Absolutely! Normal printers manage to print at 600 dpi and there is a clear difference between text printed with that resolution and 300 dpi or even 150 dpi, which even that is higher than most LCD screens. The difference in readability is enormous. Imagine seeing the Times font look as crisp and readable on screen as on paper! Or not having to use stupid tricks like subpixel rendering to make fonts look good.
I can't wait for the day this technology becomes mainstream.
Google isn't doing anything out of the goodness of their heart. They want to become the middleman between the viewer and the networks so that they can get a slice of the advertising pie. The networks have their own streaming sites, or are in the process of implementing them. They don't want or need Google as their middleman because it costs them money.
No, they would just setup hotlink protection and deny all requests originating from GoogleTV's website. The only reliable way to circumvent that would be for Google to download all the video streams and host them on their own hardware. But then they would be committing copyright infringement, which is illegal.
The file in the torrent is a 355mb csv file with 4437707 rows. And neither Open Office or Gnumeric can open it. They just chug away forever and ever taking more and more memory (up to 3.7gb atm). I wonder if anyone using any other spreadsheet application has more luck... It shouldn't be that damn hard loading a 355mb csv file.
Word has lots of features yes. But it is not slow or more unresponsive when compared to other office suites. OpenOffice always loads much slower than MS Office for me on similar hardware. MS Word's speed is on par with Abiword, although the former has many more features. Excel on par with Gnumeric, OpenOffice Calc is the slowest one by a margin. The reason may be that Windows preloads the libraries MS Office uses and therefore gets a speed advantage. Never the less, the end result is a better user experience.
Not a very novel idea. Go watch a childrens show and you will see as many "targeted" ads for the latest video games as you want. Or see a soap opera and see commercials for... soap!
Im so sorry it is all my fault. I am unionized scum with way to high salary and pensions. It's people like me, we hold employers everywhere by the balls and we can dictate exactly the terms of our employment. Oh, and I also only work two hours per week or less cause I dont feel like working hard.
My router too. But the ISP redirects all traffic to their customer page unless I login and authorize that MAC address. Your MAC randomization would just cause a lot of trouble and would not circumvent their system.
Absolutely. I never claimed that ISP:s mapped IP addresses directly to customer subscriptions! However, many ISP:s keep track of the MAC addresses of the devices that connects. Using that information, they can fairly easily look up the IP address in the DHCP logs, find the MAC address and from that find out the subscribers identity.
The technology already exists for the ISP to resolve an IP address to a specific customer. How else would they be able to disable your access if you stop paying your internet bills? Blaming it on the technology being to hard and to costly is just weak. Whether it is a good idea to have private companies divulge private information about their customers to other private companies without going through the judicial process or not, is a different question altogether.
It is likely that the leak originates from an employee that works for the company in question. Now, how does the company prevent leaks from happening in the future?
1. Surveillance systems.
2. More surveillance systems.
3. Even more surveillance systems.
But leaks still occur, what to do?
1. More surveillance!
Do you honestly think it is beneficial for anyone for companies to treat their employees as criminals?
Youtube already has an audio recognition system. That is how it can recognize that the sound comes from a specific song and show you in-video advertising for it. They could just as easily use that system to filter out copyright violations. A similar system could be used to filter video content. Remember, not every video needs to be analyzed, just those that are "copyright violation popular." Most youtube clips get a few hundred clips at most, those that contain copyrighted material gets tens of thousands in a few days.
For proof of the feasability of this idea, try uploading porn to Youtube. It is removed almost instantly without you having to send any DCMA takedown notices. Likely because Youtube already has some content analyzing system tailored to recognize porn.
You can also refine the search using fuzzy string matching and compare it to a database of copyrighted titles. E.g. if the clip is called "First episode of My Fat Famly" a simple string matching algorithm would produce a match on a tv series named "Secret Lives of my Fat Family."
The "it can't be done card" doesn't apply when you're talking about Google and their huge infrastructure. Oh, and if any google employees are reading this, you should employ me. Pay me a million dollars and I'll provide a prototype for this amazing content filtering system in no time!
Congratulations to all the Postgres developers and a big thank you from me for an amazing job! Postgres is a wonderful RDBMS and one of the best free software projects there is. Rock on!
Not true. The word diaspora has been used for many different refugee flights and emigrations even before the Romans threw the Jews out of Palestine. Which you can find out for yourself if you read the right Wikipedia article.
