Yes, that's true. In fact, most healty indivduals can generate more than a horsepower (746W) for very short bursts. To prove this to yourself, find a flight of stairs and time yourself running up them:
Your weight in lbs x floor to floor height in feet / seconds to climb / 550 = horsepower
Don't live in the US? Your mass in kg x 9.82 x floor ht in meters/ seconds to climb = watts
OQO has been in "next quarter" status for, what, 3 years now? They get/.'ed about every 6 months with their "any day now" press releases. Don't call me until is ships.
No, I take that back.
Don't call me until version 3 actually arrives. Anything with so many delays (usu the result of design or production difficulties) is going to be crap on its first two releases.
Of course, IANAL, but through the actions of the publisher, katie.com has suffered real losses which could (should) have been avoided by a search to see if the term existed. They clearly did a search on other titles, and a reasonable person would expect the same be done for all titles.
Unlike a name or a phrase, a domain is a fixed, unique address for locating information and any given domain can be checked with trivial effort. It would be like titling a book (202) 625-0040 and not dialing the number to see if it was in operation. (My apoligies to the D.C. resident/business whose number that is).
The owner of Katie.com probably does have legal standing to sue in most 1st world courts, though the outcome would vary considerably, and be very costly for a private individual in any case.
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It would have been more effective to link the site, as even slashdotters on a mission are too lazy to cut and paste. Nonetheless, I've done my slashdot duty and used your link. I can only hope the other million/. readers do the same.
Yes, the one that you can't watch because your local station either chooses not to carry it or because the NFL believes that if you can't watch it on TV, you'll drive 80 miles and buy two $300 tickets to watch the game in person.
FWIW, my Fox affiliate usually choses to show a 1960s movie on Sunday afternoon rather than the 4PM football game. And I'd probably never pay $600 to see a football game (the wife is a bigger fan than I am, and she wouldn't pay either).
There's your check & balance...they'll have to go back and get a warrant to install the bug. They're likely going to need more than a "he's using strong encryption" argument to get a warrant. And the system will work as intended again.
I happen to have an Uncle Jack. I hadn't thought of it until now, but to me his name is "Uncle Jack." I've never actually addressed him as "Jack" even though I'm thirtysomthing already.
How many of these folks were second or later offenses within the suspension/revocation/jail term for the first offense. The black box won't fix that, nor will it tell whether the driver was intoxicted at the time. I call bullshit.
I was once like you. Dreamy eyed and hopeful. If you can't study history, study the newspapers. The Patriot act was supposedly to be used ONLY to counter terrorism, and yet it's finding other uses all over. Yes, it's wonderful that some felons have been caught as a result of the Big Brother laws, but there is no guarantee that they would not have been caught with traditional methods.
One thing is certain: if data is available, it will be used for neferious purposes. Why? Because it will prove to be profitable to someone. Whether that someone is marketers or insurance companies, or the local/state/federal governement - somebody will find that there are $$$ hidden in there.
Encrypted Original ---DVD X-Copy---> Unencrypted Working Copy Produced.
The original encrypted copy was decrypted for the purpose of making a copy. 321 sold this software. The former is not expressly forbidden by the DMCA, the latter is.
DVD X-Copy is not illegal, nor is using it for fair use, but distributing it in any way IS illegal.
Actually it's a 1.75:1 ratio (close to HD) image which is 11.7' wide and 6.7' high, acording to the article, resulting in a 13.4' (161") diagonal measurement. Actually, that's awfully close to one fo the standard DaLite sizes for HDTV, which is 78x139 (159") and can be bought off the shelf for a couple hundred dollars.
As I pointed out somewhere else, 2048x1536 7000 lumen projectors already exist (JVC LCOS), without any special research. I agree with you that there is a limit to the usable resolution.
A practical application for hi res would be for CAD work if you could put a high resultion monitor & digitizer in a light-box like contraption (say, 30"x48"). At 150dpi (4500x7200) and using four greyscales, full sze B&W architectural drawings could be rendered at apparent full resolution. The downside, apart from initial cost, would be that lamp lives are generally around 2000 hrs (give or take 50%), which means dropping another $400-$1000 per man-year of desktop time.
Imagine if you could do this with four XGA projectors! Why, you have a nearly unheard of resolution. IF you could use 16 high-output XGA projectors and double each one up to increase the overall brigtness, you might even end up with a 7000 lumen 2048x1536 monster!
