*eyebrow* This is additive not subtractive mixing. So, yes, the G in RGB. When you develop a laser that subtracts light, let me know, I want to invest.
It seems TFA specifically states it tracks the crowd and hands off suspect individuals from one camera's "grid" (my term, not theirs) to another's.
Crowd tracking is an easier problem than facial recognition. Given sufficient frame rates, a variety of assumptions can be made even using grainy black and white footage that allow tracking an individual through a mass. If this system can do facial recognition at a distance, it most certainly is capable of performing crowd tracking, which is really just "object tracking."
Copper, meet bump key. Oh, hello there interior of toppavak's home.
Locked doors only keep out undetermined attackers. Imagine if your lock could text/page/call/tweet you when it was busted open though. Now, even a determined attacker can be quickly stopped. Short of an armed guard, you can't prevent a determined attacker while you're away. But a determined and unskilled attacker could be stopped.
I realize the attempt at humor, but they measure electrical usage, and the more a home owner is able to directly observe their electrical usage, the more ably they can reduce it.
I for one would love to see a manufacturer come out with wall outlets that have built in (toggling) LCD/LED power usage displays. Power strips with per-outlet usage information.
When users start seeing those "vampire devices" sit idle for hours on end, doing nothing except maybe keeping a few LEDs lit but still costing 5, 10, 20 watts, they'll start shutting them off. If everyone does that, that's megawatts.
You're assuming every second that it rescans the crowd and does 15,000 new recognitions. More likely it scans the crowd constantly, and adds new faces to its database and continues to refine images on existing faces, tracking their movements to handle the interface between one camera and another.
There's no doubt in anyone's mind that there's a lot of software written for the Windows API that businesses starting in developing nations would like to use. Or at least, it would be an extraordinary claim to say that there is no market.
History says you're wrong. History says, Microsoft put out an XP starter edition, they put out a Vista starter edition, and for whatever reason, they're continuing with a 7 starter edition.
And yes, it is a matter of time before they all run enterprise or switch to Linux. It is my sincere hope that Linux replaces all of my desktop computing needs, and does so so thoroughly that it replaces all of the desktop needs of any business I will ever have to deal with. That would be fantastic. Regrettably, Windows continues to "just work" and installing Ubuntu or other distros still involves significant trial and error and a bit of frustration, as I am an avid gamer as well.
And that version will be Home Premium, which is the "lightest" SKU available in the developed world. You and I will be hard pressed to find or purchase Starter and Home Basic. The former is assured, the latter is all but certain, barring Microsoft changing their strategy to target Basic towards netbooks as well as emerging markets (China, India, primarily.)
Look! The United States based Windows Blog, with posts by Microsoft employees states:
1. Customers wanted clarity on which version of Windows is the right version for them. So... Windows 7 will be offered primarily in 2 editions: Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional.
Later, when the question asks, well what about the rest of the world?
4. One size does not fit all--particularly with a billion users and thousands of partners around the world.So... We are addressing the specialized needs for customers in specific markets with Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, and Windows 7 Enterprise.
Please god, stop the madness. Starter edition is an edition that they plan to sell for next to nothing to developing (read: third world) nations in order to provide the same kernel and ability as the rest of the business world (ideally to increase their participation in the market and get them out of the "developing nation" category by fostering growth of the IT sector and all the dependencies it places upon an economy.)
Starter Edition is not Netbook Edition. There is no Netbook Edition. I repeat: There Is No Netbook Edition of 7.
Here are the editions of Windows 7, from least capability to highest, and each successive entry is a superset of the previous one's capabilities:
Windows 7 Starter: OEM distribution to "developing markets" only. We're talking third world here. China? No. India? No. A lot of African nations apply. Sold for dirt cheap. Windows 7 Home Basic: Retail distribution to "emerging markets." Like China, India, Taiwan to a lesser extent, basically not fully developed nations that are economically growing. Windows 7 Home Premium: This is what your netbook will have if you buy it yourself. Windows 7 Business: This is what your netbook will have if you bought it from the "Small Business" section of the online retailer. Windows 7 Ultimate: This is medium sized businesses and developers will likely use. Basically a one-off type license of the following edition. Windows 7 Enterprise: This is for volume license agreements only, and is identical to Ultimate.
