Any process running under privileges accessible to you can be cracked (albeit sand-boxing, in which case you need system privileges) and it can't hide data from end-user / other processes in same privilege space (albeit sand-boxing....).
They can make it more difficult though (extracting Bluray key from windows media player will take anyone at least a few days)
Correct. However, how is that a problem for Dropbox or Dropbox users? It would provide access to files that are already stored _decrypted_ on the machine. Please explain, cause I would love to know. Seriously.
IT will only save you money if you can do the same work faster and/or more cheaply than the competition. If all hospitals implement similar systems, that is now the new standard and you don't have a competitive edge that allows you to lower your operating expenses as compared to other hospitals. This is basically one of Parkinson's laws, as mentioned below.
Of course there may be problems with the IT systems in hospitals. So at some point in the future, one company will make a product that works really well and solves these problems. The first hospital to acquire the system will lower operating expenses, increase their efficiency. They can then attract more 'business' by lowering their price. Then the same company sells the system to all the other hospitals, and all their operating expenses will be reduced, efficiencies increased. Prices drop, new baseline reached. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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I am sorry to see you won't be continuing the program. Open sourcing is a nice idea, but my guess is it will then become a weak Eudora or Thunderbird copy.
I wish you all the best in your future. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
You mean like the original reason they created cable? You would pay for the cable and not have ads?
Exactly! Expect ads to come to itunes shows. Not now, or 5 years from now, more slowly than that. But expect it to happen. Just like it happened on cable, over the course of decades.
Now the situation is a little different if the object is charged. Then, when you touch it, charge will tend to flow from it to you (as you are uncharged).
The situation is not that different. Charge and potential go hand in hand. Both situations are exactly the same. You can reconcile them by realizing that in the second instance, you bring objects of different charge together, which causes a potential build up according to the capacitance between the two objects, V = Q/C.
Mod parent down, he has no idea what he is talking about.
Yau is an extremely brilliant mathematician who has proven, amongst others, The positive energy theorem and has received the Fields medal (the Nobel prize of math) for his work.
I can't believe you were modded +5 Interesting for this, but then again, this is slashdot, where shortsighted blanket statements are more interesting than hard facts. Sigh...
And don't forget that the heat generated scales as m^3 (volume of stuff being burned), while the heat leaking to the outside scales as m^2 (surface area to the outside world). So when an engine leaks 1% of it's generated power out at size x, it will leak out 10% at size x/10, and 100% at size x/100.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong! Mr. Shaw! What a tool you've turned out to be. People are not grateful for the timeshifting of their shows... they're grateful for being in control of their watching preferences.
Come on now, knowing he is president of advertising sales at ABC, you don't actually expect him to say "why yes, the fast forward button is very useful and our viewers are gonna be pissed", do you?
Problem with varying prices is that it might theoretically maximise revenues for the distributor, but it is a nightmare at the retail level to manage and it destroys consumer confidence.
No that hard... this is being done in the airline industry on a regular basis. The amount of online inquiries in particular flights raises its price slowly. All automated, not quite hard to manage. Of course tickets cost a lot more than dvds or songs, but the model is there.
"Lets say for some movies they raised the price from $10 to $20... this caused half the potential customers to be turned away, so only half as many downloads are made of the movie... "
It's probably closer to exponential, I don't believe that if you raise the price by a factor n, the amount of sales drops by the same factor n. Once you hit the exponential tail of the normal distribution of price people are willing to pay, your profit vaporizes. I'm sure there is a pareto-optimal curve lying somewhere on the desk of some hollywood types that has it all worked out.
As long as you have a physical connection from point A to point B, it is vulnerable to the most brute-force of DOS attacks: cut the connection and it's lost.
Which is exactly why self healing rings are used in these kind of situations:
The system consists of a ring of bidirectional links between a set of stations, typically using optical fiber communications. In normal use, traffic is dispatched in the direction of the shortest path towards its destination. In the event of the loss of a link, or of an entire station, the two nearest surviving stations "loop back" their ends of the ring. In this way, traffic can still travel to all surviving parts of the ring, even if it has to travel "the long way round".
