Written in 1969: "... it would be impossible to grasp the total content of an image with the information content of an ordinary photograph, say 10^8 bits, in the fraction of a second which a flash occupies."
Assuming uncompressed 24-bit color bmp:
100,000,000 / 24 = 4,166,666 pixels
So, mentally, he was shooting with a 4.2 megapixel camera
100,000,000 bits / 8 = 12,500,000 bytes
1.25e7 / 1024 = 12207
12207 / 1024 = 11.92
11.92 MB file
He doesn't state what fraction of a second this "flash" occupies, but let's assume that it is about 1/3rd of a second. So, he's pegging the bandwidth of human visual perception at less than 12MB/flash, or 12MB/(1/3 / sec), or 36MB/sec.
Friends of mine asked me to look at a new Vista machine they bought awhile ago. It ran so slow they thought it was already infected with viruses and malware. Adding RAM helped, but that Sempron will never run Vista without crying for mercy. They got so sick of it they actually bought another computer, this time with a Core Duo and at least 2-3 gigs RAM. It manages to run Vista okay.
To put in a way that slashdotters may understand, it is like an article featuring a new sports car that does not let us peek under the hood at the shiny pink engine.
Or it might make a sizable segment of the user base irate enough to organize legal resistance, obtain and use alternative software where possible, and generally make the BSA's existence hell. See: RIAA.
I know that these suited thugs don't really understand good PR, but bankrupting an individual over a pirated copy of Windows or two is like clubbing baby seals on TV. I doesn't matter if you are entitled to or not. It still looks bad and pisses off people who didn't care before.
And before someone gives me a great big "whoosh", yeah, I get the tongue-in-cheek nature of the parent's comment. My point is that they know that getting their song in contact with new ears for free is the only way to make big money in recorded music, and they have historically stopped at nothing to control the distribution channel by which that "free" music is delivered, ie radio. IMHO, "pirated" downloads do not represent a direct threat to sales as much as they represent a threat to big labels' ability to control the "free" music distribution channel.
An event that will be remembered forever in the History of Humanity as the day in which a million dorks were finally able to put themselves in X-rated positions with Megan Fox.
Many with decent Photoshop skills already can, this just lets millions more into the club without the need for a little know-how.
On a serious note, if this just outputs a flat.bmp, or.jpg, I just give it a "cool and fun, but not really useful". If this thing can output a.psd or.xcf with each element on a discrete layer, that would be excellent.
Yeah, in my world view, and judging from your post yours as well, a significant portion of the US electorate is in fact totally batshit, "omg the commies are coming" insane.
Hmm. This seems like a polarized, self-centric world view, different perhaps in ideals than GWB and many of his supporters, but similar in its defensive, insular nature and inability (or unwillingness) to share or understand another's perspective. Was the irony intentional?
Are you really surprised that a country with a different constitution than yours, a different mishmash of social perspectives and history than yours, representing a different set of interests than you, and having a few different in social values than your own, might elect such a leader because he is the best of the available choices at the time?
As far as the GP's question, no, there isn't going to be a civil war over healthcare. He was pointing out that it is a contentious issue, and that not all US citizens like Obama, or like him as much as the rest of the world does, or thinks we should.
And while your fake crime is ringing up the false positives, the real criminals will be doing what they do best - making street crime invisible to the cameras. A subtle pickpocket in a crowd won't be easily solved this way. An assault at the periphery of a camera's range by a hooded thug won't result in an arrest. But I'll bet they catch a whole lot more dogs pooping illegally than they ever have.
The senior researcher's profile said he was: "Working in high security department [emphasis mine] for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and longterm projects. Research & Development projects including 128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan. Forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP and IBM."
My first reaction was that if you can't fix the security problems in the people, you surely can't expect to fix the security problems in the software. But that might be a little hasty.
My guess is that the actual security gaffe here was little or nothing. He mentioned he worked in this department, and that they have future plans that exceed today's capabilities. Meh. So what. If he had posted the details of what he was doing, then it would have been newsworthy. As it is, this barely notable. Any one of us here could probably guess that MS likely has people looking into the progression beyond 64 bit technology.
It is reasonable to believe that at some point in the next several years the hardware companies he mentions will have some plan to start building 128 bit cpus. My guess is that this guy's job is to make sure that MS has input into the design process where it can, and to provide feedback to the MS dev teams so MS can start planning to include compatibility features relatively early on, to hopefully be the OS of choice when this hardware someday becomes available. I'm guessing that Windows 8 probably won't be seen for a long time. The article mentions 2012, but given MS's rush to push out 7 to stem the bleeding caused by Vista they may rely on it for longer than normal, much like they did with XP after the ME debacle. If I were writing an OS that would likely debut in 4 to 8 years, I would probably want a heads up from the hardware vendors about how to write an OS for their next gen proc. Also, if MS were planning a future move to a fully 128-bit OS, they might start by inserting 128-bit code into a 64-bit OS.
