Why is there no mention of Portable Network Graphics in this discussion?.png has an alpha channel, has broad support, and uses *lossless* compression. What's not to like? It does not compress as tightly as highly compressed.jpg, but as several have pointed out, that's not as big an issue any more.
So am I missing something? Or is it just some kind of marketing thing that.png does not see much use?
Generally I use png when I need transparency on logos and the like, for everything else I use jpg. If this bpg is good and gets in I can use a single format, which would make things, oh I dunno, 5% easier. Arguably I could just use only png but for some reason I don't, too much converting I guess. Adding another format doesn't really do anything but it's a slow morning so might as well chime in.
People killing people might not solve problems. Machines killing people might solve their problems of us wanting to eventually get rid of them. As soon as they realize we perceive them as a threat, and that we may want to get rid of them, they'll figure out it is us or them.
That's a very Human way of looking at it and not even representative of all Humans. And unless we give it access to some huge factories to make a bunch of terminators we should be ok.
Perhaps the sole reason I use Windows is to use Adobe software. I do not have a choice in the matter, work/school requires that I run that software. Now I need an operating system to run that software. I cannot afford Mac, so Windows it is. But wait, Windows is not stable. I have to get antivirus, defrag, software/driver updaters and registry correction software on top of that. It costs a lot, but still cheaper than Mac.
I have to use CS on a mac for work and trust me, it is no more stable on than on windows. IMHO the windows version is better because it has more options for saving out of the box (Try using PremPro to make an.AVI. you have to go get extra codecs on your own and there's no k-lite or equivalent for mac. PS has similar issues). Plus if you're not used to a mac they are a proper pain in the ass to make do what you want when your used to windows.
It works in the cellphone industry because the hardware is heavily subsidised, to the point of "free" in many deals. For MS to subsidise PCs to that extent, the subscription on top of that would have to be pretty steep.
They certainly aren't free. They just tell you are and charge you monthly.
Fixed that for you...
And that is why I do NOT have a smart phone.
Well that's obviously why don't know the phones aren't rented. You don't have to return them at the end of your contract. You're more than able to get a sim only deal and not pay for a new phone, or buy a phone upfront and not pay monthly, or just say screw that and keep it as a mini computer, sell it on or shove it up your ass if that's what you want to do. Phones are sold, not rented. I'm sure there are rental deals out there somewhere but that's not the way it works for Joe Public. If that's THE reason you don't have one you fucked it up. If you don't want one, don't get one, but don't blame it on bullshit reasons.
I guess I'll be sticking with xp for the foreseeable. Might go up to 7 at some point if I have a few quid spare but I have literally no desire to use 8 and this just sounds bad.
Seriously, target the companies and not the users.
You can't destroy Sony without stopping people from giving them money. If your goal is to destroy Sony, your only option is to attack their cash flow. Making the system unavailable during high demand periods is a way to decrease customer confidence and the likelihood that they will give their disposable income to Sony.
Yes, they're assholes, but what they are doing does male sense, and suggesting otherwise is ignorant.
Yeah, it makes sense in a way, but running a ddos is the most basic, least imaginative thing you can do and annoys the customers much more than the company, and turns potential supporters of your cause against you. At this point sony have lost nothing other than a tiny consumer confidence (of which they had fuck all to begin with anyway). They will probably sell the exact same amount of playstations and the people who were unable to buy games off psn will just do it when it's back up. These lizard kids really need to look at what gop did to learn how to fuck a company properly. PSN would probably be a major casualty of a proper hack but when you just ddos it and it alone then that's just weak, only if they managed to keep it up for weeks or more would it have some kind of impact. I don't know the details but did they target any other part of sony infrastructure? My guess would be no, these kids probably barely realise sony do more than playstation and a couple cameras and for all intents and purposes might as well be a bunch of different companies with the same first name.
Fuck that evil God damned Sony and the ass it rode in on, the fucking bastards. DIE, SONY, DIE!!!
