But they'd also have to use the SSD for read caching in order to get the benefits they advertise. And *reading* the contents of your hard drive 8000 times is maybe not that far off... Under most usage scenarios, the drive will still last 2-3 years, but it certainly has a more definitive expiry date than most other hard drive technologies (including pure SSD, which only degrades on write).
Maybe these companies wouldn't have. Does this mean that these technologies would not have been invented anyway ? I don't think so. MP3 was invented partially thanks to public funds (Fraunhoffer is a half-public R&D institute)...
Bad example. Yes, Fraunhofer Institutes receive public funds, but the model is that they HAVE to get a high percentage (60% if I recall correctly) from other sources. If they don't, their public funding is cut. So, they have a VERY strong incentive to work on things that can make them money (which is the idea, since Fraunhofer is supposed to do applied research).
... and most of the patented "innovations" of private R&D labs are often base on public research publication. What my experience showed me is that usually, in "R&D" the "R" is often made by public labs and the "D" by private companies
As somebody whose academic research has been licensed by industry and is now used in products, let me assure you this: there is a huge difference between building a research prototype and developing a product. Easily 80-90% of the cost is in the "D" part of "R&D". Companies will not invest that money unless they a reasonable expectation that they are the only ones who will benefit from the investment.
It is most definitely not patented - any patent would have expired a long time ago.
You are confusing patents with geographical trademarks - rules such as "only sparkling wine from the champagne region can be called 'Champagne' ". Also, the concept of geographical trademarks is only is accepted in the EU but not in North America. Here you can call your sparkling wine "Champagne", independent of where it comes from. And you can definitely call your breaded pork or veal steak a Wiener Schnitzel.
The dissolving part is easy. Oxygen will dissolve naturally in oxygen-depleted water. All you need to do is make sure that you maximize the air-water surface. This can be done by creating air bubbles in the deep. As they rise, most of the oxygen will be dissolved in the water.
Now, it does take some effort to pump air into the deep water over a large region. But keep in mind that they are already running massive operations that involve anything from erecting barriers, isolating and burning surface oil over large regions, and yes, pumping chemicals all the way down to the pipe. By comparison to these logistical challenges, having a few ships pump down air ought to be relatively straightforward.
yes. I made that point as a counter to the view that the "PC world is losing.. " since the MS console is basically a PC..
Huh? It is a locked-down, special purpose device. In that sense it is much closer to an iPad than a PC.
Your mistake (and it is a common one on/.), is to look at the hardware specs when comparing devices. For normal users, the hardware specs are boring details that they are as likely to read as the EULA legalese. What they care about is what the device can do for them, and how they can interact with it.
I assume you also use milk crates for furniture, your car is the cheapest model you could find, and your TV is a 20" CRT. After all, it would be insane to ever spend more than the bare minimum on anything, right?
True, but the regular LCD color gamut is smaller than the sRGB/Rec 709 gamut that is encoded in the HDTV video standard.
Basically, LCD panels use relatively wide spectrum color filters, so that they don't loos too much light in absorption. The result is a relatively small gamut - smaller than plasma or CRT.
b) if we are going to nitpick, then your original statement doesn't make sense under the second interpretation either. A display view range of 178 degrees means +/-89 degrees from normal incidence. If you use one side as the reference, that is a range of +1...+179 degrees. In other words, your claimed viewing angle of 179 degrees is actually within the display viewing range.
XYZ space is not perceptually uniform. In particular, the green/cyan area in XYZ occupies a much larger area than would be justified by the eye's ability to distinguish colors in that range. Yellow on the other hand is very under-represented in XYZ.
If you look at the gamuts in a perceptually uniform space such as LUV, you'll find that LCD panels are actually fairly limited in the yellows.
funny thing is, if flash has access to a api for talking to the hardware decoder, its video playback drain is probably no worse then a html5 stream. This as in either case the rest of the interface is done in software anyways.
That would only be true if Adobe would actually USE a platform-specific API to improve performance and save battery life. History shows that most of the time they can't be bothered, which is why flash sucks on OS X.
The day after copyright is abandoned, somebody will start selling LICENSES(*) to binary programs that currently fall under the GPL, and you can bet that they won't be providing the source code.
(*) Even if you abandon copyright, it will still be legal to negotiate special contract terms through a license. It may be impractical for consumer-style software, but any kind of professional software will be lease-only, and under NDA that makes redistribution punishable by a massive penalty. Practically the same net effect as copyright, but with more paperwork required.
