Sorry, they did. 7th paragraph: International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have been developing the standard for the past two years.
The article seems to get the basic premise of this wrong. A UPC code describes only the product; the buyer is still anonymous. The only reason a reseller would have to buy millions of GRid's would be if each track sold was unique (as opposed to each type of song sold). Either the RIAA's layers did a good job of fooling Reuters, or they just didn't understand the implications of this... and the implications are exactly what they deny-- that songs bought on the internet could be tracked to the buyer if they ever end up being shared.
FAT32 is not really suitable for Flash memory for precisely the too-many-erase/write cycles you've noticed. The usualy solution for this is some sort of leveling algorithm so that blocks are rearranged in physical memory so that they are erased an equal number of times. This can be done with a software translation layer, in the hardware (doubtful on such a small, dumb device, but possible with an ide interface), or with an alternative file system designed for the purpose (such as JFFS).
If possible, use one of the these techniques. If not, can you consolidate all the files into one file (easy if all files are the same size) and just rewrite portions of that file? That way, the FAT wouldn't need to be updated. Lastly, is there some sort of caching algorithm you can enable that would delay the write to the FAT+directory until (at best) the time the card needs to be removed?
p.s. you're not losing space to fragmentation; it's actually the slack space at the end of each file that's doing it (I think you just used the wrong term describing it).
My friend doesn't waste time and energy investigating people who steal his money. Instead, he just earns more money.
Go ahead and mod me down as flamebait for my heretical thoughts, but I fail to see how catching robbers is at all productive.
---- I bit.
Yeah, of course there are people who license code under the BSD, and that's their choice. It's a basic philosophical diference between the BSD and GPL. But the existence of the BSD shouldn't limit the ability of copyright holders (GPL licensors included) to uphold their rights.
At first, I agreed - but then I realized that telemarketers can buy phone lists from the phone company pretty easily; no need to use the DNC list. They'll even let you target specific streets and neighborhoods.
This is very different from email, where it is impossible to get a source of 'live' email addresses... only in that case would it make sense to spam an opt-out list.
"Having framed the duty of disclosure in the above terms, the court concluded that Rambus did not breach its duty as to the SDRAM standard because none of the claims in its patents and pending patent applications reads on that standard," [legal analyst] Balto added.
I hope that that long sequence of digits in the URL isn't a session key & this link will work for others... If it is, then go to the main IBM PowerPC page and select 9xx 64-bit processors.
I rather fix the problem rather than make a work-around. Besides being incredibly difficult to bend (solid metal type), bending them enough to make them thicker over the small contact area would make them a difficult fit in any other socket. And if someone tried to plug a "stock" plug into the UPS, they'd probably find out the hard way that it's messed up. Remember, it was really loose - enough to not make a connection.
Maybe it's just engineer cockyness (probably, but there's a bit of experience, too), but I'm not too afraid of opening things up. Incidently, there was no warranty seal to break.
- they main motivation was interior decorating. They said the TV is in conflict with the fireplace, which is in conflict with the windows. It's hard to make all 3 the focus of the room. With this, you can make the windows do all 3 (if you've got that 'fireplace video')
- It's just a projection screen. Yeah, it costs a whole lot more than a regular window (it's "for homes > $1.5 Million"), but it's not like it's a huge flat-panel display. I bet a good runco projector will cost more than the screen.
These models are part of the redesigned-for-costcutting versions. I've got an older version where the outlets on the back are standard off-the-shelf parts.
This version (which I had to fix at my company) uses one molded plastic piece in the back for all the outlet holes (as opposed to one piece of plastic per outlet on ole' reliable). Essentially, they made their own outlets. That was our problem; the metal didn't grip the plugs nearly hard enough, so just a slight jiggle to the plug and the computer would turn off. Not too uninterruptable. Of course, we found out the hard way.
So, I opened up my unit and took a flat-blade screwdriver (note to anyone that tries this - unplug it and remove the battery for cripes sake!) and put a little more tension on the plug-grippers. We'll see if I have to do that to the replacement unit, too...
Actually, the FCC doesn't limit raw power, it limits power per solid angle steradian (actually, it's usually max power/square area at a certain distance -- effectively the same, but no confusion over near-field effects of the antenna). Just like using a magnifying glass to concentrate sunlight, it can be just as dangerous to concentrate RF power - and the FCC knows this.
Still, the increased bandwidth due to multiple beams will be very helpful in overcrowded environments.
The player could strip its own files on-the-fly. If you wanted to add one more song to the player, it could strip a tiny bit off of each song (or maybe just strip the higher bitrate songs), and make enough room for the new file.
It begs the question of what else could have been done with the same money and far superior management.
I'd like to know where this source of "far superior management" is, and how I can get some. Hindsight is 20/20; it isn't fair to assume that all the correct management decisions could have been made. Unless dice and darts were involved, I'm sure people thought they were making good decisions at the time.
