Kembell-Cook is now in the running to win the Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of 2011 Award which would give him 10,000 lbs to use towards his invention.
Wow. Will his prize be in the form of a giant cartoon-style weight with "10,000 lbs" written on it? Perhaps they'll drop it on his house.
You do have to wonder if that journalist has ever been outside of the US.... or maybe he was assuming that the original definition of "pound sterling" was still in use?
How are (new) submarine patents possible? AFAIU, a few years ago the USPTO came in to line with the rest (or at least most) of the world in that a patent application automatically becomes public 18 months after filing. Prior to that, (again AFAIU), it only became public when granted, and hence submariners would keep tweaking their application so it stayed in the exam process until a time that suited them.
I worked at company that did the same for the French National Library, about fifteen to eighteen years ago. To go through your questions:...
Actual process was to guillotine the books and feed them through the scanners, some books would then be restitched. In the case of rare books we'd photograph them instead (and then scan the photo - this predates digital cameras).
I thought that Google had tech that could scan the pages of an original book and automatically compensate for any curvature. IIRC** it did something like flash a test pattern onto the page to determine how to straighten the final image.
**but it was a while ago I read this so could easily be mistaken.
I diagnosed a use-after-free bug just a few days ago. I happened to get lucky and spotted it after 5 or 10 minutes because I happened to look at the right pointer values,
I wonder why on Earth an agency founded in the aftermath of 9/11, to protect gainst terrorist threats to the United States is involved in thus kind of thing? May as well have the fucking coast guard policing patent infringements!
I think they'd be of more use watching out for submarine patents.
It's gotta be the bold primary colors... those seem to signal children's shows. Plus all the roundedness signals "safe" - it's kinda a meme that scary stuff has sharp angles.
So they now looks like AI robot pets!
This thread just reminded me that the BBC's click program recently featured the Dalek6388 web site that has the history of the daleks used in the series from '63 to '88. I'm just having a look through it now (so please don't slashdot it before I'm done):-)
So "literal" now means "not literal". Now I'm just hanging out for "true" being an informal use of "false" so we can discard useful communication altogether. Reminds me why I speak English and not American.
Well, I suppose it's a bit like those who say "I could care less" when they actually mean "I couldn't care less". Let's blame the education system;-)
Rail in a free society will be more expensive than planes for a simple reason. Airplanes fly in the air. It doesn't cost anything to build or maintain air. You don't have to buy property rights to lay down your air tracks. But each foot of track requires 50-100 lbs of steel depending on the profile. A 10 mile track requires 2.5-5 million pounds of steel. All an airplane needs is an airport to take off from and land at.
Also look at the system like a network. If you want to build a new train station you have to buy (unless you are communist) a continuous strip of land from the nearest line to your station and design and build all of the crossings without affecting other traffic. Then you also have to make sure the line you are connecting to has the capacity to handle the traffic you are adding . An airport just requires a large enough plot of land. You are instantly connected to every other airport within range of the aircraft that your airport can service.
And of course, planes don't need any fuel, can carry hundreds more passengers per journey than trains, and there is infinite runway and passenger bandwidth at a busy airport so you can land whenever you want.... err....
There is more to the equation than you have given here.
Fact: Google is a huge company whose services are used by MANY people
Highly likely: Whatever format Google choose for YouTube will become extremely popular.
That may be fine if you have a high-powered PC that can run any codec in software but it's a complete pain if you have a mobile device with a low-power (both in terms of MIPs and energy consumption) CPU that, instead, uses dedicated, highly-efficient video decode hardware. That hardware probably supports a certain subset of (well defined) video standards (eg MPEG/VC1/H.264) and some new random system is not going to be supported.
I saw the headline on another news website - on 1st April - which said (something like) "Earth is potato shaped". Due to the unfortunate timing, I didn't take it seriously.
You're either a bad troll, or just badly informed. Small firms do not take patents unless they are non-product entities..
How small is "small"? 3, 10, 100? I've worked for companies that had fewer than 100 employees and they have had products and patents. Anecdotal of course, but one only needs one counterexample to disprove an assertion.
If you read the paper I mentioned, you will see it, in turn, cites "A. Appel. Some techniques for shading machine renderings of solids. SJCC, pages 27–45, 1968."
