I am sitting at home. I press a button to copy a file. Not pressing that button would not have generated any revenue for the copyright holder of the file, therefore pressing the button has not cost them any revenue.
The "lost revenue" argument is a joke. It may (and probably does) apply to people who produce illegal copies for distribution, but has zero weight with regards to individuals making copies for themselves.
If I ever start travelling by plane (fat chance), I will definitely keep my medical records on my laptop, on the "clean" visible half of my truecrypt'd drive. They want the password, which won't unlock the "real" half of the drive anyways, I record them (clandestinely, if required) being told that they are violating HIPAA.
Why do so many people keep saying that this is obvious, when it isn't? I am on a paved public road. I turn onto a gravel public road. Then I continue onto another paved road, which it turns out happens to be a private driveway. How is it at all obvious which, if any, of these transitions is the private/public line?
For the record, I know plenty of people whose homes have no driveway, with garages that open directly onto the street, or across a sidewalk onto the street, and front doors that open directly onto a sidewalk adjacent to the street with no private sidewalk approach.
Tens of thousands? Assuming you aren't exaggerating, it sounds like you should be scripting. Screw smooth workflow, even a "perfect" manual workflow is going to waste a second or two per image, and a few tens of thousands of seconds is a lot of time. If I had to do what you are doing, I would do it with GIMP and Script-Fu. One script that opens each image in turn and automatically opens each tool you listed in order, without my having to select anything. I could just pick the options for each tool, or cancel the ones I don't need (like horizon straighten) on a particular image. Such a script would take me (not a script-fu guru by any means) about an hour to write (3600 seconds), and save ~20000 seconds in your (probably exaggerated) situation.
PS: Don't blame photoshop for your window manager's poor focus model. Keyboard focus should never leave the image window (with one small exception, when you have a menu opened in one of the child windows, so your menu shortcut keys will work). Ditto people complaining about gimp child windows overlapping, another failure of either your WM or your workflow. If you can't grasp things like tiling and docking in a powerful WM, check out something trivially simple like http://xmonad.org/
now the compressor has to deal with the artifacts and in the process introduces new artifacts as well as discarding more data to make room for the data describing the previous artifacts. I would call that a failure of the encoder. We know there is (at least) one jpeg bitstream that losslessly describes the data as it sits, including the already-jpeg-d artifacts. If the encoder cannot find that solution, and instead opts to use another solution that results in more loss, then it has failed.
There is something wrong with your JPEG encoder. Which isn't unlikely, since most of them fail this test, but there is no reason an encoder could not do the conversion you suggest (jpg>png>jpg) losslessly, because png is a lossless format.
OK, perhaps I am mis-educated regarding this particular device, but I expect that one of the four cores will be defective on almost every Phenom CPU. That means cycling through them would not be an option.
Making 3-core machines out of 4-core CPUs will do wonders for their yield. So many chips get trashed because of single tiny failures, this will allow them to keep any chip with any number of failures as long as they are limited to just one of the cores. The same sort of benefit Intel saw by using Pentiums with bad cache segments to make Celerons, or nVidia saw when disabling (supposedly) bad pipelines to turn 16-pipe GPUs into cheaper 12-pipe versions.
I am sure some units will make it through the process with a functional-enough fourth core to be useful to "overclockers", but I think the majority will have actual problems. That is, unless there is no 4-working-core version of this processor for the known-working ones to be sold as?
One concern... How do they keep thermal load even if 1/4 of the die is not running?
Reading comprehension FTW! It takes about 3 hours for the entire eclipse to pass, and the middle hour is the period of total eclipse, referred to in TFA as "Transiting the shadow's core".
I don't think the EFFECT of Comcast's interference is the main issue here. Traffic shaping IS an issue, but not the important one in this case. HOW they are doing it is important. They are forging network packets (RST packets, in particular). This isn't just limiting the cars getting on the highway, it's like calling you on your cell phone before you get on the highway, pretending to be your boss, and telling you not to bother coming to work today. They are committing fraud, of multiple sorts, every time they do this.
Write 1 hit song, get exclusive rights to it for 14 years. 13 years later, realize the gravy train is running out and you need to write another song... Sounds like incentive to me.
Then they are in the wrong line of work. The explicitly stated purpose of copyright is to encourage the creation of new works, NOT to ensure the lifetime income of works creators. If they want to make more money, start writing/performing new stuff.
Same acceleration? Say what? Ignoring inefficiencies in the drive train, the power/mass ratio is directly proportional to acceleration. If the 300HP car is 5x the weight of the 60HP car then they will accelerate at the same rate. If the more powerful one is any heavier than that then the weaker one will accelerate faster. Top speed is a function of power/drag, which you described somewhat accurately, but in the common case that both cars are capable of achieving the desired speed and the more powerful car is capable of going twice that speed, the lighter car is faster by any useful measurement.
For ten million dollars (a train hitting a station at 100km/h must have caused at least that much damage, if only to the train itself), I would take that chance.
6 hour flight, plus weather delays, plus pre-flight check in time. Versus 8 hour train ride including four 15-minute stops. At a substantially reduced cost, maybe 1/4 to 1/2 the cost of a plane ticket. I don't think marketing feasibility is an issue.
For a bonus half the size of the cost of the resultant damage ($10mil? more?), they couldn't convince anyone to jump onto the train as it passed a station along the way?
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Great single player platformer, with 2-4 player deathmatch/race/etc modes.
I am sitting at home. I press a button to copy a file. Not pressing that button would not have generated any revenue for the copyright holder of the file, therefore pressing the button has not cost them any revenue.
