It's obviously the year that the IBM PC took off. Microsoft produced basics for many different computer manufacturers prior to getting really big off the back of IBM. Forget about the Apples, as they were really only gaming consoles, and had a very strange operating system.
It's the bloody french whining again... (Pun intentional).
A rose by any other name... Who cares about the naming conventions of wine?... Perhaps it should be mandated that all wines be called Alcoholic Plonk or Rotten Grape Juice. (Especially that crap from France!)
There is so much prior art in this area that I am gobsmacked that the patent was granted in the first place. (Even 50's "B grade" SciFi's have actors waving their hands near/over an "interface" with no obvious feedback.)
PS: it only proves that the US patent system is broken. I hate to disillusion many/.ers, but virtually every country in the world has a patent office, and none reciprocate their patents. (In fact, Europe has German, Swiss, English, etc, and also has a European Patent office (Who knows why...)
Amateur means self taught. It has absolutely NO bearing on skill. The arrogance of those who claim that the several years they wasted in an academic institution gives them some claim to a high IQ means nothing in the long run. (not even to an increase in measurable IQ!)
It should be noted that attendance of an institute of "higher learning" is meant to teach one how to teach oneself. I have met many self taught people who have a better grasp in their chosen subjects than many of the so called professionals in their own fields! (Ask many people why they are are in a specific profession and almost invariably the reply is "it pays the bills", not that they have any inherent interest in what they are doing... unlike an "amateur".
Might have been 2 accidents in 127 missions, but if you look at it in terms of distance it is very safe... (This is how airline statistics are made to look safe...) IE: 127 flights, at say 100 orbits each. Each orbit is roughly 36000 kilometres. -> 3600000 * 100 * 127 = 457,200,000. Therefore one accident per 225 million kilometres. This sounds relatively safe to me!
I agree... the handset makers are the ones innovating. Most phones are designed for the WORLD market... the few 100 million phones that end up in the US market are the tip of the iceberg, the world market is MUCH larger than the US market! (the European market is over one billion... the Indian market is over 1 Billion... the US market is...
Others may only produce one or two works in a lifetime -
So, perhaps these people ought to starve. We should not be expected to support these parasites for their entire lifespan + 20 years! The truth is, "artistic" works are only worth what someone will pay for them. I find that many "modern" paintings are not worth the canvas they were painted on (IMHO). Yet, some halfwit somewhere has paid a small fortune for the very same painting, thus elevating the artist to "genius" status.
Just leaf through a book of modern paintings. Personally, I find about 1 in a 100 acceptable, yet someone who has gone through the modern brainwashing experience (college/university) will find them all praise worthy!
Unfortunately, its not all that easy to compare. In general, the file with the higher byte count will be the better image, BUT... The problem is there are different ways to compress the same picture. (There are several "controls", even in baseline JPEG. (Where the "quantisation" steps occur, where the high frequency cutoff for each macroblock occurs. Then there are different ways for the JPEG engine to entropy encode the bitstream. IE: Arithmetic coding is allowed by the JPEG standard, however, due to patent issues, most implementations use Huffman coding, which is slightly less efficient.) It should be remembered that the JPEG standard is just baseline Any implementer is free to improve upon the baseline coding, as long as it still decodes correctly. There used to be JPEG viewing software that decompressed and cleaned up images that looked terrible using "standard JPEG decoding software. (I am not sure, but I suspect the blockiness and quantisation errors were smoothed out, improving the displayed image immensely.)
Of course, what you really need is the NCIS image enhancement package.
Be that as it may... the people in question must be suing for a pittance, because no one in their right mi nd invests in an Australian movie. (There are exceptions though... when an awful American actor comes along and takes the prime role shouting "A dingo ate my baby"... No Aussie in his (or her) right mind would have backed that film. (It still makes me cringe!)
An 807 afterburner for their iPod? (http://www.naturemagics.com/ham-radio/807-1625-valves.shtm) Since valves predate transistors, they must be simpler, right? (Also, the 500 or so volts on the anode will teach the little buggers to be careful!)
Yes, illegal file sharing is illegal in Australia (fair suck of the savaloy guys!)... But lobbying obnoxious MP's is not. I say good luck trying to pass a three strikes law, it would probably be enough to end Stephen Conroy's career. Getting to much attention is not good for any politician. Having a "tent embassy" parked outside your electoral offices might not be as exciting as some might think!
VHDL/Verilog is not a programming language! It's a hardware description language.
While coding in a HDL is strictly not programming, it may as well be! The simulators allow you to functionally verify the design on your own PC, the state machines produced in HDL look identical to the version you might have written in another language... The only difference is that overall the description is that for parallel processing. (In fact, there are translators that take C code and convert it to run on FPGA's...
VHDL looks very much like a subset of ADA... would you deny that ADA is not a programming language?
