I was at that conference, and while the question about high-quality video was asked, Chen pretty much said they were happy with the quality of online video they had, and were much more focused on the reach of YouTube, keeping the files small so that everyone could watch them, even those without a lot of bandwidth and in other countries.
He certainly didn't say anything about a high quality YouTube in the next three months. I think this blogger read more into the talk than what Chen said. However he implies that he talked to him directly, so I can only vouch for what was said at the conference.
Guess the NRA has to change the slogan...
Guns DO kill people!
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"ignoring settled issues in science"
There should never be a settled issue in science. Science is about observation and theory not orthodoxy. Regardless of how crack-pot the theory, it should be able to be tested using scientific method, without being ridiculed because it goes against "established science."/Fortean.
Not absurd to Thais. Insulting the king is a very serious crime. Which is the whole point. Their country, their laws. This guy lived there for 10 years by choice, he knew the law. Certainly you don't believe that American Law should cover the whole world right?
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Yes. I am aware of the irony of that statement.:)
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How is it absurd? They are both physical representations of a human being. Vandalizing the grave stone, is not going to hurt your grandfather, but it will piss off your family. You just have to understand that in Thailand, they feel the King is everyone's grandfather.
Second of all, you suggest the correct thing to do: appeal to the law to punish the vandal. That's exactly what they're doing here, appealing to the law to punish the vandal. It just so happens that this law punishes a more severe crime in Thai eyes than vandalism. They caught him on tape, he confessed to the crime, they put him through the court, he had a lawyer, he pled guilty, the judge gave him a severely reduced sentence, and the king will most likely pardon him in the end. Sounds to me like justice was carried out.
The Swiss government actually took what I feel to be a very classy stance. Essentially they said, you have one of our citizens, he broke your law, we know how important that particular law is to you. We'll be there to see that there's a fair trial, but whatever you decide, that's your right. Contrast that with how the USA handled that kid who got caned in Singapore.
Almost the reason. Lesse Majesty is really used by the government on all sides as a political tool to quiet or jail their opponents. This is why the King pretty much called it ridiculous. Every side claims to be "Working for the King", or "Protecting the King", while advancing it's own agenda. (insert- "for the children" here in the usa).
Which is why this guy will be pardoned, he has no political agenda. He's just a drunk idiot farang.
The king can pardon specific instances of crimes, not just the whole statute.
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I lived in Thailand for seven years, and I'm trying to come up with an analogy for the slashdot crowd, (because that's how slashdotters communicate).
It's kind of like that a-hole Phelps character with his god-hates-fags rallies at soldier's funerals. Insulting the King in Thailand is that inflammatory. I told my (Thai) wife about this yesterday, and she couldn't sleep that night, and was trying to find this clip on YouTube in a righteous rage. (couldn't find it). It's hard for westerners to grasp the concept of a powerful person who is universally beloved, without cynicism.
I feel absolutely no sympathy with that Swiss idiot who spray-painted the King's picture. He's 50 years old, lived in Thailand for 10 years. He knew what he was doing. He got drunk, and decided to be 16 again. Imagine if a drunk vandal went around spraypainting the grave stone of your Grandfather.
In the end this will be a tempest in a tea-pot, as the king will most assuredly pardon the man, and he'll be kicked out of the country to go to back home. The king has publicly come out and said what a silly law the lesse-majesty law is, and how he is not above criticism, and how he welcomes people to tell him what they think.
However the law stands, because the Thai's they love them some King.
Great! There is absolutely nothing that can go wrong with this.
There was a time when a certain amount of distrust of the government was considered "healthy".
Now it gets you points on your "good american" list.
I thought my credit score was something to worry about, how long until your "Good American" score will be used as a factor in court proceedings, federal hiring practices, etc. etc.?
This being slashdot, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but your hard drive is most likely not fast enough to receive the full 400 Mb/s stream from the firewire. The fastest SCSi drives are 320Mb/s and that's not sustained.
To get full firewire transfer goodness, you need a raid of fast drives, on both systems.
Those people who have legitimate access to that data leaking the information? Was there a huge wave of hacker activity stealing and disseminating classified material lately? Because I must have missed it.
Mostly I remember people INSIDE government agencies leaking this information to the press on purpose, to disclose high shenanigans and malfeasence in the Bush administration.
This doesn't do much to stop this kind of leak, but makes it much easier to track down those who do leak information. I don't think this has as much to do with security, as it does fear and punishment.
