I have a Samsung VGA 1000 picture phone. It's very buggy. One of the most annoying bugs is the fact that when you pick up a call, you have to be careful. The cell phone rings until you pick it up, but sometimes it rings once more. This is especially bad because the ringer speaker and the reciever are in fact the same speaker. So, just before you talk to someone at a quite volume only your ear can hear, it rings at a volume that can be heard from 200 feet away. YAY!
The original purpose of restricting derived works was to make it so that authors (companies or not) could not copy code from the public domain and claim it as private work, No?
Kernel Modules cannot exist without the Linux Kernel. This dependancy means that any part of the Kernel Module that depends on the kernel for *module* interface purposes is not derived work. It is when authors base their code off of other code that is in the GPL that they must in turn release thier code under the GPL.
So in short, if the module could have been written entirely with Manpages and documentation, it is not derived work. If the author views the code of other modules, then it is derived work.
Deriving functions and invoking them are two very different things.
I'm kinda curious. Just because you can't produce original software discs or documentation doesn't mean you didn't buy it. It just mean you can't prove you did. Last I checked, in the USA, you're innocent until proven guilty. They have to show that you did not get this software from a ligitimate source. If they can't prove it, that's their problem.
I personally know 2 people who have had LASIK. Family. And one who's considering it, strongly.
Father: My dad works as a Surgeon. He needs to have good vision MORE than a coder does. He has to be able to see what he's doing. He can't just up the font size. He went from 20/50 (BAD vision) to 20/15 in the right eye and 20/10 in the left (EXCELLENT vision). He was fully aware of the risks involved with surgery , and as a surgeon, he had access to detailed reports and the knowledge to use them. He did the procedure based on this. Side note: he had this procedure done about 5 years ago before it was legalized in America. He went to canada. They corrected him to 20/30 in both eyes. 2 years later, when it was legalized here, he had a REVISION done. This corrected him to the aforementioned vision.
Brother: My brother works as an engineer at Micron. I don't know the specific details of what he does there, much beyond that he makes tests for the RAM modules there. I'm sure he deals with text on computer screens, and I'm sure, and I have little doubt he has trouble reading them with his 20/15 vision in both eyes (33% better than 'normal' vision). He had vision worse than 20/40 in both eyes.
And people who are considering it: ME.
I've got terrible vision. 20/40+ in the right eye, and 20/100 in the left eye (That's about a 1-inch resolution at 5 feet). I'm a coder, all the way. I AM going to get this procedure done, partially due to the new advances.
Intralaze is the biggest one. The old version of the procedure (see, I'm a coder!) did the following. 1. Cut the surface of the cornea with a very precise KNIFE (This is the MicroKeratome), ALMOST all the way across. 2. Pull back the newly formed flap 3. Lase the exposed surface, reshaping it as desired. 4. put the flap back. (note: it reattaches slowly over time)
The new version, A.K.A. "IntraLase" replaces step 1 with a laser-based process. For a demo of that, go here
Doesn't make it right, but hey, there's money to be had. As long as you are paying for 'em, they'll try to get more out of you. The solution - Don't buy or rent the DVDs and you should be fine.
Doesn't make what right? I don't see a wrong here. DVD's are films. See the grandparent to this post. If they were considered software (which they were ruled NOT to be, according to this story), that would have doubled their price... explain to me what's wrong about this...?
most of your more advanced "special editions" either have some interactive game (that at least knows if you pressed the right answer or not)
No, that's just a couple links. That doesn't consitute a program.
So, it only takes a supersimple "click on the rabbit for a game" program, and bang - Its an exectable program with lots and lots of media.
No, that's not executable either. That's just another link.
Links are not programs. The capability of jumping is only one aspect of the Turing Machine definition.
Doesn't make it right, but hey, there's money to be had. As long as you are paying for 'em, they'll try to get more out of you. The solution - Don't buy or rent the DVDs and you should be fine.
