Even assuming people could immediately switch to PNG, this wouldn't solve the problem because JPEG is actually a format where the amount of compression applied to pictures can be varied on a scale of 0 to 100.
Actually, the amount of compression is defined by selecting quantization tables that will take away part of the information. The mapping of an interval to quantization tables is what some applications do, but it is by no means defined in the JPEG specs and somewhat arbitrary. So 75 can mean different things in different applications or libraries. In fact, the 0 to 100 interval often makes people think that the number is the percentage of loss (or vice versa, the amount of information that is preserved), or the compression ratio, which is all not true.
IIRC, the author of VirtualDub figured out the structure of ASF, added support to his program (in version 1.2 or so) and was asked by Microsoft to remove it, which he did (so he wouldn't get any legal problems). And he wasn't even trying to access the compressed audio / video data itself directly, because he did that comfortably via the API, just the wrapper file format around it.
Though isn't 6PM a little early to close the ballot?
Everything here closes early. You have no idea how hard it was to change legislation to have supermarkets and the like being allowed to open until 8 pm (instead of 6:30). That's one of the things that really suck about this country.
The images started out as PCD files as part of a Kodak sample Photo-CD, IIRC. That CD was distributed to demonstrate the quality of the whole Photo-CD system.
However, why do you think that using these images (in one form or another) on the screenshot makes the whole thing a fake?
Talking about directors in their 80s... Kershner is 79. I guess he has tons of ideas for his life other than participating in the making of another Star Wars movie.
You've watched a different game, read Salon review
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Am I being moded down for accurately reporting my experiences?
Well, your experiences are different from those of most other people. Salon has a more accurate review of the game.
Nobody would deny that Brasil deserved to win, in the end they got more chances and made more of them. But "the Germans sucked raw ass"? For anyone who actually watched the game and knows the rules, your original posting is a troll if I've ever seen one.
Are there plans to index audio files (and the audio tracks of video files) so that these could be searched as well? I would guess that existing speech recognition packages could be reused for this purpose so that development would not be too complicated.
Recognizing text in images and videos and indexing that would be a similar task. I know that Google Catalog Search must be doing some OCR already, but I have no idea if this would take too many CPU cycles if applied to all images, or if there are other problems (the images themselves already get downloaded for the image search, so bandwidth should not be the problem).
Someone trustworthy would have to provide it, so there wouldn't be too many databases, which would give the RIAA & Co. a way to sue the DB providers ("the database's major purpose is to find copyrighted material"). They'll find a way...
Six months ago, most Americans were stunned to discover how differently others in the world regard us from the way we see ourselves.
I'm not a US citizen and I've never been to the United States. However, I'm pretty certain that there is no single way how Americans see themselves. There are just too many (280M?). Similarly, there is a wide range of feelings towards the US from everybody else. Every intelligent person should be able to see both positive and negative aspects of US society and the impact of that country on the world. Any US citizen who was surprised that the USA are not loved all over the world has really lost touch with reality.
Globalism is a major reason. Invasive American culture -- from movies, music, fast-food -- have highlighted political and religious differences, from Europe to the Middle East and South Asia.
Well, last time I checked nobody here (Germany) was forced to watch American movies, listen to American music or eat fast food. Only the very intolerant complain about this addition to their culture. Pick what you like (that would be certain movies and TV shows for me) and ignore the rest.
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Germany DID NOT ban the Nazi party for no reason. Actually, the gov'ment is checking wheter (sic) they should be banned or not.
The NPD - an existing right-extremist German party, which you are obviously referring to, because the German government is currently trying to have it banned - is not the same thing as the NSDAP, which was the Nazi party during the Third Reich.
The NSDAP, on the other hand, has been forbidden. See the Verbotsgesetz.
You don't have to use the interpretation approach of the JVM. There are native compilers for Java, and they are used especially with embedded systems where you cannot allow interpretation overhead. Some native compilers allow you to turn off cycle-eating things like array bounds checking etc.
The report PDF mentions them briefly on page 18, but adds that there are some "portability problems in practice". I'm not quite sure what that is supposed to mean - if there are errors in the executables generated by native compilers, it's a problem of that particular tool, not of the native executable approach in general.
In addition to the other replies, here's the link to the Oracle of Bacon that lets you find out the degree of separation between Kevin and any other person who is featured at IMDB.
