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The Internet no more

Posted 2004-08-31 (火) 午後11:43 by terra

Interesting piece of news. According to this article, the ‘Internet’ will no longer need to be spelt in this manner:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64596,00.html

For years, I’d been capitalising ‘Internet’ and the ‘Web’ because it always felt appropriate to do so. Techno jargon always seems so cool when capitalised.

Now with the net nearly synonymous with the personal computer, which in turn is as pervasive in the household as the television, the change in spelling is the milestole of a change in times where higher technology has become a lifestyle.

Subjects: Technology 技術

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: internet, jargon

Space Elevator

Posted 2004-07-02 (金) 午後7:21 by terra

Arthur C. Clarke’s one of my top 5 favourite sci-fi authors, and my favourite book from him would have to be . Set in both imaginary past and the not-too-distant future, it is the tale of two visionaries, a king and an engineer, who envision and put to science fiction reality, the towers of babylon.

And we are now a further step away from this being a mere dream if Bradley Edwards, Director of Research for the Institute for Scientific Research, is to come closer to realising his vision.

An article two years ago that I read from SPACE.com, “The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality”; and its follow-up just a few days ago, “Space Elevator: Momentum Building”.

Subjects: Books 書物, Technology 技術

Mood: Philosophical Musings

Tags: Arthur C. Clarke, physics, science fiction, space elevator

Merging Matroska S_VOBSUB

Posted 2004-06-17 (木) 午前3:09 by terra

Goal:

Join 2 separate MKV files that are part of one movie.

Problem:

The MKV files contain S_VOBSUB streams that are zlib compressed. S_VOBSUB cannot be extracted with mkvextract, nor can be manipulated with VirtualDubMod or AVI-MUX Gui.

Tools Used:

  1. AVI-MUX Gui;
  2. Matroska Stream Editor;
  3. MKVMerge.

Assumption:

Let’s call the 1st MKV file A and the 2nd B

Step 1:

Remux A into a new MKV file, removing zlib compression for S_VOBSUB stream. Let’s call this new MKV file A_VOBSUBdecomp.
Repeat with B. The new MKV file is B_VOBSUBdecomp.

Step 2:

Remux A into another MKV file, this time removing S_VOBSUB stream completely. This new MKV file is A_noVOBSUB.
Repeat with B. This new file is B_noVOBSUB.

Subjects: Technology 技術

Tags: matroska

Precision Engineering

Posted 2004-02-17 (火) 午後1:57 by terra

2 simply amazing minutes.

Subjects: Technology 技術

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: animation, Honda

Visions of Dystopia

Posted 2002-03-21 (木) 午後10:07 by terra

I have visions of dystopia.

While I was publishing the Kenshin post, I thought about the New Media Art tutorial that I attended today. If the world of the future proves to be similar to the concepts the artist Stellarc proposed in his writings and artworks, I think I’ll be happy not to live in that future.

This essay of fiction exemplifies the reasons for the position I adopt, in a way I don’t think I can better. And I’m pretty sure you might have read this before if you had access to the Internet before the start of this millennium.

Subjects: Technology 技術

Mood: Philosophical Musings

Tags: Kenshin 剣心, Matrix, new media, vision