It's hard to see MIDI accompaniment as "new technology."
Player piano rolls were edited to achieve a kind of mechanical perfection in performance or to weave in showy theatrical effects no human keyboardist could produce. The problems begin when you to try to synchronize a live performance to a recording.
For greater economies outside the major cities, you could simply dispense with the sets and local casting and show the movie.
If it wasn't for legal reverse engineering, most of us would be sitting in front of $2000 IBM PCs.
MS-DOS sold for $50 retail list.
There were name-branded and commercially viable MS-DOS PCs on the market before the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS. The same with software.
CP/M was the dominant business-oriented OS in the eight bit world and a 16 bit CP/M clone was a natural choice for IBM. But Microsoft had an entrant in the 16 bit UNIX sweepstakes and its willingness to sell an OS at mass market prices to all comers was something new.
If something can be had on Netflix for $8 it makes little sense to pay $20 or $60 for the DVDs.
The DVD or Blu-Ray disc is yours to keep. It will never go out of rotation.
If you are serious about the home theater experience, the Netflix stream isn't going to cut it. While our kids can play their favorite 2K or 4K videos as often as they like --- with no need for the player to be online except for the rare firmware upgrade.
I was thinking perhaps high schools could have shop classes for nerds -- instead of working on engines, wood working, etc, it would be hardware and software.
There is something to be said for mastering traditional tools and materials. Stone, Wood, Metal and Glass. Paving a walk. Building a fence, a deck, a table.
As long as it keeps being not porn it won't have the required money to put one on every living room.
It won't be porn that puts VR in every living room. It will be family oriented entertainment from companies like Disney --- and you won't need a helmet. Living rooms are where you socialize with your guests, your wife and kids.
The adult who cosplays Darth Vader and Booba Fett at home gets exiled to the basement.
"We don't want none of your kind here" isn't an emotion I sympathize with from any establishment for any reason."
It isn't the geek that is being banned ---- it's his gadgets.
The geek is as attached to his gadgets as a redneck to his guns, he feels naked and impotent without them --- and like a sex deprived adolescent will take his gadget-play into the theater or the church, where it is neither welcomed or appropriate.
OK, so wearing the camera makes you look like a voyeuristic dork.
But the biggest problem with Google Glass is that it is proof positive that you can't cut the cord that binds you to the machine --- and that is what really creeps people out.
The fact that these extra functions are aimed at developers, and as far as I can tell are intended to provide bounds checked variables (e.g. protected against buffer overflow shenanigans) could be cause for some concern. It does not count as a fix of existing broken functionality though, so I don't see how it would qualify as MS ''ending support'' for Win7 if they chose not to add these extras to all existing OSs of theirs.
This will only catch idiots. Smart people (the ones who are more dangerous) will be driven even more underground, using encrypted chats, sneakernets, and ways to mask IP like VPNs.
Preaching to the choir.
If you want to be politically effective you need to have significant visibility -- presence and recognition --- above-ground.
I don't see why causing death by a hack should have any special treatment compared to causing death by an ice pick, a bullet, high voltage electricity, or any other exotic means.
The geek doesn't take it well when one of his own is facing hard time.
The arguments why he should be excused from such punishment as predictable as the rise and setting of the sun.
To make it plain to the geek that he isn't some special flower exempt from conviction on the felony charge is precisely the reason you make computer crimes and penalties specific.
In the 24 US states where the felony murder rule applies, the hack that is inherently dangerous and takes a life or many lives could end in a death sentence for the principals involved. It is a fair bet that the hacker will not see this coming.
In felony murder, when you break it, you bought it.
Sure, you can cut the cable and all, but it's kind of funny that Disney has insinuated themselves that damned deeply into the entertainment industry, no?
You have got to be kidding.
Disney has a ninety year backlist of family-oriented feature films, shorts and television productions.
Its archives essentially intact and in a state suitable for commercial distribution.
Disney jump-started the ABC television network beginning in 1954 with Disneyland. Disney and Warner Brothers were the first of the "majors" to move into network television production in a really big way. with a handsome pay-off for everyone involved.
Disney's move to all-color production in 1961 did the same for NBC and color TV sales.
The pattern repeats with the introduction of cable, VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray...and now streaming media.
The original Menzel version of "Let It Go" distributed free and without copy protection as licensed HD Disney Studio animation is approaching 250 million page views on YouTube. I'll let you work out how that word-of-mouth translates into rental and sales of the movie and soundtrack alone.
Presto is Pixar's proprietary, fully featured, animation package. Besides the main interactive
application, Presto is built on top of a rich set of reusable libraries. The application supports
integrated workflows for a variety of feature film
departments including rigging, layout, animation
and simulation. It also provides built in
media playback and asset management tools.
