I believe the idea is to protect creators for a reasonable period of time during which they can profit solely from their labor. The idea was to offer an incentive for the creation of art, literature, music etc. in the first place, which seems reasonable to me. The problem is that for the last several decades the big dollar content owners (not necessarily creators) have lobbied for and gotten unreasonable extensions to copyright periods. Mickey Mouse should have been in the public domain long ago.
It has been a while since I've read Rolling Stone, but hey, it gave us the likes of Hunter Thompson and P.J. O'Rourke. All that is shiny is not shallow.
Well, they did. Are you telling me you saw nothing in those images?:-) But seriously, they do capture visible spectrum. They need to be able to use the cameras for simply verifying the physical health of the spacecraft, instrument deployment, etc. so visible spectrum images are useful.
Those are really good questions. False color can mean a lot of things I realize. I should have asked for clarification on that but there wasn't time. Sorry.
Perhaps I should have expanded. Having a policy is fine. I have accidentally run afoul of a no cell phones policy at a country club. However, the difference is that I was asked to not use the phone rather than having someone take it away from me.
That's not exactly true. Prior to the dam, Boulder City did not exist. It was a town that sprung up entirely for the purpose of housing the workers that built the dam, which was completed in 1935. Las Vegas itself was established in 1905 and officially became a city in 1911. However, the dam did allow it to thrive.
Well, no. As Hays pointed out they have a really huge database of images, plus by limiting severely how many bits it takes to represent an image they've made it possible to do the search in real time, all in RAM, with a modest investment in computing power. In addition, it's not simply pixel matching. The images are arranged according to a semantic tree of English nouns so, if I'm interpreting it correctly, you will end up with images next to each other on the map that are also semantically similar. This is a big difference from other techniques. Still it does rely on Google, et. al. image searches in the first place to semantically label the images.
Yep, I second that. The article is really short on details. Not surprising since they're presenting it at a conference next month. We don't even know what kind of features they are extracting from the images. Are they using wavelets? Texture descriptors? Color information? Shape recognition? It sounds like a combination of true content based image recognition with keyword input association if I read the article correctly.
If they are claiming to have a general image recognition algorithm that'd be something. As it is a lot of research goes into recognizing specific kinds of things, such as faces, license plates, etc. I'm very curious to see what they've come up with.
That's a spotlight hitting the computer from above the Microsoft sign at the podium. The rest of it is in relative shade. If it's Photoshopped whoever did it made the nice touch of adding in the video adapter barely visible on the edge of the podium.
The ADC? Sure. Apple used to have the ADC where power, usb and signal all went through the same cable. Now they don't. Now you can plug any monitor you want into a Mac. That is actually a move away from vendor lock in. If you want to make a point about vendor lock in this wasn't the example to use.
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I believe the idea is to protect creators for a reasonable period of time during which they can profit solely from their labor. The idea was to offer an incentive for the creation of art, literature, music etc. in the first place, which seems reasonable to me. The problem is that for the last several decades the big dollar content owners (not necessarily creators) have lobbied for and gotten unreasonable extensions to copyright periods. Mickey Mouse should have been in the public domain long ago.
Good point, if a little uneven. 1 through 4 are, after all, a little personal.
And anyway, it's just the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy.
"I got strange thoughts in the 3 seconds in the 3 seconds after I read that sentence."
Did you also get that strange feeling that you'd seen it before?
When you reduce Thompson to "a sensationalist" I suddenly take you far less seriously. Yes, he had outrageous style but he was a trenchant observer.
Free market. Heh.
It has been a while since I've read Rolling Stone, but hey, it gave us the likes of Hunter Thompson and P.J. O'Rourke. All that is shiny is not shallow.
See? We can both be right. :-)
Um, Bush has effectively nullified the Fourth Amendment.
Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations
"I, too, am atheist, however that does not make me smarter than anyone else..."
Actually, it probably does. Or rather, it's the other way around. Atheists tend to include the better educated and smarter of the crowd.
" it makes complete sense that knowing a lot about earth history and the the most popular book in the world would increase your IQ."
Yes, I know that reading Douglas Adams really perks up my brain.
"It's an unusual sentiment for me, but I must applaud President Bush for being foresighted enough to pass this legislation."
Yes, but did he also issue a signing statement saying that the law doesn't have to be upheld?
Well, they did. Are you telling me you saw nothing in those images? :-) But seriously, they do capture visible spectrum. They need to be able to use the cameras for simply verifying the physical health of the spacecraft, instrument deployment, etc. so visible spectrum images are useful.
Those are really good questions. False color can mean a lot of things I realize. I should have asked for clarification on that but there wasn't time. Sorry.
Those are false-color images. The real deal will be coming later.
That's not why you saw a Mac. Macs are just fairly popular on lab.
Perhaps I should have expanded. Having a policy is fine. I have accidentally run afoul of a no cell phones policy at a country club. However, the difference is that I was asked to not use the phone rather than having someone take it away from me.
...but stepping up and taking away someone's personal property is nothing but thuggery.
That's not exactly true. Prior to the dam, Boulder City did not exist. It was a town that sprung up entirely for the purpose of housing the workers that built the dam, which was completed in 1935. Las Vegas itself was established in 1905 and officially became a city in 1911. However, the dam did allow it to thrive.
You've really got some issues. Lighten up.
Well, no. As Hays pointed out they have a really huge database of images, plus by limiting severely how many bits it takes to represent an image they've made it possible to do the search in real time, all in RAM, with a modest investment in computing power. In addition, it's not simply pixel matching. The images are arranged according to a semantic tree of English nouns so, if I'm interpreting it correctly, you will end up with images next to each other on the map that are also semantically similar. This is a big difference from other techniques. Still it does rely on Google, et. al. image searches in the first place to semantically label the images.
Again, thanks to Hays for this link: http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/tinyimages/.
Yep, I second that. The article is really short on details. Not surprising since they're presenting it at a conference next month. We don't even know what kind of features they are extracting from the images. Are they using wavelets? Texture descriptors? Color information? Shape recognition? It sounds like a combination of true content based image recognition with keyword input association if I read the article correctly.
If they are claiming to have a general image recognition algorithm that'd be something. As it is a lot of research goes into recognizing specific kinds of things, such as faces, license plates, etc. I'm very curious to see what they've come up with.
That's a spotlight hitting the computer from above the Microsoft sign at the podium. The rest of it is in relative shade. If it's Photoshopped whoever did it made the nice touch of adding in the video adapter barely visible on the edge of the podium.
Of course it does. He typed "Graduates" but the MS software helped him correct it to "Graduated."
The ADC? Sure. Apple used to have the ADC where power, usb and signal all went through the same cable. Now they don't. Now you can plug any monitor you want into a Mac. That is actually a move away from vendor lock in. If you want to make a point about vendor lock in this wasn't the example to use.