To overtake people who are overtaking. Also widening the lanes themselves would allow for saver high speed driving.
Besides on the autobahn going 75 mph feels like you are in a traffic jam. 125 mph is pretty normal on the autobahn and 185 mph is not unheard of, of course you should not go those speed when the roads are busy.
I live in the Netherlands, I want to buy something from a US merchant. I pay the US merchant with my credit card and deliver it to a drop house. The drop house forwards it to my house in the Netherlands.
I don't see anyone being ripped of here. It is a bid sad that a lot of US companies don't ship their products outside of the US. Even thinkgeek doesn't sell a lot of stuff to outside of the US, I guess there are some sort of exclusivity deals in place, but most of the time these products aren't even sold in Europe at all. We live in a global society now, these artificial trade barriers shouldn't exist anymore.
Now personally I haven't used the drop house system myself, but there are quite a few people here in Europe that do for exactly the same reasons as above. There is even a way to get a legitimate US credit card for companies that don't even sell to people with a foreign credit card.
Because math is discovered, not invented. Anyone who studies PI will find the same way of calculating the digits of PI as you did, even if he never heard of your discovery. Thus it violates one of the rules of patentability: "someone well versed in the arts should not be able to 'invent' the same thing".
So now you have a patent on a discovery, and someone else makes the same discovery, so now the second person has to pay you if he want to continue research on his discovery. Thus innovation stops right there, and we have to wait until the patent expires before research can continue (which we have seen happens quite a lot).
This is the reason why you can not patent mathematical discoveries. It should by extension also not be possible to patent software either.
Parallel "invention" has happened quite a lot in the past, not only for math, most notable: the laser, television, motorised airplane. And one wonders if we should have patents at all if these parallel "inventions" happen all the time. It certainly isn't fair for the inventor who independently invent the same things which also took him years to develop.
Maybe Euros are when you talk about more than one kind of Euro coin (each country makes their own version of the Euro coin). Like "peoples" when you talk about people from more than one community or nation.
Actually, finance workers need to be cleared now as well, at least here in the Netherlands now MiFID is in force.
However, it is a simple background check with the Justice department to see if any of the crimes you have committed in the past would hinder with your job. So the employer that does the request needs to specify the exact nature of your work, like "will handle information systems", "has inside information", "handles tons of money", "works with handicapped adults", "works with children" (the employee, with identity, sees this list and actually has to apply for the check). Then the justice department replies with a "we see no problems" or "there are problems" (the employee gets this reply and has to give this to the employer). A very transparent process really.
Has anyone noticed iTunes U on the iTunes music store? It shows quite a bit of universities and you can download lectures from a number of them, some are audio only, others are video. I have followed a couple of lectures about black holes from MIT on iTunes U.
I see a lot of comments about DHCP being used for passing more information about services like DNS, TFTP, etc. But DHCP is actually quite limited in the number of services that can be passed to the host and is really there for giving a IP address to a host.
Instead we could use multicast-DNS, like Bonjour for Apple. A host just request a service (including mail servers, outside DNS server, web servers, kitchen zinc server) using a multicast DNS query. This is also a better theoretical separation of layers.
We have a shop very similar to what you describe in the Netherlands, they are called "De kijkshop" (Look shop) http://www.kijkshop.nl/ They have all the products in glass display cases. You write down the product numbers on paper and pens they supply on each display case. Then you go to the cashier and you pay for the product and they fetch it from the warehouse behind the counter.
The shop is quite cheap, and I don't think they do this for theft prevention (although it probably helps), but more for costs savings in personnel and savings on rent.
I think I only bought one thing in those shops ever (they have existed for a long time), but sometimes I pop in to look if there is something interesting, as they sell a lot of unrelated products. Laser levels and hammers, mobile phones, footballs, small weird statues of cows and tacky jewellery.
The joke of course is P2P traffic is any and all traffic on the internet. Every host is equal from the point of the IP protocol, and thus P2P.
Of course since the introduction of NAT everything has become more complicated, so now P2P applications have to punch through the NAT to connect to an other host, something which application didn't need to do before NAT arrived.
So if they follow the letter of the law/judge, then that ISP has to turn of their internet completely.
The only good coming from this spam-war, is better AI.
