Seems odd that the product lines have crossed. $1000 for a Sparc server and $4800 for a Cobalt? If someone tried to pull that one on me a year ago I would have laughed in their faces. ------
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"Smart Homes" are cheap. $100 at www.smarthome.com will get you a good starter kit of lamp packs, serial interface, etc. So while the actual number of Slashdotters using X-10 may be slim, there's not a huge reason why it has to be.
A system that learns from the occupant would be exactly the reason to use neural nets for X-10 macro programming. Why sit down and program the lights to come on "around the time I get home" or "about 20 minutes before sunset" when those times change, and that change can be learned? ------
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I think it's a matter of consistency. If a theme maker copies the LOOK of Aqua, but doesn't do a perfect job of it, then it could lead some people to think, "Aqua sucks. It breaks when you do such-and-such." ------
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An improved method and apparatus for downloading compressed audio/visual (AV)
data and/or graphical/tabular information from a remote Server to an End User
Station (EUS) for the purpose of decompressing and/or displaying said downloaded
data. The EUS may transmit a query to the Server manually and/or automatically
for the purpose of initiating a process in the Server (e.g. data compression,
indexing into a very large database, etc.), which requires the high speed
processing, large capacity and multi-distributed data storage, etc.) which are
typically preferred at a Server. The EUS provides appropriate inverse processing
(e.g. data decompression) which, by its nature, requires relatively little
processing power to accomplish. Thus, the method of this invention exploits the
inherent asymmetry in the overall process of an EUS querying a remote Server
(and/or Server Network) for a data service (e.g. retrieval of AV data in faster
than real time) where most of the processing power and global scheduling is
performed by the Server.
I haven't actually read the fine print to see what's so "improved" about their method. And if they're looking to compress things server-side on the fly, AFAIK normal web servers don't do that in general.
True, but you can usually count on more from first and second wave people, before it hits mass market (with matching mass market pricing). Look at what audiophiles spent on CD players or DVD decks when they first came out. $1200 isn't too much for the geeks who want to stay cutting edge, and it will gain enough of a foothold that the rest of the market will follow about 18 months later. ------
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I'm tired of hearing about all these great heads-up displays and then never being able to buy them. The Sony Glasstron is the only one that's really been mass produced and readily available. I've been to sites for a dozen others and they're all looking for OEM partners and selling eval kits only if they think they're going to sell hundreds of units.
When are some of these designs going to make it into the hands of J. Random Enduser? I'm ready to put together a wearable, but all of the news on the display front is rather disheartening. People pay $800 or more for a 19" or 21" display -- hell, Apple's asking $4000 for their Cinema Display. Someone needs to get on the ball and start producing head mounted displays in some sort of quantity and I know there would be a market in the $1000 - $1200 range. ------
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But if MP3.com paid for all the CDs (which they did, how else could they get them besides stealing?) aren't they allowed under current copyright laws to make one archival backup of what they bought? Of course, that's what the whole case hinges on, except they're squabling over the consumer's rights to copy what they bought. ------
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Forget ATX, are StrongARM boards available for the PC/104 formfactor? The fastest pentium series cpu I've seen for PC/104 has been around 233 -- maybe a tad faster, but not much. If I could build a PC/104 based mobile linux box off of a fast StrongARM, my dreams would come true. ------
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Sure, such people exist. But was it ever shown in court that the defendents of THIS CASE subscribe to that mindset? This isn't about the legality of DeCSS, it's about 2600's right to post it. Now if you can quote Corely/Goldstein as saying "information needs to be free", and you introduce that into the court record, then sure, that could be used in the finding. ------
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That law doesn't apply to telmarketers calling companies -- only to telemarketers calling individuals. I work at a company that gets phone spammed relentlessly by recruiters, and I don't have any legal recourse. ------ WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
I'd almost be willing to wager that this privately funded space flight may have something to do with the reason Richard Garriot left Origin last week (see previous/. story). Richard has been pushing to be on a space shuttle for years, even going so far as to bribe mission astronauts to take scraps of stuff up for him, or so legend has it... ------ WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
Try $500. Something in the Technics 1200 line (around $480 from places like www.jandr.com). They're direct drive (no belts to stretch) with variable speed for pitch correction. I wouldn't use anything else. ------ WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
When I toured quite a bit in the early/mid 90's I did some research into which dial-up ISPs had local phone numbers in all the places I was going. At the time SpryNet was the best bet. I would look at my tour itinerary then make a list of all the local dial-up phone numbers for the cities I'd be travelling to.
