If you want some really cool modifications look here.
It's a modification to a television, not a computer, but it required infinitely more talent than I've seen in any case modifications posted here. Remembering not to sniff the paint isn't a talent, for most its common sense.
Sorry, I sort of cut off my thoughts before I submitted.
What I'd hope to see is that some small developers can take advantage of these opportunities and come up with some real competition. Maybe they do it as Open Source or maybe not, but the initial seeds are available for anybody to start from.
This is really a separate problem though. I agree that corporations don't pay enough taxes, but I think the real solution is to tax them fairly. Historically a corporation was meant to be a way to isolate a company from its owners to protect the owner. This has changed. They were originally supposed to be virtual citizens, they're taxed but don't get a vote. Now they're not taxed like a normal citizen and while they don't get votes they sure can throw bags of money at whores^H^H^H^H^H^Hpoliticians.
Unfortunately barring a revolution I don't really see this changing. Republicans and democrats both have their hands down the front pockets of too many industries.
Oracle and MySQL AB can also take IBM's killer.gov database and build upon it too. The Postgres database developers can also make use of the code, albeit possibly not directly (algorithms and concepts can be reused, but the GPL might not allow BSD code in to a GPL codebase). IBM still does have some advantage, because they employ the people who did the work, but that seems fair.
What would be most helpful is that no patents were allowable on the code, algorithms or practice of anything produced under the contract.
It's not just your own code, corporations pay a lot of taxes as well. BSD is probably the more appropriate Open Source license under these circumstances. You, as a tax payer, are entitled to the code which was produced using your taxes. You can then modify it and hoard it or set up a server and share it or charge for your improvements. Corporations, as tax payers, can also take this code, modify it and hoard it, or set up a server and share it or charge for its improvements. At no point does the original work paid for become encumbered, but derivative works might become encumbered.
Rather than leaving Scotland and potentially facing persecution elsewhere have you ever thought of slitting your wrists? Think of it as the very late term abortion your mother should've (and probably wishes) she had. Hell, jot down your address, most of us would love to supply you with fresh blades.
Nobody disagreed that a diet can't help prevent cancer. Your premise was that cancer clinics weren't necessary because a (presumably) vegan diet cures cancer.
I know of many people who have been cured by eating their vegetables
Please back this statement up. Not that I don't trust you, but I don't trust you. Point me to a double-blind study where a group of women with say breast cancer fared as well statistically on a vegan diet as on a medically approved program or statistically better than untreated cancer.
There is something wrong with your original suggestion though. You implied that eating right would cure cancer, so cancer research is a waste of time. Eating right might prevent some cancers, but doesn't cure cancer or prevent other types of cancer. Ignoring science and believing that eating your vegetables would cure your cancer could cause you to be dead, which is just plain stupid. Heck, doctors always tell people to eat right anyway. People just don't listen.
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Cryptographic cracking has a point though, we rely on cryptography for personal security. We need to be able to establish guidelines for what may be considered secure enough for a given application. In order for this to happen these algorithms have to be tested. Cryptographers do the bulk of the real work by analyzing the underlying algorithms and publishing new, faster faster methods to brute force these algorithms. We do our part by applying these algorithms and proving that a given algorithm is in fact weak for a given purpose.
This is necessary, the government would otherwise do a real world repeat of the apocryphal Bill Gates statement "640K ought to be good enough for anyone" and restrict the upper limits of cryptography that may be used. This is fine until the wrong people take advantage of this and sieze information damaging to us.
Whether there's more point to cancer research is a personal consideration. Insisting that spending time on seti v.s. cracking cryptography v.s. curing cancer is like complaining that somebody went into computer science rather than bio-medical where they could have cured cancer rather than started the next dot-com.
Many people think that cancer can be cured by using good food, lots of greens, no meat, etc. But really nobody considers this because it doesn't make money.
Well, that and it doesn't work. Many people also believe that the world is flat, that the position of stars in the sky predicts future events and that Friday the 13th is a bad omen. Reality isn't a democratic process.
Verilog isn't particularily synchronous, in fact, without going to special measures its combinational. You introduce the synchronous behaviour by making conditions happen based on global clocks:
always @ (posedge clock) begin // do useful stuff
end
I don't know how your particular asynchronous scheme works, but if you were using handshaking (i.e. request/acknowledge) then you would update values and toggle your acknowledge signal based on the completion of your logic operation. These request and ackowledge signals would only propogate between elements.
