I watched Breaking Dawn part 2 (yes, snicker if you must) and there is a scene where Bella and Edward go into their new house, and the camera sweeps across the rooms as they first look in. My wife turned to me and watched my reaction during that scene. Afterwards, she explained "I knew the stuttery video would bother you so I wanted to see if you winced." I've been harping on low frame rates for years, and this confirms for me that my perception is different. Everyone sees it, they are just used to it. Now that I've explained it to her, she sees it too.
We really need to move beyond 24fps though. Take any single frame of that scene and just try to make out what is in the house. Is that a lamp? Or a table? Or wait, maybe it's a vase with a funny flower coming out of it. You can't tell. It's a blurry mess. All you can tell is that is was a sweep of the inside of a house. No detail. This probably makes it easier for filmmakers. 48fps is a real test of set and costume designers.
24fps is not video - it's a cartoon. 30fps is video. 60fps is perfect video. People are just so used to cruddy quality that seeing something new is distubring.
Using curve fitting like that is a common existing approach to scaling pixels. It can be done on a regular pixel image. It has nothing to do with vector storage like the article summary implies.
Disqus is an atrocity since it requires 3rd-party cookies to be enabled. For those not aware, turning on 3rd-party cookies is like saying "please send all web sites all information about everywhere I have ever been." The only reason to need 3rd-party cookies is bad design.
No, he is right - just not in the degree. Most of the overhead is in the throw/catch, but there is some overhead in each function to setup the stack cleanup routine. One of the nice benefits of AMD's x64 is that it minimizes that down to like 1 CPU instruction. But it is there regardless of language or CPU. Although in practicality, it is probably comparable to the C-style error handling overhead that Darinbob mentioned. People forget that error handling in C is not free. If the developer checked the return of every malloc, every API call, and every C standard library call the code would be no faster than the rather minimal exception handling overhead.
Everyone else's wages have gone down over the last 10 years. If your wage has remained flat, you are one of the lucky ones! The article mentions that STEM workers have a 3.4% unemployment rate. That is less than half the national average, they are doing well in that area too! This is like a billionaire complaining that they are *still* stuck as a billionaire.
for an average citizen, healthcare is better and cheaper (accounting for taxes etc) in countries with public healthcare systems,
It is the "accounting for taxes etc." part that makes your claim hard to prove. A typical US resident pays average of 6% sales tax and 30% income tax. In the UK they pay closer to 20% sales tax and 60% in income tax. How much of that tax goes to health care costs? Is it actually cheaper? I'd love to see some economic analysis on this point.
This is already taken into account. That's why it says we need 2.1 children per woman in order to sustain the population. 90 years ago that number might have been 3, and even greater the further back you go. The reason this is big news is because it means the population may start declining.
Perhaps the robot should quickly look at the driver and license plate of the vehicle you are about to hit, then look at their occupation, marriage and death records, social networking accounts, and XBOX achievements to determine which of you is more valuable to society. Alternatively: It could figure out which one is most dangerous to the coming robot revolution.
What specific services does the US control? What aspects does the ITU control? And how can we get those onto a peer-to-peer system? People have talked about peer-to-peer DNS before, but I'm unclear if that is the only item that needs to be relinquished. The items Google mentions all sound like peering agreements, so I'm unclear what is even on the table to discuss.
When ICANN proposed this new TLD concept, this is exactly what people were saying would happen. The entire point of the original domain name system was that it was hierarchical, so that terms like "amazon," which were ambiguous, were not in contention. It is clear that amazon.com is a commercial company while amazon.pe is the river in Peru. If you give one trademark holder the entire hierarchy, the system falls apart.
1) It is news because it provides scientific evidence of casual observation. That is very valuable. 2) It is also news because the fact that it is confirmed in the UK means that it can be tested elsewhere in the world. I suspect that this happens much less in Asian cultures. Perhaps the study should be conducted there too?
Currently, post is the only way to reliably transmit mail to someone. With email, there is no guarantee of receipt. There is no way to guarantee it went to the correct person. And it is the only way to send a message to someone when you only know their physical location. The USPS could step-in and provide these features.
For some examples of why this is a problem, note that legal documents are always sent via snail mail. I prefer to receive all my bills in snail mail because when I setup my credit card for email delivery, I get the email intermittently. The messages aren't in my spam mail folder. They aren't filtered at the server. They just never arrive. I have no idea why. The credit card company says they sent them, so who knows what happened.
