Okay, first the citation. They used PS3 footage for XBox's Final Fantasy XIII.
Secondly, I agree wholeheartedly that people who try to game the comment system by replying to the first post just to get at the top of the thread are fricking annoying. I wish I had modpoints left to downmod GP.
Re:What has this to do with sony yanking linux?
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I think you are missing the point of the argument that others are making. Let's take your two circles. The first is the size of a quarter and represents users that want to run Linux, and the second circle is the number of people who want to pirate games and that is 50 meters in diameter. However, you will find that not everyone in either circle has the technical proficiency to actually do the hacking, but the average technical aptitude of people in the Linux circle is far greater than the mean aptitude in the piracy circle. The real comparison needs to be between the people who want to run Linux, have the technical ability to do the hacking and are willing to invest the time to do it versus to the people whose motivation is piracy. The argument that is made is that the Linux circle now shrinks to the size of a dime, whereas you would need a microscope to see the piracy circle.
Probably because they approached the problem from the other direction (e.g. not looking for something to do with all that N2O, but looking for a source of the gas).
Brian Cantwell, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford, has created clean-burning rocket thrusters that run on N2O. "We wondered whether nitrous oxide could be exploited as an emissions-free source of energy," Cantwell said. "Since the product of the decomposition reaction is simply oxygen-enriched air, energy is generated with zero production of greenhouse gas. But first we needed to find a cheap, plentiful source of nitrous oxide."
That source, of course, would be the wastewater treatment plants.
Seems like Cantwell developed the N2O rocket first and then looked for where to get fuel. He got in touch with Craig Criddle, "a professor of civil and environmental engineering and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford," and this idea was born.
The opening crawl begins with "A long time ago," so the more the movie ages the more authentic it gets. Furthermore, Lucus made a good business decision targeting the new movies to children. Adults have already seen the original 3 movies and probably already own them on whatever medium and most will not upgrade. However, by getting a new generation of consumers, he extends the amount of time people watch the movies. Maybe in 10 or 20 years he'll make the last 3 to get another generation interested. Even by themselves, the original movies are classics and will be required viewing by anyone who isn't culturally retarded.
I was taking more issue with the part of your post where you said, "there are certainly computational challenges where a few million core-hours would be welcome." Now, a few million core-hours isn't cheap, but if you have a good idea and you can sell it (to the grant agencies or someone who has a huge cluster), then getting the requisite compute time is certainly do-able. Furthermore, going back to OP's post, the researchers who did this Rubik's cube stuff were not competing for the same pool of resources as oncologists (i.e. it's not likely that Google had some cancer research they put on the back burner because finding God's Number was more pressing, and I couldn't tell who was funding this research, but it looks like it may have been a volunteer effort).
As you mentioned, the bottleneck is people. And the oncologist you mentioned was going about recruiting people in the right way, by saying something to the effect of, "here are a set of problems you have the skills to solve, you may be interested on these issues, and there is funding for you to do research in this field." That works a lot better than telling a bunch of mathematicians that they are wasting their time and that they should work on curing cancer while you are not an oncologist yourself (this is referring to OP).
The computational resources are available. If the researcher needs clock time, he can talk to the folks at TeraGrid, among others. Of course, the researcher you mentioned was doing something similar to what OP wants, although more politely and probably the "correct" way, which is to try to get people who are working on problem X to work on cancer instead. At least the oncologist was "walking the walk" in that he is actually working on his topic of interest instead of just complaining that there is no cure for cancer.
Bad analogy. I sell you a car with stolen aftermarket parts. Are you responsible for stealing the parts? No, but they should be given back to the original owner and the previous owner, who stole the parts, should go to jail. In this case, profits are the stolen parts, and Michale Dell, Kevin Rollins & co. are the previous owners who should be slapped with fraud charges. This is still not a great analogy because a company is it's own legal entity.
Imagine now that the car you bought was KITT from Knight Rider. Michael Knight & KITT stole a huge bunch of crap and installed it in KITT and then Knight sold you 1/7th of the car so now you can drive it on Tuesdays. When the police finds you guys, they should take away the stolen parts and then further punish Michael and KITT (now KITT spends 3 hours each day doing community service because they can't arrest KITT). You are now deprived of 3 hours in which you can do donuts in KITT, and the car is significantly less bad-ass than the one you bought. If you want to recoup your value, go after Michael (Knight and Dell), since he is the one who defrauded you. If you sold your Tuesdays to someone else before the jig was up, the person you sold it to should probably sue Knight as well, although they may sue you and you in turn have to sue the original owner.