People wet themselves with less than 3 watts next to their heads (cell phones)... The energy density of beamed power will be kilowatts per square metre. If this doesn't worry you, you must have about as many brain cells as a common garden amoeba.
The argument that it will be at a frequency that passes through water does not hold, as the human water bag also contains salt, thus altering the absorption very dramatically. Even AC power frequencies have been pilloried over the years as dangerous to humans. (whether this is actually true is still a moot point...)
Come on, how many programmers do you know that write comments, meaningful or not? I personally have a massive descriptive dialogue running down the side. "Real" programmers have told me that is excessive. Looking at their code I find one comment every 20 to fifty lines, and descriptive identifiers, like i, x or y. The genome will be just like that. (Also, given that any big project ends up with lots of dead code. (yes, I know the compiler identifies that, but...)
But, the current going into a rectifier diode when feed from an AC power source is complex. (mostly the diode is off... only switches on when the AC voltage exceeds the voltage stored in the capacitor that the diode feeds!)
I would have thought that the capacitors in the power supply would have eradicated any mains fluctuations. (Eradicated is a bit too severe a term, but a reduction of 60 dB at the very least would seem reasonable.) Overall, since there are many capacitors in a power supply, the reduction would be even higher.)
I would have bet though, that listening on a radio receiver to a harmonic of the CPU's clock frequency, you might be able to deduce what was typed. (Then again, the "code" generated by/for the characters would be dwarfed by the code running in the underlying operating system... Ignoring the "Spreadspectrum" CPU clocks in many PC's - used to reduce the apparent EMC radiation from the PC to meet regulatory requirements. )
The very first thing that came to mind was "Isn't this what you lazy bastards were hired for?" Jeez, if you don't wan't to the the marginlly interesting stuff, I would hate to see your performance on the day in, day out tedium that can be IT.
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It's obviously the year that the IBM PC took off. Microsoft produced basics for many different computer manufacturers prior to getting really big off the back of IBM. Forget about the Apples, as they were really only gaming consoles, and had a very strange operating system.
Easy to fix ... Copyright should never have been transferable from the original author in the first place.
It's the bloody french whining again ... (Pun intentional).
... Who cares about the naming conventions of wine? ... Perhaps it should be mandated that all wines be called Alcoholic Plonk or Rotten Grape Juice. (Especially that crap from France!)
A rose by any other name
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Electrical-silicon computers are *not* efficient. They're *not* smart. They're extremely stupid extremely quickly, and that's all.
They are neither "smart" or stupid. They are just machines that blithely follow instructions.
Ha, I looked for a while, and actually expected the "Nigerian" scam. What surprised me was how far down it was before I found it!
With all that extra bandwidth, will there be an explosion in these types of offers?
There is so much prior art in this area that I am gobsmacked that the patent was granted in the first place. (Even 50's "B grade" SciFi's have actors waving their hands near/over an "interface" with no obvious feedback.)
/.ers, but virtually every country in the world has a patent office, and none reciprocate their patents. (In fact, Europe has German, Swiss, English, etc, and also has a European Patent office (Who knows why ...)
PS: it only proves that the US patent system is broken. I hate to disillusion many
Amateur means self taught. It has absolutely NO bearing on skill. The arrogance of those who claim that the several years they wasted in an academic institution gives them some claim to a high IQ means nothing in the long run. (not even to an increase in measurable IQ!)
... unlike an "amateur".
It should be noted that attendance of an institute of "higher learning" is meant to teach one how to teach oneself. I have met many self taught people who have a better grasp in their chosen subjects than many of the so called professionals in their own fields! (Ask many people why they are are in a specific profession and almost invariably the reply is "it pays the bills", not that they have any inherent interest in what they are doing
Amazing how a pretty girl has 1k+ friends...
I have actually watched people adding friends on facebook based on desirability... had nothing to do with actually knowing the people in question!
Explains the people you see with extremely load sound systems in their cars ... inadvertantly burnt out pieces of their brains!
Imagine that there are 30 .. 40% less bats since the very same 30 .. 40% are a smoking pile of flesh close to the RADAR antenna.
Christ, the Jovians have one little nuclear war, and we think it has been an asteroid impact.
Might have been 2 accidents in 127 missions, but if you look at it in terms of distance it is very safe ... (This is how airline statistics are made to look safe ...) IE: 127 flights, at say 100 orbits each. Each orbit is roughly 36000 kilometres. -> 3600000 * 100 * 127 = 457,200,000. Therefore one accident per 225 million kilometres. This sounds relatively safe to me!
I agree ... the handset makers are the ones innovating. Most phones are designed for the WORLD market ... the few 100 million phones that end up in the US market are the tip of the iceberg, the world market is MUCH larger than the US market! (the European market is over one billion ... the Indian market is over 1 Billion ... the US market is ...
