On searching for more info I came across VIMAS, too, whose webpage (www.vimas.com/ve_imm.htm)talks about their enhanced JPEG type algorithm. So I think you might have something there Reziac -- anyone can have his own compression scheme.
Apparently Philips and Lucent might be able to claim prior art on some of the aspects of JPEG compression, according to this page from almost 2 years ago. Maybe someone else already spotted that article but I haven't checked. I wouldn't be surprised if Forgent is able to tie up courts for a wile if prior arts don't lead to instant dismissal of the case.
Seriously, getting your income solely from licensing and suing the dickens out of others is all that's left once lack of innovation and/or vendor-lock take hold. It puts real progress squarely in the court of GPL. Just MHO as a user.
Yes, this is why neutron devices are preferable to nukes. Eliminate the people but leave the infrastructure intact. Or so I recall from whatever sci-fi....
Remember yesterday?/. had a thread about working on a Universal 3D file format wherein it was mentioned that MP3 and JPEG as models for comparison were encumbered with patent issues.
The first two Score-5 responses come up as follows:
Really bad examples to pick... (Score:5, Insightful) by * on Wednesday April 21, @03:26PM (#8933019) (http://www.studioqb.com/) Not only did they pick two lossy formats to use as examples, both MP3 [mp3licensing.com] and JPEG [forgent.com] are patent-encumbered formats. (The validity of the Forgent patent on a piece of JPEG is a bit of a still-contested issue... but I'll leave that to others to discuss.) If you want to write a program using either of those formats, you're going to have to pay the toll.
Let's hope U3D is able to stay clear of such entanglements. Having a patent involved in a file format makes it questionable if FOSS can legally use the format.
JPEG patent is bullshit (Score:5, Informative) by * on Wednesday April 21, @03:29PM (#8933064)
You have a point with MP3, but the author of BurnAllGIFs.org [burnallgifs.org] seems to think the JPEG patent wouldn't stand up in a court of law.
and now the lawsuit announcement on the next day. Interesting coinky-dink.
Who are the groups involved? The 3D Industry Forum's web site has a FAQ containing a partial list of members:
Adobe, Boeing, Dassault/Systemes, NGRAIN, Lattice, Microsoft, Parallel Graphics, SGDL Systems and Tech Soft. [and Intel presumably as they called for the Forum].
Compare to the list of defendants in the Forgent suit:
Well, from my limited perspective, it appears to me that the groups are largely disjoint as the 3D forum is concerned with graphics and the lawsuit defendants are largely video imaging and photography related. Adobe apparently has its hands into both.
Somebody else already wondered by Microsoft wasn't listed, but I'd be more inclinded to ask, Why not Sony since they are into photography as well (Digicam, Cyber-shot). Maybe they have licensed JPEG, who knows?
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I can't imagine that the computer end is so difficult. The code cannot be that complex. You need a numbered menu, human input device, some switch statements, and increment counter. Maybe check for buffer overflows, etc. Save the results with high-grade encyption that requires a password to access. Give the voter a receipt with a printed confirmation hash for verification. Plus, computer hardware is such commodity items that there should be sufficiently good drivers.
Seems to me that humans are demonstrably capable of mucking things up all on their own -- even with paper ballots.
Me neither. But we as a species do produce X, XXY, XYY, XXX in about 1 in every few thousand births. These are (obviously) chromosomal disorders that can lead to sterility, aggressive behavior, and impared learning and development.
People lately are letting their cell phones "ring" for 30 seconds or so. That's just waaaay too long.
maybe they are just insecure about themselves. But I'm geting tired and am to the point of leaning over and speaking very loudly "EXcuse me...phone call for you!"
I don't think I could take 40 phones going off at once in such a confined space. I know Lt. Cmdr. Data could discern all those tones, but could the phone owners?
There were some archived posts to/. on this that I read recently. the upshot was that modern planes wouldn't suffer interference, but older planes would. The easier solution when dealing with the public at large was simply to ban all passengers from using them on all flights until the airlines could be sure none of the older planes was in use.
the different password systems for email, LAN logon, timesheets, billing, contracts, grants, etc., to be tedious at best and bewildering at worst. Since they are not allowed to have the same universal password, for obvious security reasons, nor is that password allowed to be a recognizable English phrase, they have a great deal of difficulty memorizing each one.
which is why I think a standalone program that stores all these different passwords would be helpful. A program that uses tough encyrption that does exactly what mozilla|firefox does in that there is a Master Password to unlock all your usernames and passphrases for web forms. The only points of failure I can think of are 1) your box, 2) poor encryption protocol, 3) D'oh! you forgot your master password.
Anyone notice that he mentioned Intel when referring to the motherboard?
Why? Come to think of it, I've encountered other brand mobos only when building boxen; aren't most off-the-shelf boards (like at Best Buy et al.) all Intel pretty much? Seems to me he is (perhaps unintentionally) suggesting that Intel and Microsoft simply "go together", especially as far as Joe User is concerned.
In their splitting up the company, I'm not sure whether to be concerned about managerial overhead. Maybe it's not a problem, as I cannot think of any company off-hand that has crumbled under the weight of its own burocracy. Arguably having many divisions could enable a company to adapt to the marketplace.
There is a number of food products companies, for example Kraft, that own a ton of different name brands.
Check out Midway for a basic unit. i'm sure it didn't cost more than 15-20 bucks at my local Walmart-type store. It takes a standard watch battery.
My only complaint is that when the time hits 100 minutes, the timer (and consequently the odometer and trip meter) turns off. This AFAIR wasn't documented.
