First problem I could see is. in the race to finish and get the "bounty", what would the acceptable bug limit be? I could see some fairly crapy, but barely functional code comming out of this.
I will confirm the folowing: 1. it IS a magnetic field you are seeing. we have the same issue in several manufacturing areas where I work. 2. If all it is doing is making the screen wobble a little, the level is not dangerous. 3. If you can say for certain the field is what ruined the drive and main board, get out now and call OSHA
Wear foil underwear.
we haven't found a good cheep way to eliminate it, aside from moving the equipment. If you are renting, it's not your problem, get the landloard to fix it. If its new construction, get the builder to fix it before you sue his ass.
Yes its cool and fun, but do we realy need this? In this day and age where you can get a computer for less than 500$ and companys are THROWING AWAY 100-200mhz PC's after upgrades, why bother with the hasle?? get another PC, load windows and cary on. No compatibility issues, probly less crashes.. "But I cant afford another computer..waaa.... GET A JOB! I don't have any room.. If you have enough room to sleep and eat, you have enough room. I have better things to spend the harddrive space on.
If you can afford to mount one of those on your celing, you can afford the wiring. Was that a sly refrence to the bedroom-celing mounted mirors or the 70's?
If this is the same stuf, and I think it is.... the "Plastic" balls that make up the display are small enough that they can be suspended in liquid. Per a story on ZDTV (Tech TV?)Someone has already managed to "Print" a full color display on a sheet of paper with inkjet tech. the materials are cheap enough that we could see billboards in this stuf.
So would I be retroactively prosicuted for all the taped episodes of MST3K in my closet?? How could we seperate digital content from analog? weren't they going to phase out analog?????? I'm moving to Mexico.
We are trying to do this with a minimal cost. barcodes can be output on a computer, found some freeware,... just need the scanner thing. Swipe cards require the cards, a programer, a reader, the software, and they go bad eventualy.
You don't pull a microwave apart and put it back together then complain when you get radiation poisoning do you ? Why should this be any different ?
'cause no one is claming to be hurt. your talking about the "falling down an open manhole cover" syndrom. IE: idiots doing something to kill themselves. Reverse engenering a product is NOT ILLEGAL. they are not taking away money from these people. they are not cutting into their profits. are the police being sued for using superglue to find fingerprints instead of sticking things together?
I have a curent and very real need for this. a friend is setting up a bar and wants to give out "Membership cards" with a barcode on them. there are lots of barcode programs out there for database tracking, and a free scanner seemed like a good idea. it's silly to think we could be sued for trying to make this setup work. could I be sued for screwing a lightbulb into a celing fan instead of a "lightbulb manufacturer aproved socket"? Incidentaly, if anyone has some code laying around that would make the barcode database thing work.....
"These robots have been provided by Sony especially for this event. The internal workings of each robot, however, are determined by the RoboCup programmers who prepare them. Programmers cannot modify the robots' physical hardware; "
So.. acording to Sony, the "internal workings" means the... programing? The contestants are not alowed to change the iner mechanical workings of the robots or the external apearence. Free add for Sony anyone? BattleBots VS Little Sony Doggie?
"The design of KDE was based on a fundamental mistake: use of the Qt library, which at the time was non-free software.
How will/has this hit oficial packaged releases like Mandrake, RedHat ect.. As a relatively new Linux user ('bout a year) I never heard about this. The whole GPL Licence issue is somewhat hazy to those of us on the "outside" of the comunity.
Don't know how many of you work in a Corp enviorment, but as for us, Matrox seems to be making a logical step. Other manufacturers are so far ahead of them on the 3D gaming front, that it would require substantial R+D from them to keep up. All of the HP buisness class machines that we buy have a Matrox card of some sort in them from the factory. this seems to be a smart move and should be generating more than enough to offset what they are loosing by not keeping up with the 3D Jonses. We buy about a thousand or so machines a year, and I know they have bigger customers.
I'm rather botherd by the divergence in chipsets that as been going on for a while. The whole PII, PIII, and Celeron (Include AMD's clones in this) Why diverge into two classes of processor? Shure the Celeron's are cheeper, but not by that much. the performance compared to the regular P chips is lukewarm, and they require a new socket?? (increase motherboard sales?) They should be concentrating on creating BETER chips, not expanding their product line (1.3G pentium anyone?) the whole celeron thing strikes me as just another way to milk publicity and money.
