MS changed the widget style for buttons in XP and it didn't break things horribly. Old programs will probably look a lot like they do now, they just will have really nice looking fonts, and vector images, and the bitmaps will be scaled up. No API rewrite is needed, new programs will simply set a flag saying they suppot hi-res displays and break out of scaling mode. Of course drawing onto textured 3d objects makes scaling trivial.
From the article: Rumor has it that a 3D GUI is not out of the question, and may be used to push the higher-end 3D graphics hardware demands made by Longhorn.
Considering that MS has been hinting at a 3d UI for quite some time and has recent articles it is not unreasonable to assume that this would be a 3d UI. And if you look at the 3dWM project you can see some how "legacy" apps can work in a 3d environment (though I doubt it will look like that.) No API rewrite is needed for old programs. New programs will of course need to use a new API to get full functionality. A 3d UI has inbuilt scaling capability by default. It also is a killer app that can drive sales. It is a lot easier to convince people to upgrade to something if it looks different, and new.
Or to give a cleaner example, what if you install an uninstaller. Programs such as Add=Remove Pro, CleanSweep and others allow you to change FUBARed uninstall entries, delete obsolete entries, and of course call the uninstall routine.
Yeah they require User interaction but I can certainly think of a program that wouldn't. Say I wanted to make a program that uninstalled all the spyware correctly (i.e. through the included uninstaller instead of AdAwares heavy handed delete everything approach). So yeah there is no way for this to be illegal.
You can always sue, but in this case you almost certainly won't win. The only difference between a virus that wipes your hardrive and a disk formating tool is informed consent. Informed conesnt has been provided in this case.
No it doesn't. Elightenment's EVAS merely speeds up some basic operations(AA, Alpha, etc) in no way does it actually represent everythiong with 3d objects.
It is not a bloddy preformance enhancement, and obviously it can be done with NO change in the API, because MS obviously isn't planning on locking out thier entire specturm of legacy applications.
Textures only get blurry if you display them at non one:one scaling but in a UI there is no need to display them at alternate scalings, so this is not a problem, and since MS has the wonderful ClearType technology it is liekly that quality will increase.
LongHorn could represent a step toward(or even be) a 3d UI, Quartz is an interesting 2d API. A sensible 3d UI could changfe the way things are done.
Neither this bill nor the broadband bill are all bad or all good. The broadband bill has protectections for fair use, open software, etc. And this privacy bill gives some rgiths, and takes some rights. Basically both bills are codifications that give a bit more than what an unregulated marketplace might give, but don't give, what a lot of people on slashdot(myself included), enough rights , and protectoins for what is being given up. On the one hand if no legistation is passed, we will lose rights (CSS sure didn't allow for fair use) on the other hand there is a posibility of getting better legistation passed. I guess a person's support depends on whether they think they can get a better bill passed.
Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong. Apple has supprot for putting mixing openGl elements and "normal" elements, but does not treat everything as texteured 3d surfaces. Indeed in the consumer market Windows arrived at the partial solution first.
It will take so long because this is a pretty fundamental change to the GUI. Indeed it is stuff that on the X platform there is 3dwm which is significatn;y simpler than this and still has taken years of work, and is still not done yet.
You may hate MS , but don't hate blindly, MS has the best HCI lab in the world at present. And thier research lab (which has a (broken, but in google) link to story about this). MS may be dumb but the aren't stupid. I don't know if this is useful, but when they say this is new(outside a research lab), they are right.
Because it hones ones skills to a fine sharp edge, because it tests the extreme uses of a language, because it provides chance for someone else to do things not done very often, and maybe come up with something new, and because it is fun.
Most good colleges still teach CS majors how to write an OS, not because they think that the students will have to, as most won't, not because they think it will be anygood, because 99% of the time is a crappy unreliable *Nix clone, but because it tests the limits of a person, (and of course since there is no way for one to ever finish in the time provided it provides a demonstration of the way the world works).
