Recently, Kodak image scientists developed a way to meet these goals by supplementing the distribution of the input colors with a distribution of selected "important" colors [5]. In particular, they found they could supplement skin tones by appending image skin-tone patches generated from a statistical sampling of the skin color probability density function. A major advantage of this approach is that explicit skin detection, which can be error prone, is avoided.
Sounds like this will be great for photographs of white people!
I'm not gung-ho on conspiracy theories, but the only explanation I can figure is that they're either being paid or bullied.
Yeah, just like all the other people who don't do mac ports of their software. All bullied, yup.
Seriously though, the market for satilite internet isn't really all that big, you think they figure that maybe most mac users are urban and don't need it?
ah, it's so much nicer to be able to actualy *download* something, rather then trying to 'stream' it, and then not being able to watch it again. Quicktime files can usualy be dug out of the cache, but still.
The weird part is that it's as a.zip file. I still find it very strange that quicktime files can be further compressed with pkzip, but whatever. (Or maybe they just did it so it wouldn't automaticaly be played in the browsers of the not-so-smart...)
I don't really think the 'switching' capability of this thing is really that impressive, considering the fact that all you have to do is throw everything on the same 'plane'... in other words, display the same image for both eyes. Not really much of an accomplishment.
Is it just me, or is apple's on-screen font smoothing really terrible? On windows, only really small or really big fonts are smothed, so most 'regular sized' (8-12 point) take their bitmapped form. On macs, the characters just look blurry. It drives me nuts.
I'd have to see the modern implementation, but if you can't turn off font smoothing, I probably wouldn't get a mac. (not that I would anyway, but still)
I don't even think google looks at meta tags when figuring it's page ranking. The reason is that most moron porn spammers just fill theirs up with the same crap (Including non-pornographic terms like "SUV" and stuff... wtf?)
Searching for a random selection of your meta keywords dosn't bring up your site.
We already know what the future of IP will be, IPv6. Already deployed widely in Asia, and available in the Linux kernel, etc.
If you have some specific arguments as to why IPv6 doesn't solve the problems you seem to exist, maybe you should bring those up, rather then making sweeping, yet meaningless, metaphors about wheels with holes in them.
Also, IP is NOT Broadcast at all. It's packet switched. Geez.
How do you feel about internet censorship in places like China, and Saudi Arabia? Recently the Chinese government began knocking (for a short time) people off the internet who did google searches for politically sensitive terms. Do you feel this is morally wrong? Do you think that it has any chance of succeeding?
Recently, when reading you're opinions it seems as though you've basically taken the opposite tack that people like Mr. Postel did when it comes to things like the internet domain name system. For example, you seem to support ICANN despite the fact that that it's basically made itself unaccountable, and, well, sucks in general. You also seem to support the Intellectual property industry in their attempts to control the Internet and computing devices in general.
My question to you is: Do you see any value in the internet as a communications medium that gives everyone a voice, without censorship, or do you feel that such a system is to harmful in its current state? Should the Internet be controlled by a small elite and by earth's mega corporations?
Also, I'd like to hear a good defense of ICANN, if that's possible.:P
They say the chip won't conflict with IP because it's RISC. Obviously that makes no sense, as CISC instruction sets can't be copywriten either (obviously)
There are a few open source chip designs though, I think sun may have done that with one of their SPARC designs (or perhaps community sourced it). And there may be some free MIPS cores out there.
This is a bit long winded, but you're right in that there is a huge difference between what's going on downloading MP3s and redirecting refers.
In business there's a concept called "Opportunity cost". It's the cost of not doing something (IIRC, I'm not an MBA:P).
Here's an example. Suppose Pharmagog corporation created a new drug that, erm... cures carpal tunnel syndrome. If Pharmagog doesn't advertise the only people who'll use it are those with doctors who keep up on all the publications, reports, and new treatments. If they do advertise millions of people with RSI will find out about it and ask their doctors for it. Suppose that the advertising campaign costs $30 million dollars, and will probably result in about $126 million in income over 10 years as opposed to $13.4 million otherwise. This means that the opportunity cost of not advertising is $82 million dollars.
