EvilHom3r over on Reddit seems to have mirrored the paper (as images) here.
My verdict: Yeah, it looks all nice and smooth, but with all upscaling, it's basically interpolating data. The original just didn't have that much detail, so you can only get so much out of it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
(Oh, and it makes all text look pretty bad. Kinda Comic Sans-y, if I can say that without invoking instant hate.)
I know what you mean but it's pretty impressive nonetheless. The flaw I found interesting was in the keyboard image. I'm sure the intention here is square keys, but their algorithm made all the keys round. Some things in a pixelated image should not be smoothed but without human context that's a very hard call to make.
...otherwise how do you know the relationship holds true outside of that one cluster. Perhaps there was something special about the conditions in which that cluster formed. These people aren't amateurs and probably have good reason to believe these relationships hold true elsewhere, but since we're talking science, credentials mean squat and it should be repeated.
Being very proficient at playing one musical instrument, and a solid knowledge of basic music theory is a prerequisite to be accepted in the undergrad school. It is that simple. If you don't know that much, you need to learn it BEFORE you can take the undergrad course: nobody expects you to learn a musical instrument and enough music theory (which includes realtime reading of music notation) in MU101,
Another fool posting as AC for no reason.
If it's a publicly stated pre-requisit (possibly even examined beforehand) it is not the same as a course the promises to teach you a profession from scratch (like most undergrad degrees). Performance arts have always been competitive and required prior work and so they are different to vocational or academic courses.
The point of universities is not to get everyone with a degree but give a degree to those who have shown to know a bare minimum about the field they're getting a degree of.
Why the fuck are you posting as AC? I know, because you're trolling. (I've removed your crappy ad hominem attack).
YOU are the one that fails reading. The course has to teach it before it can test it. Clearly teaching at a rate that can only be grasped by those that already know the material hardly qualifies as teaching at all.
I only spent a minute or 2. I didn't need to tweak the other TVs in the shop, nor was I confident that I would find a set of settings that would work well for all movies etc. It really was awful. ANY of the other sets - even the cheap ones - looked stellar compared to that grainy pixelated picture. I was horrified and ran a mile in the opposite direction.
I really do wish they'd fix those 2 issues on a newer firmware...but I'm not holding my breath. Sony seems to only take things away with firmware upgrades.
For all the idiots that are going to complain about Google reneging on their openness promises this was obviously required by the content owners.
Google then should not have made a promise it could not reasonably be expected to keep. No one forced them to. How does this make people who complain idiots exactly?
Don't even bother with the Sony TVs. They do make some nice TVs, but so do Samsung and Sharp (Aquos anyway, their budget sets don't hold the same value proposition) for quite a bit less money. I can't think of a single line of Sony products that doesn't butt up against better and cheaper competition. They are just coasting and selling the name to people old enough to have bought their first nice TV 20+ years ago when Sony actually gave a crap.
When I was shopping for TVs last year the Sony was one of the better ones for input lag. Not great mind you. The Aquos was great for input lag but had terrible sharpening artifacts. It was like watching a cheap and cheerful Chinese brand TV and I couldn't stand it in the store so I didn't buy it. Samsung has become awful for input lag - as in unplayable on a console.
I ended up with the Sony 55ex500. Not a bad tele but some annoyances. Definitely would do better with a second tuner as the guide sucks, and some annoying bugs on the menu (like most recently watched channels don't work). Apart from these 2 annoyances and first unit replaced due to dead pixels in the first week, the TV has been trouble free and served my young family well. Great sound and picture (with minor tweaking to set up). Great fun with the Wii. Fantastic Bluray. Lots of inputs. (Some slight picture stutter in full res panning for some titles, even with 100Mhz gimmick, but livable). And it was the cheapest of the bunch. The geek in me also hates that you can't downgrade firmware - new firmware always a risk with the tele. If I could find better I would have bought it. I have no love of Sony.
What was striking was how bad input lag had gotten on most models, and how quality had gone down even quicker than price for all manufacturers. Few now have decent dead pixel policies.
Zuckerberg also had no idea what he was doing technically, but was spot on with his idea about Facebook. You can always file a patent or trademark, talk to VC and hire a server engineer..
Actually Zuckerberg was technically competent and a geek. Most people's problem with him does not revolve around his social skills, but rather that he was perceived as an asshole who thinks Facebook users are morons.
