From opensecerts.org, how much money each of the bills backers received from the Music/Movie/Entertainment industry.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR D, $39,324 F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER JR $21,263 (top contrib) ROBERT C. SCOTT $0 JOHN CONYERS JR $27,000 (top contrib) HOWARD COBLE $33,483 (2nd contrib) DIANNE FEINSTEIN $214,638 (3rd, wow, she gets a lot of $$$)
Of course these are only the 6 yahoo news listed, i don't know how much the other unnamed 5 are.
Of those listed most have the entertainment industry as one of there top contributors, save John Conyers, I have no idea why he thinks this is a good idea.
Forgent networks are a local company here in Austin, TX. The local paper the Austin American statesmen had a story on them a week ago. The company has been suffering huge losses from there main business, when, one day they realized they had some useful patents from other acquired companies. One of which just secured them a deal with Sony, which they made about 15m on (minus 10m for lawyers)
So the attitude there is to become a "IP" company and milk profits from patents that they hold, they now offer deep incentives for employees that think of patentable ideas, and are (of course) predicting large revenue gains from enforcing current patents. The downside to this is that many of there patents expire in about 4 years, so they better hurry up with the litigation if they want to make any money.
I should note that Forgent is not a huge company, so there going to have a focused set of civil suites to companies that A: have deep pockets, B: are profiting off patents they own.
This was on plastic. I recommend some people steal some posts from there for some ez-modpoints.
personally i'm a little overweight have been interested in the idea the eating bacon w/ butter as a main food could make me loose weight, the down side a lot of people on the adkins diet have dangerously high cholesterol counts. Then again, all research in the field seems to be highly biased, the only nugget of consistent truth i can find is eating less works, typically on a high far or low fat diet you'll end up consuming less calories, which seems to always work.
There was something about a low calorie diet on Scientific Frontiers a while back, you can view it here if you like
I don't want to see them go after anyone, i don't think there needs to be any laws about this. As a friend of mine puts it, "what are we solving by crimalizing these people".
I think the goverment should turn a blind eye and the record companies should spend there engry developing better DRM's and copyright protection. If it's good enough most people won't bother breaking it and we won't need laws.
However, the modchips themselves are clearly violating the DMCA, as they reverse engineered the XBOX to bypass copyright protection, reading the DMCA that is word for word what it makes illegal.
Now the question is; is it legal for you to install a modchip, which bypasses copyright protection? I think we have now entered a gray area.
-Jon
(note: I completely disagree with the DMCA, it's already got me into far too much trouble
The network is orginized in a circle, like a circular link list, each node knows about it's neightbors it's neighbors neighbors and maybe a little more, bassicly every node knows about maybe 6 or so other nodes. Each node keeps a section of the hash table, say 0x0500-0x1000 or so.
Each search item is hashed and then sent left or right depending on if it's less or greater then range you are storing, so 0x3000 would be sent to the rightmost node because it's larger. That node would repeat the process, therefore making the search a lot like a binary search.
the prices are made up, but thats pretty much the xbox, also one should concider the possibility that the gforce could also be used to crunch some numbers, sort of like a really fast MMX.
This is kind of funny as you just spent the last few hours pimping the program all over the 'streamer' story. Anyway, I have a question. How is this program distributed, I think I looked over the docs carefully, it seems like more of an automatic co-op timeshare software.
in this crude ascii drawing we have five cameras(c), there's another one below the middle one, so we could say 6. there the box in the middle is the scene, and the diagonal lines is the cameras viewing frustum. the (*) is just for spacing, i couldn't make it work with spaces.
Each one actually contains two cameras, very close to each other to create a stereo effect, which presumably some software to extrapolate to create a 3d image.
The 3d image from any one camera would only be good for what it can see, so you'll have an extrusion, or unknown for what it can't. this is there the other cameras fall into place, they each can generate an image for what they know. Then though math and magic all the 3d images are combined to create one 3d image.
this is only a guess, maybe it works like this maybe not.
they all make a little more then 500k
on
The Almighty Buck
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Gates, William H. Chairman of the Board and Chief Software Architect $666,754
Ballmer, Steven A. Chief Executive Officer, Director $665,520
Allchin, James E. Group Vice President, Platforms $694
Raikes, Jeffrey S. Group Vice President, Productivity and Business Services $695
now look at a company with a simular market cap, GE.
