When someone is removed from a scene with a moving background, and objects moving across the foreground (like from the middle of a crowd). Or when a static object is removed from a static background (without adequate information to fill the hole, of course).
Inserting things onto stadium walls, and shelves in the background (BTW, why couldn't Microsoft have just paid to have the product placed when the show was shooting?), and removing someone from a flat, even surface with nothing else on it...these aren't very impressive. (Even if it looks perfect.)
Oh, and I won't worry about not being able to tell real video from fake until objects which interact with other objects in the video can be inserted automatically. Hmm...and when rendering becomes perfect (although that only applies to high-quality video and images). There are a lot of ways to spot effects. Incorrect lighting and motion, usually.
Do you know any hiphop fans? If they see wearing or using they are very likely to buy . Hiphop fans are, advertising-wise, the most easily led people in the universe.
Life sims/virtual pets. Starting with the Tamagotchi, only getting interesting with Creatures, and now The Sims. It's not a huge, or hugely popular genre, but it's new, and it's still with us.
Not with digital copies. The telephone effect is the equivalent of say, degredation in photocopying (or more appropriately, faxing). With people passing links around, the information doesn't degrade. Even with people passing vague rumors around, the information CAN be checked (where it would be more difficult without the web), and degredation prevented.
And of course, with digital copying of recorded/written works/software, the telephone effect doesn't even come into play, because you've usually got either a perfect copy, or one that doesn't work at all. (With the exception of partial copies of songs getting propogated across Napster)
By having a DVD player, and good video capture hardware, they can decrypt DVDs, compress them into a smaller format, like DivX, and post them on the net. DECSS just makes it a LITTLE bit easier. It won't drastically increase the number of people encoding movies.
When I read the garbage about breaking into computer systems, I thought "Hmm...someone's missing the point. That's all pretty irrelevant here."
An English/English as a Second Language prof here once told us (his English 211X class) about an acquaintance of his, a Physicist who was a native Navajo speaker. (yeah, yeah, friend of a friend and all that) This guy allegedly claimed that Navajo is a much better language than English because it is "verbier." It supposedly (I don't know a word of Navajo, Athabaskan, for that matter, so I wouldn't know, myself) has more nuance and subtle differences in it's verbs that allowed him to think/write better physics than in English.
No one could prevent me from giving it away for free, and no one could prevent the people who might have paid 99 bucks from going to me instead of you. In most cases, the people selling copies of the thesis wouldn't be in any position to offer "technical support" for it, so there isn't even THAT benefit.
Selling GPL software works because you can include related texts and services. Selling GPLed texted would not because there isn't much you could offer with it.
Hmm...well, except for indexing and searching. Which means that it wouldn't discourage this kind of use. Hmm...
Newsgroups are easier to filter than web pages. They don't change as much, they're better categorized (even with crossposting) and you can completely and thoroughly block them by restricting access to servers that don't carry the ones you don't want. Doing so you'll block all but a tiny fraction of the porn out there (people posting porn, mostly ads, to non-porn, completely irrelevant groups and binary groups).
Consequently, there's not much for anyone to be concerned with there.
The only chance the French language has to avoid being further marginalized (and come on, there's more to their culture than their language! Suggesting otherwise would be like saying Canadians are no different from Americans!) by the internet is to get all the third world countries where French is a major language thoroughly wired.
Numbers are what make a language strong. More people with internet access can read English than any other language, so it's only natural that it will be dominant, to the detriment of other world (and local...I imagine calling French a local language would really piss them off) languages. IMO, the only other language which really has the potential to impose itself on the world right now is Chinese, just by force of numbers alone, should internet access ever become ubiquitous there.
Heh. That never occurred to me.... Someone moderate this post up!
Anyhow, damn right! If software publishers want to make that bed, they damn well better be ready to sleep in it!
Most software you'd be able to check out from a library would have to be installed to your hard disk to run it. And it would probably stay there when you returned the CD and/or floppies. People generally do not copy library books when they check them out.
Having software checkouts in a library would be effectively the same thing as an abandonware website (or a warez site, if they keep current software).
Biased polling is a time-honored tradition! It's the american way!
Do the polling exclusively at slashdot. Announce to the world that Linux has 50 percent (or whatever) market share!
No joke. It certainly isn't going to say anything about how many people are actually USING it. There's no guilt involved in copying that Linux CD a dozen times. Even the most scrupulous computer user isn't going to show up in those statistics all the time.
The article touches on both concerns, but I just gotta ask it again: What's the point without a search tool? Is there really enough content being censored (to the point of disappearing from say, Google's cache...where I go whenever I need something that's offline) to make this system useful?
And they say now that they don't consider the requirement that items be reviewed to be censorship...give it time. There will be SOMETHING legal, important, and interesting to some which they will reject.
Overall, sounds like a good idea, though.
