Of course it warrants careful handling and in a perfect world all the reasearch labs and companies would halt everything until they are sure that there are none negative side effects... Yeah, right like that is ever gonna happen.
But I guess that is the price we have to pay to get rapid development inside a very special field inside science. If you look at research inside very specialiced fields inside science the last 50 or so years I think you would find out that the "pioneer time" often lacks restrictions. This makes it possible to develop new technologies, but some individuales unlucky enough to participate at the wrong time have to pay the price though.
I'n not into nayotechnology but the other day I talked about this with a friend of a friend who is taking an PhD in Biology. He said that he would be sceptical to participate in any pilot projects or test studies because everybody are rushing to get their products finished and to market.
Remember reading this article over at The Economist about efforts to cool down future HP CPU's (read: Itanium X) using inkjet heads from HP's printers and plotters to spray cooling fluid directly on the chip's surface, overcoming the bubble problem.
The article is here but unfortunatly it's pay per wiew.
The article also mentioned that future (within 2005) CPU's will generate five to ten times more heat.
The feedback mechanism inside this inkjet head included a sensor so the squirt can be directed to the hottest areas. Really cool. No phun intended.
As an norwegian i'm supposed to know a lot about our legal system, so I should try to explain why and how it differs from the US system.
First: Norway, is a small country with far less crime than USA pr. innhabitant. This makes it possible for convicted to appeal their case, and for the prosecutors to apeal the case without creating chaos because of too many cases in the highest court instances. In US, which have a much more crime, the number of appeals, from both sides, would have crippled the system.
I would say that there is a fair number of "checks and balances" in the Norwegian Court System. The prosecutors can't allways appeal, because of limited budget, they can't afford it if _all_ of their cases would go to the next court instance. And, apealing all the cases would in some way reducing their right to apeal as a special power the prosecutors have.
On the other hand: The prosecuted, in this case Jon Johansen, is covered by the state, as *all the cost of having a lawyer is paid by the state*. And in contrast to "some other countries", you don't get only those lawyers which failed to get a better paid job. After what I have heard, the "quality" of the public lawyers in USA ain't that good. You can choose any lawyer you wan't and the goverment pays. The problem is rather that some of the good lawyers are quite busy. So the problem of losing all your money because an appeal isn't that problematic. But of course there is always an uncertainty with an apeal.
Among proffesionals in the Norwegian systems i think most people think that the risk of convicting an innocent person is far smaller than in Norway compared to USA. And the implications from convicting someone falsely is far smaller than US because of not so hard "punishment".
Compared to US, Norways maximum sentence is 21 years behind bars. And most murders get away with 10-15 years, probation after 6-10. Economic crime have maximum 15 years if I remember right. And I can't remember anyone getting more than 8 years (!)(i think is was some kind of organized bankfraud). So I Jon is found guilty, he won't get more than 1 year. Maximum. As for damages or expenses he have to cover or pay back; I doubt he would get more than $10000.
I reckon that there is some US centric views on this topic. But in a hypotetical situation I would have choosen too stand in front on the Norwegian legal system, rather than the US legal system, double jeopardy or not.
[Double jeopardy or not, it aint no good if you are innocently convicted for manslaughter and sentenced to death.(or 300 years behind bars)]
I usually back off when i hear the word multimedia Multimedia is so 1995....
It's the taste of a tiny 14", IBM Aptiva, Windows 95, 2X CD-ROM, SoundBlaster and that new interactive "Internet-thing". *Shrug*
How many copy-protected CDs were they selling a day?
The point that i was trying to make about telling that they where selling 1000-1500 cds a day was that since they are a large record store that probably are representative for how the situation on return-rate is.
He said that large quantities of copy-protected cd's didnt arive until December. Then Foo Fighters(BMG), Shania Twain(Universal), Shakira(Epic) and a couple of other large mainstream artists came on copy-protected cds.
He estimated that they had sold somewhere between 8000 and 12000 cds with 2 diffrent methods of copy-protection. This gives a return rate well under 1% of total sales.
But this aint US so your milage may vary.
If the CD won't play in my car, I'd call that pretty poor availability.
Yes, I agree with you on that, but I did not see anything in the CNET article that indicated that the cds were incompatible with car-stereos. I know that this has been mentioned before and people have talked about incompability issuses but the record companies will probably try to minimize this probleme since most people whom listen to music are in the groups that RIAA companies think are less likely to "steal" the cd's.
But even if there is some from RIAA's point of wiew "colleteral damage" they would probable ignore it because that's what most of their customers would do. It's cynical to think this way, but most people don't care about whither the record they are buying are following the original Philips CD standard or not.
