Wikimedia should stand their ground to provide a good reason for device manufacturers to add support for open video formats.
The best way to do this, should they choose to support the H.264 format, is to add a tiny annoyance to video files in that format. Like a 5 second intro that displays their policy in the format war, and how users are better off with the open version of the video.
I'm curious what the actual "expansion ratio" is. I.e., if you want to encrypt N bytes in a cover-message of M bytes, how many bytes do you actually need to store/transmit?
An authority like Wikileaks can do the N-way merge for you. Just upload the document to Wikileaks. And supply the parameter N (meaning you don't want it published if the merge uses less than N documents).
Of course, you should then trust that the others uploading the document are not working against you.
What is a guy with this talent doing at an advertisement company in the first place? Shouldn't he be working on more gratifying things than office software? Like medicine, or high-energy physics?
To add to the pedantry: Of course he's not dead. The universe makes no distinction between individuals. As long as there is one person/animal/alien still alive, he's not dead.
But what if they used a special compiler that works roughly as follows: if(code == "insert code from programmable lego brick")
return "insert binary for iron-man suit"; else
return compile_ansi_c_code_as_usual();
The economy is a group dynamic process. Your role in the economy is affected by the roles of others, and how they play them. This may not be a direct relation, but the relation exists, and in several ways (not just as a consumer-buyer relationship). Therefore, what a CEO of some company does is certainly your and my business.
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But we are saying that you can build a $3.2 billion company, and it's easier now than it's ever been before.
Were it not for patents...
Wikimedia should stand their ground to provide a good reason for device manufacturers to add support for open video formats.
The best way to do this, should they choose to support the H.264 format, is to add a tiny annoyance to video files in that format.
Like a 5 second intro that displays their policy in the format war, and how users are better off with the open version of the video.
I'm curious what the actual "expansion ratio" is. I.e., if you want to encrypt N bytes in a cover-message of M bytes, how many bytes do you actually need to store/transmit?
An authority like Wikileaks can do the N-way merge for you.
Just upload the document to Wikileaks.
And supply the parameter N (meaning you don't want it published if the merge uses less than N documents).
Of course, you should then trust that the others uploading the document are not working against you.
You can nullify that by doing an N-way merge of the document with the N people that received it.
Maybe it was a self-destructing USB stick: "You have 1 try left."
What is a guy with this talent doing at an advertisement company in the first place?
Shouldn't he be working on more gratifying things than office software? Like medicine, or high-energy physics?
Someone has a new hammer and every problem is looking like nail...
Come on, it's 2014: media streaming is not a "problem" anymore.
When Maps is included in Android, it's hard to compete with it.
Or will government require another "ballot screen" for it?
has been busily removing features from it's Maps app
Yeah, well they've added G+ to it.
To architect boring office software not more ingenious than the paperclip was in its time.
I bet that scanner + printer can't even reproduce a DVD including its case and cover.
Wake me up when they can.
Besides an indicator, I'd expect a per-tab _mute_ button.
Also relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnA_SOcrQp0
To add to the pedantry:
Of course he's not dead. The universe makes no distinction between individuals. As long as there is one person/animal/alien still alive, he's not dead.
http://i.imgur.com/7J3WTk5.jpg
But what if they used a special compiler that works roughly as follows:
if(code == "insert code from programmable lego brick")
return "insert binary for iron-man suit";
else
return compile_ansi_c_code_as_usual();
Apple starts from "what do customers need?"
I'll fix that for you:
Apple starts from "what does Average Joe need?"
There.
And do not allow USB-sticks or other media to be inserted into these systems.
If you wait long enough, anything can happen. It is a basic rule of Quantum Mechanics.
If it costs you $10k per year to make the programmer 10% productive
Does that mean it will cost $100k to make the programmer 100% productive?
The economy is a group dynamic process. Your role in the economy is affected by the roles of others, and how they play them. This may not be a direct relation, but the relation exists, and in several ways (not just as a consumer-buyer relationship). Therefore, what a CEO of some company does is certainly your and my business.
Interesting. Could Watson be used to verify wikipedia?
Recognizing this fact is one.
Coming up with a solution is a completely different matter.
I will keep this baby going for the rest of my life, and no company will be tracking my whereabouts.
Until your car doesn't pass the upcoming environmental (read: tracking) regulations.