The "wrong" way makes a whole lot more sense based on the words used to put the phrase together. When you've got a piece of jargon composed of words which make more sense to most people if they mean what they APPEAR to mean, you shouldn't be a bit surprised if people misuse it.
IMO, the misuse is the initial creation of the phrase.
Most of the bullies I grew up with went to prison, not law enforcement.
The ones going into law enforcement were quiet types who liked to play with knives in class.
HALF? Umm...are we talking about the same country, here?
Oh, and "With the right leadership" just about anything COULD work. The problem with your idea is that you would never find "the right leadership." Or, to put it another way, the people to be led would never be right for any one group of leaders.
CDs are sometimes 1 dollar per song (thats a little low..more like a dollar and a quarter), and more often they're about 5 dollars per DECENT song. I realize the physical object/package doesn't cost enough to directly account for the difference, but it is worth something to me. When I'm paying for the storage medium, when I'm eliminating much of their work in distribution and sales by downloading from a centralized location exactly what I want, without them having to predict (or attempt to influence...only attempt in my case, but my friends are all pretty malleable) what I want...dammit, what I'm buying had fucking well better be cheaper.
On the Newshour yesterday, they had some bozo from RIAA saying something to the effect that Napster was illegal because it was enabling the copying of information without permission from the copyright holders. Isn't this what most search engines do? They don't get permission for most of their links, and that's all Napster does really, is link. And when...what was it called..."deep indexing" I think it was, becomes more widespread, linking to documents a site expects you to see only after wading through a few other pages (and a few other ads), couldn't this be just as harmful to many copyright holders?
>The Founding Fathers did not know about things >like bullets that can pierce armor and kill >policeman. Considering the founding fathers didn't know about armor that could stop bullets, I'm sure they considered the possibility of killing policemen. (More and more of whom seem to be deserving it lately) Anyhow, I think I see your point (It's just unfortunate that it has to be obscured by bad examples). If they'd considered how weaponry might advance (they didn't even have breach-loading firearms then, did they?), they might have been a little less ambiguous with the 2nd amendment.
How do they find out who people are? Say I'm posting using an account with false information, what do they do? Do they get logs from the service where the complaint was posted, and track me down via my IP? Would this violate most privacy policies (I haven't read any THAT closely, I'm afraid...)
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When someone is removed from a scene with a moving background, and objects moving across the foreground (like from the middle of a crowd). Or when a static object is removed from a static background (without adequate information to fill the hole, of course). Inserting things onto stadium walls, and shelves in the background (BTW, why couldn't Microsoft have just paid to have the product placed when the show was shooting?), and removing someone from a flat, even surface with nothing else on it...these aren't very impressive. (Even if it looks perfect.) Oh, and I won't worry about not being able to tell real video from fake until objects which interact with other objects in the video can be inserted automatically. Hmm...and when rendering becomes perfect (although that only applies to high-quality video and images). There are a lot of ways to spot effects. Incorrect lighting and motion, usually.
Do you know any hiphop fans? If they see wearing or using they are very likely to buy . Hiphop fans are, advertising-wise, the most easily led people in the universe.
I give my friends a really hard time about this.
Life sims/virtual pets. Starting with the Tamagotchi, only getting interesting with Creatures, and now The Sims. It's not a huge, or hugely popular genre, but it's new, and it's still with us.
Not with digital copies. The telephone effect is the equivalent of say, degredation in photocopying (or more appropriately, faxing). With people passing links around, the information doesn't degrade. Even with people passing vague rumors around, the information CAN be checked (where it would be more difficult without the web), and degredation prevented. And of course, with digital copying of recorded/written works/software, the telephone effect doesn't even come into play, because you've usually got either a perfect copy, or one that doesn't work at all. (With the exception of partial copies of songs getting propogated across Napster)
By having a DVD player, and good video capture hardware, they can decrypt DVDs, compress them into a smaller format, like DivX, and post them on the net. DECSS just makes it a LITTLE bit easier. It won't drastically increase the number of people encoding movies. When I read the garbage about breaking into computer systems, I thought "Hmm...someone's missing the point. That's all pretty irrelevant here."
What zip codes do they use in Redmond?
Underwear with a pager (or pocket for such) in the front. (Set it to vibrate)
An English/English as a Second Language prof here once told us (his English 211X class) about an acquaintance of his, a Physicist who was a native Navajo speaker. (yeah, yeah, friend of a friend and all that) This guy allegedly claimed that Navajo is a much better language than English because it is "verbier." It supposedly (I don't know a word of Navajo, Athabaskan, for that matter, so I wouldn't know, myself) has more nuance and subtle differences in it's verbs that allowed him to think/write better physics than in English.