Come on doesn't anyone else see it? A ginormous 2400 page secret document about preventing leaks is leaked just after Monty Python's 40th anniversary? We're all being meta-trolled by the British government.
He created an executable file containing computer instructions written in a programmming language. How is that not a program? He received no authorization to install it, and therefore it was "unauthorized". The description "installed an unauthorized program" sounds right on to me.
I'm not trying to bait you here, but what point are you making? I am not aware of who FireFury03 is, since I didn't see him upstream of me (unless he posted AC).
My post was in response to his strident and ignorant assessment of Linux, particularly in the enterprise. His assertion that "businesses don't use Linux" is false by a large margin. His analysis of the costs involved doesn't agree with numbers I've seen, and his gratuitous swipe at Linux supporters was uncalled for. His position is essentially the same as many people I've met who don't know jack about Linux, have drank all the MS koolaid, and are threatened when someone wants to replace one of their Win boxes with something different.
I agree with your statement on Linux, and didn't mean to imply otherwise with my post.
I'm honestly not sure what you mean with your Windows statement. Windows isn't free, and I never implied that it was, or said that it should be. I don't have a problem with Windows per se, although I'm not a huge fan.
I notice you didn't include Windows Server 2008 in your "worth considering" list, and I wonder if we are both talking about server OSes rather than for home/desktop use.
Iran will play us like N. Korea did. They will come to the table, and refuse to negotiate what we want to discuss. Then, they will make bizarre, outlandish demands. We will make "good faith" concessions, and they will give us squat. They will generate propaganda saying we are threatening them, that we broke promises, we dishonored their mother-in-law, or what have you, and will storm away from the talks. Eventually, they will likely break what promises they have made. We will capitulate again by bending over backwards to get them back to the negotiation table, and the charade will start again.
Charade? Of course. All this is just for show. It will be a smokescreen so they can show the world a cooperative face for now. The main purpose will be to buy time so they can cross the nuclear finish line and endow their crackpot leader with an atomic firecracker to wave in our faces.
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Written in 1969: " ... it would be impossible to grasp the total content of an image with the information content of an ordinary photograph, say 10^8 bits, in the fraction of a second which a flash occupies."
Assuming uncompressed 24-bit color bmp:
100,000,000 / 24 = 4,166,666 pixels
So, mentally, he was shooting with a 4.2 megapixel camera
100,000,000 bits / 8 = 12,500,000 bytes
1.25e7 / 1024 = 12207
12207 / 1024 = 11.92
11.92 MB file
He doesn't state what fraction of a second this "flash" occupies, but let's assume that it is about 1/3rd of a second. So, he's pegging the bandwidth of human visual perception at less than 12MB/flash, or 12MB/(1/3 / sec), or 36MB/sec.
Friends of mine asked me to look at a new Vista machine they bought awhile ago. It ran so slow they thought it was already infected with viruses and malware. Adding RAM helped, but that Sempron will never run Vista without crying for mercy. They got so sick of it they actually bought another computer, this time with a Core Duo and at least 2-3 gigs RAM. It manages to run Vista okay.
I heard the first thing he did after assuming command was offer asylum to Roman Polanski.
Not quite. There is a tiny niche product called a laptop that not only combines keyboard and computer in one, but the display too. Really poor design.
To put in a way that slashdotters may understand, it is like an article featuring a new sports car that does not let us peek under the hood at the shiny pink engine.
You notice the word "Microsoft", followed by the word "Danger".
Or it might make a sizable segment of the user base irate enough to organize legal resistance, obtain and use alternative software where possible, and generally make the BSA's existence hell. See: RIAA.
I know that these suited thugs don't really understand good PR, but bankrupting an individual over a pirated copy of Windows or two is like clubbing baby seals on TV. I doesn't matter if you are entitled to or not. It still looks bad and pisses off people who didn't care before.
I was wondering what the hell the Boy Scouts of America had to do with software.
"Radio is an entity unique to the music industry. It's an independent force that, much to the industry's chagrin, represents the one tried-and-true way record companies know to sell their product."
And before someone gives me a great big "whoosh", yeah, I get the tongue-in-cheek nature of the parent's comment. My point is that they know that getting their song in contact with new ears for free is the only way to make big money in recorded music, and they have historically stopped at nothing to control the distribution channel by which that "free" music is delivered, ie radio. IMHO, "pirated" downloads do not represent a direct threat to sales as much as they represent a threat to big labels' ability to control the "free" music distribution channel.
An event that will be remembered forever in the History of Humanity as the day in which a million dorks were finally able to put themselves in X-rated positions with Megan Fox.
Many with decent Photoshop skills already can, this just lets millions more into the club without the need for a little know-how.
.bmp, or .jpg, I just give it a "cool and fun, but not really useful". If this thing can output a .psd or .xcf with each element on a discrete layer, that would be excellent.
On a serious note, if this just outputs a flat
I'm sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.
