Explaining the problems with TIFF in not-too-geek terms... You get colors, brightness in your life etc as light of given frequencies bounced off surfaces of given properties, so some of it is absorbed, some reflected, reaching your eye, creating impression of color. That's without the camera. Now, with a camera, the bounced light reaches the CCD sensor and is converted into electric pulses. These get converted to some numbers that correspond to what was read on the CCD. Now, when you display the image, you convert some numbers you store on your disk into amounts of ink by the printer, or intensity of darkening liquid crystal on LCD screen or so. The problem is, the CCD behaves in completely different way than LCD or the printer, generating completely different sets of values, which need to be converted between one and the other to generate image that conforms your needs - either realistic or just pretty (these two aren't equivalent. I just got rid of a camera that was making sugar-sweet-pretty pictures that didn't look anything like the real thing, but at least three times as nice, which wasn't what I really wanted...) Now, TIFF is a format intended to contain information in format for the output media. Print it, display it etc, easy and simple, apply some profile, really little changes, get what the picture contained, no matter what medium you use. It already got mangled to contain it all, and has been cleaned of all the data that isn't necessary. On the other hand, RAW contains what the CCD got. It's not suitable for printer or screen, but it contains most of information about the "real world" the camera has seen. Now RAW has to be converted into some output-aware format to be of any use, but now HOW should it be converted? You can of course use the camera firmware and create TIFF that should really well match the conditions and create the output that will look on the printer, offset machine, telebeam or whatever where you display it, like the real thing (or like you want it to look...) But if the firmware screws up? If the result isn't satisfactory? You can still try to tweak the TIFF, making up some information, trying to guess other, but you won't re-create the original data, the RAW from it, ever. That's why you need RAW, because you get most information from it, and you can create the best output. RAW contains encrypted white ballance information and that seems to be a problem. TIFF doesn't contain any white ballance information at all, it's all already integrated into the actual pixel values, in completely non-recoverable way, and that doesn't seem to be a problem?
There's still a huge untapped ad space. Inside the games. All the games along the race tracks seem to be some made up products and ads for the game producers. Posters on the walls in FPS games, billboards over Vice City, all that stuff is filled with fake commercials. It could be filled with real ones though. The question is only "when"...
high-end desktop, mission-critical server, "high-end RAM" - these are cases when you want it tested. If you spend $10.000 on your PC, there's no sense in saving $10 on the RAM chip. But if it's to be just your average computer, or 40 basic boxes for a school lab, savings are important, and chosing the "budget quality" approach doesn't have to mean "You're screwed".
That's one of the biggest problems with "Stealth Games". I loved Hitman, and I loved to try to pass a level with the "professional" rating. But still it was usually easier to -silently- kill -everyone-, then proceed through the empty level, than to try to sneak. That is, kill quickly enough so that the enemy can't raise alarm, advance, kill again before the guards see the corpses, and so on. I'd even purposedly trigger "local alarms" just to empty guard rooms and kill the guards, securing my way of return.
There's nothing wrong about playing old games. There's nothing wrong about playing new games either. What's wrong is lack of the ballance. Say, 10-20% of the market demand are the beloved, vintage classics, and 80-90% of the demand is new shiny modern, never before seen stuff. But the Open Source developers provide us with 80-90% titles being remakes of the old classics, and maybe 10-20% original, new, high quality games. (please, don't count all the tiny toys you tend to find in KDE/Gnome "Games" menu, as "modern games". I mean fully featured, big productions.)
I'm dreaming about a game that would use the full potential of the community, allowing you to create a really huge, very detailed world, by distributed effort...
Recently advertised in Poland. Already available: Unlimited wireless Internet access over GPRS for PLN99/month ($30USD), countrywide. (What do you mean by "does it work inside buildings?" What crappy network would it be if it didn't?)
I really don't see how local WiFi networks would be better.
You, being American, sentenced to losers like Verizon, just don't see where's this all heading to. True "everything will go pure digital", and true, phones available in the US are just a bridge gap technology... between landline and cellular phones as you find them in Europe.
