That's impressive technology. And it needs to be better known. Reverse-stepping has been available for gdb under Linux since at least 1999, and nobody knows it. So please, mod the parent up.
This has real potential. Beta versions of programs should run with this installed, so the core dump can be stepped backwards to the trouble spot. This could make Linux software significantly more reliable.
But the problem with your analogy here is that the RIAA has already gotten their money -- the radio station had to pay them to play the music
Actually, no. US radio stations have an exemption to the copyright laws. See 17 USC 112-114.
US radio stations even have an exemption to the DMCA which allows them to demand a non-copy-protected copy of an audio recording for airplay. And if the record company doesn't provide that copy, a radio station can legally break copy protection on audio recordings. The radio industry lobbied hard for that one.
In most of Europe, radio stations do have to pay record companies. But not in the US.
We wouldn't want pre-teens emulating the movie and killing themselves trying to surf on lava, would we?
You mean like the lava-surfing scene in "Spy Kids 3D", which does have underage kids surfing on lava.
Available on DVD or as a PC game. From Disney, no less.
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Sounds like typical CEO behavior when compensation is primarily stock options with short holding periods.
Somebody challenged Linux. Spent lots of money, got expensive lawyers, issued public statements, and went to court. And they got rolled over. From a business perspective, that means Linux isn't going to fold up at the first challenge.
Look where SCOXE is today. Nobody is trading the stock. Volume is down 90% since the NASDAQ listed them as out of compliance with SEC regs. They may be kicked down to the Pink Sheets next week, but they're already trading like a Pink Sheet stock.
Everybody laughs at SCO now. Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes are all very negative on SCO.
Q: Ralph Yarro was terminated in December as CEO of Canopy Group, SCO's longtime financial backer, for allegedly overpaying himself. Is Ralph Yarro still on SCO's board?
A: Yes.
Q: Do you want him to stay on the board?
A: Ralph has been a great board member. He's been very supportive and valuable in terms of the input he has provided.
Q: What has he helped you do?
A: Ralph has a great entrepreneurial mind. He's been good on intellectual property and legal battles. I wouldn't call him the architect of our legal strategy, but he clearly has added value. How that's all going to play out, I don't know.
Q: Are you concerned about his ability to serve?
A: We had a board meeting last week. The company needs to get some clarity about the situation. It's important to figure out who represents the Canopy shares. As long as the cloud is there regarding the Canopy situation we want to remove the cloud.
Q: Will he stay on the board?
A: No one on the SCO board has asked him to step down. He will continue to serve.
Canopy owns part of SCO. Yarrow used to represent Canopy on the SCO board, but he doesn't, any more.
Canopy fired Yarrow.
Yarrow and Canopy are sueing each other. This is clearly a dysfunctional organization, not a serious threat. They've been referred to in the press as "the gang that couldn't sue straight".
ABC-TV used that as a slogan a few years ago, in a cute advertising campaign aimed at the industry.
(Those of you who live in LA may remember the banners for a mile around around Rodeo Drive and Wilshire.) This is viewed as normal. It should be viewed as a problem.
The trouble with Tivo is that their business model is that of a "service". Investors like that ongoing revenue stream, but consumers hate the monthly bill.
Consider the DVD player. Costs under $50. Buy it once, and throw it away if it breaks. No monthly charges. Made in China by cheap labor. Available everywhere. That's the winning business model.
The big flap here is that someone arranged to cover the Golden Gate Bridge with HDTV digital cameras and now has nineteen suicides recorded. He's planning a theatrical release as a documentary.
Any scheme which involves some mandatory "tax" paid to the RIAA is out. No bundling of "music charges" into Internet access fees or computer prices. Let them collect their own money.
A big fraction of Internet users don't download music. Most business PCs don't. Many don't even have speakers. They should't be taxed by the RIAA.
Just scream "no new taxes" at your nearest Republican elected official to make this go away.
I used to publish in IEEE and ACM peer-reviewed journals. But between the slow turnaround and the page charges, it was more trouble then it was worth. So I started filing patents instead. Not only do I get more visibility, people pay me money. And the U.S. Government peer-reviews, publishes, and archives my stuff forever.
As someone who's written a serious physics engine, I look forward to seeing this tomorrow at GDC.
There's no one key item that bottlenecks a rigid-body physics engine, and it's not a simple pipelining problem like graphics, so the main thing special-purpose hardware can provide there is parallelism. And plenty of double-precision floating point power. (In a single-precision system, you have to take great care to never try to do physics far from the origin.)
Collision detection is a minor CPU load if you do it right. If collision detection is using more than 10% of your physics time, you're doing it wrong. This may seem counterintutive, but the good algorithms are incredibly fast, even in complex environments. It's more of a data structure issue.
Deformation, i.e. finite element analysis, is more of an inner loop crunch problem than rigid body physics. Finite element analysis has been parallelized for decades in engineering applications, and the problem is well understood.
It's localized; you can divide the problem up into cells. So I'll bet that's what they are focusing on.
Ebay and Overstock.com did have to register as Internet auctioneers in Illinois. Illinois also requires those who sell for others, like AuctionDrop, to register.
