It seems that half wit managers think everything they see coming from their "genius" workers is new and patentable. Any school child with an IQ below moron would be able to come up with Nokia's "ingenius" solution.
Surely, attempting to patent something that is so obvious should actually atract huge fines, since even a patent application will waste an examiners time.
Any computer application that just duplicates something from the analogue domain is plainly not patentable. This includes the mathematics/arithmetic that is employed. (IE: the maths used in demodulation, the maths used in compression (video and audio). etc, etc.
. Patents should only be for physical processes/devices. (As they originally were... including a WORKING model!)
I would have thought that an exploit like this would be worth a huge amount of money... For Oracle, but now for the great pool of unwashed out there.
It strikes me that if Oracle (and other HUGE software vendors) were to offer substantial cash incentives to find holes as gaping as this one obviously is, that the exploit would have been reported directly to Oracle. By substantial i mean in excess of 100,000 euros. (I would have said US dollars, but that currency isn't worth much any more!)
Tantalum capacitors are expensive, and tantalum is said to be a poison.
There are now better, and cheaper alternatives using ceramic capacitors. Ceramic capacitors in the 1 uF to 470 uF range are now MUCH smaller than their tantalum equivalents, have far superior characteristics (almost ideal) and are cheaper. In fact, these newish ceramic caps are so good, that in some applications a resistor is required in series with the device if they are being used to replace a tantalum capacitor. So, in the end, it doesn't matter if the source dries up.(From an electronics viewpoint)
(In fact, tantalum caps have increasingly become more expensive for many years now, to the point where most designers tend to avoid using them as there are many other options that have become available due to the shear cost of tantalum capacitors.)
Ceramic caps also avoid the deterioration over time that electrolytic capacitors "enjoy", so your equipment should last longer. (Without leaking their contents all over the other electronics on the board!)
Don't forget, these publications are also a source of money to the publishing bodies. 99% of searches for modern scientific data ends up at one of several sites, and all you can see is an abstract. To see anything more, you need to pay cold hard cash. So, really, these publishing bodies are actually slowing down the advancement of mankind!
Same is true for "standards". (ISO or otherwise).
IMHO, if they want to call it a standard, it really should be free. (Especially considering that the standards bodies have the "standard" written by people/companies giving their time for free!)
Their next patent is: How to manage staff that appear to be brain dead.
Looking like Microsoft Managers need something like that right now! They certainly appear to need something like that in the legal division. (I shudder when I imagine what a M$ "think tank" might look like.)
So, like the american rocket program, you will now need to get yourself more German scientists just so you can come in second place.
If the environmental study is going to cost 45 million, the construction costs are going to be multiple billions. Don't think it will ever make enough money to be profitable. Obviously a pork barrel project!
Obviously, you have never seen picures of Chernobyl. While it wasn't like an atomic bomb, it certainly went KABOOM. It blew a several hundred ton metal lid clean off the reactor, and demolished a fair percentage of the building containing the reactor core.
It might seem like that, but I suspect that it is effectively just network congestion. The period you mention happens to coincide with the ankle biters getting home from school, and business activity as people finalise their work for the day. (Amazing how many businesses use remote servers...)
The whole throttling issue tends to point to insufficient network resources. Perhaps also the network routers are not up to the task. It will break peoples visions of on demand TV, as well as other services! High definition video seems to be totally out of the question on most of todays networks. (Most, but not all... if your lucky enough to have fibre!)
It's Intel/AMD that are expected to fix this issue, by making huge leaps in processing grunt.
I mean, you can not expect the current crop of programmers to actually write (or even just optimise) fast code.
We now have many touted languages that are actually interpreters, not compilers. The argument from programmers is that today's CPU's are fast enough, and that these "new" languages are much easier to debug. They may as well be written in Visual Basic in my opinion!
Thats an explosion! Light bulbs are filled with an inert gas. Otherwise the filament evaporates too quickly.
Try heating a light bulb over a gas flame. A Vacuum tube will suck the melting glass envelope in, but light bulbs actually explode!
I know this because I actually have seen it tried, and the hot glass from the bulb actually burnt me badly. (Then came the research into why it exploded!)
Am I being ridiculous? Just read some of the statements in this thread.
Iron man / Tony Stark, penis and third arm, etc. Alternatively, comments on the aesthetics of the rubber covering the working parts. Who gives a flying F.., if the prosthetic helps, but offends some of the idiots out there!
People should engage there minds before putting their mouths into gear! (Same holds true for typing.) Or, if someone puts their foot in their mouth, they should be made to bite!
