Did you read [0050] of the patent? Here's their basic, "original" algorithm:
% ltpdirect.m % local tangent plane position from range and azimuth % good for distances less than 10 kilometers % function newpos=aproxdirect(pos,range,azimuth); global DATUM delta_east=sin(azimuth)*range; delta_north=cos(azimuth)*range; n=nphi(pos.lat); m=mphi(pos.lat); % convert here changes in meters of easting and northing % to changes in longitude and latitude newpos.lon=pos.lon+delta_east(n*cos(pos.lat)); newpos.lat=pos.lat+delta_north/m; newpos.hea=0;
Yep, basic trigonometry using spherical coordinates. It would never be obvious to "practitioners of the craft". Their other algorithm is adapted from this 30-year-old software.
"However, a professional engineer would lose their license if they were shown to have acted fraudulently or negligently, and thus their career, profession, and ability to make a living."
I see what you mean, but I think you're slightly off. In most arenas (law, medicine, structural engineering), a professional certification is essential. But, in the CS and EE arenas, 99.9% of the professionals don't have a PE certification. Thus, losing the cert wouldn't much of a blow to his career... except, hopefully, the court testimony aspect.
Unfortunately, those lyrics will be added to every new commercial song that this system protects. Kenny G initially had some concerns, but he's on board with the plan now.
You can't sell a trademark in the US without the sale of some underlying asset. And, presumably, that asset must appear in the phone.
Trademark isn't an asset like copyrighted works or patents. It's a method for customers to identify the source of goods. Suppose a customer associates "iphone" with cisco -- if someone other that cisco sells an "iphone", then the trademark has failed and does not serve its purpose of manufacturer identification... now whether customers associate "iphone" more with Cisco or Apple is another question. And, if the courts assign it to the lesser-associated-with product, will it serve the public interest?
My bank had one of those hp printers in the window with an IR port on it... It wouldn't take too much to freak them out with some weird documents that looked like they were printed by an insider.
Have you seen the Apple clock widget? I was poking around the code trying to find out why showing the clock took 10% of the CPU time, and I found the root of the problem: the second hand is redrawn about 10 times every time it moves. This simulates a little vibration, as you would have on a mechanical clock. I cut the code out to make it redraw only once, and the cpu time was negligible again.
When I looked at the code, I saw something amazing: the clock hands were stored as.pdf files! Three pdf files, one for each hand. Amazing... apple felt that pdf was lightweight enough for general-purpose vector graphics. -- anyway, I miss carrboro - you've got a great shop there!
I nominate "Original storytelling, updated three times a week." for Bush's assertion of WMDs in Iraq, imminent threats to the US from Iraq, and a 9/11-Iraq connection (which is still heard about 3 times a week).
It's a shame that the Qonos hasn't really taken off... it looks like there hasn't been any development for 2 years.
It's amazing how much computing power there is now compared to my 4-bit processor hp48 (it still rocks). If only there was a nokia770-like device with a decent keyboard, it would make a great calculator platform.
Hybrid players will change the playing field for key revocation.
It was assumed before that if a player had a security breach, the player could be turned in to a paperweight and the customer would have to buy a new unit from a more secure vendor.
With hybrid players, that changes. If, for example, HDDVD revokes the player's keys, then it will be turned in to a Blu-ray only player. The customer won't toss it in the trash -- they'll either keep using it as their main player or as a player in another room.
Key revocation doesn't work well unless you have a monopoly on the distribution format... something no-one has yet.
The dots in the corner are for the projector guy... they've been there for >15 years.
The dots the GP is talking about are something different they added in the last few years - they are usually in the center of the screen and they are a matrix of 4x3 dots or so. They appear randomly and aren't linked to the reel change.
I hope and sense that they will. Besides all the things the Zune should have done (wireless streaming to others, wireless sync, and maybe wireless music store), I hope they offer streaming to AirTunes and iTV so that it can act like a super-remote.
You need to hold the government to a higher standard.
"I would have been really surprised if the government would have allowed a critical article co-written by a government official to be published."