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On searching for more info I came across VIMAS, too, whose webpage (www.vimas.com/ve_imm.htm)talks about their enhanced JPEG type algorithm. So I think you might have something there Reziac -- anyone can have his own compression scheme.
Apparently Philips and Lucent might be able to claim prior art on some of the aspects of JPEG compression, according to this page from almost 2 years ago. Maybe someone else already spotted that article but I haven't checked. I wouldn't be surprised if Forgent is able to tie up courts for a wile if prior arts don't lead to instant dismissal of the case.
in many a software company, most of the money is made off of renewed run-time licenses, not sales or support.
*cough*Forgent*cough*
Seriously, getting your income solely from licensing and suing the dickens out of others is all that's left once lack of innovation and/or vendor-lock take hold. It puts real progress squarely in the court of GPL. Just MHO as a user.
you don't want to make the country uninhabitable
Yes, this is why neutron devices are preferable to nukes. Eliminate the people but leave the infrastructure intact. Or so I recall from whatever sci-fi....
Oh. Duh. Should have read a little further down. Thx.
Remember yesterday?
The first two Score-5 responses come up as follows:
and now the lawsuit announcement on the next day. Interesting coinky-dink.
Who are the groups involved? The 3D Industry Forum's web site has a FAQ containing a partial list of members:
Compare to the list of defendants in the Forgent suit:
Well, from my limited perspective, it appears to me that the groups are largely disjoint as the 3D forum is concerned with graphics and the lawsuit defendants are largely video imaging and photography related. Adobe apparently has its hands into both.
Somebody else already wondered by Microsoft wasn't listed, but I'd be more inclinded to ask, Why not Sony since they are into photography as well (Digicam, Cyber-shot). Maybe they have licensed JPEG, who knows?
I will feel soooo much better when my son pulls chips off his motherboards and sticks them in his mouth! Thanks VIA!!!!
Wasn't it that they heard of a leak of Duke Nukem Forever and thought it would lead to nuclear terrorism?
But what's so hard about e-voting, again?
I can't imagine that the computer end is so difficult. The code cannot be that complex. You need a numbered menu, human input device, some switch statements, and increment counter. Maybe check for buffer overflows, etc. Save the results with high-grade encyption that requires a password to access. Give the voter a receipt with a printed confirmation hash for verification. Plus, computer hardware is such commodity items that there should be sufficiently good drivers.
Seems to me that humans are demonstrably capable of mucking things up all on their own -- even with paper ballots.
Me neither. But we as a species do produce X, XXY, XYY, XXX in about 1 in every few thousand births. These are (obviously) chromosomal disorders that can lead to sterility, aggressive behavior, and impared learning and development.
Microsoft voted him onto the island.
Yeah, that fits the bill and is more general. Thanks.
(of course i missed that, i have this thing against kde-styled apps.)
I can see it now:
www.priceline.com/parkingmeters
A-frickin-MEN!
People lately are letting their cell phones "ring" for 30 seconds or so. That's just waaaay too long.
maybe they are just insecure about themselves. But I'm geting tired and am to the point of leaning over and speaking very loudly "EXcuse me...phone call for you!"
I don't think I could take 40 phones going off at once in such a confined space. I know Lt. Cmdr. Data could discern all those tones, but could the phone owners?
There were some archived posts to /. on this that I read recently. the upshot was that modern planes wouldn't suffer interference, but older planes would. The easier solution when dealing with the public at large was simply to ban all passengers from using them on all flights until the airlines could be sure none of the older planes was in use.
Can't find the post. Maybe s/b else can.
Either of the first 2 results should do what I was asking about. Please don't
the different password systems for email, LAN logon, timesheets, billing, contracts, grants, etc., to be tedious at best and bewildering at worst. Since they are not allowed to have the same universal password, for obvious security reasons, nor is that password allowed to be a recognizable English phrase, they have a great deal of difficulty memorizing each one.
which is why I think a standalone program that stores all these different passwords would be helpful. A program that uses tough encyrption that does exactly what mozilla|firefox does in that there is a Master Password to unlock all your usernames and passphrases for web forms. The only points of failure I can think of are 1) your box, 2) poor encryption protocol, 3) D'oh! you forgot your master password.
Anyone notice that he mentioned Intel when referring to the motherboard?
Why? Come to think of it, I've encountered other brand mobos only when building boxen; aren't most off-the-shelf boards (like at Best Buy et al.) all Intel pretty much? Seems to me he is (perhaps unintentionally) suggesting that Intel and Microsoft simply "go together", especially as far as Joe User is concerned.
In their splitting up the company, I'm not sure whether to be concerned about managerial overhead. Maybe it's not a problem, as I cannot think of any company off-hand that has crumbled under the weight of its own burocracy. Arguably having many divisions could enable a company to adapt to the marketplace.
There is a number of food products companies, for example Kraft, that own a ton of different name brands.
Or, if you don't want to spend $400, you can see him play in person for about $40-50 or so.
e.g. a Klein bottle or a Moebius strip.
These days I'd be careful not to ping a "mad" cow. Ping responsibly and find an organic cow.
As well as Porkies (basically an earlier version of American Pie).
Check out Midway for a basic unit. i'm sure it didn't cost more than 15-20 bucks at my local Walmart-type store. It takes a standard watch battery.
My only complaint is that when the time hits 100 minutes, the timer (and consequently the odometer and trip meter) turns off. This AFAIR wasn't documented.