Right? It isn't a crime to sell media. In fact, I'd call that a viable business model. I doubt many slashdotters find much wrong with companies like Mirimax, Village Roadshow, or 20th Century Fox. These are all ligitimate companies selling a ligitimate product.
Mod me as a troll if you like but the way I see it is: Duh, of course it's a film!
Anyone who argues that a dvd (In this case, thatt's Digital VIDEO disc, not 'Versitile') is software more than it is film needs to reply to this and explain why.
A DVD contains ZERO in the way of executable code--zero, Zilch, NONE!
The word software came from the word hardware, but with the adaptation being that there was no hard-wired functionality. But what does the -ware in softWARE and hardWARE mean? In this case, functionality.
Graphics hardware: Stuff that makes pretty pictures, real fast.
Sound hardware: Stuff that converts binary audio data to analog, along with a lot of other stuff.
Linux: Software that runs a computer.
A DVD contains pure media. No functionality. It requires a seperate piece of hardware/software just to be used!
They are media, and as such they should be governed by the laws that cover media.
Oh, and by the way... the DVD Menu's? Those aren't executable. Those are A collection of images with a few links. They are not a program (To be that, they would have to have the capability of iteration, which they do not.)
Yeah, so? RC5 consists largely of bit-level operations (rotates, shifts), like lots of other encryption systems. There is basically NO encryption system out there that I've EVER heard of that uses an FPU.
Oh, and one other thing. It's worth noting that there were NO benchmarks on that site. That P4 could have very well skipped out on half of the clocks and been an effectively 1.5Ghz proc.
Keep this in mind when you overclock P4's. Do you remember that slashdot story about a year ago when the P4's first came out? They talked about the proc idling if it got too hot, so a lot of the 1.5GHz procs were running at 750Mhz a lot of the time. When you overclock a P4 with a higher voltage, you have to keep in mind that it will slow down the ACTUAL speed to become more stable. Remember THIS? The CPU slowed down by about 4 fold when the heatsink was removed (The Quake III framerate went from about 100 to 25 in a timedemo, watch the video).
Keep this in mind when you are talking about ovewrclocking P4's. There's little difference between running a 2GHz proc with all the clocks used and running a 3GHz proc with 2/3 cloks used.
Well, to be honest, I'd have to say that I'll likely buy this game. I used to hate UT (I called it Uniral Orniment), but I must say that UT2 looks very impressive. Especially the levels.
I just finished Diamond Age about 5 minutes ago. Go read it. NOW.
The reason I say this is because in this masterpiece work by Neal Stephenson, one of the focuses of the book is on a society of 'Drummers', a group of people connected with wetware. They have nanosites circulating in their bloodstream, and they use the hosts' brain in... well... I would tell you, but it's kinda a major plot element. Go read this book.
P.S.: I would pay large amounts of money to be able to do what mgkimsal2says. (without the ads, of course.
How can you forget about Armadillo Aerospace? You might know the name of one of the members of the team: John Carmack. They are very serious. They have a few flight test videos, and they have a few prototypes that could carry a person (Though that spot was filled by a punching bag for testing purposes).
With Divx running at Quantizer 2 (Which mean compress it as little as possible, a.k.a.: Highest quality), The bandwidth used is about 2-3 Mbaud. If you use AC3 Audio, the bandwith for that is 192Kbaud - 384Kbaud. So, a maximal estimate would be 3456Kbaud. That's 432 KB/sec. A Single sided/single layer DVD holds about 4GB. 4GB / 432KB = 9709 sec = 161 min = 2.7Hours. Interesting... works out to about the same as a good length (but still ugly) VHS tape.
If you make it double sided, It goes up to 323min/5.4hr. If you can manage to make it record Double-sided, double-LAYERed, you'll get 647min/10.8hr.
Mind you, these are excessive estimates. This would be visibly lossless encoding (not lossless, but you wouldn't be able to tell). It rarely gets up to 3MBaud when you're encoding regular video. 1.5MBaud would be very much sufficient. Use that for the numbers and you can pretty much double it.
