The megapixel-chip-becomes-gigapixel-chip application of this is intriguing.
If the camera is held perfectly still for the time it takes to write all the data to the memory card, you get a 1GB jpeg with un-freaking-believable resolution. Nice.
... and suddenly it becomes obvious why the snack bar at Walmart is right there when you walk in the door, bathing your unsuspecting synapses in popcorn, hotdog, and cotton candy smells.
Mmmm, dopamine. And look, a plastic lawn chair at just $18.95!
Am I the only one who thinks that it violates the spirit of Creative Commons to turn end-listeners into lawbreakers?
This isn't why artists license their works using CC, and it's the same BS that the RIAA tries to enforce.
CC licenses exist to protect against large-scale systematic explotiation by commercial entities or other organizations. To say that an individual is somehow breaking the license by playing a song over a wireless interface is counter-productive.
Perhaps a small part of the appeal of power-leveling (what a meme!) is that you are paying someone else to do stuff for you. You get to be the boss. It's a power relationship that might not otherwise exist in a gamer's real life.
In fact, I'm trying to think of things in my life that I could "outsource". Aside from coding, which I actually like to do, I don't have many opportunities to hire someone. I have no need of a gardener, or a babysitter, or even a dog walker. I take a cab sometimes, but that's different from hiring a driver. So as pitiful as it may be, paying someone in China to play videogames is one of the few ways that I could exercise direct economic control; to appease my inner capitalist, as it were.
As someone who recently tried to install Debian on a newish ProLiant, and failed miserably because of unsupported hardware, I'm happy to see this announcement. It means that HP will be using hardware for which Linux drivers already exist, and that the Debian installer will be able to load those drivers into the kernel at install-time.
The bigger bonus is that if vanilla Debian can do it, any Linux disto can: Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, whatever.
CAPTCHAs are meant to prevent scripts from (ab)using services designed for human beings.
Unfortunately, the man-in-the-middle workaround (CAPTCHA presented to human user in a different context, answer used by script) is dead easy to implement. So at best, you're cutting down on the number of registrations a script can make, but not actually solving the problem. Is it worth the effort?
The best side effect of the CAPTCHA arms race is that some amazing pattern-detection algorithms are being invented to defeat them the hard way.
Maybe I've seen too many movies, but these blackhats don't *sound* like the mob.
I'd think the mafia would build enterprise-ready e-commerce sites and then "persuade" businesses to purchase hosting from them. You know, the old protection racket.
None of this $25 a pop retail sales stuff. That's just monkey business.
The findings described in TFA seem like a stepping stone to developing preventative medicine or exercises to prevent the effects. Once you can reproduce the problem on earth, you can test solutions without having to put folks in zero-G situations.
I think it raises fascinating questions: Is the cause of space-wasting too much blood in your head (because it isn't being forced into your feet)? Is it because blood flow in the brain is throwing off feedback mechanisms (your brain thinks you are healthier than you are)? Or is it something else entirely?
Do you really want AOL or News Corp deciding what contetn is fit for your consumption?
Unfortunately, yes. People expect that their service providers will filter out porn and spam and hate speech, so that they don't have to sully their "beatiful minds" with such rabble.
If an ISP can promise conservative customers an internet that is a "clean, well-lit place", they will sign up in droves, and never even consider that it could be used to hide important information from them or their families.
Great libraries, beautiful examples. But perhaps they are still working on the Yahoo! Code Forge where these "libraries" get version numbering, changelogs, full API documentation, bug reports, etc.
Maybe nobody else cares about these things the Javascript, but they would never release server-side code in a generic, rootless ZIP archive. So much promise here, but I'd wait to see some better change management before integrating these libraries into a production site.
(Full speed ahead on development, though!)
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Nelson is looking for two-way linking between content objects (text,image,audio,video documents, or subsets thereof). So that when I link to (embed a reference to, really) a text fragment in one document, that text fragment will "know" that it has been linked to. So for any given fragment on the screen, you can call up a list of all the other documents that link to it. That shouldn't be too hard. Trackback is a crude version of this, for whole documents rather than fragments. Most wikis will also tell you which other pages link to the current one.
Furthermore, he would like that embedded fragment of text to be dynamically updateable, so that when the original is revised, the change propagates to all of the documents that link to it. I believe this is what he means by "transclusion". That seems *much* more difficult -- how do you recover the correct fragment from a heavily edited document? It also opens a huge can of worms socially -- what if I don't want the quote to be updated? What if the author redacts the original fragment, should it disappear from my document?
I can see where Nelson's vision is worth having, but I can't quite wrap my head around how to implement transclusion in the real world.
"the parts to make something useful are a thousand $$ leap at this point."
And when Jobs and Woz started Apple, computers that did useful things cost thousands of dollars and took up as much room as a refrigerator.