Not only will OCR get better, but soon the captchas will contain questions, so natural language processing will become necessary. And this is happening on both sides of the fence: - anti-spam needs to ocr images from spam mail - spam needs to ocr captchas - anti-spam needs natural language processing of email, now that they contain random pieces of the internet - spam needs natural language processing to answer captchas questions, and writing spam emails without hitting a spam filter.
The only problem I see on the horizon (next to the problems that spam is causing), is that the captchas become to complicated for humans to answer and maybe get self aware. But I for one welcome our captcha overlords.
I don't know much about the music player, but the camera in a sony-ericson K750i is very user friendly as well. You open the lens cover and the user interface jumps into camera mode. Turn the phone into the horizontal position and the shutter button is on top like on normal cameras (it even blinks a few times after you open the cover) slightly depressing it will start the auto focus (which holds after it locks, so you can position the camera to an other place without refocusing) full depress takes a picture. The macro ability of this camera is amazing, I once had to make a picture of a RJ45 socket to show corrosion stains on the copper to a manufacturer, I could fill half the 2Mpixel frame with the socket.
As a phone it is pretty good as well:-)
I have had a few other phones, but the sony-ericson seem to have a good user interface compared to a nokia for example. The user interface of the sony-ericsons look much more like the iPhone, apart from the touch screen.
It is a little bit more easier to print with multiple colors than to parse (demosaic) an image with different filters. I myself am trying to implement a demosaic algorithm in the OpenGL shader language. It is called "Adaptive Homogeneity-Directed Demosaicing Algorithm". It basically goes like this:
You start with the sensor data 14 bit unsigned integers in the following pattern: GRGRGRGR BGBGBGBG GRGRGRGR BGBGBGBG
Each pixel in the sensor has a different amount of constant bias and gain, so these have to be eliminated before doing the actual demosaic. This is quite simple, you start by capturing images in total blackness and with even 50% grey. Then use this data to remove the dark current and equalize the sensitivity for each individual pixel.
Next you interpolate the G components at the positions of the bayer-R and bayer-B pixels. We use a 1x5 "horizontal"-convolution filter on the image for every bayer-R and bayer-B pixel, thus we include the value of the bayer-R/B pixel together with the bayer-G pixels. We also do this with a 5x1 "vertical"-convolution filter, so that we have different version of this interpolation.
Now we subtract the interpolated G from the bayer-R and bayer-B (because the difference between the color-components changes at a lower frequency than the actual intensity of each component). Than we use simple linear interpolation between these R-G and B-G components and add the interpolated G to the final value. We end up with a proper RGB image, well actually two RGB images, one which the green was interpolated horizontally and the second where green was interpolated vertically. Remember that we used the interpolated green to calculate the R and B values as well, so the two images will vary in all color components.
As the these RGB values come from a sensor with color filters that differ in wavelength-response from the RGB phosphors on the screen, we will do a color conversion, a simple matrix multiplication. Next we convert these pretty RGB values to YUV (should actually be CIE Lab, but it should be close enough). For each pixel we will count the amount of nearest neighbors where both the Y value and the UV values are close to the current pixel. We make this homogeneity map both for our horizontal and vertical RGB images.
Now for each pixel we will look which of the two (horizontal and vertical) homogeneities has the highest value, and choose the RGB pixel from the two RGB-images.
The final step is a smoothing filter (median-filter) on the difference between the R/B components and the G component, this is for removing some interpolation artifacts, this median-filter is run three times.
That is quite some calculations you have to do, to retrieve as much resolution from a bayer image as possible. Now image you take all this research and to redo them, because there is now a white pixel in there as well.
Not that I am complaining, a bayer image only one third of the bandwidth of a RGB image, and with an algorithm like this you retrieve most of it back. With actual white pixels, it may be possible to retrieve even more resolution because of the overlapping wave lengths.
Actually this "Tax" on CD-ROMs and such is not because they assume you are going to 'pirate' copyrighted material.
It is actually for you to pay for the fair-use-copy you make of music/movies that you have bought for your own use. To be more clear, this tax is for making backup copies and format shifting. It can be argued that this includes works that you've created yourself, because you are making a copy of copyrightable material.
In the Netherlands 50% of this money goes directly to artists, although that is pretty random. As an artist you can send in a project proposal to the "Thuis Kopie fonds" (Home Copy fund), and when they thing the project is to their taste they give you some money (I am not sure if this is a no-fault lone) to realize this project.
