Even if I disagree *totally* with your reasoning...
The problem is that if Amazon does some sort of netflix type site with books, the author's guild will just charge that Amazon is taking away rightful copyright control and profit away from the authors, again.
With every book purchased, the author *already* gets paid, so there is nothing wrong with what Amazon is doing. Those books have already been paid for!
For one thing, his PoE model is designed to make each indivdual nets(I think) more capable at responding to a set of features. I don't know if it would intentionally segregate into set animal, set small, and set furry, but it's supposed to be much simpler than the standard supervised network to train.
All it needs to do is get good at sorting images and simplifying the input; a second stage of recognition is then applied to the, theoretically, simpler set of information.
The example you're using is incomplete; his PoE would detect the features small, animal, and furry, where the traditional model would detect the feature cat-like and the feature dog-like, without the sharing of information or neurons that the PoE enables. The second stage of his PoE, the recognition center, would use the sum-product of each of of the simpler feature detectors and then decide if it were cat or dog like.
I've already made two reply posts to others in the thread.
Firewire! Go Firewire!
They are at spec1 in hard disks, notebooks, PCs, cameras, camcorders, and PS2s. Spec2 is already on the way, with designs for spec3, as well as wireless.
It is comparably priced to EIDE at similar sizes, and already has every single benefit that is being touted for SATA, but now and cheaper ^^
SCSI is SCSI, and won't be going away any time soon. But here's to hoping Firewire wins!
It was called Firewire.
Apple already makes provisions for in in all their current PCs. You can also buy them at prices and sizes comparable to current IDE drives, so the aren't nearly as expensive or high end as serial ATA.
The SATA essentially provides for EIDE what SCSI has had for ages, and what Firewire was built with as well; command queueing, daisy chaining multiple devices, and processor decoupling for the data chain.
It's just a simpler design, with less wires. Me, I hope Firewire wins this one.
Well yes I have a problem with that. That's why I asked in the first place.
So if they can convict you of something without accessing the encrypted files, they can also baselessly use those same encrypted files against you, under the umbrella that you refuse to decrypt them, and that encrypted files used in a crime are themselves criminal...
Is this like making a punishment worse for illegally owning a gun, even if the gun had nothing to do with the crime or the punishment?
I don't see how section 308 is as bad as Dave Koppel feared? Am I misreading, or reading the wrong text?
It doesn't mention wiretapping, and where it does mention encryption:
(c) AMENDMENT OF SENTENCING GUIDELINES RELATING TO USE OF ENCRYPTION- Pursuant to its authority under section 994(p) of title 28, United States Code, the United States Sentencing Commission shall amend the Federal sentencing guidelines and, if appropriate, shall promulgate guidelines or policy statements or amend existing policy statements to ensure that the guidelines provide sufficiently stringent penalties to deter and punish persons who intentionally use encryption in connection with the commission or concealment of criminal acts sentenced under the guidelines.
It would seem that encryption used intentionally by criminals to hide the crime would have to face 'sufficiently stringent penalties'
Would this then only apply to those who have been accused *and* determined to be guilty of criminal acts 'sentanced under the guidelines'?
His fear of wiretapping comes from S2448RS, senate, not house...
Search for "wire, oral, and electronic communications", here.
It's section 8, under authority to...
However, there is no related section or subsection under HR46...
So the only problem I can tell is under HR46 section 304 clause (2)
(2) The criminal forfeiture of property under this subsection, any seizure and disposition thereof, and any administrative or judicial proceeding relating thereto, shall be governed by the provisions of section 413 of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (21 U.S.C. 853), except subsection (d) of that section.'
Are there reasons to suspect this clause? It seems out of place, in a computer crime action...
I suspect the market will narrow as it becomes a footrace towards efficiency, refinements, and generational improvements.
NVIDIA and ATI will settle into the top 2, with Matrox hovering around the edge...
Some no-name will come up with something stellar and exciting, 2 years from now (not BitBoys), and knock some excitement into the display adaptor market, until ATI or NVIDIA catch up, 2 years later, giving said competitor 2 years to build itself up to a frenzy... then a third competitor will jump in, with a further refinement, and perhaps topple ATI in the process... then there will be a competition between the incumbent NVIDIA, the newly grown Radical, and freshly fed Upstart+ATI...
Something like what happened just two years ago, when 3dfx bowled everyone over (s3, Rendition, ATI, and Matrox)
Underdog bests incumbent, knocks them silly, outmaneuvers them, and then destroys them, finally purchasing all the relevent patents and technologies:
Nvidia == Underdog
3dFX == Incumbent
AMD == Underdog
Intel == Incumbent
Microsoft == Incumbent
Apple == Underdog
I suspect I have your pattern wrong; what pattern causes Microsoft buying Apple insightful, instead of confusing. Apple hasn't been an incumbant, unless you're counting the days of Apple II...
