Yes, it is. Since August 2007 it is heading towards another crater, far bigger than Victoria (22km in diameter) but since the other crater is good 12km away from Victoria, and the route resembles route of Little Red Riding Hood on her way to Granny (Oh, look what a pretty rock! Let's drill a hole in it and examine it! - and another week passes) it still hasn't covered even half the distance. ETA mid-2012 unless they find more interesting rocks on (off) the way, or something breaks. Anyway, they are taking it lightly. One wheel has a tendency to overheat just like Spirit's wheel did prior to failure, but a good week's rest seems to fix it for another month or so.
The way to do it is this: (technically it may look different but this is the legal gist.)
You have the Trunk under a closeware license. It essentially says "nobody can copy, use this or do anything with it unless I say otherwise. I can change this license at will" You develop it and create a stable version, say, 1.0. Then you create a branch 1.0-free, and a branch 1.0-proprietary. One is GNU, the other has some EULA. You still develop Trunk, but you don't develop Free or Proprietary any more, just as soon as you reach "Stable" in Trunk you create new Free and Proprietary branches. You may port customer-supplied patches from Proprietary to Trunk and Free just fine. But you can't port community-submitted patches of Free to the other two - you have to rewrite them from scratch in Trunk, and once done they may replace the community-submitted in Free and enter Proprietary too.
It's so interesting to see people who pirate writing under their names and their opponents posting as AC. Today I bought two originals of games I have long finished, and deemed worthy of the purchase. Right in front of me lie two others, two of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat. Because they were worth their money. OTOH, I won't buy Clear Sky, because that would be letting the developers rip me off. That game was NOT worth purchasing.
So if I download a torrent.zip of 10,000 paid apps, $3 each on the average, AppStore just lost $30,000 in sales? Like, I would purchase them all otherwise?
Well, there was this page which used Java for roll-over buttons in navigation. One applet per button, some 30 buttons on a page. With no other purpose than change background under the button. You can imagine the computer wasn't too happy about loading 30 instances of JavaVM... I guess some manager complained "I don't want any half-assed SCRIPT! Everyone knows scripts are slower!"
Currently they keep producing successful products of the old and rehash current ideas by building printers with stronger lock-in mechanisms for cartridges, cameras with higher-res CCD sensors (purchased from outside manufacturers), and some extremely crappy software to run it all. I see nothing really -new- from them. There's the brand, the manufacturing and the product design&marketing dept. The times of R&D are gone.
Digital cameras are used to acquire digital images. That's pretty obvious. Digital images are meant to be displayed. On screens.
Redirect the acquired image to a screen instead of memory device. That's the subject of the patent.
I fail to understand the non-obviousness part of this one.
The fact a company does various research and has actual valuable patents on various advanced technologies, doesn't mean they can't do some typical "patent troll" shit.
Oh well, for SysRq you need shift+PrintScreen. So Fn+Shift+Insert - no problem here. It's not used frequently enough to be "at most one bucky bit away"
The fact the thief doesn't go after your data doesn't mean they won't enjoy benefits from whatever they got it once they realize it's there. So even very simple encryption helps, but no encryption at all means trouble.
A laptop was stolen from a politician in Poland. It was a common thievery, nothing political. But tabloids wrote about sexual preferences and music tastes ("...500 mp3 files which we believe were of course ripped from legally owned CDs and not downloaded illegally") of that politician a week later - as soon as the thief realized what he stole, and found the right people to sell it to.
depends how it is done. Some LCD displays (in calculators) have polaroid filters separate, not embedded in the glass. Rotate it 90 degrees and you have white digits on black background. No electric change whatsoever. LCD pixel switched on (crystal ordered, color) uses minimal amounts of energy vs pixel switched off (unordered, transparent) using no energy at all. Thus in backlit displays white uses less energy than black (transparent, no obscuring of backlight) while in reflective displays, black uses more energy... unless the polaroid is reversed in which case white does...