I don't have a verilog book handy, and I usually design in spice, but something along the lines of this, at least at the 30000 foot level:
I think you're pretty accurate on the pricing, but I think as far as blank media goes the prices reflect actual costs. I can get blank dvd-r for under a buck or blank cd for under 30 cents. A blank DV tape is a few bucks, which seems fair since it should cost more to manufacture.
The last time I looked DVD content was cheaper or as cheap as a VHS tape and included a lot more stuff. I may never look at the directors commentary etc but its still additional material and the director is going to want to be payed for that.
CDs are unjustifiably expensive in my opinion, the manufacture has to be much cheaper than tapes or albums and distribution costs per piece should be cheaper as well (well, at least versus albums, I've never thought about how many CDs versus tapes you could fit into say a 3x3x3 box)
I still buy CDs, though I'm a lot choosier about what I do buy because of the cost.
The price of producing a DVD and of fabricating a DVD-R are two entirely different animals. Producing the DVD entails the movie itself, plus technicians to master it to DVD, paying people for any extras etc. The costs of making each DVD beyond this is cheap, but there are significant upfront costs.
Manufacturing a DVD-R is cheap (I don't know how cheap, but I bought a stack of DVD-R for around 76 cents a piece) because its a cookie cutter operation. Once you have the process down you can make more inexpensively.
Making these discs is more like fabricating the DVD-R than producing the DVD. Don't expect the price of DVD on this media to drop significantly.
I hope you're trolling. Just because they won't sell the results to a for-profit corporation doesn't mean that the results aren't available. In fact, if you bothered to read the links the results are going to be made public. What they won't do is sell it to a company who will in turn require an exclusive right to the results.
So, for instance, Pfizer can use the results, but they won't get exclusive rights to the results. If Pfizer doesn't like these terms, and so won't make use of them, then Pfizer is in fact at fault.
I bought my iPod on Saturday. It's the best designed device I've ever seen I was a little anxious about putting down 500 bucks for an mp3 player, especially after putting down over 200 a few months ago (RCA Lyra2, I bought it because I wanted something that would use compact flash cards which I have many of - unfortunately it doesn't really use the MP3 format, and if your source MP3 isn't 128 kbps the sound quality is miserable)
I'll second your opinion of Ephpod as well, I haven't used it under Windows, but it runs excellently under WINE.
I don't think Be ever produced 68K based BeBoxes. As far as I know they were all dual processor PowerPC. I think at the low end they used one of the PPC603 variants.
When I looked at BeOS it was a good start. I'd have stuck with BeOS if it would have been closer to unix. Something seemed terribly broken to me logging into a machine that has a shell prompt and automatically being root.
I can sort of understand that for their target market they were worried about making it look too unfriendly, but you can always have an option of being wide open, but even then I'd prefer to have two tiers of users: administrator and everybody else. I can imagine the world of hurt when the average video production guy got rid of all those files he never used to make room for more video.
There's a little pain in getting gentoo started the first time. Redhat is much easier, debian is about as difficult. Once you go through this initial pain Gentoo is marvelous. It's smart enough to determine the dependencies and satisfy them, rather than leaving you trying to sort them out ala Redhat.
Eventually somebody will craft a graphical installer for Gentoo and maybe its popularity will increase. So, I guess at this point you get down and dirty for the initial install but can kind of drift through keeping it up to date and with whatever applications you need after that.
There are some legitimate reasons to have a cell phone. Doctors who are on call for instance. All that's needed is some courtesy: set your pager to vibrate, step out into the hall to answer.
If you're a teenager and you are obnoxious in the theater you'll be asked to leave. I don't see why this can't apply to adults. If your cellphone is a nuicanse in the theater then you should be escorted out.
I think you've still got the right to sue, its just if you use your lawsuit can potentially be viewed as an assault, in which case it becomes malicious prosecution.
It's sort of like free speech. You're free to say anything. If you say "I've got a gun, give me your money" then your speech has crossed a line where other laws take effect.
Yes, there's free speech, but there's also a right to sue people. It's the courts mandate to determine if the lawsuit is proper. If not it can be thrown out. If it isn't thrown out than its the judges mandate to determine if Novak's claims are just.