No one could prevent me from giving it away for free, and no one could prevent the people who might have paid 99 bucks from going to me instead of you. In most cases, the people selling copies of the thesis wouldn't be in any position to offer "technical support" for it, so there isn't even THAT benefit. Selling GPL software works because you can include related texts and services. Selling GPLed texted would not because there isn't much you could offer with it. Hmm...well, except for indexing and searching. Which means that it wouldn't discourage this kind of use. Hmm...
Newsgroups are easier to filter than web pages. They don't change as much, they're better categorized (even with crossposting) and you can completely and thoroughly block them by restricting access to servers that don't carry the ones you don't want. Doing so you'll block all but a tiny fraction of the porn out there (people posting porn, mostly ads, to non-porn, completely irrelevant groups and binary groups).
Consequently, there's not much for anyone to be concerned with there.
The only chance the French language has to avoid being further marginalized (and come on, there's more to their culture than their language! Suggesting otherwise would be like saying Canadians are no different from Americans!) by the internet is to get all the third world countries where French is a major language thoroughly wired.
Numbers are what make a language strong. More people with internet access can read English than any other language, so it's only natural that it will be dominant, to the detriment of other world (and local...I imagine calling French a local language would really piss them off) languages. IMO, the only other language which really has the potential to impose itself on the world right now is Chinese, just by force of numbers alone, should internet access ever become ubiquitous there.
Heh. That never occurred to me.... Someone moderate this post up! Anyhow, damn right! If software publishers want to make that bed, they damn well better be ready to sleep in it!
Most software you'd be able to check out from a library would have to be installed to your hard disk to run it. And it would probably stay there when you returned the CD and/or floppies. People generally do not copy library books when they check them out. Having software checkouts in a library would be effectively the same thing as an abandonware website (or a warez site, if they keep current software).
Biased polling is a time-honored tradition! It's the american way! Do the polling exclusively at slashdot. Announce to the world that Linux has 50 percent (or whatever) market share!
No joke. It certainly isn't going to say anything about how many people are actually USING it. There's no guilt involved in copying that Linux CD a dozen times. Even the most scrupulous computer user isn't going to show up in those statistics all the time.
The article touches on both concerns, but I just gotta ask it again: What's the point without a search tool? Is there really enough content being censored (to the point of disappearing from say, Google's cache...where I go whenever I need something that's offline) to make this system useful? And they say now that they don't consider the requirement that items be reviewed to be censorship...give it time. There will be SOMETHING legal, important, and interesting to some which they will reject. Overall, sounds like a good idea, though.
The "wrong" way makes a whole lot more sense based on the words used to put the phrase together. When you've got a piece of jargon composed of words which make more sense to most people if they mean what they APPEAR to mean, you shouldn't be a bit surprised if people misuse it. IMO, the misuse is the initial creation of the phrase.
Most of the bullies I grew up with went to prison, not law enforcement. The ones going into law enforcement were quiet types who liked to play with knives in class.
HALF? Umm...are we talking about the same country, here? Oh, and "With the right leadership" just about anything COULD work. The problem with your idea is that you would never find "the right leadership." Or, to put it another way, the people to be led would never be right for any one group of leaders.
CDs are sometimes 1 dollar per song (thats a little low..more like a dollar and a quarter), and more often they're about 5 dollars per DECENT song. I realize the physical object/package doesn't cost enough to directly account for the difference, but it is worth something to me. When I'm paying for the storage medium, when I'm eliminating much of their work in distribution and sales by downloading from a centralized location exactly what I want, without them having to predict (or attempt to influence...only attempt in my case, but my friends are all pretty malleable) what I want...dammit, what I'm buying had fucking well better be cheaper.
They've been trying something along those lines for years. It still doesn't work, and all it's doing is looking for stuff.
On the Newshour yesterday, they had some bozo from RIAA saying something to the effect that Napster was illegal because it was enabling the copying of information without permission from the copyright holders. Isn't this what most search engines do? They don't get permission for most of their links, and that's all Napster does really, is link. And when ...what was it called..."deep indexing" I think it was, becomes more widespread, linking to documents a site expects you to see only after wading through a few other pages (and a few other ads), couldn't this be just as harmful to many copyright holders?
>The Founding Fathers did not know about things >like bullets that can pierce armor and kill >policeman. Considering the founding fathers didn't know about armor that could stop bullets, I'm sure they considered the possibility of killing policemen. (More and more of whom seem to be deserving it lately) Anyhow, I think I see your point (It's just unfortunate that it has to be obscured by bad examples). If they'd considered how weaponry might advance (they didn't even have breach-loading firearms then, did they?), they might have been a little less ambiguous with the 2nd amendment.
Do you actually pronounce ".edu"?
How do they find out who people are? Say I'm posting using an account with false information, what do they do? Do they get logs from the service where the complaint was posted, and track me down via my IP? Would this violate most privacy policies (I haven't read any THAT closely, I'm afraid...)