The government is not and should not be of one opinion, handed down from one branch. If anything, the government should be a free exchange of ideas where policies are rigorously and openly debated. That's what I'd expect from a dictatorship, not my country.
I just toothpasted my pants a little. - - - Leela: How can you trick people into drinking something that comes out of your behind? It's disgusting. Slurm Queen: Is it? Honey comes from a bee's behind. Milk comes from a cow's behind. And have you ever used toothpaste? Fry: Whose behind does that come from? Slurm Queen: You don't wanna know.
I know you're trolling, but taxes do no concern me nearly as much as government spending. Taxes are a matter of when you pay, spending is how much you pay. Compare republican vs democrat spending.
That's my tactic, too. I was on the Washington DC beltway (75 mph average). It was just me going in the slow lane (about 70) and a lady started tailgating me -- oblivious to the other 3 empty lanes she could pass me in. So, I slowed down slowly... I got down to 40mph with her not noticing before I decided it was too dangerous for her & I sped back to 70. Amazing, though, that she was oblivious on her phone.
Re: nobody out there that makes development for their platform as easy as MS
I've been really happy with Apple's tools. They have some advantages -- I hack USB drivers, and OSX+Xcode can do this user-space or kernel-space. MS requires an expensive "driver add-on" to visual studio because windows can only do kernel-space USB drivers. (Thankfully there are is a FOSS solution that essentially provides a tunnel so that you don't have to buy this driver add-on). Also, Apple's Core Data is a gui that lets you design your data structures, and then helps manage the structures. Xcode is free, too, and has neat features like distributed compilation.
I found that the trick to the 17" is finding the right back pack - I'm using the Axio Swift. The volume of the MBP17 isn't a whole lot (especially compared to my old dell 7000 Pentium II 15"), so if you've got a bag that is long/tall enough for it, it only takes up an inch of depth. That, and I bring an extra battery pack instead of a power supply - it's smaller and I don't have to worry about wires.
I've got a nokia 770, but I rarely travel with it because I always have my 17" with me. But that's just me - it's an individual's choice.
For a high volume product, they've got lots of machines running in parallel. Lots of machines means they buy cheap generic PCs. One breaks & a zillion people can fix it.
Plus, who would want to write USB drivers for a custom machine? And a network driver to connect to the backend production database?
Your point about friends-racking-up-a-bill is very good, and so is the net browsing... but the password entry problem isn't. I'm not responding because I really care about wifi or the zune, but just to offer some constructive criticism.
There is a flaw in your logic. What you're saying is that you don't want to enter a wep key on a scroll wheel. That's very different than the conclusion you came to (don't want wifi). Instead of rejecting the feature for this reason, you should ask for a solution... how about the first time you sync via usb, the pc says "The attached zune can see an encrypted wifi connection. Enter the Wep key on the keyboard and it will remember it next time"? Wham - one time entry. If your computer is smart, it could even transfer its wep key over to the zune (again, via usb on the first sync) -- no entry needed at all.
The speed issue -- another problem, but not a reason to not want wifi. 50 songs @ 11 mbps = 150 MB = about 2.5 minutes. Use 54 mbps and it's well under a minute. Either way, it's probably faster than the time it takes to download from the internet.
Wifi may still not be an advantage for you, but still look at it on the merits and not the possible implementation problems. If ms does have annoying implementation problems, then gripe about them when they exist... but don't throw the baby out with the bath water just yet:-)
I think auto-syncing from my backpack without pressing a button would be cool feature if implemented.
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Did you read [0050] of the patent? Here's their basic, "original" algorithm:
% ltpdirect.m
% local tangent plane position from range and azimuth
% good for distances less than 10 kilometers
%
function newpos=aproxdirect(pos,range,azimuth);
global DATUM
delta_east=sin(azimuth)*range;
delta_north=cos(azimuth)*range;
n=nphi(pos.lat);
m=mphi(pos.lat);
% convert here changes in meters of easting and northing
% to changes in longitude and latitude
newpos.lon=pos.lon+delta_east(n*cos(pos.lat));
newpos.lat=pos.lat+delta_north/m;
newpos.hea=0;
Yep, basic trigonometry using spherical coordinates. It would never be obvious to "practitioners of the craft".
