It really doesn't look almost as good if you have a good HDTV. The data density is a factor of 5=6 or so. Think of a 720x480 interlaced monitor vs. 1920x1080 non-interlaced. That is a pretty big difference.
All upconversion can do is add some interpolation. As more advanced HDTVs come to the market the differences will become even more obvious.
And then there is the sound. DVD Dolby Digital is compressed with fidelity something like a 256K mp3. BluRay DTS-HD MA supports 7 channel 24bit 96KHz lossless sound.
But even with all that 50% represents some serious pipe dreaming. Right now it's 9%, maybe by year end it could be 15%. The titles aren't there yet, players are too expensive, and market penetration of displays capable of showing the technology off just isn't there.
It is not quite that simple. There were multiple researchers working in that area at the same time, including Kleinrock and Baran. Kleinrock has a good claim based on a 1961 publication and his PhD dissertation. Baran clearly developed the concept in conjunction with his ideas about secure networks. Davies has a good case because he built the first working example.
If you ask Larry Roberts he would say that the honor belongs to Kleinrock.
Personally I don't think that you can say that there is a sole inventor because several people contributed to the seminal idea.
Removing the sound card isn't enough. There are plenty of portable devices that you can plug into USB that can be used to play music. I use an iBasso D1 myself along with a portable hard drive of my own that the music is stored on. It is really a very nice setup.
while mid- or low-frequency AC (say, tens of Hz) tends to kill people
100% totally absurd. Billions of people live in homes with 50-60 Hz common mode EM fields present, and the history of this exposure goes back 100 years. The is NO evidence that this causes any harm.
Better find a planet with a solid core to live on if you are worried about magnetic fields. But then again the lack of a magnetic field would expose you to a lot more radiation.
A method in a metacomputing, distributed network of utilizing remote client resources in the network, comprising:
a server that implements tasks by utilizing idle resources in multiple clients;
individual communication channels between each client and the server;
a second, separate dedicated communication channel (sideband channel) between each client and server, through which the server distributes the tasks to the each client downstream and through which each of the clients sends the results of the task upstream to the server.
So how the HELL does this have anything to do with Ajax, FTP etc.
Silica : crystalline silicon dioxide aka sand Silicon : element # 14, greyish semimetallic crystalline Silicone : Inorg. polymer typ. -Si(CH3)2-O- Liquid or can be rubber if crosslinked. Using for boob jobs.
If you you read my posting more carefully, it was a generalized call for stiffer penalties that included jail as merely one option. Amputation isn't something that has cultural precedent in modern America, but surely other options are possible.
The government folks are snooping goverment records all the time anyway. Just ask Hillary about the FBI and IRS records for political foes the last time she lived at the White House.
And that is why you don't want any MORE info in the hands of the feds than the minimum needed. In my opinion the guvmint should be required to send you a letter every time it looks up your personal information. This would sure open some people's eyes I bet.
Government has unprecedented data gathering and search capabilities, and is seeking increases in those capabilities. These capabilities are hard to prevent; even if Real ID and similar programs get turned back increased capabilities are the inevitable result of easy to create networks, increasing computer performance and data storage capacity.
Along with that should go greatly increased penalties for the abuse of these capabilities. Firing a contractor seems hardly sufficient. Anyone performing this sort of act should serve significant jail time, financial penalties, and so on. If repeat offenses occur the company for whom the contractor works should be banned from future government related contracts.
they're a claim over not just the appropriation of "thought", but over the entire ownership of a particular thought and the absolute dominion and authority to exclude the entire human race ever having it, even if they do so entirely on their own or even just accidentally.
I call bullshit. Patents only cover the application of an idea, not the idea itself, and in the only in the country the patent was granted for a limited period of time. In fact, there is also a research exemption which allows people to use a patented technology in research activities. For example this is why generic drug manufacturers can develop manufacturing processes for on-patent drugs and get regulatory approval for the manufacturing process so that they can begin manufacturing in quantity the day the patent on a drug expires. An offshore manufacturer can have a boatload of the drug ready to land in port the day the patent exprires.
So:
1. Absolute dominion and authority - not absolute - there are exceptions. 2. Entire human race - nope, only applicable to a given country. 3. Ever - Nope. 20 years. 4. Approbation of thought - not even close. Only some active uses.
This is true only in some circumstances. For example if I was practicing the patented invention prior to the patentee developing it, the patentee cannot successfully claim infringement.
Except this isn't a story of this sort. It is not a bullshit patent. The patent owner has a legitimate and important technological innovation that she patented in the mod-90's that opens up a whole new type of semiconductor technology. Many companies have licensed the technology without any problems. A few bad actors (some are very large companies like Sony) have ignored the patent and attempts to negotiate a reasonable license. In frustration the inventor is asking that legal remedies in place to deal with this situation be triggered.
Without this sort of patent protection this is clearly a case where an individual and obviously very creative inventor would just get run over by large companies.
The problem with long life incandescents is that they get to be long life through increasing the filament diameter, which leads to lower electrical efficiency. This is pretty horrific considering that an incandescent bulb is already terribly inefficient.
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It really doesn't look almost as good if you have a good HDTV. The data density is a factor of 5=6 or so. Think of a 720x480 interlaced monitor vs. 1920x1080 non-interlaced. That is a pretty big difference.
All upconversion can do is add some interpolation. As more advanced HDTVs come to the market the differences will become even more obvious.
And then there is the sound. DVD Dolby Digital is compressed with fidelity something like a 256K mp3. BluRay DTS-HD MA supports 7 channel 24bit 96KHz lossless sound.
But even with all that 50% represents some serious pipe dreaming. Right now it's 9%, maybe by year end it could be 15%. The titles aren't there yet, players are too expensive, and market penetration of displays capable of showing the technology off just isn't there.