Doesn't seem likely to me. From what I can tell, the PSP was profitable for Sony, but it is being sorely beaten by the Nintendo DS series and now standalone portable video game sales are being cannibalized by smartphones. I would say that this is more likely to end up in a Zune phone and will be Microsoft's in-house alternative to nVidia's Tegra processors. I will chuckle if they contract AMD/ATI to do the graphics again, kind of like how they switched to ATI graphics when building the XBox 360 processor.
I read the patents. There are no chip circuit diagrams or descriptions of them (I guess diagrams of how shit is connected together technically forms a circuit - but if that is what you are asking for, I can mail you this napkin I drew on). They just show how a DVD player/console/etc are connected to a magic "SET TOP BOX" then connects to the TVs and wirelessly is connected to the glasses. This device handles the synchronization of frames with the 3D glasses and the TV. There is nothing describing the schematics for the actual "control circuits" - only what they do. I guess you have only figured out how to be snarky but without any actual substance.
So let's see Sony's control circuits for their 240hz display. What? They didn't include them in the patent? I guess you don't actually understand how patents work yet.
Yeah, read that right. Player 1 sees frames 1 and 4, Player 2 sees frames 2 and 5 and Player 3 sees frames 3 and 6. Hold up, I'm having a Gillette moment here.
Player 1 sees frames 1 and 6
Player 2 sees frames 2 and 7
Player 3 sees frames 3 and 8
Player 4 sees frames 4 and 9
Player 5 sees frames 5 and 10
That's right assholes. Five blades^H^H^H^H^H^Hplayers.
Well, good job with catching the straw man. But shouldn't police require a warrant to monitor my traffic? Seems like you don't agree:
Innocent people need to be watched by the police so that guilty people can't go free.
Now, it would be one thing if I was a suspect but was innocent, but you are implying that we should all be monitored, and I simply extended the slippery slope.
Holy shit, you're being serious. How about we install a camera in your bedroom? After all, I hear a lot of pedophiles do their raping in bedrooms. Think of the children! You've got nothing to hide, right? All the video will be monitored securely and we will make sure to keep the videotapes safe.
If you can make the ads less distracting, load in a timely fashion and not weigh in at several meg, you may find that's a more sustainable business model on the web than just sticking up a toll booth.
Speaking as someone with an adblocker, I have to say that this still will not work. Why? Because other people will use the annoying ads because they pay more money. So people like me will just install an adblocker and not touch the settings.
Say I am new to the internet. I visit Anne's site which has a lot of ads that annoy me. I ask my friend Bob how I can get around this and he sets me up with an adblocker. I'm not going to even know how to whitelist certain pages. In fact, "whitelist" would sound like something the Black Panthers carry around, and I don't want any part of that. So now when I visit Carmen's site which contains unobtrusive banner ads, she still doesn't get paid for the impression.
This is a modern example of the tragedy of the commons. Viewers are grass in the pasture, and each web site operator is a herder, and the cows are the types of ads they have on their web site. Many will try to get more and bigger cows (more ads and more annoying ads), until it is no longer sustainable and the pasture dies (people no longer view ads because everyone has an ad blocker). At this point, even the responsible cattlemen suffer too. This is an oversimplification, but I hope it illustrates my point.
NOBODY here has said that what Apple did wasn't within its rights.
Actually, I replied to and quoted someone who did say that. And I understand the censorship issue; I agree, Apple is censoring people, but I didn't reply to you, I replied to another jackhole.
Apple has no right to censor people for speaking their minds under these circumstances.
Actually, it is well within it's rights to censor people posting on its bulletin board. Now, if Apple tries to get a restraining order against Consumer Reports or against people posting on Slashdot, then no, it is not within its rights. Again, I repeat, Apple is 100% within its rights to censor people posting on its forum. Doesn't mean it isn't unfair in some way, but still within it's rights.
If you are expecting me to be hypocritical, I'm not. I have no problem with Voice of America, China Radio International, Radio Moscow etc. The countries that jam those stations tend to be a bit on the totalitarian side, so it is fair to criticize them for any kind of censorship.
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Okay, first the citation. They used PS3 footage for XBox's Final Fantasy XIII.
Secondly, I agree wholeheartedly that people who try to game the comment system by replying to the first post just to get at the top of the thread are fricking annoying. I wish I had modpoints left to downmod GP.
