During xmas holidays in 2009 I wrote a small Linux script that would take a webcam picture once every 5 minutes. Then I set up a webcam in my living room, and I mostly have the whole year 2010 recorded from my living room. I spend too much time watching TV:-(
Sometime early 2010 I also wrote a ffmpeg script, that is run with cron every midnight, and it compiles all the daily pics into a time lapse video. They are the only way I can view the material - there is loads of it. Running "ls" on the directory with the pictures takes about 5mins, so I strongly recommend you put each day in a separate folder.
Who will watch this stuff? I don't know, I just do weird projects for fun.
The story is based on Facebook posts, which are in Finnish. Luckily, I am a Finnish person, and here is my take:
1) TTVK allegedly posts a Pirate Bay Torrent with latest cd from the Finnish artist Chisu (crappy music, that appeals to youth) 2) This guy claims his daughter downloaded it while "googling for test samples for album she didn't have money to buy at the time" 3) TTVK sends an angry letter, demanding 600 euros and demanding that you sign NDA about the agreement to pay 4) Police comes to raid the man's home, several months later, taking only the laptop of his daughter, and saying things like "just pay the bill, it is not that much" and "if you pay, we will go away and leave you alone" 5) Guy decides to fight it, does not sign the NDA and makes a Facebook post 6) Kukilainen from TTVK makes a note saying, "we only track IPs and we will take this to court" 7) Artist posts on her Facebook page "I don't want to sue my fans, but I think these TTVK guys are not so bad as you think" 8) Anti-piracy party in Finland blames the artists for not taking a stand, praises the guy for his heroism and demanding law reforms 9) Police makes a statement, that they are investing the father's part in this and it becomes clear, that the guy own's a bar and has live performances - so he should be aware of intellectual property rights.
The general atmosphere here in Finland is, that artists and contributors generally do want compensation, want this particular case to go away , and TTVK to resume business as usual and normal people are waking up to reality of our crappy copyright laws. One university law professor stated, that legistlation is a result from lobbying campaign from TTVK and should not ever have passed in its current form.
Manufacturing jobs are low pay, lots of manual work. This gives a whole new meaning to words "code monkey".
Imagine truckloads of people doing basic programming tasks straight out of school. In worst case, they have one college graduated "software architect" and 50 people coding stuff he designed. And their career plan: if you do well, you can have your own team building software. That's it.
And I haven't even started on the quality of code..
Oh, I can see why Microsoft would offer a new license:
- Personal -> they tie that your Windows-account, so you can't never ever sell it - Single System -> they tie that to your PC configuration, so you can't change your GPU without upgrading to full version
.. so they are just making another confusing license and hope to gain more users for their Anytime Upgrade. I mean, you do have to upgrade your PC if you are like selling your old PC with PULSB. This way Microsoft can charge for Windows 8 twice, yay!
I had Asus EEEPC 901 and I currencly have Intel DC 2700 DC Atom-motherboard.
I just love their Linux support! On 2700DC it doesn't exist. Hell, it took them 6 months to get XP drivers out.
On GMA 950 (EEEPC 901) they decided quietly to downgrade OpenGL back to 1.x -versions, because they couldn't be arsed with maintaining the driver base.
For that you'll get 8GB of storage, but a 16GB model will go for $249, 32GB for $299. We're told only the 16GB and 32GB models will be shipped to the US..
So... they'll have a 8GB $200 model, somewhere, probably always sold out, and the real price will be between $249 - $299.
I've stopped downloading illegal software after finding a decent place to work years ago (so I can afford the things I need now!).
This is a total exception. I would definately use some illegal "crack" to unleash the full power of the product I bought. It was crippled at the time of purchase and I am just "fixing it".
I don't see any moral problems with this. That is why I am not posting as AC.
I've done analysis on some of the lisences for my previous company. The thing it, you can actually have trade secrets in your code with for example BSD-style lisence, where you only need to provide the acknowledgement and changes to the original source code. Sometimes not even that much. We actually chose software based on the lisencing terms. Not all lisences are that restrictive (for commercial gain).
