I used to have a book that was like that (Ladybird book "How It Works - The Rocket"). The back cover has the red on blue text. When you moved the book a bit, the red text appeared to float above the blue background.
At the moment, there is that issue that "anyone in the whole world can look up my address and see what my home looks from the street", which is fairly minor.
Then there is the "Google is wandering everywhere including into peoples gardens and taking pictures without asking" issue. They could have informed residents that their cameras were going to be driving around (my neighborhood were notified when aerial photographs were being taken).
And there is a third issue. On some occasions, the resolution of the photographs has been high enough to identify individual car number plates. What if the Google cameras had been of a high enough resolution to identify the majority of car number plates parked in driveways? This would make it easy for any third party to build up a database of car number plates and addresses. Only recently, using such a database caused a police officer to lose his job.
That's what Amazon's Mechanical Turk is for. There used to be quite literally thousands of hits asking for people to classify a picture or to paint in the yellow lines of a road, or to identify traffic lights, junctions and so on. But they only paid around $0.05 per hit.
And the article will be based on "People staying up late to watch news articles with worrying news about how they may be risking their health by staying up to watch late night news reports and not getting enough sleep".
I was transferring my home directory to a new disk drive, and was puzzled to see why so much of my disk space had disappeared. Then I discovered that the Desktop maintains a cache of thumbnail images (.thumbnails) which stored every image that had ever been viewed through the desktop - I had been creating fractal animations, so every frame had been thumbnailed for around three months. This amounted to a good few Gigabytes of data.
Then, there was the mystery of why my hard disk drive showed frantic activity, even when the machine was not in use. Another application by the name of 'beagle' was indexing my entire filesystem. This too amounted to a good few megabytes. Other times the hard disk drive has become busy are due to random 'ssh' login attempts from all across the world.
You can set your mail application to not download external http links. Many web mail readers do this as well.
In my course, entry level CS consisted of Hardware Engineering (logic gates, communication with hardware (ports, memory maps), while Software Engineering consisted of data representation, sorting, hashing, file formats and input algorithms. How are you going to learn about things like linked lists, doubly linked lists, binary trees, binary file formats, if you don't understand how memory is organised and referenced?
From what I could see from the Google streetmap view, is that there is a gravel offroad with a number of mailboxes alongside with a good few warning signs informing the road drivers of the direction of the road. This would be a fairly clear indication that it wasn't public land.
I'll agree that the claim for $25,000 is rather ridiculous. The Google road-crew haven't returned and they have removed the pictures.
I don't see any "mental anguish" or "reduced property value" especially since identical images are visible through Google Maps and GoogleEarth. Half the world didn't even know this road existed until this lawsuit.
If workers are given the funding, time and education to retrain and relocate, that isn't a problem. But the closure off the dominant employers in some areas, meant there is no-one to sell services to.
Most of the employment that the UK and Germany still has, came from the loss of shipbuilding and manufacturing jobs to the Far East, and the closure of coal mines.
At least if you have an education, you can probably get a public sector job, which is fair compensation for having your job outsourced in the first place.
I looked at buying a laptop or new desktop from Dell. The annoying thing was that their prices constantly changed from week to week, seeming to get cheaper at the end of each month. Even the prices for home users vs. small office were different for the same configuration. But if you tried to place an order for the cheaper of the two configuration, they would change the order in some way (some components were apparently "delayed for delivery". Not forgetting that they had outsourced their sales department to India - one guy kept calling me at home at 8.00am for entire week determined to get the sale.
While looking around to get the best deal (most powerful GPU vs. laptop vs. desktop), it was less hassle to buy a laptop from a warehouse store.
The UK has similar "Right to Roam" legislation which applies to many pathways and scenic areas. It's something to consider when buying a house or even office space in a business park. You find out that the local residents use your driveway or car-park as a short cut to the local supermarket because 1800 years, a Roman goat-herder went to court to maintain a right-of-way between the town market and the local pasture.
If you look at Google maps, you can see quite clearly that their house is at the end of a private road. The Google road crew drove onto private property, continuing to take high resolution photographs before turning round and going back the way they came.
A road sign clearly indicated that this was a private road. Maybe Google's road crew didn't understand English, took a wrong turning, or their maps were out of date. Since they took photographs every 10 metres or so, having a photograph of their property is not going to affect its value by any significant amount.