For whatever reason Atlantic salmon is used for farming, even when the farm is in the Pacific. There is no evidence that Atlantic and Pacific salmon species interbreed in the wild (the papers you link described lab experiments of forced interbreeding).
However escaped Atlantic salmon and their offspring do compete for food with the native species. Also, fish farms are breeding grounds for sea lice, and they introduce antibiotics into the environment, as the GP points out.
Out of curiosity: why does it matter whether you can do this as a limited user or whether you need admin privileges? I would have thought that anybody who is tasked with doing this kind of maintenance for a company would get admin rights?
I hadn't noticed this, but I guess it makes sense. Google only cares that you download the ad, so they can bill their advertisers. They don't care if you actually look at the ad.
Maybe they are being a bit too smart for their own good, tough - that could easily lead to a law suit from advertisers...
In theory, yes. In practice, crime labs are overloaded anyways, so spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on a 10,000 pound robbery doesn't make all that much sense, especially if the labs could use the time to work on unsolved homicides.
It isn't that unlikely, especially in a big company. You have some technical guy having an idea and writing it down in their lab notebook. That is the date relevant for "first to invent". Maybe it takes a while before he can write it up in a little formal report to pass up the ladder. Then management decides if the invention is potentially worth investing lawyer time and patent fees. Then the lawyers do some due diligence. Then a final decision is made. Finally, the thing is written up in a formal patent application (usually involving multiple iterations between inventor and lawyers) and submitted to the patent office.
I've seen this whole process take anywhere from two weeks to almost a year, depending on the sense of urgency everybody has.
Except that the US has a "first to invent" system, so if Apple can show that they started working on this before the other guys, then they are entitled to a patent under US law, no matter who came out with it first.
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Yes it does (chrome on mac).
I just get it to look at the pictures.
So Wired is the anti-Playboy?
But they'd also have to use the SSD for read caching in order to get the benefits they advertise. And *reading* the contents of your hard drive 8000 times is maybe not that far off... Under most usage scenarios, the drive will still last 2-3 years, but it certainly has a more definitive expiry date than most other hard drive technologies (including pure SSD, which only degrades on write).
Maybe these companies wouldn't have. Does this mean that these technologies would not have been invented anyway ? I don't think so. MP3 was invented partially thanks to public funds (Fraunhoffer is a half-public R&D institute)...
Bad example. Yes, Fraunhofer Institutes receive public funds, but the model is that they HAVE to get a high percentage (60% if I recall correctly) from other sources. If they don't, their public funding is cut. So, they have a VERY strong incentive to work on things that can make them money (which is the idea, since Fraunhofer is supposed to do applied research).
... and most of the patented "innovations" of private R&D labs are often base on public research publication. What my experience showed me is that usually, in "R&D" the "R" is often made by public labs and the "D" by private companies
As somebody whose academic research has been licensed by industry and is now used in products, let me assure you this: there is a huge difference between building a research prototype and developing a product. Easily 80-90% of the cost is in the "D" part of "R&D". Companies will not invest that money unless they a reasonable expectation that they are the only ones who will benefit from the investment.
It is most definitely not patented - any patent would have expired a long time ago.
You are confusing patents with geographical trademarks - rules such as "only sparkling wine from the champagne region can be called 'Champagne' ". Also, the concept of geographical trademarks is only is accepted in the EU but not in North America. Here you can call your sparkling wine "Champagne", independent of where it comes from. And you can definitely call your breaded pork or veal steak a Wiener Schnitzel.
Well, FWIW, it is kind of hard to do much damage if the app can't run in the background due to lack of multithreading.
No, I don't have an iPhone, iPod, or iPad. I am just getting tired of the same old tirades from both sides.
The dissolving part is easy. Oxygen will dissolve naturally in oxygen-depleted water. All you need to do is make sure that you maximize the air-water surface. This can be done by creating air bubbles in the deep. As they rise, most of the oxygen will be dissolved in the water.
Now, it does take some effort to pump air into the deep water over a large region. But keep in mind that they are already running massive operations that involve anything from erecting barriers, isolating and burning surface oil over large regions, and yes, pumping chemicals all the way down to the pipe. By comparison to these logistical challenges, having a few ships pump down air ought to be relatively straightforward.
yes. I made that point as a counter to the view that the "PC world is losing.. " since the MS console is basically a PC..
