With Fairplay etc you must make a copy of the content. Thus there is an argument for "licensing" of it.
However, CSS is attached to something you buy. If you go to a store and buy a DVD, you do not license it, any more than you "license" a book by buying it from a bookstore.
I have to keep bringing this up because this whole "licensing" thing is what the media companies are trying to brainwash us into accepting. Thus DRM becomes part of licensing, rather than what it is: a method to extend control over content beyond what copyright law allows.
It's a surface detector because the receptors are immobilized on a surface (this is typical of surface plasmon resonance sensors, where the surface belongs with the plasmon, not with the sensor), not because it analyzes surfaces. If you read the patent, it actually analyzes stuff in solution that flows past the surface.
It's not about detecting frequency. It's about detecting the conversion of light energy to plasmon-polariton energy. This is typically done by monitoring the change of intensity somehow. The polarization work that I mentioned was a very interesting method of detecting this conversion, because only one polarization (p-polarization) will convert.
Plasmons are very sensitive to the localized index of refraction at a surface. To put it simply, you change the localized index of refraction by sticking something to the surface, like a chemical or a virus envelope protein or a bacteria. When something sticks, it changes the conversion efficiency of light.
However, ANYTHING sticking will change the conversion efficiency of light: the amount depends only on the relative index of refraction of the adsorbed material and it's thickness.
To have a chemical or biological sensor, you have to engineer receptors, so that only certain things stick to certain places. One of the nice things about this gadget is that it is an array sensor, so they can put numerous receptors down (e.g. one for hepatitis-c virus envelope protein in one spot, one for e-coli in another spot).
Using nanoholes is just a variation on the grating method, and these people are combining it with SPR polarization work trailblazed by a Russian scientist that I had the good fortune to meet several years go. Nice gadget, but it's evolutionary, not revolutionary.
And the optical sensor, while being non-trivial, doens't just sense magically everything from explosives to bacteria. You have to chemically engineer receptors . That's also very non-trivial.
Not good for the US but it would make sense.
China has been trying to make a decent cpu for a while. The transmeta chip designs would give them a boost over what they have.
I very much like that they looked at noise in this article.
Quite simply, most of the cards didn't register above the ~40 dB volume threshold of our sound level meter
One of the things that makes me shy away from the new top of the line graphics cards is the very loud cooling systems they put on them. Lower performance is actually more attractive if it means my computer doesn't sound like a hairdrier.
There was a classic episode of Star Trek, where Captain Kirk was going to be prosecuted for murder. The chief witness against him was computer logs, and that was awful because computers couldn't be wrong.
His lawyers defense was that every man had the right to face his accuser, and that included the computers.
Captain Kirk was innocent. The computer records were falsified.
OK, so you make a small request, follow by a bigger one, to a stranger. No statistical difference in response depending on whether you are in a light or dark skinned avitar.
You make a stupidly large request, followed by a reasonable one, to a stranger. There is a statistical difference in response depending on whether you are in a light or dark skinned avitar.
Researchers conclude that in first case it's because it's how you view yourself and second case it's how you view others and there is racial prejudice. Sounds like psychobabble to me.
Couldn't it be more like, "wow this stranger made a request that would take 2 hours of my time, then asked for 2 minutes... hmmm do I (consciously or subconsciously) find their avitar attractive enough to risk wasting time with a potential nutjob?"
TFA doesn't say who the target audience is, but I'm guessing mostly light skined avitar ppl who might just have a statistically higher attraction to ppl of lighter skins. What if they tried this test using ugly light skinned avitars and @#$%ing hot dark skinned avitars? I think they would have to rethink their conclusions.
One of the problems is that the "winmodem" mentality leaked over to the printer makers.
The vast majority of non-professional printers are brain dead USB pieces of shit that require everything to be software rendered and the printer internals to be controlled directly through the usb cable. The drivers are large because they tell the CPU how to run the printer, instead of spending a little bit more for a cpu inside the printer that takes PCL or postscript or something and renders it inside the printer and controlls the internals.
"Microsoft has no control over the shit quality of drivers released by hardware manufacturers."
I have to disagree there.
The drivers for Vista, from what I have read were extremely difficult to write, enormously more complex, due mostly to the bullshit DRM requirements of Vista.
This Microsoft's goes right to the heart of Microsoft's decision to write an OS for the MPAA and the RIAA instead of its customers. If the OS wasn't so bloated and DRM laden, the drivers wouldn't have been so hard to write. MS had a LOT of control over this.
It should be pointed out that FEMA used to be a very competant organization before GWBush merged it into his Department of Fatherland Security and cut it's budget.
You only need a licence if you require some of the rights the copyright holder has (beyond fair use).
You buy a CD, you don't "licence" it, you own the copy. You buy a book, you don't "license" it, you own the copy. We don't need the copyright holders permission to read, play etc the copy. Fair use doctrine says we can even make copies for our own personal use.
So which of the copyright holder's rights do we get by "blanket licensing?" If it's just to download, it's more a blanket subscription, and I thought the current RIAA mantra was that distributing (via p2p) was the core violation of their copyright, not downloading. If we got licenses to put them on p2p... that would be different.
I wonder if these really fast hard disks will have to be kept stationary. More specifically: I wonder if conservation of angular momentum (manifested, for example, in gyroscopic precession) becomes a real issue if any torques were put on a spinning disk.
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What if you need to give the results to someone w/o excel?
With Fairplay etc you must make a copy of the content. Thus there is an argument for "licensing" of it.