Businesses can be exempt from this tax by filling in forms on how many CD-ROMs one has used to not copy. Businesses copy large amounts of non-copyrightable data, such as database tables.
I've read somewhere that Canada and probably other countries are looking into DRM which is specifically made to counter home copying for backups and format shifting (saying that DRM is against "pirating" is a lie). The argument goes; if I can not make a copy why am I paying for a tax because of copying. The other side of the argument is, as stated above, the tax is for copying anything, including your own material.
Except that they also excluding everyone using an Apple computer, the same people who are already buying stuff from iTunes music store. Thus the same people how likely want to actually buy those movies.
Upscaling SD-DVD, with Macrovision enabled, over analogue component cables is not allowed by the DVD consortium. So it may not be a bug, but a requirement. Actually quite likely it is a bug that you can actually playback upscaled SD-DVD on your VGA cable, as the only legal way to watch upscaled SD-DVD is over a digital cable like DVI and HDMI with proper HDCP handshake.
You are allowed to upscale SD-DVDs without Macrovision, so copying a SD-DVD may actually work; like it does for Toshiba's HD-DVD player, which allows non-Macrovision SD-DVDs to be upscaled on the component output. You are also allowed to use progressive output on component cables, as long as you are not upscaling.
Of course we will have to wait for nvidia to give the real explanation, I just wanted to rant a little bit.
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So it is not the big bang that causes cosmic microwave background radiation.
If you have line of sight with the sniper, you will have the direct signal and its echos, the direct signal will always arrive earlier than the echos. So you can ignore the echos.
As the sniper is trying to kill you, the sniper probably already has line of sight with you.
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Of course, this has always been the real reason for moving to IPv6.
less pirates -> higher average global temperatures
more lime -> less scurvy
less scurvy -> more pirates
more pirates -> less global warming
So it really is true. I am now a true believer, I will never look at spaghetti the same way again.
To overtake people who are overtaking.
Also widening the lanes themselves would allow for saver high speed driving.
Besides on the autobahn going 75 mph feels like you are in a traffic jam. 125 mph is pretty normal on the autobahn and 185 mph is not unheard of, of course you should not go those speed when the roads are busy.
How is that ripping of the merchant?
I live in the Netherlands, I want to buy something from a US merchant. I pay the US merchant with my credit card and deliver it to a drop house. The drop house forwards it to my house in the Netherlands.
I don't see anyone being ripped of here. It is a bid sad that a lot of US companies don't ship their products outside of the US. Even thinkgeek doesn't sell a lot of stuff to outside of the US, I guess there are some sort of exclusivity deals in place, but most of the time these products aren't even sold in Europe at all. We live in a global society now, these artificial trade barriers shouldn't exist anymore.
Now personally I haven't used the drop house system myself, but there are quite a few people here in Europe that do for exactly the same reasons as above. There is even a way to get a legitimate US credit card for companies that don't even sell to people with a foreign credit card.
Because math is discovered, not invented. Anyone who studies PI will find the same way of calculating the digits of PI as you did, even if he never heard of your discovery. Thus it violates one of the rules of patentability: "someone well versed in the arts should not be able to 'invent' the same thing".
So now you have a patent on a discovery, and someone else makes the same discovery, so now the second person has to pay you if he want to continue research on his discovery. Thus innovation stops right there, and we have to wait until the patent expires before research can continue (which we have seen happens quite a lot).
This is the reason why you can not patent mathematical discoveries. It should by extension also not be possible to patent software either.
Parallel "invention" has happened quite a lot in the past, not only for math, most notable: the laser, television, motorised airplane. And one wonders if we should have patents at all if these parallel "inventions" happen all the time. It certainly isn't fair for the inventor who independently invent the same things which also took him years to develop.
Maybe Euros are when you talk about more than one kind of Euro coin (each country makes their own version of the Euro coin).
Like "peoples" when you talk about people from more than one community or nation.
Actually, finance workers need to be cleared now as well, at least here in the Netherlands now MiFID is in force.
However, it is a simple background check with the Justice department to see if any of the crimes you have committed in the past would hinder with your job. So the employer that does the request needs to specify the exact nature of your work, like "will handle information systems", "has inside information", "handles tons of money", "works with handicapped adults", "works with children" (the employee, with identity, sees this list and actually has to apply for the check). Then the justice department replies with a "we see no problems" or "there are problems" (the employee gets this reply and has to give this to the employer).
