"Why should google payoff a company without proof it infringes" Two good reasons: - The cost to pay them off can be less than the legal costs of fighting, espicially if they manage to get an injunction. - Even if it is blatantly obvious to anyone in the industry that the patents are junk, judges are not technical experts, so there is always some element of risk.
Area scales square, volume scales cube... all you need do it make it really, really big. Aside from the issue of the gel itsself not being strong enough, of course.
Handy, until you put the aerogel back into air. Then either the air needs to enter the gel, or the gel go squish. Otherwise you'd have a lighter-then-air solid, and I'd be building a disc of the stuff to go flying over villages at night waving a torch around.
Something like this should never have gotten through testing. Samsung must have tested using only a single OS or a closely related family (ie, Windows) - and that is no way to test if a piece of code is going to behave under all circumstances.
Depends on the kernel. If you run a generic, it's still going to do all the probing even if doing so is pointless. If you one compiled just for the VM (and incapable of running on physical hardware), then it'll boot in seconds. Generally it's easier to run a generic kernel and accept the slower init time and memory overhead.
Depends on the server. They tend to have things like SAS drives and hardware RAID5 controllers with cache that desktops don't usually get. The big difference is really in the business side: When you buy a server from IBM or Dell, it comes with a promise that the design is tested to the highest standards and a promise that the manufacturer will keep the spares in stock for at least the duration of your support contract. Because when your server's RAID card catches fire, you don't want to discover that model was discontinued three years ago and can only be obtained via eBay.
That could work if you're using virtual hardware. The interface can be maintained constantly for years, you don't have to worry about compatibility like in the Bad Old Days of making sure your word processing package supported your new printer.
I just fail to see the advantage. You're making things considerably more difficult for the application developers to shave a little of boot time? Even if a site gets slashdotted, the load spike isn't going to come instaintainously, so why do you need the ability to bring up a new instance in under a minute?
VP8 still has room for a lot of improvement at the encoder. It took many years to get x264 to the world-class piece of software it is today, and VP8 has yet to catch up. The standard may be as good at h264 in quality/bitrate potential, but what can really be achieved is limited by the encoder.
The 'evolved' part is sure to matter. There must be a lot of new techniques added. Even if there weren't, I expect many of those patents are of the 'X, but on a mobile device' form. Not the strongest of patents, but throw enough of them into court and a few are going to survive challenge just on luck alone.
This is a patent issue, not copyright. They are indebted to their corporate masters, but different ones. The US is still home to many of the tech industry giants (Intel, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, etc) - and strong patent laws at home and around the world make sure those industry giants stay giant, rather than being displaced by upstarts from competing countries. Similar situation in drug development. It's basic economic protectionism, and every government does it to some extent. It's only common sense to protect those industries which contribute more to exports than imports if you wish to maintain a healthy balance of trade.
To add to the confusion, they have no relationship other than the name to the MPEG itsself. They are called MPEG LA because they were first formed to pool patents related to the MPEG standard.
Of course they have - or rather, they wouldn't need to. I'm in no doubt at all that the NSA has access to a few root certs. Even so, it limits interception targets only to those the NSA considers enough of a concern to risk revealing their capabilities over: No more trawling billions of emails to build profiles or so anyone who jokes about blowing up the whitehouse can be flagged as a potential terrorist, and no more private-sector monitors at the ISP sneakily monitoring web traffic to better target advertisments.
This is Slashdot. We're a bunch of nerds. So let us do what it is that nerds do: Find a technological solution. Let us get every website using HTTPS, every email and IM conversation encrypted. It doesn't have to be perfectly secure against an attacker who can plant their own certificates on client devices, it just has to make interception difficult enough to prevent governmental fishing expeditions.
Only against the very best, the APT-class attackers, who have the skill and the time to write and test their own tools. Against your common script kiddie or for-profit botnet operator, it'll still work fine.
You assume the US invented the abusive government-corporate partnership. Ever hear of the East India Company? This type of practice is as old as civilisation: Those with power need money, and those with money expect certain favours in return.
ICANN runs the very top, but the administration of the various TLDs is handled by registrars. The administration of the country code TLDs was given to their respective governments, either to handle directly or to contract to an operator as they see fit. ICANN keeps the whole system running, but have little to do with who gets individual domains.
Twitter have purchased twitter.fr, but it only redirects to their US site. They probably have done the same to every country code, to make sure squatters or scammers don't get them.
It does when it is easily testable that human hearing has an upper frequency limit, and mathematically provable that a 44.1KHz sample rate is more than sufficient to reconstruct all possible signals which have no components above this limit. Unless you have superhuman hearing, there is no benefit in >44.1KHz sampling. 48KHz at the very most, and that's only to allow for imperfect filtering in the playback devices and would only be noticed by those of the best hearing. We're not talking about subjective things like the asthetics of different distortions: These are fundamental limitations of physiology and mathematics.
Everyone else listening on the little earphones that came with their cellphone can't.
Now, in grand slashdot tradition, could we please have a debate about the use of 192KHz sample rates between those people who know what they are talking about and those who belive 'fourier' is just a word you say to sound smart?
I've taught kids electronics and programming using the pi and they are mostly thick as two short planks. Yes, the kids might have assembled these projects - but I find it very unlikely they actually designed them, or did more than a very little programming.
Truth is not decided by a vote. Government policy is. There are a great many believers around, many of them in positions of influence, and the rest still comprising a major voting block.
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Speed Racer is made of seizures and LSD.
