By now you don't even now what to do with 1024PB. Just as we couldn't imagine filling a 250GB harddrive 15 years ago when 500MB were considered huge.
What will happen? We store our digital photos in raw format, not JPEG. We store our songs in raw format, not artificially crippled. We will store high-definition video, possibly even in raw format, not MPEG4 or the likes.
And, woosh, 1024PB will be nothing leaving us wondering how we could ever survive with a measly 250GB drive -- just as we ask ourselves today how life was with nothing but 170kB disk drives.
Not at all. If you buy a brand-x camera, you can use whatever film you want to use. You are not bound to Kodakchrome and their holy development formulas.
However, with the Nikon approach you are either forced to go for a crippled format (and JPEG *is* crippled from a graphical point of view) or use their very own RAW format. It's not like the camera would support a gazillion of (especially competing) lossless formats by default.
And, sorry, but if Nikon wants their development costs back, then they should raise the price per camera, but not via licensing fees on their oh-so-holy *file format*. While the Kodakchrome process may (or may not) have been superior to other films, it never the less was based on true research. A *file format* for pictures definitely is not. It's a container for pixels and, in the case of digital camera, some color/hue/saturation coefficients derived automatically through a calibration process.
Btw, I'm no photographer. For this discussion it also shouldn't matter whether I am one or not. Exchange "Nikon RAW" with "Word DOC" or "Eagle SCH/PCB" if photographers are such a red flag for you. Maybe you'll then get the point.
Of course Nikon will happily license out those decryption routines so one has access to the RAW format; but there's no need to introduce encryption in the first place, or keep the file format non-disclosed, for that matter.
Assume, you're a pro photographer and therefore store your pictures in that very RAW format for maximum resolution. The pictures are *your* creative work, not Nikon's. Who says that they will still support that format in 5 years? Who guarantees you that their software will work with your PC of choice in 5 years?
You buy a camera for making pictures, and you probably want to use that very camera for a period which is usually way longer than what's currently supported by any software manufacturer. There are people who still use old Leicas or Rollei cameras... No pro photographer wants to change their equipment with every new OS generation.
With that licensing model -- Nikon creating an encrypted format which *they* own all rights to and *they* have the power to give and revoke licenses as they want -- they directly affect the photographer in accessing his own creative work.
It's like bringing out an analog camera where the photos are taken scrambled and you can view the photos only using a camera-manufacturer provided lens. Which is provided for a limited time only.
An outburst by a programmer who had too much coffee? Maybe you didn't have enough to see the implications of such artificial crippling of file formats...
I remember the times when "we Europeans" envied the US for their cheap phone rates. But "in the low $0.20/minute" sounds awfully expensive (and with the proper 1010-number you should be able to even get into the
For instance, a call from Germany to the US -- 0,97 *Cents* per Minute these days, regardless of daytime -- can be even cheaper than a domestic call within Germany depending on the actual hour.
So, if that is sufficient for the call-by-call provider to make money even though these providers usually don't have an own network and even pay main providers for their invoice services, I wonder why we still need to bleed for domestic (local or long distance) calls...
I don't think it's practical to give everyone a corner office, but everyone _could_ have a window.
At least in Germany offices usually must have a window, it's generally not allowed to stick people into darkrooms, only some few exempts from that rules exist.
While people here on/. seem to embrace the increased productivity of people having an own office (with a window...), there's also another point: in a cubicle you can't give your eyes a rest. They have only to work within a 3-feet radius (if ever), mostly being concentrated on the screen.
If you have the chance to grab a windowed office, give it a try and just focus a very remote point outside every now and then. You will actually feel how this helps your eyes relaxing.
There are also theories (no idea if proven or not) that without doing those "remote spot rests" your eyes age faster, i.e. you will get accomodation problems earlier than needed.
What happens when these bacteria inevitably escape into the "wild"? Powerplants and conduits, whose designers never anticipated that hot styrofoam would rot within a few weeks, could suddenly fail, causing disasters worldwide.
Well, go read a nice book: "Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater" by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis.
It describes that very scenario about some plastic-eating bug which accidentally is released and starts to chew not only on the plastic it was designed to eat but also other plastics...
Cause that's the next question: you can design a bug which eats some certain sort of plastics, but what happens if it mutates and starts eating other stuff as well?
Exactly. So where do you see that approaches to limit civil rights in Germany and Europe are *countered* with respect to the outgoing of US-American legislation?
Apart from just creating some steam on Slashdot, Heise Newsticker, or some average politician saying "Yes, that's a bad thing to happen, but I voted in favor of it because I didn't have a choice."
