You must be toking hard if you think your analogy is any good. Linux is a made up word that is trademarked. Not a common word that was used before Microsoft decided to try to claim it.
You have to admit though, it would be hilarious to see a version of quake with this rendering technique. If someone has bothered to do Textmode Quake then why not a Stipplemode Quake?
Well I looked at the link
that Skjellifetti posted and it has pretty much proven my point.
The woman I was thinking of is on the list, Vanessa Leggett.
But otherwise, I'll summarize:
People who rolled over:
Chris Van Ness (after only several hours!!)
Bruce Anderson (13 days)
People who got lucky (usually because the case was over):
Roxana Kopetman (6 hours)
Sid Gaulden, Schuyler Kropf, Cindi Scoppe, Andrew Shain (8 hours)
People who got off because the source came forward:
Richard Hargraves (1 weekend)
Brian Karem (after 13 days, of course we are talking about a jailhouse interview. See squealing on gang members below.)
Doesn't count:
Brad Stone (wouldn't reveal gang members in cop killing case. duh. jail is better than getting wacked by a gang.)
Tim Roche (18+ days for criminal contempt, not like he had a choice at that point.)
Felix Sanchez and James Campbell (locked in the judges chambers! Oh the horrors.)
Lisa Abraham (20+ days, again ratting on a convict is rather unhealthy.)
David Kidwell (14 days, again with the jailhouse interviews.)
Timothy Crews (5 days, wouldn't rat on a dirty cop. duh.)
Well if this is the best proof anyone has then sorry my point is proven.
Two of the reporters revealed their info, the majority had sources who
would probably kill them if they were revealed. And this is over the last
18 years! There must be hundreds of cases where people rolled without jailtime.
And Wordsmith, I believe you feel that way, but you have never actually been in
that situation, you have yet to prove yourself. Saying the phrase "I would die
for you." and living up to (or dieing in this case) are two entirely different
matters.
The important aspect is that the amount of data needed to describe the offset itself also tends toward infinity, or more likely, at least grows to be larger than the data you're looking for in the first place. At which point it becomes cheaper to just send the data itself.
The part about the receiver is not true in general. A magic formula could be used to calculate select digits of pi on a particular interval. That point is largely irrelevant though since the encoder will never find the string of data in the first place.
Many? I know of exactly one who was actually put in jail rather than reveal her source. But even that one seems questionable. The type of reporter that you are referring to is a dead breed. Normaly the phrase is a dieing breed but in this case, I'm willing to bet that no reporter alive would actually allow themselves to be put into jail to protect a source.
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Unfortunately for you 67% of all statistics are incorrect (rounded from roughly 2/3). The real percentage is: 93% of all statistics are made up. This was true as of July of 2002 as they reevaluate this every six months. Sorry, I lost the link. google maybe?
The problem of "suffering lag times" was fixed long ago. Much of the software that produces eps files also produce a low-res image for the purposes of quick viewing. (i.e., the benefits of a png/jpg without sacrificing the benefits of the eps format) Like I said, those problems have been fixed, it is not my fault that Microsoft decided that they didn't want to use the standard interchange format for graphics.
Wait--you're claiming that your complex document you made on an "ancient" Mac, which includes charts and text and all that, can be opened by both Linux and Windows, and printed out to look exactly like it did on your old ancient system? You can print it out on a mac, print it out on windows, and print it out on Linux, overlap the three, and not see any inconsistencies?
Yes I mean exactly that. You obviously know nothing about what TeX really is or what it set out to accomplish. There can be differences, but such differences are not necessary or by accident, rather they were by desire. For instance, Knuth updated some of the fonts about a decade ago to fix some deficiencies. For instance the horizontal arrows were made thicker so that they would show up when xeroxed.
See here for more detail. Note that even these so called "dramatic" changes do not affect the overall document, only the indivdual characters involved are affected.
I can understand that if your entire world is MS Office that such a system is unfathomable to you.
Going from a working Office file to a new version of office is seamless
You do realize that the phrase "seamless" is an absolute don't you? One of the definitions of "seamless" is "perfectly consistent and coherent".
btw, Linux doesn't really have anything to do with Latex. I've been using Latex since before most people (including me) knew Linux existed. Many of the software environments for latex also work better on Windows than they do on Linux. The best environment is probably on the MacOS, I forgot the name of it.
