x86 is horrible for graphics processing compared to a stream processor. when it comes to performing repetitive calculations on a constant stream of data a gpu will beat a cpu any day. yes, that is even with hyperthreading and streaming SIMD.
Here at the University of Kentucky, Linux support is kind of spotty. Some IT guys support it, others don't. When I was doing biology research at the University back when I was a high school student, the sysadmin for the building with my lab was a diehard Windows/Dell guy, and discouraged use of other stuff, saying he couldn't guarantee data integrity, etc etc. When I moved on to computer science research, the sysadmins in that part of campus tend to be anything-but-Windows types. In the fine arts department, the sysadmins tend to be more partial to Apples.
If you live on campus, though, the campus internet (ResNet) people officially only support PC and Mac, and they only support it if your computer is directly connected to the connection they provide. If you have a router between you and the campus network, you are required to remove it and directly connect to the cable modem or other gateway device that they provide. I think the policy is bollocks, but judging from the stories I've heard of how inept some of the L1 techs are, maybe it is better that way...
Apollo 13 ended happily with capsule and crew recovered, yet we lost 7 astronauts twice. And you thought 13 was supposed to be unlucky and 7 was supposed to be lucky...
They represent the European Space Agency, which is why they were just labeled as European. Please direct any further complaints to the ESA main office, or the EU headquarters.
I don't think you should get flamed for this. I agree with you that this particular case in the article (soundtrack for a slideshow) is a poor example of fair use at best.
There are four considerations for fair use in US copyright law:
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The case holds up well on points (1) and (4), it is not for profit and is for a very limited audience. On (2) and (3), it's used without modification and is not changed enough to be transformative (even if the audio quality was degraded), so it completely fails these points.
However, There are plenty of other cases where most if not all aspects of fair use are clearly present, but the content was removed anyway. In one case, WMG ordered the takedown of a video of a girl singing 'Winter Wonderland'. Also, numerous AMVs (Anime Music Videos) have been taken down that provide parody of and artistic commentary on the original subject materials. It is this blanket, cluster-bomb approach that is the problem. It's completely unfair (and illegal) for content holders to tread on our fair use rights, even if it is in the name of the supposedly noble cause of fighting piracy.
They are not claiming what is there is not Fair Use, they are simply claiming that the video is using copyrighted material, which is correct.
I thought they were claiming the use of copyrighted material infringed upon the copyright laws, not simply that the copyrighted material was present. Wouldn't consideration of fair use fall under the determination of whether or not copyright infringement was committed?
So as far as I know, all DMCA takedown notices must have the following legalese blurb:
"I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
IANAL, but it seems obvious to me that misrepresenting something that is clearly fair use as something that isn't means that the notification was NOT accurate. Therefore, the law firm representing the copyright holder (and possibly the copyright holder themselves) should have charges of perjury filed against them. I haven't seen the EFF file any countersuits like this yet, though...
Well, they're mostly wrong, but partially right. All things considered, the biggest security risk isn't the web browser used, it's the incompetent organic mass between the keyboard and the chair.
It still amazes me how many people really think they're the 1,000,000th visitor to a site, and that they've actually won something because of it.
One thing about botnets... I don't really understand why there couldn't be a blacklist of known botnet controllers maintained by a trusted authority (SANS, or perhaps a collaboration of the leading AV vendors, for example) that ISPs could use to block their customers from connecting to. Or, they could even go one step further and shut off the customers connecting to botnets until they're sure the customers have cleaned their computers.
No matter how you look at the numbers, PS3 lost, even before it came out. I know people who gotten the PS3 just as a Blu-Ray player, simply because they were cheaper than stand-alone Blu-Ray players at the time, and they have not gotten any games for it. Of course now that stand-alone Blu-Ray players are actually cheaper than PS3s, that market share is no longer there either.
They need to drop the price point to be just slightly above the average Blu-Ray player to be competitive, I think. Which will never happen, seeing as how Sony has been taking the financial blow from the PS3 since well before it was released. To have a $200 loss on each PS3 sold would be just far too much.
I think they meant more that they're on track to scale it up for mass production at volumes that will hopefully meet the demand. I'm glad they're on target, I'm looking forward to Westmere (the 32nm Core i7 that will hopefully make it to mobile platforms by the end of next year).
Oddly enough, there were no images from 1939 to 1945 in the archive.
