Out of curiosity, I see that the Foveon CMOS sensor has amazing capabilities... but where does it exceed the specs of the CMOS sensor that's in the Canon EOS-1D?
IANAL so I would like to know what requirements are set upon the webcaster of audio for purchasing the IP that is being streamed? Must the 'DJ' account for his having purchased and through fair use ripped the copy that is streaming across the net? Can a lawyer help me out here.
Physical transfer of data storage devices will conceivably always be the preferred method of transferring enormous amounts of data in a relatively short timeframe. The throughput for mailing a gross of full DLT tapes overnight is probably a long way from obsolescence, yet there will always be promise in low-latency via a highly specific networking design... trunk a few gigabit ethernet connections together and you can have high bandwidth high throughput low latency transfer of many terabytes of information.
I have one more to add to your list of reasons to sue... to encourage the purchase of your corporation by the target of your legal drama. IMNSHO the only reason SCO is engaging in this FUD is to get IBM to purchase them to make the IP issues go away.
Although in principle I agree with you that the U.S. and China will not enter into a space race, I think that they could start a serious one if they take a bigger step than we did. Right now the current layman's attitude about the moon is that it's a big rock that reflects the sun at night to help with lighting conditions. If they made an ambitious first step on the moon by setting up a colony for long-term low gravity testing then there could indeed be a new race. If they don't make us look inferior by outdoing us and presenting a situation that will provide them greater avenues of technological research revenue... then the status quo will have been maintained.
In the new world order... I will continue to hope that progress will be made in the way that societies handle 'intellectual property'. I don't think that any amount of lobbying could possibly end the month of june with the EU not having software patents. Given the political power of corporations in the US and the EU there seems to be no place for free thinking when money might be changing hands due to the outcome of the policy. There will be an EU patent process for software. Open Source Software will continue to adapt and grow while the corporations attempt to twist the judiciary and governments of the various countries of the world to get what they want... more money.
I can recall one situation where a switch was made from the optical mouse to the ball mouse for a development team using UltraSparc workstations. These were developers working on trading systems for a large bank and they had fewer support problems when using the weaker technology. The old sun optical mouse needed these nasty shiny mousepads to work at full efficiency and that was harder to keep clean than the mouse ball. Dirty nasty developers will out funk dirty nasty users any day of the week!
Was I the only one who saw the headline and wondered if Mike Gordon had written a parody childrens book? Now if only he would, and I could get my hands on a copy! Wait, back on topic... Whether any of the spin-offs are parodies or just reinterpretations which are not protected doesn't change much. It will be a fight for lawyers and Time-Warner has many many rich lawyers that will get this resolved in their favor. I am worried at how quickly the american fervor over 'Intellectual Property' becomes a matter of beating your competition in any venue other than the commercial one. And yet, how many people the world over would be willing to not purchase a copy of the next Harry Potter book in order to actually vote with their coin and force the evil corporations to take note that evil will not be tolerated?
As this press release isn't coming directly from IBM it is safe to assume that they are not the driving force behind this lobbying groups dissing the GPL.
As per your tangent, Unix variants spend less time arguing over who's cooler/more open/more free as in speech/more free as in beer/etc... than they do reviewing, supporting and updating their code. Feel free to use the venerable MacOS 9, but be warned that support will be lacking from Apple and running more than one application at any time is a waste of resources in your favorite OS.
This was the best article summary I have yet read on slashdot. The stunning self-proctology of their ebook business model is classic. Now time for some sleep.
And just after i spent my last mod points, this should be at five already I don't care if only 3 people have bothered to post! So a little off-topic now but, when will we be able to see more derivative works a la this winner. It will be quite awhile before the copyright expires on GIJoe... but thats when my derivative work will come out under a much more open licensing scheme... and i'll sell the media not the content for a nice sum since it's soooo well produced
And in another one of the wonderful ways that corporations exist outside the realm of normal logic, any and all copyrights held by Corporation A at the point where they are about to go bankrupt will be quickly transferred to Corporation B (Di$ney/M$/$CO/etc...) in a buyout deal to give the CEO's one last multi-million dollar bonus. Thus leaving all those wonderful works still held under corporate lock and key for the mere pittance to the corporations of 1$ per copyrighted work. The only corporations that wouldn't corrupt this system to their advantage are the ones that we don't worry about being trolls hoarding copyrighted works... see Baen Publishing:)
I would argue that it is less about the quality of an individual model, animation path, texture quality, whatever aspect of the animation that makes it seem fake.
I think it's more the complexities of compositing and lighting of the animation into it's surroundings that is throwing the show. Whether the subject of the compositing is another real-life actor or some silly CG prat falling comedic device. It's pretty simple to have a nicely textured object take up space in the frame of the shot, but making it look like it's supposed to be there requires an artistry that is too easily overlooked.