This really does amount to trespass and invasion of privacy. Any individual is free to walk the streets of their neighborhood and take photographs, so long as they don't enter private property. But as soon as they wander into their neighbors driveways and gardens, neighbors would be justified in calling the Police, and getting them to be given a warning or to be arrested.
How can the government and ISPs keep up with the computational resources needed to continue this as we demand greater and greater amounts of bandwidth?
Multi-core CPU's and high capacity disk drives? Everything is constantly coming down in price.
Since the invention of frequency-tunable lasers, there is no limit on how much information can be sent down a fibre-optic cable. In the UK at least, the government tried to pass the cost of these computational resources onto the ISP's.
At least with the telephone network, the monitoring capability was built into the telephone system itself - partly because it was cheaper to give field engineers the ability to inspect and tune line quality remotely rather than having to drive all the way up to the exchange.
From the 80x86 days (the 1980's), the Intel architecture had a segmented memory architecture. The register set consisted of a handful of register (AX,BX,CX,DX) and a bunch of segment registers (BP,SP,SI,DI), all of which constrained programmers to work in 64K blocks. This led to there being at least six different compiler models for applications (tiny, small, compact, large and huge), each of which was different permutation of 16-bit vs 32-bit addressing modes for data, stack and code execution.
Even using the programming languages at the time (Pascal, C), any memory allocate operation was still constrained to just under 64K (16 bytes lost due to memory management using double linked lists). Memory was convoluted using Conventional memory, high memory areas, upper memory area, extended memory, and expanded memory instead of simply having a flat continuous architecture. Some people resorted to manually reordering the location of device drivers , while others used Dos Extenders to improve performance.
For anyone doing image processing work, meant they had to rewrite their algorithms so that images were read in row by row, processed and written out row by row. Everyone had to write lots of little command line programs to do operations one at a time.
At the same time, all the RISC CPU's used by the UNIX systems of the time had a least 8 general purpose 32-bit registers with no need for segment registers. Systems came with a luxurious 8 Megabytes of memory. Any large data file could just be memory-mapped into an area of virtual memory or just read into an arbitrary sized block of memory allocated with a single 'malloc'.
So it was relatively easier to write applications. You didn't have to worry about whether the extended memory drivers were the latest version or not.
Wow are the "spies" of the world getting incredibly lazy? I can come up with at least 30 ways to get around this, one of which is having several prepay disposable cellphones to get around them even tapping my phone call.
If they can identify the location of a call through triangulation, they they probably have "areas of interest" - high immigrant populations. Then there's "tainted by association". If they have one telephone number of interest, then any number which makes a call to that number is also of interest. This might even work with PAYG SIM cards bought as family packs.
Perhaps the background noise itself could be the secret message - some time ago, there was a novelty background noise generator kit for your cellphone, which could make you sound as if you were on a street with construction works, pub, driving on the road, or even in a warzone.
Or if you could "sniff" your friends mobile phones, simply their location could be a coded message.
Creative and id Software's John Carmack have been at odds ever since Doom. Back in the Doom days John called creative for sound driver support and they basically told him to go away.
Of course, after Doom was released Creative was begging to help support id Software but Carmack wouldn't have it.
Those models will look even cooler when they get an artist with an airfix paint kit to touch up those models. Or even add textures onto the geometry in the viewer. Sell them as hobby kits in the local museum.
Wasn't Creative the company that refused to give ID Software any developer support at the time when ID Software was a startup company. As a result they refused to support Creative in any way whatsoever?
I was thinking of MFC/.NET. If you want to compile a simple executable, you would have to through all this hassle. If you are in Linux you can just use your favorite editor, edit the file, and very possibly run the compiler from inside the editor.
Water molecules evaporating from the trees, vegetation, lakes and oceans carry an ionic charge up to the clouds with them. Turbulence within the clouds also help charge build up.
Sometimes, when you want to prototype something quickly, being able to edit a test.cpp file with a basic int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { } and compile it with a g++ test.cpp is the way to go. I would hate to forced to have to open up a IDE window, create a basic application, edit and register a couple of derived classes, a project build file, all to test something simple like some library functions.
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Wow! An instant migraine webpage!
I used to have a book that was like that (Ladybird book "How It Works - The Rocket"). The back cover has the red on blue text. When you moved the book a bit, the red text appeared to float above the blue background.
