But I agree it would be pretty shitty to wake up and find half your body gone to organ donation.
Lol! If half your body is gone you'd be pretty much 110% dead wouldn't you? And it's not like they would bother to keep the life support running after taking your organs either (or face for that matter).
It'll work where ever you are as long as you can receive the signal. Given a good enough antenna you could be on the moon.:-)
But seriously, the GPS satellites have their antennas pointing downwards and they are in middle earth orbit which is the next step above LEO. Just remeber that you don't have interefence from the atmosphere when you do your calculations and you should be fine.
Why talk about something called Unified Display Interface and then link to the site www.projectudi.org which concerns itself about the Uniform Driver Interface?!?. Slashdot editors at its best I guess...
Not that the Uniform Driver Interface is that great idea either, it's some kind of let's make some cozy wrapper that lets hardware manufacturers cross platform binary only drivers.
And what about Unified Display Interface? The only thing I can find about it is the sensationalist blurb on The Register. Have they just invented a new name for the new DisplayPort standard from VESA maby?
Another important specification for inkjet printers is ink drop size, typically measured in picoliters. The smaller the number, the more ink per square inch can be placed on the paper.
Gimme a printer with a couple of litres per drop and I'll place down some serious ink!
1) Wouldn't prior art mean that C isn't legal unless the person/company holds patents A and B (in other words, couldn't patent holders A (inclusive) or B go after patent holder C for infringment?)
No, the patent itself it not infringement. But the inventor of C can't make use his invention without getting a license for patents A and B first.
Becasue the vote is handled by an organization that is kept as independent from the executive government as possible?
Becasue ballots and rules are kept as simple as possible to minimize the risk of confusion and the need for interpretation after the fact when there's a close call?
Or maby, just maby it's because the participating parties all have observers at each stage in the process to make sure there's no cheating?
Ofcourse, in a country where's there only 2 parties, collusion among the observers would be pretty easy to get away with...
I remeber the debate when the levy was introduced. Since it wasn't really illegal to copy music privatly from friends the levy was introduced on blank casette tapes to compensate the music industry. As technology progressed more formats where included, like CD-ROMs, DVD-Rs, and MP3 players. Even hard drives have been suggested by the music industry!
Nowdays we have stricter copyright laws and even coping between friends is strictly forbidden, and suddenly the levy is described as beeing compensation for me copying the music I already own to a different medium.
It seems someone want's to keep the cake and eat it to...
Yea, I know, and it's a sucky substitute. Becasue:
Arrow-up + enter is hardcoded into my spine by now.
You can't use : and some other special chars in the search string, killing stuff like site:.com. Not a valid URL, my ass!
It doesn't combine well with the drop down history. If I kinda remeber the URL of a page I previously visited, I'll start typing and if I'm lucky I get a match in the history, if not I'll try Google. With keyword search the history matching is deactivated.
What genius moved the google search to an entirely new field when on Moz you can just type in the address bar and hit the down arrow?
Yea, thats what bugs me the most about Firefox as well. If someone writes an extention to put that feature back into Firefox I might consider it, untill that time, the Mozilla Suite rules the day.
Actually we are surprised as well. In a year about 100 laptops get sent off for repair, but dead HDs are one of the least occuring problems.
I guess the HD parking system with the accelerometer stuff IBM puts in their ThinkPads actually works...
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Yea, the excellent plan is called business patents, to bad I missed the party the venture capitalists must have thrown when the courts handed them that present.
Unless your overfunded startup hits a submarine patent ofcourse. But, hey, thats just the cost of doing business.
I predict both drives will be just as dead after the laptop got dropped on the floor...
At the university I work some of the more overhyped IT courses lend laptops to their students. Of the about 1000 laptops in circulation there are maby 3-4 dead HDs a year, and it's all due to generous amounts of gravity.:D
Well, well, Intel, I'm sooo dissapointed. I was expecting you to bless us with real DRM that actually works.
