Except that if all the components were subject to eternal copyright, and the inventor (and patent holder) refused to allow anyone else to make copies, then there would be no table (unless you were able to carve it out of a single piece of material, I suppose)
When you look at the irony of Paul's statements considering that first album, it really makes me wonder how much money he'll need before he's a happy man.
Since he is about to have half of it taken away as a divorce settlement, then the answer is probably "about twice as much as he has now"
the first two paragraphs may be with tongue firmly in cheek, but there are way too many people who not only fail to spot the historical parallel, but will think it is a Good Idea.
On the bright side, my amulet protecting me from terrorists seems to work - since I bought it, I haven't been killed by a terrorist. Maybe I should sell it to the president, so that he can save billions by dissolving the TSA and DHS
Microsoft duds - Bob, Windows at Work. Fair enough.
OTOH, Office succeeded more because it was a bundle for less than the cost of WP plus 1-2-3. Oh, and all components looked the same (thanks to being Windows based), and worked more similarly, so learning one meant that learning another had already started. And there were "extras" (Org Chart and so on). Despite how good technically 1-2-3 V3 and WP5.1 were, they were arcane to learn.
As for Zune, well it looks as though Microsoft used Taco's review of the iPod and stopped all thought there. No WiFi - well ours has. Smaller than an Archos - well ours is bigger. Lame - well...
OK, my bad on using a bit too much verbal shorthand.
The data medium matters for "store and forget about it", whereas "install new and copy old" means that every time the hardware is upgraded, the archived data is re-copied (which is presumably why there is still the oldest web page accessible, created back in 1996)
Spot on with the DRM comment, though. I wonder how long it will take people to realise that it turns data into random junk.
Let's see, a piece of "letter" paper is 8.5 x 11 inches. Let's see at 600 dpis inch that are 8.5 x 600 = 5100 dots per line or 5100 x 11 = 56100 dots per page.
5100 dots per line is 5100 x 11 x 600 dots per page, which is 33,660,000 dots, or about 32Mb when done monochrome, or 8.2Gb when done in only 8 bit (256 shade) colour.
He'd need to store 256*1024*1024*1024*8 = 2199023255552 bits
A4 is, as you say 210mm x 297mm, which is 96.67 inch^2 (you forgot to divide by another 25.4)
So, 22,747,732,032 bits per inch^2 are needed. Now, even a lowly 300 dpi scanner would only need to differentiate 252,752 colours, which is achievable with 6 bits each for R,G and B.
Alternatively, a 600dpi scanner could do it with 63188 colours, which is less than 2^16.
In other words, I think it is physically possible, but the scanner resolution would need to be well chosen to counteract the effects of fading of the colours or creases in the paper.
If they can pull it off, it might be a good "Medium term" archive format (in other words, about 100 - 500 years), as there are many many books of those ages.
Given that the BBC's Domesday project (data gathered in 1986) needed to be "rescued" by 2002 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2534391.stm ), then there are currently no reliable digital archive systems for long term storage.
"This doesn't matter," says a Home Office spokesman. "By the time you have accessed the information on the chip, you have already seen it on the passport. What use would my biometric image be to you?
In other words, the Home Office have admitted that there is no point in having the biometric information, as it is duplicated with what is already there, and will be ignored by most people who have already seen the primary information (human nature there). Remind me again why the new biometric stuff is meant to be "better"
The ID card fiasco has all the hallmarks of a project that will suck the UK economy dry. Back when it was "to fight benefit fraud", a £30bn system was to be introduced to save £1.5bn. And that was before any cost overruns.
I sometimes wonder whether politicians should be required to take out indemnity insurance to pay for all their more costly blunders. The only problem would be that they would try and claim it on expenses, rather than face a premium that could easilty run to 300% of their salary (£70,000 premium on a salary that might just reach £24,000 for some independent health care professionals, for example. And that was when it was actually even available)
A colleague of mine was sending using predictive text in a darkened room. Unfortunately, he had accidentally changed the default language from English to Hungarian, so the result was pretty much goulash (though not so tasty)
Suppose that file-sharer W illegally downloads to her computer Led Zeppelin's song Stairway to Heaven. The song is downloaded to a shared folder on her computer and thereby made available for others to copy. Suppose further that three other file-sharers, X, Y, and Z, subsequently download the song from W's computer. Thus, there are four people in this example who desired the song but who did not pay to obtain it. In other words, there are four lost sales.
Just because 4 people shared the song, doesn't mean that all 4 would even have considered buying the track. It is just as likely that W decided to download to avoid paying, while X and Y downloaded it in a similar vein to "users who downloaded 'Whole Lotta Love' also liked 'Stairway to Heaven'", and so might consider actually paying for the song after evaluating it.
The logic is similar to putting a $1 bet on number 7, which comes up, putting the $36 winnings on number 2, which doesn't come up, and then claiming that you have 'lost' $36. You haven't. You've lost $1. (Since you didn't cash in after the first win, but immediately put it back in play, it was never yours)
I have over 40 GB of music. A lot of it is burned from my CD collection, a lot of it is from my wife's collection, and some of it is downloaded from iTunes. So I've got well over 8,000 files and of those a couple hundred are DRM-protected. I honestly don't know which at this point.
err, you could look in the "Purchased Music" (it's a smart playlist that is specifically set to look for 'protected AAC')
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Only an economist could come up with tortured logic like that. No money was made. Money might have been saved, but it was not made.
