So, I'm guessing that perhaps either it's easier to obtain in smaller quantities, it requires VERY LITTLE to make a keyring (and possibly a battery), or that the Canadian Ontario Hydro company has a huge markup!
I don't care what you do with the signal, DVDs only have SD information encoded on them (480i). So, snaps to you if you're watching HDTV via your HTPC, but now why the hell are you sending everything 1080i? Do you have a 1080i native display? I'll bet you don't - cause they're still pretty damned expensive.
OK, then let's look at your DVD signal path. 480i converted to 1080i then sent to your display that convertes it to 720p?? Two resolution conversions - and the article states that the second one may only give you 540p. No matter how you slice it, it is far better to simply give your display its native resolution when at all possible - set your clever HTPC to output 720p. Now you're doing 480i converted to 720p - and that's it!
it's a freaking pleasure ship, pleasure being the primary word here.
Yeah. Because naming a thing makes it so. I bet those people got a lot of thinking done in those concentration camps! And they got to camp too!! Wow! Thinking campouts!
Most of the time, the movie is on "title" 1. My cheepy Panasonic DVD player allows me to jump to any title at any time. So, pop in the DVD, see the begining of the FBI warning, jump to title 1, see the movie.
AFAIK, the restrictions on skipping only apply to chapters. I'm not sure there is a command in the DVD set to restrict changing the track.
This technology would only work for microscopic objects (as they must be the same size as the wavelength of light hitting it), and only a single wavelength.
"Whenever I throw problems at you, like how can I build a collaborative documentation system, you just mutter some wierd word, like Wiki, and have it done by the end of the day!"
Administrative Contact:
Center for Consumer Freedom (WXZCXFOFKO) bowers@ConsumerFreedom.com
1775 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20006
US
202-463-7112
When I dial that number I get, lo and behold, "Thank you for calling Berman and company..." Hmm... that's strange. If I do a quick lookup of that number I find the Guest Choice Network. It's even more interesting to do a reverse lookup of the address. There's a huge number of law firms (87!!) and a handful of "watchdog" type orgs (like the American Beverage Institute) in the same building. Hmmm... the American Beverage Institute, same suite number as Center for Consumer Freedom, with a phone number with only a single digit difference 202-463-7110. Calling that, the same voice answers saying "Thank you for calling the American Beverage Institute..."
. Ah, there's the number for Bergman, 202-463-7100, same answering machine as Center for Consumer Freedom. Interesting how this address is just a few doors down from the white house - couldn't be a lobbyist firm could it? Maybe source watch got it right after all. Must be tough keeping all those organizations strait.
...ah the things that Speakeasy's unlimited long distance has done to my spare time...
Administrative Contact:
Center for Consumer Freedom (WXZCXFOFKO) bowers@ConsumerFreedom.com
1775 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20006
US
202-463-7112
When I dial that number I get, lo and behold, "Thank you for calling Berman and company..." Hmm... that's strange. If I do a quick lookup of that number you find the Guest Choice Network. It's even more interesting to do a reverse lookup of the address. Now we get 4 different law firms and the American Beverage Institute in the same office. Hmmm... the American Beverage Institute, with a phone number with only a single digit difference 202-463-7110. Calling that, the same voice answers saying "Thank you for calling the American Beverage Institute..."
Must be tough keeping all those organizations strait.
...ah the things that Speakeasy's unlimited long distance has done to my spare time...
I am the engineer you are speaking of who was helping out our SoCal sales rep during the demo that you watched. I am concerned that you are posting many factual errors about our product and our demo. To start with, our product has a sleek, white case which perhaps you were unable to see because of the lighting. We do not pre-load any content except for a few high-definition titles which we have licensed. You may be confused with the DVD Collections we offer for sale on our site. These packages are not pre-loaded - they are shipped as a collection of individual DVDs. These collections are available to users who would like to rapidly grow their collection with a minimum of shopping effort.