You're 99% correct - satellites are put over the greatest population densities. But since these satellites are geosynchronous and don't move with respect to the earth, the time of day or the season doesn't matter (or else customers would have to move their satellite dishs).
Even if you could get past line-of-sight problems and have a really big antenna on the ground, the satellites typically have a narrow beam that usually doesn't cover the poles, making it much harder (if not impossible) to talk to them.
We actually did some low-speed (50 bytes/sec one-way) satellite comms near the poles for weather-sensing bouys. We used a piggy-back transponder on a weather satellite. This weather satellite (unlike most, which are geosync), was polar-orbiting, so it was dependent on the time of day. This transponder also served to relay emergency signals from ships - we were allowed to use it near the poles because they figured there wouldn't be too many ships in distress there.
Black as in "in the black" financially. The idea is that all of the year's profits will be made between that friday and the end of the year. Not literally, of course, but they're looking for this time period to meet forecasts for the year.
I wondered about this and BMWs... it turns out that they have a rechargable battery of some sort (maybe a supercap, but I'm not sure - just hope it's long life) that charges while the key is in the ignition. It says if you have a key that you don't use, charge it on a long drive about once a year. I imagine other manufacturers have a similar technique.
IBM launched this initiative with a full-page ad in the new york times for a "business time machine" to allow you to go back in time and fix business mistakes. Here's a story on the ad. It was supposedly produced by bagotronics; the website now goes to the page on ibm's site (the picture of the device is at the top right). Here's a reuters article on the ad.
Ok, it's not a dot com superbowl ad, but still clever. A subtle way to acknowledge that their new initiative is like the old mainframe days.
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Sorry - I meant lawyers, not layers. But, it could be their PR people spinning it, too, so maybe it's appropriate.
Sorry, they did. 7th paragraph: International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have been developing the standard for the past two years.
The article seems to get the basic premise of this wrong. A UPC code describes only the product; the buyer is still anonymous. The only reason a reseller would have to buy millions of GRid's would be if each track sold was unique (as opposed to each type of song sold). Either the RIAA's layers did a good job of fooling Reuters, or they just didn't understand the implications of this... and the implications are exactly what they deny-- that songs bought on the internet could be tracked to the buyer if they ever end up being shared.
FAT32 is not really suitable for Flash memory for precisely the too-many-erase/write cycles you've noticed. The usualy solution for this is some sort of leveling algorithm so that blocks are rearranged in physical memory so that they are erased an equal number of times. This can be done with a software translation layer, in the hardware (doubtful on such a small, dumb device, but possible with an ide interface), or with an alternative file system designed for the purpose (such as JFFS).
If possible, use one of the these techniques. If not, can you consolidate all the files into one file (easy if all files are the same size) and just rewrite portions of that file? That way, the FAT wouldn't need to be updated. Lastly, is there some sort of caching algorithm you can enable that would delay the write to the FAT+directory until (at best) the time the card needs to be removed?
p.s. you're not losing space to fragmentation; it's actually the slack space at the end of each file that's doing it (I think you just used the wrong term describing it).
>Let's see how they like making 50,000 copies onto floppies...And only old 800k Single sided AOL floppies with errors on the last track... ;)
Can we make those errors on the last track due to some sand we superglued onto the surface of the disk?
yeah, I agree completely.
My friend doesn't waste time and energy investigating people who steal his money. Instead, he just earns more money.
Go ahead and mod me down as flamebait for my heretical thoughts, but I fail to see how catching robbers is at all productive.
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I bit.
Yeah, of course there are people who license code under the BSD, and that's their choice. It's a basic philosophical diference between the BSD and GPL. But the existence of the BSD shouldn't limit the ability of copyright holders (GPL licensors included) to uphold their rights.
At first, I agreed - but then I realized that telemarketers can buy phone lists from the phone company pretty easily; no need to use the DNC list. They'll even let you target specific streets and neighborhoods.
... only in that case would it make sense to spam an opt-out list.
This is very different from email, where it is impossible to get a source of 'live' email addresses
The EETimes article on this story has (besides a lot more meat) a bit of an insight:
"Having framed the duty of disclosure in the above terms, the court concluded that Rambus did not breach its duty as to the SDRAM standard because none of the claims in its patents and pending patent applications reads on that standard," [legal analyst] Balto added.
From the spec sheet...
> Audio/Voice
>Audio Frequency Response: 20hz
>Recording: ATRAC3/MP3(playback), ADPCM(voice >recording)
>Sampling: 44.1 kHz(ATRAC3, MP3)
>Output: Headphone jack / stereo mini jack
Great if you want thumping bass, without any other annoying frequencies, like 0-19 Hz or 21-20000 Hz!
Here's the info from IBM on this chip... it's mainly contained in this pdf
I hope that that long sequence of digits in the URL isn't a session key & this link will work for others... If it is, then go to the main IBM PowerPC page and select 9xx 64-bit processors.
