The American Revolution triggered the fall on monarchy throughout much of Europe. The American Nation cleared both the East and West of three Facist Empires in the 20th Century. American Globalism will lead to the fall of the Chinese dictatorships and Middle Eastern Theocracies in the 21st. Yet the American People's own liberties are eroding. It is time is come for a rebirth of the Enlightenment in the US.
I know some French, some Latin, and more math than either and have used the NS equation in my work (including nuerical slutions to subsets of the 3D problem). However ths would take me at least a couple of years of work to understand.
One of the things that I understood was a real problem with NS is that not only were there no existence proofs, but there were no uniqueness proofs. Does nayone know if the uniqueness question has been answered?
So the defendants declare bankruptcy and the plaintiffs get what then?
If the company is liquidated they 1) get the company out out of business and 2) some part of the companies' assets. If the company stays in business they get paid off at some percentage depending on the restructuring.
To be honest 9 mil isn't that much to a large company. The main thing is getting these mods off the market.
I am sure that it ispossible to be successful in IT without a college degree. But suppose you decide you want to do something else? Your work skills will be worth zippo. Not to mention that there are a lot of quality of life plusses that you gain from attending college - there are many things in life that college can teach you to appreciate that are not part of what you get from job experience.
I consider the time I spent in college to be very valuable - it opens many doors for me, it helped me with two career changes, and led me to find a wonderful, intellectually dazzling wife, and gave the background to appreciate many things outside the technical domains where I work.
There is more than work to life, and college makes one's whole life richer.
I used to do a lot of Perl programming, but I eventually grew to hate the language because it is so hard to read and is missing so much in the way of object structures. Now if given a choice I use either Python or Ruby. Maintaining and modifying code in either of those languages seems much easier to me.
In effect, the US government is using your tax dollars to help your farmers to overproduce crops that would have no natural market without the subsidy, in exchange for the kickback when their lobbyists come-a-callin'.
The US exports would have a natural market without subsidies if it weren't for the fact that most other developed nations heavily subsidize their own farmers. If we are going to put an end to such subsidies (something I am in favor of) it cannot be done unilaterally,
The fact is that US farmers are the low cost producers of many foodstuffs worldwide. If all nations stopped farm subsidies the US would have larger food exports than they do today.
And as far as NPK etc. - these practices allow greatly enhanced farm yields reducing the need to deforest and put into production large tracts of what is kept as non-farm land right now. There is a huge positive enviromental impact from modern high yield farming inculding putting an end to desertification in many areas. In fact North Africa, one of the few areas where high yield farming has never become standard practice is also suffering the worst environmental impacts from its farm practices.
Without modern high yield farming we would be looking at the scenarios of Paul Erlich's "Population Bomb" - mass starvation, environmental devastation, vast areas where land has desertified, etc. Before you slam NPK, consider the alternatives and what was happening before the Green Revolution. And you had better have a way to replace the 300% yield improvement that you would lose without these methods that doesn't involve deforestation, relocation of urban populations back to the farm, pandemic famine and so forth.
North Africa is the only geographical area of the world where famines still exist, and the primary reasons for it are politics and war. Simple practices (cf. Norman Borlaug) have existed for decades that would eliminate famine and make this region self-sufficient.
US food exports generally go to other rich nations (who generally subsidize their farmers more than the US does), not developing countries that have agricultural economies. Countries with agricultural (read sustinance) economies do not have the foregn exchange to purchase food from the US.
US population growth is due to immigration, not birth rate. In fact because as immigrants get assimilated their family size decreases the US does a lot to hold population growth down.
What was meant by this is that Ajax is a loose collection of cooperating technologies, without a standard, that develops very rapidly, and allows a lot of choices to the developer -- as opposed to Java EE as a rigid platform. Kind of like Linux vs BSD.