In the second video, it was stated that the arm weight was modeled on a womens arm. I think 8.8 pounds was the stated figure, which does not seem like much considering the arm appears to offer the same range of movements as a normal arm.
I was a bit curious that the nerves were wired to chest muscles... A bionic ear (cochlea implant) used to use a small rubbery gadget with 64 "needles" that would prick into the aural nerve when the rubber was wraped around it. (which gave 32 channels to excite that bundle of nerve fibres.) I am surprised something like that wasn't employed (in reverse... as pick-ups) in at least some of the experiments.
Really? Could we experiment on you? Of course, we need to remove both your arms first, and leave you that way for a few years before we even begin to attempt to "train" you to use the replacement. Hope your good at holding your bladder, or your going to wet yourself whilst pleading with someone to unzip you, and provide the aiming...
Seriously, this thing is amazing. Now all we need is a brain replacement for about 50% of the people who respond with off topic or plainly ridiculous statements in their posts on/to slashdot!
Maybe news for turds is more apt in a fair percentage of cases?!
Your car headlights are supposed to illuminate the curb. There is also the matter of parallax as you get closer to the light/Bicycle, you can determine the distance.
If you have trouble with this, I suggest you either get your eyes tested, or stop smoking whatever it is.
Alternatively, try riding a bicycle (even during the day) for an hour or so a day, for a couple of weeks. You will discover that it doesn't matter how visible you are, ignorant arseholes in cars will actively try to run you down anyway.
Anything that can be "disabled" in BIOS can be re-enabled by the software in a game. Most OS's essentially ignore the BIOS anyway. If you watch LINUX comming "up", you will see that it is probing the hardware to find devices that may, or may not have been described in the BIOS / Bios data area.
Anyone who looks at motherboards would be aware that they haven't suddenly grown yet another chip. This means that the TPM device is probably integrated into one of the main chips. Like the North/South bridge, or perhaps the integrated sound chip.
If it is in hardware, a simple solution is to cause an exception when the relevant hardware address is triggered. Then software takes over. (Worst case, imagine a tweaked "virtual" machine. However, if Intel/AMD have embedded the TPM with the processor/s, then it might get a little more difficult.
Consumer backlash might be the best way to fix these kinds of issues though.
You don't... you take to their network with an axe, Thus effectively doing your own network shaping. (PEAR SHAPED). Enough people do this and they will get the message.
Alternatively, create a group that continuously downloads legal ISO images. Structure the group to grow (friend of a friend of a friend). Bells bandwidth, even with shaping will eventually be insufficient to allow even their own traffic. Every 10 seconds, start another download... (Should be easy to create a script for this task.)
Surely 2AM knocks on the the door equates to 2:01 bloody noses. (Thats noses, not Moses)
Really, the police involved should be dragged across hot, burning coals. Scientology is viewed as a cult by rational people. If this is NOT thrown out of court, with appropriate admonishment of the relevent authorities, the people should revolt, and tear the court down brick by brick.
Political correctness seems to have gone to far. One wonders about the sanity of those supposedly in charge of protecting our freedoms. Perhaps lithium tablets should be made mandatory for anyone associated with government policies. (Just to be on the safe side!)
Most of the actual LCD display panels on the market are 8 bits per individual colour (Which comes to 24 bits per pixel), so I would have to disagree about your statement on dithering due to the panel only having 6 bits per colour. (Which comes to 18 bits per pixel) A couple of years ago, I spent ages looking at various panels while in the initial design phase of desiging a monitor for USA cop cars. Ended up using the same display as the play station portable, which definitely had 8 bits/colour for a true 24 BPP interface.
Since most source material for the display is based on MPEG/JPEG, nobody will perceive any difference in the colour gamut anyway. This is due to the quantisation that MPEG/JPEG (etc) uses as part of the compression process.
I
Wow... Great... But this sort of thing has been available for ages from several vendors! And at reasonable prices as well!
See http://www.olimex.com/dev/index.html for a list of various processors supported!
I have used Olimex boards in the past. Not a bad way (and cheap!) to jump start a project!
A quick Google search will find many other vendors of cheap prototyping kits from many different companies. (Although... many are reselling the OLIMEX stuff.)
Mind you, the source is from a country that may scare your average paranoid homeland security guy.
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It seems that half wit managers think everything they see coming from their "genius" workers is new and patentable. Any school child with an IQ below moron would be able to come up with Nokia's "ingenius" solution.
... including a WORKING model!)
Surely, attempting to patent something that is so obvious should actually atract huge fines, since even a patent application will waste an examiners time.