When you download music from the Internet, you're not depriving anyone of anything, but, you're reducing the chance the record company has to sell you the CD later. In other words, you're actually stealing opportunity. Some people were never going to by the CD anyway (perhaps they couldn't afford it), for them, the opportunity cost to the record company is nothing. Others were planning to get the CD and continued to do so, despite already having the music. For them, the opportunity is also nothing. Other people download music and then don't get the CD. Those people do cost the record company money. A final group of people are actually more likely to get the CD after hearing MP3s. Those people are actually stealing negative amounts of opportunity from the record companies.
But anyway. When these p2p companies steal refer traffic, they are not stealing some unquantifiable opportunity, they are stealing money actual money from actual people who are doing the work to promote the item. And that's just fucking wrong.
'While I agree that this is really a bit of a scam, it is a way for us to pay salaries while not adversely affecting our users.'
Well fuck! Why not just rob banks? I mean, people's savings are insured up to $100,000 by FDIC and in most cases up to millions from secondary private insurance. No harm done!
Or perhaps insider trading is the answer. Just scan people's hard drives for sensitive financial information and use that on the stock market. Doesn't hurt a soul!
Humans are just different in that somehow, some of us just seem to "snap" and totally lose perspective and rationality. Animals fight each other over territory or mates, but they usually don't kill each other; one will give up at some point.
Seriously, do you have any idea what you're talking about? Animals kill eachother all the time over various disputes. You are, just, totaly wrong...
I'm a big fan of the game Jet Grind Radio and it's sequel Jet Set Radio Future. It's basically a game where you skate around and tag buildings with graffiti. It's a lot of fun, and in the game you can "grind" on railings, power lines, etc. Basically you jump onto them and slide. You can do that in games like Tony Hawk as well.
Anyway, after playing for a while I noticed that when I would see a railing or corner I would get the urge to jump on it and 'grind', even though I wasn't wearing skates.
(it has also given me latent urges to start tagging things, but that's more of a constant nag rather then an instantaneous thing like with grinding)
After playing Gran Tourismo 3 I get the urge to drive way to fast:P
Running over pedestrians in GTA3 gets kind of old for me, so I never really did it much when playing:P
For anyone who doesn't believe this: Sit through a two-hour long meeting with a manager and then go play twenty minutes of GTA3.
Feeling better aren't you?
Play Mario Sunshine or Tetris for 20 minutes and you'd feel even better. Anything that takes your mind off of your frustration will relive it.
Actual scientific research into the so-called 'cathartic' effect has shown that it simply doesn't exist. The reason you feel better after playing GTA3 is because it's fun, not because you get to 'work out' your aggression.
The original design goal of the RISC paradigm was to make computer chips less complex which frequently has the side effect of making the chips more efficient in terms of how much work can be done in a single clock tick and in how much power is drawn.
Nope, the original design of RISC was to make computer chips less complex, requiring fewer transistors and more instructions to do the same thing. But since, they were simpler, they could run at higher clock speeds.
RISC does less per instruction then CISC, but it runs more instructions per second. That was the original idea, although it's gotten twisted around by Mac advocates now that their RISC chips run slower then Intel "CISC" chips that are actually RISC anyway.
The x86 instruction set is complex, but since the p-pro, all intel chips have been RISC. AMD has been making risc chips since the k5.
Is this all the mac users have left? Power consumption? I mean, some people want quiet PCs, but spending thousands of extra dolars for a mac is not a very viable solution to many people, especialy when you consider the low power consumption PC chips out there (VIA etc) you can get low cost/low noise/low price trifecta if you really want.
And my laptop is really more like a iron or hotpad then a hair dryer. Just a high temprature brick.
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Recently, Kodak image scientists developed a way to meet these goals by supplementing the distribution of the input colors with a distribution of selected "important" colors [5]. In particular, they found they could supplement skin tones by appending image skin-tone patches generated from a statistical sampling of the skin color probability density function. A major advantage of this approach is that explicit skin detection, which can be error prone, is avoided.
Sounds like this will be great for photographs of white people!