Your VA Linux crack should give some insight, but all I could glean was that an upstart who has no technical prowess is able to purchase VA Linux, who will probably crumble in a way analgous to 3dFX...
The only thing that comes to mind is Slashdot's ties to VA Linux(whatever they are), and that a kid who delivers newspapers are somehow... more relevant than Slashdot?
I'm sorry, I know asking about a joke will often kill the humor.
"I realize that Modula-2 is a great teaching language, but... I hate how CS programs force pinko, academic tools like Modula-2 onto students."
Regardless of your contradiction, a full CS degree should be teaching language *independent* stuff, for the most part, such that it is irrelevant that "pinko, academic" tools are forced onto you.
With a decent grounding in predicate calculus, semaphores, locks, synchronization, threads, etc... you can forget Modula2 the minute class is over, and still be doing cool things.
To rephrase, the class should be teaching you things at a level abstract from reality. You should be able to grab, say, C++ from a *one* term class at a local college, or if you're really masochistic, out of one of those 21 day books ^^
I dunno if that's in the next generation cards, as it were.
If you want a music device that takes dictation... get yerself a minidisc player/recorder.
For $150 you can get 74 mintue talk times, play mp3 comparable quality songs, and buy $3 data discs. It's not nearly as neat as having a iPaq handheld, but hey, it plays for 6 or so hours.
I'm hoping for a next gen PDA device that takes CF+ and a 1gb microDrive, headphone jack, Palm OS, and costs $400... but, unless there's a Visor module to take CF+ and does MP3 decoding, I don't think that's going to happen in the near future
If VMWare wants the money of the people, it needs to provide a better product than that written by the people, for the people.
VMWare can support multiple architectures
VMWare can offer better performance
VMWare can offer more flexibility
VMWare can offer more supported devices
VMWare can offer better packaging and convenience
It's the issue that if a person is not satisfied by a commercial product, a person has every incentive to go out and code their own; it's very much a capitalist-freedom thing. If things don't work the way I want them too, I'm free to make something that does, and if I wanted to sell it to other people, I can, and if I want to give it away, well, I can do that too ^^
I don't think Huffman coding is itself patented, as that is a statistical based compression algorithm, and in simple terms, the more often a 'word' appears, the smaller the number of bits is used to represent it;
For the readers unaware of Huffman coding:
If 'CompletELY' appeared 51% of the time in a document, then it would get the code '1'
Everything else would start with a '0'
'0100'
'0101'
'0110'
'0111'
'001'
'000'
etc. It would be proportioned based on percentage appearance.
Anyway, unless I am of course mistaken, the MP3 patent in question is the distribution of the data, the specific encoding table, and not the process of encoding, decoding, or storage, or whatnot. Huffman is used in a *lot* of places where mp3 don't tread.
This will be a real-world test of GPL and the power of the internet.
You are right that the OV people have no resources, money, or lawyers, but the OV people aren't critical either. OV can live and thrive *without* the OV people.
So what can happen? Thompson stifles the top 10 developers? 100? 1000? Will they target everyone who's downloaded the code?
Lets say the top 10 developers are sued to, essentially death. That doesn't mean they lose; OV could be found non-infringing. At which point *any* developer could pick up the pieces and continue.
If it is found infringing, well, that's all folks. The code was infringing... Fix, and release again, I guess.
A commercial big daddy will help it nothing in proving the code is not infringing, I don't think. It can only provide resources. In the end, I hope OV survives, and that we have a better solution, that the GPL reigns powerful, and Thomson gets egg on their face.
It's all about atmosphere, and thus the 'emotion' engine parlance.
I was sooo impressed with Xenogears for PSX when there were cities you entered, and there were *crowds* of people wandering, walking, shopping, chattering, etc. It made such a difference! It's like Episode 4 and Episode 4 Special Release. A whole bunch of aliens were added to the crowd scenes...
You're accustomed to racing games, but real highways are littered with cars...
Imagine, not a racing game, but a cross country Cannonball Run type game; not only are you racing 10 other people, but you have to deal with navigation, traffic, traffic jams, pedestrians, etc... Not possible in real life (and thus worthy of game status), and possibly quite fun!
It really does depend on the skill of the combatants, I think, and not the crudeness or technical accomplishment of the weapon.
