Personally, I feel corporations should NOT have any rights with regard to copyright. The recording industry ESPECIALLY have abused copyright when they effectively rob the copyright of most performers when they "contract" to publish/distribute/promote the performers works. As to the length of copyright, it used to be 28 years from first publication... that was certainly long enough, especially in todays fast paced world!
The real problem is that copyright is not an election issue. While most of slashdot readers are convinced that extension of copyright is evil, none are going to make it a big enough issue to force governments to back down.
Personally, I would prefer copyright was similar to patent rights. 17..20 years should be sufficient time for the Autists to be fully compensated.
The very first product that I ever saw Bill gates name in was MITS basic. It loaded in 5.25 k of memory, and worked a treat! In fact, there were about 20 names embedded in the code. (names were overwritten when you actually run the executable.)
Bill actually bought the rights to MITS (Man In The Street) basic from his colleagues, and is how he started the whole Microsoft company. MITS basic was purportedly written by the original authors to prove that the new fangled microprocessors could actually do useful things.
As with all things Microsoft, Microsoft basic slowly got bigger and bigger (and buggier) until it used half of the available memory of a fully configured CPM system! (Fully configured CPM had a glorious 64 kilobytes of memory!)
The bathroom stalls where I work are always full. There's not enough toilets for the number of butts. They could certainly benefit from upgraded bathroom bandwidth.
So you saying that the people where you work are full of shit? Remember, thats an "inclusive" statement!
Surely it came with the same FBI warning that you see on Video's and DVD's?
Pretty funny really, there must be hundreds of ways of protecting against rogue downloads, when you would be expecting a gov agency to at least try something sneaky!
The thing with ethernet is there is a mandated quiet period between packets, they are not generally cued back to back... plus, there is often preamble and post-amble info... the preamble is to "lock up" the receiver. Then, there is the header info associated with the packet... this is not data. The header info can amount to several percent of the data payload (depends on the size of the packet... often configurable)
The outcome of all this is that you will not get 100MBits of data out of a 100 MBit link! you are doing well if you end up with 8 megabytes a second across a 100 megabit link!
Honestly, aren't people getting sick of the old "You'd be amazed what you can find on used laptops if you know a bit about forensics. Even without CSI-esque equipment. Most people think that deleting something erases it."
Seriously, this was somewhat true with 20 meg, and even 100 meg HDD's, but trawling through a 80 gig or larger HDD looking at "deleted" entries would be dreary in the extreme, I can not believe that many people would even be anal enough to bother, unless they already had some suspicion that there was likely to be a good prize for their effort! Add to this "file fragmentation", and finding a complete document might end up being nearly impossible.
If you don't believe me, just look through the contents of your current hard disk drive. Have fun!
What makes you think it was algorithmic? Some of the encryptors I have worked on used a white noise source into a long register... truly random, yet done in hardware!
Bullshit... True Green LEDs (as used in traffic lights) are highly efficient. Please look up the datasheets for these LEDS, before making stupid statements!
WRT to flicker... CFL's generally have high frequency inverter electronics built into their bases, with the inverter frequency set between 30..250 kHz, so you will NEVER see one flicker.
Crack one open, you will find a couple of power transistors, an IC, some capacitors, and a rectifier bridge.
Slow warm up I have noticed can be very bad with cheap "no name" brand tubes, but doesn't seem to be an issue with better known brands.
Events post Iraq invasion seem to suggest that perhaps Saddam had it right! The country was relatively stable under Saddam, but the US invasion certainly caused any stability to totally disappear.
I am somewhat ashamed that Saddam was executed, although, to hear that US troops effectively tortured Saddam does not surprise me in the least. Just look at the "illegal combatants" at Guantanamo Bay... Geneva convention not convenient? Just invent a new term, and break with any world law that requires prisoners to be decently treated!
But DOCSIS is on a shared cable, so you cannot get those speeds 24/7. If 100 subscribers are all on the same bit of cable, the ultimate potential bandwidth could well drop to only 2.2 or 4.4 megabits per second!
You might think this is not reasonable, but if Video on demand becomes popular, there might well be very little bandwidth left. Where as, with 100 mbit fibre, you are not going to be sharing that bandwidth.
If Australia wants to maintain, or even improve its status with OECD countries (WRT education/poplations intelligence), this is exactly the right way to go!
It appears that this could well improve the speed of lots of different operations. A definite boon for graphics like operations, but also a lot of DSP (audio/maths)stuff can benefit from these enhancements. It would also appear that general code could easily be sped up, however, compiler writers need to get their collective arses into gear for this to happen.
However, give the average developer more speed, and all that gets produced is more bloat with less speed. If you watch large teams of programmers, the managment actually force the developers to write slow code, claiming that maintainability is more important than any other factor! (smart code that actually executes quickly is generally too difficult for the dumb-arsed upper level (management) programmers to understand, and is thus removed. Believe me, I've seen this happen many times!)
Ha Ha, Paris is well known for exactly that... It's residents claiming not to understand English.