At the moment, there is that issue that "anyone in the whole world can look up my address and see what my home looks from the street", which is fairly minor.
Then there is the "Google is wandering everywhere including into peoples gardens and taking pictures without asking" issue. They could have informed residents that their cameras were going to be driving around (my neighborhood were notified when aerial photographs were being taken).
And there is a third issue. On some occasions, the resolution of the photographs has been high enough to identify individual car number plates. What if the Google cameras had been of a high enough resolution to identify the majority of car number plates parked in driveways? This would make it easy for any third party to build up a database of car number plates and addresses. Only recently, using such a database caused a police officer to lose his job.
That's what Amazon's Mechanical Turk is for. There used to be quite literally thousands of hits asking for people to classify a picture or to paint in the yellow lines of a road, or to identify traffic lights, junctions and so on. But they only paid around $0.05 per hit.
Have you seen the Trojan body armour video.
And the article will be based on "People staying up late to watch news articles with worrying news about how they may be risking their health by staying up to watch late night news reports and not getting enough sleep".
Strange things happen to Linux systems to.
I was transferring my home directory to a new disk drive, and was puzzled to see why so much of my disk space had disappeared. Then I discovered that the Desktop maintains a cache of thumbnail images (.thumbnails) which stored every image that had ever been viewed through the desktop - I had been creating fractal animations, so every frame had been thumbnailed for around three months. This amounted to a good few Gigabytes of data.
Then, there was the mystery of why my hard disk drive showed frantic activity, even when the machine was not in use. Another application by the name of 'beagle' was indexing my entire filesystem. This too amounted to a good few megabytes. Other times the hard disk drive has become busy are due to random 'ssh' login attempts from all across the world.
You can set your mail application to not download external http links. Many web mail readers do this as well.
In my course, entry level CS consisted of Hardware Engineering (logic gates, communication with hardware (ports, memory maps), while Software Engineering consisted of data representation, sorting, hashing, file formats and input algorithms. How are you going to learn about things like linked lists, doubly linked lists, binary trees, binary file formats, if you don't understand how memory is organised and referenced?
From what I could see from the Google streetmap view, is that there is a gravel offroad with a number of mailboxes alongside with a good few warning signs informing the road drivers of the direction of the road. This would be a fairly clear indication that it wasn't public land.
I'll agree that the claim for $25,000 is rather ridiculous. The Google road-crew haven't returned and they have removed the pictures.
I don't see any "mental anguish" or "reduced property value" especially since identical images are visible through Google Maps and GoogleEarth. Half the world didn't even know this road existed until this lawsuit.
If workers are given the funding, time and education to retrain and relocate, that isn't a problem. But the closure off the dominant employers in some areas, meant there is no-one to sell services to.
Most of the employment that the UK and Germany still has, came from the loss of shipbuilding and manufacturing jobs to the Far East, and the closure of coal mines.
At least if you have an education, you can probably get a public sector job, which is fair compensation for having your job outsourced in the first place.
I looked at buying a laptop or new desktop from Dell. The annoying thing was that their prices constantly changed from week to week, seeming to get cheaper at the end of each month. Even the prices for home users vs. small office were different for the same configuration. But if you tried to place an order for the cheaper of the two configuration, they would change the order in some way (some components were apparently "delayed for delivery". Not forgetting that they had outsourced their sales department to India - one guy kept calling me at home at 8.00am for entire week determined to get the sale.
While looking around to get the best deal (most powerful GPU vs. laptop vs. desktop), it was less hassle to buy a laptop from a warehouse store.
I thought the author meant The Flintstones movie.
The UK has similar "Right to Roam" legislation which applies to many pathways and scenic areas. It's something to consider when buying a house or even office space in a business park. You find out that the local residents use your driveway or car-park as a short cut to the local supermarket because 1800 years, a Roman goat-herder went to court to maintain a right-of-way between the town market and the local pasture.
If you look at Google maps, you can see quite clearly that their house is at the end of a private road. The Google road crew drove onto private property, continuing to take high resolution photographs before turning round and going back the way they came.
A road sign clearly indicated that this was a private road. Maybe Google's road crew didn't understand English, took a wrong turning, or their maps were out of date. Since they took photographs every 10 metres or so, having a photograph of their property is not going to affect its value by any significant amount.