Yeah can we seriously get editors to stop putting SCO legal claims on the mainpage until some actual source code is released. I'm tired of seeing what three legal actions will come out of SCO *owning* infringed intellectual property each and every business day. Shakespeare and lawyers always come to mind at the same time.
There is no mention of half-life because we all *know* that toxic/nuclear waste is nasty and lasts a long time. There's also that picky thing of singling out what specific waste you speak of, everyone gets a different half-life. There actually are many great ways to deal with both toxic and nuclear waste products. There are also these pesky poorly-thought through federal laws in the U.S. that restrict what you can do to the waste. So we get pork-barrel construction contracts for many million$. I'll offer one convenient solution if electric power isn't a problem. Extremely high temperature plasma furnaces will turn whatever solid matter goes into the chamber into a hunk of glass. All nasties nicely contained. You can break the glass and everything is still okay. Then you can employ subduction regions of the planets crust to drop the little glass nuggets back to another furnace.
I am just as concerned that an actor attempting to portray the depth of shinji's internal struggle will just make a cheesy patina atop some cool CG action sequences. This movie won't help by adding to the evangelion storyline... but it might get some people who would never have come into contact with the anime to actually find the quality that spawned this waste of film. I know I will see it but I also know that it won't stand up to its anime roots.
This just in... Having Realized just how lame cruising around at a leisurely 11mph is when being chased down by cops with guns, the developmen team for GTA4 has decided to include the segway as a primarily NPC used conveyance. This they claim will allow for more interesting shootouts with cops and thugs. One developer upon condition of anonymity stated, "When you see a segway coming down the road it feels imperative to remove that wanker from the gene pool, not gank his ride!"
Just out of curiosity why do you think that is worse than a segway? I personally think that the scooter would blow a segway away... see i have second gear and ooh third.
It is still amazing to me that the scientific community has such antiquated ideas about how unique and exceptional humans are. It seems obvious to anyone who understands evolution and genetic drift that we are simply another version of an already successful line of monkeys.
Excellent article... glad to see it made it to the front page. I hope more will follow shortly. If/. covered advances in 3d modelling/rendering software as much as the advances in window managers I would be a happy/.er
I get that its neat to have a dreamcast serving webpages but why is this under games.slashdot.org?
Start serving a php game off that dreamcast and then you found the right slashdot section otherwise...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I still haven't seen an ebook interface that is as intuitive as a real book or paper. It's pretty easy to see a paperclip (or whatever) in the top of a book. Having to press a few buttons to "mark" a place, then press a few more buttons to get back to that place is a PITA.
I wonder if it would really require such a PITA to deal with this. You read the page that you were last reading.... nothing else in the way. When you need the next page hit the page + button.
And the difficulty of moving around books and papers is greatly exaggerated.
I think the point made was more about the difficulty in composting/landfilling/recycling the old editions.
One, it's more difficult than "just" sending a new graphic to them. How do you get the graphic there? Two, keeping an e-paper sign lit up costs a lot more in electricity than paper-paper.
I believe the system is designed to include wireless networking. Anyplace that would have sufficient people moving past to warrant advertising should definitely by the time this is implemented have WiFi in abundance.
Whoopdy-freaking-do. If that's a problem, you have bigger problems.
This is such an intelligent point I had to say something. Like perhaps the Banks would offer access to a complete statement and cancelled checks etc... all on the card itself.... 'the portal to your financial world' the point being that the options boggle the imagination for a lot of people. Some would rather shoot it down.
It's called "recycling". Which is much easier to do with paper than electronics.
How much do you know about recycling? Do you realize the amount of energy that must be put into the recycling process is enormous. Very little recycled material actually gets back into the flow of goods as a lot is landfilled and we see no problem with just cooking another batch of plastics out of oil. The use of this type of paper would make buying your newspaper pointless... you bought the newspaper and it updates every morning with the new edition and every evening with the late edition. You would not need to produce another piece until yours broke. Or the new model came out with the chrome finish and the ipod interface design.
While you find the arguments aren't compelling. I would like nothing more than to see people finally realize they can have a paperless office. Unless you are legally obligated to the SEC or some other regulatory agency to keep hard-copies lying around, why waste the trees? Now if we could just start using hemp for paper the argument gets quite different.... we'll save that one for another time.
I understand that.... I did RTFA but my point being what's the point of OSX if not for the Quartz Graphics. I don't necessarily like that you can't do much to customize the looks but they are still damned pretty! Just manipulating the OS can get some basic windoze users to ooh and ahh. If someone who lives near this guy has a spare AGP card please help him out:)
I love the PowerPC architecture and would gladly pay the apple tax to get my hands on a TiBook, but whats up with a DIY barebones kit that sticks you with only PCI options for video? If I'm putting the thing together I want more bandwidth to my video card.