No connection inside buildings? What kind of bull is this? I live in Poland (backwaters of Europe...), and got my landline removed - we have 3 cellular phones, one for each member of the family, and with the amount of talking we do on the average, it's cheaper than our former landline bills, and we can talk inside buildings all we want. Sure we use a lot of SMS, but because it's convinient - no problem of interrupting to the person who receives it, WAY better for passing numbers, addresses etc than voice (you just keep the SMS), can be read when you have time to answer, and so on... Of course only middles of biggest forests is where you can't call - inside buildings? Who would buy a phone in a network that can't reach you inside a building?! Another american bullshit is paying for incoming calls. Short route to abuse, and definitely anti-social behaviour. I give my number to everyone because if they want to reach me, they will, and I shouldn't worry it will cost me money. And of course the technology of the phones... Many of them are just PDAs with cellular capablity. All of them can be used as GPRS modems. Many have webbrowsers built in.
America needs to move on. The bridge gap has been already sealed in Europe. It's just that your cellular services in the US are far behind. The Verizon CEO's words are to me like "There's world market for maybe 5 computers", "640K ough to be enough for everyone", "I don't see future for this [telephone] invention" and such... heard way AFTER they have been proven wrong.
You aren't sovereign on your property, but except of special rules (Police, emergency, military) you are free to decide who is allowed to enter and who not. Of course public service buildings can't be restricted that way - and any discrimination is forbidden. There are private properties that are regulated by special laws - airports, schools - where specific law regulates the rules of access too. A "generic" property is different in a way that you can restrict anyone, or certain groups - you can hang "no jews allowed" on your front door and no jew will be allowed to enter, except if he's e.g. a policeman on duty, or fireman trying to access fire, or some kind of inspector or... - generally anyone you CAN'T forbid entering your property. Whether -shops- are separately regulated in that matter or not, I don't know. Whether Jews would sue you under hate speech laws is a completely different matter too. Not discrimination (allowed/disallowed to enter) law though. In that respect "no swimsuits", or "tie required" is about the same class.
With one exception. You have full right to throw out the shop manager if he comes to take photos of your house inside. A shop is a private property and the owners haave rights to forbid you anything they desire. Men wearing long hair may not be admitted to Disneyland, people may be forbidden to use cell phones in banks, drunk not served a drink - these aren't country laws, these are laws made up by the owners of respective places, and they are perfectly legal, because it's their property. I bet if they wanted to forbid jews from entering the store, nothing (except of losing 99% of customers) would stop them from doing so. They can even make up laws on the fly and they are still valid - ON THEIR PROPERTY.
Thing is the only thing they can do about your violating of this kind of law is to ask you to leave. And if you refuse, they can only prosecute you for trepassing (and call the police to have you "removed") - because ONLY their -legal- right is to ask you to leave terrain of their property (for whatever reason they ever wish, or no reason at all) and you are legally bound to obey.
Walk in, take photos AND memorise, then draw the map using the photos. Way more reliable than human memory.
Take a photo of such a convenient and usually neglected things like emergency escape plan, which essentially is a map of the building, including areas you aren't allowed to visit...
Take photos in Near Infrared and see which domes are fake.
Take photos of the cameras, then look them up in catalogues, to check their field of vision, weak spots, which ones are fake...
Take several photos of places where staying longer would look way suspect, then check them in safety to analyse important details (i.e. layout of the camera cables, roof exits)
Record the movement of hand of an employee on numeric lock
Take photos of employees or security guards if you want to sneak in acting as one, to fake the looks.
Take photos of the wares, to remember locations of the most valuable and easy to take ones.
That would be quite tricky, but if you get close enough and get in a good position, you could take a photo of keys some guard carries, then make duplicate keys basing on the photo, just to open the locks.
And finally, take photos to show the place to people who are actually going to rob it - a wise move for them not to show up on the security cameras there, ever, and for you to have a good alibi.
Actually, there is a pretty strong reason to prevent taking photos of security devices. That is, preventing intrusion. The first thing a thief does when entering a monitored area is to somehow fool the security - and it's much harder if the security devices are unknown. Yes, security through obscurity - the obscurity being just one of elements of the system, not the only one - is more efficient. A well planned robbery would require detailed plans of the building, with focus on the security devices. Obviously the management wants to prevent that....although, in the era of miniature cameras that can be easily hidden in a handbag etc, taking photos in a way not visible to the shop security is quite easy...
Actually, stealing an eye is a stupid idea if all you need is the image. A good hi-res picture behind some lenses that imitate the eye, and you're done. Stealing fingerprints is even easier. You won't even need the victim to look into the camera, just pick them from whatever...
Actually, they will just wait nearby and mug you when you leave the ATM with cash in hand. Or stand behind you, show a gun or knife, say "withdraw $1000", take it from you and go away. No need to be fancy in playing a kidnapper with a hostage...