Admittedly, that means you just have to cut two wires iso one:)
I think you misunderstand: it is a big deal to have an environmentally friendly car that is also fun and fast, as opposed to the kind of sluggish hybrid vehicles we have now.
It seems that to the average consumer, driving an environmentally friendly car means you have to compromise on size and/or speed and/or fun. This shows the opposite.
Now if we can only get better battery technology, because tricked out electric vehicles can kick ricers asses all day. You just have much more torque with an electric motor than with an ICU.
"I'm willing to buy an INAUDIBLY watermarked mp3 file, because then I can do whatever I want with it, I don't have to worry about DRM, and I'm not at risk because I'm not infringing copyright."
... until music players stop working unless you provide a valid watermark of course...
Let alone the fact that in curved spacetime (which is a condition that most physicists assume in order to do time travel), you cannot take simple derivatives like that.
You have to use Christoffel symbols. Whip out your favorite copy of differential equations in curved coordinate systems, or read up on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curved_spacetime
This is exactly the point! They will try this, notice that the project is unsuccesful, and can it, saying "see, we tried it, and it doesn't work", conveniently forgetting that it was just because they implemented it wrong.
I have some old film negatives that I took by putting the camera on a tripod and rotating it, and just mounted the prints very carefully with a razorblade so they looked psuedo-panoramic, that I'll have to scan in and give a try.
That works well if all the pictures are of stuff relatively far away, but you'll notice some horizon distortion for instance. Hugin/panotools warps the whole picture digitally, projecting onto a cylinder or sphere, so you won't have this problem. You may want to scan the individual pictures you took, and stitch them digitally in Hugin/panotools, will be much nicer. Another advantage is that the joints between the pictures will be smoothed out, so it will look much better.
How does it do with interior panoramas? Have you tried standing in the center of a room and doing a full cylindrical 360? I'm curious how it looks under real-world, non ideal conditions. I know some realtors that would probably be impressed by something like that.
I haven't tried 360 panoramas indoors. I _have_ tried standing in the corner of a room and taking a full shot of the room like that, and that works really well. Just remember to rotate the camera only, keeping the focal plane in the same position. Particularly important for indoor shots is to use the same white balance, shutter time etc for all your shots, otherwise it's going to look funny. So either don't use automatic mode, or depress the button half way while pointing at the same area for every shot, and then pan over to the position that you want to take a picture of and take your picture.
For a 180 degrees shot in front of our new house, look here. You'll notice some brightness variation, and small stitching errors, because I wasn't too careful.
Any idea how it compares to the in-camera stitching that some of the new digis do?
That is quite cool indeed, but the focus of my remark was the price of $100, your apparatus is a factor 10 more. And thats just the scanning head. How much for the controller electronics, high voltage amps, uhv multi stage pumping system, vacuum chambers?
Anyways... not quite cheap enough to just 'give it a try'
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Any process running under privileges accessible to you can be cracked (albeit sand-boxing, in which case you need system privileges) and it can't hide data from end-user / other processes in same privilege space (albeit sand-boxing....). They can make it more difficult though (extracting Bluray key from windows media player will take anyone at least a few days)
Correct. However, how is that a problem for Dropbox or Dropbox users? It would provide access to files that are already stored _decrypted_ on the machine. Please explain, cause I would love to know. Seriously.
IT will only save you money if you can do the same work faster and/or more cheaply than the competition. If all hospitals implement similar systems, that is now the new standard and you don't have a competitive edge that allows you to lower your operating expenses as compared to other hospitals. This is basically one of Parkinson's laws, as mentioned below.
Of course there may be problems with the IT systems in hospitals. So at some point in the future, one company will make a product that works really well and solves these problems. The first hospital to acquire the system will lower operating expenses, increase their efficiency. They can then attract more 'business' by lowering their price. Then the same company sells the system to all the other hospitals, and all their operating expenses will be reduced, efficiencies increased. Prices drop, new baseline reached. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I am sorry to see you won't be continuing the program. Open sourcing is a nice idea, but my guess is it will then become a weak Eudora or Thunderbird copy.
