How come this type of biography seems only to be available for Apple?
An interesting book about the history of Sony is "Sony: The private life" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0002570254). It talks about Morita and Ibuka who started the company in post-WWII Japan, Ohga who was responsible for the CD and has a large section to Idei and Schulhof and the Columbia pictures acquisition.
Five years ago when I still worked for Sony we made a data server called MediaCaster http://tinyurl.com/7ud7f that injects metadata into digital tv broadcasts (think EPG, broadcasted Applets, etc.). That server was completely based on open standards and it ran from a Debian based live cd which we created. The product is still being sold to digital TV studios today.
So yes, Sony does use Linux and open standards in its products.
gravity is not really a pull from one object to the other. What it is is a distortion in the fabric of space-time. What does this mean? Well think about a sheet stretched out very flat. On this sheeta are a number of very light objects. Now think of a lead weight placed in the center of the sheet. The sheet will bend into an inverted cone shape and all the items will slide towards the weight. Ta Da! Gravity!
Call me stupid, but I don't get this explanation. In your model, the only reason these items slide towards the weight is because earth's gravity pulls them down into the inverted cone. So without earth pulling these items nearer, there would be no movement at all.
so in other words Microsoft is using patents to prevent GPLed programs from accessing the XML format that MS Word will be using.
How about this approach: define a generic file IO interface in your application. Then write a shared library, linked at runtime that loads and saves Microsoft XML files and that implements your application's IO interface.
That should still allow you to distribute your program under the GPL and to have a separate package implementing Microsoft file formats under whatever other license that's needed.
That's because in Belgium voting isn't a right but a duty. If you don't turn up during elections you can get fined (although judges have been very easy going on people who don't turn up to vote during the last couple of elections).
The idea is to protect the weaker groups in society as they usually are the first to forsake their voting rights. By forcing them to vote, you make sure that politicians will take them into account in their programs instead of just listening to more militant groups in society.
even if North America, the EU and Asia all work together to pass anti-spam legislation, there is little chance of [...] Cyprus [...] following suit.
On May 1 2004, Cyprus (at least the internationally recognized greek part) wil join the EU. So if the EU goes ahead with this anti-spam legislation, Cyprus will have no choice but to follow.
For an excellent overview of generic programming in C++ and the STL in particular, check out Generic programming and the STL, written by Matthew H. Austern.
It's definitely the best C++ book I've read so far.
The ancient PGP client had an "eyes only" mode that did the same thing: it decrypted the data, displayed it, then wiped the memory where the cleartext had been, never writing anything to disk. It would have been impossible to get the cleartext out of PGP without some really intrusive method, like somehow reading the actual memory pages of the PGP process, or trojaning the PGP binary itself.
Actually it's a lot simpler: use a terminal program that allows you to save the output to disk and you've got your perfect copy.
The same thing can be done for any music format that can be played on a computer. Just create a sound device that saves the digital music stream to disk instead of playing it. It has been done and it's pretty easy (see this page).
The only way around this is to handle the decryption of the data in the audio hardware or to make it impossible to use non-official drivers like Microsoft tries to do with Palladium.
There is already an open standard called DVB MHP (see www.mhp.org) for interactive television boxes. MHP stands for Multimedia Home Platform. MHP conformant products have already been launched in Finland and Germany and other european countries will follow over the next coming years.
MHP is gradually being adopted by other continents apart from europe (australia for instance) and in the US, CableLabs has announced that they will be using MHP in their OpenCable specification (see this press release)
That's true for individual nodes, but in the context of a whole board, just assigning a random state to any position will give you a lot of invalid board configurations.
Trivial example: the groups in this diagram can never occur during a Go game.
I wonder why he keeps saying that ClearCase is a centralized system. With ClearCase MultiSite source code repositories can easily be replicated and kept in sync between different sites.
Together with other divisions on different continents, we've been working on large software projects using MultiSite for several years now.
They also seem to move away from the standard 'square' resolutions (160x160 or 320x320) of previous PalmOS devices. According to Sony's homepage these two new models run at 320x480.
Of course now, it's so easy to create jaw dropping images without optimized code [...] I miss seeing elegant code.
Although the size of code could be a good metric for elegance (it could for instance be a good indication of RapeAndPasteProgramming), I would never equate optimized code with elegant code. Optimization generally cuts corners and does other nasty things that wreak havoc with the original design of the code.
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How come this type of biography seems only to be available for Apple?