And you don't have to burn 16 lamps at a time and run a high speed computer with special software to do it. Damn, and I was sure this was revolutionize the world.
A applaud you for working in the color-scheme dig in a nearly-on-topic rant. I just lost my mod points, sadly, and this hideous color thing is burning my eyes out. What was wrong with good old slashdot green?
Oh, and Joe would probably shoot 'em with a.22 or maybe a 410, but a 12 gauge just makes too much of a mess. Um...not that I'd know or anything. And he'd use a Pepsi bottle. And wearing faded camo pants. And apparently I know waaaay too much about rednecks...
Would this be the same Microsoft who receives military and political protection from the US Government. The one who's US employees pay taxes, and whose family members serve in the military?
Microsoft has no written obligation to hire only American workers, I'll agree. But there is a certain "nationalism" which one expects a company to have.
As for Texas, I can't imagine anyone voluntarily moving to Texas being labelled as "smart.":-)
Thank goodness it's nothing critical. Since the testing tools they use are probably just gathering dust anyway, it won't have any real impact on the final code.
Of course, I'd prefer a native speaker to write the migration guide for each language version, but since they're full of useless stuff anyway I guess nobody cares.
I'm not a FPS guy...never was very good at them, mainly due to the time involved in learning the controls. I read that line and thought - hey, maybe this ones for me!
Then I watched the trailer. Um...maybe not. SSDD. Looks cool though. I'll probably watch somebody else play it for a couple minutes extra before I get bored.
No, really. Online music was pretty sketchy until the iPod and iTunes. Now, I'm no iPod lover - I don't own one and can't (no, won't) afford to buy it and the online music.
But Apple made it cool. Made it hip. Made it easy. And it works. They weren't the first, but they made it popular, despite all the detractors, and they busted their asses to get a real library available.
It's going to take a lot of cash, a permissive DRM model, and a hard headed exec with lots of industry contacts to make it work. Sony would make it too expensive, Microsoft would make the DRM too draconian, and Apple is too busy with iTunes. Not too many other firms I know of with the cash, tech knowledge, and balls to do it all.
But I haven't bought anything, as you say, so why should I have to back it up? I have a license - the data is merely incidental and I should be able to get that data back with proper proof of purchase. If my seller goes out of business, I still have a license. I should be able to contact the manufacturer (publisher) for a "replacement."
You seem to have missed the entire point of my post. I don't need a physical copy. If you will provide me with a non-exclusive personal license, I'm happy. Natrually, I'll expect that the license cost be in line with the rights offered. I'll give you an example: If you offer me lifetime rights, I'll pay 50% of the softcover price. Two weeks rights? It had better be less than $1, as that looks more like a one-reading rental, and don't expect me to buy very many, since I'll ahve to make sure I can read it in the alloted tome (say, on vacation).
If you plan on charging 80% of the softcover price for a relatively short (1week -1 year) rental period, you can forget it. Convenience be damned, my pocket is getting picked.
Donate NGs? You've got to be kidding. They're just as worthless to everyone else. Don't believe me? Call up the salvation Army and tell them you've got 40 years of NG you'd like to donate. The laughter will still be ringing in your ears when you hear the phone at the other end click off.
Old magazines is a fantastic application for eBooks or digital format. In fact, I've found most magazines to be worthless in their paper form due to the difficulty in searching the contents over many months/years. What I'd really like is for more publishers to offer CD (or DVD) back issue compilations, like the Journal of Light Construction (jlconline.com)does. Sure, they're expensive, but they've got something like 20 years of issues on a single, searchable CD-ROM. When I got my CD, the old issues were reused as landfill ballast.
This is where he falls flat. Writing is an art, and the physical result of the art will not go out of style. If you must, create a phased release for ebooks just like there is today for hard/soft back copies. If you're registering in the NYT bestsellers list, you're buying hardback copies - the fantasticlly expensive version which looks good on your shelf or coffee table, and you get to read it first. If you want to save money, you wait for a month or two and get the softcover, with 50% of the printing cost and 20% of the cover price of the original. Wait another month or two, and you get the un-DRMd ebook version, in a nice cover with physical media for backup. That might be 10% of the printing cost and 10-12% of the original hardcover price. It looks like the softcover is still the bane of the industry!
