Who is compressing video from DVD, consumer digital cameras, PVRs, etc. So it's a real world comparison.
99.99% of people don't have the hardware necessary to do uncompressed video, either their camera can't do it, their video card can't do it, or their hard drive can't write it without dropping frames.
640x480[low res]x30[fps]x3[bytes per pixel]= 27.6 MB/sec sustained writing. Or you can try doing HDTV resolutions at 83 (720p) to 186 (1080p) MB/sec.
I was thinking the same things. In the articles discussing Piles, it was mentioned that the standard mouse isn't up to the task with its limited user-computer interface (you can point, click and sometimes scroll, and that's it).
I can see jogging the dial left uncovering documents in a pile and right to pile them on, etc. This could be cool.
Duh, of course it can be
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Any method used by humans to express themselves can be a vehicle for art. How good that method is for conveying artistic talent is another matter entirely.
I was going off of court documents, or references to them, so your numbers are more likely correct. Anyway, your information makes McDonalds' case even better: they brew at below optimum coffee brewing temperatures. People are suing them for having their coffee too hot, when it is actually too cold.
The McDonald's training manual states that coffee "must be brewed at 195 to 205 degrees and held at 180 to 190 degrees F for optimal taste."
The best brewing temperature for coffee is 197 to 205 degrees F for 90% of the contact time.
People who don't know how to make good coffee in their home usually don't get it hotter than 150 degrees F
So, here we have a case of a company doing the right thing, exposing people to properly prepared coffee (at least as far as temperature is concerned, their roast sucks), and getting sued for it.
The threats against parody were clearly out of line, as is this example and that of netfunny. However, the suits against Nader and Quiggle were legitimate because the candidates were riding on the coattails of Mastercard's widely-recognized trademark for their own personal gain, and not (IMHO) parodying the ads for a joke.
When Mastercard sent him a nastygram over a sick parody on Netfunny of their "...for everything else, there's Mastercard" ads, he sent them back a response -- in the form of a Mastercard ad parody:
Web site hosting for anybody: $10/month and up
Threatening letters to people who satirize you, hoping they won't know the law: $500
Reputation as giant corporation required to intimidate small publishers: $billions
Supreme court decisions protecting parody and satire from accusations of copyright and trademark infringement... Priceless
There are some rights money can't buy. For everything else, there's Mastercard's lawyers.
Of course, it didn't help Mastercard that the target of their attempted intimidation is the chairman of the EFF.
That was a case of engineering, of an academic exercise, and luddite judges don't understand that stuff. This is in reference to publishing a hard-copy book. Our judicial system has always frowned upon preventing the publication of books.
Now if Edelman had done the research and was stopped from publishing a book about it, the cases would be approximately equal. Didn't he know it's better to ask forgiveness than permission?
This man can't publish a book for fear of some type of prosecution. In another lawsuit against the DMCA, this could be cited as an example of how the DMCA is effectively exercising prior restraint to publishing, and in actuality creating a chilling effect.
Judges do not take kindly to the words "prior restraint" or "chilling effect" as there is ample Supreme Court precedent firmly against both. An event such as this could help turn the tide of a future DMCA challenge.
And this isn't internet, it's the publishing of good old dead-tree books that judges can understand.
He should have started writing a program whose purpose was to clean-up N2H2's list, finding blocked sites that are no longer operating, so that he could send a list of dead sites to N2H2 in order to lighten their list.
Of course, to do this his program needs to interoperate with N2H2's software. Hello DMCA exception:
`(f) REVERSE ENGINEERING- (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
In addition to its main function, the program also happens to identify sites that shouldn't have been blocked.
No porn to cover their ass on bandwidth. No bots, spam, etc., to cover their ass on legal ends.
They said their policy is not to censor content, only to protect themselves when they have to on legal or technical matters. "or any other material" was a catch-all for this.
This made my check my hosting service since I haven't looked in a few years. Clear terms:
Don't hack the servers or gain unauthorized access to accounts
No originating spam
No running chats without approval
Allows background scripts and self-written CGI as long as they don't screw with the system
If your scripts are resource hogs, they may ask you to upgrade your service
No IRC or IRC bots
No illegal stuff
No porn/obscene, etc.
There is the phrase "or any other material which we deem to be objectionable" to include Satanic materials. However, that's a catch-all that I don't believe has been used. I'll ask.
Our government only wants to protect us, and would never misuse technology.
Bwaaaaahahahaha! Even if you're one of those who believes Bush would never allow any misuse, who's to say following administrations wouldn't misuse information? You know, like using census information to round up Japanese for concentration camps.
The problem is that Pascal's wager is a classic example of the logical fallacy known as false dichotomy. Who's to say that while you're off chasing CO2, something else isn't going to kill us?