Yeah, in my world view, and judging from your post yours as well, a significant portion of the US electorate is in fact totally batshit, "omg the commies are coming" insane.
Hmm. This seems like a polarized, self-centric world view, different perhaps in ideals than GWB and many of his supporters, but similar in its defensive, insular nature and inability (or unwillingness) to share or understand another's perspective. Was the irony intentional?
Are you really surprised that a country with a different constitution than yours, a different mishmash of social perspectives and history than yours, representing a different set of interests than you, and having a few different in social values than your own, might elect such a leader because he is the best of the available choices at the time?
As far as the GP's question, no, there isn't going to be a civil war over healthcare. He was pointing out that it is a contentious issue, and that not all US citizens like Obama, or like him as much as the rest of the world does, or thinks we should.
I'm sure none is taken. After all, he is a Democrat.
What happens? "Traffic shaping" in the form of more caps and deep-packet inspection. For our own good, of course ...
And while your fake crime is ringing up the false positives, the real criminals will be doing what they do best - making street crime invisible to the cameras. A subtle pickpocket in a crowd won't be easily solved this way. An assault at the periphery of a camera's range by a hooded thug won't result in an arrest. But I'll bet they catch a whole lot more dogs pooping illegally than they ever have.
This must be a stalker's wet dream.
The senior researcher's profile said he was: "Working in high security department [emphasis mine] for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and longterm projects. Research & Development projects including 128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan. Forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP and IBM."
My first reaction was that if you can't fix the security problems in the people, you surely can't expect to fix the security problems in the software. But that might be a little hasty.
My guess is that the actual security gaffe here was little or nothing. He mentioned he worked in this department, and that they have future plans that exceed today's capabilities. Meh. So what. If he had posted the details of what he was doing, then it would have been newsworthy. As it is, this barely notable. Any one of us here could probably guess that MS likely has people looking into the progression beyond 64 bit technology.
It is reasonable to believe that at some point in the next several years the hardware companies he mentions will have some plan to start building 128 bit cpus. My guess is that this guy's job is to make sure that MS has input into the design process where it can, and to provide feedback to the MS dev teams so MS can start planning to include compatibility features relatively early on, to hopefully be the OS of choice when this hardware someday becomes available. I'm guessing that Windows 8 probably won't be seen for a long time. The article mentions 2012, but given MS's rush to push out 7 to stem the bleeding caused by Vista they may rely on it for longer than normal, much like they did with XP after the ME debacle. If I were writing an OS that would likely debut in 4 to 8 years, I would probably want a heads up from the hardware vendors about how to write an OS for their next gen proc. Also, if MS were planning a future move to a fully 128-bit OS, they might start by inserting 128-bit code into a 64-bit OS.
Absolutely you are going to jail. No lol'ing on my system. Ever.
Come on doesn't anyone else see it? A ginormous 2400 page secret document about preventing leaks is leaked just after Monty Python's 40th anniversary? We're all being meta-trolled by the British government.
Well played.
But her girlfriend doesn't like it when I do that.
+1 Insightful
He created an executable file containing computer instructions written in a programmming language. How is that not a program? He received no authorization to install it, and therefore it was "unauthorized". The description "installed an unauthorized program" sounds right on to me.
I'm not trying to bait you here, but what point are you making? I am not aware of who FireFury03 is, since I didn't see him upstream of me (unless he posted AC).
My post was in response to his strident and ignorant assessment of Linux, particularly in the enterprise. His assertion that "businesses don't use Linux" is false by a large margin. His analysis of the costs involved doesn't agree with numbers I've seen, and his gratuitous swipe at Linux supporters was uncalled for. His position is essentially the same as many people I've met who don't know jack about Linux, have drank all the MS koolaid, and are threatened when someone wants to replace one of their Win boxes with something different.
I agree with your statement on Linux, and didn't mean to imply otherwise with my post.
I'm honestly not sure what you mean with your Windows statement. Windows isn't free, and I never implied that it was, or said that it should be. I don't have a problem with Windows per se, although I'm not a huge fan.
I notice you didn't include Windows Server 2008 in your "worth considering" list, and I wonder if we are both talking about server OSes rather than for home/desktop use.
Iran will play us like N. Korea did. They will come to the table, and refuse to negotiate what we want to discuss. Then, they will make bizarre, outlandish demands. We will make "good faith" concessions, and they will give us squat. They will generate propaganda saying we are threatening them, that we broke promises, we dishonored their mother-in-law, or what have you, and will storm away from the talks. Eventually, they will likely break what promises they have made. We will capitulate again by bending over backwards to get them back to the negotiation table, and the charade will start again.
Charade? Of course. All this is just for show. It will be a smokescreen so they can show the world a cooperative face for now. The main purpose will be to buy time so they can cross the nuclear finish line and endow their crackpot leader with an atomic firecracker to wave in our faces.
Is that retail? Can I get a discount if I buy in bulk?