There is this German company making the product "DartFish", that does that in Videos. Great for analyzing sports, like the distance and direction of steps before jumps.
Price tag is (afaik) well below 500. I only saw demos with sports people and I must say I was REALLY impressed (keep in mind the geek factor of sports men when it comes to IT).
Ah and it was like 2 or so years ago. I refrained from buying it, because I saw no use in bicycling and it was protected.
Don't ask me how this works, but I really thought it was impossible to do. You could even mark stuff in scenes and you could do it real time - like pulling the high jumper from the mattress in front of your laptop.
1) There are ongoing disputes still in court. This is not the end of the story
2) according to discussions on heise.de this guy has probably registered his trademark between the start of gmail.com and the time google wanted to register gmail.de, they DO own g-mail.de
3) the trademark actually is "G-Mail... und die Post geht richtig ab!" whole slogan WITH hyphen.
4) German trademark law DOES provide ways to see if registering was in "bad faith", and that is not dealt with in the EU, but Germany. That could turn the whole story.
5) He DOES NOT provide service. What he announced is "ready next month" for like all the years since he registered the domain. Probably vaporware.
6) Registering a trademark s.o. else is using in another country and designing vaporware is what 4) is about: straight way to lose the tm.
Some people also told he sort of knew that gmail in the internet was "taken", but discussions did not provide promised sources and no one at heise.de jumped in.
All in all looks like david-goliath, but also symicron-explorer so stay tuned. But keep in mind actual deals of Mr. Giersch are tell tale by himself and not at all confirmed. He might just be some greedy jerk with a rip off scam in trademark law.
Actually, that is just wrong. Sorry for the late answer, but:
child pornography is outlawed because studies show that the presence of such in society badly increases child abuse and violence upon children. And that is not only the "producers" of such. Plus the dilemma of multiplying violence; the observation of social background of violent people suggests: many have been victims and many victims turn violent. As much as I am pro crypt/stegano/etc and uncontrolled internet, this one really concerns me.
And I do not even have a solution, as I also think that controlling the internet results in censorship and more or less subtle aspects of totalitarian control as far as raising the question: Do we jeopardize children (beware of the victims once they grew up) or take some jerks within secret service torture our most valuable citizens (those who stand for rights)? There will always be jerks, every system, even governmental, will be abused. That can catalyze the ride to hell for ALL the people.
I do not have children and I'm not proposing ever harder punishment or control, btw. And I really was surprised about the bad impact child porn has on society, but we have to face it. Let's move on and openly discuss those studies without hyping into anything, but also not conclude the opposite as we see fit.
as the only with this 'News' which is new is that ESR said it, start with thinking in one's own brain instead of being a follower of the next best geek who proved to have some overly whacky points of view. I know they might get even whackier once he realizes being in the news is no longer for him, but he states the obvious. Numerous articles on slashdot dealt with iPods, alpha geeks moving to macs and stuff.
And even contrary to that: I as a developer I used Linux, because it was the cheapest UNIXoid. Which in turn I used because it had the best developer tools back then (e.g. editor with replaces-regexp, bash). That is not so much an issue with a Java IDE now. But was it Java IDEs that changed the focus from "developers make for developers" to "make a windows alternative"? No, it was the focus change, Linuxers wanted to go for the Desktop (of Joe Sixpack, that is). And so all that has been discussed back then. No news here. Yes, Apple is still ahead in attractiveness.
Please stop sticking to ESR's mouth. Facing technology some corp. wants to have exclusively is how we new the business worked for 30 years (sorry, more would sound ridiculous at my age) and dealing with that is what all the FSF/GNU/Linux/EFF/... was about. And all the time it said what is right and why:
Because once customers realize "codex xyz nails me down - I feel raped by the industry" then they would say, Linuxers raped me, too. And what was DRM, patents and most of IP aspects for?
Reigning over customers possibilities of use!
I know this will hurt my karma, but: I have the impression ESR says this stuff to be in the news. Theo de Raadt says stuff to not be in the news or accidentally behaves the way he does. There is a credibility issue for me already and it does not contradict what my mind faces after carefully thinking issues over.
You sound very much like the times when the internet was not yet reigned by greedy lawyers:-) Everyone (on the net) was aware that it was just NOT RL.
But as the lawyers are in already - your different country approach will just lead to restricting the whole thing down to some sort of least common denominator over all countries where you access the net: Maximum overall restriction, that is.
At least over here, it seems. And who would have thought back then, that popularity of the net comes with pr0n, but with pr0n the lawyers come?
I think the point you are 'missing' is that of the two different roles involved - it took two people to raise this. One is the employee, who signed the contract with apple; he ore she therefore has to treat stuff as confidential. If those contracts were rendered moot, even security of government agency could not rely on having dealt out who wants to be loyal and who doesn't. Once Apple can legally (read: in court) prove who it was he well get fired, so what.
