I think there's a valid point in that. I'd like to see such a system where I can host such software on my own server. I'd like to see the OSS community to latch onto that idea, collaborative text, spreadsheet, and maybe collaborative drawing tools too. In a "normal" business, all this stuff would be local, but there's still the concern about multiple people using the same document, and more people are collaborating over wider areas such that a private internal file server connected by VPN might still not be the ideal solution for the task.
Having the software encrypt the saved data would be very important, so stolen files is like likely to mean lost control over the real data.
Micromirrors are actually very reliable and even exceed the lifetime of a typical LED now, of hundreds of thousands of hours of constant flexing. It turns out that nano-scale objects have different properties. A piece of metal on the nanoscale is likely to be a single crystal and that usually eliminates the fatigue issue. I think this has more uses in the sciences though.
Thanks. I'm not a musician, but I would prefer that people ask my permission before using my works in their projects. Something like the GPL doesn't require asking, but it does require compliance if it is redistributed without some other arrangement. I don't consider fair use to require permission, but redistribution of a work for sale is generally not fair use.
I've had people approach me asking permission to include my work in theirs, and I usually agree to it without any fuss. One point of copyright is that it allows the creator some amount of control in what derivative works may use the work.
So a person reuses other people's creative works for a profit but without complying with the terms the owners of the works, that's OK, but Cisco reuses GPL'd code without complying with the terms those authors put forth, then that's not OK. Huh? They are both matters of copyright infringement.
I think this is another case where the Slashdot crowd generally sides with the "little guy" and it just looks like the same hypocritical line that the RIAA puts forth because we all are trying to root for the underdog. However, it's not a good argument.
Who benefits from the infringement doesn't tell the entire story, generally it's still infringement. You have to have a permission arrangement before hand in order for it to not be infringement, whether or not you had good intentions.
This was discussed on Science Friday. The problem with cod liver oil is that it doesn't keep well and usually loses its potency before the buyer consumes it. If it tastes bad, then the omega 3 oils are lost. The Japanese eat fresh fish very shortly after catch, not fish that's been stored a while or oils that have been extracted and sitting on store shelves for too long. One thing I thought was odd is that the fish are getting those oils from the plant life, so that's probably how kelp figures in.
I thought all this attention was because of how quickly it spreads in birds. If it somehow "jumped", then by the time it is noticed, it could be too late to stop it.
I really have not seen much attention given to this disease since last year, so I don't know what your trouble is in saying it's being pushed "nonstop".
I didn't know that about Tamiflu, but I thought that many governments were stockpiling it, not that it would make any difference.
Maybe the installed base didn't shrink much? It sounds like it's trivial to port a game for a certain type of arcade machine to run on a Dreamcast. Even if only a small percentage of users still buy the games, it might be just enough to justify a small run.
I heard about the Vioxx situation on NPR's Science Friday, that it was a confluence of bad events. The drug had a very narrow group of indications but was practically advertised as a general-use product. There are suggestions that off-label prescriptions were strongly recommended, carelessly using it to treat illnesses for which it was not tested. In some situations, having the drug is actually better than not having it (a debilitating painful illness vs a very small risk of death), but there apparently is no good way to restrict the use so that only the people that really do desperately need it will get it.
It's basically a case of too much of a good thing. IIRC, there are were suggestions of allowing restricted use but I don't remember what the deal is.
I think the main idea is that you can hypothetically install more drives per rack or greater flexibility in the design of devices that need high performance drives. The 3.5" high RPM drives basically use smaller platters anyway, so it's not too much of a stretch to put them in a smaller enclosure, but there may have been concerns about miniaturizing other parts of the drive and still maintaining the enterprise-level reliability.
I think the show-stopper here is that the drive stated capacities are still small, there do exist 150GB 15k drives but these are half that.
There was a time when Apple claimed that they'd rather not have DRM at all, that it's forced on them by the labels. Their actions and statements in the past two or three years now say that they really do like DRM.
