Well, countries with bad Gini figures tend to have a higher crime rate than ones with good Gini figures I think. E.g. moving from the UK to Sweden about ten years ago, Sweden seemed noticably safer country than the UK. And the interesting thing is that it's possible to target resources at people at the bottom of society and improve the country relatively cheaply. The Blair government managed to virtually eliminate homelessness and reduce unemployment for example with a clever mixture of capitalist things like an independant central bank setting sane interest rates leading to higher growth, and socialist ones like targetted benefits. Oh, and Blairite ones like trying to force people off benefits into jobs. Subjectively, Britain has improved it's inequality levels.
If the Tories had been in power and they had ignored inequality, I suspect that there would have been an economic upturn anyway, but a large underclass would not have been affected at all by it. And a society that juxtaposes conspicuous consumption from the newly rich with a large group of people that have essentially given up on ever having a job is not a pleasant society to live in.
I think killing enemy soldiers is basically legal when the war is on.
I dunno, it's a strange area. I was watching Band of Brothers last night, and in one of last episodes when the war is over they go to Austria and kill the commandant of one of the concentration camps they liberated during the war. I guess that if they'd killed him whilst liberating the camp in war time it would be legal, but post war it was more murky. Which makes you wonder if killing German soldiers becomes illegal at the instant of German surrender, or when the treaty is signed or what.
Ah well, wit is wasted on the young, and America chooses to be perennially young.
You know when making Francophile arguments to les neocons internets it's de rigueur to describe American culture as jejeune. The English phrase "perennially young" lacks a certain je ne sais quois.
I dunno, but the best thing would be to comply with the demand which is per web page as far as I know.
Incidentally, there are now 535,000 webpages with the number on them, according to Google.
Even if Google doesn't break the law and deindexes the pages in the takedown notice, the battle is still lost. The few pages they take down doesn't affect the huge rate those pages are being put up. In fact it probably increases it.
I think we're saying the same thing. At the moment, they release binaries they have control and can stop 'enemy forks' from killing it. I agree the player will probably stay free on desktop OSs, because charging would be fatal for market share. Mind you, I think they have mobile phone ports which they charge for. Those rely on both desktop market share and the fact that the code isn't completely open, otherwise the mobile operators would just take the source, port it themselves and stop paying license fees. Also, it's a bad idea to give away source code you've previously charged your partners lots of money to license, since they'll ask you why you didn't tell them they were buying something which was soon to be free.
If they release source code, then all this falls apart. Or looking at it from a top level CEO point of view, they've spent a lot of money developing something and are doing something which means that they will get a lower, probably zero, return on that investment.
Actually, from a completely CEO point of view, supporting Linux for free is pointless. It requires more effort to produce a bunch of binaries to run on all distributions than a single binary for Windows or Mac. Even then people will carp that the source code isn't available, and probably won't bother to go through the much harder process of installing it. Once again it's a minority of minority thing - Linux has a minority market share, and only a small minority of Linux users will bother with a binary only flash player.
Yeah, because if you pay a load of people to develop something, you obviously want to release the source code to the whole world to make absolutely sure that if you ever try to charge for it in future, someone else can undercut you.
Actually they released it for Linux on x86, which is not the same thing
Linux has tiny market share, and the vast majority of that is x86. They probably need to distribute a load of binaries to get it to work on all x86 distributions. Why should they spend time on Linux/Sparc support which is a minority of a minority?
Most digital cameras use a Bayer filter, (-f gbrg in the list). The idea behind YUV (most of the others) is so you can do chroma subsampling, which is a simple way to reduce the amount of data transmitted. JPEG is not so simple, but much more effective at reducing the amount of data. But DSP power is cheap these days, and so a hardware JPEG encoder block can fit in the corner of a CMOS image sensor.
Yes. And about this. Can anyone here on the major "News For Nerds" site actually write code? Because, all I've ever seen here about great one-man projects is "humans can't do that, it's not possible". (Yeah Right. Just as writing a whole game engine from scratch? Then go tell that to both guys I know who just did it.)
I think most slashdotters are in tech support, with maybe some Perl or PHP knowledge. So they probably can't write device drivers.
I'm not very impressed by the technical skill : it is rather easy to do. I figure all a webcam driver has to do is "open v4L from device mmaped at [address] and pass video data to application"... not much more. I read the code to tm395c (scsi card) once and even I could figure it out : all it does is initialize some magic numbers and then translate I/O to requests and back. And don't you dare tell me that all webcams encode their 640x480x2.5bit-color in a different way.
This is a USB webcam, so I guess you need to send some bytes to the control endpoint, and then stream from an ISO one. And yes, different cameras do stream in different formats
RGB and JPEG are obvious YUV maybe less so. I worked on a embedded system that supported a bunch of (maybe all) I2C controlled cameras with a text 'driver' file which told it what resolution, format and init string the cameras needed. As far as I know, most current webcams are proprietary - they have a bridge from USB to I2C but a custom driver on the PC needs to know what commands to issue to initialise the device. Mind you there's a new USB video device class which will allow one standard driver to use most new devices.
