from TFA "Brett Giroir, director of the research agency's Defense Sciences Office also announced that the system, called Trauma Pod, has successfully "treated" a mannequin during a test, with no complications."
thats great! now you try and persuade a human to step inside.... gives a whole new meaning to blue screen of death.
Look out! It's a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy!
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How to create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? Simple, just tell everybody that the 2L banking system is about to self destruct horribly.
It's like a housing price crash you only need to send the correct message to make the stampede to avoid and the very thing you have been warning about comes into being because of the original message. Hell, I explained it badly, Wiki does it better...
"However, if this means I can still use my MP3 player then I guess its not all bad."
You Americans. 'As long as I get what I want I'm OK with ________.'
It's not your opinions that amaze and piss off the world, it's your reasoning behind them.
I agree Americans can be like that. I, however, am British.
Also, look at the facts. Two large firms are suing each other in a case that might impact MP3 players. Whilst I am by no means not a MS fanboy - in fact I would not shed a tear if they were to lose their crushing monopoly overnight as I only use Linux at home - if they wish to spend their money on lawyers then thats fine, but don't touch my MP3 player.
..but does anybody know what happened to the "morse code" mobile texting input people were discussing a few years ago? after all it is well proven that morse code is a lot faster then texting.
I feel a dubious sci-fi film about sucking all the heat away from the Earth and the planet breaking up coming along (the Core 2?)... surely there must be some side effects?
I would mod you up, but I have already posted the parent on this thread, anybody else care to do the honours?
My own interest is because I used to work in the CE field writing software for for CD players, the idea of "standby" they had in china when they were being integrated was simply to turn off the display panel and light up a standby light. This meant the standby power was almost exactly the same as the normal power. Apparently it cost too much in HW and developement to put in a real standby.
I don't work there anymore.
But it really does annoy me. The EU has made a start by banning incandescent light bulbs - they need to follow up this by mandating maximum permissible normal and standby power to a range of CE devices. I know this will be contentious, but I also know the technology is there to do it and unless this is shrouded in law then the manufacturers will still follow the cheapest bottom line. The best thing is they build to the least common denominator - the stuff we developed would go into every market in the world with minor label changes. The point here is that if they have to lower to power consumption for the next batch of 15 million for only one region then they will across the board.
A couple of simple regulations would then add up to one serious power saving.
The bad news is that big business would fight this like nothing before because of the precedent it represents.
I'm interested in solar power as a means of lowering the fossil dependency - but there are other, better means of doing so. The CE manufacturers need to meet them half way and mandate more efficient devices that consume less power and bring back the humble ON/OFF switch that actually did turn off the power. Is it that hard to walk to the TV? And, of course, wind and tidal need to be followed up.
The main problem is the general public. Everybody wants wind power (but not in their back yard) you have to actually change the law and rubbish collection to get them to recycle, and everybody needs to buy the latest and most powerful gadget on the market.
Making a more efficient solar cell is an excellent step, but I'd be more interested in a more *cheap* one so they can be taken up on a mass scale.
from TFA "Parallel Processing said that Sony's alleged actions have caused "irreparable harm and monetary damage" to the company.".
Oh, Really?
Did they mean to say "Parallel Processing said that Sony's alleged actions have caused an opportunity to turn a fairly wide ranging patent that is useless on its own into some solid income via legal means.".
So they waited to see if the console was selling then hit them with a law suit so Sony would be more inclined to settle quick?
I am getting quite sick of IP trolls and patents that are so broadly phrased that they cover anything from toothpaste to nuclear physics. (disclaimer, I have not read the patent yet - but I am assuming that Sony carried out patent searches before building the Cell). And on that subject - why is the suite against Sony in particular not against the other members of the consortium that developed the Cell.
I hope Sony sees them in court instead of folding.
I don't know abour FUD watch, but many of their press releases are so obfiscated, long winded, badly phrased and rambling I find it difficult to follow. Its like Sir Humphrey Appleby from "Yes Minister", it takes a moment to actually understand what the hell they are talking about.
Is it just me or do these guys find it impossible to speak english in a plain and simple fashion?
Actually, I think there is a proper word for this - but for the like of me I cannot remember what it is.:-(
if you do not use VPN then your traffic is monitored by your ISP with not warning or notice. They probably don't even need any kind of warrant, no doubt it would be covered in the T and C.
if you do use a VPN then you are declaring you have something to hide and arousing suspicion.
or you can hope for a "lost in the noise" solution - but against ubiquitous packet surveillance that would seem optimistic.