I really don't get your comments on LCD and plasma, most of the problems were with older generation products. They still have some negative aspects but so does every other display technology. You can get a 42" 1080p CD for around $1500, which is a fantastic price for how great the picture is.
For the same reasons as you gave, I'm not accepting Apple's stated reasons for not allowing arbitrary third party apps. Right now, the most I see that is reasonable is that the software would have to pass a standardized security validator, that's about it. I don't want to see that iPhone developers have to become part of a secret society in order to get any permission to install software.
Maybe it costs nothing to make in the first place, then it should be free, but this is never the case. Costing nothing to copy doesn't justify the copying in itself. Those trying to earn a living making creative works would have a much harder time doing so if other people can simply copy their works and not contribute to the artist's livelihood.
There's also a difference between taking from historical works and taking contemporary works. That distinction is in the limited ownership of works. If Geffen, a member of an organization that demands respect for the works that they sell, then they would be hypocritical to not also give that respect to other people's works.
All the science (all grade levels) and college-level engineering textbooks I've used use metric that I remember. I don't remember about the K-12 math text books.
This is Hollywood. As much as you don't like the changes, I think Tolkien fans got lucky here. I think it's going to be hard to find a production group that would do better in in the eyes of the fans. For all I know, the changes that you don't like might have been demanded by New Line, even if the bonus material might suggest otherwise.
Low profile cards do exist, they are a little harder to find. They seem to be pretty common for server cards. I used to have slim computer that accepted PCMCIA cards. I never used those slots though.
I'm not convinced that there can be a standardized notebook form factor and still have a desirable computer, I think it might hurt innovation because it looks like the size of notebooks have been steadily shrinking, a form factor with all standardized parts would only allow you one size machine and be a fixed thickness.
Battery types change, CPUs change, graphics change, add-in cards change and so on. There are differing ranges of CPUs, some consume 5 watts and others take 30 watts, the cooling system needs to be different, or rather, you can use a smaller and lighter cooling system for the 5 watt chips. If you have less powerful graphics, then you can scede space to somthing else, more powerful graphics require better cooling. Then you have different size screens, some people want 2-3lb notebooks, others don't mind 5-6 lb notebooks, some want cheap and don't mind thicker, others may want to pay for thinner devices, which requires stricter engineering. Tower computers generally have standardized internal parts because they are so large and you can give huge space margins for just about anything.
It is hyperbole, and while there are similar style phones available now, the multitouch really does look like a major step forward. Take a look at the demo videos of the UI on Apple's site. I think it's really impressive. I'm not giving up on my Palm until it dies, but it looks like the new UI operates very well, especially the input and visual feedback. I love the way it shows how you can tweak what part of a picture you want to be the background, on the phone.
I too am skeptical of Jobs' suggestion that it could take down a cellular network, I think it's more like either caving to pressure from Cingular or wanting to make money on every bit of software that goes onto the phone.
Coupling the storage media with the content just turns it into a food fight between huge companies, and makes it ten times harder to move from one format to a superior one.
Catch-22. If the content is not tied to a media (or is it the other way around), then that media will not likely be popular enough to become affordable. There are lots of optical formats that simply flopped, the only ones that have become affordable are CD and DVD.
I think I must disagree. You aren't going to make a modern desktop computer with these, but there's an incredible amount of things you can do with something that appears limited at first.
I'm doing plenty with a 20MHz 8-bit PIC chip with "only" 8k of code space. I can and have controlled a character LCD display, read a keypad, read an encoder, operated a motor with velocity and position control, done RS-232 serial i/o for control by a PC, and some rudimentary task switching, doing floating point operations with no FPU, all in the same chip at the same time. I'm making a similar project that can operate up to 16 radio-control servos at the same time, as well as doing some of the above tasks. Several of these features might only need an afternoon or a day to implement the first time, and once designed, is easy to re-use for other projects.
I've even used an 4MHz eight pin chip as the operating core of a product using less than 50 assembler instructions.
