The material could also be used in works of art. NPL says several artists have shown an interest.
Does anyone else remember a short horror story about an artist who painted a painting using a "blacker than black" paint, made IIRC from a stone (coal?), who was then absorbed by the painting?
It doesn't run continuously on battery - the battery is only there for UPS functionality (I'm guessing maybe 10-15min battery life, just enough for you to pull out the power cord, walk over to the new location, and plug it in again).
There's a hell of a lot more 802.11b equipment out there right now that won't be upgraded for a while. I think it's a reasonable move - they just issue a new model when 802.11g becomes widespread (since the 802.11b version will work with it quite happily).
According to the press release, the battery is only for UPS functionality - they don't support running off the battery as a normal mode of operation. I
Please note that the Japanese-Americans interred in camps during World War II were never arrested; the American Government was very careful to describe it as "relocation", not "imprisonment".
Tokyo Denryoku, the country's largest power supplier, currently offers 100Mbps fiber connections for home use in the Tokyo area for around $US50 a month.
Try to pronounce an English 'b' without breathing out to produce a Chinese 'b'. Also, the Chinese 'p' and 'b' are both unvoiced, so hold your fingers against your throat to make sure your vocal chords aren't used. For the 'p', exhale sharply instead.
Chinese does distinguish between p/b and d/t, just in a different way from English. For example, b is an unaspirated voiceless plosive; p is an aspirated voiceless plosive. (The d/t pair is also an unaspirated/aspirated combination.)
They turn their lights off because it's less annoying for the people in the vehicle infront of them, not because they think it reduces fuel consumption.
I used to be a book editor (at a Japanese publishing company). Let me give you a rundown of the process we followed (I'm sure there are more efficient places than the one I worked at - O'Reilly is well known for their high level of automation).
Get manuscript from author. This could be either handwritten or typed. If typed, it's likely to be in either plain text or Word format, but with a lot of errors.
If the manuscript's handwritten, farm it out to a typist. We used to pay 0.5 yen a letter for English, 1 yen a character for Japanese.
Once it's data, edit. I used to do my editing on a Mac with BBEdit, but this varies a lot between editors - some do it on (shudder) Word, where all the formatting gets in the way.
Reformat it to pass it to the DTP firm. When I say 'reformat', I don't mean making things bold or italic - I mean cleaning it up so it's easy to do the next step, which is...
Print out and insert format directions. The manuscript is printed out, and you go through it one line at a time adding things like "Line break here" and "Use larger font for this".
Proofs arrive from the DTP firm. You go through the proofs, making corrections by hand (i.e., "Move this down one line", etc.)
The DTP firm passes you back the formatted data. QuarkXPress is king here. You get the data in a finished form and pass it to the printers.
The printer produces the final proofs. You can still make corrections, but these have to be done by the DTP firm, who then give you the updated data.
Last-minute corrections are made. This depends on the printer, but quite often these are done by pasting the changes over the top of the printer film (i.e., they're not reflected in the data).
The book is printed. Corrections after printing are usually done as described above (pasting changes over the film).
The problem with this is that the text data held by the editor is now out-of-date in all sorts of ways: - It doesn't have the corrections made by the DTP firm. - It doesn't have the corrections made by the printer. - It doesn't have any formatting.
QuarkXPress can output the data in other forms, but it's still missing the last-minute changes and after-printing changes, and quite frankly once it's on the market, most publishing companies aren't interested in reworking the data to keep it as text for the next 90 years, so it can be released into the public domain.
The funny thing is, they're not really circumventing and technological measures - the universal opener sends exactly the same signals as the original one. That's not circumvention, just plain old imitation.
After reading the motion for summary judgement, what it looks like to me is this:
The manufacturer effectively implemented a OTP (one-time password) scheme in their remotes and receivers.
As anyone who has used OTPs knows, you have to know which password comes next in the sequence to get in.
Because the manufacturer couldn't think of a good way to get around this problem, they made the receiver accept a reset code that forces it to resync on the next code received.
Now they're bitching because someone else figured this out and using the reset code to allow their third-party remotes to activate the receiver.
There's a lot of bullshit about burglars and stuff, but what it basically comes down to is they thought up a great new security scheme, and then drove a ten-ton truck through it in the name of convenience. Tough shit for them, I say.
Sorry, you lose... 'haka' means grave, not tombstone. Tombstone would be 'boseki' or 'hakaishi' (both use the same kanji; they're alternative readings).
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They know it - it's just that Apple can get away with a firmware update to handle the final spec much easier than Sony can with this product.
The material could also be used in works of art. NPL says several artists have shown an interest.
Does anyone else remember a short horror story about an artist who painted a painting using a "blacker than black" paint, made IIRC from a stone (coal?), who was then absorbed by the painting?
Perhaps because 802.11g hasn't actually been finalised yet?
