What you aren't taking into account is the info he didn't provide. The forklift has a VT220 terminal on it, what do you think they are doing with them? Surfing the web? My guess is the drivers log into them. Who's driving is solved. Maybe the driver some how logs when he drops something off, there goes loading, unloading and whether he has anything and all the other issues you mention. Personally using RFID tags, I could probably design a system that could do all that with no driver intervention. Just add a sensor that can sense when the forklift has nothing on it and a system that can pinpoint my location to within a foot and I can probably make a database with no user intervention stores all the locations of every item put onto the forklift. Shouldn't even be hard to be able to cover hand trucks or any other means of transport. In fact, while writing this I came up with an idea that would continously map the location of every box that the forklift passed, which would only work if I knew where the forklift was. I think even in the worst case, I could use the system to find misplaced boxes. If you continously track everywhere a forklift goes, you can limit the search for the box to the places it drove and start with the locations it stopped at. Seems like in a clever system, it could provide more info than you seem to believe.
You are making alot of assumptions yourself. You assume that he doesn't know what is on the forklift. For all we know every item can be identified by the forklift automatically. They may be using a system like you describe. People can make mistakes and drop off an item in the wrong storage space, so they want this system to automatically verify that the driver was at the right storage container when he dropped off the item.
You may be right, but you go to far in assuming that he didn't provide enough info.
A few safe assumptions would be...
The warehouse has some system to figure out where an item is.
The problem he is trying to solve is misplaced items.
He has some way of telling when a box is dropped of whether it be automatically or driver triggered.
With that in mind, the current answers are not so far off.
I would find any usage terms that were given to me and ask for a copy of the list of approved uses of the internet. If the rules they provide you don't appear to back up the admins statement, call them on it. Of course your case will be bolstered if you can demonstrate that your use is legitimate as it was in that case. If the rules are against it, look into seeing how to change the rules. You shouldn't have to put up with the restriction if you are using bittorrent for non-infringing downloads.
Also it couldn't hurt to make sure you don't suck to much bandwidth outgoing.
I looked and the page was cached this morning. I agree that someone jumped the gun with the accusation. Just for the heck of it I did a few searches with site:google.co.uk and as far as I can tell that is the only page I saw that happening. A search for traffic tool shows that page as about the 16th hit. Not sure why it displays that way, but if they are trying to bring more business to themselves, I would hope they would stuff something besides a support page for adwords.
I believe that the idea is that MS sells a translation layer that would allow you to use the Windows driver in Linux for all Windows drivers. Essentially NDISWrapper for all Windows drivers.
No, because I don't believe the terms of service of most MMORPGs restrict creating websites containing game info. They do however cover selling in game property. The problem is one of rules. This is cheating, because the rules say it is. The rules however don't guarantee a level playing field. I realize that lots of people have advantages over me. They can play more, maybe they have a strong group of friends that can assist them. Maybe they just are better at this game than me. I accept that, because they are following the rules. The problem is when the advantage is gained by breaking the rules. To further the McDonalds line analogy... I wouldn't have a problem if when standing in line someone behind me notices that there is an open register and goes to it getting served before me. I could have done that too, without breaking any rules. Now lets say that there is a sign saying that you can't make an order for someone else. Now you come in on your lunch hour to get a burger. As you stand in line, you notice it isn't getting any shorter. When you look to the front of the line you notice that the guy at the cash register is taking money from people and placing orders. He does this for your entire lunch hour, so you don't get to eat. (if you are worried that the cashier wouldn't let him do that, pretend that the cashier is a little 15 year old girl and the guy doing it is a huge guy that noone in the restaurant is willing to mess with.) That is wrong.
Find a decent text to speech software and make cds of the audio. They are small and light can be played in a cheap portable cd player. A cassettes would work also.
Thanks for the info. Also, might be worth it to mention that not all emulation requires a backup copy. For example my PC reads Playstation disks fine, so I never need to use a backup to run the game on an emulator. This completely removes the code he mentions from any consideration in the legality of all emulation.
