Once you know the meanings of the kanji's, you can read a lot faster than it's possible to in english.
Not true. Studies have shown that naturally fast English readers with higher-than-normal comprehension scores actually read several words all at once. Generally these are people who as children taught themselves to read, rather than having to be taught.
An oligopoly on what, exactly? Locally, if the cable system had a choice of four ISPs, it would mean 12 different broadband ISPs between cable, DSL, and satellite. This is not counting instances of the same ISP on two or three delivery methods.
And completely open access is a fantasy, as long as equipment has to be co-located. The laws of physics apply to all matter -- no exemptions for ISP equipment.
How about invalidating their patents (since they cover designs that were invented years before Rambus even existed) and slapping them down for fraud (for failing to reveal their patent interests despite explicitly agreeing to during a standards process). Even a full Ayn Rand Objectivist couldn't find grounds to object on those two grounds, given the facts in this case.
Declaring laws unconstitutional is not a power granted to any court, even the Supreme Court. It is instead the logical extension of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution as applied to court interpretation of conflicting laws. As such, it is an implied power held by every court, not just the Supreme Court.
Look, the FTC wants AOL-TW to provide open access. However, letting every mom & pop ISP out there have access to AOL-TW's cable lines would be impractical. So AOL is negotiating with the three largest non-AOL ISPs to give them access (#2 EarthLink, #3 Juno, and #4 MSN) to meet the open access requirements.
Well, who are they supposed to sign the contracts with -- a dozen little ISPs nobody from fifty miles away has ever heard of?
A trading line from New Guinea to Australia wasn't able to transplant crops or the idea of agriculture across a short, island-lined gap from New Guinea to Australia. Yet the Pacific Ocean and the width of Asia was a route through which cocaine and the idea of pyramids could travel?
No, the Atlantic route makes much more sense. Somebody merely travelling to the Atlantic coast of Northern Africa would have discovered the same currents Columbus used to speed his way west. A sporadic trade along that route would actually have been faster and easier than either seaborne or overland trade with China.
If it is in the file, and it can be detected by the SDMI device, then an algorithm can find it and remove it. Remember the watermark must be detectable by some means to be a watermark -- and if you can read a pattern of bits in a file, you can change those bits.
That's the problem with "watermarking" digital files -- that it only works if, at one and the same time, the black box can detect it and my tools can't.
And if bandwidth was the case why not run to a closer contenant like... Asia?
No point to it. There is no intra-Asian network; every Asian country has a wider link to the U.S. than it has with any other Asian country. So all you'd be doing is sharing the U.S. link of the one Asian country to which you cabled.
Yes, I'm serious. The highest-bandwith path from Italy to France is Italy-US-France. The highest-bandwith path from South Korea to Japan is South Korea-US-Japan. In only a handful of cases are two nations that share borders linked to each other better than each is to the U.S.
You want the Internet to be properly recognized as international? Then build some fscking intra-Asian and intra-European bandwith already!
We're not talking about burgeoning IT developers here.
And why not? Last I checked, Minix provided a Unix-like OS and C compiler for PCs with processors as old as the 8086/8088. Not what I'd use in a production environment, but certainly good enough to learn the basics of Unix administration and C programming.
I think many fail to realize that war is about killing.
Actually, it isn't. Killing is merely an acceptable tactic. War is about destroying resistance, which mostly means destroying hardware in non-guerilla wars.
First of all, why would you be shooting at something that looked anything like a refugee camp
Because you might be being shot at from near it. Remember the Kaykusha rocket attacks on Israel? In one case the Israeli computer accurately aimed at the location from which the rockets were launched -- from just outside the fence of a Palestinian refugee camp. Refugee camps are used by guerilla groups as arms transfer points, recruiting centers, refuges, etc.
So to be colliquially correct in the passive voice, you would say "This is a situation I will not put up with", while to be 'strictly' correct in the passive voice, you would say "This is a situation up with which I will not put."
The point of the "up with which I will not put" statement is to point out the artificiality of "strict" English grammar, which is modeled after that of classical Latin.
For those of you who didn't get the joke, "let a hundred flowers bloom, let a thousand schools of thought contend" was the motto of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, a loosening of orthodoxy in China under Mao. It was a set-up -- people who expressed unorthodox opinions during the campaign were ruthlessly crushed in the following Cultural Revolution.
If the ISPs wanted to support alternative rootservers, there's nothing stopping them. The software is open source; you can set up your own alternate rootserver if you feel like it.