Novak, in my opinion, is abusing due process but unfortunately I don't see how to prevent this without gutting the legal system.
Suppose a group goes out of their way to spread lies about a retailer or an individual. In this case they may be exercising free speech, but they're also engaging in slander. The corporation or individual needs the ability to go to court over this to sue for damages. There's no easy way to screen beforehand whether a persons claim of slander is true or not.
Now if I were a judge I'd proceed as follows. First, some of the defendants didn't actually make any claims against Novak or his company. They reported or linked to claims made by third parties. I would then either dismiss the lawsuit against those parties or if you can't selectively dismiss parties I would throw the case out of the court and tell Novak to refile with legitimate claims. If the case came to an actual trial I'd examine the claims made by the defendants. Were they based in fact or were they distorted or false? I'd weigh this as a percentage of their culpability. If they were purely factual then they're 0% culpable. Maybe if they were mostly factual but also engaged in mud slinging I'd assign 5% culpability. Next, I'd look at Novak's claims. Were there any actual monetary damages? If so, I'd start with a base settlement based on this amount and the culpability. If the defendants were truthful and there were an actual 15 million in damages Novak would still get nothing.
Unfortunately, I'm not a lawyer or judge and don't know if any of this is close to a procedure which is even legal.
It's a fairly tame one, but my 1991 Ford F150 with the 6 speaker sound system had a minor easter egg in the radio. There were normally only 6 presets but if you mashed together a pair of presets at once you got access to additional presets. This always seemed to me like it had to be intentional. Whatever radio they built the plastics around had 8 memory locations, but the plastics only had room for 6 buttons. The engineers use combinations of buttons to access the additional presets rather than doing the typical thing which would priority encode them.
I don't really care about legalities but I think streaming satellite 24/7 wouldn't be viable or even necessary. Will you really be watching TV 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? If you were would you be satesfied with only one channel? How well will you be able to stream over a DSL line across an ocean? I run a mud, an online text based game, while we have a lot of players from overseas they find the connection hard and this is with a few hundred bytes of text per second.
What would probably be a better idea would be to schedule the programs you really want to capture and translate those to an mpeg or avi. Then rather than streaming them ftp or scp them over with a cron job. If you'll be living in Singapore there's a huge time zone difference anyway, so a live streaming show might not be at a convenient time.
You could do this with a video for linux supported capture card and a tiny bit of software.
I've been trying to remember a BBS for a while now. It was originally based in Windsor Ontario and later moved to (I think) Toronto Ontario. At the time it was the largest BBS in Canada. The one particular feature I remember is that the SysOp had a pair of cash challenges. Each revolved around breaking a cypher. If I remember right the cyphers were based around concentric code wheels. For the first contest I believe some details were revealed about letters on the wheel. For the second contest you didn't get any information other than the encrypted text.
The only reason I this surfaced in my memory is because I remembered the contest and was wondering if it ever was solved.
If somebody steals something from me its a consumer problem. It doesn't matter if I'm reimbersed or not, I'm still out something, even if its just time spent filing a report. Anybody who has homeowners insurance is also almost always reimbersed but nobody would argue that breaking and entering isn't a consumer problem.
The credit card companies help create the problem of course, by making it easy to post fraudulent charges. At least Sears cuts out the middle man. They post fraudulent charges all by themselves.
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It's a modification to a television, not a computer, but it required infinitely more talent than I've seen in any case modifications posted here. Remembering not to sniff the paint isn't a talent, for most its common sense.
What I'd hope to see is that some small developers can take advantage of these opportunities and come up with some real competition. Maybe they do it as Open Source or maybe not, but the initial seeds are available for anybody to start from.
Unfortunately barring a revolution I don't really see this changing. Republicans and democrats both have their hands down the front pockets of too many industries.
What would be most helpful is that no patents were allowable on the code, algorithms or practice of anything produced under the contract.
It's not just your own code, corporations pay a lot of taxes as well. BSD is probably the more appropriate Open Source license under these circumstances. You, as a tax payer, are entitled to the code which was produced using your taxes. You can then modify it and hoard it or set up a server and share it or charge for your improvements. Corporations, as tax payers, can also take this code, modify it and hoard it, or set up a server and share it or charge for its improvements. At no point does the original work paid for become encumbered, but derivative works might become encumbered.