I think you are missing the point of the argument that others are making. Let's take your two circles. The first is the size of a quarter and represents users that want to run Linux, and the second circle is the number of people who want to pirate games and that is 50 meters in diameter. However, you will find that not everyone in either circle has the technical proficiency to actually do the hacking, but the average technical aptitude of people in the Linux circle is far greater than the mean aptitude in the piracy circle. The real comparison needs to be between the people who want to run Linux, have the technical ability to do the hacking and are willing to invest the time to do it versus to the people whose motivation is piracy. The argument that is made is that the Linux circle now shrinks to the size of a dime, whereas you would need a microscope to see the piracy circle.
Probably because they approached the problem from the other direction (e.g. not looking for something to do with all that N2O, but looking for a source of the gas).
Brian Cantwell, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford, has created clean-burning rocket thrusters that run on N2O. "We wondered whether nitrous oxide could be exploited as an emissions-free source of energy," Cantwell said. "Since the product of the decomposition reaction is simply oxygen-enriched air, energy is generated with zero production of greenhouse gas. But first we needed to find a cheap, plentiful source of nitrous oxide."
That source, of course, would be the wastewater treatment plants.
Seems like Cantwell developed the N2O rocket first and then looked for where to get fuel. He got in touch with Craig Criddle, "a professor of civil and environmental engineering and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford," and this idea was born.
The opening crawl begins with "A long time ago," so the more the movie ages the more authentic it gets. Furthermore, Lucus made a good business decision targeting the new movies to children. Adults have already seen the original 3 movies and probably already own them on whatever medium and most will not upgrade. However, by getting a new generation of consumers, he extends the amount of time people watch the movies. Maybe in 10 or 20 years he'll make the last 3 to get another generation interested. Even by themselves, the original movies are classics and will be required viewing by anyone who isn't culturally retarded.
I was taking more issue with the part of your post where you said, "there are certainly computational challenges where a few million core-hours would be welcome." Now, a few million core-hours isn't cheap, but if you have a good idea and you can sell it (to the grant agencies or someone who has a huge cluster), then getting the requisite compute time is certainly do-able. Furthermore, going back to OP's post, the researchers who did this Rubik's cube stuff were not competing for the same pool of resources as oncologists (i.e. it's not likely that Google had some cancer research they put on the back burner because finding God's Number was more pressing, and I couldn't tell who was funding this research, but it looks like it may have been a volunteer effort).
As you mentioned, the bottleneck is people. And the oncologist you mentioned was going about recruiting people in the right way, by saying something to the effect of, "here are a set of problems you have the skills to solve, you may be interested on these issues, and there is funding for you to do research in this field." That works a lot better than telling a bunch of mathematicians that they are wasting their time and that they should work on curing cancer while you are not an oncologist yourself (this is referring to OP).
The computational resources are available. If the researcher needs clock time, he can talk to the folks at TeraGrid, among others. Of course, the researcher you mentioned was doing something similar to what OP wants, although more politely and probably the "correct" way, which is to try to get people who are working on problem X to work on cancer instead. At least the oncologist was "walking the walk" in that he is actually working on his topic of interest instead of just complaining that there is no cure for cancer.
If you've got a computational problem that would help towards a cancer cure, have you asked Google to donate time for it?
No, he'd rather just complain. It's much easier to criticize researchers than to do the research yourself.
Ah, so what you really meant is:
Y'know if they wanted to refuse the cash... instead of letting Mozilla keep it, have them donate it to the charity of my choice. Just sayin'.
Wikipedia has a decent article on the subject.
[A] zone does not have its own separate kernel (in contrast to a hardware virtual machine)
It is still a wonderful solution since many (if not most) people don't actually make anything. Please crawl back into your cabinet now.
Yeah, he goes by Larry when he's on the job.
Bad analogy. I sell you a car with stolen aftermarket parts. Are you responsible for stealing the parts? No, but they should be given back to the original owner and the previous owner, who stole the parts, should go to jail. In this case, profits are the stolen parts, and Michale Dell, Kevin Rollins & co. are the previous owners who should be slapped with fraud charges. This is still not a great analogy because a company is it's own legal entity.
Imagine now that the car you bought was KITT from Knight Rider. Michael Knight & KITT stole a huge bunch of crap and installed it in KITT and then Knight sold you 1/7th of the car so now you can drive it on Tuesdays. When the police finds you guys, they should take away the stolen parts and then further punish Michael and KITT (now KITT spends 3 hours each day doing community service because they can't arrest KITT). You are now deprived of 3 hours in which you can do donuts in KITT, and the car is significantly less bad-ass than the one you bought. If you want to recoup your value, go after Michael (Knight and Dell), since he is the one who defrauded you. If you sold your Tuesdays to someone else before the jig was up, the person you sold it to should probably sue Knight as well, although they may sue you and you in turn have to sue the original owner.