Brian Griffin: Uh, I'm not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945. There's just a big gap. Tour guide: Everyone vas on vacation! On your left is Munich's first city hall, erected in 15-- Brian Griffin: Wait, what are you talking about? Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and-- Tour Guide: WE WERE INVITED! PUNCH WAS SERVED! CHECK WITH POLAND! Brian Griffin: You can't just ignore those years. Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism's stranglehold on Germany. Tour guide: Nope, nope. He left to manage a Dairy Queen. Brian Griffin: A Dairy Queen? That's preposterous. Tour guide: I WILL HEAR NO MORE INSINUATIONS ABOUT THE GERMAN PEOPLE!!!! NOTHING BAD HAPPENED!!!!!! SIE WERDEN SICH HINSETZEN!!! SIE WERDEN RUHIC SEIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just because it runs Debian doesn't necessarily mean it can do much else. I don't think they can get on a cell network right now, for example. So if you decide to flash it with Debian you have yourself a really expensive handheld computer with a touchscreen and wifi. Woohoo. There' other options out there for that.
Quick rundown of the pros and cons I've noticed as I've watched the coverage:
Pros:
Open source, SDK available
Not application-locked
Automatic internet-based sync, not based on a PC
GUI looks very user-friendly
Push Gmail. Rock on.
A physical keyboard. With pushy clicky buttons. Yes, I went there, iPhone fanbois and gals.
Cons:
No A2DP yet, and no 3.5mm stereo jack to make up for it. Although supposedly A2DP is coming soon.
No tethering. Although I suppose there will be a 3rd party app written for this soon.
No video capture. Would be nice to take video and directly upload to youtube. Although as above,I suppose there will be a 3rd party app written for this soon.
No Exchange syncing. This makes it a bit difficult to integrate into a corporate setting.
No multitouch. I'd figure with the next generation of smartphones with big screens this wouldve been a no-brainer.
T-Mobile's 3G coverage is still spotty. I don't know whether my area will be getting 3G anytime soon... I hope so! Along with this point, the phone will be only available in-store in areas where there is 3G coverage.
I think I will be sitting out on the first generation of Android. If the next generation of android phones has as many improvements as there were from iPhone 1.0 to 2.0, i will be a a very happy camper.
Assuming I'm reading this correctly... there already is a market for cameras with built-in wifi. Canon has a few models; one that comes to mind is the SD430. Nikon also has a few models. Even Kodak has an SD-sized Wifi adapter. I am also aware of adapters for professional high-end cameras, i.e. the Canon WTF-E1.
It's a selective market because not everyone will be able to take advantage of the full benefit. If you are a corporate photographer, for example, it might be nice to be able to have your photos automatically uploaded to your network share as you snap photos at board meetings and whatnot. On the other hand, I don't think Wifi will do you much good on your African Safari trip.
All in all, this article is just another slashvertisement. Just another company probably trying to get the word out about their new product - hardly anything revolutionary. The market already exists, it is a niche market, and no, I will not be paying a hundred f**king dollars for it.
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x86 is horrible for graphics processing compared to a stream processor. when it comes to performing repetitive calculations on a constant stream of data a gpu will beat a cpu any day. yes, that is even with hyperthreading and streaming SIMD.
Here at the University of Kentucky, Linux support is kind of spotty. Some IT guys support it, others don't. When I was doing biology research at the University back when I was a high school student, the sysadmin for the building with my lab was a diehard Windows/Dell guy, and discouraged use of other stuff, saying he couldn't guarantee data integrity, etc etc. When I moved on to computer science research, the sysadmins in that part of campus tend to be anything-but-Windows types. In the fine arts department, the sysadmins tend to be more partial to Apples.
If you live on campus, though, the campus internet (ResNet) people officially only support PC and Mac, and they only support it if your computer is directly connected to the connection they provide. If you have a router between you and the campus network, you are required to remove it and directly connect to the cable modem or other gateway device that they provide. I think the policy is bollocks, but judging from the stories I've heard of how inept some of the L1 techs are, maybe it is better that way...
If you believe in numerology...
Apollo 13 ended happily with capsule and crew recovered, yet we lost 7 astronauts twice. And you thought 13 was supposed to be unlucky and 7 was supposed to be lucky...
They represent the European Space Agency, which is why they were just labeled as European. Please direct any further complaints to the ESA main office, or the EU headquarters.
I don't think you should get flamed for this. I agree with you that this particular case in the article (soundtrack for a slideshow) is a poor example of fair use at best.
There are four considerations for fair use in US copyright law:
The case holds up well on points (1) and (4), it is not for profit and is for a very limited audience. On (2) and (3), it's used without modification and is not changed enough to be transformative (even if the audio quality was degraded), so it completely fails these points.
However, There are plenty of other cases where most if not all aspects of fair use are clearly present, but the content was removed anyway. In one case, WMG ordered the takedown of a video of a girl singing 'Winter Wonderland'. Also, numerous AMVs (Anime Music Videos) have been taken down that provide parody of and artistic commentary on the original subject materials. It is this blanket, cluster-bomb approach that is the problem. It's completely unfair (and illegal) for content holders to tread on our fair use rights, even if it is in the name of the supposedly noble cause of fighting piracy.