Jeffrey Immelt, 46 Chairman, CEO $6.6M
Dennis Dammerman, 56 Vice Chairman and Chairman, Gen. Electric Capital Services, Inc. 6.5M
Gary Rogers, 57 Vice Chairman and Exec. Officer 3.5M
Robert Wright, 58 Vice Chairman and Exec. Officer 6.1M
the "scam" here is that all those folks at MS have a lot of stock options, for example Gates sells his stock at regular intervals, making (i think) around 1B a year.
Reading all that whining about how this CEO at SBS is rakeing it in with average performance made me think, why the f*ck is the board paying him so much, then i read this:
(from the artical, page 2.) The directors, who earn $60,000 a year, no doubt believe this; they have been close to Whitacre and have been endorsing his pay for a long time. He has also been endorsing theirs. Two of SBC's nominally independent directors -- August A. Busch III, chairman of Anheuser-Busch, and Charles Knight of Emerson Electric -- run companies for which Whitacre is a director. Most of the other 18 directors have either served with Whitacre for at least 10 years or were directors of companies that Whitacre acquired.
Bassicly this CEO is a director for some of the membors on the board, bassicly, you give me a raise, i'll give you a raise deal, very "good old boys" style. Either way, if you don't like it just don't buy any of thier stock, the obviously don't care that much about it, i don't see why you would.
Personally I think the linux kernel is very well documented, at least the scheduling part, which is what I've looked at. Linus has a style of inserting huge comment blocks that explain exactly what's going on, then he'll have a page of code that does it, with little or no comments.
A style suggested in Code Complete (I forget what they call it) is to write a method completely in pseudo code, make sure it's correct, then insert the actual programming code under each line of pseudo code. This technique, while clever I find leads to many useless comments like "loop through the employee records" and "increment the counter".
A good test to see if the comments are working is through a code review, people will very often not know what's going on, or point out confusing comments or code that needs a better explanation. Code Reviews really improves your idea of what good comments are and teaches you what works and what doesn't.
there's a problem with the definiation of smart, but anyway.
the "best" programmers i've known are more experienced then they are smart. they KNOW what happens if you put a auto_ptr in the stl container, they KNOW what happens if you try to keep binary compatibilty with a VB program, and they know it all first hand, because there's a big scare of a bit mark on their hand from that last time this bit them.
i think it's important to be smart, but i think persistance and experience speak volumes more for the quality and productivity of a programmer.
i've been worthless, and hardworking. but yes, it depends on my mananger, the work given to me, and how i am treated. but doesn't that seem like common sense?
I know I am just being critical, but this is a very corporate sponsored "open source" project. Look at the document control, the list of contributors, and the Cisco sponsorship. The people that made this are clearly being paid for their efforts, not that that's bad thing, but i think when people think "open source" they think more in the Eric Raymond/Cathedral and the Bizarre kind of way, not a typical corporate software project that happens to have a GPL license.
That is very cool, i'm impressed. The output looks like something an old dot matrix would have made. Am i right in looking at it that the text is made up like that, where each 'row' is a sin wave at some frequency?
ya, but it does make sense. typically in software you go:
idea->prototype->project->product
release isn't really part of that idea, it's more of development terms, a release relates to the cumstomers, or comersializtion of a product. so the above might be like this in those therms:
from the PR: will bring to market the patented dual-screen laptop in the fourth quarter of 2002. Estari's 2-VU(TM) product line will include an eBook, handheld, laptop and portable desktop models.
Which implies that it's the eBook model, the dual head laptop probably looks like something else, however you are making the corrrect assumption from another misleading/. headline.
Slashdot Mirror
This guy deserves a new acronym
IANALBISL
I Am Not A Lawyer, But I Study Law.
-Jon
Actualy i think a better was would be to adobt a plastic or kur5hin system where the stories we're reviewed by slashdotians before they are posted.
-Jon
From opensecerts.org, how much money each of the bills backers received from the Music/Movie/Entertainment industry.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR D, $39,324
F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER JR $21,263 (top contrib)
ROBERT C. SCOTT $0
JOHN CONYERS JR $27,000 (top contrib)
HOWARD COBLE $33,483 (2nd contrib)
DIANNE FEINSTEIN $214,638 (3rd, wow, she gets a lot of $$$)
Of course these are only the 6 yahoo news listed, i don't know how much the other unnamed 5 are.
