I thought it was the year of the Linux Desktop. What the hell? We're all going to space instead of installing Ubuntu this year???
Sorry, Year of the linux desktop was 2003-2007, and 2009. 2010, 2012-2014 are designated as the year of the private spaceflight.
2008 was year of the end of going to war all the time in the USA and 2011 was year of waiting for Duke Nukem Forever and then trying to forget it ever existed.
I was disappointed to find out this was about computer viruses. Nothing in the description makes relevant to computers until the word malware.
The most unique biological viruses would be much cooler to look at than some stupid man-made computer virus.
... Then why are you on slashdot? You're essentially walking into a room of dwarves and proclaiming that it is a terrible place to discuss the 10 finest sparling ice-wines this side of faerun.
Now I can figure out how all this shit works.
Can't wait for the one about magnetics!
Well, we might get clowns, but they'll be educated. This sort of teaching has being going on for a long time. I believe it's called McCracker Ln. Or Hayseed Road.... no, I got it.
Now, half my tech items are over-priced and underpowered sony products.
Apple? APPLE??? You would buy computer equipment from a company with a history of installing bloatware on its paying customers' computers, removing features you already paid for, planned obsolescence, insane markups on generic hardware, arbitrary restrictions on what you can and can't install on your own hardware, encumbered DRM, refusal to support common standards and storing sensitive customer information in an easily bypassed security system?
You're right. The words "cheap" and "Chinese" are sort of red flags that maybe you won't find such nice USB headers and will have power distribution problems or noise on the audio ports or heat issues or bad liquid capacitors or any variety of cheap hardware problems.
While you're technically correct today - on the other hand, a $50 dual core computer on a stick isn't a bad value proposition. Would you really want to put a $200 usb-sized computer through the wash by accident? Or take it travelling and have it filled with sand?
Also, I'm old enough to remember when "made in japan" was synonymous with the same sorts of quality issues that "made in china" represents today. Now, half my tech items are over-priced and underpowered sony products.
If I currently receive a discount, and they're simply removing my discount (or making it contingent on providing excessive personal information), then I'll be opting out of those airlines.
If, on the other hand, they're just asking for the same data that most free online services request, and are using that information to keep prices lower... that's fine by me. I mean, I want to control my data - but I also don't mind selling the same set of information to several different sources for a price reduction at each source.
Maybe they want every component to have been made in the US which the market won't care about.
... I don't think you understand the chip fab process (that's what we're talking about here). $20 million is a lot of money in any other business, though.
As things usually do, the results of this research will eventually trickle down to desktops, laptops and mobile devices, and will result in either lesser power consumption or the same power consumption but in higher performance -- either way it's a plus. I just wish the contract could've been given to someone other than NVIDIA as it would be nice if the results of the research were released completely for free to the public instead of being patented up the wazoo, but alas, NVIDIA has so much experience in these things that it just makes sense to slap them with it if you expect results.
In the spirit of the flame war you may have begun, you do know that AMD generally has faster chips? They just run hotter (but stable) and have poor driver support.
It seems to me a x75 increase in power efficiency should be worth to nVidia (or any competitor) much more than $20M, why does DARPA need to fund this, this seems exactly like the kind of work which doesn't need DARPA money. DARAPA should spend money where it is not clearly economic for others to do so.
You were under the assumption that we live in a purely capitalistic society? My mistake. Even in countries that are into extreme capitalism shift back to subsidies and support when it comes to certain things.
Though, usually those things involve essential services like fire-fighters, road maintenance, and policing...
4 cups a day lowered the risk of getting oral cancers.
Because at 4 cups a day, you're not eating, so your cells split more slowly (about 20% slower)... And that reduces the risk of cancer, since there are fewer opportunities for cancer to develop.
And there's always that day when you want to experience just how bad some of the bad games really are. It helps you appreciate the good games more.
Unless you're writing a "Worst of..." article, or using an older game to show a good example of a fail, why are you playing bad games? Life is too short to waste on bad games. Besides, you don't need the SNES to experience them, just play any game on facebook.
I couldn't possibly comment because they'd fire me.
But it is rather awesome.
Is that sarcasm? You can't comment means you won't add criticism or praise?
I remember the HUGE cock-up that TSMC caused AMD when they went to the 5000 series GPUs. They had QC issues for all the rev.0 chips, and none of them would overclock. The 3 that I bought (sequentially) all needed super-cooling OR underclocking to perform consistently.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm extremely sceptical that TSMC will be able to pull this off properly.
