He will sell less if people don't like his lecture in the first place. They might even use the lecture notes of a different professor. And the recordings etc. of his lecture will probably not be much better than the lecture either.
It is in the best interest of the professor to make a good lecture and sell the lecture notes for a low price. Then many people will come to the lectures, and many people will buy the notes.
I myself have used the lecture notes of a different professor a couple of times because I liked them better. Quite often professors refer to the lecture notes of others because they're done well. So he might even be able to sell some to the students of other classes or universities, if it's worth the money.
Oh, and some professors turn their lecture notes into books and sell them... the professors here that do this often hand out the drafts in their lectures and get feedback and corrections from the students. Maybe they should pay the students for proofreading his book? What bullshit is this fighting for $2.50 for a lecture? Thats a single slice of pizza. If it's not worth the money, don't but the recordings.
in english: "idiot's apostrophe" - or was it "idiot`s apostrophe"?;-)
Also known as "Apostrophitis" or "Apostrophenkatastrophen".
Although the term is mostly used when someone incorrectly forms plural with an apostroph. ("two car's" - ouch, it's still "cars", please!)
In german, the title would have been "Sonys PSP Memory Stick...", btw. - we don't do the saxon genitive in german. There are only few exceptions where you may place an apostroph, e.g. "Hans' Auto", where you would have two s otherwise. However, this error has become quite common in Germany...
I've you've been reading heise.de, you are probably missing Joerg here. He's one of the biggest trolls on heise.de, sending "corrected" versions of each article relevant to him... so why doesn't he do the same on slashdot? Are moderators too harsh on his trolling? Is he blacklisted?
Dudes, I definitely miss his trollposts here. They can be very entertaining.
The most interesting effect on troll-ridden heise forums however are his troll fanboys. There are a couple of users^Wtrolls there that are actually quite good at repeating his non-arguments. So good that some people suspect them to actually be additional logins of Joerg Schilling.
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
I've got a 1600x1200 screen, and the videos are pretty small. I havn't found a way to zoom them. Video.Google.com may be harder to use and especially harder (if possible) to embed in your blog. But at least I can watch the videos beyond thumbnail size.
Also not every stupid thing is on video.google.com. Youtube is full of crappy videos.
Been there, done that. Actually that was tried years ago. Doesn't work.
How do you expect the spammers to receive the error message? As you might know, the sender is faked.
Their software is flawed, it will even send the email body when you said the receipient doesn't exist. Or they should just go away. So they obviously don't even parse your return code... These zombies are dumb as shit.
And do you think they'll care?
They probably bought some DVDs with email adresses. They're read only anyway. And after some months they'll just buy new ones.
If spammers (or more precisely, email harvesting companies, which is probably a different company... they might even not be violating the CAN-SPAM act?) are testing email addresses to be alive, they are most likely to use a "legitimate looking" email and some hidden web bugs (!). One more reason not to use Outlook and similar software that does load web bugs. Or proper unsubscribe links. One more reason to not click on them.
Actually it's not particular "microsoft" research, but University of Washington:
http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/
Their video is also MUCH better. Much more impressive, they show some very cool features Microsoft did not.
Still, both videos only show the User Interface. Not the calculation of the dataset.
It is however no secret that Microsoft PhotoSynth is basically this with a different UI. Or maybe completely the same. (Notice that the Microsoft name is both present on the PhotoTour homepage and the paper for SigGRAPH).
Do also read the SigGRAPH paper. This is the actually tech part. http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/Photo_Tourism.p df
Some interesting facts you'll find there:
They used a 3.4 GHz computer.
The Notre Dame example took two weeks to compute.
only 597 of the 2635 images were used, the rest was discarded.
This definitely isn't of much use to "home" users.
You'll need a semi-professional photographer to cover the whole location. If there are some bigger holes in the imagery, you'll probably not get a useful result. If the images don't overlap, how is the software supposed to calculate their relative position?
It will take probably 1.5 weeks, and the result will contain some 400 of these images. The result will however be good.
Don't even think of doing it with just some 20 pictures. You need a full coverage! Best hire some professionals for that, and maybe a cluster to compute it a bit faster than in 10 days.
(The Notre Dame example they had took two weeks on a 3.4 GHz computer. That was some 2500 images, of which only 500 ended up in the result).
No, nothing for your aunt^Wmommy and her holiday photos.
This is how I got rid of spam in my blogs comments:
I got my blog slashdotted, and now I have so many comments on my blog that I'll be busy moderating until next April 1st. And almost no spam among them!
