It's true, Reason could keep you busy for a long time, but to be honest, depending on how much music theory you know, you might be able to get by without a ~US$99 MIDI keyboard for input if you needed to. I mean, ultimately, a MIDI keyboard will let you noodle around and expirment until you find a melody or progression that you like, but if you're not an expert player, you'll probably find yourself sequencing the playback. All a MIDI sequencer needs is note number, timing information and velocity (volume) of each note. That can be entered in a numerical format. A lot of sequencers also have a music staff so note entry or copying something from existing sheet music becomes even easier. So if you're not absolutely comfortable playing keys in real time to a metronome, step entry of the notes via another method is just as viable and a hundred bucks cheaper.
It seems to me that the algorithm used by Gryphon's Morph was pretty straightforward. Given a first and last frame of identical dimensions, the number of seconds of animation you wanted, and how many frames per second, and it would generate all the in-between states.
Without any additional control points, this was nothing more than a crossfade between the two sources. Individual control points had a correlation on both the first and last image, so you could map important things like the point of a nose, corners of a smile, etc. With control points in place, the pixels generated for the interim states would be calculated both by what frame in the sequece they were for, and where the pixel was, radially, from the nearest control point. Obviously, the more control points, the better looking the morph.
The next thing it added was the ability to draw vectors between pairs of control points for added smoothing. Draw all around the outline of a face, the eyes, mouth etc, and you'd not only have radial calculations from the control points, but points a distance off the line as well. Not sure exactly how they did that... maybe just right angle to the vector and adjusting influence proportional to proximity.
All that said, it seems the toughest thing would be the input method for defining control points. The calculations based off RGB of individual pixels could probably be done with ImageMagick or any other comprable graphics library...
Not that I have the chops to build an application with GUI, and I'm sure the technique I just described is probably patented by someone, but it doesn't seem like the type of app that should have dropped off the face of the earth...
I just launched Morph 1.1 in Classic mode of my G4 running Jaguar. Ran just fine. The original code has a 1992 copyright on it, but it still seems to do the trick even ten years later.
I believe there may have been a 2.0 version of Morph at some point, but I never got a copy.
So what they're really saying is, "World Up-Skirt Day"...
Re:For a real challenge, try P2P-ing the database
on
Putting P2P To Work
·
· Score: 2
Well, Akamai seems to have the best handle on this. I know it's not exactly the same as P2P, but the transfer model is similar... Someone in one corner of the net wants a file, and the user is directed to the proxy server closest to them. If that server doesn't have it, it asks its neighbors, until a copy of the requested data gets passed to it. The data then gets cached at that proxy on the chance that someone else in the neighborhood might be interested as well.
Now we just need a P2P popcorn distribution system so we can watch our pirated movies with pirated snacks and drinks. Of course, the popcorn would probably be of an inferior quality (not sure how that's possible some times, but still...)
I wonder if authorities doing raids on suspected pirates are tipped off by sticky floors in the suspects apartments? Hmm....
One reason I never bought a slotloading CD player for my car was because all the mangled discs my friends had from their moblie playing. I've got too many irreplacable discs...
Did the CD have ROM content? As I've started ripping some of my collection, I've found that iTunes will mount then unmount most CDs that have ROM material on first insert, but I can usually get it back by ejecting and reinserting the disc. That's been the case with most of my Canadian discs, strangely... Sarah McLaughlan, Barenaked Ladies and The Watchmen all had extra ROM stuff that Jaguar and iTunes weren't happy with on first play...
From what I can tell, the only "assets" that PanIP has that could possibly be seized are the "licencing fees" from the few sites they've managed to strongarm so far.
To what extent is fax regulated? Is it on a national level, or on the state level? More states are starting to impose anti-SPAM laws, so this hardly seems like a revolutionary idea...
I personally find most "chat" boring and don't see the point of it. People obviously use it though, so I guess I just missed the point.
The way I see it, snail mail was a very asynchronous means of communication, while telephone was synchronous. In the former, you wait a considerable time for a reply, while in the latter, the reply was instantaneous. E-mail changed things a bit. Communication was still asynchronous, but it was also instantaneous. The potential for two people to both be logged in and having a timely exchange regardless of location was nice, yet if one party was unavailable, the message wouldn't be lost to the ether... they'd just get it next time they logged in. No per message costs were another factor, what with postage and long distance rates always a consideration.