There is also a generic search that lets you combine any actor with any other actor. Unfortunately I have forgotten who the best-connected actor was (average to all other actors is smallest). Anyone?
Clustering pages is what other search engines like Teoma are doing already.
In a recent interview in c't magazine, a Google employee (Urs Hölzle) said, when asked about clustering, that they had tried that a long time ago, but they never got it to work successfully. He mentioned two problems: - the algorithms they came up with delivered about 20 percent junk links for almost all topics - it's hard to find the right categories and give them correct names, esp. for very generic queries
Of course, just because Google didn't get it to work properly doesn't mean nobody else can. But it's harder than it looks, and it's been known for quite a while.
Filtering software is totally simple, as you say (searching a string in a list - white or black list - is not that trivial, but Mr Knuth has written up a nice summary on that topic).
The problem with an open project to collect URIs is its very openness - if hundreds of people suggest sites that contain too much "extreme" content (of a sexual, ideological or whatever kind), who will decide if a given site is inappropriate? If it's not appropriate for 6-year-olds, is it appropriate for 12-year-olds? Will majority vote decide?
Your average christian will probably not quite understand why anyone would want to block something harmless about pigs (remember that Babe movie that could not be shown in some Muslim countries).
Some parent from the Netherlands quite likely wouldn't want to stop teenagers from looking at people posing naked as badly as another parent from the US Bible belt.
Even people who share a nationality or religion can have very diverse opinions.
It would be interesting to know if anyone has suggestions on how to make such a URI collection project work.
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There are some LAFs available. Personally, I like the Metal theme. Although the Windows LAF isn't perfect, I like it best.
Even assuming people could immediately switch to PNG, this wouldn't solve the problem because JPEG is actually a format where the amount of compression applied to pictures can be varied on a scale of 0 to 100.
Actually, the amount of compression is defined by selecting quantization tables that will take away part of the information. The mapping of an interval to quantization tables is what some applications do, but it is by no means defined in the JPEG specs and somewhat arbitrary. So 75 can mean different things in different applications or libraries. In fact, the 0 to 100 interval often makes people think that the number is the percentage of loss (or vice versa, the amount of information that is preserved), or the compression ratio, which is all not true.
IIRC, the author of VirtualDub figured out the structure of ASF, added support to his program (in version 1.2 or so) and was asked by Microsoft to remove it, which he did (so he wouldn't get any legal problems). And he wasn't even trying to access the compressed audio / video data itself directly, because he did that comfortably via the API, just the wrapper file format around it.
Though isn't 6PM a little early to close the ballot?
Everything here closes early. You have no idea how hard it was to change legislation to have supermarkets and the like being allowed to open until 8 pm (instead of 6:30). That's one of the things that really suck about this country.
The images started out as PCD files as part of a Kodak sample Photo-CD, IIRC. That CD was distributed to demonstrate the quality of the whole Photo-CD system.
However, why do you think that using these images (in one form or another) on the screenshot makes the whole thing a fake?
Talking about directors in their 80s... Kershner is 79. I guess he has tons of ideas for his life other than participating in the making of another Star Wars movie.
Am I being moded down for accurately reporting my experiences?
Well, your experiences are different from those of most other people. Salon has a more accurate review of the game.
Nobody would deny that Brasil deserved to win, in the end they got more chances and made more of them. But "the Germans sucked raw ass"? For anyone who actually watched the game and knows the rules, your original posting is a troll if I've ever seen one.
Are there plans to index audio files (and the audio tracks of video files) so that these could be searched as well? I would guess that existing speech recognition packages could be reused for this purpose so that development would not be too complicated.
Recognizing text in images and videos and indexing that would be a similar task. I know that Google Catalog Search must be doing some OCR already, but I have no idea if this would take too many CPU cycles if applied to all images, or if there are other problems (the images themselves already get downloaded for the image search, so bandwidth should not be the problem).
Someone trustworthy would have to provide it, so there wouldn't be too many databases, which would give the RIAA & Co. a way to sue the DB providers ("the database's major purpose is to find copyrighted material"). They'll find a way...
You can only dream of getting one of these machines.
;-)
Or wait ten years and have the equivalent computing power in your cellphone!
Access denied error message. NT 4.0 wirh service pack 6, IE 5.00.2014.0216.
javac, the standard JDK compiler, is actually a Java program. Also, kopi.
