The site's very/.'ed, but I believe what's done is similar to a technology used by security firms and the military. Essentially, when you take a picture of a given object/scene, the "true" resolution (comprised of each individual photon bouncing off the objects and striking the lense) is always downsampled, to varying degrees, depending on the resolution of the camera. However, if a camera is moving, while each individual frame will be of equal resolution, the particular data that each is storing will contain differnt information about the object/scene. If, for example, the camera is pointed at a grayscale gradient that's so small it only occupies one pixel, that pixel might appear white, black, or somewhere in between depending on the exact orientation of the camera, and in a regular video would probably look like some indistinct blur between these colors. With analysis, the changes can be examined and used to create an image that accurately portrays the gradient.
Traditionally, this has only been done with motionless cameras, it sounds like what this professor has done is to extend these capabilities to moving and zooming video, which is extremely cool (and I really want to check out his site, so everyone else stop going there:).
fuck off, i guess i should have known better than to respond, in any way, to an anonymous coward, it's latin-based word, and that's how it might be pluralized in latin. and "viruses" sounds almost as stupid as you do....
I'm consistantly amazed at how harshly software "pirates" are treated and condemned. Despite the wild allegations of software groups that these file-sharers cost the industry billions of dollars, their figures usually rely on the clearly misguided assumption that, were it not for the availability of free copies of these programs, the people that download them would purchase them legally. In all my experience, the people that download software like this for the most part do so for purposes that would never warrent legitimate purchase. In the past, I (err, I mean a friend) has downloaded numerous 3D software packages each costing $1000's. I'm not a professional 3D graphic designer, and there's no way I would ever pay that much for a hobby. I believe that most professionals and companies do purchase their software legitimately, and the free distribution of much of this expensive software does not effect their purchasing decisions. In many cases, illegal copying increases the profits of many products, as people that download the software for free at home will be more likely to encourage its use at the office. I recall an example where it appeared that MS was deliberately allowing rampant unauthorized distribution of Windows in many parts of Europe where computers were still far from ubiquitous in an effort to establish Windows as a standard. I am appaled that armed raids and significant jailtime are used so freely against copiers whose crimes, I believe, minimally effect a significantly profitable industry, while real white-collar criminals, like Enron and Worldcom executives whose crimes financially devastate thousands and whose intentions were pure greed, often suffer far less harsh penalties, and are seldom, if ever, sent to jail.
I disagree with your first point. Although some areas of commercial science may be increasingly cutthroat, in the academic- and philanthropic-funded world of research, sharing has increased tremendously because science _is_ too "big", or rather too tremendously detailed and complicated. There's no way that any one group could collect all the data needed, even in very specific areas; only by partitioning the work can the researchers hope to make significant discoveries.
Or, alternatively, rip the DVD to a hard drive using one of the many programs out there (smart ripper, claddvd, etc.). Each takes 7gb of space, which is about $7 at current IDE drive price levels, and everything is perfectly preserved (menus, surround sound, EVERYTHING). The bottom line is, now that people have the technology to circumvent the ridiculous price inflation, we won't put up with it any more. The music/movie industries need realize this, embrace the technologies as new markets, and accept the fact that most people will never again pay such absurd prices.
The legal claim of the suit is that Gator software "alters the display of the Web site, which constitutes copyright infringement", the article also mentions that "The publishers charge that Gator takes advantage of this confusion and offers to sell ads that appear when Gator users visit specific Web sites." I believe this means that the legal basis of the suit is that Gator specifically takes advantage of the user's confusion to associate its advertising with the relevant site, which I believe may be considered illegal in that the users are not fully aware of what's happening, and where the content is coming from. If two ads pop up when a user visits washingtonpost.com, one a "legitimate" ad for a company/product that the washington post is essentially endorsing, and one from some other vendor that Gator supplies, they have no way of knowing which came from who, and the suit contends that this is the specific goal of Gator's software. I don't think there's need for concern about legal implications for Mozilla other software, as the features in question must be specifically enabled by the user, and it seems that the lack of user choice/information is what consititutes the illegality here. And suits like these might be the only thing that can effectively curb the mass-misdirection that is spyware, since users appear to be far too technically and legally ignorant to be aware of the issue.
According to their statement, Buckeye should stand the bandwidth usage, or condone it - "The use of excessive bandwidth is something that Buckeye does not condone or will not stand."
Since they called in the FBI, they clearly aren't standing for that kind of thing. So I guess what they're really trying to say is that they condone cable modem uncapping?
It seems like about once a week there's a new story about how "researchers at [insert pretty much any company name here] have determined a way to fit [insert some ungodly large number here] bytes of data into an even smaller space". I think I've been seeing stories like this for long enough at this point that some of the early ones should have become real products by now. What gives? We're still using essentially the same format (albeit with increased areal density), and very few of these products seem to actually materialize. I'll get excited when I can find it on pricewatch.
