Hasn't this been possible all along, with MPlayer? Their codec status table lists "Windows Media Video 9 DMO" as working. Is that not the same thing as the WMV9 referred to here?
Aren't they all these days? Or does this mean it'll be something like Sky Captain and The World Of Tomorrow, with all scenes shot in front of a blue screen?
Unless I'm completely mistaken, each of the claims in a patent stands separately, so if the patent is granted, the first claim would have merit on its own, and a C version would indeed infringe.
Clicking on the tech preview link in the blurb redirects me to a French version of the page, at techpreview.search.msn.fr. The problem, you ask? I'm in Spain.
Minor detail, sure, but add it to the shaky performance of the actual search, and this product would seem to require more than a couple of months of fine-tuning.
You asked for it: "...with Columbia, scientists are discovering they can potentially predict hurricane paths a full five days before the storms reach landfall."
In other words: RTFA, that's exactly what they're using it for.
I'm not quite sure about other Scandinavian countries, but current Norwegian has no word "puss", vulgar or no. We do have the quite common slang "mus", referring to female genitalia, which is literally the word which in English is "mouse".
... which tends to make it awkward for females with pet mice to talk about their pet, and more recently for any female with a computer to talk about her pointing device.
I'm not so sure about the bleeding-edge hardware problem you mention. I'm typing this on a Sony Vaio X505, which was supported perfectly out-of-the-box by Fedora Core 2 with recent updates. (With the exception of the wireless card, which needed one kernel-module RPM from a third-party repository.) With things such as laptop mode and SonyPI, for which the equivalent (to my knowledge) doesn't exist on Windows, Linux gives me a *clearly better* user experience with this particular laptop.
Anyway, my point is: Laptops have notorously been a problem with Linux in the past, but it seems to have gotten much better during the past year or two. And the other major area where people tend to want bleeding-edge hardware, namely 3d graphics, now sees the two major vendors putting out quality Linux drivers. Linus suggests in the interview that things are moving slowly, but in my experience as an end user things have gotten rapidly much better lately, especially on topics such as hardware support. And with developments such as HAL, that rapid improvement is set to continue.
Skype: We felt that the added feature of pop-up advertising would be beneficial to our users, so we included third party software which provides this feature.
EULAs are worthless in these cases. Those few times I need functionality that isn't adequately provided by open-source software, I make sure to thoroughly check the reputation of the company providing the closed-source alternative. Needless to say, after seeing the havoc wreaked by Kazaa on the computers of friends and family, I will never even consider installing any software made by these people.
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I would suggest SMC's 2802W (PCI) and 2835W (PCMCIA). They're reasonably priced, and work flawlessly with the Prism54 driver, which is part of the most recent 2.6 kernels.
Why do they put a default theme that is "nowhere near finished" in a product that's "due very soon"?
Yes, I know Firefox is "for those on the cutting edge", and I guess we shouldn't expect cutting-edge products to be completely finished in every respect, but Firefox is the only open source product most of my Windows-using friends are willing to even try. It would be a shame to hamper its continued spread by making the default theme an unfinished one.
Maybe it's the exhilaration of doing something naughty just because you can. I remember signing my school's web server up as an official mirror for the very first Quake3 DemoTEST when it was released four years ago. For about a day we were the only published European mirror, which very quickly brought down (and kept down) the entire public school network in my area.
Of course, for that theory to work, this guy would have to be a) a high school kid, b) stupid like me, and c) somehow using a network connection that he himself was in no way paying for or resposible for.
I mean 142 miles, not 100. 142 is the number Wired quotes.
The/. blurb mentions 300 miles, but the Q&A on the DARPA page says "will not exceed 300 miles". Apparently the course is randomly selected and only revealed on the race day, to make sure the vehicles aren't trained for the specific race course. I'm assuming the Wired quote means that the course that was picked for this 2004 challenge was 142 miles long.
According to the May issue of Wired, the best team got through only 7.4 of those 100 miles before breaking down. There are some funny quotes in the Wired article, showing just how miserably far away we are from true autonomy:
What went wrong: "Lost GPS signal. Forgot there was a mountain between it and next checkpoint. Tried to drive through mountain."
Lesson learned: "Go around mountains, not through them."
What went wrong: "Interpreted small bushes as enormous rocks and repeatedly backed away from them."
Lesson learned: "Get new sensors that can distinguish between bush and rock."
This all sounds pretty pathetic, but having just completed a master-level course in artificial intelligence, I suddenly understand just how difficult some of these issues are to solve. Let's face it: We won't see anything even approaching true autonomy in anything but tightly controlled environments for years to come.
I conclude with the best quote; not really AI-related, but still simply hilarious:
What went wrong: "On-off switch located on side of vehicle. Bumped into a wall on way out of start area. Turned self off."
Lesson learned: "Put the on-off switch somewhere else."
I'm lucky enough to live a fifteen minute walk from the largest THX screen in the world, and on the premiere day of RotK I could go there and do just that. (I didn't, because I had an exam the next day, but anyway...)
They also did a Kill Bill marathon on the opening day of Volume 2, and that one I did go to. There must not be enough geeks around here, because the Volume 1 screening was before a less than half full theater.
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Hasn't this been possible all along, with MPlayer? Their codec status table lists "Windows Media Video 9 DMO" as working. Is that not the same thing as the WMV9 referred to here?
It'll be nothing short of a miracle if they "get a few days use" out of this mouse on a normal mouse pad... try reading the title of the story again.
Aren't they all these days? Or does this mean it'll be something like Sky Captain and The World Of Tomorrow, with all scenes shot in front of a blue screen?
No, it clearly says llet, which means milk in at least one language.
