It says in the caption that the movie is just a slideshow of stills. I'm guessing they included more close-up ones because it would be more interesting (and shorter) that way.
Says team manager Rich Gramier of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "Basically, we have a bullet trying to hit a second bullet with a third bullet in the right place at the right time to watch."
Having had experience dealing with CRS in the past, I'm of the opinion that they are far from a fluff service.
They provide comprehensive non-partisan reports on any subject imaginable at the request of the major decision-makers in this country. The public sees this in the short, clearly-worded descriptions that accompany every bill and resolution in the THOMAS system. They don't see the massive stacks of policy and historical reports intended to brief legislators on complex areas they may not have time to explore fully (or want a place to start).
I'm at this conference right now (it ends tomorrow). Everything here is about spying. Every display booth here is about high resolution camera systems, hardened data storage, remote sensing, and a miriad other things useful for spying, whether it be over the next hill or over another country.
Even the student competition that I'm a part of has spying as its primary objective (autonomous navigation and target recognition).
I heard from a NASA employee (no idea if it's just a story or not) that while the Shuttle can land autonomously, the astronauts take pride in landing it themselves.
Another Game Feature I think helps reduce cheating is in Call of Duty. There is a feature that can be enabled in multi-player games called the 'kill-cam'. It shows you the last 7 seconds or so before you died from the point of view of the guy that killed you. I find that watching the kill-cam from time to time reduces the perception that it might have been an 'unfair kill'. "He couldn't have possible seen me!" "I shot him a thousand times and he didn't die!". etc.
In addition the kill-cam helps reduce camping (since you now know where they were when they killed you) and it might even give you some tips on how to play better.
Wow, that really is a great feature. I might have to go out and buy CoD just for that. You say it must be enabled for multiplayer? By the server admin? Are there many servers that have it enabled?
This is why more games should have a player rating system. America's Army does well with its Honor model. You can filter servers by min and max honor, so it's easy to drill down to the newbie servers.
A question about fair use (I know you're not a lawyer, just wondering what you think):
I run a site called the [url=http://freemedia.ballsome.org]FreeMedia Project[/url]. The goal is to harvest closed media on the internet, like WMV-encoded video clips and WMA-encoded audio, and transcode them to an open format, providing a reposity of these copies as a public service.
So far, I've been asking for permission for each video I do, but this obviously doesn't allow for much of a service. Mostly I get tech-related films by small-time groups.
I'd like to do a movie trailer or something like that, but the copyright issue has prevented me from trying it. Do you think this would fall under any kind of fair use exception like the IA may have?
I've emailed the EFF about it, but haven't heard anything back.
Yeah, I could probably hack things to work. I'm just complaining that things should just work by themselves.
As to your other questions, I use Apache for localhost web site testing, sshd for emergencies, and ntp to keep my time synced. In Gentoo at least, Apache is set to require "net", which in their terms means any kind of external network connection. No external connection on boot, no Apache.
On FC3, ntp failed if there was no external connection at boot, instead of failing silently and just waiting for a connection to open up.
sshd is the same as Apache, on Gentoo at least.
Yes, all of these things could be fixed with a few small changes and some minor rethinking. My point is just that this type of thinking hasn't been taking place, at least in the distros I've tried. FC4 seems to be doing things very nicely so far though, so the time for Linux on the laptop may finally have arrived.
Because on a roaming laptop with a wireless connection, the network usually comes up after you've logged into X, when you can select the network to connect to and other stuff.
It's really a weakness with the init system, rather than X or anything else. If the network isn't up during the init process, stuff that "requires" a net connection (apache, ntp, sshd) fails very visibly, and must be manually restarted once a connection is established.
On Windows, they just start and sit there until a connection is established and usable, without the user having to worry about it.
Pack up and go home? A coporation is indebted to its shareholders to maximize whatever value it can squeeze out of the legal side of the market. Companies like AOL should retool and go after something else, not close up shop completely.
Are they explicitly covered? While speakers may be considered "music devices", I find it hard to swallow that a computer "controls" them. They're somewhat passive devices; the computer sends data, and the speaker outputs it.
The patent seems to be talking about a device that can contain music, and a UI for selecting that music and telling the device to play it.
I would imagine this argument will be taking place in a courtroom soon.
Not to mention that according to the patent, the UI must be intended to control an external music playing device, like a CD player, an iPod, or a player piano.
No, every element of each claim. Claim 3 is independent of Claim 1 and Claim 2, but apparently not independent of 4 and 5, the way this patent is written.
Well, the focus of the patent is on creating a UI that will allow the user to control an external music playing device. It's still pretty broad in this day and age, but it's not "anything music related at all".
I just read the first claim in the patent, and I see nothing about a database. Here it is:
1. A computer user interface menu selection process for allowing the user to select music to be played on a music device controlled by a computer, comprising the steps of:
a) simultaneously displaying on a display device, at least two individual data fields selected from music categories, composers, artists, and songs;
b) selecting at least one item from at least one of the data fields;
c) in response to step b), redisplaying all data fields not having an item selected therefrom with data related only to the at least one item selected in step b), and simultaneously maintaining all items originally displayed in the data fields with at lest one item selected therefrom;
d) selecting an item in the songs data field in response to step c), and
e) playing the selected song item from step d) on the computer responsive music device.
It sounds like what is being patented is the ability to play music on a device (iPod) from a computer. Unless they define the computer itself as a music device, I haven't checked that...
