He is correct, nobody was using ANY sort of photographic camera in the "late 1800s."
BTW, a friend of mine has an ancient Kodak 8x10 view camera, it dates to around 1920. Now THAT is a camera! There's more glass in that camera than in a dozen modern cameras.
ok thanks guys, I guess I should have googled for "sloan great wall" instead of sloan great wall, all I turned up was stuff about some guy named sloan visiting the Great Wall of China. Interesting that this structure is considered evidence against the Big Bang theory. I'm always rooting for the underdog so I am still holding on to the Steady State theory.
What is this bit on the map about the Sloan Great Wall? I googled around but only found a reference to the map itself. If this is the biggest cosmic structure ever discovered, news of it sure hasn't traveled very far outside the astronomer's circles. What is the Sloan Great Wall?
WTF are you talking about? I've worn my RockWalkers through metal detectors with no problems, they never set off any alarms. These aren't metal-toe boots, they're leather walking shoes with rubber soles.
Without getting into too many specific details, notice the ink on the bill comes in several colors, which if you were a REAL counterfeiter using real printing presses, would have to be printed on different plates. There's a Discovery Channel show I saw that described the spot-color separation in detail, it's pretty obvious what I'm talking about if you are a real designer or printer. I used to demo our scanners by scanning $1 bills, then we got a drum scanner and the operator (who was very experienced in the biz) had a fit, he said he'd had encounters with undercover feds that tried to entrap him into doing hirez scans of bills and he said we better knock it off before we got into trouble. So we did.
I did RTFArticle, some people reported being unable to even OPEN scans of currency. This situation is still unclear, I had no problems but other people have reported problems. No definitive data has yet appeared.
That's a lovely dialog box, but it still could be a hoax. I'll believe it when someone tells me specifically how to cause it to appear on my Mac PS CS version. I couldn't make it happen in quick testing.
Probably not, this was one of the earliest models of color copiers. I think they changed the behavior, someone elsewhere in this thrad said they now just print a black rectangle instead of your banknote document.
I tested the Mac PS CS version and it had no problems scanning and opening a 600DPI file of the new $20. And before anyone subpoenas/. for my personal data, I only copied one side, never printed it, and destroyed the data afterwards, which is perfectly legal.
I thought it might be part of the Digimarc plugin, I usually delete those but I forgot to do it on the new version. So it's not part of Digimarc, they're present on my machine's installation of Photoshop. I guess this currency-detection thing is only on the PeeCee version.
It's worse than that, some color copiers shut down and won't work again until they're reset by a factory tech. My brother worked at a company that made bank-note style certificates, they had problems with their Canon color copier shutting down when they printed proofs via a Fiery RIP. And these weren't even real bank notes, they were creating their own certificates with engraved antiforgery devices on the margin. They asked the Canon rep what kind of things would shut down their printer, Canon wouldn't tell them. They ditched the Canon and got an inkjet.
I never read Stephenson, I know nothing about Quicksilver. This was from a lecture by a UCLA art history professor I heard in about 1983. I am not kidding about it, I wish I could remember his name so I could look him up. He traced the history of "visual music" back to antiquity, and apparently he's well respected scholar and not a nutball kook at all (unlike Stephenson).
Well that's nothing new. I attended an art history lecture where a professor described how the ancient Greeks used arrays of tinted glass with candles behind them, behind shutters activated by strings attached to a keyboard. They would take ergot to trip out, then listen to lyre concerts with freaky light shows.
Apple's already doing that, it's called QMaster. Check out Final Cut Pro 's Compressor.app, or Shake, they have QMaster implementations already in the package. MacOS X 10.3 has QMaster implemented as a standard system service, so anyone with Panther is ready to cluster-compute. You just need the QMaster controller to administer multiple CPUs, otherwise it defaults to a cluster of one (your CPU).
BTW, I thought I should also mention that the new G5 XServes have ECC RAM, which will eventually come up as a complaint by the usual whiners.