If you're reading Slashdot, chances are, you won't be able to buy Starter edition anywhere. In fact, I'd like to see you get a price on it. From anyone.
And we'll never know how things might have gone otherwise, but continued for-profit browser wars likely would not have been for the better.
There are several types of cost. In this case, reducing the cost spurred competitors to produce even better software in order to overcome an even greater obstacle. See, when ever browser costs money, it's easy to evaluate every browser on those criteria. Microsoft reduced the time and effort cost of getting IE to zero, and relative to that, the cost of every other browser shot up. Netscape -had- to go free, but on top of that, it had to prove to customers it was so much better it deserved the cost of change. People hate change, and very few people like messing around in settings and control panels and installing software they don't need. Hence why it's so important for programmers to pick good defaults. Most people will never change them for fear of breaking something.
So Microsoft reduced the gratis cost of every other browser to zero, but relatively speaking, every other browser had a different type of cost that was even greater. Sure, no one likes handing out money, but people hate change even more than they like buying things. As a result, the other browser software had to get so much better than the truly "free" browser (it's already installed!) that users could justify that cost of change. And that's what Opera did, it's what the Mozilla team did, the Google team have done it. Now Microsoft is -forced- to compete with these features to retain customers, and a natural economic balance is struck.
I won't lie to you, Microsoft probably killed the business of making money from browsers irrevocably. But I think that was for the better. I think making other browsers have to be truly so much superior to IE in order to convince them to switch was necessary for the fundamental shift toward more advanced and more standardized web capabilities.
If we fine Verizon, they have little choice but to take it out of their profits. They can't afford to suddenly raise the rates when the other guys aren't.
Even if the window manager crashes, the fallback non-composite manager takes over. If the shell crashes, it restarts and redraws everything. If explorer.exe crashes, ctrl-alt-delete still works, is still captured, and can be used to start task manager which can run explorer.exe.
All of those are much, much better than kicking me back to a command line.
But a number of skills necessary to riding a horse have heritable factors. Athleticism, balance, coordination all have very large numbers of genes that contribute to them. There likely is no one "proprioception" gene, but that doesn't mean proprioception can't be selected for.
I'm curious because ATI/AMD appear to have solved that problem, in that I can run the Folding@Home GPU client and my displays still run. I'm running Windows 7 with Aero, so it's hitting the GPU not the CPU for my displays.
The Asgard's problem was that their science extended to other areas, and each of the clones was DRMed to hell and so they couldn't recover the original copies when the servers went offline.
There's this free software called Photosynth that gives a very similar experience. It stitches together large numbers of photographs to create a scene through which a user can move.
They can all be interconnected, or it could be just, "my hotel room" and "famous landmark A" and "famous landmark B." If you take enough pictures on the way to each location, it should be able to figure that out.
Other than that, software projects like photosynth and google street view are massive undertakings and require a great deal of understanding of mathematics, geometry, pattern matching and some terrific coding skills. You likely will not find many alternatives, and something "homebrew" probably won't compete unless you're going to start coding now.
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*eyebrow* This is additive not subtractive mixing. So, yes, the G in RGB. When you develop a laser that subtracts light, let me know, I want to invest.
That was a bit Too Much Informative.
It seems TFA specifically states it tracks the crowd and hands off suspect individuals from one camera's "grid" (my term, not theirs) to another's.
Crowd tracking is an easier problem than facial recognition. Given sufficient frame rates, a variety of assumptions can be made even using grainy black and white footage that allow tracking an individual through a mass. If this system can do facial recognition at a distance, it most certainly is capable of performing crowd tracking, which is really just "object tracking."