After all, our government wants to follow your lead and reduce our civil liberties, too (though not as much as yours did) -- and the US situation gives ammunition to counter such proposals.
Joachim, Du bist lustig. *Counter* such proposals!?
Didn't you realize that anything which didn't pass as desired on national level is just handed over to the EU bureaucrats and gets shoved up our asses through the back door? (Pun intended)
Not even those few politicians, who had a somewhat good reputation like Jörg Tauss, do care anymore. "We had to adopt it, so I voted for it, even though I think that regulation is wrong."
So in the end, our beloved government, be it on EU or national level, just watches what's going on in the US, what their administration is able to pass, and which regulations don't get fight back with teeth, claws, and firearms.
And when your mother dies in the hospital because you sat through the last two hours of lord of the rings and never got to say goodbyew to her
She probably doesn't die because I sat in the theater for 2 hours...
If she was already in bad condition, so that dead was imminent, then you wouldn't go to the theater but hold her hand instead of selfishly watching LOTR.
And if she is known to have a very bad condition, you probably would have talked to her *before* you get the "she's dying real soon now, quit LOTR and come to the hospital" call.
If she was in the hospital for a surgery, then you wouldn't go to the theater either, because your thoughts should be with her, not Gollum.
Of course, I assume here that you are not a selfish prick. OTOH, in the above situation you wouldn't be sitting in the cinema otherwise.
or more realisticly when your girlfriend is stranded for another two hours in the middle of nowhere when her car wont start or runs into a ditch
This is one of the rare cases where leaving on / caring about the cell phone is excusable.
Too many people, however, just think that her cell phone has top priority over *anything*. Sometimes it's easier to communicate with people using text messages instead of the futile attempt to talk to them face to face while constantly getting interrupted by their cell phone...
you tell me that the 3 people you disturbed leaving that theater who are already disturbed by the people that feel the need to go to the bathroom four times during a movie or get a refil on their popcorn are more important.
Nope, those suckers I hate as much. Just don't drink half a gallon of coke during the movie, then you don't need to visit the restroom every 20 minutes. But since the alternative is peeing full your pants, I'd let them rather go.
The cell phone, in term, can be switched off with no side effects. (Just like you don't need another two pounds of popcorn, or tortilla chips with jalapeno dip for that matter. Better for you anyway.)
When my cell phone vibrates during a movie and I look at the number to determine if it should go to voicemail or if I should excuse myself, no one is inconvenienced.
Why would you leave your cell phone on if you watch a movie in the cinema? Whose call could be so urgent to make you leave the movie -- disturbing people while you move out and coming back in later -- that it can't wait until the movie is finished?
If you are a doctor on duty, you wouldn't go to the cinema, so the only excuse is that you might be a volunteer fireman.
All other people have *no* excuse to not switch off that damned cell phone. There has been a time where there was no 24/7 connectivity and people were indeed able to live in those underdeveloped ages. Whatever they tell you, you do *not* need to be connected 24/7 and caring about, yet even answering, every fucking phone call.
Regarding code compression, I guess that's pretty much a dead horse in terms of reducing code size (which IIRC was the driving force behind ARMthumb) -- the only guys I know of still working on it come from the low power area. Less memory needed means lower power, but they're fighting the extra (power) cost for the run-time decompression.
EPIC? Well, there *are* benchmarks where it performs better:)
Excuse me? Why would the CISC frontend allow better ultilization of cache resources?
Yes, a CISC machine puts its operands mainly in memory and/or requires a gazillion of memory accesses because of low register count. That means lots of memory accesses per se and, yes, that means that the cache can "help" more often. But most of these cases wouldn't appear with a RISC architecture anyway, which holds the operands in registers.
Besides, RISC instructions are easier to pipeline *by design*, i.e. it's also easier to maneuver around memory accesses by rearranging the program code to hide latencies.
But assumed that a possible benefit in the CISC frontend exists (apart from more compact code on average, that is) -- what difference does it make in terms of bus accesses when the CISC commands get recoded into CISC instructions anyway? Any optimization which was done by (a) the compiler on the CISC frontend and (b) by the internal OoO scheduler on the uOps kan be done as well on native RISC ops.
Yes, today's RISC chips are different to their ancestors in a sense that they employ advanced techniques like superscalarity and out-of-order execution and that their pipelines possibly grew a bit longer than the exemplary 4-stage pipeline we all know from computer architecture classes. So what?
I get the feeling that you like to play a little buzzword bingo here...
I don't remember whether it was the first Anastacia album or Shakira's "Laundry Service". When my g/f bought them, I just *had* to rip them just due to the "copy protected" sticker, although I was not quite keen on having that stuff on my HTPC.
