Effectively, we've reached the point where it's easier and cheaper and better to move electrons around nuclei, than to move nuclei around other nuclei.
That really brings that 'living in the future' line into... focus.
I've just done a test with (1) a small section of a public image of sushi, with all metadata removed and (2) a photo I just took of some bananas on a white background.
(1) correctly identified what it was, gave me websites using the full original image, full marks, 100%, v.g.
(2) Showed me chopping boards, boxes, a violin... anything where the image had roughly the same colours in roughly the same portion of the image.
So I conclude that it is both. The hash is extremely effective, as you might expect it to be with precomputed info, but the node search is rubbish.
The “Restart to Safari” of OS X Lion will draw comparisons with Google’s Chrome OS. However, the two are worlds apart. True – both offers only the browser with nothing else. However, with “Restart to Mac”, Safari’s password manager is deactivated and users of that mode cannot download any file as the filesystem is completely off limit. Restart to Safari does not remember anything that the user might have done after a reboot.
Chrome OS on the other had has password manager and has access to the filesystem. In short, Chrome OS has been designed with the browser as the main destination and OS X’s “Restart to Safari” feature is aimed for those time when someone asks for your computer to check something on the web and you do not want them to see your files or mess them up.
And don't forget, a laptop battery contains approximately the same energy as a hand grenade, and we let all sorts of idiots manufacture, replace, and carry those wherever they like.
Difference/Increase/Decrease/Change are all the same. The point is that they can be expressed either geometrically (ratio) or arithmetically (absolute values).
I suspect it is "copy the bits from the video feed to a clean memory space", "overwrite the bits for the letters in that memory space", "put the resultant memory space as the screen source". Presumably the video feed space is being constantly overwritten by the feed device.
But I could be wrong.
They might have a point: it's far more important to understand the problem than to be able to code the solution. You can train up coders, you can code review, you can regression test. What is much harder is the ability to analyse and document the problem.
Fuck's sake, take a critical thinking class. Yes, houses can have mortgages. So what? That's an entirely separate arrangement to the purchase of the house from the previous owner. A better criticism would have been that one is buying a service, the other is buying a physical object. Do I have to criticise my own analogies now?
My point is: if they were selling 'lifetime of service' then privately defining lifetime as 'till we get tired of providing it, heh, heh', then they are a bunch of bastards from whom nobody should purchase anything. I'm very sad to say this, as the original TiVo company was absolutely brilliant, with great tech support and a great product. I doubt the people from whom I bought a lifetime service intended nine years as the lifetime of the service, and I very much doubt that any of them are still there.
No, I am not saying the current owners did anything legally wrong.
Yes, I am saying the current owners did something morally wrong.
Yes I am saying that it is extremely bad PR.
Yes I do suspect it was part of a deal with Virgin.
Ahem. The British army didn't invade Washington in 1812. It was in 1814, during the "War of 1812". HTH. However, you are remarkable in my experience for even remembering that it happened at all:)
In every single other aspect of your post, you are as right as a right thing wearing an "I'm right" t-shirt at a "We are Right" rally.
There was an interesting suggestion after the Lockerby bomber was freed, that long term the UK wanted to do a deal with Libya for exactly that. Libya -> Gibraltar -> EU IIRC
It appears the most likely reason is that they* wish to add more terms and conditions to the download, and the GPL specifically forbids it.
So rather than ease their terms for GPL, they just don't play.
*they == both Apple and Microsoft, but presumably not Android Marketplace
The EGP service costs them almost nothing (and they made money on it with monthly subscriptions). Why would they drop it and piss off a rabidly loyal fan base?
TiVo customers since 2001 have been asking when the new Series 2 onward TiVos will be available in the UK. I would have jumped at the chance to buy one. However, TiVo UK got into bed with Sky and now Virgin and seem to have decided that their best advocates can fuck off. Hence I think it's a PR fail to save very little cash, or more likely, Virgin wants to pull in the series one owners (if they live in a Virgin area).
I dislike redefining words in the contract. I dislike it a lot. Contracts should not be able to redefine "Lifetime" to mean "up to thirty days" no matter what. Similarly "Unlimited" should not be redefined to "Limited, at our discretion" by the mere use of an asterisk and some small print.
