What of private pictures posted to photo galleries that individuals have taken. I recently put up on my webserver my photo collection for friends and family to view. I didn't password protect it due to the computer illiterate nature of my family. But I sure don't want this to be an open door for photo infringement. I mean if a photo I took ended up in National Geographic or something, I'd be mighty pissed if I wasn't consulted or didn't get my share. With the advent of digital photography, what prevents someone from trolling everyone's photo albums and submitting pictures to the press. How do you claim that the picture is yours, especially when the person who ripped you off could have ripped off all your pictures? There remains no authenticity or ownership especially if you have a generic tourist picture (postcard worthy). I guess this is where a digital rights management would help, but what stops you from taking a screenshot of that picture?
I never slept in on Saturday mornings and they were the best thing on TV from 9am-12pm. I recently checked that time slot on the channels I used to watch and there was very little kid-oriented in this time slot. It used to be kids Saturday morning and Christian Evangelists on Sunday morning... so at least one of the two days was ok.
If only ALL AK's had these clips then we'd be making music instead of war. I'd hate to be the guy who had this plugged in to his AK in the middle of a real skirmish and only find out when he pulled the trigger (i'm sure his face would be red).
I wonder if the trigger is the play button and if the safety turns it on.
I was hoping for a rerendering of Pixar's "Geri's Game" starring Gollum. Now that I'd pay for. Or at least get Pixar to put on Geri's Game on the same DVD. My precious-s-s.....
What a 19" powerbook says about you...
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you are seriously trying to compensate for something.
I mean if Rob keeps posting it maybe there's some truth to it? It's not like a credible linked news source like Slashdot would propogate false information right? I mean maybe Microsoft or some other security concious company requested it's addition. The net would certainly be a better place if everyone sending and packets would just be nice enough to tell you if they were sending a nice packet or mean packet. Sorta like "warm fuzzies" and "cold pricklies"... All this talk is making me hungry... I can't wait till my grill gets in!
and is very similar to something i thought of 2 years ago and never finished. Obviously, there are small improvements that can be made such as allow the sharing of a file previously downloaded when the user downloads a new file - but this would require a new mode or persistent tracking through an always on client (in todays world of spyware, that wouldn't be a surprise). As for the ethical questions regarding RH9, i'm sure anything that decreases bandwidth loads for Red Hat can't be that bad. I'm pretty sure they are already saturated and their only consolation to subscribers is that they have two viable options of getting it: from them and through bit torrent. Redhat could have utilized an online registry to prevent people who aren't subscribers to use the install early (time check maybe). I'm sure if they really didn't want non-subscribers getting it early, they would have put in some sort of security. In reality, it's just a perk to their subscribers to get it a little earlier and from less hammered ftp's.
What of Algorithm repositories like this one? This is probably a more useful resource as it emphasizes more on the algorithm itself and allows you to see the algorithm implemented in various languages.
Here's another good reason: You'll eventually blow your parallel port if you don't go "backwords". Blow as in it stops working. That's no fun. If you want a pretty decent source to all of what was brought up here, go to http://eyetap.org/ece385/lab1.htm. It's a course taught by everyone's favourite cyborg, Steve Mann.
IF downloading mp3's ripped from CD's is illegal, then why can't I make a recording at a live concert? Each concert is different; each seat and angle. I'm supporting the artist and i'm getting material not available on CD. Why is that illegal (for most concerts)? And after all, isn't that what the recording companies are doing - paying the artists (I with my ticket, they with hopefully substantially more cash) to perform live and recording it? So I don't get the fidelity and one-on-one nature that they get as well as retakes and digital remixing and tone balance and the lie. In reality, live recordings probably hurt the artist more - some bands are horrible live and the price of a ticket is often greater than a CD. Plus people tend to by shirts and stuff. I just want something I paid for... the ability to listen to what I did whenever I want. Otherwise, anyone caught on a video tape or audio tape who has exclusive deals with a corporation should be able to sue you because you taped them. Soon entertainers will sign with major labels for extended amounts of work (x amount of films) instead of pick and choose which parts they wish to audition for an turn down scripts they dislike. Soon the Media Conglomerates will own all. I just can't wait...
Imagine bluetooth enabled rings with unique ID's. When you get within range of each other, the wedding march plays from a built in (extremely small speaker). Or at least "our" song.... and I'm hoping "our" song isn't the Theme to Star Wars or something.
Or for the polygamist, a ring with an LCD and bluetooth enabled which tells you the names of all the wives within range. It's probably a faux pas to call Lurleen Brandine or vice versa.
Easy to detect all of these items if they are always on... just kill the power for the rest of the floor minus the hub and you'll notice that your device is still active or connected to the hub.