Bullshit. A patent is a legal device. It is a legal grant of monopoly power over an invention. You can challenge it in court, but the burden of proof is against you. If your insane ideas of the law were true then a deed would have no legal standingg by itself, because anyone can walk into a court and challenge the legality of a deed.
Part of the reason the application fee is so bloody high is that the USPTO is required to search for and locate prior art. This is NOT a provisional patent, this is a full fledged patent, binding upon all citiizens of the United States.
Personal preference isn't a right. Now if you belonged to religion that didn't let your picture be taken, that would be different thing all together. Of course then you couldn't enter the gas stations, and couldn't use an ATM, etc.
I must say this is incredibly cool though.. however I would much rather see a generic "Search Engine API" that isn't owned by Google, and can be implemented by anyone.
It could well become a defacto standard, as they are the first major search engine to do this, and other search engines will want to at the minimum provide a tool for migrating from Google powered applications to thier own, which of course means that one should be able to write to the google API and then use thier tools to port it to whatever one wants.
Would not have really helped in this case now would it:
Footnote:5 One of the books was wrapped. Additionally, subsequent analysis by police experts revealed that the two books had never been read, though the covers had been handled.
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I dount very much that this has 'mistake proof.' VR - has it been invented yet? Is it ever possible? Certainly not in a 30USD phone, and especially not given the non-dictionary words this address book will need to have in it - peoples' names and nicks, and business names.
If Hop-on is inteligent this is not that big of a problem. The simple way to do voice-rec on under-powered devices is to use a remote system. So you press the call button, and then it dials a hardwired number, which then prompts for you to say your number(names would be complicated) and the server then recognizes it, confirms it, and connects you to the number, all of which takes up your call time. In other words this basically uses the phone as a dumb terminal only sending along data(voice) to a central server.
However, when you play the file on your PC, you're generating an audio stream. Couldn't you just redirect that into an audio input and record in some format or other such as.wav and then recode to a normal MP3 file?
This is the essense of Microsoft's Secure Audio Path. This tech basically makes it so that "controlled" content does not play on non secure drivers (i.e. Total Recorder which does more or less what you are saying). The Register had an article on Microsoft's control of the securing technology, and it's hope of keeping Real from using it.
So in the long view this is not a concern, though it does mean that presently there is no hope for real security.
Well Electronic is not what bill says it says digital media devices, so just use analog means. This might be a great way to boost the development of quantum computing, or optical computing, or all those other odd computing methods.
This bill is not so evil as people make it out to be. It has some good points even
The Security technology implemented must respect Fair Use
Personal Use copies are allowed of broadcast events
Limitatoins of Copyright are to be enforced, so when/if the copyright expires so will the protection.
All copyrighted works, distributed to the public, must use this security technology
These are all important things, esp. the last one which seems to prohibit some of the things that content producers are already trying to implement for (i.e. no copy, no fair use pay per view events).
The problem is more in the draconian aproach to enforcement then anything else. Under thie current definition a copy machine might be included if it converted the scan to digital because a subcomponent "converts copyrighted works in digital form into a form whereby the images and sounds are visible and audible", of course a copy machine is getting information from the analog world and making analog documents but if it touches digital then it(or more properly the digital subcompponent) would be a digital media device. A digital phone system(PBX) would also be a digital media device. Really the base idea isn't bad but implementing it this way is silly.
So I can legally send a notice to a spamming company that serves as legal notification if they do not list a phone number or physical address, and it will be backed by this precident.
Well think of it his way, how else are you to reach them, the old no known adress solution (a newspaper ad) doesn't apply. Oh and this won't be precedent unless you live in the court's jurisdiction of course.
Sharp is certainly trying to push Java on thier handhelds, as thier Zaurus in Japan uses a proprietary OS that can run java, but not linux. So if new hardware is budgetable, try it out.