Number of minutes:
HQ BQ (High/Best)
SS: 323 161
DS: 647 323
DD: 1294 647
ErgoInterfaces didn't make that keyboard. Kinesis did. Give them the credit. Kinesis Made it, ErgoInterfaces is just distributing it.
Kinesis is the King of countour keyboards. You shouldn't be surprised that they made this one.
Just use GnuPG or PGP, your problems will be solved. They don't say that you can't encrypt stuff, I'm sure.
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Or, better yet, they could offer to automagically decrypt stuff for you, using a web-stored private key!
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Wrong.
Quantum3D did make those Voodoo2 SLI boards, but they stopped selling them. Go to their website. Find anything that fits in a PCI or AGP slot. You will not find it!
Quantum3D pulled out of this market before 3dfx did.
They argue that code written by a school employee (and this usually includes grad students) is a work for hire and that the school should retain ownership and control.
Uhh... am I the only one that sees a blatent error here? Perhaps I'm wrong, but when I think of the word "Employee," I think of someone who gets paid to go to a certain place and do work... A grad student pays to go to school... and code he writes, he effectively payed to write! Where's the confusion here? Someone who pays to write code for (in the end) their own benefit should, of course own the code. If companies got paid to have code written for them, I would think that would be, if anything, a sale of that code. Quite the opposite of owning that code...
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I have a Samsung VGA 1000 picture phone. It's very buggy. One of the most annoying bugs is the fact that when you pick up a call, you have to be careful.
The cell phone rings until you pick it up, but sometimes it rings once more. This is especially bad because the ringer speaker and the reciever are in fact the same speaker. So, just before you talk to someone at a quite volume only your ear can hear, it rings at a volume that can be heard from 200 feet away. YAY!
$ dc -e '2 24036583 ^ 1 -p' > bigprime
It works. I've gone from 200lbs and kinda flabby to 170 and muscular. It hasn't done much for my arms, but it's done wonders for my legs & metabolism.
I have a video of me doing a particularly hard song. It's neat. MAX300 AA, without clinging to the bar
The original purpose of restricting derived works was to make it so that authors (companies or not) could not copy code from the public domain and claim it as private work, No?
Kernel Modules cannot exist without the Linux Kernel. This dependancy means that any part of the Kernel Module that depends on the kernel for *module* interface purposes is not derived work. It is when authors base their code off of other code that is in the GPL that they must in turn release thier code under the GPL.
So in short, if the module could have been written entirely with Manpages and documentation, it is not derived work. If the author views the code of other modules, then it is derived work.
Deriving functions and invoking them are two very different things.
"Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but it clearly is a gray
area." -Linus Torvalds
I'm kinda curious. Just because you can't produce original software discs or documentation doesn't mean you didn't buy it. It just mean you can't prove you did. Last I checked, in the USA, you're innocent until proven guilty. They have to show that you did not get this software from a ligitimate source. If they can't prove it, that's their problem.
I personally know 2 people who have had LASIK. Family. And one who's considering it, strongly.
Father: My dad works as a Surgeon. He needs to have good vision MORE than a coder does. He has to be able to see what he's doing. He can't just up the font size. He went from 20/50 (BAD vision) to 20/15 in the right eye and 20/10 in the left (EXCELLENT vision). He was fully aware of the risks involved with surgery , and as a surgeon, he had access to detailed reports and the knowledge to use them. He did the procedure based on this. Side note: he had this procedure done about 5 years ago before it was legalized in America. He went to canada. They corrected him to 20/30 in both eyes. 2 years later, when it was legalized here, he had a REVISION done. This corrected him to the aforementioned vision.
Brother: My brother works as an engineer at Micron. I don't know the specific details of what he does there, much beyond that he makes tests for the RAM modules there. I'm sure he deals with text on computer screens, and I'm sure, and I have little doubt he has trouble reading them with his 20/15 vision in both eyes (33% better than 'normal' vision). He had vision worse than 20/40 in both eyes.
And people who are considering it: ME.