And that is where his whole argument falls apart. IANAL, but the first clause is to allow you to take measures to ensure that you can use your legally licensed software when you can't use the original. For example this clause allows you to copy the program from 5.25 inch diskettes to 3.5 inch disks so you can run the program on a machine without a 5.25 Inch disk drive.
His interpretation, brings into question the legality of installing software on a hard drive. He seems to be of the opinion that the physical media is the copyrighted material and that just isn't so.
I did not see any mention in the copyright code detailing restrictions on how you access the copyrighted material. Take a record for instance. The mainstream way to access the sound encoded on the disk is by using a record player. Does that make it illegal to scan your records to play them? http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/
In other words, Emulation is in no way restricted by the law he quotes, since we could use the original Cartridge if we had an appropriate reader. This only leaves a question of what the legality of backing up the program.
First off, it is not unlimited access. Your monthly fee only gets you 1 month of access. Second some of us can't play 24/7. We have to work and sleep. So I am completely within my rights to complain if the service that I paid for is not available when I want to use it. Internet access is in the same ballpark price wise. Would you accept lots of downtime with your ISP? Or would you move to an ISP that gave you waht you wanted. There is a lot of competition out there and Blizzard is providing a service, they need to make the user happy otherwise we will find an alternative. I don't expect all the kinks to be ironned out at release. I expect to be able to use the product and not pay for significant down time.
I personally commend Penny Arcade for bringing this up.
This is even worse in the MMORPG arena. Since you are supposed to agree to the terms every time you play the game. It is reasonable to assume that anyone that has read a MMORPG EULA/TOS 5 times (at 5-10 minutes to read the whole thing) without it changing, will start to ignore it. They than miss when it does change. I can't find the article, but I believe there was a case that supported the user when this is done.
Do they have to emulate the Nvidia GPU? I was under the impression that you used DirectX for the rendering and that spoke to the GPU. Since I am not an XBox developer, I don't know how much access you had to the GPU, but I would hazard a guess that you could create a ATI driver that could replace the Nvidia driver to the graphics API. Of course this is all speculation.
You too, are blowing smoke. Making a personal backup is currently a gray area. Many lawyers believe that fair use gives the right to make backup copies. The fact that it isn't expressly listed does not mean we don't have the right. We may not get the legal reference you ask for either. To get it we need someone to make a long shot case against an individual for making a personal copy. I think most companies won't risk it.
The photographer, my wife and I hired, listed pricing for the negatives on the the flyer he provided us. We could purchase the negatives for roughly US$2000-2500. We only had the option to buy them when we initially contracted with him. Needless to say we did not purchase the negatives. I was not thrilled with the practice, but the wife wanted a pro. It does seem wrong that the system works this way. With the amount we pay for an album, you would think the negatives would be included.
From reading the website, cooling is still an integral part of the system. I think the CCD camera will pick up darker objects. In one comment they mention using a magnitude 14 star as a guide star in real time (I think they were doing.1 second exposures). I am going to go both routes, as I think both have their advantages.
If your interest is purely academic, you might check out the CCD Camera Cookbook Webpage. The CCD Camera Cookbook is a book covering the design of two CCD cameras for Astrophotography. The resolution of these cameras is not high, and they do not come out being cheap. I am currently reading the book and will probably build the TC245 camera as a prelude to trying to design my own higher resolution CCD camera for Astrophotography. I think the book alone would be a good start in an attempt to understand CCDs.
One would think if Linux was so dodgy, ILM wouldn't have started a migration from SGI boxes to Linux boxes. Here are a few articles detailing how they love their new Linux setup. Not that that they don't have a few complaints (NFS performance.)
He was. The problem is you aren't reading the article I read. Check the quote from the very first post to this story. It says "That leads us to the OS and its foibles." That is the how it was written when I read the article. Now if you read the article all references to the problem being Linux related have been removed and now blame it on the user interface. Here is how the above quoted sentence now reads "That leads us to the user interface and its foibles." So either the author or an editor agreed that the blame was incorrectly attributed to Linux.