The other thing is indeed if bloggers are journalists/press. Along with it come privileges and responsibility. I for one doubt the responsibility if you refer to the 'blogosphere'. The privilege of not disclosing sources is therefore fairly questionable and I think it is good if a court rules on that. However this turns out: I think the court should definitely explain this and how to put the responsibility onto bloggers to have them use press privileges - and what makes them fail the criteria and make them fall back on being just "free speech", for which you can not claim everything beyond personal views (and they should appear as such).
Something to tell apart journalistic work (and responsibility) by whoever does it from the noise of the ranting link farms the blogosphere mostly is would be a great help. And the responsibility does indeed include to not publish whatever info you have if it greatly puts single persons or companies (etc.pp.) to an unfair disadvantage to others.
I have been there 1998 and lots of things were different than I would have thought. Feel free to contact me directly (elbrecht [at] informatik [dot] uni-bonn [dot] de), as I will now spare details and stay brief:
- I expected old hardware, but as everything had to be imported, old hardware was rarely floating flea markets like here. I found recent stuff of pricey brands.
- Take a laptop with strong battery if you can, as that is good to work with and cheaper than a UPS. Also cheaper to ship.
- Expect computing stuff to fall under import/export restrictions and regulations (Rwanda is a crisis region). Good luck;-)
- Shipping computers means dropping them. I had the power supply's screws ripped out.
- Most parts you can buy in Kigali.
- People will only have Windows, some will go so far as to "know all you Northeners use it, so we want the real thing, too". If you bring alternatives, make sure it will suit the needs.
- If you have white skin: That makes it pretty obvious you are out of Hutu-Tutsie rivalry.
- Internet was fast (2MBit sattelite in 1998 was great). As was GSM network. But both was considerably more expensive than in Europe.
- Power and water outages were common. UPSs were common, but only lasted minutes.
- People were incredibly nice and a real pleasure to work with!
- Congratulations! You *will* have a remarkably nice time!
sorry, but I dont get it, what the insight on CNET articles really is. That reasons to not by the player holds for other players as well, the author cures his weird argument by suggesting a totally different device ever round of argument. That is only useful if there is that one killer argument, e.g. budget, to relly knock the decision down. For me that was one-hand-navigation. The title is really misleading and just Apple-bashing.
And I dont know what that fat slug thought what "jogging" might be about. Must be some illegal crack-driven violent smash-and-sloughter-thing. If you ever happen to read specs - that of the hard drive of the iPod are clearly beyond what this CNET guy could ever achieve by moving his ass.
Just the fact the author still doesnt believe itll work doesnt get me any insight except that CNET is never going to really try it before stating BS.
I have taken out the device for really hard action (including dropping it on concrete) - for those of you who need this kind of proof: it never skipped.
Dear/. editors cure us from CNET-stories with journalistic levels of average high scool dropouts. Or put it under a special icon, so it can go where JonKatz went...
As that standard was back then implemented by a Norwegian Linux user group starring Alan Cox I must remind you to buy proper number of licenses from the SCO company!
This sounds so cool, you could even host pr0n in Saudi Arabia with that system (placing at least 2 hosts outside the country) and in case they raid your server room they don't get you.
first the war, shocking. Then the lootings and just as they complained about that lootings and accused the US Army being at fault, the liberators shows them what they are going to do with looters!
damned sure, if was ever in writing the first famous *ix virus it would be one to draw fully transparent windows over the close widgets of all the windows on the screen.
Now THAT computer virus would raise the world wide adrenalin level.
I will consider it, as soon as bike couriers consider it. I know they were offered to test it and refused.
My current setup is below 10 kg, and if you add anything of worth to it (Motor) you will still want to be able to carry it, cause there isn't always a pole you can lock it to.
Mine is carried up Stairs comfortably. Mine I can ride uphill in San Francisco, because the rear wheel pushes it forward.
Mine I can bunny hop over curbs.
This thing has no considerable advantage over a decent bicycle nor over a moped or a motorcycle. Offer me a conventional bike below 5 kg and I will consider spending money.
take a big one, a really big one. That has double use as a hammer, but comes in handy if you are even too lazy to hammer yourself and has endless possibilities to develop career options.
There is only one minor disadvantage of that brilliant solution: Do not ever under any circumstances show up a single day without your tool.
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There is this German company making the product "DartFish", that does that in Videos. Great for analyzing sports, like the distance and direction of steps before jumps.
Price tag is (afaik) well below 500. I only saw demos with sports people and I must say I was REALLY impressed (keep in mind the geek factor of sports men when it comes to IT).
Ah and it was like 2 or so years ago. I refrained from buying it, because I saw no use in bicycling and it was protected.
