i don't think it does.
if i remember correctly, L is basically the brightness, while a and b go from green to red and yellow to blue (i'm not sure about the directions, though).
oh, and such a tool would be useful. not only fr designers, i imagine it could be used for compression as well. maybe he should ask the codec guys, they should know a way to determine if two colors are distinguishable from another.
imagine somebody would have told you five years ago about carnivore, large-scale camera survaillance, them checking what books you buy, what would you have said?
and it was huge. the pdp-8 was small and cheap (at about the size of a fridge and $10.000).
it had lots of great peripherals, such as the teletype (standart for in/output, but in theory you could interact with 12 switches on the front panel that could set the accumulator directly, and 12 + 1 lights indicating its value), extra ram (magnetic - and expensive) or even a crt.
there is a post about the birth of Geneva Marie (Wall?) on may 12 1987, listing previous "off the wall software products", among them perl with the age given as "3mo".
however, as perl was publically announced on dec 18, and we don't have any other specific date, we should stick to it.
now, if we would know the date when the first
print(hello world!\n);
was sent through the perl interpreter, that would be a good date.
i wonder what happens (happend?) to the public terminals. there used to be some at railway stations, only a few years ago (still after the internet boom).
you could uns them with standart telephone cards (of course, as it was from deuthe telekom just as the public phones).
they might well be gone for a while, you oversee them easyly if you got broadband at home...
france has something similar, minitel. is it still in use? would be a shame if all the minitel terminals people in france have at home would become useless.
but maybe someone comes up with a creative way of using them for something cool.
i heared a great deal of really well home recorded music. especially in the electronic sector, but also garage bands.
do you really have to spend so much for recording? for some plastic music like britney spears and so on (and who's listening to this anyway?) - ok. but there is a lot of good music out there that doesn't need it. if it would, there couldn't be any good life concerts.
so, according to the figures, 95% of the artists would do fine if they puplished everything on mp3, and made money by touring.
plus they could still make money by airplay.
i believe there are a few things to be said about civil liberties in europe, compared to the ones in the US.
in the US you can say basically anything you want. you can buy guns freely and drive a car when you're 16.
in germany you generally have the right to promote your opinion publicly, but some restrictions apply. the restrictions are about nazi propaganda and symbols, attempts to abandon the constitution, and anything that hurts anybodies dignity.
someone quoted the sentence Soldaten sind Mörder (soldiers are murderers) before. it came up as bumper stickers and someone sued against it - but it was found constitutional by our supreme court.
you are not allowed to buy or keep guns without a special permission which you can get if you have a reason and proper training.
the reason for the american liberties, as well as certain german restriction are of course historical, but apply until today in peoples minds.
people have different priorities. as well as americans would never accept such restrictions, europeans generally find things like the capital punishment barbaric. also, many criminals getting life in prison in the US would have got medical treatment in europe as they would be considered mentally ill.
this gets me to another issue - things accepted by the public.
europeans are not as easyly offended when they hear swear words on tv, or by nudity.
reading through slashdot i often get the impression that a lot of the users posting here are simply not aware of the cultural differences that lead to different values and priorities.
i am often shocked reading about curfews for minors, and i am sometimes amused seeing people drinking out of brown paperbags in movies. but that's the way it is. while europe is more liberal with alcohol, drugs and sex, the US is with speech and guns.
the restrictions about publishing your opinion here are very limited, and i have faith in our judges.
i enjoyed being allowed beer when i was 16 (in public!), and i still enjoy driving to the netherlands or switzerland to buy the best weed there is à la carte. by no means would i like to live in a country where they can take my house for growing weed on the balcony, where i would have to fear my kid being killed while playing with a friends dads gun, or could be fired every day for no reason at all.
firs of all, i am german, and i am writing this from a german perspective.
having read through the comments, i would like to add a few things.
firs of all, it affects just one state. in germany, each state is responsible for the media by themselves. this includes things like assigning frequencies and so on.
this particular state tries to push the local ISPs (which are not the ones used by the majoraty of the people living there anyway) to block access to those websites. this has been (and will be) opposed by the ISPs, for obvious (technical and constitutional) reasons. one ISIS technician did it, to prove it was possible.
it is uncertain if such a government blocking would be legal.
i agree with all of you saying censorship is bad in general. i also believe it is wrong in this special case.