I've got terrible vision. 20/40+ in the right eye, and 20/100 in the left eye (That's about a 1-inch resolution at 5 feet). I'm a coder, all the way. I AM going to get this procedure done, partially due to the new advances.
Intralaze is the biggest one.
The old version of the procedure (see, I'm a coder!) did the following.
1. Cut the surface of the cornea with a very precise KNIFE (This is the MicroKeratome), ALMOST all the way across.
2. Pull back the newly formed flap
3. Lase the exposed surface, reshaping it as desired.
4. put the flap back.
(note: it reattaches slowly over time)
The new version, A.K.A. "IntraLase" replaces step 1 with a laser-based process. For a demo of that, go here
Go here for some more information: WillVision
P.S.: My dad and my brother both went to WillVision. They know what they are doing. If you're in the Northwest USA, I'd recommend them.
$355 - 3ware Escalade 7810 8-port RAID Controller
$2072 - 8x Maxtor 160GB IDE Drives ($259 each)
You could hook these up in a 7+1 RAID5 array, and you'd have a 1.018TB Array.
Doesn't make it right, but hey, there's money to be had. As long as you are paying for 'em, they'll try to get more out of you. The solution - Don't buy or rent the DVDs and you should be fine.
Doesn't make what right? I don't see a wrong here. DVD's are films. See the grandparent to this post. If they were considered software (which they were ruled NOT to be, according to this story), that would have doubled their price... explain to me what's wrong about this...?
most of your more advanced "special editions" either have some interactive game (that at least knows if you pressed the right answer or not)
No, that's just a couple links. That doesn't consitute a program.
So, it only takes a supersimple "click on the rabbit for a game" program, and bang - Its an exectable program with lots and lots of media.
No, that's not executable either. That's just another link.
Links are not programs. The capability of jumping is only one aspect of the Turing Machine definition.
Doesn't make it right, but hey, there's money to be had. As long as you are paying for 'em, they'll try to get more out of you. The solution - Don't buy or rent the DVDs and you should be fine.
Right? It isn't a crime to sell media. In fact, I'd call that a viable business model. I doubt many slashdotters find much wrong with companies like Mirimax, Village Roadshow, or 20th Century Fox. These are all ligitimate companies selling a ligitimate product.
Mod me as a troll if you like but the way I see it is: Duh, of course it's a film!
Anyone who argues that a dvd (In this case, thatt's Digital VIDEO disc, not 'Versitile') is software more than it is film needs to reply to this and explain why.
A DVD contains ZERO in the way of executable code--zero, Zilch, NONE!
The word software came from the word hardware, but with the adaptation being that there was no hard-wired functionality. But what does the -ware in softWARE and hardWARE mean? In this case, functionality.
Graphics hardware: Stuff that makes pretty pictures, real fast.
Sound hardware: Stuff that converts binary audio data to analog, along with a lot of other stuff.
Linux: Software that runs a computer.
A DVD contains pure media. No functionality. It requires a seperate piece of hardware/software just to be used!
They are media, and as such they should be governed by the laws that cover media.
Oh, and by the way... the DVD Menu's? Those aren't executable. Those are A collection of images with a few links. They are not a program (To be that, they would have to have the capability of iteration, which they do not.)
Yeah, so? RC5 consists largely of bit-level operations (rotates, shifts), like lots of other encryption systems. There is basically NO encryption system out there that I've EVER heard of that uses an FPU.
Oh, and one other thing. It's worth noting that there were NO benchmarks on that site. That P4 could have very well skipped out on half of the clocks and been an effectively 1.5Ghz proc.
Keep this in mind when you overclock P4's. Do you remember that slashdot story about a year ago when the P4's first came out? They talked about the proc idling if it got too hot, so a lot of the 1.5GHz procs were running at 750Mhz a lot of the time. When you overclock a P4 with a higher voltage, you have to keep in mind that it will slow down the ACTUAL speed to become more stable. Remember THIS? The CPU slowed down by about 4 fold when the heatsink was removed (The Quake III framerate went from about 100 to 25 in a timedemo, watch the video).