While demo'ing the unit, our sales rep (Jody) was using the IR controller that I provided for him for the first time. It was a mistake on my part as he wasn't familiar with it. Additionally, I had set up the network in the room with a router that was failing. This difficult circumstance (exacerbated by the very short time we had to set up) led to a poor technology demo. If you noticed, I rebooted the router, re-acquired an IP address and the demo was functioning again. I was sitting in the back of the room for most of the demo and not a single person walked out.
We wrote our own OS from scratch because other available OS's (such as Linux) did not meet our needs from either a technical or a legal standpoint. This is not necessarily to say that Linux would not be up to the task, but the legal requirements of the GNU may be incompatible with other licenses that we require, and it would be difficult if not impossible to comply with the DVD CCA's CSS license agreement using a general-purpose operating system. Additionally, it did not take us "years" to create our own OS.
As the only engineer who attended EH Expo, I apologize if I came across as being "brutal". I'm passionate about this product, and sometimes that passion comes across too strong. Many others feel this passion as well, as we've sold hundreds, not just "a few dozen" units.
OK, now add to the fear - THESE COULD BE IN NUCLEAR SUBS!
I was on DDG-56. We had coke cans too. We NEVER X-rayed them or any of the other stores we took aboard. If one of the winning cans showed up on our ship I seriously doubt it would cause a security scare.
The bigger deal from a ship would be that it would transmit your (classified) exact position to a non-classified source. But within the metal of most of the ships I was on, it was impossible to get a cell signal - and few vending machines are installed on the weather decks - ESPECIALLY on a sub;-)
Even when prior art is presented, re-exams are rare. The patent office held only 6,136 between the time the agency was authorized to do so in July 1981 and the end of March 2004
So, if I'm readin this right, it looks like there were 6,136 re-exams, of which 3,927 (64%) were narrowed and 614 (10%) were revoked. Of the re-exams, 3/4 of them succeeded to changing the scope of the patent in question!
Looks like getting the re-exam is the hard part...
I heard this statistic many years ago, but a different reason. I had heard that the cats tend to relax when falling more than 10 floors.
This is discovered by people who own apartment dwelling cats who are curious about the outside world.
Picture in my mind is of a cat, sitting on a ledge: "I wonder what it's like out there... ok... brace... JUMP!... ok, ok, ok... oh, I guess this is what it's like... relax..." WHAM!
It SEEMS like a cool idea, unfortunately there are problems.
First off, the support for that many VLS boxes requires a decent size crew of gunners mates (GMs) for simple maintenance purposes. Now the ship is getting larger for more crew quarters, larger mess deck etc.
So, now you've got MOST of a platform in this ship, and it can't really defend itself. OK, add a CIWS - but now you need more GMs and Operations Specialists (OS) to maintain and use it.
Assuming all that, there were several war-games to determine how it would shift power around. The games often resulted in the opposing side looking for (and often finding) the arsonal ship as it can't defend itself well.
So, at the end of the day, it turns into a destroyer.
Frigates are smaller than Destroyers, which are in turn smaller than Cruisers. Each has a different role - frigates are traditionally for convoy defense whereas destroyers are an attack platform.
Modern 5" guns rely on specific radar to find their targets. The AGM uses GPS or IR to find its target.
Funny thing about radar, for any given parameter the designer trades off range for accuracy. Higher freq, higher accuracy, lower range. Pulse Rotation Freq (PRF) and Pulse Width (PW) have similar characteristics. 250 miles is a LONG way out to gather targetting info.
Assuming you know where your shot is going, now you have to shoot something accurate enough from a rolling ship, though air currents, and hit something 200 miles away.
Aiming will be a PITA, and will probably limit this weapon to a strike role.
If you haven't already, take a look at XUL. Mozilla's interface is created with this, and other people are doing some very interesting things with it. (second link only works in Mozilla or other Gecko browser)
Studies like this are interesting ways to spot trends.
Note the levelling, then steep rise in US developers right around the time the dot-com bubble burst in 2000 seen in figure 2
Anytime a large number of geeks have free time on their collective hands is good for the Linux kernel. Though, that shouldn't be a suprise to many here...