And finally, discarding the best solution for the problem simply because the current system exists can also be quite foolish.
I too thought this. For the lamers, yes I have a legally purchased copy of vmware. What I wanted to do was to combine knoppix with vmware and an appropriate version of windows. Vmware has the lovely feature of working in non-commit mode. This allows you to screw around, launch trojans, virus etc willy nily and just quit vmware whenever you feel like it and be exactly where you started. No roll-back or backups utilities required. I have used this for an obnoxious dsl installer that wouldn't tell me the info I needed, more relevant to the cable modem installer article I guess.
unfortunately... licensing, size etc of windows is ridiculous.
win98 I believe will sit in less than 400MB, but from what I recall win2k can hit 800MB. fubar. The only way I think this will work will be with dvd-r's. I imagine that would be ideal for a company that does testing, have your employees use a knoppix-like dvd with win98/me/2k/... for testing. Perhaps lnx-bbc could be used for this purpose since they target the biz card cds which are only around 50MBs.
I also wondered if it would be possible to have vmware run the installed version of windows on the harddrive in non-commit mode.
(This doesn't solve the keystroke loggers etc... problems)
I also wish vmware would fix the fucking problems with audio in multimedia. How goddamn hard could it be?
My god you are confused. The printing world lives and dies by postscript. EPS has an infinite resolution. You can print it on your shitty inkjet or go to a print house and get poster size versions. Do you even know anything about dpi/lpi/etc...? I've been using latex for my papers for the last 10 years, during most of that time I have used eps for my figures because it always works beautifully.
And note that my figures do not "translate fairly well across versions", they translate perfectly. Yes PERFECTLY. I started on a mac eons ago, and currently use a linux box, but I have typeset my papers on windows also. Everytime I did that, they worked perfectly without having to import/convert/update/fix.
It's sad that people like you turn to windows to fix problems that have been fixed for over a decade.
Your some kinda dipshit for sure, i.e., YA-Troll, a weak one at that. Any respectable media company has the ad portion separated from the content portion.
uh, move the road. What're you going to do otherwise? Take the liability everytime there's a surge or storm and the waves end up on the road? If you try to fight the sea you will lose. Thinking otherwise is pure arrogance.
It's not very often I see something really neato as I sit here hitting reload in ggv.
I've been working on my masters thesis on complex wavelets and I would love to embed some code into a pdf to be able to make it either interactive or calculate scaling functions (an iterative process) as you sit there and read the page, continually refining it until you flip the page (yes this would bork up a printer). This would be a tremendous space saving since the since of my eps files adds up.
Previously I had been thinking of the feasibility of embedding something like java since I've seen some nice wavelet java demos, although I dislike java since it's not mature enough for someone like me who would have to maintain it for the next ten years. I had heard that you could embed basically shell scripts to launch anything you want from within the pdf but that no longer seems very portable to me.
Perhaps forth is the answer since the computations are fairly simple and thus my learning curve would be limited.
The parent post was two whole sentences, you could have at least read it.
It's good to know who is sending users to a dead link. Just by checking the referrer information for the 404 entries in your logs can determine what website is pointing users to a document that you have deleted or moved.
What part of "deleted" or "moved" do you not fucking understand? Fucking AC dipshits.
Wasn't CSS crackable in this manner? Many videos had long sequences of black frames which made it easier to crack the encryption. I imagine being able to create your own inputs (all 0's, all 1's, etc...) would make it much easier to reverse engineer.
That's not useful, that's obnoxious. If you put a link out, you should keep it alive using a redirect or whatever. If you continually expect other people to fix their links every fucking time you move shit around then forget it.
Please. The amount he gives away is like me giving a nickel to charity. Showing me xx percentage numbers is nothing. If you have 100 billion dollars, giving away 10 billion would not affect your lifestyle.
Actually the problem as I understand it is the possibility of a lawsuit prevents any type of compression. Even if it means going without the image because it is to big to email or whatnot. The fear is that a doc may misdiagnose an xray regardless of the compression, and the patient could then sue claiming that the cost-cutting hospital compressed the xrays too much, causing the misdiagnoses. The doc of course says otherwise but it's now a "greedy medical industry" versus "injured patient" lawsuit.
