I've wondered... When storage capacity increases enough, someone could build a device to record the entire spectrum. A wide band antenna and amplifier feeding an A/D converter sampling at a few billion samples per second. You would play it back by stuffing the data through a D/A converter and rebroadcasting EVERYTHING. You could pull all TV, radio, CB, etc... channels out of the recording with the respective devices. You can't use a broadcast flag or any other technology to stop this. We just need storage of a few GB per second (100 second drives are now available). You could also write software to decode any signal you want - your software decoder need not pay attention to a broadcast flag or any other copy protection.
OK, it's not Maya. But Blender is a free as in beer OSS program for 3d and character modelling. I figured it could use a plug. You can even buy how-to books at your local store and get the software with them. Downloads available for:
Windows
Mac OS X
Linux 386
Linux PPC
FreeBSD
Irix
Solaris
NetBSD
Since opteron has multicore designed in from the start, this should just be a matter of flipping the switch to dual-core and recompiling. Optimization to follow of course. Now they'll also need to shrink below the current 0.13 micron for this. My qustion then would be: Will this be a 0.09u processor - in which case it suggests they're behind on their published process roadmap. Or is it a 0.65u part with a very agressive process timeline? Honest, look at the old docs - dual core is in there. One bigshot even said dual core was working in simulation a few months ago. It a process issue now.
"Surely it makes sense to interactively route traffic than to keep building passive roads?"
I always question the idea of pushing systems to their limit through tech-enabled optimization. This practice generally stretches things to the point where a failure is catastrophic. Examples:
Phone network with dynamic routing - allows higher traffic over less hardware. Software bug took out entire east coast with cascading failures.
Power grid - dynamic rerouting of power allows higher total output without expanding the network. One overload took out the entire northeast in a series of cascading failures.
Surely readers can offer other examples.
Optimizing for economic efficiency often leads to more interesting failures when they do happen.
"illegal for employers and insurers to deny employment or benefits based on genetic analysis of your DNA"
That's a good first step, but it's not privacy. If they don't have access to my genetic information, I don't have to worry about discrimination based on it. You don't need to state genetics as a reason, there are always other excuses to apply. Fortunately with this much support, they should be willing to pass a bill that offers real privacy. Of course it may be there already I didn't RTFA:-)
They will settle because they would owe $60 Billion dollars for a single quarter of copyright infringement. That's 400,000 infringing products sold at $150,000 per copyright violation, and that's in addition to having to stop shipping the product. They can't fight in court because they don't have a leg to stand on. They used someone else's work without their permission, and this is completely lost on the author.
How exactly is that done on Windows? And why isn't it turned off by default? If all ports were closed by default, then software *I* install could require certain ones to be opened and do it for me as part of installation. Oh, MS doesn't allow you to disable individual ports do they?
"have you ever tried convincing a windows user to switch to another OS.....it doesn't happen"
I've found telling people just about anything does not work. You have to show them. Show them something they want. Showing them how Linux does all the same crap their "windows" does along with being "non-microsoft" will not get them to switch. There must be a more tangible benefit, or a compelling reason to leave behind what they use now.
From the article: "But having a strong legal claim on the merits is only one factor in legal strategy success. Indeed, this factor is often the least important one from a business point of view."
Does this explain SCO?
" Why not just shoot the stockholders and confiscate their estates?
Ha ha. If you're going to run a piece of critical infrastructure, your obligation to the public is possibly more important than your obligation to the shareholders. If the shareholders want a CEO to pump all the money out of the company at public expense, then they just might deserve the bankruptcy that follows. In the end, there would be a balance with higher reliability and perhaps less (or more) profit.
How stupid can they be? Ripping off a bunch of old Journey grahpics, and record titles. Sure, the name can be used because they're not making music (at least until they bundle an mp3 player) but the album cover images on the site are certainly ripped off and should not be used. BTW, I didn't see the license. Is it GPL? We don't need another "closable source" window system. Then again, we don't need GPLed projects running around with ripped-off logos.
Don't Xerox copiers phone home when they need service? Or is that different than phoning home "over the internet" because your product "experienced errors"?
"Who's really getting screwed is commercial Unix."
Who's really getting screwed are people who don't understand what's really going on and buying SCO stock based on all the press. From the outside, SCO looks like they're trying to generate revenue from some "IP" they have. Heck, they're even going after IBM. Get the investors a bigger glass for that koolaid, and perhaps a bottle of lube.
The power companies use a large blackout as reason to beg for government money to upgrade. They don't seem to have enough incentive to make the improvements on their own. What if they had to pay the customers for each hour/day/whatever they go without power? They'd argue that fines large enough to be a real incentive would bankrupt them. Speculation here, but let them go bankrupt. Take ALL the company stock and re-issue it while at the same time banning ALL the top management from running any company in the same business. That sounds harsh, but we're talking about critical infrastructure. I'm just thinking off the cuff here, just food for thought.
