Agreed. If you sort by seeders, you probably get something more like 1% "fake". But if you just randomly download material, it's probably higher (though 50% seems high, even for random downloading.)
It's because the book-scanning process is completely automated.
I doubt it, it is not exactly hard to get a book that is at a rather fixed distance into focus. Anyway, the reason why the fonts are blurry isn't the focus to begin with, the images that Google shows are simply extremely low resolution. Why they are in such a low resolution I have no idea.
Imagine the storage required for that many hi-res images when low-res works well enough. That's why.
I couldn't agree more. A big asteroid impact would also likely be out of our hands in terms of prevention...but a small impact could still devastate a city, and we could actually deflect it. This has "distributed computing project" written all over it.
Obviously it depends on detection time. If we detect the asteroid years ahead of time, then even tiny changes in course will save us from impact. This could be done by simply crashing a small probe into it...something we've done successfully on more than one occasion. But, if we don't detect it until it's nearly on top of us then it may well be beyond our ability to do it.
Therefore, the obvious solution is to increase detection technology.
Who lives in a Universe near M33
"Milky Way SquareGalaxy"
Full of main sequence stars are we
"Milky Way SquareGalaxy"
If M class planets be something you wish
"Milky Way SquareGalaxy"
Then take a trip to our galactic dish
"Milky Way SquareGalaxy"
READY
"Milky Way SquareGalaxy"
"Milky Way SquareGalaxy"
"Milky Way SquareGalaxeeeeeeeeee"
IANAP, but if I remember correctly, Hawking first asserted that information was lost via Hawking Radiation but then retracted. I would be curious to see if radiation somehow gave information about the incoming light.
Gee...I never thought of that. Now, just tell me which God I should worship so as to avoid my eternal suffering and I'll get right on that.
Pascal's Wager is hundreds of years old and makes even less sense now than it did then. Not believing is just as safe a wager as believing in the "wrong" God.
I am a teacher, and so I know this first hand: poorly designed rules result in poorly designed products.
If smartphone apps are no good, then prohibit them. This has nothing to do with the designers or the idea of using a contest to design good software. This is about redesigning the rules to get what you actually want.
This may prove to be one of the most important stories of the 21st century...the opening of space (beyond LEO) to commerce and industry and (hopefully) colonization.
I wish the post was true...but sadly it is not. Yes, linux is free but people will still spend money to get a "package deal" (i.e. a pre-installed system done by somebody who knows his or her stuff). Same thing with Google...anybody could write Google Docs, if anybody had years of training and a huge team of designers, etc. It's easier for people to just use Google Docs and "pay" by reading the advertising and giving Google access to their data.
In the case of movies and music, though, there's very little parallel here. I don't want somebody's "package deal" of Star Trek...I want the opposite of that (i.e. a file that I can do whatever I want with). I'd be more likely to pay for the software that allows me to easily transform my digital copy of a movie to the format I want to watch it in than I would be to pay for the content of the movie. The "new scarcity" doesn't exist in this case. And until people can figure out a way to get people to pay for a movie that hasn't even been filmed yet (good luck with that), I think the MAFIAA is likely to continue its quest to stamp out all forms of entertainment that don't involve them gouging the crap out of customers.
I call bullshit.
Rather than be a sterilizer, wouldn't it be easier to be a "galaxy police". Why spend the energy to annihilate a fledgling species when you could send a message that says "Hey...be nice...or we'll sterilize you."
+1 insightful for the word "multiple".
NASA has to be a jack-of-all-trades for space travel right now. Ideally, there would be companies that specialized in various aspects of space travel: Human transport, delicate cargo, rugged cargo, etc. We use different companies for different related services all the time because those companies can optimize for their particular niche (UPS vs. FedEx vs. DHL vs. USPS, etc.) A similar approach should be used for space flight.
I agree with you on this one. The current system is a mismanaged hodgepodge of bureaucracy and regulation. The new plan would be a mismanaged hodgepodge of bureaucracy and regulation. The real question is whether this new system will be marginally better or marginally cheaper than what we currently have. I think one of those two things is probably the best we can hope for.
I don't think that's right. The small object connected to the resonator is probably a BEC, but I don't think the whole device is. I think that's what makes this amazing...the attached device is not a BEC but displays the properties of one on a macro scale.
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Agreed. If you sort by seeders, you probably get something more like 1% "fake". But if you just randomly download material, it's probably higher (though 50% seems high, even for random downloading.)
Oh if only I had some mod points. THIS sums up perfectly what is wrong with DRM / closed products and why "piracy" fluorishes.
Apparently not accepted for humans in captivity...good news for those of you still living in mom's basement.
