Dr. Henrik Ehrsson sure is basing his research career around this topic. And every time he publishes a paper basically saying the same thing as the last, the press jumps all over it as the realization of some sci-fi dream.
check out the google news archive.
I think the research is fine as far as it goes, but it seems very much in the neighborhood of simulator rides and dummy head recording.
Peter Gabriel is a real pioneer in thinking about how music, technology and communities come together. And this action is just the latest step in a long road. He realized early on the power that labels had over his music, so in the '80s and early 90's he bought back the rights to his catalog from the labels that had originally published it. (It is standard practice in contracts for the musician to sign over copyright to their songs to the label). Once those rights were secured he began to explore new ways of using his music. Two very early efforts were the Xplora and EVE cd-roms (see the site here.
In the summer of 1994 I was hired by the Starwave Corporation in Seattle to be part of a small team developing EVE. The idea was pretty interesting -- pair the work of different contemporary visual artists up with songs from Gabriel, treating each as raw material, then create a framework in which people can explore, share and remix that material to create an integrated audio/video hybrid that is greater than the sum of its parts. I had just finished a graduate art program that had similar ideas, so I felt right at home.
We used the work of artists Helen Chadwick , Yayoi Kusama , Cathy de Monchaux , and Nils-Udo -- using high rez scans of their work as starting points. They were paired up with Gabriel's songs 'Come Talk To Me' , 'Shaking The Tree' , and 'In Your Eyes'. We had the equivalent of the sample packs that he has made available on-line for Shock the Monkey. These were professionally produced loops from the multi-track masters. Gabriel's recording process usually involves dozens and dozens of tracks, so these samples weren't mix-downs, but elements from a single track.
We created something called the Interactive Musical Xperience to bring these elements together. It was a kind of audio/video sampler that you could play with your keyboard, triggering sound and animation loops against a rendered landscape background. The software quantized everything so you would always be in time and you could work improvisationally or with a simple graphical timeline. The team developing it had a diverse background in software development, fine art and filmmaking. My job eventually became to create functional mockups of the interaction using Director 4....! The production team eventually relocated to the Real World studios in Box, UK which was an incredibly intense creative environment -- musicians, engineers, filmmakers, photographers, designers all working together in a bucolic 'campus' made from an old mill complex.
Although I eventually left Real World and Starwave to pursue my own artwork, it was a really great experience. The fact that the rest of the world has started to catch up to the ideas Peter Gabriel has been thinking about since the early 90's only reaffirms how resonant those ideas continue to be.
I downloaded Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last week. I browsed the selections, clicked on it (they've got Amazon's one-click software, so it literally is one click), then it started downloading. About 10 seconds after I clicked, iTunes faded into a full-screen presentation mode and the movie played normally through it's whole running time over a standard cable connection. And it looked great on a 20" imac. Once it was over I looked at the file more closely.
The file is an mpeg4 file (.m4v) and is 1.2 GB in size. The movie is just under 1:48 total running time so the overall data rate is about 1600 kb/s. The picture is 640x272 at a 2.35:1 aspect ratio (which the theatrical release also was). It is not 'DVD' quality because (among other things) it is not 720 pixels wide. At the same aspect ratio, a frame from the DVD would be 720x306 pixels so it's a little over 10% lower rez in each dimension. The audio track is a stereo 44.1 khz 128 kb AAC audio track, exactly the same format as the standard iTunes song. So no it's not 5.1. The video is H.264 encoded video as compared to mpeg2 on the DVD. It comes with chapter markers which appear in the iTunes player - like scene selections on the DVD, and it has a nice hi-rez 'album art' poster for the film. It cost $9.99 and it is a Fairplay protected file (sharable between 5 machines and can't export it to other formats but can otherwise archive the data on other media)
All in all I'd give it a B+/A-. It works great as a kind of impulse buy and is extremely easy to use and deal with. It is very well integrated into the whole iTunes experience. The DRM obviously is limiting and the sound can't compare with 5.1 But there was no waiting at all and the image qualilty was fine. It is completely on par with buying a movie on-demand via digital cable except without the bad remote and interface design. It will be much more compelling with the next year's iTV when you can browse and buy with a simple remote in front of the TV. And I'm sure they will sooner rather than later have high-def versions of the films available, just as they now have a 'lossless' audio format for music. (I'm guessing that a 720p version of Hitchhikers would be 3.5 to 4 gigs, pretty easily downloadable over my connection in less than 2 hours -- so it should basically stream.)