Their other algorithm is adapted from this 30-year-old software.
"However, a professional engineer would lose their license if they were shown to have acted fraudulently or negligently, and thus their career, profession, and ability to make a living."
I see what you mean, but I think you're slightly off. In most arenas (law, medicine, structural engineering), a professional certification is essential. But, in the CS and EE arenas, 99.9% of the professionals don't have a PE certification. Thus, losing the cert wouldn't much of a blow to his career... except, hopefully, the court testimony aspect.
You got lucky: the watermark sounds exactly like someone singing the words "bring your daughter to the slaughter", so you're covered.
Unfortunately, those lyrics will be added to every new commercial song that this system protects. Kenny G initially had some concerns, but he's on board with the plan now.
You can't sell a trademark in the US without the sale of some underlying asset. And, presumably, that asset must appear in the phone.
.. now whether customers associate "iphone" more with Cisco or Apple is another question. And, if the courts assign it to the lesser-associated-with product, will it serve the public interest?
Trademark isn't an asset like copyrighted works or patents. It's a method for customers to identify the source of goods. Suppose a customer associates "iphone" with cisco -- if someone other that cisco sells an "iphone", then the trademark has failed and does not serve its purpose of manufacturer identification.
what - there's "spell", "forward", "send", and "reply" but no "cut", "copy", or "paste".
I haven't asked a computer to spell-check my document in years... The squiggly underlines help me fix spelling as I type.
My bank had one of those hp printers in the window with an IR port on it... It wouldn't take too much to freak them out with some weird documents that looked like they were printed by an insider.
But, a soundbug on the window might now actually be dangerous.
This post is about .pdfs, please bear with me!
.pdf files! Three pdf files, one for each hand. Amazing... apple felt that pdf was lightweight enough for general-purpose vector graphics.
Have you seen the Apple clock widget? I was poking around the code trying to find out why showing the clock took 10% of the CPU time, and I found the root of the problem: the second hand is redrawn about 10 times every time it moves. This simulates a little vibration, as you would have on a mechanical clock. I cut the code out to make it redraw only once, and the cpu time was negligible again.
When I looked at the code, I saw something amazing: the clock hands were stored as
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anyway, I miss carrboro - you've got a great shop there!
I nominate "Original storytelling, updated three times a week." for Bush's assertion of WMDs in Iraq, imminent threats to the US from Iraq, and a 9/11-Iraq connection (which is still heard about 3 times a week).
That makes sense, but they can't easily limit the power that laptops put out... their minimum output power could easily be too much.
Unless, of course, they are actually using bluetooth instead of WiFi.
It's a shame that the Qonos hasn't really taken off... it looks like there hasn't been any development for 2 years.
It's amazing how much computing power there is now compared to my 4-bit processor hp48 (it still rocks). If only there was a nokia770-like device with a decent keyboard, it would make a great calculator platform.
Hybrid players will change the playing field for key revocation.
It was assumed before that if a player had a security breach, the player could be turned in to a paperweight and the customer would have to buy a new unit from a more secure vendor.
With hybrid players, that changes. If, for example, HDDVD revokes the player's keys, then it will be turned in to a Blu-ray only player. The customer won't toss it in the trash -- they'll either keep using it as their main player or as a player in another room.
Key revocation doesn't work well unless you have a monopoly on the distribution format... something no-one has yet.
The dots in the corner are for the projector guy... they've been there for >15 years.
The dots the GP is talking about are something different they added in the last few years - they are usually in the center of the screen and they are a matrix of 4x3 dots or so. They appear randomly and aren't linked to the reel change.
I hope and sense that they will. Besides all the things the Zune should have done (wireless streaming to others, wireless sync, and maybe wireless music store), I hope they offer streaming to AirTunes and iTV so that it can act like a super-remote.
You need to hold the government to a higher standard.