We used to want more freedom...but then we declared the 'war on freedom'. It's been a great success!
Do the editor stop check for subject verb agreement? Me am curious.
I second the Google Docs idea. Not open, but exportable to ODF, doc, and PDF and getting much better lately.
It's because the book-scanning process is completely automated.
I doubt it, it is not exactly hard to get a book that is at a rather fixed distance into focus. Anyway, the reason why the fonts are blurry isn't the focus to begin with, the images that Google shows are simply extremely low resolution. Why they are in such a low resolution I have no idea.
Imagine the storage required for that many hi-res images when low-res works well enough. That's why.
I couldn't agree more. A big asteroid impact would also likely be out of our hands in terms of prevention...but a small impact could still devastate a city, and we could actually deflect it. This has "distributed computing project" written all over it.
Obviously it depends on detection time. If we detect the asteroid years ahead of time, then even tiny changes in course will save us from impact. This could be done by simply crashing a small probe into it...something we've done successfully on more than one occasion. But, if we don't detect it until it's nearly on top of us then it may well be beyond our ability to do it. Therefore, the obvious solution is to increase detection technology.
Who lives in a Universe near M33 "Milky Way SquareGalaxy" Full of main sequence stars are we "Milky Way SquareGalaxy" If M class planets be something you wish "Milky Way SquareGalaxy" Then take a trip to our galactic dish "Milky Way SquareGalaxy" READY "Milky Way SquareGalaxy" "Milky Way SquareGalaxy" "Milky Way SquareGalaxeeeeeeeeee"
IANAP, but if I remember correctly, Hawking first asserted that information was lost via Hawking Radiation but then retracted. I would be curious to see if radiation somehow gave information about the incoming light.
It seems like this tech would be useful for assembling circuits or computer chips.
Gee...I never thought of that. Now, just tell me which God I should worship so as to avoid my eternal suffering and I'll get right on that. Pascal's Wager is hundreds of years old and makes even less sense now than it did then. Not believing is just as safe a wager as believing in the "wrong" God.
That is actually what the authors call their idea. 'nuff said.
I am a teacher, and so I know this first hand: poorly designed rules result in poorly designed products. If smartphone apps are no good, then prohibit them. This has nothing to do with the designers or the idea of using a contest to design good software. This is about redesigning the rules to get what you actually want.
SHUT UP, WESLEY!
I count I, II, III, IV, V...
This may prove to be one of the most important stories of the 21st century...the opening of space (beyond LEO) to commerce and industry and (hopefully) colonization.
I for one welcome our ugly, arthritic, inexpensive-by-asimo-standards overlords.
I wish the post was true...but sadly it is not. Yes, linux is free but people will still spend money to get a "package deal" (i.e. a pre-installed system done by somebody who knows his or her stuff). Same thing with Google...anybody could write Google Docs, if anybody had years of training and a huge team of designers, etc. It's easier for people to just use Google Docs and "pay" by reading the advertising and giving Google access to their data. In the case of movies and music, though, there's very little parallel here. I don't want somebody's "package deal" of Star Trek...I want the opposite of that (i.e. a file that I can do whatever I want with). I'd be more likely to pay for the software that allows me to easily transform my digital copy of a movie to the format I want to watch it in than I would be to pay for the content of the movie. The "new scarcity" doesn't exist in this case. And until people can figure out a way to get people to pay for a movie that hasn't even been filmed yet (good luck with that), I think the MAFIAA is likely to continue its quest to stamp out all forms of entertainment that don't involve them gouging the crap out of customers.
I call bullshit. Rather than be a sterilizer, wouldn't it be easier to be a "galaxy police". Why spend the energy to annihilate a fledgling species when you could send a message that says "Hey...be nice...or we'll sterilize you."
+1 insightful for the word "multiple". NASA has to be a jack-of-all-trades for space travel right now. Ideally, there would be companies that specialized in various aspects of space travel: Human transport, delicate cargo, rugged cargo, etc. We use different companies for different related services all the time because those companies can optimize for their particular niche (UPS vs. FedEx vs. DHL vs. USPS, etc.) A similar approach should be used for space flight.
I agree with you on this one. The current system is a mismanaged hodgepodge of bureaucracy and regulation. The new plan would be a mismanaged hodgepodge of bureaucracy and regulation. The real question is whether this new system will be marginally better or marginally cheaper than what we currently have. I think one of those two things is probably the best we can hope for.
I don't think that's right. The small object connected to the resonator is probably a BEC, but I don't think the whole device is. I think that's what makes this amazing...the attached device is not a BEC but displays the properties of one on a macro scale.
I use Google Docs for this rather successfully. It is also real time, centralized, browser based, and has excellent revision history tools.