Other than "The map is going to be 100-times better than any other global map that we have," in the article there is no mention of how fine of detail the map goes into. Is it better than the 1 meter resolution of the (now defunct *sigh*) Terraserver?
Hm. Both the ZDNet and Reuters articles contradict the MSNBC one on at least one important points: MSNBC says that the RIAA is "open to the idea," but both other sources say that the RIAA "bashed" the proposal or "was sure to oppose [it]."
I think the idea they're open to is this:
This would mean there would be one royalty pool, eliminating the need for a Web-based service to negotiate with individual artists, labels, music publishers and songwriters.
It's hard to say why the songwriters would be opposed to it, but it's likely the RIAA was all for getting money and isn't so keen on being forced to license to everyone if they choose to license to one online service.
The Reuters write up mentions that should the major labels choose to not license their music at all, or do an entirely in house online distribution, then no compulsory licensing is required. I doubt they're too keen on being forced to license to the Napster(s) the fought so hard against, so the question remains will it kill any of the (admittedly vaporous) online services they've been working on or simply force them to do only in house distribution. Neither sounds particularly good since I don't make a habit of knowing which house publishes my favorite music. Still it'll be interesting to see how they try and spin either decision.
I wonder if/when IBM and Toshiba would cooperate and combine technologies - or if the two technologies are mutual exclusive. Obviously not a lot of technical data is out for real comparison but does anyone else know? I only have rudiments of Chip Design from my EE classes so I don't claim to:)
Still with the X Architecture claiming 10% better peformance and 20% less power dicipation combined with the 30% gains IBM claims, there is turning out to be a lot more room before we hit the physical limit of Moore's law.
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indeed I did work at Press a year ago, got me enough money to finish my degree, should I be ashamed? Since you recognized it, does that betray you?
Oooh... Is this the university that photoshop'ed a black dude on the course catalog last year? I wouldn't call them facists, but "people of other religions / color" have a hard time buying houses in the SLC area. Racial profiling and discrimination are also wonderful aspects of Utah society.
Racist religious thugs would be more appropriate.
These may be valid points - I personally disagree that "mormon's are fascists", the mormon's I've met seem to be more consiouse of unfair persecution than others, but I digress. I'm wondering why that line was thrown in there at all. It would be like blaming problems with the SuSE disto on the Nazis, I mean it's obviously they're fault since it's Germany, right?
... get the word about the Mormon fascists out there...
You're thinking of BYU. The University of Utah is a state run school. I doubt the administration's possible religious following makes a difference anyway - would you have include a comment about the Drunken Irish Catholics if this had happened at Duke?
Well provided you didn't convert the TV streams to an Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) formatted stream for internal transfer and manipulation and parse and separate it into video and audio components (as per the patent should you choose to read it), you're fine.
By the time I was poking around Fluke Hall at the UW the all red monochrome version had shrunk to the size of a small briefcase and was quite easy to use. They were working on a color version but it was still benchmount. I believe they were having trouble shrinking the blue laser. Pretty slick tech though:)
ahh, but can you make an exact copy of your house or SUV or table saw for free and hand them out to your friends? Software has the problem of having little or no physical presence to make sure you don't go handing out thousands of copies.
It seems like at that level of thickness you would have to start concerning yourselves with the crystaline structures of whatever you're using to insulate between layers of transistors.
With it only 3 atoms thick you'd think that there would be fab screwups causing bands in the transistors to narrow to an unusable level - probably happening quite frequently. Would play hell with your yield thats for certain.
I wonder, though, if they're doing work with transistor area. If a reduction to 3 atoms thick bought them another 10 years of industry life I wonder what shrinking the sides by 1/2 would do.
If.xxx existed several currently profitable filtering software companies - who I'm sure contribute to ICANN in any way possible - would lose a lot of money.
If only Keanu "whoa" Reaves had massive indentations on the bottom of his feet that handily latched onto the floor, bullet time special effects would have been a dime a dozen:)
And in runs on WinTel machines but, but Call Center might work. Heck, most "digital answering machine" software would do, wouldn't it? Granted, it couldn't play differing files and you'd want to set it to not record.
Dunno, but a possibilty.
Debba-da-dong-dong-da-dee-da-debba-debba-debba-d a-dong-dong -da-dee-da-d ebba-D world destruction, Over and ovature, N do I need apostrophie, T need this torture:)
thier new terms of service don't require you to sign up for their ISP service but forbid you from attempting to use it with any other service (yeah right). As far as I know its still live.