I played the opening level on Halo Reach, and was so bored when I got to the first farmer, that I just shot him in the head to shut him up so I could get on with alien-killing. Well, the gun went bang, and a blood-spatter hit the wall behind him, but he never missed a word of exposition. I shot him 10 times - the same thing happened. On the 11th shot, I just died. Up until then, my teammates hadn't seemed concerned about my actions, and they didn't actually take offence, just some mighty vengeful god struck me down until I agreed to play nice.
Fuck me! if there's ever an apocalypse remind me to leave you the fuck behind!!! Not only do you shoot your friends, but you don't learn even after repeating the same thing 10 times!!!
The trouble is people saying that tend to have been writing BASIC at age 8. The first few fundamental steps learning to code can take a bit of time to sink in. Not grasping them quickly doesn't necessarily mean you should never get the opportunity to code again.
That is moronic. You deserve an F for not learning what the course aims to teach you in advance of taking the course? FUCK THAT. Why take the course then?
If you pulled that kind of shit where I worked it would just be re-written, and if you kept pulling that kind of shit, you'd never get anything but crap work to do. No app we write is written without a security review. Elevated permissions for no good reason just wouldn't happen. And it's just as well since our users have had admin access removed. (NOTHING had to be re-written. However admin access is required for install client portion due to need to install device drivers).
In the case of some developers in MS Windows that is a very good thing - the ones that are too lazy to test their stuff as an ordinary user need to get their arses kicked and lose admin access on their own machines IMHO. They almost completely remove what little security MS Windows has if you need to give every user that runs their applications admin rights.
Tyical bullshit myth. "It's all the lazy developers. They don't do security right". - Try developing something that interfaces with a security token driver (or any other device driver) without Admin access. - Try developing in an environment or with a tool that requires admin access, and come back and tell me it's all the lazy developer's fault.
Developers I have worked with have not created software that requires admin access for no good reason. That meme's just got to die!!!
We demand that our toys be delivered quickly and at the lowest possible cost. We are not willing to pay a fair price for a product built by happy people earning a decent wage. You can blame Apple, Microsoft, Google or whichever company you choose but the blame rests squarely on our shoulders. Flame suit on.
What a bunch of horseshit!!!
Please point me to the toys made by "happy people earning a decent wage". Where's the iPad-highWageEdition or the Android-WageFriendly phone?
I don't get to choose what companies charge for their product, or how they treat their staff, or dictate other terms. I only get to choose which company i buy a product from and shop around for price. Sure, I can go without, but a large majority would need to do that, AND explain why AND be willing to buy more expensive gadgets before anything changes. Frankly, I don't see anything happening without regulation and legislation. Feeling bad or blaming myself for the bad behaviour of companies doesn't help anyone and puts me at a huge disadvantage. Refusing to buy anything made cheaply is not workable at all. Even food is produced by low wage earners, so unless I'm willing to become Almish I'm not going to be able to avoid this. We should be pushing for greater protection on local wages and taxes and tarrifs for companies who do not pay well overseas.
My observation has been in the last 5 years security has become tighter and that there has been increased security. I use to be able to plug in my own laptop most places I worked. No longer. I use to be able to use social network sites and external email. Not for a few years now. Everything is getting locked down from SVN repositories to databases. Development environments including. Even developers are losing admin access on their own machines. If anything this trend is accelerating. I don't know what the person writing the article is smoking.
In rebuttal, I offer my personal anecdote: My mom has never had such an easy time using technology, than now in 2011, now that I've set her on iOS and soon, OSX. Just because the older generation doesn't find it intuitive doesn't mean they can't figure it out with a little tinkering, or at worst, very little Applecare phone support. To insinuate they can't set freaking alarms because they might accidentally push the wrong thing at first is insulting.
It's got NOTHING to do with which idiotic "modern" operating system you use. They ALL stink. Your mother could have learnt WIndows or Linux just as easily. Rampant fanboyism and brand loyalty does nothing but make you both victims.
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That's nothing. They're also using carrier pigeons and wasps to negotiate the last mile of wireless!.
But when I ingest caffeine it just makes my pee smell like coffee.
Diabetes???
EvilHom3r over on Reddit seems to have mirrored the paper (as images) here.
My verdict: Yeah, it looks all nice and smooth, but with all upscaling, it's basically interpolating data. The original just didn't have that much detail, so you can only get so much out of it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
(Oh, and it makes all text look pretty bad. Kinda Comic Sans-y, if I can say that without invoking instant hate.)