I have every SNES game ever made uploaded to my Google Drive.
The SNES has a lot of good games, and some absolutely AWESOME ones.
Fortunately, I don't need to play Bubsy II to know it is a terrible game, and I certainly don't need to play it. Same goes for Super 3D Noah’s Ark, and I'm going to guess it applies to many of the other titles here.
As a development environment, I'm not sure why you're not willing to go with a cheap, $200 local/self-hosted server. If you really need to test it online, you could set it up to host to the web, access it over the web, save yourself the monthly hosting fee, and install/configure it how you like.
Well, it's a good thing there are 3rd party options.
I don't want/need additional bloat on my phone - I don't install random apps, and I'm quite comfortable wiping the phone to update it. Sure, I'll use a scanner if/when I start installing random things, but it's basic online hygene. I don't install random programs on my computer, but I do use a 3rd party antivirus because of all the browsing I do. That isn't something I do on my phone, and when it is, I will take the appropriate precautions.
I have had similar problems when trying to get silly one-off posters printed at print shops, that were of my own design, and which were made with royalty free sources. The poster "looking too professional", as another poster earlier asserted, always resulted in failing to have them printed.
Right. Which may not be the case in places in europe, where there is enough physical history that reminds people daily that derivative work is assumed and implied. (And less restrictive laws).
I'm curious how Staples is going to address copyright restrictions in the (highly-litigious) USA. Imagine printing the likeness of someone and being fined for reproducing their image without consent.
Which may be why they're starting out in Europe (it's okay though - it's only the 2nd or 3rd time europe has something cool released before the USA).
Somewhere there should be a burden to prove one didn't have license. Not just the act of gathering the bits (which the media seems to miss). No pun intended.
That's what Canada already did (more or less), in relation to mp3 usage. You're not assumed innocent, you're assumed to have already acquired the license.
There is a tax on blank CDs, and the government assumes everyone buying blank CDs is putting pirated music on them, and so that tax goes to the music companies. So it is assumed that the record companies havn't received their cut for the use of the music, you are charged the fee to acquire the license to use the work, and given blanket immunity for possession and use.
So CRIA will start suing end users in the same way RIAA did in US, accomplishing probably the same results regarding piracy deterrence: none. Good idea...
It won't be quite the same process as in the USA. First of all, it'll likely have to go through small claims, because the burden of proof to get accepted into the superior court of justice is much, much higher. Second, the max in small claims in canada is generally around $25,000 - and you can generally only sue for money or the return of personal property, not the generally-intangible damages the RIAA sought in the USA.
No, the only people affected by this are the large-scale kim dotcom style companies that make millions off copyright infringement, and there are already a variety of laws in place that can be used to prosecute them.
Canadians pay fees on blank media which goes straight to media producers.
Downloading has already been paid for.
Only for music, specifically mp3s. It only covers media that is intended to be put on blank CDs, which is reasonably considered to be music. That's why a stack of blank CDs costs almost 3x the price of a stack of blank DVDs in Canada. But that 3x price? That buys you immunity from prosecution in regards to music downloading and distribution. At something like 10 cents a blank CD, that sounds fair.
The taxes appear to only apply to physical media, however, and only to music. So it's legal to copy music onto a blank CD or cassette for personal use, but not to copy in other circumstances. The Copyright Board was planning to extend the tax to iPods, which would make it legal to copy for personal use onto them as well, but that was overturned.
Yes, the taxes are on physical media, but they cover the distribution and use of all those bits and bytes. It implicitly covers computers as the medium where the music is stored prior to being transferred to a disc. Since we're looking at "reasonable doubt" territory, can a prosecutor prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the music was never intended to go onto CDs?
And while it technically does apply only to mp3s, the RCMP has stated that they're not actively pursuing individual infringement - and they're not happy about being bullied (by US policy) into enforcing the laws against larger, for-profit organizations. So when the feds won't initiate actions, and the provinces can't be bothered to enforce it (RCMP does enforcement in many provinces and all federal enforcement)... where do you think that is going to leave the law?
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I thought it was the year of the Linux Desktop. What the hell? We're all going to space instead of installing Ubuntu this year???
Sorry, Year of the linux desktop was 2003-2007, and 2009. 2010, 2012-2014 are designated as the year of the private spaceflight.
2008 was year of the end of going to war all the time in the USA and 2011 was year of waiting for Duke Nukem Forever and then trying to forget it ever existed.