Those who are selling their own stuff don't have to register, but those who sell other people's stuff do. That's reasonable enough.
Apple may have to buy or build a record label to compete.
And, realistically, portable music players better than the iPod will be in blister packs in WalMart for $49 within two years. It's going to be like HP and their great high-end calculators.
NASA's done this before. NASA's astronaut class of 1967, hired for the "Apollo Applications" program that didn't happen, called itself the Excess Eleven. Most of those guys quit or were laid off in the early 1970s.
One wrote a book, "The Making of an Ex-Astronaut".
The actual MP3 is here.
It's not even on a streaming server; you have to download the whole thing. This is a step backwards to 1999 technology.
It's one guy, talking. And he's boring. This isn't Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's more like "shut up, I'm watching the show".
Incidentally, if you're shipping out voice recorded with one microphone, both channels are the same and there's no reason to send it in stereo. Just bloats the file.
Over thirty years ago, I told Carol Lynn, who was organizing the effort to revive Star Trek after the original show had been cancelled, "Give it up. It's dead".
The Bridgeman decision is based on the famous Feist vs. Rural Telephone case. This Supreme Court decision that phone directories are not original enough to be copyrighted created the third-party phone book industry. When the Internet came along, the Feist decision permitted a whole range of directory-type services. As the Court put it,
"The originality requirement is constitutionally mandated for all works.", and "No one may claim originality as to facts." This last is why databases of facts are not copyrightable in the US.
Corbis has a clever, but legally questionable, scheme for claiming copyright on public domain images. They add digital rights management information to the image, and then copyright the DRM information. They then claim that copying the DRM information violates their copyright, and removing it violates the DMCA. That's very similar to the argument Lexmark made in Lexmark vs. Static Control, and it didn't work there:
"Generally speaking, "lock-out" codes fall on the functional-idea rather than the original-expression
side of the copyright line." and "Similarly, a computer program may be protectable in the abstract but not generally entitled to
protection when used necessarily as a lock-out device."
The original sources are most likely public domain, but the digital images that the library system made are copyrighted.
No. Can't re-copyright a copy of a public domain image. See
Bridgeman vs. Corel."In this case, plaintiff by its own admission has labored to create "slavish copies" of public domain works of art. While it may be assumed that this required both skill and effort, there was no spark of originality -- indeed, the point of the exercise was to reproduce the underlying works with absolute fidelity. Copyright is not available in these circumstances." -- Lewis A. Kaplan, United States District Judge.
Look at figure 3 in the paper,
showing clock skew for 69 desktop machines. Each line shows the clock skew measured over a 4-day period. You could distinguish about 20 of those machines. The rest don't have unique enough clock skews. Of course, those are all similar machines; they're all the same model of Micron desktops.
Note how linear those skew lines are. That data looks so good that it needs independent verification. Others have observed more variation in clock skew than that. Computer clocks aren't normally observed to have error that consistent. There's variation with temperature.
One wonders if they ran this test during a period when the target machines (a computer lab) were not in use.
It's becoming common to use internal DC distribution within large electronic systems, then use a final DC-DC converter near the point of load. Typically, you convert the incoming AC line to 12VDC, distribute the 12VDC, then use point of load switching regulators each place you need power.
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This has real potential. Beta versions of programs should run with this installed, so the core dump can be stepped backwards to the trouble spot. This could make Linux software significantly more reliable.
Actually, no. US radio stations have an exemption to the copyright laws. See 17 USC 112-114.
US radio stations even have an exemption to the DMCA which allows them to demand a non-copy-protected copy of an audio recording for airplay. And if the record company doesn't provide that copy, a radio station can legally break copy protection on audio recordings. The radio industry lobbied hard for that one.
In most of Europe, radio stations do have to pay record companies. But not in the US.
You mean like the lava-surfing scene in "Spy Kids 3D", which does have underage kids surfing on lava. Available on DVD or as a PC game. From Disney, no less.
Sounds like typical CEO behavior when compensation is primarily stock options with short holding periods.
Look where SCOXE is today. Nobody is trading the stock. Volume is down 90% since the NASDAQ listed them as out of compliance with SEC regs. They may be kicked down to the Pink Sheets next week, but they're already trading like a Pink Sheet stock.
Everybody laughs at SCO now. Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes are all very negative on SCO.
Darl was interviewed by Business Week a few days ago. Some great momments:
A: Yes.
Q: Do you want him to stay on the board?
A: Ralph has been a great board member. He's been very supportive and valuable in terms of the input he has provided.
Q: What has he helped you do?
A: Ralph has a great entrepreneurial mind. He's been good on intellectual property and legal battles. I wouldn't call him the architect of our legal strategy, but he clearly has added value. How that's all going to play out, I don't know.
Q: Are you concerned about his ability to serve?
A: We had a board meeting last week. The company needs to get some clarity about the situation. It's important to figure out who represents the Canopy shares. As long as the cloud is there regarding the Canopy situation we want to remove the cloud.
Q: Will he stay on the board?