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I think there's a valid point in that. I'd like to see such a system where I can host such software on my own server. I'd like to see the OSS community to latch onto that idea, collaborative text, spreadsheet, and maybe collaborative drawing tools too. In a "normal" business, all this stuff would be local, but there's still the concern about multiple people using the same document, and more people are collaborating over wider areas such that a private internal file server connected by VPN might still not be the ideal solution for the task.
Having the software encrypt the saved data would be very important, so stolen files is like likely to mean lost control over the real data.
I think there's some great potential here.
Micromirrors are actually very reliable and even exceed the lifetime of a typical LED now, of hundreds of thousands of hours of constant flexing. It turns out that nano-scale objects have different properties. A piece of metal on the nanoscale is likely to be a single crystal and that usually eliminates the fatigue issue. I think this has more uses in the sciences though.
Thanks. I'm not a musician, but I would prefer that people ask my permission before using my works in their projects. Something like the GPL doesn't require asking, but it does require compliance if it is redistributed without some other arrangement. I don't consider fair use to require permission, but redistribution of a work for sale is generally not fair use.
I've had people approach me asking permission to include my work in theirs, and I usually agree to it without any fuss. One point of copyright is that it allows the creator some amount of control in what derivative works may use the work.
So a person reuses other people's creative works for a profit but without complying with the terms the owners of the works, that's OK, but Cisco reuses GPL'd code without complying with the terms those authors put forth, then that's not OK. Huh? They are both matters of copyright infringement.
I think this is another case where the Slashdot crowd generally sides with the "little guy" and it just looks like the same hypocritical line that the RIAA puts forth because we all are trying to root for the underdog. However, it's not a good argument.
Who benefits from the infringement doesn't tell the entire story, generally it's still infringement. You have to have a permission arrangement before hand in order for it to not be infringement, whether or not you had good intentions.
This was discussed on Science Friday. The problem with cod liver oil is that it doesn't keep well and usually loses its potency before the buyer consumes it. If it tastes bad, then the omega 3 oils are lost. The Japanese eat fresh fish very shortly after catch, not fish that's been stored a while or oils that have been extracted and sitting on store shelves for too long. One thing I thought was odd is that the fish are getting those oils from the plant life, so that's probably how kelp figures in.
I thought all this attention was because of how quickly it spreads in birds. If it somehow "jumped", then by the time it is noticed, it could be too late to stop it.
I really have not seen much attention given to this disease since last year, so I don't know what your trouble is in saying it's being pushed "nonstop".
I didn't know that about Tamiflu, but I thought that many governments were stockpiling it, not that it would make any difference.
There are plenty of diseases out there though.
Maybe the installed base didn't shrink much? It sounds like it's trivial to port a game for a certain type of arcade machine to run on a Dreamcast. Even if only a small percentage of users still buy the games, it might be just enough to justify a small run.
I heard about the Vioxx situation on NPR's Science Friday, that it was a confluence of bad events. The drug had a very narrow group of indications but was practically advertised as a general-use product. There are suggestions that off-label prescriptions were strongly recommended, carelessly using it to treat illnesses for which it was not tested. In some situations, having the drug is actually better than not having it (a debilitating painful illness vs a very small risk of death), but there apparently is no good way to restrict the use so that only the people that really do desperately need it will get it.
It's basically a case of too much of a good thing. IIRC, there are were suggestions of allowing restricted use but I don't remember what the deal is.
I think the main idea is that you can hypothetically install more drives per rack or greater flexibility in the design of devices that need high performance drives. The 3.5" high RPM drives basically use smaller platters anyway, so it's not too much of a stretch to put them in a smaller enclosure, but there may have been concerns about miniaturizing other parts of the drive and still maintaining the enterprise-level reliability.
I think the show-stopper here is that the drive stated capacities are still small, there do exist 150GB 15k drives but these are half that.
There was a time when Apple claimed that they'd rather not have DRM at all, that it's forced on them by the labels. Their actions and statements in the past two or three years now say that they really do like DRM.
1080p CD
This should read 1080p LCD.
The XBox 360 requires a $199 add-on.
I really don't get your comments on LCD and plasma, most of the problems were with older generation products. They still have some negative aspects but so does every other display technology. You can get a 42" 1080p CD for around $1500, which is a fantastic price for how great the picture is.