You know, other languages have libraries and modules, too... PHP isn't the first language with MySQL bindings. It's not the first with GD bindings. And so on. And PHP wasn't really designed to be easy to properly embed in other applications either. It was designed to have the code embedded in HTML, granted. And it was designed to run in the web server. But I doubt it was designed to be put to all kinds of use. Who is embedding PHP except for web servers?
If you want a language that was really designed for embedding, consider looking at lua. From what I know of it, it was really designed to be used as scripting language within other applications. From spreadsheets to games. I think my brother told me he was developing on a scientific instrument (most likely for fraunhofer, probably for the development of solar power related stuff), and that you could script it in lua. Then there is enigma, a fun game (port of Oxyd), it uses lua for scripting the levels.
PHP has other uses. Like writing bad code. SCNR. But I do consider PHP a legacy language.
Since this article appeared on Slashdot, Al Quaida is reported to have been buying large quantities of Lithium Batteries. They are rebranded to "Energizer" and shipped in furry little toy rabbits. An Al Quaida spokesman said that they hope at least 1 out of 100 of these rabbits will ignite in an airplane. So if they ship one million of them, maybe one or two planes will crash into a major US city.
This refers to domains _within_ the.eu domain. Germany overtook the GB in registrations for.eu domains. GB is still second for.eu I think..de has been bigger than.uk for quite some time I think. And.uk is only fourth biggest..net is third.
I wouldn't bet that the.eu domain will become second biggest. Domain squatting will become less and less important with the increasing number of TLDs, and the rush on personal domains is also kind of slowed down. People would register "firstname-lastname.de", but probably not firstname-lastname.eu, but try nickname-lastname.de first.
Check out http://www.mreplay.com/ Instead of bringing "full TV" to your mobile (who would want to have that anyway in times of HDTV and huge flat screens?) it just gives you the imagery you might want to have when mobile: replays of the best scenes of a sports event. And not when it's on TV, but when you want to see it. In bullshit bingo that's called "On Demand".;-)
It works really well - and with todays mobiles. No UMTS or DVB-M required. Just the simples J2ME profile is enough.
You can go back/forward individual frames and eventually (if the download contains higher resolutions) even zoom in. It's great for sports!
By not streaming unnecessary data like audio or unneeded video frames it minimizes the downloads, too.
Hi, I need a lot of people that help me googlebomb the european council - set a link to ue.eu.int:
Banana Republic Europe to get it into google.
Thanks.;-)
And as qmail is a really great MTA it's spreading on high-volume servers. For example hotmail and gmx do as far as i know use qmail. And egroups.com appears to use qmail, too. (but i see they use some protocol called "NNFMP" internally???) So QMTP should be useable for some servers already. I often have mail transfers with all hosts using qmail.;)
Boycott all doubleclick servers by blocking nameserver request (i.e. resolving them to 127.0.0.1) What doubleclick is doing is at least in Germany illegal; ISPs should consider protecting their clients from doubleclick...
Great fiction books for these topics are from William Gibson - starting with the famous Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive and so on. Most books i read from him deal with these facts and they are Top Sellers. These Books deal with the "near future" of our Planet as well. There you can find for example people being "fixed" by doctors after major accidents like bombs mostly from recordings. Or you can find the direct sensory input in there very often - TV like mostly, but also for conferencing, matrix access and data display. I like these books a lot, as they usually are not that far from reality. And they have some great thoughts in them - for example the AIs being monitored by Turing People so that they won't become too powerful (so they might destroy or enslave mankind by releasing some Genetic Viruses etc.)
They (finally) managed to stop the chain reaction by removing the cooling water. The radiation levels dropped to a 5th afterwards. The two very seriously harmed workers are still in danger: they got as much radiation as you would get from an atomic bomb i've read.
Some "common knowledge" about nuke plants: The water in common Nuke Plants is used to slow down the neutrons: if they are too fast, they will not keep the chain reaction alive. So if you remove the water, the plant will actually slow down the reaction. This can also be caused by the water turning into steam, and is a nice fine-controlling and security mechanismn in high-pressure-nuke-plants (i don't know the englisch term, sorry) By reducing the cooling system (or by an overheating due to a failture) the water will turn into steam, thus its moderation properties are getting worse, the chain reaction will slow down.
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He will sell less if people don't like his lecture in the first place. They might even use the lecture notes of a different professor.
And the recordings etc. of his lecture will probably not be much better than the lecture either.
It is in the best interest of the professor to make a good lecture and sell the lecture notes for a low price. Then many people will come to the lectures, and many people will buy the notes.
I myself have used the lecture notes of a different professor a couple of times because I liked them better. Quite often professors refer to the lecture notes of others because they're done well. So he might even be able to sell some to the students of other classes or universities, if it's worth the money.