Any computer application that just duplicates something from the analogue domain is plainly not patentable. This includes the mathematics/arithmetic that is employed. (IE: the maths used in demodulation, the maths used in compression (video and audio). etc, etc.
. Patents should only be for physical processes/devices. (As they originally were
I would have thought that an exploit like this would be worth a huge amount of money ... For Oracle, but now for the great pool of unwashed out there.
It strikes me that if Oracle (and other HUGE software vendors) were to offer substantial cash incentives to find holes as gaping as this one obviously is, that the exploit would have been reported directly to Oracle. By substantial i mean in excess of 100,000 euros. (I would have said US dollars, but that currency isn't worth much any more!)
Tantalum capacitors are expensive, and tantalum is said to be a poison.
There are now better, and cheaper alternatives using ceramic capacitors. Ceramic capacitors in the 1 uF to 470 uF range are now MUCH smaller than their tantalum equivalents, have far superior characteristics (almost ideal) and are cheaper. In fact, these newish ceramic caps are so good, that in some applications a resistor is required in series with the device if they are being used to replace a tantalum capacitor. So, in the end, it doesn't matter if the source dries up.(From an electronics viewpoint)
(In fact, tantalum caps have increasingly become more expensive for many years now, to the point where most designers tend to avoid using them as there are many other options that have become available due to the shear cost of tantalum capacitors.)
Ceramic caps also avoid the deterioration over time that electrolytic capacitors "enjoy", so your equipment should last longer. (Without leaking their contents all over the other electronics on the board!)
Don't forget, these publications are also a source of money to the publishing bodies. 99% of searches for modern scientific data ends up at one of several sites, and all you can see is an abstract. To see anything more, you need to pay cold hard cash. So, really, these publishing bodies are actually slowing down the advancement of mankind!
Same is true for "standards". (ISO or otherwise). IMHO, if they want to call it a standard, it really should be free. (Especially considering that the standards bodies have the "standard" written by people/companies giving their time for free!)
Their next patent is: How to manage staff that appear to be brain dead.
Looking like Microsoft Managers need something like that right now! They certainly appear to need something like that in the legal division. (I shudder when I imagine what a M$ "think tank" might look like.)
So, like the american rocket program, you will now need to get yourself more German scientists just so you can come in second place.
If the environmental study is going to cost 45 million, the construction costs are going to be multiple billions. Don't think it will ever make enough money to be profitable. Obviously a pork barrel project!
Obviously, you have never seen picures of Chernobyl. While it wasn't like an atomic bomb, it certainly went KABOOM. It blew a several hundred ton metal lid clean off the reactor, and demolished a fair percentage of the building containing the reactor core.
CTRL-ALT_DEL -> Kaboom.
or perhaps just another variation on the BSOD (Blu Screen Of Death)
It might seem like that, but I suspect that it is effectively just network congestion. The period you mention happens to coincide with the ankle biters getting home from school, and business activity as people finalise their work for the day. (Amazing how many businesses use remote servers ...)
... if your lucky enough to have fibre!)
The whole throttling issue tends to point to insufficient network resources. Perhaps also the network routers are not up to the task. It will break peoples visions of on demand TV, as well as other services! High definition video seems to be totally out of the question on most of todays networks. (Most, but not all
Your joking, right?
It's Intel/AMD that are expected to fix this issue, by making huge leaps in processing grunt.
I mean, you can not expect the current crop of programmers to actually write (or even just optimise) fast code.
We now have many touted languages that are actually interpreters, not compilers. The argument from programmers is that today's CPU's are fast enough, and that these "new" languages are much easier to debug. They may as well be written in Visual Basic in my opinion!
Surely these examples are arithmetic, not mathematics?
Thats an explosion! Light bulbs are filled with an inert gas. Otherwise the filament evaporates too quickly.
Try heating a light bulb over a gas flame. A Vacuum tube will suck the melting glass envelope in, but light bulbs actually explode!
I know this because I actually have seen it tried, and the hot glass from the bulb actually burnt me badly. (Then came the research into why it exploded!)
LightBulb
Am I being ridiculous? Just read some of the statements in this thread.
Iron man / Tony Stark, penis and third arm, etc. Alternatively, comments on the aesthetics of the rubber covering the working parts. Who gives a flying F.., if the prosthetic helps, but offends some of the idiots out there!
People should engage there minds before putting their mouths into gear! (Same holds true for typing.) Or, if someone puts their foot in their mouth, they should be made to bite!