IM straddles the line a bit more. You know when someone is online, but they may be otherwise occupied. It allows an informality... a way to exchange one-liners or anything else, without the recipient feeling they NEED to respond immediately. It's good as a background task so long as neither party is overly anxious for a reply. Less effort, and more potential for a timely response than email.
I remember Linus getting the Linux trademark back a couple of years ago. Don't know if the mark is specifically for "software" or "product" or might include "services", but it seems to me that anyone calling themselves "TV Linux Alliance" and being less than forthcoming with their standard, much less their code, may be up for a challenge.
Nowhere in the source article does it say the encoded values are of the original image. It specifically refers to an "embedded authentication message."
While your message has been modded to +5, it is, in fact, wrong.
I don't think so... I rebooted again just to test your theory and got no prompts for Keychain access.
No, I'm fairly certain there's a correlation between (certain) software updates and having to reassert my Keychain privledges. This makes sense for Security Updates but not so much for something like QuickTime.
This is something I've noticed for a while... I keep my Mac in multi-user mode so my wife can have her own prefs, but she's not Mac-literate enough to know what to do when she's challenged by the "Always Allow" alert box.
1. Requires a reboot. You'd think they'd be able to overcome that, especially for an update or patch to libraries...
2. After said restart, my first launch of Mail wants me to re-authorize Keychain to let it use my passwords to get my mail. Why would updating a QuickTime library have anything to do with my security settings?
Hobos, nomads & gypsies. You find something worthwhile, you leave a mark so that others people with your lifestyle can benefit from your find.
Re:Good God, are you Clueless?
on
WiFi Triangulation
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
You are, in fact, wrong. Wolfgang is right in his description of the relation between warchalking and wardialing. That covers the "war" aspect. The "chalking" aspect is derived from the marks hobos would use indicating safe places to sleep, houses with guard dogs to avoid, farmer's daughters to sleep with, etc... The nomadic lifestyle leaving marks for other nomads saying "hey, there's something interesting here."
Normally, then, the owner of the network would not be party to either the "war" or "chalk" methods.
Slashdot Mirror
It's true, Reason could keep you busy for a long time, but to be honest, depending on how much music theory you know, you might be able to get by without a ~US$99 MIDI keyboard for input if you needed to. I mean, ultimately, a MIDI keyboard will let you noodle around and expirment until you find a melody or progression that you like, but if you're not an expert player, you'll probably find yourself sequencing the playback. All a MIDI sequencer needs is note number, timing information and velocity (volume) of each note. That can be entered in a numerical format. A lot of sequencers also have a music staff so note entry or copying something from existing sheet music becomes even easier. So if you're not absolutely comfortable playing keys in real time to a metronome, step entry of the notes via another method is just as viable and a hundred bucks cheaper.
It seems to me that the algorithm used by Gryphon's Morph was pretty straightforward. Given a first and last frame of identical dimensions, the number of seconds of animation you wanted, and how many frames per second, and it would generate all the in-between states.
Without any additional control points, this was nothing more than a crossfade between the two sources. Individual control points had a correlation on both the first and last image, so you could map important things like the point of a nose, corners of a smile, etc. With control points in place, the pixels generated for the interim states would be calculated both by what frame in the sequece they were for, and where the pixel was, radially, from the nearest control point. Obviously, the more control points, the better looking the morph.
The next thing it added was the ability to draw vectors between pairs of control points for added smoothing. Draw all around the outline of a face, the eyes, mouth etc, and you'd not only have radial calculations from the control points, but points a distance off the line as well. Not sure exactly how they did that... maybe just right angle to the vector and adjusting influence proportional to proximity.
All that said, it seems the toughest thing would be the input method for defining control points. The calculations based off RGB of individual pixels could probably be done with ImageMagick or any other comprable graphics library...
Not that I have the chops to build an application with GUI, and I'm sure the technique I just described is probably patented by someone, but it doesn't seem like the type of app that should have dropped off the face of the earth...
I just launched Morph 1.1 in Classic mode of my G4 running Jaguar. Ran just fine. The original code has a 1992 copyright on it, but it still seems to do the trick even ten years later.
I believe there may have been a 2.0 version of Morph at some point, but I never got a copy.
Ok, so water is an element. But it wasn't funky enough to join Earth Wind & Fire, now, was it?
I was thinking you should just rent a helicopter and skywrite obscenities with your GPS tracings....
So what they're really saying is, "World Up-Skirt Day"...