I was unaware Whitted worked for Intel. </sarcasm>
Actually, someone else may have beaten him to it.. but now I can't find the paper that cites the earlier reference.. so this post is a bit pointless:-(
Oh that's typical... I just found the paper. It's "Interactive Rendering with Coherent Ray Tracing" by Ingo Wald, Philipp Slusallek, Carsten Benthin, and Markus Wagner, published at Eurographics 2001.
I was unaware Whitted worked for Intel. </sarcasm>
Actually, someone else may have beaten him to it.. but now I can't find the paper that cites the earlier reference.. so this post is a bit pointless:-(
What I wonder is: how well would Flash web video play with these faster graphics, and exactly how much would it impact the battery life?
(I'm not sure which is more of an issue with Flash: the battery impact, or Apple's fear of web Flash apps duplicating in-store apps. Probably both in equal measure.)
I get the feeling the 9x is specifically referring to 3D/2D rendering performance. The processing for video files, AFAICS, is done in its own dedicated hardware but, of course, that too may have been upgraded relative to the A4 chip.
I was skeptical of his point myself, then I started paying closer attention and damned if he wasn't right. Sure it depends upon the film, but ones that are properly filmed give all sorts of interesting things they can do without the extra 3D technology.
I'm not sure the effect discussed in that article is that significant at cinema screen distances but, FWIW, Kurt Akeley gave a keynote talk on the importance of linking convergence and focal distance at Graphics Hardware 2003.
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Wow. Will his prize be in the form of a giant cartoon-style weight with "10,000 lbs" written on it? Perhaps they'll drop it on his house.
You do have to wonder if that journalist has ever been outside of the US.... or maybe he was assuming that the original definition of "pound sterling" was still in use?
Yet Submarine Patents..... are still legal.
How are (new) submarine patents possible? AFAIU, a few years ago the USPTO came in to line with the rest (or at least most) of the world in that a patent application automatically becomes public 18 months after filing. Prior to that, (again AFAIU), it only became public when granted, and hence submariners would keep tweaking their application so it stayed in the exam process until a time that suited them.
All advertising is good advertising.
On the contrary, there is the Osborne Effect
I worked at company that did the same for the French National Library, about fifteen to eighteen years ago. To go through your questions: ...
Actual process was to guillotine the books and feed them through the scanners, some books would then be restitched. In the case of rare books we'd photograph them instead (and then scan the photo - this predates digital cameras).
I thought that Google had tech that could scan the pages of an original book and automatically compensate for any curvature. IIRC** it did something like flash a test pattern onto the page to determine how to straighten the final image.
**but it was a while ago I read this so could easily be mistaken.
I think there is an electric fence equivalent on Windows- it might be called something like bounds checker - if that's any help.
I diagnosed a use-after-free bug just a few days ago. I happened to get lucky and spotted it after 5 or 10 minutes because I happened to look at the right pointer values,
Have you used Electric Fence or Valgrind?
I wonder why on Earth an agency founded in the aftermath of 9/11, to protect gainst terrorist threats to the United States is involved in thus kind of thing? May as well have the fucking coast guard policing patent infringements!
I think they'd be of more use watching out for submarine patents.
Why do I never have mod points?
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It's gotta be the bold primary colors... those seem to signal children's shows. Plus all the roundedness signals "safe" - it's kinda a meme that scary stuff has sharp angles.
So they now looks like AI robot pets!
This thread just reminded me that the BBC's click program recently featured the Dalek6388 web site that has the history of the daleks used in the series from '63 to '88. I'm just having a look through it now (so please don't slashdot it before I'm done) :-)
PPM support has been removed many years back, XBM support was removed about a year ago.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504822
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197530
Why did they remove PPM? Surely it can't have been more than, say, 30 lines of code!
So "literal" now means "not literal". Now I'm just hanging out for "true" being an informal use of "false" so we can discard useful communication altogether. Reminds me why I speak English and not American.
Well, I suppose it's a bit like those who say "I could care less" when they actually mean "I couldn't care less". Let's blame the education system ;-)
What article? The link seems to be pointing to a 403 Error page. At least to me.
