Sony so badly wants its next-generation game console to offer a super-realistic "virtual reality" experience, the company will design and build its own advanced 128-bit processor to realize this goal.
Processors inside game consoles usually toil away in anonymity, derided as as poor cousins to desktop chips such as Intel's Pentium line. But with Sony Computer Entertainment's ambitious plan, its chips could outclass the offerings of the world's largest chipmaker--if all goes well.
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The system is so advanced, MicroDesign Resources analyst Keith Diefendorff wrote in a report that the system "has the potential to swipe a chunk of the low-end market from under the noses of PC vendors." He wrote that the platform may "signal the company's intention to move upscale from current game consoles, cutting a wider swath through the living room," with its abilities to function like a stand-alone DVD player and Internet set-top box.
While Sean Quinlan and Sean Dorward were at Bell Labs the developed a block level file system Venti.
Multiple saves of indentical blocks of data are aggregated in the file system such that there is no replication of the actual bytes on the disk, a look up system is employed.
It is currently only available for plan9, though ports are in progress through the plan9ports project.
> You didn't find a *strip search* to be unreasonable?!? Especially one that came up empty? You are remarkably tolerant.
big guys with guns with whom one cannot verbally communicate are hard to say no to. I had no idea of my legal rights via Swiss law. The dog had picked me out. I knew why, knowing they would find nothing made it easier. I was not subject to an internal and I'm really not concerned about preserving my non-nakedness. Submitting to the search and getting back on my way was much easier than the alternative.
Yes, I am tolerant. I think across cultures we are tolerant to different things.
UK btw. re de-criminalisation of the possession of marijuana, it is now at the discretion of the officer concerned with the guidline being that it becomes criminal if the possession is part of a larger crime such as robbery or intent to supply. It's a bit wholly (to say the least!).
Your summary of the incident is certainly different from the one on Security Focus, to me it sounded more like chance that the dog had made the discovery.
We have no "probable cause" here and a full search of the car and its occupants would have been pretty much routine should the officers wish so. I have been strip searched myself from a drug dog taking a (not unreasonable though fruitless in that case) interest in me while on a coach at the French/Swiss border.
Marijuana posession is so prevalent here that the govt. made it no longer a mandatory criminal offence because it became a burden on the police force to process those caught in possession when investigating other criminal offences.
Or, if you're not in her juristiction, here in the UK we have something called Trading Standards
If a company jerks you around like that, pop into your local trading standards office and they may well take up the case for you.
Do you not have any such body in the US ?
Local newspapers are also a good source of help and may publicise the case. I know our local papers would be hot for it, warranty scams have been newsworthy here for a while.
so these guys would have driven away with a ticket ?
Kenneth Allen Jr., 29, and his sister, Kari Allen, 18, had been pulled over for speeding Tuesday in Missouri. In the car, officers discovered bloody clothes and bedding, as well as jewelry, cash, credit cards and the driver's licenses of two older people in Indiana, St. Charles County, Mo., Sheriff's Lt. Craig McGuire said.
The legality of importing goods from outside the EU without the authorisation of the brand owner was tested last year with the drawn-out Tesco vs Levi Strauss case, which the clothing manufacturer won. Tesco had imported jeans from a US supplier and therefore bypassed the manufacturer's authorised channel.
Because it dealt directly with a US supplier it managed to keep costs low and sold the jeans at reduced prices, much to the pleasure of Tesco's customers.
But this was an infringement of trademark law, not copyright law. As it stands now, if a company can prove that a product is genuine and gets permission from the brand owner, it is free to import.
Rules for within the EEA are a little different. The Tesco precedent applied to transatlantic trade, where products in the US are not marketed within the EEA.
If a distributor or reseller in the EEA gets its hands on non-counterfeit products from within that area then it is free to sell them at whatever price it chooses.
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1/10th is 0.1 or a point, as it is known
ergo 9 points = 9/10ths
keep up
> Merchandise is shipped.
where to? no-one knows your address
Wiping is so positively common and vulgar, a gentleman always dabs his nose.
% cd / /tmp/all_files
/tmp
/dev and /usr/ports
% find . >
% cd
% awk ' { print tolower($0) } ' all_files > all_lower
% ls -l
total 95040
-rw-r--r-- 1 maht wheel 24310443 Feb 14 19:56 all_files
-rw-r--r-- 1 maht wheel 24310443 Feb 14 19:58 all_lower
% sort all_files | uniq > all_sorted && cat all_sorted | wc
382119 382381 24310443
% sort all_lower | uniq > all_sorted_lower && cat all_sorted_lower| wc
382005 382267 24307548
so 114 files in my filesystem exist that are differentiated by case only
diff all_sorted all_sorted_lower
yielded results mostly in
Lameness filter stopped me posting the list
they stole the wheelmouse idea from someone who pitched it to them
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If only I could find a link
Sony so badly wants its next-generation game console to offer a super-realistic "virtual reality" experience, the company will design and build its own advanced 128-bit processor to realize this goal.