You think that just displaying a GUI consumes energy? Please provide a citation. Any GUI on a modern OS doesn't require any processing power for displaying something on the screen that is static.
Displaying GUI itself is several thousands, if not millions of lines of code. Same goes for any "modern OS".
Command line driven email client can be implemented on a low-power 1KHz PIC microcontroller that takes a few microamperes of energy to operate. Static LCD display, built-in RS232 at 9600 for communication, and you have a device that takes under 1 milliampere at 5V, that is 0.005 watts to operate (when not in sleep mode where it takes 1% of that.)
I'm not saying it's practical or reasonable, but if your point is minimizing energy requirements, there is a point where GUI has to go.
There's a leftist fantasy that 19th century and early 20th century America was a story of unions wresting money out of the hands of greedy capitalists, but the truth is that it was capital investment that raised labor's productivity and made our vast middle class possible.
The Task Manager thing would be very difficult, because most extensions work on basis of "apply a patch to native browser upon start-up, then quit". The extension itself uses minimal amount of power once, early. Then it's the modified native code that does all the heavy lifting. There are no way to attribute certain code sequence to certain extension if it isn't called directly from files included from that extension.
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Yes, it is. Since August 2007 it is heading towards another crater, far bigger than Victoria (22km in diameter) but since the other crater is good 12km away from Victoria, and the route resembles route of Little Red Riding Hood on her way to Granny (Oh, look what a pretty rock! Let's drill a hole in it and examine it! - and another week passes) it still hasn't covered even half the distance. ETA mid-2012 unless they find more interesting rocks on (off) the way, or something breaks. Anyway, they are taking it lightly. One wheel has a tendency to overheat just like Spirit's wheel did prior to failure, but a good week's rest seems to fix it for another month or so.
The problem is getting these to orbit costs more than any of them whole.
Likely, you'd be better off designing one from scratch. That's why they are getting scrapped too...
A failed prototype is still a prototype.
The way to do it is this:
(technically it may look different but this is the legal gist.)
You have the Trunk under a closeware license. It essentially says "nobody can copy, use this or do anything with it unless I say otherwise. I can change this license at will" You develop it and create a stable version, say, 1.0. Then you create a branch 1.0-free, and a branch 1.0-proprietary. One is GNU, the other has some EULA. You still develop Trunk, but you don't develop Free or Proprietary any more, just as soon as you reach "Stable" in Trunk you create new Free and Proprietary branches. You may port customer-supplied patches from Proprietary to Trunk and Free just fine. But you can't port community-submitted patches of Free to the other two - you have to rewrite them from scratch in Trunk, and once done they may replace the community-submitted in Free and enter Proprietary too.
It's so interesting to see people who pirate writing under their names and their opponents posting as AC.
Today I bought two originals of games I have long finished, and deemed worthy of the purchase. Right in front of me lie two others, two of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat. Because they were worth their money. OTOH, I won't buy Clear Sky, because that would be letting the developers rip me off. That game was NOT worth purchasing.
Look. It's RFID. A CPU powered by radio waves.
How much computational power does it have to perform some advanced encryption while you wave it in front of the reader?
So if I download a torrent .zip of 10,000 paid apps, $3 each on the average, AppStore just lost $30,000 in sales?
Like, I would purchase them all otherwise?
Well, there was this page which used Java for roll-over buttons in navigation. One applet per button, some 30 buttons on a page. With no other purpose than change background under the button.
You can imagine the computer wasn't too happy about loading 30 instances of JavaVM...
I guess some manager complained "I don't want any half-assed SCRIPT! Everyone knows scripts are slower!"
Will adding http://.tynt.com/* to adblock suffice?
I think the question was worded poorly.
What does Kodak -invent- these days?
Currently they keep producing successful products of the old and rehash current ideas by building printers with stronger lock-in mechanisms for cartridges, cameras with higher-res CCD sensors (purchased from outside manufacturers), and some extremely crappy software to run it all.
I see nothing really -new- from them. There's the brand, the manufacturing and the product design&marketing dept. The times of R&D are gone.
