I didn't see them mention IEEE1588. I don't know how many switches(if any.. hehe well, I know one..) implement it yet..and I only know of the one National Semi phy that does, but it's a solution and not really expensive just poorly implemented as of yet.
It looks all flashy and might indeed be very good..we'll soon know.
Personally, I'm more looking forward to the other 'Avatar'. The one they had to call simply "The Last Airbender" due to copyright, trade name collision, whatever. I know the story there is good and compelling. Hopefully Shamyalan does the live action version justice.
Well, I don't think $20k for a piece of equipment is really any kind of significant investment for anyone but a small garage company, and we're far from that. Technically, it's an FDM machine. Fused Deposition Molding. I believe you just dump an IGES file to it....then maybe sometime next year, you'll get your part. If you saw how cheap looking and feeling the resultant product is and (as I've already implied) how utterly painfully slow it is then you'd understand why it is cheep. We've had it for like 3 years and it was the cheep model then. These things have been around for quite a while.
The 3D plastic printer we have at work (granted it's a cheep one), prints exactly like this. The third dimension is simply moving the holding tray down every time it prints a layer. Maybe he's going to add this next. Maybe he already has it. I didn't want to joing the sheep in vaporizing his ADSL line.
Hasn't Aurora been going faster than this for almost fifteen years now? Nevermind that no one officially knows about it or has even gotten a decent picture...
I hear ya. I play games all the time with friends from work...and for somethings we need to forward a port through a firewall. I just twiddle a line or two in the natd.conf on my BSD firewall. They all have linksys or other routers...so they just kind of blink a few times, then disconnect the router/firewall and hook their PC up directly to their DSL connection (*sigh*) It's even more sad cause two of them designed and built the hardware for an industrial NIC (10/100) with Copper and Fiber..dual port with fail over. Of course they didn't do the software....
I can't help but think of the positive side of this... < PSEUDO-SARCASM > I imagine Mr. and Mrs. Tilly will be spending alot more quality time together, since now Mr. Tilly will only be coding from 8am to 5pm-ish. No more late nights at home with Mr. Tilly staying up coding away for the man... He ought to actually be more productive too, since he isn't spending all this extra time thinking about 'work stuff'...and learning more....and getting help from other people....his mind ought to be extremely fresh now that it will only think about Perl during specific work hours;) </PSEUDO-SARCASM > Heck, I bet he'll even have time to pick up a cool hobby like Sky diving or motocross riding. the later being my favorite, of course....just got a CRF450R...w00t!
Seems to me, granting of course that this case succeeds, that all someone needs to do is write a good academic paper exploring, comparing, and critiquing the various methods of encryption and copy control for "protecting" intellectual property, with a reasonable portion about DeCSS and of course discussion of the algorithm.
Sure the above topic needs work, but if you try to get that published, then maybe some "important " people (Supreme Court maybe..?) will completely understand how locking up DeCSS could really be quite the slippery slope...
Giving you the benefit of the doubt, it seems like security is an honest selfless concern and that anyone's vulnerability is more worrisome to you than losing a bid, as it should be...
So, why not add this to the bid in the first place:
Legalized, of course, but put a clause that states that acknowledged receipt of this bid grants our company the right to do a preliminary external secuirty audit in oh...6 months or something. With a simple report on any findings for free. You can of course attach offers to fix their problems for a nominal fee at that time.
I would think if you enveloped it in an honest slant of promoting a safer and securer internet, which is of course good for everyone then you would have minimal risk of anyone refusing to review your bids.
Probably not much you could do for the present case, but maybe in the future some kind of clause like that could be leverage to get all kinds of 2nd chance business whilst at the same time heavily tarnishing the reputaion of those firms who complete these jobs with such poor attention to security.
Wish I could have gotten that tour of the place before I graduated.
and Prof. Singhrs moved out west. I don't know if they really were
busy or just tired of people touring their VERY unique facility
I imagine that Jason Baskett is still working there, but I don't know
From back in the day('96 ish), here is what got a local boy hired at Cyan http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~irl/ANIM/
Scroll down to bonkers...
or here is direct link bonkers movie
I have no idea why that old stuff is still there, some people never update their webpages =P
My animation was almost that good....yeah right!