A real good way to draw attention is actually to DO provide some valuable free content. Give them some of that SQL, PHP or CSS, enough to draw links, enough to go up in pagerank, enough to prove your competence. From 5000-10000 people a day who will roll through your help files, 50-100 will actually need a place to host their content as well, and 5-10 will think "Oh, the guy who made these great instructions provides some decent webhosting space! How convenient".
I'm "banner-blind". I just don't notice most of banners on pages I quickly click through. But if for some reason I'm "forced" to stay on one website for a few days, I start noticing banners they display. The place gets familiar, I start noticing less visible elements, features, extras. I may throw a glimpse at the credits in the footer. I may check some other pages of the site, than the ones I just needed. And I start to see banners - usually sites display a small family of banners and I start recognizing them. Sometimes I will click them too, if I find them interesting (but not "smartass" - be sure I won't click on a banner that reads "don't click this banner"). I got a free shell account once. I was using it frequently and I liked it so much, that when the server went commercial, I started paying for it... So - draw persistent attention to your website - make people stay there, provide quality free service. There's enough incompetent jerks who just look to rip people off, to trust my money to someone who has just empty words to support his claims. Penis enlargement pills are risk free too. And the price is quite low as well.
The arch seems quite interesting, but I'd build it into spherical shape, like an igloo... then place an egg in the middle... switch them all on to display white screen... leave it on for 3 days... then switch everything off, and watch the egg shine in the darkness. Nice x-ray furnace, I'd say:)
say, 2000 per house x about 200 watt each. 400 kilowatt power usage, and emission. The "emission" part would be good if you live in Alaska or Antarctic, or so. The "usage" part would be acceptable if you're a millionaire or own a power plant. I've also seen many CRT monitors. a LOT of them, and old ones, when emission wasn't taken into account so much...
Run SETI@Home on it all, and expect the aliens will visit you really soon. Your house will be shining like a radio-beacon in the space.
Some interesting features of Amiga icons: - Arbitrary size - Could change image when clicked - Possible arbitrary placement
This was making for some interesting applications. Like, the game Heimdall had screen high and half-screen wide icon of the character with a warhammer, when clicked the character was slamming the hammer down. I would add a tiny, 5x5px icon placing it over corner of Filemaster 2.2 icon just to launch Filemaster 2.0 in case it was needed (just like small "arrow down" in corner of "back" of Firefox) There were tools converting pictures to icons. You could tile icons being parts of bigger image over some area, making a "clickable image". Clicking on directory ("drawer") icon was "opening the drawer", there were also many other cool "mini-anims" like hydraulic press "compressing" the package for a compressor program, a floppy multiplying itself for file copy etc. Windows was a BIG step backwards from Amiga icon functionality. That step was never undone. Now all leading OSes have single-image, fixed-size icons.
Going down Still waiting for reaching the level from before the bubble though. (but as you watch the quotes history, the Linux lawsuit was a start of the downward spiral...)
I have a few stolen original Windows CDs. There were 80 or so in the box so, already installed on computers they had been shipped with, so I grabbed a handfull and pocketed them. So now I have them, the owner doesn't. I wasn't caught red-handed, so I'm quite safe, any control will show a bunch of legal Windows CDs. I can even sell them now for profit legally. Unless they find the original CDs are missing, and find out who took them (quite impossible now), I'm perfectly safe.
But if I copied them, the original owner would still have them. But if they checked my property they would find a box of "stolen Windows CDs" and prosecute me for them.
This is the model of the world mr Gates is promoting. Is that the virtue he received the knighthood for?
Search foo. You get:.. first version of Foo, the world leading... Then search just the above. You get:... to release the first version of Foo, the world leading anti-gravity engine... Repeat...... We are happy to release the first version of Foo, the world leading anti-gravity engine that works on... Doesn't sound too hard?
Of course the length is limited but that can be solved by "moving frame." Say, putting the above, the engine says your query is too long. Search: "anti-gravity engine that works on" and get "... world leading anti-gravity engine that works on salted water and cheap..." Then put "works on salted water and cheap" and get "...engine that works on salted water and cheap components like..." Search "water and cheap components like" and so on...
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Explaining the problems with TIFF in not-too-geek terms...
You get colors, brightness in your life etc as light of given frequencies bounced off surfaces of given properties, so some of it is absorbed, some reflected, reaching your eye, creating impression of color. That's without the camera.
