I already bought an Acer TV with Wifi in 2006... It's only too bad Acer discontinued this line, it could have become really great... And yes, the built in PC with LAN and Wifi did run linux (but the default menu is pretty useless, and the software hasn't been updated since 2006 too).
What is generally referred to as AI is anything automated that doesn't follow a predetermined algorithm or fixed boundaries... An AI can be an adapting algorithm in something as simple as a thermostat or the CPU-player that tries to kill you in an FPS. This a very broad definition and can indeed be seen as a moving target.
Strong AI on the other hand is a well defined target of current AI research that isn't a moving target, but rather too complicated. The popularized version of AI that becomes sentient, creative and unpredictable in the movies is about strong AI.
You take it too seriously... I'm talking about the "perfect compression" that is up there with the "perpetuum mobile"... Every once in a while there is someone that absolutely believes they've found it (like this hit from Google) even though it's proven to be impossible.
Clearly this is an example where patents helped him develop a revolutionary new substance worthy of a Nobel prize. Patents are 'absolutely necessary' for innovation after all, and this is some greyt innovation so patents *must* have helped.
Most likely the only people who will end up buying this shoddy tech from Microsoft are the same ones who jumped on the dead HD-DVD format.
Or people who explained to their girlfriend it's probably worthless crap but their girlfriend pre-ordered it anyway...:-(
That's 150 euro's wasted. Yes euro's, thats about 209 USD... Fuck!
<grumbling> Never should have given her that creditcard... </grumbling>
And yes another provider urged the governement to act to make "Free" comply as they sensed "Free" was gaining a little bit more popularity with this trick.
Yes! That is exactly what other providers need to realize... but instead of asking the government to fight the other provider, they should fight this draconian law.
How the hell does Low Earth Orbit approach you? Ohhh, you mean a Lunar Exploration Orbiter! No, that would not make sense either... I'm running out of geek-explanations here, and am forced to seek my solution in the inexplicable.
So please explain to me why a person born under the astrological sign of the zodiac Leo would be more likely to entrap you?
Nice work! You probably did some research which screens would work, can you post the URLs of the best places where you can find this kind of information?
A good example about actually losing a lot of vertical pixels is the new Dell Studio laptops:
Both me and my colleagues are currently working on a Dell Studio 17 bought in 2008 with 1920×1200 screen, and one of my colleagues liked the laptop so much he wanted another one for personal use... But the only available screen is 1600×900, and this is advertised as HD (fuck that). So in two years the state of technology has advanced such a tremendous amount that the same money spent on the same model series now buys you a 38,5% decrease in precious screen real-estate pixels... WTF!!!
Reducing the size does not require rescaling (CPU and memory intensive to process lots of images), just truncating the image (deleting the larger chunks) will work (and adjust metadata to indicate new size).
Nice example about Google crawlers by the way, I didn't even think about this... Those will really profit from only downloading metadata and the thumbnail version. Google could index images of 16MP by only downloading the first 20KiB or so... a real win-win solution! I'm fairly sure all image crawlers that have support for this new image format will only use minimum the bandwidth needed (indexing images is an expensive operation, so the savings will speak for themselves).
Also with those cheap consumer camera's some will take ages to display a photo, and when zooming in again... With this format the thumbnail and all intermediate zoomlevels are inherently available so displaying high resolution photo's on a small low resolution screen should work faster (especially zooming).
Good point, a real addition that would be beneficial to mitigate uselessly big photo's would be an image format that contains a thumbnail, small version, larger version and huge version of the photo in progressive order and only downloads the parts needed to display at the size on the screen. JPEG and GIF supported progressive images, with WebP they could enhance on this to have some real images within boundaries clearly segmented in chunks... So when a user uploads a 16MP photo and the website displays it at 320x240 you only download the first two chunks, unless of course you zoom in and the browser downloads the rest of the same file. When launching a new format they have a chance to create something a little revolutionary, the work to add the code to all browsers needs to happen anyway.
Multiple chunks in progressive sizes will get rid of all the extra thumbnail and small version files that need to be created, stored and downloaded. For example searching an image on Google image search shows:
- 125x125 thumbnail in results
- 250x250 zoomin thumbnail over results
- 550x550 preview over webpage (scaled version of full image)
- 16MP image when downloading
When for example you don't like the preview image and don't want to save it you will still have downloaded several MiB... very wasteful, and my cache is littered with several thumbnails per image.
With the progressive chunked version you would only have downloaded the first few percent of the image until 'chunk_pixels > viewport_pixels'.
Some other advantages:
- VP8 is a video codec, so you can predict parts of the larger chunks based on the small chunks before that (basically a gradually focusing video). It may require some specific optimizations but should not increase the total size by a lot (so thumbnails are a free bonus).