Oh, and some professors turn their lecture notes into books and sell them... the professors here that do this often hand out the drafts in their lectures and get feedback and corrections from the students. Maybe they should pay the students for proofreading his book? What bullshit is this fighting for $2.50 for a lecture? Thats a single slice of pizza. If it's not worth the money, don't but the recordings.
in english: "idiot's apostrophe" - or was it "idiot`s apostrophe"? ;-)
...", btw. - we don't do the saxon genitive in german. There are only few exceptions where you may place an apostroph, e.g. "Hans' Auto", where you would have two s otherwise. However, this error has become quite common in Germany...
Also known as "Apostrophitis" or "Apostrophenkatastrophen".
Although the term is mostly used when someone incorrectly forms plural with an apostroph. ("two car's" - ouch, it's still "cars", please!)
In german, the title would have been "Sonys PSP Memory Stick
I've you've been reading heise.de, you are probably missing Joerg here.
He's one of the biggest trolls on heise.de, sending "corrected" versions of each article relevant to him... so why doesn't he do the same on slashdot?
Are moderators too harsh on his trolling? Is he blacklisted?
Dudes, I definitely miss his trollposts here. They can be very entertaining.
The most interesting effect on troll-ridden heise forums however are his troll fanboys. There are a couple of users^Wtrolls there that are actually quite good at repeating his non-arguments. So good that some people suspect them to actually be additional logins of Joerg Schilling.
If the gameplay is right, people will even love a blue hedgehog or a green rabbit.
http://www.jazz2online.com/
The Debian Free Software Guidelines say:
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
Therefore, this license is considere non-free by Debian.
I read that *uploading* to Google Video is harder.
The one that does nothing?
Guess YouTube then is just incompatible with the popup blocker my browser has (like any sane browser)?
I've got a 1600x1200 screen, and the videos are pretty small. I havn't found a way to zoom them.
Video.Google.com may be harder to use and especially harder (if possible) to embed in your blog. But at least I can watch the videos beyond thumbnail size.
Also not every stupid thing is on video.google.com. Youtube is full of crappy videos.
Been there, done that. Actually that was tried years ago. Doesn't work.
How do you expect the spammers to receive the error message? As you might know, the sender is faked.
Their software is flawed, it will even send the email body when you said the receipient doesn't exist. Or they should just go away. So they obviously don't even parse your return code... These zombies are dumb as shit.
And do you think they'll care?
They probably bought some DVDs with email adresses. They're read only anyway. And after some months they'll just buy new ones.
If spammers (or more precisely, email harvesting companies, which is probably a different company... they might even not be violating the CAN-SPAM act?) are testing email addresses to be alive, they are most likely to use a "legitimate looking" email and some hidden web bugs (!). One more reason not to use Outlook and similar software that does load web bugs. Or proper unsubscribe links. One more reason to not click on them.
Their video is also MUCH better. Much more impressive, they show some very cool features Microsoft did not. Still, both videos only show the User Interface. Not the calculation of the dataset. It is however no secret that Microsoft PhotoSynth is basically this with a different UI. Or maybe completely the same. (Notice that the Microsoft name is both present on the PhotoTour homepage and the paper for SigGRAPH).
Do also read the SigGRAPH paper. This is the actually tech part. http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/Photo_Tourism.
Some interesting facts you'll find there:
- They used a 3.4 GHz computer.
- The Notre Dame example took two weeks to compute.
- only 597 of the 2635 images were used, the rest was discarded.
This definitely isn't of much use to "home" users. You'll need a semi-professional photographer to cover the whole location. If there are some bigger holes in the imagery, you'll probably not get a useful result. If the images don't overlap, how is the software supposed to calculate their relative position?It will take probably 1.5 weeks, and the result will contain some 400 of these images.
The result will however be good.
Don't even think of doing it with just some 20 pictures. You need a full coverage! Best hire some professionals for that, and maybe a cluster to compute it a bit faster than in 10 days.
(The Notre Dame example they had took two weeks on a 3.4 GHz computer. That was some 2500 images, of which only 500 ended up in the result).
No, nothing for your aunt^Wmommy and her holiday photos.
This is how I got rid of spam in my blogs comments:
I got my blog slashdotted, and now I have so many comments on my blog that I'll be busy moderating until next April 1st. And almost no spam among them!
You know, other languages have libraries and modules, too...
PHP isn't the first language with MySQL bindings. It's not the first with GD bindings. And so on.
And PHP wasn't really designed to be easy to properly embed in other applications either. It was designed to have the code embedded in HTML, granted. And it was designed to run in the web server. But I doubt it was designed to be put to all kinds of use. Who is embedding PHP except for web servers?
