How does he have the time to postulate on the end of the world while he is so busy creating rhymes wit a quickness and kickin it with all the Bitches and Ho's? MC Hawking gots mad skillz.
Foveon, Inc.
If Foveon can really produce these at half the price of current shittier transistors, I will be a buyer. I will have to see whether they are really 2.5x the transistors of a PIII when the retail version hits shelves. I guess it is easy to do some advanced R&D when your sugar daddy is National Semiconductor...
If this patent app is as broad and unbelievable as you imply, it will probably be rejected anyway. Of course if it isn't rejected you'll look like a fool for a few days, but so what?. Either way, just signing your name and letting it go it much easier than going to court over breaking your contract. Oh yeah, and next time, RTFC.
It's the fact that you have A degree. My degree is in Journalism, but it got me a database admin job. Just jumping through the hoops even if it takes 8 years (What? I got busy) shows that you have the ability to sit through boring 3 hour long meetings and lie about the progress of your project to people who judge you.
Street dates seem so easy to meet when you set them for 8 months from now, but as we see in the tech market getting there when you have 3 days left is another story.
Their street dates and roll out dates are almost always met. You have to hand it to them.
At least they seem to have taken care of the memory bandwidth problem.
Let's hope that by 2020, when quantum computing hits the market, Intel will be close to rolling out the PXIII and promising that within 5 years they will make the jump out of x86 architecture. Of course, I'm probably being impractical...
"I'll have my machine call your machine to set up a time to watch TV." It sounds all too "1980's distopian view of the future" to me. If ABC wants to spend money leaving messages on my machine, fine by me. I would rather hit the "delete" key on the recorder than deal with a telemarketer. Now, the real genius advertising manuever would be to hack the caller ID screen to say, "watch Drew at 9!" so the recipients wouldn't even have to pick up the phone to get the ad into their heads. I can foresee the big hinderance to the plan will be when people who are home alone start getting all these hang-ups and get freaked out.
The website was pretty vague about what exactly they did to get the music matched up. Think of this as a problem similar to the one DJ's face when mixing songs. When you beat match between two records, there has to be a person (DJ) who serves as the conductor between the two. Without the conductor, the music can get out of synch and end up sounding horrible. Musicians at the various locations will have to play along to a prerecorded version of the music or with a metronome. (Playing along to headphones is common for drummers in the recording studio.) The video could then be synched up at a seperate location by matching the time stamps and then broadcast from there. While this seems like cheating, synching up the music instantly with no delay and beat-matching will be nearly impossible.
Q: M$NB$ had the story for a month and held on to it? Then they announce the hole before M$ has the patch? Why the fsck didn't they just hold the story for one more day?
A: They held on to the story because M$ in their parent and they fear unemployment more than they fear a shitty journalistic reputation. Holding a story for corporate interests is just as bad as the story two days ago about Forbes expecting a reporter to give up sources' names. I have a feeling M$NB$ was forced to announce the hole a day early because their scoop was being threatened by another news source.
The possibilities are amazing for the VRS now that it has been opened. Just think of what could be done for the physically disabled. Doors wouldn't have to rely on those crappy motion sensors, toilets and showers would work by voice command, vehicles could be modified with all kinds of cool stuff like headlights, radio, voice-driven wheelchair doors, and even ignition (keys are hard to use on some vehicles because of the location of the ignition ofn the steering column). It looks like with the toolkit you could develop your own voice-driven DVD, VCR, TV, stereo, or any other entertainment system too. Surely now that the source is available people will build an industry out of the possibilities.
kuro5hin does good work and gets bitch slapped?!?
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Why is it necessary to disrespect kure5hin? Sure, it's not as big and geekpure as/. but there is no need to get defensive about being scooped on the story after you held it for so long. Also, is refering to what you would normally call an informative post as a "seemingly cluefull post" meant as a backhanded compliment? That's how I read it. So much for an "open" community.
