It's fun to deride abstract academic concepts as irrelevant to the modern world. Those with such a shortsighted view fail to see that most engineered technologies depend heavily on mathematics. Nothing in our modern world would exist without math. No cell phones. No iPods. Even more mundane things like constructing buildings to withstand the elements and keep the occupants safe requires an application of mathematics at some point. The poor buildings that collapsed in the Haiti quake were slapped together by people who had equal disdain and ignorance of mathematics and how to apply it. They reaped what they sowed. Even the lowly construction worker needs some mathematical background to measure and assemble things properly.
Is this the world Ramanathan wants us to live in? Maybe he only sees the need for certain elites who understand how everything works. I'm reminded of certain episodes of Star Trek where an imperiled planet of people are slaves to technology that they don't understand. That's not the path we need to go down. It's already bad enough that the Western world is becoming dependent on the scientific and engineering prowess of the Asian nations.
You just quoted excerpts from the summary of the invention. It goes through such drivel as explaining the OSI model and other known-in-the-art fluff intended to bog down the examiner. That text has no bearing on the validity of the patent. The claims are all that matter, with claim 1 being the most important. That claim doesn't cover any new ground and just mentions an obvious combination of networking components, packet routing, and an authentication mechanism as provided by the 802.11 standard.
It's not an improvement and there's no way to sugar coat it with the excuse that you're getting more pixels overall. In almost all use cases text is rendered on screen horizontally (even in East Asia). Losing vertical resolution reduces the amount of information you can fit on the screen for any particular task. The extra horizontal space doesn't factor in since the only way to leverage it is with long lines of text which has negative consequences for ease of reading.
We're getting less vertical resolution because there is a convergence of resolutions used for HD television displays and humdrum consumer level monitors. The manufacturers are taking advantage of the economies of scale. For those of us that were enjoying 1600x1200 back when everyone was wallowing in 640x480 and 800x600 it's a step backwards. Most people don't know what they're missing out on so there is no demand to do better.
So it's all held together with Ruby scripts and duct tape. If you're going to open something like this up to the world you need to digitally sign everything and continuously validate against an isolated server that can shut everything down when it detects a compromise.
The data center is not actually in Buffalo but rather some distance to the East in Lockport. In additional to the climate advantages, I'm sure Yahoo is getting some nice tax rebates considering the depressed economic situation of the area and the production at the local Delphi plant which was the biggest employer in the salad days.
Politicians are too busy engaging in politics to be bothered with public service. Who can refuse outsourcing your job to someone else who would rather do it for you and getting paid to do so.
While there may be no official word. The fact that they created a copy of the Vehicle Assembly Building indicates that they are prepared to work on lunar capable, Saturn V sized boosters when the need arises.
The presence of an LCCN or an LCC on a publication's copyright page is no guarantee that is it physically present in the LOC. Even if it has the more detailed Cataloging-in-Publication card entry text it may have been constructed by someone to make the book look more important.
Certainly there are opportunities to develop new ideas for cellular phones and these merit patent protection. However, in an era of smartphones which are just replicating desktop functions that are commonly known "in the art", the validity of many of these sort of patents is suspect. This is the same as the wave of internet patents that arrived covering things that had already been done before only this time it was with "a network" attached.
Maybe NYC gets the luxury of replacing its signs every ten years but there are places in the rest of New York where you can still see barely legible 30+ year old signs with the zinc frames (think Sesame Street).
It would be nice if they generated difference images from the original RAW and perform some quality measure to demonstrate the difference in performance.
The "decision" cited in the Wired article does not carry the force of law. It's own title says that it is a "recommendation". It is just a policy position paper and doesn't do anything to change the DMCA. That can only be done by Congress, the president, or a federal judge ruling in a case.
It affirms the right we've always had to reverse engineer which the DMCA never took away. If you jailbreak something and keep it to yourself you are safe from the DMCA. The sticky bit is when you distribute a "circumvention device" so others can accomplish the reverse engineering. Distribute your "device" and you have trouble coming that is proportional to how many legislators are owned by the company you've pissed off.
There are more modern alternatives but as a rule, all of the space grade microprocessors are based on older designs because they are simpler, more reliable, and easier to implement in a rad-hard process. More annoying when designing for space is the limited choice of suitable 16-bit and 8-bit microprocessors. When board space is at a premium it isn't pleasant to be forced into using 32-bit memories just to implement a simple control function.
If you read the comments, someone claiming to be the photographer refutes all of the claims that it is a fake. Yes it is a wastewater treatment schematic but it is a part of the Bushehr plant. The fact that everything is in English doesn't rule out the possibility of this being from Iran since English is the dominant language for technical interchange and would be the lingua franca of choice for collaborating engineers from different nations. The claim that the software couldn't be from the US because it uses metric readings is also silly. It indicates the author's susceptibility to false reasoning.
