Actually we all know how it works... It's very simple. The law is whatever appointed, corrupt judges say it is... and generally is applied differently to those with wealth and power
Which the geek never admits to having.
Even when his income is substantially above the median for his home state, city or county.
H.265 was initially foreseen as an entirely new standard and not an extension of H.264 like High-performance Video Coding proposal by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). Although some agreements about the goals of an H.265 project have been reached, e.g. computational efficiency and high compression performance,[3][4] the current state of technology proved not yet mature for creation of an entirely new H.265 standard, and all contributions are modifications to KTA JM11, a reference H.264 encoder by the MPEG/VCEG Joint Video Team.
In April 2009, the scope of the project was changed to H.NGVC, with a H.264+ standard being the most likely outcome.
In ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) started a similar project during 2007, tentatively named High-performance Video Coding. Early evaluations were performed with modified KTA (Key Technical Area) JM11 reference software encoder developed by the MPEG/VCEG Joint Video Team. By July 2009, experimental results showed average bit reduction of around 20% compared with H.264/AVC High Profile at the same computational complexity; these results prompted MPEG to initiate the standardization process in collaboration with VCEG.
A formal Call for Proposals (CfP) was issued in January 2010, and proposals were evaluated at the first meeting of the MPEG/VCEG Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), which took place in April 2010
The current timeline calls for an adoption of final standard by July 2012.
Plus why would limit yourself to only handful of supported prebuilt robots. Or to how MS software is limiting their use? (will it even run independently of a PC with Windows?)
The software isn't limited to educational and hobbyist kits like LEGO's Mindstorms.
That is one of the reasons why it includes a DX 10 graphics simulator with NVIDIA physics acceleration. Why there are tutorials for importing 3D models using tools like Blender:
Benefits of Simulation
Low Barrier to Entry
Simulation enables individuals using a personal computer to develop very interesting robots or robot swarms with the primary limiting factors being time and imagination. At the same time, it constrains them in ways similar to physical robots so they can focus efforts in something that can be realized.
Staged Approach
RDS approaches simulation in stages, allowing developers to deal with complexity at the right time. This means the programmer can debug the simulated robot starting with basic primitives and requiring only basic knowledge. It is extremely concise to add such a virtual robot in an environment, with some simple shapes to interact with. This means debugging, even in the simulation, is simpler.
Prototyping
Physical models for a robot and the simulation services that use them can be developed concurrently by many individuals, and just like many software development communities, create a platform, that many can use and modify without worrying about breaking expensive, unique robots.
Education
Simulation can be an extremely useful instructional aid. the programmer can choose what to focus on, build up complexity, and control the environment. The programmer can also introduce components that are purely virtual, concepts that cannot be easily realized, but still useful for learning.
Learning System
Another interesting aspect of simulation is that it can be used while the robot is running, as a predictive tool or supervised learning module. For quite some time, developers have used simulation running concurrently with an active robot to try things out in the simulation world that is updated real-time with sensory data. Then the simulation can tell them, probabilistically, if something is a good idea. Virtually looking ahead in the various possibilities.
Simulation Drawbacks and Limitations
Essentially, this is trying to turn a hardware problem into a software one. However, developing software and a physics model has its own challenges and end up with a different set of challenges and limitations. Usually this means there is a sweet spot; a range of applications where simulation is very appropriate, and then a range of applications or stages in development, where using the real robot is essential or easier. As the simulation environment improves, the range where application is appropriate expands. The increase in processing power plus the concurrent and distributed nature of the RDS should help address some of the issues.
Lack of Noisy Data
People involved in the large robotics challenges will tell programmers they must spent serious time with the real robot no matter how good the simulation is. This is partially because there is a lot of work left in making simulation more usable and more realistic. But it is also because the real world is unpredictable and complex with lots of noise being picked up by sensors.
Incomplete and Inaccurate Models
A large number of effects in the real world are still unexplained or very hard to model. This means the programmer may not be able to model everything accurately, especially in real time. For certain domains, like wheeled vehicles, motion at low speeds is still a big challenge for simulation engines. Modeling sonar is another.