"For the technically inclined, officials said the computer contains 16 vector processors, each capable of one "gigaflop" of processing power (one gigaflop is 1 billion floating-point operations per second). " wonder how many concurent Linux sessions THIS thing could run. or could it run Linux? I'm not realy up on my super computer arcatecture.... OSX maybe?
"What's to fight with an antipatent? "
Well, I sit in my basement and invent time machine widget #1, but wait.. someone has worked out the basic principal and aplied for an "anti-Patent" on the concept earlier! What to do? I Know! paint it a diferent color and claim the merging of technolegies is a unique creation and thus the anti-patent is invalid! Oh ya,.. and everyone else with a time machine the same color... pay up. Legal battle ensues.
the courts are already full of people trying to overturn patents the way it is. This is just going to fill things up even further with people fighting anti-patents. It would be a better idea to FIX the curent patent process, maybe hire someone in the office who UNDERSTANDS the tech involved, and force requests to be in plain english. creating more administration is not the way to fix BAD administration
Windows and Mac? Linux KDE and Windows? Novell server 5.0 and Windows? could it be that, like cars, four tires seems to be the best design? how many ways can you make something to perform a specific function and still deviate wildly on the design? a knife is a knife, a bullet a bullet, a shovel a shovel... ect....
I think you would have to prove that the code was completely original and unique. I mean, it's entirely posible for Frontpage to put out identical code for two seperate people.. and how many paged are done in FrontPage?
the only time I would get jazed about it would be if someone stole a Perl script or Java applet that I had wrote for inclusion in their page. That's theft. the duplication of a layout is stupid, but stupid is not illegal. If it was, i'd be a career criminal by now.
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First problem I could see is. in the race to finish and get the "bounty", what would the acceptable bug limit be? I could see some fairly crapy, but barely functional code comming out of this.
I will confirm the folowing:
1. it IS a magnetic field you are seeing. we have the same issue in several manufacturing areas where I work.
2. If all it is doing is making the screen wobble a little, the level is not dangerous.
3. If you can say for certain the field is what ruined the drive and main board, get out now and call OSHA
Wear foil underwear.
we haven't found a good cheep way to eliminate it, aside from moving the equipment. If you are renting, it's not your problem, get the landloard to fix it. If its new construction, get the builder to fix it before you sue his ass.
lag time too high, lose the rythm.
it's runs linux? Yoda... is that you?....
sounds more like a polarisation filter kind of process.....fun stuff a-comin.
Yes its cool and fun, but do we realy need this? In this day and age where you can get a computer for less than 500$ and companys are THROWING AWAY 100-200mhz PC's after upgrades, why bother with the hasle?? get another PC, load windows and cary on. No compatibility issues, probly less crashes..
"But I cant afford another computer..waaa....
GET A JOB!
I don't have any room..
If you have enough room to sleep and eat, you have enough room.
I have better things to spend the harddrive space on.
If you can afford to mount one of those on your celing, you can afford the wiring. Was that a sly refrence to the bedroom-celing mounted mirors or the 70's?
If this is the same stuf, and I think it is.... the "Plastic" balls that make up the display are small enough that they can be suspended in liquid. Per a story on ZDTV (Tech TV?)Someone has already managed to "Print" a full color display on a sheet of paper with inkjet tech. the materials are cheap enough that we could see billboards in this stuf.
So would I be retroactively prosicuted for all the taped episodes of MST3K in my closet?? How could we seperate digital content from analog? weren't they going to phase out analog?????? I'm moving to Mexico.
We are trying to do this with a minimal cost. barcodes can be output on a computer, found some freeware,... just need the scanner thing. Swipe cards require the cards, a programer, a reader, the software, and they go bad eventualy.
You don't pull a microwave apart and put it back together then complain when you get radiation poisoning do you ? Why should this be any different ?
