Though the CAPCHA problem is interesting, I think we will se other ways to skip these showstoppers in near future.
Sooner or later google or somebody else will provide a service that will return information on the likeliness that you are human and that your account has not been taken over by malware. Perhaps a kind of an expanded OpenID which may return information on your behavior on several other websites or in the physical world.
Certain actions could provide "human" credits (or some similar or detailed concept)
Transfer of cash to an certain account
Having an active account on facebook or some other social platforms
Approval by some webcam-chat service
Solving stupid capchas like everybody is doing now
Go ahead make a list of actions that will make it unfeasible for anybody to automate.
Once you have your credits you may use your ID to bypass captchas. Im sure there are clever ways of solving issues about being anonymous when using the ID.
Thinking about new ways of designing exotic captcha puzzles is just plain waste of time
Considering the success of web or browser applications, The Year of Linux depends on
Easy networking / wireless (as in works ALWAYS out of the box)
Fast browsing (as in do whatever to make FireFox, Flash, picture display and video decoding run as fast as possible)
Next comes
Driver support (as in plug'n'auto-download-what-it-takes'n'play)
The color of the mouse pointer or the glossy look of windowframes wont fool anybody. And I dont think Linux needs to do something *different*. It would be like hoping for a miracle that will enable Linux to be the only OS to implement a certain UI that everybody wants.
A C64 basic emulator or LOGO just has the most simple programming environment:
Type your code in the box where the cursor is ready
Type run
Watch your results
If kids are supposed to have fun and learn, then at no time they should consider all the complicated stuff like makefiles, compiling or memory management. Its all about getting fun results as soon as possible with as little effort as possible
Heres how I and thousands of others had our first very funny and exciting programming experience, and I believe alot of coders in spe still will find this big fun:
Since expenses regarding the production, burning/printing, shipping, distribution and selling of physical CDs disappear when you're selling music as mp3 on the internet, I suppose that net income increase every day for the musicbusiness. (Or what are they doing wrong?)
Who cares if revenues go down if profits or net income increases? Except of course for the CD manufacturers, truckdrivers and expedients in the shops.
Yes its much easier for all the animators and designers just to code animation, video and graphics in Javascript instead of the GUI in Flash. Also, I love the timeline features in Javascript!
Randomizes the pixel data before applying the mosaic
Mosaic is used to
A) Remove a certain level of information from the originial picture
B) AND keep a certain level of information recognizable.
The standard example is a picture of some person where we can sense a face, but not recognize the person. To randomize pixel data before applying the mosaic is a misunderstanding of the concept.
I see two seperate strategies:
1) Apply the mosaic with sufficently large blocks so the informationloss is irreversible
2) Apply pixel noise with sufficiently level so the informationloss is irreversible
Any combination is unnessesary complicated and fails in terms of security, aestetics and simplicity. This also applies to other steps like playing with contures, levels, hue etc.
The problem should be reduced to a way of determining the mosaic size (or noiselevel) to satisfy A AND B
It usually turns out that few files takes up the most place.
SELECT filename, size
FROM allDisks
WHERE size > 2 MB
ORDER BY size DESC
Add your filter of choise to remove important files from the result, and go ahead erase a bunch of useless huge files.
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Though the CAPCHA problem is interesting, I think we will se other ways to skip these showstoppers in near future.
Sooner or later google or somebody else will provide a service that will return information on the likeliness that you are human and that your account has not been taken over by malware. Perhaps a kind of an expanded OpenID which may return information on your behavior on several other websites or in the physical world.
Certain actions could provide "human" credits (or some similar or detailed concept)
Go ahead make a list of actions that will make it unfeasible for anybody to automate.
Once you have your credits you may use your ID to bypass captchas. Im sure there are clever ways of solving issues about being anonymous when using the ID.
Thinking about new ways of designing exotic captcha puzzles is just plain waste of time
I guess this may happen more than one place on such a curve, and who knows when its a global optimal situation?
Next comes
The color of the mouse pointer or the glossy look of windowframes wont fool anybody. And I dont think Linux needs to do something *different*. It would be like hoping for a miracle that will enable Linux to be the only OS to implement a certain UI that everybody wants.
You need a lot of tools to get started in C
A C64 basic emulator or LOGO just has the most simple programming environment:
If kids are supposed to have fun and learn, then at no time they should consider all the complicated stuff like makefiles, compiling or memory management. Its all about getting fun results as soon as possible with as little effort as possible
Heres how I and thousands of others had our first very funny and exciting programming experience, and I believe alot of coders in spe still will find this big fun:
Since expenses regarding the production, burning/printing, shipping, distribution and selling of physical CDs disappear when you're selling music as mp3 on the internet, I suppose that net income increase every day for the musicbusiness. (Or what are they doing wrong?)
Who cares if revenues go down if profits or net income increases? Except of course for the CD manufacturers, truckdrivers and expedients in the shops.
Yes its much easier for all the animators and designers just to code animation, video and graphics in Javascript instead of the GUI in Flash. Also, I love the timeline features in Javascript!
Is this supposed to be a neutral or fair analysis of Mac as a development platform?
Sure Apple benefit from the fact that Apple products work well together with Apple products, -just like Microsoft products has done for decades.
Id like to see a poll among developers asking who acually:
The weak arguments in the article agains Apple fails to render it as more than a long textual advertisement for Mac targeted against developers.
Mission somehow completed I guess. Sad...
Mosaic is used to
A) Remove a certain level of information from the originial picture
B) AND keep a certain level of information recognizable.
The standard example is a picture of some person where we can sense a face, but not recognize the person. To randomize pixel data before applying the mosaic is a misunderstanding of the concept.
I see two seperate strategies:
1) Apply the mosaic with sufficently large blocks so the informationloss is irreversible
2) Apply pixel noise with sufficiently level so the informationloss is irreversible
Any combination is unnessesary complicated and fails in terms of security, aestetics and simplicity. This also applies to other steps like playing with contures, levels, hue etc.
The problem should be reduced to a way of determining the mosaic size (or noiselevel) to satisfy A AND B
It usually turns out that few files takes up the most place. SELECT filename, size FROM allDisks WHERE size > 2 MB ORDER BY size DESC Add your filter of choise to remove important files from the result, and go ahead erase a bunch of useless huge files.