For the poorly trained, I think the.45 magnum has tremendous amount of kickback, such that if the first shot is missed, the guy with the stone knife(essentially equivilent to a combat knife) almost certainly has the advantage.
On the other hand, a stone knife in the hands of a inept klutz has only chance on his side ^^
Then there's the fact that a magnum has only 6 or so shots, right?
I didn't say wireless won't improve. Competition from both ends says wireless capacity will improve just as wired capacity will improve... but by it's very nature, currently at least, wired capacity is just an order of magnitude greater than wireless, unless some developments are occuring/have occurred that I am unaware of.
Is there something in the future to fix that? I don't know. But as soon as VoIP and VideooIP start replacing POTS, I think the landlines will have a sudden advantage.
There may be a schism up ahead in which both will compete in the same space, but really, they are independent and can survive off different markets.
Landlines can be used fairly easily to provide something like T1 level speeds to the average user, where the digital network can stream both video, voice, data, etc. In the future, we can expect several times more bandwidth than that...
Wireless is currently slow, and IIRC, 3G wireless is only expected to go up to 2mbps, which is just slightly faster than current DSL pipes... DSL has been shown capable of going up to 7mbps over copper wire (IIRC), and with the simple addition of another pair of wires, you can get 14mbps... with more complex wiring, of course (4 wires, for example), you could prolly get even better bandwidth and throughput than current t3 trunks ^^
And that's not even talking about the potential of fibre-optic landlines ^^
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Even if I disagree *totally* with your reasoning...
The problem is that if Amazon does some sort of netflix type site with books, the author's guild will just charge that Amazon is taking away rightful copyright control and profit away from the authors, again.
With every book purchased, the author *already* gets paid, so there is nothing wrong with what Amazon is doing. Those books have already been paid for!
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to your own post on how awesome this movie is!
I think the Matrix is only 15% of this movie!
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I can't believe the world would be a happier place if people did what was superior, over what is standard.
It would be nice, I guess, to always do what was superior; but that would just become and define what is standard!
Now if people would only start to be happier, then the world would be a much happier place, IMHO ^^
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Its not nearly so simple as a logical and.
For one thing, his PoE model is designed to make each indivdual nets(I think) more capable at responding to a set of features. I don't know if it would intentionally segregate into set animal, set small, and set furry, but it's supposed to be much simpler than the standard supervised network to train.
All it needs to do is get good at sorting images and simplifying the input; a second stage of recognition is then applied to the, theoretically, simpler set of information.
The example you're using is incomplete; his PoE would detect the features small, animal, and furry, where the traditional model would detect the feature cat-like and the feature dog-like, without the sharing of information or neurons that the PoE enables. The second stage of his PoE, the recognition center, would use the sum-product of each of of the simpler feature detectors and then decide if it were cat or dog like.
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I've already made two reply posts to others in the thread.
Firewire! Go Firewire!
They are at spec1 in hard disks, notebooks, PCs, cameras, camcorders, and PS2s. Spec2 is already on the way, with designs for spec3, as well as wireless.
It is comparably priced to EIDE at similar sizes, and already has every single benefit that is being touted for SATA, but now and cheaper ^^
SCSI is SCSI, and won't be going away any time soon. But here's to hoping Firewire wins!
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It was called Firewire. Apple already makes provisions for in in all their current PCs. You can also buy them at prices and sizes comparable to current IDE drives, so the aren't nearly as expensive or high end as serial ATA. The SATA essentially provides for EIDE what SCSI has had for ages, and what Firewire was built with as well; command queueing, daisy chaining multiple devices, and processor decoupling for the data chain. It's just a simpler design, with less wires. Me, I hope Firewire wins this one.
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Here's to hoping Firewire wins out this one.
There are already Firewire drives of comparable price to EIDE and of comparable size.
Firewire cards, devices, and OS support already exists.
Firewire is already working over version 2, with plans for version 3, as well as wireless!
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Why is Star Wars on DVD any more (or less) relevant than Mononoke on DVD, or a review on The Emperor's Groove, or a review on Extreme Programming?
So if you want a vote... Me! I care!
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Well yes I have a problem with that. That's why I asked in the first place.
So if they can convict you of something without accessing the encrypted files, they can also baselessly use those same encrypted files against you, under the umbrella that you refuse to decrypt them, and that encrypted files used in a crime are themselves criminal...
Is this like making a punishment worse for illegally owning a gun, even if the gun had nothing to do with the crime or the punishment?
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Search for medal of valor here.
It's the last link, as far as I can tell.
I don't see how section 308 is as bad as Dave Koppel feared? Am I misreading, or reading the wrong text?