I have two comments to add: First, the negative one. Didn't it feel more like a TV episode in that nothing tied itself up in the end? I felt like the ending was saying "Tune in a year from now to see what happens to everyone" I mean, in even the most sequel-driven films you can find a few resolutions of conflict by the end, right? Ok, now on to Singer's brilliance. He managed to throw references to the "Red Scare" and McCarthyism of the 1950's throughout the film including Senator Kelly's "I have a list of dangerous Mutants (Communists) who are tearing up America. The best allusions of the film, though were the references to the politics of the Civil Rights Movement. Magneto was Malcolm X (did you catch his word-for-word recitation of X's classic line "By any means necessary" toward the end. Professor Xavier was Martin Luther King, jr. and even faced martyrdom for the cause. Both men had the same goal: the acceptance of the new race (read Blacks) and their essential difference was the methods they were willing to use to reach that goal. As we all know, it took both men to reach the point we are at today in Civil Rights. Maybe Singer wanted to teach all the young white men who are surely seeing this movie about the sacrifices one must make to realize a dream.
Why does a virus get more attention here in the USA than the AIDS epidemic in Africa? Proximity. We here in the/. community are so close to the issue of viruses and virus-fighting that it is taking over our lives. If you take a step back from the monitor (remember in "Fight Club": you are not your job)you will see that non-MIS people saw Melissa, and other viral attacks on businesses, as a half-day off work and nothing more. Like most other problems in the USA it is going to take an epidemic to get the common man's attention. We are still living under the mid-20th Century pretense that the US is indestructable. Until a virus comes along that will wipe everything in its path and reach home computers (like an AOL instant message script) we are the only ones who are going to sit up and take notice. dbthomas
As a Journalism graduate who ended up writing code, I have seen the lack of trust given the writing community by the coding community from both sides. I feel much of the criticism is warranted. On the journo side of things, a journalist is taught that he can NEVER reveal sources. Besides in Forbes case, apparently, quiting a job on ethical grounds is seen as a rite of passage for newspapermen and magazine writers. It is a badge of honor. Adam Penenburg is doing the right thing. He is doing what is slowly disappearing in the journalism community: He is ignoring the fear of unemployment (remember- coders have a much easier time finding jobs than writers) and standing up for his sources. He should be applauded for keeping true to his ethics.
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If Foveon can really produce these at half the price of current shittier transistors, I will be a buyer. I will have to see whether they are really 2.5x the transistors of a PIII when the retail version hits shelves.
I guess it is easy to do some advanced R&D when your sugar daddy is National Semiconductor...
Or even preview your posts and fix the spelling in the header. Maybe I should practice what I preach.
If this patent app is as broad and unbelievable as you imply, it will probably be rejected anyway. Of course if it isn't rejected you'll look like a fool for a few days, but so what?. Either way, just signing your name and letting it go it much easier than going to court over breaking your contract. Oh yeah, and next time, RTFC.
See? A degree IS useful.
Now I have to copy the link and paste it into the address window?
How are all the script kiddies gonna crack their anime dvd's?
Their street dates and roll out dates are almost always met. You have to hand it to them.
At least they seem to have taken care of the memory bandwidth problem.
Let's hope that by 2020, when quantum computing hits the market, Intel will be close to rolling out the PXIII and promising that within 5 years they will make the jump out of x86 architecture. Of course, I'm probably being impractical...
Is this conceit or ignorance?
They should make a stephen king-type offer, "If 75 percent of the people who want one send us a dollar for research, we will create a real processor."
It sounds all too "1980's distopian view of the future" to me.
If ABC wants to spend money leaving messages on my machine, fine by me. I would rather hit the "delete" key on the recorder than deal with a telemarketer.
Now, the real genius advertising manuever would be to hack the caller ID screen to say, "watch Drew at 9!" so the recipients wouldn't even have to pick up the phone to get the ad into their heads.