Today, you could probably do the same using Earthlink, and for a bit more service cost you can even use a toll-free dialup number. What you don't pay in phone costs, you make up for it ISP billing, but it is a good way to keep connected, particularly in some of the more sparse regions of the American southwest. ------ WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
It's worth noting that Tog, who wrote the article that's linked to, was one of the (if not the only) designers of the original Mac OS GUI. If anyone has a foundation for constructive criticism of a GUI, this man does. If I were Jobs, or anyone else at Apple for that matter, I'd pay attention to what Tog has to say. ------ WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
I think it's interesting that this is the second article in a week that has Jack Valenti flexing his muscles. Looks to me like the MPAA is trying to say "we're more than a ratings board, really we are!" while trying to get some of the respect (ahem) of the RIAA. ------ WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
Agreed. Last I heard from people within Fox's home entertainment division is that Lucas won't release a single Star Wars DVD unless he can have part ownership of the DVD player manufacturers. Sales of any Star Wars DVDs will drive sales of new players. He wants a piece of that action, and isn't hurting financially if he wants to hold out for that. ------ WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
That's always been an odd one in my opinion. How much is the USPS a government agency, and how much is it a federally approved corporate monopoly? I mean, it does exist to make a profit, it has a.com instead of a.gov. But they're federally protected. They own our mailboxes, and seemingly our zip codes (and perhaps our street addresses -- I've heard that argument once before, I believe).
Makes me want to go back and re-read my Pynchon. We need some W.A.S.T.E. around here... ------ WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
My heart goes out to Gene Wilder, who has now lost two of the funniest women in his life to the same disease. ------ WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
But clearly, if he is offering services on his site, and not just housing a placeholder page, then he can show that his original intent was not to sell. Hell, if he's been maintaining a service for more than a year, I'd wager he'd have a good case.
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For me, when given the task of naming the machine that had the CD-R drive attached to it DISCO_INFERNO was a natural choice. After all, what does it do but BURN DISCS. One of my bosses didn't happen to agree, but the name has stuck. ------ WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann??
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Seems odd that the product lines have crossed. $1000 for a Sparc server and $4800 for a Cobalt? If someone tried to pull that one on me a year ago I would have laughed in their faces.
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A system that learns from the occupant would be exactly the reason to use neural nets for X-10 macro programming. Why sit down and program the lights to come on "around the time I get home" or "about 20 minutes before sunset" when those times change, and that change can be learned?
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I think it's a matter of consistency. If a theme maker copies the LOOK of Aqua, but doesn't do a perfect job of it, then it could lead some people to think, "Aqua sucks. It breaks when you do such-and-such."
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I haven't actually read the fine print to see what's so "improved" about their method. And if they're looking to compress things server-side on the fly, AFAIK normal web servers don't do that in general.
*shrug*
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http:/ /st ore.artisanent.com/cgi-bin/storeartisan/bwstore/fl ash/index.html
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True, but you can usually count on more from first and second wave people, before it hits mass market (with matching mass market pricing). Look at what audiophiles spent on CD players or DVD decks when they first came out. $1200 isn't too much for the geeks who want to stay cutting edge, and it will gain enough of a foothold that the rest of the market will follow about 18 months later.