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It says in the caption that the movie is just a slideshow of stills. I'm guessing they included more close-up ones because it would be more interesting (and shorter) that way.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-06 -28-deep-impact-cover_x.htm
Says team manager Rich Gramier of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "Basically, we have a bullet trying to hit a second bullet with a third bullet in the right place at the right time to watch."
Having had experience dealing with CRS in the past, I'm of the opinion that they are far from a fluff service.
They provide comprehensive non-partisan reports on any subject imaginable at the request of the major decision-makers in this country. The public sees this in the short, clearly-worded descriptions that accompany every bill and resolution in the THOMAS system. They don't see the massive stacks of policy and historical reports intended to brief legislators on complex areas they may not have time to explore fully (or want a place to start).
I'm at this conference right now (it ends tomorrow). Everything here is about spying. Every display booth here is about high resolution camera systems, hardened data storage, remote sensing, and a miriad other things useful for spying, whether it be over the next hill or over another country.
Even the student competition that I'm a part of has spying as its primary objective (autonomous navigation and target recognition).
I heard from a NASA employee (no idea if it's just a story or not) that while the Shuttle can land autonomously, the astronauts take pride in landing it themselves.
They're looking for something that can finish the Station (different discussion entirely). Soyuz doesn't have the carrying capacity for that.
If anyone wants to see the clip but doesn't like WMV, the FreeMedia Project (my site) has it in Ogg.
Clicky.
Another Game Feature I think helps reduce cheating is in Call of Duty. There is a feature that can be enabled in multi-player games called the 'kill-cam'. It shows you the last 7 seconds or so before you died from the point of view of the guy that killed you. I find that watching the kill-cam from time to time reduces the perception that it might have been an 'unfair kill'. "He couldn't have possible seen me!" "I shot him a thousand times and he didn't die!". etc.
In addition the kill-cam helps reduce camping (since you now know where they were when they killed you) and it might even give you some tips on how to play better.
Wow, that really is a great feature. I might have to go out and buy CoD just for that. You say it must be enabled for multiplayer? By the server admin? Are there many servers that have it enabled?
This is why more games should have a player rating system. America's Army does well with its Honor model. You can filter servers by min and max honor, so it's easy to drill down to the newbie servers.
Molecular dynamics with Discover
So who here has access to one of these monsters?
I'm logged into #367 right now.
Sorry about the bbcode link. Use the link in my sig.
A question about fair use (I know you're not a lawyer, just wondering what you think):
I run a site called the [url=http://freemedia.ballsome.org]FreeMedia Project[/url]. The goal is to harvest closed media on the internet, like WMV-encoded video clips and WMA-encoded audio, and transcode them to an open format, providing a reposity of these copies as a public service.
So far, I've been asking for permission for each video I do, but this obviously doesn't allow for much of a service. Mostly I get tech-related films by small-time groups.
I'd like to do a movie trailer or something like that, but the copyright issue has prevented me from trying it. Do you think this would fall under any kind of fair use exception like the IA may have?
I've emailed the EFF about it, but haven't heard anything back.
Yeah, I could probably hack things to work. I'm just complaining that things should just work by themselves.
As to your other questions, I use Apache for localhost web site testing, sshd for emergencies, and ntp to keep my time synced. In Gentoo at least, Apache is set to require "net", which in their terms means any kind of external network connection. No external connection on boot, no Apache.
On FC3, ntp failed if there was no external connection at boot, instead of failing silently and just waiting for a connection to open up.
sshd is the same as Apache, on Gentoo at least.
Yes, all of these things could be fixed with a few small changes and some minor rethinking. My point is just that this type of thinking hasn't been taking place, at least in the distros I've tried. FC4 seems to be doing things very nicely so far though, so the time for Linux on the laptop may finally have arrived.
Because on a roaming laptop with a wireless connection, the network usually comes up after you've logged into X, when you can select the network to connect to and other stuff.
It's really a weakness with the init system, rather than X or anything else. If the network isn't up during the init process, stuff that "requires" a net connection (apache, ntp, sshd) fails very visibly, and must be manually restarted once a connection is established.
On Windows, they just start and sit there until a connection is established and usable, without the user having to worry about it.
So they opened the internet to the masses. It's not an exclusive country club for geeks, you know.
Pack up and go home? A coporation is indebted to its shareholders to maximize whatever value it can squeeze out of the legal side of the market. Companies like AOL should retool and go after something else, not close up shop completely.
Or pick up a copy. No, it's not an affiliate link.
Are they explicitly covered? While speakers may be considered "music devices", I find it hard to swallow that a computer "controls" them. They're somewhat passive devices; the computer sends data, and the speaker outputs it.
The patent seems to be talking about a device that can contain music, and a UI for selecting that music and telling the device to play it.
I would imagine this argument will be taking place in a courtroom soon.
Not to mention that according to the patent, the UI must be intended to control an external music playing device, like a CD player, an iPod, or a player piano.
No, every element of each claim. Claim 3 is independent of Claim 1 and Claim 2, but apparently not independent of 4 and 5, the way this patent is written.
Well, the focus of the patent is on creating a UI that will allow the user to control an external music playing device. It's still pretty broad in this day and age, but it's not "anything music related at all".
Does MOD4Win control an external music playing device (like a player piano or an iPod)?
I want a REGEX web search. Can't think of an example off the top of my head, but there have been many times that I've wanted one for extra control.