"Why should google payoff a company without proof it infringes"
Two good reasons:
- The cost to pay them off can be less than the legal costs of fighting, espicially if they manage to get an injunction.
- Even if it is blatantly obvious to anyone in the industry that the patents are junk, judges are not technical experts, so there is always some element of risk.
Area scales square, volume scales cube... all you need do it make it really, really big. Aside from the issue of the gel itsself not being strong enough, of course.
Handy, until you put the aerogel back into air. Then either the air needs to enter the gel, or the gel go squish. Otherwise you'd have a lighter-then-air solid, and I'd be building a disc of the stuff to go flying over villages at night waving a torch around.
"ow to go from a spreadsheet to gamer?"
EVE Online.
They've been the scapegoat since Columbine.
Something like this should never have gotten through testing. Samsung must have tested using only a single OS or a closely related family (ie, Windows) - and that is no way to test if a piece of code is going to behave under all circumstances.
Depends on the kernel. If you run a generic, it's still going to do all the probing even if doing so is pointless. If you one compiled just for the VM (and incapable of running on physical hardware), then it'll boot in seconds. Generally it's easier to run a generic kernel and accept the slower init time and memory overhead.
Depends on the server. They tend to have things like SAS drives and hardware RAID5 controllers with cache that desktops don't usually get. The big difference is really in the business side: When you buy a server from IBM or Dell, it comes with a promise that the design is tested to the highest standards and a promise that the manufacturer will keep the spares in stock for at least the duration of your support contract. Because when your server's RAID card catches fire, you don't want to discover that model was discontinued three years ago and can only be obtained via eBay.
That could work if you're using virtual hardware. The interface can be maintained constantly for years, you don't have to worry about compatibility like in the Bad Old Days of making sure your word processing package supported your new printer.
I just fail to see the advantage. You're making things considerably more difficult for the application developers to shave a little of boot time? Even if a site gets slashdotted, the load spike isn't going to come instaintainously, so why do you need the ability to bring up a new instance in under a minute?
VP8 still has room for a lot of improvement at the encoder. It took many years to get x264 to the world-class piece of software it is today, and VP8 has yet to catch up. The standard may be as good at h264 in quality/bitrate potential, but what can really be achieved is limited by the encoder.
The 'evolved' part is sure to matter. There must be a lot of new techniques added. Even if there weren't, I expect many of those patents are of the 'X, but on a mobile device' form. Not the strongest of patents, but throw enough of them into court and a few are going to survive challenge just on luck alone.
This is a patent issue, not copyright. They are indebted to their corporate masters, but different ones. The US is still home to many of the tech industry giants (Intel, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, etc) - and strong patent laws at home and around the world make sure those industry giants stay giant, rather than being displaced by upstarts from competing countries. Similar situation in drug development. It's basic economic protectionism, and every government does it to some extent. It's only common sense to protect those industries which contribute more to exports than imports if you wish to maintain a healthy balance of trade.
To add to the confusion, they have no relationship other than the name to the MPEG itsself. They are called MPEG LA because they were first formed to pool patents related to the MPEG standard.
Of course they have - or rather, they wouldn't need to. I'm in no doubt at all that the NSA has access to a few root certs. Even so, it limits interception targets only to those the NSA considers enough of a concern to risk revealing their capabilities over: No more trawling billions of emails to build profiles or so anyone who jokes about blowing up the whitehouse can be flagged as a potential terrorist, and no more private-sector monitors at the ISP sneakily monitoring web traffic to better target advertisments.
This is Slashdot. We're a bunch of nerds. So let us do what it is that nerds do: Find a technological solution. Let us get every website using HTTPS, every email and IM conversation encrypted. It doesn't have to be perfectly secure against an attacker who can plant their own certificates on client devices, it just has to make interception difficult enough to prevent governmental fishing expeditions.
Only against the very best, the APT-class attackers, who have the skill and the time to write and test their own tools. Against your common script kiddie or for-profit botnet operator, it'll still work fine.
You assume the US invented the abusive government-corporate partnership. Ever hear of the East India Company? This type of practice is as old as civilisation: Those with power need money, and those with money expect certain favours in return.
ICANN runs the very top, but the administration of the various TLDs is handled by registrars. The administration of the country code TLDs was given to their respective governments, either to handle directly or to contract to an operator as they see fit. ICANN keeps the whole system running, but have little to do with who gets individual domains.
Twitter have purchased twitter.fr, but it only redirects to their US site. They probably have done the same to every country code, to make sure squatters or scammers don't get them.
It does when it is easily testable that human hearing has an upper frequency limit, and mathematically provable that a 44.1KHz sample rate is more than sufficient to reconstruct all possible signals which have no components above this limit. Unless you have superhuman hearing, there is no benefit in >44.1KHz sampling. 48KHz at the very most, and that's only to allow for imperfect filtering in the playback devices and would only be noticed by those of the best hearing. We're not talking about subjective things like the asthetics of different distortions: These are fundamental limitations of physiology and mathematics.
Everyone else listening on the little earphones that came with their cellphone can't.
Now, in grand slashdot tradition, could we please have a debate about the use of 192KHz sample rates between those people who know what they are talking about and those who belive 'fourier' is just a word you say to sound smart?
I've taught kids electronics and programming using the pi and they are mostly thick as two short planks. Yes, the kids might have assembled these projects - but I find it very unlikely they actually designed them, or did more than a very little programming.
Truth is not decided by a vote. Government policy is. There are a great many believers around, many of them in positions of influence, and the rest still comprising a major voting block.
They probably used a patched version that doesn't put the icon there.