If you really want to do Java don't use palm, or palm based products, it really is that simple. Compared to modern handhelds they are very slow and limited, and I don't think anyone has the full JavaSE on palm. Try an nice arm powered unit.
Well in general we have the right to chose whom we communicate with, if I don't want to listen to someone I can just go away, hang up the phone or tell them not to contact me. In this case the law firm, this is NOT a class action case, claims they received spam from the company without a valid return adress or a toll free phone number as required by CA law so people can remove themselves; it is also claimed that Etracks did not identify thier comercial messages as required by CA law. The firm then suposedly tracked them down and told them not to send any more messages to them, they did not comply.So the law firm sued.
While one might complain about the need to identify messages in the subject, it seems to go a bit far to say that one should not be able to make someone stop sending you stuff. The supreme court has ruled that the rights to free expresion and free speech do not allow one to annoy others on thier property. A round of messages could be defended as free speech, but to continue mailing after you have been asked not to is to make a nuissance of oneself.
Neural Nets need not be on chips to be used, indeed one can (as I have) do them on paper or mentally. Indeed I am unclear on what a NN chip would be, a very fast matrix solver???
The legality of summaries is always a vexing question. Since this system generally will take similiar lines of text, a lot of what it takes are quotes to begin with. Also it does cite the articles. It doesn't seem to take long enough stetches to be in violation, though it could.
As for a business plan, well it is a univeristy project, and probably not one taken too seriously. They aren't making money off this any way I can see
I do think this service would be a lot more usefull if it were done so that one didn't have to go to a seperate page for the summary.
No you provide a basic news grouping and ordering service, this sumarizes the articles based off of many different sources. This is sort of like Slate'sToday's Papers feature except for articles and not just the days news.
Whee!!! and let me make annother claim entirely supported by thousands of learned papers:
Witches are real and evilly corrupt the souls of innocent people, (at the behest of satan). They can fly, and do vile infernal things to decent people.
I even have ample sworn testimony to prove it. I am not offering one new idea.
Yet, I hope you don't believe that we should get out the stake and start burning witches. Because, Truth is not determined by citations either to a text (cough Google Bombing) or away from it (i.e. the well cited NASA Mooned America about the "faking" of the moon landings). Generally in academic circles truth is determined in part by peer review, and by time. The authors of the bell curve did not submit it for peer review, and was utterly destroyed, in peer reviewed jounals, in short order.
Go read up on this book of yours. No source should be trusted without checking to see what others have thought of it.
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IBM did it. Quite a while ago actually look around on slashdot.
MS changed the widget style for buttons in XP and it didn't break things horribly. Old programs will probably look a lot like they do now, they just will have really nice looking fonts, and vector images, and the bitmaps will be scaled up. No API rewrite is needed, new programs will simply set a flag saying they suppot hi-res displays and break out of scaling mode. Of course drawing onto textured 3d objects makes scaling trivial.
From the article:
Rumor has it that a 3D GUI is not out of the question, and may be used to push the higher-end 3D graphics hardware demands made by Longhorn.
Considering that MS has been hinting at a 3d UI for quite some time and has recent articles it is not unreasonable to assume that this would be a 3d UI. And if you look at the 3dWM project you can see some how "legacy" apps can work in a 3d environment (though I doubt it will look like that.) No API rewrite is needed for old programs. New programs will of course need to use a new API to get full functionality. A 3d UI has inbuilt scaling capability by default. It also is a killer app that can drive sales. It is a lot easier to convince people to upgrade to something if it looks different, and new.
Or to give a cleaner example, what if you install an uninstaller. Programs such as Add=Remove Pro, CleanSweep and others allow you to change FUBARed uninstall entries, delete obsolete entries, and of course call the uninstall routine.
Yeah they require User interaction but I can certainly think of a program that wouldn't. Say I wanted to make a program that uninstalled all the spyware correctly (i.e. through the included uninstaller instead of AdAwares heavy handed delete everything approach). So yeah there is no way for this to be illegal.