For the purposes of this course, we will mainly discuss Presto's Execution System. We will use
two common disciplines, rigging and animation, to illustrate how the system works.
One of the challenges in Presto is its integrated architecture. In a single session, the user may
wish to animate or do some rigging or run a sim or all three without an explicit context switch.
Some of these tasks do not lend themselves well to a multithreading environment, and yet must
coexist seamlessly with all features of the application.
I'd wager that petrol prices are comparatively higher in europe vs usa then electricity ones.
Europe pays a stiff premium for oil, gas and electricity.
In findings likely to inflame claims EU climate change policies are damaging the bloc's manufacturers, the International Energy Agency said Europe will lose a third of its global market share of energy-intensive exports over the next two decades because energy prices will stay stubbornly higher than those in the US.
European gas import prices are currently around three times higher than in the US while industrial electricity prices are about twice as high, creating an energy price gap Dr Birol said would last ''at least 20 years''.
''Too much of the blame for Europeâ(TM)s high energy prices is being directed at its ambitions on climate change while the main factor --- the high cost of imported energy --- is being all but ignored,â he said in a speech to Londonâ(TM)s Imperial College where he elaborated on the IEAâ(TM)s analysis of the problem.
A first gen product using revolutionary technology and people are whining about it being unsafe? It's like complaining that the Model T didn't have airbags.
In concept and engineering the Ford Model T was without a doubt a more mature and sophisticated invention, more practical and more trustworthy, than your 3D printed plastic gun.
Henry Ford said of the vehicle:
''I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one --- and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.''
The Model T was (intentionally) almost as much a tractor and portable engine as it was an automobile. It has always been well regarded for its all-terrain abilities and ruggedness. It could travel a rocky, muddy farm lane, ford a shallow stream, climb a steep hill, and be parked on the other side to have one of its wheels removed and a pulley fastened to the hub for a flat belt to drive a bucksaw, thresher, silo blower, conveyor for filling corn cribs or haylofts, baler, water pump (for wells, mines, or swampy farm fields), electrical generator, and countless other applications. One unique application of the Model T was shown in the October 1922 issue of Fordson Farmer magazine. It showed a minister who had transformed his Model T into a mobile church, complete with small organ.
Standard Oil built its monopoly on the simple premise that when your wife touched a match to the wick of a kerosene lantern you should not be widowed in an explosion.
The Edison Labs invented the first commercially viable incandescent lamps that could be wired in parallel --- and went on to devise wiring standards, switches, fuses and so on, so that electric appliances could be safely used in homes, shops, offices and so on.
Stupid. dangerous, meaningless, stunts do not drive innovation. They set it back.
The only part they overlooked was not tthat... most of the people in the middle of nowhere found $5/minute on a large, dedicated device a touch on the pricey side.
With billions of dollars of infrastructure to build and maintain, how can the Google service be made more affordable?
I'm surprised there hasn't been a Kickstarter setup to re-implement TrueCrypt from the ground up. What would be the dollar cost to hire a team of developers to do it?
We know the cost of the audit:
Since September 2013, a handful of cryptographers have been discussing new problems and alternatives to the popular security application. By February 2014, the Open Crypto Audit Project---a new organization based in North Carolina that seeks formal 501(c)3 non-profit status---raised around $80,000 toward this goal on various online fundraising sites.
It's reasonable to assume that any attempt to resurrect TrueCrypt would fail without an independent audit on the same scale.
We don't know the size of the TrueCrypt team or the man-hours invested in its development, but we do know it took ten calendar years to take TrueCrypt to version 7.1,
Slashdot Mirror
It's hard to see MIDI accompaniment as "new technology."
Player piano rolls were edited to achieve a kind of mechanical perfection in performance or to weave in showy theatrical effects no human keyboardist could produce. The problems begin when you to try to synchronize a live performance to a recording.
For greater economies outside the major cities, you could simply dispense with the sets and local casting and show the movie.
If it wasn't for legal reverse engineering, most of us would be sitting in front of $2000 IBM PCs.
MS-DOS sold for $50 retail list.
There were name-branded and commercially viable MS-DOS PCs on the market before the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS. The same with software.
CP/M was the dominant business-oriented OS in the eight bit world and a 16 bit CP/M clone was a natural choice for IBM. But Microsoft had an entrant in the 16 bit UNIX sweepstakes and its willingness to sell an OS at mass market prices to all comers was something new.
If something can be had on Netflix for $8 it makes little sense to pay $20 or $60 for the DVDs.
The DVD or Blu-Ray disc is yours to keep. It will never go out of rotation.
If you are serious about the home theater experience, the Netflix stream isn't going to cut it. While our kids can play their favorite 2K or 4K videos as often as they like --- with no need for the player to be online except for the rare firmware upgrade.