Discussing the general election here at work over the last few days a lot of us seem to conclude one thing. This race would have been a heck of a lot more interesting had it come down to Bradley/McCain rather than Gore/Bush. Two candidates with divergant views and values and positions as compared to the slightly right centrist and slightly left centrist choice we have right now.
*sigh* Sadly, I wish I could have voted for Skull.
I simple question for the physics docterates here in/.
How does this phenomenon fit into the expanding universe model? Perhaps my understanding of the model is too simplistic or flawed, but I would have thought that in general the galaxies would all be flying apart from eachother at some relatively high speed - making this apparent head on colosion a bit improbable.
Would it require that the two clusters have a similar enough trajectory and have just pulled towards eachother via combined gravitational effects over eons?
Is it likely that - even though stars won't colide - the two galaxies will become one double dense one - perhaps collapsing inward to a singularity?
Yes, this is probably better suited for Ask Slashdot, but there's no way that would ever get accepted let alone on the front page;)
The last time anything like this jump was attempted was in the 1950s, says skydiving coach Gene Chacker of the Raeford Parachute Center in Raeford, N.C. But that from just over 100,000 feet and without free falling, he says.
I think the "without free falling" portion of that previous jump is what makes this one unique.
The Council of Europe has promised to provide a list of exceptions to the treaty, and professional network administrators will likely end up exempt. But hackers at the Amersterdam conference were still worried about the plight of the thousands of hobbyists who currently research vulnerabilities in their spare time and in good faith. And software writers -- such as the author of nMap -- would likely be offered no legal protection.
So they'd be offering exceptions to the law based on profession as opposed to, say, an applications by application basis (nMap would be kosher, but Divine Retribution wouldn't be)?. While the proposal on the whole is idiotic and insane, they can't possibly expect to limit people based on what job they currently have.
Why does this remind me of the Dilbert strip where no one is allowed to move their computers themselves because they aren't propperly trained.
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Other than "The map is going to be 100-times better than any other global map that we have," in the article there is no mention of how fine of detail the map goes into. Is it better than the 1 meter resolution of the (now defunct *sigh*) Terraserver?
Still, cool tech.
I think the idea they're open to is this:
It's hard to say why the songwriters would be opposed to it, but it's likely the RIAA was all for getting money and isn't so keen on being forced to license to everyone if they choose to license to one online service.
The Reuters write up mentions that should the major labels choose to not license their music at all, or do an entirely in house online distribution, then no compulsory licensing is required. I doubt they're too keen on being forced to license to the Napster(s) the fought so hard against, so the question remains will it kill any of the (admittedly vaporous) online services they've been working on or simply force them to do only in house distribution. Neither sounds particularly good since I don't make a habit of knowing which house publishes my favorite music. Still it'll be interesting to see how they try and spin either decision.
I wonder if/when IBM and Toshiba would cooperate and combine technologies - or if the two technologies are mutual exclusive. Obviously not a lot of technical data is out for real comparison but does anyone else know? I only have rudiments of Chip Design from my EE classes so I don't claim to:)
Still with the X Architecture claiming 10% better peformance and 20% less power dicipation combined with the 30% gains IBM claims, there is turning out to be a lot more room before we hit the physical limit of Moore's law.
Cool.
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I've gotten a couple of emails with this in it at my university account. How mind bendingly dumb would the filterer have to be to miss @u.WASHINGTON.edu addresses
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Your sig betrays you.
indeed I did work at Press a year ago, got me enough money to finish my degree, should I be ashamed? Since you recognized it, does that betray you?
Oooh... Is this the university that photoshop'ed a black dude on the course catalog last year? I wouldn't call them facists, but "people of other religions / color" have a hard time buying houses in the SLC area.
Racial profiling and discrimination are also wonderful aspects of Utah society.
Racist religious thugs would be more appropriate.
These may be valid points - I personally disagree that "mormon's are fascists", the mormon's I've met seem to be more consiouse of unfair persecution than others, but I digress. I'm wondering why that line was thrown in there at all. It would be like blaming problems with the SuSE disto on the Nazis, I mean it's obviously they're fault since it's Germany, right?
... get the word about the Mormon fascists out there...
You're thinking of BYU. The University of Utah is a state run school. I doubt the administration's possible religious following makes a difference anyway - would you have include a comment about the Drunken Irish Catholics if this had happened at Duke?
I hate intollerant people.
