businesses that wanted to prevent their names from being hijacked. Mr. Lawley said businesses could ensure that their names were not misused in the dot-xxx world by paying a one-time fee, to be set from $50 to $250.
Sounds like trying to extort money from honest businesses. Forcing Amazon to spend money for Amazon.xxx
I was actually implying that even the legal owner of the video or a video based web site wouldn't be able to convert the video because creation / possession of the conversion tool would not be legal. Ex: If a site like YouTube had DRM in Flash based videos (not that it does), Google wouldn't be allowed to convert the video format to HTML 5.
requires countries to prohibit software that can break Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), also known as digital handcuffs
So if someone has a library of DRM protected Flash videos and seeks to convert them to some new HTML5 format, they are not allowed to use a simple conversion tool to convert their entire video library. They are instead required to find the original DRM-free source of each video - if it exists?
This Amazon patent cited other Amazon patents going back to 1997 (filing date) - approved 2001: 6175831
Abstract: A networking database containing a plurality of records for different individuals in which individuals are connected to one another in the database by defined relationships. Each individual has the opportunity to define the relationship which may be confirmed or denied. E-mail messaging and interactive communication between individuals and a database service provider provide a method of constructing the database. The method includes having a registered individual identify further individuals and define therewith a relationship. The further individuals then, in turn, establish their own defined relationships with still other individuals. The defined relationships are mutually defined.
I also found this patent reference very odd: 5263160
Abstract: Augmented doubly-linked list search and management method for a system having data stored in a list of data elements in memory
Yes, you are correct. I think the author could have just showed figures 5 & 6 and said obviously figure 6 is better and I would have gotten the point.
Instead I had to read a bunch of text and timing charts before he simply showed what his improvement was. Yes, cache oblivious is worse, but that wasn't the problem Knuth was trying to solve. You could make further arguments that the paging system should group links by location AND popularity. You could move more popular links to the top of the tree so you don't have to traverse past the first page to find them. Also, I would think different applications would have different potential improvements. Algorithms for hosting links to news articles (where newer articles are more popular) might not work well with this algorithm when every newly inserted link ends up at the bottom of the tree.
On the flip side, most people don't care. Unless you have many servers, it is cheaper to throw money at the problem in the form of physical RAM before you start thinking about problems like this.
I had assumed that everyone was aware that Hauwei started out by copying Cisco's code and manuals - byte for byte - word for word. Programming errors and typos in the manuals were all fully duplicated in Hauwei's product. Based on some of the replies to my first post, I guess everyone was not aware of this.
Cisco sued Hauwei and settled out of court. Here is Cisco legal filing (details on pg 3 & 4): http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/Cisco_Mot_for_PI.pdf
TFA asked who owns & controls Hauwei. We don't know what the terms of the legal settlement were. Maybe Cisco owns a large stake.
Exactly. Some of those automated trades were selling stocks at pennies on the dollar when there was no fundamental reason for that stock to be down at all that day. I would think the fact that these auto trades caused banks to lose millions would be the incentive for the banks to fix the system themselves.
that CS disk drives are more sensitive to the vibration from physically coupled adjacent disk drives.
and
The problem is that most civilians don’t understand the problem and are not willing to pay to solve it.
Why should most people care about vibration caused by adjacent drives if most people only have one drive.
The other issue from TFA is that I can't believe a different rack can cause 250% performance improvement, unless you really stacked the deck against steel racks - loose screws, hard drives not properly mounted...? I assume this means that current server racks see I/O rates that are only 40% of what is advertised by manufacturers. Are we expected to believe that no one has noticed this? What about multiple drives in a server. There is no rack separating those drives. This reads like marketing, not real research.
http://www.greenplatformcorp.com/ is the site if you are interested and the "research" is several months old.
Given that "data" must be transmitted over the same mediums used by existing monopolies for decades (cable, phone, fiber, satellite), how could anyone expect anything different. I'm thankful I have at least 2 choices. It took a long time for me to have 2 choices for phone or TV.
Exactly. He swapped every piece of hardware - saving the engineering sample CPU as the last thing he swapped. The system ran fine under Win 7 32 bit. You have to assume that hardware still works fine and that the problem was 64bit specific - which points to the CPU. Granted Intel said it should support 64bit, but it was an engineering sample.
He replaced the case, power supply, the video card, the mother board, the hard drives, and the cables first??