I still remember an old BBS I ran in the LA area. I won a free PCjr with a 256k RAM sidecar, I had two 1200 baud Hayes Smartmodems sitting around idle, and two phone lines, so I set up a multiuser Wildcat BBS. The app and message database had to fit on one floppy drive, so it didn't have much room. But I was able to get it to connect to the Wildcat message forwarding network and successfully handled an extremely tiny amount of packet traffic. The system went active every night at something like 4AM, dialed up the nearest node, and exchanged messages to forward across the net. I think my Wildcat system had the smallest msg storage allocation around, it worked, sorta, but the network pretty much routed around me.
Anyway, I ran one of the first BBSes in my area, the first BBS hosted by a university department with a specialized focus. I abandoned it when I left school, but it eventually evolved into one of the top 10 educational sites on the net. I'd say more about who they are but I don't like to reveal my identity on Slashdot. At least I can privately enjoy what I built, even if the new operators refuse to acknowledge me in any way.
You don't need MacOS X Server to run QTSS, although you do get extra QTSS administrative goodies if you have the Server edition. You certainly don't need Unlimited edition, the Unlimited is just filesharing licenses, doesn't have anything to do with streaming. I'm running Darwin Streaming Server on plain old MacOS X, it works fine, no limitations. You ought to look into Compressor, it comes with Final Cut Pro and probably other products. Compressor can create a drag n drop applet that can invoke Applescript, so you could automate everything. I heard that MacOS X Server 10.3 has some software called "QuickTime Express" that supposedly automates ripping, processing, and can even put the resulting links into a web page, but I haven't seen it.
You should use free software like QuickTime Streaming Server. The students can listen to the files via streaming, but they cannot copy them. This should satisfy even the most paranoid university administrators. QTSS, or its variant Darwin Streaming Server, runs on MacOS X, Windoze, RedHat, BSD, and probably others. Files can be received with the free QuickTime player on Mac and PCs, and if you use formats like MP3, are probably acceptable on any OS you could find. The new version of QTSS has improved administrative features for setting up audio playlists.
Bloggers are acutely aware of this problem, they link to pages that change or are moved to paid archives, they call it "linkrot." I've started to provide a.pdf capture of linked articles on my blog, as well as the original link (which I usually take down if I notice it's disappeared). I like Adobe Acrobat for this job, you just point it at a URL, tell it how many levels you want to archive, and go. You can even archive externally linked pages if you uncheck "stay on same server," or you can select other options like "Archive Whole Site."
No, Shakespeare can't be PRODUCED algorithmically, it can only be REPRODUCED in the manner you describe. Sheesh.
RTFArticle. The Cardan Grille is a type of pseudorandom algorithm. You can't generate meaningful text out of pseudorandom algorithms. You might hit a few meaningful substrings eventually, but it will be almost pure gibberish.
RTFArticle. It is pretty clear that if the text can be produced by the algorithmic chart as described, it is meaningless gibberish.
You remind me of Stanislav Lem's classic book "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub." It's about a society that revolves around codebreaking. Lem makes huge plot points about short texts that are ambiguously decodable into dozens of other possible texts. They are never sure if the message really IS a code, or whether one of the decoded versions contains further codewords. But everyone is absolutely convinced that everything is encoded, nothing is what it seems.
And such is true of almost anything, leading to mental masturbation like The Bible Code. People WANT to believe it's real, but it's all a hoax.
You need to find a Print Broker. There are usually a few in every major city, just look it up in the Business-to-Business yellow pages, or Yahoo, Google, whatever. The print/packaging is all the same, anyone could produce it. The broker's job is to find the best deal for you, and take a small cut in the process, but even with the broker's cut, it's always cheaper than muddling your own way through the deal. My friends use an LA broker but the final product sometimes come from as far away as Singapore, if the costs are right.
Depends on what you were doing. Nothing beat PCL for plain old text files, but it was a bitch to do graphics, especially on Macs. You could get software to convert QuickDraw to PCL but it ran on the Mac as a driver and it sucked bad. IIRC you had to bump up the printer RAM just to buffer the image before printing. Actually, come to think of it, there IS one printer that could beat an LJ1 on text files, back in the day. I used to sell NEC Spinwriters, they could often beat a Laser when you had documents that weren't margin-to-margin full pages of text. Screenwriters used to love the Spinwriters, they could print the narrow script columns in far less time than Laserjets. They hit 65CPS if I recall, wow, how long has it been since you heard printers measured in char/sec??