Slashdot Mirror
But you can get a tritium glowing keyring for less than $20 US.
So, I'm guessing that perhaps either it's easier to obtain in smaller quantities, it requires VERY LITTLE to make a keyring (and possibly a battery), or that the Canadian Ontario Hydro company has a huge markup!
I don't care what you do with the signal, DVDs only have SD information encoded on them (480i). So, snaps to you if you're watching HDTV via your HTPC, but now why the hell are you sending everything 1080i? Do you have a 1080i native display? I'll bet you don't - cause they're still pretty damned expensive.
OK, then let's look at your DVD signal path. 480i converted to 1080i then sent to your display that convertes it to 720p?? Two resolution conversions - and the article states that the second one may only give you 540p. No matter how you slice it, it is far better to simply give your display its native resolution when at all possible - set your clever HTPC to output 720p. Now you're doing 480i converted to 720p - and that's it!
here.
Quite a nice lively discussion. I've gone back over it a few times now.
Most of the time, the movie is on "title" 1. My cheepy Panasonic DVD player allows me to jump to any title at any time. So, pop in the DVD, see the begining of the FBI warning, jump to title 1, see the movie.
AFAIK, the restrictions on skipping only apply to chapters. I'm not sure there is a command in the DVD set to restrict changing the track.
When I soldered a diode onto D2, it started playing out some old data about a princess.
Damned refurbs!
Those would have to be some really tiny tanks.
A previous manager:
"Whenever I throw problems at you, like how can I build a collaborative documentation system, you just mutter some wierd word, like Wiki, and have it done by the end of the day!"
OK, let's see. whois activistcash.com:
When I dial that number I get, lo and behold, "Thank you for calling Berman and company..." Hmm... that's strange. If I do a quick lookup of that number I find the Guest Choice Network. It's even more interesting to do a reverse lookup of the address. There's a huge number of law firms (87!!) and a handful of "watchdog" type orgs (like the American Beverage Institute) in the same building. Hmmm... the American Beverage Institute, same suite number as Center for Consumer Freedom, with a phone number with only a single digit difference 202-463-7110. Calling that, the same voice answers saying "Thank you for calling the American Beverage Institute..."
. Ah, there's the number for Bergman, 202-463-7100, same answering machine as Center for Consumer Freedom. Interesting how this address is just a few doors down from the white house - couldn't be a lobbyist firm could it? Maybe source watch got it right after all.
Must be tough keeping all those organizations strait.
Must be tough keeping all those organizations strait.
It looooooks like it's just peoooooople playing with goooooooogle.
I am the engineer you are speaking of who was helping out our SoCal sales rep during the demo that you watched. I am concerned that you are posting many factual errors about our product and our demo. To start with, our product has a sleek, white case which perhaps you were unable to see because of the lighting. We do not pre-load any content except for a few high-definition titles which we have licensed. You may be confused with the DVD Collections we offer for sale on our site. These packages are not pre-loaded - they are shipped as a collection of individual DVDs. These collections are available to users who would like to rapidly grow their collection with a minimum of shopping effort.
While demo'ing the unit, our sales rep (Jody) was using the IR controller that I provided for him for the first time. It was a mistake on my part as he wasn't familiar with it. Additionally, I had set up the network in the room with a router that was failing. This difficult circumstance (exacerbated by the very short time we had to set up) led to a poor technology demo. If you noticed, I rebooted the router, re-acquired an IP address and the demo was functioning again. I was sitting in the back of the room for most of the demo and not a single person walked out.
We wrote our own OS from scratch because other available OS's (such as Linux) did not meet our needs from either a technical or a legal standpoint. This is not necessarily to say that Linux would not be up to the task, but the legal requirements of the GNU may be incompatible with other licenses that we require, and it would be difficult if not impossible to comply with the DVD CCA's CSS license agreement using a general-purpose operating system. Additionally, it did not take us "years" to create our own OS.