Before DVR, VCRs used to have IR emitters that would change the channel on the cable box automatically at the right time. You just need to find one of these.
Granted this might be a bit high-tech for some, but if someone was already programming their cable box to change the channel for the VCR, then they should be able to figure out the IR emitter.
This last round of the competition is last man standing derby, so it poses an odd challenge for AI. Someone should probably first develop lots of agressive AI players as expected, but then train the final AI to sit on the sidelines until only one other opponent is left. The final problem, of course, is what happens if everyone does this.
He's graduating now, so that means at the end of his second year he couldn't figure out why a string named string was a problem, and today he's not smart enough to create multiple online personalities so that these old posts don't trace back to him.
I agree with others who state that they only hire the best people they can find. If this is the only thing I know about the person (besides the resume), then he will end up in the reject list. There are plenty more applicants without negatives. As others have said, open source projects will help, but this late in the game it will look like what it really is - a last ditch effort to build the resume. What did this person do with his summers since starting college? Any co-ops or side projects? Or did he deliver pizzas and play video games all day?
The social networking might be more of a problem for him. If the chemicaldave that submitted this story is the same one that posted this question on daniweb, then he is not getting a job in this market. Period.
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post600287.html#post600287
If you like the article, try this one: Teamwork in Genetic Programming.
I did this 15 years ago, but unfortunately I didn't have access to real robots. Just computer simulation.
Simulated ants used teamwork to lift heavy pieces of food - if they all stopped and waited at the first food they found they would wait forever because there weren't enough of them. Had to have some intelligence.
There were also some water crossing problems where some ants (but not all) had to sacrifice themselves to build a bridge to reach the food.
Some solutions that were created by the GP were actually better than things that I had thought of on my own. Ex: I expected the ants to use pheromones to either attract or repel other ants. In one example the ants used pheromones to determine if an ant should go into the water. Every cycle every ant would release a pheromone. An ant would only enter water to build a bridge if they didn't detect any pheromones. Only the ants on the edge of the growing pheromone cloud would enter the water. After the fifth turn, no more ants would enter the water because the entire map was filled with pheromones. The ants created a way of using pheromones to measure time to limit the number of ants that died. Very unexpected but it worked faster than any other solution.
Article list.food as an example of a TLD that someone might want to register.
What if they get rid of the cyber squatters that own food.net and food.org - but where's the profit in that.
Don't ever go by web sites that rank the top 10 providers. Those are all paid placements.
Sometimes good providers turn bad. Forums provide the most up to date info.
I've found this site to provide useful info: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ Just go with the opinions of those with lots of posts that don't appear to be promoting a single agenda.
in its report made on May 26th, 2006 M. MARC MORTIER from BEFTI reckons that
"the 10.249.17.10 network address belongs to the address range of FINAMA bank", and
that his "laptop is using the 10.249.24.60 IP address".
If their claims are based on the assumption that 10.249.*.* is a Finama bank owned IP subnet, then they are in trouble.
If you bring Silverlight into the discussion, then it is a 3 way battle.
Adobe Flash vs. Microsoft Silverlight vs. Google backed HTML 5. Here Flash has the dominant position.
This is another front on the OS battle where Web Apps + cloud computing makes it possible for a Browser-based OS do everything most people require of an operating system.
I just use speaker wires to distribute the audio. I use a cheap stereo amp (~$150) and then a 4 pair impedence matching speaker distribution box w/ volume controls for each pair of speakers (~$150). The amp & distribution box are in the stereo rack with the rest of the stereo equipment. I have this amp connected to the 2nd room output of my receiver. I get the 5.1 in the main room + 4 pairs of speakers for other rooms. Wiring is very easy this way. Only benefit of the more expensive systems is that they let you control the volume in the room itself and some repeat the remote IR signals that let you control everything from any room. Still, CD/DVD players that use radio frequency (not IR) remotes can be found for $50 so why bother.
I've posted some more ideas to my site: http://www.diyaudioandvideo.com/
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businesses that wanted to prevent their names from being hijacked. Mr. Lawley said businesses could ensure that their names were not misused in the dot-xxx world by paying a one-time fee, to be set from $50 to $250.
