Typical geeks. A tabletop LCD clock is obviously pretty good at counting time in seconds way for way longer than 72 hours. You could have just included a 10Hz crystal and told software engineers to store time as the number of ticks rather than ticks * 0.1f. Or any frequency crystal where fire_interval * x / y is a good approximation of 0.1 for some x and y in range of hardware integer arithmetic capabilities. You add x for each tick and increment the time variable/subtract y while the result is greater than y. Problem solved!
Sure if I tell you exactly how I applied watermarks you can go and try to detect my affine transforms or whatever. Will your job be so easy finding some combination of a hundred effects of which you have no knowledge that redundantly encode 64 bits of information in a 1GB file? Maybe an actor says the same phrase twice and the version present in your copy encodes one of the bits. Maybe it's the average brightness of a particular frame. Maybe different copies use different mechanisms to encode bits and throw in some random changes that mean nothing. Just how do you propose to prove that you discovered and obscured all my methods of applying watermarks and still keep video and audio close to the original quality?
As a dominant content company Google must not be allowed to use it's search results to promote it's product offerings. They better have ironclad separation between the divisions.
This is why it sucks being a monopoly. Microsoft should have accepted a split into OS and applications companies a few years back. As things are, removing iTunes and installing Windows Media player during an OS upgrade is helping Microsoft leverage monopoly in one area to extend to another. They should be required to avoid installing any media player by default or design some other remedy that would make selecting WinAmp as easy as selecting WMP.
Sure there is. Transcode it from the highest resolution they offer, which you probably cannot display unless you're filthy rich
I never saw a digital download with more than 720p. A TV like this is hardly a luxury item.
to a slightly different format, such as the highest resolution you can display.
So let's say the watermark is encoded by rotating some frames by 0.01 degrees. How will transcoding help you? Can you detect any possible arbitrary track like this without knowing apriori what it is?
Most media sponges don't care about picture quality anyway. Maybe they care about showing off their "wealth" buying an expensive TV, but they don't care how it looks.
Content producers could just take a pity on you and let you torrent 320x240 15 fps videos with the understanding that most of your friends are not so cheap and will go buy the real thing.
1. Exact subpixel positioning of each frame as derived from higher resolution master 2. Exact time of each frame derived from a higher frame rate master 3. Choice of key frame positions and algorithm used to compute differences between frames. 4. Very slight affine transforms applied to some portions of some images.
By the time you resample/re-compress the video and re-distort each image the result will serve as an adequate blurry preview that will get people to go and buy the official version anyway. And you still face the possibility that you have been outsmarted and the asses of you and everyone who contributed their purchases will be busted anyway.
So Disney can ask you to come to a store and have your driver license scanned once to open an account. If the model catches on, independent "Internet identity providers" can always emerge.
Given that your download is made from the master with much higher resolution, frame rate and bit rate there are countless ways to create images which look the same but do not share a single pixel. Your movie can have subpixel offsets from master before resampling and each frame can correspond to a slightly different timestamp in each download. If you average them, you will end up with a blurry image which may still have ALL names/CCs recoverable from it. There is no way to automatically detect and cancel out all the possible ways to redundantly hide an 8 byte purchase ID from a 1GB file.
Watermarked content can be played on unlimited number of devices, but can not be posted to thepiratebay. Pirates can attempt conversion, but by the time you are sure you stripped all possible watermarking techniques, the video is so blurry people will buy a legit version anyway. This currently works for Apple/Amazon audio with zero issues. It's too sad that Disney wants both legal and technical special treatment to keep protecting Mickey Mouse.
Since there are still companies running DOS as part of their systems, I doubt Microsoft can force people to upgrade.
Oh yeah? I can walk into Fry's and buy a copy of DOS for my new machine with 500GB hard drive, USB keyboard/mouse/mass storage and EFI firmware? Or do I just install 64 bit Vista/Windows 7 and run my DOS apps in a command prompt?
I think I like my chances of running Slackware 1.0 or FreeDOS apps better, especially if I am a company in the position to pay for a couple of consultants for a few months.
The purpose of RAID is to a) enable hot swapping of physically failed drives and b) enable higher read throughput than is provided by already decent individual drives. Neither of these purposes will be served here, as hot swapping would involve lots of security screw drivers and unsafe electric work and you don't go for performance with notebook drives. You could use RAID-0 if you envision a need for individual files greater than 500GB, but in this case you might as well get an external drive.
RAID is not very useful for backup, as it does not protect against malware, bugs and user errors. In addition, the remaining drive of a RAID array is much more likely to fail during rebuilding the mirror than at some random time as it has been through exactly the same usage pattern as the other drive.
So Honda has announced a freight truck for $1K more than Accord, with gas mileage of Insight and that fits in your family garage alongside your consumer car.