There are lots of people out there for whom spending 15 minutes searching online is a waste of time. For many professionals, the cost of a first-sale ebook product purchsed one-click(TM) from amazon is less that the (time) opportunity cost of searching the internet for the same book for "free" which may or may not be complete/uncorrupted. I know it is cheaper for me to buy the outrageously priced Harry Potter CD-book brand new, listen to it, then re-sell it on ebay than it is to try and find/download/decode/burn a copy from the usenet. It's even cheaper if I chose to buy used then resell.
I find it interesting that, despite the advent of OCR and ADF on scanners, that there isn't a huge underground eBook market already. That would really screw the market, wouldn't it? Buy a day 0 release, saw off the binding, feed it through your HP multi-function and OCR and, viola', you've got a.txt or.doc or.sxw ready for transfer. Being all text, it'll even zip up super-compact for those sharing on dialup.
Take a hint from the movie industry: Price your 0-day releases for profit, then package your low-priced media versions attractively. A scratch resistant mini-cd in a clamshell would be nice. Will there be piracy? Sure there will. Will you lose real sales? If you're writing porn, or for the 16-24 year old demographic, sure. But for everybody else, part of owning a book is having something on the bookshelf, even if the delivery method is digital.
Depends on how fast you read and how compact you want to be. Carrying around several books on a flash card could be real advantage for travellers. There are still battery, readability, form factor issues, of course.
I found having 2-3 novels in my PDA rather useful for down-time reading, but the resolution/screen size does make for a choppy experience (Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy is well over 1000 pages in the reader version).
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Yes, that's true. In fact, most healty indivduals can generate more than a horsepower (746W) for very short bursts. To prove this to yourself, find a flight of stairs and time yourself running up them:
Your weight in lbs x floor to floor height in feet / seconds to climb / 550 = horsepower
Don't live in the US?
Your mass in kg x 9.82 x floor ht in meters/ seconds to climb = watts
OQO has been in "next quarter" status for, what, 3 years now? They get /.'ed about every 6 months with their "any day now" press releases. Don't call me until is ships.
No, I take that back.
Don't call me until version 3 actually arrives. Anything with so many delays (usu the result of design or production difficulties) is going to be crap on its first two releases.
The day DTV drops TiVo is the day I cancel service. If I wanted a generic box, I would have already saved the money and switched to E*.
Virginia Tech uses iMacs sprinkled all over their library to accest the online catalog as well as for internet terminals.
Of course, at any given time, it seems like 1/3 of them are out of service.
Ahhh, but I know that (202)555-0040 is not a real number, and would make the argument seem silly ;-)
Of course, IANAL, but through the actions of the publisher, katie.com has suffered real losses which could (should) have been avoided by a search to see if the term existed. They clearly did a search on other titles, and a reasonable person would expect the same be done for all titles.
Unlike a name or a phrase, a domain is a fixed, unique address for locating information and any given domain can be checked with trivial effort. It would be like titling a book (202) 625-0040 and not dialing the number to see if it was in operation. (My apoligies to the D.C. resident/business whose number that is).
The owner of Katie.com probably does have legal standing to sue in most 1st world courts, though the outcome would vary considerably, and be very costly for a private individual in any case.
That's why you should, instead, visit:
;-)
http://parryaftab.blogspot.com/
and waste a little bit of the blood-sucking lawyers b/w instead
It would have been more effective to link the site, as even slashdotters on a mission are too lazy to cut and paste. Nonetheless, I've done my slashdot duty and used your link. I can only hope the other million /. readers do the same.
http://parryaftab.blogspot.com/
Yes, the one that you can't watch because your local station either chooses not to carry it or because the NFL believes that if you can't watch it on TV, you'll drive 80 miles and buy two $300 tickets to watch the game in person.
FWIW, my Fox affiliate usually choses to show a 1960s movie on Sunday afternoon rather than the 4PM football game. And I'd probably never pay $600 to see a football game (the wife is a bigger fan than I am, and she wouldn't pay either).
There's your check & balance...they'll have to go back and get a warrant to install the bug. They're likely going to need more than a "he's using strong encryption" argument to get a warrant. And the system will work as intended again.
I happen to have an Uncle Jack. I hadn't thought of it until now, but to me his name is "Uncle Jack." I've never actually addressed him as "Jack" even though I'm thirtysomthing already.