Lots of Time for Tuning
In the simulation environment, it's actually very easy to ge
Whatever happened to "Innocent until proven guilty"?
Nothing.
The police have the right to arrest and confine you if they have a credible reason to believe you have committed a crime.
They don't always have to be particularly gentle about it.
They don't always have to go out of their way to spare you any embarrassment.
The judge in responding to a request for a release on bail can consider the risk of flight to avoid prosecution - and the danger you appear to present to yourself or others.
These interim decisions imply that you can be treated as guilty as charged - or cannot be trusted to behave responsibly until that final determination has been made.
MS is dragging the price to the sky with Win7 and the manufacturers start having a meaningful choice again
WalMart will sell you an eMachine dual core Intel 15" laptop with 64 bit Win 7 Premium, a DVD burner and 3 GB RAM for $380. For $30 more they will throw in an HP multifunction printer.
WalMart currently stocks - 1 - netbook for in-store sale.
This tells me that netbook sales have taken an artic plunge in deep-discount retail.
Because you totally need to bring a hard drive into the country to bring along CP, you can't use those newfangled technologies like encrypted network connections and proxies to get around it.
To take this idea a step further:
Tell me why you need or want to access anything as toxic as your child pornography stash while traveling abroad.
You risk charges of possession. You risk charges of smuggling.
You just might be asked if you have been in town shopping around for something more than a photograph.
The geek tends to approach a problem like this with narrowly technical solutions, which he trusts altogether too much.
They need to be air-tight.
If you caught moving anything of this sort "by wire" you will probably be escalated to a "federal" charge. That is not good news in the states. In the fundamentalist Islamic Republic....
Of course there was... and there will be again ten minutes after you get to your hotel room... but right now there is honestly no porn. A national firewall is clearly not going to block popular cloud storage providers.
You are moving your child pornograpy "by wire" across international borders.
Your cloud storage provider now has your hard core stuff on its servers - with every reason to rat you out the moment this becomes inconvenient or dangerous to them.
Your traffic moves over channels that every intellenge service on the planet monitors routinely - and your encryption had better be damn good, because you looking at billion dollar investments in the tech needed to break it.
Microsoft convinced the manufacturers that they needed to run Windows, so any kind of ARM support was dropped with that, along with the likelihood of a cheap netbook.
It would be more truthful to say that when the Atom netbook running Win XP hit the shelves, sales of the Linux netbook tanked.
H.264 video support is everywhere. In cell phones. Camcorders. Webcams. Blu-Ray and HDTV. In OSX. Windows 7. In Canonical's OEM distribution of Ubuntu...
The study was done with students at Cornell, who were asked to give their verdict after reading the closing arguments from the trial. The pictures of ugly and non-ugly people were inserted into these case studies, so that the same facts were presented as though they were about two different people.
The students read the closing arguments.
They were shown a picture of the "defendant."
They did not spend days or weeks in a courtroom. Listening to testimony. Viewing exhibits. Making their decision. They did not spend days or weeks observing the defendant - perhaps hearing him testify in his own defense.
Not everyone photographs well. "Ugly" is subjective. Body language matters. Speech matters.
The student may half the age of the average juror. With all that implies in experience and perspective. Does "ugly" have the same meaning to a combat vet as it does to an eighteen year old kid?
So is this the reason why we see so many female teachers going off so lightly when they have sex with student boys in comparison to their male colleagues ?
I don;t like seeing claims like this made without a shred of proof.
Show me the number of women charged. The number of men charged. The age of the boy or girl. The age of the teacher. Other aggravating or mitigating factors.
The deed should be judged based on the laws of the country where I was when I committed the deed. Even if the target is in another country.
The bomb is planted in Times Square, New York.
You trigger it from a cell phone in London.
Who has jurisdiction on the charge of murder?
The answer has to be the state of New York - otherwise you could potentially escape prosecution for any crime committed by remote control from the high seas or across a state or international border.