Mod the Xbox? Why would you even want to own it to begin with?
I mean, aside from the chance to play jet set radio future of course.
I'm not gung-ho on conspiracy theories, but the only explanation I can figure is that they're either being paid or bullied.
Yeah, just like all the other people who don't do mac ports of their software. All bullied, yup.
Seriously though, the market for satilite internet isn't really all that big, you think they figure that maybe most mac users are urban and don't need it?
ah, it's so much nicer to be able to actualy *download* something, rather then trying to 'stream' it, and then not being able to watch it again. Quicktime files can usualy be dug out of the cache, but still.
.zip file. I still find it very strange that quicktime files can be further compressed with pkzip, but whatever. (Or maybe they just did it so it wouldn't automaticaly be played in the browsers of the not-so-smart...)
The weird part is that it's as a
I don't really think the 'switching' capability of this thing is really that impressive, considering the fact that all you have to do is throw everything on the same 'plane'... in other words, display the same image for both eyes. Not really much of an accomplishment.
I don't even see how it could not be possible.
Is it just me, or is apple's on-screen font smoothing really terrible? On windows, only really small or really big fonts are smothed, so most 'regular sized' (8-12 point) take their bitmapped form. On macs, the characters just look blurry. It drives me nuts.
I'd have to see the modern implementation, but if you can't turn off font smoothing, I probably wouldn't get a mac. (not that I would anyway, but still)
I don't even think google looks at meta tags when figuring it's page ranking. The reason is that most moron porn spammers just fill theirs up with the same crap (Including non-pornographic terms like "SUV" and stuff... wtf?) Searching for a random selection of your meta keywords dosn't bring up your site.
Actualy, I generaly use HTTP redirects to move pages, but meta refresh can be usefull for people who don't have access to the software.
We already know what the future of IP will be, IPv6. Already deployed widely in Asia, and available in the Linux kernel, etc.
If you have some specific arguments as to why IPv6 doesn't solve the problems you seem to exist, maybe you should bring those up, rather then making sweeping, yet meaningless, metaphors about wheels with holes in them.
Also, IP is NOT Broadcast at all. It's packet switched. Geez.
(Please, someone mod this down)
How do you feel about internet censorship in places like China, and Saudi Arabia? Recently the Chinese government began knocking (for a short time) people off the internet who did google searches for politically sensitive terms. Do you feel this is morally wrong? Do you think that it has any chance of succeeding?
Dear Mr. Cerf
:P
Recently, when reading you're opinions it seems as though you've basically taken the opposite tack that people like Mr. Postel did when it comes to things like the internet domain name system. For example, you seem to support ICANN despite the fact that that it's basically made itself unaccountable, and, well, sucks in general. You also seem to support the Intellectual property industry in their attempts to control the Internet and computing devices in general.
My question to you is: Do you see any value in the internet as a communications medium that gives everyone a voice, without censorship, or do you feel that such a system is to harmful in its current state? Should the Internet be controlled by a small elite and by earth's mega corporations?
Also, I'd like to hear a good defense of ICANN, if that's possible.
People have been fucking with car software, since, well since there has been car software. I'm sure people have already crashed 'mod-chipped' cars.
can I please quote you?
Hrm... what do you think?
They say the chip won't conflict with IP because it's RISC. Obviously that makes no sense, as CISC instruction sets can't be copywriten either (obviously)
There are a few open source chip designs though, I think sun may have done that with one of their SPARC designs (or perhaps community sourced it). And there may be some free MIPS cores out there.
This is a bit long winded, but you're right in that there is a huge difference between what's going on downloading MP3s and redirecting refers.
:P).
In business there's a concept called "Opportunity cost". It's the cost of not doing something (IIRC, I'm not an MBA
Here's an example. Suppose Pharmagog corporation created a new drug that, erm... cures carpal tunnel syndrome. If Pharmagog doesn't advertise the only people who'll use it are those with doctors who keep up on all the publications, reports, and new treatments. If they do advertise millions of people with RSI will find out about it and ask their doctors for it. Suppose that the advertising campaign costs $30 million dollars, and will probably result in about $126 million in income over 10 years as opposed to $13.4 million otherwise. This means that the opportunity cost of not advertising is $82 million dollars.