I was thinking perhaps high schools could have shop classes for nerds -- instead of working on engines, wood working, etc, it would be hardware and software.
There is something to be said for mastering traditional tools and materials. Stone, Wood, Metal and Glass. Paving a walk. Building a fence, a deck, a table.
Project or password?
As long as it keeps being not porn it won't have the required money to put one on every living room.
It won't be porn that puts VR in every living room. It will be family oriented entertainment from companies like Disney --- and you won't need a helmet. Living rooms are where you socialize with your guests, your wife and kids.
The adult who cosplays Darth Vader and Booba Fett at home gets exiled to the basement.
"We don't want none of your kind here" isn't an emotion I sympathize with from any establishment for any reason."
It isn't the geek that is being banned ---- it's his gadgets.
The geek is as attached to his gadgets as a redneck to his guns, he feels naked and impotent without them --- and like a sex deprived adolescent will take his gadget-play into the theater or the church, where it is neither welcomed or appropriate.
OK, so wearing the camera makes you look like a voyeuristic dork.
But the biggest problem with Google Glass is that it is proof positive that you can't cut the cord that binds you to the machine --- and that is what really creeps people out.
From a post to the The Register:
NumptyScrub :
The fact that these extra functions are aimed at developers, and as far as I can tell are intended to provide bounds checked variables (e.g. protected against buffer overflow shenanigans) could be cause for some concern. It does not count as a fix of existing broken functionality though, so I don't see how it would qualify as MS ''ending support'' for Win7 if they chose not to add these extras to all existing OSs of theirs.
Redmond is patching Windows 8 but NOT Windows 7, say security bods
This will only catch idiots. Smart people (the ones who are more dangerous) will be driven even more underground, using encrypted chats, sneakernets, and ways to mask IP like VPNs.
Preaching to the choir.
If you want to be politically effective you need to have significant visibility -- presence and recognition --- above-ground.
You need to take chances.
It predates the entire internet, but talks about links between documents, references, referees etc.
Talk is not the same thing as a workable solution. Particularly when applied to systems that do not yet exist.
And I'm sick of how statistically speaking, anyone who makes a lot of money is either evil, unethical, or oppressive to his employees.
There are two kinds of statistics --- the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.
[Archie Goodwin, in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novel Death of a Doxy (1966), Statistics]
I don't see why causing death by a hack should have any special treatment compared to causing death by an ice pick, a bullet, high voltage electricity, or any other exotic means.
The geek doesn't take it well when one of his own is facing hard time.
The arguments why he should be excused from such punishment as predictable as the rise and setting of the sun.
To make it plain to the geek that he isn't some special flower exempt from conviction on the felony charge is precisely the reason you make computer crimes and penalties specific.
In the 24 US states where the felony murder rule applies, the hack that is inherently dangerous and takes a life or many lives could end in a death sentence for the principals involved. It is a fair bet that the hacker will not see this coming.
In felony murder, when you break it, you bought it.
it can be tested and fixed far more quickly than a corporation with limited resources and only paid developers can do the same sort of debugging work.
Open Source does not guarantee unlimited resources. Case in point: TrueCrypt.
Paid developers can work full time on debugging and may have a much deeper understanding of the code and how it is used.
Sure, you can cut the cable and all, but it's kind of funny that Disney has insinuated themselves that damned deeply into the entertainment industry, no?
You have got to be kidding.
Disney has a ninety year backlist of family-oriented feature films, shorts and television productions.
Its archives essentially intact and in a state suitable for commercial distribution.
Disney jump-started the ABC television network beginning in 1954 with Disneyland. Disney and Warner Brothers were the first of the "majors" to move into network television production in a really big way. with a handsome pay-off for everyone involved.
Disney's move to all-color production in 1961 did the same for NBC and color TV sales.
The pattern repeats with the introduction of cable, VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray...and now streaming media.
The original Menzel version of "Let It Go" distributed free and without copy protection as licensed HD Disney Studio animation is approaching 250 million page views on YouTube. I'll let you work out how that word-of-mouth translates into rental and sales of the movie and soundtrack alone.
i watch sports, but ESPN is crap. it's either talk shows or niche sports like drag racing
must be a lot of drag racing fans out there.
3,259,000 Prime-time Average Viewers Week Ending June 1, 2014
[about 1/2 adults 18-49]
ESPN Wins Week With Cable Primetime Adults 18-49 & Total Primetime Viewers
It's just good talent retention. If your software is free to learn on... people will learn on it. Which increases your talent pool.
I don't see retention or recruitment as a problem for RenderMan, which has been around since "The Wrath of Khan." and "Young Sherlock Holmes."