'cause no one is claming to be hurt. your talking about the "falling down an open manhole cover" syndrom. IE: idiots doing something to kill themselves. Reverse engenering a product is NOT ILLEGAL. they are not taking away money from these people. they are not cutting into their profits. are the police being sued for using superglue to find fingerprints instead of sticking things together?
I have a curent and very real need for this. a friend is setting up a bar and wants to give out "Membership cards" with a barcode on them. there are lots of barcode programs out there for database tracking, and a free scanner seemed like a good idea. it's silly to think we could be sued for trying to make this setup work. could I be sued for screwing a lightbulb into a celing fan instead of a "lightbulb manufacturer aproved socket"? Incidentaly, if anyone has some code laying around that would make the barcode database thing work.....
No, see below.
From the "What is.." page of the official site
"These robots have been provided by Sony especially for this event. The internal workings of each robot, however, are determined by the RoboCup programmers who prepare them. Programmers cannot modify the robots' physical hardware; "
So.. acording to Sony, the "internal workings" means the... programing? The contestants are not alowed to change the iner mechanical workings of the robots or the external apearence. Free add for Sony anyone? BattleBots VS Little Sony Doggie?
"The design of KDE was based on a fundamental mistake: use of the Qt library, which at the time was non-free software.
How will/has this hit oficial packaged releases like Mandrake, RedHat ect.. As a relatively new Linux user ('bout a year) I never heard about this. The whole GPL Licence issue is somewhat hazy to those of us on the "outside" of the comunity.
Don't know how many of you work in a Corp enviorment, but as for us, Matrox seems to be making a logical step. Other manufacturers are so far ahead of them on the 3D gaming front, that it would require substantial R+D from them to keep up. All of the HP buisness class machines that we buy have a Matrox card of some sort in them from the factory. this seems to be a smart move and should be generating more than enough to offset what they are loosing by not keeping up with the 3D Jonses. We buy about a thousand or so machines a year, and I know they have bigger customers.
I'm rather botherd by the divergence in chipsets that as been going on for a while. The whole PII, PIII, and Celeron (Include AMD's clones in this) Why diverge into two classes of processor? Shure the Celeron's are cheeper, but not by that much. the performance compared to the regular P chips is lukewarm, and they require a new socket?? (increase motherboard sales?) They should be concentrating on creating BETER chips, not expanding their product line (1.3G pentium anyone?) the whole celeron thing strikes me as just another way to milk publicity and money.
Would the military allow this? what if someone overseas wanted to bid... exporting super comuter tech is against the law.. isn't it?
"For the technically inclined, officials said the computer contains 16 vector processors, each capable of one "gigaflop" of processing power (one gigaflop is 1 billion floating-point operations per second). "
wonder how many concurent Linux sessions THIS thing could run. or could it run Linux? I'm not realy up on my super computer arcatecture.... OSX maybe?
"What's to fight with an antipatent? "
Well, I sit in my basement and invent time machine widget #1, but wait.. someone has worked out the basic principal and aplied for an "anti-Patent" on the concept earlier! What to do? I Know! paint it a diferent color and claim the merging of technolegies is a unique creation and thus the anti-patent is invalid! Oh ya,.. and everyone else with a time machine the same color... pay up. Legal battle ensues.
Patent implosion? like the one that killed the Dinosaurs?
the courts are already full of people trying to overturn patents the way it is. This is just going to fill things up even further with people fighting anti-patents. It would be a better idea to FIX the curent patent process, maybe hire someone in the office who UNDERSTANDS the tech involved, and force requests to be in plain english. creating more administration is not the way to fix BAD administration
Windows and Mac? Linux KDE and Windows? Novell server 5.0 and Windows? could it be that, like cars, four tires seems to be the best design? how many ways can you make something to perform a specific function and still deviate wildly on the design? a knife is a knife, a bullet a bullet, a shovel a shovel... ect....
I think you would have to prove that the code was completely original and unique. I mean, it's entirely posible for Frontpage to put out identical code for two seperate people.. and how many paged are done in FrontPage?
the only time I would get jazed about it would be if someone stole a Perl script or Java applet that I had wrote for inclusion in their page. That's theft. the duplication of a layout is stupid, but stupid is not illegal. If it was, i'd be a career criminal by now.