At least one other MP3 player does this, and has been doing this since it came out (and we all heard about it through the/. story) - the Nexx II, www.frontierlabs.com . Plugs into your USB and gets picked up as a standard removable drive, w/o the need for any extra software/drivers/hot pants.
But linking to a specific page (even a "wink wink" page) is different than what happened here. In this case, the site named in the suit linked to an indexing page, which linked to another index, which linked to one of the objectionable articles. Assuming each "index" page conisted of a fair number of links, then neither had "identical intent as with a direct link."
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I think one of the major obstacles for advancement and development in Ghana, and similar countries, is the suppresion of free trade. In a free market, one would assume that if any given company (phone service, power service, isp, etc.) is failing to provide its customers with a reasonable service, the customers will take their business elsewhere. The article mentions "the country's national phone company", indicating that it has a controlled monopoly. IMHO, it is the creation of a dynamic and free market that is most important to long term and widespread technological and economic prosperity. Of course, the same kind of thing exists in many places in the US, the company we got cable tv from had poor signal quality, atrocious customer support, and high rates. Once the service was deregulated and other companies sprang up, we switched to one of them, and now pay 30% for more channels, better quality, and superb customer support.
Yes, it is. Several people I know live on the boulder, and they don't take kindly to being hit by 120m grains of sand. You could put out an eye with that thing.
Very cool story, but the media hype is, as always, excessive. According to the scientists in charge, it probably wasn't trying to escape but rather was "hallucinating" that random light (sunbeams) was prey, and tried to follow it out. Oh, and it stopped running away when the mixed sun/shade pattern of sunlight through a tree confused it. Very cool, but I wouldn't consider it "frightening" in the way some media sources have been labeling it.
Considering the extremely low.com success rate and the current terrible advertising market, what do you think has set Google so apart from the many failing, similar businesses? Do you see your business model as having endured what may have been the most difficult economic environment, or do you see larger challenges in the future?
And, of course, I'd like to say I love google dearly and would like to pursue a physical relationship in the future.
I wonder how may CMU students/. gets. What dorm are you talking about? I'm in Mudge....
And BTW, props to our servers for being completely NOT slashdotted.
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The site's very /.'ed, but I believe what's done is similar to a technology used by security firms and the military. Essentially, when you take a picture of a given object/scene, the "true" resolution (comprised of each individual photon bouncing off the objects and striking the lense) is always downsampled, to varying degrees, depending on the resolution of the camera. However, if a camera is moving, while each individual frame will be of equal resolution, the particular data that each is storing will contain differnt information about the object/scene. If, for example, the camera is pointed at a grayscale gradient that's so small it only occupies one pixel, that pixel might appear white, black, or somewhere in between depending on the exact orientation of the camera, and in a regular video would probably look like some indistinct blur between these colors. With analysis, the changes can be examined and used to create an image that accurately portrays the gradient.
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Traditionally, this has only been done with motionless cameras, it sounds like what this professor has done is to extend these capabilities to moving and zooming video, which is extremely cool (and I really want to check out his site, so everyone else stop going there
fuck off, i guess i should have known better than to respond, in any way, to an anonymous coward, it's latin-based word, and that's how it might be pluralized in latin.
and "viruses" sounds almost as stupid as you do....
Fuck you, I don't _look_ pretentious, it's the real deal.
Wow, I pretty pissed when McAfee started publishing fake virii like the JPEG thing, but this time they've clearly gone too far....
Of course, if you aren't using MS DNA, you should be fine. Just another example of the benefits of Homo *NIX.
I'm consistantly amazed at how harshly software "pirates" are treated and condemned. Despite the wild allegations of software groups that these file-sharers cost the industry billions of dollars, their figures usually rely on the clearly misguided assumption that, were it not for the availability of free copies of these programs, the people that download them would purchase them legally. In all my experience, the people that download software like this for the most part do so for purposes that would never warrent legitimate purchase. In the past, I (err, I mean a friend) has downloaded numerous 3D software packages each costing $1000's. I'm not a professional 3D graphic designer, and there's no way I would ever pay that much for a hobby. I believe that most professionals and companies do purchase their software legitimately, and the free distribution of much of this expensive software does not effect their purchasing decisions. In many cases, illegal copying increases the profits of many products, as people that download the software for free at home will be more likely to encourage its use at the office. I recall an example where it appeared that MS was deliberately allowing rampant unauthorized distribution of Windows in many parts of Europe where computers were still far from ubiquitous in an effort to establish Windows as a standard. I am appaled that armed raids and significant jailtime are used so freely against copiers whose crimes, I believe, minimally effect a significantly profitable industry, while real white-collar criminals, like Enron and Worldcom executives whose crimes financially devastate thousands and whose intentions were pure greed, often suffer far less harsh penalties, and are seldom, if ever, sent to jail.