I can foresee the big hinderance to the plan will be when people who are home alone start getting all these hang-ups and get freaked out.
Think of this as a problem similar to the one DJ's face when mixing songs. When you beat match between two records, there has to be a person (DJ) who serves as the conductor between the two. Without the conductor, the music can get out of synch and end up sounding horrible.
Musicians at the various locations will have to play along to a prerecorded version of the music or with a metronome. (Playing along to headphones is common for drummers in the recording studio.) The video could then be synched up at a seperate location by matching the time stamps and then broadcast from there.
While this seems like cheating, synching up the music instantly with no delay and beat-matching will be nearly impossible.
A: They held on to the story because M$ in their parent and they fear unemployment more than they fear a shitty journalistic reputation. Holding a story for corporate interests is just as bad as the story two days ago about Forbes expecting a reporter to give up sources' names. I have a feeling M$NB$ was forced to announce the hole a day early because their scoop was being threatened by another news source.
BThomas
Just think of what could be done for the physically disabled. Doors wouldn't have to rely on those crappy motion sensors, toilets and showers would work by voice command, vehicles could be modified with all kinds of cool stuff like headlights, radio, voice-driven wheelchair doors, and even ignition (keys are hard to use on some vehicles because of the location of the ignition ofn the steering column).
It looks like with the toolkit you could develop your own voice-driven DVD, VCR, TV, stereo, or any other entertainment system too.
Surely now that the source is available people will build an industry out of the possibilities.
Why is it necessary to disrespect kure5hin? Sure, it's not as big and geekpure as /. but there is no need to get defensive about being scooped on the story after you held it for so long. Also, is refering to what you would normally call an informative post as a "seemingly cluefull post" meant as a backhanded compliment? That's how I read it. So much for an "open" community.
Cartoon Network promises to create a Tenchi page soon. Here is where you can find .
Ok, now on to Singer's brilliance. He managed to throw references to the "Red Scare" and McCarthyism of the 1950's throughout the film including Senator Kelly's "I have a list of dangerous Mutants (Communists) who are tearing up America.
The best allusions of the film, though were the references to the politics of the Civil Rights Movement. Magneto was Malcolm X (did you catch his word-for-word recitation of X's classic line "By any means necessary" toward the end. Professor Xavier was Martin Luther King, jr. and even faced martyrdom for the cause. Both men had the same goal: the acceptance of the new race (read Blacks) and their essential difference was the methods they were willing to use to reach that goal. As we all know, it took both men to reach the point we are at today in Civil Rights.
Maybe Singer wanted to teach all the young white men who are surely seeing this movie about the sacrifices one must make to realize a dream.
Why does a virus get more attention here in the USA than the AIDS epidemic in Africa? Proximity. We here in the /. community are so close to the issue of viruses and virus-fighting that it is taking over our lives. If you take a step back from the monitor (remember in "Fight Club": you are not your job)you will see that non-MIS people saw Melissa, and other viral attacks on businesses, as a half-day off work and nothing more. Like most other problems in the USA it is going to take an epidemic to get the common man's attention. We are still living under the mid-20th Century pretense that the US is indestructable. Until a virus comes along that will wipe everything in its path and reach home computers (like an AOL instant message script) we are the only ones who are going to sit up and take notice. dbthomas
dbthomas
As a Journalism graduate who ended up writing code, I have seen the lack of trust given the writing community by the coding community from both sides. I feel much of the criticism is warranted.
On the journo side of things, a journalist is taught that he can NEVER reveal sources. Besides in Forbes case, apparently, quiting a job on ethical grounds is seen as a rite of passage for newspapermen and magazine writers. It is a badge of honor.
Adam Penenburg is doing the right thing. He is doing what is slowly disappearing in the journalism community: He is ignoring the fear of unemployment (remember- coders have a much easier time finding jobs than writers) and standing up for his sources. He should be applauded for keeping true to his ethics.