Am I the only one who has noticed some really bad moderations lately??? This comment has a good point, but has been moderated as Moderation Totals: Troll=4, Redundant=1, Insightful=1, Interesting=2, Overrated=1, Underrated=4, Total=13.
13 mod points were used on this comment, and it only ended up with a 3 total. Who rated it as redundant anyways? It's the 1st post!
No new screens would be needed. This new sensor only affects the way an image is captured, not how it is displayed. Current CCD chips actually use 4 "pixels" to record each pixel of the image. 1 red sensing pixel, 1 blue sensing pixel, and 2 green sensing pixels. It is set up like the following for each pixel the camera records...
RG
GB
The CCD device in a digital camera has one of these set up for every pixel the camera is to capture.
This new way will allow all 3 colors to be captured on one "pixel" instead of 4, so that will allow much higher resolution pictures to be taken. Hopefully this simplified explanation makes sense, and didn't totally confuse everyone:)
Since this new chip is able to gather more light than traditional CCD chips, I would imagine that there will be some interesting uses for it in astrophotography. Instead of having to use a CCD imager with a 30 minute exposure to get an image, wouldn't you technically be able to get a higher resolution pic with this a lot quicker?
Where it shows you a smeared image of a number that you have to type in to register with a site? I think Slashdot has had this for a while now, and I know I have seen it on other sites as far back as a few years ago.
How many sound card companies existed in the 90s? How many today? Ditto the video card, modem, processor (we hardly knew ya Cyrix) and so on.
Sound cards, video cards, and modems all come embedded on the motherboard now. They usually aren't the highest quality, but they are good enough for 90% of the people, which is why there are only a few companies manufacturing high end replacements now. As for Cyrix, their chips were just crap so they never caught on.
Remember, millions of people out ther can't get rid of the blinbking 12:00 thing in their VCRs to save their lives. Noise levels are the least of their problems, I dare say.
I recognize that drive manufacturers have made a real effort during the past year to reduce the noise of bearings and actuators. In spite of that, no matter how quiet the drive, it's still being placed in an acoustic-enhancing environment--an empty box, like a drum or guitar.
I don't know about any of you, but I don't keep my PVR isn't in a guitar housing, although it may make a cool hack.
He's saying the empty box acts like a drum or guitar, not that people are actually putting their drives in drums and guitars. Geesh! That would be a cool mod though...
Does everyone really think the RIAA is evil for not letting people get away with piracy, or is this just the usual wanky groupthink?
Ok, I'll bite and reply to the troll...
Piracy is wrong. I agree with them on that. But trying to get legislation passed that would allow you to hack, cripple, and even disable networks and computers that you just think might have copyrighted material on them is worse than piracy in my opinion.
By your (And the RIAA's) logic, since I own the copyright on this post, and I'm pretty sure it is on your computer since you are probably reading it, I should now be legally allowed to hack your computer and bring it down because you have my copyrighted material on your computer. See why we don't like the RIAA now?
Hey troll, why should I think you were even going to read the article, since you obviously didn't even read the whole post? The second sentence in the post refers to the Google cache that Hemos thoughtfully provided since he knew the server would probably go down.
This is an interesting idea. As the copyright gets extended longer, the fees go up substantially. This would encourage companies to let go of copyrights that are no longer making money. For example, a film that was created 50 years ago but was still making boatloads of money could be kept copyrighted - for a price. A film made 10 years ago that never was all that popular or profitable could quickly get into the public domain.
I'm surprised no one has refrenced this yet...
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F13.html
Andy: Hear ye, hear ye. This session will now come to order. With the cooperation of the US Department of State, we have present today one Bart Simpson.
[everyone mutters amongst themselves]
I believe he has something to say. Bart?
Bart: [goes to microphone, scratches, clears throat several times]
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what I did to your country.
[everyone applauds]
Andy: [jovial] Well, you're free to go, Bart...right after your additional punishment.
Homer: Punishment?
Andy: Well, a mere apology would be a bit empty, eh? Let the booting begin.
Note to the music industry, hogs get fat pigs get slaughtered..
Isn't it "Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered"?
Anyways, I think your quote applies more to people d/ling music. If you're a "pig" and download a few songs here and there, you'll get "fat" and eventually get a decent music collection, but if you're a "hog" and d/l thousands of songs and make them available, you'll probably get "slaughtered".
Poorly organized. Lynx-optimized website (with only two pages) [freewebtools.com], only two months to write papers [lwn.net], an overly broad topic, [csoonline.com]and being held in a pseudo-third world country [krdl.org.sg], away from the main countries where most research is being done, don't exactly add up to success. I'll be surprised if they register more than 500 attendees.
This isn't flamebait or a troll, he has good points, and provided links to back up his claims. Instead of modding him down as flaimbait, why didn't you post a reply saying why you disagree with him?