How many of these folks were second or later offenses within the suspension/revocation/jail term for the first offense. The black box won't fix that, nor will it tell whether the driver was intoxicted at the time. I call bullshit.
I was once like you. Dreamy eyed and hopeful. If you can't study history, study the newspapers. The Patriot act was supposedly to be used ONLY to counter terrorism, and yet it's finding other uses all over. Yes, it's wonderful that some felons have been caught as a result of the Big Brother laws, but there is no guarantee that they would not have been caught with traditional methods.
One thing is certain: if data is available, it will be used for neferious purposes. Why? Because it will prove to be profitable to someone. Whether that someone is marketers or insurance companies, or the local/state/federal governement - somebody will find that there are $$$ hidden in there.
Encrypted Original ---DVD X-Copy---> Unencrypted Working Copy Produced.
The original encrypted copy was decrypted for the purpose of making a copy. 321 sold this software. The former is not expressly forbidden by the DMCA, the latter is.
DVD X-Copy is not illegal, nor is using it for fair use, but distributing it in any way IS illegal.
(At least, that's how I understand it).
Actually it's a 1.75:1 ratio (close to HD) image which is 11.7' wide and 6.7' high, acording to the article, resulting in a 13.4' (161") diagonal measurement. Actually, that's awfully close to one fo the standard DaLite sizes for HDTV, which is 78x139 (159") and can be bought off the shelf for a couple hundred dollars.
As I pointed out somewhere else, 2048x1536 7000 lumen projectors already exist (JVC LCOS), without any special research. I agree with you that there is a limit to the usable resolution.
A practical application for hi res would be for CAD work if you could put a high resultion monitor & digitizer in a light-box like contraption (say, 30"x48"). At 150dpi (4500x7200) and using four greyscales, full sze B&W architectural drawings could be rendered at apparent full resolution. The downside, apart from initial cost, would be that lamp lives are generally around 2000 hrs (give or take 50%), which means dropping another $400-$1000 per man-year of desktop time.
Imagine if you could do this with four XGA projectors! Why, you have a nearly unheard of resolution. IF you could use 16 high-output XGA projectors and double each one up to increase the overall brigtness, you might even end up with a 7000 lumen 2048x1536 monster!
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Except, um, it already exists:
http://www.jvcpro.co.uk/tech/dila/news/releases_h
And you don't have to burn 16 lamps at a time and run a high speed computer with special software to do it. Damn, and I was sure this was revolutionize the world.
A applaud you for working in the color-scheme dig in a nearly-on-topic rant. I just lost my mod points, sadly, and this hideous color thing is burning my eyes out. What was wrong with good old slashdot green?
.22 or maybe a 410, but a 12 gauge just makes too much of a mess. Um...not that I'd know or anything. And he'd use a Pepsi bottle. And wearing faded camo pants. And apparently I know waaaay too much about rednecks...
Oh, and Joe would probably shoot 'em with a
Would this be the same Microsoft who receives military and political protection from the US Government. The one who's US employees pay taxes, and whose family members serve in the military?
:-)
Microsoft has no written obligation to hire only American workers, I'll agree. But there is a certain "nationalism" which one expects a company to have.
As for Texas, I can't imagine anyone voluntarily moving to Texas being labelled as "smart."
Thank goodness it's nothing critical. Since the testing tools they use are probably just gathering dust anyway, it won't have any real impact on the final code.
Of course, I'd prefer a native speaker to write the migration guide for each language version, but since they're full of useless stuff anyway I guess nobody cares.
I'm not a FPS guy...never was very good at them, mainly due to the time involved in learning the controls. I read that line and thought - hey, maybe this ones for me!
Then I watched the trailer. Um...maybe not. SSDD. Looks cool though. I'll probably watch somebody else play it for a couple minutes extra before I get bored.
Yeah, me too. Intel, intel, intel. My favorites from the review:
"AMD systems totally suck ass in Doom 3."
"Even overclocked to 3.145GHZ, the AMD64 systems could barely manage 5 FPS."
and, of course
"We marveled at the fastasic results from our 800 MHz Celeron...truly a new day in gaming performace from a CPU."
What? I made those up? Hmmm, guess we should have read the article.
(I did, and AMD cleaned up. But just about anything made this millenium can run the game.)
