Synapses are more than eigther fireing or not, they can fire with variable strength. And each neuron has several associated synapses, many in and one out.
Whether or not the outgoing synapse is fire and how strong is determined by the imputs and internal 'settings'. Not a binary situation at all.
Though IANA neurologist or anything related so my laymans understanding is probably a bit simplistic and not in complete alignment with the facts.
Because it's the job of the sender to indicate Desired TTL, it's the job of each hop along the route to try and 'enforce' this.
re-read what was cited, it's pretty clear that the originator has no burden to determine how long it'll take to reach and be processed at each stop. Notice who's responsible for decrementing the ttl and who's responsible for discarding packets when thier ttl drops to 0.
Suppose I send out something with a ttl of 5, and along the way it goes through a few not-so well configured routers and gets bounced off of goe-sync sats a dozen times. By you're reasoning my process should never have sent the packet in the first place because it should have known it'd take to long even though no mechanism exists for it to know.
It really only makes sense that transit time is NOT part of the protocal (as not really thought about when writing it, thus the confusion the use of seconds often causes). Note that it never mentions signal time but refers to processing time. TTL is max # hops/operations on packet, or total time being actually handled or held by a process as measured in seconds(if known) with max value off 255.
TCP IIRC doese however provide mechanisms that reflect round trip time limits. There has been discussion about what happens to the internet when we need to it to reach off planet (Moon/Mars). IP's issue was mostly address space (though newer versions of IP have MUCH bigger address spaces) IIRC, and TCP was the one with lag issues.
I'd have to dig for the details, but I've been up 21 hours on 6 hours sleep so that'll have to wait.
Actually nothing you cite says the sender has to be aware of or compensate for speed-of-light delays of this magnitude. At best it implies the recieving unit is responsible for correcting the ttl field, and even then only requires a decrement of one in the case where the reciever does not know the elapsed time to 'process' the datagram.
IP was designed with terrestrial (and perhaps orbital satalite) networks in mind and doesn't adress the issue or even aknowledge it.
My point was that outrageous durations on copyright effectively grant TWO inheritances. Take two people who make the same anual income, one a surgeon and the other a good musician. Now assume they both invest thier income in a nearly identical way (same stocks, life insurance, homes next door to each other etc.) and both have a s.o. and two children.
Now suppose they both die in the same plane crash, who's children will be better off? The musician most likely as while the surgeon has stoped getting a paycheck while the musician's familly will still keep getting paychecks in the form of royalties assuming he managed to hang onto his copyrights.
First all that's left of all the money he made while alive, then the income from all the copyrights.
My job won't keep paying me after I die, in fact it pays alot less than while I'm alive now than he made while alive, yet that's all I get to leavemy heirs.
Already done it looks like: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7767. I seem to recall a/. article as well about it. Though this one is under Oregon's RICO statute, and not at the federal.
Sony's board would be quite happy with this(if you got enough people buying into it).
You'd wind raising the stock price and effectively giving them MORE $$ to fund the *aa's with while shuffling thier public stock from one set of random people to another.
You do realize that regular people do own Sony stock through thier 401k's and other investment/retirement plans? As presented what you propose is just a bit of reshuffling of the stock.
What's needed along these lines is for share-holders in *AA companies to tell the various boards to start behaving ethically or they'll fire the boards or sell off.
Activation is about controll for profit's sake, not stopping illeagle copies. ALL schemes that require the goodwill of the vendor for you use the software will eventually result in "sorry we no longer support that product, you'll need to buy a newer version". I suppose it's possible for company to be just that paranoid and stupid, but that doesn't guarantee they won't go bankrupt or get bought out or get greedy later.
There have unfortunately been evil scientist. The Medical experiments in Nazi Germany come to mind for one (though I don't know how well the conformed to scientific methods).
It's just that with Religeon and it's basis in faith I see a greater potential for the extreems of human nature. A greater tendancy draw in the Mother Theresa and OBL's of humanity.
Then again I had surgery a few days ago so maybe I'm just out of it from the meds.:)
Dunno which country you live in. But none of my dvd movies display any such claim of license agreement(what would be the point, I've already bought it, little late to offer any sort of contractual arrangement). What I see when I first put the dvd in the player is a Copyright notice in at least two languages.
I own the actual copy of the movie, it's just that most rights to copy and make money off of it are restricted to the copyright holder.
RE: your sig. I pretty much think web sites that lock crap down how they liked it (I assume drunk and on 1322x906 or other odd res monitor) are bad myself, ESPECIALLY the ones that do the whole microtype thing. However if you're not stuck using IE or some other braindead browser you can get around this. I set firefox up to enforce MY prefered minimum font sizes ( also CTRL+ and CTRL-).
