Except my boss think that Windows is good for developers because Microsoft says so. Developers may be a smaller target but they are a target nonetheless
A big part of my former job was to make our AR tools work at 60 Hz instead of 30 Hz (Well 59.94 Hz and 29.97 Hz, these values have driven me crazy). You can definitely tell the difference at first look, we did it routinely up to the point that it is now blindingly obvious. A correctly displayed HD video at 60 Hz with a monitor synchronized at the same frequency is incredibly smoother.
The most evident effect is the presence of persistence of vision : at 30 fps, objects can almost not move faster than the eye can perceive, therefore you can perceive successive positions of an object in a sharp way. At 60 fps, it can be too fast and successive sharp images of an object will be perceived as having a motion blur. I think that using this effect and with a little training, one could differentiate between even higher framerates. People I know that tried 100 or 120 Hz monitors told me that the comfort was also very appreciable.
I think it is almost 10 years since I first read about it. At first I was very enthusiastic but now I am bored of the stories that talk about these towers at the future tense...
"Which is more than what you were supposed to received by volunteering your time."
A T-shirt is surely a laughable salary, unless you look at it from two other possible point of views :
- This is getting better. It was zero a few days ago. Going from zero to something is encouraging.
- This is not a t-shirt, this is a business card and a huge point on your CV. Wearing such a t-shirt at a convention or on a job interview (no, suits are not always mandatory) says "I was recognized for my skill in the Ubuntu project" and that, is worth quite a lot. But this is reputation money, not cash. Some people, however, long for this.
I am sorry to sound hippy, but that is in fact a credible geo-strategical advice. Peace in troubled regions and understanding between people would make:
- recruitment of terrorists a lot harder
- working with local authorities to get the terrorists a lot more accepted by local populations
- training camps a lot harder to hide.
On the other hand, if you do get arrested with explosives or drugs in an airport, you can pretend it was planted by some crazy antiterrorist squad.
Funny, I have just read a theory stating that while terrorism is not a coherent movement or faction, anti-terrorism is and that the creation of terrorism is one of its essential activities. Well, I can only make the parallel with that...
In the meantime, no scientific and credible study have proven that there doesn't exist a critical mass of lawyer density in a given human population that irreversibly fuck it up. There are even quite a few proponent of this theory. Before getting into legalities, I suggest we do experiments to determine that. Preferably by compressing a huge number of lawyers until they reach critical mass.
Or better yet : host it at your own house. Obviously the poster has enough skills to administer a NIX box. Put it at your home with a decent DSL connection and let it run. Access to the hardware is hard to beat. Even if the data are ciphered, you won't manage to deny access to the OS from the provider.
You my label me psycho for saying this, but I think that it is difficult to get serious brain damage by putting a needle in the wrong place. Unless you cut a big vein on the surface, I think that playing spiky-touchy with the brain itself isn't that much of a problem.
Some of these books, I have been trying to find for two years. ('La société informationelle' by Henri Laborit) with no luck. If someone who had a copy was to digitize it, he would be infringing copyrights (of a dead author, by a disappeared editor on a bood that is not published anymore)
I have a few old, good, not published anymore, books that I keep but I doubt I'll still be alive when their copyrights end.
Freedom is a completely judicial and philosophical concept. If enough people believe in this "hoax", if enough judges, lawyers, police officers, even a few non-corrupted-to-the-core politicians believe in it, it becomes something that has a weight.
... is not to keep commercial rights on these known books that we will still be able to buy by 2020. It is the millions of books that did not achieve enough popularity to still be easy to find. Not edited anymore but forbidden to save for posterity. Really, copyright is nothing to respect anymore.
And that all the law they proclaim are only effective inside Vatican... So fae as I'm concerned they may even say computers are verbotten from now, I couldn't care less.
I don't know why but it has been free in France for years. I never got bothered when going there to just get connection. I suppose I may be during rush hours but I have never seen more than 2 or 3 people with laptops at the same time anyway so I guess the issue is not that big. And the smell of food often makes you buy something anyway. I don't think they lose anything.
Well, I think this is a short term vision. What rich countries need to stay rich is not IP, it is the power to create new and innovative IP. Likewise, a country owning factories is richer than a country owning final goods. IP laws are good for the capitalization of IPs and bad for the creation of IPs. Walt Disney makes more profits from every year's movie they are making than from Donald Duck or Snow White. But protecting those 50+ years old IPs prevent them from being used as raw material for new ones. I honestly believe that even if rich countries were going to be egoistical, they should shorten copyright durations.
Also I am from EU and this move surprises me. EU has been somehow resistant to US-imported copyright lobbyists. The fact that they are the ones weighting in on these issues is disturbing to say the least. I hope our MPs will protest.
It took the whole DeCSS mess to make that possible. There was a time interval during which, using VLC to read DVD or developping such an application was downright illegal.
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In the meantime, enjoy the hilarous sound that two stupid laws make when they collide.
And some countries including mine (still) believe that there is such thing as a world culture heritage and that it belongs to every human.
Except my boss think that Windows is good for developers because Microsoft says so. Developers may be a smaller target but they are a target nonetheless
ISO OOXML debacle. Same scenario. Expect the bad guys to win.