Keep this in mind when you are talking about ovewrclocking P4's. There's little difference between running a 2GHz proc with all the clocks used and running a 3GHz proc with 2/3 cloks used.
It looks like its taking a lost from Q3A. Take a look at this gun. Look a little like the railgun to you? It sure does to me.
How about this character model. Looks like Klesk to me.
Oh, and here's Uriel.
Well, to be honest, I'd have to say that I'll likely buy this game. I used to hate UT (I called it Uniral Orniment), but I must say that UT2 looks very impressive. Especially the levels.
I just finished Diamond Age about 5 minutes ago. Go read it. NOW.
The reason I say this is because in this masterpiece work by Neal Stephenson, one of the focuses of the book is on a society of 'Drummers', a group of people connected with wetware. They have nanosites circulating in their bloodstream, and they use the hosts' brain in... well... I would tell you, but it's kinda a major plot element. Go read this book.
P.S.: I would pay large amounts of money to be able to do what mgkimsal2 says. (without the ads, of course.
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How can you forget about Armadillo Aerospace? You might know the name of one of the members of the team: John Carmack . They are very serious. They have a few flight test videos, and they have a few prototypes that could carry a person (Though that spot was filled by a punching bag for testing purposes).
Check out:
Armadillo Aerospace
Comment by JC about his rockets (Hydrogen Peroxide-based, by the way).
Their demonstration video(quite impressive).
With Divx running at Quantizer 2 (Which mean compress it as little as possible, a.k.a.: Highest quality), The bandwidth used is about 2-3 Mbaud. If you use AC3 Audio, the bandwith for that is 192Kbaud - 384Kbaud. So, a maximal estimate would be 3456Kbaud. That's 432 KB/sec. A Single sided/single layer DVD holds about 4GB. 4GB / 432KB = 9709 sec = 161 min = 2.7Hours. Interesting... works out to about the same as a good length (but still ugly) VHS tape.
If you make it double sided, It goes up to 323min/5.4hr. If you can manage to make it record Double-sided, double-LAYERed, you'll get 647min/10.8hr.
Mind you, these are excessive estimates. This would be visibly lossless encoding (not lossless, but you wouldn't be able to tell). It rarely gets up to 3MBaud when you're encoding regular video. 1.5MBaud would be very much sufficient. Use that for the numbers and you can pretty much double it.
Number of minutes:
HQ BQ (High/Best)
SS: 323 161
DS: 647 323
DD: 1294 647
So, at HQ/DD you get 21.5hrs.
SO, I guess that the phrase "Evil day-star!" doesn't really apply anymore, eh?
ErgoInterfaces didn't make that keyboard. Kinesis did. Give them the credit. Kinesis Made it, ErgoInterfaces is just distributing it. Kinesis is the King of countour keyboards. You shouldn't be surprised that they made this one.
Just use GnuPG or PGP, your problems will be solved. They don't say that you can't encrypt stuff, I'm sure.
---BEGIN SARCASM BLOCK (VER 1.0)---
Or, better yet, they could offer to automagically decrypt stuff for you, using a web-stored private key!
---END SARCASM BLOCK---
I'd buy this thing anyday if it had SmartWheels.
Wrong.
Quantum3D did make those Voodoo2 SLI boards, but they stopped selling them. Go to their website. Find anything that fits in a PCI or AGP slot. You will not find it!
Quantum3D pulled out of this market before 3dfx did.
Uhh... am I the only one that sees a blatent error here? Perhaps I'm wrong, but when I think of the word "Employee," I think of someone who gets paid to go to a certain place and do work... A grad student pays to go to school... and code he writes, he effectively payed to write! Where's the confusion here? Someone who pays to write code for (in the end) their own benefit should, of course own the code. If companies got paid to have code written for them, I would think that would be, if anything, a sale of that code. Quite the opposite of owning that code...
Yup... Solid as silly puddy.