Just a thought I hope helps.
You might want to read a series of books by Leo Frankowski. The series is called "The Adventures of Conrad Stargard" and is published by Delrey(Ballantine).
The premise is what would happen if a modern engineer wound up in 13th century Poland just before the mongol invasion (the series starts about 9 years before and goes to some years past it).
All kinds of fun and not so fun things happen over at least 6 books as Conrad winds up industializing Poland, creating a modern-ish army (with a modified boy-scout oath as part of thier training), invents his own version of the playbloy club, and a bunches of other things.
The titles of the first five books are: "The Cross-Time Engineer" "The High-Tech Knight" "The Radiant Warrior" "The Flying Warlord" "Lord Conrad's Lady" There is also one calle IIRC "The Quest for Rubber" or some such.
Actually the Pluto Chiron pair come closer to what you describe. The moon is fairly large as such things go, but there is still a significant disparity relative to Earth.
The common point at which the Earth and Moon both 'orbit' stays significantly below the surface of the Earth, thus the Moon orbits the Earth.
At least that's how I learned it.
My info is a bit dated and second hand, but it's my understanding that in a majority of cases the ARTIST pay for the studio time and such, or rather they have to pay back the label out of thier profits. If the album fails to make enough money the artist probably still owe for that costs.
The lables take a bit of risk on the 'loan' to the artist and on advertising and distribution costs. Though if this is innacurate of out of date someone please speak up.
You have to very load and clear about boycott type actions here though. Otherwise the drop in sales is going to be percieved (or claimed) to be due to increased copying and NOT due to the boycott.
Except in the case of Iraq it wasn't the case of a random search or wiretype for no reason or any of the other cases where such arguing is stupid, if it was I'd agree 100%.
The case here is more akin (not perfectly, no anology is) to someone caught red handed doing something illeagle and agreeing to regular drug testing as a condition of probation then he starts missing most of the scheduled tests and on the rare occasion he does take one making chemicals are found or the urine tests for type AB- when he's type O+. Shure it's possible he's not doing drugs and just trying to 'screw the man' or somehow boost his rep with his pals, but that's NOT the point and he's still likely to wind up in jail.
If by drm you include the various forms of copy protection, It did indeed exist before 1986.
Lots of commodore=64+1541 owners had nice little utilities to deal with deliberate error 23's and 21's for starters, and half track data and so on and so on.
I have two memories of significant packard hell moments. The first was trying to help a friend upgrade one he had, NOTHING was standard sized (except the isa slots, though they were spaced a bit off) in an attempt to force you to go through them and only them.
The other is eigther good or bad or both depending on point of view.
I had a 14" monitor of thiers that was a few years past it's prime. I was online at the time chatting to someone on irc when I herd this odd noise comming from behind the monitor. The image was normal so I didn't suspect the noise as being related to the monitor. After a few seconds it was anoying me enough over the sound of the box fan in the room I excused myself online and walked around to where the noise seemed to be comming from. There were visible FLAMES inside the monitor, I quickly pulled the plug on it and blind typed "gotto go, monitors is on fire" before shutting down the rest of the system.
Inspection showed the sodder joint where power cable was attached inside to be the center of the burn on the heavy pcb, no components were aparently close enough to be damaged durring the ten to twenty seconds this all took (from when I first heard the noise).
I know a lot of people online complain and moan and whine about WinME, but I never really had that much of a problem with.
It certainly was much better than 95 (any version) and a bit better than 98 (never ran 98se, but from what I've seen it was only marginally more stable than ME or plain 98) as far as supported tech and about the same, or close as far as stability goes.
Not that any win9x version all that good mind you, this is relative within the 9x family.
Also my expeiences just anectedotal, and likely a statistical fluke.
PNG and jpeg aren't really best for the same images, so unless this new spec of MS's is supposed to be for both photgraphic and art type images how did png get drawn into this at all?
(not specifically directed at parent poster, but alot of people keep mentioning PNG as if it was potential succesor to jpeg, when they're designed for entirely different type of images)
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Synapses are more than eigther fireing or not, they can fire with variable strength. And each neuron has several associated synapses, many in and one out.
Whether or not the outgoing synapse is fire and how strong is determined by the imputs and internal 'settings'.
Not a binary situation at all.
Though IANA neurologist or anything related so my laymans understanding is probably a bit simplistic and not in complete alignment with the facts.