You make it seem that malware infections never happen (or perhaps should never happen). But they do, and that is the point of the original article. You say " the system directories are trusted and can only be modified by highly privileged accounts (i.e. admins); if malware can put files in here, the machine is already compromised." The point of the original article is that modifying the system directories is one if the ways that malware is installed on the system in the first place. One way that happens is that buffer overflow code is run as a SYSTEM user and that the effects of that are extremely hard to audit. And your (valid) point about legitimate uses of alternate data streams is also covered in the original article, the conclusion being that Microsoft seems to value legacy compatibility over security: these alternate data streams have been shown to be an common attack vector, but that function is still fully supported. Some people are saying that ending that (or other) element of backwards compatibility would improve security, but Microsoft doesn't agree. It is that kind of decision on thier part that leads people to say that Microsoft values market share over security.
I know it's a mistake to bite at a troll, but I can't resist.
Large Swiss based companies ( courtesy of swissworld.org :
Nestle -- world's largest food company, Novartis -- huge pharmaceuticals producer, Logitech -- there is a one in three chance they made your mouse, Swiss Re -- one of the largest re-insurance companies in the world, they underwrite everybody.
Large Swedish based companies (courtesy of visit-stockholm.com:
IKEA -- they invented flat-packed, home-assembled furniture in the 50s.
Ericsson -- way more than mobile phones,
Electrolux -- they make Frigidiare and Eureka appliances
But I'd be surprised if these facts change your views.
This is an interesting device: http://www.doremilabs.com/products/XDVI-20.htm It converts a DVI signal into an SDI-HD signal. Then with a card like this -- http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/hd/ and a disk array that could handle about 1.5 gbits/sec you could record the high-def signal in an accessible form. With the drives we're in the $1500 range for all the gear, so it's not cheap, but it is 'prosumer' level.
The news section on their home page says that they have gained access to the "coveted Chinese carrier market" by selling a system to Shanghi telecom to help them block "unauthorized Internet calls". I guess it's nice for their investors....
Check out the kinds of things Pitney Bowes offers in terms of automating and managing the whole process of dealing with mail. They're a pretty big player in that field.
Was it Steve-O? He takes on a woman boxer from Japan and gets his ass handed to him in about a minute. And he fits your definition of an average, in-shape male -- and certainly able to withstand punishment as shown by the rest of the movie. It wasn't even close -- she pummeled him despite his best efforts.
Some quick searching didn't turn up much..... Here is a PDF about medical imaging technology from 3 years ago that goes into some detail about the technology and gives one small, unimpressive picture.
streaming from multiple machines
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Here's how I got around that problem. My setup: old G4 in the basement with all the music stored on an external volume. This is the 'master' library. We have two Airports each connected to speakers and two laptops. I periodically copy the preferences file from the master library to the two laptops, replacing their preferences. Then when I mount the server's music volume over the network each laptop has a "native" copy to the server's library which can be played out to either of the two airports. I use this same technique to listen to my collection on my office mac at work, uplinking through my cable modem. I bit of a kludge, but it works.
If you can make me a camera trigger tied to the decay of an atom I will totally use it as an artmaking tool. I'm serious. I've got some exhibitions coming up and would love to show a series of images from that kind of system. And I can assure you that they will be art.
Put a couple of your favorite stickers on a mirror.
If you don't have stickers, make a few small circles on the mirror using your girlfriends lipstick.
Now step about 3 feet away from the mirror.
Move your finger so that when you look in the mirror, it looks like you are touching the stickers but you don't physically do so, it just looks like you do to your eye.
Notice that you can do this regardless of your angle to the mirror, you just have to adjust your finger.
