and does not have anything to do with the resolution. Infact, interlacing is sometimes called "interlace scanning", because the gun in the CRT draws alternate lines across the screen to reduce the visible flicker arising due to the time required to move the gun from top to bottom.
Interlacing is a method of displaying images on a raster-scanned display, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), that results in less visible flickering than non-interlaced methods. The display draws first the even-numbered lines, then the odd numbered lines of each picture.
Luckily I am quite adept at concentrating on my writing, while typing, while watching a movie.
I find myself quite *IN GOES THE RED PILL* capableo f concentrating on *HA, HE THINKS THAT'S AIR HE'S BREATHING, LOL!! OMG!! THIS IS THE BEST PART* reading, thinking, *MAN, TRINITY IS TEH ROXXORZZZ* typing and watching a movie *THERE IS NO SPOON LOL!* at the same time.
because the original CNET article is titled " Throwing Money at Techology". It is *not* just about IT security, but overall ("homeland" if you like) security and how it's being used as a catch all excuse to justify ridiculous steps by the government agencies.
One particularly large area where money is being aggressively thrown at is Technology, which is being seen as the solution to all the security problems (diplomacy, better foreign policy would work better IMHO), which is where the article gets the name from. It's not just about IT (or "cyber") security.
I had an opportunity to meet Ray at a Distinguished Guest lecture he delivered at my company last week.
I also managed to ask him about his views (in his capacity as an established innovator/inventor) on aggressive Patenting and Copyright laws by corporations (for example SCO vs IBM, and the Record Industry lawsuits).
It was gratifying to know that he was well aware of these problems, and even commended the "Open Source movement" and stressed on it's importance to encourage free flow of information and it's significance in the fight against the evergrowing stifling of innovation.
It was an interesting lecture, where he covered quite a few of the topics in this article. Apparently, he treats his body as a "biological experiment" to try out different drugs (he's a diabetic) on himself.
BUSINESS VISA: Valid for six months and one year with multiple entries. A letter from Sponsoring Organization indicating the nature of applicant's business, probable duration of stay, places and organizations to be visited incorporating therein a guarantee to meet maintenance expenses, etc. may accompany the application. Ten-year Business visas are available to U.S passport holders. A business letter from India or US may accompany the application.
Lots of people I know have been able to obtain Visas to work in India. You can obtain short term business (6 month, multiple entry) and long term (10 year) business Visas. For further details look up the US Consulate, SFO website.
Debating (healthily) is okay, but spreading FUD is not.
If, however, the printer cartridge is changed after a document is printed, the document no longer can be traced to that printer.
And if this should occur, they have to resort to printing identifying "watermarks" in documents, which isn't terribly different from existing currency technology/etc.
I haven't read TFA yet, but I did happen to glance at OSTG's (which/. is a part of) Terms of Service for the first time.
It indeed does contain the usual technobabble and typos (eg: NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHBIITED USE), but some parts of it stood out, especially those related to the DMCA.
I quote the parts that caused concerns, especially given the fact that/. has covered stories in the past about companies (ISPs/etc) taking down content upon receiving a DMCA notice, without paying much attention to user's rights etc (no time to dig them up right now):
After receiving a claim of infringement, OSTG will process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under the DMCA and other applicable intellectual property laws. Upon receipt of notices complying or substantially complying with the DMCA, OSTG will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any material claimed to be infringing or claimed to be the subject of infringing activity, and will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any reference or link to material or activity that is claimed to be infringing. OSTG will take reasonable steps to expeditiously notify the subscriber that it has removed or disabled access to such material.
Upon receipt of a proper counter notification under the DMCA, OSTG will promptly provide the person who provided the initial notification of claimed infringement with a copy of the counter notification and inform that person that it will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it in ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days. Additionally, OSTG will replace the removed material and cease disabling access to it ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days following receipt of the counter notice, unless OSTG's designated agent first receives notice from the person who submitted the initial notification that such person has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on the OSTG system or network.