As the only engineer who attended EH Expo, I apologize if I came across as being "brutal". I'm passionate about this product, and sometimes that passion comes across too strong. Many others feel this passion as well, as we've sold hundreds, not just "a few dozen" units.
Ian Epperson
Software Engineer
Kaleidescape, Inc.
OK, now add to the fear - THESE COULD BE IN NUCLEAR SUBS!
;-)
I was on DDG-56. We had coke cans too. We NEVER X-rayed them or any of the other stores we took aboard. If one of the winning cans showed up on our ship I seriously doubt it would cause a security scare.
The bigger deal from a ship would be that it would transmit your (classified) exact position to a non-classified source. But within the metal of most of the ships I was on, it was impossible to get a cell signal - and few vending machines are installed on the weather decks - ESPECIALLY on a sub
That's not a crazy patent.
This is a crazy patent!
From the article:
Even when prior art is presented, re-exams are rare. The patent office held only 6,136 between the time the agency was authorized to do so in July 1981 and the end of March 2004
So, if I'm readin this right, it looks like there were 6,136 re-exams, of which 3,927 (64%) were narrowed and 614 (10%) were revoked. Of the re-exams, 3/4 of them succeeded to changing the scope of the patent in question!
Looks like getting the re-exam is the hard part...
I heard this statistic many years ago, but a different reason. I had heard that the cats tend to relax when falling more than 10 floors.
This is discovered by people who own apartment dwelling cats who are curious about the outside world.
Picture in my mind is of a cat, sitting on a ledge: "I wonder what it's like out there... ok... brace... JUMP!... ok, ok, ok... oh, I guess this is what it's like... relax..." WHAM!
Well, after he copy and pasted almost the whole damn article, he had to say something original.
You're thinking of an arsonal ship:
It SEEMS like a cool idea, unfortunately there are problems.
First off, the support for that many VLS boxes requires a decent size crew of gunners mates (GMs) for simple maintenance purposes. Now the ship is getting larger for more crew quarters, larger mess deck etc.
So, now you've got MOST of a platform in this ship, and it can't really defend itself. OK, add a CIWS - but now you need more GMs and Operations Specialists (OS) to maintain and use it.
Assuming all that, there were several war-games to determine how it would shift power around. The games often resulted in the opposing side looking for (and often finding) the arsonal ship as it can't defend itself well.
So, at the end of the day, it turns into a destroyer.
I've always been fond of the acronym for:
My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment!
Frigates are smaller than Destroyers, which are in turn smaller than Cruisers. Each has a different role - frigates are traditionally for convoy defense whereas destroyers are an attack platform.
Frigate != Destroyer
DD, DDG, DD(x) = Destroyer
FF, FFG = Frigate
Sorry to jump on this, but having lived aboard DDG-56 for 3 years, this mistake is akin to me referring to Linux as a program for Windows. Irritating.
Modern 5" guns rely on specific radar to find their targets. The AGM uses GPS or IR to find its target.
Funny thing about radar, for any given parameter the designer trades off range for accuracy. Higher freq, higher accuracy, lower range. Pulse Rotation Freq (PRF) and Pulse Width (PW) have similar characteristics. 250 miles is a LONG way out to gather targetting info.
Assuming you know where your shot is going, now you have to shoot something accurate enough from a rolling ship, though air currents, and hit something 200 miles away.
Aiming will be a PITA, and will probably limit this weapon to a strike role.
Ian
Ex- Electronic Warfare Op
DDG-56
Anytime a large number of geeks have free time on their collective hands is good for the Linux kernel. Though, that shouldn't be a suprise to many here...
I was wondering if numbers could be copyrighted.
Imagine, a piece of music represented in digital form carries a copyright. That can be represented as a very long number (millions of digits?)
Is this long number, therefore, copyrighted?
You have just made the false assumption that the RIAA wants you to make - that they own everything.
I listen to NPR, and haven't heard an RIAA tune on it for years. Why should they have a broadcast flag imposed by the RIAA?