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Out of curiosity, I see that the Foveon CMOS sensor has amazing capabilities... but where does it exceed the specs of the CMOS sensor that's in the Canon EOS-1D?
I totally agree with you, but you can't set yourself up for this without somebody whacking you...
No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft
IANAL so I would like to know what requirements are set upon the webcaster of audio for purchasing the IP that is being streamed? Must the 'DJ' account for his having purchased and through fair use ripped the copy that is streaming across the net? Can a lawyer help me out here.
Physical transfer of data storage devices will conceivably always be the preferred method of transferring enormous amounts of data in a relatively short timeframe. The throughput for mailing a gross of full DLT tapes overnight is probably a long way from obsolescence, yet there will always be promise in low-latency via a highly specific networking design... trunk a few gigabit ethernet connections together and you can have high bandwidth high throughput low latency transfer of many terabytes of information.
I have one more to add to your list of reasons to sue... to encourage the purchase of your corporation by the target of your legal drama. IMNSHO the only reason SCO is engaging in this FUD is to get IBM to purchase them to make the IP issues go away.
Although in principle I agree with you that the U.S. and China will not enter into a space race, I think that they could start a serious one if they take a bigger step than we did. Right now the current layman's attitude about the moon is that it's a big rock that reflects the sun at night to help with lighting conditions. If they made an ambitious first step on the moon by setting up a colony for long-term low gravity testing then there could indeed be a new race. If they don't make us look inferior by outdoing us and presenting a situation that will provide them greater avenues of technological research revenue... then the status quo will have been maintained.
In the new world order...
I will continue to hope that progress will be made in the way that societies handle 'intellectual property'. I don't think that any amount of lobbying could possibly end the month of june with the EU not having software patents. Given the political power of corporations in the US and the EU there seems to be no place for free thinking when money might be changing hands due to the outcome of the policy. There will be an EU patent process for software. Open Source Software will continue to adapt and grow while the corporations attempt to twist the judiciary and governments of the various countries of the world to get what they want... more money.
I can recall one situation where a switch was made from the optical mouse to the ball mouse for a development team using UltraSparc workstations. These were developers working on trading systems for a large bank and they had fewer support problems when using the weaker technology. The old sun optical mouse needed these nasty shiny mousepads to work at full efficiency and that was harder to keep clean than the mouse ball. Dirty nasty developers will out funk dirty nasty users any day of the week!
Was I the only one who saw the headline and wondered if Mike Gordon had written a parody childrens book? Now if only he would, and I could get my hands on a copy! Wait, back on topic... Whether any of the spin-offs are parodies or just reinterpretations which are not protected doesn't change much. It will be a fight for lawyers and Time-Warner has many many rich lawyers that will get this resolved in their favor. I am worried at how quickly the american fervor over 'Intellectual Property' becomes a matter of beating your competition in any venue other than the commercial one. And yet, how many people the world over would be willing to not purchase a copy of the next Harry Potter book in order to actually vote with their coin and force the evil corporations to take note that evil will not be tolerated?
As this press release isn't coming directly from IBM it is safe to assume that they are not the driving force behind this lobbying groups dissing the GPL.
As per your tangent, Unix variants spend less time arguing over who's cooler/more open/more free as in speech/more free as in beer/etc... than they do reviewing, supporting and updating their code. Feel free to use the venerable MacOS 9, but be warned that support will be lacking from Apple and running more than one application at any time is a waste of resources in your favorite OS.
This was the best article summary I have yet read on slashdot. The stunning self-proctology of their ebook business model is classic. Now time for some sleep.
And just after i spent my last mod points, this should be at five already I don't care if only 3 people have bothered to post!
So a little off-topic now but, when will we be able to see more derivative works a la this winner. It will be quite awhile before the copyright expires on GIJoe... but thats when my derivative work will come out under a much more open licensing scheme... and i'll sell the media not the content for a nice sum since it's soooo well produced
And in another one of the wonderful ways that corporations exist outside the realm of normal logic, any and all copyrights held by Corporation A at the point where they are about to go bankrupt will be quickly transferred to Corporation B (Di$ney/M$/$CO/etc...) in a buyout deal to give the CEO's one last multi-million dollar bonus. Thus leaving all those wonderful works still held under corporate lock and key for the mere pittance to the corporations of 1$ per copyrighted work. The only corporations that wouldn't corrupt this system to their advantage are the ones that we don't worry about being trolls hoarding copyrighted works... see Baen Publishing :)
I would argue that it is less about the quality of an individual model, animation path, texture quality, whatever aspect of the animation that makes it seem fake.
I think it's more the complexities of compositing and lighting of the animation into it's surroundings that is throwing the show. Whether the subject of the compositing is another real-life actor or some silly CG prat falling comedic device.
It's pretty simple to have a nicely textured object take up space in the frame of the shot, but making it look like it's supposed to be there requires an artistry that is too easily overlooked.
