The way I read the article translates to "our watermarking technique turned out to be so god damn flimsy that any manipulation destorys it! Thus we switched focus and are marketing it as a way to unambiguously verify an original as the original."
Bascially the modern day equivalent of the wax and stamp seal.
I use pdf2html,
for the really bad papers, it produces really nice gray scale pictures of each page. If you want color then you have to hack it up and change the device to -sDEVICE=jpeg among other things probably. Doing it this way you lose the nice antialiasing that the original package has. I've been contemplating writing some wavelet software using (daub(9,7) maybe? spline?) specifically to downsample it.
Another thing I wanted was a way to crop the excessive white space border that many papers have. It would also fix the binding offset that some papers have, i.e., left-side pages have a larger right margin for the binding. It annoys me to no end to view papers in feh that jump side to side between pages. I also wish feh had a "toilet paper" mode for viewing images.
Are you trying to do an OCR type thing that recognizes the font and replaces it with the appropriate postscript font?
The other thing is, why bother converting a ps to pdf? I keep my ps files bzip2, and ggv will open a *.ps.{gz,bzip2} file with no problem. (It decompresses it to/tmp and opens that.)
Now if you're talking about creating pdf directly than that's different.
I bitch about this constantly, there's like 20 email programs all with some kind of serious flaws and what seems like a new god damn web browser every other week. Why is it so damned hard to cooperate on the hard parts which need fixing. Note hard might mean fucking boring, but hey that's life.
People are still bitching about how redhat homogenized kde and gnome. All I can say to them is a big god damn thank you for making copy and paste work between the two. Why was that so hard?
There is a yellow variant called mach-tape, costs hundreds per roll but will stict to the outside of a plane as long as you of course don't exceed mach 1...
I would think that you could argue that the "limited time" helps to speed the spreading of ideas. What if after creating something, you only had a year to sell it? You'd probably bust your ass trying to make as much as quickly as possible. Unfortunately for this example, 1 year is too short, I'm sure many people would just wait a year for it to be free. So somewhere between 1 year and 70+ years there's a balance where the author is encouraged to actively sell their works, and the public feeling it is worth the cost to have that work rather than when it becomes public domain.
You could probably compare this to patents. Currently 17 years seems to be too long for patents since people/corporations are doing the equivalent of cybersquatting. The cases with gif, jpeg, ebay are probably good examples of this. In some cases we have people who knew nothing about the patent who put their hardwork into making something. Only to have a patent wielding vulture swoop by and demand the fruits of your labor.
Perhaps we need a clause to all forms of IP, like there is for trademarks, if you do not actively use it you can lose it.
I think it is ironic that the greedy corporations may end up losing more than they started with.
My god if you're going to bitch, at least make it comprehensive. You didn't even mention the very next paragraph which starts out with "Here is a good write-up on on what happened with the whole sendmail hack..."
where the link was to the old story. At the end of the paragraph was the same fscking phrase, "Here is the write-up." with the goddamn link to the new story.
Programming in itself is a limited set of jobs in the IT industry.
That may indeed be true, but the number of jobs which require some amount of programming is vastly larger, and increasing. And I speak as someone who has programmed in all my past jobs at places where a CS degree doesn't even get you an interview.
Building quality furniture can also be just as difficult and just as rewarding. If that's your thing then great.
The point is that substituting experience for college works for some fields, quite well in fact, but don't expect to ever work for Nasa to calculate trajectories, or to whip out some code for wavelet coefficient shrinkage method for compression, or whatever... not that it sounds like you would ever want to do any of those things.
If more CS people took math seriously maybe we'd have a free version of mathematica, but instead we have about 50 different email programs, and what seems like a new web browser every couple of months, and exactly 1 program to calculate and plot the coefficients from a best basis search in 3D via OpenGL.
PS I had to program some Runge-Kutta cruft in college...
You'er excluding the biggest one, santa. Can you imagine having to pay a license fee to dress up as santa and stuff presents under your xmas tree as your kids snuck a look?
If you were using all linux and free software then you could tell the BSA people to flat out fuck off. If they aren't FBI with warrants the have no authority to do anything. They'll try to scare you by saying, oh yeah, we'll come back and demand maximum penalty for every infraction! We're trying to help you out by doing an audit! The answer once again is "fuck off". It is really that simple.
In the offchance that they manage to get a warrant (have they ever?), they would find nothing. And I'm sure you could sue them for something, or ridicule them and the FBI in the newspapers. Thereby ensuring the FBI would require more proof next time around.
You wouldn't happen to know of what the status with linux support for those MB's is would you?
I'm going to be getting another linux box and it would be nice to do network bonding with firewire to boost my throughput.
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That's why you can do `ls *a*b*c*.*`, and if that looks good, do `^ls^rm` to ensure no fuckups. If you're truly paranoid about your files you can also `touch./-i`, that way if you `rm *a*b*c*. *` (notice the extra space), rm will enter interactive mode. But, then you shouldn't have that problem if you use the ^ method.
I think all those numbers are a crock. What I'd like to see is how many people had a gross income over say $20k or whatever. Ideally, a nice little graph of percentage of the populace versus gross. That way you can see how many people are basically screwed.
That's ridiculous, if it is indeed "the smallest bit of code" then you could just re-implement it yourself. If it would take considerable effort otherwise, then it is not a small bit, and would appear to be a significant portion.
How is the glare on that material? Don't you get glare from the lcd itself too? Perhaps a hood would solve all glare problems, in addition to making it seem brighter.
I think what would be cool is a hinge so that you put it on your desk and adjust the angle for better viewing.
Nice job, you must be entirely neglecting your day job today.:)
I have worked with and known CS majors who were really sharp, dedicated individuals as well. They are the exception, not the rule.