What I'm more interested in is why anyone from a country in the Western World would want to immigrate to the US in the first place. Maybe he is sick of 3g phones, secular educated people, vacations longer than two days and 100 mbit internet connections.
Since when does publishers have to get OK from the government on what to print? The freedom of the press guarantees that the government will not interfere in publishers work. Then, if, after the fact, they find that something libelous or damaging has been printed, they can take action. But not before that. That is censorship.
Other oil? Not so sure. Russians have always been operating a policy of "use 1, save 1". They have a considerable state reserve, so does USA in Alaska.
Estimates say there are 10 billion barrels of oil in Alaska. The US consumes about 20 million barrels per day. So all the oil up there will only be good for about 500 days or one and a half year. The point is that the oil will run out whether the Alaskan oil fields are exploited or not. Delaying the inevitable with, at best, 1.5 years is hardly worth the effort.
While true, from the German perspective, the western front was basically a vacation resort. Exhausted and demoralized platoons were used there because most of the strength was needed on the eastern front. Something like 75% of all German forces were concentrated there.
There are quite a few actresses who operates their own paysites. If people download free porn *instead of* subscribing to their sites, then obviously that hurts their bottom line. Many porn actresses also do escort work on the side, maybe because recording movies doesn't pay enough, to support their coke addiction or just because it is funny, I don't know. The fees for one hour with Jill Kelly or Nina Hartley, two of the absolute top names, is about $1000/hour. Wicked Pictures made a revenue of merely 2.6 million in 2008. Hardly a lot of money in the grand scheme of things, I'd say.
Really, if you believe there are people "much richer than they deserve to be" in porn, you dont know what you're talking about.
I seriously don't understand why anyone would pay any respect to US soldiers. They are voluntarily risking their own lives while travelling halfway cross the world to kill people that never harmed them in any way. Each of them that dies, had it coming and had a death that was unnecessary and totally avoidable. Parents of servicemen on tour probably ought to take a good look on themselves and figure out how they could fail so horribly as parents that their child became a state-sponsored murderer. It deserves no respect what so ever.
Then the Democrats could have just threatened to filibuster the proposal to remove the filibuster option, couldn't they? They failed to stop the Republican proposals and now they fail to get their own through? What losers.
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Absolutely! Normal printers manage to print at 600 dpi and there is a clear difference between text printed with that resolution and 300 dpi or even 150 dpi, which even that is higher than most LCD screens. The difference in readability is enormous. Imagine seeing the Times font look as crisp and readable on screen as on paper! Or not having to use stupid tricks like subpixel rendering to make fonts look good.
I can't wait for the day this technology becomes mainstream.
If you think those statements are SIMPLE, then you ought to try implementing a chatbot yourself. :)
Google isn't doing anything out of the goodness of their heart. They want to become the middleman between the viewer and the networks so that they can get a slice of the advertising pie. The networks have their own streaming sites, or are in the process of implementing them. They don't want or need Google as their middleman because it costs them money.
No, they would just setup hotlink protection and deny all requests originating from GoogleTV's website. The only reliable way to circumvent that would be for Google to download all the video streams and host them on their own hardware. But then they would be committing copyright infringement, which is illegal.
The file in the torrent is a 355mb csv file with 4437707 rows. And neither Open Office or Gnumeric can open it. They just chug away forever and ever taking more and more memory (up to 3.7gb atm). I wonder if anyone using any other spreadsheet application has more luck... It shouldn't be that damn hard loading a 355mb csv file.
Word has lots of features yes. But it is not slow or more unresponsive when compared to other office suites. OpenOffice always loads much slower than MS Office for me on similar hardware. MS Word's speed is on par with Abiword, although the former has many more features. Excel on par with Gnumeric, OpenOffice Calc is the slowest one by a margin. The reason may be that Windows preloads the libraries MS Office uses and therefore gets a speed advantage. Never the less, the end result is a better user experience.
On the other hand, you'll also lose subpixel rendering which does have a big impact on reading.
Not a very novel idea. Go watch a childrens show and you will see as many "targeted" ads for the latest video games as you want. Or see a soap opera and see commercials for... soap!
Im so sorry it is all my fault. I am unionized scum with way to high salary and pensions. It's people like me, we hold employers everywhere by the balls and we can dictate exactly the terms of our employment. Oh, and I also only work two hours per week or less cause I dont feel like working hard.
My router too. But the ISP redirects all traffic to their customer page unless I login and authorize that MAC address. Your MAC randomization would just cause a lot of trouble and would not circumvent their system.