I've thought many times about building an LGB train around the house. Specifically with a tunnel going through the refridgerator, with a Lego Mindstorm robot inside to put bottles of beer on the train so the train could bring them to me without me having to get up.
Beer, Lego robot, & model trains all working together. Now what could be more newsworthy stuff for nerds than that?
And yes, I really have put a lot of thought into this, and have been pondering doing it for a while. I just doubt that my wife would let me put a tunnel through the fridge:)
If a company had to release their code for products they sold, it wouldn't do any good to the end user. The code would be way to complex for 99.9% of all users to understand. The only users who would really understand it are the programmers, and even then they would need to spend a LOT of time analyzing it (Assuming it is a decent size program) before they could even start to understand it.
The only people who would benefit are the releasing company's rivals, who would have the time & money to sit down and reverse engineer the code, and then rerelease it as their own.
Then again, maybe I'm missing the whole point of this and should RTFA.
Oops, I just noticed they have a bunch of fancy, high tech Javascript securing the pages I just listed! To view my sample, start at this page and click on the 'Example (gateway) link.
Pretty secure, huh? It might keep some people from their images, actually it will probably keep most people from their images. But it seems they haven't learned that any copy protection like that can be easily broken. Even if there was no other way to get the picture's URL, you could always do a screen capture and save it.
I'm working on a story about the use of the DMCA to crack down on consumers swapping Black Friday sales data on web sites. If anyone would like to air their feelings on the subject, please call me at 212-416-4974 or send me an email with your phone number and I'll call you.
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Am I the only one who has noticed some really bad moderations lately??? This comment has a good point, but has been moderated as
Moderation Totals: Troll=4, Redundant=1, Insightful=1, Interesting=2, Overrated=1, Underrated=4, Total=13.
13 mod points were used on this comment, and it only ended up with a 3 total. Who rated it as redundant anyways? It's the 1st post!
Moderators.. Please read the following before getting click happy...
The moderator guidelines! Definition of redundant Definition of troll Definition of flame bait
Seriously, is it that hard to moderate decently? If you disagree with the post, respond and explain why, don't moderate it down.
No new screens would be needed. This new sensor only affects the way an image is captured, not how it is displayed. Current CCD chips actually use 4 "pixels" to record each pixel of the image. 1 red sensing pixel, 1 blue sensing pixel, and 2 green sensing pixels. It is set up like the following for each pixel the camera records...
:)
RG
GB
The CCD device in a digital camera has one of these set up for every pixel the camera is to capture.
This new way will allow all 3 colors to be captured on one "pixel" instead of 4, so that will allow much higher resolution pictures to be taken. Hopefully this simplified explanation makes sense, and didn't totally confuse everyone
Since this new chip is able to gather more light than traditional CCD chips, I would imagine that there will be some interesting uses for it in astrophotography. Instead of having to use a CCD imager with a 30 minute exposure to get an image, wouldn't you technically be able to get a higher resolution pic with this a lot quicker?
That's just a thought...
I bet G. Cooke from Texas would give it a positive review!
What else would be number 2 on the desktop? It is hard to install OS X on "desktop" computers, and we already know what is number 1.
Am I the only one who read the title and initially thought they were saying Linux on the desktop is crap now?
Go to http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=newuserform to see this in action here at Slashdot.
Where it shows you a smeared image of a number that you have to type in to register with a site? I think Slashdot has had this for a while now, and I know I have seen it on other sites as far back as a few years ago.
How many sound card companies existed in the 90s? How many today? Ditto the video card, modem, processor (we hardly knew ya Cyrix) and so on.
Sound cards, video cards, and modems all come embedded on the motherboard now. They usually aren't the highest quality, but they are good enough for 90% of the people, which is why there are only a few companies manufacturing high end replacements now. As for Cyrix, their chips were just crap so they never caught on.
Remember, millions of people out ther can't get rid of the blinbking 12:00 thing in their VCRs to save their lives. Noise levels are the least of their problems, I dare say.
I do agree with that point.
I recognize that drive manufacturers have made a real effort during the past year to reduce the noise of bearings and actuators. In spite of that, no matter how quiet the drive, it's still being placed in an acoustic-enhancing environment--an empty box, like a drum or guitar.
I don't know about any of you, but I don't keep my PVR isn't in a guitar housing, although it may make a cool hack.
He's saying the empty box acts like a drum or guitar, not that people are actually putting their drives in drums and guitars. Geesh! That would be a cool mod though...
Does everyone really think the RIAA is evil for not letting people get away with piracy, or is this just the usual wanky groupthink?
Ok, I'll bite and reply to the troll...
Piracy is wrong. I agree with them on that. But trying to get legislation passed that would allow you to hack, cripple, and even disable networks and computers that you just think might have copyrighted material on them is worse than piracy in my opinion.
By your (And the RIAA's) logic, since I own the copyright on this post, and I'm pretty sure it is on your computer since you are probably reading it, I should now be legally allowed to hack your computer and bring it down because you have my copyrighted material on your computer. See why we don't like the RIAA now?