Then again, with GPL you need to publish the full source code, so this is a moot point.
If the lisence would have been LGPL, they could easily just keep their trade secrets..
Legal online market in Finland is not selling so well. So they blame piracy.
Instead, Apple, Amazon, even Spotify are selling much more than Finnish online retailers together. Why buy from local legal online service with shitty DRM and/or high prices, when you can buy from well established American counterpart? The people in Finland can use the internet and they are just flocking to better online music providers.
They are not switching to Intel processors. They are letting Intel build their processors. Big difference.
They will just probably use Intel's advanced 22nm technology to build processors based on ARM architecture. Something they might also design themselves.
Much like GlobalFoundries is not AMD, they just manufacture AMD products.
Er.. that was a SMALL ISP they there talking about.
Really things go like this: RIAA Guy: HI! Would you like to let us sue your biggest filesharers? Large ISP: What? Wait! Why? How do you even identify these people? RIAA Guy: We just randomly shut down people that generate most upstream! They must be sharing! And sharing is illegal! Large ISP: So you want to remove people that use most of our network resources from our hosting? RIAA Guy: Yes! And we won't even charge you extra!
So RIAA really just frees up bandwidth, and I really wonder why the small ISP is not complying.. I would even help them out, sending them a regularly updated list of biggest bandwidth users, and in return get a perfectly reasonable excuse to shut them all down.
Start releasing the good stuff, and people might actually buy your movies. I don't quite feel like running to the store and paying premium to get my hands on Gigi when it comes out.
1) Keep your own testing server somewhere else. You bought a pc for LAMP? Good. Use it. Virtualize, do it in a sandbox, don't do any of your own stuff in enterprise server. 2) Create a backup plan. Do whatever it takes, so you can restore to any point in time. This migth mean that you have to ask for mode budget for backup solutions, but just do it. Tell them it is this, or they lose all data on potential attack. 3) Get ready for an attack. If some services go down, be sure to know how to get them up - fast. If your company hosts something on the net, every minute server is down is lost business for that period. 4) Update your server regularly, preferably not during normal work hours. Keeping latest patches installed is a must, but you must also ensure no of the company services are affected and 0 downtime happens during work hours. 5) Make sure no normal employee has any control on server. Just make sure, everyone can access ONLY the resources they are meant to, too much rights -> they steal your Intellectual Property.
This is just common sense and not even technical. But from management perspective, this is the important stuff.
Just put the technical stuff on your TODO list, and focus on getting things stable and secure first.
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Let's - for the sake of argument - assume, that I will pirate Photoshop CC.
Now let's also assume that BSA will raid my house and put me in jail pending trial.
And then.. how much do I owe Adobe? How much damage have I caused using pirated software? Surely not $700 (price of Photoshop CS6)?
* Numbers may be subject to change once verified with actual the parts.
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/6936/Screen%20Shot%202013-05-06%20at%2011.16.42%20AM.png
So this is marketing pulling figures out of somewhere and posting them as the Ultimate Truth, without actually having the hardware to test them with?
During xmas holidays in 2009 I wrote a small Linux script that would take a webcam picture once every 5 minutes. Then I set up a webcam in my living room, and I mostly have the whole year 2010 recorded from my living room. I spend too much time watching TV :-(
Sometime early 2010 I also wrote a ffmpeg script, that is run with cron every midnight, and it compiles all the daily pics into a time lapse video. They are the only way I can view the material - there is loads of it. Running "ls" on the directory with the pictures takes about 5mins, so I strongly recommend you put each day in a separate folder.
Who will watch this stuff? I don't know, I just do weird projects for fun.
Here, have a look at this Anandtech E-350 review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4499/fusion-e350-review-asus-e35m1i-deluxe-ecs-hdci-and-zotac-fusion350ae/15
They pair very low-end AMD CPU with best GPU on the market at the time. Results: the CPU does affect the performance. No suprises there..