It would be great to to be able to send something to "123 Lexington Street Hudson, OH" from my computer and be legally guaranteed it was received. If such a system required some reasonable postage, AND required the sender to prove their return address (a simple logon), then it would be no more subject to spam or abuse than current postal system. It might be better because it is easy to forge a return address with the current system.
At what cost to society? Or do you have enough personal savings to hire an engineer create that device, have a dedicated EKG machine, a hospital room, and a staff to maintain your body?
(P.S. I'm not really sure if you were serious or not, but either way it makes for good discussion)
First: Developers who receive these subpoenas should contact the IGDA since they have experience in this matter. The EFF is also good at creating public awareness of these IP abusers.
It seems odd that Ravensburger doesn't contact the developers and offer licensing agreements. They should be using their trademark for profit, not loss.
If Ravensburger can sue "Preschool memory matchup" then I think the Baltimore Ravens should sue Ravensburger for using the word "Ravens" for a game company.:-) Don't they sell Ravens burgers at Ravens games?
Why are they going after Apple? Is it okay to contact a distributor to tell them to stop carrying a product if the name infringes on your trademark?
Ravensburger owns the trademark in 42 different countries, but not in the US.
Boy, that complicates things! If Apple shut down a piece of software made in the US, based on IP law in another country, that seems like it would open Apple for a lawsuit as well.
Google search results also linked to a page on a now defunct website, Melbourne Crime, which had published photos labelled with his name.
The site took down the pictures, but Google still served up the result. Google lost the case because the original was retracted, but Google didn't retract theirs. The lesson here is for Google: If you are going to index something, you have to keep that index up to date.
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I watched Breaking Dawn part 2 (yes, snicker if you must) and there is a scene where Bella and Edward go into their new house, and the camera sweeps across the rooms as they first look in. My wife turned to me and watched my reaction during that scene. Afterwards, she explained "I knew the stuttery video would bother you so I wanted to see if you winced." I've been harping on low frame rates for years, and this confirms for me that my perception is different. Everyone sees it, they are just used to it. Now that I've explained it to her, she sees it too.
We really need to move beyond 24fps though. Take any single frame of that scene and just try to make out what is in the house. Is that a lamp? Or a table? Or wait, maybe it's a vase with a funny flower coming out of it. You can't tell. It's a blurry mess. All you can tell is that is was a sweep of the inside of a house. No detail. This probably makes it easier for filmmakers. 48fps is a real test of set and costume designers.
24fps is not video - it's a cartoon. 30fps is video. 60fps is perfect video. People are just so used to cruddy quality that seeing something new is distubring.
Most popular? Around me, Redbox is nothing but B movies. It seems like their criteria is guns or talking animals.
"People who perused this book also perused..."
Using curve fitting like that is a common existing approach to scaling pixels. It can be done on a regular pixel image. It has nothing to do with vector storage like the article summary implies.
Disqus is an atrocity since it requires 3rd-party cookies to be enabled. For those not aware, turning on 3rd-party cookies is like saying "please send all web sites all information about everywhere I have ever been." The only reason to need 3rd-party cookies is bad design.
No, he is right - just not in the degree. Most of the overhead is in the throw/catch, but there is some overhead in each function to setup the stack cleanup routine. One of the nice benefits of AMD's x64 is that it minimizes that down to like 1 CPU instruction. But it is there regardless of language or CPU. Although in practicality, it is probably comparable to the C-style error handling overhead that Darinbob mentioned. People forget that error handling in C is not free. If the developer checked the return of every malloc, every API call, and every C standard library call the code would be no faster than the rather minimal exception handling overhead.
I found the only other person on the planet who puts error handling into scripts. Thank you.
And for anyone who reads this: yes, there is also error handling in Windows batch files too! It's painful and ugly, but possible.
I think he should stand by his memo and run for office.
Everyone else's wages have gone down over the last 10 years. If your wage has remained flat, you are one of the lucky ones! The article mentions that STEM workers have a 3.4% unemployment rate. That is less than half the national average, they are doing well in that area too! This is like a billionaire complaining that they are *still* stuck as a billionaire.