Sort bills in order of denomination. Make sure the bills are all aligned and none of them are upside down in the stack, keep the portraits of the presidents facing UP when you put them in your wallet.
yeah, gotta have real PostScript. But actually, the old "vintage" HP carts are all made by Canon (I noted this elsewhere in this discussion). IBM, HP, etc, all just slapped their labels on the carts. This is actually a good thing since the carts are ubiquitous and cheap, and Canon technology was excellent. It was actually TOO good, which lead to the aftermarket for cart refills, there was usually a lot of life left in the selenium target roller even after the toner ran out. On the other hand, the Canon Personal Copiers of that era used similar carts, and they sucked. I remember someone sending me a copy made on a CPC, I got it in the mail, the toner hadn't fused at all, when I opened the envelope I got a sheet of blank paper and a pile of black powder..
You want bulletproof? Find an Apple Laserwriter. Yeah, the ORIGINAL Postscript laser printer. It's the only laser printer I know with "corner feed," you can print on business cards. Any other printer will jam on business card size paper. The Original LW had a serial port, it's easy to hook up if you're good with wiring your own serial cables.
Anyway, note the one thing that all the highly recommended printers have in common: the mechanism is made by Canon. Canon made the carts and mechanisms for Apple Laserwriters, most of the earlier HP models, and many other brands. Those Canon mechanisms are bulletproof.
Yep, a guy I know used to run a side business, he'd buy up used HP LJII and III printers and refurbish them and sell them for good money. Most of them needed nothing more than routine cleaning, although a lot of the more heavily-used printers would grab multiple sheets instead of one sheet, so those models needed a "spring retensioner" kit. It's very simple to refurbish those printers, since most of the hardest-working parts were in the replaceable toner carts. If the electronics worked OK, the mechanical stuff was simple to repair.
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He is correct, nobody was using ANY sort of photographic camera in the "late 1800s."
BTW, a friend of mine has an ancient Kodak 8x10 view camera, it dates to around 1920. Now THAT is a camera! There's more glass in that camera than in a dozen modern cameras.
ok thanks guys, I guess I should have googled for "sloan great wall" instead of sloan great wall, all I turned up was stuff about some guy named sloan visiting the Great Wall of China.
Interesting that this structure is considered evidence against the Big Bang theory. I'm always rooting for the underdog so I am still holding on to the Steady State theory.
What is this bit on the map about the Sloan Great Wall? I googled around but only found a reference to the map itself. If this is the biggest cosmic structure ever discovered, news of it sure hasn't traveled very far outside the astronomer's circles. What is the Sloan Great Wall?
WTF are you talking about? I've worn my RockWalkers through metal detectors with no problems, they never set off any alarms. These aren't metal-toe boots, they're leather walking shoes with rubber soles.
Without getting into too many specific details, notice the ink on the bill comes in several colors, which if you were a REAL counterfeiter using real printing presses, would have to be printed on different plates. There's a Discovery Channel show I saw that described the spot-color separation in detail, it's pretty obvious what I'm talking about if you are a real designer or printer.
I used to demo our scanners by scanning $1 bills, then we got a drum scanner and the operator (who was very experienced in the biz) had a fit, he said he'd had encounters with undercover feds that tried to entrap him into doing hirez scans of bills and he said we better knock it off before we got into trouble. So we did.
I did RTFArticle, some people reported being unable to even OPEN scans of currency. This situation is still unclear, I had no problems but other people have reported problems. No definitive data has yet appeared.
That's a lovely dialog box, but it still could be a hoax. I'll believe it when someone tells me specifically how to cause it to appear on my Mac PS CS version. I couldn't make it happen in quick testing.
Probably not, this was one of the earliest models of color copiers. I think they changed the behavior, someone elsewhere in this thrad said they now just print a black rectangle instead of your banknote document.