Sounds like trying to extort money from honest businesses. Forcing Amazon to spend money for Amazon.xxx
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I was actually implying that even the legal owner of the video or a video based web site wouldn't be able to convert the video because creation / possession of the conversion tool would not be legal. Ex: If a site like YouTube had DRM in Flash based videos (not that it does), Google wouldn't be allowed to convert the video format to HTML 5.
requires countries to prohibit software that can break Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), also known as digital handcuffs
So if someone has a library of DRM protected Flash videos and seeks to convert them to some new HTML5 format, they are not allowed to use a simple conversion tool to convert their entire video library. They are instead required to find the original DRM-free source of each video - if it exists?
This Amazon patent cited other Amazon patents going back to 1997 (filing date) - approved 2001: 6175831
Abstract: A networking database containing a plurality of records for different individuals in which individuals are connected to one another in the database by defined relationships. Each individual has the opportunity to define the relationship which may be confirmed or denied. E-mail messaging and interactive communication between individuals and a database service provider provide a method of constructing the database. The method includes having a registered individual identify further individuals and define therewith a relationship. The further individuals then, in turn, establish their own defined relationships with still other individuals. The defined relationships are mutually defined.
I also found this patent reference very odd: 5263160
Abstract: Augmented doubly-linked list search and management method for a system having data stored in a list of data elements in memory
Yes, you are correct. I think the author could have just showed figures 5 & 6 and said obviously figure 6 is better and I would have gotten the point.
Instead I had to read a bunch of text and timing charts before he simply showed what his improvement was. Yes, cache oblivious is worse, but that wasn't the problem Knuth was trying to solve. You could make further arguments that the paging system should group links by location AND popularity. You could move more popular links to the top of the tree so you don't have to traverse past the first page to find them. Also, I would think different applications would have different potential improvements. Algorithms for hosting links to news articles (where newer articles are more popular) might not work well with this algorithm when every newly inserted link ends up at the bottom of the tree.
On the flip side, most people don't care. Unless you have many servers, it is cheaper to throw money at the problem in the form of physical RAM before you start thinking about problems like this.
I had assumed that everyone was aware that Hauwei started out by copying Cisco's code and manuals - byte for byte - word for word. Programming errors and typos in the manuals were all fully duplicated in Hauwei's product. Based on some of the replies to my first post, I guess everyone was not aware of this.
Cisco sued Hauwei and settled out of court. Here is Cisco legal filing (details on pg 3 & 4): http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/Cisco_Mot_for_PI.pdf
TFA asked who owns & controls Hauwei. We don't know what the terms of the legal settlement were. Maybe Cisco owns a large stake.
Just compare the code byte for byte with Cisco's. Any differences are the Chinese backdoor.
Exactly. Some of those automated trades were selling stocks at pennies on the dollar when there was no fundamental reason for that stock to be down at all that day. I would think the fact that these auto trades caused banks to lose millions would be the incentive for the banks to fix the system themselves.
that CS disk drives are more sensitive to the vibration from physically coupled adjacent disk drives.
and
The problem is that most civilians don’t understand the problem and are not willing to pay to solve it.
Why should most people care about vibration caused by adjacent drives if most people only have one drive.
The other issue from TFA is that I can't believe a different rack can cause 250% performance improvement, unless you really stacked the deck against steel racks - loose screws, hard drives not properly mounted...? I assume this means that current server racks see I/O rates that are only 40% of what is advertised by manufacturers. Are we expected to believe that no one has noticed this? What about multiple drives in a server. There is no rack separating those drives. This reads like marketing, not real research.
http://www.greenplatformcorp.com/ is the site if you are interested and the "research" is several months old.
Given that "data" must be transmitted over the same mediums used by existing monopolies for decades (cable, phone, fiber, satellite), how could anyone expect anything different. I'm thankful I have at least 2 choices. It took a long time for me to have 2 choices for phone or TV.
Exactly. He swapped every piece of hardware - saving the engineering sample CPU as the last thing he swapped. The system ran fine under Win 7 32 bit. You have to assume that hardware still works fine and that the problem was 64bit specific - which points to the CPU. Granted Intel said it should support 64bit, but it was an engineering sample.
He replaced the case, power supply, the video card, the mother board, the hard drives, and the cables first??
Before DVR, VCRs used to have IR emitters that would change the channel on the cable box automatically at the right time. You just need to find one of these.
Granted this might be a bit high-tech for some, but if someone was already programming their cable box to change the channel for the VCR, then they should be able to figure out the IR emitter.