Cheap, modular hardware will beget new completely new uses for robots.
A semi-autonomous lawn mower or snow plow doesn't need high-end sensors. A single "do not leave your robot unattended" sticker can compensate for lack of perception or intelligence on the robot's part. The point is to make repetitive jobs easier, not to eliminate humans from the equation.
In 10 years, are we going to care about broadcast spectrum for linear programming? No -- we're going to want all those frequencies for high-bandwidth packet delivery.
As soon as 300 million people can watch an event unfold in real time via multicast, there is no reason to be blindly pumping signal into the air every 50 miles.
How are links like this rendered in Slashdot?
Oh, from the preview it looks like they just plain break, never mind. Guess Slashcode doesn't implement this feature, either.
You're forgetting what would rapidly become the most common use case for this device:
I don't put it in my home and watch from a hotel 3,000 miles away. I give it to my cousin in Pittsburg who has every cable channel under the sun so I can watch all the channels (and blacked-out games) I *don't* get at home.
Open that image in Photoshop or similar and it's pretty obvious that aside from the noise there is no blue. If it's a filter on the camera it's set to 100%.
More likely someone turned off the blue channel during processing and liked the way the result looked.
Do you ever watch Entertainment Tonight? Who do you think pays for that show... could it be... movie studios?
Seriously, it's one big infomercial, only you don't notice because "entertainment news" is a genre that predates our notions of product placement.
Banning this sort of commercial speech would mean the end of television as we know it in the U.S., because most shows (especially game shows and "reality" programs) rely to some degree on the income generated by loan-outs, trade-outs, and outright sponsorship. In other words, not gonna happen.
Is anybody else afraid that with Schwarzenegger as Governor of California, the statewide penalty for watching an illegally distributed movie will be to undergo memory-erasure?
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The megapixel-chip-becomes-gigapixel-chip application of this is intriguing.
If the camera is held perfectly still for the time it takes to write all the data to the memory card, you get a 1GB jpeg with un-freaking-believable resolution. Nice.
... and suddenly it becomes obvious why the snack bar at Walmart is right there when you walk in the door, bathing your unsuspecting synapses in popcorn, hotdog, and cotton candy smells.
Mmmm, dopamine. And look, a plastic lawn chair at just $18.95!
Am I the only one who thinks that it violates the spirit of Creative Commons to turn end-listeners into lawbreakers?
This isn't why artists license their works using CC, and it's the same BS that the RIAA tries to enforce.
CC licenses exist to protect against large-scale systematic explotiation by commercial entities or other organizations. To say that an individual is somehow breaking the license by playing a song over a wireless interface is counter-productive.
Man, I patented "Be kind, rewind" stickers back in 1983, and do you think I've ever seen a dime from it?
Perhaps a small part of the appeal of power-leveling (what a meme!) is that you are paying someone else to do stuff for you. You get to be the boss. It's a power relationship that might not otherwise exist in a gamer's real life.
In fact, I'm trying to think of things in my life that I could "outsource". Aside from coding, which I actually like to do, I don't have many opportunities to hire someone. I have no need of a gardener, or a babysitter, or even a dog walker. I take a cab sometimes, but that's different from hiring a driver. So as pitiful as it may be, paying someone in China to play videogames is one of the few ways that I could exercise direct economic control; to appease my inner capitalist, as it were.
Very interesting.
As someone who recently tried to install Debian on a newish ProLiant, and failed miserably because of unsupported hardware, I'm happy to see this announcement. It means that HP will be using hardware for which Linux drivers already exist, and that the Debian installer will be able to load those drivers into the kernel at install-time.
The bigger bonus is that if vanilla Debian can do it, any Linux disto can: Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, whatever.
CAPTCHAs are meant to prevent scripts from (ab)using services designed for human beings.
Unfortunately, the man-in-the-middle workaround (CAPTCHA presented to human user in a different context, answer used by script) is dead easy to implement. So at best, you're cutting down on the number of registrations a script can make, but not actually solving the problem. Is it worth the effort?
The best side effect of the CAPTCHA arms race is that some amazing pattern-detection algorithms are being invented to defeat them the hard way.
But the Chinese 0wn the State Department already. What's the big fuss?
http://www.house.gov/tanner/press108-101.htm
Oh, thank the maker! Now they can finally get some real work done.
Maybe I've seen too many movies, but these blackhats don't *sound* like the mob.
I'd think the mafia would build enterprise-ready e-commerce sites and then "persuade" businesses to purchase hosting from them. You know, the old protection racket.
None of this $25 a pop retail sales stuff. That's just monkey business.
The findings described in TFA seem like a stepping stone to developing preventative medicine or exercises to prevent the effects. Once you can reproduce the problem on earth, you can test solutions without having to put folks in zero-G situations.