When you download music from the Internet, you're not depriving anyone of anything, but, you're reducing the chance the record company has to sell you the CD later. In other words, you're actually stealing opportunity. Some people were never going to by the CD anyway (perhaps they couldn't afford it), for them, the opportunity cost to the record company is nothing. Others were planning to get the CD and continued to do so, despite already having the music. For them, the opportunity is also nothing. Other people download music and then don't get the CD. Those people do cost the record company money. A final group of people are actually more likely to get the CD after hearing MP3s. Those people are actually stealing negative amounts of opportunity from the record companies.
But anyway. When these p2p companies steal refer traffic, they are not stealing some unquantifiable opportunity, they are stealing money actual money from actual people who are doing the work to promote the item. And that's just fucking wrong.
'While I agree that this is really a bit of a scam, it is a way for us to pay salaries while not adversely affecting our users.'
Well fuck! Why not just rob banks? I mean, people's savings are insured up to $100,000 by FDIC and in most cases up to millions from secondary private insurance. No harm done!
Or perhaps insider trading is the answer. Just scan people's hard drives for sensitive financial information and use that on the stock market. Doesn't hurt a soul!
Humans are just different in that somehow, some of us just seem to "snap" and totally lose perspective and rationality. Animals fight each other over territory or mates, but they usually don't kill each other; one will give up at some point.
Seriously, do you have any idea what you're talking about? Animals kill eachother all the time over various disputes. You are, just, totaly wrong...
I'm a big fan of the game Jet Grind Radio and it's sequel Jet Set Radio Future. It's basically a game where you skate around and tag buildings with graffiti. It's a lot of fun, and in the game you can "grind" on railings, power lines, etc. Basically you jump onto them and slide. You can do that in games like Tony Hawk as well.
:P
:P
Anyway, after playing for a while I noticed that when I would see a railing or corner I would get the urge to jump on it and 'grind', even though I wasn't wearing skates.
(it has also given me latent urges to start tagging things, but that's more of a constant nag rather then an instantaneous thing like with grinding)
After playing Gran Tourismo 3 I get the urge to drive way to fast
Running over pedestrians in GTA3 gets kind of old for me, so I never really did it much when playing
For anyone who doesn't believe this: Sit through a two-hour long meeting with a manager and then go play twenty minutes of GTA3.
Feeling better aren't you?
Play Mario Sunshine or Tetris for 20 minutes and you'd feel even better. Anything that takes your mind off of your frustration will relive it.
Actual scientific research into the so-called 'cathartic' effect has shown that it simply doesn't exist. The reason you feel better after playing GTA3 is because it's fun, not because you get to 'work out' your aggression.
Yeah, one of the two. (actualy modern intel chips can run either way)
There is no way to underprice linux until they can't pay their devs and go BK
You mean, go to Burger King??
Unite, and be used!
I meant 'low heat/low noise/low price'. I'm very tired.
The original design goal of the RISC paradigm was to make computer chips less complex which frequently has the side effect of making the chips more efficient in terms of how much work can be done in a single clock tick and in how much power is drawn.
Nope, the original design of RISC was to make computer chips less complex, requiring fewer transistors and more instructions to do the same thing. But since, they were simpler, they could run at higher clock speeds.
RISC does less per instruction then CISC, but it runs more instructions per second. That was the original idea, although it's gotten twisted around by Mac advocates now that their RISC chips run slower then Intel "CISC" chips that are actually RISC anyway.
The x86 instruction set is complex, but since the p-pro, all intel chips have been RISC. AMD has been making risc chips since the k5.
Is this all the mac users have left? Power consumption? I mean, some people want quiet PCs, but spending thousands of extra dolars for a mac is not a very viable solution to many people, especialy when you consider the low power consumption PC chips out there (VIA etc) you can get low cost/low noise/low price trifecta if you really want.
And my laptop is really more like a iron or hotpad then a hair dryer. Just a high temprature brick.