This would only work if they copied the original completely. Of course it would speed things up, but that's assuming they haven't modified the image. Once they re-save that image, all the extra data you added in there with steganography is no longer there. I guess that's the important part of this project - that an image can be modified from the original and still be detected.
This also probably worked to their advantage - now how many people outside of China know about this restaurant? I figure people would at least want to go there to take a picture in front of the sign or whatnot.
Please note that we have added a consequence for failure. Any failure will result in an unsatisfactory mark on your official testing record, followed by death.
Very unlikely - one big issue with Scrabulous is that they've made quite a bit of cash selling advertising on their app. So not only are they being a copycat, they're also profiting off of someone else's IP.
Scrabulous... attracts over 600,000 daily users and gives the brothers $25,000 of advertising a month.
Yeah...one thing that's been bothering me recently about Facebook is that the advertisements seem to have access to your personal data - even if it's set to not be public. I don't know if I just happened to never see these ads on there before, but I'm seeing them too much now.
For instance, my birth year is not public, however when I log in I see ads conveniently advertising to my age, like "[my age] and Need Cash?". This is something that REALLY bothers me, because that is supposed to be hidden information. I guess if it were Microsoft and it became known, this practice would die in a heartbeat...I don't know...
Yet another thing that's making me move away from Facebook. It's nice to be able to easily contact old friends, but all of the spam and privacy issues are a PITA.
I've always liked this method of combating piracy. Make a game that anyone can download, but provide a service to use the game, or provide some extra features/goodies for people who want to pay extra. I'm not a big fan of giving significant gameplay advantages to people who pay, however I would lean more towards graphical improvements for characters, etc - that's just my own bias as a player. The whole new Battlefield game with advertising seems like a winner, as well. Advertisers are happy, game-developers are happy, and customers just need to blow up that sign showing a product.
I guess one possible problem I could envision with this is that developing the game client usually takes more time than developing the server (at least for me, with a nice server architecture already in place). If people grab the client, modify it and host their own private game, this could make devs want to spend less time making a nice client. Maybe? I don't know.
I remember when I was that young, we used Apple computers in school, which had a math flash-card type application. This concept isn't very new, however what IS new and interesting is that they're using the laptops to also completely replace books.
I guess one of the problems would be giving a student study material to take home, since they return the laptops at the end of the day. I'm usually one to assume everyone has a computer with broadband at home, but this may not always be the case.
Still, it's nice to see newer ways of passing information being embraced at such a level in the K-12 education setting.
That's some interesting stuff, especially the fact that there's nothing they found in the soil that was toxic. Now if only there was more funding towards going anywhere with this information.
Correct, it has not changed. The point I was getting at is that it works the same as Python - you write the code, and can modify it without recompiling yourself.
Was in regards to gp's quote:
realtime chanages to the code vs. compiling it over and over again In either case, performance is going to suffer if it's not precompiled to bytecode, but the ability's there.
I guess I should also mention for the unaware that in server-side web programming, just like Python, you don't need to compile JSPs before running or after making a change. I'm not familiar with the entire process, however I do know that Python files are compiled into bytecode when imported.
Java second cousin twice removed JavaScript No. JavaScript is a scripting language, whereas Java is a full-fledged programming language. Regarding the name: "The naming has caused confusion, giving the impression that the language is a spin-off of Java, and it has been characterized by many as a marketing ploy by Netscape to give JavaScript the cachet of what was then the hot new web-programming language" [History of JavaScript].
Most apps are moving to the web even custom apps. So Javas key advantage is loss. As Python, Ruby, PHP... while are primarly considered interpreted lanaguge without the byte code (yes I know at least python you can make PYC files which are bytecode....) but because they are on the server protected with the OS Security you can make apps and do more realtime chanages to the code vs. compiling it over and over again. and not have your users mess with the design. You do know that Java is not just applets and client applications, right? Java is heavily used on all of the things you just talked about - serverside apps. See servlets, JSP, etc. Both Python and Java are interpreted, so I don't know what you're talking about: "Java bytecode is interpreted or converted to native machine code by the JIT compiler." [Wikipedia-Java].
I guess I should know by now to expect most people to not know what they're talking about when they post.
But, back to the issue. I fully agree with many other posters claiming it reduces the possibility of being screwed over by Sun or licensing inside of the various packages (audio is one that comes to mind - the one they're still rewriting).
This stuff is MADE for real-time, embedded systems. The ultimate goal is to use it through design and analysis, and then go ahead and generate code. It does take some getting used to, and there is a lot to it so keep that in mind.
It's not perfect, and still under development, but very cool. So give it a try, see if you can pick it up. I'm generally a supporter of UML, but after being introduced to AADL and OSATE in an architecture course I was eventually convinced that it could be better than UML for this field.