First attempt: Pioneer Slot-in DVD drive. That one just didn't like the disk: I wasn't even able to read the CD, as the drive made funny noises faintly reminding to 1541 (that's the C64 floppy drive for you youngsters) read errors.
Second attempt: Plextor. No problems with accessing the disk, but when ripping it I got some bogus track 0 with strange data in it.
Never had that again with any of the "copy controlled" CDs.
Not to belittle his achievements, but what you're reporting here to me sounds an awful lot like he's at least partly autistic. Being a living computer comes in truly handy when doing calculations, but it's nowhere near ingenuity.
Or he was indeed a true genius -- and was just effectively ground up by the system. Being research and teaching assistant myself, my steadily growing impression since the late 90s is that university is just one big bureaucracy, but no place for ingenious people trying to work on scientific breakthroughs.
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By now you don't even now what to do with 1024PB. Just as we couldn't imagine filling a 250GB harddrive 15 years ago when 500MB were considered huge.
What will happen? We store our digital photos in raw format, not JPEG. We store our songs in raw format, not artificially crippled. We will store high-definition video, possibly even in raw format, not MPEG4 or the likes.
And, woosh, 1024PB will be nothing leaving us wondering how we could ever survive with a measly 250GB drive -- just as we ask ourselves today how life was with nothing but 170kB disk drives.
Yep. But the energy can't be created or destroyed -- just transformed.
Says Erich von Däniken.
Then go for Manga, not Hentai.
However, with the Nikon approach you are either forced to go for a crippled format (and JPEG *is* crippled from a graphical point of view) or use their very own RAW format. It's not like the camera would support a gazillion of (especially competing) lossless formats by default.
And, sorry, but if Nikon wants their development costs back, then they should raise the price per camera, but not via licensing fees on their oh-so-holy *file format*. While the Kodakchrome process may (or may not) have been superior to other films, it never the less was based on true research. A *file format* for pictures definitely is not. It's a container for pixels and, in the case of digital camera, some color/hue/saturation coefficients derived automatically through a calibration process.
Btw, I'm no photographer. For this discussion it also shouldn't matter whether I am one or not. Exchange "Nikon RAW" with "Word DOC" or "Eagle SCH/PCB" if photographers are such a red flag for you. Maybe you'll then get the point.
Of course Nikon will happily license out those decryption routines so one has access to the RAW format; but there's no need to introduce encryption in the first place, or keep the file format non-disclosed, for that matter.
Assume, you're a pro photographer and therefore store your pictures in that very RAW format for maximum resolution. The pictures are *your* creative work, not Nikon's. Who says that they will still support that format in 5 years? Who guarantees you that their software will work with your PC of choice in 5 years?
You buy a camera for making pictures, and you probably want to use that very camera for a period which is usually way longer than what's currently supported by any software manufacturer. There are people who still use old Leicas or Rollei cameras... No pro photographer wants to change their equipment with every new OS generation.
With that licensing model -- Nikon creating an encrypted format which *they* own all rights to and *they* have the power to give and revoke licenses as they want -- they directly affect the photographer in accessing his own creative work.
It's like bringing out an analog camera where the photos are taken scrambled and you can view the photos only using a camera-manufacturer provided lens. Which is provided for a limited time only.
An outburst by a programmer who had too much coffee? Maybe you didn't have enough to see the implications of such artificial crippling of file formats...
The only bigger thing that stuff leads to is bigger money for them.
So, if that is sufficient for the call-by-call provider to make money even though these providers usually don't have an own network and even pay main providers for their invoice services, I wonder why we still need to bleed for domestic (local or long distance) calls...
While people here on /. seem to embrace the increased productivity of people having an own office (with a window...), there's also another point: in a cubicle you can't give your eyes a rest. They have only to work within a 3-feet radius (if ever), mostly being concentrated on the screen.
If you have the chance to grab a windowed office, give it a try and just focus a very remote point outside every now and then. You will actually feel how this helps your eyes relaxing.
There are also theories (no idea if proven or not) that without doing those "remote spot rests" your eyes age faster, i.e. you will get accomodation problems earlier than needed.
It describes that very scenario about some plastic-eating bug which accidentally is released and starts to chew not only on the plastic it was designed to eat but also other plastics...
Cause that's the next question: you can design a bug which eats some certain sort of plastics, but what happens if it mutates and starts eating other stuff as well?
Apart from just creating some steam on Slashdot, Heise Newsticker, or some average politician saying "Yes, that's a bad thing to happen, but I voted in favor of it because I didn't have a choice."