All ICANN does is set policy regarding the root servers that the U.S. government managed and then gave ICANN responsibility for and authority over. That's it.
As far as photolithography, there are plenty of theoretical methods for making small circuits: e.g. use shorter wavelengths of light
We're already dealing with nearly the shortest wavelengths that we can adequately focus using currently known lenses. To go much further will require masks machined to the same size as the chips, the development of new lens materials, or a radical new method untested in production conditions replacing photolithography.
So, no, it doesn't mean Intel is going to be using it tomorrow. It does mean that Intel and IBM and others will probably put some money into reasearching the appropriate materials. Whether or not they succeed, that's for time to tell, of course.
Actually, SI is a French abbreviation for what translates as International System.
And, for your information, the United States Constitution allows only one body to set weights and measures, the Congress. And the only system of weights and measures ever adopted by Congress was the metric system, back in the 1860's, later reinforced by the U.S. being an original signatory to the Treaty of the Meter in the 1880's. So, the rest of the world has finally caught up to where we were in the nineteenth century.
This is theoretically of great importance to photolithography, which suggests there will be lots of research into developing "perfect lenses". A perfect lens for extreme UV or x-rays would allow us to go to much smaller fractions-of-microns sizes...
It is disingenuous for them to now claim that there is a competitive market, after they constructed their system under monopoly conditions.
Why? Locally we have a choice of cable companies, even though one of the two was originally constructed under a monopoly. Obviously it wasn't a barrier here; what makes it one elsewhere?
Apparently, in the New Slashdot Dictionary, a completely false statement qualifies as "informative" (where the parent post was moderated when I wrote this reply).
The Gateway site for the device (which I have linked to in other comments) explicitly talks about using it over DSL and cable connections.
And apparently it will connect to AOL through a broadband ISP hookup, so disabling the connection to AOL shouldn't be too hard. A hard drive will probably be harder, but if you can instead get it to work as an X terminal...
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Once you know the meanings of the kanji's, you can read a lot faster than it's possible to in english.
Not true. Studies have shown that naturally fast English readers with higher-than-normal comprehension scores actually read several words all at once. Generally these are people who as children taught themselves to read, rather than having to be taught.
An oligopoly on what, exactly? Locally, if the cable system had a choice of four ISPs, it would mean 12 different broadband ISPs between cable, DSL, and satellite. This is not counting instances of the same ISP on two or three delivery methods.
And completely open access is a fantasy, as long as equipment has to be co-located. The laws of physics apply to all matter -- no exemptions for ISP equipment.
How about invalidating their patents (since they cover designs that were invented years before Rambus even existed) and slapping them down for fraud (for failing to reveal their patent interests despite explicitly agreeing to during a standards process). Even a full Ayn Rand Objectivist couldn't find grounds to object on those two grounds, given the facts in this case.
Declaring laws unconstitutional is not a power granted to any court, even the Supreme Court. It is instead the logical extension of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution as applied to court interpretation of conflicting laws. As such, it is an implied power held by every court, not just the Supreme Court.
Look, the FTC wants AOL-TW to provide open access. However, letting every mom & pop ISP out there have access to AOL-TW's cable lines would be impractical. So AOL is negotiating with the three largest non-AOL ISPs to give them access (#2 EarthLink, #3 Juno, and #4 MSN) to meet the open access requirements.
Well, who are they supposed to sign the contracts with -- a dozen little ISPs nobody from fifty miles away has ever heard of?
A trading line from New Guinea to Australia wasn't able to transplant crops or the idea of agriculture across a short, island-lined gap from New Guinea to Australia. Yet the Pacific Ocean and the width of Asia was a route through which cocaine and the idea of pyramids could travel?
No, the Atlantic route makes much more sense. Somebody merely travelling to the Atlantic coast of Northern Africa would have discovered the same currents Columbus used to speed his way west. A sporadic trade along that route would actually have been faster and easier than either seaborne or overland trade with China.
If it is in the file, and it can be detected by the SDMI device, then an algorithm can find it and remove it. Remember the watermark must be detectable by some means to be a watermark -- and if you can read a pattern of bits in a file, you can change those bits.
That's the problem with "watermarking" digital files -- that it only works if, at one and the same time, the black box can detect it and my tools can't.
Besides, saying that imposing your point of view on people will be good for humanity smacks of the middle ages and the crusades.
Interesting. I assume this means that you hate Dubya because you are a libertarian, then?
Itanium? Maybe HP will save Intel's ass by delivering McKinley soon enough that it can replace Merced as the core of the Itanium.