J2EE is very well standardized, and goes through a very controlled process before it is extended. However that doesn't mean that Java in a larger sense can't take in external projects. Some of these like Struts, Spring, Hibernate, and so on fall into the loose collection of cooperating technologies model and are often used within the J2EE context to supplement or replace parts of J2EE's API.
With Java you can eat a lot of cake and still have a lot more left.
BluRay WOULD hold 66% more if they got the kinks out of producing doouble layer disks. Right now all BluRay movies are on single layer disks and HD-DVD are on DL disks.
Just based on the provenance of the prize, its recognition, and the monetary value the Fields medal is not Nobel equivalent. And the rules are quite different. You have to be under age 40, and the medal is awarded for a body of work, not a particular result. The intent is rather different too - recognition to young contributors as an incentive. Fields medals also cannot be shared.
My thesis advisor was awarded a shared Nobel at age 80 for a piece of work he did in his late 60's. Under the Fields rules he was older by a factor of two than the maximum permitted. He would have also been unlikely to get recogntion under Fields rules since it was a bit of a tangent from his main work.
Andrew Wiles, author of probably the most famous mathematical result of the 20th century (proof of Fermat's Last Theorem) did not qualify for a Fields medal because he was over 40 when his proof was completed. He had to settle for a sliver plaque from the IMU instead.
I don't need to do any research. I understand the issues better than the people writing any of these articles you can link to.
So you think that you understand this better than anyone writing these articles on the internet? I'd say there is about 0% chance of that.
You're quite simply never going to find a TV that does perfect pulldown reversal (IVTC), and that's all there is to it.
I'd agree with that. In fact I don't think you will find any component that will do a perfect job. TV, player, whatever. Oh, BTW did you know that at least one BluRay player model (the Samsung) is actually a 1080i design with a deinterlacer tacked on to the end of video chain? WTF? How is that better than the same deinterlacer chip in the TV? I feel bad for consumers buying that player not knowing they are getting that kind of implementation.
The fact that the studios chose to do a half-assed job on their first Blu-ray titles doesn't say anything about either format.
That is academic. The consumer doesn't care why his video quality is not what he was was expecting. The point is that BluRay is not ready for market PLUS it is significantly more expensive.
Why would anybody buy a progressive-scan DVD player, if their HDTVs can do perfect IVTC anyhow?
That is an easy question. There are a lot of older HDTVs with no deinterlacers, or with analog inputs. These TVs will clearly benefit from a deinterlacing DVD player. This is why these players were originally designed. However that has absoultely nothing to do with current 1080 format TVs. I do not believe that 1080p is a substantial advantage in movie playback for those TVs. Maybe theoretically there is an advantage, but not in practical applications.
The same site has a $378 HD-DVD player listed. Cherry picking numbers is not helping your argument.
Fact: BluRay is significantly more expensive and was rushed to market. The picture quality is not as good as HD-DVD and the price is considerably higher. Double whammy. Nobody is going to buy into that situation. It is a threat to the survival of the format.
Personally I wish it weren't the case. I would like to see BluRay or even better a combined format with the BluRay disk capacity win because I think that ultimately the disk capacity is going to determine the video quality, something I am very interested in. It is annoying me greatly that this may not happen.
Sony has a huge amount of work to do here - improve the codec situation, get the price of dual layer BluRay down. Get the studios to build the high quality transfers. Get the price of the players down. Can they do it before HD-DVD gets established? I am sure HD-DVD is not going to sit still either. Based on Sony's execution history I think it is a big big question mark.
Thanks, you have neatly summed up the term "academic arrogance".
Oh, a chip on one's shoulder, eh?
but the impact of this simple idea is probably larger then the research of 95% of the Nobel prizes awarded in the last few decades. Oh no, TBL doesn't have a PhD, and sometimes worked in industry!