...
Processors inside game consoles usually toil away in anonymity, derided as as poor cousins to desktop chips such as Intel's Pentium line. But with Sony Computer Entertainment's ambitious plan, its chips could outclass the offerings of the world's largest chipmaker--if all goes well.
The system is so advanced, MicroDesign Resources analyst Keith Diefendorff wrote in a report that the system "has the potential to swipe a chunk of the low-end market from under the noses of PC vendors." He wrote that the platform may "signal the company's intention to move upscale from current game consoles, cutting a wider swath through the living room," with its abilities to function like a stand-alone DVD player and Internet set-top box.
Sony puts on game face with new chip
Published: May 5, 1999, 1:25 PM PDT
By Jim Davis
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
I'd prefer they just stored it in plain text over proprietry binary formats, no matter how open they are.
rtfp
While Sean Quinlan and Sean Dorward were at Bell Labs the developed a block level file system Venti.
Multiple saves of indentical blocks of data are aggregated in the file system such that there is no replication of the actual bytes on the disk, a look up system is employed.
It is currently only available for plan9, though ports are in progress through the plan9ports project.
Google can offer anything they want as their response to your search
Er, no they can't. You might want them to but, well, they can't.
To be extreme, they can't show you child porn. Is that too socialist for you ?
don't dismiss them out of hand becuase they are "French" - how racist is that!
not racist at all, French is not a race.
> You didn't find a *strip search* to be unreasonable?!? Especially one that came up empty? You are remarkably tolerant.
big guys with guns with whom one cannot verbally communicate are hard to say no to. I had no idea of my legal rights via Swiss law. The dog had picked me out. I knew why, knowing they would find nothing made it easier. I was not subject to an internal and I'm really not concerned about preserving my non-nakedness. Submitting to the search and getting back on my way was much easier than the alternative.
Yes, I am tolerant. I think across cultures we are tolerant to different things.
UK btw. re de-criminalisation of the possession of marijuana, it is now at the discretion of the officer concerned with the guidline being that it becomes criminal if the possession is part of a larger crime such as robbery or intent to supply. It's a bit wholly (to say the least!).
but this comment is part of the trial, not outside of the trial.
It is his duty to do this, as far as I can tell.
Your summary of the incident is certainly different from the one on Security Focus, to me it sounded more like chance that the dog had made the discovery.
We have no "probable cause" here and a full search of the car and its occupants would have been pretty much routine should the officers wish so. I have been strip searched myself from a drug dog taking a (not unreasonable though fruitless in that case) interest in me while on a coach at the French/Swiss border.
Marijuana posession is so prevalent here that the govt. made it no longer a mandatory criminal offence because it became a burden on the police force to process those caught in possession when investigating other criminal offences.
Or, if you're not in her juristiction, here in the UK we have something called Trading Standards
If a company jerks you around like that, pop into your local trading standards office and they may well take up the case for you.
Do you not have any such body in the US ?
Local newspapers are also a good source of help and may publicise the case. I know our local papers would be hot for it, warranty scams have been newsworthy here for a while.
If an officer can see through windows for probable cause why can't a dog smell through air ?
In the same vein, what if it had been muffled shouting from the trunk, not the smell of marijuana ?
so these guys would have driven away with a ticket ?
Kenneth Allen Jr., 29, and his sister, Kari Allen, 18, had been pulled over for speeding Tuesday in Missouri. In the car, officers discovered bloody clothes and bedding, as well as jewelry, cash, credit cards and the driver's licenses of two older people in Indiana, St. Charles County, Mo., Sheriff's Lt. Craig McGuire said.
or maybe not
you missed the real difference
Dubious legality :
The legality of importing goods from outside the EU without the authorisation of the brand owner was tested last year with the drawn-out Tesco vs Levi Strauss case, which the clothing manufacturer won. Tesco had imported jeans from a US supplier and therefore bypassed the manufacturer's authorised channel.
Because it dealt directly with a US supplier it managed to keep costs low and sold the jeans at reduced prices, much to the pleasure of Tesco's customers.
But this was an infringement of trademark law, not copyright law. As it stands now, if a company can prove that a product is genuine and gets permission from the brand owner, it is free to import.
Rules for within the EEA are a little different. The Tesco precedent applied to transatlantic trade, where products in the US are not marketed within the EEA.
If a distributor or reseller in the EEA gets its hands on non-counterfeit products from within that area then it is free to sell them at whatever price it chooses.
NTSC was invented to deliberately be at odds with the EU.
There is no way on earth we will change to Never The Same Colour, thank you.
what makes you think I don't already ?
guess again
I pre-date the moon landings
garbage man
who calls them garbage men here the the uk ?
no-one I know, but then again, I'm from north of Watford
If I buy her CD's I get crap music
wrong again