We have Calcomp thermal wax printers that were old when I started working here. They cost a fortune when we bought them (in the days before inkjet) and (unlike Calcomp) they are still going.
I suppose selling us 3 printers over 15 years just didn't pay their wages.
ObTopic, if we explicitly allow anyone to make consumables for printers, I think we'll very quickly start to see the actual cost of printers reflected in their price. I'd rather pay that cost than subscribe/legitamise the razorblade model.
You know, if Google decided to search for a specific META tag that gives the geographic location of a company, then I'm betting a lot of designers/companies would add it immediately (and update old sites). If they announced this new tag I'd certainly update some sites!
And many more companies would populate multiple pages with multiple locations so that they could be close to everyone. What happens with websites representing multiple locations? Say franchises?
Does 120.000,-35.000 mean the coder lives there or they have a crummy atlas?
Location is cool, but is linking it to a web page the way to go? What about a geographic LDAP?
$715,000 buys a ot of spare Silverados to make up for the lack of modularity. I know it's not quite as simple as that, but I suspect that they are "solving" a problem that doesn't really exist.
And Xin Sixpack is far less likely to try circumvent the Great Firewall if he knows that typing "Falun Gong" into Google is likely to get him noticed. The effectiveness of your firewall is greatly amplified by fear of the unknown.
China's doing it all wrong - the way to deal with threats to internal security isn't to block citizens' access to information, it's to allow access to information - and log the hell out of it! I mean, knowing that Xin Sixpack typed "Falun Gong" at google.com and got blocked when he tried to visit the front page of some website isn't nearly as useful as letting him go to the site, and then watching every click he makes, to find out what (specifically) he's interested in.
How about legal requirements to *keep* logs?
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So how likely is it that there's a law in the works somewhere that *requires* you to keep reasonable logs? Especially with all this terrorism stuff about.
Such a requirement would not be considered onerous, and if the logs were gone, the Feds could haul you in for that.
Italys nose probes them et al. fingering our hose the fee Cult to longer stained syrups and Hussein marmot pervert sucks eggs rat. Intact, eye amusing into dick tape his pest of flash snot.
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It has no problems at all firguring out those difficult to understand lyrics and has an almost perfect success rate. In fact, I am using it to dictate this post to Slashdot.
Regarding your link, nice idea, but that leaves the image unprotected until it is registered by someone I have never met. Either you trust the camera to sign the image, or you treat it like any other photographic evidence. There's no need to have a centralised repository signing my images when *I * can sign any digital file I produce.
Plus I can take additional non-digital precautions such as having wittnesses watch me put the media into a sealed envelope.
Of course getting people to safeguard their private keys is another matter entirely...:o)
I was under the impression that some digital cameras already digitally signed images. This is what you would check in as evidence and what you need to take care over. And digital imagery in court is not new, my Prof. was using ehnanced Landsat MSS to argue irrigation breaches in court yeears ago.
Beyond faith in source data, I don't care what image processing operations are used because:
- I can trust that the source imaage is authentic
- The jury must be convinced that any image processing undertaken was reasonable Hopefully the outcome is that basic enhancements (such as contrast stretching) is readily accepted, and more out-there techniques will need to be more persuasively argued. You would also hope tht the other side would attempt to replicate any operations that were suspect.
All our local CD stores (.au) do exactly that. Because they are so stealable, the take details from the seller and then quarantine them for a week before putting them on the shelves. A resonable number of stolen CDs are recovered this way and the thieves identified.
One thing I have noticed about a lot of open source stuff is that they all use those horrific Tiger maps. Tiger maps suck.... and the intersection closest to my house is more than 150 feet off.
That's one of the cans of worms I have been pondering deeply ever since I demo-ed a PostGIS based system that lets random users lodge spatial data.How on earth do you do meaningful QA on that quantity of data? Especially when many people are happy to use layers such as TIGER.