There are a number of Nobel Laureates who have worked in industry, and don't have PhD's. Jack Kilby whom I gave as an example (disproving your academic arrogance theory BTW) is one such case. And yes, there are plenty of ideas that have more impact than 95% of what Nobel Prizes are awarded for. Velcro, fuel injection, Cable TV, microwave ovens and endless others. That does not make these ideas worthy of Nobel Prizes. TBL made a worthy contribution to the suite of standards that are used over the internet. What is more he did it in a way that helped insure its wide adoption. But it NOT a fundamental contribution at a level deserving of Nobel recognition, or a prize touted as being equivalent to a Nobel Prize.
Why is it that every large prize (Fields medal, Millenium Prize etc.) is described as being equivalent to the Nobel Prize? When in fact it isn't?
The Nobel Prize is occasionally awarded to technologists, or inventions by scientists that were not new science but rather applications. Jack Kilby's Nobel is a perfect example. The Millenium Technology Prize does not carry anything like the history or even the sensibility of the Nobel. For example how is the invention of HTML such a big deal? Compared to the work of a technologist like Norman Borlaug it is laughable.
There isn't a Nobel for mathematics - one could make a pretty good case there should have been. But there is no 'equivalent' to the Nobel.
Obviously you didn't do your research. There are many many descriptions on the internet that go into the details of why 1080i and 1080p are essentially identical for movies. Here is another one:
As a benchmark I went on Google's Froogle service and found the Samsung BluRay palyer (cheapest I have seen) low price is $850. On the same search site the Toshiba HD-DVD player was available for $420.
I am sure that better discounts can be found for both. But I'd bet the same ratio will apply.
HD-DVD has a huge edge over BluRay right now because it is ready for market and is half the cost. Whether that will be enough to win the format war I don't know. But it might be. It sure would be good to have an early winner.
I heard the same stories when DVD's came out. Who would want a tech like DVDs -
1. Players cost $1000. 2. Unlike VHS you cant record with them. 3. Picture is good but you need an expensive new TV with component video to get best results. 4. No software. 5. Disks are heavily copy protected. 6. All your old software has to be rebought.
Just think - in any company the managers are the least technically astute employees, and they have the biggest influence in the technical content of the software. If the development engineers are working at a very low level of technical content, just imagine how bad the managers must be. You will be using javascript encoding of passwords rather than SSL. All of your data will be in one table in name value pairs. Instead of exchanging data between servers using efficient protocols you will be passing around flat files containing fixed length records because these are the techincal approaches understood by your managers.
Just run away, fast. You can bet your prospective employer won't be around very long anyway.
I believe because you (used to) be able to only patent a specific implementation. Software patents is or comes too close to patenting the idea itself. Someone used to be free to build a better mousetrap, just not working exactly like the one you patented. Now the very idea of the mousetrap is effectively patented when we pursue software patents.
That is generally true because of the ubiquity of computers. Patenting implementing an encryption algorithm in a computer is pretty much equivalent to patenting the idea because the only real useful implementation is going to be on computers. Yes, you can still do the encryption using pen and paper but that is not a practical alternative.
In reality the effective patenting of ideas by covering all of their important implementations is nothing new. It is only the lack of historical perspective by those working in the software field that makes it seem to them it is so.
The real problem in the current patent system is that the quality of the searches are poor, and the hurdles for originality and non-obviousness are far too low. Raising these barriers would be of great benefit to the patent system and inventors.
Your best hope is that now that you have the IP you can hack into the laptop and install a BT server with lots of nice pop music and videos. Then report the sharing site to the RIAA and watch them take this sucka down.
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The two are not mutually exclusive.
The American Revolution triggered the fall on monarchy throughout much of Europe. The American Nation cleared both the East and West of three Facist Empires in the 20th Century. American Globalism will lead to the fall of the Chinese dictatorships and Middle Eastern Theocracies in the 21st. Yet the American People's own liberties are eroding. It is time is come for a rebirth of the Enlightenment in the US.
I know some French, some Latin, and more math than either and have used the NS equation in my work (including nuerical slutions to subsets of the 3D problem). However ths would take me at least a couple of years of work to understand.