Do you realize how many movies and records from the early days are destroyed forever. There is a crapload of Chicago blues artists and awesome songs that will never be heard again because of Copyright law.
The Disney archives are complete.
Down to the matte paintings on glass used in movies like Bambi. The Rube Goldberg contraptions devised for sound effects.
Why?
The studio has retained its corporate identity and independence for the better part of ninety years.
The studio - at least since the run-up to Snow White - does much of its artistic training and technical research and development in house.
The studio discovered very early on that its product didn't age like others - but retained its commercial viability for generations.
That made it worthwhile to do some very expensive things - like transferring endless reels of film from to safety stock, preserving and restoring three strip B&W technicolor masters.
When a book, a movie, or audio recording is lost "forever" the reasons are usually quite mundane:
Media is perishable. Pulpwood paper. Wax cylinders. Nitrate stock...
Conservation demands a long-term corporate commitment backed by serious money and technical expertise.
Record companies supporting niche genres - "Race" or "Hillbilly" in the twenties or thirties - are often short-lived and opportunistic.
Take the money and run.
Their corporate assets have fallen into a black hole. The paper trail they leave behind is suspect.
Moving up the food chain:
Primary sources are often preserved simply on the off-chance they might be needed for legal reasons.
To settle performance rights issues. Document product placement and advertising. Production credits. To defend against charges of communism, libel, slander, pornography...
That is why recordings of early radio and television programs ended up in the closed files of the advertising agencies which produced them for their clients.
Murder is embodied in state law. As is rape. Where does the Federal government (and SCOTUS) think it gets the authority to do this? There is nothing in the Constitution that would bestow this kind of power on them. And that includes the general welfare and interstate commerce clauses.
The geek forgets the American Civil War - the six hundred thousand dead - which profoundly and permanently altered the relationship between the states and the federal government.
The geek forgets the constitutional amendments which gave those changes the force of fundamental law.
Slashdot Mirror
That doesn't mean Isohunt and Fung have no assets that can be reached in the states. No substantial corporate presence in the states.
The day Microsoft release a product that doesn't suck will be the day they release their first vacuum cleaner!
It's rather a pity the geek's jokes aren't stamped with an expiration date like a gallon of milk.
Actually we all know how it works... It's very simple. The law is whatever appointed, corrupt judges say it is... and generally is applied differently to those with wealth and power
Which the geek never admits to having.
Even when his income is substantially above the median for his home state, city or county.
It proves how clueless the geek is about how the law works.
More aggresively -- WINE is one of the best ways for Linux to embrace, extend, and extinguish -- beat Redmond at their own game.
But not very successfully, it would seem:
Top OS System Share Trend [June 2009-April 2010]
OS Platform Statistics [March 2003- April 2010]
How many FOSS projects - and how many proprietary/closed source programs available for Linux - are ported to Windows or begin as native Windows apps?
The only devices I own that will play h.264 are my computers.
The more important question to ask is how many H.264 cameras, camcorders, and other video devices are out there.
A quick, casual, search of Google shopping suggests some answers:
H.264 35,000 hits
H.264 Camera 22,000 hits
H.264 Camcorder 4,600 hits
H.264 Cell Phone 5,000 hits
H.264 DVR 13,000 hits
H.264 Canon Still Digital Camera 229 hits (Still cameras capable of recording H.264 Video)
H.264 Prosumer 6 hits (Panasonic Camcorders $2-$4,000)
H.264 Video Capture 12,000 hits
H.264 WebCam 3,400 hits
H.264 WiFi Camera 1,400 hits {Security Video)
Ogg Audio 58,000 hits
Theora 110 hits (Women's Dress Pants and FOSS T-Shirts for the Geek)
Theora Video 12 hits
Of course categories over-lap. Not every page yields relevant results.
Why is Ericsson after Sony?
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. = Philips.
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson = Ericsson.
Anyhow, h.264 will be about as useful 15 years from now as Intel Indeo is right now.
The H.264 standard is extensible.