You can always sue, but in this case you almost certainly won't win. The only difference between a virus that wipes your hardrive and a disk formating tool is informed consent. Informed conesnt has been provided in this case.
No it doesn't. Elightenment's EVAS merely speeds up some basic operations(AA, Alpha, etc) in no way does it actually represent everythiong with 3d objects.
It is not a bloddy preformance enhancement, and obviously it can be done with NO change in the API, because MS obviously isn't planning on locking out thier entire specturm of legacy applications.
Textures only get blurry if you display them at non one:one scaling but in a UI there is no need to display them at alternate scalings, so this is not a problem, and since MS has the wonderful ClearType technology it is liekly that quality will increase.
LongHorn could represent a step toward(or even be) a 3d UI, Quartz is an interesting 2d API. A sensible 3d UI could changfe the way things are done.
Neither this bill nor the broadband bill are all bad or all good. The broadband bill has protectections for fair use, open software, etc. And this privacy bill gives some rgiths, and takes some rights. Basically both bills are codifications that give a bit more than what an unregulated marketplace might give, but don't give, what a lot of people on slashdot(myself included), enough rights , and protectoins for what is being given up. On the one hand if no legistation is passed, we will lose rights (CSS sure didn't allow for fair use) on the other hand there is a posibility of getting better legistation passed. I guess a person's support depends on whether they think they can get a better bill passed.
Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong. Apple has supprot for putting mixing openGl elements and "normal" elements, but does not treat everything as texteured 3d surfaces. Indeed in the consumer market Windows arrived at the partial solution first.
It will take so long because this is a pretty fundamental change to the GUI. Indeed it is stuff that on the X platform there is 3dwm which is significatn;y simpler than this and still has taken years of work, and is still not done yet.
You may hate MS , but don't hate blindly, MS has the best HCI lab in the world at present. And thier research lab (which has a (broken, but in google) link to story about this). MS may be dumb but the aren't stupid. I don't know if this is useful, but when they say this is new(outside a research lab), they are right.
Because it hones ones skills to a fine sharp edge, because it tests the extreme uses of a language, because it provides chance for someone else to do things not done very often, and maybe come up with something new, and because it is fun.
Most good colleges still teach CS majors how to write an OS, not because they think that the students will have to, as most won't, not because they think it will be anygood, because 99% of the time is a crappy unreliable *Nix clone, but because it tests the limits of a person, (and of course since there is no way for one to ever finish in the time provided it provides a demonstration of the way the world works).
Bullshit. A patent is a legal device. It is a legal grant of monopoly power over an invention. You can challenge it in court, but the burden of proof is against you. If your insane ideas of the law were true then a deed would have no legal standingg by itself, because anyone can walk into a court and challenge the legality of a deed.
Part of the reason the application fee is so bloody high is that the USPTO is required to search for and locate prior art. This is NOT a provisional patent, this is a full fledged patent, binding upon all citiizens of the United States.
Personal preference isn't a right. Now if you belonged to religion that didn't let your picture be taken, that would be different thing all together. Of course then you couldn't enter the gas stations, and couldn't use an ATM, etc.
I must say this is incredibly cool though.. however I would much rather see a generic "Search Engine API" that isn't owned by Google, and can be implemented by anyone.
It could well become a defacto standard, as they are the first major search engine to do this, and other search engines will want to at the minimum provide a tool for migrating from Google powered applications to thier own, which of course means that one should be able to write to the google API and then use thier tools to port it to whatever one wants.
Perhaps a bit limited.
To fully experience the Sharp USA site, you need to have Version 4 or above of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator Version 4.x. Download Internet Explorer
In Moz
If Hop-on is inteligent this is not that big of a problem. The simple way to do voice-rec on under-powered devices is to use a remote system. So you press the call button, and then it dials a hardwired number, which then prompts for you to say your number(names would be complicated) and the server then recognizes it, confirms it, and connects you to the number, all of which takes up your call time. In other words this basically uses the phone as a dumb terminal only sending along data(voice) to a central server.