One of the things that I understood was a real problem with NS is that not only were there no existence proofs, but there were no uniqueness proofs. Does nayone know if the uniqueness question has been answered?
So the defendants declare bankruptcy and the plaintiffs get what then?
If the company is liquidated they 1) get the company out out of business and 2) some part of the companies' assets. If the company stays in business they get paid off at some percentage depending on the restructuring.
To be honest 9 mil isn't that much to a large company. The main thing is getting these mods off the market.
I am sure that it ispossible to be successful in IT without a college degree. But suppose you decide you want to do something else? Your work skills will be worth zippo. Not to mention that there are a lot of quality of life plusses that you gain from attending college - there are many things in life that college can teach you to appreciate that are not part of what you get from job experience.
I consider the time I spent in college to be very valuable - it opens many doors for me, it helped me with two career changes, and led me to find a wonderful, intellectually dazzling wife, and gave the background to appreciate many things outside the technical domains where I work.
There is more than work to life, and college makes one's whole life richer.
I used to do a lot of Perl programming, but I eventually grew to hate the language because it is so hard to read and is missing so much in the way of object structures. Now if given a choice I use either Python or Ruby. Maintaining and modifying code in either of those languages seems much easier to me.
In effect, the US government is using your tax dollars to help your farmers to overproduce crops that would have no natural market without the subsidy, in exchange for the kickback when their lobbyists come-a-callin'.
The US exports would have a natural market without subsidies if it weren't for the fact that most other developed nations heavily subsidize their own farmers. If we are going to put an end to such subsidies (something I am in favor of) it cannot be done unilaterally,
The fact is that US farmers are the low cost producers of many foodstuffs worldwide. If all nations stopped farm subsidies the US would have larger food exports than they do today.
And as far as NPK etc. - these practices allow greatly enhanced farm yields reducing the need to deforest and put into production large tracts of what is kept as non-farm land right now. There is a huge positive enviromental impact from modern high yield farming inculding putting an end to desertification in many areas. In fact North Africa, one of the few areas where high yield farming has never become standard practice is also suffering the worst environmental impacts from its farm practices.
Without modern high yield farming we would be looking at the scenarios of Paul Erlich's "Population Bomb" - mass starvation, environmental devastation, vast areas where land has desertified, etc. Before you slam NPK, consider the alternatives and what was happening before the Green Revolution. And you had better have a way to replace the 300% yield improvement that you would lose without these methods that doesn't involve deforestation, relocation of urban populations back to the farm, pandemic famine and so forth.
North Africa is the only geographical area of the world where famines still exist, and the primary reasons for it are politics and war. Simple practices (cf. Norman Borlaug) have existed for decades that would eliminate famine and make this region self-sufficient.
US food exports generally go to other rich nations (who generally subsidize their farmers more than the US does), not developing countries that have agricultural economies. Countries with agricultural (read sustinance) economies do not have the foregn exchange to purchase food from the US.
US population growth is due to immigration, not birth rate. In fact because as immigrants get assimilated their family size decreases the US does a lot to hold population growth down.
What was meant by this is that Ajax is a loose collection of cooperating technologies, without a standard, that develops very rapidly, and allows a lot of choices to the developer -- as opposed to Java EE as a rigid platform. Kind of like Linux vs BSD.
J2EE is very well standardized, and goes through a very controlled process before it is extended. However that doesn't mean that Java in a larger sense can't take in external projects. Some of these like Struts, Spring, Hibernate, and so on fall into the loose collection of cooperating technologies model and are often used within the J2EE context to supplement or replace parts of J2EE's API.
With Java you can eat a lot of cake and still have a lot more left.
Well, 1080p/60fps is not one of the ATSC standard formats, but some 1080p HDTVs support it.
anyone can see that 1680x1050 is better than any HD format,
That is pretty hard to see from my viewpoint. HD formats include 1080p which in fact is 1920 x 1080.
BluRay WOULD hold 66% more if they got the kinks out of producing doouble layer disks. Right now all BluRay movies are on single layer disks and HD-DVD are on DL disks.
