enough to think that storing all i
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by mbell 15y ago
I know they are not written in Python, that comment wasn't meant to be a knock on Ruby's performance in any way. Its simply the case that writing a highly performant vectorized computation library in a language that doesn't allow direct me
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by mbell 15y ago
It's been tried before. mum, Numerical Ruby and SciRuby were all attempts. The fundamental issue I believe they all had is lack of community. There is a quite large community of folks using Python for scientific computing. Many are not p
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by mbell 15y ago
In Java 6 -Xincgc simply translates to: -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode causes more frequent, smaller pauses. It was designed for low CPU core count, small heap size applications where your willing t
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by mbell 15y ago
Its worth mentioning also that x86 64bit CPUs still use PAE, in fact they have to, its mandatory in long mode ("real 64 bit mode"). Additionally the version of PAE used in 64 bit mode is an extension of the original 32 bit PAE, adding an e
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by mbell 15y ago
Its not bank switching, its the MMU mapping the 32bit virtual address space of each process to a much larger physical address space. You are right that each process is still limited to 32 bits of virtual address space but bank switching ha
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by mbell 15y ago
Two separate issues, memory per process (which is limited to 32bits of address space) and total physical address space available to the MMU. It is similar to PAE in fact ARM calls it LPAE.
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by mbell 15y ago
The instruction architecture is irrelevant to the issue of address space. The Cortex A15 can already address up to 1TB of memory.
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by mbell 15y ago
The USA is not a Democracy (in the pure sense), it is a Democratic Republic, this is a critical difference that is missed or not understood by the majority of the populous and is critically important not only in this instance but in the gen
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by mbell 15y ago
You mean google?
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by mbell 15y ago
In theory, sure. But in practice, true DC doesn't exist. All signals will have some components at frequencies other than DC and quite often in electronics design these components are the most important to consider, especially if your plan
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by mbell 15y ago
The x86 architecture is a modified Harvard architecture where close to the CPU (L1 cache) memory is divided into 'instructions' and 'data', further from the CPU the memory is joined. L2, L3 and RAM are generally 'unified' or can contain ei
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by mbell 15y ago
If you make heavy use of your internet connection, use VPN or need more flexibility at home then I'd highly recommend pfsense [0]. Its a routing / security appliance software based on freeBSD. You an run it on almost any old machine with