Diamond. We can make it much more cheaply now, and if it's scaled up to meet demand, then it'll be cheaper still. Etch your digital data into diamond, and then tell me you've got a problem with the longevity of the medium.
including the fact that MOST of the diesel vehicles in America are in the $40K area
Where do you get that fact from? I'm not saying it's wrong, but it seems like almost all the diesels I see on the road are either fairly modern VW Jettas or Golfs, with the occasional Passat thrown in, or they're an ancient Mercedes. You'd be hard-pressed to find a $40K Jetta.:)
This is definitely regional - Seattle is riddled with modern VWs, whereas the midwest (Kansas City, specifically) has a decided lack of them. Very strange.
now if only i could figure out why diesel is 8 cents a litre more expensive than gas at the moment...
Diesel is a bit more expensive than regular gas here, too, but my diesel Jetta gets 50% better mileage (no exaggeration) than my previous (gas) Jetta did, so I'm still coming out *way* ahead.
Fireworks is a Macromedia product that Adobe acquired. If it's got great PNG compression, such compression has certainly NOT made it into Photoshop as of CS2. Hopefully CS3 will see such ability.
'web export'? Do you mean 'Save for Web'? If so, that doesn't seem to be true, at least in my experience. I just now saved a B&W web comic (SinFest!) strip into 24-bit and 8-bit PNG files via Save for Web, then compressed them further with pngout:
Didn't those GIF shrinkers merely remove all meta data from the file, rather than actually compress it better? My understanding is that that isn't what's going on with utilities like pngout and pngcrush.
PNG was not supposed to replace JPEG; it was supposed to replace GIF. Unfortunately, thanks to massive delays in getting PNG support correctly working in IE, that never happened. Also, some people still insist they need animated GIFs, which PNG doesn't do (see MNG, which is nowhere). It's sad, as for most file sizes of images appropriate for GIF, PNG was way smaller (unless you get way, WAY small, as in under 150bytes or so (not kilobytes, BYTES). Also, Adobe is still unable to provide decent compression on the PNGs its software generates, so to this day, you need compression tools like pngout or pngcrush (pngout usually produces smaller files). Weird that you can still lossly compress a lossy image, but whatever.
This won't be the end of anything unless it is unemcumbered by patents, and as a previous poster noted, it isn't. So, this is a non-event.
Perhaps the group that came up with PNG can come up with a patent-free replacement for JPEG?
As a proof of concept, steal as much money as you possibly can. As payment for this security evaluation, keep the money and retire to a country with no extradition to the United States.
One little implementation detail: don't get caught.
Extra credit: put the blame onto your criminally-negligent boss.
Not really - if you'll look at the picture you linked to, the keys are not black, thus making this only 'mostly black.' 'Mostly black' also means 'slightly white,' which is a real problem. Yuck.
I'd like to have a *real* black Model M, but the short kind - with no numeric keypad. That would be awesome.
"By using open source software for commercial purposes for Microsoft Corporation by any Microsoft employee, and if Microsoft Corporation does not publicly show the open source community this code by May 1, 2007, then Microsoft Corporation hereby agrees to freely license any such infringing code (if any such code should exist), in the open source license in which any such infringing code is found, to anyone free of charge, indefinitely, in all countries in which Microsoft currently or in the future, operates."
You know, since Microsoft thinks such agreements are legally-binding.
Just don't name the thing AMEE, and for gawd's sake, if you make a military version of it, make sure you completely erase its memory before using it in a civilian capacity! Yeesh.
When alcohol was prohibited in the U.S., the mob was created.
This seems a bad comparison. When alcohol was prohibited, *alcohol* was prohibited, not all liquid drinks. This is a ban on *incandescent* lightbulbs, not all lightbulbs or light sources. It's not like they're trying to legislate that people live in the dark.
I've not read the details of the proposed legislation - does it ban all incandescent type technology, or just your standard crappy lightbulb? Cuz if it's the latter, there are some nice non-CFL technologies out there that produce a nice light. Also, there are colour-corrected CFLs for those who don't like the typical spectrum CFLs produce.