I prefer to think slashdotters easily forget things if it isn't written down on their palms. It wasn't long ago that ATI was everywhere and a small runt company named Nvidia started making a name for themselves with their TNT's and slowly displacing 3DFX from the throne. I'm sure more MACH64 based cards were sold than 3dfx voodoos or voodoo 2's. I always thought the video card industry was a two dog show: big dog and little dog with the rest of the litter hiding in the back. I guess nobody's also noticed that Nvidia has really dropped the ball on this one. Almost no Ultra 5800 releases means the enthusiasts won't have their top card and poor representation at the high end trickles down into the mainstream purchaser and finally the low end purchaser. Video card companies tend to make little or no money selling to the high end. It's boosting the name that they really want cause that means more people will buy 8500LE's and RV designated cards which also, by demand, end up in laptops.
Unplugged items with a system on: RAM, Video cards (PCI+AGP), Harddrives, G4 Upgrade CPU's, CD-ROM's, Soundcard... most of the time without noticing the system was running. That's what happens when engineers don't have enough cool hardware and most cases are open G4's lying around and way too many machines turned out and buzzing to figure out which are on and which are off.
Craziest tool for fixing something: A guy I knew dropped food into an ISA slot while he was plugging in a card. Didn't quite work when he powered it on so when he noticed the food near the slot, he pulled out the card and tried to clear the crumbs. The only thing in arm's reach was a 4 prong fork. So he forked it. Forked it good for a few minutes - then decided it was a good idea to turn off the computer while doing that. Replugged in the card and everything was good.
I always thought documentation was written well to static to begin with. Well written systems should have dynamic help and documentation to fit any interface change. I'm definitely for more functional based documentation and help systems that use the function as the basis instead of the shortcuts or mode to operate it so that if they do utilize a different way to get to the function, then the help uses your custom keys to detail how to do your task. It's great to see applications have "default" buttons for shortcuts for instance, but ALL applications should allow that to be modified through a layout control. A toolkit widget maybe (standardized)? My Soft Eng HCI class seemed to push that shortcuts should be standardize across apps.
and reading the blurb on this review was way more descriptive. The student consultant at my University gave a tech talk on.NET and Tablet PC's and asked the audience what.NET was? A hush fell over the audience. Someone suggested "web services" and the presenter said "yes... exactly. Web Services". He stopped fielding answers cause to him that's all.NET was.
Open Specifications and Open Documentation. There has to be an organization maintaining a list of specifications and documentation for hardware/software. Software tends to be better at this but I always hoped that product manufacturers would give out more specifications on their hardware instead of just assuming that their people can produce the best drivers. At the very least, it would allow for individuals to create new drivers for Operating Systems/Environments the company isn't providing drivers for.
I understand that some companies want to maintain a competetive edge but how about releasing documentation on hardware from their previous rev?
Plus a central repository for all of this information would be nice instead of looking at each company's site or going through dedicated external developer liasons.
You know the developer is a slashdot frequent when you read the FAQ.
"3.4 Can you imagine a Beowolf cluster... There was an April fools about a bunch of Buddhists ordering a heap of iPods. Too bad... if it were true perhaps they could have clustered them to solve the ancient mysteries...
I personally don't see how you could confuse asterix with mobilix. I'm surprised they haven't brought legal action against the number 8 which shares common space with the * on your keyboard. It's only because the French are "cheese-eating surrender monkeys". Apparently, they hate the powers that be.
All digital versions of books that publishers have should be requested and maintained in a safe place till their respective patents expire so that they can be easily integrated into the public domain.... especially if OCR or speech recognition doesn't get any better any time soon.
Modify one of those air powered ping pong ball shooters to fire packets of rice. That way, geeks with bad arms and those who throw like girls (including girls), could get a better shot at you as you are leaving...
Our Visual Computing class recently had to do our own morph software using the Beier-Neely Feature Based Metamorphosis Algorithm. It wasn't too difficult (well, we never went as far as Ghost-Busting sub-section of 3.3). Another cleaner copy of the algorithm can be found here. Maybe you could implement the algorithm, and then run it on the original picture, plus a reduced size image of the subject with all the lines in the second picture proportionately smaller. Your in between morphs should have the look you desire (unless i'm reading your request wrong). Implementation of anti-aliasing using supersampling with a gaussian convolve before cross-dissolving does help!
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Millions in research and they left out the nipples. Didn't the QA department notice this minor glitch. Oh, you mean it's actually a keyboard? nm.