Usefulness to humans seems to be a huge evolutionary advantage.
There's also a small population of Irawaddy Dolphins in the Mekong river where Laos Cambodia and Thailand meet. They also have a population less than 100.
Sadly, being useful to local fishermen is probably the only way these creatures will be allowed to continue to exist, as human beings aren't really keen on cutting pollution, not building dams, and protecting the fisheries. Currently they're on parole from a very small tourism industry around viewing them.
Hopefully more fishermen will pick this up and they will become as common as elephants, water buffalo and the other useful creatures around here.
Isn't that pretty much what RPG console games are now? A series of canned responses to a limited choice of options, but with some combat graphics thrown in?
These were fun when I was a kid, but that was before computer games really took off. I don't see the young whipper-snappers these days being excited by a book with simple either/or choices.
Still if the came up with a good story that was interesting and compelling, (I seem to remember the plot of these things being pretty weak, even as a kid) I don't see why they wouldn't be successful.
Actually having an interesting and compelling story could sell a few console rpg's too, or movies, or tv shows, etc. etc. It all comes back to that in the end, not the gimmick.
I was waiting for someone to mention this game, Grim Fandango was an incredible immersive experience in a really imaginative setting, but unfortunately the game part was simply a rail-roaded pixel hunt. I'd love to see what the original makers could do with the full 3d environments available now.
Grim Fandango could have made an excellent animated series, but as a game, it was meh.
All these hollywood films were shot on 35mm film, which has a resolution far far exceeding our current SD (NTSC/PAL) video signals. 35mm also exceeds the resolution of hd video 1080i and 720p, so there is a marked improvement if the film print is scanned at these higher HD resolutions.
HD captures approximately five times the amount of the ORIGINAL scanned image, than your normal tv signal does, even from films shot as far back as the 1920's
Very nostalgic, for those of us who work with broadcast VTR's on a daily basis. I can still thread a quad machine in a pinch, but even I can't wait to get rid of tape completely.
The next generation of broadcasters are going to look at tape like we look at recording on wax cylinders.
Good to see it's beginning, and even better to see its end. It's time has passed.
Pretty sure that's the point of encryption. Making sure that nobody but you and people you trust can read your data, and anyone else up to and including the government can't. Even if they really really want to.
When did a healthy mis-trust of government suddenly get you tin-foil hat status, and a visit from the FBI?
Embarassing trip all the way around. Foam still fell off, even after x number of years and x millions of dollars. Shuttle grounded again. Spacewalk to remove a piece of junk by hand.
Seems fitting that it's returning to earth full of garbage. Lets just put the shuttle with the rest of the refuse and move on to the CEV.
Doesn't anyone remember us chiding the russians because Mir was old and rickety and well past its intended lifespan? Drop the shuttle, burn up the ISS, and start reaching for the stars from scratch.
Why not add a new rating to the g, pg, pg-13, R, X system?
We could name it U, for "unholy". That way the MPAA could stick it on any film that does not represent fundamentalist dogma.
That way the fundamentalists (I can't call them christians, I know too many real christians to insult them that way), can know not to watch because it will offend them, and then won't have to protest these things to let the rest of us know how evil the film is.
Ahh, starts to make sense now a little bit. Too many brown people with a different religion, right next door.
Actually Singaporeans mention the same thing too, and they pretty much roll over for america as well.
Maybe that's one of the reasons America is still a superpower. We suss out the fears of our allies and exploit them for our benifit.
(BTW I've traveled through Indonesia and found it a lovely place, has its problems like most of SEA, but they weren't looking to invade anyone at the time)
Still, seems like a cruel thing to do. Sacrifice one of your own citizens like this. Seems to be a perfectly harmless guy. Lives at home with his parents, 42. Certainly not a violent criminal type. The world is not really a safer place because of this. But might wake some Australians up to see their status as citizens of a sovreign nation so lightly cast aside by their own government.
As an American I've been wondering for a while why your government pretty much does whatever we tell them to do, without any sort of problems with resentment, national pride, or even seemingly rational thought.
I can never see an American being extridited to Australia for an alleged crime, who has never actually been to Australia.
I know that Howard is an ass (the opinion of most aussies I meet). But being a total neo-conservative prick doesn't really explain it, especially in cases like this.