I think it raises fascinating questions:
Is the cause of space-wasting too much blood in your head (because it isn't being forced into your feet)?
Is it because blood flow in the brain is throwing off feedback mechanisms (your brain thinks you are healthier than you are)?
Or is it something else entirely?
Unfortunately, yes. People expect that their service providers will filter out porn and spam and hate speech, so that they don't have to sully their "beatiful minds" with such rabble.
If an ISP can promise conservative customers an internet that is a "clean, well-lit place", they will sign up in droves, and never even consider that it could be used to hide important information from them or their families.
Great libraries, beautiful examples. But perhaps they are still working on the Yahoo! Code Forge where these "libraries" get version numbering, changelogs, full API documentation, bug reports, etc.
Maybe nobody else cares about these things the Javascript, but they would never release server-side code in a generic, rootless ZIP archive. So much promise here, but I'd wait to see some better change management before integrating these libraries into a production site.
(Full speed ahead on development, though!)
If you're looking for a system-wide approach to PHP Security, one that covers everything from shell commands and service tuning up through application-level security policy implementation, you should check out Apress' Pro PHP Security.
Cheers!
In case you wonder, aside from Apple-bashing, why this might be such a big deal, please consider:
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1) iPhoto is part of Apple's $79 iLife suite, not part of OSX.
2) To use photocasting requires a $99
3) RSS is freekin' simple to implement and validate
So for US$170 you get RSS feeds that look like they were cobbled together by the kid in the next cubicle?
I at least expect Apple to maintain the *illusion* of quality software for premium prices.
Ummm, that killer feature already exists.
... again."
Whenever autocorrect occurs, hover over the newly-mangled text. A dropdown menu will appear, with the bottom option being "Don't offer to
The 'K's and 'Gn's and 'X's in desktop application names are "Consonant Metabranding".
That's at least as good a meme as "Type Manager".
Let me see if I can get this straight.
Nelson is looking for two-way linking between content objects (text,image,audio,video documents, or subsets thereof). So that when I link to (embed a reference to, really) a text fragment in one document, that text fragment will "know" that it has been linked to. So for any given fragment on the screen, you can call up a list of all the other documents that link to it. That shouldn't be too hard. Trackback is a crude version of this, for whole documents rather than fragments. Most wikis will also tell you which other pages link to the current one.
Furthermore, he would like that embedded fragment of text to be dynamically updateable, so that when the original is revised, the change propagates to all of the documents that link to it. I believe this is what he means by "transclusion". That seems *much* more difficult -- how do you recover the correct fragment from a heavily edited document? It also opens a huge can of worms socially -- what if I don't want the quote to be updated? What if the author redacts the original fragment, should it disappear from my document?
I can see where Nelson's vision is worth having, but I can't quite wrap my head around how to implement transclusion in the real world.
"the parts to make something useful are a thousand $$ leap at this point."
And when Jobs and Woz started Apple, computers that did useful things cost thousands of dollars and took up as much room as a refrigerator.
Cheap, modular hardware will beget new completely new uses for robots.
A semi-autonomous lawn mower or snow plow doesn't need high-end sensors. A single "do not leave your robot unattended" sticker can compensate for lack of perception or intelligence on the robot's part. The point is to make repetitive jobs easier, not to eliminate humans from the equation.
In 10 years, are we going to care about broadcast spectrum for linear programming? No -- we're going to want all those frequencies for high-bandwidth packet delivery.
As soon as 300 million people can watch an event unfold in real time via multicast, there is no reason to be blindly pumping signal into the air every 50 miles.
How are links like this rendered in Slashdot? Oh, from the preview it looks like they just plain break, never mind. Guess Slashcode doesn't implement this feature, either.
You're forgetting what would rapidly become the most common use case for this device:
I don't put it in my home and watch from a hotel 3,000 miles away. I give it to my cousin in Pittsburg who has every cable channel under the sun so I can watch all the channels (and blacked-out games) I *don't* get at home.
Open that image in Photoshop or similar and it's pretty obvious that aside from the noise there is no blue. If it's a filter on the camera it's set to 100%.
More likely someone turned off the blue channel during processing and liked the way the result looked.
Do you ever watch Entertainment Tonight? Who do you think pays for that show... could it be... movie studios?
Seriously, it's one big infomercial, only you don't notice because "entertainment news" is a genre that predates our notions of product placement.
Banning this sort of commercial speech would mean the end of television as we know it in the U.S., because most shows (especially game shows and "reality" programs) rely to some degree on the income generated by loan-outs, trade-outs, and outright sponsorship. In other words, not gonna happen.
Is anybody else afraid that with Schwarzenegger as Governor of California, the statewide penalty for watching an illegally distributed movie will be to undergo memory-erasure?