Rather than leaving Scotland and potentially facing persecution elsewhere have you ever thought of slitting your wrists? Think of it as the very late term abortion your mother should've (and probably wishes) she had. Hell, jot down your address, most of us would love to supply you with fresh blades.
Nobody disagreed that a diet can't help prevent cancer. Your premise was that cancer clinics weren't necessary because a (presumably) vegan diet cures cancer.
Please back this statement up. Not that I don't trust you, but I don't trust you. Point me to a double-blind study where a group of women with say breast cancer fared as well statistically on a vegan diet as on a medically approved program or statistically better than untreated cancer.
There is something wrong with your original suggestion though. You implied that eating right would cure cancer, so cancer research is a waste of time. Eating right might prevent some cancers, but doesn't cure cancer or prevent other types of cancer. Ignoring science and believing that eating your vegetables would cure your cancer could cause you to be dead, which is just plain stupid. Heck, doctors always tell people to eat right anyway. People just don't listen.
This is necessary, the government would otherwise do a real world repeat of the apocryphal Bill Gates statement "640K ought to be good enough for anyone" and restrict the upper limits of cryptography that may be used. This is fine until the wrong people take advantage of this and sieze information damaging to us.
Whether there's more point to cancer research is a personal consideration. Insisting that spending time on seti v.s. cracking cryptography v.s. curing cancer is like complaining that somebody went into computer science rather than bio-medical where they could have cured cancer rather than started the next dot-com.
Well, that and it doesn't work. Many people also believe that the world is flat, that the position of stars in the sky predicts future events and that Friday the 13th is a bad omen. Reality isn't a democratic process.
I don't have a verilog book handy, and I usually design in spice, but something along the lines of
this, at least at the 30000 foot level:Again, I don't know exactly what you're doing, but I'm sure that you can model it with Verilog with increasing levels of detail.
I think you're pretty accurate on the pricing, but I think as far as blank media goes the prices reflect actual costs. I can get blank dvd-r for under a buck or blank cd for under 30 cents. A blank DV tape is a few bucks, which seems fair since it should cost more to manufacture.
The last time I looked DVD content was cheaper or as cheap as a VHS tape and included a lot more stuff. I may never look at the directors commentary etc but its still additional material and the director is going to want to be payed for that.
CDs are unjustifiably expensive in my opinion, the manufacture has to be much cheaper than tapes or albums and distribution costs per piece should be cheaper as well (well, at least versus albums, I've never thought about how many CDs versus tapes you could fit into say a 3x3x3 box)
I still buy CDs, though I'm a lot choosier about what I do buy because of the cost.
The price of producing a DVD and of fabricating a DVD-R are two entirely different animals. Producing the DVD entails the movie itself, plus technicians to master it to DVD, paying people for any extras etc. The costs of making each DVD beyond this is cheap, but there are significant upfront costs.
Manufacturing a DVD-R is cheap (I don't know how cheap, but I bought a stack of DVD-R for around 76 cents a piece) because its a cookie cutter operation. Once you have the process down you can make more inexpensively.
Making these discs is more like fabricating the DVD-R than producing the DVD. Don't expect the price of DVD on this media to drop significantly.
I hope you're trolling. Just because they won't sell the results to a for-profit corporation doesn't mean that the results aren't available. In fact, if you bothered to read the links the results are going to be made public. What they won't do is sell it to a company who will in turn require an exclusive right to the results.
So, for instance, Pfizer can use the results, but they won't get exclusive rights to the results. If Pfizer doesn't like these terms, and so won't make use of them, then Pfizer is in fact at fault.
I bought my iPod on Saturday. It's the best designed device I've ever seen I was a little anxious about putting down 500 bucks for an mp3 player, especially after putting down over 200 a few months ago (RCA Lyra2, I bought it because I wanted something that would use compact flash cards which I have many of - unfortunately it doesn't really use the MP3 format, and if your source MP3 isn't 128 kbps the sound quality is miserable)
I'll second your opinion of Ephpod as well, I haven't used it under Windows, but it runs excellently under WINE.
When I looked at BeOS it was a good start. I'd have stuck with BeOS if it would have been closer to unix. Something seemed terribly broken to me logging into a machine that has a shell prompt and automatically being root.
I can sort of understand that for their target market they were worried about making it look too unfriendly, but you can always have an option of being wide open, but even then I'd prefer to have two tiers of users: administrator and everybody else. I can imagine the world of hurt when the average video production guy got rid of all those files he never used to make room for more video.