Yeah can we seriously get editors to stop putting SCO legal claims on the mainpage until some actual source code is released. I'm tired of seeing what three legal actions will come out of SCO *owning* infringed intellectual property each and every business day. Shakespeare and lawyers always come to mind at the same time.
There is no mention of half-life because we all *know* that toxic/nuclear waste is nasty and lasts a long time. There's also that picky thing of singling out what specific waste you speak of, everyone gets a different half-life. There actually are many great ways to deal with both toxic and nuclear waste products. There are also these pesky poorly-thought through federal laws in the U.S. that restrict what you can do to the waste. So we get pork-barrel construction contracts for many million$. I'll offer one convenient solution if electric power isn't a problem. Extremely high temperature plasma furnaces will turn whatever solid matter goes into the chamber into a hunk of glass. All nasties nicely contained. You can break the glass and everything is still okay. Then you can employ subduction regions of the planets crust to drop the little glass nuggets back to another furnace.
I am just as concerned that an actor attempting to portray the depth of shinji's internal struggle will just make a cheesy patina atop some cool CG action sequences. This movie won't help by adding to the evangelion storyline... but it might get some people who would never have come into contact with the anime to actually find the quality that spawned this waste of film. I know I will see it but I also know that it won't stand up to its anime roots.
This just in...
Having Realized just how lame cruising around at a leisurely 11mph is when being chased down by cops with guns, the developmen team for GTA4 has decided to include the segway as a primarily NPC used conveyance. This they claim will allow for more interesting shootouts with cops and thugs.
One developer upon condition of anonymity stated, "When you see a segway coming down the road it feels imperative to remove that wanker from the gene pool, not gank his ride!"
Just out of curiosity why do you think that is worse than a segway?
I personally think that the scooter would blow a segway away... see i have second gear and ooh third.
It is still amazing to me that the scientific community has such antiquated ideas about how unique and exceptional humans are. It seems obvious to anyone who understands evolution and genetic drift that we are simply another version of an already successful line of monkeys.
Excellent article... glad to see it made it to the front page. I hope more will follow shortly. If /. covered advances in 3d modelling/rendering software as much as the advances in window managers I would be a happy /.er
I get that its neat to have a dreamcast serving webpages but why is this under games.slashdot.org? Start serving a php game off that dreamcast and then you found the right slashdot section otherwise...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I still haven't seen an ebook interface that is as intuitive as a real book or paper. It's pretty easy to see a paperclip (or whatever) in the top of a book. Having to press a few buttons to "mark" a place, then press a few more buttons to get back to that place is a PITA.
I wonder if it would really require such a PITA to deal with this. You read the page that you were last reading.... nothing else in the way. When you need the next page hit the page + button.
And the difficulty of moving around books and papers is greatly exaggerated.
I think the point made was more about the difficulty in composting/landfilling/recycling the old editions.
One, it's more difficult than "just" sending a new graphic to them. How do you get the graphic there? Two, keeping an e-paper sign lit up costs a lot more in electricity than paper-paper.
I believe the system is designed to include wireless networking. Anyplace that would have sufficient people moving past to warrant advertising should definitely by the time this is implemented have WiFi in abundance.
Whoopdy-freaking-do. If that's a problem, you have bigger problems.
This is such an intelligent point I had to say something. Like perhaps the Banks would offer access to a complete statement and cancelled checks etc... all on the card itself.... 'the portal to your financial world' the point being that the options boggle the imagination for a lot of people. Some would rather shoot it down.
It's called "recycling". Which is much easier to do with paper than electronics.
How much do you know about recycling? Do you realize the amount of energy that must be put into the recycling process is enormous. Very little recycled material actually gets back into the flow of goods as a lot is landfilled and we see no problem with just cooking another batch of plastics out of oil. The use of this type of paper would make buying your newspaper pointless... you bought the newspaper and it updates every morning with the new edition and every evening with the late edition. You would not need to produce another piece until yours broke. Or the new model came out with the chrome finish and the ipod interface design. While you find the arguments aren't compelling. I would like nothing more than to see people finally realize they can have a paperless office. Unless you are legally obligated to the SEC or some other regulatory agency to keep hard-copies lying around, why waste the trees? Now if we could just start using hemp for paper the argument gets quite different.... we'll save that one for another time.
I understand that.... I did RTFA but my point being what's the point of OSX if not for the Quartz Graphics. I don't necessarily like that you can't do much to customize the looks but they are still damned pretty! Just manipulating the OS can get some basic windoze users to ooh and ahh. If someone who lives near this guy has a spare AGP card please help him out :)
I love the PowerPC architecture and would gladly pay the apple tax to get my hands on a TiBook, but whats up with a DIY barebones kit that sticks you with only PCI options for video? If I'm putting the thing together I want more bandwidth to my video card.