Wouldn't you still have bought Tivo stock if they didn't have a patent on this technology? Wouldn't Tivo still have sold the same products if they couldn't patent them? Do you plan to sell all of your stock if courts decide this patent is worthless?
Yes, yes, no. After all, they don't actually have any new technology - it's all marketing and product packaging.
And what size is the local economy? I've looked around, and the GP post had it right - $428,000 is about right for a desirable area in DC Metro, LA, and Seattle. in NYC, double that or stay out of manhattan, and in DC (where I am), you can get a burb house for $250-$300k.
Around here $67,000 would get you a condo in Takoma Park, in the part where you're likely to be shot in your doorway.
Ok so it's now punishable by law to record in a theater, does this affect you?
If you go on vacation with a camcorder and decide, on a rainy day, to see a movie, then yes, it does affect you. What are you going to do? Leave a $1000 piece of electronics in your rental car?
What's to stop terrorists for distorting the GPS signals and making the plane think that a mountain isn't where the mountain is? And if the terrorist can broadcast multiple spoof signals (spoofing a constellation), they could steer a plane to any location by simply moving the no-fly barrier to herd the plane to the desired (but undesirable) location.
Well, for starters, it's really hard to fake a GPS constellation. Anyone capable of such a feat could more easily compromise the avionics and fly the plane themselves.
with AO you can compensate for it enough that you can build and maintain scopes (like OWL) with far less resources than it would take to build and maintain one in space, and still get acceptable results in terms of the science (not just pretty
pictures). Ground-based AO-scopes can get better imaging today than Hubble can for nearly any target, and especially for very close targets (e.g. looking for planetary systems in nearby stars).
I'll bet that AO can also help you go the other way - build a big telescope that's pointed down and uses AO and you can probably tell which side of a quarter is up from orbit.
Maybe you should just buy a more reliable car, and then you wouldn't *have* to monitor the damn engine in real-time.
Criminy, how much money did you spent on that setup instead of just seeing a mechanic and fixing the damned problem in the first place?
Most likely, he's got a custom turbo setup and the laptop is used to monitor detonation and adjust timing.
Since when does throwing more bodies at a problem help? It's kind of like saying that you've got one month to make a baby so you go out and get 9 women pregnant in an attempt to meet the schedule.
<evil>No, if you need a baby in a month, you just find a crack-whore who needs money and has a kid.</evil> Or, you could adopt.
Though I doubt that there are actually that many people earning their living by programming operating systems, Web browsers, and word processors these days. In the future the way to make money as a programmer will be to implement special-purpose applications that only scratch the itch of some company's shareholders
AC, you just described the state of the world today.
I was under the impression that the Honda "Cog" commercial wasn't released in the US was because the car which was being advertised was a UK-only model!
Who cares what model they showed? They're advertising their build quality.
Making a wheel that is an electric motor would make such a heavy wheel thtat the vehicle would handle and drive like total crap. The huge weight of the wheels would require shock absorbers with huge dampening ability to keep the wheel planted on the road over uneven surfaces. It would ride like a dump-truck.
In addition, you wouldn't be able to buy aftermarket wheels (no rims that spin at the traffic light), so no buying a set for winter. The obvious solution is to move the motor inboard and connect it with a short axle.
According to Moore's law, if you assume it applies to networks as well as computers, that should happen in 54 months (4 1/2 years) so it's not exactly tomorrow.
And if it applied to my wang, I'd need a wheelbarrow in about 10 years.
The scope of the "house rules" preventing individuals from bringing along camcorders stretches farther than the individual theater. We can easily imagine a renegade theater allowing camcorders and thus serving as a supplier for hordes of so-called pirates. Arguably the movie industry believes that individual theaters should not be able to make this call.
Aren't most prerelease pirate movies released by insiders right now? Who wants a camcorder dub when you can get a digital version before the movie hits theaters?
And this is one of the big issues region encoding was *supposed* to address. If it worked, your relatives could buy DVDs for 1/10th the US price, as the studio still makes a profit at that level. Region encoding would prevent people from importing cheap copies to the US, and everyone's happy. Sort of, anyway.
Well, sort of. The intent was to segment the market so that the studios could sell at multiple pricepoints, because they wouldn't otherwise sell to the third world at all. This isn't the whole reason, else USA, Europe, and Japan would be one region. The additional thing they can do is segment release dates, so they sell the DVD here while showing the movie there, then gouge the Japanese for $50 to buy it.
The problem is that, should you have a DVD that the owner only wishes to sell in one region, then you have to get a second or a third player, rather than just paying for the disc. Thankfully, most DVD players in the civilised world are region switchable, so all you need to worry about is PAL-NTSC conversion.