The SAG is different from most labor unions in that they represent workers who are paid for creative output rather than pure labor. It is in an actor's best interest not to slack off and put in a mediocre performance because their future employment prospects are dependent on their portfolio of (hopefully quality) work. This isn't how things work out in unions representing menial laborers.
There was a recent Daily Show where the UFCW was picketing a Wal-Mart for their anti-union practices. The catch is that the picketers were non-union temp workers paid minimum wage to represent the union's cause without any of the benefits. They even had their hours reduced because the union member who supplied the signs had limited time available. This is the sort of bullshit most unions create. They are just out to justify their own existence and keep their members secure in the knowledge that they are protected for slacking off and obstructing efficiency.
Collective bargaining is a powerful tool to uplift the exploited, but as with all forms of power it is all to easily abused and usually is.
The funny thing is that with the loudness wars lost, almost all CDs of pop music have excessive gain, resulting in nasty clipping of the waveforms. This is something you can't get away with on a record as you have to properly master a vinyl disc to keep the needle in the groove and minimize damage from playback. Despite the noise, compression, and inherent inferiority to digital media, I can see how some modern retro vinyl recordings actually do sound better than the same recording on CD simply because most CDs are so poorly mastered.
I hope the trend toward E-books is as slow as possible. It's annoying that my local universities are putting E-books in their catalog and restricting access to students and faculty. At least with a physical book you can go through the stacks and read whatever you want as a member of the general public.
It stands to reason that it is impossible to create a machine intelligence directly considering the complexity of our own poorly understood minds. It is more likely that it can be done as an emergent system that develops intelligence from a rudimentary impulse to learn and apply knowledge. Some form of emotion-like responses would be useful to drive such a machine toward successful learning and use of its knowledge by creating the reward of "pleasure" when accomplishing a task and "sadness" for failing. Human emotions like fear, lust, hate, jealousy, etc. would not need to be replicated since the machine wouldn't have the animal legacy of having to find food, escape predators, and reproduce.
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It's fun to deride abstract academic concepts as irrelevant to the modern world. Those with such a shortsighted view fail to see that most engineered technologies depend heavily on mathematics. Nothing in our modern world would exist without math. No cell phones. No iPods. Even more mundane things like constructing buildings to withstand the elements and keep the occupants safe requires an application of mathematics at some point. The poor buildings that collapsed in the Haiti quake were slapped together by people who had equal disdain and ignorance of mathematics and how to apply it. They reaped what they sowed. Even the lowly construction worker needs some mathematical background to measure and assemble things properly.
Is this the world Ramanathan wants us to live in? Maybe he only sees the need for certain elites who understand how everything works. I'm reminded of certain episodes of Star Trek where an imperiled planet of people are slaves to technology that they don't understand. That's not the path we need to go down. It's already bad enough that the Western world is becoming dependent on the scientific and engineering prowess of the Asian nations.
You just quoted excerpts from the summary of the invention. It goes through such drivel as explaining the OSI model and other known-in-the-art fluff intended to bog down the examiner. That text has no bearing on the validity of the patent. The claims are all that matter, with claim 1 being the most important. That claim doesn't cover any new ground and just mentions an obvious combination of networking components, packet routing, and an authentication mechanism as provided by the 802.11 standard.
You still have to rent a CableCard. My guess is they aren't cheap.
If there were a picture of you under a word closely resembling "Dildo" you'd be upset, too.
I don't see why. It's obvious that Bruce McCandless is an astronomical dick.
It's not an improvement and there's no way to sugar coat it with the excuse that you're getting more pixels overall. In almost all use cases text is rendered on screen horizontally (even in East Asia). Losing vertical resolution reduces the amount of information you can fit on the screen for any particular task. The extra horizontal space doesn't factor in since the only way to leverage it is with long lines of text which has negative consequences for ease of reading.
We're getting less vertical resolution because there is a convergence of resolutions used for HD television displays and humdrum consumer level monitors. The manufacturers are taking advantage of the economies of scale. For those of us that were enjoying 1600x1200 back when everyone was wallowing in 640x480 and 800x600 it's a step backwards. Most people don't know what they're missing out on so there is no demand to do better.
So it's all held together with Ruby scripts and duct tape. If you're going to open something like this up to the world you need to digitally sign everything and continuously validate against an isolated server that can shut everything down when it detects a compromise.
The data center is not actually in Buffalo but rather some distance to the East in Lockport. In additional to the climate advantages, I'm sure Yahoo is getting some nice tax rebates considering the depressed economic situation of the area and the production at the local Delphi plant which was the biggest employer in the salad days.
Politicians are too busy engaging in politics to be bothered with public service. Who can refuse outsourcing your job to someone else who would rather do it for you and getting paid to do so.