I was disappointed to find out this was about computer viruses. Nothing in the description makes relevant to computers until the word malware.
The most unique biological viruses would be much cooler to look at than some stupid man-made computer virus.
... Then why are you on slashdot? You're essentially walking into a room of dwarves and proclaiming that it is a terrible place to discuss the 10 finest sparling ice-wines this side of faerun.
Now I can figure out how all this shit works. Can't wait for the one about magnetics!
Well, we might get clowns, but they'll be educated. This sort of teaching has being going on for a long time. I believe it's called McCracker Ln. Or Hayseed Road.... no, I got it.
Sesame Street! to the rescue...
Now, half my tech items are over-priced and underpowered sony products.
Apple? APPLE??? You would buy computer equipment from a company with a history of installing bloatware on its paying customers' computers, removing features you already paid for, planned obsolescence, insane markups on generic hardware, arbitrary restrictions on what you can and can't install on your own hardware, encumbered DRM, refusal to support common standards and storing sensitive customer information in an easily bypassed security system?
There's no fool like an old fool, I guess.
... oh wait. You meant SONY ...
You're right. The words "cheap" and "Chinese" are sort of red flags that maybe you won't find such nice USB headers and will have power distribution problems or noise on the audio ports or heat issues or bad liquid capacitors or any variety of cheap hardware problems.
While you're technically correct today - on the other hand, a $50 dual core computer on a stick isn't a bad value proposition. Would you really want to put a $200 usb-sized computer through the wash by accident? Or take it travelling and have it filled with sand?
Also, I'm old enough to remember when "made in japan" was synonymous with the same sorts of quality issues that "made in china" represents today. Now, half my tech items are over-priced and underpowered sony products.
If I currently receive a discount, and they're simply removing my discount (or making it contingent on providing excessive personal information), then I'll be opting out of those airlines.
... that's fine by me. I mean, I want to control my data - but I also don't mind selling the same set of information to several different sources for a price reduction at each source.
If, on the other hand, they're just asking for the same data that most free online services request, and are using that information to keep prices lower
Maybe they want every component to have been made in the US which the market won't care about.
... I don't think you understand the chip fab process (that's what we're talking about here). $20 million is a lot of money in any other business, though.
So of course the Federal government needs to blow $20 million of taxpayer money, irregardless of its fiscal condition.
I prefer it was spent on computing, rather than explosions.
As things usually do, the results of this research will eventually trickle down to desktops, laptops and mobile devices, and will result in either lesser power consumption or the same power consumption but in higher performance -- either way it's a plus. I just wish the contract could've been given to someone other than NVIDIA as it would be nice if the results of the research were released completely for free to the public instead of being patented up the wazoo, but alas, NVIDIA has so much experience in these things that it just makes sense to slap them with it if you expect results.
In the spirit of the flame war you may have begun, you do know that AMD generally has faster chips? They just run hotter (but stable) and have poor driver support.
It seems to me a x75 increase in power efficiency should be worth to nVidia (or any competitor) much more than $20M, why does DARPA need to fund this, this seems exactly like the kind of work which doesn't need DARPA money. DARAPA should spend money where it is not clearly economic for others to do so.
You were under the assumption that we live in a purely capitalistic society? My mistake. Even in countries that are into extreme capitalism shift back to subsidies and support when it comes to certain things.
...
Though, usually those things involve essential services like fire-fighters, road maintenance, and policing
4 cups a day lowered the risk of getting oral cancers.
Because at 4 cups a day, you're not eating, so your cells split more slowly (about 20% slower)... And that reduces the risk of cancer, since there are fewer opportunities for cancer to develop.
And there's always that day when you want to experience just how bad some of the bad games really are. It helps you appreciate the good games more.
Unless you're writing a "Worst of..." article, or using an older game to show a good example of a fail, why are you playing bad games? Life is too short to waste on bad games. Besides, you don't need the SNES to experience them, just play any game on facebook.
I couldn't possibly comment because they'd fire me.
But it is rather awesome.
Is that sarcasm? You can't comment means you won't add criticism or praise? I remember the HUGE cock-up that TSMC caused AMD when they went to the 5000 series GPUs. They had QC issues for all the rev.0 chips, and none of them would overclock. The 3 that I bought (sequentially) all needed super-cooling OR underclocking to perform consistently.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm extremely sceptical that TSMC will be able to pull this off properly.
