Reading the article title... Audio Watermarking Algorithm Is First to Solve "Second-Screen Problem" in Real Time
... I immediately see what the problem is. They keep using the word "problem" when it isn't one.
/sarcasm Ah, good old greed to start labeling everything as as a "problem"! It must the be same idiots who think "Piracy is a Problem".
Here's a clue stick. Instead of treating symptoms how about addressing the cause, namely:
a) availability (lack of legal availability), and b) price (due to expensive licensing)
because Piracy "solves" those two problems. Treating the symptom, audio watermarking, is not going to stop people from sharing music. Content sharing is called free advertising -- or am I in "violation" because the rest of my family can listen to my music even though only I paid for it? If you don't want people to share it, then don't release it. Real simple.
You are **assuming** I was offended. I was not. I simply pointing out the stupidity of using meaningless, bullshit phrases like "hate sites" or "hate speech". But good luck trying to anthropomorphise speech & websites because not everyone is stupid enough to fall for it.
You either have 100% Free Speech OR you have Censorship. There is NO middle ground BY definition. Only insecure children censor, adults discuss and even laugh about "taboo" subjects. Without the ability to openly communicate and criticize there is no opportunity for learning and growth. Ignoring a problem doesn't magically make it go away. Free Speech -- and the consequence of a few trolls spamming and people being butt-hurt because they are insecure, special snowflakes -- is the LESSER of the two evils. Do you REALLY want to end up like the idiots over in China where a fucking NUMBER is censored??? If you don't like what someone is saying then use your fucking brain and ignore them. Trying to censor someone else due to Political / Religious / Moral EXCUSES else just proves you are insecure. Grow the fuck up already.
Go learn the meaning of this quote:
"I disapprove of what you say, But I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- misattributed to Voltaire / Francois-Marie Arouet
Your myopic no anonymity allowed ("require everyone to have a passport" **Facepalm**) won't solve the problem. It will either:
a) drive it underground, or b) people will just blatantly ignore it.
Go study Prohibition of the 1920's since you seem to be completely clueless about history.
> That's a pretty priceless strawman, given that while Bill Gates may have a lot of micromanagement tendencies, he wasn't chiefly responsible for a lot of what made Windows, Excel, Word, etc.
"I don't know, you guys," Bill said, "Is anyone really looking into all the details of how to do this? Like, all those date and time functions. Excel has so many date and time functions. Is Basic going to have the same functions? Will they all work the same way?"
"Yes," I said, "except for January and February, 1900."
"OK. Well, good work," said Bill. He took his marked up copy of the specand left.
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Bill Gates was amazingly technical. He understood Variants, and COM objects, and IDispatch and why Automation is different than vtables and why this might lead to dual interfaces. He worried about date functions. He didnâ(TM)t meddle in software if he trusted the people who were working on it, but you couldnâ(TM)t bullshit him for a minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual, programmer.
During Microsoft's early years, all employees had broad responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write code as well. In the first five years, he personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit.
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He finally retired as chief software architect in June 2008,
Do you actually have ANY clue what a Chief Software Architect (also called CTO Chief Technical Officer) means?
3. Who co-founded and RAN MS again??? The buck started and stopped with him. He would make announcements of what MS was working on next and would announce when they were ready. While he may have only written a small percentage of the code in the later years he was either directly or indirectly responsible for everything MS did, especially buying software companies and slapping their own MS label on it. Gee, go figure. From the same article previously linked:
He met regularly with Microsoft's senior managers and program managers, and was reportedly verbally pugnacious, berating managers for perceived holes in their business strategies that placed the company's long-term interests at risk.
The point is Bill wasn't some clueless company president. He was VERY much hands on. Especially in the early years.
This has got to be a new low on/. I'm defending the guy and I hate his business practices! LOL.
I agree that VR is a "niche" application; it is doubtful it will ever go mainstream until we have cybernetic eye implants -- at which point VR will be redundant.