Eric
I was pondering a similar line of thought the other day and I placed it in context of the progress of mankind as a whole. I think that the coalescing of freedom-minded people caused by our information revolution is germinating the seeds of our growth into the next stage of 'evolution'.
I think you see the hint of this in books like Asimov's classic foundation series(Gaia), or in the way the Alien's are portrayed in Contact. Not that I am so impressed by "stupid butthead astronomer" anyway, after all it only has a one button mouse:)
So, yeah, yeah, what I'm talking about is the age old 'love one another'. Put other people or the good of mankind above yourself. I think more educated or at least intellectually intersted people understand this naturally. They are searching for answers to questions, mainly technical, but this forces them to see the reality of their own context. Where do they fit in [or not fit in:( ] to society.
My own personal epiphany in this regard is rather recent and so I don't have a thorough analysis, but I believe I have a few key points:
1) Society will NOT make any significant advancement until the/a majority of the people understand their own context. We are too big and complex to allow 'one man to make a difference'...I dunno, maybe Michael 'Valentine' Smith:)
2) I had previously been disillusioned with the good of society, but having witnessed how this is manifested often(albeit in a fragmented way) so often throughout the 'net and mainly the open source community, I have changed my mind.
3) Even though from an abstract point of view, this battle is us against them (i.e. the roots of a newer advanced culture vs. corporatism or egotism), the point is not to destroy them, but to destroy that which is against "truth". (okay that's sounds a little cheesy:P )
i.e. the Santa Clara DVD prelim injunction, and someone may have made this point already...The judges actual decision was very logical with the information he had, albiet wrong. And I felt that he understood most of the truth, was taking a safe step, and would probably make the right decision if convinced of the parts he was missing. So we don't want to destroy the 'truth' that he already holds by villefying him, which I don't think any of the important people are doing:)
4)That we as a community must stick together. The tendency of intelligence, especially in youth, can be sometimes to concede to a "stronger" force. I think this is because the more you understand, the more you see yourself in context with society and how little each one of us really matters. But placidly defending ideals will sometimes force individuals to take one for the team to make a point(thanks, Kevin!)
5)That this concept(not mine, it's GPL'd!) is not antithetical to individualism. Each can aspire to whatever heights of achievment, but must not delude him/herself out of context. I think a stark exapmle of this would be to contrast people like Linus, Alan, etc. against the Gates', the Bezos', and the Case's of the corporate world.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong(GPL'd by DM 1997)
If you read the patent, which someone linked nicely last time, the gist I get is that they are using the existing magnetic field of the power line to act as a waveguide. This is a different approach than what I think the other attempts that have been made. Unfortunately EM is one class I slept through and still got an A(I think it was the curve that helped me out). However, there are some serious problems: 1) Even if everything works all snazzy, they still have discontinuities at substations/transformers which would require extra equpiment at each one. This might be okay because that would likely be a good place for routers anyway and a handfull of clip-ons to a powerline for ~100 mile 300 Ghz waveguide connection is VERY economical. 2) For microwave frequencies, they are obviously not sending the signal through the wire. It has to be either a) in between the stranded outer and solid inner wires b)around the wire(seems real lossy to me) c) in between the magnetic field and the wire(or in the magnetic field between wires). This last one jives with their patent, but I can see all kinds of headaches. These fields are going to spatially move with line transposing that is sometimes done and they will temporally move(wrt the microwave frequencies). This may require line sync/bursting and perhaps more "repeaters" along the line. 3) The last biggest hurdle that I see is survival in what is almost the harshest of environments. Control-house equipment(not on the line) is designed to survive 8kV, 500A/M, 35V/M, +85 to -40C, sometimes condensing humidity. All of these devices will need industrial-temp parts, conformally coated, magnetically shielded, to survive long. However, because of their sensitive nature, you may be shielding away the very signal you are trying to use.
I'll applaud them if they make it work, but I won't invest any of my money:)
Since most people consider you a deity, or at least a demi-god, I was wondering what design and documentation tools you use to create these wondrous games that captivate the gaming world. I think we all figured out in High School that any programming task over one or 2 days or one or 2 people needs incrementally more and more thorough organization, but keeping up the fervor of the one or two day hack job is tough. So How do you do it, any secrets? Or do you actually have the entire Q3A codebase resident upstairs??