A big part of my former job was to make our AR tools work at 60 Hz instead of 30 Hz (Well 59.94 Hz and 29.97 Hz, these values have driven me crazy). You can definitely tell the difference at first look, we did it routinely up to the point that it is now blindingly obvious. A correctly displayed HD video at 60 Hz with a monitor synchronized at the same frequency is incredibly smoother.
The most evident effect is the presence of persistence of vision : at 30 fps, objects can almost not move faster than the eye can perceive, therefore you can perceive successive positions of an object in a sharp way. At 60 fps, it can be too fast and successive sharp images of an object will be perceived as having a motion blur. I think that using this effect and with a little training, one could differentiate between even higher framerates. People I know that tried 100 or 120 Hz monitors told me that the comfort was also very appreciable.
I think it is almost 10 years since I first read about it. At first I was very enthusiastic but now I am bored of the stories that talk about these towers at the future tense...
"Which is more than what you were supposed to received by volunteering your time."
A T-shirt is surely a laughable salary, unless you look at it from two other possible point of views :
- This is getting better. It was zero a few days ago. Going from zero to something is encouraging.
- This is not a t-shirt, this is a business card and a huge point on your CV. Wearing such a t-shirt at a convention or on a job interview (no, suits are not always mandatory) says "I was recognized for my skill in the Ubuntu project" and that, is worth quite a lot. But this is reputation money, not cash. Some people, however, long for this.
...is peace and love.
:
I am sorry to sound hippy, but that is in fact a credible geo-strategical advice. Peace in troubled regions and understanding between people would make
- recruitment of terrorists a lot harder
- working with local authorities to get the terrorists a lot more accepted by local populations
- training camps a lot harder to hide.
On the other hand, if you do get arrested with explosives or drugs in an airport, you can pretend it was planted by some crazy antiterrorist squad.
Funny, I have just read a theory stating that while terrorism is not a coherent movement or faction, anti-terrorism is and that the creation of terrorism is one of its essential activities. Well, I can only make the parallel with that...
In the meantime, no scientific and credible study have proven that there doesn't exist a critical mass of lawyer density in a given human population that irreversibly fuck it up. There are even quite a few proponent of this theory. Before getting into legalities, I suggest we do experiments to determine that. Preferably by compressing a huge number of lawyers until they reach critical mass.
No person in their right mind would do such a thing.
That's why all heroes are completely nuts
When "nice" hackers have done it. It is very plausible that criminals with good finance and potential huge gains did it before.
Or better yet : host it at your own house. Obviously the poster has enough skills to administer a NIX box. Put it at your home with a decent DSL connection and let it run. Access to the hardware is hard to beat. Even if the data are ciphered, you won't manage to deny access to the OS from the provider.
You my label me psycho for saying this, but I think that it is difficult to get serious brain damage by putting a needle in the wrong place. Unless you cut a big vein on the surface, I think that playing spiky-touchy with the brain itself isn't that much of a problem.
Hail for the cyberbrain !
[quote]Am i missing something?[/quote] You are proposing to put rules that make sense in the patent process. There is a rule against that.
Some of these books, I have been trying to find for two years. ('La société informationelle' by Henri Laborit) with no luck. If someone who had a copy was to digitize it, he would be infringing copyrights (of a dead author, by a disappeared editor on a bood that is not published anymore)
I have a few old, good, not published anymore, books that I keep but I doubt I'll still be alive when their copyrights end.
Freedom is a completely judicial and philosophical concept. If enough people believe in this "hoax", if enough judges, lawyers, police officers, even a few non-corrupted-to-the-core politicians believe in it, it becomes something that has a weight.
... is not to keep commercial rights on these known books that we will still be able to buy by 2020. It is the millions of books that did not achieve enough popularity to still be easy to find. Not edited anymore but forbidden to save for posterity. Really, copyright is nothing to respect anymore.
Maybe it is a bad moment to mention all the fan-fiction I wrote while in denial ?
Maaan... I thought we were going to put bombs somewhere at some point... :-/
And that all the law they proclaim are only effective inside Vatican... So fae as I'm concerned they may even say computers are verbotten from now, I couldn't care less.
I don't know why but it has been free in France for years. I never got bothered when going there to just get connection. I suppose I may be during rush hours but I have never seen more than 2 or 3 people with laptops at the same time anyway so I guess the issue is not that big. And the smell of food often makes you buy something anyway. I don't think they lose anything.
Well, I think this is a short term vision. What rich countries need to stay rich is not IP, it is the power to create new and innovative IP. Likewise, a country owning factories is richer than a country owning final goods. IP laws are good for the capitalization of IPs and bad for the creation of IPs. Walt Disney makes more profits from every year's movie they are making than from Donald Duck or Snow White. But protecting those 50+ years old IPs prevent them from being used as raw material for new ones. I honestly believe that even if rich countries were going to be egoistical, they should shorten copyright durations.
Also I am from EU and this move surprises me. EU has been somehow resistant to US-imported copyright lobbyists. The fact that they are the ones weighting in on these issues is disturbing to say the least. I hope our MPs will protest.
It took the whole DeCSS mess to make that possible. There was a time interval during which, using VLC to read DVD or developping such an application was downright illegal.