There's a little pain in getting gentoo started the first time. Redhat is much easier, debian is about as difficult. Once you go through this initial pain Gentoo is marvelous. It's smart enough to determine the dependencies and satisfy them, rather than leaving you trying to sort them out ala Redhat.
Eventually somebody will craft a graphical installer for Gentoo and maybe its popularity will increase. So, I guess at this point you get down and dirty for the initial install but can kind of drift through keeping it up to date and with whatever applications you need after that.
There are some legitimate reasons to have a cell phone. Doctors who are on call for instance. All that's needed is some courtesy: set your pager to vibrate, step out into the hall to answer.
If you're a teenager and you are obnoxious in the theater you'll be asked to leave. I don't see why this can't apply to adults. If your cellphone is a nuicanse in the theater then you should be escorted out.
It's sort of like free speech. You're free to say anything. If you say "I've got a gun, give me your money" then your speech has crossed a line where other laws take effect.
Novak, in my opinion, is abusing due process but unfortunately I don't see how to prevent this without gutting the legal system.
Suppose a group goes out of their way to spread lies about a retailer or an individual. In this case they may be exercising free speech, but they're also engaging in slander. The corporation or individual needs the ability to go to court over this to sue for damages. There's no easy way to screen beforehand whether a persons claim of slander is true or not.
Now if I were a judge I'd proceed as follows. First, some of the defendants didn't actually make any claims against Novak or his company. They reported or linked to claims made by third parties. I would then either dismiss the lawsuit against those parties or if you can't selectively dismiss parties I would throw the case out of the court and tell Novak to refile with legitimate claims. If the case came to an actual trial I'd examine the claims made by the defendants. Were they based in fact or were they distorted or false? I'd weigh this as a percentage of their culpability. If they were purely factual then they're 0% culpable. Maybe if they were mostly factual but also engaged in mud slinging I'd assign 5% culpability. Next, I'd look at Novak's claims. Were there any actual monetary damages? If so, I'd start with a base settlement based on this amount and the culpability. If the defendants were truthful and there were an actual 15 million in damages Novak would still get nothing.
Unfortunately, I'm not a lawyer or judge and don't know if any of this is close to a procedure which is even legal.
It's a fairly tame one, but my 1991 Ford F150 with the 6 speaker sound system had a minor easter egg in the radio. There were normally only 6 presets but if you mashed together a pair of presets at once you got access to additional presets. This always seemed to me like it had to be intentional. Whatever radio they built the plastics around had 8 memory locations, but the plastics only had room for 6 buttons. The engineers use combinations of buttons to access the additional presets rather than doing the typical thing which would priority encode them.
I don't really care about legalities but I think streaming satellite 24/7 wouldn't be viable or even necessary. Will you really be watching TV 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? If you were would you be satesfied with only one channel? How well will you be able to stream over a DSL line across an ocean? I run a mud, an online text based game, while we have a lot of players from overseas they find the connection hard and this is with a few hundred bytes of text per second.
What would probably be a better idea would be to schedule the programs you really want to capture and translate those to an mpeg or avi. Then rather than streaming them ftp or scp them over with a cron job. If you'll be living in Singapore there's a huge time zone difference anyway, so a live streaming show might not be at a convenient time.
You could do this with a video for linux supported capture card and a tiny bit of software.
I've been trying to remember a BBS for a while now. It was originally based in Windsor Ontario and later moved to (I think) Toronto Ontario. At the time it was the largest BBS in Canada. The one particular feature I remember is that the SysOp had a pair of cash challenges. Each revolved around breaking a cypher. If I remember right the cyphers were based around concentric code wheels. For the first contest I believe some details were revealed about letters on the wheel. For the second contest you didn't get any information other than the encrypted text.
The only reason I this surfaced in my memory is because I remembered the contest and was wondering if it ever was solved.
If somebody steals something from me its a consumer problem. It doesn't matter if I'm reimbersed or not, I'm still out something, even if its just time spent filing a report. Anybody who has homeowners insurance is also almost always reimbersed but nobody would argue that breaking and entering isn't a consumer problem.
The credit card companies help create the problem of course, by making it easy to post fraudulent charges. At least Sears cuts out the middle man. They post fraudulent charges all by themselves.