I'm glad someone else has figured this stuff out. Here is a principle I think he hints at understanding, but doesn't state outright:
Imagine that everyone has to go at half their usual speed to work. Then it takes each person twice as long to get to work. This means at any given time, there are twice as many cars on the road. With twice as many cars, things are likely to slow down even more...
24 bit color is generally considered the maximum a human eye can distinguish.
I've heard that a lot too. There are a whole slew of caveats, though. As pointed out in the grandparent post, what happens if you actually need to lighten or darken the image? It is amazing how quickly this reveals the limitations of 8 bits per channel. So sure, 24 bit looks great, as long as you don't need to do anything besides look at the image.
Now gamuts are another story. Your monitor, printer, and camera each have a gamut of colors they can display/see. Your eye can see many colors outside these ranges. There is progress to make in this area as well.
These people may be geeks, but they understand little about optics, current sensor technology, film chemistry, or human perception of resolution and dynamic range.
Perhaps you'd care to enlighten us. As for this "human perception" stuff, what happens if you have to brighten or darken the image a few notches. Human perception suddenly becomes profoundly more sensitive (or was it the image that degraded?). Or what happens if the human actually looks at some subset of your image, rather than the whole thing at once?
Does anyone know any way see this in a readable font?
Give evolution a few dozen generations to improve your eyes, and that should do the trick. Or maybe someone will have fixed the font size fluke by then.
I have a friend who really wants to make money. He has a product, but no advertising. I was thinking, maybe if I submitted to Slashdot a big long question, and ended it by mentioning his product, then maybe I'd get a ton of free exposure. There's a new program called Slashdot Question Generator that can do this, but do you know of any others?
The studios release differing versions of movies for a number of purposes:
TV airlines for release in different regions
They release "unrated" versions of movies like American Pie on DVD.
Yet, somehow when consumer groups ask for versions of videos that are more "family friendly" (say, the same versions they provide for TV or airlines), the studios turn their noses up.
Finally, people get fed up with this and someone begins to profit by providing what people are asking for. The studios realize that someone else is making a profit and turn their lawyers loose.
Real programmers don't even use computers. They write everything as operations on a Turing Machine language, and then run the operations with a paper and pencil.
I think both sides are rather difficult, because there remain so many unanswered questions. Take this imaginary dialog: God created it. Who is God? Well, the guy that created it. And how did he create all that? Well, he just did, because he has the power to do so. Why does he have all that power? Uh, because he is the almighty creator. So how did he get to be the almighty creator? He just is. He created the universe, so he has to be. So, one day he just got in the mood to whip one of those babies out. Yeah, because he is the creator and all. Oh, right. So how did he get to be the creator again? He has always been the creator. Right. So how did he get to always be the creator? By virtue of his attributes. Ok. Where did those attributes come from? They just are. Why? Because he's that way. The creator doesn't need to have a beginning. Ah, because then who created the creator, right? Yeah. So, what if the creator pulled himself out of a hat, sorta magician like? No, it doesn't work that way. The creator is eternal. Lucky guy. Lots of responsibility, though. Yeah. At least he gets to be his own boss, though. Right. Gives himself a holiday once a week. Well, he did once. Now he's too Busy watching us all the time. So, do you think he ever plays around with us the way we used to play with ant hills? You know, step on it, or flood it with water? Well, I suppose he might, but he's perfect, so it's not the same. Right. We go and sing for him sometimes. I think he likes that. Yeah, he probably does. I dunno about some of those TV programs, though. Breaking baseball bats and being obnoxious and all. Do you think he has a way to tune some of those out? Like, maybe he covers his ears and hums a tune? Heh, could be. But I don't think he minds. He's perfect, you know. No emotions or anything like that. Right. So how do you think all this stuff got here? Well, I think it just kinda happened. You know, just because it did. Didn't need a creator.
Resurrection of games has happened before and it will happen before. However, abandonware still exists and will always exist, for which emulators play an important role.
Yet another person informing us of the number of pixels in a 35mm negative. I've heard 2 to 4, some other guy says 7 or 11, you're saying 20. Taken together, I think your answers nail it: it's subjective.