Seems to me that archives kept for decades should not be encrypted. Unless you keep the key right there with it, you're likely to loose it. Also, if there is degradation of the data you're likely to loose most of it even if you can find the key. Use physical access controls instead.
This guy says he may loose thousands of dollars from missing a few calls, and then complains that the competition will cost him $8.50 more per month??? Funny how the mind works when you're so mad;-)
"If we want to charge someone a licensing fee for using our copyrighted software that's gone into Linux, then we have that prerogative.
Even if they owned Unix in full, they don't have the right to distribute IBM's contribution without permission from IBM. If I write Star Wars episode 317, I own the copyright. I may not be able to distribute it (would that be true?) because it's a derivative of someone else's work, but that doesn't mean they own my work too.
"Like it or not, it looks like the GPL is going to get a full vetting in this case."
I doubt this crap will make it to court. SCO is bluffing all the way. OTOH, if it does then it's good that IBM will be fighting for the GPL in it's first big case.
" Working with cuttings has proven to be much more satisfactory in producing a robust plan for commercial propagation."
Perhaps the cuttings don't produce ANY seeds? This would make them more robust for commercial propagation. Never mind robust propagation of the species. Or am I just tierd of hearing about "patented" and other proprietary biology?
The week following 9/11 when the US was a no-fly zone also saw wider daily swings in temperature. I don't recall the source, but the experiment is rather difficult to reproduce. Does air traffic decrease on the weekend? I don't know.
One could analyze a document to generate meta-data about it. This could then be fed into "Storage" - the file system with natural language querys. One big problem with Storage would seem to be creating the database, but making it easier to read documents could help.
I found the best part to be this bit while he was talking to Chuck Yeager:
I have to admit no, I'm not familiar with the term. Sexual what? "Sexual intellectuals. They're fucking know-it-alls, that's what."
That destroys the credibility of the piece for me. I swear I've seen stuff on TV where Chuck himself admits to having cracked ribs. But as he would point out, that's just the way I remember it.
"Yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre is actually not illegal either, but you will most definitely get in trouble for endangering the public if you do it.
If I yell fire and people get hurt by a crowd running for the exit, I will likely get in trouble (sued by the injured). If nothing happens, nothing will happen to me. I suppose there is the chance for a charge of "attempted something". Most important to note is that this discussion we are having right now (about yelling "fire") is not illegal. It's the difference between talking about it and doing it that matters here.
"Paying them directly ignores the fact that they need marketing to be viable"
Paying them for a live performance works just fine, and ticket price can cover ad costs. No one says song writing has to be a viable way to earn a living (except song writers). In fact, many "artists" don't even write their own stuff, they just perform it once (or mix the best parts of several takes) and expect to make big money from it. A crappy performer that requires hours in a studio to get a good recording of a song someone else wrote, doesn't deserve to make a living at it - even if she is hot;-)
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I've wondered... When storage capacity increases enough, someone could build a device to record the entire spectrum. A wide band antenna and amplifier feeding an A/D converter sampling at a few billion samples per second. You would play it back by stuffing the data through a D/A converter and rebroadcasting EVERYTHING. You could pull all TV, radio, CB, etc... channels out of the recording with the respective devices. You can't use a broadcast flag or any other technology to stop this. We just need storage of a few GB per second (100 second drives are now available). You could also write software to decode any signal you want - your software decoder need not pay attention to a broadcast flag or any other copy protection.
Windows
Mac OS X
Linux 386
Linux PPC
FreeBSD
Irix
Solaris
NetBSD
Developer site: www.blender.org
Since opteron has multicore designed in from the start, this should just be a matter of flipping the switch to dual-core and recompiling. Optimization to follow of course. Now they'll also need to shrink below the current 0.13 micron for this. My qustion then would be: Will this be a 0.09u processor - in which case it suggests they're behind on their published process roadmap. Or is it a 0.65u part with a very agressive process timeline? Honest, look at the old docs - dual core is in there. One bigshot even said dual core was working in simulation a few months ago. It a process issue now.
I always question the idea of pushing systems to their limit through tech-enabled optimization. This practice generally stretches things to the point where a failure is catastrophic. Examples:
Phone network with dynamic routing - allows higher traffic over less hardware. Software bug took out entire east coast with cascading failures.
Power grid - dynamic rerouting of power allows higher total output without expanding the network. One overload took out the entire northeast in a series of cascading failures.
Surely readers can offer other examples.
Optimizing for economic efficiency often leads to more interesting failures when they do happen.
That's a good first step, but it's not privacy. If they don't have access to my genetic information, I don't have to worry about discrimination based on it. You don't need to state genetics as a reason, there are always other excuses to apply. Fortunately with this much support, they should be willing to pass a bill that offers real privacy. Of course it may be there already I didn't RTFA
They will settle because they would owe $60 Billion dollars for a single quarter of copyright infringement. That's 400,000 infringing products sold at $150,000 per copyright violation, and that's in addition to having to stop shipping the product. They can't fight in court because they don't have a leg to stand on. They used someone else's work without their permission, and this is completely lost on the author.