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..when they got rid of the 'cool' undocumented commands like 'why' and 'f***'. ;)
I didn't see them mention IEEE1588. I don't know how many switches(if any.. hehe well, I know one..) implement it yet..and I only know of the one National Semi phy that does, but it's a solution and not really expensive just poorly implemented as of yet.
It looks all flashy and might indeed be very good..we'll soon know.
Personally, I'm more looking forward to the other 'Avatar'. The one they had to call simply "The Last Airbender" due to copyright, trade name collision, whatever. I know the story there is good and compelling. Hopefully Shamyalan does the live action version justice.
Well, I don't think $20k for a piece of equipment is really any kind of significant investment for anyone but a small garage company, and we're far from that.
Technically, it's an FDM machine. Fused Deposition Molding.
I believe you just dump an IGES file to it....then maybe sometime next year, you'll get your part.
If you saw how cheap looking and feeling the resultant product is and (as I've already implied) how utterly painfully slow it is then you'd understand why it is cheep.
We've had it for like 3 years and it was the cheep model then.
These things have been around for quite a while.
eric
The 3D plastic printer we have at work (granted it's a cheep one), prints exactly like this. The third dimension is simply moving the holding tray down every time it prints a layer.
Maybe he's going to add this next. Maybe he already has it. I didn't want to joing the sheep in vaporizing his ADSL line.
eric
Hasn't Aurora been going faster than this for almost fifteen years now?
Nevermind that no one officially knows about it or has even gotten a decent picture...
I hear ya. I play games all the time with friends from work...and for somethings we need to forward a port through a firewall. I just twiddle a line or two in the natd.conf on my BSD firewall. They all have linksys or other routers...so they just kind of blink a few times, then disconnect the router/firewall and hook their PC up directly to their DSL connection (*sigh*)
It's even more sad cause two of them designed and built the hardware for an industrial NIC (10/100) with Copper and Fiber..dual port with fail over. Of course they didn't do the software....
I can't help but think of the positive side of this... ;) /PSEUDO-SARCASM >
< PSEUDO-SARCASM >
I imagine Mr. and Mrs. Tilly will be spending alot more quality time together, since now Mr. Tilly will only be coding from 8am to 5pm-ish.
No more late nights at home with Mr. Tilly staying up coding away for the man...
He ought to actually be more productive too, since he isn't spending all this extra time thinking about 'work stuff'...and learning more....and getting help from other people....his mind ought to be extremely fresh now that it will only think about Perl during specific work hours
<
Heck, I bet he'll even have time to pick up a cool hobby like Sky diving or motocross riding.
the later being my favorite, of course....just got a CRF450R...w00t!
reik
Seems to me, granting of course that this case succeeds, that all someone needs to do is write a good academic paper exploring, comparing, and critiquing the various methods of encryption and copy control for "protecting" intellectual property, with a reasonable portion about DeCSS and of course discussion of the algorithm.
Sure the above topic needs work, but if you try to get that published, then maybe some "important " people (Supreme Court maybe..?) will completely understand how locking up DeCSS could really be quite the slippery slope...
Eric
Giving you the benefit of the doubt, it seems like security is an honest selfless concern and that anyone's vulnerability is more worrisome to you than losing a bid, as it should be...
So, why not add this to the bid in the first place:
Legalized, of course, but put a clause that states that acknowledged receipt of this bid grants our company the right to do a preliminary external secuirty audit in oh...6 months or something. With a simple report on any findings for free. You can of course attach offers to fix their problems for a nominal fee at that time.
I would think if you enveloped it in an honest slant of promoting a safer and securer internet, which is of course good for everyone then you would have minimal risk of anyone refusing to review your bids.
Probably not much you could do for the present case, but maybe in the future some kind of clause like that could be leverage to get all kinds of 2nd chance business whilst at the same time heavily tarnishing the reputaion of those firms who complete these jobs with such poor attention to security.
just my 2 cents...
Eric
Wish I could have gotten that tour of the place before I graduated.
and Prof. Singhrs moved out west. I don't know if they really were
busy or just tired of people touring their VERY unique facility
I imagine that Jason Baskett is still working there, but I don't know
From back in the day('96 ish), here is what got a local boy hired at Cyan
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~irl/ANIM/
Scroll down to bonkers...
or here is direct link bonkers movie
I have no idea why that old stuff is still there, some people never update their webpages =P
My animation was almost that good....yeah right!