Doesn't seem likely to me. From what I can tell, the PSP was profitable for Sony, but it is being sorely beaten by the Nintendo DS series and now standalone portable video game sales are being cannibalized by smartphones. I would say that this is more likely to end up in a Zune phone and will be Microsoft's in-house alternative to nVidia's Tegra processors. I will chuckle if they contract AMD/ATI to do the graphics again, kind of like how they switched to ATI graphics when building the XBox 360 processor.
Oh, wait, I get it. This is a manly laser. It holds manly shows like "24." It will refuse to store shows like "Days of Our Lives" and "The L Word."
I read the patents. There are no chip circuit diagrams or descriptions of them (I guess diagrams of how shit is connected together technically forms a circuit - but if that is what you are asking for, I can mail you this napkin I drew on). They just show how a DVD player/console/etc are connected to a magic "SET TOP BOX" then connects to the TVs and wirelessly is connected to the glasses. This device handles the synchronization of frames with the 3D glasses and the TV. There is nothing describing the schematics for the actual "control circuits" - only what they do. I guess you have only figured out how to be snarky but without any actual substance.
So let's see Sony's control circuits for their 240hz display. What? They didn't include them in the patent? I guess you don't actually understand how patents work yet.
Yeah, read that right. Player 1 sees frames 1 and 4, Player 2 sees frames 2 and 5 and Player 3 sees frames 3 and 6. Hold up, I'm having a Gillette moment here.
That's right assholes. Five blades^H^H^H^H^H^Hplayers.
Well, good job with catching the straw man. But shouldn't police require a warrant to monitor my traffic? Seems like you don't agree:
Innocent people need to be watched by the police so that guilty people can't go free.
Now, it would be one thing if I was a suspect but was innocent, but you are implying that we should all be monitored, and I simply extended the slippery slope.
Holy shit, you're being serious. How about we install a camera in your bedroom? After all, I hear a lot of pedophiles do their raping in bedrooms. Think of the children! You've got nothing to hide, right? All the video will be monitored securely and we will make sure to keep the videotapes safe.
If you can make the ads less distracting, load in a timely fashion and not weigh in at several meg, you may find that's a more sustainable business model on the web than just sticking up a toll booth.
Speaking as someone with an adblocker, I have to say that this still will not work. Why? Because other people will use the annoying ads because they pay more money. So people like me will just install an adblocker and not touch the settings.
Say I am new to the internet. I visit Anne's site which has a lot of ads that annoy me. I ask my friend Bob how I can get around this and he sets me up with an adblocker. I'm not going to even know how to whitelist certain pages. In fact, "whitelist" would sound like something the Black Panthers carry around, and I don't want any part of that. So now when I visit Carmen's site which contains unobtrusive banner ads, she still doesn't get paid for the impression.
This is a modern example of the tragedy of the commons. Viewers are grass in the pasture, and each web site operator is a herder, and the cows are the types of ads they have on their web site. Many will try to get more and bigger cows (more ads and more annoying ads), until it is no longer sustainable and the pasture dies (people no longer view ads because everyone has an ad blocker). At this point, even the responsible cattlemen suffer too. This is an oversimplification, but I hope it illustrates my point.
I don't see any indication that these cameras can predict future murders.
But if they could, they would be more likely to offer ads for weapons, ropes, shovels and lotion rather than report you to authorities.
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YEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
NOBODY here has said that what Apple did wasn't within its rights.
Actually, I replied to and quoted someone who did say that. And I understand the censorship issue; I agree, Apple is censoring people, but I didn't reply to you, I replied to another jackhole.
Apple has no right to censor people for speaking their minds under these circumstances.
Actually, it is well within it's rights to censor people posting on its bulletin board. Now, if Apple tries to get a restraining order against Consumer Reports or against people posting on Slashdot, then no, it is not within its rights. Again, I repeat, Apple is 100% within its rights to censor people posting on its forum. Doesn't mean it isn't unfair in some way, but still within it's rights.
If you are expecting me to be hypocritical, I'm not. I have no problem with Voice of America, China Radio International, Radio Moscow etc. The countries that jam those stations tend to be a bit on the totalitarian side, so it is fair to criticize them for any kind of censorship.