How are these guys planning to make any money? So why not GPL the code if it's soooo free?
How exactly is that done on Windows? And why isn't it turned off by default? If all ports were closed by default, then software *I* install could require certain ones to be opened and do it for me as part of installation. Oh, MS doesn't allow you to disable individual ports do they?
I've found telling people just about anything does not work. You have to show them. Show them something they want. Showing them how Linux does all the same crap their "windows" does along with being "non-microsoft" will not get them to switch. There must be a more tangible benefit, or a compelling reason to leave behind what they use now.
Yes I'm off topic this time.
From the article: "But having a strong legal claim on the merits is only one factor in legal strategy success. Indeed, this factor is often the least important one from a business point of view." Does this explain SCO?
Ha ha. If you're going to run a piece of critical infrastructure, your obligation to the public is possibly more important than your obligation to the shareholders. If the shareholders want a CEO to pump all the money out of the company at public expense, then they just might deserve the bankruptcy that follows. In the end, there would be a balance with higher reliability and perhaps less (or more) profit.
How stupid can they be? Ripping off a bunch of old Journey grahpics, and record titles. Sure, the name can be used because they're not making music (at least until they bundle an mp3 player) but the album cover images on the site are certainly ripped off and should not be used. BTW, I didn't see the license. Is it GPL? We don't need another "closable source" window system. Then again, we don't need GPLed projects running around with ripped-off logos.
Don't Xerox copiers phone home when they need service? Or is that different than phoning home "over the internet" because your product "experienced errors"?
Who's really getting screwed are people who don't understand what's really going on and buying SCO stock based on all the press. From the outside, SCO looks like they're trying to generate revenue from some "IP" they have. Heck, they're even going after IBM. Get the investors a bigger glass for that koolaid, and perhaps a bottle of lube.
The power companies use a large blackout as reason to beg for government money to upgrade. They don't seem to have enough incentive to make the improvements on their own. What if they had to pay the customers for each hour/day/whatever they go without power? They'd argue that fines large enough to be a real incentive would bankrupt them. Speculation here, but let them go bankrupt. Take ALL the company stock and re-issue it while at the same time banning ALL the top management from running any company in the same business. That sounds harsh, but we're talking about critical infrastructure. I'm just thinking off the cuff here, just food for thought.
Seems to me that archives kept for decades should not be encrypted. Unless you keep the key right there with it, you're likely to loose it. Also, if there is degradation of the data you're likely to loose most of it even if you can find the key. Use physical access controls instead.
This guy says he may loose thousands of dollars from missing a few calls, and then complains that the competition will cost him $8.50 more per month??? Funny how the mind works when you're so mad ;-)
Even if they owned Unix in full, they don't have the right to distribute IBM's contribution without permission from IBM. If I write Star Wars episode 317, I own the copyright. I may not be able to distribute it (would that be true?) because it's a derivative of someone else's work, but that doesn't mean they own my work too.
I doubt this crap will make it to court. SCO is bluffing all the way. OTOH, if it does then it's good that IBM will be fighting for the GPL in it's first big case.
Perhaps the cuttings don't produce ANY seeds? This would make them more robust for commercial propagation. Never mind robust propagation of the species. Or am I just tierd of hearing about "patented" and other proprietary biology?
The week following 9/11 when the US was a no-fly zone also saw wider daily swings in temperature. I don't recall the source, but the experiment is rather difficult to reproduce. Does air traffic decrease on the weekend? I don't know.
One could analyze a document to generate meta-data about it. This could then be fed into "Storage" - the file system with natural language querys. One big problem with Storage would seem to be creating the database, but making it easier to read documents could help.
I have to admit no, I'm not familiar with the term. Sexual what? "Sexual intellectuals. They're fucking know-it-alls, that's what."
That destroys the credibility of the piece for me. I swear I've seen stuff on TV where Chuck himself admits to having cracked ribs. But as he would point out, that's just the way I remember it.
"Yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre is actually not illegal either, but you will most definitely get in trouble for endangering the public if you do it.
If I yell fire and people get hurt by a crowd running for the exit, I will likely get in trouble (sued by the injured). If nothing happens, nothing will happen to me. I suppose there is the chance for a charge of "attempted something". Most important to note is that this discussion we are having right now (about yelling "fire") is not illegal. It's the difference between talking about it and doing it that matters here.
Paying them for a live performance works just fine, and ticket price can cover ad costs. No one says song writing has to be a viable way to earn a living (except song writers). In fact, many "artists" don't even write their own stuff, they just perform it once (or mix the best parts of several takes) and expect to make big money from it. A crappy performer that requires hours in a studio to get a good recording of a song someone else wrote, doesn't deserve to make a living at it - even if she is hot
That's just my knee-jerk reaction for the day...