There's probably some internet law that states that any story involving France or the French will eventually accumulate a surrender joke in the comment area
There's an argument that you should do some kind of benefit analysis before you adopt technology I think. Each new thing you add increases the attack surface of the application, so there's no point doing things for purely aesthetic or coolness reasons. Plus most Web 2.0 applications seem to cope very badly with slow or unreliable network connections, and that in itself is a good reason to not use them in critical environments like online banking.
Fuck it, I'm an old fart and I know it. I'm sure next time I connect to my bank via a flakey VPN connection, it will look like fucking del.ic.io.us or whatever and will either not let me log in in the first place or freeze up when I'm trying to actually use it the way gmail does. There's no point trying to explain this stuff. Next time I go to Starbucks and it's full of goateed Mac users writing PHP code, I'm gonna put strychnine in cinnamon shakers.
You realise that "no longer developed anymore and largely obsolete" is just another way of saying stable. I know companies that kept using VMS and or mainframe OSs that were almost completely dead - no maintaince updates, no license fees even - right up until the hardware couldn't be fixed anymore.
After that, they had a hellish time with toy PC hardware and OSs. And yup, from the point of view of customers like these, all desktop hardware and OSs are toys. They have a bunch of additional features that don't add to the usefulness of the system at all, and vastly increase it's attack surface. And they need a load of updates/upgrades which occasionally introduce other bugs, and need so the customer needs to pay for 24 hour support to fix the system when this happens.
The cash register could say it sotto voce when it detects a DVD sale via the UPC bar code. It could mutter sinister parts of EULAs too like "no warranty given or implied... liability limited to the purchase price... computers explode all the time... we KNOW where YOU live. Have a nice day, except where prohibited by the DMCA"
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Well, countries with bad Gini figures tend to have a higher crime rate than ones with good Gini figures I think. E.g. moving from the UK to Sweden about ten years ago, Sweden seemed noticably safer country than the UK. And the interesting thing is that it's possible to target resources at people at the bottom of society and improve the country relatively cheaply. The Blair government managed to virtually eliminate homelessness and reduce unemployment for example with a clever mixture of capitalist things like an independant central bank setting sane interest rates leading to higher growth, and socialist ones like targetted benefits. Oh, and Blairite ones like trying to force people off benefits into jobs. Subjectively, Britain has improved it's inequality levels.
If the Tories had been in power and they had ignored inequality, I suspect that there would have been an economic upturn anyway, but a large underclass would not have been affected at all by it. And a society that juxtaposes conspicuous consumption from the newly rich with a large group of people that have essentially given up on ever having a job is not a pleasant society to live in.
maybe the acdam^wacadamics want 2 keep out teh n00b lamerz coz they wunt 2 stay l33t.
its like irc. all teh good chans like #fbi-internal make u hack in, kick teh lamerz. only then do the l33t hackorz delurk an teell u teh new scripts.
hold on, therez a load of swat guyz at teh door.
Vietnam laptop! Five Dollah! It real laptop, not typewriter after backstreet chop chop surgery!
Hey there sparky! The good ole' US of A is doing it's best. Brazil and India shouldn't count it out just yet.
I think killing enemy soldiers is basically legal when the war is on.
I dunno, it's a strange area. I was watching Band of Brothers last night, and in one of last episodes when the war is over they go to Austria and kill the commandant of one of the concentration camps they liberated during the war. I guess that if they'd killed him whilst liberating the camp in war time it would be legal, but post war it was more murky. Which makes you wonder if killing German soldiers becomes illegal at the instant of German surrender, or when the treaty is signed or what.
That's not true. See Nuremburg Tribunal vs Göring, Hess, various Johan Hirschkuhs 1945, and related cases.
Oh wait. Carry on.
You know when making Francophile arguments to les neocons internets it's de rigueur to describe American culture as jejeune. The English phrase "perennially young" lacks a certain je ne sais quois.
I dunno, but the best thing would be to comply with the demand which is per web page as far as I know.
Incidentally, there are now 535,000 webpages with the number on them, according to Google.
Even if Google doesn't break the law and deindexes the pages in the takedown notice, the battle is still lost. The few pages they take down doesn't affect the huge rate those pages are being put up. In fact it probably increases it.
Well
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=09+F9+11+0
has 322,000 hits. Up from 295,000 when I posted this a few hours ago.
Isn't calling people a Republican considered an ad hominem attack?
Xenu dropped his ass into a volcano too. And then hydrogen bombed him.
Bwahaha.
http://blog.digg.com/?p=74
One more page in the 295,000+ for the RIAA to send a DMCA takedown notice to.
Kind of reminds me of the end of Spartacus, except the bastards will run out of crosses this time.