You may provide us with a counter notification by providing our copyright agent the following information in writing:...
An interesting read to see/. and OSTG's legal stand on DMCA, "Your rights online", etc.
PS: This is *not* intended to be flamebait...in today's legal-trigger happy world and the quality of "justice", an organization would probably be wise to cover it's bases. It was just something I thought was interesting.
According to ancient Indian texts, the people had flying machines which were called "Vimanas." The ancient Indian epic describes a Vimana as a double-deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer.
It flew with the "speed of the wind" and gave forth a "melodious sound." There were at least four different types of Vimanas; some saucer shaped, others like long cylinders ("cigar shaped airships"). The ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous, it would take volumes to relate what they had to say. The ancient Indians, who manufactured these ships themselves, wrote entire flight manuals on the control of the various types of Vimanas, many of which are still in existence, and some have even been translated into English.
The Samara Sutradhara is a scientific treatise dealing with every possible angle of air travel in a Vimana. There are 230 stanzas dealing with the construction, take-off, cruising for thousand of miles, normal and forced landings, and even possible collisions with birds. In 1875, the Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by Bharadvajy the Wise, using even older texts as his source, was rediscovered in a temple in India. It dealt with the operation of Vimanas and included information on the steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships from storms and lightening and how to switch the drive to "solar energy" from a free energy source which sounds like "anti-gravity."
The Vaimanika Sastra (or Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight chapters with diagrams, describing three types of aircraft, including apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. It also mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from which they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Vimanas. This document has been translated into English and is available by writing the publisher: VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi Bharadwaaja, translated into English and edited, printed and published by Mr. G. R. Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979 (sorry, no street address). Mr. Josyer is the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation located in Mysore.
1995 Nobel Laureate Frederick Reines [1918-1998]
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Elementary Particle Physics
Professor Reines earned his M.E. and M.S. degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and his Ph.D. from New York University in 1944. He was a member and then Group Leader in the theoretical division of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1944 to 1959. He was a Professor and Head of the Physics Department at Case Institute of Technology from 1959 to 1966 and Professor and founding Dean of Physical Sciences at UCI.
Professor Reines' work has been recognized by membership in the National Academy of Sciences and many other awards including the National Medal of Science. He was known for his work on the detection and study of the neutrino. We all mourn his passing in 1998.
companies can go as far as sending frivolous C&D's and threatening action (if no response is received within "24 hours" as in this case) tells me something is screwed up about the system.
Most people would be intimidated with such a letter, and comply with out due to lack of resources or in pursuing/challenging it's validity. This, and the absence of any timely deterrent (fines, punishment) further encourages Diebold/RIAA/SCO and their ilk to use meaningless C&D and lawsuits as an intimidation and FUD technique without any approval from the legal system.
Support Services (coming soon...)
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* Subscription
* Deployment Services
* Custom Development
that they're considering starting Support services soon. As a Configuration Management guy at a fairly large company, one of the reasons major corporations choose commercial version control software (Rational ClearCase, etc) over the open source counterparts (CVS, etc) is primarily due to lack of formal support.
I'm all for open source and even dislike it when companies reject Linux because of "lack of support" (this is ofcourse changing with RedHat's efforts), but experience has taught me that not everybody in a large organization is a hacker and willing to figure out the intricacies incase something goes wrong. They'd rather pay for a service contract incase anything goes wrong.
And ofcourse, there's also the accountability angle (which I dislike) to it, when you're using the version control software to develop critical/huge amount of bread-and-butter software - companies want to be able to have someone to point fingers at incase something messes up.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft RUL3ZZ!!
Linux SUXX0RRZ
RIAA is TEH K1N6!
j/k
*sob*
I've been let down by my alma mater.
As usual, Wikipedia has a good article. To quote:
Interlacing is a method of displaying images on a raster-scanned display, such as a cathode ray tube (CRT), that results in less visible flickering than non-interlaced methods. The display draws first the even-numbered lines, then the odd numbered lines of each picture.
program Anniversary;
begin
writeln ('Happy 30th Anniversary Pascal. You roxxorzz');
end.
they send Roland Piquepaille up on their satellite. I'm sure they'll find him a big asset to the mission.