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcat17006&type=page&_requestid=110350
As you can see, of the 6 stores it finds within over 100 miles of me (Dubuque is almost exactly 100 miles away,) four of the six don't carry it.
Color me impressed, you're right that it is carried and sold in the US.
The number of Home Premium laptops outnumbers the Home Basic laptops 9 to 1, and again, I've never seen a Basic at my branch of Best Buy.
That said, Starter is still OEM only.
Copper, meet bump key. Oh, hello there interior of toppavak's home.
Locked doors only keep out undetermined attackers. Imagine if your lock could text/page/call/tweet you when it was busted open though. Now, even a determined attacker can be quickly stopped. Short of an armed guard, you can't prevent a determined attacker while you're away. But a determined and unskilled attacker could be stopped.
I realize the attempt at humor, but they measure electrical usage, and the more a home owner is able to directly observe their electrical usage, the more ably they can reduce it.
I for one would love to see a manufacturer come out with wall outlets that have built in (toggling) LCD/LED power usage displays. Power strips with per-outlet usage information.
When users start seeing those "vampire devices" sit idle for hours on end, doing nothing except maybe keeping a few LEDs lit but still costing 5, 10, 20 watts, they'll start shutting them off. If everyone does that, that's megawatts.
Intel Gigabit NIC could be irreversibly damaged by the Linux driver, so buy a second NIC.
You're assuming every second that it rescans the crowd and does 15,000 new recognitions. More likely it scans the crowd constantly, and adds new faces to its database and continues to refine images on existing faces, tracking their movements to handle the interface between one camera and another.
You're talking rubbish.
Interesting, I can't even get Home Basic in the states. I've never even seen it for sale.
There's no doubt in anyone's mind that there's a lot of software written for the Windows API that businesses starting in developing nations would like to use. Or at least, it would be an extraordinary claim to say that there is no market.
History says you're wrong. History says, Microsoft put out an XP starter edition, they put out a Vista starter edition, and for whatever reason, they're continuing with a 7 starter edition.
And yes, it is a matter of time before they all run enterprise or switch to Linux. It is my sincere hope that Linux replaces all of my desktop computing needs, and does so so thoroughly that it replaces all of the desktop needs of any business I will ever have to deal with. That would be fantastic. Regrettably, Windows continues to "just work" and installing Ubuntu or other distros still involves significant trial and error and a bit of frustration, as I am an avid gamer as well.
And that version will be Home Premium, which is the "lightest" SKU available in the developed world. You and I will be hard pressed to find or purchase Starter and Home Basic. The former is assured, the latter is all but certain, barring Microsoft changing their strategy to target Basic towards netbooks as well as emerging markets (China, India, primarily.)
No! No, no, no. Please refer to this post:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1243331&cid=28071669
Windows 7 Starter will not be available to you or I.
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/02/04/a-closer-look-at-the-windows-7-skus.aspx
Look! The United States based Windows Blog, with posts by Microsoft employees states:
1. Customers wanted clarity on which version of Windows is the right version for them. So... Windows 7 will be offered primarily in 2 editions: Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional.
Later, when the question asks, well what about the rest of the world?
4. One size does not fit all--particularly with a billion users and thousands of partners around the world. So... We are addressing the specialized needs for customers in specific markets with Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, and Windows 7 Enterprise.
Please god, stop the madness. Starter edition is an edition that they plan to sell for next to nothing to developing (read: third world) nations in order to provide the same kernel and ability as the rest of the business world (ideally to increase their participation in the market and get them out of the "developing nation" category by fostering growth of the IT sector and all the dependencies it places upon an economy.)
Starter Edition is not Netbook Edition. There is no Netbook Edition. I repeat: There Is No Netbook Edition of 7.
Here are the editions of Windows 7, from least capability to highest, and each successive entry is a superset of the previous one's capabilities:
Windows 7 Starter: OEM distribution to "developing markets" only. We're talking third world here. China? No. India? No. A lot of African nations apply. Sold for dirt cheap.