FWIW, I think that collecting raw GPS tracks is a low value activity. I think the most value will come from validated overlays put together in a Wiki fashion. Leave it to the Cave Clanners to maintain a Wiki style layer of drains and urban tunnels, leave it to the geeks to maintain a WiFi layer. Pull you favorite overlay sites together in your PDA and enjoy an augmented reality...
Windows GP - Skirmish, Invasion and Global Theater editions. Featuring:
- IntelliSpend (avoid those pesky budget hassles and let us spend your budget for you)
- ActiveService (see the world! Meet new people!)
- WYSIWILAYBIU (What You See is What Is Left After You Blew It Up)
- Microsoft Paladin, Jihad edition - extract foreign binaries from your/home.
- New incursion wizard
- MS massacre, P2P app lets you keep enemy lists and exchange munitions with them automtically (as used in Yemen).
Call now for special military contractor pricing...
And you can be sure that MS *will* support the well doumented open doc formt as an importer. Jo Public will see that Word is always able to read open doc formats, but other apps never seem to be able to read MS doc formats (and conclude MS must therefore be better). Open Office will have to be better if they are going to keep their users.
I use a CD backup script written by a member of the local Linux user group. It creates as many CDs as it takes (filled with ~35 x 20 Mb GPG encrypted.tgzs). Just run it against/home and pop in another blank whenever the drive ejects. Leave encrypted CD set at friend's house. Very simple to use, I can send each new backup set to a different friend.
So in the intersts in getting a universe not composed entirely of Jedi knoghts, will the most powerful character end up being an Ewok bountyhunter with droid specialisations?
- sed
- ex
- nedit
- pico
- emacs
- vim
- elvis
- notepad.exe
Our insanely expensive consultants report says that the minor editors will be driven out of the market by Microsoft's better integrated offering that will support.NET features, DRM and XML and anything else I read on cnet this morning. And that non-expert users will abandon emacs and vi in favour of GUI editing environmnts with intelligent paperclips that assist with more complex editing tasks. The market just can't support nearly a dozen text editors!
The music produced by small and independant musicians can be technically every bit as good and polished as anything a record label can publish. With digital media, anyone can set up their their own recording studio and get good results. I know this because I know many people who release their own music.
This is also why the majors want to squash it. All this technology renders their banking business quite obsolete (that is after all what a record label is, a bank that speculates on distributing acrylic discs all over the world).
This is not to say that the artistic quality is uniformly great. But I'd contend that there is more good music out there than you think, try being more systematic in how you find music. Personal recommendations and Internet radio are going to be far more effective than popping random acts from mp3.com. If you like Industrial, try:
And major labels do not take risks on original work, they want to keep serving up the same R&B/rap sh*te in predictable volumes. (there are rap acts I like, none are top40)
This is really interesting from a watermarking perspective. Think of any Industrial song that makes use of sampled static. Just because it is noise, does not mean it gets filtered out by the codec. The noise is part of the signal.
You may expect steganographic stuff to get munched, but what if the watermarking software identifies noisy passages and replaces them with apparently random "noise" that is your watermark? Unless you knew about it and delberately munged "noise", your codec would try its best to *preserve* that signal. Filter too much of the timbre (aka noisiness) out of your signal and it starts sounding lifeless.
At $1,500 AUD ($750 USD) for our external firewire DVD-R, DVD is still a *massive* improvement in every respect on 8mm DAT for our purposes:
- Cheaper
- Most PCs have DVD drives (most don't have Exabyte)
- Random access (convenience!)
- Longevity (unread tapes degrade)
- Robustness
- similar capacity
And I'm not goin to wait "a few years" years for Blu-Ray and then a few more years for the price of Blu-Ray to drop to a reasonable level, by that time I'll need boxes of CDs to backup my 50 Tb hard drive.
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Nice to see the same principles that gave us schizophrenic computer UIs being applied to large lumps of metal moving at high speed. Can't wait for:
Microsoft LookOut! which will remember the last place I drove to and keep taking me there unless I re-install it.