It doesn't mention wiretapping, and where it does mention encryption:
(c) AMENDMENT OF SENTENCING GUIDELINES RELATING TO USE OF ENCRYPTION- Pursuant to its authority under section 994(p) of title 28, United States Code, the United States Sentencing Commission shall amend the Federal sentencing guidelines and, if appropriate, shall promulgate guidelines or policy statements or amend existing policy statements to ensure that the guidelines provide sufficiently stringent penalties to deter and punish persons who intentionally use encryption in connection with the commission or concealment of criminal acts sentenced under the guidelines.
It would seem that encryption used intentionally by criminals to hide the crime would have to face 'sufficiently stringent penalties'
Would this then only apply to those who have been accused *and* determined to be guilty of criminal acts 'sentanced under the guidelines'?
His fear of wiretapping comes from S2448RS, senate, not house...
Search for "wire, oral, and electronic communications", here.
It's section 8, under authority to...
However, there is no related section or subsection under HR46...
So the only problem I can tell is under HR46 section 304 clause (2)
(2) The criminal forfeiture of property under this subsection, any seizure and disposition thereof, and any administrative or judicial proceeding relating thereto, shall be governed by the provisions of section 413 of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (21 U.S.C. 853), except subsection (d) of that section.'
Are there reasons to suspect this clause? It seems out of place, in a computer crime action...
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I suspect the market will narrow as it becomes a footrace towards efficiency, refinements, and generational improvements.
NVIDIA and ATI will settle into the top 2, with Matrox hovering around the edge...
Some no-name will come up with something stellar and exciting, 2 years from now (not BitBoys), and knock some excitement into the display adaptor market, until ATI or NVIDIA catch up, 2 years later, giving said competitor 2 years to build itself up to a frenzy... then a third competitor will jump in, with a further refinement, and perhaps topple ATI in the process... then there will be a competition between the incumbent NVIDIA, the newly grown Radical, and freshly fed Upstart+ATI...
Something like what happened just two years ago, when 3dfx bowled everyone over (s3, Rendition, ATI, and Matrox)
It's just business, as usual.
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You forget ATI
Oh, and Matrox
They aren't dead yet.
I think ATI still has a very good presence in the market, so NVIDIA still has a lot of fighting (and thus competition) to do.
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Something breaks here...
Underdog bests incumbent, knocks them silly, outmaneuvers them, and then destroys them, finally purchasing all the relevent patents and technologies:
Nvidia == Underdog
3dFX == Incumbent
AMD == Underdog
Intel == Incumbent
Microsoft == Incumbent
Apple == Underdog
I suspect I have your pattern wrong; what pattern causes Microsoft buying Apple insightful, instead of confusing. Apple hasn't been an incumbant, unless you're counting the days of Apple II...
Your VA Linux crack should give some insight, but all I could glean was that an upstart who has no technical prowess is able to purchase VA Linux, who will probably crumble in a way analgous to 3dFX...
The only thing that comes to mind is Slashdot's ties to VA Linux(whatever they are), and that a kid who delivers newspapers are somehow... more relevant than Slashdot?
I'm sorry, I know asking about a joke will often kill the humor.
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(Two weeks after assignment 4, in which some deadlocks and synchronization issues are resolved in the scheduler...)
Microsoft releases SP2 for Windows98 SE as part of IE5.01 release
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Isn't this a contradiction on your part?
"I realize that Modula-2 is a great teaching language, but... I hate how CS programs force pinko, academic tools like Modula-2 onto students."
Regardless of your contradiction, a full CS degree should be teaching language *independent* stuff, for the most part, such that it is irrelevant that "pinko, academic" tools are forced onto you.
With a decent grounding in predicate calculus, semaphores, locks, synchronization, threads, etc... you can forget Modula2 the minute class is over, and still be doing cool things.
To rephrase, the class should be teaching you things at a level abstract from reality. You should be able to grab, say, C++ from a *one* term class at a local college, or if you're really masochistic, out of one of those 21 day books ^^
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I dunno if that's in the next generation cards, as it were.
If you want a music device that takes dictation... get yerself a minidisc player/recorder.
For $150 you can get 74 mintue talk times, play mp3 comparable quality songs, and buy $3 data discs. It's not nearly as neat as having a iPaq handheld, but hey, it plays for 6 or so hours.
I'm hoping for a next gen PDA device that takes CF+ and a 1gb microDrive, headphone jack, Palm OS, and costs $400... but, unless there's a Visor module to take CF+ and does MP3 decoding, I don't think that's going to happen in the near future
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Competition!
If VMWare wants the money of the people, it needs to provide a better product than that written by the people, for the people.