If you want to spend your whole career competing with folks in India, China, and other low-wage emerging tech economies, get a degree that's focused entirely on CS. Those skills are trivially easy to outsource overseas, and they will be.
I don't know where you live, but in the US all (important) government jobs require security clearance, and most contractors simply can't hire international employees. Even less so, farming jobs to other countries doesn't work for these companies. Even if you disregard the aerospace and government contracted industries, computing jobs still are some of the most flexible in the US.
In my opinion, whether you get your degree at a liberal arts or technical school doesn't matter so much as whether the program is accredited. The most important thing may be either the school's connections to the industry, or, failing that, your drive to advertise yourself to the industry.
I'll be graduating from an engineering school with my Masters and Bachelors in 19 days, and I believe I've gotten a good mix of information - it's not like you miss out on all of those humanities required in liberal arts colleges. My college focuses the engineering students more towards their core classes, however you are still required those psychology, creative arts, humanities, and electives from other disciplines. The biggest advantages I received include the constant improvement in my degrees (software engineering and computer science, both accredited - yes, they are different) and the industry exposure due to job fairs and professor connections.
To comment on meeting a large variety of people - there are so many engineering degrees and other minors that you'll meet a very interesting group of people either way. Aerospace engineers are different from aeronautical engineers, business majors, aeronautical science (pilots), software engineering, computer science, etc.
I love the GIMP, and I've never actually had Photoshop. However, I will say that I frequently get lost in trying to figure out where things are. If, instead of saying, "Oh, it's not Photoshop, your complaint isn't legit!", they all said "Let's see what we can do to fix this," things would probably get better more quickly.
I understand they've been working on things, hence this release, but these complaints are very old.
And the truth is, lawyers and other personable people would actually make BETTER terrorists - especially when you have law at your side.
What type of people can we think of that can inflict the most terror...hmm...politicians. They hold power, can use the law (and lawyers) to help their cause, and they get publicity.
It must be because there are people on/. and other sites who will give the article attention and controversy if they say "engineers can be more evil?".
Yeah, for anyone who reads up to the last page, it seems pretty clear that it's not true. Something like this would be more likely announced by Microsoft PR a good while before release, in order to grow some hype.
TFA states
"As DirectX 11 is a work in progress, Microsoft does not have an exact timeline. But the source claims that DirectX 11 could be part of Windows Vista by late 2008."
I don't know where these guys get their information, but even Microsoft does planning ahead of time for products they create - especially if it's to be released the same year! The absurdity climaxes at the third page...do yourself a favor and read it for a little laugh.
"They also plan to have DirectX 11 ready in time to debut with Windows Vista Service Pack 2"
Service Pack 2? Sure, SP1 wasn't an improvement and SP2 might be needed - but, again, plans for this would have been more well announced or planned by Microsoft.
Plain and simple: if you're doing business in the US, you must follow US law. In addition, if you are a US business doing business in another country, you have to follow the US law and that country's law. Sure, they can ignore the patent - however this could mean their company either saying bye-bye to doing business in the US, or paying up in the end anyway. For a company so rooted in the US this could be problematic.
But yeah, they can ignore the law and stop dealing with the US, which would likely be a huge loss on their part, considering how much they've invested in selling and producing goods here. I'd imagine that dealing with such a huge company the government would have trouble simply ignoring the issue - people getting paid (likely the inventor - come up with conspiracy theories for the rest) could help resolve it all.
I agree that XP isn't dead - it's actually the choice of OS for gaming for myself and most of my friends. Why? Vista simply is too bloated and expensive (XP is free at my college). I love Linux, but I haven't found many commercial games at all I can run on it (without Wine).
I'm mainly a Linux user for my everyday work, and I'd say I buy and play more games than the average user generally would. The only reason every one of my machines is dual booting Linux and Windows XP is due to the fact that I simply need XP for my games.
I've switched a couple people from Windows to Linux, however they've all been dual-boots. The main issues are games, a few utilities like Catia, and Photoshop. I imagine that I'll also be dual booting until these issues are addressed by the software companies. I believe the "games aren't free, so Linux users won't buy them" idea is a minority opinion. This statement kind of seems true, simply because those in that category tend to voice their disapproval more adamantly.
No, but seriously...this is an issue that's really not all that easy to decide. Those in control (the admins) have the right to remove "insignificant" entries, but they boast a wide set of rules about non-censorship and such. Overall, the admins have the say, and can change the rules or strictly enforce them (remember the Muhammad article issue?). Now, whether they think it'll affect readership or whether they carefully calculate how it will affect it - that's a whole different story.
I fully agree - I came in here expecting to have to preach about design, but seems like you hit the nail on the head.
If you expect things like this to happen, write them down as risks and take them into consideration when you're doing your design and plans. I understand a lot of people, especially with web code, want to sit down and just start writing until it works. At the very least laying, down the framework ahead of time will save you headache in instances like this.