You need to be more specific with your hardware.
Also, take a look here:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/48
You really think Dell will let you use that as a Web Browser? Think again.
It is going to be a dumb terminal that connects to Dell Services. These services will likely have a monthly/usage based fee.
There is no business sense in giving you hardware with low profit margins for your personal use.
Hi!
The story is based on Facebook posts, which are in Finnish. Luckily, I am a Finnish person, and here is my take:
1) TTVK allegedly posts a Pirate Bay Torrent with latest cd from the Finnish artist Chisu (crappy music, that appeals to youth)
2) This guy claims his daughter downloaded it while "googling for test samples for album she didn't have money to buy at the time"
3) TTVK sends an angry letter, demanding 600 euros and demanding that you sign NDA about the agreement to pay
4) Police comes to raid the man's home, several months later, taking only the laptop of his daughter, and saying things like "just pay the bill, it is not that much" and "if you pay, we will go away and leave you alone"
5) Guy decides to fight it, does not sign the NDA and makes a Facebook post
6) Kukilainen from TTVK makes a note saying, "we only track IPs and we will take this to court"
7) Artist posts on her Facebook page "I don't want to sue my fans, but I think these TTVK guys are not so bad as you think"
8) Anti-piracy party in Finland blames the artists for not taking a stand, praises the guy for his heroism and demanding law reforms
9) Police makes a statement, that they are investing the father's part in this and it becomes clear, that the guy own's a bar and has live performances - so he should be aware of intellectual property rights.
The general atmosphere here in Finland is, that artists and contributors generally do want compensation, want this particular case to go away , and TTVK to resume business as usual and normal people are waking up to reality of our crappy copyright laws. One university law professor stated, that legistlation is a result from lobbying campaign from TTVK and should not ever have passed in its current form.
Links:
http://antipiracy.fi/inenglish/
Manufacturing jobs are low pay, lots of manual work. This gives a whole new meaning to words "code monkey".
Imagine truckloads of people doing basic programming tasks straight out of school. In worst case, they have one college graduated "software architect" and 50 people coding stuff he designed. And their career plan: if you do well, you can have your own team building software. That's it.
And I haven't even started on the quality of code..
Oh, I can see why Microsoft would offer a new license:
- Personal -> they tie that your Windows-account, so you can't never ever sell it
- Single System -> they tie that to your PC configuration, so you can't change your GPU without upgrading to full version
I had Asus EEEPC 901 and I currencly have Intel DC 2700 DC Atom-motherboard.
I just love their Linux support! On 2700DC it doesn't exist. Hell, it took them 6 months to get XP drivers out.
On GMA 950 (EEEPC 901) they decided quietly to downgrade OpenGL back to 1.x -versions, because they couldn't be arsed with maintaining the driver base.
Let me guess - that SDK is Windows only?
I clicked the link and read TFA:
For that you'll get 8GB of storage, but a 16GB model will go for $249, 32GB for $299. We're told only the 16GB and 32GB models will be shipped to the US..
So... they'll have a 8GB $200 model, somewhere, probably always sold out, and the real price will be between $249 - $299.
I've stopped downloading illegal software after finding a decent place to work years ago (so I can afford the things I need now!).
This is a total exception. I would definately use some illegal "crack" to unleash the full power of the product I bought. It was crippled at the time of purchase and I am just "fixing it".
I don't see any moral problems with this. That is why I am not posting as AC.
I've done analysis on some of the lisences for my previous company. The thing it, you can actually have trade secrets in your code with for example BSD-style lisence, where you only need to provide the acknowledgement and changes to the original source code. Sometimes not even that much. We actually chose software based on the lisencing terms. Not all lisences are that restrictive (for commercial gain).
Then again, with GPL you need to publish the full source code, so this is a moot point.