I wish you all the best in your future. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Exactly! Expect ads to come to itunes shows. Not now, or 5 years from now, more slowly than that. But expect it to happen. Just like it happened on cable, over the course of decades.
The situation is not that different. Charge and potential go hand in hand. Both situations are exactly the same. You can reconcile them by realizing that in the second instance, you bring objects of different charge together, which causes a potential build up according to the capacitance between the two objects, V = Q/C.
Yau is an extremely brilliant mathematician who has proven, amongst others, The positive energy theorem and has received the Fields medal (the Nobel prize of math) for his work.
I can't believe you were modded +5 Interesting for this, but then again, this is slashdot, where shortsighted blanket statements are more interesting than hard facts. Sigh ...
And don't forget that the heat generated scales as m^3 (volume of stuff being burned), while the heat leaking to the outside scales as m^2 (surface area to the outside world). So when an engine leaks 1% of it's generated power out at size x, it will leak out 10% at size x/10, and 100% at size x/100.
Time for metamoderators?
Come on now, knowing he is president of advertising sales at ABC, you don't actually expect him to say "why yes, the fast forward button is very useful and our viewers are gonna be pissed", do you?
No that hard ... this is being done in the airline industry on a regular basis. The amount of online inquiries in particular flights raises its price slowly. All automated, not quite hard to manage. Of course tickets cost a lot more than dvds or songs, but the model is there.
It's probably closer to exponential, I don't believe that if you raise the price by a factor n, the amount of sales drops by the same factor n. Once you hit the exponential tail of the normal distribution of price people are willing to pay, your profit vaporizes. I'm sure there is a pareto-optimal curve lying somewhere on the desk of some hollywood types that has it all worked out.
Which is exactly why self healing rings are used in these kind of situations:
Admittedly, that means you just have to cut two wires iso one :)
Ahhh .... evolution is a wonderful thing isn't it? :)
It seems that to the average consumer, driving an environmentally friendly car means you have to compromise on size and/or speed and/or fun. This shows the opposite.
Now if we can only get better battery technology, because tricked out electric vehicles can kick ricers asses all day. You just have much more torque with an electric motor than with an ICU.
... until music players stop working unless you provide a valid watermark of course...
You have to use Christoffel symbols. Whip out your favorite copy of differential equations in curved coordinate systems, or read up on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curved_spacetime
This is exactly the point! They will try this, notice that the project is unsuccesful, and can it, saying "see, we tried it, and it doesn't work", conveniently forgetting that it was just because they implemented it wrong.
Yes, I realize you were being sarcastic.
Funny yes, but where in the article or slashdot editorial does it actually misspell Harvard?
Like this ?
You are of course assuming that the API is actually coherently designed, rather than thrown together :)
I find it disturbing that I have to run my own mailserver to get rid of spam.
Read your parent: " If the FSF acted, they could probably get an order to stop distribution of the device in the US at least. "
Pron doesn't need high bitrates or high resolution, unless you want to see pixel size defects on the models ... or the male lead is not that gifted :)
That works well if all the pictures are of stuff relatively far away, but you'll notice some horizon distortion for instance. Hugin/panotools warps the whole picture digitally, projecting onto a cylinder or sphere, so you won't have this problem. You may want to scan the individual pictures you took, and stitch them digitally in Hugin/panotools, will be much nicer. Another advantage is that the joints between the pictures will be smoothed out, so it will look much better.
I haven't tried 360 panoramas indoors. I _have_ tried standing in the corner of a room and taking a full shot of the room like that, and that works really well. Just remember to rotate the camera only, keeping the focal plane in the same position. Particularly important for indoor shots is to use the same white balance, shutter time etc for all your shots, otherwise it's going to look funny. So either don't use automatic mode, or depress the button half way while pointing at the same area for every shot, and then pan over to the position that you want to take a picture of and take your picture.
For a 180 degrees shot in front of our new house, look here. You'll notice some brightness variation, and small stitching errors, because I wasn't too careful.
Never tried this, which cameras do this?Anyways ... not quite cheap enough to just 'give it a try'