Bandwidth is the answer. A camera at 640x480 at 30fps has to have compression turned *way* up to make it out the typical home user's 256k or 512k of upstream bandwidth.
Next, the phillips TriMedia chip and competitors support real-time compression at 640x480 and are available in volume. Chips that can suport compression at higher resolutions aren't made in volume, so are much more expensive.
Finally, if you need high resolution, just switch to a telephoto lens. If you need to look at several areas of detail, use several cameras.
How does this promise to be one of the biggest stories of the new year? There are tons of rocks out there. What is so special about this one that will make it a huge news story in '05?
VINCENT Yeah, it's legal, but is ain't a hundred percent legal. I mean you can't walk into a restaurant, open up a laptop, and start settin' NX bits. You're only supposed to hack in your home or certain designated places.
JULES Those are internet cafes?
VINCENT Yeah, it breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it and, if you're the proprietor of an internet cafe, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause -- get a load of this -- if the cops stop you, it's illegal for this to search you. Searching you is a right that the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
Your plan works well if the sysadmin can't be subpoenaed and you don't mind having a sysadmin. In my system, the auth servers can be distributed among jurisdictions.
Encrypted disks are a great idea, but you need a server-oriented solution, not a desktop solution.
Each server has an unencrypted boot partition and an encrypted data partition. Upon boot, the server sends a decrypt-request with a hash of unique system data (CPUID, MAC address(es), kernel compile date, etc.) to a pool of authentication servers. If the server grants decrypt permission, a key is exchanged and the server comes online. This process is repeated every 10 minutes. If a cycle fails, the decrypt keys are removed from system memory and the server removed from service until it can get decrypt authorization.
Servers are distributed among several data centers. Decrypt servers are also distributed among data centers.
Alternately, if you want to ensure that a photo is available on the internet forever, send it over to fark for a photoshop contest.:)
The problem is, though, this guy is really rich, and yet he gave only $20,000,000 of the $50,000,000 required for the building, meaning that they need to raise $30,000,000 from other people for a building that will be named after someone else.
Actually, it is very smart to bring other donors into the project. More donors mean more people who are stakeholders in the continuing success of the university.
I'm not a huge fan of the man's software but his philanthropic efforts outside of the tech industry are impressive.
(Ok, in reality, that's kinda short-sighted, as you could buy $1 million of computer time, but maybe he doesn't like computers.)
Computer time will only help with P problems, or P elements of NP problems. Great mathematicians seem to be NP-solving machines. A hundred years of computing time on the best computer might releive some of their tedium but would actually have an insignificant impact on their ability to solve problems.
The rest of us lesser beings might consider spending out time building a super-high resolution MRI machine. We'd want to be able to image every atom in a person's brain and record a year's worth of data at something like 100k samples per second. The MRI should be light and comfortable so our test subject could wear it comfortably for that year.
Once the suerp-MRI machine is ready, we manufacture it into a comfortable yet stylish (to the eyes of mathematicians) hat, and invite a prize-winning mathematician to wear it for a year.
At the end of the year, we need to locate some prize-winning neuroscientists to help us decode our brain scans and prize-winning computer scientists to help us build it.
It is good to see that Microsoft lets its designers get out to Comdex from time to time. It seem like this time, they've brought on of the taiwanese mice back with them. Good Work, guys!
It is about TERROR! It is about emotional manipulation.
The terracist HATES our perfect platonic mountains. Their goals are to ruin the perfect geometric harmony of our hills with earth-dams. This will them to move agriculture from the sacred plains into the mountains. THIS MUST BE STOPPED. They need flatness, they cannot stand the majestry of our beautiful american landscape!
The reason why we can't find anywhere to store it is because the anti-nuke people have demonized it to the point that the general public is afraid of it, not because there's a shortage of perfectly good places to put it.
Nuclear waste stays around for a very long time. If you put it in the wrong place, it will contaminate the local water supply. If it is easy to get at, terrorists will dig it up and make dirty bombs.
Wouldn't you rather take the time to find the best possible place for nuclear waste than wake up one morning to glowing coffee?
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Bandwidth is the answer. A camera at 640x480 at 30fps has to have compression turned *way* up to make it out the typical home user's 256k or 512k of upstream bandwidth.
Next, the phillips TriMedia chip and competitors support real-time compression at 640x480 and are available in volume. Chips that can suport compression at higher resolutions aren't made in volume, so are much more expensive.
Finally, if you need high resolution, just switch to a telephoto lens. If you need to look at several areas of detail, use several cameras.
How does this promise to be one of the biggest stories of the new year? There are tons of rocks out there. What is so special about this one that will make it a huge news story in '05?
If I live in Germany, and pay the E12 fee, do I get to copy as much music as I want?
When the WTC went down, Amazon matched contributions to the Red Cross.
VINCENT
Yeah, it's legal, but is ain't a
hundred percent legal. I mean you
can't walk into a restaurant, open
up a laptop, and start settin' NX bits.
You're only supposed to hack in
your home or certain designated places.
JULES
Those are internet cafes?