Just based on the provenance of the prize, its recognition, and the monetary value the Fields medal is not Nobel equivalent. And the rules are quite different. You have to be under age 40, and the medal is awarded for a body of work, not a particular result. The intent is rather different too - recognition to young contributors as an incentive. Fields medals also cannot be shared.
My thesis advisor was awarded a shared Nobel at age 80 for a piece of work he did in his late 60's. Under the Fields rules he was older by a factor of two than the maximum permitted. He would have also been unlikely to get recogntion under Fields rules since it was a bit of a tangent from his main work.
Andrew Wiles, author of probably the most famous mathematical result of the 20th century (proof of Fermat's Last Theorem) did not qualify for a Fields medal because he was over 40 when his proof was completed. He had to settle for a sliver plaque from the IMU instead.
No, actually the two are quite different.
I don't need to do any research. I understand the issues better than the people writing any of these articles you can link to.
So you think that you understand this better than anyone writing these articles on the internet? I'd say there is about 0% chance of that.
You're quite simply never going to find a TV that does perfect pulldown reversal (IVTC), and that's all there is to it.
I'd agree with that. In fact I don't think you will find any component that will do a perfect job. TV, player, whatever. Oh, BTW did
you know that at least one BluRay player model (the Samsung) is actually a 1080i design with a deinterlacer tacked on
to the end of video chain? WTF? How is that better than the same deinterlacer chip in the TV? I feel bad for consumers buying that player not knowing they are getting that kind of implementation.
The fact that the studios chose to do a half-assed job on their first Blu-ray titles doesn't say anything about either format.
That is academic. The consumer doesn't care why his video quality is not what he was was expecting. The point is that BluRay is not ready for market PLUS it is significantly more expensive.
Why would anybody buy a progressive-scan DVD player, if their HDTVs can do perfect IVTC anyhow?
That is an easy question. There are a lot of older HDTVs with no deinterlacers, or with analog inputs. These TVs will clearly benefit
from a deinterlacing DVD player. This is why these players were originally designed. However that has absoultely nothing to do with current 1080 format TVs. I do not believe that 1080p is a substantial advantage in movie playback for those TVs. Maybe theoretically there is an advantage, but not in practical applications.
$650 Blu-ray Player easily found via Froogle: http://www.dealznet.com/item.aspx?eid=1&pid=10366
The same site has a $378 HD-DVD player listed. Cherry picking numbers is not helping your argument.
Fact: BluRay is significantly more expensive and was rushed to market. The picture quality is not as good as HD-DVD and the price
is considerably higher. Double whammy. Nobody is going to buy into that situation. It is a threat to the survival of the format.
Personally I wish it weren't the case. I would like to see BluRay or even better a combined format with the BluRay disk capacity win because I think that ultimately the disk capacity is going to determine the video quality, something I am very interested in. It is annoying me greatly that this may not happen.
Sony has a huge amount of work to do here - improve the codec situation, get the price of dual layer BluRay down. Get the studios to build the high quality transfers. Get the price of the players down. Can they do it before HD-DVD gets established? I am sure HD-DVD is not going to sit still either. Based on Sony's execution history I think it is a big big question mark.
Thanks, you have neatly summed up the term "academic arrogance".
Oh, a chip on one's shoulder, eh?
but the impact of this simple idea is probably larger then the research of 95% of the Nobel prizes awarded in the last few decades. Oh no, TBL doesn't have a PhD, and sometimes worked in industry!
There are a number of Nobel Laureates who have worked in industry, and don't have PhD's. Jack Kilby whom I gave as an example (disproving your academic arrogance theory BTW) is one such case. And yes, there are plenty of ideas that have more impact than 95% of what Nobel Prizes are awarded for. Velcro, fuel injection, Cable TV, microwave ovens and endless others. That does not make these ideas worthy of Nobel Prizes. TBL made a worthy contribution to the suite of standards that are used over the internet. What is more he did it in a way that helped insure its wide adoption. But it NOT a fundamental contribution at a level deserving of Nobel recognition, or a prize touted as being equivalent to a Nobel Prize.