I agree they probably haven't broken the law. I expect they are very confident of that. I do think they are being a bunch of bastards (if you don't like bunch of crooks).
I imagine that if this affected you - perhaps if your yearly subscription to Radio Times or Private Eye were cancelled without returning you money pro rata because the word 'year' was redefined in small print - you would be similarly cross.
I'm charitably assuming English is not your first language. So perhaps you should look up 'lifetime'.
Anyway, I gave them a *lot* of money nine years ago for a service to last a long time. Your pathetic logic is like say "you bought your house ten years ago, do you still expect to own it now?"
So the service runs until it doesn't, and they could have canned it the day after they took my cash? Do you actually think that's reasonable, or do you work in marketing/legal?
I paid for a lifetime subscription. I *already* paid. TiVo are not mentioning that anywhere, or justifying their definition of 'lifetime'. I think I've been robbed.
Absolutely. Especially for those of us who don't get Virgin (49% of the UK), and wouldn't want their crappy service anyway (my parents used to have it - I'd go almost anywhere else based on their experience).
I was a long time TiVo advocate, but no more. I will be recommending the Humax Foxsat + Freesat to everyone from now on. EPG is in the Freesat signal, so there's no way that you can get shafted like this again.
Legacy, maybe, but I paid for a 'lifetime subscription', and most of the boxes are still in perfect working order. Do you really think 9 years is acceptable?
Slashdot Mirror
The showing or playing in public of a broadcast to an audience who have not paid for admission to the place where the broadcast is to be seen or heard does not infringe any copyright
I have never understood how the PRS have got away with that.
It's even Online
I love the internet.
Effectively, we've reached the point where it's easier and cheaper and better to move electrons around nuclei, than to move nuclei around other nuclei.
That really brings that 'living in the future' line into... focus.
I've just done a test with (1) a small section of a public image of sushi, with all metadata removed and (2) a photo I just took of some bananas on a white background.
(1) correctly identified what it was, gave me websites using the full original image, full marks, 100%, v.g.
(2) Showed me chopping boards, boxes, a violin... anything where the image had roughly the same colours in roughly the same portion of the image.
So I conclude that it is both. The hash is extremely effective, as you might expect it to be with precomputed info, but the node search is rubbish.
RTF***ingA
Not a competitor to Chrome OS
The “Restart to Safari” of OS X Lion will draw comparisons with Google’s Chrome OS. However, the two are worlds apart. True – both offers only the browser with nothing else. However, with “Restart to Mac”, Safari’s password manager is deactivated and users of that mode cannot download any file as the filesystem is completely off limit. Restart to Safari does not remember anything that the user might have done after a reboot.
Chrome OS on the other had has password manager and has access to the filesystem. In short, Chrome OS has been designed with the browser as the main destination and OS X’s “Restart to Safari” feature is aimed for those time when someone asks for your computer to check something on the web and you do not want them to see your files or mess them up.
And don't forget, a laptop battery contains approximately the same energy as a hand grenade, and we let all sorts of idiots manufacture, replace, and carry those wherever they like.
This is sugar *in the right place*. It'll likely be useful for topical applications only.
Difference/Increase/Decrease/Change are all the same. The point is that they can be expressed either geometrically (ratio) or arithmetically (absolute values).
I suspect it is "copy the bits from the video feed to a clean memory space", "overwrite the bits for the letters in that memory space", "put the resultant memory space as the screen source". Presumably the video feed space is being constantly overwritten by the feed device. But I could be wrong.
Or indeed, the spork option: a GUI with CLI windows in it. (Perhaps "GACLUI"?)
They might have a point: it's far more important to understand the problem than to be able to code the solution. You can train up coders, you can code review, you can regression test. What is much harder is the ability to analyse and document the problem.
Fuck's sake, take a critical thinking class. Yes, houses can have mortgages. So what? That's an entirely separate arrangement to the purchase of the house from the previous owner. A better criticism would have been that one is buying a service, the other is buying a physical object. Do I have to criticise my own analogies now?