The "lost revenue" argument is a joke. It may (and probably does) apply to people who produce illegal copies for distribution, but has zero weight with regards to individuals making copies for themselves.
civil and/or criminal, often far more than $30000 per violation. i know you were being sarcastic, but you are also wrong in your assumptions.
18 months = non-LTS, Kubuntu 8.04 and 8.04 Remix
36 months = LTS, Kubuntu 6.06
don't worry, seems like a lot of posts in this thread are confused about that.
If I ever start travelling by plane (fat chance), I will definitely keep my medical records on my laptop, on the "clean" visible half of my truecrypt'd drive. They want the password, which won't unlock the "real" half of the drive anyways, I record them (clandestinely, if required) being told that they are violating HIPAA.
To clarify, but not contradict your non-obvious-ness argument, the gravel WAS public. It only became private AFTER the gravel turned back into paved.
Why do so many people keep saying that this is obvious, when it isn't? I am on a paved public road. I turn onto a gravel public road. Then I continue onto another paved road, which it turns out happens to be a private driveway. How is it at all obvious which, if any, of these transitions is the private/public line?
For the record, I know plenty of people whose homes have no driveway, with garages that open directly onto the street, or across a sidewalk onto the street, and front doors that open directly onto a sidewalk adjacent to the street with no private sidewalk approach.
Why do you assume that I assign a -1 weight to "Offtopic"? Does no one realize that slashdot moderations have different weights for different users?
Tens of thousands? Assuming you aren't exaggerating, it sounds like you should be scripting. Screw smooth workflow, even a "perfect" manual workflow is going to waste a second or two per image, and a few tens of thousands of seconds is a lot of time. If I had to do what you are doing, I would do it with GIMP and Script-Fu. One script that opens each image in turn and automatically opens each tool you listed in order, without my having to select anything. I could just pick the options for each tool, or cancel the ones I don't need (like horizon straighten) on a particular image. Such a script would take me (not a script-fu guru by any means) about an hour to write (3600 seconds), and save ~20000 seconds in your (probably exaggerated) situation.
PS: Don't blame photoshop for your window manager's poor focus model. Keyboard focus should never leave the image window (with one small exception, when you have a menu opened in one of the child windows, so your menu shortcut keys will work). Ditto people complaining about gimp child windows overlapping, another failure of either your WM or your workflow. If you can't grasp things like tiling and docking in a powerful WM, check out something trivially simple like http://xmonad.org/
There is something wrong with your JPEG encoder. Which isn't unlikely, since most of them fail this test, but there is no reason an encoder could not do the conversion you suggest (jpg>png>jpg) losslessly, because png is a lossless format.
OK, perhaps I am mis-educated regarding this particular device, but I expect that one of the four cores will be defective on almost every Phenom CPU. That means cycling through them would not be an option.
Making 3-core machines out of 4-core CPUs will do wonders for their yield. So many chips get trashed because of single tiny failures, this will allow them to keep any chip with any number of failures as long as they are limited to just one of the cores. The same sort of benefit Intel saw by using Pentiums with bad cache segments to make Celerons, or nVidia saw when disabling (supposedly) bad pipelines to turn 16-pipe GPUs into cheaper 12-pipe versions.
I am sure some units will make it through the process with a functional-enough fourth core to be useful to "overclockers", but I think the majority will have actual problems. That is, unless there is no 4-working-core version of this processor for the known-working ones to be sold as?
One concern... How do they keep thermal load even if 1/4 of the die is not running?
Reading comprehension FTW! It takes about 3 hours for the entire eclipse to pass, and the middle hour is the period of total eclipse, referred to in TFA as "Transiting the shadow's core".
I don't think the EFFECT of Comcast's interference is the main issue here. Traffic shaping IS an issue, but not the important one in this case. HOW they are doing it is important. They are forging network packets (RST packets, in particular). This isn't just limiting the cars getting on the highway, it's like calling you on your cell phone before you get on the highway, pretending to be your boss, and telling you not to bother coming to work today. They are committing fraud, of multiple sorts, every time they do this.
Write 1 hit song, get exclusive rights to it for 14 years. 13 years later, realize the gravy train is running out and you need to write another song... Sounds like incentive to me.
Then they are in the wrong line of work. The explicitly stated purpose of copyright is to encourage the creation of new works, NOT to ensure the lifetime income of works creators. If they want to make more money, start writing/performing new stuff.
And by weight I mean mass. Stupid American.
Same acceleration? Say what? Ignoring inefficiencies in the drive train, the power/mass ratio is directly proportional to acceleration. If the 300HP car is 5x the weight of the 60HP car then they will accelerate at the same rate. If the more powerful one is any heavier than that then the weaker one will accelerate faster. Top speed is a function of power/drag, which you described somewhat accurately, but in the common case that both cars are capable of achieving the desired speed and the more powerful car is capable of going twice that speed, the lighter car is faster by any useful measurement.
If the 300HP car weighed 6x as much as the 60HP one? I'd call the 60HP one "faster".
The QNX live-floppy was 1.44MB and included a GUI with web browser, text editor, shell, etc.
For ten million dollars (a train hitting a station at 100km/h must have caused at least that much damage, if only to the train itself), I would take that chance.
6 hour flight, plus weather delays, plus pre-flight check in time. Versus 8 hour train ride including four 15-minute stops. At a substantially reduced cost, maybe 1/4 to 1/2 the cost of a plane ticket. I don't think marketing feasibility is an issue.
For a bonus half the size of the cost of the resultant damage ($10mil? more?), they couldn't convince anyone to jump onto the train as it passed a station along the way?
You still think WoW is a game? It's a chat room with a neat GUI.