First, I do agree on 95% on your opinion about copy-protection on CD's.
But..
1. lots of people bitching and returning disks because they won't play in there car player or on their DVD.
Sorry but that won't happen. Most people, the average Joe user simply dont care. They dont give a shit as long as they can play their cds on the cdplayer. For their sake the RIAA companies could start putting programs that invade their privacy and monitor their behavior. RIAA-companies could start filling their CD's with annoying pop-up ads or force them to use a dubious DRM-scheme.
And 95% of the cd-buying population would ignore it and still continue buying cd's.
The thing most people care about is price and availability.
A friend of mine who work part-time in a large record store (city with 300k population) told me that after they started sellinng cd's with copy-protection last summer the total number of returned CD's was totaling.......*silence waiting for the numbers*...... "somewhere between 25 and 50".
And they are selling something like 1000-1500 cs's a day (open 7 days a week). Go figure.
The GSM Association. have a press statement over at their site. It's a reply to Californian Congressman Darrell Issa's letter to Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence from Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association and Member of its Board.
"Congressman Issa's intervention that GSM is an 'outdated French standard' is as ill-timed as it is misinformed. At the moment our first priority must be to offer our support and sympathies to the people putting their lives on the line to liberate Iraq.
The right time to debate the technology will be when the real conflict is over. And at that time we should look at the real facts, not the Congressman's ill advised opinion. To suggest that GSM is simply a European or French standard is, in the current climate, quite outrageous.
GSM stands for 'Global System for Mobile Communications' and its users can roam throughout the world on the same phone with the same number.
GSM is used by almost one billion consumers and on every continent of the world, with 550 operators across 193 countries.
GSM is a worldwide standard accounting for 72 per cent of the digital wireless market today.
GSM is an 'open standard', which means any manufacturer from any country can make GSM equipment on a 'level playing field' - including North American companies such as Motorola, Lucent and Nortel. Global manufacturers supporting this open standard include Samsung, Panasonic, NEC, Toshiba, Nokia, Ericsson, Mitsubishi, Siemens and many more.
Major network operators in the USA offer GSM services such as AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile USA and in Canada it is provided by Microcell.
GSM is already deployed in every country of the Middle East region - CDMA is not deployed in any.
GSM was installed in Afghanistan post-war by an American company (TSI of New York) after a full tender process.
Today, there are more than 20 Arab countries with GSM networks and 60 million customers in the region. Iraq, of course, has been under UN Sanctions and therefore has not been able to purchase GSM technology.
Therefore, the suggestion that CDMA technology be deployed in Iraq post war is completely at odds with the rest of the region and the majority of the world. It would add to the country's isolation and arguably be at odds with the overall war effort.
I can't believe someone has started this debate at this time, and I certainly can't believe it has been started from such a false position and on such nationalistic terms."
Allthough they offcourse have an interst in having GSM selected as the Iraq standard their arguments sounds a hole lot better to me.
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al-Jazeera is the Fox News of the Arab world or Fox news is the al-Jazeera of the Western world.
I understand that this was intended to be a sort of funny/ironic joke.
Howerver, comparing al-Jazeera with Fox News is not very accurate. If you abseloutly want to compare them with something it makes much more sence if yiu compare them with CNN.
Fox News is from an international wiew a very nationalistic channel, promoting values that they think is important from an american wiewpoint. CNN and al-Jazeera on the other hand are more internatinal. CNN with a slightly western bias and al-Jazeera with a slightly arabic bias.
Whats realy intersting is that al-Jazeera now got some new competitors; Abu Dhabi and al-Arabiyya.
More about this over at BBC.
Yup, this is a good thing.
Dubious copy- protecting schemes haev started to becom standard whither we like it or not. So a law requireing the manufacturer to mark their goods properly is good news.
In a perfect world they would have done this anyway without legislation, "because the customer is allways right", but it looks like that aint going to happen.
YPG servers are based out of the Netherlands Antilles
If this is correct, that they are hosting the servers at the Netherland Antilles no serious gamers will play there. Imagine the horrendous ping everyone will get...
In online First Person Shooters latency is _extremly_ important. Anything below 50 ms aint worth playing at.
And according to numbers from Gamespy about how many people playing what game; they should of course selected Countestrike or Quake instead. I doubt there is a pay-for-money market for RTCW.
It's hard to find any technical description since its pretty new and there is no JDEC-standard yet.
But the key that makes it worth the extra bucks is the fact that DDR-II delivers twice the external bandwidth of a standard DDR solution for the same internal frequency. The 1.8-volt device features a high-speed data transfer rate of 533Mbps that can be extended to 667Mbps for networks and special system environments.