Why is it that every large prize (Fields medal, Millenium Prize etc.) is described as being equivalent to the Nobel Prize? When in fact it isn't?
The Nobel Prize is occasionally awarded to technologists, or inventions by scientists that were not new science but rather applications. Jack Kilby's Nobel is a perfect example. The Millenium Technology Prize does not carry anything like the history or even the sensibility of the Nobel. For example how is the invention of HTML such a big deal? Compared to the work of a technologist like Norman Borlaug it is laughable.
There isn't a Nobel for mathematics - one could make a pretty good case there should have been. But there is no 'equivalent' to the Nobel.
Obviously you didn't do your research. There are many many descriptions on the internet that go into the details of why 1080i and 1080p are essentially identical for movies. Here is another one:
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http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=7
Name one thing that makes HD-DVD "ready for market" that Bluray is failing in.
Picture quality. Here is one review. It is very typical.
http://www.projectorcentral.com/blu-ray_2.htm
The cheaper HD-DVD player is $500,
As a benchmark I went on Google's Froogle service and found the Samsung BluRay palyer (cheapest I have seen) low price is $850. On the same search site the Toshiba HD-DVD player was available for $420.
I am sure that better discounts can be found for both. But I'd bet the same ratio will apply.
The real question people want to know is what hardware and software do we need to clone an HD-DVD or BluRay disk.
1080i and 1080p provide exactly the same resolution as far as movies go.
h ere-is-no-differnce-between-1080i-and-1080p-mo/
http://www.hdbeat.com/2006/08/14/hometheatermag-t
HD-DVD has a huge edge over BluRay right now because it is ready for market and is half the cost. Whether that will be enough to win the format war I don't know. But it might be. It sure would be good to have an early winner.
I'd go for drawing and quartering someone who did this.
I heard the same stories when DVD's came out. Who would want a tech like DVDs -
1. Players cost $1000.
2. Unlike VHS you cant record with them.
3. Picture is good but you need an expensive new TV with component video to get best results.
4. No software.
5. Disks are heavily copy protected.
6. All your old software has to be rebought.
It will just take a while. Be patient.
Just think - in any company the managers are the least technically astute employees, and they have the biggest influence in the technical content of the software. If the development engineers are working at a very low level of technical content, just imagine how bad the managers must be. You will be using javascript encoding of passwords rather than SSL. All of your data will be in one table in name value pairs. Instead of exchanging data between servers using efficient protocols you will be passing around flat files containing fixed length records because these are the techincal approaches understood by your managers.
Just run away, fast. You can bet your prospective employer won't be around very long anyway.
The IAU has clearly been bought off by the TBIA - Text Book Industry Association, hoping to sell millions of updated science texts.
I believe because you (used to) be able to only patent a specific implementation. Software patents is or comes too close to patenting the idea itself. Someone used to be free to build a better mousetrap, just not working exactly like the one you patented. Now the very idea of the mousetrap is effectively patented when we pursue software patents.
That is generally true because of the ubiquity of computers. Patenting implementing an encryption algorithm in a computer is pretty much equivalent to patenting the idea because the only real useful implementation is going to be on computers. Yes, you can still do the encryption using pen and paper but that is not a practical alternative.
In reality the effective patenting of ideas by covering all of their important implementations is nothing new. It is only the lack of historical perspective by those working in the software field that makes it seem to them it is so.
The real problem in the current patent system is that the quality of the searches are poor, and the hurdles for originality and non-obviousness are far too low. Raising these barriers would be of great benefit to the patent system and inventors.
Your best hope is that now that you have the IP you can hack into the laptop and install a BT server with lots of nice pop music and videos. Then report the sharing site to the RIAA and watch them take this sucka down.