What of private pictures posted to photo galleries that individuals have taken. I recently put up on my webserver my photo collection for friends and family to view. I didn't password protect it due to the computer illiterate nature of my family. But I sure don't want this to be an open door for photo infringement. I mean if a photo I took ended up in National Geographic or something, I'd be mighty pissed if I wasn't consulted or didn't get my share. With the advent of digital photography, what prevents someone from trolling everyone's photo albums and submitting pictures to the press. How do you claim that the picture is yours, especially when the person who ripped you off could have ripped off all your pictures? There remains no authenticity or ownership especially if you have a generic tourist picture (postcard worthy). I guess this is where a digital rights management would help, but what stops you from taking a screenshot of that picture?
I never slept in on Saturday mornings and they were the best thing on TV from 9am-12pm. I recently checked that time slot on the channels I used to watch and there was very little kid-oriented in this time slot. It used to be kids Saturday morning and Christian Evangelists on Sunday morning... so at least one of the two days was ok.
If only ALL AK's had these clips then we'd be making music instead of war.
I'd hate to be the guy who had this plugged in to his AK in the middle of a real skirmish and only find out when he pulled the trigger (i'm sure his face would be red).
I wonder if the trigger is the play button and if the safety turns it on.
I was hoping for a rerendering of Pixar's "Geri's Game" starring Gollum. Now that I'd pay for. Or at least get Pixar to put on Geri's Game on the same DVD. My precious-s-s.....
you are seriously trying to compensate for something.
I mean if Rob keeps posting it maybe there's some truth to it? It's not like a credible linked news source like Slashdot would propogate false information right? I mean maybe Microsoft or some other security concious company requested it's addition. The net would certainly be a better place if everyone sending and packets would just be nice enough to tell you if they were sending a nice packet or mean packet. Sorta like "warm fuzzies" and "cold pricklies"...
All this talk is making me hungry... I can't wait till my grill gets in!
and is very similar to something i thought of 2 years ago and never finished. Obviously, there are small improvements that can be made such as allow the sharing of a file previously downloaded when the user downloads a new file - but this would require a new mode or persistent tracking through an always on client (in todays world of spyware, that wouldn't be a surprise).
As for the ethical questions regarding RH9, i'm sure anything that decreases bandwidth loads for Red Hat can't be that bad. I'm pretty sure they are already saturated and their only consolation to subscribers is that they have two viable options of getting it: from them and through bit torrent. Redhat could have utilized an online registry to prevent people who aren't subscribers to use the install early (time check maybe). I'm sure if they really didn't want non-subscribers getting it early, they would have put in some sort of security. In reality, it's just a perk to their subscribers to get it a little earlier and from less hammered ftp's.
What of Algorithm repositories like this one? This is probably a more useful resource as it emphasizes more on the algorithm itself and allows you to see the algorithm implemented in various languages.
Here's another good reason:
You'll eventually blow your parallel port if you don't go "backwords". Blow as in it stops working. That's no fun.
If you want a pretty decent source to all of what was brought up here, go to http://eyetap.org/ece385/lab1.htm. It's a course taught by everyone's favourite cyborg, Steve Mann.
IF downloading mp3's ripped from CD's is illegal, then why can't I make a recording at a live concert? Each concert is different; each seat and angle. I'm supporting the artist and i'm getting material not available on CD. Why is that illegal (for most concerts)? And after all, isn't that what the recording companies are doing - paying the artists (I with my ticket, they with hopefully substantially more cash) to perform live and recording it? So I don't get the fidelity and one-on-one nature that they get as well as retakes and digital remixing and tone balance and the lie. In reality, live recordings probably hurt the artist more - some bands are horrible live and the price of a ticket is often greater than a CD. Plus people tend to by shirts and stuff. I just want something I paid for... the ability to listen to what I did whenever I want. Otherwise, anyone caught on a video tape or audio tape who has exclusive deals with a corporation should be able to sue you because you taped them. Soon entertainers will sign with major labels for extended amounts of work (x amount of films) instead of pick and choose which parts they wish to audition for an turn down scripts they dislike. Soon the Media Conglomerates will own all. I just can't wait...
Imagine bluetooth enabled rings with unique ID's.
When you get within range of each other, the wedding march plays from a built in (extremely small speaker). Or at least "our" song.... and I'm hoping "our" song isn't the Theme to Star Wars or something.
Or for the polygamist, a ring with an LCD and bluetooth enabled which tells you the names of all the wives within range. It's probably a faux pas to call Lurleen Brandine or vice versa.
Easy to detect all of these items if they are always on... just kill the power for the rest of the floor minus the hub and you'll notice that your device is still active or connected to the hub.