The last year chip-makers have released diffrent DDR chips with increasing frequency like DDR 266, DDR333 and DDR400. But its limited how much higher its possible to go so instead they are trying to add another sort of "bus" inside the chip.
The reason they started producing DDR (vs. SDR) is because it's much easier to implement such a double data rate (DDR) bus than it is to actually double the clock rate of a bus. So DDR allows you to instantly double a bus's peak bandwidth without all the hassle and expense of a higher frequency bus.
Sharri Berg, vice president for news operations for Fox News, is concerned that as the action heats up in the region Inmarsat will not have enough capacity to handle all the demand. "There are 600 members of the media embedded there, all using the same satellite phones," Berg said. She noted that Inmarsat declined to sign contracts with media companies that would have guaranteed access to a satellite. "I think Inmarsat feels they need to meet the military's demand," Berg said.
Yeah, meeting the demand; just like Fox News.
[Maybe i'll burn some karma on this one, but after watching Fox News coverage off the Iraq-war for a couple of hours I just had too.]
I think that these issues are important. Google is probably the most significant reference work in the world. It's made very fundamental changes in the ways people do research. news.google.com is already one of my main news sites -- I use it all the time.
Yep! And it's even more important.
The last year Google have expanded from "just being" a search engine to something more.
1.They started their news section. news section which in a way gives them some editorial responsibillity.
2. They bought Pyra Labs so they could get Blogger.com. This gives them 200.000 active blogs which they a. Have some kind of responsibility in. b. "Have to" search trough an index in their search engine.
3. Google have like everyone else started to run services for advertisers whom pays to get their ad when people search for "Britney Spears". But what if the RIAA companies and other businesses in the future trie to pressure google into not displaying links to for example P2P-services or alternative music pages?
I mean, right now, Overture and Google's way of dealing with this is probably ok, but if its possible to earn some cash on letting out certain results than it's an option for any business.
How Google deals with these questions is important now and its likely to become even more important when google expand their buisness to even more news, blogging and "pay to click".
Hmm... Sometimes I miss something like a "slashdot.org" for politics instead of technology.
When "big things are happenning in the world" the "Stuff that matters" slogan becomes really stupid.
A discussion/news site like slashdot with topics and issues such as: Regional issuses, war and peace, liberal rights, elections, environmental stuff, research, social matters, education and economy.
I don't know if there is a market for such a site but I would have appreciated it.
I agree. Calling it(GNU/Linux)"unix" is like calling all computers a "PC". It's not only wrong, but it makes it difficault for outsiders and not techies to understand the difference.
The standard slashdot rant about "building a house for the future":
Walls? -You don't need it. When I was at your age..blah blah.. lived outside..blah blah..
Electricity? -You don't need it. Use your self and the heath from your body.. blah blah..
Steel? Wood? -You don't need it. When I was a kid.. blah blah.. If you insist; use some stone. After all they still call it the Stonage.
Technology? Damn important man! Nothing but: [INSERT PREFERED CABLING = Optical, Cat6, CAt7, Cowboyneal Automatic Cable Guy]
You just can't live withoud decent wiring!
From the News.com article it seems like they don't want this case to end in the court, but rather to strike a deal with IBM.
Quoted from the article:
SCO also sent a letter Thursday demanding that if IBM doesn't meet various demands, SCO will revoke IBM's license to ship its version of Unix, called AIX, in 100 days.
They _know_ that this will hurt IBM much more than getting an non-disclosure agreement with SCO over some lump of dollars.
But their argument that Linux could not hav been developed with such a speed compared to UNIX is rather weak.
Between 1997 and 1999, a total of approximately 700,000 G51 series monitors were manufactured for IBM in Malaysia and China by LiteOn Technology International, Inc. Approximately 117,000 monitors that could potentially include this component were shipped worldwide, and about 56,000 were sold in the U.S.
They are withdrawing all the 117,000:
If you live outside of the US, click here. for a list of phone numbers to contact a repair center.
[rant] It's only the US-centric slashdot, who want us Europeans to burn...;-)[/rant]
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Anyone except me that see the irony in the fact that those who wrote the paper Defending against an internet-based attack on the physical world displays their physichal world location on the top of the paper?
But I guess that is the price we have to pay to get rapid development inside a very special field inside science. If you look at research inside very specialiced fields inside science the last 50 or so years I think you would find out that the "pioneer time" often lacks restrictions. This makes it possible to develop new technologies, but some individuales unlucky enough to participate at the wrong time have to pay the price though.
I'n not into nayotechnology but the other day I talked about this with a friend of a friend who is taking an PhD in Biology. He said that he would be sceptical to participate in any pilot projects or test studies because everybody are rushing to get their products finished and to market.