Eric
I was pondering a similar line of thought the other day and I placed it in context of the progress of mankind as a whole. I think that the coalescing of freedom-minded people caused by our information revolution is germinating the seeds of our growth into the next stage of 'evolution'.
I think you see the hint of this in books like Asimov's classic foundation series(Gaia), or in the way the Alien's are portrayed in Contact. Not that I am so impressed by "stupid butthead astronomer" anyway, after all it only has a one button mouse :)
So, yeah, yeah, what I'm talking about is the age old 'love one another'. Put other people or the good of mankind above yourself. I think more educated or at least intellectually intersted people understand this naturally. They are searching for answers to questions, mainly technical, but this forces them to see the reality of their own context. Where do they fit in [or not fit in :( ] to society.
My own personal epiphany in this regard is rather recent and so I don't have a thorough analysis, but I believe I have a few key points:
1) Society will NOT make any significant advancement until the/a majority of the people understand their own context. We are too big and complex to allow 'one man to make a difference'...I dunno, maybe Michael 'Valentine' Smith2) I had previously been disillusioned with the good of society, but having witnessed how this is manifested often(albeit in a fragmented way) so often throughout the 'net and mainly the open source community, I have changed my mind.
3) Even though from an abstract point of view, this battle is us against them (i.e. the roots of a newer advanced culture vs. corporatism or egotism), the point is not to destroy them, but to destroy that which is against "truth". (okay that's sounds a little cheesy
i.e. the Santa Clara DVD prelim injunction, and someone may have made this point already...The judges actual decision was very logical with the information he had, albiet wrong. And I felt that he understood most of the truth, was taking a safe step, and would probably make the right decision if convinced of the parts he was missing. So we don't want to destroy the 'truth' that he already holds by villefying him, which I don't think any of the important people are doing :)
4)That we as a community must stick together. The tendency of intelligence, especially in youth, can be sometimes to concede to a "stronger" force. I think this is because the more you understand, the more you see yourself in context with society and how little each one of us really matters. But placidly defending ideals will sometimes force individuals to take one for the team to make a point(thanks, Kevin!)
5)That this concept(not mine, it's GPL'd!) is not antithetical to individualism. Each can aspire to whatever heights of achievment, but must not delude him/herself out of context. I think a stark exapmle of this would be to contrast people like Linus, Alan, etc. against the Gates', the Bezos', and the Case's of the corporate world.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong(GPL'd by DM 1997)
If you read the patent, which someone linked nicely last time, the gist I get is that they are using the existing magnetic field of the power line to act as a waveguide. This is a different approach than what I think the other attempts that have been made.
:)
Unfortunately EM is one class I slept through and still got an A(I think it was the curve that helped me out).
However, there are some serious problems:
1) Even if everything works all snazzy, they still have discontinuities at substations/transformers which would require extra equpiment at each one. This might be okay because that would likely be a good place for routers anyway and a handfull of clip-ons to a powerline for ~100 mile 300 Ghz waveguide connection is VERY economical.
2) For microwave frequencies, they are obviously not sending the signal through the wire. It has to be either a) in between the stranded outer and solid inner wires b)around the wire(seems real lossy to me) c) in between the magnetic field and the wire(or in the magnetic field between wires). This last one jives with their patent, but I can see all kinds of headaches. These fields are going to spatially move with line transposing that is sometimes done and they will temporally move(wrt the microwave frequencies). This may require line sync/bursting and perhaps more "repeaters" along the line.
3) The last biggest hurdle that I see is survival in what is almost the harshest of environments. Control-house equipment(not on the line) is designed to survive 8kV, 500A/M, 35V/M, +85 to -40C, sometimes condensing humidity. All of these devices will need industrial-temp parts, conformally coated, magnetically shielded, to survive long. However, because of their sensitive nature, you may be shielding away the very signal you are trying to use.
I'll applaud them if they make it work, but I won't invest any of my money
Since most people consider you a deity, or at least a demi-god, I was wondering what design and documentation tools you use to create these wondrous games that captivate the gaming world.
I think we all figured out in High School that any programming task over one or 2 days or one or 2 people needs incrementally more and more thorough organization, but keeping up the fervor of the one or two day hack job is tough.
So How do you do it, any secrets?
Or do you actually have the entire Q3A codebase resident upstairs??