Others may only produce one or two works in a lifetime -
So, perhaps these people ought to starve. We should not be expected to support these parasites for their entire lifespan + 20 years! The truth is, "artistic" works are only worth what someone will pay for them. I find that many "modern" paintings are not worth the canvas they were painted on (IMHO). Yet, some halfwit somewhere has paid a small fortune for the very same painting, thus elevating the artist to "genius" status.
Just leaf through a book of modern paintings. Personally, I find about 1 in a 100 acceptable, yet someone who has gone through the modern brainwashing experience (college/university) will find them all praise worthy!
Unfortunately, its not all that easy to compare. In general, the file with the higher byte count will be the better image, BUT ... The problem is there are different ways to compress the same picture. (There are several "controls", even in baseline JPEG. (Where the "quantisation" steps occur, where the high frequency cutoff for each macroblock occurs. Then there are different ways for the JPEG engine to entropy encode the bitstream. IE: Arithmetic coding is allowed by the JPEG standard, however, due to patent issues, most implementations use Huffman coding, which is slightly less efficient.) It should be remembered that the JPEG standard is just baseline Any implementer is free to improve upon the baseline coding, as long as it still decodes correctly. There used to be JPEG viewing software that decompressed and cleaned up images that looked terrible using "standard JPEG decoding software. (I am not sure, but I suspect the blockiness and quantisation errors were smoothed out, improving the displayed image immensely.)
Of course, what you really need is the NCIS image enhancement package.
Yeh, right. Like those in the USA do no wrong. Has any Australian Prime Minister ever apologised to his constituency over a break in. (Hint ... Richard Nixon ... you do remember him don't you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon). Biggest fraud ever. (Madoff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff) The list is endless.
... the people in question must be suing for a pittance, because no one in their right mi nd invests in an Australian movie. (There are exceptions though ... when an awful American actor comes along and takes the prime role shouting "A dingo ate my baby" ... No Aussie in his (or her) right mind would have backed that film. (It still makes me cringe!)
Be that as it may
An 807 afterburner for their iPod? (http://www.naturemagics.com/ham-radio/807-1625-valves.shtm) Since valves predate transistors, they must be simpler, right? (Also, the 500 or so volts on the anode will teach the little buggers to be careful!)
Meh. What's 23 quadrillion dollars really worth these days?
Nothing if you invest it with Madoff.
Yes, illegal file sharing is illegal in Australia (fair suck of the savaloy guys!)... But lobbying obnoxious MP's is not. I say good luck trying to pass a three strikes law, it would probably be enough to end Stephen Conroy's career. Getting to much attention is not good for any politician. Having a "tent embassy" parked outside your electoral offices might not be as exciting as some might think!
VHDL/Verilog is not a programming language! It's a hardware description language.
While coding in a HDL is strictly not programming, it may as well be! The simulators allow you to functionally verify the design on your own PC, the state machines produced in HDL look identical to the version you might have written in another language ... The only difference is that overall the description is that for parallel processing. (In fact, there are translators that take C code and convert it to run on FPGA's ...
... would you deny that ADA is not a programming language?
VHDL looks very much like a subset of ADA
People wet themselves with less than 3 watts next to their heads (cell phones) ... The energy density of beamed power will be kilowatts per square metre. If this doesn't worry you, you must have about as many brain cells as a common garden amoeba.
...)
The argument that it will be at a frequency that passes through water does not hold, as the human water bag also contains salt, thus altering the absorption very dramatically. Even AC power frequencies have been pilloried over the years as dangerous to humans. (whether this is actually true is still a moot point
How do you know it's NOT comments?
Come on, how many programmers do you know that write comments, meaningful or not? I personally have a massive descriptive dialogue running down the side. "Real" programmers have told me that is excessive. Looking at their code I find one comment every 20 to fifty lines, and descriptive identifiers, like i, x or y. The genome will be just like that. (Also, given that any big project ends up with lots of dead code. (yes, I know the compiler identifies that, but ...)
But, the current going into a rectifier diode when feed from an AC power source is complex. (mostly the diode is off ... only switches on when the AC voltage exceeds the voltage stored in the capacitor that the diode feeds!)
... Ignoring the "Spreadspectrum" CPU clocks in many PC's - used to reduce the apparent EMC radiation from the PC to meet regulatory requirements. )
I would have thought that the capacitors in the power supply would have eradicated any mains fluctuations. (Eradicated is a bit too severe a term, but a reduction of 60 dB at the very least would seem reasonable.) Overall, since there are many capacitors in a power supply, the reduction would be even higher.)
I would have bet though, that listening on a radio receiver to a harmonic of the CPU's clock frequency, you might be able to deduce what was typed. (Then again, the "code" generated by/for the characters would be dwarfed by the code running in the underlying operating system
The very first thing that came to mind was "Isn't this what you lazy bastards were hired for?" Jeez, if you don't wan't to the the marginlly interesting stuff, I would hate to see your performance on the day in, day out tedium that can be IT.