Maybe it was just the OCR'ed output of a scan of "Loser roar"
( Ok, I couldn't come up with anything better)
Rail in a free society will be more expensive than planes for a simple reason. Airplanes fly in the air. It doesn't cost anything to build or maintain air. You don't have to buy property rights to lay down your air tracks. But each foot of track requires 50-100 lbs of steel depending on the profile. A 10 mile track requires 2.5-5 million pounds of steel. All an airplane needs is an airport to take off from and land at.
Also look at the system like a network. If you want to build a new train station you have to buy (unless you are communist) a continuous strip of land from the nearest line to your station and design and build all of the crossings without affecting other traffic. Then you also have to make sure the line you are connecting to has the capacity to handle the traffic you are adding . An airport just requires a large enough plot of land. You are instantly connected to every other airport within range of the aircraft that your airport can service.
And of course, planes don't need any fuel, can carry hundreds more passengers per journey than trains, and there is infinite runway and passenger bandwidth at a busy airport so you can land whenever you want.... err....
There is more to the equation than you have given here.
My understanding is that pure carbon things sublimate into CO2 over time (including diamonds) when exposed to oxygen.
Don't quote me on this, but I think I read that the outer boundary of diamonds is usually bonded to hydrogen atoms.
Fact: Google is a huge company whose services are used by MANY people
Highly likely: Whatever format Google choose for YouTube will become extremely popular.
That may be fine if you have a high-powered PC that can run any codec in software but it's a complete pain if you have a mobile device with a low-power (both in terms of MIPs and energy consumption) CPU that, instead, uses dedicated, highly-efficient video decode hardware. That hardware probably supports a certain subset of (well defined) video standards (eg MPEG/VC1/H.264) and some new random system is not going to be supported.
Yes, those immortal words: "Out, damn'd spotify! out, I say!"
The BBC posted this article on Thursday which includes a large interactive globe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12911806
I saw the headline on another news website - on 1st April - which said (something like) "Earth is potato shaped". Due to the unfortunate timing, I didn't take it seriously.
You're either a bad troll, or just badly informed. Small firms do not take patents unless they are non-product entities..
How small is "small"? 3, 10, 100? I've worked for companies that had fewer than 100 employees and they have had products and patents. Anecdotal of course, but one only needs one counterexample to disprove an assertion.
If you read the paper I mentioned, you will see it, in turn, cites "A. Appel. Some techniques for shading machine renderings of
solids. SJCC, pages 27–45, 1968."
I was unaware Whitted worked for Intel. </sarcasm>
Actually, someone else may have beaten him to it .. but now I can't find the paper that cites the earlier reference.. so this post is a bit pointless :-(
Oh that's typical... I just found the paper. It's "Interactive Rendering with Coherent Ray Tracing" by Ingo Wald, Philipp Slusallek, Carsten Benthin, and Markus Wagner, published at Eurographics 2001.
I was unaware Whitted worked for Intel. </sarcasm>
Actually, someone else may have beaten him to it .. but now I can't find the paper that cites the earlier reference.. so this post is a bit pointless :-(
"Higher" is relative, but "standard definition" is absolute. SD is 480i/60.
Except when it isn't: SD could also be 576i (PAL, 720×576 split into two interlaced fields of 288 lines)
What I wonder is: how well would Flash web video play with these faster graphics, and exactly how much would it impact the battery life?
(I'm not sure which is more of an issue with Flash: the battery impact, or Apple's fear of web Flash apps duplicating in-store apps. Probably both in equal measure.)
I get the feeling the 9x is specifically referring to 3D/2D rendering performance. The processing for video files, AFAICS, is done in its own dedicated hardware but, of course, that too may have been upgraded relative to the A4 chip.
Seeing as everything from the Beeb is on iPlayer, why bother?
AFAICS, this was in reference to the Freeview HD broadcasts where the BBC will also transmit quite a lot of content from non-Beeb sources.
I don't think external content tends to appear on iPlayer for very long (if at all) and, correct me if I'm wrong, not typically at HD resolution.
I was skeptical of his point myself, then I started paying closer attention and damned if he wasn't right. Sure it depends upon the film, but ones that are properly filmed give all sorts of interesting things they can do without the extra 3D technology.
I'm not sure the effect discussed in that article is that significant at cinema screen distances but, FWIW, Kurt Akeley gave a keynote talk on the importance of linking convergence and focal distance at Graphics Hardware 2003.
There is a paper on his research here.