However, CSS is attached to something you buy. If you go to a store and buy a DVD, you do not license it, any more than you "license" a book by buying it from a bookstore.
I have to keep bringing this up because this whole "licensing" thing is what the media companies are trying to brainwash us into accepting. Thus DRM becomes part of licensing, rather than what it is: a method to extend control over content beyond what copyright law allows.
Linux can run MATLAB, though.
DRM is working just like it was really supposed to: it's going to make people buy music over and over again.
It's a surface detector because the receptors are immobilized on a surface (this is typical of surface plasmon resonance sensors, where the surface belongs with the plasmon, not with the sensor), not because it analyzes surfaces. If you read the patent, it actually analyzes stuff in solution that flows past the surface.
It's not about detecting frequency. It's about detecting the conversion of light energy to plasmon-polariton energy. This is typically done by monitoring the change of intensity somehow. The polarization work that I mentioned was a very interesting method of detecting this conversion, because only one polarization (p-polarization) will convert.
Plasmons are very sensitive to the localized index of refraction at a surface. To put it simply, you change the localized index of refraction by sticking something to the surface, like a chemical or a virus envelope protein or a bacteria. When something sticks, it changes the conversion efficiency of light.
However, ANYTHING sticking will change the conversion efficiency of light: the amount depends only on the relative index of refraction of the adsorbed material and it's thickness.
To have a chemical or biological sensor, you have to engineer receptors, so that only certain things stick to certain places. One of the nice things about this gadget is that it is an array sensor, so they can put numerous receptors down (e.g. one for hepatitis-c virus envelope protein in one spot, one for e-coli in another spot).
And the optical sensor, while being non-trivial, doens't just sense magically everything from explosives to bacteria. You have to chemically engineer receptors . That's also very non-trivial.
Nividia posted sales of USD 892.7 million.
So they offer to settle for $850 thousand?
0.1% of their sales???
Not good for the US but it would make sense. China has been trying to make a decent cpu for a while. The transmeta chip designs would give them a boost over what they have.
One of the things that makes me shy away from the new top of the line graphics cards is the very loud cooling systems they put on them. Lower performance is actually more attractive if it means my computer doesn't sound like a hairdrier.
When Sony's DRM included self-destruct sequences on the Blu-ray players I had enough.
Fuck Sony.
Would I get laid if I were a ninja?
Right now Ogg/Vorbis is the overall BEST quality lossy compression codec. Check out the wikipedia page.
It's quite effective at keeping information distribution locked up and under control under big business and an old model.
You get free information like wikipedia (i.e. NOT violating a copyright) and it makes some corporations uptight, not to make some governments.
We get to kill Berman?
Interoperability greater than what they had? Interoperability to what? MS Office and other MS software which is notorious for not being interoperable?
This computer was supposed to be a learning tool for children. To teach critical thinking. Not to be a platform for Office.
How does turning it into an XP box help? XP is just essentially a vending machine.
His lawyers defense was that every man had the right to face his accuser, and that included the computers.
Captain Kirk was innocent. The computer records were falsified.
The DUI makers should watch this episode.
You make a stupidly large request, followed by a reasonable one, to a stranger. There is a statistical difference in response depending on whether you are in a light or dark skinned avitar.
Researchers conclude that in first case it's because it's how you view yourself and second case it's how you view others and there is racial prejudice. Sounds like psychobabble to me.
Couldn't it be more like, "wow this stranger made a request that would take 2 hours of my time, then asked for 2 minutes... hmmm do I (consciously or subconsciously) find their avitar attractive enough to risk wasting time with a potential nutjob?"
TFA doesn't say who the target audience is, but I'm guessing mostly light skined avitar ppl who might just have a statistically higher attraction to ppl of lighter skins. What if they tried this test using ugly light skinned avitars and @#$%ing hot dark skinned avitars? I think they would have to rethink their conclusions.
The vast majority of non-professional printers are brain dead USB pieces of shit that require everything to be software rendered and the printer internals to be controlled directly through the usb cable. The drivers are large because they tell the CPU how to run the printer, instead of spending a little bit more for a cpu inside the printer that takes PCL or postscript or something and renders it inside the printer and controlls the internals.
I have to disagree there.
The drivers for Vista, from what I have read were extremely difficult to write, enormously more complex, due mostly to the bullshit DRM requirements of Vista.
This Microsoft's goes right to the heart of Microsoft's decision to write an OS for the MPAA and the RIAA instead of its customers. If the OS wasn't so bloated and DRM laden, the drivers wouldn't have been so hard to write. MS had a LOT of control over this.
And major network news reported it falling while it was still standing in plain sight behind them.
Little things like questionable legality and ethics aside...
It should be pointed out that FEMA used to be a very competant organization before GWBush merged it into his Department of Fatherland Security and cut it's budget.
You only need a licence if you require some of the rights the copyright holder has (beyond fair use).
You buy a CD, you don't "licence" it, you own the copy. You buy a book, you don't "license" it, you own the copy. We don't need the copyright holders permission to read, play etc the copy. Fair use doctrine says we can even make copies for our own personal use.
So which of the copyright holder's rights do we get by "blanket licensing?" If it's just to download, it's more a blanket subscription, and I thought the current RIAA mantra was that distributing (via p2p) was the core violation of their copyright, not downloading. If we got licenses to put them on p2p... that would be different.
I wonder if these really fast hard disks will have to be kept stationary. More specifically: I wonder if conservation of angular momentum (manifested, for example, in gyroscopic precession) becomes a real issue if any torques were put on a spinning disk.