VINCENT
Yeah, it breaks down like this:
it's legal to buy it, it's legal to
own it and, if you're the
proprietor of an internet cafe, it's
legal to sell it. It's legal to
carry it, which doesn't really
matter 'cause -- get a load of this
-- if the cops stop you, it's
illegal for this to search you.
Searching you is a right that the
cops in Amsterdam don't have.
will this be enough to boost seagate's stock price?
Put some boobies on your drivers' licenses!
Your plan works well if the sysadmin can't be subpoenaed and you don't mind having a sysadmin. In my system, the auth servers can be distributed among jurisdictions.
A very crude outline of a solution:
:)
Encrypted disks are a great idea, but you need a server-oriented solution, not a desktop solution.
Each server has an unencrypted boot partition and an encrypted data partition. Upon boot, the server sends a decrypt-request with a hash of unique system data (CPUID, MAC address(es), kernel compile date, etc.) to a pool of authentication servers. If the server grants decrypt permission, a key is exchanged and the server comes online. This process is repeated every 10 minutes. If a cycle fails, the decrypt keys are removed from system memory and the server removed from service until it can get decrypt authorization.
Servers are distributed among several data centers. Decrypt servers are also distributed among data centers.
Alternately, if you want to ensure that a photo is available on the internet forever, send it over to fark for a photoshop contest.
BSD is dieing, Bill Gates Confirms!
When we will find out that Raymond Chen has been fired for blogging about internal Microsoft SPAM statistics.
Should I prefer it to Fire?
The problem is, though, this guy is really rich, and yet he gave only $20,000,000 of the $50,000,000 required for the building, meaning that they need to raise $30,000,000 from other people for a building that will be named after someone else.
Actually, it is very smart to bring other donors into the project. More donors mean more people who are stakeholders in the continuing success of the university.
I'm not a huge fan of the man's software but his philanthropic efforts outside of the tech industry are impressive.
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(Ok, in reality, that's kinda short-sighted, as you could buy $1 million of computer time, but maybe he doesn't like computers.)
Computer time will only help with P problems, or P elements of NP problems. Great mathematicians seem to be NP-solving machines. A hundred years of computing time on the best computer might releive some of their tedium but would actually have an insignificant impact on their ability to solve problems.
The rest of us lesser beings might consider spending out time building a super-high resolution MRI machine. We'd want to be able to image every atom in a person's brain and record a year's worth of data at something like 100k samples per second. The MRI should be light and comfortable so our test subject could wear it comfortably for that year.
Once the suerp-MRI machine is ready, we manufacture it into a comfortable yet stylish (to the eyes of mathematicians) hat, and invite a prize-winning mathematician to wear it for a year.
At the end of the year, we need to locate some prize-winning neuroscientists to help us decode our brain scans and prize-winning computer scientists to help us build it.
Teach the school thugs how to download free pr0n from usenet. After that, you won't even need to lock your dorm room.
I've tried only R, only G, and only B channels with both images and don't see any text.
It is good to see that Microsoft lets its designers get out to Comdex from time to time. It seem like this time, they've brought on of the taiwanese mice back with them. Good Work, guys!
It is about TERROR! It is about emotional manipulation.
The terracist HATES our perfect platonic mountains. Their goals are to ruin the perfect geometric harmony of our hills with earth-dams. This will them to move agriculture from the sacred plains into the mountains. THIS MUST BE STOPPED. They need flatness, they cannot stand the majestry of our beautiful american landscape!
The reason why we can't find anywhere to store it is because the anti-nuke people have demonized it to the point that the general public is afraid of it, not because there's a shortage of perfectly good places to put it.
Nuclear waste stays around for a very long time. If you put it in the wrong place, it will contaminate the local water supply. If it is easy to get at, terrorists will dig it up and make dirty bombs.
Wouldn't you rather take the time to find the best possible place for nuclear waste than wake up one morning to glowing coffee?
So, where are all the ships with gold plating under their hulls?
Just build a network of penumatic tubes across the country. Run the jets inside the tubes.
The science is so precise that they have to account for the time delay it takes the electricity to travel down wires that are only meters long
So, you are saying that nuclear weapon design is almost as complicated as dual-CPU motherboard design?
Six great myths of IT
... and the realities behind them
Urban legends from the tech trenches
The six myths of IT
It's time to test some long-held assumptions
IT Myth 1: Server upgrades matter
Reality: Don't pay extra for upgradability; you'll never need it
IT Myth 2: Eighty percent of corporate data resides on mainframes
Reality: Try 50 percent, or even less
IT Myth 3: All big shops run multiple platforms
Reality: This 'myth' is closer to fact than fiction
IT Myth 4: CIOs and CTOs have a greater need for business savvy than tech expertise
Reality: Tech chops matter more than ever
IT Myth 5: Most IT projects fail
Reality: It all depends on how you define failure
IT Myth 6: IT doesn't scale
Reality: Virtually any technology is scalable, provided you combine the right ingredients and implement them effectively
IT alligator tales
Urban legends run amok in the technology world
nothing more to say, really. Move along.