Well I should hope so, I would much prefer music companies to make music by selling new and interesting acts, and by constantly signing and recognizing new talent.
It would be a sad day indeed if their only business model was to persistently extend to copyright on the older body of work.
Perhaps this victory for common sense will enforce it.
From TFA: "Some of the greatest works of British music will soon be taken away from the artists who performed them and the companies that invested in them."
I see it differently, some of the greatest works of British music will be freed from the corporate shackles and given to the British people to enjoy freely.
From wiki: "Copyright law covers only the form or manner in which ideas or information have been manifested, the "form of material expression". It is not designed or intended to cover the actual idea, concepts, facts, styles, or techniques which may be embodied in or represented by the copyright work. For example, the copyright which subsists in relation to a Mickey Mouse cartoon prohibits unauthorized parties from distributing copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works which copy or mimic Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of artistic works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are sufficiently different to not be deemed imitative of the original."
Is it just me, or do Microsoft seem to not really innovate anymore? (if they ever did, yes I can see that one coming)
Everything I have seen in the last few years (Aero, Zune, Search) seems more of a copy of other peoples innovation and hard work. Call me naive but thats not what I would call innovation, more like skimming the results of other peoples marketing and work.
I only ask as this article was posted as "MS answer to Google's" and I'm seeing this an awful lot in the last few years.... ...and now they feel the need to branch into all possible markets under the sun I'm getting kind nervous about their next move whatever it might be.
To be honest I don't think they have a choice now.
In the eyes of the 'nix community they are tainted by this agreement and they will probably avoid on principal, so they must be banking that the new features (ttf, WMP10, DRM) are enough to tempt in people who do not know better.
I'd wish them luck but surely this had to be them shooting themselves in the foot and waving goodbye to their future business.
Much as I truly despise them, you have to admire MS for the effectiveness of this particular FUD campaign.
Oh come on, I am not alone on this. Many respected critics say the same thing.
His writing style was frankly laughable, and not what you would expect from an Philologist. Have you read it recently? Everything in that books on the lines of "bog, son of log, son of Tog, son of Dog who begat...". He's a ham author.
I'm a big fan of the books and the film, but they are not well written prose. Give me an example from the books that is! And please don't get me started on the Silmarillion.
This is my point with Potter. The story in interesting and engaging. But the books are definitely not well written. This does not stop them being very successful, but does stop them being in par with the literary greats.
And please don't think I am needlessly bashing either of them. I am (as I have stated several times) a big fan of them and a few other (Elenium and Tamuli for starters?) - my point simply that I do not rate them on writing quality.
I know this might prove controversial, but I have always compared Potter to Rings.
In the way they are both multi-volume, long, rambling engaging fantasy stories which good stuff to read, but in a terrible writing style
Don't get me wrong, I *am* a fan and have all of them - but neither are great well written works of prose.
Whats the betting she'll revisit the muggle/wizarding world in a couple of years? There is waaay too much money available not to in my humble opinion, its just too tempting a cash cow now.
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from TFA "Brett Giroir, director of the research agency's Defense Sciences Office also announced that the system, called Trauma Pod, has successfully "treated" a mannequin during a test, with no complications."
thats great! now you try and persuade a human to step inside.... gives a whole new meaning to blue screen of death.
How to create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? Simple, just tell everybody that the 2L banking system is about to self destruct horribly.
h ecy
It's like a housing price crash you only need to send the correct message to make the stampede to avoid and the very thing you have been warning about comes into being because of the original message. Hell, I explained it badly, Wiki does it better...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prop
So Bacteria survives being frozen, but Woolly Mammoths don't.
I guessing we won't either, so I'm filing this under "I" for "irrelevant".
If life survives and there is nobody there to see it, does it matter?
"However, if this means I can still use my MP3 player then I guess its not all bad."
You Americans. 'As long as I get what I want I'm OK with ________.'
It's not your opinions that amaze and piss off the world, it's your reasoning behind them.
I agree Americans can be like that. I, however, am British.
Also, look at the facts. Two large firms are suing each other in a case that might impact MP3 players. Whilst I am by no means not a MS fanboy - in fact I would not shed a tear if they were to lose their crushing monopoly overnight as I only use Linux at home - if they wish to spend their money on lawyers then thats fine, but don't touch my MP3 player.
A "victory for the bigger legal team" I would expect.
However, if this means I can still use my MP3 player then I guess its not all bad.
slightly off topic, I apologize.