It doesn't run continuously on battery - the battery is only there for UPS functionality (I'm guessing maybe 10-15min battery life, just enough for you to pull out the power cord, walk over to the new location, and plug it in again).
There's a hell of a lot more 802.11b equipment out there right now that won't be upgraded for a while. I think it's a reasonable move - they just issue a new model when 802.11g becomes widespread (since the 802.11b version will work with it quite happily).
According to the press release, the battery is only for UPS functionality - they don't support running off the battery as a normal mode of operation. I
See here.
Please note that the Japanese-Americans interred in camps during World War II were never arrested; the American Government was very careful to describe it as "relocation", not "imprisonment".
Tokyo Denryoku, the country's largest power supplier, currently offers 100Mbps fiber connections for home use in the Tokyo area for around $US50 a month.
Try to pronounce an English 'b' without breathing out to produce a Chinese 'b'. Also, the Chinese 'p' and 'b' are both unvoiced, so hold your fingers against your throat to make sure your vocal chords aren't used.
For the 'p', exhale sharply instead.
No, they're phonemes.
Chinese does distinguish between p/b and d/t, just in a different way from English. For example, b is an unaspirated voiceless plosive; p is an aspirated voiceless plosive. (The d/t pair is also an unaspirated/aspirated combination.)
"Bring your pussy face to my ass."
Duh...
Lower, you mean... Japan is 100V.
They turn their lights off because it's less annoying for the people in the vehicle infront of them, not because they think it reduces fuel consumption.
If a Wookiee falls out of a tree on Endor, does it quack?
Get manuscript from author.
This could be either handwritten or typed. If typed, it's likely to be in either plain text or Word format, but with a lot of errors.
If the manuscript's handwritten, farm it out to a typist.
We used to pay 0.5 yen a letter for English, 1 yen a character for Japanese.
Once it's data, edit.
I used to do my editing on a Mac with BBEdit, but this varies a lot between editors - some do it on (shudder) Word, where all the formatting gets in the way.
Reformat it to pass it to the DTP firm.
When I say 'reformat', I don't mean making things bold or italic - I mean cleaning it up so it's easy to do the next step, which is...
Print out and insert format directions.
The manuscript is printed out, and you go through it one line at a time adding things like "Line break here" and "Use larger font for this".
Proofs arrive from the DTP firm.
You go through the proofs, making corrections by hand (i.e., "Move this down one line", etc.)
The DTP firm passes you back the formatted data.
QuarkXPress is king here. You get the data in a finished form and pass it to the printers.
The printer produces the final proofs.
You can still make corrections, but these have to be done by the DTP firm, who then give you the updated data.
Last-minute corrections are made.
This depends on the printer, but quite often these are done by pasting the changes over the top of the printer film (i.e., they're not reflected in the data).
The book is printed.
Corrections after printing are usually done as described above (pasting changes over the film).
The problem with this is that the text data held by the editor is now out-of-date in all sorts of ways:
- It doesn't have the corrections made by the DTP firm.
- It doesn't have the corrections made by the printer.
- It doesn't have any formatting.
QuarkXPress can output the data in other forms, but it's still missing the last-minute changes and after-printing changes, and quite frankly once it's on the market, most publishing companies aren't interested in reworking the data to keep it as text for the next 90 years, so it can be released into the public domain.
The funny thing is, they're not really circumventing and technological measures - the universal opener sends exactly the same signals as the original one. That's not circumvention, just plain old imitation.
After reading the motion for summary judgement, what it looks like to me is this:
The manufacturer effectively implemented a OTP (one-time password) scheme in their remotes and receivers.
As anyone who has used OTPs knows, you have to know which password comes next in the sequence to get in.
Because the manufacturer couldn't think of a good way to get around this problem, they made the receiver accept a reset code that forces it to resync on the next code received.
Now they're bitching because someone else figured this out and using the reset code to allow their third-party remotes to activate the receiver.
There's a lot of bullshit about burglars and stuff, but what it basically comes down to is they thought up a great new security scheme, and then drove a ten-ton truck through it in the name of convenience. Tough shit for them, I say.
...you got the title wrong. It should read:
"ZDNet trolls for more page hits yet again - film at 11."
Sorry, you lose... 'haka' means grave, not tombstone. Tombstone would be 'boseki' or 'hakaishi' (both use the same kanji; they're alternative readings).
Er... no. There was a pile of bitching in Japan because of the bad color balance on the Japanese-release DVD.
Er... no. The BBC Micro ran on a 6502, not an ARM. I guess you're thinking of the Archimedes.
The funny thing is, the moment you said "...modify it with the word 'UP'" this big neon sign flashed on in my head, saying "REDNECK ALERT!" ;)
I've even had a 166MHz Alpha UDB running NT ... its UI latency ... was still better than PIIIs twice as fast.
Sorry to nitpick, but there were no PIIIs at 333MHz. I believe they started at 500MHz.