My point is: if they were selling 'lifetime of service' then privately defining lifetime as 'till we get tired of providing it, heh, heh', then they are a bunch of bastards from whom nobody should purchase anything. I'm very sad to say this, as the original TiVo company was absolutely brilliant, with great tech support and a great product. I doubt the people from whom I bought a lifetime service intended nine years as the lifetime of the service, and I very much doubt that any of them are still there.
No, I am not saying the current owners did anything legally wrong.
Yes, I am saying the current owners did something morally wrong.
Yes I am saying that it is extremely bad PR.
Yes I do suspect it was part of a deal with Virgin.
Actually we had to 'fight' France to be the prime meridian. Now we want to share their timezone...
Ahem. The British army didn't invade Washington in 1812. It was in 1814, during the "War of 1812". HTH. However, you are remarkable in my experience for even remembering that it happened at all :)
In every single other aspect of your post, you are as right as a right thing wearing an "I'm right" t-shirt at a "We are Right" rally.
There was an interesting suggestion after the Lockerby bomber was freed, that long term the UK wanted to do a deal with Libya for exactly that. Libya -> Gibraltar -> EU IIRC
Jolly good idea too.
Take a look at:
http://www.fsf.org/news/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement
It appears the most likely reason is that they* wish to add more terms and conditions to the download, and the GPL specifically forbids it. So rather than ease their terms for GPL, they just don't play.
*they == both Apple and Microsoft, but presumably not Android Marketplace
The EGP service costs them almost nothing (and they made money on it with monthly subscriptions). Why would they drop it and piss off a rabidly loyal fan base?
TiVo customers since 2001 have been asking when the new Series 2 onward TiVos will be available in the UK. I would have jumped at the chance to buy one. However, TiVo UK got into bed with Sky and now Virgin and seem to have decided that their best advocates can fuck off. Hence I think it's a PR fail to save very little cash, or more likely, Virgin wants to pull in the series one owners (if they live in a Virgin area).
I dislike redefining words in the contract. I dislike it a lot. Contracts should not be able to redefine "Lifetime" to mean "up to thirty days" no matter what. Similarly "Unlimited" should not be redefined to "Limited, at our discretion" by the mere use of an asterisk and some small print.
I agree they probably haven't broken the law. I expect they are very confident of that. I do think they are being a bunch of bastards (if you don't like bunch of crooks).
I imagine that if this affected you - perhaps if your yearly subscription to Radio Times or Private Eye were cancelled without returning you money pro rata because the word 'year' was redefined in small print - you would be similarly cross.
WHY THE FUCK YOU ANYONE EXPECT YOU TO NOW?!
I'm charitably assuming English is not your first language. So perhaps you should look up 'lifetime'.
Anyway, I gave them a *lot* of money nine years ago for a service to last a long time. Your pathetic logic is like say "you bought your house ten years ago, do you still expect to own it now?"
Justin
I'm not suggesting they won't have covered themselves legally. I'm suggesting they are a bunch of crooks.
So the service runs until it doesn't, and they could have canned it the day after they took my cash? Do you actually think that's reasonable, or do you work in marketing/legal?
I paid for a lifetime subscription. I *already* paid. TiVo are not mentioning that anywhere, or justifying their definition of 'lifetime'. I think I've been robbed.
Absolutely. Especially for those of us who don't get Virgin (49% of the UK), and wouldn't want their crappy service anyway (my parents used to have it - I'd go almost anywhere else based on their experience).
I was a long time TiVo advocate, but no more. I will be recommending the Humax Foxsat + Freesat to everyone from now on. EPG is in the Freesat signal, so there's no way that you can get shafted like this again.
Justin.
What a total PR fail. TiVo used to have such a good reputation.
Presumably Virgin made this a condition of the contract and TiVo rolled over. Shame on both of you, avaricious, nasty, money-grubbers.
Remember folks (UK and US): don't buy a TiVo product, or a Virgin Media one, they will take your cash and then let you down.
Justin.
Legacy, maybe, but I paid for a 'lifetime subscription', and most of the boxes are still in perfect working order. Do you really think 9 years is acceptable?