The "next generation" video codec to emerge from MPEG and VCEG is likely be simply "H.264+"
High Efficiency Video Coding:
H.265 was initially foreseen as an entirely new standard and not an extension of H.264 like High-performance Video Coding proposal by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). Although some agreements about the goals of an H.265 project have been reached, e.g. computational efficiency and high compression performance,[3][4] the current state of technology proved not yet mature for creation of an entirely new H.265 standard, and all contributions are modifications to KTA JM11, a reference H.264 encoder by the MPEG/VCEG Joint Video Team.
In April 2009, the scope of the project was changed to H.NGVC, with a H.264+ standard being the most likely outcome.
In ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) started a similar project during 2007, tentatively named High-performance Video Coding. Early evaluations were performed with modified KTA (Key Technical Area) JM11 reference software encoder developed by the MPEG/VCEG Joint Video Team. By July 2009, experimental results showed average bit reduction of around 20% compared with H.264/AVC High Profile at the same computational complexity; these results prompted MPEG to initiate the standardization process in collaboration with VCEG.
A formal Call for Proposals (CfP) was issued in January 2010, and proposals were evaluated at the first meeting of the MPEG/VCEG Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), which took place in April 2010
The current timeline calls for an adoption of final standard by July 2012.
Plus why would limit yourself to only handful of supported prebuilt robots. Or to how MS software is limiting their use? (will it even run independently of a PC with Windows?)
The software isn't limited to educational and hobbyist kits like LEGO's Mindstorms.
That is one of the reasons why it includes a DX 10 graphics simulator with NVIDIA physics acceleration. Why there are tutorials for importing 3D models using tools like Blender:
Benefits of Simulation
Low Barrier to Entry
Simulation enables individuals using a personal computer to develop very interesting robots or robot swarms with the primary limiting factors being time and imagination. At the same time, it constrains them in ways similar to physical robots so they can focus efforts in something that can be realized.
Staged Approach
RDS approaches simulation in stages, allowing developers to deal with complexity at the right time. This means the programmer can debug the simulated robot starting with basic primitives and requiring only basic knowledge. It is extremely concise to add such a virtual robot in an environment, with some simple shapes to interact with. This means debugging, even in the simulation, is simpler.
Prototyping
Physical models for a robot and the simulation services that use them can be developed concurrently by many individuals, and just like many software development communities, create a platform, that many can use and modify without worrying about breaking expensive, unique robots.
Education
Simulation can be an extremely useful instructional aid. the programmer can choose what to focus on, build up complexity, and control the environment. The programmer can also introduce components that are purely virtual, concepts that cannot be easily realized, but still useful for learning.
Learning System
Another interesting aspect of simulation is that it can be used while the robot is running, as a predictive tool or supervised learning module. For quite some time, developers have used simulation running concurrently with an active robot to try things out in the simulation world that is updated real-time with sensory data. Then the simulation can tell them, probabilistically, if something is a good idea. Virtually looking ahead in the various possibilities.
Simulation Drawbacks and Limitations
Essentially, this is trying to turn a hardware problem into a software one. However, developing software and a physics model has its own challenges and end up with a different set of challenges and limitations. Usually this means there is a sweet spot; a range of applications where simulation is very appropriate, and then a range of applications or stages in development, where using the real robot is essential or easier. As the simulation environment improves, the range where application is appropriate expands. The increase in processing power plus the concurrent and distributed nature of the RDS should help address some of the issues.
Lack of Noisy Data
People involved in the large robotics challenges will tell programmers they must spent serious time with the real robot no matter how good the simulation is. This is partially because there is a lot of work left in making simulation more usable and more realistic. But it is also because the real world is unpredictable and complex with lots of noise being picked up by sensors.
Incomplete and Inaccurate Models
A large number of effects in the real world are still unexplained or very hard to model. This means the programmer may not be able to model everything accurately, especially in real time. For certain domains, like wheeled vehicles, motion at low speeds is still a big challenge for simulation engines. Modeling sonar is another.