If you have a Apple and a pad; try writing "Rosetta!" three times. It was a Newton Easter Egg and from what I have heard migrated into OS X from its smaller cousin.
It's still in there, but I would advise against doing this -- the easter egg is that a killer comes out of the machine and chops you into bits.
The problem is that it has to output the video/music/whatever at some point. It's only unbreakable if you're trying to prevent access. They want people to be able to view the movies without being able to copy them, but if they can be viewed, they can be copied, one way or another. If you can figure out what the output is, and you have access to the encrypted form, eventually someone will be able to crack it, whether it's embedded in inaccessible hardware or not, *especially* when you have keys that are, at least for now, accessible. Plus you have multiple encrypted content that can also be viewed (multiple movies, all of which work with the currently-accessible key). It's only a matter of time until this scheme is broken, and I suspect it will be much sooner rather than later.
This seems to be rather like some weird version of the game Master Mind. You know what the scrambled input is, but you also know what the output is supposed to be. You now have a key to the lock (at least for now), so you just need to figure out the innards of the lock mechanism itself.
Anyone who keeps up with the protection history of the Sony PSP knows what the outcome of this battle will be. It's inevitable.
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Diamond is both unstable (it spontaneously decays to graphite) and flammable.
Really? Wow - I'd never heard either of those things.
I found a reference to the melting point of diamond as 3820 degrees Kelvin. I think that should do.
And spontaneous decay to graphite? Under what conditions?
regardless of quotes, diamonds are not forever.
Is there another material we can make that lasts longer and is ridiculously strong? Use that, then.
You don't know that. The guy in Raiders' face melted before he could tell us how many there were...
The first rule of the Commandments - don't look at the Commandments!
Diamond. We can make it much more cheaply now, and if it's scaled up to meet demand, then it'll be cheaper still. Etch your digital data into diamond, and then tell me you've got a problem with the longevity of the medium.
Well, I used to live in the midwest, but I'm in Seattle. Here, we have lots of SUVs, none of which are diesel, as far as I know.
I just found out that the new FedEx trucks are actually diesel-electric hybrids that get about 30mpg, which is pretty cool.
including the fact that MOST of the diesel vehicles in America are in the $40K area
:)
Where do you get that fact from? I'm not saying it's wrong, but it seems like almost all the diesels I see on the road are either fairly modern VW Jettas or Golfs, with the occasional Passat thrown in, or they're an ancient Mercedes. You'd be hard-pressed to find a $40K Jetta.
This is definitely regional - Seattle is riddled with modern VWs, whereas the midwest (Kansas City, specifically) has a decided lack of them. Very strange.
now if only i could figure out why diesel is 8 cents a litre more expensive than gas at the moment...
Diesel is a bit more expensive than regular gas here, too, but my diesel Jetta gets 50% better mileage (no exaggeration) than my previous (gas) Jetta did, so I'm still coming out *way* ahead.
Fireworks is a Macromedia product that Adobe acquired. If it's got great PNG compression, such compression has certainly NOT made it into Photoshop as of CS2. Hopefully CS3 will see such ability.
'web export'? Do you mean 'Save for Web'? If so, that doesn't seem to be true, at least in my experience. I just now saved a B&W web comic (SinFest!) strip into 24-bit and 8-bit PNG files via Save for Web, then compressed them further with pngout:
77876 test.gif
122820 test24-original.png
91656 test24-pngout.png
65095 test8-original.png
62631 test8-pngout.png
Didn't those GIF shrinkers merely remove all meta data from the file, rather than actually compress it better? My understanding is that that isn't what's going on with utilities like pngout and pngcrush.
PNG was not supposed to replace JPEG; it was supposed to replace GIF. Unfortunately, thanks to massive delays in getting PNG support correctly working in IE, that never happened. Also, some people still insist they need animated GIFs, which PNG doesn't do (see MNG, which is nowhere). It's sad, as for most file sizes of images appropriate for GIF, PNG was way smaller (unless you get way, WAY small, as in under 150bytes or so (not kilobytes, BYTES). Also, Adobe is still unable to provide decent compression on the PNGs its software generates, so to this day, you need compression tools like pngout or pngcrush (pngout usually produces smaller files). Weird that you can still lossly compress a lossy image, but whatever.