VMWare can support multiple architectures
VMWare can offer better performance
VMWare can offer more flexibility
VMWare can offer more supported devices
VMWare can offer better packaging and convenience
It's the issue that if a person is not satisfied by a commercial product, a person has every incentive to go out and code their own; it's very much a capitalist-freedom thing. If things don't work the way I want them too, I'm free to make something that does, and if I wanted to sell it to other people, I can, and if I want to give it away, well, I can do that too ^^
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If I offended you ^^
Anyway, reading the patent, doesn't mp3 do some perceptual encoding magic between the DCT and HUFF processes, to actually throw away non-audible data?
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I don't think Huffman coding is itself patented, as that is a statistical based compression algorithm, and in simple terms, the more often a 'word' appears, the smaller the number of bits is used to represent it;
For the readers unaware of Huffman coding:
If 'CompletELY' appeared 51% of the time in a document, then it would get the code '1'
Everything else would start with a '0'
'0100'
'0101'
'0110'
'0111'
'001'
'000'
etc. It would be proportioned based on percentage appearance.
Anyway, unless I am of course mistaken, the MP3 patent in question is the distribution of the data, the specific encoding table, and not the process of encoding, decoding, or storage, or whatnot. Huffman is used in a *lot* of places where mp3 don't tread.
But I could be wrong ^^
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This will be a real-world test of GPL and the power of the internet.
You are right that the OV people have no resources, money, or lawyers, but the OV people aren't critical either. OV can live and thrive *without* the OV people.
So what can happen? Thompson stifles the top 10 developers? 100? 1000? Will they target everyone who's downloaded the code?
Lets say the top 10 developers are sued to, essentially death. That doesn't mean they lose; OV could be found non-infringing. At which point *any* developer could pick up the pieces and continue.
If it is found infringing, well, that's all folks. The code was infringing... Fix, and release again, I guess.
A commercial big daddy will help it nothing in proving the code is not infringing, I don't think. It can only provide resources. In the end, I hope OV survives, and that we have a better solution, that the GPL reigns powerful, and Thomson gets egg on their face.
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It's all about atmosphere, and thus the 'emotion' engine parlance.
I was sooo impressed with Xenogears for PSX when there were cities you entered, and there were *crowds* of people wandering, walking, shopping, chattering, etc. It made such a difference! It's like Episode 4 and Episode 4 Special Release. A whole bunch of aliens were added to the crowd scenes...
You're accustomed to racing games, but real highways are littered with cars...
Imagine, not a racing game, but a cross country Cannonball Run type game; not only are you racing 10 other people, but you have to deal with navigation, traffic, traffic jams, pedestrians, etc... Not possible in real life (and thus worthy of game status), and possibly quite fun!
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It really does depend on the skill of the combatants, I think, and not the crudeness or technical accomplishment of the weapon.
.45 magnum has tremendous amount of kickback, such that if the first shot is missed, the guy with the stone knife(essentially equivilent to a combat knife) almost certainly has the advantage.
For the poorly trained, I think the
On the other hand, a stone knife in the hands of a inept klutz has only chance on his side ^^
Then there's the fact that a magnum has only 6 or so shots, right?
So it's still not conclusive ^^
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On space station Earth, with an atmosphere polluted by CO, NO2 and NO3, acid rains and other noxious compounds in our air, water, soil, and bodies...
I'd imagine a satellite space station would potentially have a much cleaner, if not better, environment ^^
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I didn't say wireless won't improve. Competition from both ends says wireless capacity will improve just as wired capacity will improve... but by it's very nature, currently at least, wired capacity is just an order of magnitude greater than wireless, unless some developments are occuring/have occurred that I am unaware of.
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Wireless cannot compete with wired bandwidth.
Is there something in the future to fix that? I don't know. But as soon as VoIP and VideooIP start replacing POTS, I think the landlines will have a sudden advantage.
There may be a schism up ahead in which both will compete in the same space, but really, they are independent and can survive off different markets.
Landlines can be used fairly easily to provide something like T1 level speeds to the average user, where the digital network can stream both video, voice, data, etc. In the future, we can expect several times more bandwidth than that...
Wireless is currently slow, and IIRC, 3G wireless is only expected to go up to 2mbps, which is just slightly faster than current DSL pipes... DSL has been shown capable of going up to 7mbps over copper wire (IIRC), and with the simple addition of another pair of wires, you can get 14mbps... with more complex wiring, of course (4 wires, for example), you could prolly get even better bandwidth and throughput than current t3 trunks ^^
And that's not even talking about the potential of fibre-optic landlines ^^
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