Six months ago, most Americans were stunned to discover how differently others in the world regard us from the way we see ourselves.
I'm not a US citizen and I've never been to the United States. However, I'm pretty certain that there is no single way how Americans see themselves. There are just too many (280M?). Similarly, there is a wide range of feelings towards the US from everybody else. Every intelligent person should be able to see both positive and negative aspects of US society and the impact of that country on the world. Any US citizen who was surprised that the USA are not loved all over the world has really lost touch with reality.
Globalism is a major reason. Invasive American culture -- from movies, music, fast-food -- have highlighted political and religious differences, from Europe to the Middle East and South Asia.
Well, last time I checked nobody here (Germany) was forced to watch American movies, listen to American music or eat fast food. Only the very intolerant complain about this addition to their culture. Pick what you like (that would be certain movies and TV shows for me) and ignore the rest.
People who don't need an unsigned data type.
Actually, Java's primitive type char is an unsigned 16 bit integer type. It can store integers between 0 and 65535.
Nope. IIRC, he appeared in the "what movies I liked" clip at the beginning, though.
:)
But the academy seems to have a new president who kept his speech short. Good man!
Benutzt Google auch eine CPU mit neutralem Netz?!
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Germany DID NOT ban the Nazi party for no reason. Actually, the gov'ment is checking wheter (sic) they should be banned or not.
The NPD - an existing right-extremist German party, which you are obviously referring to, because the German government is currently trying to have it banned - is not the same thing as the NSDAP, which was the Nazi party during the Third Reich.
The NSDAP, on the other hand, has been forbidden. See the Verbotsgesetz.
In tex text files, special characters might get encoded in various ways, e.g. "a to specify ä.
Searching for the German word "während" will fail if the ä character is encoded differently.
Sorry, I hadn't read everything and I could have sworn that Acrobat Reader told me that the word native didn't occur anymore.
You don't have to use the interpretation approach of the JVM. There are native compilers for Java, and they are used especially with embedded systems where you cannot allow interpretation overhead. Some native compilers allow you to turn off cycle-eating things like array bounds checking etc.
The report PDF mentions them briefly on page 18, but adds that there are some "portability problems in practice". I'm not quite sure what that is supposed to mean - if there are errors in the executables generated by native compilers, it's a problem of that particular tool, not of the native executable approach in general.
In addition to the other replies, here's the link to the Oracle of Bacon that lets you find out the degree of separation between Kevin and any other person who is featured at IMDB.
There is also a generic search that lets you combine any actor with any other actor. Unfortunately I have forgotten who the best-connected actor was (average to all other actors is smallest). Anyone?
Clustering pages is what other search engines like Teoma are doing already.
In a recent interview in c't magazine, a Google employee (Urs Hölzle) said, when asked about clustering, that they had tried that a long time ago, but they never got it to work successfully. He mentioned two problems:
- the algorithms they came up with delivered about 20 percent junk links for almost all topics
- it's hard to find the right categories and give them correct names, esp. for very generic queries
Of course, just because Google didn't get it to work properly doesn't mean nobody else can. But it's harder than it looks, and it's been known for quite a while.
Filtering software is totally simple, as you say (searching a string in a list - white or black list - is not that trivial, but Mr Knuth has written up a nice summary on that topic).
The problem with an open project to collect URIs is its very openness - if hundreds of people suggest sites that contain too much "extreme" content (of a sexual, ideological or whatever kind), who will decide if a given site is inappropriate? If it's not appropriate for 6-year-olds, is it appropriate for 12-year-olds? Will majority vote decide?
Your average christian will probably not quite understand why anyone would want to block something harmless about pigs (remember that Babe movie that could not be shown in some Muslim countries).
Some parent from the Netherlands quite likely wouldn't want to stop teenagers from looking at people posing naked as badly as another parent from the US Bible belt.
Even people who share a nationality or religion can have very diverse opinions.
It would be interesting to know if anyone has suggestions on how to make such a URI collection project work.
To get a feeling for how many pages someone with an account has loaded, you could display that number on top of each page (x pages this week = USD k).
/. "premium" would cost me per month, but I'd like to find out. And I'm sure as hell not gonna count myself! :)
Frankly, I have no idea how much
You seem to do some statistics anyway, so that shouldn't be too hard.