Mycroft
Because it's the job of the sender to indicate Desired TTL, it's the job of each hop along the route to try and 'enforce' this.
re-read what was cited, it's pretty clear that the originator has no burden to determine how long it'll take to reach and be processed at each stop. Notice who's responsible for decrementing the ttl and who's responsible for discarding packets when thier ttl drops to 0.
Suppose I send out something with a ttl of 5, and along the way it goes through a few not-so well configured routers and gets bounced off of goe-sync sats a dozen times. By you're reasoning my process should never have sent the packet in the first place because it should have known it'd take to long even though no mechanism exists for it to know.
It really only makes sense that transit time is NOT part of the protocal (as not really thought about when writing it, thus the confusion the use of seconds often causes). Note that it never mentions signal time but refers to processing time. TTL is max # hops/operations on packet, or total time being actually handled or held by a process as measured in seconds(if known) with max value off 255.
TCP IIRC doese however provide mechanisms that reflect round trip time limits.
There has been discussion about what happens to the internet when we need to it to reach off planet (Moon/Mars). IP's issue was mostly address space (though newer versions of IP have MUCH bigger address spaces) IIRC, and TCP was the one with lag issues.
I'd have to dig for the details, but I've been up 21 hours on 6 hours sleep so that'll have to wait.
Mycroft
Actually nothing you cite says the sender has to be aware of or compensate for speed-of-light delays of this magnitude. At best it implies the recieving unit is responsible for correcting the ttl field, and even then only requires a decrement of one in the case where the reciever does not know the elapsed time to 'process' the datagram.
IP was designed with terrestrial (and perhaps orbital satalite) networks in mind and doesn't adress the issue or even aknowledge it.
Mycroft
My point was that outrageous durations on copyright effectively grant TWO inheritances.
Take two people who make the same anual income, one a surgeon and the other a good musician.
Now assume they both invest thier income in a nearly identical way (same stocks, life insurance, homes next door to each other etc.) and both have a s.o. and two children.
Now suppose they both die in the same plane crash, who's children will be better off? The musician most likely as while the surgeon has stoped getting a paycheck while the musician's familly will still keep getting paychecks in the form of royalties assuming he managed to hang onto his copyrights.
Mycroft
"John's work is his estate."
So he get's to leave TWO inheritances??
First all that's left of all the money he made while alive, then the income from all the copyrights.
My job won't keep paying me after I die, in fact it pays alot less than while I'm alive now than he made while alive, yet that's all I get to leavemy heirs.
Mycroft
"Maybe you can explain what you think the advantage of this system over a Segway-based mobile robot is."
Changes in travel direction w/o rotation of the whole bot.
In fact all sorts of sudden directional changes and steering become much simpler.
Mycroft
Already done it looks like: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7767. I seem to recall a /. article as well about it.
Though this one is under Oregon's RICO statute, and not at the federal.
Mycroft
Sony's board would be quite happy with this(if you got enough people buying into it).
You'd wind raising the stock price and effectively giving them MORE $$ to fund the *aa's with while shuffling thier public stock from one set of random people to another.
You do realize that regular people do own Sony stock through thier 401k's and other investment/retirement plans?
As presented what you propose is just a bit of reshuffling of the stock.
What's needed along these lines is for share-holders in *AA companies to tell the various boards to start behaving ethically or they'll fire the boards or sell off.
Mycroft
Heck, they're even in the same town.
Intell's people could just take short drive for lunch
and pick up Invidia on the back to the office.
Mycroft
Activation is about controll for profit's sake, not stopping illeagle copies.
ALL schemes that require the goodwill of the vendor for you use the software
will eventually result in "sorry we no longer support that product, you'll need to
buy a newer version". I suppose it's possible for company to be just that paranoid
and stupid, but that doesn't guarantee they won't go bankrupt or get bought out or
get greedy later.
Mycroft
There have unfortunately been evil scientist. The Medical experiments in Nazi Germany come to mind for one (though I don't know how well the conformed to scientific methods). :)
It's just that with Religeon and it's basis in faith I see a greater potential for the extreems of human nature. A greater tendancy draw in the Mother Theresa and OBL's of humanity.
Then again I had surgery a few days ago so maybe I'm just out of it from the meds.
Mycroft
Dunno which country you live in. But none of my dvd movies display any such claim of license agreement(what would be the point, I've already bought it, little late to offer any sort of contractual arrangement).
What I see when I first put the dvd in the player is a Copyright notice in at least two languages.
I own the actual copy of the movie, it's just that most rights to copy and make money off of it are restricted to the copyright holder.
Mycroft
RE: your sig.
I pretty much think web sites that lock crap down how they liked it (I assume drunk and on 1322x906 or other odd res monitor) are bad myself, ESPECIALLY the ones that do the whole microtype thing.
