I upgraded my rev A iMacs, but it is not good.
Even without classic it swaps it brains out with 96M of memory. Well, its ok until you start running applications, I assume you wanted to run something rather than just look at the dock.
Be very careful getting upgrade memory for your iMac rev A. The RAM vendors have forgetten these machines and "works in non-slotloading iMacs" does NOT mean rev A. revA has the little key tab in a different spot on the SODIMM. I'm still looking for a big revA SODIMM. (And returning very nice but incompatible RAM.)
When I get tired of fighting the fight I sometimes look around at the others carrying the fight around me. Go check out The Gallery of CSS Descramblers. A gallery of many CSS decoders. The decoding algorithm is express in a variety of different means from C code to Haiku. The beauty is that its not just an expression of coding diversity but an effort to illustrate the communcative equivalence of code and speech by filling the region between natural language and code with examples.
So stop for a bit, watch the fight, then get back up and shine some light.
*nux does not need the plugin. You either just add "new.net" to your domain search list in resolv.conf (Think about it. Pretty clever huh?:-) or for those of you running your own DNS add the new.net servers for the TLDs they have claimed. I'm not sure the latter method works yet, they said `mid-march' to have those servers running.
Either way, new.net has the instruction on their site.
Got to the article too late to contribute, so I'll say it here.
The DVD license prevents Apple from making a DVD player to allows the DVD frames to be captured off the screen. Previous DVD players from Apple break things like `screen snapshot' to prevent this.
This makes a DVD player more complicated. Not only do you have to play a DVD, but you have to prevent a bunch of other unrelated features from working. Just the sort of cross functional integration that is difficult to perform during rapid development.
Asking Slashdot will get you a sense of what an isolated community feels is right. It will not tell you what is legal.
Get a lawyer that is well versed in this area.
Tell him everything. Show him all your employment agreements.
Tell him your `litigation threshold'. Do you mind spending weeks preparing for litigation even if you will most likely win?
Decide how attached you are to your current job.
Decide how much revenue your product will provide and at what effort.
Then you are prepared for the hard choices. Until you accurately know your liabilities and possibilites you are going to be engaging in unproductive wishful/fearful speculation. Your lawyer (if good) will have many ideas of ways to proceed.
The lawyer will cost you $400 to $1000 for a good one. (You may not be able to get a good one for a small thing like this unless you have connections.) It will be some of the best money you've ever spent.
This was applied for May 1998. This is years after Apple published the Copland whitepapers describing themeing.
I'm looking at my dusty copy of "Copland Technical Overview" by Apple Computer, copyright 1995. It seems to describe the task fairly well.
The claims seem to be a set of permutions of "data-driven" and "hard-coded" applied to the elements of implementing themes. Of course the devil and the legal bills are in the details. All in all, if you asked someone to implement the scheme described in the Copland overview the claims are the obvious ways to do it.
I suspect this is a defensive patent. One of those "we should see if the PTO will grant this, cause if they give it to anyone else we are screwed" patents.
When some numb-nut sends me a document in Word or Powerpoint of whatever and my open software won't open it I just send it up to http://createpdf.adobe.com and they mail back a nice PDF of it.
They let you do three documents as a trial, then its $10/mo or $100/year.
They handle many of the popular but proprietary formats.
And for goodness sake, stop reading slashdot and get out and VOTE!
The cost performance does not work out in the case where power is cheap. The ARM family processors are cheaper to fabricate, but their performance tops out far below the ia32 top end. You can pick up lowend ia32 processors for a few dollars more than the ARM family and have greater performance plus family unity across your product line.
Example, for compiling code my 200MHz StrongARM benchmarks about like a Pentium 90. The more recent ia32s do even more work per cycle. For a rough rule of thumb divide the Xscale clock rate by 3 to compare to modern ia32 machines. (The missing part of that factor comes from intel's xscale v. strongarm slides.)
That said, for two months of the year I live in an area with limited electricty. I use an ARM based Linux desktop with an LCD display and get my job done just fine. Runs for ages on my 12v battery bank. Sort like a laptop with a 15.1" screen, a detached keyboard and mouse, and a 180lb battery. It works fine, but I can do much better cost and performance wise if you give me an electricty outlet thats on all the time and costs nearly nothing.