Now, with a camera, the bounced light reaches the CCD sensor and is converted into electric pulses. These get converted to some numbers that correspond to what was read on the CCD. Now, when you display the image, you convert some numbers you store on your disk into amounts of ink by the printer, or intensity of darkening liquid crystal on LCD screen or so.
The problem is, the CCD behaves in completely different way than LCD or the printer, generating completely different sets of values, which need to be converted between one and the other to generate image that conforms your needs - either realistic or just pretty (these two aren't equivalent. I just got rid of a camera that was making sugar-sweet-pretty pictures that didn't look anything like the real thing, but at least three times as nice, which wasn't what I really wanted...)
Now, TIFF is a format intended to contain information in format for the output media. Print it, display it etc, easy and simple, apply some profile, really little changes, get what the picture contained, no matter what medium you use. It already got mangled to contain it all, and has been cleaned of all the data that isn't necessary.
On the other hand, RAW contains what the CCD got. It's not suitable for printer or screen, but it contains most of information about the "real world" the camera has seen. Now RAW has to be converted into some output-aware format to be of any use, but now HOW should it be converted? You can of course use the camera firmware and create TIFF that should really well match the conditions and create the output that will look on the printer, offset machine, telebeam or whatever where you display it, like the real thing (or like you want it to look...)
But if the firmware screws up? If the result isn't satisfactory? You can still try to tweak the TIFF, making up some information, trying to guess other, but you won't re-create the original data, the RAW from it, ever. That's why you need RAW, because you get most information from it, and you can create the best output.
RAW contains encrypted white ballance information and that seems to be a problem. TIFF doesn't contain any white ballance information at all, it's all already integrated into the actual pixel values, in completely non-recoverable way, and that doesn't seem to be a problem?
...we use 2nd minor version for bugfix releases like from the above mentioned list. e.g. MSIE 6.01, not 7.
There's still a huge untapped ad space. Inside the games.
All the games along the race tracks seem to be some made up products and ads for the game producers. Posters on the walls in FPS games, billboards over Vice City, all that stuff is filled with fake commercials.
It could be filled with real ones though.
The question is only "when"...
high-end desktop, mission-critical server, "high-end RAM" - these are cases when you want it tested. If you spend $10.000 on your PC, there's no sense in saving $10 on the RAM chip. But if it's to be just your average computer, or 40 basic boxes for a school lab, savings are important, and chosing the "budget quality" approach doesn't have to mean "You're screwed".
That's one of the biggest problems with "Stealth Games".
I loved Hitman, and I loved to try to pass a level with the "professional" rating. But still it was usually easier to -silently- kill -everyone-, then proceed through the empty level, than to try to sneak. That is, kill quickly enough so that the enemy can't raise alarm, advance, kill again before the guards see the corpses, and so on. I'd even purposedly trigger "local alarms" just to empty guard rooms and kill the guards, securing my way of return.
There's nothing wrong about playing old games.
There's nothing wrong about playing new games either.
What's wrong is lack of the ballance. Say, 10-20% of the market demand are the beloved, vintage classics, and 80-90% of the demand is new shiny modern, never before seen stuff. But the Open Source developers provide us with 80-90% titles being remakes of the old classics, and maybe 10-20% original, new, high quality games. (please, don't count all the tiny toys you tend to find in KDE/Gnome "Games" menu, as "modern games". I mean fully featured, big productions.)
I'm dreaming about a game that would use the full potential of the community, allowing you to create a really huge, very detailed world, by distributed effort...
Recently advertised in Poland. Already available:
Unlimited wireless Internet access over GPRS for PLN99/month ($30USD), countrywide. (What do you mean by "does it work inside buildings?" What crappy network would it be if it didn't?)
I really don't see how local WiFi networks would be better.
You, being American, sentenced to losers like Verizon, just don't see where's this all heading to. True "everything will go pure digital", and true, phones available in the US are just a bridge gap technology... between landline and cellular phones as you find them in Europe.
No connection inside buildings? What kind of bull is this? I live in Poland (backwaters of Europe...), and got my landline removed - we have 3 cellular phones, one for each member of the family, and with the amount of talking we do on the average, it's cheaper than our former landline bills, and we can talk inside buildings all we want. Sure we use a lot of SMS, but because it's convinient - no problem of interrupting to the person who receives it, WAY better for passing numbers, addresses etc than voice (you just keep the SMS), can be read when you have time to answer, and so on... Of course only middles of biggest forests is where you can't call - inside buildings? Who would buy a phone in a network that can't reach you inside a building?! Another american bullshit is paying for incoming calls. Short route to abuse, and definitely anti-social behaviour. I give my number to everyone because if they want to reach me, they will, and I shouldn't worry it will cost me money. And of course the technology of the phones... Many of them are just PDAs with cellular capablity. All of them can be used as GPRS modems. Many have webbrowsers built in.