I prefer to think slashdotters easily forget things if it isn't written down on their palms. It wasn't long ago that ATI was everywhere and a small runt company named Nvidia started making a name for themselves with their TNT's and slowly displacing 3DFX from the throne. I'm sure more MACH64 based cards were sold than 3dfx voodoos or voodoo 2's. I always thought the video card industry was a two dog show: big dog and little dog with the rest of the litter hiding in the back. I guess nobody's also noticed that Nvidia has really dropped the ball on this one. Almost no Ultra 5800 releases means the enthusiasts won't have their top card and poor representation at the high end trickles down into the mainstream purchaser and finally the low end purchaser. Video card companies tend to make little or no money selling to the high end. It's boosting the name that they really want cause that means more people will buy 8500LE's and RV designated cards which also, by demand, end up in laptops.
Unplugged items with a system on:
RAM, Video cards (PCI+AGP), Harddrives, G4 Upgrade CPU's, CD-ROM's, Soundcard... most of the time without noticing the system was running. That's what happens when engineers don't have enough cool hardware and most cases are open G4's lying around and way too many machines turned out and buzzing to figure out which are on and which are off.
Craziest tool for fixing something:
A guy I knew dropped food into an ISA slot while he was plugging in a card. Didn't quite work when he powered it on so when he noticed the food near the slot, he pulled out the card and tried to clear the crumbs. The only thing in arm's reach was a 4 prong fork. So he forked it. Forked it good for a few minutes - then decided it was a good idea to turn off the computer while doing that. Replugged in the card and everything was good.
I always thought documentation was written well to static to begin with. Well written systems should have dynamic help and documentation to fit any interface change. I'm definitely for more functional based documentation and help systems that use the function as the basis instead of the shortcuts or mode to operate it so that if they do utilize a different way to get to the function, then the help uses your custom keys to detail how to do your task. It's great to see applications have "default" buttons for shortcuts for instance, but ALL applications should allow that to be modified through a layout control. A toolkit widget maybe (standardized)? My Soft Eng HCI class seemed to push that shortcuts should be standardize across apps.
and reading the blurb on this review was way more descriptive. The student consultant at my University gave a tech talk on .NET and Tablet PC's and asked the audience what .NET was? A hush fell over the audience. Someone suggested "web services" and the presenter said "yes... exactly. Web Services". He stopped fielding answers cause to him that's all .NET was.
Open Specifications and Open Documentation. There has to be an organization maintaining a list of specifications and documentation for hardware/software. Software tends to be better at this but I always hoped that product manufacturers would give out more specifications on their hardware instead of just assuming that their people can produce the best drivers. At the very least, it would allow for individuals to create new drivers for Operating Systems/Environments the company isn't providing drivers for.
I understand that some companies want to maintain a competetive edge but how about releasing documentation on hardware from their previous rev?
Plus a central repository for all of this information would be nice instead of looking at each company's site or going through dedicated external developer liasons.
You know the developer is a slashdot frequent when you read the FAQ.
"3.4 Can you imagine a Beowolf cluster...
There was an April fools about a bunch of Buddhists ordering a heap of iPods. Too bad... if it were true perhaps they could have clustered them to solve the ancient mysteries...
Translation, yes, but its just silly. "
I personally don't see how you could confuse asterix with mobilix. I'm surprised they haven't brought legal action against the number 8 which shares common space with the * on your keyboard. It's only because the French are "cheese-eating surrender monkeys". Apparently, they hate the powers that be.
All digital versions of books that publishers have should be requested and maintained in a safe place till their respective patents expire so that they can be easily integrated into the public domain.... especially if OCR or speech recognition doesn't get any better any time soon.
Modify one of those air powered ping pong ball shooters to fire packets of rice. That way, geeks with bad arms and those who throw like girls (including girls), could get a better shot at you as you are leaving...
Anyone looking for the War NFS Daemon will notice that it was discontinued. You can still find the download here though http://download.jgaa.com/ftp/pub/products/Windows/ WarNfsDaemon/i386/ .
... Jgaa.
From the guys who brought you War FTPD
The parent author is interesting... posted the same comment twice and got a higher score the second time.... hmmm..
Our Visual Computing class recently had to do our own morph software using the Beier-Neely Feature Based Metamorphosis Algorithm. It wasn't too difficult (well, we never went as far as Ghost-Busting sub-section of 3.3). Another cleaner copy of the algorithm can be found here.
Maybe you could implement the algorithm, and then run it on the original picture, plus a reduced size image of the subject with all the lines in the second picture proportionately smaller. Your in between morphs should have the look you desire (unless i'm reading your request wrong). Implementation of anti-aliasing using supersampling with a gaussian convolve before cross-dissolving does help!