Now imagine that the stickers are icons on your desktop
which come from the french "San Greal"; it's likely that it's a misstranslation of the term "Sang Real", which literally means Royal Blood.
This doesn't make much sence linguistically. 'San Greal" has no meaning in French and even the term that it is supposedly misstranslated from (sang real) is not French. 'Real' is not French for 'royal' , it's Spanish. The French say "royale', which comes from 'roi' which means King. "Sang" is French for 'blood' (sangre in Spanish). So your phrase "sang real' , if it means anything, is a mix between French and Spanish, which doesn't seem to fit into the Francophilic theory about the Merovingian kings.
I used to teach in the art department at UNCC, (before this work was installed). The school has always made a good committment to public sculpture. Most people on that campus probably don't pay much attention to the artworks around them, which is too bad. Still, it's nice to see a work from the collection there capture people's imagination and enthusiasm.
"v = D/T for that total, and for any given length
of time,"
this is circular reasoning. You can't define 'for any given length of time' for to do so implies a starting point and ending point and that can only be if time has discreet units -- which is the point you're trying to prove.
I don't mean this as a troll, but.....
your 'checkpoint charlie' example doesn't say that much. Remember that Berlin during the cold war was a propaganda site for both sides. The commercial development on the west was fueled by and funded for political purposes -- the same on the east with their 'me-too' grand boulevards, etc. That the whole situation there was an untenable fiction on both sides is shown by the current state of the economy in berlin. It is totally bankrupt. With no politically-based funding, there isn't enough money to support the existing infrastructures.
bottom line, there is enough propaganda to go around.
Great suggestion to search 'propiska'. Wow, This was implemented after '89?!
when scanning 35mm motion picture film for motion graphics or special effects work the industry standard is a 4k scan -- 4000 pixels vertical per frame. (Not too long ago 2k was used.) Film scanned at this resolution can be transfered back to 35mm and will be visually identical to material that was analog the whole way through. Of course the fact that the images are moving helps smooth things out -- and they use a 12 or 16 bit log scale for color.
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Dr. Henrik Ehrsson sure is basing his research career around this topic. And every time he publishes a paper basically saying the same thing as the last, the press jumps all over it as the realization of some sci-fi dream. check out the google news archive. I think the research is fine as far as it goes, but it seems very much in the neighborhood of simulator rides and dummy head recording.
Peter Gabriel is a real pioneer in thinking about how music, technology and communities come together. And this action is just the latest step in a long road. He realized early on the power that labels had over his music, so in the '80s and early 90's he bought back the rights to his catalog from the labels that had originally published it. (It is standard practice in contracts for the musician to sign over copyright to their songs to the label). Once those rights were secured he began to explore new ways of using his music. Two very early efforts were the Xplora and EVE cd-roms (see the site here .
In the summer of 1994 I was hired by the Starwave Corporation in Seattle to be part of a small team developing EVE. The idea was pretty interesting -- pair the work of different contemporary visual artists up with songs from Gabriel, treating each as raw material, then create a framework in which people can explore, share and remix that material to create an integrated audio/video hybrid that is greater than the sum of its parts. I had just finished a graduate art program that had similar ideas, so I felt right at home.
We used the work of artists Helen Chadwick , Yayoi Kusama , Cathy de Monchaux , and Nils-Udo -- using high rez scans of their work as starting points. They were paired up with Gabriel's songs 'Come Talk To Me' , 'Shaking The Tree' , and 'In Your Eyes'. We had the equivalent of the sample packs that he has made available on-line for Shock the Monkey. These were professionally produced loops from the multi-track masters. Gabriel's recording process usually involves dozens and dozens of tracks, so these samples weren't mix-downs, but elements from a single track.
We created something called the Interactive Musical Xperience to bring these elements together. It was a kind of audio/video sampler that you could play with your keyboard, triggering sound and animation loops against a rendered landscape background. The software quantized everything so you would always be in time and you could work improvisationally or with a simple graphical timeline. The team developing it had a diverse background in software development, fine art and filmmaking. My job eventually became to create functional mockups of the interaction using Director 4....! The production team eventually relocated to the Real World studios in Box, UK which was an incredibly intense creative environment -- musicians, engineers, filmmakers, photographers, designers all working together in a bucolic 'campus' made from an old mill complex.
