The patent was filed in 2004, and there must be loads of prior art. Companies such as Nvidia and ATI have had GPU-accelerated video encoders for years now.
Are you sure? Video decoders yes, but I'm not so sure about encoders.
Regardless, this patent should never have been granted. It's all because of the patent office's massive backlog, and their decision to accept every random patent to reduce it.
That pretty much sums up the problem though, doesn't it? At my work we regularly work on ideas that seem groundbreaking, but we generally find that even if nobody else happens to have had the same ideas yet, it's only a matter of time before they do.
So if it's an idea that everybody else is going to have anyway given enough time, why should the first person to think of it gain the ability to put a roadblock in front of everyone else who thinks of it?
I can heartily recommend Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep", which is set in a galaxy where the laws of physics do indeed vary widely depending on your distance from the centre of the galaxy.
Probably not what you'd call hard science fiction, but definitely one of the best "what if" books I've ever read.
I've lived in Scotland for 39 years and never realized it was broken (or at least not significantly more than anywhere else). In what way would you like us fixed?
I don't know, it seems to me that a bug like this could only have been introduced in the last ten years, which suggests less foresight than either of these types.
Any code that works for 1999, 2009 and everything in between will probably work for 2010 as well. Code written since 2000 on the other hand might never have been tested with dates outside of the 00-09 range.
I think Wave has been released too early. Its still a technological preview of a future technology, but is not usable today for what I have commented. I love to have it available, has a toy, but I have not found a real use, nor my friends seems inclined to use it.
They released it early so they could get feedback on it to see what needs to be improved for the final release.
Your post is probably exactly the kind of feedback they're looking for; have you submitted it to them as well as us?
That's going to make a difference in the long term, but right now FSX is still the sim of choice for those who value the things that He Who Has No Name mentioned (X-Plane may be superior in some other areas).
Moreover X-Plane's dev team is tiny compared to ACES, so it will probably take them years to catch up. Unless of course they snap up some of the ex-ACES folk now on the job market...
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Oh wait, I've got used to it already.
First (com)post!
He found that many didn't even have a password and roughly half of home UK Wi-Fi networks could be hacked in less than 5 seconds."
I'm impressed. I can't connect to my own wireless network in less than 5 seconds.
The patent was filed in 2004, and there must be loads of prior art. Companies such as Nvidia and ATI have had GPU-accelerated video encoders for years now.
Are you sure? Video decoders yes, but I'm not so sure about encoders.
Regardless, this patent should never have been granted. It's all because of the patent office's massive backlog, and their decision to accept every random patent to reduce it.
No arguments there...
That pretty much sums up the problem though, doesn't it? At my work we regularly work on ideas that seem groundbreaking, but we generally find that even if nobody else happens to have had the same ideas yet, it's only a matter of time before they do.
So if it's an idea that everybody else is going to have anyway given enough time, why should the first person to think of it gain the ability to put a roadblock in front of everyone else who thinks of it?
I'll be richer than Microsoft, Apple, Government Motors, and the United States Government combined!
Doesn't the United States Government pretty much cancel out the other three?
I know a couple of folks who are making a nice living as a COBOL programmer.
Glad to know pair programming works with COBOL as well.
1984... you insensitive clod!
Have I been reading Slashdot too much or did anyone else think that "top kill" meant they were going to nuke it from orbit?
I can heartily recommend Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep", which is set in a galaxy where the laws of physics do indeed vary widely depending on your distance from the centre of the galaxy.
Probably not what you'd call hard science fiction, but definitely one of the best "what if" books I've ever read.
I've lived in Scotland for 39 years and never realized it was broken (or at least not significantly more than anywhere else). In what way would you like us fixed?
I don't know, it seems to me that a bug like this could only have been introduced in the last ten years, which suggests less foresight than either of these types.
Any code that works for 1999, 2009 and everything in between will probably work for 2010 as well. Code written since 2000 on the other hand might never have been tested with dates outside of the 00-09 range.
Re:The problem with an OLED e-reader is the E.
You can't get rid of the E. An OLD reader would never sell.
I think Wave has been released too early. Its still a technological preview of a future technology, but is not usable today for what I have commented. I love to have it available, has a toy, but I have not found a real use, nor my friends seems inclined to use it.
They released it early so they could get feedback on it to see what needs to be improved for the final release. Your post is probably exactly the kind of feedback they're looking for; have you submitted it to them as well as us?
That's going to make a difference in the long term, but right now FSX is still the sim of choice for those who value the things that He Who Has No Name mentioned (X-Plane may be superior in some other areas). Moreover X-Plane's dev team is tiny compared to ACES, so it will probably take them years to catch up. Unless of course they snap up some of the ex-ACES folk now on the job market...
There already is one: http://www.multimedialibrary.com/barlow/solfeggio.asp. It's based on the excellent book version by Barlow and Morgenstern, which has helped me out in many a "na na na" moment.
Perhaps this is an attempt to alleviate their guilt over owning their own 767...?