Unfiltered netflow data can add up to about 10% of the total throughput of the router. That's like getting a drink of water through a fire hose.
It is not quite that simple. There were multiple researchers working in that area at the same time, including Kleinrock and Baran. Kleinrock has a good claim based on a 1961 publication and his PhD dissertation. Baran clearly developed the concept in conjunction with his ideas about secure networks. Davies has a good case because he built the first working example.
If you ask Larry Roberts he would say that the honor belongs to Kleinrock.
Personally I don't think that you can say that there is a sole inventor because several people contributed to the seminal idea.
while 401k winnings get preferential treatment when withdrawn
Wrong.
Removing the sound card isn't enough. There are plenty of portable devices that you can plug into USB that can be used to play music. I use an iBasso D1 myself along with a portable hard drive of my own that the music is stored on. It is really a very nice setup.
while mid- or low-frequency AC (say, tens of Hz) tends to kill people
100% totally absurd. Billions of people live in homes with 50-60 Hz common mode EM fields present, and the history of this exposure goes back 100 years. The is NO evidence that this causes any harm.
Exactly how is the Earth's natural magnetic field different from the man-made one behind a TV set?
Answer: The natural magnetic field is 1000-2000 times stronger, 30-60 micro Teslas vs 25 nano Teslas.
It is utterly ridiculous to think that this represents a health hazard.
I don't think an FTP server is quite the same as a distributed network of client resources.
Better find another planet to live on then. The strength of the Earth's magnetic field is 0.3 to 0.6 gauss, which 20+ time larger than 12 milligauss.
Better find a planet with a solid core to live on if you are worried about magnetic fields. But then again the lack of a magnetic field would expose you to a lot more radiation.
Better to never have been born I guess.
Maybe, maybe not. The description is similar to BOINC, which was 3 years after this patent was filed.
Not to mention the impact of having to pay the RIAA legal fees if you lose a RIAA suit.
Yup. The actual claim 1 (the important part) is:
A method in a metacomputing, distributed network of utilizing remote client resources in the network, comprising:
a server that implements tasks by utilizing idle resources in multiple clients;
individual communication channels between each client and the server;
a second, separate dedicated communication channel (sideband channel) between each client and server, through which the server distributes the tasks to the each client downstream and through which each of the clients sends the results of the task upstream to the server.
So how the HELL does this have anything to do with Ajax, FTP etc.
Another Slashdot summary to laugh at.
Chemistry 101:
Silica : crystalline silicon dioxide aka sand
Silicon : element # 14, greyish semimetallic crystalline
Silicone : Inorg. polymer typ. -Si(CH3)2-O- Liquid or can be rubber if crosslinked. Using for boob jobs.
Yeah, like you know how real breasts feel.
If you you read my posting more carefully, it was a generalized call for stiffer penalties that included jail as merely one option. Amputation isn't something that has cultural precedent in modern America, but surely other options are possible.
Licensed or unlicensed?
The government folks are snooping goverment records all the time anyway. Just ask Hillary about the FBI and IRS records for political foes the last time she lived at the White House.
And that is why you don't want any MORE info in the hands of the feds than the minimum needed. In my opinion the guvmint should be required to send you a letter every time it looks up your personal information. This would sure open some people's eyes I bet.
Government has unprecedented data gathering and search capabilities, and is seeking increases in those capabilities. These capabilities are hard to prevent; even if Real ID and similar programs get turned back increased capabilities are the inevitable result of easy to create networks, increasing computer performance and data storage capacity.
Along with that should go greatly increased penalties for the abuse of these capabilities. Firing a contractor seems hardly sufficient. Anyone performing this sort of act should serve significant jail time, financial penalties, and so on. If repeat offenses occur the company for whom the contractor works should be banned from future government related contracts.
BluRay DVD players were first imported into the US in June 2006. That is more like 18 months.
they're a claim over not just the appropriation of "thought", but over the entire ownership of a particular thought and the absolute dominion and authority to exclude the entire human race ever having it, even if they do so entirely on their own or even just accidentally.
I call bullshit. Patents only cover the application of an idea, not the idea itself, and in the only in the country the patent was granted for a limited period of time. In fact, there is also a research exemption which allows people to use a patented technology in research activities. For example this is why generic drug manufacturers can develop manufacturing processes for on-patent drugs and get regulatory approval for the manufacturing process so that they can begin manufacturing in quantity the day the patent on a drug expires. An offshore manufacturer can have a boatload of the drug ready to land in port the day the patent exprires.
So:
1. Absolute dominion and authority - not absolute - there are exceptions.
2. Entire human race - nope, only applicable to a given country.
3. Ever - Nope. 20 years.
4. Approbation of thought - not even close. Only some active uses.
This is true only in some circumstances. For example if I was practicing the patented invention prior to the patentee developing it, the patentee cannot successfully claim infringement.
Except this isn't a story of this sort. It is not a bullshit patent. The patent owner has a legitimate and important technological innovation that she patented in the mod-90's that opens up a whole new type of semiconductor technology. Many companies have licensed the technology without any problems. A few bad actors (some are very large companies like Sony) have ignored the patent and attempts to negotiate a reasonable license. In frustration the inventor is asking that legal remedies in place to deal with this situation be triggered.
Without this sort of patent protection this is clearly a case where an individual and obviously very creative inventor would just get run over by large companies.
The problem with long life incandescents is that they get to be long life through increasing the filament diameter, which leads to lower electrical efficiency. This is pretty horrific considering that an incandescent bulb is already terribly inefficient.
Plan C is to plant a wind pollinated grain, like corn.