If you want a language that was really designed for embedding, consider looking at lua. From what I know of it, it was really designed to be used as scripting language within other applications. From spreadsheets to games.
I think my brother told me he was developing on a scientific instrument (most likely for fraunhofer, probably for the development of solar power related stuff), and that you could script it in lua.
Then there is enigma, a fun game (port of Oxyd), it uses lua for scripting the levels.
PHP has other uses. Like writing bad code. SCNR. But I do consider PHP a legacy language.
Since this article appeared on Slashdot, Al Quaida is reported to have been buying large quantities of Lithium Batteries. They are rebranded to "Energizer" and shipped in furry little toy rabbits.
An Al Quaida spokesman said that they hope at least 1 out of 100 of these rabbits will ignite in an airplane.
So if they ship one million of them, maybe one or two planes will crash into a major US city.
The bad news is: /dev/random
they'll eventually find all their source code in there. Verbatim.
In
Fortunately, we still have some thousand years until they're done with sighting that data.
This refers to domains _within_ the .eu domain. .eu domains. GB is still second for .eu I think. .de has been bigger than .uk for quite some time I think. And .uk is only fourth biggest. .net is third.
- Vergleich.gif
.eu domain will become second biggest. Domain squatting will become less and less important with the increasing number of TLDs, and the rush on personal domains is also kind of slowed down. People would register "firstname-lastname.de", but probably not firstname-lastname.eu, but try nickname-lastname.de first.
Germany overtook the GB in registrations for
http://www.denic.de/media/images/monatszahlen/TLD
I wouldn't bet that the
Check out http://www.mreplay.com/ ;-)
Instead of bringing "full TV" to your mobile (who would want to have that anyway in times of HDTV and huge flat screens?) it just gives you the imagery you might want to have when mobile: replays of the best scenes of a sports event.
And not when it's on TV, but when you want to see it. In bullshit bingo that's called "On Demand".
It works really well - and with todays mobiles. No UMTS or DVB-M required. Just the simples J2ME profile is enough.
You can go back/forward individual frames and eventually (if the download contains higher resolutions) even zoom in. It's great for sports!
By not streaming unnecessary data like audio or unneeded video frames it minimizes the downloads, too.
Hi, I need a lot of people that help me googlebomb the european council - set a link to ue.eu.int: Banana Republic Europe to get it into google. ;-)
Thanks.
Power over WLAN is WAY better than old PoE.
See, it's written PoWer, not PoEr (even if some may pronounce it that way), isn't it?
P.S. Slashdot sucks, since you can't read it with Mozilla. Why can't they fix their HTML? Fortunately there is AlterSlash.
One for each LED that is in the bulb, obviously.
And as qmail is a really great MTA it's spreading on high-volume servers. ;)
For example hotmail and gmx do as far as i know use qmail.
And egroups.com appears to use qmail, too. (but i see they use some protocol called "NNFMP" internally???)
So QMTP should be useable for some servers already. I often have mail transfers with all hosts using qmail.
Boycott all doubleclick servers by blocking nameserver request (i.e. resolving them to 127.0.0.1) What doubleclick is doing is at least in Germany illegal; ISPs should consider protecting their clients from doubleclick...
Great fiction books for these topics are from William Gibson - starting with the famous Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive and so on. Most books i read from him deal with these facts and they are Top Sellers.
These Books deal with the "near future" of our Planet as well.
There you can find for example people being "fixed" by doctors after major accidents like bombs mostly from recordings.
Or you can find the direct sensory input in there very often - TV like mostly, but also for conferencing, matrix access and data display.
I like these books a lot, as they usually are not that far from reality.
And they have some great thoughts in them - for example the AIs being monitored by Turing People so that they won't become too powerful (so they might destroy or enslave mankind by releasing some Genetic Viruses etc.)
They (finally) managed to stop the chain reaction by removing the cooling water.
The radiation levels dropped to a 5th afterwards. The two very seriously harmed workers are still in danger: they got as much radiation as you would get from an atomic bomb i've read.
Some "common knowledge" about nuke plants:
The water in common Nuke Plants is used to slow down the neutrons: if they are too fast, they will not keep the chain reaction alive. So if you remove the water, the plant will actually slow down the reaction.
This can also be caused by the water turning into steam, and is a nice fine-controlling and security mechanismn in high-pressure-nuke-plants (i don't know the englisch term, sorry)
By reducing the cooling system (or by an overheating due to a failture) the water will turn into steam, thus its moderation properties are getting worse, the chain reaction will slow down.