This really does amount to trespass and invasion of privacy. Any individual is free to walk the streets of their neighborhood and take photographs, so long as they don't enter private property. But as soon as they wander into their neighbors driveways and gardens, neighbors would be justified in calling the Police, and getting them to be given a warning or to be arrested.
How can the government and ISPs keep up with the computational resources needed to continue this as we demand greater and greater amounts of bandwidth?
Multi-core CPU's and high capacity disk drives? Everything is constantly coming down in price.
Since the invention of frequency-tunable lasers, there is no limit on how much information can be sent down a fibre-optic cable. In the UK at least, the government tried to pass the cost of these computational resources onto the ISP's.
At least with the telephone network, the monitoring capability was built into the telephone system itself - partly because it was cheaper to give field engineers the ability to inspect and tune line quality remotely rather than having to drive all the way up to the exchange.
From the 80x86 days (the 1980's), the Intel architecture had a segmented memory architecture. The register set consisted of a handful of register (AX,BX,CX,DX) and a bunch of segment registers (BP,SP,SI,DI), all of which constrained programmers to work in 64K blocks. This led to there being at least six different compiler models for applications (tiny, small, compact, large and huge), each of which was different permutation of 16-bit vs 32-bit addressing modes for data, stack and code execution.
Even using the programming languages at the time (Pascal, C), any memory allocate operation was still constrained to just under 64K (16 bytes lost due to memory management using double linked lists). Memory was convoluted using Conventional memory, high memory areas, upper memory area, extended memory, and expanded memory instead of simply having a flat continuous architecture. Some people resorted to manually reordering the location of device drivers , while others used Dos Extenders to improve performance.
For anyone doing image processing work, meant they had to rewrite their algorithms so that images were read in row by row, processed and written out row by row. Everyone had to write lots of little command line programs to do operations one at a time.
At the same time, all the RISC CPU's used by the UNIX systems of the time had a least 8 general purpose 32-bit registers with no need for segment registers. Systems came with a luxurious 8 Megabytes of memory. Any large data file could just be memory-mapped into an area of virtual memory or just read into an arbitrary sized block of memory allocated with a single 'malloc'.
So it was relatively easier to write applications. You didn't have to worry about whether the extended memory drivers were the latest version or not.
Wow are the "spies" of the world getting incredibly lazy? I can come up with at least 30 ways to get around this, one of which is having several prepay disposable cellphones to get around them even tapping my phone call.
If they can identify the location of a call through triangulation, they they probably have "areas of interest" - high immigrant populations. Then there's "tainted by association". If they have one telephone number of interest, then any number which makes a call to that number is also of interest. This might even work with PAYG SIM cards bought as family packs.
Perhaps the background noise itself could be the secret message - some time ago, there was a novelty background noise generator kit for your cellphone, which could make you sound as if you were on a street with construction works, pub, driving on the road, or even in a warzone.
Or if you could "sniff" your friends mobile phones, simply their location could be a coded message.
I think that was meant to be a funny comment. I meant the plastic models themselves - paint your own Jurassic Bug kit.
Here's a link to the current and past story
Creative and id Software's John Carmack have been at odds ever since Doom. Back in the Doom days John called creative for sound driver support and they basically told him to go away.
Of course, after Doom was released Creative was begging to help support id Software but Carmack wouldn't have it.
So now they pull this stunt. GG CREATIVE!
Those models will look even cooler when they get an artist with an airfix paint kit to touch up those models. Or even add textures onto the geometry in the viewer. Sell them as hobby kits in the local museum.
Wasn't Creative the company that refused to give ID Software any developer support at the time when ID Software was a startup company. As a result they refused to support Creative in any way whatsoever?
I was thinking of MFC/.NET. If you want to compile a simple executable, you would have to through all this hassle. If you are in Linux you can just use your favorite editor, edit the file, and very possibly run the compiler from inside the editor.
Water molecules evaporating from the trees, vegetation, lakes and oceans carry an ionic charge up to the clouds with them. Turbulence within the clouds also help charge build up.
Sometimes, when you want to prototype something quickly, being able to edit a test.cpp file with a basic int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { } and compile it with a g++ test.cpp is the way to go. I would hate to forced to have to open up a IDE window, create a basic application, edit and register a couple of derived classes, a project build file, all to test something simple like some library functions.