In the second video, it was stated that the arm weight was modeled on a womens arm. I think 8.8 pounds was the stated figure, which does not seem like much considering the arm appears to offer the same range of movements as a normal arm.
... A bionic ear (cochlea implant) used to use a small rubbery gadget with 64 "needles" that would prick into the aural nerve when the rubber was wraped around it. (which gave 32 channels to excite that bundle of nerve fibres.) I am surprised something like that wasn't employed (in reverse ... as pick-ups) in at least some of the experiments.
I was a bit curious that the nerves were wired to chest muscles
Really? Could we experiment on you? Of course, we need to remove both your arms first, and leave you that way for a few years before we even begin to attempt to "train" you to use the replacement. Hope your good at holding your bladder, or your going to wet yourself whilst pleading with someone to unzip you, and provide the aiming ...
Seriously, this thing is amazing. Now all we need is a brain replacement for about 50% of the people who respond with off topic or plainly ridiculous statements in their posts on/to slashdot!
Maybe news for turds is more apt in a fair percentage of cases?!
Your car headlights are supposed to illuminate the curb. There is also the matter of parallax as you get closer to the light/Bicycle, you can determine the distance.
If you have trouble with this, I suggest you either get your eyes tested, or stop smoking whatever it is.
Alternatively, try riding a bicycle (even during the day) for an hour or so a day, for a couple of weeks. You will discover that it doesn't matter how visible you are, ignorant arseholes in cars will actively try to run you down anyway.
Oh dear.
Anything that can be "disabled" in BIOS can be re-enabled by the software in a game. Most OS's essentially ignore the BIOS anyway. If you watch LINUX comming "up", you will see that it is probing the hardware to find devices that may, or may not have been described in the BIOS / Bios data area.
Anyone who looks at motherboards would be aware that they haven't suddenly grown yet another chip. This means that the TPM device is probably integrated into one of the main chips. Like the North/South bridge, or perhaps the integrated sound chip.
If it is in hardware, a simple solution is to cause an exception when the relevant hardware address is triggered. Then software takes over. (Worst case, imagine a tweaked "virtual" machine. However, if Intel/AMD have embedded the TPM with the processor/s, then it might get a little more difficult.
Consumer backlash might be the best way to fix these kinds of issues though.
You don't ... you take to their network with an axe, Thus effectively doing your own network shaping. (PEAR SHAPED). Enough people do this and they will get the message.
... (Should be easy to create a script for this task.)
Alternatively, create a group that continuously downloads legal ISO images. Structure the group to grow (friend of a friend of a friend). Bells bandwidth, even with shaping will eventually be insufficient to allow even their own traffic. Every 10 seconds, start another download
Surely 2AM knocks on the the door equates to 2:01 bloody noses. (Thats noses, not Moses)
Really, the police involved should be dragged across hot, burning coals. Scientology is viewed as a cult by rational people. If this is NOT thrown out of court, with appropriate admonishment of the relevent authorities, the people should revolt, and tear the court down brick by brick.
Political correctness seems to have gone to far. One wonders about the sanity of those supposedly in charge of protecting our freedoms. Perhaps lithium tablets should be made mandatory for anyone associated with government policies. (Just to be on the safe side!)
I guess when the project failed, all the programmers were snapped up by Micro$oft to work on their Vista project!
even if you had 12 inches, you wouldn't use it as a rule!
Most of the actual LCD display panels on the market are 8 bits per individual colour (Which comes to 24 bits per pixel), so I would have to disagree about your statement on dithering due to the panel only having 6 bits per colour. (Which comes to 18 bits per pixel) A couple of years ago, I spent ages looking at various panels while in the initial design phase of desiging a monitor for USA cop cars. Ended up using the same display as the play station portable, which definitely had 8 bits/colour for a true 24 BPP interface.
Since most source material for the display is based on MPEG/JPEG, nobody will perceive any difference in the colour gamut anyway. This is due to the quantisation that MPEG/JPEG (etc) uses as part of the compression process. I
Wow ... Great ... But this sort of thing has been available for ages from several vendors! And at reasonable prices as well!
... many are reselling the OLIMEX stuff.)
See http://www.olimex.com/dev/index.html for a list of various processors supported!
I have used Olimex boards in the past. Not a bad way (and cheap!) to jump start a project!
A quick Google search will find many other vendors of cheap prototyping kits from many different companies. (Although
Mind you, the source is from a country that may scare your average paranoid homeland security guy.
Now thats funny ... since the rest of the world initially identifies a Canadian accent as a USA one!
TLA's are just a PITA!