An more effective approach to reducing terrorism would be to make it understood to the people who are causing these events that their underlining political agenda will not be considered if they coordinate and execute these actions. Not in a broad sense, but very specific quid-pro-quo (Latin phrase meaning one precise action traded for another). For instance if the Palestinians (or one of their "non-aligned" splinter groups) cause a terrorist incident to occur, then ALL State Dept negotiations, discussions, trade talks, diplomatic meetings, UN resolutions,ect. will be suspended for a year. They would be completely ignored by the international organizations upon which they depend to legitimize their political goals.
Ok, but make sure to include Israel in that bargain - if they provoke an incident, say by bulldozing some houses or building a giant wall around the occupied zone, then we ignore them for a year. Only difference is, after a year, I don't think they'll be around to ignore.
So, even with a damn good O(log n) scheduler, an O(1) scheduler can afford to have a constant factor 7 times worse than a O(log n). So, I don't think this is much an issue here since n is usually pretty large.
Of course, for any desktop application, the diff a factor of 7 is something like 1e-7 versus 7e-7 load. I would imagine this is only important on a big, busy MP box.
How is this not O(n)? The time slice calculation still occurs for each process, just not all at once for all processes. Each process still gets its time slice calcuated, it is removed from one queue, and inserted into another. Is there some other unmentioned trick that eliminates the calculations? Or was there something else that made the 2.4 scheduler O(n), such as finding the highest priority process?
Well, the scheduler spends roughly the same amount of time scheduling a thread irrespective of the number of runnable processes, so it's O(1). You could call it O(n), with n being the number of timeslices, but that's silly.
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Wouldn't you still have bought Tivo stock if they didn't have a patent on this technology? Wouldn't Tivo still have sold the same products if they couldn't patent them? Do you plan to sell all of your stock if courts decide this patent is worthless?
Yes, yes, no. After all, they don't actually have any new technology - it's all marketing and product packaging.
Our median house value is $67,000.
And what size is the local economy? I've looked around, and the GP post had it right - $428,000 is about right for a desirable area in DC Metro, LA, and Seattle. in NYC, double that or stay out of manhattan, and in DC (where I am), you can get a burb house for $250-$300k.
Around here $67,000 would get you a condo in Takoma Park, in the part where you're likely to be shot in your doorway.
Ok so it's now punishable by law to record in a theater, does this affect you?
If you go on vacation with a camcorder and decide, on a rainy day, to see a movie, then yes, it does affect you. What are you going to do? Leave a $1000 piece of electronics in your rental car?
It's a first-world country, so I thought it would be comparable on that level.
What level? Countries allied with the US?
There are very few products that are as recycable as automobiles.
Yeah, just look at Cuba - hard to find a car newer than 1970.
What's to stop terrorists for distorting the GPS signals and making the plane think that a mountain isn't where the mountain is? And if the terrorist can broadcast multiple spoof signals (spoofing a constellation), they could steer a plane to any location by simply moving the no-fly barrier to herd the plane to the desired (but undesirable) location.
Well, for starters, it's really hard to fake a GPS constellation. Anyone capable of such a feat could more easily compromise the avionics and fly the plane themselves.
with AO you can compensate for it enough that you can build and maintain scopes (like OWL) with far less resources than it would take to build and maintain one in space, and still get acceptable results in terms of the science (not just pretty pictures). Ground-based AO-scopes can get better imaging today than Hubble can for nearly any target, and especially for very close targets (e.g. looking for planetary systems in nearby stars).
I'll bet that AO can also help you go the other way - build a big telescope that's pointed down and uses AO and you can probably tell which side of a quarter is up from orbit.
Its also pretty dusty and dirty up there...
So? There's no atmosphere to move the dust around.
Maybe you should just buy a more reliable car, and then you wouldn't *have* to monitor the damn engine in real-time. Criminy, how much money did you spent on that setup instead of just seeing a mechanic and fixing the damned problem in the first place?
Most likely, he's got a custom turbo setup and the laptop is used to monitor detonation and adjust timing.
Since when does throwing more bodies at a problem help? It's kind of like saying that you've got one month to make a baby so you go out and get 9 women pregnant in an attempt to meet the schedule.
<evil>No, if you need a baby in a month, you just find a crack-whore who needs money and has a kid.</evil> Or, you could adopt.
Wal-Mart screamed 'Buy American' until they could get stuff cheaper from China. Now if you go into a Wal-Mart everything is 'made in china'
I thought that Walmart stopped screaming 'Buy American' about the same time that Sam Walton died.
