Hey, these days automatic rotoscoping is pretty common to see, in everything from insurance commercials to feature films. It's not real-time, but with enough processing muscle, it could be. They used something called Rotoshop.
Hard disk replacement would be the end goal, but there are a TON of applications between here and there!
Can you be more specific? Golly! I was tremendously excited about this stock that I have the unique and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to invest "just a few thousand" in. I enter 'FSL' and I can just feel the brimming excitement of the Next Big Thing. Is it just me?!? What are these applications, so I can tell all my friends?
Sacrificing quality. A week? Bah! Just get some neighborhood kids, a box of crayolas, and a jumbo size box of tracing paper. Then, profit.
Nobody said that you have to spend the time.
Can you really distiguish "end user" software from apps for workstations? Software gets expensive, particularly for the non-governmental small office type of business. I maintain our 4 machines, and each has about $9k of licenced software that is updated biannually or so. We DON'T buy MS Office, and the money is a significant reason why not. OO and thunderbird are fine, and it's important to save where we can. To counter your point, what if we had 400 machines? We would be browsing sourceforge a little more regularly, given that huge multiplier.
Oh, and also relevant to this discussion, Autodesk is a corporation accountable to shareholders, yet they have provided a free downloadable viewer/converter to the open DXF format for years. Users, the ones who provide them with that capital, asked for it. On the other hand, the chances of them making anything for OSX or *NIX are almost exactly zero, but it's a start.
The biggest thing Microsoft has done; lowered expectations of computers and software being considered reliable.
The result, managers focusing on supporting software, rather than find software that will not break in the first place. That is the biggest hinderance to adaption of Linux and other Open Source programs...
Keep computer saavy on the "fringe" and an entire market for support, geek squad, and "security" stays intact. The counter strategy is to empower users with controls, tweaking ability, and less preinstalled crap, but where is the profit in that?
As long as OSS is considered for 'those hackers', its use in enterprise environments doesn't have a chance.
The only difference is that Sharma got a thrill out of what he did.
I think you meant that he actually made money out of what he did.
Along the same line of thought, however, there is a subsection of gamers that finish a Mario Bros. game in, what, 4 minutes? They pride themselves in knowing the secrets. He said himself in TFA that he couldn't stop until the system made everything he knew obsolete (and optimistically gave it "a couple years"). In other words, a new Mario game will come out, and he hopes it is a little more difficult, or somehow 'below' him so that he loses interest. I don't see this changing anything. It's in the blood, like others have said, like gambling or drinking.
Either way, the type of personality that ID theft attracts is strictly anti-social. The fast talking check writing con man is so 1960's. Why actually talk to someone, when you can swindle and switch under cover? This, like online poker and off track horse betting, is a dangerous combination.
Do you know about Amazon's city imaging project? I use this all the time to find businesses on major streets. It's a work in progress, but seems to be easily scalable.
3d work is finally catching up to other areas. Blender, MAYA, and soon to be (we hope) SketchUP for linux are a significant start.
Sadly, I need to be AutoCAD proficient to get anywhere in my industy. It just doesn't make sense for me to learn something like QCAD or Blender, unless it's for side projects on my home machine. Other building information software has recently come into the picture (ArchiCAD/Revit), but is not linux portable yet, and the OSS community doesn't seem to be active in it.
Any new players to too busy struggling to topple the long entrenched standard to begin to branch out to other platforms. AutoCAD, if I remember correctly, was DOS based, then 16-bit WIN, and now 32-bit WIN only. The most advanced module of the package seems to be the network licence manager, everything else in the interface feels like it's from 1983. Well, I guess it is.
I thought GMail used a social network based filter (flagging) in addition to traditional methods, where spam/phish that was marked by enough users was weeded out for the rest of us. Perhaps you are among the first on certain mass mailing lists and aren't benefitting?
I appreciate you response, and I agree with your second paragraph fully. That's all that I wanted - to pay what I agreed to. Apparently cingular has a different definition of 'agreement'.
I just wanted to mention that otherwise, my relationship with Verizon hasn't been too rocky, so there isn't an incentive to get out of the contract. However, garbage like this is why we all dislike cell providers, and telcos in general. I only wanted to be held to the original terms, yet the only options, apparently, are to pay up, or get out.