Now, if you offer me a Xscale based belt system with a battery, small LCD, svga connector, PS2, USB, enet, and ieee1394 I would snap it up in a heartbeat. I can always bum a keyboard and monitor. I can use USB for a modem if needed and ieee1394 for disks, tapes, whatever. Use it like a fat PDA, but its also my desktop.
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PDA's represent a sort of slavery, as the user of the PDA is beholden to a time schedule and can never have any excuses.
The author implies that people either rely on faulty memory to resolve their overloaded schedules or lie about having forgotten things they did not wish to do. The truth does remain an option. Just tell people you have another requirement on your time. You don't have to be a slave to
everyone. People with paper Franklin Planners already have this issue.
It is surely the right of the employee that he be able to do as he wish when not at work, and even to have privacy and time to think while at work, but PDA's are an incipient threat to this state of affairs.
Wow, where to begin. First of all, for profesionals in the US at least, you do not have the right to do whatever you want outside of work. There are legal obligations, mostly forbearances, that follow you. Secondly, why on earth would you let your employer own your personal PDA? Its $149. If you wish to own a PDA then buy a PDA, use it however you like. Heck, if your employer insists you use a specific PDA for work then do so. They are small, pants have two pockets. (Trouser for you Brits, stop snickering.)
How about a bad computer analogy. If your employer offered you a $149 discount on a PC for your home, but was going to reserve the right to record all your use and snoop your documents would you take it? Would that become next major civil liberties issue?
Now stop whining and go create something value as penance for this sad speculation. I will resolve two Debian bugs then work on some new open software. You work up your own penance.
Don't bother moderating this up, just take the parent down and don't clog people's minds.
As any claims 1 to 4, but rather than being interpreted as "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" the signals will be interpreted as an invitation to "first post" (pat. pending), comment upon Natalie Portman or "hot grits".
I play in a regional niche folk music band. We sell hundreds of CDs and prefer to use CD-Rs since we can make small runs and replace tracks on future runs if we wish. I'd be ticked (and legally injured) if Sony is using their clout in the CD player industry to deliberatly block CD-Rs in order to protect their "corporate music" industry. Now I'm sure there are more legal hurdles than that, but sounds like its well on the way to an anti-trust suit.
Ob FactI do believe it is most likely a technical laser issue and not a corporate decision. Just getting the issue raised.
Ob Anarchy NoteYes, you can get my music for free (that which I am legally allowed to give away anyway, most of our songs are not OpenLyrics tm). http://www.mp3.com/ozark. Don't go there and rack up our dollars, just go if you want to listen.
Lets have contest to see who can simulaneously violate all 21 elements of section 7.1?
I'm thinking along the lines of a virus that scans the affected system's disks, replaces the word `copyright' with `screwyou!' and forwards the files to other instances of itself on other afflicted machines. It then emails the machine owner with a forged From address and offers to remove itself if they make a payment in a particular Paypal account.
I like 7.1.4 which rules out commercial use or any kind. Rules out telecommuting and even checking up on your office email.
7.1.4 post, publish, transmit, reproduce, distribute or in any way exploit any information, software or other material obtained through Services for commercial purposes;
We are Sprint: Your rights end where ours... no, strike that. Your rights end. Thats enough.
At Northwestern University Medical School they have removed lamprey eel brains, stuck them in oxygen rich saline solution, wired them to a little robot with complete with light sensors, and let it drive around the lab either seeking or avoiding light.
This has just got B movie science fiction coolness all over it. I wonder if they can make the saline solution bubble like it did in all the movies of the brains in jars?
(They are mostly studying how to make connections to the brain and how the brain adapts to those connections. The little robot is probably just for media pizzaz or the grad students got drunk and made a bet.)
I've got one that was never used. Set up once, but the recipient rejected the internet. Its from December 99 before they required contracts. $200 would buy it from me.
add BLENDINC << 24,col
add 1,xy
sub 2,wh
until wh<=0
You've got to like a language with built in emoticons. The repeat is a little higher level than most assembler, but nothing a good macro system from the old days wouldn't support.
