>> had to compete on equal terms with wholly-private enterprises.
Look up the phrase "natural monopoly" in any convenient text book. In situations where economies of scale apply, the first company to grow big can beat out any smaller company. Even if there were 2 equal competing companies, any small lead would be amplified by this effect until (again) we had a monopoly. This argument can be applied (by induction) to any number of initially competeing companies.
Even anti-trust laws don't stop this - they just establish a minimum acceptable number of competitors. Acceptable to who is an argument for another time.
When I read about this, my first reaction was that every single second of TV broadcast will be flagged as uncopyable.
My second thought was "hmmm, I wonder if the comercials will be flagged as copy protected."
Hey! Cool! That would allow some simple TiVo programming to automatically skip commercials!
Lebed didn't try and pick stocks (I'll leave comments on the skills/lack of required for that for another thread c.f. dot-bomb)
He bought stocks, and then (this is the tricky bit) posted favourable lies about to them to as many forums as he could find.
Pump and Dump. Not difficult. Of course, it is illegal, despite Lebed's squealings to the contrary. A smart person would have known this.
The circuit is not self modifying. An external computer makes the design, downloads it into the FPGA, and then performs the test, noting the results to control the next generation
A fine opportunity for the good Mr Katz to put out his books free, and wait for his book sales to increase, assuming he believes the "napster/mp3's increase CD sales" line he's always spouting here.
Here's some information about old lawnmowers in England. We have famously nice lawns over here, and these are the machines we use to keep 'em that way.
The BIG idea underlying this is that text requires high spatial resolution (say 300 DPI, 1 bit) with measly colour resolution. In the case of a page of bloack text on white paper the colour "pixel" could be the size of the page!
The photographs need moderate colour AND spatial resolution (say 24 bit, 72 DPI). This is a very old idea. Colour print systems in the 70's used it. What's neat is the idea of "gating" the lower resolution colour data through the higher resolution "shape mask" to get the properties of both, at least for real world pages.
Appropriate (and quite well known) compression techniques are then used on the 2 channels.
The wavelet technique you describe sounds like it would get the frequency separation concept in a more "implicit" way. DjVu is very explicit.
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I think you'll find the phone company make a small charge every time you order something. If it's a 800 number the company pays. Otherwise you pay.
The phone company ALWAYS receives.
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I don't know why Google doesn't allow simultaneous "site:" and "link:"
It does.
Demonstration
You just can't do it from the advanced search page, you have to (gasp!) type it into the box yourself.
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They want to see broadband in every house ? drop the fees to $20 a month.
"They" want to see a Porsch on every drive ? Drop the price to $1000.00"
Oh? "They"'d like a profit?
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This whacky guy observed and measured the effect in his own clocks.
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...is between gates and serial processors. The coding languages reflect this difference.
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>> had to compete on equal terms with wholly-private enterprises.
Look up the phrase "natural monopoly" in any convenient text book. In situations where economies of scale apply, the first company to grow big can beat out any smaller company. Even if there were 2 equal competing companies, any small lead would be amplified by this effect until (again) we had a monopoly. This argument can be applied (by induction) to any number of initially competeing companies.
Even anti-trust laws don't stop this - they just establish a minimum acceptable number of competitors. Acceptable to who is an argument for another time.
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When I read about this, my first reaction was that every single second of TV broadcast will be flagged as uncopyable.
My second thought was "hmmm, I wonder if the comercials will be flagged as copy protected."
Hey! Cool! That would allow some simple TiVo programming to automatically skip commercials!
BugBear
Correct me if I'm wrong (hint: I don't think I am), but wouldn't that statement have applied to GIF/UNISYS?
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Here a potted google search.
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That would rather depend on your definition of "fast".
It's can be surprising at how little difference there is in elapsed journey time, when comparing bikes Vs cars on short journeys (say 1 - 5 miles)
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Note the key phrase "purple-skinned" - the flesh is white.
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This field has a name/acronym: HALE
High Altitude/Long Endurance.
Here's a (fairly stale)
Page of Links
The overall concept is to supplant/replace/augment satellites and/or aeroplanes.
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He bought stocks, and then (this is the tricky bit) posted favourable lies about to them to as many forums as he could find. Pump and Dump. Not difficult. Of course, it is illegal, despite Lebed's squealings to the contrary. A smart person would have known this.
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The photographs need moderate colour AND spatial resolution (say 24 bit, 72 DPI). This is a very old idea. Colour print systems in the 70's used it. What's neat is the idea of "gating" the lower resolution colour data through the higher resolution "shape mask" to get the properties of both, at least for real world pages.
Appropriate (and quite well known) compression techniques are then used on the 2 channels.
The wavelet technique you describe sounds like it would get the frequency separation concept in a more "implicit" way. DjVu is very explicit. BugBear
I think you'll find the phone company make a small charge every time you order something. If it's a 800 number the company pays. Otherwise you pay. The phone company ALWAYS receives. BugBear
If ya' think a one-handed keyboard is the answer, do a web-search for "chorded keyboard(s)" BugBear