I think we're saying the same thing. At the moment, they release binaries they have control and can stop 'enemy forks' from killing it. I agree the player will probably stay free on desktop OSs, because charging would be fatal for market share. Mind you, I think they have mobile phone ports which they charge for. Those rely on both desktop market share and the fact that the code isn't completely open, otherwise the mobile operators would just take the source, port it themselves and stop paying license fees. Also, it's a bad idea to give away source code you've previously charged your partners lots of money to license, since they'll ask you why you didn't tell them they were buying something which was soon to be free.
If they release source code, then all this falls apart. Or looking at it from a top level CEO point of view, they've spent a lot of money developing something and are doing something which means that they will get a lower, probably zero, return on that investment.
Actually, from a completely CEO point of view, supporting Linux for free is pointless. It requires more effort to produce a bunch of binaries to run on all distributions than a single binary for Windows or Mac. Even then people will carp that the source code isn't available, and probably won't bother to go through the much harder process of installing it. Once again it's a minority of minority thing - Linux has a minority market share, and only a small minority of Linux users will bother with a binary only flash player.
Yeah, because if you pay a load of people to develop something, you obviously want to release the source code to the whole world to make absolutely sure that if you ever try to charge for it in future, someone else can undercut you.
Actually they released it for Linux on x86, which is not the same thing
Linux has tiny market share, and the vast majority of that is x86. They probably need to distribute a load of binaries to get it to work on all x86 distributions. Why should they spend time on Linux/Sparc support which is a minority of a minority?
Most digital cameras use a Bayer filter, (-f gbrg in the list). The idea behind YUV (most of the others) is so you can do chroma subsampling, which is a simple way to reduce the amount of data transmitted. JPEG is not so simple, but much more effective at reducing the amount of data. But DSP power is cheap these days, and so a hardware JPEG encoder block can fit in the corner of a CMOS image sensor.
Can anyone here on the major "News For Nerds" site actually write code? Because, all I've ever seen here about great one-man projects is "humans can't do that, it's not possible". (Yeah Right. Just as writing a whole game engine from scratch? Then go tell that to both guys I know who just did it.)
I think most slashdotters are in tech support, with maybe some Perl or PHP knowledge. So they probably can't write device drivers.
I'm not very impressed by the technical skill : it is rather easy to do. I figure all a webcam driver has to do is "open v4L from device mmaped at [address] and pass video data to application"
This is a USB webcam, so I guess you need to send some bytes to the control endpoint, and then stream from an ISO one. And yes, different cameras do stream in different formats
From
http://mxhaard.free.fr/sview.html#SECTION00060000
RGB and JPEG are obvious YUV maybe less so. I worked on a embedded system that supported a bunch of (maybe all) I2C controlled cameras with a text 'driver' file which told it what resolution, format and init string the cameras needed. As far as I know, most current webcams are proprietary - they have a bridge from USB to I2C but a custom driver on the PC needs to know what commands to issue to initialise the device. Mind you there's a new USB video device class which will allow one standard driver to use most new devices.
There's probably some internet law that states that any story involving France or the French will eventually accumulate a surrender joke in the comment area
Yeah, so I guess you'd better give up complaining about them, Monsieur Pivo.
Stuff like this still goes on though :
. htm
http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/2005july/2101
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/media/stoning.htm
That sort of loony paranoia doesn't boost your side's credibility ... Why don't you focus on REAL government abuses instead?
That's just what THEY want you to do, man!
There's an argument that you should do some kind of benefit analysis before you adopt technology I think. Each new thing you add increases the attack surface of the application, so there's no point doing things for purely aesthetic or coolness reasons. Plus most Web 2.0 applications seem to cope very badly with slow or unreliable network connections, and that in itself is a good reason to not use them in critical environments like online banking.
Fuck it, I'm an old fart and I know it. I'm sure next time I connect to my bank via a flakey VPN connection, it will look like fucking del.ic.io.us or whatever and will either not let me log in in the first place or freeze up when I'm trying to actually use it the way gmail does. There's no point trying to explain this stuff. Next time I go to Starbucks and it's full of goateed Mac users writing PHP code, I'm gonna put strychnine in cinnamon shakers.
You know if I was Zonk reading these comments, I'd make trollerific changes to article summaries just to torment my detractors.
Oh, I dunno. If you read Katz's stuff as satire, it was pretty funny.
You realise that "no longer developed anymore and largely obsolete" is just another way of saying stable. I know companies that kept using VMS and or mainframe OSs that were almost completely dead - no maintaince updates, no license fees even - right up until the hardware couldn't be fixed anymore.
After that, they had a hellish time with toy PC hardware and OSs. And yup, from the point of view of customers like these, all desktop hardware and OSs are toys. They have a bunch of additional features that don't add to the usefulness of the system at all, and vastly increase it's attack surface. And they need a load of updates/upgrades which occasionally introduce other bugs, and need so the customer needs to pay for 24 hour support to fix the system when this happens.
The cash register could say it sotto voce when it detects a DVD sale via the UPC bar code. It could mutter sinister parts of EULAs too like "no warranty given or implied ... liability limited to the purchase price ... computers explode all the time ... we KNOW where YOU live. Have a nice day, except where prohibited by the DMCA"