What do you really think the Australian government gets for being our lapdog?
vis-a-vis Jon Stewart not being a serious journalist. The Daily Show has an International Edition that actually plays on CNN on weekends (if you live in asia). Which at last look was accepted as a serious news channel.
Political satire has always been just as, or indeed more effective in changing opinion on policies and governments than the regular news media.
The ability of an outside observer to affect the randomness of the outcome of a series of "coin flips" by simply willing one state or the other, is a well documented, repeated, scientifically established phenomenon. (as mentioned in the article)
It is not rational though. Which is why there are so many "it's all bullshit" comments on this thread.
Rationality and scientific orthodoxy are just as detrimental to the understanding of the world, as is religious fundamentalism.
After all, how can the speed of light be the same regardless of the speed of the observer? That's not rational.
Schrodenger's Cat was a theoretical experiment trying to prove that quantum mechanics was wrong. How can a cat be both alive and dead at the same time? Not rational.
I find it personally exciting when someone discovers everything I've ever been taught is wrong. But can see how it would be threatening to some people.
The universe may indeed be governed by laws that eventually we will be able to understand. Right now though, our knowledge of the universe is so incredibly small and limited, the idea that we can say "this is so, this isn't so." at this point is incredibly naive.
The universe still has many surprises in store for us to find, and only open-minded scientific inquiries like this will allow is to discover them.
This is a blatant plug, but a plug with a point...
Video over mobile phone networks is actually pretty exciting, but just dumping video content onto 3G networks lacks vision and creativity.
The idea is to make programming that takes advantage of the MOBILE part of the equation. Focusing on things you can ONLY do with a mobile video platform.
Our first project is a mobile phone travel show. The killer idea is that the phone, knowing roughly where you are in a city, will stream a video to you on demand, about attractions near to where you actually are at that moment.
A video guide book, carried on your phone, that both knows where you are, and what's there to see.
It's this combination of two technologies (mobile phones and video) that makes 3G into the next big thing, if it's taken advantage of, and not used just as a really tiny screen to watch movie trailers, and commercials.
I heard that there's a bunch of people who after playing too much "America's Army", stormed through this country in the middle east, killing thousands of people for nothing more than oil!
Forget Video Games. The american military causes violence, let's ban that instead.
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I was at that conference, and while the question about high-quality video was asked, Chen pretty much said they were happy with the quality of online video they had, and were much more focused on the reach of YouTube, keeping the files small so that everyone could watch them, even those without a lot of bandwidth and in other countries.
He certainly didn't say anything about a high quality YouTube in the next three months. I think this blogger read more into the talk than what Chen said. However he implies that he talked to him directly, so I can only vouch for what was said at the conference.
Guess the NRA has to change the slogan... Guns DO kill people!
"ignoring settled issues in science" There should never be a settled issue in science. Science is about observation and theory not orthodoxy. Regardless of how crack-pot the theory, it should be able to be tested using scientific method, without being ridiculed because it goes against "established science." /Fortean.
Not absurd to Thais. Insulting the king is a very serious crime. Which is the whole point. Their country, their laws. This guy lived there for 10 years by choice, he knew the law. Certainly you don't believe that American Law should cover the whole world right?
I don't reply to ACs Yes. I am aware of the irony of that statement. :)
Thanks for your reply.
How is it absurd? They are both physical representations of a human being. Vandalizing the grave stone, is not going to hurt your grandfather, but it will piss off your family. You just have to understand that in Thailand, they feel the King is everyone's grandfather.
Second of all, you suggest the correct thing to do: appeal to the law to punish the vandal. That's exactly what they're doing here, appealing to the law to punish the vandal. It just so happens that this law punishes a more severe crime in Thai eyes than vandalism. They caught him on tape, he confessed to the crime, they put him through the court, he had a lawyer, he pled guilty, the judge gave him a severely reduced sentence, and the king will most likely pardon him in the end. Sounds to me like justice was carried out.
The Swiss government actually took what I feel to be a very classy stance. Essentially they said, you have one of our citizens, he broke your law, we know how important that particular law is to you. We'll be there to see that there's a fair trial, but whatever you decide, that's your right. Contrast that with how the USA handled that kid who got caned in Singapore.
Almost the reason. Lesse Majesty is really used by the government on all sides as a political tool to quiet or jail their opponents. This is why the King pretty much called it ridiculous. Every side claims to be "Working for the King", or "Protecting the King", while advancing it's own agenda. (insert- "for the children" here in the usa). Which is why this guy will be pardoned, he has no political agenda. He's just a drunk idiot farang. The king can pardon specific instances of crimes, not just the whole statute.
