I mean...it's a site that covers a lot of linux & open source stuff (which China likes) but is also very liberal in the opinions expressed on the site.
EBay has benefitted significantly from PayPal in this regard, where even if you get screwed (which seems to happen regularly) you can recover your investment. How are you going to recover lost bandwidth once you've already downloaded something?
This is exactly what is addressed in the second part of his answer to this question in the FAQ:
Another idea that is often proposed is moderation, specifically "webs of trust." That is, people keep lists of people they trust, and then they implicitly trust (often with diminishing degree) the people they trust, and so on. In the context of P2P, the each user would then receive a "trust rating," reflecting the number of people that trust them. However, this can also be defeated fairly easily, by creating groups of malicious users that trust each other - then, untrustworthy users may have high scores leading to problems in the future. This kind of fraud has happened on eBay, where people give themselves recommendations to mislead future partners.
That makes no sense. First off, Apple would lose a DMCA-based case in no time, because what Other World Computing was doing was explicitly allowed under the DMCA in the following section of the code:
(f) Reverse Engineering.-(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a)(1)(A), a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and that have not previously been readily available to the person engaging in the circumvention, to the extent any such acts of identification and analysis do not constitute infringement under this title.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a)(2) and (b), a person may develop and employ technological means to circumvent a technological measure, or to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure, in order to enable the identification and analysis under paragraph (1), or for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, if such means are necessary to achieve such interoperability, to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title.
(3) The information acquired through the acts permitted under paragraph (1), and the means permitted under paragraph (2), may be made available to others if the person referred to in paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may be, provides such information or means solely for the purpose of enabling interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs, and to the extent that doing so does not constitute infringement under this title or violate applicable law other than this section.
(4) For purposes of this subsection, the term "interoperability" means the ability of computer programs to exchange information, and of such programs mutually to use the information which has been exchanged.
Roughly translated: You are free to reverse-engineer a copyright product (and use the method you develop) for the purposes of interopability. There is no "challenge" to the DMCA if it's already allowed under that law.
More likely is what former Apple employee Matt Deatherage (cool name) says:
Matt Deatherage, a former Apple employee who edits a daily Macintosh newsletter, said Apple's legal threat reflects the company's underlying business strategy: If iDVD is useful only on internal drives, people may buy more computers.
While this doesn't seem to be a particularly smart business strategy, it seems more likely. Would you *really* buy another $3000 computer, or just try to find 3rd party software for your 3rd party DVD burner? There might even be software already bundled with it!
came home to find a 75-second solicitation for a trip to Disyneyland (apparently it's their 100th anniversary, according to the message)
I was at Disney World over the 2000 New Year (over 2 years ago), and they were doing the 100 year anniversary then. They even had the big 100 on the globe at Epcot Center. Maybe by 100 year anniversary, they mean it lasts 100 years...
Already a French translation available..huh?
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I bought the Sen to Chihiro (Spirited Away) DVD on the way back from my last trip to Japan. Oddly enough, the sound menu offers Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0, Japanese DTS, and...French? I can't really understand the reasoning here, but it's there. There are English subtitles, but no dub.
BTW I guess in order to be able to select the language or subtitles, you'd should be able to read Japanese.;-)
p.s. The newest Ghibli movie is already in theaters in Japan (it came out when I was there) and it's called "Neko no Ongaeshi" (The Cat Returns a Favor). However, it's produced but not directed by Miyazaki Hayao, and before the movie starts is this weird cartoon called the "Gibulies" or something that was like watching one of those 60's acid trip cartoons.
p.p.s The preview included a new Godzilla movie (Japanese Godzilla, not Matthew Broderick Godzilla) in a double-feature with an animated movie with Hamtaro (the Hamster). I laughed for about 5 minutes non-stop after seeing that.
The internet is global. Although America has a bit of a stranglehold on most of the network, large portions of the internet are controlled by different governments, many of whom do not cooperate with the others. Saudi Arabia, China, and Iraq all firewall off most of the American internet hosts to suppress democracy. What makes My. Lyons think that these nations would be open to creating a "new public network" that allows free and open access?
So is every (other) public utility (e.g. postal service, telephone, etc.). Do you think mail goes to and from China uncensored? I don't see how making IP a utility will be so much different.