Though how to interpret this cryptic reference to dairy products, I don't know.
My computer is already larger than a refrigerator, thank you very much :)
Strength? Dexterity? Bah. I want to know which database has the most Spirit. And what about those all-important Possibility Points?
Ok, you caught me, I'm trying to out-do the grandparent in obscurity of reference.
Unless I'm completely mistaken, each of the claims in a patent stands separately, so if the patent is granted, the first claim would have merit on its own, and a C version would indeed infringe.
Do you happen to be a train driver?
Clicking on the tech preview link in the blurb redirects me to a French version of the page, at techpreview.search.msn.fr. The problem, you ask? I'm in Spain.
Minor detail, sure, but add it to the shaky performance of the actual search, and this product would seem to require more than a couple of months of fine-tuning.
You asked for it: "...with Columbia, scientists are discovering they can potentially predict hurricane paths a full five days before the storms reach landfall."
In other words: RTFA, that's exactly what they're using it for.
I'm not quite sure about other Scandinavian countries, but current Norwegian has no word "puss", vulgar or no. We do have the quite common slang "mus", referring to female genitalia, which is literally the word which in English is "mouse".
... which tends to make it awkward for females with pet mice to talk about their pet, and more recently for any female with a computer to talk about her pointing device.
I'm not so sure about the bleeding-edge hardware problem you mention. I'm typing this on a Sony Vaio X505, which was supported perfectly out-of-the-box by Fedora Core 2 with recent updates. (With the exception of the wireless card, which needed one kernel-module RPM from a third-party repository.) With things such as laptop mode and SonyPI, for which the equivalent (to my knowledge) doesn't exist on Windows, Linux gives me a *clearly better* user experience with this particular laptop.
Anyway, my point is: Laptops have notorously been a problem with Linux in the past, but it seems to have gotten much better during the past year or two. And the other major area where people tend to want bleeding-edge hardware, namely 3d graphics, now sees the two major vendors putting out quality Linux drivers. Linus suggests in the interview that things are moving slowly, but in my experience as an end user things have gotten rapidly much better lately, especially on topics such as hardware support. And with developments such as HAL, that rapid improvement is set to continue.
Why bring distros into this? Even the default make install target of the kernel tarball does what you describe. The grandparent is a troll.
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I fail to see how this new "twist" is non-obvious, though. It seems an extremely obvious combination of the Windows taskbar and the Be deskbar.
By the way, here is a USENET post from 1998 discussing the deskbar.
Apparently it is.
Which makes me wonder.. is this comment funny?
Or even:
Skype: We felt that the added feature of pop-up advertising would be beneficial to our users, so we included third party software which provides this feature.
EULAs are worthless in these cases. Those few times I need functionality that isn't adequately provided by open-source software, I make sure to thoroughly check the reputation of the company providing the closed-source alternative. Needless to say, after seeing the havoc wreaked by Kazaa on the computers of friends and family, I will never even consider installing any software made by these people.
I would suggest SMC's 2802W (PCI) and 2835W (PCMCIA). They're reasonably priced, and work flawlessly with the Prism54 driver, which is part of the most recent 2.6 kernels.
Not too hard, is it?
Why do they put a default theme that is "nowhere near finished" in a product that's "due very soon"?
Yes, I know Firefox is "for those on the cutting edge", and I guess we shouldn't expect cutting-edge products to be completely finished in every respect, but Firefox is the only open source product most of my Windows-using friends are willing to even try. It would be a shame to hamper its continued spread by making the default theme an unfinished one.
Maybe it's the exhilaration of doing something naughty just because you can. I remember signing my school's web server up as an official mirror for the very first Quake3 DemoTEST when it was released four years ago. For about a day we were the only published European mirror, which very quickly brought down (and kept down) the entire public school network in my area.
Of course, for that theory to work, this guy would have to be a) a high school kid, b) stupid like me, and c) somehow using a network connection that he himself was in no way paying for or resposible for.
I mean 142 miles, not 100. 142 is the number Wired quotes.
/. blurb mentions 300 miles, but the Q&A on the DARPA page says "will not exceed 300 miles". Apparently the course is randomly selected and only revealed on the race day, to make sure the vehicles aren't trained for the specific race course. I'm assuming the Wired quote means that the course that was picked for this 2004 challenge was 142 miles long.
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According to the May issue of Wired, the best team got through only 7.4 of those 100 miles before breaking down. There are some funny quotes in the Wired article, showing just how miserably far away we are from true autonomy:
What went wrong: "Lost GPS signal. Forgot there was a mountain between it and next checkpoint. Tried to drive through mountain."
Lesson learned: "Go around mountains, not through them."
What went wrong: "Interpreted small bushes as enormous rocks and repeatedly backed away from them."
Lesson learned: "Get new sensors that can distinguish between bush and rock."
This all sounds pretty pathetic, but having just completed a master-level course in artificial intelligence, I suddenly understand just how difficult some of these issues are to solve. Let's face it: We won't see anything even approaching true autonomy in anything but tightly controlled environments for years to come.
I conclude with the best quote; not really AI-related, but still simply hilarious:
What went wrong: "On-off switch located on side of vehicle. Bumped into a wall on way out of start area. Turned self off."
Lesson learned: "Put the on-off switch somewhere else."
I'm lucky enough to live a fifteen minute walk from the largest THX screen in the world, and on the premiere day of RotK I could go there and do just that. (I didn't, because I had an exam the next day, but anyway...)
They also did a Kill Bill marathon on the opening day of Volume 2, and that one I did go to. There must not be enough geeks around here, because the Volume 1 screening was before a less than half full theater.
Nope, this is Electrolux, the manual will be in Sweglish.