People paid protection money to organized crime outfits too, it really shouldn't be that surprising. Not always worth protecting your money and pride in the face of such potential troubles.
Unfortunately, the RIAA is operating under the guise of lawfulness, and has its hands in the lawmaking process. Hopefully the efforts they are going through to kill their market will cause change for the better.
There's quite a bit to reproduction of color and vision beyond just the RGB that many here are familiar with. RGB color spaces are typically device dependent (be it monitor, printer, camera, etc.), and these spaces are always restricted to a smaller subset of all possibile visible colors. We don't have singular devices that can reproduce all visible colors. There are device independent color spaces, such as CIEXYZ and CIELAB, whose origins date back to empirical results from the early 20th century. Then there is of course the direct spectral measure of light, which is a function pairing wavelengths with their respective intensities.
The color you perceive is also dependent upon the white point. There is no one color 'white', your visual system just chooses one based on the light in the environment at the time. So the white points are the colors or waveforms of light serving as reference, such as sunlight or lightbulb light. The practical effect of this is that something with the same color waveform will appear to be a different color depending upon the effects of the other illumination reaching the eye and brain. For example, an object sitting next to a lamp visible through a window will have different apparent color if you switch between looking at it through the window and looking at it sitting next to it inside.
Professional photographers and camera and printer manufacturers know about this sort of stuff and have to deal with it as it affects the quality of their work. As for modeling of these effects, I know that it takes place since I have done some work doing so. What I worked on didn't deal much with the physical or biological aspects of vision, just dealing with the issues of the limitations of the gamuts of devices.
You have to qualify 'too expensive' better, since the power situation is a lot more complicated than that.
For example, the biggest problem with wind and solar is that they are unreliable. Supply and demand for electricity have to match instanteously, which can be sort of hard to do if a large portion of your power supply has random output depending upon weather.
In general, initial capital costs tend to be steep enough to discourage or even prevent entry into the power market. A lot of older, less efficient and dirtier power plants are still used simply because they have been paid off.
And yes, transmission and infrastructure is a big issue as well, as you noted.
Let me say what I believe he is saying.
First step, the spammers decide on some penny stock(s), and buy up a good amount of it with 'real' accounts. Then, they go to compromised brokerage accounts which have someone's portfolio in them, and liquidate it (or set it to be liquidated in the near future). They don't cash out the money from selling those assets, but instead set the account to purchase large amounts of the penny stock in the future. Then they shoot off spam to increase the volume and price of the penny stock, and sell off their holdings to it while the compromised accounts buy it at inflated prices. So in the end the spammers have profits from turning the stock in their accounts, while the compromised accounts are sitting on a big pile of now worthless dumped penny stocks.
It's a pretty cunning scheme, since they never attempt to directly extract the money from the compromised accounts and they mask their efforts in their real accounts by inflating trading volume.
The SEC shutting down trades could help deal with this by preventing the compromised accounts from sucking up the large quantities of pumped stocks, giving more time for the account holders to realize that they have been compromised. However, they would need to be very quick on it, and it does have the potential for denial of service on stocks.
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People paid protection money to organized crime outfits too, it really shouldn't be that surprising. Not always worth protecting your money and pride in the face of such potential troubles.
Unfortunately, the RIAA is operating under the guise of lawfulness, and has its hands in the lawmaking process. Hopefully the efforts they are going through to kill their market will cause change for the better.
There's quite a bit to reproduction of color and vision beyond just the RGB that many here are familiar with. RGB color spaces are typically device dependent (be it monitor, printer, camera, etc.), and these spaces are always restricted to a smaller subset of all possibile visible colors. We don't have singular devices that can reproduce all visible colors. There are device independent color spaces, such as CIEXYZ and CIELAB, whose origins date back to empirical results from the early 20th century. Then there is of course the direct spectral measure of light, which is a function pairing wavelengths with their respective intensities. The color you perceive is also dependent upon the white point. There is no one color 'white', your visual system just chooses one based on the light in the environment at the time. So the white points are the colors or waveforms of light serving as reference, such as sunlight or lightbulb light. The practical effect of this is that something with the same color waveform will appear to be a different color depending upon the effects of the other illumination reaching the eye and brain. For example, an object sitting next to a lamp visible through a window will have different apparent color if you switch between looking at it through the window and looking at it sitting next to it inside. Professional photographers and camera and printer manufacturers know about this sort of stuff and have to deal with it as it affects the quality of their work. As for modeling of these effects, I know that it takes place since I have done some work doing so. What I worked on didn't deal much with the physical or biological aspects of vision, just dealing with the issues of the limitations of the gamuts of devices.
How long until they start suing dead people? ...
They haven't sued dead people, have they?
You have to qualify 'too expensive' better, since the power situation is a lot more complicated than that.
For example, the biggest problem with wind and solar is that they are unreliable. Supply and demand for electricity have to match instanteously, which can be sort of hard to do if a large portion of your power supply has random output depending upon weather.
In general, initial capital costs tend to be steep enough to discourage or even prevent entry into the power market. A lot of older, less efficient and dirtier power plants are still used simply because they have been paid off.
And yes, transmission and infrastructure is a big issue as well, as you noted.
Let me say what I believe he is saying. First step, the spammers decide on some penny stock(s), and buy up a good amount of it with 'real' accounts. Then, they go to compromised brokerage accounts which have someone's portfolio in them, and liquidate it (or set it to be liquidated in the near future). They don't cash out the money from selling those assets, but instead set the account to purchase large amounts of the penny stock in the future. Then they shoot off spam to increase the volume and price of the penny stock, and sell off their holdings to it while the compromised accounts buy it at inflated prices. So in the end the spammers have profits from turning the stock in their accounts, while the compromised accounts are sitting on a big pile of now worthless dumped penny stocks. It's a pretty cunning scheme, since they never attempt to directly extract the money from the compromised accounts and they mask their efforts in their real accounts by inflating trading volume. The SEC shutting down trades could help deal with this by preventing the compromised accounts from sucking up the large quantities of pumped stocks, giving more time for the account holders to realize that they have been compromised. However, they would need to be very quick on it, and it does have the potential for denial of service on stocks.