This is the essense of Microsoft's Secure Audio Path. This tech basically makes it so that "controlled" content does not play on non secure drivers (i.e. Total Recorder which does more or less what you are saying). The Register had an article on Microsoft's control of the securing technology, and it's hope of keeping Real from using it.
So in the long view this is not a concern, though it does mean that presently there is no hope for real security.
Hmm how is the speed with personable as a remote system?
How has thier reliability been?
Oh and the parrent deserves modding up.
This bill is not so evil as people make it out to be. It has some good points even
- The Security technology implemented must respect Fair Use
- Personal Use copies are allowed of broadcast events
- Limitatoins of Copyright are to be enforced, so when/if the copyright expires so will the protection.
- All copyrighted works, distributed to the public, must use this security technology
These are all important things, esp. the last one which seems to prohibit some of the things that content producers are already trying to implement for (i.e. no copy, no fair use pay per view events).The problem is more in the draconian aproach to enforcement then anything else. Under thie current definition a copy machine might be included if it converted the scan to digital because a subcomponent "converts copyrighted works in digital form into a form whereby the images and sounds are visible and audible", of course a copy machine is getting information from the analog world and making analog documents but if it touches digital then it(or more properly the digital subcompponent) would be a digital media device. A digital phone system(PBX) would also be a digital media device. Really the base idea isn't bad but implementing it this way is silly.
Well think of it his way, how else are you to reach them, the old no known adress solution (a newspaper ad) doesn't apply. Oh and this won't be precedent unless you live in the court's jurisdiction of course.
Sharp is certainly trying to push Java on thier handhelds, as thier Zaurus in Japan uses a proprietary OS that can run java, but not linux. So if new hardware is budgetable, try it out.
If you really want to do Java don't use palm, or palm based products, it really is that simple. Compared to modern handhelds they are very slow and limited, and I don't think anyone has the full JavaSE on palm. Try an nice arm powered unit.
Well in general we have the right to chose whom we communicate with, if I don't want to listen to someone I can just go away, hang up the phone or tell them not to contact me.
In this case the law firm, this is NOT a class action case, claims they received spam from the company without a valid return adress or a toll free phone number as required by CA law so people can remove themselves; it is also claimed that Etracks did not identify thier comercial messages as required by CA law. The firm then suposedly tracked them down and told them not to send any more messages to them, they did not comply.So the law firm sued.
While one might complain about the need to identify messages in the subject, it seems to go a bit far to say that one should not be able to make someone stop sending you stuff. The supreme court has ruled that the rights to free expresion and free speech do not allow one to annoy others on thier property. A round of messages could be defended as free speech, but to continue mailing after you have been asked not to is to make a nuissance of oneself.
I do think this service would be a lot more usefull if it were done so that one didn't have to go to a seperate page for the summary.
No you provide a basic news grouping and ordering service, this sumarizes the articles based off of many different sources. This is sort of like Slate's Today's Papers feature except for articles and not just the days news.
Whee!!! and let me make annother claim entirely supported by thousands of learned papers:
Witches are real and evilly corrupt the souls of innocent people, (at the behest of satan). They can fly, and do vile infernal things to decent people.
I even have ample sworn testimony to prove it. I am not offering one new idea.
Yet, I hope you don't believe that we should get out the stake and start burning witches. Because, Truth is not determined by citations either to a text (cough Google Bombing) or away from it (i.e. the well cited NASA Mooned America about the "faking" of the moon landings). Generally in academic circles truth is determined in part by peer review, and by time. The authors of the bell curve did not submit it for peer review, and was utterly destroyed, in peer reviewed jounals, in short order.
Go read up on this book of yours. No source should be trusted without checking to see what others have thought of it.