And/., what's the deal with no <pre>??? We are geeks for crying out loud.
I don't think programmers will program in this assembler, except for maybe the odd time critical inner loop, but I even doubt that. Those days are mostly gone. (eg. Doom had assembler inner loops, Quake I believe does not.)
If you are using this environment then your compiler will generate this assembler in its back end. The reason for high level constructs such as the virtual registers, looping constructs, and method dispatchers is to avoid choosing a mechanism too early in the code generation process. These mechanisms are chosen by the backend code generator which knows your processor details.
To compare to java... The java byte code is designed only for Java and must pass certain proof conditions to be acceptable to the runtime. This makes it inefficient or nearly impossible to implement many languages. For optimizations it has a similar split. Good java compilers will optimize at the compiler level what they can. Good java runtimes will optimize from the byte code down to the machine. Very similar actually.
For the example code. I agree, X (and Windows) both have sadly impoverished drawing environments. Probably one of those things that until programmers see what a better environment is they don't believe it exists. I come from one of those fuller environments and am frequently bamboozled when I find X is missing some basic graphic construct I was needing.
Tao has been out there for years Taoting this environment. Its only when alpha channel amiga balls show up that the thousands of/. geeks take notice. I'd say the example works.
This article doesn't really convey the point of the Tao Group's technology. Sure its a nifty assembler, but programmers middle aged and above will remember that assemblers used to be very much like this back when humans used them. Thats not new. (Dang whippernappers always thinking they're inventing repiration.)
The point behind the Tao stuff is that all of your code is built to the virtual assembly language and shipped as the virtual machine code. It is translated to local machine code as needed on the target system (and cached as appropriate for that system, eg. once forver to disk for desktop PCs).
This means one version of the application that runs on any (supported) target processor. It also means your final executable code is optimized for your particular processor, say K7 instead of just generic IA32 instruction set.
Tao has been add this since at least 1995, maybe earlier. They have good technology. Maybe its even useful.:-)
The statistics are from the server log of 8ball.federated.com. Yes, some people deliberatly misrepresenting their browser or OS, but I suspect they are vastly in the minority.
Slashdot Mirror
I upgraded my rev A iMacs, but it is not good.
Even without classic it swaps it brains out with 96M of memory. Well, its ok until you start running applications, I assume you wanted to run something rather than just look at the dock.
Be very careful getting upgrade memory for your iMac rev A. The RAM vendors have forgetten these machines and "works in non-slotloading iMacs" does NOT mean rev A. revA has the little key tab in a different spot on the SODIMM. I'm still looking for a big revA SODIMM. (And returning very nice but incompatible RAM.)
When I get tired of fighting the fight I sometimes look around at the others carrying the fight around me. Go check out The Gallery of CSS Descramblers. A gallery of many CSS decoders. The decoding algorithm is express in a variety of different means from C code to Haiku. The beauty is that its not just an expression of coding diversity but an effort to illustrate the communcative equivalence of code and speech by filling the region between natural language and code with examples.
So stop for a bit, watch the fight, then get back up and shine some light.
*nux does not need the plugin. You either just add "new.net" to your domain search list in resolv.conf (Think about it. Pretty clever huh?:-) or for those of you running your own DNS add the new.net servers for the TLDs they have claimed. I'm not sure the latter method works yet, they said `mid-march' to have those servers running.
Either way, new.net has the instruction on their site.
Got to the article too late to contribute, so I'll say it here.
The DVD license prevents Apple from making a DVD player to allows the DVD frames to be captured off the screen. Previous DVD players from Apple break things like `screen snapshot' to prevent this.
This makes a DVD player more complicated. Not only do you have to play a DVD, but you have to prevent a bunch of other unrelated features from working. Just the sort of cross functional integration that is difficult to perform during rapid development.
Then you are prepared for the hard choices. Until you accurately know your liabilities and possibilites you are going to be engaging in unproductive wishful/fearful speculation. Your lawyer (if good) will have many ideas of ways to proceed.
