It's nice to see the washington post for regulation. They've got quite a media empire: 3+ newspapers, newsweek magazine, 6 over-the-air tv stations, a large cable network, Kaplan, and several internet ventures, including part of BrassRing.com
It's a nice media empire that fits well under the old FCC rules. There is little overlap in the markets served. The tv sations are all in different cities, and the newspapers serve different locations and formats.
I wish them success in overturning the new fcc rules bought by bush's corporate supporters.
Most Cessna-type airplanes still use leaded fuel. Leaded, as in the element Pb, the nerve-damaging metal that they phased out of gasoline in the late 70's? The reason the EPA allows this is that lead's lubrication properties produce a more reliable engine -- something that's of value when you've only got one engine.
You'd think that these small airplanes would pose more of an environmental threat than the rocket tanks.
Yep, I did use an extreme case - but it was to show that even with the MPAA's exaggerations, downloads would be hard to make a dent. Maybe world bandwidth * days-since-release / filesize * $7 would be good, too. The more extreme, the less guesstimates, the easier to defend. Of course, reasonable estimates help complement the argument.
Actually, I am an engineer -- a former rocket scientist, no less!:) I used to be a satellite engineer, where lots and lots of worst-case scenarios were piled on each other: Worst-case-input + worst-case-power-supply + worst-case-temperature-performance + worst-case-radiation-degradation-at-end-of-life + noise-margin = worst-case-output
When we started out, we built a low-cost satellite without a lot of reliability study. After it was launched, experts found the MTBF to be something like 3 months. Seven years laters (on a one year design life), the batteries eventually wore out.
$365mil is a lot of moolah; it needs a comparison.
Let's assume the worst case scenario*: Every college student in the united states downloads the movie and don't pay their $7 to see the movie in a theater. There are about 5 million college students**, so that works out to $35 million. That's ten percent of the total. And that total is still rising -- the movie hasn't been out that long, and the DVD is still far away.
* Ok, this isn't the worst case - sorry to be us-centric and imply that college students are the pirates. But, this is their propoganda and I'm following it to the MPAA's extreme. ** 1.3 mil college bound seniors * 4 = guesstimate
Pegasus is a great. You don't even need to own the L1011; the first pegi were launched from a borrowed B52.
If you check out their record, major problems in 5 of the first 10 launches isn't quite the reliability record I want for a manned flight. Especially since the x-prize requires 2 back-to-back flights - something that didn't happen until flights 7 & 8. The contest also requires reusability, but that's another story.
p.s. I shared an office with the original glomr... click click click of the tx/rx relays. Ok, it wasn't an office: they put the intern in the lab.
According to NASA Ames research scientists, the Hyperwall is extremely adept at displaying a 2D array of 3D images; thereby providing a five dimensional view. Somehow, I don't think dimensions quite add up that way. Especially because the 2d array reuses 2 of the dimensions used in the 3d view.
What they are doing is drawing slices - the same way you can represent a car in 3D by displaying lots of 2D slices. Since the pictures are disjoint, it's a lot harder to interpret (that's why people are working on fly-throughs for MRI 2D slice data). Here's another article with a picture of the beast. All that power, and they use only 2 colors - argh!!
Not content, these scientists are "currently attempting to provide a tool for interactively exploring the six dimensional electronic pair density function calculated for small molecules." So, the last dimension is interactivity, which can be considered time.
little known fact: the Bureau of Engraving and Printing tastes like.... ah, screw it - I won't even try to justify my mistake. Thanks for the correction.
You'd think that would defeat the logic in the lexmark/static control ink-refill case. But, the lawyers are arguing along the lines that the ink chip is an access control device for the printer's firmware (which is software). I'm sure that you could just as easily argue* that the jumper controls access to the processor's multiprocessor microcode and state machines.
* I still think it's full of crap, but you could still argue
I had a jerk of a college teacher that asked us to do a 20-page final report. Our group put together a pretty good report, coming in at 22 pages. We got our grades back, and we realized we got a so-so grade, but it was the lowest in the class. We went to the teacher's office and asked him what the problem was. He said "you guys had the best paper in the class, but if only it was longer...". I think he liked it and wanted to see more, but was sad when it ended, kinda like a good movie that's over. He refused to change the grade.