but there are some things you should take in account, before judjing germany as some repressive country.
those are, of coures, historical reasons. the nazis used media propaganda not only after they gained power, but from the very beginning of their movement, as they had the support of some big publishers. and they used a hole in the constitution of the weimar republic to abandon the constitution alltogether. to prevent this in the future, when the new constitution was made, making it protective had a top priority. protective means that any attempt to fight the constitution is illegal, and certain key paragraphs must not be changed (including the one about censorship being illegal, by the way).
so if you promote a plan to abandon the constitution it is illegal, if a party proposes to abandon the constitution, the party is illegal, and if the party has no democratic structure - guess what.
nazi symbols are illegal, denying the holocaust is illegal, basicly anything pro-nazi is.
contrary to popular believe Mein Kampf is not, but the copyright is claimed by the state of bavaria, so you can't buy it (you can't read it either, i tried it once but didn't make it past the first chapter).
i believe this should be kept up for some 40 more years. imagine you have suffered under the nazis, been arrested by the gestapo or maybe even sent to a concentration camp and you see the same symbols again on someones t-shirt.
but to get to main point: nazi propaganda in germany is illegal. so some people have their sites hosted somewhere else. 90% of german language nazi content is hosted outside of germany. so the idea is to block access to it from within germany. but three question remain:
- is it possible?
- is it legal?
- is it good?
the legal status is unclear, but critical.
the technical possibility is, to say the least, questionable.
the issue iif it is good is just being discussed. i think it's not, a proper educated mind should be able to deal with propaganda, from any side.
i wanted to write something about the different freedoms you have in europe and in the US, but i will do that in another post...
you're right, censorship is illegal in germany.
however, article 1 (one, as in the first and most important of them all) is die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar, which means as much as human dignity is untouchable.
so, you can say what you want against the government, or any of its institutions, but you can't say what you want against people, if it touches their dignity.
needless to say, this is not limited to verbal attacks, but includes anything you or the government might do.
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if i remember correctly, L is basically the brightness, while a and b go from green to red and yellow to blue (i'm not sure about the directions, though).
oh, and such a tool would be useful. not only fr designers, i imagine it could be used for compression as well. maybe he should ask the codec guys, they should know a way to determine if two colors are distinguishable from another.
how many wedding gifts do they expect to sell at thinkgeek?
(now that the update is here...)
hehe, Cmdr and Kathleen Taco!
i wish you all the very best!
anyway, good luck to you Taco, now we all wait for the update...
you scare me.
imagine somebody would have told you five years ago about carnivore, large-scale camera survaillance, them checking what books you buy, what would you have said?
honestly, i'd really like to know.
not available where i live.
aDSL will have to do, darn.
this is addictive...
could you provide us with a link to the shockwave version?
seems to pretty well done...
and it was huge. the pdp-8 was small and cheap (at about the size of a fridge and $10.000).
it had lots of great peripherals, such as the teletype (standart for in/output, but in theory you could interact with 12 switches on the front panel that could set the accumulator directly, and 12 + 1 lights indicating its value), extra ram (magnetic - and expensive) or even a crt.
can't get enough of that...
yeah, i know...
go ahead, give it to me...
there is a post about the birth of Geneva Marie (Wall?) on may 12 1987, listing previous "off the wall software products", among them perl with the age given as "3mo".
however, as perl was publically announced on dec 18, and we don't have any other specific date, we should stick to it.
now, if we would know the date when the first print(hello world!\n); was sent through the perl interpreter, that would be a good date.
scary, huh?
...you could check out this link to cnn it had in the article.
$150 sounds fair. after all, it includes a 40GB HDD.