Cheap VR does that. I had the _exact_ same misconceptions as you, due to cheap VR, until I tried _good_ VR. I never get nauseous playing First Person Shooters but I do with cheap VR. Bad VR is anything sub 90 frames/sec.
I don't get dizzy and can wear glasses with my VR.
Other then that, yeah most people don't want to wear some bulky thing on their head. Nausea due to cheap VR is never a good marketing point.
If Google was able to bring out a Smart Phone what stopped Oracle from doing the same before Google in the early 2000's? Seems like Oracle is whining about not being able to ride on the coattails of a competitor AFTER the fact. Notice how Oracle bought Sun AFTER Android was released.
Timeline for those that forgot the details:
*Java came out in 1995. * Google announced Android in 2007 and shipped the first device in 2008. * Oracle bought Sun in 2010. -- The Lie of Islam: God commanded his children to kill one another.
> Am I wrong to consider energy efficiency problem with light bulbs largely solved?
No, you're not wrong.
> Is there anything else left to do?
Yes, energy efficiency isn't the entire problem:
1. The first batch of LED bulbs were extremely harsh / "cold" on the eyes due to producing more blue light compared to an incandescent. Here is a graph showing how LEDs reproduced an extremely narrow band of intensity on the spectrum. Notice how incandescent are similar to sunset -- they are easier on the eyes then 1st gen LED bulbs. LEDs have gotten better but the stigma still remains in my completely unscientific anecdotal evidence.
2. Dutch physicist named Arie Kruithof, back in the 1940's, notice that the ratio of illuminance (lux) : "temperature" (Kelvins) to consider. Too much illuminance and too little temperature and the bulbs appear red. Too little illuminance and too high a temperature and bulbs will appear bluish. People didn't find them as pleasing as a more balance ratio of the two.
Having LEDs that have a show a more balanced part of the spectrum, are reliable, and inexpensie are still the things that needs addressing in IMHO.
> modern LED bulbs are not as reliable as an early models
Yeah, I've had terrible luck with GE LEDs as well. A few have failed after 1 year. At $20 - $30 a pop it adds up real quick.
-- The Lie of Judaism: God commanded his children to kill one another.
> The people who advocate "permanent DST" meant to say they want to switch to the next time zone to the east.
You DO realize that there are places of the world where the time zone DOESN'T change, right? They effectively are on "permanent DST" such as Arizona, Hawaii, etc.
It is fucking stupid to constantly be changing the clocks. It is far less disruptiveto be just consistent.
/Oblg. Clippy: I see that you are trying to lie! Would like help embellishing the truth or just out right lie and ignore facts; calling everyone who disagrees with you sexist, racist, and misogynistic supporting the patriarchy?
Unfortunately, cheap access to media will never happen due to the greed of licensing. The lawyers of content producers have everyone over a barrel with licensing "deals" and there is very little anyone can do about it. i.e. If you want our _one_ show you have to license the rest of our crap that isn't as popular.
Everyone thinks A La Carte is the solution but that just fractures the market with inconvenience and everyone nickeling and diming the customer.
Apple would need to buy a few studios -- in order to change this -- which I don't see happening. Apple is no longer disruptive in markets -- they have become a "Me Too" tech company."
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Reading the article title ... Audio Watermarking Algorithm Is First to Solve "Second-Screen Problem" in Real Time
Here's a clue stick. Instead of treating symptoms how about addressing the cause, namely:
a) availability (lack of legal availability), and
b) price (due to expensive licensing)
because Piracy "solves" those two problems. Treating the symptom, audio watermarking, is not going to stop people from sharing music. Content sharing is called free advertising -- or am I in "violation" because the rest of my family can listen to my music even though only I paid for it? If you don't want people to share it, then don't release it. Real simple.
Maybe it is time to bring back Sneaker Net ?
People still pay attention to the Kartrashians??
Do people really have nothing interesting to do with their own life that they have to watch someone else's fake life???