I thought they were claiming the use of copyrighted material infringed upon the copyright laws, not simply that the copyrighted material was present. Wouldn't consideration of fair use fall under the determination of whether or not copyright infringement was committed?
"I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
IANAL, but it seems obvious to me that misrepresenting something that is clearly fair use as something that isn't means that the notification was NOT accurate. Therefore, the law firm representing the copyright holder (and possibly the copyright holder themselves) should have charges of perjury filed against them. I haven't seen the EFF file any countersuits like this yet, though...
Well, they're mostly wrong, but partially right. All things considered, the biggest security risk isn't the web browser used, it's the incompetent organic mass between the keyboard and the chair.
It still amazes me how many people really think they're the 1,000,000th visitor to a site, and that they've actually won something because of it.
One thing about botnets... I don't really understand why there couldn't be a blacklist of known botnet controllers maintained by a trusted authority (SANS, or perhaps a collaboration of the leading AV vendors, for example) that ISPs could use to block their customers from connecting to. Or, they could even go one step further and shut off the customers connecting to botnets until they're sure the customers have cleaned their computers.
Yeah, I live in a Bose-Einstein condensate, you insensitive clod!
Well, if you put a magnet on him and wound wire around the coffin that could be a clean source of electricity...
Don't worry, this is slashdot, everyone RTFA's.
No matter how you look at the numbers, PS3 lost, even before it came out. I know people who gotten the PS3 just as a Blu-Ray player, simply because they were cheaper than stand-alone Blu-Ray players at the time, and they have not gotten any games for it. Of course now that stand-alone Blu-Ray players are actually cheaper than PS3s, that market share is no longer there either.
They need to drop the price point to be just slightly above the average Blu-Ray player to be competitive, I think. Which will never happen, seeing as how Sony has been taking the financial blow from the PS3 since well before it was released. To have a $200 loss on each PS3 sold would be just far too much.
I think they meant more that they're on track to scale it up for mass production at volumes that will hopefully meet the demand. I'm glad they're on target, I'm looking forward to Westmere (the 32nm Core i7 that will hopefully make it to mobile platforms by the end of next year).
Oddly enough, there were no images from 1939 to 1945 in the archive.
Brian Griffin: Uh, I'm not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945. There's just a big gap.
Tour guide: Everyone vas on vacation! On your left is Munich's first city hall, erected in 15--
Brian Griffin: Wait, what are you talking about? Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and--
Tour Guide: WE WERE INVITED! PUNCH WAS SERVED! CHECK WITH POLAND!
Brian Griffin: You can't just ignore those years. Thomas Mann fled to America because of Nazism's stranglehold on Germany.
Tour guide: Nope, nope. He left to manage a Dairy Queen.
Brian Griffin: A Dairy Queen? That's preposterous.
Tour guide: I WILL HEAR NO MORE INSINUATIONS ABOUT THE GERMAN PEOPLE!!!! NOTHING BAD HAPPENED!!!!!! SIE WERDEN SICH HINSETZEN!!! SIE WERDEN RUHIC SEIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they just couldput in a recaptcha... prevent bot bidding and help digitize books... it's win-win!
Just because it runs Debian doesn't necessarily mean it can do much else. I don't think they can get on a cell network right now, for example. So if you decide to flash it with Debian you have yourself a really expensive handheld computer with a touchscreen and wifi. Woohoo. There' other options out there for that.
Maybe they'll even appoint a Secretary of the Internet!
Pros:
Cons:
I think I will be sitting out on the first generation of Android. If the next generation of android phones has as many improvements as there were from iPhone 1.0 to 2.0, i will be a a very happy camper.
I get what you're driving at. A communications blackout can mean only one thing - invasion!
I have no problem giving you my SSID, it's the WPA2 key that I have a problem giving out ;)
http://xkcd.com/257/
Long live imperial units! I say, if God had wanted us to use metric, He would have given us ten fingers! ...
oh, crap.
to my knowledge, dreamhost isn't italian.
It's a selective market because not everyone will be able to take advantage of the full benefit. If you are a corporate photographer, for example, it might be nice to be able to have your photos automatically uploaded to your network share as you snap photos at board meetings and whatnot. On the other hand, I don't think Wifi will do you much good on your African Safari trip.
All in all, this article is just another slashvertisement. Just another company probably trying to get the word out about their new product - hardly anything revolutionary. The market already exists, it is a niche market, and no, I will not be paying a hundred f**king dollars for it.