I lived in Thailand for seven years, and I'm trying to come up with an analogy for the slashdot crowd, (because that's how slashdotters communicate).
It's kind of like that a-hole Phelps character with his god-hates-fags rallies at soldier's funerals. Insulting the King in Thailand is that inflammatory. I told my (Thai) wife about this yesterday, and she couldn't sleep that night, and was trying to find this clip on YouTube in a righteous rage. (couldn't find it). It's hard for westerners to grasp the concept of a powerful person who is universally beloved, without cynicism.
I feel absolutely no sympathy with that Swiss idiot who spray-painted the King's picture. He's 50 years old, lived in Thailand for 10 years. He knew what he was doing. He got drunk, and decided to be 16 again. Imagine if a drunk vandal went around spraypainting the grave stone of your Grandfather.
In the end this will be a tempest in a tea-pot, as the king will most assuredly pardon the man, and he'll be kicked out of the country to go to back home. The king has publicly come out and said what a silly law the lesse-majesty law is, and how he is not above criticism, and how he welcomes people to tell him what they think.
However the law stands, because the Thai's they love them some King.
Great! There is absolutely nothing that can go wrong with this.
There was a time when a certain amount of distrust of the government was considered "healthy".
Now it gets you points on your "good american" list.
I thought my credit score was something to worry about, how long until your "Good American" score will be used as a factor in court proceedings, federal hiring practices, etc. etc.?
This being slashdot, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but your hard drive is most likely not fast enough to receive the full 400 Mb/s stream from the firewire. The fastest SCSi drives are 320Mb/s and that's not sustained.
To get full firewire transfer goodness, you need a raid of fast drives, on both systems.
Those people who have legitimate access to that data leaking the information? Was there a huge wave of hacker activity stealing and disseminating classified material lately? Because I must have missed it.
Mostly I remember people INSIDE government agencies leaking this information to the press on purpose, to disclose high shenanigans and malfeasence in the Bush administration.
This doesn't do much to stop this kind of leak, but makes it much easier to track down those who do leak information. I don't think this has as much to do with security, as it does fear and punishment.
Usefulness to humans seems to be a huge evolutionary advantage.
There's also a small population of Irawaddy Dolphins in the Mekong river where Laos Cambodia and Thailand meet. They also have a population less than 100.
Sadly, being useful to local fishermen is probably the only way these creatures will be allowed to continue to exist, as human beings aren't really keen on cutting pollution, not building dams, and protecting the fisheries. Currently they're on parole from a very small tourism industry around viewing them.
Hopefully more fishermen will pick this up and they will become as common as elephants, water buffalo and the other useful creatures around here.
Isn't that pretty much what RPG console games are now? A series of canned responses to a limited choice of options, but with some combat graphics thrown in?
These were fun when I was a kid, but that was before computer games really took off. I don't see the young whipper-snappers these days being excited by a book with simple either/or choices.
Still if the came up with a good story that was interesting and compelling, (I seem to remember the plot of these things being pretty weak, even as a kid) I don't see why they wouldn't be successful.
Actually having an interesting and compelling story could sell a few console rpg's too, or movies, or tv shows, etc. etc. It all comes back to that in the end, not the gimmick.
I was waiting for someone to mention this game, Grim Fandango was an incredible immersive experience in a really imaginative setting, but unfortunately the game part was simply a rail-roaded pixel hunt. I'd love to see what the original makers could do with the full 3d environments available now.
Grim Fandango could have made an excellent animated series, but as a game, it was meh.
All these hollywood films were shot on 35mm film, which has a resolution far far exceeding our current SD (NTSC/PAL) video signals. 35mm also exceeds the resolution of hd video 1080i and 720p, so there is a marked improvement if the film print is scanned at these higher HD resolutions.
HD captures approximately five times the amount of the ORIGINAL scanned image, than your normal tv signal does, even from films shot as far back as the 1920's
Very nostalgic, for those of us who work with broadcast VTR's on a daily basis. I can still thread a quad machine in a pinch, but even I can't wait to get rid of tape completely.
The next generation of broadcasters are going to look at tape like we look at recording on wax cylinders.
Good to see it's beginning, and even better to see its end. It's time has passed.
Pretty sure that's the point of encryption. Making sure that nobody but you and people you trust can read your data, and anyone else up to and including the government can't. Even if they really really want to.