If Microsoft introduces an incompatible change in Windows 8 (so that, for example a given version of IE can no longer be installed, or a driver for a widely deployed device stops working), it can force a company into unbounded costs of updating their software and hardware. On the other hand, once initial migration to Ubuntu is done, only an effort of a dozen developers would be needed to compile Firefox 1.0 with new libraries, update a driver to work with 2.6 kernel and so on. While for an individual it may be acceptable - and cheaper - to buy new peripherals and applications - IBM can trivially afford custom development costs to keep an operating system running exactly the same way they want it.
It doesn't make sense for any large business with non-trivial needs to run an operating system for which they can not control future direction.
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I can get a netbook with an e-paper screen that makes battery last for two weeks? Sweet!
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Can users install their own apps or replace the OS? If not, I don't see how use of Android OS would matter.
Let's talk back in a parallel universe where uranium is dangerous for people in dispersed state. The stuff is either strongly radioactive and has a (geologically speaking) short half life or is not radioactive enough to cause much harm. Sure humans will be screwed, but 4.4 billion years is a stretch. Whatever evolves after a bare million years will be Ok.
The funny thing about coal plants is that release of carcinogens, green house gases and radioactive material stops the moment the plant is shut down and replaced with a safer technology de jour. This is kind of the point of fusion - since only light elements are involved in reaction, residual radioactivity is minimum even after a meltdown.
You are assuming that subsidies are the only way to lower prices. For a computer science degree, a lot can be learned from free resources on Internet. When one-on-one help is required, much of work is done by teaching assistants working on minimum wage. For the most part, the professor just reads a lecture and spends some time with the few students who are really interested in learning beyond the class.
How exactly does it justify $30k/year tuition, subsidized or not? Just because foreign students are ripped off some more (like I was once upon a time), doesn't mean Americans are getting a good deal.
Why punish based on medium rather than content? Is it any different from posting paper threatening messages on a school bulletin board? Again, lawmakers think Internet has some scary magic powers rather than being a new communication medium for old humans.
Sweet. So all I have to do to circumvent GPL is to get my code accepted into a project without a written, signed copyright assignment. I can then sell further modified binaries with impunity and just decline to be a party to any lawsuit against myself.
Wouldn't any lawsuit be between a customer who bought software and the seller rather than between the seller and author? GPL only requires you to release the source to someone to whom the binary was distributed, not to the original author.
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Typical geeks. A tabletop LCD clock is obviously pretty good at counting time in seconds way for way longer than 72 hours. You could have just included a 10Hz crystal and told software engineers to store time as the number of ticks rather than ticks * 0.1f. Or any frequency crystal where fire_interval * x / y is a good approximation of 0.1 for some x and y in range of hardware integer arithmetic capabilities. You add x for each tick and increment the time variable/subtract y while the result is greater than y. Problem solved!
Now where do I go to buy a camera that can virtually unzip people so that I can go do some research on it's side effects?
Sure if I tell you exactly how I applied watermarks you can go and try to detect my affine transforms or whatever. Will your job be so easy finding some combination of a hundred effects of which you have no knowledge that redundantly encode 64 bits of information in a 1GB file? Maybe an actor says the same phrase twice and the version present in your copy encodes one of the bits. Maybe it's the average brightness of a particular frame. Maybe different copies use different mechanisms to encode bits and throw in some random changes that mean nothing. Just how do you propose to prove that you discovered and obscured all my methods of applying watermarks and still keep video and audio close to the original quality?
It would suffice to pre-encode many versions of each short sequence of a video starting with a keyframe and splice them for a particular download.
As a dominant content company Google must not be allowed to use it's search results to promote it's product offerings. They better have ironclad separation between the divisions.
This is why it sucks being a monopoly. Microsoft should have accepted a split into OS and applications companies a few years back. As things are, removing iTunes and installing Windows Media player during an OS upgrade is helping Microsoft leverage monopoly in one area to extend to another. They should be required to avoid installing any media player by default or design some other remedy that would make selecting WinAmp as easy as selecting WMP.
Sure there is. Transcode it from the highest resolution they offer, which you probably cannot display unless you're filthy rich
I never saw a digital download with more than 720p. A TV like this is hardly a luxury item.
to a slightly different format, such as the highest resolution you can display.
So let's say the watermark is encoded by rotating some frames by 0.01 degrees. How will transcoding help you? Can you detect any possible arbitrary track like this without knowing apriori what it is?
Most media sponges don't care about picture quality anyway. Maybe they care about showing off their "wealth" buying an expensive TV, but they don't care how it looks.
Content producers could just take a pity on you and let you torrent 320x240 15 fps videos with the understanding that most of your friends are not so cheap and will go buy the real thing.
Does this cover:
1. Exact subpixel positioning of each frame as derived from higher resolution master
2. Exact time of each frame derived from a higher frame rate master
3. Choice of key frame positions and algorithm used to compute differences between frames.
4. Very slight affine transforms applied to some portions of some images.
By the time you resample/re-compress the video and re-distort each image the result will serve as an adequate blurry preview that will get people to go and buy the official version anyway. And you still face the possibility that you have been outsmarted and the asses of you and everyone who contributed their purchases will be busted anyway.
