This sounds like Grace Hoppers rant about hanging 1K feet of optical cable (speed of light @ 1 microsecond) around the necks of programmers that wasted microseconds of compute time.
Computing requires exponential gains so that we can compute additional layers of abstraction. It makes it possible to program what we do. The reason usability has gotten better is because we don't need to write hand-tuned machine code just to get UI widgets working.
And do not tell me that the IT department are that much better than users, usability IS security. Make super secure passwords, users will write them down. Make it hard to install apps, and they will disable security. As Kevin Mitnick has shown time and again, people are the weakest link, not the technology.
Don't worry, we will get encryption and other privacy enhancing products into the hands of end-users soon. Just look at Chromebooks and the iPhone, both have lock-down capabilities that far surpass the average corporate desktop.
I know I am not supposed to feed it, but just in case...
Second, When MPEG LA first announced the VP8 pool formation, a rush of companies applied to be in the pool, partly because everyone wanted to see what everyone else had. That gave way to some amount of disappointment. And by 'some amount' I mean 'rather a lot really, more than the MPEG-LA would care to admit.'
Eventually, things whittled down to a few holdouts. Those '11 patent holders' do not assert they have patents that cover the spec. They said '_may_ cover'. The press release itself repeats this. Then these patent holders said 'and we're willing to make that vague threat go away for a little cash'. Google paid the cash. This is what lawyers do.
That's why it's a huge newsworthy deal when companies like NewEgg actually take the more expensive out and litigate a patent. It is always more expensive than settling, even if you'd win the case, and very few companies are willing or able to do it. Google was probably able, but not willing.
As for the quality stuff, WebM is close enough that it doesn't matter. We could argue details of that point, but the real reason Google is doing this is because the use cases for a web-centric codec are VERY different than the use cases for Hollywood and broadcast media. For example, web programmers don't care about encoding speed, we care about battery usage on cell-phones.
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what MPEG LA is and isn't. They're a patent pool. They don't own any patents themselves, they just make it simple to license out a large basket of many (but not all) H.264 patents (one of the conditions is that you also put your own H.264 patents into the pool). You could go out and negotiate patent licenses from the original holders if so inclined.
So they are a convenience method for patent trolls. The older, craggier, the Troll, have enough to sue on their own.
TPB as operating expenses of ~$100,000. If half of that went to a single bandwidth provider, NK would have enough money to cover 1 middle-class contractor at an embassy.
The money coming in from TPB will have exactly zero impact on Kim Jong-un's capacity to violate human rights.
$ traceroute thepiratebay.se
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.199 ms 1.119 ms 1.066 ms... 21 rvs-rt0003_fe-0-0.intelsatone.net (209.159.170.215) 409.544 ms 557.059 ms 409.418 ms 22 202.72.96.6 (202.72.96.6) 1024.210 ms 907.023 ms 1024.071 ms
inetnum: 202.72.96.0 - 202.72.96.255 netname: INTELSAT-CUS-Camintel2-KH country: KH descr: Reassignment to CAMINTEL S. A. customer, KH status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE remarks: * For issues of abuse related to this IP address block, remarks: * including spam, please send email to at: remarks: * mchsokhom@camintel.com
As a happy middle, we could just change the UI widget to detect when a signal is lying to it and offer up a spinning (or otherwise infinite) processing ball.
I mean, what's worse, being stood up on a date or not knowing for sure if s/he was going to tag-along on a group activity that you invite him/her to?
As an engineer, however, I would argue that we don't have to just give up because the maths proves it to be impossible. Even a reliably incorrect signal would tell us to not trust it and offer up a spinning (or otherwise infinite) processing ball. The reason we have these is to improve perceived performance.
I mean, what's worse, being stood up on a date or not knowing for sure if s/he was going to tag-along on a group activity that you invite him/her to?
If there is a definition of cloud computing, it's the abstraction of administration. Managers at a hospice in Idaho are not qualified to make IT decisions about encryption. Even Microsoft's cloud is more secure than what they can put together : ) Combine bio-authentication with a website white list and you eliminate all passive/opportunistic attacks.
Why is parent modded to 0? Storing them on any number of services cloud services would be a lot cheaper than building their own system. Amazon and Google already host public datasets for researchers over 300tb. Hell, they could just agree to pay Twitter a service fee for data and keep offline tape backups. While we are at it, why not maintain a Torrent of each year?
Because academia is starved for data. Companies hoarding information limits what we can do with it. The library of congress is acting as an aggregate buyer for thousands of individual researchers, it is a huge cost savings.
Imperial units internal relationships = arbitrary Imperial units external relationships = mostly-arbitrary (generally measures of someones body parts)
SI internal relationships = non-arbitrary SI units external relationships = semi-arbitrary (generally measures of physical phenomena that are roughly universal)
The metric system is at least 1 unit of arbitrariness less arbitrary than the imperial system.
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This sounds like Grace Hoppers rant about hanging 1K feet of optical cable (speed of light @ 1 microsecond) around the necks of programmers that wasted microseconds of compute time.
Computing requires exponential gains so that we can compute additional layers of abstraction. It makes it possible to program what we do. The reason usability has gotten better is because we don't need to write hand-tuned machine code just to get UI widgets working.
And do not tell me that the IT department are that much better than users, usability IS security. Make super secure passwords, users will write them down. Make it hard to install apps, and they will disable security. As Kevin Mitnick has shown time and again, people are the weakest link, not the technology.
