...1 Terabyte disk space seems a little rediculous
Wandering the aisles of your local neighborhood Fry's, you'll notice the average size hard drive stocked by the palette full is about 120GB; two years ago we buying 20GB drives.
I think most certainly that in 2006 we'll be seeing off-the-shelf systems in retail outlets with a single 1TB drive. You think that Seagate, Maxtor, et. al. don't already have 1GB drives working their way through the development pipeline?
Will the average user need that much space? Probably not, at first. Once we're able to make drives of that size, however, smaller drives will disappear. I've got a few linux servers that barely use 1GB of disk space, but I wind up using 20-40GB drives because that's whats available. If I manage to find a 2GB drive somewhere, it won't be much cheaper than the 20GB one.
Let's see a show of hands, everyone. Don't be afraid to admit it. How many of you wrote your very first program in Basic?
Mine was in the early 70's, on a ASR-33 Teletype in my high school math class that was connected via dial-up connection to some mainframe at Penn State.
Ten characters per second on a roll of paper. with a spiffy paper-tape punch hanging on the side.
All art, with the exception of that which contains valuable ingredients (gold jewelry, etc.), is essentially trash of no value.
The Mona Lisa is just a plank of wood with paint slathered on it. Rembrant's sculptures are just chunks of rock; hell I can get those for free.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not art. If a musuem paid a million dollars for something shiny, and it's the only one of its kind, then that's exactly what it's worth.
Why is it, therefore, here at/. there is such open hatred for Judeo-Christian beliefs when just about anything else goes? If this were an Egyptian dig, no one here would denigrate it.
That's just the point. This is *not* a dig. Archaeologists dig up a bunch of stuff; then try to explain how & why they got there. Cranks & fundamentalist nut-cases start out with their version of history, then search for evidence to support it while ignoring any evidence that shows their view to be incorrect.
Why the hatred, then, for what has been shown time and time again to be the most accurate and most studied ancient historical text in the world?
Most studied? I doubt it. Most accurate? Riiiightt....
I just changed all my passwords to 'passwordsafe'. They seem to work just as well as all those hard-to-remember passwords I had before.
That is what you meant, isn't it?
This is perhaps one of the most amazing devices I have read about recently
And for this you got +5 Informative??
Are there actually that many people on/. that would for even one moment believe that this device actually does what the "inventor" claims.
There have been hundreds of these bogus devices trotted out in the past. They never quite seem to work, but the inventor always promises that it just needs a little more tweaking, once he gets enough investors lined up. Not one has ever accomplished anything beyond emptying the wallets of the suckers that invest in these scams.
Minato doesn't sound like he's just made a measurement error, he sounds like a fraud. The fact that he fooled the reporter doesn't make his invention any more real.
I still haven't figured out what the big deal about "tracking people's purchases" is all about. I really haven't looked into this much, but I understand that the things can't be read from more than 5 feet away.
That's all well and good if the product never leaves your house. What happens when RFID tags are inserted in your shoes, clothing, credit cards, keychain, automobile.....
Anytime you pass within 5 feet of a scanner, which you eventually will, your identity will be known. All they need is one item on your person that can be traced to you. Once RFID starts showing up on paper money, they'll also know the serial numbers of every bill in your wallet. If you buy something later with that cash, that transaction can then also be traced back to you.
All those numbers picked up by the RFID scanner will not simply dissappear when you continue walking down the street. It will go into some database, whether you like it not. Any "opt-out" policies will be about as effective as opting out of spam is now. When you buy something in a store, there will be a small sign behind the register that says something like "by purchasing items at this store, the customer agrees to allow personal information to be scanned at any time, with no notice." Nearly every store will adopt this, just like nearly every grocery store has those "give up your privacy or we'll charge you twice the going price for that loaf of bread" club cards, so anyone claiming that you can just take your money elsewhere is full of it.
The companies that capture and save your private information aren't about to give it back to you, but they'll turn it over to any lawyer or government agency without a second thought, again without notifying you. Any part of it can and will be used against you in divorce proceedings, employer/employee disagreements, civil or criminal court cases, etc.
Still think it's not a big deal?
Do you only buy computers that have no fans in them whatsoever? After all, adding fans just encourages manufacturers to make hotter and noisier systems. And let's not forget about heat sinks. Any manufacturer that needs to use heat sinks is just being lazy.
If they had chosen to replace rather than repair, they would be out more then just $800 dollars for the new computer. Since the Judge family needs outside assistance to fix a computer, they would most likely needs outside help to reinstall all their original applications, transfer all their important files to the new machine (without also copying the viruses), etc.
$300 to repair -vs- ($800 + $300) to replace? I think they made the right choice.
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I guess that makes pretty much everyone in the current administration a terrorist.
F-Secure has a pdf file that shows the structure of the virus payload. The image looks like it's the output of some disassembler or debugger, but I haven't run across one that puts everything in nifty map like that. Does anyone here know what was used to create that pdf file?