Now, I know there are ways to get out of the termination fee (you mentioned a few), but why should I have to make this choice? What is so important about charging me ten cents instead of none for incoming text messages? A feud with a customer? That's the problem with the situation IMHO.
They have the data to know when and where the calls were received based on the cell towers that the phone was received from.
He mentioned that there is overlap, but only (in this example) by one minute. I would look for a more obvious instance, and on the same number, because this one could be explained by loose rounding to the next minute.
Also, aren't bills with multiple numbers broken down by call to/from each phone? Mine is, I believe.
Perhaps we are reading into the brief, non-tech article beyond the actual circumstance. It may be that he was arrested for trespassing, which seems to be the first law he broke as a non-customer. Many parking lots have large signs indicating the allowed uses - handicap parking, no parking on grass, 15 minute limit, customers only, etc., and as private property, this is completely reasonable. If there was an implied TOS, that didn't matter as he was asked to leave on at least one other occasion. So he was aware of the policy, and he violated it. The parking lot is for customers only.
Had he been parked on the street nearby, the issue might be different. The next case we hear about may tackle these issues of broadcast range and constitutional right, but not this guy.
That's how it should work, however they would likely write off the difference and post a red mark on my credit file. They wouldn't leave it up to a local court. When I go to contest the line, they will say that I didn't pay my bill in full. Essentially there is no recourse.
I did exactly this with Verizon, after raising SMS rates 8 months into a 2 year contract (with notification), I objected in writing and asked to be terminated, or at least held to the original terms. They told me that I would be charged the termination fee anyway, because it was at my request. Even though I didn't agree to the new conditions, they said I agreed to such "minor" changes at the beginning. And my rate is not contractually bound, so it's subject to their whim, apparently.
To further complicate matters, the original contract was printed on a thermal receipt-type printer, and my copy has since faded to illegibility. It didn't have the complete language anyway, to the extent that where I signed, it referred to my agreement to a copy of the "current" terms, as available on the website. These have obviously changed over the last two years, so what did I agree to?
Is it even an option to take someone like this to small claims court?
Cars, or rather the system under which they operate, are in fact broken. Most of us drive both ways to the office, likely with three perfectly good seats empty, and for hours a day. Is this not because the inherent design of cars (capable of high speed, size, materials used, comfort) pushes us to use them more and devote more space to the road?
The convenience of email makes its problems more severe. Nobody wants a trade off for that.
I think the inverse of your analogy may be correct.
Once you get into the $80/family range (and perhaps even at a lower price point), the movie theater moves into competition with sports and actual theater - things that you look forward to for a while and don't mind dropping some cash on. When they strip away the consumer's (esp. lower-income families and teens) accesibility to the movies and make it a big deal, we put it in that category of things we have to save/plan/intend to do. The movies will LOSE this comparison. Hmmm, bleacher seats at a Red Sox game or dealing with a huge parking lot, a pat down on the way in, and ridiculous sound levels just to see "Curious George" out in the burbs?
I know personally that I have been in malls looking for something like a quick matinee, and then ditched those plans when I saw that the lower price was something like $7.75 and it ended at 1:30pm. If they can't get me in a theater under these circumstances, something must be wrong.
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And oh what it does for Winona Ryder's figure!
Shouldn't that read "she's a tear"?
Sacrificing quality. A week? Bah! Just get some neighborhood kids, a box of crayolas, and a jumbo size box of tracing paper. Then, profit. Nobody said that you have to spend the time.
Can you really distiguish "end user" software from apps for workstations? Software gets expensive, particularly for the non-governmental small office type of business. I maintain our 4 machines, and each has about $9k of licenced software that is updated biannually or so. We DON'T buy MS Office, and the money is a significant reason why not. OO and thunderbird are fine, and it's important to save where we can. To counter your point, what if we had 400 machines? We would be browsing sourceforge a little more regularly, given that huge multiplier.
Oh, and also relevant to this discussion, Autodesk is a corporation accountable to shareholders, yet they have provided a free downloadable viewer/converter to the open DXF format for years. Users, the ones who provide them with that capital, asked for it. On the other hand, the chances of them making anything for OSX or *NIX are almost exactly zero, but it's a start.