Movies and Awards
Presto is Pixar's proprietary, fully featured, animation package. Besides the main interactive application, Presto is built on top of a rich set of reusable libraries. The application supports integrated workflows for a variety of feature film departments including rigging, layout, animation and simulation. It also provides built in media playback and asset management tools.
For the purposes of this course, we will mainly discuss Presto's Execution System. We will use two common disciplines, rigging and animation, to illustrate how the system works.
One of the challenges in Presto is its integrated architecture. In a single session, the user may wish to animate or do some rigging or run a sim or all three without an explicit context switch. Some of these tasks do not lend themselves well to a multithreading environment, and yet must coexist seamlessly with all features of the application.
Presto Execution System: An Asynchronous Computation Engine for Animation
[George ElKoura, Pixar Animation Studios, July 24, 2013]
I'd wager that petrol prices are comparatively higher in europe vs usa then electricity ones.
Europe pays a stiff premium for oil, gas and electricity.
In findings likely to inflame claims EU climate change policies are damaging the bloc's manufacturers, the International Energy Agency said Europe will lose a third of its global market share of energy-intensive exports over the next two decades because energy prices will stay stubbornly higher than those in the US.
European gas import prices are currently around three times higher than in the US while industrial electricity prices are about twice as high, creating an energy price gap Dr Birol said would last ''at least 20 years''.
''Too much of the blame for Europeâ(TM)s high energy prices is being directed at its ambitions on climate change while the main factor --- the high cost of imported energy --- is being all but ignored,â he said in a speech to Londonâ(TM)s Imperial College where he elaborated on the IEAâ(TM)s analysis of the problem.
A first gen product using revolutionary technology and people are whining about it being unsafe? It's like complaining that the Model T didn't have airbags.
In concept and engineering the Ford Model T was without a doubt a more mature and sophisticated invention, more practical and more trustworthy, than your 3D printed plastic gun.
Henry Ford said of the vehicle:
''I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one --- and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.''
The Model T was (intentionally) almost as much a tractor and portable engine as it was an automobile. It has always been well regarded for its all-terrain abilities and ruggedness. It could travel a rocky, muddy farm lane, ford a shallow stream, climb a steep hill, and be parked on the other side to have one of its wheels removed and a pulley fastened to the hub for a flat belt to drive a bucksaw, thresher, silo blower, conveyor for filling corn cribs or haylofts, baler, water pump (for wells, mines, or swampy farm fields), electrical generator, and countless other applications. One unique application of the Model T was shown in the October 1922 issue of Fordson Farmer magazine. It showed a minister who had transformed his Model T into a mobile church, complete with small organ.
Standard Oil built its monopoly on the simple premise that when your wife touched a match to the wick of a kerosene lantern you should not be widowed in an explosion.
The Edison Labs invented the first commercially viable incandescent lamps that could be wired in parallel --- and went on to devise wiring standards, switches, fuses and so on, so that electric appliances could be safely used in homes, shops, offices and so on.
Stupid. dangerous, meaningless, stunts do not drive innovation. They set it back.
Why? It is already open sourced.
The TrueCrypt source is also - by most accounts - a huge ungodly mess that hasn't seen a significant update in at least the past two years.
The only part they overlooked was not tthat... most of the people in the middle of nowhere found $5/minute on a large, dedicated device a touch on the pricey side.
With billions of dollars of infrastructure to build and maintain, how can the Google service be made more affordable?
I'm surprised there hasn't been a Kickstarter setup to re-implement TrueCrypt from the ground up. What would be the dollar cost to hire a team of developers to do it?
We know the cost of the audit:
Since September 2013, a handful of cryptographers have been discussing new problems and alternatives to the popular security application. By February 2014, the Open Crypto Audit Project---a new organization based in North Carolina that seeks formal 501(c)3 non-profit status---raised around $80,000 toward this goal on various online fundraising sites.
TrueCrypt audit finds ''no evidence of backdoorsâ or malicious code.''
It's reasonable to assume that any attempt to resurrect TrueCrypt would fail without an independent audit on the same scale.
We don't know the size of the TrueCrypt team or the man-hours invested in its development, but we do know it took ten calendar years to take TrueCrypt to version 7.1,
I can't believe there is so much love for the person who invented COBOL.
The transition to a first generation computerized accounting system is much easier if your accountants can read and audit the code.
The most interesting thing is that there are 2073 line additions and 10163 line deletions
7.2. is a one-way - decryption only - file recovery tool.
No-one uses physical media anymore, why would anyone want an optical drive these days?
Load disk. Play movie. Play extras.
Flawless 1080p projection and full theater sound with Blu-Ray.
Out of pocket expense for a Samsung Blu-Ray player with a mix of streaming media apps, $80.Samsung BD-F5700 Wi-Fi Blu-Ray Player (Black)