The article is here but unfortunatly it's pay per wiew.
The article also mentioned that future (within 2005) CPU's will generate five to ten times more heat.
The feedback mechanism inside this inkjet head included a sensor so the squirt can be directed to the hottest areas. Really cool. No phun intended.
SpinRite is quite fast even on slower machines.
Checks data for failure, refreshes data and in teory prevents hard-disk failure. Post-Disaster Data Recovery capable.
Saved my day many times.
[And please don't start a Gibson-flamewar.. ;-)]
It looks like they managed to make it look like..original..
With a dual CPU capable MB this could become a winner
First: Norway, is a small country with far less crime than USA pr. innhabitant. This makes it possible for convicted to appeal their case, and for the prosecutors to apeal the case without creating chaos because of too many cases in the highest court instances. In US, which have a much more crime, the number of appeals, from both sides, would have crippled the system.
I would say that there is a fair number of "checks and balances" in the Norwegian Court System. The prosecutors can't allways appeal, because of limited budget, they can't afford it if _all_ of their cases would go to the next court instance. And, apealing all the cases would in some way reducing their right to apeal as a special power the prosecutors have.
On the other hand: The prosecuted, in this case Jon Johansen, is covered by the state, as *all the cost of having a lawyer is paid by the state*. And in contrast to "some other countries", you don't get only those lawyers which failed to get a better paid job. After what I have heard, the "quality" of the public lawyers in USA ain't that good. You can choose any lawyer you wan't and the goverment pays. The problem is rather that some of the good lawyers are quite busy. So the problem of losing all your money because an appeal isn't that problematic. But of course there is always an uncertainty with an apeal.
Among proffesionals in the Norwegian systems i think most people think that the risk of convicting an innocent person is far smaller than in Norway compared to USA. And the implications from convicting someone falsely is far smaller than US because of not so hard "punishment".
Compared to US, Norways maximum sentence is 21 years behind bars. And most murders get away with 10-15 years, probation after 6-10. Economic crime have maximum 15 years if I remember right. And I can't remember anyone getting more than 8 years (!)(i think is was some kind of organized bankfraud). So I Jon is found guilty, he won't get more than 1 year. Maximum. As for damages or expenses he have to cover or pay back; I doubt he would get more than $10000.
I reckon that there is some US centric views on this topic. But in a hypotetical situation I would have choosen too stand in front on the Norwegian legal system, rather than the US legal system, double jeopardy or not.
[Double jeopardy or not, it aint no good if you are innocently convicted for manslaughter and sentenced to death.(or 300 years behind bars)]
I usually back off when i hear the word multimedia
Multimedia is so 1995....
It's the taste of a tiny 14", IBM Aptiva, Windows 95, 2X CD-ROM, SoundBlaster and that new interactive "Internet-thing". *Shrug*
The point that i was trying to make about telling that they where selling 1000-1500 cds a day was that since they are a large record store that probably are representative for how the situation on return-rate is.
He said that large quantities of copy-protected cd's didnt arive until December. Then Foo Fighters(BMG), Shania Twain(Universal), Shakira(Epic) and a couple of other large mainstream artists came on copy-protected cds.
He estimated that they had sold somewhere between 8000 and 12000 cds with 2 diffrent methods of copy-protection. This gives a return rate well under 1% of total sales.
But this aint US so your milage may vary.
But even if there is some from RIAA's point of wiew "colleteral damage" they would probable ignore it because that's what most of their customers would do. It's cynical to think this way, but most people don't care about whither the record they are buying are following the original Philips CD standard or not.
Sorry but that won't happen.
Most people, the average Joe user simply dont care. They dont give a shit as long as they can play their cds on the cdplayer. For their sake the RIAA companies could start putting programs that invade their privacy and monitor their behavior. RIAA-companies could start filling their CD's with annoying pop-up ads or force them to use a dubious DRM-scheme.
And 95% of the cd-buying population would ignore it and still continue buying cd's.
The thing most people care about is price and availability.
A friend of mine who work part-time in a large record store (city with 300k population) told me that after they started sellinng cd's with copy-protection last summer the total number of returned CD's was totaling.......*silence waiting for the numbers*...... "somewhere between 25 and 50".
And they are selling something like 1000-1500 cs's a day (open 7 days a week). Go figure.
Communication/Electronics is the sector that contributed most text to the Issa for congress 2002-campaign.
I guess it was time to pay back..
I understand that this was intended to be a sort of funny/ironic joke.