Don't ask me how this works, but I really thought it was impossible to do. You could even mark stuff in scenes and you could do it real time - like pulling the high jumper from the mattress in front of your laptop.
1) There are ongoing disputes still in court. This is not the end of the story
... und die Post geht richtig ab!" whole slogan WITH hyphen.
2) according to discussions on heise.de this guy has probably registered his trademark between the start of gmail.com and the time google wanted to register gmail.de, they DO own g-mail.de
3) the trademark actually is "G-Mail
4) German trademark law DOES provide ways to see if registering was in "bad faith", and that is not dealt with in the EU, but Germany. That could turn the whole story.
5) He DOES NOT provide service. What he announced is "ready next month" for like all the years since he registered the domain. Probably vaporware.
6) Registering a trademark s.o. else is using in another country and designing vaporware is what 4) is about: straight way to lose the tm.
Some people also told he sort of knew that gmail in the internet was "taken", but discussions did not provide promised sources and no one at heise.de jumped in.
All in all looks like david-goliath, but also symicron-explorer so stay tuned. But keep in mind actual deals of Mr. Giersch are tell tale by himself and not at all confirmed. He might just be some greedy jerk with a rip off scam in trademark law.
Actually, that is just wrong. Sorry for the late answer, but:
child pornography is outlawed because studies show that the presence of such in society badly increases child abuse and violence upon children. And that is not only the "producers" of such. Plus the dilemma of multiplying violence; the observation of social background of violent people suggests: many have been victims and many victims turn violent. As much as I am pro crypt/stegano/etc and uncontrolled internet, this one really concerns me.
And I do not even have a solution, as I also think that controlling the internet results in censorship and more or less subtle aspects of totalitarian control as far as raising the question: Do we jeopardize children (beware of the victims once they grew up) or take some jerks within secret service torture our most valuable citizens (those who stand for rights)? There will always be jerks, every system, even governmental, will be abused. That can catalyze the ride to hell for ALL the people.
I do not have children and I'm not proposing ever harder punishment or control, btw. And I really was surprised about the bad impact child porn has on society, but we have to face it. Let's move on and openly discuss those studies without hyping into anything, but also not conclude the opposite as we see fit.
Well traveling there and being spoken to in person by just everyone that day could be closer to fame as he saw it.
/.-crowd.
Now he tries to deal all fame by email. Should sound easier for
as the only with this 'News' which is new is that ESR said it, start with thinking in one's own brain instead of being a follower of the next best geek who proved to have some overly whacky points of view. I know they might get even whackier once he realizes being in the news is no longer for him, but he states the obvious. Numerous articles on slashdot dealt with iPods, alpha geeks moving to macs and stuff.
And even contrary to that: I as a developer I used Linux, because it was the cheapest UNIXoid. Which in turn I used because it had the best developer tools back then (e.g. editor with replaces-regexp, bash). That is not so much an issue with a Java IDE now. But was it Java IDEs that changed the focus from "developers make for developers" to "make a windows alternative"? No, it was the focus change, Linuxers wanted to go for the Desktop (of Joe Sixpack, that is). And so all that has been discussed back then. No news here. Yes, Apple is still ahead in attractiveness.
Please stop sticking to ESR's mouth. Facing technology some corp. wants to have exclusively is how we new the business worked for 30 years (sorry, more would sound ridiculous at my age) and dealing with that is what all the FSF/GNU/Linux/EFF/... was about. And all the time it said what is right and why:
Because once customers realize "codex xyz nails me down - I feel raped by the industry" then they would say, Linuxers raped me, too. And what was DRM, patents and most of IP aspects for?
Reigning over customers possibilities of use!
I know this will hurt my karma, but: I have the impression ESR says this stuff to be in the news. Theo de Raadt says stuff to not be in the news or accidentally behaves the way he does. There is a credibility issue for me already and it does not contradict what my mind faces after carefully thinking issues over.
You sound very much like the times when the internet was not yet reigned by greedy lawyers :-) Everyone (on the net) was aware that it was just NOT RL.
But as the lawyers are in already - your different country approach will just lead to restricting the whole thing down to some sort of least common denominator over all countries where you access the net: Maximum overall restriction, that is.
At least over here, it seems. And who would have thought back then, that popularity of the net comes with pr0n, but with pr0n the lawyers come?
If I sound sarcastic, then probably I am...
I think the point you are 'missing' is that of the two different roles involved - it took two people to raise this. One is the employee, who signed the contract with apple; he ore she therefore has to treat stuff as confidential. If those contracts were rendered moot, even security of government agency could not rely on having dealt out who wants to be loyal and who doesn't. Once Apple can legally (read: in court) prove who it was he well get fired, so what.