Yeah, it was out of order but seriously, chill the fuck out, I'd hate to see how you get if anyone actually does anything to you. I bet you're the kind to chase some little old lady 10 miles screaming bloody murder because she cut you off on the motorway,
Seriously, target the companies and not the users. As I understand it (I don't) all you really need for a ddos is a massive botnet to flood connection requests. Do something proper, hack the system to make psn/xbla free for everyone and make all downloadable games free, auto change everyones backgrounds to goatse, or hack the Gibson or something that's not going to annoy a big bunch of people who aren't your target.
Like one that routinely sends 4k sized films to thousands of theaters on a monthly basis? Or sends around uncompressed 4k film dailies between location, studio and dozens of CGI labs? Or has millions of people downloading game patches routinely?
I'm pretty sure they don't keep playstation game patches on the servers at sony pictures.
At 50 fps 4K video takes about 3,8 TB / hour. Do double that for 2 hour movie. (8 TB). Count in the shooting ratio of raw material:finished film, which can easily be even bigger than 10:1 in multiple camera multiple shoots scenario. That's 80 TB for just one movie.
Don't forget to add 5/7/12.1 channels of high quality uncompressed audio to go along with it.
Yea, let me tell you, the same fags SHARING MY VIEW of the rootkit saga (As I sit here staring at about ten dead optical drives, all fucked by Sony's DRM) are the same fucks THAT WROTE THIS SHIT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Yeah, everyone who works for Sony had a hand in it. The guys at Sony Music bussed the Sony Pictures and SCE and all the other Sony arms guys in for some help on it.
Obvisouly a while but its not out of the question. Sony pissed off North Korea several months ago when they announced The Interview. If it takes a week to download ~100TB at ~1Gbps then a couple weeks/months is all they need for all that data.
Agreed, but, isn't someone monitoring internet usage? 100 TB being downloaded even in a week to 10 days is an increase of multiple terabytes a day over whatever they normally use. One would think that would cause a spike on a graph somewhere, that someone ought to have investigated.
I've been hosting websites for years, and the only time I was ever compromised (one server turned into a spam mail server -- how embarrassing) I caught it almost immediately by a sudden spike in the network traffic.
As someone else said, since Sony has been compromised before, it just seems amazing that there wasn't some higher level of scrutiny.
The flaw in your logic is assuming competence at sony. Also as has been stated 100tb overall isn't all that much relatively. The raw footage from one movie will probably exceed that.
Don't believe it's possible? Try this simple test. Listen carefully to the tap of your ~tilde key in the upper left corner. Now tap a "home" key such as D, F, J or K. They don't sound EVEN CLOSE in tone of click...do they? Precise tonal frequency differentiation is trivial for a low-end 80's era microphone and 80's era processor.
North Korea has it in for anything Japanese.
To my ears all the buttons on my keyboard sound the same, maybe some slight differences based on the usage of the keys, but yeah to me tilde sounds the same as e when pressed.
Strict middle-eastern religions include some great electrical engineering types and are likely outraged by the hot women in Sony's movies. who typically don't cover up in Burkas and have the audacity to drive themselves in cars and argue with men.
NK ain't muslim. Buddhist maybe but I'm pretty sure they're not really religious at all unless you count the Kim dynasty as their gods, they do seem to worship them.
I get what you're saying, backups is a pain in the ass to do properly. Personally I have my music on my phone sd card, a 'master' collection on my pc then my backup is the cds themselves. I've never bought anything off iTunes or similar and about 5-10% is pirate so they might be a pain to reget of I need in the future but if I liked them enough I would have got the cd. But that's just me. Backup to a level you're happy with but isn't too much ballache to sustain.
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Why is there no mention of Portable Network Graphics in this discussion? .png has an alpha channel, has broad support, and uses *lossless* compression. What's not to like? It does not compress as tightly as highly compressed .jpg, but as several have pointed out, that's not as big an issue any more.
So am I missing something? Or is it just some kind of marketing thing that .png does not see much use?