Although I eventually left Real World and Starwave to pursue my own artwork, it was a really great experience. The fact that the rest of the world has started to catch up to the ideas Peter Gabriel has been thinking about since the early 90's only reaffirms how resonant those ideas continue to be.
The file is an mpeg4 file (.m4v) and is 1.2 GB in size. The movie is just under 1:48 total running time so the overall data rate is about 1600 kb/s. The picture is 640x272 at a 2.35:1 aspect ratio (which the theatrical release also was). It is not 'DVD' quality because (among other things) it is not 720 pixels wide. At the same aspect ratio, a frame from the DVD would be 720x306 pixels so it's a little over 10% lower rez in each dimension. The audio track is a stereo 44.1 khz 128 kb AAC audio track, exactly the same format as the standard iTunes song. So no it's not 5.1. The video is H.264 encoded video as compared to mpeg2 on the DVD. It comes with chapter markers which appear in the iTunes player - like scene selections on the DVD, and it has a nice hi-rez 'album art' poster for the film. It cost $9.99 and it is a Fairplay protected file (sharable between 5 machines and can't export it to other formats but can otherwise archive the data on other media)
All in all I'd give it a B+/A-. It works great as a kind of impulse buy and is extremely easy to use and deal with. It is very well integrated into the whole iTunes experience. The DRM obviously is limiting and the sound can't compare with 5.1 But there was no waiting at all and the image qualilty was fine. It is completely on par with buying a movie on-demand via digital cable except without the bad remote and interface design. It will be much more compelling with the next year's iTV when you can browse and buy with a simple remote in front of the TV. And I'm sure they will sooner rather than later have high-def versions of the films available, just as they now have a 'lossless' audio format for music. (I'm guessing that a 720p version of Hitchhikers would be 3.5 to 4 gigs, pretty easily downloadable over my connection in less than 2 hours -- so it should basically stream.)
You make it seem that malware infections never happen (or perhaps should never happen). But they do, and that is the point of the original article. You say " the system directories are trusted and can only be modified by highly privileged accounts (i.e. admins); if malware can put files in here, the machine is already compromised." The point of the original article is that modifying the system directories is one if the ways that malware is installed on the system in the first place. One way that happens is that buffer overflow code is run as a SYSTEM user and that the effects of that are extremely hard to audit. And your (valid) point about legitimate uses of alternate data streams is also covered in the original article, the conclusion being that Microsoft seems to value legacy compatibility over security: these alternate data streams have been shown to be an common attack vector, but that function is still fully supported. Some people are saying that ending that (or other) element of backwards compatibility would improve security, but Microsoft doesn't agree. It is that kind of decision on thier part that leads people to say that Microsoft values market share over security.
Large Swiss based companies ( courtesy of swissworld.org : Nestle -- world's largest food company, Novartis -- huge pharmaceuticals producer, Logitech -- there is a one in three chance they made your mouse, Swiss Re -- one of the largest re-insurance companies in the world, they underwrite everybody.
Large Swedish based companies (courtesy of visit-stockholm.com: IKEA -- they invented flat-packed, home-assembled furniture in the 50s. Ericsson -- way more than mobile phones, Electrolux -- they make Frigidiare and Eureka appliances
But I'd be surprised if these facts change your views.An array of SATA disks can do it. Check out http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/art icles/sonnet/e4p/ for a review of the latest Sonnet card. It can handle capturing uncompressed HD over SDI. Of course it will eat up your storage in a hurry.....
This is an interesting device:
http://www.doremilabs.com/products/XDVI-20.htm
It converts a DVI signal into an SDI-HD signal.
Then with a card like this -- http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/hd/
and a disk array that could handle about 1.5 gbits/sec you could record the high-def signal in an accessible form.
With the drives we're in the $1500 range for all the gear, so it's not cheap, but it is 'prosumer' level.
The news section on their home page says that they have gained access to the "coveted Chinese carrier market" by selling a system to Shanghi telecom to help them block "unauthorized Internet calls". I guess it's nice for their investors....