Don't worry, we will get encryption and other privacy enhancing products into the hands of end-users soon. Just look at Chromebooks and the iPhone, both have lock-down capabilities that far surpass the average corporate desktop.
Technically, it's a series of pipes.
I know I am not supposed to feed it, but just in case...
Second, When MPEG LA first announced the VP8 pool formation, a rush of companies applied to be in the pool, partly because everyone wanted to see what everyone else had. That gave way to some amount of disappointment. And by 'some amount' I mean 'rather a lot really, more than the MPEG-LA would care to admit.'
Eventually, things whittled down to a few holdouts. Those '11 patent holders' do not assert they have patents that cover the spec. They said '_may_ cover'. The press release itself repeats this. Then these patent holders said 'and we're willing to make that vague threat go away for a little cash'. Google paid the cash. This is what lawyers do.
That's why it's a huge newsworthy deal when companies like NewEgg actually take the more expensive out and litigate a patent. It is always more expensive than settling, even if you'd win the case, and very few companies are willing or able to do it. Google was probably able, but not willing.
As for the quality stuff, WebM is close enough that it doesn't matter. We could argue details of that point, but the real reason Google is doing this is because the use cases for a web-centric codec are VERY different than the use cases for Hollywood and broadcast media. For example, web programmers don't care about encoding speed, we care about battery usage on cell-phones.
Renaming the invisible product doesn't make it any less of a bullshit argument.
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what MPEG LA is and isn't. They're a patent pool. They don't own any patents themselves, they just make it simple to license out a large basket of many (but not all) H.264 patents (one of the conditions is that you also put your own H.264 patents into the pool). You could go out and negotiate patent licenses from the original holders if so inclined.
So they are a convenience method for patent trolls. The older, craggier, the Troll, have enough to sue on their own.
Possessive apostrophe s?
Yes he is.
TPB as operating expenses of ~$100,000. If half of that went to a single bandwidth provider, NK would have enough money to cover 1 middle-class contractor at an embassy.
The money coming in from TPB will have exactly zero impact on Kim Jong-un's capacity to violate human rights.
Um, yes it is:
$ traceroute thepiratebay.se ... .intelsatone.net (209.159.170.215) 409.544 ms 557.059 ms 409.418 ms
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 2.199 ms 1.119 ms 1.066 ms
21 rvs-rt0003_fe-0-0
22 202.72.96.6 (202.72.96.6) 1024.210 ms 907.023 ms 1024.071 ms
$ whois n 202.72.96.6 ...
% [whois.apnic.net node-2]
% Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html
inetnum: 202.72.96.0 - 202.72.96.255
netname: INTELSAT-CUS-Camintel2-KH
country: KH
descr: Reassignment to CAMINTEL S. A. customer, KH
status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE
remarks: * For issues of abuse related to this IP address block,
remarks: * including spam, please send email to at:
remarks: * mchsokhom@camintel.com
No, he really has to be asshole.
As a happy middle, we could just change the UI widget to detect when a signal is lying to it and offer up a spinning (or otherwise infinite) processing ball.
I mean, what's worse, being stood up on a date or not knowing for sure if s/he was going to tag-along on a group activity that you invite him/her to?
As an engineer, however, I would argue that we don't have to just give up because the maths proves it to be impossible. Even a reliably incorrect signal would tell us to not trust it and offer up a spinning (or otherwise infinite) processing ball. The reason we have these is to improve perceived performance.
I mean, what's worse, being stood up on a date or not knowing for sure if s/he was going to tag-along on a group activity that you invite him/her to?
Mod parent up: progress bars make for simple bullet point on a requirements spec, but defining one is takes an entire sentence.
Oh, right. I would like to point out my old-skoolish 6-digit uid!
3x harder? Instead of x + y I have to do (x*4)+(y*2). I count decimal conversions (mmcm) as free...
This needs an update to include the town sheriff's amazing press conference ("Anonymous, I am coming after you!") and Anonymous's response.
If there is a definition of cloud computing, it's the abstraction of administration. Managers at a hospice in Idaho are not qualified to make IT decisions about encryption. Even Microsoft's cloud is more secure than what they can put together : ) Combine bio-authentication with a website white list and you eliminate all passive/opportunistic attacks.
Why is parent modded to 0? Storing them on any number of services cloud services would be a lot cheaper than building their own system. Amazon and Google already host public datasets for researchers over 300tb. Hell, they could just agree to pay Twitter a service fee for data and keep offline tape backups. While we are at it, why not maintain a Torrent of each year?
Because academia is starved for data. Companies hoarding information limits what we can do with it. The library of congress is acting as an aggregate buyer for thousands of individual researchers, it is a huge cost savings.
Our version was going to run at a higher power and the circumference was ~3 larger. And, well, this was also a pork program for Europe.
OMG, you mean the LHC is really just an alpha test for the Death Star?!?! That's why the first death star is circular and the second one is linear!!!
A piece of me dies every time I have to add 1/16th to 1/32th of an inch together.
Metric is every bit as arbitrary as imperial
Imperial units internal relationships = arbitrary
Imperial units external relationships = mostly-arbitrary (generally measures of someones body parts)
SI internal relationships = non-arbitrary
SI units external relationships = semi-arbitrary (generally measures of physical phenomena that are roughly universal)
The metric system is at least 1 unit of arbitrariness less arbitrary than the imperial system.
No, the Death Star will use imperial units, duh!
I little piece of my soul dies every time I have to measure something in 1/32th's of an inch.