you're missing his point by looking at it with a microscope. Step back a couple of orders of magnitude in scale, and you'll realize that he is SPECULATING that something must code for the self-assembly of the macro-structures of organisms. A logical mathematical construct that fits the idea that a large complex structure maybe encoded and constructeed from repetitive regular structures formed in a certain sequence on a small scale, is naturally fractals. Now his claims are a bit of a stretch. But his suppositions are quite interesting.
Digital copy protection schemes are usesless because it only take a good capture of the presentation of the material to defeat. Examples: analog recording of stereo audio output from a CD player; video camera in the movie theater. So long as the capture device can reproduce good enough quality of the presentation, it's a moot point trying to protect the source.
The solution is not to lock up the source, but to produce new content with quality that far outpaces the ability of capture devices to reproduce/re-transmit it.
Come on! Bring out the HDTV, HD-DVD, SACD, and holographic video and change people's definition of "good-enough". It's still gonna be years before the bandwidth is there to mass re-distribute contents of such high quality. If people are accustomed to watching color TV, would they revert to swapping tapes of black and white? The music/movie industries need to invest in their next big thing, and give consumer a reason to spend their money on something of extra value. Their old chicken that lays golden eggs is dead.
Eventually, there will come a point where technology would outpace human's ability to perceive any increase in quality. (Who needs 128bit color depth, when 32bit is more than quite sufficient?). But it'll be a long time before the average joe gets a holodeck it his livingroom.
What most people don't realize is how important the optics are in a digital camera. When you have more than a couple of megapixels, the advantages of better lenses becomes starkly clear.
Having a high senstivity (higher ISO, such as ISO 800 or ISO 1600), as seen in high end digital cameras, lets you take picture under even the most demanding light conditions.
Higher shutter speed (1/2000 or fasters) lets you eliminate handshakes and take clear pictures of action shots.
All this of course, requires that your lens passes ample light, and produce low chromatic and spatial aberrations. A good SLR lens, though, we cost you more a thousand dollars.
Having said that, the advantages of greater pixel count scales the picture quality linearly given good enough optics.
Well, I suppose that a "noise cancellation" type of mechanism where an active out-of-phase "microwave" is generated to nullify the radiation could work.
And perhaps the shape of the carriage and the way that the the microwaves reflect off of its walls would create focal points in the train where the radiation is exceedingly high. Kind of gives "hot seat" a meaning.
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you're missing his point by looking at it with a microscope. Step back a couple of orders of magnitude in scale, and you'll realize that he is SPECULATING that something must code for the self-assembly of the macro-structures of organisms. A logical mathematical construct that fits the idea
that a large complex structure maybe encoded and constructeed from repetitive regular structures formed in a certain sequence on a small scale, is naturally fractals. Now his claims are a bit of a stretch. But his suppositions are quite interesting.
Digital copy protection schemes are usesless because it only take a good capture of the presentation of the material to defeat. Examples:
analog recording of stereo audio output from a
CD player; video camera in the movie theater. So long as the capture device can reproduce good enough quality of the presentation, it's a moot
point trying to protect the source.
The solution is not to lock up the source, but to
produce new content with quality that far outpaces the ability of capture devices to reproduce/re-transmit it.
Come on! Bring out the HDTV, HD-DVD, SACD, and holographic video and change people's definition
of "good-enough". It's still gonna be years before
the bandwidth is there to mass re-distribute contents of such high quality. If people are accustomed to watching color TV, would they revert to swapping tapes of black and white? The music/movie industries need to invest in their next big thing, and give consumer a reason to spend their money on something of extra value. Their old chicken that lays golden eggs is dead.
Eventually, there will come a point where technology would outpace human's ability to perceive any increase in quality. (Who needs
128bit color depth, when 32bit is more than quite
sufficient?). But it'll be a long time before the average joe gets a holodeck it his livingroom.
What most people don't realize is how important the optics are in a digital camera. When you have more than a couple of megapixels, the advantages of better lenses becomes starkly clear.
Having a high senstivity (higher ISO, such
as ISO 800 or ISO 1600), as seen in high end
digital cameras, lets you take picture under
even the most demanding light conditions.
Higher shutter speed (1/2000 or fasters) lets
you eliminate handshakes and take clear pictures
of action shots.
All this of course, requires that your lens passes
ample light, and produce low chromatic and spatial aberrations. A good SLR lens, though, we cost you more a thousand dollars.
Having said that, the advantages of greater pixel count scales the picture quality linearly given good enough optics.
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Well, I suppose that a "noise cancellation" type of mechanism where an active out-of-phase "microwave" is generated to nullify the radiation could work.
And perhaps the shape of the carriage and the way that the the microwaves reflect off of its walls would create focal points in the train where the radiation is exceedingly high. Kind of gives "hot seat" a meaning.
For a transcript of what actually transpired
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in the courtroom, go here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25136.ht
You will find that the guy knows what he's talking
about. Double check your sources before flaming away!