Blackhole lists are the rule, not the exception. Remember MAPS and ORBS, who asked participants to load ACLs onto their routers that killed off the class Cs and class Bs of suspected spammers? Well, these almost always resulted in collateral damage to unsuspecting customers of spammer-friendly ISPs. This created a dark underbelly of the internet: redlined addresses that were like the bastard half-brothers of the other hosts on the network, unable to access many important sites.
Ah, spam. Maybe this could actually help fix the spam problem to a degree. After all, there will certainly be more regulation introduced worldwide if it's considered a utility. Other than that it's not clear what you are trying to say with this. You mean, that blackholes will still exist? I imagine that if delivery is regulated this could very well change, but in spite of that there are still "blackholes" where you cannot get some current utilities already. E.g. parts of some major cities often have no 911 service. So, again, no difference between current utilities and IP.
Rogue nations need to be dealt with. Some nations, such as Korea and Russia, are widely acknowledged to have a preposterously bad record in dealing with security issues. Part of the problem is that their WHOIS system is unfriendly to English speakers; part of the problem is that their system administrators are severely overburdened and do not have time to fix r00ted systems. The problem arises in that it makes sense for Western hosts and ISPs to block traffic to and from these nations, in order to protect their own interests.
This is why the customs department, NSA, CIA, etc. exist in the first place. While they may also be dealing with things that are none of their business, they also handle security and threats from rogue nations. Thankfully I can still receive snail mail from a rogue nation even though the sender might have ill intentions. Customs regulations ensures that it probably will be carefully inspected before coming to my door. Likewise with telephone calls. Yes, I know, invasion of privacy, etc., etc. but we have been living with this type of thing for many years WRT our postal and telephone services and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
If we learned how to spell and use grammar properly. There are 4 heinous spelling and grammatical errors in the first 2 paragraphs alone:
We appretiate your concerns expressed in the e-mail below
regarding protecting the intellectual intellectual property of LucasArts
'SPU'(tm) engine - (please note that we do not believe this engine was
never called 'SCUMM' inside of LucasArts itself, check with your
programmers).
ScummVM is NOT the SPU engine as used internally by LEC. ScummVM is a
valid clone of the SPU engine, designed to facitiate the playing of
LucasArts adventures on modern machines and operating systems. ScummVM
allows the data from LEC adventures to be played on many platforms (Intel,
PocketPC, etc) and operating systems (Linux, Windows 2000, etc) which qare
not supported by your own SPU(tm) engine.
How hard is it to proofread a reply to an official legal request before clicking the "send" button? Remember that this reply could easily show up in court, where the judge could (even subconciously) use your mispellings and grammatical mistakes to bias the case against you.
Same goes with CmdrTaco and Hemos and their constant misuse of "then" vs. "than" and "their" vs. "they're". You're supposed to be professional journalists, for crying out loud! Professional journalists have EDITORS!
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Perhaps he is referring to historical (i.e. before satellites existed) temperature data.
Ok, so that means that semiconductors (actually, I believe the original poster meant superconductors) should emit microwaves as they move through a gravitational field.
Oh, Woe is me! I had to had to steal yet more money from the artists I supposedly represent to cover the costs of promotion. Since I'm only making 1400% profit instead of 1500%, I have to settle for a 911 instead of that Ferrari!
If China really establishes a mining operation on the moon, this would give them a huge tactical advantage should they choose to use it. Think about it; they don't even have to spend the money to haul or build nuclear weapons up there, all they have to do is hurl a few well-placed rocks and they could easily take out any city in the world.
I would guess my design is/was more complex. Is your proc a single pipelined RISC?
As soon as you add parallel execution, the amount of silicon required goes up dramatically. A 2-pipeline proc will take up much more than 2X the space of a single pipelined proc. Also keep in mind the 250k were "marketing" gates (effectively we had more like 180k-200k, of which a large portion were used for the writeback registy), and we also built a fairly advanced run-time debugger into the silicon as well.
It also sounds like there have been dramatic improvements in FPGAs since I did the project about 4 years ago, as one might expect given Moore's law.
My partner and I design and implemented (on a large FPGA) a VLIW microprocessor. Our processor had 2 pipelines and a 16-bit registry.