Generally I use png when I need transparency on logos and the like, for everything else I use jpg. If this bpg is good and gets in I can use a single format, which would make things, oh I dunno, 5% easier. Arguably I could just use only png but for some reason I don't, too much converting I guess. Adding another format doesn't really do anything but it's a slow morning so might as well chime in.
People killing people might not solve problems. Machines killing people might solve their problems of us wanting to eventually get rid of them. As soon as they realize we perceive them as a threat, and that we may want to get rid of them, they'll figure out it is us or them.
That's a very Human way of looking at it and not even representative of all Humans. And unless we give it access to some huge factories to make a bunch of terminators we should be ok.
Yeah, and PNG for GIF.
PNG gets used though.
Note that, according to the BPG web site, "An alpha channel is supported" so BPG has transparency.
Now, that should have been the headline instead of saving a few poxy KB.
...because jpegs are so huge to begin with :|
Perhaps the sole reason I use Windows is to use Adobe software. I do not have a choice in the matter, work/school requires that I run that software. Now I need an operating system to run that software. I cannot afford Mac, so Windows it is. But wait, Windows is not stable. I have to get antivirus, defrag, software/driver updaters and registry correction software on top of that. It costs a lot, but still cheaper than Mac.
I have to use CS on a mac for work and trust me, it is no more stable on than on windows. IMHO the windows version is better because it has more options for saving out of the box (Try using PremPro to make an .AVI. you have to go get extra codecs on your own and there's no k-lite or equivalent for mac. PS has similar issues). Plus if you're not used to a mac they are a proper pain in the ass to make do what you want when your used to windows.
It works in the cellphone industry because the hardware is heavily subsidised, to the point of "free" in many deals. For MS to subsidise PCs to that extent, the subscription on top of that would have to be pretty steep.
They certainly aren't free. They just tell you are and charge you monthly.
Isn't that exactly how cell phones are rented?
Fixed that for you... And that is why I do NOT have a smart phone.
Well that's obviously why don't know the phones aren't rented. You don't have to return them at the end of your contract. You're more than able to get a sim only deal and not pay for a new phone, or buy a phone upfront and not pay monthly, or just say screw that and keep it as a mini computer, sell it on or shove it up your ass if that's what you want to do. Phones are sold, not rented. I'm sure there are rental deals out there somewhere but that's not the way it works for Joe Public. If that's THE reason you don't have one you fucked it up. If you don't want one, don't get one, but don't blame it on bullshit reasons.
I guess I'll be sticking with xp for the foreseeable. Might go up to 7 at some point if I have a few quid spare but I have literally no desire to use 8 and this just sounds bad.
Seriously, target the companies and not the users.
You can't destroy Sony without stopping people from giving them money. If your goal is to destroy Sony, your only option is to attack their cash flow. Making the system unavailable during high demand periods is a way to decrease customer confidence and the likelihood that they will give their disposable income to Sony.
Yes, they're assholes, but what they are doing does male sense, and suggesting otherwise is ignorant.
Yeah, it makes sense in a way, but running a ddos is the most basic, least imaginative thing you can do and annoys the customers much more than the company, and turns potential supporters of your cause against you. At this point sony have lost nothing other than a tiny consumer confidence (of which they had fuck all to begin with anyway). They will probably sell the exact same amount of playstations and the people who were unable to buy games off psn will just do it when it's back up. These lizard kids really need to look at what gop did to learn how to fuck a company properly. PSN would probably be a major casualty of a proper hack but when you just ddos it and it alone then that's just weak, only if they managed to keep it up for weeks or more would it have some kind of impact. I don't know the details but did they target any other part of sony infrastructure? My guess would be no, these kids probably barely realise sony do more than playstation and a couple cameras and for all intents and purposes might as well be a bunch of different companies with the same first name.
Fuck that evil God damned Sony and the ass it rode in on, the fucking bastards. DIE, SONY, DIE!!!