So Disney can ask you to come to a store and have your driver license scanned once to open an account. If the model catches on, independent "Internet identity providers" can always emerge.
So, given that even untraceable MP3s enjoy decent sales, why can't stronger watermarks work for movies?
Given that your download is made from the master with much higher resolution, frame rate and bit rate there are countless ways to create images which look the same but do not share a single pixel. Your movie can have subpixel offsets from master before resampling and each frame can correspond to a slightly different timestamp in each download. If you average them, you will end up with a blurry image which may still have ALL names/CCs recoverable from it. There is no way to automatically detect and cancel out all the possible ways to redundantly hide an 8 byte purchase ID from a 1GB file.
Watermarked content can be played on unlimited number of devices, but can not be posted to thepiratebay. Pirates can attempt conversion, but by the time you are sure you stripped all possible watermarking techniques, the video is so blurry people will buy a legit version anyway. This currently works for Apple/Amazon audio with zero issues. It's too sad that Disney wants both legal and technical special treatment to keep protecting Mickey Mouse.
Since there are still companies running DOS as part of their systems, I doubt Microsoft can force people to upgrade.
Oh yeah? I can walk into Fry's and buy a copy of DOS for my new machine with 500GB hard drive, USB keyboard/mouse/mass storage and EFI firmware? Or do I just install 64 bit Vista/Windows 7 and run my DOS apps in a command prompt?
I think I like my chances of running Slackware 1.0 or FreeDOS apps better, especially if I am a company in the position to pay for a couple of consultants for a few months.
The purpose of RAID is to a) enable hot swapping of physically failed drives and b) enable higher read throughput than is provided by already decent individual drives. Neither of these purposes will be served here, as hot swapping would involve lots of security screw drivers and unsafe electric work and you don't go for performance with notebook drives. You could use RAID-0 if you envision a need for individual files greater than 500GB, but in this case you might as well get an external drive.
RAID is not very useful for backup, as it does not protect against malware, bugs and user errors. In addition, the remaining drive of a RAID array is much more likely to fail during rebuilding the mirror than at some random time as it has been through exactly the same usage pattern as the other drive.
So Honda has announced a freight truck for $1K more than Accord, with gas mileage of Insight and that fits in your family garage alongside your consumer car.
Sweet!
If Microsoft introduces an incompatible change in Windows 8 (so that, for example a given version of IE can no longer be installed, or a driver for a widely deployed device stops working), it can force a company into unbounded costs of updating their software and hardware. On the other hand, once initial migration to Ubuntu is done, only an effort of a dozen developers would be needed to compile Firefox 1.0 with new libraries, update a driver to work with 2.6 kernel and so on. While for an individual it may be acceptable - and cheaper - to buy new peripherals and applications - IBM can trivially afford custom development costs to keep an operating system running exactly the same way they want it.
It doesn't make sense for any large business with non-trivial needs to run an operating system for which they can not control future direction.
I can get a netbook with an e-paper screen that makes battery last for two weeks? Sweet!
Can users install their own apps or replace the OS? If not, I don't see how use of Android OS would matter.
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Why would you want to waste a valuable propellent?
Let's talk back in a parallel universe where uranium is dangerous for people in dispersed state. The stuff is either strongly radioactive and has a (geologically speaking) short half life or is not radioactive enough to cause much harm. Sure humans will be screwed, but 4.4 billion years is a stretch. Whatever evolves after a bare million years will be Ok.
The funny thing about coal plants is that release of carcinogens, green house gases and radioactive material stops the moment the plant is shut down and replaced with a safer technology de jour. This is kind of the point of fusion - since only light elements are involved in reaction, residual radioactivity is minimum even after a meltdown.
You are assuming that subsidies are the only way to lower prices. For a computer science degree, a lot can be learned from free resources on Internet. When one-on-one help is required, much of work is done by teaching assistants working on minimum wage. For the most part, the professor just reads a lecture and spends some time with the few students who are really interested in learning beyond the class.
How exactly does it justify $30k/year tuition, subsidized or not? Just because foreign students are ripped off some more (like I was once upon a time), doesn't mean Americans are getting a good deal.
Why punish based on medium rather than content? Is it any different from posting paper threatening messages on a school bulletin board? Again, lawmakers think Internet has some scary magic powers rather than being a new communication medium for old humans.
Sweet. So all I have to do to circumvent GPL is to get my code accepted into a project without a written, signed copyright assignment. I can then sell further modified binaries with impunity and just decline to be a party to any lawsuit against myself.
Wouldn't any lawsuit be between a customer who bought software and the seller rather than between the seller and author? GPL only requires you to release the source to someone to whom the binary was distributed, not to the original author.