Lexmark Premium DiHydrogen Monoxide service pak, which will refuse to let me pull into service stations not owned by Lexmark.
The RIAA approved theft prevention radio that accepts my credit card number as the PIN and decides a listening program based on my revenue profile.
The GTA3 augmented reality patch that overlays cool stuff on my external visual screens.
Taxonomists will be renaming and reclassifying species at a greater rate than anyone can discover and name them.
Xix.
So can someone post the results to the RIAA website? There's no point using Newswire's bandwidth...
Xix.
We have Calcomp thermal wax printers that were old when I started working here. They cost a fortune when we bought them (in the days before inkjet) and (unlike Calcomp) they are still going.
I suppose selling us 3 printers over 15 years just didn't pay their wages.
ObTopic, if we explicitly allow anyone to make consumables for printers, I think we'll very quickly start to see the actual cost of printers reflected in their price. I'd rather pay that cost than subscribe/legitamise the razorblade model.
Xix.
And many more companies would populate multiple pages with multiple locations so that they could be close to everyone. What happens with websites representing multiple locations? Say franchises?
Does 120.000,-35.000 mean the coder lives there or they have a crummy atlas?
Location is cool, but is linking it to a web page the way to go? What about a geographic LDAP?
Xix.
Chev Silevrado: $35,000 (max rrp)
SmarTurckII: $750,000 (est.)
$715,000 buys a ot of spare Silverados to make up for the lack of modularity. I know it's not quite as simple as that, but I suspect that they are "solving" a problem that doesn't really exist.
Xix.
So how likely is it that there's a law in the works somewhere that *requires* you to keep reasonable logs? Especially with all this terrorism stuff about.
Such a requirement would not be considered onerous, and if the logs were gone, the Feds could haul you in for that.
Xix.
Everyone knows an A3000 is not worth a dime to a collector unlesas it has an OpalVision card with Roaster chip in it.
Xix.
Italys nose probes them et al. fingering our hose
the fee Cult to longer stained syrups and Hussein marmot pervert sucks eggs rat. Intact, eye amusing into dick tape his pest of flash snot.
- - -
It has no problems at all firguring out those difficult to understand lyrics and has an almost perfect success rate. In fact, I am using it to dictate this post to Slashdot.
Regarding your link, nice idea, but that leaves the image unprotected until it is registered by someone I have never met. Either you trust the camera to sign the image, or you treat it like any other photographic evidence. There's no need to have a centralised repository signing my images when *I * can sign any digital file I produce.
:o)
Plus I can take additional non-digital precautions such as having wittnesses watch me put the media into a sealed envelope.
Of course getting people to safeguard their private keys is another matter entirely...
Xix.
I was under the impression that some digital cameras already digitally signed images. This is what you would check in as evidence and what you need to take care over. And digital imagery in court is not new, my Prof. was using ehnanced Landsat MSS to argue irrigation breaches in court yeears ago.
Beyond faith in source data, I don't care what image processing operations are used because:
- I can trust that the source imaage is authentic
- The jury must be convinced that any image processing undertaken was reasonable
Hopefully the outcome is that basic enhancements (such as contrast stretching) is readily accepted, and more out-there techniques will need to be more persuasively argued. You would also hope tht the other side would attempt to replicate any operations that were suspect.
Xix.
All our local CD stores (.au) do exactly that. Because they are so stealable, the take details from the seller and then quarantine them for a week before putting them on the shelves. A resonable number of stolen CDs are recovered this way and the thieves identified.
Xix.
That's one of the cans of worms I have been pondering deeply ever since I demo-ed a PostGIS based system that lets random users lodge spatial data.How on earth do you do meaningful QA on that quantity of data? Especially when many people are happy to use layers such as TIGER.
FWIW, I think that collecting raw GPS tracks is a low value activity. I think the most value will come from validated overlays put together in a Wiki fashion. Leave it to the Cave Clanners to maintain a Wiki style layer of drains and urban tunnels, leave it to the geeks to maintain a WiFi layer. Pull you favorite overlay sites together in your PDA and enjoy an augmented reality...