He had other problems. The course grade was essentially 2 big tests and the final report. He had failed to tell the bookstore which book he was using, so consequently they only had books for 1/5th of the class. It would have required some work to order a book from other sources (this was pre-internet and I didn't have a credit card), but this was a fairly easy course and he kept promising the books would arrive. The day before the first test comes around (midway through the semester), and we point out that the book still isn't in. He counted students and said he'd tell his secratary to photocopy the relevant chapters, pick it up at 6pm. We all came back to campus at 6 to find she had never been told anything.
bah. I don't mean to sound like a whiner. I had lots of cool classes & teachers, but sometimes you get a whacked-out non-sensical teacher you can't reasonably please. And, in real life, you'll sometimes get customers like this.
Are you sure you remember your original modem speed right? 28.8-Kbps V.34 modems came out in 1994(other ref), although there were some incompatible versions slightly before. I know in 1989, I had a 2400 baud modem and the "internet" at my university was a wicked-fast 19.2k over a dedicated (non-POTS) network. Maybe you had a 14.4 (=70x) or a 9.6 (=100x)?
Sorry guys- I've got java turned off (ok, I didn't install it), so I noticed that it was a crippled site (I couldn't get to a better page, or get more info), but I didn't realize how bad it was. Here's a conductive coating on a less obnoxious website. Other people make the black antistatic cardboard - lots of sample chips get shipped in these boxes.
Hey, you were suspiciously absent from this year's Loyalty Day. Surely you knew about this, or else we'd have to send you to the "Our Documents" re-education class. See ya next year!
Bingo;) Sorry; I should have pointed out this flip side. I kept quiet becuase it's something our small company can use to competitive advantage. We have a neat code generator and a good code methodogy that lets us support many different memory models with literally a click of a button. Other companies without this might get trapped behind a lot of legacy code.
IIRC track owners in the US tend to give priority to freight over passenger trains.
I forgot to tell the rest of the story. I went up to NY on the acela, but went back on the regular train ($50 cheaper or so). We didn't leave NYC until after our "arrival time" back home in DC. It turns out that some freight train with a too-tall car had run on or near our tracks and knocked the overhead electric wires down. How hard is it to put some equipment in to automatically detect this? It was my first train ride in the US, and all I could keep thinking was... "if the federal government really wants amtrack to survive (and not keep bailing it out), and if amtrack wants to compete with airplanes, then they'd better have their own passenger tracks". I think you're exactly right - freight was the priority.
OT: I hope Disney goes out of business. They've really turned into a one-product company, and that product's not even very compelling, anymore.
Actually disney is pretty well diversified among entertainment-related products. They own book, magazine and record publishers. Also ABC TV, ESPN, 10 TV stations, >25 radio stations, 7 movie production compainies (incl. miramax), theatrical productions, petroleum and natural gas interests (huh?), professional sports franchises, a cruise line, international media partnerships, and this little place called disneyworld.
I hope they go out of business, too (I don't like their marketing to children and I think their broad media ownership is anticompetitive), but probably not likely.
In america, they do it right. Last year, I checked out the fastest train in the US, (the acela). But, due to all same kind of factors (like even though it went from washington to boston, it could only go fast in a certain section of NJ), it was generally a wash. In fact, due to scheduling, it was actually 5 minutes slower from washington to NYC! It is a comfy train, though: nice seats, tables, and quiet. The loudest noise was the rattling of tray tables against seat backs. For $10k, I'll go through their trains and put in foam tape on all of these and cut the noise of their trains in half!
Breaking the 4G of memory does come at a cost, though. If your code uses a whole lot of pointers (many CAD & EDA packages do), then because the pointers take up twice the space they used to, you'll need up to 8G of physical memory to do the same task you could do with 4G on a 32-bit system. And twice the cache, and twice the memory bandwidth, too. It's a pretty steep cost!
Actually, by the looks of it, it was funny 11 times so far. But, two recent posts have been only '1', so it looks like it's on the decline. This will make a cool graph in 3 months time.
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It's nice to see the washington post for regulation. They've got quite a media empire: 3+ newspapers, newsweek magazine, 6 over-the-air tv stations, a large cable network, Kaplan, and several internet ventures, including part of BrassRing.com
It's a nice media empire that fits well under the old FCC rules. There is little overlap in the markets served. The tv sations are all in different cities, and the newspapers serve different locations and formats.