While in my undergraduate EE program one of the professors had made the observation that while enrollment increases every year, the number of quality engineers graduating is roughly constant. I'm sure this is true for many disciplines. It is akin to observing the increasing number of physicists while noting how many "Einsteins" have been produced/found.
Not to mention that the apple quicktime format is not the problem. Rather it should say "encoded in a possibly proprietary-format trailer" since there is nothing stopping you from using a source-available encoder to make your quicktime movies.
So what is the encoder? If it is indeed Sorenson or similar garbage then say so.
It occured to me that the duh-crowd will scream UPS, but do realize that by adding one you add cost and fans and batteries and... all that other cruft that a decent UPS contains.
The problem is when you have remotely scheduled reboots controlled by the power company implementing an advertising campaign called "rolling blackouts" in order to boost revenue.
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OpenBrick are sold to computer experts only
Translation:
(1) We do not have tech support.
(2) If you have a problem, see (1).
I don't know if I'd phrase it that way. I would say that the mapping of visible light frequencies (and combinations etc...) have an M:N relation for a given "normal" human, where M is much larger than N, and N represents the number of uniquely identifiable colors (to that person).
Also note that people don't interpret light the same. Take one of those color wheels and have people outline the blue, red, green sections. Then note how different the outlined sections look.
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Bascially the modern day equivalent of the wax and stamp seal.
yawn.
Another thing I wanted was a way to crop the excessive white space border that many papers have. It would also fix the binding offset that some papers have, i.e., left-side pages have a larger right margin for the binding. It annoys me to no end to view papers in feh that jump side to side between pages. I also wish feh had a "toilet paper" mode for viewing images.
Are you trying to do an OCR type thing that recognizes the font and replaces it with the appropriate postscript font?
The other thing is, why bother converting a ps to pdf? I keep my ps files bzip2, and ggv will open a *.ps.{gz,bzip2} file with no problem. (It decompresses it to /tmp and opens that.)
Now if you're talking about creating pdf directly than that's different.
People are still bitching about how redhat homogenized kde and gnome. All I can say to them is a big god damn thank you for making copy and paste work between the two. Why was that so hard?
There is a yellow variant called mach-tape, costs hundreds per roll but will stict to the outside of a plane as long as you of course don't exceed mach 1...
Perhaps you should read the fucking article.
You could probably compare this to patents. Currently 17 years seems to be too long for patents since people/corporations are doing the equivalent of cybersquatting. The cases with gif, jpeg, ebay are probably good examples of this. In some cases we have people who knew nothing about the patent who put their hardwork into making something. Only to have a patent wielding vulture swoop by and demand the fruits of your labor.
Perhaps we need a clause to all forms of IP, like there is for trademarks, if you do not actively use it you can lose it.
I think it is ironic that the greedy corporations may end up losing more than they started with.
t.
"Hollywood helps voyeur-porn industry!"
My god if you're going to bitch, at least make it comprehensive. You didn't even mention the very next paragraph which starts out with "Here is a good write-up on on what happened with the whole sendmail hack..." where the link was to the old story. At the end of the paragraph was the same fscking phrase, "Here is the write-up." with the goddamn link to the new story.
Building quality furniture can also be just as difficult and just as rewarding. If that's your thing then great. The point is that substituting experience for college works for some fields, quite well in fact, but don't expect to ever work for Nasa to calculate trajectories, or to whip out some code for wavelet coefficient shrinkage method for compression, or whatever... not that it sounds like you would ever want to do any of those things. If more CS people took math seriously maybe we'd have a free version of mathematica, but instead we have about 50 different email programs, and what seems like a new web browser every couple of months, and exactly 1 program to calculate and plot the coefficients from a best basis search in 3D via OpenGL. PS I had to program some Runge-Kutta cruft in college...
And exactly how does a European law affect the citizens of the USA?
You'er excluding the biggest one, santa. Can you imagine having to pay a license fee to dress up as santa and stuff presents under your xmas tree as your kids snuck a look?
Translation: He is a paid drone with no firm convictions, i.e., perfect for gov't work. He might as well be in the army.
In the offchance that they manage to get a warrant (have they ever?), they would find nothing. And I'm sure you could sue them for something, or ridicule them and the FBI in the newspapers. Thereby ensuring the FBI would require more proof next time around.
I'm going to be getting another linux box and it would be nice to do network bonding with firewire to boost my throughput.
That's why you can do `ls *a*b*c*.*`, and if that looks good, do `^ls^rm` to ensure no fuckups. If you're truly paranoid about your files you can also `touch ./-i`, that way if you `rm *a*b*c*. *` (notice the extra space), rm will enter interactive mode. But, then you shouldn't have that problem if you use the ^ method.
I think all those numbers are a crock. What I'd like to see is how many people had a gross income over say $20k or whatever. Ideally, a nice little graph of percentage of the populace versus gross. That way you can see how many people are basically screwed.
That's ridiculous, if it is indeed "the smallest bit of code" then you could just re-implement it yourself. If it would take considerable effort otherwise, then it is not a small bit, and would appear to be a significant portion.
I think what would be cool is a hinge so that you put it on your desk and adjust the angle for better viewing.
Nice job, you must be entirely neglecting your day job today. :)
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So what is the encoder? If it is indeed Sorenson or similar garbage then say so.
t.
It occured to me that the duh-crowd will scream UPS, but do realize that by adding one you add cost and fans and batteries and ... all that other cruft that a decent UPS contains.
The problem is when you have remotely scheduled reboots controlled by the power company implementing an advertising campaign called "rolling blackouts" in order to boost revenue.
(1) We do not have tech support.
(2) If you have a problem, see (1).
Also note that people don't interpret light the same. Take one of those color wheels and have people outline the blue, red, green sections. Then note how different the outlined sections look.