The judgements of other countries have no bearing on the US judicial system (one recent US Supreme Court decision notwithstanding), just as judgements of the US judicial system have no bearing on other countries.
The US judicial system is tasked with upholding the laws of the US.
As for the war, I'm not exactly sure how that ties in with file sharing.
And, as for iron curtains, I had the opportunity to spend a little time in a few former Soviet satellites. I assure you that you're spouting iron curtains out your ass.
I propose that we put comparisons to the iron curtain on the same level as comparisons to Nazis - as soon as you use it, you lose!
How many Slashdotters now have to change their shorts?
It depends on whether they've worn 'em inside out yet or not, but I'd say all of them should have changed their shorts a long time ago. Now is as good a time as any...
If a copy of me was made, I would still consider that to be "me," even if I was still alive.
In name only. You are you because of your sense of self. You can have no sense of self from a third party, copy or not. It would be more like having a really creepy twin.
And once you die, that copy of you is only "you" to other people. You'll either cease to exist or exist in some other way...and that depends on who's right about what happens when we die.
No question about it, it's easier to land a helo on a CV/CVN than a fixed winger. However, I took the comment about smaller ships to imply frigates, destroyers, crusiers, and the like. It is definitely not easy to land on one of those when the deck is pitching all over the place. The RAST systems in use by much of the HSL community helps, but send a non RAST-equipped helo to a small boy in high seas...and the pucker factor is high.
After spending five years aboard a US Navy FFG, I have a lot of respect for the helo crew. Landing on a deck that's pitching up and down over a range of five to ten feet, plus rolling a total of 30 degrees is tough enough - but right in front of the aircraft is a solid wall of metal that would cheerfully shred the rotors. Plus, the ship is moving.
When the SH-60B that we carried landed, the tail extended over the end of the flight deck. It's a big helicopter landing in a very small spot. And I've got to say that the five or six times that I flew, the landing was absolutely terrifying. And these guys were flying several missions a day whenever we were at sea.
But not on a motherboard - the characteristic impedance of the board can very from 35 ohms up to around 100 ohms without terrible problems. In a motherboard, there is excellent coupling between the trace and its adjacent plane, so the geometry between the two has the most significant (in terms of an order of magnitude) effect on the characteristic impedance. I hate to just toss out numbers without attribution, but it's what I do for a living, so I guess I'll just quote myself.
Microwaves in a non-coupled transmission line, yes. 266MHz clock, DQ and DQS frequencies in a coupled transmission line, no. For them, electrical loading plays a much greater role in timing problems.
wouldnt there be problems caused on the mobo due to the changes in capacitance between all the conductive tracks?
No, because the trace impedance is set by the dialectric between the layers in the motherboard - it's the dialectric constant of the PCB material combined with the spacing between the trace and the plane beneath it, along with the trace width. Whatever is above the trace, in terms of what would normally be free air, makes virtually no difference, particularly since the motherboards already have a conformal coating with a fixed dialectric constant anyway.
But there are probably plenty of other reasons why vegetable oil isn't so great for your computer.
Hynix: lost $7.5 billion Micron: lost $2.8 billion Infineon: lost $2 billion Elpida: no net profit data available Samsung: who knows? They make every dang thing in the world. They don't lose money, but I'd bet that they didn't make any from memory back then.
This was a perfectly moral and reasonable act and parallels what Tridge did to make Samba compatible with Windows file and printer sharing.
Indeed, and without Compaq's reverse engineering efforts, "commodity PC" wouldn't be a familiar phrase and "Linux" would probably be missing from our vocabulary.
the Ph.D. that wrote the sucker wants his big fat check for his doctorate status - he didn't earn three degrees and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to rake in a measley 22 grand a year
I complained about that to one of my professors - one of two in my six year college career who required us to use his book. Well, maybe not complained, but I did ask him just how much money there was in textbook writing. Given the price of the book (~$130), he made precious little - about ten bucks a copy for the US editions, less for international editions. As it turns out, his book really is the best on the subject (CMOS circuit design) and he wrote it out of frustration at the dearth of good books on the subject.