I tested the Mac PS CS version and it had no problems scanning and opening a 600DPI file of the new $20. And before anyone subpoenas /. for my personal data, I only copied one side, never printed it, and destroyed the data afterwards, which is perfectly legal.
I thought it might be part of the Digimarc plugin, I usually delete those but I forgot to do it on the new version. So it's not part of Digimarc, they're present on my machine's installation of Photoshop. I guess this currency-detection thing is only on the PeeCee version.
It's worse than that, some color copiers shut down and won't work again until they're reset by a factory tech. My brother worked at a company that made bank-note style certificates, they had problems with their Canon color copier shutting down when they printed proofs via a Fiery RIP. And these weren't even real bank notes, they were creating their own certificates with engraved antiforgery devices on the margin. They asked the Canon rep what kind of things would shut down their printer, Canon wouldn't tell them. They ditched the Canon and got an inkjet.
I never read Stephenson, I know nothing about Quicksilver. This was from a lecture by a UCLA art history professor I heard in about 1983. I am not kidding about it, I wish I could remember his name so I could look him up. He traced the history of "visual music" back to antiquity, and apparently he's well respected scholar and not a nutball kook at all (unlike Stephenson).
Well that's nothing new. I attended an art history lecture where a professor described how the ancient Greeks used arrays of tinted glass with candles behind them, behind shutters activated by strings attached to a keyboard. They would take ergot to trip out, then listen to lyre concerts with freaky light shows.
Apple's already doing that, it's called QMaster. Check out Final Cut Pro 's Compressor.app, or Shake, they have QMaster implementations already in the package. MacOS X 10.3 has QMaster implemented as a standard system service, so anyone with Panther is ready to cluster-compute. You just need the QMaster controller to administer multiple CPUs, otherwise it defaults to a cluster of one (your CPU).
BTW, I thought I should also mention that the new G5 XServes have ECC RAM, which will eventually come up as a complaint by the usual whiners.
I still remember an old BBS I ran in the LA area. I won a free PCjr with a 256k RAM sidecar, I had two 1200 baud Hayes Smartmodems sitting around idle, and two phone lines, so I set up a multiuser Wildcat BBS. The app and message database had to fit on one floppy drive, so it didn't have much room. But I was able to get it to connect to the Wildcat message forwarding network and successfully handled an extremely tiny amount of packet traffic. The system went active every night at something like 4AM, dialed up the nearest node, and exchanged messages to forward across the net. I think my Wildcat system had the smallest msg storage allocation around, it worked, sorta, but the network pretty much routed around me.
Anyway, I ran one of the first BBSes in my area, the first BBS hosted by a university department with a specialized focus. I abandoned it when I left school, but it eventually evolved into one of the top 10 educational sites on the net. I'd say more about who they are but I don't like to reveal my identity on Slashdot. At least I can privately enjoy what I built, even if the new operators refuse to acknowledge me in any way.
You don't need MacOS X Server to run QTSS, although you do get extra QTSS administrative goodies if you have the Server edition. You certainly don't need Unlimited edition, the Unlimited is just filesharing licenses, doesn't have anything to do with streaming. I'm running Darwin Streaming Server on plain old MacOS X, it works fine, no limitations.
You ought to look into Compressor, it comes with Final Cut Pro and probably other products. Compressor can create a drag n drop applet that can invoke Applescript, so you could automate everything. I heard that MacOS X Server 10.3 has some software called "QuickTime Express" that supposedly automates ripping, processing, and can even put the resulting links into a web page, but I haven't seen it.
You should use free software like QuickTime Streaming Server. The students can listen to the files via streaming, but they cannot copy them. This should satisfy even the most paranoid university administrators.
QTSS, or its variant Darwin Streaming Server, runs on MacOS X, Windoze, RedHat, BSD, and probably others. Files can be received with the free QuickTime player on Mac and PCs, and if you use formats like MP3, are probably acceptable on any OS you could find. The new version of QTSS has improved administrative features for setting up audio playlists.
Bloggers are acutely aware of this problem, they link to pages that change or are moved to paid archives, they call it "linkrot." I've started to provide a .pdf capture of linked articles on my blog, as well as the original link (which I usually take down if I notice it's disappeared).