- The images are displayed faster while loading, and not top-down but gradually sharper (the old advantage of progressive encoding, but fuck those JPEGS were ugly).
- You can display a photo at a low resolution on the webpage but still get sharp high resolution prints without wasting bandwidth of all users just viewing the page.
- This will make it easier for browsers to scale down large images smoothly (try viewing a 50MP image, no browser scales that smoothly) without requiring massive amounts of CPU.
- Reduce bandwidth, storage and caching requirement for websites and for clients.
So Google if you want to save bandwidth: make a format that stores large images in progressive chunks so browsers only need to download as much of the image as is needed to display the current size on screen.
ICANN's doesn't help cause thousands deaths together with big-pharma... When you consider "do no harm" a prime directive (in my opinion the only inherent required limitation of freedom) the FDA loses out big time. Whatever the problems with ICANN I'm fairly sure they haven't infected people with HIV yet...
The point of this comparison was exactly to point out that scumbag untrustworthy corporations/organizations are still more reliable than a lot of government institutions.
It's funny because it's true! Oh no, sadly this isn't... it's indeed fucking scary!
We might have to defend the internet with all technological means we have available, but how do you defend against propaganda... when you are already assumed guilty for having Linux, Truecrypt, Tor, PGP or a VPN???
I've read that the C-X75 will drive 900 km on a 60 liter tank, that is 15 km/l (or 35 mpg) which is comparable to a normal European car.
The figures for the lower emissions are probably only applicable for some specific cherry-picked short drive done mostly on the battery. But what surprises me is that they have managed to create a turbine hybrid that gives a lot of performance without becoming a gas-guzzler as you would expect. So for long-distance drives the car consumes fuel like any normal car (already exceptional for a super car), but on short drives you can get closer to emission free (sacrificing the extra power).
This seems like a significant step forward in future car technology, muscle-power and low-power combined. Geek translation: It can be compared to a system like Nvidia Optimus for your car...
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I already bought an Acer TV with Wifi in 2006... It's only too bad Acer discontinued this line, it could have become really great... And yes, the built in PC with LAN and Wifi did run linux (but the default menu is pretty useless, and the software hasn't been updated since 2006 too).
What is generally referred to as AI is anything automated that doesn't follow a predetermined algorithm or fixed boundaries... An AI can be an adapting algorithm in something as simple as a thermostat or the CPU-player that tries to kill you in an FPS. This a very broad definition and can indeed be seen as a moving target.
Strong AI on the other hand is a well defined target of current AI research that isn't a moving target, but rather too complicated. The popularized version of AI that becomes sentient, creative and unpredictable in the movies is about strong AI.
You take it too seriously... I'm talking about the "perfect compression" that is up there with the "perpetuum mobile"... Every once in a while there is someone that absolutely believes they've found it (like this hit from Google) even though it's proven to be impossible.
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(Which is what you inevitably end up with after applying perfect compression that removes at least one bit with each pass).
It can furthermore be stated that for Tweets this achieves near lossless compression.
I see what you did there... :-)
I wonder what else you put in the food and don't tell the relatives... Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
As long as we're bragging... :-)
But I guess you win in the price-value comparison... €25 is a bargain! I would like in on *that* deal.
Clearly this is an example where patents helped him develop a revolutionary new substance worthy of a Nobel prize. Patents are 'absolutely necessary' for innovation after all, and this is some greyt innovation so patents *must* have helped.
Most likely the only people who will end up buying this shoddy tech from Microsoft are the same ones who jumped on the dead HD-DVD format.
Or people who explained to their girlfriend it's probably worthless crap but their girlfriend pre-ordered it anyway... :-(
That's 150 euro's wasted. Yes euro's, thats about 209 USD... Fuck!
<grumbling> Never should have given her that creditcard... </grumbling>
And yes another provider urged the governement to act to make "Free" comply as they sensed "Free" was gaining a little bit more popularity with this trick.
Yes! That is exactly what other providers need to realize... but instead of asking the government to fight the other provider, they should fight this draconian law.
Ohhh, I accidentally the LEO. ;-)
How the hell does Low Earth Orbit approach you? Ohhh, you mean a Lunar Exploration Orbiter! No, that would not make sense either... I'm running out of geek-explanations here, and am forced to seek my solution in the inexplicable.
So please explain to me why a person born under the astrological sign of the zodiac Leo would be more likely to entrap you?
Nice work! You probably did some research which screens would work, can you post the URLs of the best places where you can find this kind of information?