Of those listed most have the entertainment industry as one of there top contributors, save John Conyers, I have no idea why he thinks this is a good idea.
-Jon
Forgent networks are a local company here in Austin, TX. The local paper the Austin American statesmen had a story on them a week ago. The company has been suffering huge losses from there main business, when, one day they realized they had some useful patents from other acquired companies. One of which just secured them a deal with Sony, which they made about 15m on (minus 10m for lawyers)
So the attitude there is to become a "IP" company and milk profits from patents that they hold, they now offer deep incentives for employees that think of patentable ideas, and are (of course) predicting large revenue gains from enforcing current patents. The downside to this is that many of there patents expire in about 4 years, so they better hurry up with the litigation if they want to make any money.
I should note that Forgent is not a huge company, so there going to have a focused set of civil suites to companies that A: have deep pockets, B: are profiting off patents they own.
-Jon
try searching google for atkins dangers, here's one that came up.
btw, wtf is with the troll mod?
-Jon
This was on plastic. I recommend some people steal some posts from there for some ez-modpoints.
personally i'm a little overweight have been interested in the idea the eating bacon w/ butter as a main food could make me loose weight, the down side a lot of people on the adkins diet have dangerously high cholesterol counts. Then again, all research in the field seems to be highly biased, the only nugget of consistent truth i can find is eating less works, typically on a high far or low fat diet you'll end up consuming less calories, which seems to always work.
There was something about a low calorie diet on Scientific Frontiers a while back, you can view it here if you like
-Jon
I don't want to see them go after anyone, i don't think there needs to be any laws about this. As a friend of mine puts it, "what are we solving by crimalizing these people".
I think the goverment should turn a blind eye and the record companies should spend there engry developing better DRM's and copyright protection. If it's good enough most people won't bother breaking it and we won't need laws.
-Jon
However, the modchips themselves are clearly violating the DMCA, as they reverse engineered the XBOX to bypass copyright protection, reading the DMCA that is word for word what it makes illegal.
Now the question is; is it legal for you to install a modchip, which bypasses copyright protection? I think we have now entered a gray area.
-Jon
(note: I completely disagree with the DMCA, it's already got me into far too much trouble
Is a project called Circle. It uses the idea of a distributed hash table.
The Author has a overview here.
My brief synopsis:
The network is orginized in a circle, like a circular link list, each node knows about it's neightbors it's neighbors neighbors and maybe a little more, bassicly every node knows about maybe 6 or so other nodes. Each node keeps a section of the hash table, say 0x0500-0x1000 or so.
Each search item is hashed and then sent left or right depending on if it's less or greater then range you are storing, so 0x3000 would be sent to the rightmost node because it's larger. That node would repeat the process, therefore making the search a lot like a binary search.
-Jon
No, no, the XBOX looks nothing like that, it's more like:
P-III 750 - $60
N-force mobo - $70
GForce3 Ti 500 - $250
64mb SDRAM - $10
8GB HDD - $75
the prices are made up, but thats pretty much the xbox, also one should concider the possibility that the gforce could also be used to crunch some numbers, sort of like a really fast MMX.
-Jon
This is kind of funny as you just spent the last few hours pimping the program all over the 'streamer' story. Anyway, I have a question. How is this program distributed, I think I looked over the docs carefully, it seems like more of an automatic co-op timeshare software.
Thanks,
-Jon
There are AI competitions http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html
-Jon
I really wish someone who knew more about this would post, my super charged troglodyte mind tells me it works something like this.
/**c**\
/*-----*\
/**|+++|**\
you'll need at least 6 cameras:
the scene from above:
c**|*c*|***c
\**-----**/
\*******/
\**c**/
in this crude ascii drawing we have five cameras(c), there's another one below the middle one, so we could say 6. there the box in the middle is the scene, and the diagonal lines is the cameras viewing frustum. the (*) is just for spacing, i couldn't make it work with spaces.
Each one actually contains two cameras, very close to each other to create a stereo effect, which presumably some software to extrapolate to create a 3d image.
The 3d image from any one camera would only be good for what it can see, so you'll have an extrusion, or unknown for what it can't. this is there the other cameras fall into place, they each can generate an image for what they know. Then though math and magic all the 3d images are combined to create one 3d image.
this is only a guess, maybe it works like this maybe not.
-Jon
don't put out crappy, buggy software
No, i worked there, they do.
-Jon
Gates, William H.