I know what you mean but it's pretty impressive nonetheless. The flaw I found interesting was in the keyboard image. I'm sure the intention here is square keys, but their algorithm made all the keys round. Some things in a pixelated image should not be smoothed but without human context that's a very hard call to make.
...otherwise how do you know the relationship holds true outside of that one cluster. Perhaps there was something special about the conditions in which that cluster formed. These people aren't amateurs and probably have good reason to believe these relationships hold true elsewhere, but since we're talking science, credentials mean squat and it should be repeated.
What I want to know is what they did with all the spare organs they removed from Dr. Zoidberg. Come on, open the files!
I'm sure whatever it was, it was delicious! The pictures would probably be of a Christmas BBQ.
Confusing Switzerland and Sweden again are we?
Trust me, I'm not. I'd just rather have the Swedish girls.
Being very proficient at playing one musical instrument, and a solid knowledge of basic music theory is a prerequisite to be accepted in the undergrad school. It is that simple. If you don't know that much, you need to learn it BEFORE you can take the undergrad course: nobody expects you to learn a musical instrument and enough music theory (which includes realtime reading of music notation) in MU101,
Another fool posting as AC for no reason.
If it's a publicly stated pre-requisit (possibly even examined beforehand) it is not the same as a course the promises to teach you a profession from scratch (like most undergrad degrees). Performance arts have always been competitive and required prior work and so they are different to vocational or academic courses.
The point of universities is not to get everyone with a degree but give a degree to those who have shown to know a bare minimum about the field they're getting a degree of.
Why the fuck are you posting as AC? I know, because you're trolling. (I've removed your crappy ad hominem attack).
YOU are the one that fails reading. The course has to teach it before it can test it. Clearly teaching at a rate that can only be grasped by those that already know the material hardly qualifies as teaching at all.
I only spent a minute or 2. I didn't need to tweak the other TVs in the shop, nor was I confident that I would find a set of settings that would work well for all movies etc. It really was awful. ANY of the other sets - even the cheap ones - looked stellar compared to that grainy pixelated picture. I was horrified and ran a mile in the opposite direction.
I really do wish they'd fix those 2 issues on a newer firmware...but I'm not holding my breath. Sony seems to only take things away with firmware upgrades.
For all the idiots that are going to complain about Google reneging on their openness promises this was obviously required by the content owners.
Google then should not have made a promise it could not reasonably be expected to keep. No one forced them to. How does this make people who complain idiots exactly?
It'll take a week for people to realize they could just torrent the movie instead of paying money for a 24 hour version?
Geez, a whole week to realize that? Is it restricted for sale to those with a low IQ?? Or just slashdot users? :P~~~
Don't even bother with the Sony TVs. They do make some nice TVs, but so do Samsung and Sharp (Aquos anyway, their budget sets don't hold the same value proposition) for quite a bit less money. I can't think of a single line of Sony products that doesn't butt up against better and cheaper competition. They are just coasting and selling the name to people old enough to have bought their first nice TV 20+ years ago when Sony actually gave a crap.
When I was shopping for TVs last year the Sony was one of the better ones for input lag. Not great mind you. The Aquos was great for input lag but had terrible sharpening artifacts. It was like watching a cheap and cheerful Chinese brand TV and I couldn't stand it in the store so I didn't buy it. Samsung has become awful for input lag - as in unplayable on a console.
I ended up with the Sony 55ex500. Not a bad tele but some annoyances. Definitely would do better with a second tuner as the guide sucks, and some annoying bugs on the menu (like most recently watched channels don't work). Apart from these 2 annoyances and first unit replaced due to dead pixels in the first week, the TV has been trouble free and served my young family well. Great sound and picture (with minor tweaking to set up). Great fun with the Wii. Fantastic Bluray. Lots of inputs. (Some slight picture stutter in full res panning for some titles, even with 100Mhz gimmick, but livable). And it was the cheapest of the bunch. The geek in me also hates that you can't downgrade firmware - new firmware always a risk with the tele. If I could find better I would have bought it. I have no love of Sony.
What was striking was how bad input lag had gotten on most models, and how quality had gone down even quicker than price for all manufacturers. Few now have decent dead pixel policies.
Zuckerberg also had no idea what he was doing technically, but was spot on with his idea about Facebook. You can always file a patent or trademark, talk to VC and hire a server engineer..
Actually Zuckerberg was technically competent and a geek. Most people's problem with him does not revolve around his social skills, but rather that he was perceived as an asshole who thinks Facebook users are morons.