An interesting book about the history of Sony is "Sony: The private life" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0002570254). It talks about Morita and Ibuka who started the company in post-WWII Japan, Ohga who was responsible for the CD and has a large section to Idei and Schulhof and the Columbia pictures acquisition.
You do realize that Ferrari is owned by Fiat, right?
Five years ago when I still worked for Sony we made a data server called MediaCaster http://tinyurl.com/7ud7f that injects metadata into digital tv broadcasts (think EPG, broadcasted Applets, etc.). That server was completely based on open standards and it ran from a Debian based live cd which we created. The product is still being sold to digital TV studios today.
So yes, Sony does use Linux and open standards in its products.
Call me stupid, but I don't get this explanation. In your model, the only reason these items slide towards the weight is because earth's gravity pulls them down into the inverted cone. So without earth pulling these items nearer, there would be no movement at all.
so in other words Microsoft is using patents to prevent GPLed programs from
accessing the XML format that MS Word will be using.
How about this approach: define a generic file IO interface in your application. Then write a shared library, linked at runtime that loads and saves Microsoft XML files and that implements your application's IO interface.
That should still allow you to distribute your program under the GPL and to have a separate package implementing Microsoft file formats under whatever other license that's needed.
Belgium had aturnout alway >=90%.
That's because in Belgium voting isn't a right but a duty. If you don't turn up during elections you can get fined (although judges have been very easy going on people who don't turn up to vote during the last couple of elections).
The idea is to protect the weaker groups in society as they usually are the first to forsake their voting rights. By forcing them to vote, you make sure that politicians will take them into account in their programs instead of just listening to more militant groups in society.
even if North America, the EU and Asia all work together to pass anti-spam legislation, there is little chance of [...] Cyprus [...] following suit.
On May 1 2004, Cyprus (at least the internationally recognized greek part) wil join the EU. So if the EU goes ahead with this anti-spam legislation, Cyprus will have no choice but to follow.
For an excellent overview of generic programming in C++ and the STL in particular, check out Generic programming and the STL, written by Matthew H. Austern.
It's definitely the best C++ book I've read so far.
The ancient PGP client had an "eyes only" mode that did the same thing: it decrypted the data, displayed it, then wiped the memory where the cleartext had been, never writing anything to disk. It would have been impossible to get the cleartext out of PGP without some really intrusive method, like somehow reading the actual memory pages of the PGP process, or trojaning the PGP binary itself.
Actually it's a lot simpler: use a terminal program that allows you to save the output to disk and you've got your perfect copy.
The same thing can be done for any music format that can be played on a computer. Just create a sound device that saves the digital music stream to disk instead of playing it. It has been done and it's pretty easy (see this page).
The only way around this is to handle the decryption of the data in the audio hardware or to make it impossible to use non-official drivers like Microsoft tries to do with Palladium.
There is already an open standard called DVB MHP (see www.mhp.org) for interactive television boxes. MHP stands for Multimedia Home Platform. MHP conformant products have already been launched in Finland and Germany and other european countries will follow over the next coming years.
MHP is gradually being adopted by other continents apart from europe (australia for instance) and in the US, CableLabs has announced that they will be using MHP in their OpenCable specification (see this press release)
>Each node can be in one of 3 states
That's true for individual nodes, but in the context of a whole board, just assigning a random state to any position will give you a lot of invalid board configurations.
Trivial example: the groups in this diagram can never occur during a Go game.
I wonder why he keeps saying that ClearCase is a centralized system. With
ClearCase MultiSite source code repositories can easily be replicated and kept in sync between different sites.
Together with other divisions on different continents, we've been working on large software projects using MultiSite for several years now.
Check out the key hanger Clie or the necklace Clie pictures. Weird...
--Ives
They also seem to move away from the standard 'square' resolutions (160x160 or 320x320) of previous PalmOS devices. According to Sony's homepage these two new models run at 320x480.
--Ives
The tv series is based on an excellent comic by
Hermann.
The site of his publisher has some outtakes from the comic strip:
album 20
album 21
--Ives
Of course now, it's so easy to create jaw dropping images without optimized code [...] I miss seeing elegant code.
Although the size of code could be a good metric for elegance (it could for instance be a good indication of RapeAndPasteProgramming), I would never equate optimized code with elegant code. Optimization generally cuts corners and does other nasty things that wreak havoc with the original design of the code.
Specs and other marketing blurb are available on SUN's website. --Ives