Howerver, comparing al-Jazeera with Fox News is not very accurate. If you abseloutly want to compare them with something it makes much more sence if yiu compare them with CNN.
Fox News is from an international wiew a very nationalistic channel, promoting values that they think is important from an american wiewpoint. CNN and al-Jazeera on the other hand are more internatinal. CNN with a slightly western bias and al-Jazeera with a slightly arabic bias.
Whats realy intersting is that al-Jazeera now got some new competitors; Abu Dhabi and al-Arabiyya. More about this over at BBC.
Yup, this is a good thing.
Dubious copy- protecting schemes haev started to becom standard whither we like it or not. So a law requireing the manufacturer to mark their goods properly is good news.
In a perfect world they would have done this anyway without legislation, "because the customer is allways right", but it looks like that aint going to happen.
If this is correct, that they are hosting the servers at the Netherland Antilles no serious gamers will play there. Imagine the horrendous ping everyone will get...
In online First Person Shooters latency is _extremly_ important. Anything below 50 ms aint worth playing at.
And according to numbers from Gamespy about how many people playing what game; they should of course selected Countestrike or Quake instead. I doubt there is a pay-for-money market for RTCW.
AFAIK, MS is a US-based company...
But maybe they could have won because of their global market share?
Or a "MOST INVASIVE FOREGIN-BASED COMPANY" -award?
It's hard to find any technical description since its pretty new and there is no JDEC-standard yet.
But the key that makes it worth the extra bucks is the fact that DDR-II delivers twice the external bandwidth of a standard DDR solution for the same internal frequency. The 1.8-volt device features a high-speed data transfer rate of 533Mbps that can be extended to 667Mbps for networks and special system environments.
The last year chip-makers have released diffrent DDR chips with increasing frequency like DDR 266, DDR333 and DDR400. But its limited how much higher its possible to go so instead they are trying to add another sort of "bus" inside the chip.
The reason they started producing DDR (vs. SDR) is because it's much easier to implement such a double data rate (DDR) bus than it is to actually double the clock rate of a bus. So DDR allows you to instantly double a bus's peak bandwidth without all the hassle and expense of a higher frequency bus.
DDR-II is made thinking in the same way.
Yeah, meeting the demand; just like Fox News.
[Maybe i'll burn some karma on this one, but after watching Fox News coverage off the Iraq-war for a couple of hours I just had too.]
Yep! And it's even more important.
The last year Google have expanded from "just being" a search engine to something more.
1.They started their news section. news section which in a way gives them some editorial responsibillity.
2. They bought Pyra Labs so they could get Blogger.com. This gives them 200.000 active blogs which they a. Have some kind of responsibility in. b. "Have to" search trough an index in their search engine.
3. Google have like everyone else started to run services for advertisers whom pays to get their ad when people search for "Britney Spears". But what if the RIAA companies and other businesses in the future trie to pressure google into not displaying links to for example P2P-services or alternative music pages?
I mean, right now, Overture and Google's way of dealing with this is probably ok, but if its possible to earn some cash on letting out certain results than it's an option for any business.
How Google deals with these questions is important now and its likely to become even more important when google expand their buisness to even more news, blogging and "pay to click".
Hmm...
Sometimes I miss something like a "slashdot.org" for politics instead of technology.
When "big things are happenning in the world" the "Stuff that matters" slogan becomes really stupid.
A discussion/news site like slashdot with topics and issues such as: Regional issuses, war and peace, liberal rights, elections, environmental stuff, research, social matters, education and economy.
I don't know if there is a market for such a site but I would have appreciated it.
I agree. Calling it(GNU/Linux)"unix" is like calling all computers a "PC". It's not only wrong, but it makes it difficault for outsiders and not techies to understand the difference.
Walls? -You don't need it. When I was at your age..blah blah.. lived outside
Electricity? -You don't need it. Use your self and the heath from your body.. blah blah..
Steel? Wood? -You don't need it. When I was a kid.. blah blah.. If you insist; use some stone. After all they still call it the Stonage.
Technology? Damn important man! Nothing but:
[INSERT PREFERED CABLING = Optical, Cat6, CAt7, Cowboyneal Automatic Cable Guy] You just can't live withoud decent wiring!
I guess this confirms this:
Check this URL for the ultimate truth about yourself.
[Not ment to be flaimbate, he's probably smarter than most people.]
Quoted from the article:
They _know_ that this will hurt IBM much more than getting an non-disclosure agreement with SCO over some lump of dollars.
But their argument that Linux could not hav been developed with such a speed compared to UNIX is rather weak.
They are withdrawing all the 117,000:
[rant] ;-)[/rant]
It's only the US-centric slashdot, who want us Europeans to burn...