However if you're not stuck using IE or some other braindead browser you can get around this. I set firefox up to enforce MY prefered minimum font sizes ( also CTRL+ and CTRL-).
Just a thought I hope helps.
Mycroft
You might want to read a series of books by Leo Frankowski.
The series is called "The Adventures of Conrad Stargard" and is published by Delrey(Ballantine).
The premise is what would happen if a modern engineer wound up in 13th century Poland just before the mongol invasion (the series starts about 9 years before and goes to some years past it).
All kinds of fun and not so fun things happen over at least 6 books as Conrad winds up industializing Poland, creating a modern-ish army (with a modified boy-scout oath as part of thier training), invents his own version of the playbloy club, and a bunches of other things.
The titles of the first five books are:
"The Cross-Time Engineer"
"The High-Tech Knight"
"The Radiant Warrior"
"The Flying Warlord"
"Lord Conrad's Lady"
There is also one calle IIRC "The Quest for Rubber" or some such.
Mycroft
Actually the Pluto Chiron pair come closer to what you describe. The moon is fairly large as such things go, but there is still a significant disparity relative to Earth.
Mycroft
The common point at which the Earth and Moon both 'orbit' stays significantly below the surface of the Earth, thus the Moon orbits the Earth.
At least that's how I learned it.
Mycroft
My info is a bit dated and second hand, but it's my understanding that in a majority of cases the ARTIST pay for the studio time and such, or rather they have to pay back the label out of thier profits. If the album fails to make enough money the artist probably still owe for that costs.
The lables take a bit of risk on the 'loan' to the artist and on advertising and distribution costs.
Though if this is innacurate of out of date someone please speak up.
Mycroft
You have to very load and clear about boycott type actions here though. Otherwise the drop in sales is going to be percieved (or claimed) to be due to increased copying and NOT due to the boycott.
Mycroft
Except in the case of Iraq it wasn't the case of a random search or wiretype for no reason or any of the other cases where such arguing is stupid, if it was I'd agree 100%.
The case here is more akin (not perfectly, no anology is) to someone caught red handed doing something illeagle and agreeing to regular drug testing as a condition of probation then he starts missing most of the scheduled tests and on the rare occasion he does take one making chemicals are found or the urine tests for type AB- when he's type O+. Shure it's possible he's not doing drugs and just trying to 'screw the man' or somehow boost his rep with his pals, but that's NOT the point and he's still likely to wind up in jail.
Mycroft
If by drm you include the various forms of copy protection, It did indeed exist before 1986.
Lots of commodore=64+1541 owners had nice little utilities to deal with deliberate error 23's and 21's for starters, and half track data and so on and so on.
Mycroft
I have two memories of significant packard hell moments. The first was trying to help a friend upgrade one he had, NOTHING was standard sized (except the isa slots, though they were spaced a bit off) in an attempt to force you to go through them and only them.
The other is eigther good or bad or both depending on point of view.
I had a 14" monitor of thiers that was a few years past it's prime. I was online at the time chatting to someone on irc when I herd this odd noise comming from behind the monitor. The image was normal so I didn't suspect the noise as being related to the monitor. After a few seconds it was anoying me enough over the sound of the box fan in the room I excused myself online and walked around to where the noise seemed to be comming from. There were visible FLAMES inside the monitor, I quickly pulled the plug on it and blind typed "gotto go, monitors is on fire" before shutting down the rest of the system.
Inspection showed the sodder joint where power cable was attached inside to be the center of the burn on the heavy pcb, no components were aparently close enough to be damaged durring the ten to twenty seconds this all took (from when I first heard the noise).
Mycroft
I know a lot of people online complain and moan and whine about WinME, but I never really had that much of a problem with.
It certainly was much better than 95 (any version) and a bit better than 98 (never ran 98se, but from what I've seen it was only marginally more stable than ME or plain 98) as far as supported tech and about the same, or close as far as stability goes.
Not that any win9x version all that good mind you, this is relative within the 9x family.
Also my expeiences just anectedotal, and likely a statistical fluke.
Mycroft
He's correct, Jpeg does indeed support lossless compression.
Mycroft
Never heard of jpeg-ls, but the specification for regular jpeg doese indeed include a lossless mode.
Mycroft
PNG and jpeg aren't really best for the same images, so unless this new spec of MS's is supposed to be for both photgraphic and art type images how did png get drawn into this at all?
(not specifically directed at parent poster, but alot of people keep mentioning PNG as if it was potential succesor to jpeg, when they're designed for entirely different type of images)
Mycroft