A very transparent process really.
Has anyone noticed iTunes U on the iTunes music store? It shows quite a bit of universities and you can download lectures from a number of them, some are audio only, others are video. I have followed a couple of lectures about black holes from MIT on iTunes U.
I see a lot of comments about DHCP being used for passing more information about services like DNS, TFTP, etc.
But DHCP is actually quite limited in the number of services that can be passed to the host and is really there for giving a IP address to a host.
Instead we could use multicast-DNS, like Bonjour for Apple. A host just request a service (including mail servers, outside DNS server, web servers, kitchen zinc server) using a multicast DNS query. This is also a better theoretical separation of layers.
It is called P2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2_(storage_media)
From the wiki: The P2 Card is essentially a RAID of SD memory cards
We have a shop very similar to what you describe in the Netherlands, they are called "De kijkshop" (Look shop) http://www.kijkshop.nl/
They have all the products in glass display cases. You write down the product numbers on paper and pens they supply on each display case.
Then you go to the cashier and you pay for the product and they fetch it from the warehouse behind the counter.
The shop is quite cheap, and I don't think they do this for theft prevention (although it probably helps), but more for costs savings in personnel and savings on rent.
I think I only bought one thing in those shops ever (they have existed for a long time), but sometimes I pop in to look if there is something interesting, as they sell a lot of unrelated products. Laser levels and hammers, mobile phones, footballs, small weird statues of cows and tacky jewellery.
The joke of course is P2P traffic is any and all traffic on the internet. Every host is equal from the point of the IP protocol, and thus P2P.
Of course since the introduction of NAT everything has become more complicated, so now P2P applications have to punch through the NAT to connect to an other host, something which application didn't need to do before NAT arrived.
So if they follow the letter of the law/judge, then that ISP has to turn of their internet completely.
Just like walking on the beach.
It is soft, but because you sink slightly with each step, you are climbing up the whole time.
The only good coming from this spam-war, is better AI.
Not only will OCR get better, but soon the captchas will contain questions, so natural language processing will become necessary. And this is happening on both sides of the fence:
- anti-spam needs to ocr images from spam mail
- spam needs to ocr captchas
- anti-spam needs natural language processing of email, now that they contain random pieces of the internet
- spam needs natural language processing to answer captchas questions, and writing spam emails without hitting a spam filter.
The only problem I see on the horizon (next to the problems that spam is causing), is that the captchas become to complicated for humans to answer and maybe get self aware. But I for one welcome our captcha overlords.
I don't know much about the music player, but the camera in a sony-ericson K750i is very user friendly as well.
:-)
You open the lens cover and the user interface jumps into camera mode. Turn the phone into the horizontal position and the shutter button is on top like on normal cameras (it even blinks a few times after you open the cover) slightly depressing it will start the auto focus (which holds after it locks, so you can position the camera to an other place without refocusing) full depress takes a picture. The macro ability of this camera is amazing, I once had to make a picture of a RJ45 socket to show corrosion stains on the copper to a manufacturer, I could fill half the 2Mpixel frame with the socket.
As a phone it is pretty good as well
I have had a few other phones, but the sony-ericson seem to have a good user interface compared to a nokia for example. The user interface of the sony-ericsons look much more like the iPhone, apart from the touch screen.
It is a little bit more easier to print with multiple colors than to parse (demosaic) an image with different filters.
I myself am trying to implement a demosaic algorithm in the OpenGL shader language.
It is called "Adaptive Homogeneity-Directed Demosaicing Algorithm".
It basically goes like this:
You start with the sensor data 14 bit unsigned integers in the following pattern:
GRGRGRGR
BGBGBGBG
GRGRGRGR
BGBGBGBG
Each pixel in the sensor has a different amount of constant bias and gain, so these have to be eliminated before doing the actual demosaic. This is quite simple, you start by capturing images in total blackness and with even 50% grey. Then use this data to remove the dark current and equalize the sensitivity for each individual pixel.
Next you interpolate the G components at the positions of the bayer-R and bayer-B pixels. We use a 1x5 "horizontal"-convolution filter on the image for every bayer-R and bayer-B pixel, thus we include the value of the bayer-R/B pixel together with the bayer-G pixels. We also do this with a 5x1 "vertical"-convolution filter, so that we have different version of this interpolation.