And if bandwidth was the case why not run to a closer contenant like ... Asia?
No point to it. There is no intra-Asian network; every Asian country has a wider link to the U.S. than it has with any other Asian country. So all you'd be doing is sharing the U.S. link of the one Asian country to which you cabled.
Yes, I'm serious. The highest-bandwith path from Italy to France is Italy-US-France. The highest-bandwith path from South Korea to Japan is South Korea-US-Japan. In only a handful of cases are two nations that share borders linked to each other better than each is to the U.S.
You want the Internet to be properly recognized as international? Then build some fscking intra-Asian and intra-European bandwith already!
We're not talking about burgeoning IT developers here.
And why not? Last I checked, Minix provided a Unix-like OS and C compiler for PCs with processors as old as the 8086/8088. Not what I'd use in a production environment, but certainly good enough to learn the basics of Unix administration and C programming.
See that menu option "view"? Okay, see the bit at the bottom where it says "apply theme"? Okay, see the bit where it says "Classic"?
There ya go.
Maybe on your machine. On mine...
Minimum of invasive advertising: Neither: Netscape and IE both hawked parent company ISPs upon my latest update.
Stability: Netscape 6, esp. with multiple windows opened.
Time to open page in new window: Netscape 6
Time to render new page: Netscape 6
I think many fail to realize that war is about killing.
Actually, it isn't. Killing is merely an acceptable tactic. War is about destroying resistance, which mostly means destroying hardware in non-guerilla wars.
First of all, why would you be shooting at something that looked anything like a refugee camp
Because you might be being shot at from near it. Remember the Kaykusha rocket attacks on Israel? In one case the Israeli computer accurately aimed at the location from which the rockets were launched -- from just outside the fence of a Palestinian refugee camp. Refugee camps are used by guerilla groups as arms transfer points, recruiting centers, refuges, etc.
No, because "up" is also a preposition.
So to be colliquially correct in the passive voice, you would say "This is a situation I will not put up with", while to be 'strictly' correct in the passive voice, you would say "This is a situation up with which I will not put."
The point of the "up with which I will not put" statement is to point out the artificiality of "strict" English grammar, which is modeled after that of classical Latin.
Brilliant post!
For those of you who didn't get the joke, "let a hundred flowers bloom, let a thousand schools of thought contend" was the motto of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, a loosening of orthodoxy in China under Mao. It was a set-up -- people who expressed unorthodox opinions during the campaign were ruthlessly crushed in the following Cultural Revolution.
If the ISPs wanted to support alternative rootservers, there's nothing stopping them. The software is open source; you can set up your own alternate rootserver if you feel like it.
All ICANN does is set policy regarding the root servers that the U.S. government managed and then gave ICANN responsibility for and authority over. That's it.
As far as photolithography, there are plenty of theoretical methods for making small circuits: e.g. use shorter wavelengths of light
We're already dealing with nearly the shortest wavelengths that we can adequately focus using currently known lenses. To go much further will require masks machined to the same size as the chips, the development of new lens materials, or a radical new method untested in production conditions replacing photolithography.
So, no, it doesn't mean Intel is going to be using it tomorrow. It does mean that Intel and IBM and others will probably put some money into reasearching the appropriate materials. Whether or not they succeed, that's for time to tell, of course.
Actually, SI is a French abbreviation for what translates as International System.
And, for your information, the United States Constitution allows only one body to set weights and measures, the Congress. And the only system of weights and measures ever adopted by Congress was the metric system, back in the 1860's, later reinforced by the U.S. being an original signatory to the Treaty of the Meter in the 1880's. So, the rest of the world has finally caught up to where we were in the nineteenth century.
This is theoretically of great importance to photolithography, which suggests there will be lots of research into developing "perfect lenses". A perfect lens for extreme UV or x-rays would allow us to go to much smaller fractions-of-microns sizes...
It is disingenuous for them to now claim that there is a competitive market, after they constructed their system under monopoly conditions.
Why? Locally we have a choice of cable companies, even though one of the two was originally constructed under a monopoly. Obviously it wasn't a barrier here; what makes it one elsewhere?
Apparently, in the New Slashdot Dictionary, a completely false statement qualifies as "informative" (where the parent post was moderated when I wrote this reply).
The Gateway site for the device (which I have linked to in other comments) explicitly talks about using it over DSL and cable connections.
Sure. See the picture here.
And apparently it will connect to AOL through a broadband ISP hookup, so disabling the connection to AOL shouldn't be too hard. A hard drive will probably be harder, but if you can instead get it to work as an X terminal...