Absolutely. I never claimed that ISP:s mapped IP addresses directly to customer subscriptions! However, many ISP:s keep track of the MAC addresses of the devices that connects. Using that information, they can fairly easily look up the IP address in the DHCP logs, find the MAC address and from that find out the subscribers identity.
The technology already exists for the ISP to resolve an IP address to a specific customer. How else would they be able to disable your access if you stop paying your internet bills? Blaming it on the technology being to hard and to costly is just weak. Whether it is a good idea to have private companies divulge private information about their customers to other private companies without going through the judicial process or not, is a different question altogether.
It is likely that the leak originates from an employee that works for the company in question. Now, how does the company prevent leaks from happening in the future?
1. Surveillance systems.
2. More surveillance systems.
3. Even more surveillance systems.
But leaks still occur, what to do?
1. More surveillance!
Do you honestly think it is beneficial for anyone for companies to treat their employees as criminals?
Youtube already has an audio recognition system. That is how it can recognize that the sound comes from a specific song and show you in-video advertising for it. They could just as easily use that system to filter out copyright violations. A similar system could be used to filter video content. Remember, not every video needs to be analyzed, just those that are "copyright violation popular." Most youtube clips get a few hundred clips at most, those that contain copyrighted material gets tens of thousands in a few days.
For proof of the feasability of this idea, try uploading porn to Youtube. It is removed almost instantly without you having to send any DCMA takedown notices. Likely because Youtube already has some content analyzing system tailored to recognize porn.
You can also refine the search using fuzzy string matching and compare it to a database of copyrighted titles. E.g. if the clip is called "First episode of My Fat Famly" a simple string matching algorithm would produce a match on a tv series named "Secret Lives of my Fat Family."
The "it can't be done card" doesn't apply when you're talking about Google and their huge infrastructure. Oh, and if any google employees are reading this, you should employ me. Pay me a million dollars and I'll provide a prototype for this amazing content filtering system in no time!
Congratulations to all the Postgres developers and a big thank you from me for an amazing job! Postgres is a wonderful RDBMS and one of the best free software projects there is. Rock on!
Not true. The word diaspora has been used for many different refugee flights and emigrations even before the Romans threw the Jews out of Palestine. Which you can find out for yourself if you read the right Wikipedia article.
What I'm more interested in is why anyone from a country in the Western World would want to immigrate to the US in the first place. Maybe he is sick of 3g phones, secular educated people, vacations longer than two days and 100 mbit internet connections.
It's quite possible that he can't watch it at home so he has to use the governments computer to get his "porn fixes."
Sounds like an excellent plan!
Since when does publishers have to get OK from the government on what to print? The freedom of the press guarantees that the government will not interfere in publishers work. Then, if, after the fact, they find that something libelous or damaging has been printed, they can take action. But not before that. That is censorship.
Estimates say there are 10 billion barrels of oil in Alaska. The US consumes about 20 million barrels per day. So all the oil up there will only be good for about 500 days or one and a half year. The point is that the oil will run out whether the Alaskan oil fields are exploited or not. Delaying the inevitable with, at best, 1.5 years is hardly worth the effort.
While true, from the German perspective, the western front was basically a vacation resort. Exhausted and demoralized platoons were used there because most of the strength was needed on the eastern front. Something like 75% of all German forces were concentrated there.
There are quite a few actresses who operates their own paysites. If people download free porn *instead of* subscribing to their sites, then obviously that hurts their bottom line. Many porn actresses also do escort work on the side, maybe because recording movies doesn't pay enough, to support their coke addiction or just because it is funny, I don't know. The fees for one hour with Jill Kelly or Nina Hartley, two of the absolute top names, is about $1000/hour. Wicked Pictures made a revenue of merely 2.6 million in 2008. Hardly a lot of money in the grand scheme of things, I'd say.
Really, if you believe there are people "much richer than they deserve to be" in porn, you dont know what you're talking about.
I seriously don't understand why anyone would pay any respect to US soldiers. They are voluntarily risking their own lives while travelling halfway cross the world to kill people that never harmed them in any way. Each of them that dies, had it coming and had a death that was unnecessary and totally avoidable. Parents of servicemen on tour probably ought to take a good look on themselves and figure out how they could fail so horribly as parents that their child became a state-sponsored murderer. It deserves no respect what so ever.
Then the Democrats could have just threatened to filibuster the proposal to remove the filibuster option, couldn't they? They failed to stop the Republican proposals and now they fail to get their own through? What losers.