I like Adobe Acrobat for this job, you just point it at a URL, tell it how many levels you want to archive, and go. You can even archive externally linked pages if you uncheck "stay on same server," or you can select other options like "Archive Whole Site."
No, Shakespeare can't be PRODUCED algorithmically, it can only be REPRODUCED in the manner you describe. Sheesh.
RTFArticle. The Cardan Grille is a type of pseudorandom algorithm. You can't generate meaningful text out of pseudorandom algorithms. You might hit a few meaningful substrings eventually, but it will be almost pure gibberish.
RTFArticle. It is pretty clear that if the text can be produced by the algorithmic chart as described, it is meaningless gibberish.
You remind me of Stanislav Lem's classic book "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub." It's about a society that revolves around codebreaking. Lem makes huge plot points about short texts that are ambiguously decodable into dozens of other possible texts. They are never sure if the message really IS a code, or whether one of the decoded versions contains further codewords. But everyone is absolutely convinced that everything is encoded, nothing is what it seems.
And such is true of almost anything, leading to mental masturbation like The Bible Code. People WANT to believe it's real, but it's all a hoax.
You need to find a Print Broker. There are usually a few in every major city, just look it up in the Business-to-Business yellow pages, or Yahoo, Google, whatever. The print/packaging is all the same, anyone could produce it. The broker's job is to find the best deal for you, and take a small cut in the process, but even with the broker's cut, it's always cheaper than muddling your own way through the deal. My friends use an LA broker but the final product sometimes come from as far away as Singapore, if the costs are right.
Depends on what you were doing. Nothing beat PCL for plain old text files, but it was a bitch to do graphics, especially on Macs. You could get software to convert QuickDraw to PCL but it ran on the Mac as a driver and it sucked bad. IIRC you had to bump up the printer RAM just to buffer the image before printing.
Actually, come to think of it, there IS one printer that could beat an LJ1 on text files, back in the day. I used to sell NEC Spinwriters, they could often beat a Laser when you had documents that weren't margin-to-margin full pages of text. Screenwriters used to love the Spinwriters, they could print the narrow script columns in far less time than Laserjets. They hit 65CPS if I recall, wow, how long has it been since you heard printers measured in char/sec??
Sort bills in order of denomination. Make sure the bills are all aligned and none of them are upside down in the stack, keep the portraits of the presidents facing UP when you put them in your wallet.
yeah, gotta have real PostScript. But actually, the old "vintage" HP carts are all made by Canon (I noted this elsewhere in this discussion). IBM, HP, etc, all just slapped their labels on the carts. This is actually a good thing since the carts are ubiquitous and cheap, and Canon technology was excellent. It was actually TOO good, which lead to the aftermarket for cart refills, there was usually a lot of life left in the selenium target roller even after the toner ran out.
On the other hand, the Canon Personal Copiers of that era used similar carts, and they sucked. I remember someone sending me a copy made on a CPC, I got it in the mail, the toner hadn't fused at all, when I opened the envelope I got a sheet of blank paper and a pile of black powder..
You want bulletproof? Find an Apple Laserwriter. Yeah, the ORIGINAL Postscript laser printer. It's the only laser printer I know with "corner feed," you can print on business cards. Any other printer will jam on business card size paper. The Original LW had a serial port, it's easy to hook up if you're good with wiring your own serial cables.
Anyway, note the one thing that all the highly recommended printers have in common: the mechanism is made by Canon. Canon made the carts and mechanisms for Apple Laserwriters, most of the earlier HP models, and many other brands. Those Canon mechanisms are bulletproof.
Yep, a guy I know used to run a side business, he'd buy up used HP LJII and III printers and refurbish them and sell them for good money. Most of them needed nothing more than routine cleaning, although a lot of the more heavily-used printers would grab multiple sheets instead of one sheet, so those models needed a "spring retensioner" kit. It's very simple to refurbish those printers, since most of the hardest-working parts were in the replaceable toner carts. If the electronics worked OK, the mechanical stuff was simple to repair.