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I'm tired of hearing about all these great heads-up displays and then never being able to buy them. The Sony Glasstron is the only one that's really been mass produced and readily available. I've been to sites for a dozen others and they're all looking for OEM partners and selling eval kits only if they think they're going to sell hundreds of units.
When are some of these designs going to make it into the hands of J. Random Enduser? I'm ready to put together a wearable, but all of the news on the display front is rather disheartening. People pay $800 or more for a 19" or 21" display -- hell, Apple's asking $4000 for their Cinema Display. Someone needs to get on the ball and start producing head mounted displays in some sort of quantity and I know there would be a market in the $1000 - $1200 range.
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But if MP3.com paid for all the CDs (which they did, how else could they get them besides stealing?) aren't they allowed under current copyright laws to make one archival backup of what they bought? Of course, that's what the whole case hinges on, except they're squabling over the consumer's rights to copy what they bought.
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Forget ATX, are StrongARM boards available for the PC/104 formfactor? The fastest pentium series cpu I've seen for PC/104 has been around 233 -- maybe a tad faster, but not much. If I could build a PC/104 based mobile linux box off of a fast StrongARM, my dreams would come true.
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Sure, such people exist. But was it ever shown in court that the defendents of THIS CASE subscribe to that mindset? This isn't about the legality of DeCSS, it's about 2600's right to post it. Now if you can quote Corely/Goldstein as saying "information needs to be free", and you introduce that into the court record, then sure, that could be used in the finding.
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I'm not terribly keen on giving any money to EMI, BMI, Polygram, Polymorph Self, or whateverthefuck music labels that family might be associated with.
(read Levy's "The Unicorn's Secret" for more on Einhorn...)
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That law doesn't apply to telmarketers calling companies -- only to telemarketers calling individuals. I work at a company that gets phone spammed relentlessly by recruiters, and I don't have any legal recourse.
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I'd almost be willing to wager that this privately funded space flight may have something to do with the reason Richard Garriot left Origin last week (see previous /. story). Richard has been pushing to be on a space shuttle for years, even going so far as to bribe mission astronauts to take scraps of stuff up for him, or so legend has it...
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Try $500. Something in the Technics 1200 line (around $480 from places like www.jandr.com). They're direct drive (no belts to stretch) with variable speed for pitch correction. I wouldn't use anything else.
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Today, you could probably do the same using Earthlink, and for a bit more service cost you can even use a toll-free dialup number. What you don't pay in phone costs, you make up for it ISP billing, but it is a good way to keep connected, particularly in some of the more sparse regions of the American southwest.
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It's worth noting that Tog, who wrote the article that's linked to, was one of the (if not the only) designers of the original Mac OS GUI. If anyone has a foundation for constructive criticism of a GUI, this man does. If I were Jobs, or anyone else at Apple for that matter, I'd pay attention to what Tog has to say.
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I think it's interesting that this is the second article in a week that has Jack Valenti flexing his muscles. Looks to me like the MPAA is trying to say "we're more than a ratings board, really we are!" while trying to get some of the respect (ahem) of the RIAA.
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The VirtualCamera site has been around for ages, in net time. I recall surfing it in mid to late '97.
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Agreed. Last I heard from people within Fox's home entertainment division is that Lucas won't release a single Star Wars DVD unless he can have part ownership of the DVD player manufacturers. Sales of any Star Wars DVDs will drive sales of new players. He wants a piece of that action, and isn't hurting financially if he wants to hold out for that.
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Makes me want to go back and re-read my Pynchon. We need some W.A.S.T.E. around here...
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My heart goes out to Gene Wilder, who has now lost two of the funniest women in his life to the same disease.
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Then turning around and selling a site that offers services... well there's nothing wrong with that. It happens every day...
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>"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine. >Quine "quine?" "'Quined' quined" quines "quined." obscure... i like it.
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For me, when given the task of naming the machine that had the CD-R drive attached to it DISCO_INFERNO was a natural choice. After all, what does it do but BURN DISCS. One of my bosses didn't happen to agree, but the name has stuck.
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