..but does anybody know what happened to the "morse code" mobile texting input people were discussing a few years ago? after all it is well proven that morse code is a lot faster then texting.
..and on topic I know there are some patents in this area..
t ent-for-morse-code-generating-cellphone/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhsSgcsTMd4
http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/12/nokia-files-pa
What is this? a spelling contest or a discussion about a new scientific discovery?
/. is populated purely by obsessive pedants with nothing better to do.
Sheesh. Anybody would think
oh..
actually I live less then half a mile from a Geothermal system:e newables-schools/case-studies/geothermal/page22986 .html
http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/sources/renewables/r
I feel a dubious sci-fi film about sucking all the heat away from the Earth and the planet breaking up coming along (the Core 2?)... surely there must be some side effects?
wont somebody save the children! oh the humanity!
every part of me screams that the real agenda is using a moralistic excuse to add another layer that can make somebody more money.
brilliant and informative, many thanks.
I would mod you up, but I have already posted the parent on this thread, anybody else care to do the honours?
My own interest is because I used to work in the CE field writing software for for CD players, the idea of "standby" they had in china when they were being integrated was simply to turn off the display panel and light up a standby light. This meant the standby power was almost exactly the same as the normal power. Apparently it cost too much in HW and developement to put in a real standby.
I don't work there anymore.
But it really does annoy me. The EU has made a start by banning incandescent light bulbs - they need to follow up this by mandating maximum permissible normal and standby power to a range of CE devices. I know this will be contentious, but I also know the technology is there to do it and unless this is shrouded in law then the manufacturers will still follow the cheapest bottom line. The best thing is they build to the least common denominator - the stuff we developed would go into every market in the world with minor label changes. The point here is that if they have to lower to power consumption for the next batch of 15 million for only one region then they will across the board.
A couple of simple regulations would then add up to one serious power saving.
The bad news is that big business would fight this like nothing before because of the precedent it represents.
I'm interested in solar power as a means of lowering the fossil dependency - but there are other, better means of doing so. The CE manufacturers need to meet them half way and mandate more efficient devices that consume less power and bring back the humble ON/OFF switch that actually did turn off the power. Is it that hard to walk to the TV? And, of course, wind and tidal need to be followed up.
The main problem is the general public. Everybody wants wind power (but not in their back yard) you have to actually change the law and rubbish collection to get them to recycle, and everybody needs to buy the latest and most powerful gadget on the market.
Making a more efficient solar cell is an excellent step, but I'd be more interested in a more *cheap* one so they can be taken up on a mass scale.
from TFA "Parallel Processing said that Sony's alleged actions have caused "irreparable harm and monetary damage" to the company.".
Oh, Really?
Did they mean to say "Parallel Processing said that Sony's alleged actions have caused an opportunity to turn a fairly wide ranging patent that is useless on its own into some solid income via legal means.".
So they waited to see if the console was selling then hit them with a law suit so Sony would be more inclined to settle quick?
I am getting quite sick of IP trolls and patents that are so broadly phrased that they cover anything from toothpaste to nuclear physics. (disclaimer, I have not read the patent yet - but I am assuming that Sony carried out patent searches before building the Cell). And on that subject - why is the suite against Sony in particular not against the other members of the consortium that developed the Cell.
I hope Sony sees them in court instead of folding.
Emoticons can be annoying.
Whats the consensus on punctuation and grammar in business? Are we all heading towards l33t speak? (shudder)
Anybody else seeing emails with no capital letters? (and yes, I have sent some myself before)
darn! hit submit not preview. just to head off the /. pedants thats "obfuscated" and "for the life of me".
I know how picker the regulars can be so I thought I'd beat them to it and correct myself first. Ah the humiliation....
I don't know abour FUD watch, but many of their press releases are so obfiscated, long winded, badly phrased and rambling I find it difficult to follow. Its like Sir Humphrey Appleby from "Yes Minister", it takes a moment to actually understand what the hell they are talking about.
:-(
Is it just me or do these guys find it impossible to speak english in a plain and simple fashion?
Actually, I think there is a proper word for this - but for the like of me I cannot remember what it is.
So basically...
if you do not use VPN then your traffic is monitored by your ISP with not warning or notice. They probably don't even need any kind of warrant, no doubt it would be covered in the T and C.
if you do use a VPN then you are declaring you have something to hide and arousing suspicion.
or you can hope for a "lost in the noise" solution - but against ubiquitous packet surveillance that would seem optimistic.
hmmmm.
bugger.