No, it sounded like he was, but he wasn't. He states that the Tivo UI/Application works wonderfully and that app runs on the Linux OS. The fact that it locked up, probably means that the programmer of the Roku application was doing something wrong. Regardless the problem is not a Linux problem, for example it is unlikely that the app would run any better if the OS had been Windows CE (Or whatever it is called now). Why? We all know that Linux is capable of running this software. It is very similar to the Tivo software that runs on Linux. Linux should not be blamed, if the designer chose inadequate hardware, the wrong distribution/kernel, did not configure Linux right or was running shoddy code. These are all the responsibility of the designer. It would be like porting Linux to the Commodore 64 and complaining that it's performance isn't as good as when you run it on your P4.
I agree. As the article is written, it sounds like Linux is a poor OS that is hampering the functionality of the hardware. After having read it, I can see that his complaint is with the UI designed for the Roku. However to the masses it likely sounds like there are issues with systems based on Linux.
I believe you have this wrong. Say your modem connects at 53k (Highest allowed I believe). You should be capable of getting about 6.5KBps downloads ignoring protocol overhead. The start, stop and parity bits are for the rs232 connection, and don't limit the modem since you usually run it at a higher speed than the modems transfer rate. I seem to remember my 28.8kbps modem getting downloads around 3KBps. I know for certain that a connection that is rated at 256kbps should give downloads around 30-32KBps. My old 128kbps ISDN line would give me a solid 15KBps.
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What you aren't taking into account is the info he didn't provide. The forklift has a VT220 terminal on it, what do you think they are doing with them? Surfing the web? My guess is the drivers log into them. Who's driving is solved. Maybe the driver some how logs when he drops something off, there goes loading, unloading and whether he has anything and all the other issues you mention. Personally using RFID tags, I could probably design a system that could do all that with no driver intervention. Just add a sensor that can sense when the forklift has nothing on it and a system that can pinpoint my location to within a foot and I can probably make a database with no user intervention stores all the locations of every item put onto the forklift. Shouldn't even be hard to be able to cover hand trucks or any other means of transport. In fact, while writing this I came up with an idea that would continously map the location of every box that the forklift passed, which would only work if I knew where the forklift was. I think even in the worst case, I could use the system to find misplaced boxes. If you continously track everywhere a forklift goes, you can limit the search for the box to the places it drove and start with the locations it stopped at. Seems like in a clever system, it could provide more info than you seem to believe.
You are making alot of assumptions yourself. You assume that he doesn't know what is on the forklift. For all we know every item can be identified by the forklift automatically. They may be using a system like you describe. People can make mistakes and drop off an item in the wrong storage space, so they want this system to automatically verify that the driver was at the right storage container when he dropped off the item.
You may be right, but you go to far in assuming that he didn't provide enough info.
A few safe assumptions would be...
The warehouse has some system to figure out where an item is.
The problem he is trying to solve is misplaced items.
He has some way of telling when a box is dropped of whether it be automatically or driver triggered.
With that in mind, the current answers are not so far off.
I would find any usage terms that were given to me and ask for a copy of the list of approved uses of the internet. If the rules they provide you don't appear to back up the admins statement, call them on it. Of course your case will be bolstered if you can demonstrate that your use is legitimate as it was in that case. If the rules are against it, look into seeing how to change the rules. You shouldn't have to put up with the restriction if you are using bittorrent for non-infringing downloads.
Also it couldn't hurt to make sure you don't suck to much bandwidth outgoing.
I looked and the page was cached this morning. I agree that someone jumped the gun with the accusation. Just for the heck of it I did a few searches with site:google.co.uk and as far as I can tell that is the only page I saw that happening. A search for traffic tool shows that page as about the 16th hit. Not sure why it displays that way, but if they are trying to bring more business to themselves, I would hope they would stuff something besides a support page for adwords.