Digital cameras are used to acquire digital images. That's pretty obvious.
Digital images are meant to be displayed. On screens.
Redirect the acquired image to a screen instead of memory device. That's the subject of the patent.
I fail to understand the non-obviousness part of this one.
The fact a company does various research and has actual valuable patents on various advanced technologies, doesn't mean they can't do some typical "patent troll" shit.
But how will a psychiatrist diagnose their patient then?
They just need to ask the user to press any key...
space bar - penile size complex.
ctrl - control freak
esc - escapism
alt - schizophrenia
shift - split personality
enter - vaginal fixation
F1 - overgrown ambition.
num enter - anal fixation
num zero - low self esteem
menu key - bulimic
tab - drunkard
backslash - paranoia
caps lock - Tourette's
delete - destructive
arrow up - mania
arrow down - depression
windows key - suicidal tendencies
reset - hopeless idiot.
Oh well, for SysRq you need shift+PrintScreen. So Fn+Shift+Insert - no problem here. It's not used frequently enough to be "at most one bucky bit away"
I don't care about SysRq but I don't mind it sharing space with PrintScreen. And don't you dare taking my PrintScreen.
The fact the thief doesn't go after your data doesn't mean they won't enjoy benefits from whatever they got it once they realize it's there. So even very simple encryption helps, but no encryption at all means trouble.
A laptop was stolen from a politician in Poland. It was a common thievery, nothing political. But tabloids wrote about sexual preferences and music tastes ("...500 mp3 files which we believe were of course ripped from legally owned CDs and not downloaded illegally") of that politician a week later - as soon as the thief realized what he stole, and found the right people to sell it to.
depends how it is done.
Some LCD displays (in calculators) have polaroid filters separate, not embedded in the glass. Rotate it 90 degrees and you have white digits on black background. No electric change whatsoever.
LCD pixel switched on (crystal ordered, color) uses minimal amounts of energy vs pixel switched off (unordered, transparent) using no energy at all. Thus in backlit displays white uses less energy than black (transparent, no obscuring of backlight) while in reflective displays, black uses more energy... unless the polaroid is reversed in which case white does...
You think that just displaying a GUI consumes energy? Please provide a citation. Any GUI on a modern OS doesn't require any processing power for displaying something on the screen that is static.
Displaying GUI itself is several thousands, if not millions of lines of code. Same goes for any "modern OS".
Command line driven email client can be implemented on a low-power 1KHz PIC microcontroller that takes a few microamperes of energy to operate. Static LCD display, built-in RS232 at 9600 for communication, and you have a device that takes under 1 milliampere at 5V, that is 0.005 watts to operate (when not in sleep mode where it takes 1% of that.)
I'm not saying it's practical or reasonable, but if your point is minimizing energy requirements, there is a point where GUI has to go.
Also: Why deploy a DIFFERENT backup and make all the users buy ANOTHER device when they ALREADY HAVE LORAN-C equipment?
You're asking this? Seriously? Are you a communist or what?
Navigation By Cockney?
Well, we just multiplied it by Lorentz Factor.
p=[gamma]mv;
The little bitty fact that [gamma] is a function of v is a different matter.
...nothing of the stuff mentioned in summary will happen...
There's a leftist fantasy that 19th century and early 20th century America was a story of unions wresting money out of the hands of greedy capitalists, but the truth is that it was capital investment that raised labor's productivity and made our vast middle class possible.
and then killed it...
Inglorious Netscape days, or sneaked in by some saboteur into Mozilla/Firefox?
Except Ford actually quadrupled the salaries to make it possible; nowadays we get taxed to hell and back out of our current salaries.
The Task Manager thing would be very difficult, because most extensions work on basis of "apply a patch to native browser upon start-up, then quit". The extension itself uses minimal amount of power once, early. Then it's the modified native code that does all the heavy lifting. There are no way to attribute certain code sequence to certain extension if it isn't called directly from files included from that extension.