The lawyer will cost you $400 to $1000 for a good one. (You may not be able to get a good one for a small thing like this unless you have connections.) It will be some of the best money you've ever spent.
This was applied for May 1998. This is years after Apple published the Copland whitepapers describing themeing.
I'm looking at my dusty copy of "Copland Technical Overview" by Apple Computer, copyright 1995. It seems to describe the task fairly well.
The claims seem to be a set of permutions of "data-driven" and "hard-coded" applied to the elements of implementing themes. Of course the devil and the legal bills are in the details. All in all, if you asked someone to implement the scheme described in the Copland overview the claims are the obvious ways to do it.
I suspect this is a defensive patent. One of those "we should see if the PTO will grant this, cause if they give it to anyone else we are screwed" patents.
When some numb-nut sends me a document in Word or Powerpoint of whatever and my open software won't open it I just send it up to http://createpdf.adobe.com and they mail back a nice PDF of it.
They let you do three documents as a trial, then its $10/mo or $100/year.
They handle many of the popular but proprietary formats.
And for goodness sake, stop reading slashdot and get out and VOTE!
The cost performance does not work out in the case where power is cheap. The ARM family processors are cheaper to fabricate, but their performance tops out far below the ia32 top end. You can pick up lowend ia32 processors for a few dollars more than the ARM family and have greater performance plus family unity across your product line.
Example, for compiling code my 200MHz StrongARM benchmarks about like a Pentium 90. The more recent ia32s do even more work per cycle. For a rough rule of thumb divide the Xscale clock rate by 3 to compare to modern ia32 machines. (The missing part of that factor comes from intel's xscale v. strongarm slides.)
That said, for two months of the year I live in an area with limited electricty. I use an ARM based Linux desktop with an LCD display and get my job done just fine. Runs for ages on my 12v battery bank. Sort like a laptop with a 15.1" screen, a detached keyboard and mouse, and a 180lb battery. It works fine, but I can do much better cost and performance wise if you give me an electricty outlet thats on all the time and costs nearly nothing.
Now, if you offer me a Xscale based belt system with a battery, small LCD, svga connector, PS2, USB, enet, and ieee1394 I would snap it up in a heartbeat. I can always bum a keyboard and monitor. I can use USB for a modem if needed and ieee1394 for disks, tapes, whatever. Use it like a fat PDA, but its also my desktop.
It is surely the right of the employee that he be able to do as he wish when not at work, and even to have privacy and time to think while at work, but PDA's are an incipient threat to this state of affairs.
Now stop whining and go create something value as penance for this sad speculation. I will resolve two Debian bugs then work on some new open software. You work up your own penance.
Don't bother moderating this up, just take the parent down and don't clog people's minds.
See Claim 3 above. Unless you can document that you were reading slashdot underwater 6 months prior to my initial application you will fail.
- seek companies highly valued because of weak patents
- bet against them in the market
- break their patent
- cash in on bets
He describes the scheme even naming GeoWorks as a prime candidate but I don't find any followup.Geoworks would have been a good target given their performance. Maybe he is working quietly.
Anyone have any news? Anyone know Mr. Aharonian? Is he shopping for megayachts yet?
As any claims 1 to 4, but rather than being interpreted as "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" the signals will be interpreted as an invitation to "first post" (pat. pending), comment upon Natalie Portman or "hot grits".
As claim 1 and 2, but replacing the gasoues interface with a vacuum.
As claim 1 or 2, but replacing the gaseous interface with any medium capable of passing photons.
As claim 1, but using a liquid crystal shutter between a light source and the gaseous interface.
I play in a regional niche folk music band. We sell hundreds of CDs and prefer to use CD-Rs since we can make small runs and replace tracks on future runs if we wish. I'd be ticked (and legally injured) if Sony is using their clout in the CD player industry to deliberatly block CD-Rs in order to protect their "corporate music" industry. Now I'm sure there are more legal hurdles than that, but sounds like its well on the way to an anti-trust suit.
Ob Fact I do believe it is most likely a technical laser issue and not a corporate decision. Just getting the issue raised.