I work for a company that, among others things, creates visual effects for television. Sometime last year the visual effects department was paid a friendly visit by a representative of the NSA. Seems that the NSA was looking into the possibility of creating an automated process for distinguishing between digital images that were faked using something like Photoshop, and those that were unmodified. They probably figured that Hollywood would be the best place to ask since it's filled with people who are paid to make fake images look real. Maybe they were thinking there might be some set of weighted rules that could be used to guess the probability of an image being genuine.
"The lighting angles are consistant, and the edges of mattes look OK, but it's an image of Brittney Spears' head on a naked midget's body, so it's probably fake."
In any case, I heard the artists didn't have a whole lot of sympathy for Colonal Flagg, as they made wisecracks about Area 51 while he insisted that this was all vitally important to the security of the USA.
The general attitude here seemed to be that if an image is realistic enough to pass even a quick glance by anyone with two eyes, that no software is going to do any better.
Have you ever noticed that your eyes can be drawn to a screen, particularly one that has moving images on it?
I don't have any video displays in my car, but spending as much time as I do crawling along the Los Angeles freeways, I see an awful lot of minivans & SUVs with TV's mounted behind the front seats to keep the kiddies amused. And yes, I find myself concentrating on what's happening on the display in that car in front of me, wondering if I've seen that episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Every time you see stair-step artifacts, improper telecine, mis-matched black levels, banding in gradients, or black rectangles in screenshots of media players, you can thank interlacing and Y'CbCr color space.
Huh? Those are all problems, but not one of them is generally caused by the use of interlace or component Y'CrCb video.
Those bands you see in gradiated backgrounds are caused by not enough bits per sample, rather than by not enough samples per image.
By improper telecine I'm assuming you mean 3:2 problems. 3:2 pulldown is necessary because Thomas Edison decided to shoot all film at 24fps, while early TV manufacturers decided to go with 30fps since the power supply ripple was so bad back then. Dealing with those two sample rates would really have been a bitch back in the 1950's if we didn't have interlace. Eventually we'll have all television in 72fps progressive, or some similar flavor, and interlace will no longer be necessary, but in spite of what the FCC says I don't see it happening in this decade.
I've been in the TV postproduction business for the last umpteen years, and here it's a given that Charles Poynton knows more than you & I when it comes to video & color.
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To fight these fights on any practical level, they've just got to have the ol' cashish. Have you contributed?
Being originally a hardware geek, these are my favorites:
- Remove the top row of keys from victims keyboard (the numbers & punctuation marks), then put them back on, shifted once to the right. The average user doesn't really remember, without looking, whether the = key is on the right or left.
- Improvise a VGA dongle, or take apart the VGA plug from victims monitor. Swap the R,G & B wires. Play around with Windows color preferences until desktop background, etc., are back to their original colors. White & black will be unchanged, but colors will all show up as something different.
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Wandering the aisles of your local neighborhood Fry's, you'll notice the average size hard drive stocked by the palette full is about 120GB; two years ago we buying 20GB drives.
I think most certainly that in 2006 we'll be seeing off-the-shelf systems in retail outlets with a single 1TB drive. You think that Seagate, Maxtor, et. al. don't already have 1GB drives working their way through the development pipeline?
Will the average user need that much space? Probably not, at first. Once we're able to make drives of that size, however, smaller drives will disappear. I've got a few linux servers that barely use 1GB of disk space, but I wind up using 20-40GB drives because that's whats available. If I manage to find a 2GB drive somewhere, it won't be much cheaper than the 20GB one.
They clearly had to put an end to that practice once they reached their first 10,000 machines or so. Have you looked at the price of Legos lately?
This one , by Rembrandt Bugatti himself.
Mine was in the early 70's, on a ASR-33 Teletype in my high school math class that was connected via dial-up connection to some mainframe at Penn State.
Ten characters per second on a roll of paper. with a spiffy paper-tape punch hanging on the side.
The Mona Lisa is just a plank of wood with paint slathered on it. Rembrant's sculptures are just chunks of rock; hell I can get those for free.
Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not art. If a musuem paid a million dollars for something shiny, and it's the only one of its kind, then that's exactly what it's worth.
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That's just the point. This is *not* a dig. Archaeologists dig up a bunch of stuff; then try to explain how & why they got there. Cranks & fundamentalist nut-cases start out with their version of history, then search for evidence to support it while ignoring any evidence that shows their view to be incorrect.
Why the hatred, then, for what has been shown time and time again to be the most accurate and most studied ancient historical text in the world?
Most studied? I doubt it. Most accurate? Riiiightt....
The word is benchmark.
I just changed all my passwords to 'passwordsafe'. They seem to work just as well as all those hard-to-remember passwords I had before. That is what you meant, isn't it?
And for this you got +5 Informative?? Are there actually that many people on /. that would for even one moment believe that this device actually does what the "inventor" claims.
There have been hundreds of these bogus devices trotted out in the past. They never quite seem to work, but the inventor always promises that it just needs a little more tweaking, once he gets enough investors lined up. Not one has ever accomplished anything beyond emptying the wallets of the suckers that invest in these scams.