This same argument applies to why new drugs are ignored. New techniques are ignored. New [anything that a shitload of other doctors have been using and not getting sued for] are ignored.
What other approaches were you thinking of that are better than jpeg2000?
Wavelets aren't sinusoids, they are a class of functions that have certain properties whereas a sinusoid is a particular function. I say this because your phrase "more complex basis functions" seems to include wavelets.
The first part of jpeg2000 only has a couple of wavelets included as part of the standard, but an extension to the standard will allow a user to include their own wavelets. Also only the decoder is defined, thus you could come up with some new nifty way to encode the bits and still have it decodable by a jpeg2000 compliant decoder.
Seriously though, I'd like to hear of what other methods are out there.
On a related note, I think the way compression is measured is flawed. It's always relative to the original image data, how well can you recreate the image using some error metric. E.g., if you took a picture of a fractally generated image you have theoretically the original fractal image plus whatever noise your camera added in. Yet when you compress it, the goal is to recreate the image from the camera and not what the camera took a picture of (the fractal image in this example).
Thinking of it this way, if you had models of the subject of the photo, you could create a compressed image with more information than the original image since you could eliminate noise that you know shouldn't be there.
The analogy I came up with is a clear envelope with a wax stamp seal. Seems about the same as what they have done.
Your pR0n analogy doesn't make sense to me. The pictures would not be verifiably altered, all you would be able to tell is that this picture is not the original. Watermarking is supposed to tell you if this picture was derived from a particular picture (or from a particular company that inserts that watermark).
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You must be toking hard if you think your analogy is any good. Linux is a made up word that is trademarked. Not a common word that was used before Microsoft decided to try to claim it.
It's just like the phone companies selling your number and then selling a service to block telemarketers. Nothing new here.
You have to admit though, it would be hilarious to see a version of quake with this rendering technique. If someone has bothered to do Textmode Quake then why not a Stipplemode Quake?
See above..
People who rolled over:
Chris Van Ness (after only several hours!!)
Bruce Anderson (13 days)
People who got lucky (usually because the case was over):
Roxana Kopetman (6 hours)
Sid Gaulden, Schuyler Kropf, Cindi Scoppe, Andrew Shain (8 hours)
People who got off because the source came forward:
Richard Hargraves (1 weekend)
Brian Karem (after 13 days, of course we are talking about a jailhouse interview. See squealing on gang members below.)
Doesn't count:
Brad Stone (wouldn't reveal gang members in cop killing case. duh. jail is better than getting wacked by a gang.)
Tim Roche (18+ days for criminal contempt, not like he had a choice at that point.)
Felix Sanchez and James Campbell (locked in the judges chambers! Oh the horrors.)
Lisa Abraham (20+ days, again ratting on a convict is rather unhealthy.)
David Kidwell (14 days, again with the jailhouse interviews.)
Timothy Crews (5 days, wouldn't rat on a dirty cop. duh.)
Well if this is the best proof anyone has then sorry my point is proven. Two of the reporters revealed their info, the majority had sources who would probably kill them if they were revealed. And this is over the last 18 years! There must be hundreds of cases where people rolled without jailtime.
And Wordsmith, I believe you feel that way, but you have never actually been in that situation, you have yet to prove yourself. Saying the phrase "I would die for you." and living up to (or dieing in this case) are two entirely different matters.
The part about the receiver is not true in general. A magic formula could be used to calculate select digits of pi on a particular interval. That point is largely irrelevant though since the encoder will never find the string of data in the first place.
Many? I know of exactly one who was actually put in jail rather than reveal her source. But even that one seems questionable. The type of reporter that you are referring to is a dead breed. Normaly the phrase is a dieing breed but in this case, I'm willing to bet that no reporter alive would actually allow themselves to be put into jail to protect a source.
Unfortunately for you 67% of all statistics are incorrect (rounded from roughly 2/3). The real percentage is: 93% of all statistics are made up. This was true as of July of 2002 as they reevaluate this every six months. Sorry, I lost the link. google maybe?
With all the copyright extensions, many silent films are still copyrighted. That would make all post-silent films still copyrighted.
What I'm more curious about is why did you even go through the extra effort to encode it to Intel's Indeo codec in the first place?