Except that if all the components were subject to eternal copyright, and the inventor (and patent holder) refused to allow anyone else to make copies, then there would be no table (unless you were able to carve it out of a single piece of material, I suppose)
Truly, +5 Insightful is not enough for that idea.
Since he is about to have half of it taken away as a divorce settlement, then the answer is probably "about twice as much as he has now"
the first two paragraphs may be with tongue firmly in cheek, but there are way too many people who not only fail to spot the historical parallel, but will think it is a Good Idea.
On the bright side, my amulet protecting me from terrorists seems to work - since I bought it, I haven't been killed by a terrorist. Maybe I should sell it to the president, so that he can save billions by dissolving the TSA and DHS
Microsoft duds - Bob, Windows at Work. Fair enough.
OTOH, Office succeeded more because it was a bundle for less than the cost of WP plus 1-2-3. Oh, and all components looked the same (thanks to being Windows based), and worked more similarly, so learning one meant that learning another had already started. And there were "extras" (Org Chart and so on). Despite how good technically 1-2-3 V3 and WP5.1 were, they were arcane to learn.
As for Zune, well it looks as though Microsoft used Taco's review of the iPod and stopped all thought there. No WiFi - well ours has. Smaller than an Archos - well ours is bigger. Lame - well...
How many Windows iPods were sold a few weeks after they hit the market?
Enough, obviously.
The first time work was lost because someone left the memo on their desk for more than xxx hours would be the end of the system.
Hopefully, DRM on office documents will go the same way
It's a fair cop, guv. I'll come quietly. My "back of a fag packet" calculations were off by a couple of orders of magnitude.
On the other hand, I think that pretty much summarises why this wouldn't work well, (even if, as you say, it wasn't a scam, which it seems to be).
Take a gold star.
OK, my bad on using a bit too much verbal shorthand.
The data medium matters for "store and forget about it", whereas "install new and copy old" means that every time the hardware is upgraded, the archived data is re-copied (which is presumably why there is still the oldest web page accessible, created back in 1996)
Spot on with the DRM comment, though. I wonder how long it will take people to realise that it turns data into random junk.
Let's see, a piece of "letter" paper is 8.5 x 11 inches. Let's see at 600 dpis inch that are 8.5 x 600 = 5100 dots
per line or 5100 x 11 = 56100 dots per page.
5100 dots per line is 5100 x 11 x 600 dots per page, which is 33,660,000 dots, or about 32Mb when done monochrome, or 8.2Gb when done in only 8 bit (256 shade) colour.
I think you are mostly there.
He'd need to store 256*1024*1024*1024*8 = 2199023255552 bits
A4 is, as you say 210mm x 297mm, which is 96.67 inch^2 (you forgot to divide by another 25.4)
So, 22,747,732,032 bits per inch^2 are needed. Now, even a lowly 300 dpi scanner would only need to differentiate 252,752 colours, which is achievable with 6 bits each for R,G and B.
Alternatively, a 600dpi scanner could do it with 63188 colours, which is less than 2^16.
In other words, I think it is physically possible, but the scanner resolution would need to be well chosen to counteract the effects of fading of the colours or creases in the paper.
If they can pull it off, it might be a good "Medium term" archive format (in other words, about 100 - 500 years), as there are many many books of those ages.
m ), then there are currently no reliable digital archive systems for long term storage.
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Given that the BBC's Domesday project (data gathered in 1986) needed to be "rescued" by 2002 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2534391.st
On the other hand, the Rosetta Project look like they could get it licked for really long term storage (Example http://www.rosettaproject.org/about-us/disk/conce
For a near 50% increase in price over the old ones (£35 to £62, if I recall), I'd want a bit more than "marginally better than paper passports"
In other words, the Home Office have admitted that there is no point in having the biometric information, as it is duplicated with what is already there, and will be ignored by most people who have already seen the primary information (human nature there). Remind me again why the new biometric stuff is meant to be "better"
Much appreciated link.
The ID card fiasco has all the hallmarks of a project that will suck the UK economy dry. Back when it was "to fight benefit fraud", a £30bn system was to be introduced to save £1.5bn. And that was before any cost overruns.
I sometimes wonder whether politicians should be required to take out indemnity insurance to pay for all their more costly blunders. The only problem would be that they would try and claim it on expenses, rather than face a premium that could easilty run to 300% of their salary (£70,000 premium on a salary that might just reach £24,000 for some independent health care professionals, for example. And that was when it was actually even available)
From the engadget article:
- zune-sucked/
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http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/13/installing-the
A few pics down... http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/me
wtf?
A sig changing moment.
A colleague of mine was sending using predictive text in a darkened room. Unfortunately, he had accidentally changed the default language from English to Hungarian, so the result was pretty much goulash (though not so tasty)
Anyone who says "LOL" is probably the kind of person who has heard of humour, and knows when things are meant to be funny, but isn't able to laugh.
http://www.pion.ch/Fun/funniest.html
Hardly a "new definition" - The Sex Pistols coined it in 1977
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/sex+pistols/anarchy+
First Line: "I am an antichrist"
from the site:
Could it be any worse?
err, you could look in the "Purchased Music" (it's a smart playlist that is specifically set to look for 'protected AAC')