I guess when dealing with this, the best thing you can try to do is get your people to document their code and keep it as neatly modularized as possible. If you know what you had to write for your previous app, you can bet you'll be needing very similar functions/methods in the app created in the new language.
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This would only work if they copied the original completely. Of course it would speed things up, but that's assuming they haven't modified the image. Once they re-save that image, all the extra data you added in there with steganography is no longer there. I guess that's the important part of this project - that an image can be modified from the original and still be detected.
In other news: Jobs signed a contract with Blizzard for the production of an RTS-style interface he could use to direct his workers.
Not enough iMinerals!
So...Balmer's plan is to give his employees cancer?
This also probably worked to their advantage - now how many people outside of China know about this restaurant? I figure people would at least want to go there to take a picture in front of the sign or whatnot.
Please note that we have added a consequence for failure. Any failure will result in an unsatisfactory mark on your official testing record, followed by death.
Portal can be a pretty harsh puzzle game, too...
New, more eco-friendly version! Doesn't come with a box or plastic sticker!
Scrabulous ... attracts over 600,000 daily users and gives the brothers $25,000 of advertising a month.
[http://www.thetrendwatch.com/2008/01/31/scrabble-vs-scrabulous/]
;)
If you're not selling your app or ads on it, you're likely safe...but IANAL
Heh...you said "IE" and "standards" in the same sentence...
Yeah...one thing that's been bothering me recently about Facebook is that the advertisements seem to have access to your personal data - even if it's set to not be public. I don't know if I just happened to never see these ads on there before, but I'm seeing them too much now.
For instance, my birth year is not public, however when I log in I see ads conveniently advertising to my age, like "[my age] and Need Cash?". This is something that REALLY bothers me, because that is supposed to be hidden information. I guess if it were Microsoft and it became known, this practice would die in a heartbeat...I don't know...
Yet another thing that's making me move away from Facebook. It's nice to be able to easily contact old friends, but all of the spam and privacy issues are a PITA.
I've always liked this method of combating piracy. Make a game that anyone can download, but provide a service to use the game, or provide some extra features/goodies for people who want to pay extra. I'm not a big fan of giving significant gameplay advantages to people who pay, however I would lean more towards graphical improvements for characters, etc - that's just my own bias as a player. The whole new Battlefield game with advertising seems like a winner, as well. Advertisers are happy, game-developers are happy, and customers just need to blow up that sign showing a product.
I guess one possible problem I could envision with this is that developing the game client usually takes more time than developing the server (at least for me, with a nice server architecture already in place). If people grab the client, modify it and host their own private game, this could make devs want to spend less time making a nice client. Maybe? I don't know.
I remember when I was that young, we used Apple computers in school, which had a math flash-card type application. This concept isn't very new, however what IS new and interesting is that they're using the laptops to also completely replace books.
I guess one of the problems would be giving a student study material to take home, since they return the laptops at the end of the day. I'm usually one to assume everyone has a computer with broadband at home, but this may not always be the case.
Still, it's nice to see newer ways of passing information being embraced at such a level in the K-12 education setting.
Why buy when you can give the gift of open source software!
Asparagus is exciting for me, too!
That's some interesting stuff, especially the fact that there's nothing they found in the soil that was toxic. Now if only there was more funding towards going anywhere with this information.
Was in regards to gp's quote: realtime chanages to the code vs. compiling it over and over again
In either case, performance is going to suffer if it's not precompiled to bytecode, but the ability's there.
I guess I should also mention for the unaware that in server-side web programming, just like Python, you don't need to compile JSPs before running or after making a change. I'm not familiar with the entire process, however I do know that Python files are compiled into bytecode when imported.
Most apps are moving to the web even custom apps. So Javas key advantage is loss. As Python, Ruby, PHP... while are primarly considered interpreted lanaguge without the byte code (yes I know at least python you can make PYC files which are bytecode....) but because they are on the server protected with the OS Security you can make apps and do more realtime chanages to the code vs. compiling it over and over again. and not have your users mess with the design. You do know that Java is not just applets and client applications, right? Java is heavily used on all of the things you just talked about - serverside apps. See servlets, JSP, etc. Both Python and Java are interpreted, so I don't know what you're talking about: "Java bytecode is interpreted or converted to native machine code by the JIT compiler." [Wikipedia-Java].
I guess I should know by now to expect most people to not know what they're talking about when they post.
But, back to the issue. I fully agree with many other posters claiming it reduces the possibility of being screwed over by Sun or licensing inside of the various packages (audio is one that comes to mind - the one they're still rewriting).
Take it a step up and evaluate some modeling languages and tools, such as AADL and OSATE.
http://www.aadl.info/
This stuff is MADE for real-time, embedded systems. The ultimate goal is to use it through design and analysis, and then go ahead and generate code. It does take some getting used to, and there is a lot to it so keep that in mind.