I don't use windows. miktex maybe? But judging from you response, you still have no idea what latex is. Latex is not wysiwyg.
btw, Linux doesn't really have anything to do with Latex. I've been using Latex since before most people (including me) knew Linux existed. Many of the software environments for latex also work better on Windows than they do on Linux. The best environment is probably on the MacOS, I forgot the name of it.
And finally, discarding the best solution for the problem simply because the current system exists can also be quite foolish.
unfortunately... licensing, size etc of windows is ridiculous.
win98 I believe will sit in less than 400MB, but from what I recall win2k can hit 800MB. fubar. The only way I think this will work will be with dvd-r's. I imagine that would be ideal for a company that does testing, have your employees use a knoppix-like dvd with win98/me/2k/... for testing. Perhaps lnx-bbc could be used for this purpose since they target the biz card cds which are only around 50MBs.
I also wondered if it would be possible to have vmware run the installed version of windows on the harddrive in non-commit mode. (This doesn't solve the keystroke loggers etc... problems)
I also wish vmware would fix the fucking problems with audio in multimedia. How goddamn hard could it be?
And note that my figures do not "translate fairly well across versions", they translate perfectly. Yes PERFECTLY. I started on a mac eons ago, and currently use a linux box, but I have typeset my papers on windows also. Everytime I did that, they worked perfectly without having to import/convert/update/fix.
It's sad that people like you turn to windows to fix problems that have been fixed for over a decade.
Nothing to see, move along.
uh, move the road. What're you going to do otherwise? Take the liability everytime there's a surge or storm and the waves end up on the road? If you try to fight the sea you will lose. Thinking otherwise is pure arrogance.
I've been working on my masters thesis on complex wavelets and I would love to embed some code into a pdf to be able to make it either interactive or calculate scaling functions (an iterative process) as you sit there and read the page, continually refining it until you flip the page (yes this would bork up a printer). This would be a tremendous space saving since the since of my eps files adds up.
Previously I had been thinking of the feasibility of embedding something like java since I've seen some nice wavelet java demos, although I dislike java since it's not mature enough for someone like me who would have to maintain it for the next ten years. I had heard that you could embed basically shell scripts to launch anything you want from within the pdf but that no longer seems very portable to me.
Perhaps forth is the answer since the computations are fairly simple and thus my learning curve would be limited.
Wasn't CSS crackable in this manner? Many videos had long sequences of black frames which made it easier to crack the encryption. I imagine being able to create your own inputs (all 0's, all 1's, etc...) would make it much easier to reverse engineer.
That's not useful, that's obnoxious. If you put a link out, you should keep it alive using a redirect or whatever. If you continually expect other people to fix their links every fucking time you move shit around then forget it.
Please. The amount he gives away is like me giving a nickel to charity. Showing me xx percentage numbers is nothing. If you have 100 billion dollars, giving away 10 billion would not affect your lifestyle.
This same argument applies to why new drugs are ignored. New techniques are ignored. New [anything that a shitload of other doctors have been using and not getting sued for] are ignored.
Wavelets aren't sinusoids, they are a class of functions that have certain properties whereas a sinusoid is a particular function. I say this because your phrase "more complex basis functions" seems to include wavelets.
The first part of jpeg2000 only has a couple of wavelets included as part of the standard, but an extension to the standard will allow a user to include their own wavelets. Also only the decoder is defined, thus you could come up with some new nifty way to encode the bits and still have it decodable by a jpeg2000 compliant decoder.
Seriously though, I'd like to hear of what other methods are out there.
On a related note, I think the way compression is measured is flawed. It's always relative to the original image data, how well can you recreate the image using some error metric. E.g., if you took a picture of a fractally generated image you have theoretically the original fractal image plus whatever noise your camera added in. Yet when you compress it, the goal is to recreate the image from the camera and not what the camera took a picture of (the fractal image in this example). Thinking of it this way, if you had models of the subject of the photo, you could create a compressed image with more information than the original image since you could eliminate noise that you know shouldn't be there.
Your pR0n analogy doesn't make sense to me. The pictures would not be verifiably altered, all you would be able to tell is that this picture is not the original. Watermarking is supposed to tell you if this picture was derived from a particular picture (or from a particular company that inserts that watermark).
You have not created secure anything, all you have done is transfer the job of security to a third party (palladium).
Other "secure" formats: DVD, encrypted e-books, ...
Better yet, name one secure format.