No, really. Online music was pretty sketchy until the iPod and iTunes. Now, I'm no iPod lover - I don't own one and can't (no, won't) afford to buy it and the online music.
But Apple made it cool. Made it hip. Made it easy. And it works. They weren't the first, but they made it popular, despite all the detractors, and they busted their asses to get a real library available.
It's going to take a lot of cash, a permissive DRM model, and a hard headed exec with lots of industry contacts to make it work. Sony would make it too expensive, Microsoft would make the DRM too draconian, and Apple is too busy with iTunes. Not too many other firms I know of with the cash, tech knowledge, and balls to do it all.
But I haven't bought anything, as you say, so why should I have to back it up? I have a license - the data is merely incidental and I should be able to get that data back with proper proof of purchase. If my seller goes out of business, I still have a license. I should be able to contact the manufacturer (publisher) for a "replacement."
You seem to have missed the entire point of my post. I don't need a physical copy. If you will provide me with a non-exclusive personal license, I'm happy. Natrually, I'll expect that the license cost be in line with the rights offered. I'll give you an example: If you offer me lifetime rights, I'll pay 50% of the softcover price. Two weeks rights? It had better be less than $1, as that looks more like a one-reading rental, and don't expect me to buy very many, since I'll ahve to make sure I can read it in the alloted tome (say, on vacation).
If you plan on charging 80% of the softcover price for a relatively short (1week -1 year) rental period, you can forget it. Convenience be damned, my pocket is getting picked.
Excuse me, I'm going to the library now.
Donate NGs? You've got to be kidding. They're just as worthless to everyone else. Don't believe me? Call up the salvation Army and tell them you've got 40 years of NG you'd like to donate. The laughter will still be ringing in your ears when you hear the phone at the other end click off.
Old magazines is a fantastic application for eBooks or digital format. In fact, I've found most magazines to be worthless in their paper form due to the difficulty in searching the contents over many months/years. What I'd really like is for more publishers to offer CD (or DVD) back issue compilations, like the Journal of Light Construction (jlconline.com)does. Sure, they're expensive, but they've got something like 20 years of issues on a single, searchable CD-ROM. When I got my CD, the old issues were reused as landfill ballast.
This is where he falls flat. Writing is an art, and the physical result of the art will not go out of style. If you must, create a phased release for ebooks just like there is today for hard/soft back copies. If you're registering in the NYT bestsellers list, you're buying hardback copies - the fantasticlly expensive version which looks good on your shelf or coffee table, and you get to read it first. If you want to save money, you wait for a month or two and get the softcover, with 50% of the printing cost and 20% of the cover price of the original. Wait another month or two, and you get the un-DRMd ebook version, in a nice cover with physical media for backup. That might be 10% of the printing cost and 10-12% of the original hardcover price. It looks like the softcover is still the bane of the industry!
.txt or .doc or .sxw ready for transfer. Being all text, it'll even zip up super-compact for those sharing on dialup.
There are lots of people out there for whom spending 15 minutes searching online is a waste of time. For many professionals, the cost of a first-sale ebook product purchsed one-click(TM) from amazon is less that the (time) opportunity cost of searching the internet for the same book for "free" which may or may not be complete/uncorrupted. I know it is cheaper for me to buy the outrageously priced Harry Potter CD-book brand new, listen to it, then re-sell it on ebay than it is to try and find/download/decode/burn a copy from the usenet. It's even cheaper if I chose to buy used then resell.
I find it interesting that, despite the advent of OCR and ADF on scanners, that there isn't a huge underground eBook market already. That would really screw the market, wouldn't it? Buy a day 0 release, saw off the binding, feed it through your HP multi-function and OCR and, viola', you've got a
Take a hint from the movie industry: Price your 0-day releases for profit, then package your low-priced media versions attractively. A scratch resistant mini-cd in a clamshell would be nice. Will there be piracy? Sure there will. Will you lose real sales? If you're writing porn, or for the 16-24 year old demographic, sure. But for everybody else, part of owning a book is having something on the bookshelf, even if the delivery method is digital.
Depends on how fast you read and how compact you want to be. Carrying around several books on a flash card could be real advantage for travellers. There are still battery, readability, form factor issues, of course.
I found having 2-3 novels in my PDA rather useful for down-time reading, but the resolution/screen size does make for a choppy experience (Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy is well over 1000 pages in the reader version).