Windows 7 Home Basic: Retail distribution to "emerging markets." Like China, India, Taiwan to a lesser extent, basically not fully developed nations that are economically growing.
Windows 7 Home Premium: This is what your netbook will have if you buy it yourself.
Windows 7 Business: This is what your netbook will have if you bought it from the "Small Business" section of the online retailer.
Windows 7 Ultimate: This is medium sized businesses and developers will likely use. Basically a one-off type license of the following edition.
Windows 7 Enterprise: This is for volume license agreements only, and is identical to Ultimate.
If you're reading Slashdot, chances are, you won't be able to buy Starter edition anywhere. In fact, I'd like to see you get a price on it. From anyone.
And we'll never know how things might have gone otherwise, but continued for-profit browser wars likely would not have been for the better.
There are several types of cost. In this case, reducing the cost spurred competitors to produce even better software in order to overcome an even greater obstacle. See, when ever browser costs money, it's easy to evaluate every browser on those criteria. Microsoft reduced the time and effort cost of getting IE to zero, and relative to that, the cost of every other browser shot up. Netscape -had- to go free, but on top of that, it had to prove to customers it was so much better it deserved the cost of change. People hate change, and very few people like messing around in settings and control panels and installing software they don't need. Hence why it's so important for programmers to pick good defaults. Most people will never change them for fear of breaking something.
So Microsoft reduced the gratis cost of every other browser to zero, but relatively speaking, every other browser had a different type of cost that was even greater. Sure, no one likes handing out money, but people hate change even more than they like buying things. As a result, the other browser software had to get so much better than the truly "free" browser (it's already installed!) that users could justify that cost of change. And that's what Opera did, it's what the Mozilla team did, the Google team have done it. Now Microsoft is -forced- to compete with these features to retain customers, and a natural economic balance is struck.
I won't lie to you, Microsoft probably killed the business of making money from browsers irrevocably. But I think that was for the better. I think making other browsers have to be truly so much superior to IE in order to convince them to switch was necessary for the fundamental shift toward more advanced and more standardized web capabilities.
He could have turned it into a better joke if he said Windows ME had uptime of a year.
Just the thought makes me laugh.
If we fine Verizon, they have little choice but to take it out of their profits. They can't afford to suddenly raise the rates when the other guys aren't.
Even if the window manager crashes, the fallback non-composite manager takes over. If the shell crashes, it restarts and redraws everything. If explorer.exe crashes, ctrl-alt-delete still works, is still captured, and can be used to start task manager which can run explorer.exe.
All of those are much, much better than kicking me back to a command line.
But a number of skills necessary to riding a horse have heritable factors. Athleticism, balance, coordination all have very large numbers of genes that contribute to them. There likely is no one "proprioception" gene, but that doesn't mean proprioception can't be selected for.
Thanks for the clarification, as well.
Thanks for the clarification.
Are you certain this is the case?
I'm curious because ATI/AMD appear to have solved that problem, in that I can run the Folding@Home GPU client and my displays still run. I'm running Windows 7 with Aero, so it's hitting the GPU not the CPU for my displays.
The Asgard's problem was that their science extended to other areas, and each of the clones was DRMed to hell and so they couldn't recover the original copies when the servers went offline.
WAIT! Don't mod me down yet.
There's this free software called Photosynth that gives a very similar experience. It stitches together large numbers of photographs to create a scene through which a user can move.
They can all be interconnected, or it could be just, "my hotel room" and "famous landmark A" and "famous landmark B." If you take enough pictures on the way to each location, it should be able to figure that out.
Other than that, software projects like photosynth and google street view are massive undertakings and require a great deal of understanding of mathematics, geometry, pattern matching and some terrific coding skills. You likely will not find many alternatives, and something "homebrew" probably won't compete unless you're going to start coding now.
No, he clearly changed roles from developer to Evil HR. He's probably directly subservient to Catbert.