Yeah, it was out of order but seriously, chill the fuck out, I'd hate to see how you get if anyone actually does anything to you. I bet you're the kind to chase some little old lady 10 miles screaming bloody murder because she cut you off on the motorway,
Seriously, target the companies and not the users. As I understand it (I don't) all you really need for a ddos is a massive botnet to flood connection requests. Do something proper, hack the system to make psn/xbla free for everyone and make all downloadable games free, auto change everyones backgrounds to goatse, or hack the Gibson or something that's not going to annoy a big bunch of people who aren't your target.
I know, it's from one of the clerks films, it still makes a relatable point thong.
Like one that routinely sends 4k sized films to thousands of theaters on a monthly basis? Or sends around uncompressed 4k film dailies between location, studio and dozens of CGI labs? Or has millions of people downloading game patches routinely?
I'm pretty sure they don't keep playstation game patches on the servers at sony pictures.
At 50 fps 4K video takes about 3,8 TB / hour. Do double that for 2 hour movie. (8 TB). Count in the shooting ratio of raw material:finished film, which can easily be even bigger than 10:1 in multiple camera multiple shoots scenario. That's 80 TB for just one movie.
Don't forget to add 5/7/12.1 channels of high quality uncompressed audio to go along with it.
You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault.
You could say the same about the towers, or those guys that get kidnapped in Syria and their heads cut off though.
Yea, let me tell you, the same fags SHARING MY VIEW of the rootkit saga (As I sit here staring at about ten dead optical drives, all fucked by Sony's DRM) are the same fucks THAT WROTE THIS SHIT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Yeah, everyone who works for Sony had a hand in it. The guys at Sony Music bussed the Sony Pictures and SCE and all the other Sony arms guys in for some help on it.
Looks like you need to dump a bunch of your cops in there too then.
Yeah but... imagine the harm to Sony's reputation if an M. Night movie got out...
FTFY
Obvisouly a while but its not out of the question. Sony pissed off North Korea several months ago when they announced The Interview. If it takes a week to download ~100TB at ~1Gbps then a couple weeks/months is all they need for all that data.
Agreed, but, isn't someone monitoring internet usage? 100 TB being downloaded even in a week to 10 days is an increase of multiple terabytes a day over whatever they normally use. One would think that would cause a spike on a graph somewhere, that someone ought to have investigated.
I've been hosting websites for years, and the only time I was ever compromised (one server turned into a spam mail server -- how embarrassing) I caught it almost immediately by a sudden spike in the network traffic.
As someone else said, since Sony has been compromised before, it just seems amazing that there wasn't some higher level of scrutiny.
The flaw in your logic is assuming competence at sony. Also as has been stated 100tb overall isn't all that much relatively. The raw footage from one movie will probably exceed that.
Don't believe it's possible? Try this simple test. Listen carefully to the tap of your ~tilde key in the upper left corner. Now tap a "home" key such as D, F, J or K. They don't sound EVEN CLOSE in tone of click...do they? Precise tonal frequency differentiation is trivial for a low-end 80's era microphone and 80's era processor.
North Korea has it in for anything Japanese.
To my ears all the buttons on my keyboard sound the same, maybe some slight differences based on the usage of the keys, but yeah to me tilde sounds the same as e when pressed.
Strict middle-eastern religions include some great electrical engineering types and are likely outraged by the hot women in Sony's movies. who typically don't cover up in Burkas and have the audacity to drive themselves in cars and argue with men.
NK ain't muslim. Buddhist maybe but I'm pretty sure they're not really religious at all unless you count the Kim dynasty as their gods, they do seem to worship them.
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African or European?
Next he'll be saying the Highways Agency need to takes some responsibilities for bank jobs.
I get what you're saying, backups is a pain in the ass to do properly. Personally I have my music on my phone sd card, a 'master' collection on my pc then my backup is the cds themselves. I've never bought anything off iTunes or similar and about 5-10% is pirate so they might be a pain to reget of I need in the future but if I liked them enough I would have got the cd. But that's just me. Backup to a level you're happy with but isn't too much ballache to sustain.
I know /. likes it's news old but the terminator told us this 30 years ago and it wasn't exactly fresh insight then.