I wish them success in overturning the new fcc rules bought by bush's corporate supporters.
Interesting...
Most Cessna-type airplanes still use leaded fuel. Leaded, as in the element Pb, the nerve-damaging metal that they phased out of gasoline in the late 70's? The reason the EPA allows this is that lead's lubrication properties produce a more reliable engine -- something that's of value when you've only got one engine.
You'd think that these small airplanes would pose more of an environmental threat than the rocket tanks.
Yep, I did use an extreme case - but it was to show that even with the MPAA's exaggerations, downloads would be hard to make a dent. Maybe world bandwidth * days-since-release / filesize * $7 would be good, too. The more extreme, the less guesstimates, the easier to defend. Of course, reasonable estimates help complement the argument.
:) I used to be a satellite engineer, where lots and lots of worst-case scenarios were piled on each other:
Actually, I am an engineer -- a former rocket scientist, no less!
Worst-case-input + worst-case-power-supply + worst-case-temperature-performance + worst-case-radiation-degradation-at-end-of-life + noise-margin = worst-case-output
When we started out, we built a low-cost satellite without a lot of reliability study. After it was launched, experts found the MTBF to be something like 3 months. Seven years laters (on a one year design life), the batteries eventually wore out.
Now, I'd never make it designing consumer items!
$365mil is a lot of moolah; it needs a comparison.
Let's assume the worst case scenario*: Every college student in the united states downloads the movie and don't pay their $7 to see the movie in a theater. There are about 5 million college students**, so that works out to $35 million. That's ten percent of the total. And that total is still rising -- the movie hasn't been out that long, and the DVD is still far away.
* Ok, this isn't the worst case - sorry to be us-centric and imply that college students are the pirates. But, this is their propoganda and I'm following it to the MPAA's extreme.
** 1.3 mil college bound seniors * 4 = guesstimate
Pegasus is a great. You don't even need to own the L1011; the first pegi were launched from a borrowed B52.
If you check out their record, major problems in 5 of the first 10 launches isn't quite the reliability record I want for a manned flight. Especially since the x-prize requires 2 back-to-back flights - something that didn't happen until flights 7 & 8. The contest also requires reusability, but that's another story.
p.s. I shared an office with the original glomr... click click click of the tx/rx relays. Ok, it wasn't an office: they put the intern in the lab.
The Deep Space 2 probe did exactly this, if you count 2 as a "cluster". Too bad the mission failed.
This spec has been out a while now... 2 years ago PowerDsine made a prototype ethernet-powered razor - here's coverage from more traditional network press
Oh, you can hang a CRT up there. Just don't ever try to get out of the chair, though.
According to NASA Ames research scientists, the Hyperwall is extremely adept at displaying a 2D array of 3D images; thereby providing a five dimensional view.
Somehow, I don't think dimensions quite add up that way. Especially because the 2d array reuses 2 of the dimensions used in the 3d view.
What they are doing is drawing slices - the same way you can represent a car in 3D by displaying lots of 2D slices. Since the pictures are disjoint, it's a lot harder to interpret (that's why people are working on fly-throughs for MRI 2D slice data). Here's another article with a picture of the beast. All that power, and they use only 2 colors - argh!!
Not content, these scientists are "currently attempting to provide a tool for interactively exploring the six dimensional electronic pair density function calculated for small molecules."
So, the last dimension is interactivity, which can be considered time.
little known fact: the Bureau of Engraving and Printing tastes like.... ah, screw it - I won't even try to justify my mistake. Thanks for the correction.
On this page, the mint encourages you to "View, download or print glossy images of the new notes" from this pdf!
You'd think that would defeat the logic in the lexmark/static control ink-refill case. But, the lawyers are arguing along the lines that the ink chip is an access control device for the printer's firmware (which is software). I'm sure that you could just as easily argue* that the jumper controls access to the processor's multiprocessor microcode and state machines.
* I still think it's full of crap, but you could still argue
I had a jerk of a college teacher that asked us to do a 20-page final report. Our group put together a pretty good report, coming in at 22 pages. We got our grades back, and we realized we got a so-so grade, but it was the lowest in the class. We went to the teacher's office and asked him what the problem was. He said "you guys had the best paper in the class, but if only it was longer...". I think he liked it and wanted to see more, but was sad when it ended, kinda like a good movie that's over. He refused to change the grade.