When did a healthy mis-trust of government suddenly get you tin-foil hat status, and a visit from the FBI?
Embarassing trip all the way around. Foam still fell off, even after x number of years and x millions of dollars. Shuttle grounded again. Spacewalk to remove a piece of junk by hand.
Seems fitting that it's returning to earth full of garbage. Lets just put the shuttle with the rest of the refuse and move on to the CEV.
Doesn't anyone remember us chiding the russians because Mir was old and rickety and well past its intended lifespan? Drop the shuttle, burn up the ISS, and start reaching for the stars from scratch.
Why not add a new rating to the g, pg, pg-13, R, X system?
We could name it U, for "unholy". That way the MPAA could stick it on any film that does not represent fundamentalist dogma.
That way the fundamentalists (I can't call them christians, I know too many real christians to insult them that way), can know not to watch because it will offend them, and then won't have to protest these things to let the rest of us know how evil the film is.
Ahh, starts to make sense now a little bit. Too many brown people with a different religion, right next door.
Actually Singaporeans mention the same thing too, and they pretty much roll over for america as well.
Maybe that's one of the reasons America is still a superpower. We suss out the fears of our allies and exploit them for our benifit.
(BTW I've traveled through Indonesia and found it a lovely place, has its problems like most of SEA, but they weren't looking to invade anyone at the time)
Still, seems like a cruel thing to do. Sacrifice one of your own citizens like this. Seems to be a perfectly harmless guy. Lives at home with his parents, 42. Certainly not a violent criminal type. The world is not really a safer place because of this. But might wake some Australians up to see their status as citizens of a sovreign nation so lightly cast aside by their own government.
As an American I've been wondering for a while why your government pretty much does whatever we tell them to do, without any sort of problems with resentment, national pride, or even seemingly rational thought. I can never see an American being extridited to Australia for an alleged crime, who has never actually been to Australia. I know that Howard is an ass (the opinion of most aussies I meet). But being a total neo-conservative prick doesn't really explain it, especially in cases like this. What do you really think the Australian government gets for being our lapdog?
vis-a-vis Jon Stewart not being a serious journalist. The Daily Show has an International Edition that actually plays on CNN on weekends (if you live in asia). Which at last look was accepted as a serious news channel.
Political satire has always been just as, or indeed more effective in changing opinion on policies and governments than the regular news media.
Dismiss this man at your peril.
The ability of an outside observer to affect the randomness of the outcome of a series of "coin flips" by simply willing one state or the other, is a well documented, repeated, scientifically established phenomenon. (as mentioned in the article)
It is not rational though. Which is why there are so many "it's all bullshit" comments on this thread.
Rationality and scientific orthodoxy are just as detrimental to the understanding of the world, as is religious fundamentalism.
After all, how can the speed of light be the same regardless of the speed of the observer? That's not rational.
Schrodenger's Cat was a theoretical experiment trying to prove that quantum mechanics was wrong. How can a cat be both alive and dead at the same time? Not rational.
I find it personally exciting when someone discovers everything I've ever been taught is wrong. But can see how it would be threatening to some people.
The universe may indeed be governed by laws that eventually we will be able to understand. Right now though, our knowledge of the universe is so incredibly small and limited, the idea that we can say "this is so, this isn't so." at this point is incredibly naive.
The universe still has many surprises in store for us to find, and only open-minded scientific inquiries like this will allow is to discover them.
This is a blatant plug, but a plug with a point...
Video over mobile phone networks is actually pretty exciting, but just dumping video content onto 3G networks lacks vision and creativity.
The idea is to make programming that takes advantage of the MOBILE part of the equation. Focusing on things you can ONLY do with a mobile video platform.
Our first project is a mobile phone travel show. The killer idea is that the phone, knowing roughly where you are in a city, will stream a video to you on demand, about attractions near to where you actually are at that moment.
A video guide book, carried on your phone, that both knows where you are, and what's there to see.
Some Clips from Bangkok here: http://www.studiolanna.org/movies.htm
It's this combination of two technologies (mobile phones and video) that makes 3G into the next big thing, if it's taken advantage of, and not used just as a really tiny screen to watch movie trailers, and commercials.
I heard that there's a bunch of people who after playing too much "America's Army", stormed through this country in the middle east, killing thousands of people for nothing more than oil!
Forget Video Games. The american military causes violence, let's ban that instead.