Kyoto certainly isn't that drastic for many other countries, especially recent signees Russia and China. Kyoto does not present a level playing field, but punishes some nations more than others.
Global warming has become so politicized that I am rapidly losing my faith in scientific method here.
Well, who hasn't got one of those?
No kidding. What do you think of the credentials of the Leipzig signees?
Find me where I said there was scientific unity, and I'll address that point.
Sorry, the way you and most others supporting the global warming theory right is as if it's an established, undisputed fact throughout the scientific community.
Correct. It is, however, a distinct possibility.
Possible, yes. Anything's possible if you work the statistics right.
Now. You don't need certainty before you take precautions, and if you do, you'll often find that the certainty arrives too late...
You do need a higher level of certainty than currently exists before putting into place the current economy-destroying proposals.
Think of reduction of greenhouse emissions as the condom of global warming
This assumes your condom has no hole in it.
PS : Pop quiz : How many anti-Kyoto signatories were even familiar with the literature?
How can you guarantee any of these scientists, pro- or con- are familiar with the literature? Anyway, here's a breakdown so far:
2,660 physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, and environmental scientists
5,017 chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and other life sciences
It's now up to 17,800 verified, 1,900 unverified. A quick look through the signees does show an awful lot of Ph.D.s though.
CATO has papers for everything, not just economics. They do no scientific research in these other areas, but they are very good at pulling together the existing research, admittedly with a litertarian bias.
If there is such a scientific unity on the subject, why did 15,000 U.S. scientists sign a statement against the Kyoto Protocol saying that the available data do not support the computer climate models being made? This is a sharp contrast to the 2,500 scientists supporting the IPCC position (however, on both sides, not all scientists were meterologists or in related fields).
Then there's also the 4,000 scientists signing the Heidelberg appeal to the Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Rio, warning that the science didn't support such a treaty.
See also the Leipzig Declaration signed by scientists from institutions all over the world, including MIT and Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.
In addition, the popular face of the IPCC, and the UN's own take on the findings of the contributing scientists, are often pro-global warming and leave out contending views. For example, the 1990 report dismissed skeptical views scientists working on the report because their views "could not be accommodated."
Basically, global warming may be true, but there is nowhere near the scientific consensus that the UN, Greenpeace and others are claiming. Therefore, before we go crazy trying to do something about it, let's find out if it's true first. There's a lot of work left to be done before you can claim that man-made global warming is a fact.
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DivX will do multiple passes, and the Gordian Knot that he was using will do six by picking it from a drop-down.
An increase in quality has been debated, but DivX with six passes has, at least for me, always come within 1MB of the target size and never over.
Who is compressing video from DVD, consumer digital cameras, PVRs, etc. So it's a real world comparison.
99.99% of people don't have the hardware necessary to do uncompressed video, either their camera can't do it, their video card can't do it, or their hard drive can't write it without dropping frames.
640x480[low res]x30[fps]x3[bytes per pixel]= 27.6 MB/sec sustained writing. Or you can try doing HDTV resolutions at 83 (720p) to 186 (1080p) MB/sec.
I was thinking the same things. In the articles discussing Piles, it was mentioned that the standard mouse isn't up to the task with its limited user-computer interface (you can point, click and sometimes scroll, and that's it).
I can see jogging the dial left uncovering documents in a pile and right to pile them on, etc. This could be cool.
Any method used by humans to express themselves can be a vehicle for art. How good that method is for conveying artistic talent is another matter entirely.
Then Chaos Theory must be in this somewhere big-time.
I was going off of court documents, or references to them, so your numbers are more likely correct. Anyway, your information makes McDonalds' case even better: they brew at below optimum coffee brewing temperatures. People are suing them for having their coffee too hot, when it is actually too cold.
- The McDonald's training manual states that coffee "must be brewed at 195 to 205 degrees and held at 180 to 190 degrees F for optimal taste."
- The best brewing temperature for coffee is 197 to 205 degrees F for 90% of the contact time.
- People who don't know how to make good coffee in their home usually don't get it hotter than 150 degrees F
So, here we have a case of a company doing the right thing, exposing people to properly prepared coffee (at least as far as temperature is concerned, their roast sucks), and getting sued for it.But he still defended their right to publish it. That's class.
The threats against parody were clearly out of line, as is this example and that of netfunny. However, the suits against Nader and Quiggle were legitimate because the candidates were riding on the coattails of Mastercard's widely-recognized trademark for their own personal gain, and not (IMHO) parodying the ads for a joke.
Remember dealing with all that extended and expanded memory crap when you had a 286 running DOS with 1MB of RAM?
Well, it's baaaaack.
That was a case of engineering, of an academic exercise, and luddite judges don't understand that stuff. This is in reference to publishing a hard-copy book. Our judicial system has always frowned upon preventing the publication of books.