And 650k would be sooo much better.
It looks like weld spatter to me.
For the same reasons as you gave, I'm not accepting Apple's stated reasons for not allowing arbitrary third party apps. Right now, the most I see that is reasonable is that the software would have to pass a standardized security validator, that's about it. I don't want to see that iPhone developers have to become part of a secret society in order to get any permission to install software.
Maybe it costs nothing to make in the first place, then it should be free, but this is never the case. Costing nothing to copy doesn't justify the copying in itself. Those trying to earn a living making creative works would have a much harder time doing so if other people can simply copy their works and not contribute to the artist's livelihood.
There's also a difference between taking from historical works and taking contemporary works. That distinction is in the limited ownership of works. If Geffen, a member of an organization that demands respect for the works that they sell, then they would be hypocritical to not also give that respect to other people's works.
All the science (all grade levels) and college-level engineering textbooks I've used use metric that I remember. I don't remember about the K-12 math text books.
This is Hollywood. As much as you don't like the changes, I think Tolkien fans got lucky here. I think it's going to be hard to find a production group that would do better in in the eyes of the fans. For all I know, the changes that you don't like might have been demanded by New Line, even if the bonus material might suggest otherwise.
Low profile cards do exist, they are a little harder to find. They seem to be pretty common for server cards. I used to have slim computer that accepted PCMCIA cards. I never used those slots though.
I'm not convinced that there can be a standardized notebook form factor and still have a desirable computer, I think it might hurt innovation because it looks like the size of notebooks have been steadily shrinking, a form factor with all standardized parts would only allow you one size machine and be a fixed thickness.
Battery types change, CPUs change, graphics change, add-in cards change and so on. There are differing ranges of CPUs, some consume 5 watts and others take 30 watts, the cooling system needs to be different, or rather, you can use a smaller and lighter cooling system for the 5 watt chips. If you have less powerful graphics, then you can scede space to somthing else, more powerful graphics require better cooling. Then you have different size screens, some people want 2-3lb notebooks, others don't mind 5-6 lb notebooks, some want cheap and don't mind thicker, others may want to pay for thinner devices, which requires stricter engineering. Tower computers generally have standardized internal parts because they are so large and you can give huge space margins for just about anything.
It is hyperbole, and while there are similar style phones available now, the multitouch really does look like a major step forward. Take a look at the demo videos of the UI on Apple's site. I think it's really impressive. I'm not giving up on my Palm until it dies, but it looks like the new UI operates very well, especially the input and visual feedback. I love the way it shows how you can tweak what part of a picture you want to be the background, on the phone.
I too am skeptical of Jobs' suggestion that it could take down a cellular network, I think it's more like either caving to pressure from Cingular or wanting to make money on every bit of software that goes onto the phone.
Coupling the storage media with the content just turns it into a food fight between huge companies, and makes it ten times harder to move from one format to a superior one.
Catch-22. If the content is not tied to a media (or is it the other way around), then that media will not likely be popular enough to become affordable. There are lots of optical formats that simply flopped, the only ones that have become affordable are CD and DVD.
Oh my god, you are right! I've successfully designed a flying car that can fly out of my ass.
I think I must disagree. You aren't going to make a modern desktop computer with these, but there's an incredible amount of things you can do with something that appears limited at first.
I'm doing plenty with a 20MHz 8-bit PIC chip with "only" 8k of code space. I can and have controlled a character LCD display, read a keypad, read an encoder, operated a motor with velocity and position control, done RS-232 serial i/o for control by a PC, and some rudimentary task switching, doing floating point operations with no FPU, all in the same chip at the same time. I'm making a similar project that can operate up to 16 radio-control servos at the same time, as well as doing some of the above tasks. Several of these features might only need an afternoon or a day to implement the first time, and once designed, is easy to re-use for other projects.
I've even used an 4MHz eight pin chip as the operating core of a product using less than 50 assembler instructions.
It's all about the reference frame.
I hate relativity.