It's not perfect, and still under development, but very cool. So give it a try, see if you can pick it up. I'm generally a supporter of UML, but after being introduced to AADL and OSATE in an architecture course I was eventually convinced that it could be better than UML for this field.
I don't know where you live, but in the US all (important) government jobs require security clearance, and most contractors simply can't hire international employees. Even less so, farming jobs to other countries doesn't work for these companies. Even if you disregard the aerospace and government contracted industries, computing jobs still are some of the most flexible in the US.
In my opinion, whether you get your degree at a liberal arts or technical school doesn't matter so much as whether the program is accredited. The most important thing may be either the school's connections to the industry, or, failing that, your drive to advertise yourself to the industry.
I'll be graduating from an engineering school with my Masters and Bachelors in 19 days, and I believe I've gotten a good mix of information - it's not like you miss out on all of those humanities required in liberal arts colleges. My college focuses the engineering students more towards their core classes, however you are still required those psychology, creative arts, humanities, and electives from other disciplines. The biggest advantages I received include the constant improvement in my degrees (software engineering and computer science, both accredited - yes, they are different) and the industry exposure due to job fairs and professor connections.
To comment on meeting a large variety of people - there are so many engineering degrees and other minors that you'll meet a very interesting group of people either way. Aerospace engineers are different from aeronautical engineers, business majors, aeronautical science (pilots), software engineering, computer science, etc.
If I could mod you up, I would.
I love the GIMP, and I've never actually had Photoshop. However, I will say that I frequently get lost in trying to figure out where things are. If, instead of saying, "Oh, it's not Photoshop, your complaint isn't legit!", they all said "Let's see what we can do to fix this," things would probably get better more quickly.
I understand they've been working on things, hence this release, but these complaints are very old.
And the truth is, lawyers and other personable people would actually make BETTER terrorists - especially when you have law at your side.
/. and other sites who will give the article attention and controversy if they say "engineers can be more evil?".
What type of people can we think of that can inflict the most terror...hmm...politicians. They hold power, can use the law (and lawyers) to help their cause, and they get publicity.
It must be because there are people on
TFA states I don't know where these guys get their information, but even Microsoft does planning ahead of time for products they create - especially if it's to be released the same year! The absurdity climaxes at the third page...do yourself a favor and read it for a little laugh.
Service Pack 2? Sure, SP1 wasn't an improvement and SP2 might be needed - but, again, plans for this would have been more well announced or planned by Microsoft.
Sorry guys, article is simply BS.
Plain and simple: if you're doing business in the US, you must follow US law. In addition, if you are a US business doing business in another country, you have to follow the US law and that country's law. Sure, they can ignore the patent - however this could mean their company either saying bye-bye to doing business in the US, or paying up in the end anyway. For a company so rooted in the US this could be problematic.
But yeah, they can ignore the law and stop dealing with the US, which would likely be a huge loss on their part, considering how much they've invested in selling and producing goods here. I'd imagine that dealing with such a huge company the government would have trouble simply ignoring the issue - people getting paid (likely the inventor - come up with conspiracy theories for the rest) could help resolve it all.
I agree that XP isn't dead - it's actually the choice of OS for gaming for myself and most of my friends. Why? Vista simply is too bloated and expensive (XP is free at my college). I love Linux, but I haven't found many commercial games at all I can run on it (without Wine).
I'm mainly a Linux user for my everyday work, and I'd say I buy and play more games than the average user generally would. The only reason every one of my machines is dual booting Linux and Windows XP is due to the fact that I simply need XP for my games.
I've switched a couple people from Windows to Linux, however they've all been dual-boots. The main issues are games, a few utilities like Catia, and Photoshop. I imagine that I'll also be dual booting until these issues are addressed by the software companies. I believe the "games aren't free, so Linux users won't buy them" idea is a minority opinion. This statement kind of seems true, simply because those in that category tend to voice their disapproval more adamantly.
I found it, it's here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul.
No, but seriously...this is an issue that's really not all that easy to decide. Those in control (the admins) have the right to remove "insignificant" entries, but they boast a wide set of rules about non-censorship and such. Overall, the admins have the say, and can change the rules or strictly enforce them (remember the Muhammad article issue?). Now, whether they think it'll affect readership or whether they carefully calculate how it will affect it - that's a whole different story.
I fully agree - I came in here expecting to have to preach about design, but seems like you hit the nail on the head.
If you expect things like this to happen, write them down as risks and take them into consideration when you're doing your design and plans. I understand a lot of people, especially with web code, want to sit down and just start writing until it works. At the very least laying, down the framework ahead of time will save you headache in instances like this.
I guess when dealing with this, the best thing you can try to do is get your people to document their code and keep it as neatly modularized as possible. If you know what you had to write for your previous app, you can bet you'll be needing very similar functions/methods in the app created in the new language.