I rather fix the problem rather than make a work-around. Besides being incredibly difficult to bend (solid metal type), bending them enough to make them thicker over the small contact area would make them a difficult fit in any other socket. And if someone tried to plug a "stock" plug into the UPS, they'd probably find out the hard way that it's messed up. Remember, it was really loose - enough to not make a connection.
Maybe it's just engineer cockyness (probably, but there's a bit of experience, too), but I'm not too afraid of opening things up. Incidently, there was no warranty seal to break.
according to the article... (subtle hint there!)
- they main motivation was interior decorating. They said the TV is in conflict with the fireplace, which is in conflict with the windows. It's hard to make all 3 the focus of the room. With this, you can make the windows do all 3 (if you've got that 'fireplace video')
- It's just a projection screen. Yeah, it costs a whole lot more than a regular window (it's "for homes > $1.5 Million"), but it's not like it's a huge flat-panel display. I bet a good runco projector will cost more than the screen.
These models are part of the redesigned-for-costcutting versions. I've got an older version where the outlets on the back are standard off-the-shelf parts.
This version (which I had to fix at my company) uses one molded plastic piece in the back for all the outlet holes (as opposed to one piece of plastic per outlet on ole' reliable). Essentially, they made their own outlets. That was our problem; the metal didn't grip the plugs nearly hard enough, so just a slight jiggle to the plug and the computer would turn off. Not too uninterruptable. Of course, we found out the hard way.
So, I opened up my unit and took a flat-blade screwdriver (note to anyone that tries this - unplug it and remove the battery for cripes sake!) and put a little more tension on the plug-grippers. We'll see if I have to do that to the replacement unit, too...
Anyone else had this problem?
Static control has a section of their website devoted to descibing the obstacles they face. It features a whitepaper describing the technical challenges (some of these chips are full-custom and some are RF), a letter from their CEO, and a whole lot of information on printer security chips.
Actually, the FCC doesn't limit raw power, it limits power per solid angle steradian (actually, it's usually max power/square area at a certain distance -- effectively the same, but no confusion over near-field effects of the antenna). Just like using a magnifying glass to concentrate sunlight, it can be just as dangerous to concentrate RF power - and the FCC knows this.
Still, the increased bandwidth due to multiple beams will be very helpful in overcrowded environments.
The player could strip its own files on-the-fly. If you wanted to add one more song to the player, it could strip a tiny bit off of each song (or maybe just strip the higher bitrate songs), and make enough room for the new file.
It begs the question of what else could have been done with the same money and far superior management.
I'd like to know where this source of "far superior management" is, and how I can get some. Hindsight is 20/20; it isn't fair to assume that all the correct management decisions could have been made. Unless dice and darts were involved, I'm sure people thought they were making good decisions at the time.
In other news, startups 10-100.com and 10-73.com offer much more needed services.
You're 99% correct - satellites are put over the greatest population densities. But since these satellites are geosynchronous and don't move with respect to the earth, the time of day or the season doesn't matter (or else customers would have to move their satellite dishs).
Even if you could get past line-of-sight problems and have a really big antenna on the ground, the satellites typically have a narrow beam that usually doesn't cover the poles, making it much harder (if not impossible) to talk to them.
We actually did some low-speed (50 bytes/sec one-way) satellite comms near the poles for weather-sensing bouys. We used a piggy-back transponder on a weather satellite. This weather satellite (unlike most, which are geosync), was polar-orbiting, so it was dependent on the time of day. This transponder also served to relay emergency signals from ships - we were allowed to use it near the poles because they figured there wouldn't be too many ships in distress there.
Black as in "in the black" financially. The idea is that all of the year's profits will be made between that friday and the end of the year. Not literally, of course, but they're looking for this time period to meet forecasts for the year.
You could directly connect this piezo-electric spark generator to this spark-gap transmitter and you'd be set!
I wondered about this and BMWs... it turns out that they have a rechargable battery of some sort (maybe a supercap, but I'm not sure - just hope it's long life) that charges while the key is in the ignition. It says if you have a key that you don't use, charge it on a long drive about once a year. I imagine other manufacturers have a similar technique.
Hmph. I remember back in January of '98 when I had the most powerful computer in Canada! Just me, my laptop, some cold soup from a can, and some candles...
Actually, that's not too out of line:
month - shares sold
1/2002 - 4,000,000
2/2002 - 14,000,000
3/2002 - 2,000,000
6/2002 - 20,000,000
8/2002 - 20,000,000
10/2002 - 6,000,000
and, as others have pointed out:
shares remaining, 2002-10-25: 616,749,300
share price is in the mid $50's.
IBM launched this initiative with a full-page ad in the new york times for a "business time machine" to allow you to go back in time and fix business mistakes. Here's a story on the ad. It was supposedly produced by bagotronics; the website now goes to the page on ibm's site (the picture of the device is at the top right). Here's a reuters article on the ad.
Ok, it's not a dot com superbowl ad, but still clever. A subtle way to acknowledge that their new initiative is like the old mainframe days.