I believe that the idea is that MS sells a translation layer that would allow you to use the Windows driver in Linux for all Windows drivers. Essentially NDISWrapper for all Windows drivers.
No, because I don't believe the terms of service of most MMORPGs restrict creating websites containing game info. They do however cover selling in game property. The problem is one of rules. This is cheating, because the rules say it is. The rules however don't guarantee a level playing field. I realize that lots of people have advantages over me. They can play more, maybe they have a strong group of friends that can assist them. Maybe they just are better at this game than me. I accept that, because they are following the rules. The problem is when the advantage is gained by breaking the rules. To further the McDonalds line analogy... I wouldn't have a problem if when standing in line someone behind me notices that there is an open register and goes to it getting served before me. I could have done that too, without breaking any rules. Now lets say that there is a sign saying that you can't make an order for someone else. Now you come in on your lunch hour to get a burger. As you stand in line, you notice it isn't getting any shorter. When you look to the front of the line you notice that the guy at the cash register is taking money from people and placing orders. He does this for your entire lunch hour, so you don't get to eat. (if you are worried that the cashier wouldn't let him do that, pretend that the cashier is a little 15 year old girl and the guy doing it is a huge guy that noone in the restaurant is willing to mess with.) That is wrong.
This is essentially what money selling can do.
Find a decent text to speech software and make cds of the audio. They are small and light can be played in a cheap portable cd player. A cassettes would work also.
Thanks for the info. Also, might be worth it to mention that not all emulation requires a backup copy. For example my PC reads Playstation disks fine, so I never need to use a backup to run the game on an emulator. This completely removes the code he mentions from any consideration in the legality of all emulation.
And that is where his whole argument falls apart. IANAL, but the first clause is to allow you to take measures to ensure that you can use your legally licensed software when you can't use the original. For example this clause allows you to copy the program from 5.25 inch diskettes to 3.5 inch disks so you can run the program on a machine without a 5.25 Inch disk drive.
His interpretation, brings into question the legality of installing software on a hard drive. He seems to be of the opinion that the physical media is the copyrighted material and that just isn't so.
I did not see any mention in the copyright code detailing restrictions on how you access the copyrighted material. Take a record for instance. The mainstream way to access the sound encoded on the disk is by using a record player. Does that make it illegal to scan your records to play them?
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/
In other words, Emulation is in no way restricted by the law he quotes, since we could use the original Cartridge if we had an appropriate reader. This only leaves a question of what the legality of backing up the program.
First off, it is not unlimited access. Your monthly fee only gets you 1 month of access. Second some of us can't play 24/7. We have to work and sleep. So I am completely within my rights to complain if the service that I paid for is not available when I want to use it. Internet access is in the same ballpark price wise. Would you accept lots of downtime with your ISP? Or would you move to an ISP that gave you waht you wanted. There is a lot of competition out there and Blizzard is providing a service, they need to make the user happy otherwise we will find an alternative. I don't expect all the kinks to be ironned out at release. I expect to be able to use the product and not pay for significant down time.
I personally commend Penny Arcade for bringing this up.
This is even worse in the MMORPG arena. Since you are supposed to agree to the terms every time you play the game. It is reasonable to assume that anyone that has read a MMORPG EULA/TOS 5 times (at 5-10 minutes to read the whole thing) without it changing, will start to ignore it. They than miss when it does change. I can't find the article, but I believe there was a case that supported the user when this is done.
Do they have to emulate the Nvidia GPU? I was under the impression that you used DirectX for the rendering and that spoke to the GPU. Since I am not an XBox developer, I don't know how much access you had to the GPU, but I would hazard a guess that you could create a ATI driver that could replace the Nvidia driver to the graphics API. Of course this is all speculation.
Nevermind that your view won't pan around as you move around. Could be a bit disconcerting. Still kinda cool.
Here is the description for one of the games on www.playitcybersafe.com
Piracy Deepfreeze
Stop the pirates from freezing the city! Throw your ball into the pirates and their stolen software before they hit the ground.