Chairman of the Board and Chief Software Architect $666,754
Ballmer, Steven A.
Chief Executive Officer, Director $665,520
Allchin, James E.
Group Vice President, Platforms $694
Raikes, Jeffrey S.
Group Vice President, Productivity and Business Services $695
now look at a company with a simular market cap, GE.
Jeffrey Immelt, 46
Chairman, CEO $6.6M
Dennis Dammerman, 56
Vice Chairman and Chairman, Gen. Electric Capital Services, Inc. 6.5M
Gary Rogers, 57
Vice Chairman and Exec. Officer 3.5M
Robert Wright, 58
Vice Chairman and Exec. Officer 6.1M
the "scam" here is that all those folks at MS have a lot of stock options, for example Gates sells his stock at regular intervals, making (i think) around 1B a year.
Reading all that whining about how this CEO at SBS is rakeing it in with average performance made me think, why the f*ck is the board paying him so much, then i read this:
(from the artical, page 2.)
The directors, who earn $60,000 a year, no doubt believe this; they have been close to Whitacre and have been endorsing his pay for a long time. He has also been endorsing theirs. Two of SBC's nominally independent directors -- August A. Busch III, chairman of Anheuser-Busch, and Charles Knight of Emerson Electric -- run companies for which Whitacre is a director. Most of the other 18 directors have either served with Whitacre for at least 10 years or were directors of companies that Whitacre acquired.
Bassicly this CEO is a director for some of the membors on the board, bassicly, you give me a raise, i'll give you a raise deal, very "good old boys" style. Either way, if you don't like it just don't buy any of thier stock, the obviously don't care that much about it, i don't see why you would.
-Jon
I've thought about it too, the problems are valid, but can be overcome, as there are already at least two companies pushing a working product.
Allcast and vTrails. Both are in startup/barly working phase as far as i can tell, but they do seem to be making some progress.
-Jon
Personally I think the linux kernel is very well documented, at least the scheduling part, which is what I've looked at. Linus has a style of inserting huge comment blocks that explain exactly what's going on, then he'll have a page of code that does it, with little or no comments.
A style suggested in Code Complete (I forget what they call it) is to write a method completely in pseudo code, make sure it's correct, then insert the actual programming code under each line of pseudo code. This technique, while clever I find leads to many useless comments like "loop through the employee records" and "increment the counter".
A good test to see if the comments are working is through a code review, people will very often not know what's going on, or point out confusing comments or code that needs a better explanation. Code Reviews really improves your idea of what good comments are and teaches you what works and what doesn't.
there's a problem with the definiation of smart, but anyway.
the "best" programmers i've known are more experienced then they are smart. they KNOW what happens if you put a auto_ptr in the stl container, they KNOW what happens if you try to keep binary compatibilty with a VB program, and they know it all first hand, because there's a big scare of a bit mark on their hand from that last time this bit them.
i think it's important to be smart, but i think persistance and experience speak volumes more for the quality and productivity of a programmer.
-Jon
i've been worthless, and hardworking. but yes, it depends on my mananger, the work given to me, and how i am treated. but doesn't that seem like common sense?
-Jon
I know I am just being critical, but this is a very corporate sponsored "open source" project. Look at the document control, the list of contributors, and the Cisco sponsorship. The people that made this are clearly being paid for their efforts, not that that's bad thing, but i think when people think "open source" they think more in the Eric Raymond/Cathedral and the Bizarre kind of way, not a typical corporate software project that happens to have a GPL license.
-Jon
That is very cool, i'm impressed. The output looks like something an old dot matrix would have made. Am i right in looking at it that the text is made up like that, where each 'row' is a sin wave at some frequency?
-Jon
ya, but it does make sense. typically in software you go:
idea->prototype->project->product
release isn't really part of that idea, it's more of development terms, a release relates to the cumstomers, or comersializtion of a product. so the above might be like this in those therms:
press_release->alpha->beta->shipping_prod uct
make sense?
-Jon
from the PR:
/. headline.
will bring to market the patented dual-screen laptop in the fourth quarter of 2002. Estari's 2-VU(TM) product line will include an eBook, handheld, laptop and portable desktop models.
Which implies that it's the eBook model, the dual head laptop probably looks like something else, however you are making the corrrect assumption from another misleading
-Jon
sometimes things cost money
-Jon
Really cool, i can't even read it in my head without it sounds like beat-poetry.