While there may be no official word. The fact that they created a copy of the Vehicle Assembly Building indicates that they are prepared to work on lunar capable, Saturn V sized boosters when the need arises.
The presence of an LCCN or an LCC on a publication's copyright page is no guarantee that is it physically present in the LOC. Even if it has the more detailed Cataloging-in-Publication card entry text it may have been constructed by someone to make the book look more important.
The hacker lost his golden opportunity to use 31337 as the marker. Surely that's a reference to some Jewish holiday. Maybe next time.
Certainly there are opportunities to develop new ideas for cellular phones and these merit patent protection. However, in an era of smartphones which are just replicating desktop functions that are commonly known "in the art", the validity of many of these sort of patents is suspect. This is the same as the wave of internet patents that arrived covering things that had already been done before only this time it was with "a network" attached.
Maybe NYC gets the luxury of replacing its signs every ten years but there are places in the rest of New York where you can still see barely legible 30+ year old signs with the zinc frames (think Sesame Street).
It would be nice if they generated difference images from the original RAW and perform some quality measure to demonstrate the difference in performance.
Notice that the original price is set at 25000 Yen. It will likely sell at $250, £250, and 250 euros.
Just call it an American cream ale and call it a day.
Typical slashdotter here and haven't RTFA but I would guess that they are interested in using yeast for vitamin synthesis on long missions.
The "decision" cited in the Wired article does not carry the force of law. It's own title says that it is a "recommendation". It is just a policy position paper and doesn't do anything to change the DMCA. That can only be done by Congress, the president, or a federal judge ruling in a case.
It affirms the right we've always had to reverse engineer which the DMCA never took away. If you jailbreak something and keep it to yourself you are safe from the DMCA. The sticky bit is when you distribute a "circumvention device" so others can accomplish the reverse engineering. Distribute your "device" and you have trouble coming that is proportional to how many legislators are owned by the company you've pissed off.
There are more modern alternatives but as a rule, all of the space grade microprocessors are based on older designs because they are simpler, more reliable, and easier to implement in a rad-hard process. More annoying when designing for space is the limited choice of suitable 16-bit and 8-bit microprocessors. When board space is at a premium it isn't pleasant to be forced into using 32-bit memories just to implement a simple control function.
If you read the comments, someone claiming to be the photographer refutes all of the claims that it is a fake. Yes it is a wastewater treatment schematic but it is a part of the Bushehr plant. The fact that everything is in English doesn't rule out the possibility of this being from Iran since English is the dominant language for technical interchange and would be the lingua franca of choice for collaborating engineers from different nations. The claim that the software couldn't be from the US because it uses metric readings is also silly. It indicates the author's susceptibility to false reasoning.
The SAG is different from most labor unions in that they represent workers who are paid for creative output rather than pure labor. It is in an actor's best interest not to slack off and put in a mediocre performance because their future employment prospects are dependent on their portfolio of (hopefully quality) work. This isn't how things work out in unions representing menial laborers.
There was a recent Daily Show where the UFCW was picketing a Wal-Mart for their anti-union practices. The catch is that the picketers were non-union temp workers paid minimum wage to represent the union's cause without any of the benefits. They even had their hours reduced because the union member who supplied the signs had limited time available. This is the sort of bullshit most unions create. They are just out to justify their own existence and keep their members secure in the knowledge that they are protected for slacking off and obstructing efficiency.
Collective bargaining is a powerful tool to uplift the exploited, but as with all forms of power it is all to easily abused and usually is.
The funny thing is that with the loudness wars lost, almost all CDs of pop music have excessive gain, resulting in nasty clipping of the waveforms. This is something you can't get away with on a record as you have to properly master a vinyl disc to keep the needle in the groove and minimize damage from playback. Despite the noise, compression, and inherent inferiority to digital media, I can see how some modern retro vinyl recordings actually do sound better than the same recording on CD simply because most CDs are so poorly mastered.
I hope the trend toward E-books is as slow as possible. It's annoying that my local universities are putting E-books in their catalog and restricting access to students and faculty. At least with a physical book you can go through the stacks and read whatever you want as a member of the general public.
It stands to reason that it is impossible to create a machine intelligence directly considering the complexity of our own poorly understood minds. It is more likely that it can be done as an emergent system that develops intelligence from a rudimentary impulse to learn and apply knowledge. Some form of emotion-like responses would be useful to drive such a machine toward successful learning and use of its knowledge by creating the reward of "pleasure" when accomplishing a task and "sadness" for failing. Human emotions like fear, lust, hate, jealousy, etc. would not need to be replicated since the machine wouldn't have the animal legacy of having to find food, escape predators, and reproduce.
Google inserts redirects on a low percentage of its search results. Most of the time you don't get them and they usually slip by unnoticed.