I disagree with your first point. Although some areas of commercial science may be increasingly cutthroat, in the academic- and philanthropic-funded world of research, sharing has increased tremendously because science _is_ too "big", or rather too tremendously detailed and complicated. There's no way that any one group could collect all the data needed, even in very specific areas; only by partitioning the work can the researchers hope to make significant discoveries.
the pic itself is a little hard to find, you can see this less-excitingly-dangerous-looking-than-blurb-leads -you-too-believe fish here.
Or, alternatively, rip the DVD to a hard drive using one of the many programs out there (smart ripper, claddvd, etc.). Each takes 7gb of space, which is about $7 at current IDE drive price levels, and everything is perfectly preserved (menus, surround sound, EVERYTHING). The bottom line is, now that people have the technology to circumvent the ridiculous price inflation, we won't put up with it any more. The music/movie industries need realize this, embrace the technologies as new markets, and accept the fact that most people will never again pay such absurd prices.
The legal claim of the suit is that Gator software "alters the display of the Web site, which constitutes copyright infringement", the article also mentions that "The publishers charge that Gator takes advantage of this confusion and offers to sell ads that appear when Gator users visit specific Web sites." I believe this means that the legal basis of the suit is that Gator specifically takes advantage of the user's confusion to associate its advertising with the relevant site, which I believe may be considered illegal in that the users are not fully aware of what's happening, and where the content is coming from. If two ads pop up when a user visits washingtonpost.com, one a "legitimate" ad for a company/product that the washington post is essentially endorsing, and one from some other vendor that Gator supplies, they have no way of knowing which came from who, and the suit contends that this is the specific goal of Gator's software. I don't think there's need for concern about legal implications for Mozilla other software, as the features in question must be specifically enabled by the user, and it seems that the lack of user choice/information is what consititutes the illegality here. And suits like these might be the only thing that can effectively curb the mass-misdirection that is spyware, since users appear to be far too technically and legally ignorant to be aware of the issue.
According to their statement, Buckeye should stand the bandwidth usage, or condone it - "The use of excessive bandwidth is something that Buckeye does not condone or will not stand."
Since they called in the FBI, they clearly aren't standing for that kind of thing. So I guess what they're really trying to say is that they condone cable modem uncapping?
It seems like about once a week there's a new story about how "researchers at [insert pretty much any company name here] have determined a way to fit [insert some ungodly large number here] bytes of data into an even smaller space". I think I've been seeing stories like this for long enough at this point that some of the early ones should have become real products by now. What gives? We're still using essentially the same format (albeit with increased areal density), and very few of these products seem to actually materialize. I'll get excited when I can find it on pricewatch.
At least one other MP3 player does this, and has been doing this since it came out (and we all heard about it through the /. story) - the Nexx II, www.frontierlabs.com . Plugs into your USB and gets picked up as a standard removable drive, w/o the need for any extra software/drivers/hot pants.
Clearly not true. Haven't the writers seen talk-show hosts?
But linking to a specific page (even a "wink wink" page) is different than what happened here. In this case, the site named in the suit linked to an indexing page, which linked to another index, which linked to one of the objectionable articles. Assuming each "index" page conisted of a fair number of links, then neither had "identical intent as with a direct link."
I think one of the major obstacles for advancement and development in Ghana, and similar countries, is the suppresion of free trade. In a free market, one would assume that if any given company (phone service, power service, isp, etc.) is failing to provide its customers with a reasonable service, the customers will take their business elsewhere. The article mentions "the country's national phone company", indicating that it has a controlled monopoly. IMHO, it is the creation of a dynamic and free market that is most important to long term and widespread technological and economic prosperity. Of course, the same kind of thing exists in many places in the US, the company we got cable tv from had poor signal quality, atrocious customer support, and high rates. Once the service was deregulated and other companies sprang up, we switched to one of them, and now pay 30% for more channels, better quality, and superb customer support.
Yes, it is. Several people I know live on the boulder, and they don't take kindly to being hit by 120m grains of sand. You could put out an eye with that thing.
Very cool story, but the media hype is, as always, excessive. According to the scientists in charge, it probably wasn't trying to escape but rather was "hallucinating" that random light (sunbeams) was prey, and tried to follow it out. Oh, and it stopped running away when the mixed sun/shade pattern of sunlight through a tree confused it.
Very cool, but I wouldn't consider it "frightening" in the way some media sources have been labeling it.
Considering the extremely low .com success rate and the current terrible advertising market, what do you think has set Google so apart from the many failing, similar businesses? Do you see your business model as having endured what may have been the most difficult economic environment, or do you see larger challenges in the future?
And, of course, I'd like to say I love google dearly and would like to pursue a physical relationship in the future.
I wonder how may CMU students /. gets. What dorm are you talking about? I'm in Mudge....
And BTW, props to our servers for being completely NOT slashdotted.