Fact is, they certainly understand English! If you abuse them, even in a mild tone, you rapidly find they do understand. The same arrogance that Paris abounds in is not evident in the French country side, where the people tend to be much more pleasant! (often explained as Franco/English competition)
I would also like to point out that it is called English because that seems to be country it was originally derived from. Americans (USA) take note! Otherwise, it would be called American! (Christ, Americans can not even spell Aluminium correctly!)
Have to agree, most programs do not require more than one to three threads. Where multiple cores will shine is when one runs multiple programs, and the expectation here is that the OS will partition out the load appropriately. (Gee, just like linux/windows/unix...) so the article is just a load of FUD!
Carefully repowering SRAM can maintain the contents. I have seen SRAM come up with essentially 99% of the contents still intact after the SRAM had been powered down for over a week. I guess that once powered up, the SRAM has a preference to come back the way it was before powerdown.
Or perhaps the slight residual voltage kept the SRAM contents intact. (Even though it was probably less than one tenth of a volt.) SRAM draws very little current when the voltages are reduced. Thus the power rails can maintain some small voltage for a very long time.
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It really seems to be a way of getting around the phones operating system taking too long to process DLL's. Doesn't sound particularly patentable, nor does it appear to be particularly novel!
The fact is, the original patent examiner seems to have made the correct decision. It is probable that the speedup method has prior art, although perhaps not in the context of phone operating systems. (Patenting something to speed up operations in your own companies crappy operating system seems a little narrow anyway!)
Well, the scientist obviously talks through his arse, so he probably can see with his skin. The issue will be one of resolution. How many nerve endings per square centimeter is there on a patch of skin?
It's not really "loss of sales" as much as "How many more we could sell if only we had no competition!"
The fact is, they are all dreamers, generally writing bug laden, bloated, slow and inefficient monoliths.
If these researchers looked carefully, they might discover Stanford was well known for its physics programs. Suprising that they did not recommend that these be extended and improved... if they did, perhaps the LHC would now be in the USA, and not in Europe!
Why should people around the world work to overturn bad patent applications in the USA? FYI, patent applications lodged with the US patent office are only valid in the united states.
Every country has its own patent office... this is what makes global patenting so damn expensive.
(However, a bad patent application stopped in its tracks in the USA might also help in that same patent being invalidated in the rest of the world!)
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Hydrochloric, Sulphuric, or Lysergic. Any of these might get you to the moon!
Personally, I feel corporations should NOT have any rights with regard to copyright. The recording industry ESPECIALLY have abused copyright when they effectively rob the copyright of most performers when they "contract" to publish/distribute/promote the performers works. As to the length of copyright, it used to be 28 years from first publication ... that was certainly long enough, especially in todays fast paced world!
The real problem is that copyright is not an election issue. While most of slashdot readers are convinced that extension of copyright is evil, none are going to make it a big enough issue to force governments to back down.
Personally, I would prefer copyright was similar to patent rights. 17..20 years should be sufficient time for the Autists to be fully compensated.
The very first product that I ever saw Bill gates name in was MITS basic. It loaded in 5.25 k of memory, and worked a treat! In fact, there were about 20 names embedded in the code. (names were overwritten when you actually run the executable.)
Bill actually bought the rights to MITS (Man In The Street) basic from his colleagues, and is how he started the whole Microsoft company. MITS basic was purportedly written by the original authors to prove that the new fangled microprocessors could actually do useful things.
As with all things Microsoft, Microsoft basic slowly got bigger and bigger (and buggier) until it used half of the available memory of a fully configured CPM system! (Fully configured CPM had a glorious 64 kilobytes of memory!)
The bathroom stalls where I work are always full. There's not enough toilets for the number of butts. They could certainly benefit from upgraded bathroom bandwidth.
So you saying that the people where you work are full of shit? Remember, thats an "inclusive" statement!
Surely it came with the same FBI warning that you see on Video's and DVD's?
Pretty funny really, there must be hundreds of ways of protecting against rogue downloads, when you would be expecting a gov agency to at least try something sneaky!
The thing with ethernet is there is a mandated quiet period between packets, they are not generally cued back to back ... plus, there is often preamble and post-amble info ... the preamble is to "lock up" the receiver. Then, there is the header info associated with the packet ... this is not data. The header info can amount to several percent of the data payload (depends on the size of the packet ... often configurable)
The outcome of all this is that you will not get 100MBits of data out of a 100 MBit link! you are doing well if you end up with 8 megabytes a second across a 100 megabit link!
Like SkyNet?
... Sounds like the plot for a crappy B grade SciFi
The companies name is General Atomics? And the Autonomous craft is called Predator C Avenger
Honestly, aren't people getting sick of the old "You'd be amazed what you can find on used laptops if you know a bit about forensics. Even without CSI-esque equipment. Most people think that deleting something erases it." Seriously, this was somewhat true with 20 meg, and even 100 meg HDD's, but trawling through a 80 gig or larger HDD looking at "deleted" entries would be dreary in the extreme, I can not believe that many people would even be anal enough to bother, unless they already had some suspicion that there was likely to be a good prize for their effort! Add to this "file fragmentation", and finding a complete document might end up being nearly impossible.
If you don't believe me, just look through the contents of your current hard disk drive. Have fun!
