I don't see the big deal. It means the resonance frequency is narrow and the system would stop to work if external factors move the excitation outside of this narrow band.
The sentence is a bit weird, but perfectly comprehensible.
The implementation in Samsungs UEFI shows some weird behavior. Error code EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER should only be returned, if one of the given pointers to variables is NULL and pointing to an invalid memory section. Samsungs implementation also throughs this error, if the given memory blocksize is not exactly 128 bytes, so for example (like the Linux-efivars module does) 1024 bytes. The Linux module does not expect the strange error code (it checks for NULL pointers itself) and does not report any UEFI variables, no boot entries, no nothing. The installer accepts that and installs the Linux boot entry into the first slot, where actually the boot entry for the setup is located - overwriting that entry! Setup is dead since Linux took its boot entry.
It does look like the Samsung implementation is doing weird things and Linux is doing weird things in return because it is expecting it to follow standards...
You did a great job at talking about everything NOT relevant in the episode, beside the relevant part (and the central one). Namely, putting weird clauses in EULA that people do not read but remove some of their basic rights.
Why are those people always making those cool GM pets and never sell them ?
I want a glowing cat ! Just sell them already, I'm sure there is a market for that !
Thank you very much. I was waiting for someone to realise that this article has nothing to do with the Higgs boson. It is about one experiment finding a new particle, and another one finding nothing. It is NOT about the Higgs.
Not sure what you are trying to achieve here. And your title should have been "Good bye and thanks for all the trolls", at least it would have made sense...
Speaking of Enigma (or SIGABA from a previous post), does someone knows any good emulator/decoder for Enigma on linux ? I found this http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/enigmasim.htm but it is a bit too visual for me (you have to drag and drop the rotors yourself, etc), it doesn't decode and it is for windows.
I'm more interrested in an open source command line tool, with decoding abilities.
That's an interresting suggestion. I didn't think about it. By using a video instead of a fixed picture, you can extract more information out of it. I suspect you will never reach a 'super zoom' feature using this, but by linking pixels between frames and comparing the shadow between them, etc, it should be possible to reconstruct a low resolution volumetric representation of the original object.
Interresting work indeed.
1. Apply it to each individual sprite while loading the ROM.
2. Create an alternate sprite table with vector graphics.
3. Create two rendering loops, one internal for the original sprites and one going to the screen with the new sprites.
4. ???
5. Profit
Examples of this kind of work are found in practical applications such as number plate recognition, where often a bad photograph is the starting point. This allows elements to be reconstructed even when information is partially missing.
This kind of enhancement is only possible because some assumptions are made on the original content. This is equivalent to this enhancement tool which can recreate the text bellow a blurred image. The assumption is that you only have around 36 chars under the blur (or pixelization). In this case, the kind of information you are trying to retrieve is clearly defined and quite reduced.
This is obviously not true for other kind of applications, like faces, sprites and such. There is no way to reduce the information space to a practical size in order to constraint any algorithm. In those case, what you are doing is CREATING information, not RECOVERING information.
Because the information is simply not there ? You can add as much information you want to your pixels like curves and such, but you have no way to prove it is the original information.
From TFA : "The other problem is that the Depixelizing Pixel Art approach always smooths images, even when an object shouldn't necessarily be smooth. For example, are Space Invaders really meant to be cute and round? Maybe, in the creator's eye, they had long, angular, razor-sharp mandibles and straight-out antennae! "
They are adding information, but they have no way to know if it is what the original artist had in mind.
For what I gathered so far (I don't own a PS3), PSN is free, buying on it is not. The credit card is not required to register to PSN but only if you buy games on it.
You are the one without a clue, go play somewhere else.
Just yesterday I watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and both stars use Mac notebooks, and you can't help notice the glowing logo.
Actually, i'm not sure where to stand on this, since the book clearly states it is a Macbook she is using (it is even over the top repeated in the book).
Cars are a really bad example of transparent product placement. I can't stop counting the number of movies where the main caracters are driving a car and you have a big 5sec long shoot of the front of the car where you can see the obvious logo of the brand. This is really annoying as it just cut the pace of the movie to show you a logo (usually before the car get trashed/shoot at/drive off a freeway bridge).