Now we subtract the interpolated G from the bayer-R and bayer-B (because the difference between the color-components changes at a lower frequency than the actual intensity of each component). Than we use simple linear interpolation between these R-G and B-G components and add the interpolated G to the final value. We end up with a proper RGB image, well actually two RGB images, one which the green was interpolated horizontally and the second where green was interpolated vertically. Remember that we used the interpolated green to calculate the R and B values as well, so the two images will vary in all color components.
As the these RGB values come from a sensor with color filters that differ in wavelength-response from the RGB phosphors on the screen, we will do a color conversion, a simple matrix multiplication. Next we convert these pretty RGB values to YUV (should actually be CIE Lab, but it should be close enough). For each pixel we will count the amount of nearest neighbors where both the Y value and the UV values are close to the current pixel. We make this homogeneity map both for our horizontal and vertical RGB images.
Now for each pixel we will look which of the two (horizontal and vertical) homogeneities has the highest value, and choose the RGB pixel from the two RGB-images.
The final step is a smoothing filter (median-filter) on the difference between the R/B components and the G component, this is for removing some interpolation artifacts, this median-filter is run three times.
That is quite some calculations you have to do, to retrieve as much resolution from a bayer image as possible. Now image you take all this research and to redo them, because there is now a white pixel in there as well.
Not that I am complaining, a bayer image only one third of the bandwidth of a RGB image, and with an algorithm like this you retrieve most of it back. With actual white pixels, it may be possible to retrieve even more resolution because of the overlapping wave lengths.
Actually this "Tax" on CD-ROMs and such is not because they assume you are going to 'pirate' copyrighted material.
It is actually for you to pay for the fair-use-copy you make of music/movies that you have bought for your own use. To be more clear, this tax is for making backup copies and format shifting. It can be argued that this includes works that you've created yourself, because you are making a copy of copyrightable material.
In the Netherlands 50% of this money goes directly to artists, although that is pretty random. As an artist you can send in a project proposal to the "Thuis Kopie fonds" (Home Copy fund), and when they thing the project is to their taste they give you some money (I am not sure if this is a no-fault lone) to realize this project.
Businesses can be exempt from this tax by filling in forms on how many CD-ROMs one has used to not copy. Businesses copy large amounts of non-copyrightable data, such as database tables.
I've read somewhere that Canada and probably other countries are looking into DRM which is specifically made to counter home copying for backups and format shifting (saying that DRM is against "pirating" is a lie). The argument goes; if I can not make a copy why am I paying for a tax because of copying. The other side of the argument is, as stated above, the tax is for copying anything, including your own material.
I hope I have confused things for everyone.
Cheers,
Take
That is because you shouldn't use that 500ml water bottle to stop a laptop battery fire.
Tssss.
Although in this case it would be gramatically incorrect. It may be possible to use the plural of staff in the same way as the plural of people.
Peoples are people of multiple nations.
Staffs are staff of multiple companies?
Except that they also excluding everyone using an Apple computer, the same people who are already buying stuff from iTunes music store.
Thus the same people how likely want to actually buy those movies.
Nothing looks more unprofesional than wrinkled duct tape.
Upscaling SD-DVD, with Macrovision enabled, over analogue component cables is not allowed by the DVD consortium. So it may not be a bug, but a requirement.
Actually quite likely it is a bug that you can actually playback upscaled SD-DVD on your VGA cable, as the only legal way to watch upscaled SD-DVD is over a digital cable like DVI and HDMI with proper HDCP handshake.
You are allowed to upscale SD-DVDs without Macrovision, so copying a SD-DVD may actually work; like it does for Toshiba's HD-DVD player, which allows non-Macrovision SD-DVDs to be upscaled on the component output. You are also allowed to use progressive output on component cables, as long as you are not upscaling.
Of course we will have to wait for nvidia to give the real explanation, I just wanted to rant a little bit.
So it is not the big bang that causes cosmic microwave background radiation.
I guess you will need to keep close to the robot, maybe wear it like a hat.
If you have line of sight with the sniper, you will have the direct signal and its echos, the direct signal will always arrive earlier than the echos. So you can ignore the echos.
As the sniper is trying to kill you, the sniper probably already has line of sight with you.