Didn't you realize that anything which didn't pass as desired on national level is just handed over to the EU bureaucrats and gets shoved up our asses through the back door? (Pun intended)
Not even those few politicians, who had a somewhat good reputation like Jörg Tauss, do care anymore. "We had to adopt it, so I voted for it, even though I think that regulation is wrong."
So in the end, our beloved government, be it on EU or national level, just watches what's going on in the US, what their administration is able to pass, and which regulations don't get fight back with teeth, claws, and firearms.
If she was already in bad condition, so that dead was imminent, then you wouldn't go to the theater but hold her hand instead of selfishly watching LOTR.
And if she is known to have a very bad condition, you probably would have talked to her *before* you get the "she's dying real soon now, quit LOTR and come to the hospital" call.
If she was in the hospital for a surgery, then you wouldn't go to the theater either, because your thoughts should be with her, not Gollum.
Of course, I assume here that you are not a selfish prick. OTOH, in the above situation you wouldn't be sitting in the cinema otherwise.
This is one of the rare cases where leaving on / caring about the cell phone is excusable.Too many people, however, just think that her cell phone has top priority over *anything*. Sometimes it's easier to communicate with people using text messages instead of the futile attempt to talk to them face to face while constantly getting interrupted by their cell phone...
Nope, those suckers I hate as much. Just don't drink half a gallon of coke during the movie, then you don't need to visit the restroom every 20 minutes. But since the alternative is peeing full your pants, I'd let them rather go.The cell phone, in term, can be switched off with no side effects. (Just like you don't need another two pounds of popcorn, or tortilla chips with jalapeno dip for that matter. Better for you anyway.)
If you are a doctor on duty, you wouldn't go to the cinema, so the only excuse is that you might be a volunteer fireman.
All other people have *no* excuse to not switch off that damned cell phone. There has been a time where there was no 24/7 connectivity and people were indeed able to live in those underdeveloped ages. Whatever they tell you, you do *not* need to be connected 24/7 and caring about, yet even answering, every fucking phone call.
Tell you something: spinach is *not* a good iron supplier. (The other unkillable myth...)
Regarding code compression, I guess that's pretty much a dead horse in terms of reducing code size (which IIRC was the driving force behind ARMthumb) -- the only guys I know of still working on it come from the low power area. Less memory needed means lower power, but they're fighting the extra (power) cost for the run-time decompression.
EPIC? Well, there *are* benchmarks where it performs better :)
Yes, a CISC machine puts its operands mainly in memory and/or requires a gazillion of memory accesses because of low register count. That means lots of memory accesses per se and, yes, that means that the cache can "help" more often. But most of these cases wouldn't appear with a RISC architecture anyway, which holds the operands in registers.
Besides, RISC instructions are easier to pipeline *by design*, i.e. it's also easier to maneuver around memory accesses by rearranging the program code to hide latencies.
But assumed that a possible benefit in the CISC frontend exists (apart from more compact code on average, that is) -- what difference does it make in terms of bus accesses when the CISC commands get recoded into CISC instructions anyway? Any optimization which was done by (a) the compiler on the CISC frontend and (b) by the internal OoO scheduler on the uOps kan be done as well on native RISC ops.
Yes, today's RISC chips are different to their ancestors in a sense that they employ advanced techniques like superscalarity and out-of-order execution and that their pipelines possibly grew a bit longer than the exemplary 4-stage pipeline we all know from computer architecture classes. So what?
I get the feeling that you like to play a little buzzword bingo here...
Considering research, the breakup was no good thing. AT&T research and Bell Labs are a mere shadow of what they've been in the past.
First attempt: Pioneer Slot-in DVD drive. That one just didn't like the disk: I wasn't even able to read the CD, as the drive made funny noises faintly reminding to 1541 (that's the C64 floppy drive for you youngsters) read errors.
Second attempt: Plextor. No problems with accessing the disk, but when ripping it I got some bogus track 0 with strange data in it.
Never had that again with any of the "copy controlled" CDs.
You'll be safe, as long as you remember one thing: no birds!
Well, then I call it a draw.
Or he was indeed a true genius -- and was just effectively ground up by the system. Being research and teaching assistant myself, my steadily growing impression since the late 90s is that university is just one big bureaucracy, but no place for ingenious people trying to work on scientific breakthroughs.
Maybe that's why you never heard of him.
Well, he's "bussy" learning another foreign language. Looks like his neural network responsible for language is currently rewiring.
Kurnikova?
I don't get your question... Of course turn them into biofuel, what else!?