A good example about actually losing a lot of vertical pixels is the new Dell Studio laptops:
Both me and my colleagues are currently working on a Dell Studio 17 bought in 2008 with 1920×1200 screen, and one of my colleagues liked the laptop so much he wanted another one for personal use... But the only available screen is 1600×900, and this is advertised as HD (fuck that). So in two years the state of technology has advanced such a tremendous amount that the same money spent on the same model series now buys you a 38,5% decrease in precious screen real-estate pixels... WTF!!!
Owwwwww, *BURN*!
No, in forty years you get the answer: "Somebody set up us the bomb", followed shortly thereafter by: "For great justice!".
Damn you are big for a midget!
Reducing the size does not require rescaling (CPU and memory intensive to process lots of images), just truncating the image (deleting the larger chunks) will work (and adjust metadata to indicate new size).
Nice example about Google crawlers by the way, I didn't even think about this... Those will really profit from only downloading metadata and the thumbnail version. Google could index images of 16MP by only downloading the first 20KiB or so... a real win-win solution! I'm fairly sure all image crawlers that have support for this new image format will only use minimum the bandwidth needed (indexing images is an expensive operation, so the savings will speak for themselves).
Also with those cheap consumer camera's some will take ages to display a photo, and when zooming in again... With this format the thumbnail and all intermediate zoomlevels are inherently available so displaying high resolution photo's on a small low resolution screen should work faster (especially zooming).
Good point, a real addition that would be beneficial to mitigate uselessly big photo's would be an image format that contains a thumbnail, small version, larger version and huge version of the photo in progressive order and only downloads the parts needed to display at the size on the screen. JPEG and GIF supported progressive images, with WebP they could enhance on this to have some real images within boundaries clearly segmented in chunks... So when a user uploads a 16MP photo and the website displays it at 320x240 you only download the first two chunks, unless of course you zoom in and the browser downloads the rest of the same file. When launching a new format they have a chance to create something a little revolutionary, the work to add the code to all browsers needs to happen anyway.
Multiple chunks in progressive sizes will get rid of all the extra thumbnail and small version files that need to be created, stored and downloaded. For example searching an image on Google image search shows:
- 125x125 thumbnail in results
- 250x250 zoomin thumbnail over results
- 550x550 preview over webpage (scaled version of full image)
- 16MP image when downloading
When for example you don't like the preview image and don't want to save it you will still have downloaded several MiB... very wasteful, and my cache is littered with several thumbnails per image.
With the progressive chunked version you would only have downloaded the first few percent of the image until 'chunk_pixels > viewport_pixels'.
Some other advantages:
- VP8 is a video codec, so you can predict parts of the larger chunks based on the small chunks before that (basically a gradually focusing video). It may require some specific optimizations but should not increase the total size by a lot (so thumbnails are a free bonus).
- The images are displayed faster while loading, and not top-down but gradually sharper (the old advantage of progressive encoding, but fuck those JPEGS were ugly).
- You can display a photo at a low resolution on the webpage but still get sharp high resolution prints without wasting bandwidth of all users just viewing the page.
- This will make it easier for browsers to scale down large images smoothly (try viewing a 50MP image, no browser scales that smoothly) without requiring massive amounts of CPU.
- Reduce bandwidth, storage and caching requirement for websites and for clients.
So Google if you want to save bandwidth: make a format that stores large images in progressive chunks so browsers only need to download as much of the image as is needed to display the current size on screen.
ICANN's doesn't help cause thousands deaths together with big-pharma... When you consider "do no harm" a prime directive (in my opinion the only inherent required limitation of freedom) the FDA loses out big time. Whatever the problems with ICANN I'm fairly sure they haven't infected people with HIV yet...
The point of this comparison was exactly to point out that scumbag untrustworthy corporations/organizations are still more reliable than a lot of government institutions.
It's funny because it's true! Oh no, sadly this isn't... it's indeed fucking scary!
We might have to defend the internet with all technological means we have available, but how do you defend against propaganda... when you are already assumed guilty for having Linux, Truecrypt, Tor, PGP or a VPN???
Hell, if anything, I call it diggital natural selection. Taking out the weak and ignorant one Like at a time.
FTFY
I've read that the C-X75 will drive 900 km on a 60 liter tank, that is 15 km/l (or 35 mpg) which is comparable to a normal European car.
The figures for the lower emissions are probably only applicable for some specific cherry-picked short drive done mostly on the battery. But what surprises me is that they have managed to create a turbine hybrid that gives a lot of performance without becoming a gas-guzzler as you would expect. So for long-distance drives the car consumes fuel like any normal car (already exceptional for a super car), but on short drives you can get closer to emission free (sacrificing the extra power).
This seems like a significant step forward in future car technology, muscle-power and low-power combined. Geek translation: It can be compared to a system like Nvidia Optimus for your car...
They accidentally the mice.
I accidentally 21st century America.