Well I should hope so, I would much prefer music companies to make music by selling new and interesting acts, and by constantly signing and recognizing new talent.
It would be a sad day indeed if their only business model was to persistently extend to copyright on the older body of work.
Perhaps this victory for common sense will enforce it.
From TFA: "Some of the greatest works of British music will soon be taken away from the artists who performed them and the companies that invested in them."
I see it differently, some of the greatest works of British music will be freed from the corporate shackles and given to the British people to enjoy freely.
From wiki: "Copyright law covers only the form or manner in which ideas or information have been manifested, the "form of material expression". It is not designed or intended to cover the actual idea, concepts, facts, styles, or techniques which may be embodied in or represented by the copyright work. For example, the copyright which subsists in relation to a Mickey Mouse cartoon prohibits unauthorized parties from distributing copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works which copy or mimic Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of artistic works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are sufficiently different to not be deemed imitative of the original."
Is it just me, or do Microsoft seem to not really innovate anymore?
...and now they feel the need to branch into all possible markets under the sun I'm getting kind nervous about their next move whatever it might be.
(if they ever did, yes I can see that one coming)
Everything I have seen in the last few years (Aero, Zune, Search) seems more of a copy of other peoples innovation and hard work. Call me naive but thats not what I would call innovation, more like skimming the results of other peoples marketing and work.
I only ask as this article was posted as "MS answer to Google's" and I'm seeing this an awful lot in the last few years....
"The first machines should be ready to put into the hands of children in developing countries in October 2007..."
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Not the only thing to be in their hands according to reports of them checking out www.filthyinternetporn.com.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070720/od_nm/nigeria
http://digg.com/tech_news/OLPC_Brings_Porn_To_The
Why the grubby wee bastards. Oh wait, this is slashdot and I'm preaching to the choir. Shock horror, boys are the same everywhere...
To be honest I don't think they have a choice now.
In the eyes of the 'nix community they are tainted by this agreement and they will probably avoid on principal, so they must be banking that the new features (ttf, WMP10, DRM) are enough to tempt in people who do not know better.
I'd wish them luck but surely this had to be them shooting themselves in the foot and waving goodbye to their future business.
Much as I truly despise them, you have to admire MS for the effectiveness of this particular FUD campaign.
Oh come on, I am not alone on this. Many respected critics say the same thing.
s tm
http://www.theferrett.com/showarticle.php?Rant=69 / lord-rings-j-r-r-tolkien t w_sm.html
His writing style was frankly laughable, and not what you would expect from an Philologist. Have you read it recently? Everything in that books on the lines of "bog, son of log, son of Tog, son of Dog who begat...". He's a ham author.
I'm a big fan of the books and the film, but they are not well written prose. Give me an example from the books that is! And please don't get me started on the Silmarillion.
Some more references (some good, mostly bad) on Tolkien:
http://www.rilstone.talktalk.net/tolk.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3935561.
http://www.enotes.com/twentieth-century-criticism
http://www.reflectionsedge.com/archives/mar2005/d
This is my point with Potter. The story in interesting and engaging. But the books are definitely not well written. This does not stop them being very successful, but does stop them being in par with the literary greats.
And please don't think I am needlessly bashing either of them. I am (as I have stated several times) a big fan of them and a few other (Elenium and Tamuli for starters?) - my point simply that I do not rate them on writing quality.
I know this might prove controversial, but I have always compared Potter to Rings.
In the way they are both multi-volume, long, rambling engaging fantasy stories which good stuff to read, but in a terrible writing style
Don't get me wrong, I *am* a fan and have all of them - but neither are great well written works of prose.
Whats the betting she'll revisit the muggle/wizarding world in a couple of years? There is waaay too much money available not to in my humble opinion, its just too tempting a cash cow now.
"the product? A niche type of adult entertainment: photos of fully clothed women popping balloons ... "
fully clothed in what? nurses uniforms? fettish gear? rubber? a gimp suit?
popping ballons?! no sir, that is too much. is this some kind of freudian thing?
my mind boggles.
are they going to enforce all the current browsers to support it fully and correctly as well?
or will some browsers go their own way with "extensions" and "implementations" specific to their own system like last time.
Why do I have this ghastly, ghastly feeling that this will do for Farscape, what "Crusade" and "Legend of the Rangers" did for Babylon5.
I feel a grave disturbance in the.......
*sigh*.
Am I alone in saying bring back Firefly, bring back Farscape - but do it with the same creative team and format or just let them well alone.