As long as OSS is considered for 'those hackers', its use in enterprise environments doesn't have a chance.
Along the same line of thought, however, there is a subsection of gamers that finish a Mario Bros. game in, what, 4 minutes? They pride themselves in knowing the secrets. He said himself in TFA that he couldn't stop until the system made everything he knew obsolete (and optimistically gave it "a couple years"). In other words, a new Mario game will come out, and he hopes it is a little more difficult, or somehow 'below' him so that he loses interest. I don't see this changing anything. It's in the blood, like others have said, like gambling or drinking.
Either way, the type of personality that ID theft attracts is strictly anti-social. The fast talking check writing con man is so 1960's. Why actually talk to someone, when you can swindle and switch under cover? This, like online poker and off track horse betting, is a dangerous combination.
And for cool factor, I can find my house.
Sadly, I need to be AutoCAD proficient to get anywhere in my industy. It just doesn't make sense for me to learn something like QCAD or Blender, unless it's for side projects on my home machine. Other building information software has recently come into the picture (ArchiCAD/Revit), but is not linux portable yet, and the OSS community doesn't seem to be active in it.
Any new players to too busy struggling to topple the long entrenched standard to begin to branch out to other platforms. AutoCAD, if I remember correctly, was DOS based, then 16-bit WIN, and now 32-bit WIN only. The most advanced module of the package seems to be the network licence manager, everything else in the interface feels like it's from 1983. Well, I guess it is.
I thought GMail used a social network based filter (flagging) in addition to traditional methods, where spam/phish that was marked by enough users was weeded out for the rest of us. Perhaps you are among the first on certain mass mailing lists and aren't benefitting?
I just wanted to mention that otherwise, my relationship with Verizon hasn't been too rocky, so there isn't an incentive to get out of the contract. However, garbage like this is why we all dislike cell providers, and telcos in general. I only wanted to be held to the original terms, yet the only options, apparently, are to pay up, or get out.
Now, I know there are ways to get out of the termination fee (you mentioned a few), but why should I have to make this choice? What is so important about charging me ten cents instead of none for incoming text messages? A feud with a customer? That's the problem with the situation IMHO.
Also, aren't bills with multiple numbers broken down by call to/from each phone? Mine is, I believe.
In other words, wherever a RFID logs his presence.
Had he been parked on the street nearby, the issue might be different. The next case we hear about may tackle these issues of broadcast range and constitutional right, but not this guy.
That's how it should work, however they would likely write off the difference and post a red mark on my credit file. They wouldn't leave it up to a local court. When I go to contest the line, they will say that I didn't pay my bill in full. Essentially there is no recourse.
To further complicate matters, the original contract was printed on a thermal receipt-type printer, and my copy has since faded to illegibility. It didn't have the complete language anyway, to the extent that where I signed, it referred to my agreement to a copy of the "current" terms, as available on the website. These have obviously changed over the last two years, so what did I agree to?
Is it even an option to take someone like this to small claims court?
Cars, or rather the system under which they operate, are in fact broken. Most of us drive both ways to the office, likely with three perfectly good seats empty, and for hours a day. Is this not because the inherent design of cars (capable of high speed, size, materials used, comfort) pushes us to use them more and devote more space to the road?
The convenience of email makes its problems more severe. Nobody wants a trade off for that.
I think the inverse of your analogy may be correct.
Once you get into the $80/family range (and perhaps even at a lower price point), the movie theater moves into competition with sports and actual theater - things that you look forward to for a while and don't mind dropping some cash on. When they strip away the consumer's (esp. lower-income families and teens) accesibility to the movies and make it a big deal, we put it in that category of things we have to save/plan/intend to do. The movies will LOSE this comparison. Hmmm, bleacher seats at a Red Sox game or dealing with a huge parking lot, a pat down on the way in, and ridiculous sound levels just to see "Curious George" out in the burbs? I know personally that I have been in malls looking for something like a quick matinee, and then ditched those plans when I saw that the lower price was something like $7.75 and it ended at 1:30pm. If they can't get me in a theater under these circumstances, something must be wrong.