I've got a pet theory that most gun homicides are drug related
You aren't the only one. In recent years Baltimore City tried that approach. Here is one article I found on the subject:
Baltimore’s Crime Drops As War On Drugs Becomes War On Violence.
for an average citizen, healthcare is better and cheaper (accounting for taxes etc) in countries with public healthcare systems,
It is the "accounting for taxes etc." part that makes your claim hard to prove. A typical US resident pays average of 6% sales tax and 30% income tax. In the UK they pay closer to 20% sales tax and 60% in income tax. How much of that tax goes to health care costs? Is it actually cheaper? I'd love to see some economic analysis on this point.
Panettone bread lasts for a year.
This is already taken into account. That's why it says we need 2.1 children per woman in order to sustain the population. 90 years ago that number might have been 3, and even greater the further back you go. The reason this is big news is because it means the population may start declining.
Perhaps the robot should quickly look at the driver and license plate of the vehicle you are about to hit, then look at their occupation, marriage and death records, social networking accounts, and XBOX achievements to determine which of you is more valuable to society. Alternatively: It could figure out which one is most dangerous to the coming robot revolution.
What specific services does the US control? What aspects does the ITU control? And how can we get those onto a peer-to-peer system? People have talked about peer-to-peer DNS before, but I'm unclear if that is the only item that needs to be relinquished. The items Google mentions all sound like peering agreements, so I'm unclear what is even on the table to discuss.
For those who don't know the reference:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Brings Boston to a Halt
When ICANN proposed this new TLD concept, this is exactly what people were saying would happen. The entire point of the original domain name system was that it was hierarchical, so that terms like "amazon," which were ambiguous, were not in contention. It is clear that amazon.com is a commercial company while amazon.pe is the river in Peru. If you give one trademark holder the entire hierarchy, the system falls apart.
At the risk of being trollish by linking to my own Slashdot comment:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2782577&cid=39661791
Wait, isn't Y2K going to happen in 2048?
1) It is news because it provides scientific evidence of casual observation. That is very valuable.
2) It is also news because the fact that it is confirmed in the UK means that it can be tested elsewhere in the world. I suspect that this happens much less in Asian cultures. Perhaps the study should be conducted there too?
Found it on scribd: Republican Study Committee Intellectual Property Brief
The linked article confirms it.
Update: The RSC has now taken down the brief and disowned it via this memo from Executive Director Paul Teller. Here’s a copy of that:
Does anyone have a cached copy?
Currently, post is the only way to reliably transmit mail to someone. With email, there is no guarantee of receipt. There is no way to guarantee it went to the correct person. And it is the only way to send a message to someone when you only know their physical location. The USPS could step-in and provide these features.
For some examples of why this is a problem, note that legal documents are always sent via snail mail. I prefer to receive all my bills in snail mail because when I setup my credit card for email delivery, I get the email intermittently. The messages aren't in my spam mail folder. They aren't filtered at the server. They just never arrive. I have no idea why. The credit card company says they sent them, so who knows what happened.
It would be great to to be able to send something to "123 Lexington Street Hudson, OH" from my computer and be legally guaranteed it was received. If such a system required some reasonable postage, AND required the sender to prove their return address (a simple logon), then it would be no more subject to spam or abuse than current postal system. It might be better because it is easy to forge a return address with the current system.
At what cost to society? Or do you have enough personal savings to hire an engineer create that device, have a dedicated EKG machine, a hospital room, and a staff to maintain your body?
(P.S. I'm not really sure if you were serious or not, but either way it makes for good discussion)
Wow, this is messy!
First: Developers who receive these subpoenas should contact the IGDA since they have experience in this matter. The EFF is also good at creating public awareness of these IP abusers.
It seems odd that Ravensburger doesn't contact the developers and offer licensing agreements. They should be using their trademark for profit, not loss.
If Ravensburger can sue "Preschool memory matchup" then I think the Baltimore Ravens should sue Ravensburger for using the word "Ravens" for a game company. :-) Don't they sell Ravens burgers at Ravens games?
Why are they going after Apple? Is it okay to contact a distributor to tell them to stop carrying a product if the name infringes on your trademark?
Ravensburger owns the trademark in 42 different countries, but not in the US.
Boy, that complicates things! If Apple shut down a piece of software made in the US, based on IP law in another country, that seems like it would open Apple for a lawsuit as well.
I do too, but that isn't the problem.
Google search results also linked to a page on a now defunct website, Melbourne Crime, which had published photos labelled with his name.
The site took down the pictures, but Google still served up the result. Google lost the case because the original was retracted, but Google didn't retract theirs. The lesson here is for Google: If you are going to index something, you have to keep that index up to date.