Check out the kinds of things Pitney Bowes offers in terms of automating and managing the whole process of dealing with mail. They're a pretty big player in that field.
Was it Steve-O? He takes on a woman boxer from Japan and gets his ass handed to him in about a minute. And he fits your definition of an average, in-shape male -- and certainly able to withstand punishment as shown by the rest of the movie. It wasn't even close -- she pummeled him despite his best efforts.
uh, the inline remote is not part of the headphones. It ends in a stereo-mini socket into which you can plug in any headphones you want.
Some quick searching didn't turn up much.....
Here is a PDF about medical imaging technology from 3 years ago that goes into some detail about the technology and gives one small, unimpressive picture.
He has two applications pending.
Modulation compression method for the radio frequency transmission of high speed data
Tri-state integer cycle modulation
Can anyone summarize and/or give an informed opinion of them?
Here's how I got around that problem. My setup: old G4 in the basement with all the music stored on an external volume. This is the 'master' library. We have two Airports each connected to speakers and two laptops. I periodically copy the preferences file from the master library to the two laptops, replacing their preferences. Then when I mount the server's music volume over the network each laptop has a "native" copy to the server's library which can be played out to either of the two airports. I use this same technique to listen to my collection on my office mac at work, uplinking through my cable modem. I bit of a kludge, but it works.
you do know that the $999 includes the computer that the development software runs on, so how is that a rip off?
If you can make me a camera trigger tied to the decay of an atom I will totally use it as an artmaking tool. I'm serious. I've got some exhibitions coming up and would love to show a series of images from that kind of system.
And I can assure you that they will be art.
yes, but it's a lot more powerful than an epia system
If you don't have stickers, make a few small circles on the mirror using your girlfriends lipstick.
Now step about 3 feet away from the mirror.
Move your finger so that when you look in the mirror, it looks like you are touching the stickers but you don't physically do so, it just looks like you do to your eye.
Notice that you can do this regardless of your angle to the mirror, you just have to adjust your finger.
Now imagine that the stickers are icons on your desktop
and VIOLA!
which come from the french "San Greal"; it's likely that it's a misstranslation of the term "Sang Real", which literally means Royal Blood.
This doesn't make much sence linguistically. 'San Greal" has no meaning in French and even the term that it is supposedly misstranslated from (sang real) is not French. 'Real' is not French for 'royal' , it's Spanish. The French say "royale', which comes from 'roi' which means King. "Sang" is French for 'blood' (sangre in Spanish). So your phrase "sang real' , if it means anything, is a mix between French and Spanish, which doesn't seem to fit into the Francophilic theory about the Merovingian kings.
I used to teach in the art department at UNCC, (before this work was installed). The school has always made a good committment to public sculpture.
Most people on that campus probably don't pay much attention to the artworks around them, which is too bad. Still, it's nice to see a work from the collection there capture people's imagination and enthusiasm.
"v = D/T for that total, and for any given length
of time,"
this is circular reasoning. You can't define 'for any given length of time' for to do so implies a starting point and ending point and that can only be if time has discreet units -- which is the point you're trying to prove.
I don't mean this as a troll, but..... your 'checkpoint charlie' example doesn't say that much. Remember that Berlin during the cold war was a propaganda site for both sides. The commercial development on the west was fueled by and funded for political purposes -- the same on the east with their 'me-too' grand boulevards, etc. That the whole situation there was an untenable fiction on both sides is shown by the current state of the economy in berlin. It is totally bankrupt. With no politically-based funding, there isn't enough money to support the existing infrastructures. bottom line, there is enough propaganda to go around. Great suggestion to search 'propiska'. Wow, This was implemented after '89?!
when scanning 35mm motion picture film for motion graphics or special effects work the industry standard is a 4k scan -- 4000 pixels vertical per frame. (Not too long ago 2k was used.) Film scanned at this resolution can be transfered back to 35mm and will be visually identical to material that was analog the whole way through. Of course the fact that the images are moving helps smooth things out -- and they use a 12 or 16 bit log scale for color.