Hey troll, why should I think you were even going to read the article, since you obviously didn't even read the whole post? The second sentence in the post refers to the Google cache that Hemos thoughtfully provided since he knew the server would probably go down.
From his site...
http://www.chrisnaimee.com/pics/pics.html
Enjoy!
I'm sure these cards will be nice and secure, just like the ones that satellite providers use.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to watch free HBO.
This is an interesting idea. As the copyright gets extended longer, the fees go up substantially. This would encourage companies to let go of copyrights that are no longer making money. For example, a film that was created 50 years ago but was still making boatloads of money could be kept copyrighted - for a price. A film made 10 years ago that never was all that popular or profitable could quickly get into the public domain.
He's got good points about if you have a book now, you can loan it to friends or borrow it from the library without any troubles.
The problem is, that before eBooks, you couldn't "loan" your copy of the book to 10,000 of your friends on Kazaa.
There are some interesting ideas in there, but I don't think his ideas are the answer. They are a good start though.
I'm surprised no one has refrenced this yet... http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F13.html Andy: Hear ye, hear ye. This session will now come to order. With the cooperation of the US Department of State, we have present today one Bart Simpson.
[everyone mutters amongst themselves]
I believe he has something to say. Bart?
Bart: [goes to microphone, scratches, clears throat several times]
I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what I did to your country.
[everyone applauds]
Andy: [jovial] Well, you're free to go, Bart...right after your additional punishment.
Homer: Punishment?
Andy: Well, a mere apology would be a bit empty, eh? Let the booting begin.
Homer: Booting?
Andy: Aw, it's just a little kick in the bum.
[a man with a gigantic boot walks in]
Bart: Y'uh oh.
From the previous Slashdot article linked to above...
I've only found one story in English, which is quite vague. Hopefully the above poster is correct in summarizing the situation.
You've got to love Slashdot!
Note to the music industry, hogs get fat pigs get slaughtered..
Isn't it "Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered"?
Anyways, I think your quote applies more to people d/ling music. If you're a "pig" and download a few songs here and there, you'll get "fat" and eventually get a decent music collection, but if you're a "hog" and d/l thousands of songs and make them available, you'll probably get "slaughtered".
Poorly organized. Lynx-optimized website (with only two pages) [freewebtools.com], only two months to write papers [lwn.net], an overly broad topic, [csoonline.com]and being held in a pseudo-third world country [krdl.org.sg], away from the main countries where most research is being done, don't exactly add up to success. I'll be surprised if they register more than 500 attendees.
This isn't flamebait or a troll, he has good points, and provided links to back up his claims. Instead of modding him down as flaimbait, why didn't you post a reply saying why you disagree with him?
I've thought many times about building an LGB train around the house. Specifically with a tunnel going through the refridgerator, with a Lego Mindstorm robot inside to put bottles of beer on the train so the train could bring them to me without me having to get up.
:)
Beer, Lego robot, & model trains all working together. Now what could be more newsworthy stuff for nerds than that?
And yes, I really have put a lot of thought into this, and have been pondering doing it for a while. I just doubt that my wife would let me put a tunnel through the fridge
If a company had to release their code for products they sold, it wouldn't do any good to the end user. The code would be way to complex for 99.9% of all users to understand. The only users who would really understand it are the programmers, and even then they would need to spend a LOT of time analyzing it (Assuming it is a decent size program) before they could even start to understand it.
The only people who would benefit are the releasing company's rivals, who would have the time & money to sit down and reverse engineer the code, and then rerelease it as their own.
Then again, maybe I'm missing the whole point of this and should RTFA.
She could call her bank to find the nearest drive through ATM with Braille!
Oh wait, she'd still need to see the cell phone. Never mind. I guess its a good thing she isn't still here.
Oops, I just noticed they have a bunch of fancy, high tech Javascript securing the pages I just listed! To view my sample, start at this page and click on the 'Example (gateway) link.
Protected images? I think not! For an example of their protected image, go to http://www.anti-leech.com/antiimage.php?id=demo_ga t&name=test
& name=test.
In IE, click on the View|Source menu to view the source code, which yields the following URL for the picture: http://www.anti-leech.com/ai_load.php?id=demo_gat
Follow that URL, and get to the actual picture's URL at http://www.anti-leech.com/pics/logo.gif.
Pretty secure, huh? It might keep some people from their images, actually it will probably keep most people from their images. But it seems they haven't learned that any copy protection like that can be easily broken. Even if there was no other way to get the picture's URL, you could always do a screen capture and save it.
From the article...
"Hi, Ron Lieber from the Wall St Journal here
I'm working on a story about the use of the DMCA to crack down on consumers swapping Black Friday sales data on web sites. If anyone would like to air their feelings on the subject, please call me at 212-416-4974 or send me an email with your phone number and I'll call you.
Thanks, Ron"