Lots of Time for Tuning
In the simulation environment, it's actually very easy to ge
Whatever happened to "Innocent until proven guilty"?
Nothing.
The police have the right to arrest and confine you if they have a credible reason to believe you have committed a crime.
They don't always have to be particularly gentle about it.
They don't always have to go out of their way to spare you any embarrassment.
The judge in responding to a request for a release on bail can consider the risk of flight to avoid prosecution - and the danger you appear to present to yourself or others.
These interim decisions imply that you can be treated as guilty as charged - or cannot be trusted to behave responsibly until that final determination has been made.
You know how much crapware gets loaded on that thing?
Microsoft Works, ASUS Super Hybrid Engine, Microsoft Office (60 days trial)
MS is dragging the price to the sky with Win7 and the manufacturers start having a meaningful choice again
WalMart will sell you an eMachine dual core Intel 15" laptop with 64 bit Win 7 Premium, a DVD burner and 3 GB RAM for $380. For $30 more they will throw in an HP multifunction printer.
WalMart currently stocks - 1 - netbook for in-store sale.
This tells me that netbook sales have taken an artic plunge in deep-discount retail.
Great, so where can I get a cheap compatible robot and what kind of stuff can I program it to do?
These are MSDN sites.
So be prepared for information overload.
Microsoft Robotics: 3rd Party Hardware
Microsoft Robotics Developer Center
This page is an introduction to robotic simulation, with some nice screen shots of the VSE sample environments: Simulation Overview
Because you totally need to bring a hard drive into the country to bring along CP, you can't use those newfangled technologies like encrypted network connections and proxies to get around it.
To take this idea a step further:
Tell me why you need or want to access anything as toxic as your child pornography stash while traveling abroad.
You risk charges of possession. You risk charges of smuggling.
You just might be asked if you have been in town shopping around for something more than a photograph.
The geek tends to approach a problem like this with narrowly technical solutions, which he trusts altogether too much.
They need to be air-tight.
If you caught moving anything of this sort "by wire" you will probably be escalated to a "federal" charge. That is not good news in the states. In the fundamentalist Islamic Republic....
Of course there was... and there will be again ten minutes after you get to your hotel room... but right now there is honestly no porn. A national firewall is clearly not going to block popular cloud storage providers.
You are moving your child pornograpy "by wire" across international borders.
Your cloud storage provider now has your hard core stuff on its servers - with every reason to rat you out the moment this becomes inconvenient or dangerous to them.
Your traffic moves over channels that every intellenge service on the planet monitors routinely - and your encryption had better be damn good, because you looking at billion dollar investments in the tech needed to break it.
Microsoft convinced the manufacturers that they needed to run Windows, so any kind of ARM support was dropped with that, along with the likelihood of a cheap netbook.
It would be more truthful to say that when the Atom netbook running Win XP hit the shelves, sales of the Linux netbook tanked.
The E-Machine:
64 Bit Windows Home Premium
15" 1366x768 Screen
Dual core 2.2 GHz Intel CPU
3 GB DDR 2 RAM
250 GB HDD
DVD Burner
Intel 4500M graphics
5-in-1 media card reader
eMachines Black 15.6" eME725-4520 Laptop PC with Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor & Windows 7 Home Premium
The Asus 12 inch Intel-Ion netbook with Win 7 Home Premium is $470 with a one year warranty. ASUS Silver 12.1" Eee PC 1201N-PU17-SL Netbook PC with Intel Atom N330 Processor & Windows 7 Home Premium
Supported by a fuck-ton of companies ?
There are 820 H.264 corporate licensees, among them;
Apple, Canonical, Cisco, Creative, Daewoo, Dell, Facebook, France Télécom, Erricson, Fujitsu, General Dynamics, Hitachi, HBO, Honeywell, HP, JVC, Kodak, LG Electronics, Logitech, Microsoft, Mitsubishi Electric, Netflix, Nintendo, NTT, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sanyo, Scientific-Atlanta, Sharp, Siemens, Sony, Thomson, Toshiba, Yamaha, Vizio...