This last round of the competition is last man standing derby, so it poses an odd challenge for AI. Someone should probably first develop lots of agressive AI players as expected, but then train the final AI to sit on the sidelines until only one other opponent is left. The final problem, of course, is what happens if everyone does this.
Waiting for an ACK before transmitting the next packet doesn't seem like a way of measuring bandwidth. Sounds like a measure of bandwidth + latency.
He's graduating now, so that means at the end of his second year he couldn't figure out why a string named string was a problem, and today he's not smart enough to create multiple online personalities so that these old posts don't trace back to him.
I agree with others who state that they only hire the best people they can find. If this is the only thing I know about the person (besides the resume), then he will end up in the reject list. There are plenty more applicants without negatives. As others have said, open source projects will help, but this late in the game it will look like what it really is - a last ditch effort to build the resume. What did this person do with his summers since starting college? Any co-ops or side projects? Or did he deliver pizzas and play video games all day?
The social networking might be more of a problem for him. If the chemicaldave that submitted this story is the same one that posted this question on daniweb, then he is not getting a job in this market. Period. http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post600287.html#post600287
If you like the article, try this one: Teamwork in Genetic Programming.
I did this 15 years ago, but unfortunately I didn't have access to real robots. Just computer simulation.
Simulated ants used teamwork to lift heavy pieces of food - if they all stopped and waited at the first food they found they would wait forever because there weren't enough of them. Had to have some intelligence.
There were also some water crossing problems where some ants (but not all) had to sacrifice themselves to build a bridge to reach the food.
Some solutions that were created by the GP were actually better than things that I had thought of on my own. Ex: I expected the ants to use pheromones to either attract or repel other ants. In one example the ants used pheromones to determine if an ant should go into the water. Every cycle every ant would release a pheromone. An ant would only enter water to build a bridge if they didn't detect any pheromones. Only the ants on the edge of the growing pheromone cloud would enter the water. After the fifth turn, no more ants would enter the water because the entire map was filled with pheromones. The ants created a way of using pheromones to measure time to limit the number of ants that died. Very unexpected but it worked faster than any other solution.
Article list .food as an example of a TLD that someone might want to register.
What if they get rid of the cyber squatters that own food.net and food.org - but where's the profit in that.
Yeah, it was down by the time there were 2 posts in /.
Don't ever go by web sites that rank the top 10 providers. Those are all paid placements.
Sometimes good providers turn bad. Forums provide the most up to date info.
I've found this site to provide useful info: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/
Just go with the opinions of those with lots of posts that don't appear to be promoting a single agenda.
I remember reading papers on this during my AI classes in the mid 90's. I don't see how this is impressive nearly 15 years later.
Here's the first link I found on G.P. Music from '98 which actually had the computer rate some of the music.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~bjohanso/papers/gp98/johanson98gpmusic.pdf
If you look at his references, people were doing this in the '80's.
No, I didn't RTFA. I didn't even read the article I linked in this post, so don't get upset if they aren't completely related.
in its report made on May 26th, 2006 M. MARC MORTIER from BEFTI reckons that "the 10.249.17.10 network address belongs to the address range of FINAMA bank", and that his "laptop is using the 10.249.24.60 IP address".
If their claims are based on the assumption that 10.249.*.* is a Finama bank owned IP subnet, then they are in trouble.
If you bring Silverlight into the discussion, then it is a 3 way battle.
Adobe Flash vs. Microsoft Silverlight vs. Google backed HTML 5. Here Flash has the dominant position.
This is another front on the OS battle where Web Apps + cloud computing makes it possible for a Browser-based OS do everything most people require of an operating system.
I just use speaker wires to distribute the audio. I use a cheap stereo amp (~$150) and then a 4 pair impedence matching speaker distribution box w/ volume controls for each pair of speakers (~$150). The amp & distribution box are in the stereo rack with the rest of the stereo equipment. I have this amp connected to the 2nd room output of my receiver. I get the 5.1 in the main room + 4 pairs of speakers for other rooms. Wiring is very easy this way. Only benefit of the more expensive systems is that they let you control the volume in the room itself and some repeat the remote IR signals that let you control everything from any room. Still, CD/DVD players that use radio frequency (not IR) remotes can be found for $50 so why bother.
I've posted some more ideas to my site: http://www.diyaudioandvideo.com/