You nailed it on the head. He's indian, and his trademarks are you => u, are => r, and because => cuz. It's so strange because he's professional in every other way.
Schools? Hell, my coworker uses such slang. He's a foreigner who must have learned chatroom-speak at the same time that he learned English, and must think it's acceptable in a proffessional workplace. Or maybe his teachers in college didn't beat him enough for using chatroom-speak on his homework.
So your 21 megapixel file is just a blown-up version of a 7 megapixel image. You're not really getting any more resolution by scanning it at that resolution, you're just copying each dot in triplicate. Even real film has resolution limits, and you've gone way beyond what's necessary.
Indeed. These added inefficiencies are relevant for someone like Amazon.com who sends out thousands of confirmation emails a day, or merely your average mailing list. Sure, there will be ways to explicitely allow specific individuals to send without postage, but yet again, it adds an inconvience to the end user.
Governments wouldn't have to exist unless there were some cases where a few individuals are able to unfairly strong-arm the rest of the population into doing their bidding.
In this case, the masses are stupid enough to accept DRM-enabled machines for the tradeoff that they get to view some neat-o movie clips on their computer. The masses have some culpability in this, but one could argue that this is one place where the government should step in and prevent a few companies from greatly changing the landscape of information exchange in a way that only benefits a few.
A new feature will enable computer manufacturers to selectively hide and display Microsoft's integrated programs displayed on the start menu of the operating system, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, Windows Media Player and Windows Messenger programs.
During the federal antitrust trial, Microsoft argued that such a change would cripple the Windows program.
The change will make it possible for hardware vendors to customize their systems by striking business deals to include alternative programs from companies like America Online and RealNetworks.
It will also permit computer users to reselect the hidden Microsoft programs if they choose.
Isn't this tantamount to purjury? Their claim that it would criple the system and that it couldn't be removed was obviously false, if all that was necessary to satisfy the courts was to remove the icon from the desktop. Sure, MS is allowed to spin things a bit in the media, but in the courtroom, nearly explicit lies are illegal, no?
And when you post their nastygram on your website to gain popular support, will they also request you take that down? I haven't heard of them doing this...
There are some products that do this already. They're being marketed first as motion capture devices. Motion capture usually requires complex setups, but there are some products out that just let you just spin a video camera around someone's head, and generate a 3D model with the textures generated of the person's skin, eyes, etc. I can't find a link to the exact companies that are doing this, but I had a roommate in CG that came back from a conference really excited with a disk that had a 3D model of his head.
First: this sort of thing has been available via commercial software for quite some time. This is just one example.
Second: Photo stitching doesn't work very well when the object is moving. To do this successfully, you have to break up a 2D image into its 3D components and track the faces of each object and stitch each face together. Obviously, this is much harder (though I think there is some commercial software available that does this to, so the theoretical underpinnings must be complete).
Gates also acknowledged that confusion still reigns about.NET's very definition.
Good -- they understand one problem. People can perhaps point to the CLR and assoicated libraries, but.NET has been touted as much more than that, especially to non-techies.
On Wednesday, he hammered home a new definition: "software to connect information, people, systems and services."
Unfortunately, this definition doesn't help at all. Pretty much all internet-based software does this.
On the other hand, slashdot was recently complaining that Japan gets all the cool stuff, which includes cooler cell phones with higher data throughput, full-color screens, and video telephony. Seeing as how the MEN have failed in the japanese market, are the MEN even very relevant?
Alliances aren't always a good thing. When a stronger enemy is fighting many small opponents, if the strong guy can get a few of the small guys to take a break for a bit, that's really just a win for the bigger guy.
DRM is just there in case someone wants to listen to content that has DRM protections included. Other than the MS's licensing fees you inevitably pay, you're free to use it or ignore it, it's your choice. Inclusion of DRM won't hinder your ability to use it as an MP3 player.
(I'm sort of in the same position: I work for a company who is including MS DRM in the product I'm working on. I justify it by noting that I don't work on it, and if MS were to be sued out of existance tommorow, the product can still work admirably as an MP3 player)
Well, if you count the number of unique IPs that CodeRed probed you, then that's the minimum number of successful break-ins. Whick is certainly more than 11k.
It's the same for physical distribution, no? I can print up several boxes of fliers that defame someone. I can give one or two fliers to friends, but keep the rest of the box locked up until 12 months later.
Look up pan in a dictionary. That particular entry lists one meaning as "a harsh criticism". While the lawyers in mention have perhaps harsh criticism for cyber-silliness, they aren't calling for an outright ban on internet exceptions.
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You nailed it on the head. He's indian, and his trademarks are you => u, are => r, and because => cuz. It's so strange because he's professional in every other way.