Western Civilization is fucked. :-/
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The Lie of Christianity: Jesus never sinned.
You are **assuming** I was offended. I was not. I simply pointing out the stupidity of using meaningless, bullshit phrases like "hate sites" or "hate speech". But good luck trying to anthropomorphise speech & websites because not everyone is stupid enough to fall for it.
You either have 100% Free Speech OR you have Censorship. There is NO middle ground BY definition. Only insecure children censor, adults discuss and even laugh about "taboo" subjects. Without the ability to openly communicate and criticize there is no opportunity for learning and growth. Ignoring a problem doesn't magically make it go away. Free Speech -- and the consequence of a few trolls spamming and people being butt-hurt because they are insecure, special snowflakes -- is the LESSER of the two evils. Do you REALLY want to end up like the idiots over in China where a fucking NUMBER is censored??? If you don't like what someone is saying then use your fucking brain and ignore them. Trying to censor someone else due to Political / Religious / Moral EXCUSES else just proves you are insecure. Grow the fuck up already.
Go learn the meaning of this quote:
Your myopic no anonymity allowed ("require everyone to have a passport" **Facepalm**) won't solve the problem. It will either:
a) drive it underground, or
b) people will just blatantly ignore it.
Go study Prohibition of the 1920's since you seem to be completely clueless about history.
> If you operate a hate site like
**Facepalm**
Websites don't have emotion. *People* do.
If you are offended at words then grow the fuck up because adults don't give a shit about your childish insecurity.
> That's a pretty priceless strawman, given that while Bill Gates may have a lot of micromanagement tendencies, he wasn't chiefly responsible for a lot of what made Windows, Excel, Word, etc.
*Facepalm*
1. Joel says otherwise
2. Bill Gates personally reviewed every line of code for the first 5 years
Do you actually have ANY clue what a Chief Software Architect (also called CTO Chief Technical Officer) means?
3. Who co-founded and RAN MS again??? The buck started and stopped with him. He would make announcements of what MS was working on next and would announce when they were ready. While he may have only written a small percentage of the code in the later years he was either directly or indirectly responsible for everything MS did, especially buying software companies and slapping their own MS label on it. Gee, go figure. From the same article previously linked:
The point is Bill wasn't some clueless company president. He was VERY much hands on. Especially in the early years.
This has got to be a new low on /. I'm defending the guy and I hate his business practices! LOL.
I agree that VR is a "niche" application; it is doubtful it will ever go mainstream until we have cybernetic eye implants -- at which point VR will be redundant.
> I find it amplifies your mood
So, kind of like alcohol. :-)
* If you are feeling sad, you feel REALLY miserable, lonely, and depressed.
* If you are feeling glad, you feel REALLY happy.
Cheap VR does that. I had the _exact_ same misconceptions as you, due to cheap VR, until I tried _good_ VR. I never get nauseous playing First Person Shooters but I do with cheap VR. Bad VR is anything sub 90 frames/sec.
I don't get dizzy and can wear glasses with my VR.
Other then that, yeah most people don't want to wear some bulky thing on their head. Nausea due to cheap VR is never a good marketing point.
The Apple II used a proprietary bus.
[[Citation]] That Apple copied the S-100 bus.
Never innovative??
And yet somehow IBM copied the Apple ]['s slot architecture for expansion peripherals.
Nope, Apple was never innovative! /s
> This copyright infringement culture is going to destroy civilization.
And yet "somehow" civilization existed BEFORE copyright was invented. Go figure! /s
Copyright is a symptom of greed.
I love Minecraft but Why is this even news??
Founders leave their companies all the time. Is the company under some "moral obligation" to keep a reference to the founder for all perpetuity??
He's still listed in the credits, so who gives a fuck if his name has been removed from the Splash page?
Is Bill Gates listed in the credits for Windows, Excel, Word, etc?
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The Lie of Judaism: God commanded his children to kill one another.