The trouble is that you can't even come close to the number of pipelines or complexity required for a *real* modern processor using an FPGA. For example, in order to save space, we had to eliminate some of the more complex operations (e.g. divide & floating point instructions, on-chip cache management, etc.). And of course we were limited to only 2 pipelines, the minimum necessary to demonstrate parallel execution, which was kinda the point of our project. This was using the largest FPGA available at the time (250k gates, although there are bigger ones out now). Also, the clock speed of our processor was only 1-2 MHz depending upon how we tweaked it. FPGA designs are nowhere near what you could get with a design layed out and etched into silicon. A typical modern processor uses gate counts in the millions, easily 10-20 times what's available in a large FPGA.
While FPGAs are useful for simulation and experimentation, in the current day and age they just aren't fast and big enough to replace modern processors. If you're into making a small 8-bit RISC processor, or maybe implementing your own 6800 (or maybe a 6502 for you non-embedded folks) design, you can probably do pretty well, however.
he Japanese are only able to maintain a defensive force, not an army, so even if it was weapons research, it would only be for use in self defense.
I guess you're unaware of the recent push in the Diet to introduce legislation to change this law (partially, at least) so that Japanese are capable of joining wars in some cases.
If you had bothered to read the article, you'd realize that the point of the lecture is to introduce and discuss mathematical concepts in an entertaining and funny way. The lecturers do not limit themselves to the jokes on the Simpsons, but use them as springboards to talk about related subjects.
"The translation service is a great application of augmented reality," said Dr. Seth Teller, an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "I had a terrible time finding my way through the Tokyo train station last month."
Just about every meaningful sign in Tokyo station is already translated into English. In fact, there are few train stations within a 50-mile radius of Tokyo that don't have English language signs, at least for the essential stuff (this way to Harajuku, etc.).
It's only when you start getting out in the country that reading signs becomes a problem for English-speaking foreigners. E.g. most stations on the Meitetsu line outside of Nagoya completely lack English-language signs. As a tip for foreign travellers in that situation I offer the following advice: follow the crowd. You are pretty much guaranteed by natural law to end up in the city center.
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I mean...it's a site that covers a lot of linux & open source stuff (which China likes) but is also very liberal in the opinions expressed on the site.
EBay has benefitted significantly from PayPal in this regard, where even if you get screwed (which seems to happen regularly) you can recover your investment. How are you going to recover lost bandwidth once you've already downloaded something?
Two chicks at the same time.
Roughly translated: You are free to reverse-engineer a copyright product (and use the method you develop) for the purposes of interopability. There is no "challenge" to the DMCA if it's already allowed under that law.
More likely is what former Apple employee Matt Deatherage (cool name) says:
While this doesn't seem to be a particularly smart business strategy, it seems more likely. Would you *really* buy another $3000 computer, or just try to find 3rd party software for your 3rd party DVD burner? There might even be software already bundled with it!
I was at Disney World over the 2000 New Year (over 2 years ago), and they were doing the 100 year anniversary then. They even had the big 100 on the globe at Epcot Center. Maybe by 100 year anniversary, they mean it lasts 100 years...
I bought the Sen to Chihiro (Spirited Away) DVD on the way back from my last trip to Japan. Oddly enough, the sound menu offers Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0, Japanese DTS, and ...French? I can't really understand the reasoning here, but it's there. There are English subtitles, but no dub.
;-)
BTW I guess in order to be able to select the language or subtitles, you'd should be able to read Japanese.
p.s. The newest Ghibli movie is already in theaters in Japan (it came out when I was there) and it's called "Neko no Ongaeshi" (The Cat Returns a Favor). However, it's produced but not directed by Miyazaki Hayao, and before the movie starts is this weird cartoon called the "Gibulies" or something that was like watching one of those 60's acid trip cartoons.
p.p.s The preview included a new Godzilla movie (Japanese Godzilla, not Matthew Broderick Godzilla) in a double-feature with an animated movie with Hamtaro (the Hamster). I laughed for about 5 minutes non-stop after seeing that.
I'm wondering if I'm the only one enjoying the irony of a CmdrTaco posting a story looking for X-Box developers.
Answer: Delicious! (although I would also have accepted "snack-tacular")
So is every (other) public utility (e.g. postal service, telephone, etc.). Do you think mail goes to and from China uncensored? I don't see how making IP a utility will be so much different.
Ah, spam. Maybe this could actually help fix the spam problem to a degree. After all, there will certainly be more regulation introduced worldwide if it's considered a utility. Other than that it's not clear what you are trying to say with this. You mean, that blackholes will still exist? I imagine that if delivery is regulated this could very well change, but in spite of that there are still "blackholes" where you cannot get some current utilities already. E.g. parts of some major cities often have no 911 service. So, again, no difference between current utilities and IP.