Talking about banks having sense? Where have you people been for the last year? (Hint ... Global economic crisis, Junk Bonds, Corporate Greed)
What makes you think it was algorithmic? Some of the encryptors I have worked on used a white noise source into a long register ... truly random, yet done in hardware!
While I think of it ... White LEDS are actually blue or UV leds that excite a broad spectrum phosphor. Thus, again, there is no "Green GAP".
Bullshit ... True Green LEDs (as used in traffic lights) are highly efficient. Please look up the datasheets for these LEDS, before making stupid statements!
WRT to flicker ... CFL's generally have high frequency inverter electronics built into their bases, with the inverter frequency set between 30..250 kHz, so you will NEVER see one flicker.
Crack one open, you will find a couple of power transistors, an IC, some capacitors, and a rectifier bridge.
Slow warm up I have noticed can be very bad with cheap "no name" brand tubes, but doesn't seem to be an issue with better known brands.
Events post Iraq invasion seem to suggest that perhaps Saddam had it right! The country was relatively stable under Saddam, but the US invasion certainly caused any stability to totally disappear.
... Geneva convention not convenient? Just invent a new term, and break with any world law that requires prisoners to be decently treated!
I am somewhat ashamed that Saddam was executed, although, to hear that US troops effectively tortured Saddam does not surprise me in the least. Just look at the "illegal combatants" at Guantanamo Bay
But DOCSIS is on a shared cable, so you cannot get those speeds 24/7. If 100 subscribers are all on the same bit of cable, the ultimate potential bandwidth could well drop to only 2.2 or 4.4 megabits per second!
You might think this is not reasonable, but if Video on demand becomes popular, there might well be very little bandwidth left. Where as, with 100 mbit fibre, you are not going to be sharing that bandwidth.
If Australia wants to maintain, or even improve its status with OECD countries (WRT education/poplations intelligence), this is exactly the right way to go!
It appears that this could well improve the speed of lots of different operations. A definite boon for graphics like operations, but also a lot of DSP (audio/maths)stuff can benefit from these enhancements. It would also appear that general code could easily be sped up, however, compiler writers need to get their collective arses into gear for this to happen.
However, give the average developer more speed, and all that gets produced is more bloat with less speed. If you watch large teams of programmers, the managment actually force the developers to write slow code, claiming that maintainability is more important than any other factor! (smart code that actually executes quickly is generally too difficult for the dumb-arsed upper level (management) programmers to understand, and is thus removed. Believe me, I've seen this happen many times!)
Ha Ha, Paris is well known for exactly that ... It's residents claiming not to understand English.
Fact is, they certainly understand English! If you abuse them, even in a mild tone, you rapidly find they do understand. The same arrogance that Paris abounds in is not evident in the French country side, where the people tend to be much more pleasant! (often explained as Franco/English competition)
I would also like to point out that it is called English because that seems to be country it was originally derived from. Americans (USA) take note! Otherwise, it would be called American! (Christ, Americans can not even spell Aluminium correctly!)
Have to agree, most programs do not require more than one to three threads. Where multiple cores will shine is when one runs multiple programs, and the expectation here is that the OS will partition out the load appropriately. (Gee, just like linux/windows/unix ...) so the article is just a load of FUD!
Well thats plainly wrong! Beta has/had a higher bandwidth, thus it was capable of a better picture (more lines).
See http://www.geocities.com/videoholic2000/BetaBetter.html or even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-VHS
So betamax was better. But VHS won the format war anyway.
Carefully repowering SRAM can maintain the contents. I have seen SRAM come up with essentially 99% of the contents still intact after the SRAM had been powered down for over a week. I guess that once powered up, the SRAM has a preference to come back the way it was before powerdown.
Or perhaps the slight residual voltage kept the SRAM contents intact. (Even though it was probably less than one tenth of a volt.) SRAM draws very little current when the voltages are reduced. Thus the power rails can maintain some small voltage for a very long time. .
It really seems to be a way of getting around the phones operating system taking too long to process DLL's. Doesn't sound particularly patentable, nor does it appear to be particularly novel!
The fact is, the original patent examiner seems to have made the correct decision. It is probable that the speedup method has prior art, although perhaps not in the context of phone operating systems. (Patenting something to speed up operations in your own companies crappy operating system seems a little narrow anyway!)
Well, the scientist obviously talks through his arse, so he probably can see with his skin. The issue will be one of resolution. How many nerve endings per square centimeter is there on a patch of skin?
It's not really "loss of sales" as much as "How many more we could sell if only we had no competition!"
... if they did, perhaps the LHC would now be in the USA, and not in Europe!
The fact is, they are all dreamers, generally writing bug laden, bloated, slow and inefficient monoliths.
If these researchers looked carefully, they might discover Stanford was well known for its physics programs. Suprising that they did not recommend that these be extended and improved
Why should people around the world work to overturn bad patent applications in the USA? FYI, patent applications lodged with the US patent office are only valid in the united states.
... this is what makes global patenting so damn expensive.
Every country has its own patent office
(However, a bad patent application stopped in its tracks in the USA might also help in that same patent being invalidated in the rest of the world!)