Misleading speech * To protect your reputation ("I did not...") * To protect yourself physically ("These are not the droids you're looking for"; "I've never met this person") * To protect someone else ("He did not go through that door") * To harm someone else (slander, libel) * For profit ("I worked 25 hours last week"; Presidential candidate colors the truth to improve his image) * To bolster a cause (PR company invents story in 1990 about Iraqi soldiers killing babies) * To obtain evidence ("Your friends have already confessed...") * Citing out of context * Promises you won't keep * Distorting the evidence; making claims you can't back up * Fraud
Silence * Withholding evidence (drug company conceals study results) * Agreement through silence * Silence about a crime in the present or future (Nevada man watches his friend go into a bathroom to rape a kill a child; wife says nothing about her husband's unlawful plans) * To hurt someone's feelings * To keep people in ignorance (someone is about to drink poison; harmful chemicals are in a river; Vatican withholds documents) * Copyright laws forbid someone from displaying certain local legistlation on a web site * Pleading the 5th * Filtering (Great Firewall of China)
Non-verbal speech * Harming property (Animal rights group burns down a building; someone sprays acid on a painting in a museum; de facto government destroys immense budhist sculptures; Boston tea party; Statues of Lenin destroyed in former Soviet Union) * Harming people (a slap in the face; a kick under the table; mafia chief beats #2 man to death at a big mafia meeting; man pours gas on himself and burns to death in protest; chemicals thrown at an abortion clinic make people sick) * Music * Dance * Appearance (Facial expressions; clothing; hair; piercings; tatoos; self-mutilation; gestures) * Threats (a warning shot; laws; absense of laws; implied hit list of abortion doctors; carrying a gun)
Speech in context * In court * In office * As a paid representative (attorney, PR, CEO, salesperson, teacher) * In school * To children * In a church * At a funeral * In a hospital * Broadcast speech * Amplified speech * Speech on the web * Dropping leaflets (by hand; from a plane) * In an airport * To a country's President * Spam * In a crowded theater * Going door to door * Classified information (congressman leaks to press; double-agent sells secrets) * Billboards * Political ads * In bed (with a politician) * Attorney-client * Religious confession
Transmitting information * Napster * De-CSS * P2P * Hosting web sites for others (lawful or not, ethical or not) * Accessing a database * Lending a CD with music or software * MAME and game ROMs * Encryption/steganography * Wi-Fi * Sharing internet or cable access * Books (giving/selling/smuggling/banning) * Writing "how-to" guides * Cameras (web/government/corporate; face recognition) * Gathering and selling consumer information
And don't forget it's the attorneys who really benefit. It doesn't matter what the company offers the plaintiffs as long as the attorneys get away with a few million in their pockets. Notice that you, the one who is supposedly being compensated, did not approve the final agreement. Guess who did?
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I'm glad someone else has figured this stuff out. Here is a principle I think he hints at understanding, but doesn't state outright:
Imagine that everyone has to go at half their usual speed to work. Then it takes each person twice as long to get to work. This means at any given time, there are twice as many cars on the road. With twice as many cars, things are likely to slow down even more...
Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Thanks.
Warning: Any metal objects in pockets will be confiscated without warning.
24 bit color is generally considered the maximum a human eye can distinguish.
I've heard that a lot too. There are a whole slew of caveats, though. As pointed out in the grandparent post, what happens if you actually need to lighten or darken the image? It is amazing how quickly this reveals the limitations of 8 bits per channel. So sure, 24 bit looks great, as long as you don't need to do anything besides look at the image.
Now gamuts are another story. Your monitor, printer, and camera each have a gamut of colors they can display/see. Your eye can see many colors outside these ranges. There is progress to make in this area as well.
These people may be geeks, but they understand little about optics, current sensor technology, film chemistry, or human perception of resolution and dynamic range.
Perhaps you'd care to enlighten us. As for this "human perception" stuff, what happens if you have to brighten or darken the image a few notches. Human perception suddenly becomes profoundly more sensitive (or was it the image that degraded?). Or what happens if the human actually looks at some subset of your image, rather than the whole thing at once?
...all the resolution you would ever need, unless your printing multi-foot-wide prints.
I'm glad you don't really get to decide how much resolution I'll ever need. It's more the 5 MP.
Not to mention, now you're getting a full 35mm worth of image clarity.
Does anyone know any way see this in a readable font?
Give evolution a few dozen generations to improve your eyes, and that should do the trick. Or maybe someone will have fixed the font size fluke by then.
I think we've already seen small-scale examples of this, when Yahoo was told to remove links to certain sites or be blocked.
I have a friend who really wants to make money. He has a product, but no advertising. I was thinking, maybe if I submitted to Slashdot a big long question, and ended it by mentioning his product, then maybe I'd get a ton of free exposure. There's a new program called Slashdot Question Generator that can do this, but do you know of any others?
The studios release differing versions of movies for a number of purposes:
TV
airlines
for release in different regions
They release "unrated" versions of movies like American Pie on DVD.
Yet, somehow when consumer groups ask for versions of videos that are more "family friendly" (say, the same versions they provide for TV or airlines), the studios turn their noses up.
Finally, people get fed up with this and someone begins to profit by providing what people are asking for. The studios realize that someone else is making a profit and turn their lawyers loose.
This is just like today's credit scores. They factor in a variety of data points, but they keep the formula secret.
Racism, sexism, and ageism can all be included, often indirectly, because it's all so "scientific" and therefore sacred.
What you don't know can't hurt them.
Real programmers don't even use computers. They write everything as operations on a Turing Machine language, and then run the operations with a paper and pencil.
I think both sides are rather difficult, because there remain so many unanswered questions. Take this imaginary dialog:
God created it.
Who is God?
Well, the guy that created it.
And how did he create all that?
Well, he just did, because he has the power to do so.
Why does he have all that power?
Uh, because he is the almighty creator.
So how did he get to be the almighty creator?