Well provided you didn't convert the TV streams to an Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) formatted stream for internal transfer and manipulation and parse and separate it into video and audio components (as per the patent should you choose to read it), you're fine.
By the time I was poking around Fluke Hall at the UW the all red monochrome version had shrunk to the size of a small briefcase and was quite easy to use. They were working on a color version but it was still benchmount. I believe they were having trouble shrinking the blue laser. Pretty slick tech though :)
ahh, but can you make an exact copy of your house or SUV or table saw for free and hand them out to your friends? Software has the problem of having little or no physical presence to make sure you don't go handing out thousands of copies.
It seems like at that level of thickness you would have to start concerning yourselves with the crystaline structures of whatever you're using to insulate between layers of transistors.
With it only 3 atoms thick you'd think that there would be fab screwups causing bands in the transistors to narrow to an unusable level - probably happening quite frequently. Would play hell with your yield thats for certain.
I wonder, though, if they're doing work with transistor area. If a reduction to 3 atoms thick bought them another 10 years of industry life I wonder what shrinking the sides by 1/2 would do.
sometimes referred to as Zelda 65 :) It came out in mid-late october of this year. A pretty fun play but overall seems sort of short.
If .xxx existed several currently profitable filtering software companies - who I'm sure contribute to ICANN in any way possible - would lose a lot of money.
Can we say Collusion
If only Keanu "whoa" Reaves had massive indentations on the bottom of his feet that handily latched onto the floor, bullet time special effects would have been a dime a dozen :)
ooo, correct lyrics. thats what I get for doing it from memmory :)
And in runs on WinTel machines but, but Call Center might work. Heck, most "digital answering machine" software would do, wouldn't it? Granted, it couldn't play differing files and you'd want to set it to not record.
d a-dong-dong -da-dee-da-d ebba-D world destruction, Over and ovature, N do I need apostrophie, T need this torture :)
Dunno, but a possibilty.
Debba-da-dong-dong-da-dee-da-debba-debba-debba-
$299 for a new one.
$199 for a refurbished one.
thier new terms of service don't require you to sign up for their ISP service but forbid you from attempting to use it with any other service (yeah right). As far as I know its still live.
The pic from an old New York Times article:
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:)
htt p:/
its wee - but you get a rough idea of the shape... though its probably changed by now
but its the "low bandwidth" link.
o w.rm
:)
http://stre am. web.aol.com/ramgen/aol/events/instantaol/launch_l
Doesn' t much matter though since it won't even connect for me
Discussing the general election here at work over the last few days a lot of us seem to conclude one thing. This race would have been a heck of a lot more interesting had it come down to Bradley/McCain rather than Gore/Bush. Two candidates with divergant views and values and positions as compared to the slightly right centrist and slightly left centrist choice we have right now.
*sigh* Sadly, I wish I could have voted for Skull.
I've never been more proud to live in seattle :)
Now, time to track down all of those promised millions once pigs have flown...
I simple question for the physics docterates here in /.
;)
How does this phenomenon fit into the expanding universe model? Perhaps my understanding of the model is too simplistic or flawed, but I would have thought that in general the galaxies would all be flying apart from eachother at some relatively high speed - making this apparent head on colosion a bit improbable.
Would it require that the two clusters have a similar enough trajectory and have just pulled towards eachother via combined gravitational effects over eons?
Is it likely that - even though stars won't colide - the two galaxies will become one double dense one - perhaps collapsing inward to a singularity?
Yes, this is probably better suited for Ask Slashdot, but there's no way that would ever get accepted let alone on the front page
All pretty facinating though...
To quote the article:
The last time anything like this jump was attempted was in the 1950s, says skydiving coach Gene Chacker of the Raeford Parachute Center in Raeford, N.C. But that from just over 100,000 feet and without free falling, he says.
I think the "without free falling" portion of that previous jump is what makes this one unique.
The Council of Europe has promised to provide a list of exceptions to the treaty, and professional network administrators will likely end up exempt. But hackers at the Amersterdam conference were still worried about the plight of the thousands of hobbyists who currently research vulnerabilities in their spare time and in good faith. And software writers -- such as the author of nMap -- would likely be offered no legal protection.
So they'd be offering exceptions to the law based on profession as opposed to, say, an applications by application basis (nMap would be kosher, but Divine Retribution wouldn't be)?. While the proposal on the whole is idiotic and insane, they can't possibly expect to limit people based on what job they currently have.
Why does this remind me of the Dilbert strip where no one is allowed to move their computers themselves because they aren't propperly trained.