I think the bigger question is:
If Google was able to bring out a Smart Phone what stopped Oracle from doing the same before Google in the early 2000's? Seems like Oracle is whining about not being able to ride on the coattails of a competitor AFTER the fact. Notice how Oracle bought Sun AFTER Android was released.
Timeline for those that forgot the details:
*Java came out in 1995.
* Google announced Android in 2007 and shipped the first device in 2008.
* Oracle bought Sun in 2010.
--
The Lie of Islam: God commanded his children to kill one another.
> Am I wrong to consider energy efficiency problem with light bulbs largely solved?
No, you're not wrong.
> Is there anything else left to do?
Yes, energy efficiency isn't the entire problem:
1. The first batch of LED bulbs were extremely harsh / "cold" on the eyes due to producing more blue light compared to an incandescent. Here is a graph showing how LEDs reproduced an extremely narrow band of intensity on the spectrum. Notice how incandescent are similar to sunset -- they are easier on the eyes then 1st gen LED bulbs. LEDs have gotten better but the stigma still remains in my completely unscientific anecdotal evidence.
2. Dutch physicist named Arie Kruithof, back in the 1940's, notice that the ratio of illuminance (lux) : "temperature" (Kelvins) to consider. Too much illuminance and too little temperature and the bulbs appear red. Too little illuminance and too high a temperature and bulbs will appear bluish. People didn't find them as pleasing as a more balance ratio of the two.
Having LEDs that have a show a more balanced part of the spectrum, are reliable, and inexpensie are still the things that needs addressing in IMHO.
> modern LED bulbs are not as reliable as an early models
Yeah, I've had terrible luck with GE LEDs as well. A few have failed after 1 year. At $20 - $30 a pop it adds up real quick.
--
The Lie of Judaism: God commanded his children to kill one another.
> The people who advocate "permanent DST" meant to say they want to switch to the next time zone to the east.
You DO realize that there are places of the world where the time zone DOESN'T change, right? They effectively are on "permanent DST" such as Arizona, Hawaii, etc.
It is fucking stupid to constantly be changing the clocks. It is far less disruptive to be just consistent.
God ISN'T a name -- it is a title / job description. i.e. WHICH god is the OP referring to???
I'm assume you are coming from the Judaic / Christian / Islam perspective. "I AM" is the name you are looking for -- which wasn't used.
Instead of whining about other people's Free Will how about stop judging others?
/Oblg. Clippy: I see that you are trying to lie! Would like help embellishing the truth or just out right lie and ignore facts; calling everyone who disagrees with you sexist, racist, and misogynistic supporting the patriarchy?
Considering JavaSchit was designed and implemented in 10 days and learning NOTHING from BASIC what do you expect?
Run-time errors SUCK. Absolutely insane that you have to use this string literal HACK to turn on type safety:
"use strict";
> It eases a lot of the pain of using JavaScript.
How is debugging TypeScript? Do you have to wade through obfuscated JavaScript?
Unfortunately, cheap access to media will never happen due to the greed of licensing. The lawyers of content producers have everyone over a barrel with licensing "deals" and there is very little anyone can do about it. i.e. If you want our _one_ show you have to license the rest of our crap that isn't as popular.
Everyone thinks A La Carte is the solution but that just fractures the market with inconvenience and everyone nickeling and diming the customer.
Apple would need to buy a few studios -- in order to change this -- which I don't see happening. Apple is no longer disruptive in markets -- they have become a "Me Too" tech company."
LOL.
Never Caring To Appease, or
New Customers Treated Atrociously
I predict it will be abandoned in 3 years and shut down in 5.
... hands are on the "wrong" stick. =P
Haha! That's just mean. =P
In all serious, it gets interesting in a creepy way at 3 hrs, 14 minutes, 15 seconds mark. Not sure if I care for the "speaking". :-/
Still waiting to fast forward to the 314159:26:53 mark ... =P