Pirates, for historical reasons, are rather fond of RARs within RARs within RARs. Such ugly packing was commonplace a few years back, but is much rarer now.
That's about right for freenet, except that freenet is designed to maintain anonyminity even if many of the nodes are compromised or operated by an attacker. This does impose a substantial overhead in network usage, making it a very slow and somewhat unreliable network, but if you have reason to be paranoid it's the network for you.
You might be surprised how weak some servers are. There are tools known as Slowloris and Anoctopus (They function in exactly the same way) that will disable a lot of servers with ease from even a low-bandwidth connection.
A lot of churches seem to want to be persecuted. If they aren't persecuted, then they'll either incite some false persecution by deliberatly flouting the law, or just imagine some and try to exagerate.
Slight correction: The justice department can't force a catholic agency to place children with homosexual adoptive parents, true... but some state contracts are conditional on them doing so. If they refuse, they don't get government money. Naturally the church is screaming mad about this discrimination of not giving them money.
DVI supports exactly the same DRM scheme. The only difference is that for DVI it's an optional extension that not all equipment impliments, whereas with HDMI it's a required part of the specification.
HDMI on most desktops, displayport on Apple (With optional HDMI adaptor), mini-HDMI on tablets and ultrabooks where the full HDMI is too big. Electrically HDMI and DVI are equivilent, but HDMI has a smaller and more robust connector.
To a school, grades are everything. Grades are what bring the funding. Grades are what bring the students. Educating students to a productive future is all well and good, but it is something to do in between preparing them to score highly on the exams. So what is the incentive for the schools to get in on this? Unless you can demonstrate a clear and measurable improvement in exam performance, there isn't much of one.
Patents are one of the few things you can get without a huge cost. They are within the reach of individuals. Defending them in court, on the other hand, can cost millions - so once you have your shiny new patent, expect companies to ignore it. The best you might manage is to sell it to a company that does have the resources to enforce it.
Ban? I think just not subsidising it would be a start. The US government spends rather a lot of money paying farmers to grow corn in order to force prices down - and cheap-as-dirt corn is why HFCS is so cheap, and thus so popular in processed foods and snacks.
Might as well throw in broadband internet. Back when it first caught on, this was before legal music downloads were available, and before TV downloading was even possible. Piracy was really a prime motivator for people to get off the modem. Even the ISPs seemed to recognise this in their advertising, boasting that users could 'download a song' in minutes. Where did they think people were getting the music from?
The production costs of music are tiny - the music video usually costs far more. The bulk of the expenses in an album are actually promotion costs: Getting the music on the radio, advertised on TV, posters, paying stores to place it prominantly in the window, getting the performer into TV interviews. Anything to raise awareness and thus sales.
Labels, like movie studios, tend to fiddle the numbers on that though. They'll pay a huge promotion cost to another division within the company and use such tricks to make sure that many albums and movies never actually show a profit, or show very little. That means lower royalties to pay the artist, and much less to pay in taxes.
"Piracy has existed for about 500 years, and only in the last decade or so has come to be taken as stealing."
Piracy originally meant theft in international water, which was very much theft. I don't know when it first became used as a term for copyright infringement, or by whome.
They don't have to resort to bribery any more. They just call the money 'campaign contributions' and it becomes legal. Favorable media coverage always helps too.
Maybe on audio, but on video the FFT itsself is only a tiny part of the encoding time. The really slow part is finding motion vectors, which is a completly seperate part, and usually the slowest one.
Video encoding actually should scale fantastically to multible cores - it's almost linear, in theory. It's just that very few encoders support it due to the complexity of multithreading what is already a very complicated program.
They do well when you need something a little more powerful and extensible than a PIC, but still need to watch the power consumption - and the shield system and standardised communication allowed for economy of scale in peripherals. You can take an arduino and just wire it to an ethernet interface, or a bluetooth interface, or an 11g interface, or an SD card reader, or all sorts of other forms of IO, without having to worry overly about compatibility. Plug and play for embedded computing.
It's more than a property of the DFT - it's a much deeper mathematical truth than that. The same fundamental mathematics is used to derive the uncertainty princible in quantum mechanics: For a signal to be perfectly defined in frequency it must be infinite in time, and vice versa. When you apply the same to quantum wave-functions... the uncertainty limit isn't a limit on measurements. It's a limit on what the universe is capable of representing.
I was not aware that the mathematics of multiplication were equivilent to the FFT. Interesting. I'm not sure how to multiply via convolution though, other than the obvious trivial cheat of a 1x1 matrix.
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Pirates, for historical reasons, are rather fond of RARs within RARs within RARs. Such ugly packing was commonplace a few years back, but is much rarer now.
That's about right for freenet, except that freenet is designed to maintain anonyminity even if many of the nodes are compromised or operated by an attacker. This does impose a substantial overhead in network usage, making it a very slow and somewhat unreliable network, but if you have reason to be paranoid it's the network for you.