Reagonomics was developed to combat stagflation (and it worked).
Supply side economics was developed to make political hay - it isn't a legitimate economic theory.
Though I doubt that there are actually that many people earning their living by programming operating systems, Web browsers, and word processors these days. In the future the way to make money as a programmer will be to implement special-purpose applications that only scratch the itch of some company's shareholders
AC, you just described the state of the world today.
He said: I should cool my VW with liquid nitrogen so that I can run the engine faster
Heh, that's easy - use an air/water Ic and stick ice in the reservoir.
I'm more interested in the ads that won't be shown in other countries because they are too "racy", "religiously offensive", etc.
Whereas I want to see the ones that aren't shown here because they're too racy, etc. Basically, I'm a perv.
I was under the impression that the Honda "Cog" commercial wasn't released in the US was because the car which was being advertised was a UK-only model!
Who cares what model they showed? They're advertising their build quality.
in Japan everything is 3 times as expensive. They make higher salaries too.
compare New York and Tokyo, then tell me the same thing.
They ARE testing it on a BUS, not a race car :)
What's the difference?
Making a wheel that is an electric motor would make such a heavy wheel thtat the vehicle would handle and drive like total crap. The huge weight of the wheels would require shock absorbers with huge dampening ability to keep the wheel planted on the road over uneven surfaces. It would ride like a dump-truck.
In addition, you wouldn't be able to buy aftermarket wheels (no rims that spin at the traffic light), so no buying a set for winter. The obvious solution is to move the motor inboard and connect it with a short axle.
According to Moore's law, if you assume it applies to networks as well as computers, that should happen in 54 months (4 1/2 years) so it's not exactly tomorrow.
And if it applied to my wang, I'd need a wheelbarrow in about 10 years.
The scope of the "house rules" preventing individuals from bringing along camcorders stretches farther than the individual theater. We can easily imagine a renegade theater allowing camcorders and thus serving as a supplier for hordes of so-called pirates. Arguably the movie industry believes that individual theaters should not be able to make this call.
Aren't most prerelease pirate movies released by insiders right now? Who wants a camcorder dub when you can get a digital version before the movie hits theaters?
And this is one of the big issues region encoding was *supposed* to address. If it worked, your relatives could buy DVDs for 1/10th the US price, as the studio still makes a profit at that level. Region encoding would prevent people from importing cheap copies to the US, and everyone's happy. Sort of, anyway.
Well, sort of. The intent was to segment the market so that the studios could sell at multiple pricepoints, because they wouldn't otherwise sell to the third world at all. This isn't the whole reason, else USA, Europe, and Japan would be one region. The additional thing they can do is segment release dates, so they sell the DVD here while showing the movie there, then gouge the Japanese for $50 to buy it.
The problem is that, should you have a DVD that the owner only wishes to sell in one region, then you have to get a second or a third player, rather than just paying for the disc. Thankfully, most DVD players in the civilised world are region switchable, so all you need to worry about is PAL-NTSC conversion.
An more effective approach to reducing terrorism would be to make it understood to the people who are causing these events that their underlining political agenda will not be considered if they coordinate and execute these actions. Not in a broad sense, but very specific quid-pro-quo (Latin phrase meaning one precise action traded for another). For instance if the Palestinians (or one of their "non-aligned" splinter groups) cause a terrorist incident to occur, then ALL State Dept negotiations, discussions, trade talks, diplomatic meetings, UN resolutions,ect. will be suspended for a year. They would be completely ignored by the international organizations upon which they depend to legitimize their political goals.
Ok, but make sure to include Israel in that bargain - if they provoke an incident, say by bulldozing some houses or building a giant wall around the occupied zone, then we ignore them for a year. Only difference is, after a year, I don't think they'll be around to ignore.
So, even with a damn good O(log n) scheduler, an O(1) scheduler can afford to have a constant factor 7 times worse than a O(log n). So, I don't think this is much an issue here since n is usually pretty large.
Of course, for any desktop application, the diff a factor of 7 is something like 1e-7 versus 7e-7 load. I would imagine this is only important on a big, busy MP box.
How is this not O(n)? The time slice calculation still occurs for each process, just not all at once for all processes. Each process still gets its time slice calcuated, it is removed from one queue, and inserted into another. Is there some other unmentioned trick that eliminates the calculations? Or was there something else that made the 2.4 scheduler O(n), such as finding the highest priority process?
Well, the scheduler spends roughly the same amount of time scheduling a thread irrespective of the number of runnable processes, so it's O(1). You could call it O(n), with n being the number of timeslices, but that's silly.