America needs to move on. The bridge gap has been already sealed in Europe. It's just that your cellular services in the US are far behind.
The Verizon CEO's words are to me like "There's world market for maybe 5 computers", "640K ough to be enough for everyone", "I don't see future for this [telephone] invention" and such... heard way AFTER they have been proven wrong.
You aren't sovereign on your property, but except of special rules (Police, emergency, military) you are free to decide who is allowed to enter and who not. Of course public service buildings can't be restricted that way - and any discrimination is forbidden. There are private properties that are regulated by special laws - airports, schools - where specific law regulates the rules of access too. A "generic" property is different in a way that you can restrict anyone, or certain groups - you can hang "no jews allowed" on your front door and no jew will be allowed to enter, except if he's e.g. a policeman on duty, or fireman trying to access fire, or some kind of inspector or... - generally anyone you CAN'T forbid entering your property.
Whether -shops- are separately regulated in that matter or not, I don't know.
Whether Jews would sue you under hate speech laws is a completely different matter too. Not discrimination (allowed/disallowed to enter) law though. In that respect "no swimsuits", or "tie required" is about the same class.
With one exception. You have full right to throw out the shop manager if he comes to take photos of your house inside. A shop is a private property and the owners haave rights to forbid you anything they desire. Men wearing long hair may not be admitted to Disneyland, people may be forbidden to use cell phones in banks, drunk not served a drink - these aren't country laws, these are laws made up by the owners of respective places, and they are perfectly legal, because it's their property. I bet if they wanted to forbid jews from entering the store, nothing (except of losing 99% of customers) would stop them from doing so. They can even make up laws on the fly and they are still valid - ON THEIR PROPERTY.
Thing is the only thing they can do about your violating of this kind of law is to ask you to leave. And if you refuse, they can only prosecute you for trepassing (and call the police to have you "removed") - because ONLY their -legal- right is to ask you to leave terrain of their property (for whatever reason they ever wish, or no reason at all) and you are legally bound to obey.
Walk in, take photos AND memorise, then draw the map using the photos. Way more reliable than human memory.
Take a photo of such a convenient and usually neglected things like emergency escape plan, which essentially is a map of the building, including areas you aren't allowed to visit...
Take photos in Near Infrared and see which domes are fake.
Take photos of the cameras, then look them up in catalogues, to check their field of vision, weak spots, which ones are fake...
Take several photos of places where staying longer would look way suspect, then check them in safety to analyse important details (i.e. layout of the camera cables, roof exits)
Record the movement of hand of an employee on numeric lock
Take photos of employees or security guards if you want to sneak in acting as one, to fake the looks.
Take photos of the wares, to remember locations of the most valuable and easy to take ones.
That would be quite tricky, but if you get close enough and get in a good position, you could take a photo of keys some guard carries, then make duplicate keys basing on the photo, just to open the locks.
And finally, take photos to show the place to people who are actually going to rob it - a wise move for them not to show up on the security cameras there, ever, and for you to have a good alibi.
Actually, there is a pretty strong reason to prevent taking photos of security devices. That is, preventing intrusion. The first thing a thief does when entering a monitored area is to somehow fool the security - and it's much harder if the security devices are unknown. Yes, security through obscurity - the obscurity being just one of elements of the system, not the only one - is more efficient. A well planned robbery would require detailed plans of the building, with focus on the security devices. Obviously the management wants to prevent that. ...although, in the era of miniature cameras that can be easily hidden in a handbag etc, taking photos in a way not visible to the shop security is quite easy...
Actually, stealing an eye is a stupid idea if all you need is the image. A good hi-res picture behind some lenses that imitate the eye, and you're done.
Stealing fingerprints is even easier. You won't even need the victim to look into the camera, just pick them from whatever...
Actually, they will just wait nearby and mug you when you leave the ATM with cash in hand. Or stand behind you, show a gun or knife, say "withdraw $1000", take it from you and go away. No need to be fancy in playing a kidnapper with a hostage...
A real good way to draw attention is actually to DO provide some valuable free content. Give them some of that SQL, PHP or CSS, enough to draw links, enough to go up in pagerank, enough to prove your competence. From 5000-10000 people a day who will roll through your help files, 50-100 will actually need a place to host their content as well, and 5-10 will think "Oh, the guy who made these great instructions provides some decent webhosting space! How convenient".