You might be surprised how weak some servers are. There are tools known as Slowloris and Anoctopus (They function in exactly the same way) that will disable a lot of servers with ease from even a low-bandwidth connection.
A lot of churches seem to want to be persecuted. If they aren't persecuted, then they'll either incite some false persecution by deliberatly flouting the law, or just imagine some and try to exagerate.
Slight correction: The justice department can't force a catholic agency to place children with homosexual adoptive parents, true... but some state contracts are conditional on them doing so. If they refuse, they don't get government money. Naturally the church is screaming mad about this discrimination of not giving them money.
And from the standpoint of electronics companies, lots of buying of new monitors.
Pirates don't even need the analog hole. Both HD-DVD and blu-ray have been cracked enough to just decrypt the disc.
Indeed. Or you can use various unlicenced decryption methods, in which case you don't need an HDCP compliant anything. Pirates win again.
DVI supports exactly the same DRM scheme. The only difference is that for DVI it's an optional extension that not all equipment impliments, whereas with HDMI it's a required part of the specification.
HDMI on most desktops, displayport on Apple (With optional HDMI adaptor), mini-HDMI on tablets and ultrabooks where the full HDMI is too big. Electrically HDMI and DVI are equivilent, but HDMI has a smaller and more robust connector.
You can do HDMI to DVI with a very simple, cheap adaptor. Or vice versa.
VGA to HDMI or vice versa requires a complex, expensive adaptor.
nothing much, if you're going file-to-file and have plenty of memory - but most encoders are made to also handle live streaming.
To a school, grades are everything. Grades are what bring the funding. Grades are what bring the students. Educating students to a productive future is all well and good, but it is something to do in between preparing them to score highly on the exams. So what is the incentive for the schools to get in on this? Unless you can demonstrate a clear and measurable improvement in exam performance, there isn't much of one.
Patents are one of the few things you can get without a huge cost. They are within the reach of individuals. Defending them in court, on the other hand, can cost millions - so once you have your shiny new patent, expect companies to ignore it. The best you might manage is to sell it to a company that does have the resources to enforce it.
Ban? I think just not subsidising it would be a start. The US government spends rather a lot of money paying farmers to grow corn in order to force prices down - and cheap-as-dirt corn is why HFCS is so cheap, and thus so popular in processed foods and snacks.
Oh, I know that part. I'm just trying to see how it could be applied to more rapidly multiply large numbers.
Careful, that text is probably copyrighted!
Might as well throw in broadband internet. Back when it first caught on, this was before legal music downloads were available, and before TV downloading was even possible. Piracy was really a prime motivator for people to get off the modem. Even the ISPs seemed to recognise this in their advertising, boasting that users could 'download a song' in minutes. Where did they think people were getting the music from?
The production costs of music are tiny - the music video usually costs far more. The bulk of the expenses in an album are actually promotion costs: Getting the music on the radio, advertised on TV, posters, paying stores to place it prominantly in the window, getting the performer into TV interviews. Anything to raise awareness and thus sales.
Labels, like movie studios, tend to fiddle the numbers on that though. They'll pay a huge promotion cost to another division within the company and use such tricks to make sure that many albums and movies never actually show a profit, or show very little. That means lower royalties to pay the artist, and much less to pay in taxes.
"Piracy has existed for about 500 years, and only in the last decade or so has come to be taken as stealing."
Piracy originally meant theft in international water, which was very much theft. I don't know when it first became used as a term for copyright infringement, or by whome.
They don't have to resort to bribery any more. They just call the money 'campaign contributions' and it becomes legal. Favorable media coverage always helps too.
Maybe on audio, but on video the FFT itsself is only a tiny part of the encoding time. The really slow part is finding motion vectors, which is a completly seperate part, and usually the slowest one.
Video encoding actually should scale fantastically to multible cores - it's almost linear, in theory. It's just that very few encoders support it due to the complexity of multithreading what is already a very complicated program.
They do well when you need something a little more powerful and extensible than a PIC, but still need to watch the power consumption - and the shield system and standardised communication allowed for economy of scale in peripherals. You can take an arduino and just wire it to an ethernet interface, or a bluetooth interface, or an 11g interface, or an SD card reader, or all sorts of other forms of IO, without having to worry overly about compatibility. Plug and play for embedded computing.
It's more than a property of the DFT - it's a much deeper mathematical truth than that. The same fundamental mathematics is used to derive the uncertainty princible in quantum mechanics: For a signal to be perfectly defined in frequency it must be infinite in time, and vice versa. When you apply the same to quantum wave-functions... the uncertainty limit isn't a limit on measurements. It's a limit on what the universe is capable of representing.
I was not aware that the mathematics of multiplication were equivilent to the FFT. Interesting. I'm not sure how to multiply via convolution though, other than the obvious trivial cheat of a 1x1 matrix.