Now if Edelman had done the research and was stopped from publishing a book about it, the cases would be approximately equal. Didn't he know it's better to ask forgiveness than permission?
This man can't publish a book for fear of some type of prosecution. In another lawsuit against the DMCA, this could be cited as an example of how the DMCA is effectively exercising prior restraint to publishing, and in actuality creating a chilling effect.
Judges do not take kindly to the words "prior restraint" or "chilling effect" as there is ample Supreme Court precedent firmly against both. An event such as this could help turn the tide of a future DMCA challenge.
And this isn't internet, it's the publishing of good old dead-tree books that judges can understand.
Of course, to do this his program needs to interoperate with N2H2's software. Hello DMCA exception:
In addition to its main function, the program also happens to identify sites that shouldn't have been blocked.
No porn to cover their ass on bandwidth. No bots, spam, etc., to cover their ass on legal ends.
They said their policy is not to censor content, only to protect themselves when they have to on legal or technical matters. "or any other material" was a catch-all for this.
They can do business on whatever terms they want. If I don't like it, I can go somewhere else.
I'll probably have an answer to my customer service request about their policy tomorrow (time difference).
- Don't hack the servers or gain unauthorized access to accounts
- No originating spam
- No running chats without approval
- Allows background scripts and self-written CGI as long as they don't screw with the system
- If your scripts are resource hogs, they may ask you to upgrade your service
- No IRC or IRC bots
- No illegal stuff
- No porn/obscene, etc.
There is the phrase "or any other material which we deem to be objectionable" to include Satanic materials. However, that's a catch-all that I don't believe has been used. I'll ask.They are blasphemers who dare challenge the doctrine of Global Warming!
Our government only wants to protect us, and would never misuse technology.
Bwaaaaahahahaha! Even if you're one of those who believes Bush would never allow any misuse, who's to say following administrations wouldn't misuse information? You know, like using census information to round up Japanese for concentration camps.
Those that Saddam puts there so he can show lots of civilian casualties on TV.
Slashdot is running MySQL, and we've seen the load it can take.
because this is like Pascal's wager
The problem is that Pascal's wager is a classic example of the logical fallacy known as false dichotomy. Who's to say that while you're off chasing CO2, something else isn't going to kill us?
Kyoto certainly isn't that drastic for many other countries, especially recent signees Russia and China. Kyoto does not present a level playing field, but punishes some nations more than others.
Global warming has become so politicized that I am rapidly losing my faith in scientific method here.
Well, who hasn't got one of those?
No kidding. What do you think of the credentials of the Leipzig signees?
Sorry, the way you and most others supporting the global warming theory right is as if it's an established, undisputed fact throughout the scientific community.
Correct. It is, however, a distinct possibility.
Possible, yes. Anything's possible if you work the statistics right.
Now. You don't need certainty before you take precautions, and if you do, you'll often find that the certainty arrives too late...
You do need a higher level of certainty than currently exists before putting into place the current economy-destroying proposals.
Think of reduction of greenhouse emissions as the condom of global warming
This assumes your condom has no hole in it.
PS : Pop quiz : How many anti-Kyoto signatories were even familiar with the literature?
How can you guarantee any of these scientists, pro- or con- are familiar with the literature? Anyway, here's a breakdown so far:
- 2,660 physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, and environmental scientists
- 5,017 chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and other life sciences
It's now up to 17,800 verified, 1,900 unverified. A quick look through the signees does show an awful lot of Ph.D.s though.CATO has papers for everything, not just economics. They do no scientific research in these other areas, but they are very good at pulling together the existing research, admittedly with a litertarian bias.
If there is such a scientific unity on the subject, why did 15,000 U.S. scientists sign a statement against the Kyoto Protocol saying that the available data do not support the computer climate models being made? This is a sharp contrast to the 2,500 scientists supporting the IPCC position (however, on both sides, not all scientists were meterologists or in related fields).
Then there's also the 4,000 scientists signing the Heidelberg appeal to the Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Rio, warning that the science didn't support such a treaty.
See also the Leipzig Declaration signed by scientists from institutions all over the world, including MIT and Max Planck Institute for Meteorology.
In addition, the popular face of the IPCC, and the UN's own take on the findings of the contributing scientists, are often pro-global warming and leave out contending views. For example, the 1990 report dismissed skeptical views scientists working on the report because their views "could not be accommodated."
Basically, global warming may be true, but there is nowhere near the scientific consensus that the UN, Greenpeace and others are claiming. Therefore, before we go crazy trying to do something about it, let's find out if it's true first. There's a lot of work left to be done before you can claim that man-made global warming is a fact.
IIRC, the biggest training problems when Largo switched were along the lines of "How do I set my wallpaper" and "How do I take my documents home?"