From the vauge wordings in the 2 articles it sounds like the TCPA stuff is in the *chipset*, not the CPU. Which means it's the same snake oil as the chip IBM is peddling in their laptops. Se my comments here and here on why.
And Intel knows they are selling crap. If it really worked, it would be because it's completly implemented on the CPU die and they wouldn't have to be spewing garbage like this:
However, Tucker ducked questions regarding technical details of how embedded DRM would work saying it was not in the interests of his company to spell out how the technology in the interests of security.
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P.S. Did I mention, I have this warehouse full of old computers. They are not for sale. Yet... Muahaha...
I've always wondered, how do they store the map of the remapped blocks? Sounds to me that the flash area where the map is stored would wear out quite quickly instead. Anyone have some insights?
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Lol! If half your body is gone you'd be pretty much 110% dead wouldn't you? And it's not like they would bother to keep the life support running after taking your organs either (or face for that matter).
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But seriously, the GPS satellites have their antennas pointing downwards and they are in middle earth orbit which is the next step above LEO. Just remeber that you don't have interefence from the atmosphere when you do your calculations and you should be fine.
Happy LEO flight!
/greger
Why talk about something called Unified Display Interface and then link to the site www.projectudi.org which concerns itself about the Uniform Driver Interface?!?. Slashdot editors at its best I guess...
Not that the Uniform Driver Interface is that great idea either, it's some kind of let's make some cozy wrapper that lets hardware manufacturers cross platform binary only drivers.
And what about Unified Display Interface? The only thing I can find about it is the sensationalist blurb on The Register. Have they just invented a new name for the new DisplayPort standard from VESA maby?
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There you have it! Instant money in the coffers of ICANN and their lackeys...
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Gimme a printer with a couple of litres per drop and I'll place down some serious ink!
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Nah, they couldn't decide if it was funny or instightfull...
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I guess you just hit the magic moderation bait: troll
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Becasue ballots and rules are kept as simple as possible to minimize the risk of confusion and the need for interpretation after the fact when there's a close call?
Or maby, just maby it's because the participating parties all have observers at each stage in the process to make sure there's no cheating?
Ofcourse, in a country where's there only 2 parties, collusion among the observers would be pretty easy to get away with...
/greger
Nowdays we have stricter copyright laws and even coping between friends is strictly forbidden, and suddenly the levy is described as beeing compensation for me copying the music I already own to a different medium.
It seems someone want's to keep the cake and eat it to...
/greger
Arrow-up + enter is hardcoded into my spine by now.
You can't use : and some other special chars in the search string, killing stuff like site:.com. Not a valid URL, my ass!
It doesn't combine well with the drop down history. If I kinda remeber the URL of a page I previously visited, I'll start typing and if I'm lucky I get a match in the history, if not I'll try Google. With keyword search the history matching is deactivated.
/greger
Yea, thats what bugs me the most about Firefox as well. If someone writes an extention to put that feature back into Firefox I might consider it, untill that time, the Mozilla Suite rules the day.
/greger
I guess the HD parking system with the accelerometer stuff IBM puts in their ThinkPads actually works...
/greger
Unless your overfunded startup hits a submarine patent ofcourse. But, hey, thats just the cost of doing business.
/greger
At the university I work some of the more overhyped IT courses lend laptops to their students. Of the about 1000 laptops in circulation there are maby 3-4 dead HDs a year, and it's all due to generous amounts of gravity. :D
/greger
Good luck finding your history when it has been edited by hackers or turned into to recycled pulp. Sigh.
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Well, well, Intel, I'm sooo dissapointed. I was expecting you to bless us with real DRM that actually works.
From the vauge wordings in the 2 articles it sounds like the TCPA stuff is in the *chipset*, not the CPU. Which means it's the same snake oil as the chip IBM is peddling in their laptops. Se my comments here and here on why.
And Intel knows they are selling crap. If it really worked, it would be because it's completly implemented on the CPU die and they wouldn't have to be spewing garbage like this:
/greger
P.S. Did I mention, I have this warehouse full of old computers. They are not for sale. Yet... Muahaha...
/greger