Minato doesn't sound like he's just made a measurement error, he sounds like a fraud. The fact that he fooled the reporter doesn't make his invention any more real.
That's all well and good if the product never leaves your house. What happens when RFID tags are inserted in your shoes, clothing, credit cards, keychain, automobile..... Anytime you pass within 5 feet of a scanner, which you eventually will, your identity will be known. All they need is one item on your person that can be traced to you. Once RFID starts showing up on paper money, they'll also know the serial numbers of every bill in your wallet. If you buy something later with that cash, that transaction can then also be traced back to you.
All those numbers picked up by the RFID scanner will not simply dissappear when you continue walking down the street. It will go into some database, whether you like it not. Any "opt-out" policies will be about as effective as opting out of spam is now. When you buy something in a store, there will be a small sign behind the register that says something like "by purchasing items at this store, the customer agrees to allow personal information to be scanned at any time, with no notice." Nearly every store will adopt this, just like nearly every grocery store has those "give up your privacy or we'll charge you twice the going price for that loaf of bread" club cards, so anyone claiming that you can just take your money elsewhere is full of it.
The companies that capture and save your private information aren't about to give it back to you, but they'll turn it over to any lawyer or government agency without a second thought, again without notifying you. Any part of it can and will be used against you in divorce proceedings, employer/employee disagreements, civil or criminal court cases, etc.
Still think it's not a big deal?
Do you only buy computers that have no fans in them whatsoever? After all, adding fans just encourages manufacturers to make hotter and noisier systems. And let's not forget about heat sinks. Any manufacturer that needs to use heat sinks is just being lazy.
If they had chosen to replace rather than repair, they would be out more then just $800 dollars for the new computer. Since the Judge family needs outside assistance to fix a computer, they would most likely needs outside help to reinstall all their original applications, transfer all their important files to the new machine (without also copying the viruses), etc. $300 to repair -vs- ($800 + $300) to replace? I think they made the right choice.
I guess that makes pretty much everyone in the current administration a terrorist.
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You're not the first. Here's a recent post of mine about the government's interest in something similar.
F-Secure has a pdf file that shows the structure of the virus payload. The image looks like it's the output of some disassembler or debugger, but I haven't run across one that puts everything in nifty map like that. Does anyone here know what was used to create that pdf file?
I work for a company that, among others things, creates visual effects for television. Sometime last year the visual effects department was paid a friendly visit by a representative of the NSA. Seems that the NSA was looking into the possibility of creating an automated process for distinguishing between digital images that were faked using something like Photoshop, and those that were unmodified. They probably figured that Hollywood would be the best place to ask since it's filled with people who are paid to make fake images look real. Maybe they were thinking there might be some set of weighted rules that could be used to guess the probability of an image being genuine.
"The lighting angles are consistant, and the edges of mattes look OK, but it's an image of Brittney Spears' head on a naked midget's body, so it's probably fake."
In any case, I heard the artists didn't have a whole lot of sympathy for Colonal Flagg, as they made wisecracks about Area 51 while he insisted that this was all vitally important to the security of the USA.
The general attitude here seemed to be that if an image is realistic enough to pass even a quick glance by anyone with two eyes, that no software is going to do any better.
I don't have any video displays in my car, but spending as much time as I do crawling along the Los Angeles freeways, I see an awful lot of minivans & SUVs with TV's mounted behind the front seats to keep the kiddies amused. And yes, I find myself concentrating on what's happening on the display in that car in front of me, wondering if I've seen that episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
Huh? Those are all problems, but not one of them is generally caused by the use of interlace or component Y'CrCb video. Those bands you see in gradiated backgrounds are caused by not enough bits per sample, rather than by not enough samples per image. By improper telecine I'm assuming you mean 3:2 problems. 3:2 pulldown is necessary because Thomas Edison decided to shoot all film at 24fps, while early TV manufacturers decided to go with 30fps since the power supply ripple was so bad back then. Dealing with those two sample rates would really have been a bitch back in the 1950's if we didn't have interlace. Eventually we'll have all television in 72fps progressive, or some similar flavor, and interlace will no longer be necessary, but in spite of what the FCC says I don't see it happening in this decade.
I've been in the TV postproduction business for the last umpteen years, and here it's a given that Charles Poynton knows more than you & I when it comes to video & color.
My but you're gullible... That claim is nothing but a myth debunked here That also makes my doubt your claims about volcanoes & decades.
They would if the concept cars started to breed, devouring any smaller, more fuel efficient cars in the process.
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To fight these fights on any practical level, they've just got to have the ol' cashish. Have you contributed?
Being originally a hardware geek, these are my favorites: - Remove the top row of keys from victims keyboard (the numbers & punctuation marks), then put them back on, shifted once to the right. The average user doesn't really remember, without looking, whether the = key is on the right or left. - Improvise a VGA dongle, or take apart the VGA plug from victims monitor. Swap the R,G & B wires. Play around with Windows color preferences until desktop background, etc., are back to their original colors. White & black will be unchanged, but colors will all show up as something different.