He just is. He created the universe, so he has to be.
So, one day he just got in the mood to whip one of those babies out.
Yeah, because he is the creator and all.
Oh, right.
So how did he get to be the creator again?
He has always been the creator.
Right. So how did he get to always be the creator?
By virtue of his attributes.
Ok. Where did those attributes come from?
They just are.
Why?
Because he's that way. The creator doesn't need to have a beginning.
Ah, because then who created the creator, right?
Yeah.
So, what if the creator pulled himself out of a hat, sorta magician like?
No, it doesn't work that way. The creator is eternal.
Lucky guy.
Lots of responsibility, though.
Yeah. At least he gets to be his own boss, though.
Right. Gives himself a holiday once a week. Well, he did once. Now he's too Busy watching us all the time.
So, do you think he ever plays around with us the way we used to play with ant hills? You know, step on it, or flood it with water?
Well, I suppose he might, but he's perfect, so it's not the same.
Right.
We go and sing for him sometimes. I think he likes that.
Yeah, he probably does. I dunno about some of those TV programs, though. Breaking baseball bats and being obnoxious and all. Do you think he has a way to tune some of those out? Like, maybe he covers his ears and hums a tune?
Heh, could be. But I don't think he minds. He's perfect, you know. No emotions or anything like that.
Right.
So how do you think all this stuff got here?
Well, I think it just kinda happened. You know, just because it did. Didn't need a creator.
In 10 billion years, we'll figure out when the universe is really going to end.
You almost blew the straw man right over.
Resurrection of games has happened before and it will happen before. However, abandonware still exists and will always exist, for which emulators play an important role.
Hey, as long as they can type...
Which pill will they give him?
Yet another person informing us of the number of pixels in a 35mm negative. I've heard 2 to 4, some other guy says 7 or 11, you're saying 20. Taken together, I think your answers nail it: it's subjective.
http://www.negativland.com/audio.html
A few more manifestations of speech:
Misleading speech
* To protect your reputation ("I did not...")
* To protect yourself physically ("These are not the droids you're looking for"; "I've never met this person")
* To protect someone else ("He did not go through that door")
* To harm someone else (slander, libel)
* For profit ("I worked 25 hours last week"; Presidential candidate colors the truth to improve his image)
* To bolster a cause (PR company invents story in 1990 about Iraqi soldiers killing babies)
* To obtain evidence ("Your friends have already confessed...")
* Citing out of context
* Promises you won't keep
* Distorting the evidence; making claims you can't back up
* Fraud
Silence
* Withholding evidence (drug company conceals study results)
* Agreement through silence
* Silence about a crime in the present or future (Nevada man watches his friend go into a bathroom to rape a kill a child; wife says nothing about her husband's unlawful plans)
* To hurt someone's feelings
* To keep people in ignorance (someone is about to drink poison; harmful chemicals are in a river; Vatican withholds documents)
* Copyright laws forbid someone from displaying certain local legistlation on a web site
* Pleading the 5th
* Filtering (Great Firewall of China)
Non-verbal speech
* Harming property (Animal rights group burns down a building; someone sprays acid on a painting in a museum; de facto government destroys immense budhist sculptures; Boston tea party; Statues of Lenin destroyed in former Soviet Union)
* Harming people (a slap in the face; a kick under the table; mafia chief beats #2 man to death at a big mafia meeting; man pours gas on himself and burns to death in protest; chemicals thrown at an abortion clinic make people sick)
* Music
* Dance
* Appearance (Facial expressions; clothing; hair; piercings; tatoos; self-mutilation; gestures)
* Threats (a warning shot; laws; absense of laws; implied hit list of abortion doctors; carrying a gun)
Speech in context
* In court
* In office
* As a paid representative (attorney, PR, CEO, salesperson, teacher)
* In school
* To children
* In a church
* At a funeral
* In a hospital
* Broadcast speech
* Amplified speech
* Speech on the web
* Dropping leaflets (by hand; from a plane)
* In an airport
* To a country's President
* Spam
* In a crowded theater
* Going door to door
* Classified information (congressman leaks to press; double-agent sells secrets)
* Billboards
* Political ads
* In bed (with a politician)
* Attorney-client
* Religious confession
Transmitting information
* Napster
* De-CSS
* P2P
* Hosting web sites for others (lawful or not, ethical or not)
* Accessing a database
* Lending a CD with music or software
* MAME and game ROMs
* Encryption/steganography
* Wi-Fi
* Sharing internet or cable access
* Books (giving/selling/smuggling/banning)
* Writing "how-to" guides
* Cameras (web/government/corporate; face recognition)
* Gathering and selling consumer information
And don't forget it's the attorneys who really benefit. It doesn't matter what the company offers the plaintiffs as long as the attorneys get away with a few million in their pockets. Notice that you, the one who is supposedly being compensated, did not approve the final agreement. Guess who did?
See the previous post. You already have fraud proection.
Good points. But in spite of these obstacles, isn't something better than nothing?
Here's an easy solution to your conundrum:
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