Xix.
So what do I do if our obscentity filter blocks the blocking message?
Xix.
New product for fall 2003:
/home.
Windows GP - Skirmish, Invasion and Global Theater editions. Featuring:
- IntelliSpend (avoid those pesky budget hassles and let us spend your budget for you)
- ActiveService (see the world! Meet new people!)
- WYSIWILAYBIU (What You See is What Is Left After You Blew It Up)
- Microsoft Paladin, Jihad edition - extract foreign binaries from your
- New incursion wizard
- MS massacre, P2P app lets you keep enemy lists and exchange munitions with them automtically (as used in Yemen).
Call now for special military contractor pricing...
Xix.
And you can be sure that MS *will* support the well doumented open doc formt as an importer. Jo Public will see that Word is always able to read open doc formats, but other apps never seem to be able to read MS doc formats (and conclude MS must therefore be better). Open Office will have to be better if they are going to keep their users.
Xix.
Want to know more about it?
Of course my MP3 collection is quite a bit larger than my /home.
Xix.
But what's your *backup* policy?
What do you do when you realise that bonehaded mistake has been instantly sychronised across every instance of your data?
Xix.
So in the intersts in getting a universe not composed entirely of Jedi knoghts, will the most powerful character end up being an Ewok bountyhunter with droid specialisations?
Xix.
There are too many editors in the market place:
.NET features, DRM and XML and anything else I read on cnet this morning. And that non-expert users will abandon emacs and vi in favour of GUI editing environmnts with intelligent paperclips that assist with more complex editing tasks. The market just can't support nearly a dozen text editors!
- sed
- ex
- nedit
- pico
- emacs
- vim
- elvis
- notepad.exe
Our insanely expensive consultants report says that the minor editors will be driven out of the market by Microsoft's better integrated offering that will support
Xix.
If you like Throwing Muses, try Sleater-Kinney.
Xix.
And I'll bite. :o)
The music produced by small and independant musicians can be technically every bit as good and polished as anything a record label can publish. With digital media, anyone can set up their their own recording studio and get good results. I know this because I know many people who release their own music.
This is also why the majors want to squash it. All this technology renders their banking business quite obsolete (that is after all what a record label is, a bank that speculates on distributing acrylic discs all over the world).
This is not to say that the artistic quality is uniformly great. But I'd contend that there is more good music out there than you think, try being more systematic in how you find music. Personal recommendations and Internet radio are going to be far more effective than popping random acts from mp3.com. If you like Industrial, try:
http://www.teknet.net.au/~eye/eye/
http://anax.hipdrome.org/
And major labels do not take risks on original work, they want to keep serving up the same R&B/rap sh*te in predictable volumes. (there are rap acts I like, none are top40)
Xix.
This is really interesting from a watermarking perspective. Think of any Industrial song that makes use of sampled static. Just because it is noise, does not mean it gets filtered out by the codec. The noise is part of the signal.
You may expect steganographic stuff to get munched, but what if the watermarking software identifies noisy passages and replaces them with apparently random "noise" that is your watermark? Unless you knew about it and delberately munged "noise", your codec would try its best to *preserve* that signal. Filter too much of the timbre (aka noisiness) out of your signal and it starts sounding lifeless.
Xix.
At $1,500 AUD ($750 USD) for our external firewire DVD-R, DVD is still a *massive* improvement in every respect on 8mm DAT for our purposes:
- Cheaper
- Most PCs have DVD drives (most don't have Exabyte)
- Random access (convenience!)
- Longevity (unread tapes degrade)
- Robustness
- similar capacity
And I'm not goin to wait "a few years" years for Blu-Ray and then a few more years for the price of Blu-Ray to drop to a reasonable level, by that time I'll need boxes of CDs to backup my 50 Tb hard drive.
Xix.