Schools? Hell, my coworker uses such slang. He's a foreigner who must have learned chatroom-speak at the same time that he learned English, and must think it's acceptable in a proffessional workplace. Or maybe his teachers in college didn't beat him enough for using chatroom-speak on his homework.
So your 21 megapixel file is just a blown-up version of a 7 megapixel image. You're not really getting any more resolution by scanning it at that resolution, you're just copying each dot in triplicate. Even real film has resolution limits, and you've gone way beyond what's necessary.
Indeed. These added inefficiencies are relevant for someone like Amazon.com who sends out thousands of confirmation emails a day, or merely your average mailing list. Sure, there will be ways to explicitely allow specific individuals to send without postage, but yet again, it adds an inconvience to the end user.
In this case, the masses are stupid enough to accept DRM-enabled machines for the tradeoff that they get to view some neat-o movie clips on their computer. The masses have some culpability in this, but one could argue that this is one place where the government should step in and prevent a few companies from greatly changing the landscape of information exchange in a way that only benefits a few.
- A new feature will enable computer manufacturers to selectively hide and display Microsoft's integrated programs displayed on the start menu of the operating system, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser, Windows Media Player and Windows Messenger programs.
Isn't this tantamount to purjury? Their claim that it would criple the system and that it couldn't be removed was obviously false, if all that was necessary to satisfy the courts was to remove the icon from the desktop. Sure, MS is allowed to spin things a bit in the media, but in the courtroom, nearly explicit lies are illegal, no?During the federal antitrust trial, Microsoft argued that such a change would cripple the Windows program.
The change will make it possible for hardware vendors to customize their systems by striking business deals to include alternative programs from companies like America Online and RealNetworks.
It will also permit computer users to reselect the hidden Microsoft programs if they choose.
Nope, it's August 16th.
This will just make fluids all the more important. And we know what happens when such things become put into law.
And when you post their nastygram on your website to gain popular support, will they also request you take that down? I haven't heard of them doing this...
Most of whom are probably reading (or posting to) Slashdot right now... :)
Well, the repo laws are UCC section 9, part 5.
There are some products that do this already. They're being marketed first as motion capture devices. Motion capture usually requires complex setups, but there are some products out that just let you just spin a video camera around someone's head, and generate a 3D model with the textures generated of the person's skin, eyes, etc. I can't find a link to the exact companies that are doing this, but I had a roommate in CG that came back from a conference really excited with a disk that had a 3D model of his head.
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Second: Photo stitching doesn't work very well when the object is moving. To do this successfully, you have to break up a 2D image into its 3D components and track the faces of each object and stitch each face together. Obviously, this is much harder (though I think there is some commercial software available that does this to, so the theoretical underpinnings must be complete).
- Gates also acknowledged that confusion still reigns about
.NET's very definition.
Good -- they understand one problem. People can perhaps point to the CLR and assoicated libraries, but- On Wednesday, he hammered home a new definition: "software to connect information, people, systems and services."
Unfortunately, this definition doesn't help at all. Pretty much all internet-based software does this.On the other hand, slashdot was recently complaining that Japan gets all the cool stuff, which includes cooler cell phones with higher data throughput, full-color screens, and video telephony. Seeing as how the MEN have failed in the japanese market, are the MEN even very relevant?
I don't have the time to fill it out, but here is the form for reporting a suspected pirate.
Alliances aren't always a good thing. When a stronger enemy is fighting many small opponents, if the strong guy can get a few of the small guys to take a break for a bit, that's really just a win for the bigger guy.
DRM is just there in case someone wants to listen to content that has DRM protections included. Other than the MS's licensing fees you inevitably pay, you're free to use it or ignore it, it's your choice. Inclusion of DRM won't hinder your ability to use it as an MP3 player.
(I'm sort of in the same position: I work for a company who is including MS DRM in the product I'm working on. I justify it by noting that I don't work on it, and if MS were to be sued out of existance tommorow, the product can still work admirably as an MP3 player)
Well, if you count the number of unique IPs that CodeRed probed you, then that's the minimum number of successful break-ins. Whick is certainly more than 11k.
What counts as an attack? So worms don't count, or the number would be in the millins. Reported attacks? Those shouldn't count much because there is "little incentive for a company to report computer attacks.
Here's another story by the supposed source, but again, they don't at all define what they mean by "attack".
It's the same for physical distribution, no? I can print up several boxes of fliers that defame someone. I can give one or two fliers to friends, but keep the rest of the box locked up until 12 months later.
Debacle? How was it a debacle?
Look up pan in a dictionary. That particular entry lists one meaning as "a harsh criticism". While the lawyers in mention have perhaps harsh criticism for cyber-silliness, they aren't calling for an outright ban on internet exceptions.