I'm "banner-blind". I just don't notice most of banners on pages I quickly click through. But if for some reason I'm "forced" to stay on one website for a few days, I start noticing banners they display. The place gets familiar, I start noticing less visible elements, features, extras. I may throw a glimpse at the credits in the footer. I may check some other pages of the site, than the ones I just needed. And I start to see banners - usually sites display a small family of banners and I start recognizing them. Sometimes I will click them too, if I find them interesting (but not "smartass" - be sure I won't click on a banner that reads "don't click this banner"). I got a free shell account once. I was using it frequently and I liked it so much, that when the server went commercial, I started paying for it...
So - draw persistent attention to your website - make people stay there, provide quality free service. There's enough incompetent jerks who just look to rip people off, to trust my money to someone who has just empty words to support his claims. Penis enlargement pills are risk free too. And the price is quite low as well.
...did they consider they might be accidentially associated, i.e. with Zeta Creations?
The arch seems quite interesting, but I'd build it into spherical shape, like an igloo... then place an egg in the middle... switch them all on to display white screen... leave it on for 3 days... then switch everything off, and watch the egg shine in the darkness. Nice x-ray furnace, I'd say :)
say, 2000 per house x about 200 watt each.
400 kilowatt power usage, and emission. The "emission" part would be good if you live in Alaska or Antarctic, or so. The "usage" part would be acceptable if you're a millionaire or own a power plant. I've also seen many CRT monitors. a LOT of them, and old ones, when emission wasn't taken into account so much...
Run SETI@Home on it all, and expect the aliens will visit you really soon. Your house will be shining like a radio-beacon in the space.
Some interesting features of Amiga icons:
- Arbitrary size
- Could change image when clicked
- Possible arbitrary placement
This was making for some interesting applications. Like, the game Heimdall had screen high and half-screen wide icon of the character with a warhammer, when clicked the character was slamming the hammer down. I would add a tiny, 5x5px icon placing it over corner of Filemaster 2.2 icon just to launch Filemaster 2.0 in case it was needed (just like small "arrow down" in corner of "back" of Firefox)
There were tools converting pictures to icons. You could tile icons being parts of bigger image over some area, making a "clickable image". Clicking on directory ("drawer") icon was "opening the drawer", there were also many other cool "mini-anims" like hydraulic press "compressing" the package for a compressor program, a floppy multiplying itself for file copy etc.
Windows was a BIG step backwards from Amiga icon functionality. That step was never undone. Now all leading OSes have single-image, fixed-size icons.
Yeah...
Clicking on requesters like:
[Confirm!- - - - - - - - - - - -X]
(i) You're screwed now.
[ok] [yes] [bummer] [fuck me harder]
---
Of course clicking on "x" just brings the requester back.
The classic Incredible Machine lets you do just this :)
BTW, The Honda movie is a cheat. Seen the wheels speeding up uphill?
Going down
Still waiting for reaching the level from before the bubble though. (but as you watch the quotes history, the Linux lawsuit was a start of the downward spiral...)
The child has performed an illegal operation and will be terminated.
Knight of... what?
I have a few stolen original Windows CDs. There were 80 or so in the box so, already installed on computers they had been shipped with, so I grabbed a handfull and pocketed them. So now I have them, the owner doesn't. I wasn't caught red-handed, so I'm quite safe, any control will show a bunch of legal Windows CDs. I can even sell them now for profit legally. Unless they find the original CDs are missing, and find out who took them (quite impossible now), I'm perfectly safe.
But if I copied them, the original owner would still have them. But if they checked my property they would find a box of "stolen Windows CDs" and prosecute me for them.
This is the model of the world mr Gates is promoting. Is that the virtue he received the knighthood for?
Did you RTFA?
.. first version of Foo, the world leading ... ... to release the first version of Foo, the world leading anti-gravity engine ... ... We are happy to release the first version of Foo, the world leading anti-gravity engine that works on ...
Search foo. You get:
Then search just the above. You get:
Repeat...
Doesn't sound too hard?
Of course the length is limited but that can be solved by "moving frame." Say, putting the above, the engine says your query is too long.
Search: "anti-gravity engine that works on" and get
"... world leading anti-gravity engine that works on salted water and cheap..."
Then put "works on salted water and cheap" and get
"...engine that works on salted water and cheap components like..."
Search "water and cheap components like" and so on...