The cheap version:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_aerial_photography
http://scotthaefner.com/kap/
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/kaptoc.html
I played the opening level on Halo Reach, and was so bored when I got to the first farmer, that I just shot him in the head to shut him up so I could get on with alien-killing. Well, the gun went bang, and a blood-spatter hit the wall behind him, but he never missed a word of exposition. I shot him 10 times - the same thing happened. On the 11th shot, I just died. Up until then, my teammates hadn't seemed concerned about my actions, and they didn't actually take offence, just some mighty vengeful god struck me down until I agreed to play nice.
Fuck me! if there's ever an apocalypse remind me to leave you the fuck behind!!! Not only do you shoot your friends, but you don't learn even after repeating the same thing 10 times!!!
Avalanche power?
Hot sexy blonde Swedish chicks.
Funny, I thought the course was suppose to help you learn the material, not assume you'd already learnt it and fail you if you haven't. Silly me.
The trouble is people saying that tend to have been writing BASIC at age 8. The first few fundamental steps learning to code can take a bit of time to sink in. Not grasping them quickly doesn't necessarily mean you should never get the opportunity to code again.
That is moronic. You deserve an F for not learning what the course aims to teach you in advance of taking the course? FUCK THAT. Why take the course then?
Once you have half a dozen languages under your belt, picking up another is a breeze. Getting started in programming is not.
If you pulled that kind of shit where I worked it would just be re-written, and if you kept pulling that kind of shit, you'd never get anything but crap work to do. No app we write is written without a security review. Elevated permissions for no good reason just wouldn't happen. And it's just as well since our users have had admin access removed. (NOTHING had to be re-written. However admin access is required for install client portion due to need to install device drivers).
In the case of some developers in MS Windows that is a very good thing - the ones that are too lazy to test their stuff as an ordinary user need to get their arses kicked and lose admin access on their own machines IMHO. They almost completely remove what little security MS Windows has if you need to give every user that runs their applications admin rights.
Tyical bullshit myth. "It's all the lazy developers. They don't do security right".
- Try developing something that interfaces with a security token driver (or any other device driver) without Admin access.
- Try developing in an environment or with a tool that requires admin access, and come back and tell me it's all the lazy developer's fault.
Developers I have worked with have not created software that requires admin access for no good reason. That meme's just got to die!!!
We demand that our toys be delivered quickly and at the lowest possible cost. We are not willing to pay a fair price for a product built by happy people earning a decent wage. You can blame Apple, Microsoft, Google or whichever company you choose but the blame rests squarely on our shoulders. Flame suit on.
What a bunch of horseshit!!!
Please point me to the toys made by "happy people earning a decent wage". Where's the iPad-highWageEdition or the Android-WageFriendly phone?
I don't get to choose what companies charge for their product, or how they treat their staff, or dictate other terms. I only get to choose which company i buy a product from and shop around for price. Sure, I can go without, but a large majority would need to do that, AND explain why AND be willing to buy more expensive gadgets before anything changes. Frankly, I don't see anything happening without regulation and legislation. Feeling bad or blaming myself for the bad behaviour of companies doesn't help anyone and puts me at a huge disadvantage. Refusing to buy anything made cheaply is not workable at all. Even food is produced by low wage earners, so unless I'm willing to become Almish I'm not going to be able to avoid this. We should be pushing for greater protection on local wages and taxes and tarrifs for companies who do not pay well overseas.
My observation has been in the last 5 years security has become tighter and that there has been increased security. I use to be able to plug in my own laptop most places I worked. No longer. I use to be able to use social network sites and external email. Not for a few years now. Everything is getting locked down from SVN repositories to databases. Development environments including. Even developers are losing admin access on their own machines. If anything this trend is accelerating. I don't know what the person writing the article is smoking.
In rebuttal, I offer my personal anecdote: My mom has never had such an easy time using technology, than now in 2011, now that I've set her on iOS and soon, OSX. Just because the older generation doesn't find it intuitive doesn't mean they can't figure it out with a little tinkering, or at worst, very little Applecare phone support. To insinuate they can't set freaking alarms because they might accidentally push the wrong thing at first is insulting.
It's got NOTHING to do with which idiotic "modern" operating system you use. They ALL stink. Your mother could have learnt WIndows or Linux just as easily. Rampant fanboyism and brand loyalty does nothing but make you both victims.