The other professor who required us to use his book taught a philosophy class. And, as it turns out, it was also a very good text. He chose to have it published in paperback - it was "only" $45. Granted, it sits, dusty and unread, in a box somewhere, while my CMOS design text is still a very valuable reference, but it was a good class and a good book.
I still refer to a number of textbooks that I bought while I was still in college - yes, they're quite a few years old, but physics and math don't change. Maybe I'm just lucky that I work in a field that's very closely related to what I studied in college, but I definitely value the textbooks that I use as references.
I guess that I can accept that it's civil disobedience, although it's a stretch. But if that's the case, then you do your civil disobedience, go to your trial and make your statement. But that's not happening here - the disobedience is happening, but when the hammer drops, most of the defendants start making up all sorts of lame-ass excuses about why it was all innocent.
Don't put me down on the side of the RIAA - mass subpeonas are a cheesey way of using a loophole in the law. But don't lionize the people who got caught. Civil disobedience is one thing, being stupid and getting caught at it is another. Everybody knows what the RIAA is doing...so by now, the people getting caught are just playing the odds and losing. And I'm still trying to figure out exactly what civil right the music industry is violating anyway...being a bunch of luddites and treating your customers like criminals is bad business, but it's not trampling on anybody's rights.
Even the summary belies the headline (and the article torpedoes it). The conviction was overturned because the software was not validated for the use for which it was used. The court made no comment on its reliability...they left that up to the scientific and engineering community. Based solely upon the court's comments and the article, it sounds like a good decision to me.
There's probably no sinister connection between the penalty for shoplifting and for software piracy - there's probably no connection at all.
It's just the normal disconnect between federal and state laws. You can find all sorts of parallels between them without looking too hard, but that doesn't imply any connection. It's just a case of two different systems working independently of each other.
I took an 18 year break, then went back and got my BSEE. It was the best career decision I ever made. I didn't go to one of the "good" schools, but I did keep a high GPA, got a good internship and when I graduated, a job was waiting for me paying substantially more than first year engineering jobs.
Being 40 years old helped, I'm sure. I can most definitely say that I'm not the same person that I was 20 years ago. Which is a good thing, because I'd probably be dead if I'd kept it up.
Interestingly, though, when I started talking about getting an MSEE, the company where I work (with about 20,000 employees) offered to pay for it, but pointed out that it wouldn't be particularly beneficial in terms of promotions or pay increases. Where I'm at, I guess, the degree gets you in the door, then it's experience from there.
The shareholders should be told how many outstanding shares there are and how many were (or will be) printed and when. But to say that the company lost money when they acually have more dollars (or more equipment, or less debt, or whatever) is really a lie. As the article says it needs to be disclosed, I just think it should be on a different line of their quarterly report than their profit/loss.
The shareholders must approve employee stock purchase plans at their annual meetings, so the shareholders not only know how many shares are available for employee purchase at a discount, buth they also explicitly authorize it! In approving these plans, the shareholders balance the effect of stock dilution against the value employee morale.
Well of course it's a trick! You know that the first digit is 4 and the last is the last number of the 100 digit number. The guy probably also has memorized log tables up to some ridiculous value which gives him help for another four or five digits. Then I'm sure that there are some other techniques to derive the rest.
This sort of stuff is all trickery of a sort - but so what? It still requires some significant mental gymnastics...I know that I couldn't do it in 11.8 seconds or probably even 11.8 hours. In fact, my calculator would probably be a smoking puddle of plastic if I tried to cheat.
Slashdot Mirror
The haiku is right.
You mispronounced opera.
It's three syllables.
Are you sure that the Slashdot case involves smart people defending stupid ideas?
The judgements of other countries have no bearing on the US judicial system (one recent US Supreme Court decision notwithstanding), just as judgements of the US judicial system have no bearing on other countries.
The US judicial system is tasked with upholding the laws of the US.
As for the war, I'm not exactly sure how that ties in with file sharing.
And, as for iron curtains, I had the opportunity to spend a little time in a few former Soviet satellites. I assure you that you're spouting iron curtains out your ass.
I propose that we put comparisons to the iron curtain on the same level as comparisons to Nazis - as soon as you use it, you lose!
It was bad enough when it was a nonsense word 100%, now that it means.... THAT... it's even worse.
Don't worry, it's still a nonsense word.
Yeah, apparently it's true, but it happened last September. Whew...that's some breaking news story.
-h-
How many Slashdotters now have to change their shorts?
It depends on whether they've worn 'em inside out yet or not, but I'd say all of them should have changed their shorts a long time ago. Now is as good a time as any...
-h-
If a copy of me was made, I would still consider that to be "me," even if I was still alive.
In name only. You are you because of your sense of self. You can have no sense of self from a third party, copy or not. It would be more like having a really creepy twin.
And once you die, that copy of you is only "you" to other people. You'll either cease to exist or exist in some other way...and that depends on who's right about what happens when we die.
-h-
No question about it, it's easier to land a helo on a CV/CVN than a fixed winger. However, I took the comment about smaller ships to imply frigates, destroyers, crusiers, and the like. It is definitely not easy to land on one of those when the deck is pitching all over the place. The RAST systems in use by much of the HSL community helps, but send a non RAST-equipped helo to a small boy in high seas...and the pucker factor is high.
After spending five years aboard a US Navy FFG, I have a lot of respect for the helo crew. Landing on a deck that's pitching up and down over a range of five to ten feet, plus rolling a total of 30 degrees is tough enough - but right in front of the aircraft is a solid wall of metal that would cheerfully shred the rotors. Plus, the ship is moving.
When the SH-60B that we carried landed, the tail extended over the end of the flight deck. It's a big helicopter landing in a very small spot. And I've got to say that the five or six times that I flew, the landing was absolutely terrifying. And these guys were flying several missions a day whenever we were at sea.
Oh, and RAST was broken half of the time, too.
-h-
But not on a motherboard - the characteristic impedance of the board can very from 35 ohms up to around 100 ohms without terrible problems. In a motherboard, there is excellent coupling between the trace and its adjacent plane, so the geometry between the two has the most significant (in terms of an order of magnitude) effect on the characteristic impedance. I hate to just toss out numbers without attribution, but it's what I do for a living, so I guess I'll just quote myself.
Microwaves in a non-coupled transmission line, yes. 266MHz clock, DQ and DQS frequencies in a coupled transmission line, no. For them, electrical loading plays a much greater role in timing problems.
-h-
wouldnt there be problems caused on the mobo due to the changes in capacitance between all the conductive tracks?
No, because the trace impedance is set by the dialectric between the layers in the motherboard - it's the dialectric constant of the PCB material combined with the spacing between the trace and the plane beneath it, along with the trace width. Whatever is above the trace, in terms of what would normally be free air, makes virtually no difference, particularly since the motherboards already have a conformal coating with a fixed dialectric constant anyway.
But there are probably plenty of other reasons why vegetable oil isn't so great for your computer.
-h-
It is *only* 43 years old.
I'm 43 years old and sometimes I feel pretty damn aged.
At least nobody's put an antenna on top of me...yet.
How much did they make during that time?
Hynix: lost $7.5 billion
Micron: lost $2.8 billion
Infineon: lost $2 billion
Elpida: no net profit data available
Samsung: who knows? They make every dang thing in the world. They don't lose money, but I'd bet that they didn't make any from memory back then.
Anyway, draw your own conclusions...
According to Hoovers, Hynix's NET income for 2000-2002 was $7.5 Billion with a "B".
Better look at those numbers again. Hynix's net LOSS was $7.5 billion over that time period.
Stripped of the hype, the RIAA is attempting to enforce IP rights on behalf of its members.
In the case described by this article, a group of lawyers is attempting to enforce IP rights on behalf of its clients.
Sure, it's a huge oversimplification, but at least it's devoid of hyperbole!
-h-
This was a perfectly moral and reasonable act and parallels what Tridge did to make Samba compatible with Windows file and printer sharing.
Indeed, and without Compaq's reverse engineering efforts, "commodity PC" wouldn't be a familiar phrase and "Linux" would probably be missing from our vocabulary.
Oh crud. I think I just agreed with Bruce.
-h-
Don't forget aliens with acid for blood!
the Ph.D. that wrote the sucker wants his big fat check for his doctorate status - he didn't earn three degrees and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to rake in a measley 22 grand a year
I complained about that to one of my professors - one of two in my six year college career who required us to use his book. Well, maybe not complained, but I did ask him just how much money there was in textbook writing. Given the price of the book (~$130), he made precious little - about ten bucks a copy for the US editions, less for international editions. As it turns out, his book really is the best on the subject (CMOS circuit design) and he wrote it out of frustration at the dearth of good books on the subject.
The other professor who required us to use his book taught a philosophy class. And, as it turns out, it was also a very good text. He chose to have it published in paperback - it was "only" $45. Granted, it sits, dusty and unread, in a box somewhere, while my CMOS design text is still a very valuable reference, but it was a good class and a good book.
I still refer to a number of textbooks that I bought while I was still in college - yes, they're quite a few years old, but physics and math don't change. Maybe I'm just lucky that I work in a field that's very closely related to what I studied in college, but I definitely value the textbooks that I use as references.
I guess that I can accept that it's civil disobedience, although it's a stretch. But if that's the case, then you do your civil disobedience, go to your trial and make your statement. But that's not happening here - the disobedience is happening, but when the hammer drops, most of the defendants start making up all sorts of lame-ass excuses about why it was all innocent.
Don't put me down on the side of the RIAA - mass subpeonas are a cheesey way of using a loophole in the law. But don't lionize the people who got caught. Civil disobedience is one thing, being stupid and getting caught at it is another. Everybody knows what the RIAA is doing...so by now, the people getting caught are just playing the odds and losing. And I'm still trying to figure out exactly what civil right the music industry is violating anyway...being a bunch of luddites and treating your customers like criminals is bad business, but it's not trampling on anybody's rights.
What an aching shame that it was posted by an AC. The post is right on the money.
Even the summary belies the headline (and the article torpedoes it). The conviction was overturned because the software was not validated for the use for which it was used. The court made no comment on its reliability...they left that up to the scientific and engineering community. Based solely upon the court's comments and the article, it sounds like a good decision to me.
=h=
There's probably no sinister connection between the penalty for shoplifting and for software piracy - there's probably no connection at all.
It's just the normal disconnect between federal and state laws. You can find all sorts of parallels between them without looking too hard, but that doesn't imply any connection. It's just a case of two different systems working independently of each other.
-h-
You couldn't pay me enough!
I took an 18 year break, then went back and got my BSEE. It was the best career decision I ever made. I didn't go to one of the "good" schools, but I did keep a high GPA, got a good internship and when I graduated, a job was waiting for me paying substantially more than first year engineering jobs.
Being 40 years old helped, I'm sure. I can most definitely say that I'm not the same person that I was 20 years ago. Which is a good thing, because I'd probably be dead if I'd kept it up.
Interestingly, though, when I started talking about getting an MSEE, the company where I work (with about 20,000 employees) offered to pay for it, but pointed out that it wouldn't be particularly beneficial in terms of promotions or pay increases. Where I'm at, I guess, the degree gets you in the door, then it's experience from there.
-h-
The shareholders should be told how many outstanding shares there are and how many were (or will be) printed and when. But to say that the company lost money when they acually have more dollars (or more equipment, or less debt, or whatever) is really a lie. As the article says it needs to be disclosed, I just think it should be on a different line of their quarterly report than their profit/loss.
The shareholders must approve employee stock purchase plans at their annual meetings, so the shareholders not only know how many shares are available for employee purchase at a discount, buth they also explicitly authorize it! In approving these plans, the shareholders balance the effect of stock dilution against the value employee morale.
-h-
Well of course it's a trick! You know that the first digit is 4 and the last is the last number of the 100 digit number. The guy probably also has memorized log tables up to some ridiculous value which gives him help for another four or five digits. Then I'm sure that there are some other techniques to derive the rest.
This sort of stuff is all trickery of a sort - but so what? It still requires some significant mental gymnastics...I know that I couldn't do it in 11.8 seconds or probably even 11.8 hours. In fact, my calculator would probably be a smoking puddle of plastic if I tried to cheat.
-h-