The other thing is indeed if bloggers are journalists/press. Along with it come privileges and responsibility. I for one doubt the responsibility if you refer to the 'blogosphere'. The privilege of not disclosing sources is therefore fairly questionable and I think it is good if a court rules on that. However this turns out: I think the court should definitely explain this and how to put the responsibility onto bloggers to have them use press privileges - and what makes them fail the criteria and make them fall back on being just "free speech", for which you can not claim everything beyond personal views (and they should appear as such).
Something to tell apart journalistic work (and responsibility) by whoever does it from the noise of the ranting link farms the blogosphere mostly is would be a great help. And the responsibility does indeed include to not publish whatever info you have if it greatly puts single persons or companies (etc.pp.) to an unfair disadvantage to others.
to take the site down. Hence the dupe.
I have been there 1998 and lots of things were different than I would have thought. Feel free to contact me directly (elbrecht [at] informatik [dot] uni-bonn [dot] de), as I will now spare details and stay brief:
- I expected old hardware, but as everything had to be imported, old hardware was rarely floating flea markets like here. I found recent stuff of pricey brands.
- Take a laptop with strong battery if you can, as that is good to work with and cheaper than a UPS. Also cheaper to ship.
- Expect computing stuff to fall under import/export restrictions and regulations (Rwanda is a crisis region). Good luck;-)
- Shipping computers means dropping them. I had the power supply's screws ripped out.
- Most parts you can buy in Kigali.
- People will only have Windows, some will go so far as to "know all you Northeners use it, so we want the real thing, too". If you bring alternatives, make sure it will suit the needs.
- If you have white skin: That makes it pretty obvious you are out of Hutu-Tutsie rivalry.
- Internet was fast (2MBit sattelite in 1998 was great). As was GSM network. But both was considerably more expensive than in Europe.
- Power and water outages were common. UPSs were common, but only lasted minutes.
- People were incredibly nice and a real pleasure to work with!
- Congratulations! You *will* have a remarkably nice time!
sorry, but I dont get it, what the insight on CNET articles really is. That reasons to not by the player holds for other players as well, the author cures his weird argument by suggesting a totally different device ever round of argument. That is only useful if there is that one killer argument, e.g. budget, to relly knock the decision down. For me that was one-hand-navigation. The title is really misleading and just Apple-bashing.
/. editors cure us from CNET-stories with journalistic levels of average high scool dropouts. Or put it under a special icon, so it can go where JonKatz went...
And I dont know what that fat slug thought what "jogging" might be about. Must be some illegal crack-driven violent smash-and-sloughter-thing. If you ever happen to read specs - that of the hard drive of the iPod are clearly beyond what this CNET guy could ever achieve by moving his ass.
Just the fact the author still doesnt believe itll work doesnt get me any insight except that CNET is never going to really try it before stating BS.
I have taken out the device for really hard action (including dropping it on concrete) - for those of you who need this kind of proof: it never skipped.
Dear
As that standard was back then implemented by a Norwegian Linux user group starring Alan Cox I must remind you to buy proper number of licenses from the SCO company!
This sounds so cool, you could even host pr0n in Saudi Arabia with that system (placing at least 2 hosts outside the country) and in case they raid your server room they don't get you.
Hence RAID
first the war, shocking. Then the lootings and just as they complained about that lootings and accused the US Army being at fault, the liberators shows them what they are going to do with looters!
Woudn't that be a violation of the DMCA since we Moderators encode secret conspiratoritail messages in our Moderations? ... Forget I just said that.
... Forget he just posted!
Yeah, indeed very very secret. Since you commented to the story and the mods are thrown away.
Note: The German word for "bullet proof glass" is indeed "Panzerglass".
damned sure, if was ever in writing the first famous *ix virus it would be one to draw fully transparent windows over the close widgets of all the windows on the screen.
Now THAT computer virus would raise the world wide adrenalin level.
I will consider it, as soon as bike couriers consider it. I know they were offered to test it and refused.
My current setup is below 10 kg, and if you add anything of worth to it (Motor) you will still want to be able to carry it, cause there isn't always a pole you can lock it to.
Mine is carried up Stairs comfortably. Mine I can ride uphill in San Francisco, because the rear wheel pushes it forward.
Mine I can bunny hop over curbs.
This thing has no considerable advantage over a decent bicycle nor over a moped or a motorcycle. Offer me a conventional bike below 5 kg and I will consider spending money.
... slashdot crowd will do spell checking for me, so watch out for anything 'in the future'.
Taco.
take a big one, a really big one. That has double use as a hammer, but comes in handy if you are even too lazy to hammer yourself and has endless possibilities to develop career options.
There is only one minor disadvantage of that brilliant solution: Do not ever under any circumstances show up a single day without your tool.