If the lisence would have been LGPL, they could easily just keep their trade secrets..
I would call it Partial Gaussian Blur. Since that is effectively what they are doing. They are blurring the sharp edges of the image.
The right balance of NAND, DRAM and an HDD yields better results than DRAM and HDDs, study finds
So.. they have NAND, DRAM and HDDs, and they choose to kill.. DRAM? What? If something is going to fade away it is the HDDs..
TFA probably uses this as source:
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/06/20/intel-equipped-to-lead-industry-to-era-of-exascale-computing
There are 50 cores in that Knight's Ferry. They could probably go to 80 by year's end.
That might actually be the point.
Legal online market in Finland is not selling so well. So they blame piracy.
Instead, Apple, Amazon, even Spotify are selling much more than Finnish online retailers together. Why buy from local legal online service with shitty DRM and/or high prices, when you can buy from well established American counterpart? The people in Finland can use the internet and they are just flocking to better online music providers.
They are not switching to Intel processors. They are letting Intel build their processors. Big difference.
They will just probably use Intel's advanced 22nm technology to build processors based on ARM architecture. Something they might also design themselves.
Much like GlobalFoundries is not AMD, they just manufacture AMD products.
RFC1149 - Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html
RFC2549 - IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html
What about Via?
Er.. that was a SMALL ISP they there talking about.
Really things go like this:
RIAA Guy: HI! Would you like to let us sue your biggest filesharers?
Large ISP: What? Wait! Why? How do you even identify these people?
RIAA Guy: We just randomly shut down people that generate most upstream! They must be sharing! And sharing is illegal!
Large ISP: So you want to remove people that use most of our network resources from our hosting?
RIAA Guy: Yes! And we won't even charge you extra!
So RIAA really just frees up bandwidth, and I really wonder why the small ISP is not complying.. I would even help them out, sending them a regularly updated list of biggest bandwidth users, and in return get a perfectly reasonable excuse to shut them all down.
This is the first step of making game accounts tied to your name.
After this, it is quite easy to ask your ID or use your credit card number to make the game YOUR personal copy.
It all begins with harmless little change, that wasn't supposed to hurt anyone..
Tomorrow MS will announce that Windows Paint runs under wine!
Only if they use licensed technology provided by Novell for maximum compatibility.
If you don't see people buying movies - maybe you should release some good movies?
Star Wars Trilogy (the original one): No
Lord of the Rings Trilogy: No
Indiana Jones: No
How many good movies you see on this list:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/releasedates_historical.html
Start releasing the good stuff, and people might actually buy your movies. I don't quite feel like running to the store and paying premium to get my hands on Gigi when it comes out.
Just a few words of general advice:
1) Keep your own testing server somewhere else. You bought a pc for LAMP? Good. Use it. Virtualize, do it in a sandbox, don't do any of your own stuff in enterprise server.
2) Create a backup plan. Do whatever it takes, so you can restore to any point in time. This migth mean that you have to ask for mode budget for backup solutions, but just do it. Tell them it is this, or they lose all data on potential attack.
3) Get ready for an attack. If some services go down, be sure to know how to get them up - fast. If your company hosts something on the net, every minute server is down is lost business for that period.
4) Update your server regularly, preferably not during normal work hours. Keeping latest patches installed is a must, but you must also ensure no of the company services are affected and 0 downtime happens during work hours.
5) Make sure no normal employee has any control on server. Just make sure, everyone can access ONLY the resources they are meant to, too much rights -> they steal your Intellectual Property.
This is just common sense and not even technical. But from management perspective, this is the important stuff.
Just put the technical stuff on your TODO list, and focus on getting things stable and secure first.
They are comparing it to Atom, but the Thermal Envelopes are far above 4W. So essentially, this is faster, but consumes more power.
So, all it takes to beat this is to release faster Atoms.
I hope this creates some competion to Ultra-Mobile Portable Device market though, having 2 alternatives is never bad. Now AMD needs to make its move.