Huh? It is a locked-down, special purpose device. In that sense it is much closer to an iPad than a PC.
Your mistake (and it is a common one on /.), is to look at the hardware specs when comparing devices. For normal users, the hardware specs are boring details that they are as likely to read as the EULA legalese. What they care about is what the device can do for them, and how they can interact with it.
I assume you also use milk crates for furniture, your car is the cheapest model you could find, and your TV is a 20" CRT. After all, it would be insane to ever spend more than the bare minimum on anything, right?
Light sensitivity != ability to distinguish different colors.
True, but the regular LCD color gamut is smaller than the sRGB/Rec 709 gamut that is encoded in the HDTV video standard.
Basically, LCD panels use relatively wide spectrum color filters, so that they don't loos too much light in absorption. The result is a relatively small gamut - smaller than plasma or CRT.
a) woosh
b) if we are going to nitpick, then your original statement doesn't make sense under the second interpretation either. A display view range of 178 degrees means +/-89 degrees from normal incidence. If you use one side as the reference, that is a range of +1...+179 degrees. In other words, your claimed viewing angle of 179 degrees is actually within the display viewing range.
You watch your TV from behind???
XYZ space is not perceptually uniform. In particular, the green/cyan area in XYZ occupies a much larger area than would be justified by the eye's ability to distinguish colors in that range. Yellow on the other hand is very under-represented in XYZ.
If you look at the gamuts in a perceptually uniform space such as LUV, you'll find that LCD panels are actually fairly limited in the yellows.
How is that a troll? VAT (sales tax) is included in the UK, but not in the US.
funny thing is, if flash has access to a api for talking to the hardware decoder, its video playback drain is probably no worse then a html5 stream. This as in either case the rest of the interface is done in software anyways.
That would only be true if Adobe would actually USE a platform-specific API to improve performance and save battery life. History shows that most of the time they can't be bothered, which is why flash sucks on OS X.
The day after copyright is abandoned, somebody will start selling LICENSES(*) to binary programs that currently fall under the GPL, and you can bet that they won't be providing the source code.
(*) Even if you abandon copyright, it will still be legal to negotiate special contract terms through a license. It may be impractical for consumer-style software, but any kind of professional software will be lease-only, and under NDA that makes redistribution punishable by a massive penalty. Practically the same net effect as copyright, but with more paperwork required.
Bullshit. The Segway quote was from Dean Kamen.
For whatever reason Atlantic salmon is used for farming, even when the farm is in the Pacific. There is no evidence that Atlantic and Pacific salmon species interbreed in the wild (the papers you link described lab experiments of forced interbreeding).
However escaped Atlantic salmon and their offspring do compete for food with the native species. Also, fish farms are breeding grounds for sea lice, and they introduce antibiotics into the environment, as the GP points out.
Out of curiosity: why does it matter whether you can do this as a limited user or whether you need admin privileges? I would have thought that anybody who is tasked with doing this kind of maintenance for a company would get admin rights?
I hadn't noticed this, but I guess it makes sense. Google only cares that you download the ad, so they can bill their advertisers. They don't care if you actually look at the ad.
Maybe they are being a bit too smart for their own good, tough - that could easily lead to a law suit from advertisers...
Remember, there are less people in Canada that in Los Angles, and a lot friendlier.
Not even close.
Population of metropolitan LA: 17.7 million
Population of Canada: 33.3 million
In theory, yes. In practice, crime labs are overloaded anyways, so spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on a 10,000 pound robbery doesn't make all that much sense, especially if the labs could use the time to work on unsolved homicides.
It isn't that unlikely, especially in a big company. You have some technical guy having an idea and writing it down in their lab notebook. That is the date relevant for "first to invent". Maybe it takes a while before he can write it up in a little formal report to pass up the ladder. Then management decides if the invention is potentially worth investing lawyer time and patent fees. Then the lawyers do some due diligence. Then a final decision is made. Finally, the thing is written up in a formal patent application (usually involving multiple iterations between inventor and lawyers) and submitted to the patent office.
I've seen this whole process take anywhere from two weeks to almost a year, depending on the sense of urgency everybody has.
Except that the US has a "first to invent" system, so if Apple can show that they started working on this before the other guys, then they are entitled to a patent under US law, no matter who came out with it first.