He had other problems. The course grade was essentially 2 big tests and the final report. He had failed to tell the bookstore which book he was using, so consequently they only had books for 1/5th of the class. It would have required some work to order a book from other sources (this was pre-internet and I didn't have a credit card), but this was a fairly easy course and he kept promising the books would arrive. The day before the first test comes around (midway through the semester), and we point out that the book still isn't in. He counted students and said he'd tell his secratary to photocopy the relevant chapters, pick it up at 6pm. We all came back to campus at 6 to find she had never been told anything.
bah. I don't mean to sound like a whiner. I had lots of cool classes & teachers, but sometimes you get a whacked-out non-sensical teacher you can't reasonably please. And, in real life, you'll sometimes get customers like this.
Are you sure you remember your original modem speed right? 28.8-Kbps V.34 modems came out in 1994 (other ref), although there were some incompatible versions slightly before. I know in 1989, I had a 2400 baud modem and the "internet" at my university was a wicked-fast 19.2k over a dedicated (non-POTS) network. Maybe you had a 14.4 (=70x) or a 9.6 (=100x)?
Sorry guys- I've got java turned off (ok, I didn't install it), so I noticed that it was a crippled site (I couldn't get to a better page, or get more info), but I didn't realize how bad it was. Here's a conductive coating on a less obnoxious website. Other people make the black antistatic cardboard - lots of sample chips get shipped in these boxes.
It looks like normal brown cardboard - they could have at least used conductive or antistatic cardboard
Hey, you were suspiciously absent from this year's Loyalty Day. Surely you knew about this, or else we'd have to send you to the "Our Documents" re-education class. See ya next year!
Bingo ;) Sorry; I should have pointed out this flip side. I kept quiet becuase it's something our small company can use to competitive advantage. We have a neat code generator and a good code methodogy that lets us support many different memory models with literally a click of a button. Other companies without this might get trapped behind a lot of legacy code.
IIRC track owners in the US tend to give priority to freight over passenger trains.
... "if the federal government really wants amtrack to survive (and not keep bailing it out), and if amtrack wants to compete with airplanes, then they'd better have their own passenger tracks". I think you're exactly right - freight was the priority.
I forgot to tell the rest of the story. I went up to NY on the acela, but went back on the regular train ($50 cheaper or so). We didn't leave NYC until after our "arrival time" back home in DC. It turns out that some freight train with a too-tall car had run on or near our tracks and knocked the overhead electric wires down. How hard is it to put some equipment in to automatically detect this? It was my first train ride in the US, and all I could keep thinking was
OT: I hope Disney goes out of business. They've really turned into a one-product company, and that product's not even very compelling, anymore.
Actually disney is pretty well diversified among entertainment-related products. They own book, magazine and record publishers. Also ABC TV, ESPN, 10 TV stations, >25 radio stations, 7 movie production compainies (incl. miramax), theatrical productions, petroleum and natural gas interests (huh?), professional sports franchises, a cruise line, international media partnerships, and this little place called disneyworld.
I hope they go out of business, too (I don't like their marketing to children and I think their broad media ownership is anticompetitive), but probably not likely.
In america, they do it right. Last year, I checked out the fastest train in the US, (the acela). But, due to all same kind of factors (like even though it went from washington to boston, it could only go fast in a certain section of NJ), it was generally a wash. In fact, due to scheduling, it was actually 5 minutes slower from washington to NYC! It is a comfy train, though: nice seats, tables, and quiet. The loudest noise was the rattling of tray tables against seat backs. For $10k, I'll go through their trains and put in foam tape on all of these and cut the noise of their trains in half!
Breaking the 4G of memory does come at a cost, though. If your code uses a whole lot of pointers (many CAD & EDA packages do), then because the pointers take up twice the space they used to, you'll need up to 8G of physical memory to do the same task you could do with 4G on a 32-bit system. And twice the cache, and twice the memory bandwidth, too. It's a pretty steep cost!
Thanks, I updated my sig! Hopefully that entry isn't too stale, but I haven't come up with anything especially interesting, except aol kills puppies
The RIAA certainly didn't do this for the money - the ~$60k settlement probably doesn't cover their legal costs.
Actually, by the looks of it, it was funny 11 times so far. But, two recent posts have been only '1', so it looks like it's on the decline. This will make a cool graph in 3 months time.