Fortunately, at least Silverlight is nearly nowhere.. :)
Neflix uses Silverlight.
h.264 is a non-issue
H.264 is 26% of web video now. 160% increase in H.264 video online since January
H.264 video support is everywhere. In cell phones. Camcorders. Webcams. Blu-Ray and HDTV. In OSX. Windows 7. In Canonical's OEM distribution of Ubuntu...
Hardware accelerated in Flash 10. Silverlight.
Netflix Now Streams HD Movies to the Web [May 18]
H.264 is a problem for Firefox that can not be wished away.
The study was done with students at Cornell, who were asked to give their verdict after reading the closing arguments from the trial. The pictures of ugly and non-ugly people were inserted into these case studies, so that the same facts were presented as though they were about two different people.
The students read the closing arguments.
They were shown a picture of the "defendant."
They did not spend days or weeks in a courtroom. Listening to testimony. Viewing exhibits. Making their decision. They did not spend days or weeks observing the defendant - perhaps hearing him testify in his own defense.
Not everyone photographs well. "Ugly" is subjective. Body language matters. Speech matters.
The student may half the age of the average juror. With all that implies in experience and perspective. Does "ugly" have the same meaning to a combat vet as it does to an eighteen year old kid?
So is this the reason why we see so many female teachers going off so lightly when they have sex with student boys in comparison to their male colleagues ?
I don;t like seeing claims like this made without a shred of proof.
Show me the number of women charged. The number of men charged. The age of the boy or girl. The age of the teacher. Other aggravating or mitigating factors.
The deed should be judged based on the laws of the country where I was when I committed the deed. Even if the target is in another country.
The bomb is planted in Times Square, New York.
You trigger it from a cell phone in London.
Who has jurisdiction on the charge of murder?
The answer has to be the state of New York - otherwise you could potentially escape prosecution for any crime committed by remote control from the high seas or across a state or international border.
Do you realize how many movies and records from the early days are destroyed forever. There is a crapload of Chicago blues artists and awesome songs that will never be heard again because of Copyright law.
The Disney archives are complete.
Down to the matte paintings on glass used in movies like Bambi. The Rube Goldberg contraptions devised for sound effects.
Why?
The studio has retained its corporate identity and independence for the better part of ninety years.
The studio - at least since the run-up to Snow White - does much of its artistic training and technical research and development in house.
The studio discovered very early on that its product didn't age like others - but retained its commercial viability for generations.
That made it worthwhile to do some very expensive things - like transferring endless reels of film from to safety stock, preserving and restoring three strip B&W technicolor masters.
When a book, a movie, or audio recording is lost "forever" the reasons are usually quite mundane:
Media is perishable. Pulpwood paper. Wax cylinders. Nitrate stock...
Conservation demands a long-term corporate commitment backed by serious money and technical expertise.
Record companies supporting niche genres - "Race" or "Hillbilly" in the twenties or thirties - are often short-lived and opportunistic.
Take the money and run.
Their corporate assets have fallen into a black hole. The paper trail they leave behind is suspect.
Moving up the food chain:
Primary sources are often preserved simply on the off-chance they might be needed for legal reasons.
To settle performance rights issues. Document product placement and advertising. Production credits. To defend against charges of communism, libel, slander, pornography...
That is why recordings of early radio and television programs ended up in the closed files of the advertising agencies which produced them for their clients.
Murder is embodied in state law. As is rape. Where does the Federal government (and SCOTUS) think it gets the authority to do this? There is nothing in the Constitution that would bestow this kind of power on them. And that includes the general welfare and interstate commerce clauses.
The geek forgets the American Civil War - the six hundred thousand dead - which profoundly and permanently altered the relationship between the states and the federal government.
The geek forgets the constitutional amendments which gave those changes the force of fundamental law.
The Fourteenth Amendment, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, binds the power of state governments to essentially the same limits as the federal Bill of Rights. Incorporation of the Bill of Rights, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution