Maybe, maybe not. It's not so much that it's impossible to make a sensor with these characteristics-- it's that they're niche markets-- and it would take a lot of NRE to build a product which replicates their performance, for relatively few who would adopt the technology. With film, the NRE is done, and it can be offered at a low pricepoint profitably for those markets-- it's expensive to switch an image sensor in a digital camera compared to popping in a new roll of film.
And as to software replicating the effects-- I doubt it. Once you've thrown the information away it's pretty back for software to get it back.
Yes, it's a field programmable gate array. It basically allows you to produce arbitrarily complex digital logic by putting together tons of little look-up tables.
Xilinx makes parts that can do the equivalent of more than 2M gates, at 200+MHz.
And for lower end parts, they're as cheap as $20. Short run PCB services are as cheap as $60. Bill of materials of a "circumvention device" could be under $100.
Why use two power supplies? Just use one to power the drive and another to power everything else, and connect the grounds together.
Anyone who's used an external drive enclosure has done the exact same thing. And as long as signal lines are within.5V of each other, it's fine.
Not to mention that the scenario you name doesn't happen, because the power supplies have significant amounts of impedance which limits that current flow. Still, feeding power into the output of a switch-mode regulator is a bad thing. (Though, the regulator that's trying to produce the smaller voltage should just "turn off" and not charge the charge-bucket capacitor).
If you're capturing video from another firewire device (say, digital camera or miniDV deck), the video will move directly accross the bus with less system overhead, resulting in a much more stable configuration.
This is incorrect. Firewire mass storage doesn't talk to firewire video-- completely seperate protocols. It requires CPU intervention to figure out where to write things on the disk, etc. All you'll succeed in doing this with recipe is increasing resource utilization on the firewire controller.
Link pulse won't work at all with one set to 10 and one set to 100. A duplex mismatch, on the other hand, will result in one side seeing tons of collisions and subsequent throttling.
California state law. There are similar provisions in federal law, under the National Firearms Act.
It is possible to pay a large tax, undergo a background check, etc, to posess NFA weapons in a few states. But most states prohibit private ownership of NFA weapons; and everywhere else it's a big hassle. It's not like buying a handgun.
12301. (a) The term "destructive device," as used in this chapter, shall include any of the following weapons: (1) Any projectile containing any explosive or incendiary material or any other chemical substance, including, but not limited to, that which is commonly known as tracer or incendiary ammunition, except tracer ammunition manufactured for use in shotguns. (2) Any bomb, grenade, explosive missile, or similar device or any launching device therefor. (3) Any weapon of a caliber greater than 0.60 caliber which fires fixed ammunition, or any ammunition therefor, other than a shotgun (smooth or rifled bore) conforming to the definition of a "destructive device" found in subsection (b) of Section 179.11 of Title 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations, shotgun ammunition (single projectile or shot), antique rifle, or an antique cannon. For purposes of this section, the term "antique cannon" means any cannon manufactured before January 1, 1899, which has been rendered incapable of firing or for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade. The term "antique rifle" means a firearm conforming to the definition of an "antique firearm" in Section 179.11 of Title 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations. (4) Any rocket, rocket-propelled projectile, or similar device of a diameter greater than 0.60 inch, or any launching device therefor, and any rocket, rocket-propelled projectile, or similar device containing any explosive or incendiary material or any other chemical substance, other than the propellant for such device, except such devices as are designed primarily for emergency or distress signaling purposes. (5) Any breakable container which contains a flammable liquid with a flashpoint of 150 degrees Fahrenheit or less and has a wick or similar device capable of being ignited, other than a device which is commercially manufactured primarily for the purpose of illumination. (6) Any sealed device containing dry ice (CO2) or other chemically reactive substances assembled for the purpose of causing an explosion by a chemical reaction. (b) The term "explosive," as used in this chapter, shall mean any explosive defined in Section 12000 of the Health and Safety Code.
12303. Any person, firm, or corporation who, within this state, possesses any destructive device, other than fixed ammunition of a caliber greater than.60 caliber, except as provided by this chapter, is guilty of a public offense and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed one year, or in state prison, or by a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or by both such fine and imprisonment
And no, it's not considered a shotgun. And this has been the law for a -long- time.
Note that the article says that the people named in the suit offered an average of 1000 songs each. That means there could be people in the groups that offered considerably less.
It IS okay and legal, if you burn onto a music blank, with a music recorder implementing the Serial Copy Management System (SCMS), which only allows copies of originals and not second-generation copies.
Sec. 1008. - Prohibition on certain infringement actions
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
(Title 17, Chapter 10, Subchapter D, US Code)
20 kbits/second is too slow for most applications. While perhaps it's sufficient for cellular data, mice, and keyboard, I don't see what else you could use it for. PDA syncing took forever at 56kbit/sec even (thank god for USB). And it certainly couldn't work for wireless phone headsets.
Re:on second thought, pass the lead gloves please.
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I don't know about the ST:TNG episode, but maybe I can answer the resto f your question.
There's lots of molecules that will exhibit fluorescence when irradiated. Radiation can cause electrons to jump up to higher orbits, and when they settle down, the extra energy is emitted as a photon.
Watch hands used to be painted with a mixture of radium and zinc sulfide. Radium would emit gamma rays as it decayed, and that would cause the zinc sulfide to fluoresce. This way they didn't have to charge up in sunlight to glow in a dark room, but it was later discovered this was hazardous to your health. This can also happen with bet and alpha rays (anodofluorescence, I believe). The same basic technique is used with tritium on night-sights for guns.. with less dangerous beta decay.
Estimates of the temperature inside the WTC range from 600 celsius to 800 degrees celsius.
Incidentally, the simplistic "beams melted" is not the probable cause of the structural failure discussed in the FEMA Building Failure Report and in the civil engineer community-- rather, softening of beams and floor joist clips, as well as nonuniform expansion of the structure from the heat, allowed the structure to buckle outwards, and once one floor fell, the floor beneath could never have taken that much of a dynamic load.
Bits per second is equivalent to baud only when the physical medium has only two symbols. Baud is the symbol rate per second, BPS is the number of bits you can send per second.
FCC Part 68 is very permissive these days, saying that a ringing voltage is 40V-150V RMS, 20 or 30Hz.
The historical sources I can find online (unfortunately, I can't find the LSSGR right now) specify 70V RMS-- which is really close to 96V PtP (99V). Since 48V batteries vary from ~47V when mostly discharged to 52V at typical charge levels, this is pretty damn close to double battery voltage.
As you can see from this link, the baseline for federal tests for preventing injury in automobile crashes is 130 G's-- this is after significant portions of the deceleration have been dampened by restraint systems and portions of the vehicle collapsing. Fighter pilots in pressure suits routinely pull 10Gs without even blacking out.
I can't repro either. I have tried both holding down a key and the Emacs shortcuts. I think I reached a cap on the size of the field in all cases (as no more letters were being added to the field after ~1 minute). My machine is a dual 1.2GHz with 1GB ram, 10.2.6.
This was fixed July 16, 2002. Old news. Move along.
(It wasn't even that bad of a vulnerability, as it required end-user cooperation to exploit and also excellent timing/sustained penetration of the target network (software update runs once a week by default-- you need to guess when to arpspoof/dnsspoof properly. Still, it's not a good thing, and Apple fixed it promptly).
A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet. The order is placed by a purchaser at a client system and received by a server system. The server system receives purchaser information including identification of the purchaser, payment information, and shipment information from the client system. The server system then assigns a client identifier to the client system and associates the assigned client identifier with the received purchaser information.
The important part is the CLAIMS, not the abstract. The first claim from the Microsoft translation patent:
1. A method for translating instant messages exchanged between two or more devices over a network by one or more users that communicate in different languages, the method comprising: establishing a user profile indicating at least one user language and one or more translation preferences of the one or more users; receiving a message as input composed by at least one of the users according to the user language; translating the message from the user language to at least one different language corresponding to the one or more translation preferences; and transmitting the message in translated form to at least one of the two or more devices.
This seems to cover pretty much all practical IM autotranslation schemes, if this claim is granted.
Translation between protocol suites is a very different problem and Microsoft and others already have plenty of IP there, which is why things are worded the way they are. I don't think anyone dropped the ball-- this is a very broad, desirable patent if granted.
EJBs use the RMI/IDL CORBA subset for their distributed object model, and use the Java Transaction Service (JTS) for their distributed transaction model.
Java Transaction Service (JTS) is based on the CORBA Object Transaction Service (OTS). JTS is part of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and provides an implementation of the Java Transaction API (JTA)..
RMI-IIOP is the current preferred RMI transport in J2EE according to Sun, and fundamental properties of the J2EE framework (JTA) are built out of CORBA components. That sounds like an "underlying technology" to me. Sure, you don't need to get into IDL or CORBA naming nitty-gritties unless you want to. But many pieces of the CORB Architecture are running underneath when you are working with J2EE.
RMI existed before J2EE, also. The statement was that CORBA is an underlying technology to the J2EE platform. And it is.
Your original statement about CORBA using distributed refcounting tells me that you're not very familiar with CORBA. You might wanna read a little bit rather than pontificate garbage.
The reason is regulatory oversight. The FTC is not the primary regulator for airlines (the FAA is), phone companies (FCC), banks/credit unions (DOT), or insurance (states). As the FTC is not empowered by charter to regulate commerce by those organizations, the do not call list currently does not apply to them (as this is an FTC initiative).
The FCC is looking into rulemaking that would apply the FTC's DNC list to phone companies.
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Maybe, maybe not. It's not so much that it's impossible to make a sensor with these characteristics-- it's that they're niche markets-- and it would take a lot of NRE to build a product which replicates their performance, for relatively few who would adopt the technology. With film, the NRE is done, and it can be offered at a low pricepoint profitably for those markets-- it's expensive to switch an image sensor in a digital camera compared to popping in a new roll of film.
And as to software replicating the effects-- I doubt it. Once you've thrown the information away it's pretty back for software to get it back.
Yes, it's a field programmable gate array. It basically allows you to produce arbitrarily complex digital logic by putting together tons of little look-up tables.
Xilinx makes parts that can do the equivalent of more than 2M gates, at 200+MHz.
And for lower end parts, they're as cheap as $20. Short run PCB services are as cheap as $60. Bill of materials of a "circumvention device" could be under $100.
Why use two power supplies? Just use one to power the drive and another to power everything else, and connect the grounds together.
.5V of each other, it's fine.
Anyone who's used an external drive enclosure has done the exact same thing. And as long as signal lines are within
Not to mention that the scenario you name doesn't happen, because the power supplies have significant amounts of impedance which limits that current flow. Still, feeding power into the output of a switch-mode regulator is a bad thing. (Though, the regulator that's trying to produce the smaller voltage should just "turn off" and not charge the charge-bucket capacitor).
If you're capturing video from another firewire device (say, digital camera or miniDV deck), the video will move directly accross the bus with less system overhead, resulting in a much more stable configuration.
This is incorrect. Firewire mass storage doesn't talk to firewire video-- completely seperate protocols. It requires CPU intervention to figure out where to write things on the disk, etc. All you'll succeed in doing this with recipe is increasing resource utilization on the firewire controller.
Granted, using all firewire is elegant.
No, you are ignorant.
Link pulse won't work at all with one set to 10 and one set to 100. A duplex mismatch, on the other hand, will result in one side seeing tons of collisions and subsequent throttling.
California state law. There are similar provisions in federal law, under the National Firearms Act.
It is possible to pay a large tax, undergo a background check, etc, to posess NFA weapons in a few states. But most states prohibit private ownership of NFA weapons; and everywhere else it's a big hassle. It's not like buying a handgun.
BS.
.60 caliber, except as provided by this chapter, is guilty of a public offense and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed one year, or in state prison, or by a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or by both such fine and imprisonment
12301. (a) The term "destructive device," as used in this chapter, shall include any of the following weapons:
(1) Any projectile containing any explosive or incendiary material or any other chemical substance, including, but not limited to, that which is commonly known as tracer or incendiary ammunition, except tracer ammunition manufactured for use in shotguns.
(2) Any bomb, grenade, explosive missile, or similar device or any launching device therefor.
(3) Any weapon of a caliber greater than 0.60 caliber which fires fixed ammunition, or any ammunition therefor, other than a shotgun (smooth or rifled bore) conforming to the definition of a "destructive device" found in subsection (b) of Section 179.11 of Title 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations, shotgun ammunition (single projectile or shot), antique rifle, or an antique cannon. For purposes of this section, the term "antique cannon" means any cannon manufactured before January 1, 1899, which has been rendered incapable of firing or for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the United States and is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade. The term "antique rifle" means a firearm conforming to the definition of an "antique firearm" in Section 179.11 of Title 27 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(4) Any rocket, rocket-propelled projectile, or similar device of a diameter greater than 0.60 inch, or any launching device therefor, and any rocket, rocket-propelled projectile, or similar device containing any explosive or incendiary material or any other chemical substance, other than the propellant for such device, except such devices as are designed primarily for emergency or distress signaling purposes.
(5) Any breakable container which contains a flammable liquid with a flashpoint of 150 degrees Fahrenheit or less and has a wick or similar device capable of being ignited, other than a device which is commercially manufactured primarily for the purpose of illumination.
(6) Any sealed device containing dry ice (CO2) or other chemically reactive substances assembled for the purpose of causing an explosion by a chemical reaction.
(b) The term "explosive," as used in this chapter, shall mean any explosive defined in Section 12000 of the Health and Safety Code.
12303. Any person, firm, or corporation who, within this state, possesses any destructive device, other than fixed ammunition of a caliber greater than
And no, it's not considered a shotgun. And this has been the law for a -long- time.
Sure, but that's not what I said. I was replying to the parent post's:
This is of course total bullshit. Burning a friends album onto a "music" blank in no way lessens your crime of copyright infringement.
This is OK with a DARD.
Note that the article says that the people named in the suit offered an average of 1000 songs each. That means there could be people in the groups that offered considerably less.
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Sec. 1008. - Prohibition on certain infringement actions
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings. (Title 17, Chapter 10, Subchapter D, US Code)
20 kbits/second is too slow for most applications. While perhaps it's sufficient for cellular data, mice, and keyboard, I don't see what else you could use it for. PDA syncing took forever at 56kbit/sec even (thank god for USB). And it certainly couldn't work for wireless phone headsets.
I don't know about the ST:TNG episode, but maybe I can answer the resto f your question.
There's lots of molecules that will exhibit fluorescence when irradiated. Radiation can cause electrons to jump up to higher orbits, and when they settle down, the extra energy is emitted as a photon.
Watch hands used to be painted with a mixture of radium and zinc sulfide. Radium would emit gamma rays as it decayed, and that would cause the zinc sulfide to fluoresce. This way they didn't have to charge up in sunlight to glow in a dark room, but it was later discovered this was hazardous to your health. This can also happen with bet and alpha rays (anodofluorescence, I believe). The same basic technique is used with tritium on night-sights for guns.. with less dangerous beta decay.
Woo woo, a conspiracy nut who doesn't know what he's talking about.
Structural steel begins to soften significantly at 500 degrees celsius, and has lost 90% of its strength at 800 degrees celsius.
Estimates of the temperature inside the WTC range from 600 celsius to 800 degrees celsius.
Incidentally, the simplistic "beams melted" is not the probable cause of the structural failure discussed in the FEMA Building Failure Report and in the civil engineer community-- rather, softening of beams and floor joist clips, as well as nonuniform expansion of the structure from the heat, allowed the structure to buckle outwards, and once one floor fell, the floor beneath could never have taken that much of a dynamic load.
Read a summary written for the metals and civil engineering community.
Bits per second is equivalent to baud only when the physical medium has only two symbols. Baud is the symbol rate per second, BPS is the number of bits you can send per second.
FCC Part 68 is very permissive these days, saying that a ringing voltage is 40V-150V RMS, 20 or 30Hz.
The historical sources I can find online (unfortunately, I can't find the LSSGR right now) specify 70V RMS-- which is really close to 96V PtP (99V). Since 48V batteries vary from ~47V when mostly discharged to 52V at typical charge levels, this is pretty damn close to double battery voltage.
There are only two reasons you sue-- for injunctive relief of some kind, or to receive damages.
And there is one reason for profit corporations exist-- to make money. This is a surprise why?
It's 48V (Telephone battery voltage) * 2, or nominally 96V.
You, sir, are an idiot.
As you can see from this link, the baseline for federal tests for preventing injury in automobile crashes is 130 G's-- this is after significant portions of the deceleration have been dampened by restraint systems and portions of the vehicle collapsing. Fighter pilots in pressure suits routinely pull 10Gs without even blacking out.
I can't repro either. I have tried both holding down a key and the Emacs shortcuts. I think I reached a cap on the size of the field in all cases (as no more letters were being added to the field after ~1 minute). My machine is a dual 1.2GHz with 1GB ram, 10.2.6.
This was fixed July 16, 2002. Old news. Move along.
(It wasn't even that bad of a vulnerability, as it required end-user cooperation to exploit and also excellent timing/sustained penetration of the target network (software update runs once a week by default-- you need to guess when to arpspoof/dnsspoof properly. Still, it's not a good thing, and Apple fixed it promptly).
And the abstract of the one click patent is:
A method and system for placing an order to purchase an item via the Internet. The order is placed by a purchaser at a client system and received by a server system. The server system receives purchaser information including identification of the purchaser, payment information, and shipment information from the client system. The server system then assigns a client identifier to the client system and associates the assigned client identifier with the received purchaser information.
The important part is the CLAIMS, not the abstract. The first claim from the Microsoft translation patent:
1. A method for translating instant messages exchanged between two or more devices over a network by one or more users that communicate in different languages, the method comprising: establishing a user profile indicating at least one user language and one or more translation preferences of the one or more users; receiving a message as input composed by at least one of the users according to the user language; translating the message from the user language to at least one different language corresponding to the one or more translation preferences; and transmitting the message in translated form to at least one of the two or more devices.
This seems to cover pretty much all practical IM autotranslation schemes, if this claim is granted.
Translation between protocol suites is a very different problem and Microsoft and others already have plenty of IP there, which is why things are worded the way they are. I don't think anyone dropped the ball-- this is a very broad, desirable patent if granted.
Select quotes from the link I referred to:
EJBs use the RMI/IDL CORBA subset for their distributed object model, and use the Java Transaction Service (JTS) for their distributed transaction model.
Java Transaction Service (JTS) is based on the CORBA Object Transaction Service (OTS). JTS is part of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition and provides an implementation of the Java Transaction API (JTA)..
RMI-IIOP is the current preferred RMI transport in J2EE according to Sun, and fundamental properties of the J2EE framework (JTA) are built out of CORBA components. That sounds like an "underlying technology" to me. Sure, you don't need to get into IDL or CORBA naming nitty-gritties unless you want to. But many pieces of the CORB Architecture are running underneath when you are working with J2EE.
RMI existed before J2EE, also. The statement was that CORBA is an underlying technology to the J2EE platform. And it is.
Your original statement about CORBA using distributed refcounting tells me that you're not very familiar with CORBA. You might wanna read a little bit rather than pontificate garbage.
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The reason is regulatory oversight. The FTC is not the primary regulator for airlines (the FAA is), phone companies (FCC), banks/credit unions (DOT), or insurance (states). As the FTC is not empowered by charter to regulate commerce by those organizations, the do not call list currently does not apply to them (as this is an FTC initiative).
The FCC is looking into rulemaking that would apply the FTC's DNC list to phone companies.
Yah, but you need to know how to do the forecasting.. And for that, you need a history of observations and what the results were afterwards.