...which standart they use on the planet you're traveling to.
but you don't have to worry here.
you could uns them with standart telephone cards (of course, as it was from deuthe telekom just as the public phones).
they might well be gone for a while, you oversee them easyly if you got broadband at home...
france has something similar, minitel. is it still in use? would be a shame if all the minitel terminals people in france have at home would become useless.
but maybe someone comes up with a creative way of using them for something cool.
do you really have to spend so much for recording? for some plastic music like britney spears and so on (and who's listening to this anyway?) - ok. but there is a lot of good music out there that doesn't need it. if it would, there couldn't be any good life concerts.
so, according to the figures, 95% of the artists would do fine if they puplished everything on mp3, and made money by touring.
plus they could still make money by airplay.
in the US you can say basically anything you want. you can buy guns freely and drive a car when you're 16.
in germany you generally have the right to promote your opinion publicly, but some restrictions apply. the restrictions are about nazi propaganda and symbols, attempts to abandon the constitution, and anything that hurts anybodies dignity.
someone quoted the sentence Soldaten sind Mörder (soldiers are murderers) before. it came up as bumper stickers and someone sued against it - but it was found constitutional by our supreme court.
you are not allowed to buy or keep guns without a special permission which you can get if you have a reason and proper training.
the reason for the american liberties, as well as certain german restriction are of course historical, but apply until today in peoples minds.
people have different priorities. as well as americans would never accept such restrictions, europeans generally find things like the capital punishment barbaric. also, many criminals getting life in prison in the US would have got medical treatment in europe as they would be considered mentally ill.
this gets me to another issue - things accepted by the public.
europeans are not as easyly offended when they hear swear words on tv, or by nudity.
reading through slashdot i often get the impression that a lot of the users posting here are simply not aware of the cultural differences that lead to different values and priorities.
i am often shocked reading about curfews for minors, and i am sometimes amused seeing people drinking out of brown paperbags in movies. but that's the way it is. while europe is more liberal with alcohol, drugs and sex, the US is with speech and guns.
the restrictions about publishing your opinion here are very limited, and i have faith in our judges.
i enjoyed being allowed beer when i was 16 (in public!), and i still enjoy driving to the netherlands or switzerland to buy the best weed there is à la carte. by no means would i like to live in a country where they can take my house for growing weed on the balcony, where i would have to fear my kid being killed while playing with a friends dads gun, or could be fired every day for no reason at all.
it's a question of mentality.
having read through the comments, i would like to add a few things.
firs of all, it affects just one state. in germany, each state is responsible for the media by themselves. this includes things like assigning frequencies and so on.
this particular state tries to push the local ISPs (which are not the ones used by the majoraty of the people living there anyway) to block access to those websites. this has been (and will be) opposed by the ISPs, for obvious (technical and constitutional) reasons. one ISIS technician did it, to prove it was possible.
it is uncertain if such a government blocking would be legal.
i agree with all of you saying censorship is bad in general. i also believe it is wrong in this special case.
but there are some things you should take in account, before judjing germany as some repressive country.
those are, of coures, historical reasons. the nazis used media propaganda not only after they gained power, but from the very beginning of their movement, as they had the support of some big publishers. and they used a hole in the constitution of the weimar republic to abandon the constitution alltogether. to prevent this in the future, when the new constitution was made, making it protective had a top priority. protective means that any attempt to fight the constitution is illegal, and certain key paragraphs must not be changed (including the one about censorship being illegal, by the way).
so if you promote a plan to abandon the constitution it is illegal, if a party proposes to abandon the constitution, the party is illegal, and if the party has no democratic structure - guess what.
nazi symbols are illegal, denying the holocaust is illegal, basicly anything pro-nazi is.
contrary to popular believe Mein Kampf is not, but the copyright is claimed by the state of bavaria, so you can't buy it (you can't read it either, i tried it once but didn't make it past the first chapter).
i believe this should be kept up for some 40 more years. imagine you have suffered under the nazis, been arrested by the gestapo or maybe even sent to a concentration camp and you see the same symbols again on someones t-shirt.
but to get to main point: nazi propaganda in germany is illegal. so some people have their sites hosted somewhere else. 90% of german language nazi content is hosted outside of germany. so the idea is to block access to it from within germany. but three question remain:
- is it possible?
- is it legal?
- is it good?
the legal status is unclear, but critical.
the technical possibility is, to say the least, questionable.
the issue iif it is good is just being discussed. i think it's not, a proper educated mind should be able to deal with propaganda, from any side.
i wanted to write something about the different freedoms you have in europe and in the US, but i will do that in another post...
however, article 1 (one, as in the first and most important of them all) is die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar, which means as much as human dignity is untouchable.
so, you can say what you want against the government, or any of its institutions, but you can't say what you want against people, if it touches their dignity.
needless to say, this is not limited to verbal attacks, but includes anything you or the government might do.