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I don't see the big deal. It means the resonance frequency is narrow and the system would stop to work if external factors move the excitation outside of this narrow band. The sentence is a bit weird, but perfectly comprehensible.
The implementation in Samsungs UEFI shows some weird behavior. Error code EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER should only be returned, if one of the given pointers to variables is NULL and pointing to an invalid memory section. Samsungs implementation also throughs this error, if the given memory blocksize is not exactly 128 bytes, so for example (like the Linux-efivars module does) 1024 bytes. The Linux module does not expect the strange error code (it checks for NULL pointers itself) and does not report any UEFI variables, no boot entries, no nothing. The installer accepts that and installs the Linux boot entry into the first slot, where actually the boot entry for the setup is located - overwriting that entry! Setup is dead since Linux took its boot entry.
It does look like the Samsung implementation is doing weird things and Linux is doing weird things in return because it is expecting it to follow standards...
You did a great job at talking about everything NOT relevant in the episode, beside the relevant part (and the central one). Namely, putting weird clauses in EULA that people do not read but remove some of their basic rights.
Why are those people always making those cool GM pets and never sell them ?
I want a glowing cat ! Just sell them already, I'm sure there is a market for that !
What is the name of the book ?
You sir made my day :)
Thank you very much. I was waiting for someone to realise that this article has nothing to do with the Higgs boson. It is about one experiment finding a new particle, and another one finding nothing. It is NOT about the Higgs.
They discovered monopoles ? Do you have any reference for that, because I'm pretty sure it would give the finder a direct nobel price.
And I seriously want more corridors in it :) Let's us have more TARDIS-centric stories !
Not sure what you are trying to achieve here. And your title should have been "Good bye and thanks for all the trolls", at least it would have made sense...
I'm more interrested in an open source command line tool, with decoding abilities.
This either not a news, or you are not a nerd.
We are lucky we didn't switch to IPv8
That's an interresting suggestion. I didn't think about it. By using a video instead of a fixed picture, you can extract more information out of it. I suspect you will never reach a 'super zoom' feature using this, but by linking pixels between frames and comparing the shadow between them, etc, it should be possible to reconstruct a low resolution volumetric representation of the original object.
Interresting work indeed.
This was my point exactly :) Thanks for clarifying, should have made a better quote from the start.
1. Apply it to each individual sprite while loading the ROM.
2. Create an alternate sprite table with vector graphics.
3. Create two rendering loops, one internal for the original sprites and one going to the screen with the new sprites.
4. ???
5. Profit
And all those links have been slashdotted. Good job :D
Most of those filters have been around for quite some time. I remember using ZSnes with the SuperEagle filter in the begining of 2000s.
Examples of this kind of work are found in practical applications such as number plate recognition, where often a bad photograph is the starting point. This allows elements to be reconstructed even when information is partially missing.
This kind of enhancement is only possible because some assumptions are made on the original content. This is equivalent to this enhancement tool which can recreate the text bellow a blurred image. The assumption is that you only have around 36 chars under the blur (or pixelization). In this case, the kind of information you are trying to retrieve is clearly defined and quite reduced.
This is obviously not true for other kind of applications, like faces, sprites and such. There is no way to reduce the information space to a practical size in order to constraint any algorithm. In those case, what you are doing is CREATING information, not RECOVERING information.
From TFA : "The other problem is that the Depixelizing Pixel Art approach always smooths images, even when an object shouldn't necessarily be smooth. For example, are Space Invaders really meant to be cute and round? Maybe, in the creator's eye, they had long, angular, razor-sharp mandibles and straight-out antennae! "
They are adding information, but they have no way to know if it is what the original artist had in mind.
You are the one without a clue, go play somewhere else.
Because you get the whole thing in reverse ? These are trademarks which became generic names, not the opposite...
Larger production budget != better movie...
Just yesterday I watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and both stars use Mac notebooks, and you can't help notice the glowing logo.
Actually, i'm not sure where to stand on this, since the book clearly states it is a Macbook she is using (it is even over the top repeated in the book).
Cars are a really bad example of transparent product placement. I can't stop counting the number of movies where the main caracters are driving a car and you have a big 5sec long shoot of the front of the car where you can see the obvious logo of the brand. This is really annoying as it just cut the pace of the movie to show you a logo (usually before the car get trashed/shoot at/drive off a freeway bridge).