Ob Anarchy Note Yes, you can get my music for free (that which I am legally allowed to give away anyway, most of our songs are not OpenLyrics tm). http://www.mp3.com/ozark. Don't go there and rack up our dollars, just go if you want to listen.
Lets have contest to see who can simulaneously violate all 21 elements of section 7.1?
:-)
I'm thinking along the lines of a virus that scans the affected system's disks, replaces the word `copyright' with `screwyou!' and forwards the files to other instances of itself on other afflicted machines. It then emails the machine owner with a forged From address and offers to remove itself if they make a payment in a particular Paypal account.
That covers all but two of the 21.
We are Sprint: Your rights end where ours... no, strike that. Your rights end. Thats enough.
Search further down the page for "lamprey eel". Its a brain-in-jar project.
At Northwestern University Medical School they have removed lamprey eel brains, stuck them in oxygen rich saline solution, wired them to a little robot with complete with light sensors, and let it drive around the lab either seeking or avoiding light.
This has just got B movie science fiction coolness all over it. I wonder if they can make the saline solution bubble like it did in all the movies of the brains in jars?
(They are mostly studying how to make connections to the brain and how the brain adapts to those connections. The little robot is probably just for media pizzaz or the grad students got drunk and made a bet.)
Whole article is at sciencenews.org.
I've got one that was never used. Set up once, but the recipient rejected the internet. Its from December 99 before they required contracts. $200 would buy it from me.
unfortunately the example is almost all non-code assembler constructs and library function calls. There is a section that really has instructions.
;draw alpha blended circles
/., what's the deal with no <pre>??? We are geeks for crying out loud.
ncall cnt,add,(cnt,pix,0:-)
clr xy
cpy WINDOW_SIZE,wh
cpy RGBBLACK,col
ncall pix,fbox,(pix,xy,xy,col,wh,wh:-)
repeat
ncall pix,foval,(pix,xy,xy,col,wh,wh:-)
add BLENDINC << 24,col
add 1,xy
sub 2,wh
until wh<=0
You've got to like a language with built in emoticons. The repeat is a little higher level than most assembler, but nothing a good macro system from the old days wouldn't support.
And
I don't think programmers will program in this assembler, except for maybe the odd time critical inner loop, but I even doubt that. Those days are mostly gone. (eg. Doom had assembler inner loops, Quake I believe does not.)
/. geeks take notice. I'd say the example works.
If you are using this environment then your compiler will generate this assembler in its back end. The reason for high level constructs such as the virtual registers, looping constructs, and method dispatchers is to avoid choosing a mechanism too early in the code generation process. These mechanisms are chosen by the backend code generator which knows your processor details.
To compare to java... The java byte code is designed only for Java and must pass certain proof conditions to be acceptable to the runtime. This makes it inefficient or nearly impossible to implement many languages. For optimizations it has a similar split. Good java compilers will optimize at the compiler level what they can. Good java runtimes will optimize from the byte code down to the machine. Very similar actually.
For the example code. I agree, X (and Windows) both have sadly impoverished drawing environments. Probably one of those things that until programmers see what a better environment is they don't believe it exists. I come from one of those fuller environments and am frequently bamboozled when I find X is missing some basic graphic construct I was needing.
Tao has been out there for years Taoting this environment. Its only when alpha channel amiga balls show up that the thousands of
This article doesn't really convey the point of the Tao Group's technology. Sure its a nifty assembler, but programmers middle aged and above will remember that assemblers used to be very much like this back when humans used them. Thats not new. (Dang whippernappers always thinking they're inventing repiration.)
:-)
The point behind the Tao stuff is that all of your code is built to the virtual assembly language and shipped as the virtual machine code. It is translated to local machine code as needed on the target system (and cached as appropriate for that system, eg. once forver to disk for desktop PCs).
This means one version of the application that runs on any (supported) target processor. It also means your final executable code is optimized for your particular processor, say K7 instead of just generic IA32 instruction set.
Tao has been add this since at least 1995, maybe earlier. They have good technology. Maybe its even useful.
The statistics are from the server log of 8ball.federated.com. Yes, some people deliberatly misrepresenting their browser or OS, but I suspect they are vastly in the minority.