I can just see the mayhem during recess when kids spot a boy playing a GBA game with no label.
You too, are blowing smoke. Making a personal backup is currently a gray area. Many lawyers believe that fair use gives the right to make backup copies. The fact that it isn't expressly listed does not mean we don't have the right. We may not get the legal reference you ask for either. To get it we need someone to make a long shot case against an individual for making a personal copy. I think most companies won't risk it.
The photographer, my wife and I hired, listed pricing for the negatives on the the flyer he provided us. We could purchase the negatives for roughly US$2000-2500. We only had the option to buy them when we initially contracted with him. Needless to say we did not purchase the negatives. I was not thrilled with the practice, but the wife wanted a pro. It does seem wrong that the system works this way. With the amount we pay for an album, you would think the negatives would be included.
From reading the website, cooling is still an integral part of the system. I think the CCD camera will pick up darker objects. In one comment they mention using a magnitude 14 star as a guide star in real time (I think they were doing .1 second exposures). I am going to go both routes, as I think both have their advantages.
If your interest is purely academic, you might check out the CCD Camera Cookbook Webpage. The CCD Camera Cookbook is a book covering the design of two CCD cameras for Astrophotography. The resolution of these cameras is not high, and they do not come out being cheap. I am currently reading the book and will probably build the TC245 camera as a prelude to trying to design my own higher resolution CCD camera for Astrophotography. I think the book alone would be a good start in an attempt to understand CCDs.
One would think if Linux was so dodgy, ILM wouldn't have started a migration from SGI boxes to Linux boxes. Here are a few articles detailing how they love their new Linux setup. Not that that they don't have a few complaints (NFS performance.)
ILM Linux Switch
ILM Computers
More on ILM Linux switch
He was. The problem is you aren't reading the article I read. Check the quote from the very first post to this story. It says "That leads us to the OS and its foibles." That is the how it was written when I read the article. Now if you read the article all references to the problem being Linux related have been removed and now blame it on the user interface. Here is how the above quoted sentence now reads "That leads us to the user interface and its foibles." So either the author or an editor agreed that the blame was incorrectly attributed to Linux.
No, it sounded like he was, but he wasn't. He states that the Tivo UI/Application works wonderfully and that app runs on the Linux OS. The fact that it locked up, probably means that the programmer of the Roku application was doing something wrong. Regardless the problem is not a Linux problem, for example it is unlikely that the app would run any better if the OS had been Windows CE (Or whatever it is called now). Why? We all know that Linux is capable of running this software. It is very similar to the Tivo software that runs on Linux. Linux should not be blamed, if the designer chose inadequate hardware, the wrong distribution/kernel, did not configure Linux right or was running shoddy code. These are all the responsibility of the designer. It would be like porting Linux to the Commodore 64 and complaining that it's performance isn't as good as when you run it on your P4.
I agree. As the article is written, it sounds like Linux is a poor OS that is hampering the functionality of the hardware. After having read it, I can see that his complaint is with the UI designed for the Roku. However to the masses it likely sounds like there are issues with systems based on Linux.
I believe you have this wrong. Say your modem connects at 53k (Highest allowed I believe). You should be capable of getting about 6.5KBps downloads ignoring protocol overhead. The start, stop and parity bits are for the rs232 connection, and don't limit the modem since you usually run it at a higher speed than the modems transfer rate. I seem to remember my 28.8kbps modem getting downloads around 3KBps. I know for certain that a connection that is rated at 256kbps should give downloads around 30-32KBps. My old 128kbps ISDN line would give me a solid 15KBps.
The 256k is likely only a guaranteed minimum. My DSL is a 384k/128k and I get around 1.5Mbps on DLs.
I have been looking at the different controllers from Zilog and Rabbit Semiconductor.
Rabbit is a spinoff from Zilog, I believe. If you take a look at the sites, they each have some interesting Microcontroller solutions.