A: No one on the SCO board has asked him to step down. He will continue to serve.
Canopy owns part of SCO. Yarrow used to represent Canopy on the SCO board, but he doesn't, any more. Canopy fired Yarrow. Yarrow and Canopy are sueing each other. This is clearly a dysfunctional organization, not a serious threat. They've been referred to in the press as "the gang that couldn't sue straight".
There's a recognized negative correlation between TV viewing time and income. This effect is quite strong. TV viewing has far worse effects than Internet usage generally.
TV is a far bigger problem than MMORPGs.
Consider the DVD player. Costs under $50. Buy it once, and throw it away if it breaks. No monthly charges. Made in China by cheap labor. Available everywhere. That's the winning business model.
The IDF has some major internal problems right now. The leftist solders don't want to go into Palestinian refugee camps. The rightist soldiers don't want to go into illegal Jewish settlements. Those factional problems are bigger than the D&D issue.
The big flap here is that someone arranged to cover the Golden Gate Bridge with HDTV digital cameras and now has nineteen suicides recorded. He's planning a theatrical release as a documentary.
A big fraction of Internet users don't download music. Most business PCs don't. Many don't even have speakers. They should't be taxed by the RIAA.
Just scream "no new taxes" at your nearest Republican elected official to make this go away.
I used to publish in IEEE and ACM peer-reviewed journals. But between the slow turnaround and the page charges, it was more trouble then it was worth. So I started filing patents instead. Not only do I get more visibility, people pay me money. And the U.S. Government peer-reviews, publishes, and archives my stuff forever.
There's no one key item that bottlenecks a rigid-body physics engine, and it's not a simple pipelining problem like graphics, so the main thing special-purpose hardware can provide there is parallelism. And plenty of double-precision floating point power. (In a single-precision system, you have to take great care to never try to do physics far from the origin.)
Collision detection is a minor CPU load if you do it right. If collision detection is using more than 10% of your physics time, you're doing it wrong. This may seem counterintutive, but the good algorithms are incredibly fast, even in complex environments. It's more of a data structure issue.
Deformation, i.e. finite element analysis, is more of an inner loop crunch problem than rigid body physics. Finite element analysis has been parallelized for decades in engineering applications, and the problem is well understood. It's localized; you can divide the problem up into cells. So I'll bet that's what they are focusing on.
So use a different label name. "Pod Music". Or "Pixar Sound".
Those who are selling their own stuff don't have to register, but those who sell other people's stuff do. That's reasonable enough.
Apple may have to buy or build a record label to compete.
And, realistically, portable music players better than the iPod will be in blister packs in WalMart for $49 within two years. It's going to be like HP and their great high-end calculators.
One wrote a book, "The Making of an Ex-Astronaut".
It's one guy, talking. And he's boring. This isn't Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's more like "shut up, I'm watching the show".
Incidentally, if you're shipping out voice recorded with one microphone, both channels are the same and there's no reason to send it in stereo. Just bloats the file.
Over thirty years ago, I told Carol Lynn, who was organizing the effort to revive Star Trek after the original show had been cancelled, "Give it up. It's dead".
There's "AOL Broadband for Kids", if you want that.
So the free market has this covered. And nobody buys.
The current simulator has a model of Portland in it. A mod for San Francisco is an obvious next step.
The Bridgeman decision is based on the famous Feist vs. Rural Telephone case. This Supreme Court decision that phone directories are not original enough to be copyrighted created the third-party phone book industry. When the Internet came along, the Feist decision permitted a whole range of directory-type services. As the Court put it, "The originality requirement is constitutionally mandated for all works.", and "No one may claim originality as to facts." This last is why databases of facts are not copyrightable in the US.
Corbis has a clever, but legally questionable, scheme for claiming copyright on public domain images. They add digital rights management information to the image, and then copyright the DRM information. They then claim that copying the DRM information violates their copyright, and removing it violates the DMCA. That's very similar to the argument Lexmark made in Lexmark vs. Static Control, and it didn't work there: "Generally speaking, "lock-out" codes fall on the functional-idea rather than the original-expression side of the copyright line." and "Similarly, a computer program may be protectable in the abstract but not generally entitled to protection when used necessarily as a lock-out device."
No. Can't re-copyright a copy of a public domain image. See Bridgeman vs. Corel. "In this case, plaintiff by its own admission has labored to create "slavish copies" of public domain works of art. While it may be assumed that this required both skill and effort, there was no spark of originality -- indeed, the point of the exercise was to reproduce the underlying works with absolute fidelity. Copyright is not available in these circumstances." -- Lewis A. Kaplan, United States District Judge.
Note how linear those skew lines are. That data looks so good that it needs independent verification. Others have observed more variation in clock skew than that. Computer clocks aren't normally observed to have error that consistent. There's variation with temperature. One wonders if they ran this test during a period when the target machines (a computer lab) were not in use.
This, in fact, is what's happening when you have devices powered off USB, FireWire, or Ethernet. Read this discussion of how USB power distribution works.
So the parts exist to do what the original poster wants to do. But they're not typically packaged for the end user.