This is why the customs department, NSA, CIA, etc. exist in the first place. While they may also be dealing with things that are none of their business, they also handle security and threats from rogue nations. Thankfully I can still receive snail mail from a rogue nation even though the sender might have ill intentions. Customs regulations ensures that it probably will be carefully inspected before coming to my door. Likewise with telephone calls. Yes, I know, invasion of privacy, etc., etc. but we have been living with this type of thing for many years WRT our postal and telephone services and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
and not add GPS capability to it? I mean, 90% of the work is already done.
How hard is it to proofread a reply to an official legal request before clicking the "send" button? Remember that this reply could easily show up in court, where the judge could (even subconciously) use your mispellings and grammatical mistakes to bias the case against you. Same goes with CmdrTaco and Hemos and their constant misuse of "then" vs. "than" and "their" vs. "they're". You're supposed to be professional journalists, for crying out loud! Professional journalists have EDITORS!
Perhaps he is referring to historical (i.e. before satellites existed) temperature data.
Ok, so that means that semiconductors (actually, I believe the original poster meant superconductors) should emit microwaves as they move through a gravitational field.
Oh, Woe is me! I had to had to steal yet more money from the artists I supposedly represent to cover the costs of promotion. Since I'm only making 1400% profit instead of 1500%, I have to settle for a 911 instead of that Ferrari!
but did they have to name it after an 80's rap group?
If China really establishes a mining operation on the moon, this would give them a huge tactical advantage should they choose to use it. Think about it; they don't even have to spend the money to haul or build nuclear weapons up there, all they have to do is hurl a few well-placed rocks and they could easily take out any city in the world.
I would guess my design is/was more complex. Is your proc a single pipelined RISC?
As soon as you add parallel execution, the amount of silicon required goes up dramatically. A 2-pipeline proc will take up much more than 2X the space of a single pipelined proc. Also keep in mind the 250k were "marketing" gates (effectively we had more like 180k-200k, of which a large portion were used for the writeback registy), and we also built a fairly advanced run-time debugger into the silicon as well.
It also sounds like there have been dramatic improvements in FPGAs since I did the project about 4 years ago, as one might expect given Moore's law.
My partner and I design and implemented (on a large FPGA) a VLIW microprocessor. Our processor had 2 pipelines and a 16-bit registry.
The trouble is that you can't even come close to the number of pipelines or complexity required for a *real* modern processor using an FPGA. For example, in order to save space, we had to eliminate some of the more complex operations (e.g. divide & floating point instructions, on-chip cache management, etc.). And of course we were limited to only 2 pipelines, the minimum necessary to demonstrate parallel execution, which was kinda the point of our project. This was using the largest FPGA available at the time (250k gates, although there are bigger ones out now). Also, the clock speed of our processor was only 1-2 MHz depending upon how we tweaked it. FPGA designs are nowhere near what you could get with a design layed out and etched into silicon. A typical modern processor uses gate counts in the millions, easily 10-20 times what's available in a large FPGA.
While FPGAs are useful for simulation and experimentation, in the current day and age they just aren't fast and big enough to replace modern processors. If you're into making a small 8-bit RISC processor, or maybe implementing your own 6800 (or maybe a 6502 for you non-embedded folks) design, you can probably do pretty well, however.
I guess you're unaware of the recent push in the Diet to introduce legislation to change this law (partially, at least) so that Japanese are capable of joining wars in some cases.
Link to story at Asahi.com
ROFL
It's times like this when I wish I had mod points, but don't.
If you had bothered to read the article, you'd realize that the point of the lecture is to introduce and discuss mathematical concepts in an entertaining and funny way. The lecturers do not limit themselves to the jokes on the Simpsons, but use them as springboards to talk about related subjects.
Just about every meaningful sign in Tokyo station is already translated into English. In fact, there are few train stations within a 50-mile radius of Tokyo that don't have English language signs, at least for the essential stuff (this way to Harajuku, etc.). It's only when you start getting out in the country that reading signs becomes a problem for English-speaking foreigners. E.g. most stations on the Meitetsu line outside of Nagoya completely lack English-language signs. As a tip for foreign travellers in that situation I offer the following advice: follow the crowd. You are pretty much guaranteed by natural law to end up in the city center.
This project sounds similar to the SkyStation project. I saw some conceptual designs of the airships for this project at Skunkworks.