I have every SNES game ever made uploaded to my Google Drive.
The SNES has a lot of good games, and some absolutely AWESOME ones.
Fortunately, I don't need to play Bubsy II to know it is a terrible game, and I certainly don't need to play it. Same goes for Super 3D Noah’s Ark, and I'm going to guess it applies to many of the other titles here.
As a development environment, I'm not sure why you're not willing to go with a cheap, $200 local/self-hosted server. If you really need to test it online, you could set it up to host to the web, access it over the web, save yourself the monthly hosting fee, and install/configure it how you like.
Well, it's a good thing there are 3rd party options.
I don't want/need additional bloat on my phone - I don't install random apps, and I'm quite comfortable wiping the phone to update it. Sure, I'll use a scanner if/when I start installing random things, but it's basic online hygene. I don't install random programs on my computer, but I do use a 3rd party antivirus because of all the browsing I do. That isn't something I do on my phone, and when it is, I will take the appropriate precautions.
Exactly what android needs. I know, it's not quite the OS level fragmentation we've come to enjoy, but still ...
I have had similar problems when trying to get silly one-off posters printed at print shops, that were of my own design, and which were made with royalty free sources. The poster "looking too professional", as another poster earlier asserted, always resulted in failing to have them printed.
Right. Which may not be the case in places in europe, where there is enough physical history that reminds people daily that derivative work is assumed and implied. (And less restrictive laws).
I'm gonna print me a woman!
I'm curious how Staples is going to address copyright restrictions in the (highly-litigious) USA. Imagine printing the likeness of someone and being fined for reproducing their image without consent.
Which may be why they're starting out in Europe (it's okay though - it's only the 2nd or 3rd time europe has something cool released before the USA).
Will printing my own easy button be accompanied by the "that was easy" voice-over?
Somewhere there should be a burden to prove one didn't have license. Not just the act of gathering the bits (which the media seems to miss). No pun intended.
That's what Canada already did (more or less), in relation to mp3 usage. You're not assumed innocent, you're assumed to have already acquired the license.
There is a tax on blank CDs, and the government assumes everyone buying blank CDs is putting pirated music on them, and so that tax goes to the music companies. So it is assumed that the record companies havn't received their cut for the use of the music, you are charged the fee to acquire the license to use the work, and given blanket immunity for possession and use.
So CRIA will start suing end users in the same way RIAA did in US, accomplishing probably the same results regarding piracy deterrence: none. Good idea...
It won't be quite the same process as in the USA. First of all, it'll likely have to go through small claims, because the burden of proof to get accepted into the superior court of justice is much, much higher. Second, the max in small claims in canada is generally around $25,000 - and you can generally only sue for money or the return of personal property, not the generally-intangible damages the RIAA sought in the USA.
No, the only people affected by this are the large-scale kim dotcom style companies that make millions off copyright infringement, and there are already a variety of laws in place that can be used to prosecute them.
Canadians pay fees on blank media which goes straight to media producers.
Downloading has already been paid for.
Only for music, specifically mp3s. It only covers media that is intended to be put on blank CDs, which is reasonably considered to be music. That's why a stack of blank CDs costs almost 3x the price of a stack of blank DVDs in Canada. But that 3x price? That buys you immunity from prosecution in regards to music downloading and distribution. At something like 10 cents a blank CD, that sounds fair.
The taxes appear to only apply to physical media, however, and only to music. So it's legal to copy music onto a blank CD or cassette for personal use, but not to copy in other circumstances. The Copyright Board was planning to extend the tax to iPods, which would make it legal to copy for personal use onto them as well, but that was overturned.
Yes, the taxes are on physical media, but they cover the distribution and use of all those bits and bytes. It implicitly covers computers as the medium where the music is stored prior to being transferred to a disc. Since we're looking at "reasonable doubt" territory, can a prosecutor prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the music was never intended to go onto CDs?
... where do you think that is going to leave the law?
And while it technically does apply only to mp3s, the RCMP has stated that they're not actively pursuing individual infringement - and they're not happy about being bullied (by US policy) into enforcing the laws against larger, for-profit organizations. So when the feds won't initiate actions, and the provinces can't be bothered to enforce it (RCMP does enforcement in many provinces and all federal enforcement)
Annual checkups will just increase the liability - yes your honor, this car was re-certified by the manufacturer just 3 months ago...
You assume the manufacturer won't just de-certify the vehicle and force you to replace it... further adding to their bottom line.