"I would have been really surprised if the government would have allowed a critical article co-written by a government official to be published."
The government is not and should not be of one opinion, handed down from one branch. If anything, the government should be a free exchange of ideas where policies are rigorously and openly debated. That's what I'd expect from a dictatorship, not my country.
I just toothpasted my pants a little.
- - -
Leela: How can you trick people into drinking something that comes out of your behind? It's disgusting.
Slurm Queen: Is it? Honey comes from a bee's behind. Milk comes from a cow's behind. And have you ever used toothpaste?
Fry: Whose behind does that come from?
Slurm Queen: You don't wanna know.
I know you're trolling, but taxes do no concern me nearly as much as government spending. Taxes are a matter of when you pay, spending is how much you pay. Compare republican vs democrat spending.
That's my tactic, too. I was on the Washington DC beltway (75 mph average). It was just me going in the slow lane (about 70) and a lady started tailgating me -- oblivious to the other 3 empty lanes she could pass me in. So, I slowed down slowly... I got down to 40mph with her not noticing before I decided it was too dangerous for her & I sped back to 70. Amazing, though, that she was oblivious on her phone.
Re: nobody out there that makes development for their platform as easy as MS
I've been really happy with Apple's tools. They have some advantages -- I hack USB drivers, and OSX+Xcode can do this user-space or kernel-space. MS requires an expensive "driver add-on" to visual studio because windows can only do kernel-space USB drivers. (Thankfully there are is a FOSS solution that essentially provides a tunnel so that you don't have to buy this driver add-on). Also, Apple's Core Data is a gui that lets you design your data structures, and then helps manage the structures. Xcode is free, too, and has neat features like distributed compilation.
Correct. Some people even questioned if software was copyrightable ... it's all just numbers, anyway, and you can't copyright a number.
is about $170
I found that the trick to the 17" is finding the right back pack - I'm using the Axio Swift. The volume of the MBP17 isn't a whole lot (especially compared to my old dell 7000 Pentium II 15"), so if you've got a bag that is long/tall enough for it, it only takes up an inch of depth. That, and I bring an extra battery pack instead of a power supply - it's smaller and I don't have to worry about wires.
I've got a nokia 770, but I rarely travel with it because I always have my 17" with me. But that's just me - it's an individual's choice.
(p.s. mark me as wanting a 1600x1200 screen, too)
For a high volume product, they've got lots of machines running in parallel. Lots of machines means they buy cheap generic PCs. One breaks & a zillion people can fix it.
Plus, who would want to write USB drivers for a custom machine? And a network driver to connect to the backend production database?
I say bring the 360 into the world of 3 dimensions and call the next version the "XBox 4pi"
(unit of meausure = steradians)
"back when suspects were guaranteed the right of a trial"
Excellent point. That is language I will use in more of my discussions on this topic - thanks!
Your point about friends-racking-up-a-bill is very good, and so is the net browsing... but the password entry problem isn't. I'm not responding because I really care about wifi or the zune, but just to offer some constructive criticism.
... how about the first time you sync via usb, the pc says "The attached zune can see an encrypted wifi connection. Enter the Wep key on the keyboard and it will remember it next time"? Wham - one time entry. If your computer is smart, it could even transfer its wep key over to the zune (again, via usb on the first sync) -- no entry needed at all.
:-)
There is a flaw in your logic. What you're saying is that you don't want to enter a wep key on a scroll wheel. That's very different than the conclusion you came to (don't want wifi). Instead of rejecting the feature for this reason, you should ask for a solution
The speed issue -- another problem, but not a reason to not want wifi. 50 songs @ 11 mbps = 150 MB = about 2.5 minutes. Use 54 mbps and it's well under a minute. Either way, it's probably faster than the time it takes to download from the internet.
Wifi may still not be an advantage for you, but still look at it on the merits and not the possible implementation problems. If ms does have annoying implementation problems, then gripe about them when they exist... but don't throw the baby out with the bath water just yet
I think auto-syncing from my backpack without pressing a button would be cool feature if implemented.