This won't be the end of anything unless it is unemcumbered by patents, and as a previous poster noted, it isn't. So, this is a non-event.
Perhaps the group that came up with PNG can come up with a patent-free replacement for JPEG?
That's the best compliment anyone's ever paid me. Thank you so much! :)
As a proof of concept, steal as much money as you possibly can. As payment for this security evaluation, keep the money and retire to a country with no extradition to the United States.
One little implementation detail: don't get caught.
Extra credit: put the blame onto your criminally-negligent boss.
And those lying road signs, too. Everyone knows there should be 1024 meters in a kilometer!
Wouldn't that be called a 'kebimeter'?
I hereby nominate this nanocoating material for 'employee of the month'! (everyone has to win at least once)
they come in black!
Not really - if you'll look at the picture you linked to, the keys are not black, thus making this only 'mostly black.' 'Mostly black' also means 'slightly white,' which is a real problem. Yuck.
I'd like to have a *real* black Model M, but the short kind - with no numeric keypad. That would be awesome.
"By using open source software for commercial purposes for Microsoft Corporation by any Microsoft employee, and if Microsoft Corporation does not publicly show the open source community this code by May 1, 2007, then Microsoft Corporation hereby agrees to freely license any such infringing code (if any such code should exist), in the open source license in which any such infringing code is found, to anyone free of charge, indefinitely, in all countries in which Microsoft currently or in the future, operates."
You know, since Microsoft thinks such agreements are legally-binding.
Do I make a Real Genius joke, or a StarCraft joke?
Real Genius. It's a moral imperative.
Just don't name the thing AMEE, and for gawd's sake, if you make a military version of it, make sure you completely erase its memory before using it in a civilian capacity! Yeesh.
When alcohol was prohibited in the U.S., the mob was created.
This seems a bad comparison. When alcohol was prohibited, *alcohol* was prohibited, not all liquid drinks. This is a ban on *incandescent* lightbulbs, not all lightbulbs or light sources. It's not like they're trying to legislate that people live in the dark.
I've not read the details of the proposed legislation - does it ban all incandescent type technology, or just your standard crappy lightbulb? Cuz if it's the latter, there are some nice non-CFL technologies out there that produce a nice light. Also, there are colour-corrected CFLs for those who don't like the typical spectrum CFLs produce.
"I'm sorry babe, just remember, we're not breaking up, I just upped my standards till you no longer qualify."
In the past that was known as, "We're upping our standards, so up yours!"
Hmm...maybe this would work with Microsoft.
If you have a Apple and a pad; try writing "Rosetta!" three times. It was a Newton Easter Egg and from what I have heard migrated into OS X from its smaller cousin.
It's still in there, but I would advise against doing this -- the easter egg is that a killer comes out of the machine and chops you into bits.
"qit", (pronounced KIT
I don't think so, Michael.
That is also the value of one green van made from marijuana resin.
... a classic.
Mmm, "Still Smokin'"
The problem is that it has to output the video/music/whatever at some point. It's only unbreakable if you're trying to prevent access. They want people to be able to view the movies without being able to copy them, but if they can be viewed, they can be copied, one way or another. If you can figure out what the output is, and you have access to the encrypted form, eventually someone will be able to crack it, whether it's embedded in inaccessible hardware or not, *especially* when you have keys that are, at least for now, accessible. Plus you have multiple encrypted content that can also be viewed (multiple movies, all of which work with the currently-accessible key). It's only a matter of time until this scheme is broken, and I suspect it will be much sooner rather than later.
This seems to be rather like some weird version of the game Master Mind. You know what the scrambled input is, but you also know what the output is supposed to be. You now have a key to the lock (at least for now), so you just need to figure out the innards of the lock mechanism itself.
Anyone who keeps up with the protection history of the Sony PSP knows what the outcome of this battle will be. It's inevitable.