Well, Akamai seems to have the best handle on this. I know it's not exactly the same as P2P, but the transfer model is similar... Someone in one corner of the net wants a file, and the user is directed to the proxy server closest to them. If that server doesn't have it, it asks its neighbors, until a copy of the requested data gets passed to it. The data then gets cached at that proxy on the chance that someone else in the neighborhood might be interested as well.
Authoring drive != CSS protection
It's just a higher quality write... all I've seen, including the one you reference, write at 1x speed.
Does it make a high quality disc? No doubt about it. But does it give consumers the content protection the studios have? No.
Now we just need a P2P popcorn distribution system so we can watch our pirated movies with pirated snacks and drinks. Of course, the popcorn would probably be of an inferior quality (not sure how that's possible some times, but still...)
I wonder if authorities doing raids on suspected pirates are tipped off by sticky floors in the suspects apartments? Hmm....
Step one: Open the control panel
Step two: Turn on Personal Web Sharing
Step three: There's no step three! There's no step three!
Apache & mod_perl are preinstalled in OS X. Sure, there are things you can do to tweak them, but you're given a hell of a head start by Apple...
One reason I never bought a slotloading CD player for my car was because all the mangled discs my friends had from their moblie playing. I've got too many irreplacable discs...
Did the CD have ROM content? As I've started ripping some of my collection, I've found that iTunes will mount then unmount most CDs that have ROM material on first insert, but I can usually get it back by ejecting and reinserting the disc. That's been the case with most of my Canadian discs, strangely... Sarah McLaughlan, Barenaked Ladies and The Watchmen all had extra ROM stuff that Jaguar and iTunes weren't happy with on first play...
From what I can tell, the only "assets" that PanIP has that could possibly be seized are the "licencing fees" from the few sites they've managed to strongarm so far.
To what extent is fax regulated? Is it on a national level, or on the state level? More states are starting to impose anti-SPAM laws, so this hardly seems like a revolutionary idea...
The way I see it, snail mail was a very asynchronous means of communication, while telephone was synchronous. In the former, you wait a considerable time for a reply, while in the latter, the reply was instantaneous. E-mail changed things a bit. Communication was still asynchronous, but it was also instantaneous. The potential for two people to both be logged in and having a timely exchange regardless of location was nice, yet if one party was unavailable, the message wouldn't be lost to the ether... they'd just get it next time they logged in. No per message costs were another factor, what with postage and long distance rates always a consideration.
IM straddles the line a bit more. You know when someone is online, but they may be otherwise occupied. It allows an informality... a way to exchange one-liners or anything else, without the recipient feeling they NEED to respond immediately. It's good as a background task so long as neither party is overly anxious for a reply. Less effort, and more potential for a timely response than email.
Just my two cents...
I remember Linus getting the Linux trademark back a couple of years ago. Don't know if the mark is specifically for "software" or "product" or might include "services", but it seems to me that anyone calling themselves "TV Linux Alliance" and being less than forthcoming with their standard, much less their code, may be up for a challenge.
You're right. The US doesn't gas its own citizens. But it supports Russia, who just did...
Nowhere in the source article does it say the encoded values are of the original image. It specifically refers to an "embedded authentication message."
While your message has been modded to +5, it is, in fact, wrong.
Line 21. It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
I don't think so... I rebooted again just to test your theory and got no prompts for Keychain access.
No, I'm fairly certain there's a correlation between (certain) software updates and having to reassert my Keychain privledges. This makes sense for Security Updates but not so much for something like QuickTime.
This is something I've noticed for a while... I keep my Mac in multi-user mode so my wife can have her own prefs, but she's not Mac-literate enough to know what to do when she's challenged by the "Always Allow" alert box.
1. Requires a reboot. You'd think they'd be able to overcome that, especially for an update or patch to libraries...
2. After said restart, my first launch of Mail wants me to re-authorize Keychain to let it use my passwords to get my mail. Why would updating a QuickTime library have anything to do with my security settings?
Sorry. The same guy patented computerized vending machines too, back in 1986...
Hobos, nomads & gypsies. You find something worthwhile, you leave a mark so that others people with your lifestyle can benefit from your find.
You are, in fact, wrong. Wolfgang is right in his description of the relation between warchalking and wardialing. That covers the "war" aspect. The "chalking" aspect is derived from the marks hobos would use indicating safe places to sleep, houses with guard dogs to avoid, farmer's daughters to sleep with, etc... The nomadic lifestyle leaving marks for other nomads saying "hey, there's something interesting here."
Normally, then, the owner of the network would not be party to either the "war" or "chalk" methods.
Ironic that this is being modded as +1 Funny, because that's actually his defense!