Simple. l33t haxorr sk311z.
I find myself quite *IN GOES THE RED PILL* capableo f concentrating on *HA, HE THINKS THAT'S AIR HE'S BREATHING, LOL!! OMG!! THIS IS THE BEST PART* reading, thinking, *MAN, TRINITY IS TEH ROXXORZZZ* typing and watching a movie *THERE IS NO SPOON LOL!* at the same time.
One particularly large area where money is being aggressively thrown at is Technology, which is being seen as the solution to all the security problems (diplomacy, better foreign policy would work better IMHO), which is where the article gets the name from. It's not just about IT (or "cyber") security.
I also managed to ask him about his views (in his capacity as an established innovator/inventor) on aggressive Patenting and Copyright laws by corporations (for example SCO vs IBM, and the Record Industry lawsuits).
It was gratifying to know that he was well aware of these problems, and even commended the "Open Source movement" and stressed on it's importance to encourage free flow of information and it's significance in the fight against the evergrowing stifling of innovation.
It was an interesting lecture, where he covered quite a few of the topics in this article. Apparently, he treats his body as a "biological experiment" to try out different drugs (he's a diabetic) on himself.
An interesting guy to say the least.
Caused me many a lost mission and endless hours of frustration that night. These guys got lucky...
BUSINESS VISA: Valid for six months and one year with multiple entries. A letter from Sponsoring Organization indicating the nature of applicant's business, probable duration of stay, places and organizations to be visited incorporating therein a guarantee to meet maintenance expenses, etc. may accompany the application. Ten-year Business visas are available to U.S passport holders. A business letter from India or US may accompany the application.
Debating (healthily) is okay, but spreading FUD is not.
And if this should occur, they have to resort to printing identifying "watermarks" in documents, which isn't terribly different from existing currency technology/etc.
It indeed does contain the usual technobabble and typos (eg: NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHBIITED USE), but some parts of it stood out, especially those related to the DMCA.
I quote the parts that caused concerns, especially given the fact that /. has covered stories in the past about companies (ISPs/etc) taking down content upon receiving a DMCA notice, without paying much attention to user's rights etc (no time to dig them up right now):
After receiving a claim of infringement, OSTG will process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and will take appropriate actions under the DMCA and other applicable intellectual property laws. Upon receipt of notices complying or substantially complying with the DMCA, OSTG will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any material claimed to be infringing or claimed to be the subject of infringing activity, and will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any reference or link to material or activity that is claimed to be infringing. OSTG will take reasonable steps to expeditiously notify the subscriber that it has removed or disabled access to such material.
Upon receipt of a proper counter notification under the DMCA, OSTG will promptly provide the person who provided the initial notification of claimed infringement with a copy of the counter notification and inform that person that it will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it in ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days. Additionally, OSTG will replace the removed material and cease disabling access to it ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days following receipt of the counter notice, unless OSTG's designated agent first receives notice from the person who submitted the initial notification that such person has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on the OSTG system or network.
You may provide us with a counter notification by providing our copyright agent the following information in writing: ...
An interesting read to see /. and OSTG's legal stand on DMCA, "Your rights online", etc.
PS: This is *not* intended to be flamebait...in today's legal-trigger happy world and the quality of "justice", an organization would probably be wise to cover it's bases. It was just something I thought was interesting.
The cost of a product is not necessarily equal to the cost of developing it.
Let there be light, and there was "1".
According to ancient Indian texts, the people had flying machines which were called "Vimanas." The ancient Indian epic describes a Vimana as a double-deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer.
It flew with the "speed of the wind" and gave forth a "melodious sound." There were at least four different types of Vimanas; some saucer shaped, others like long cylinders ("cigar shaped airships"). The ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous, it would take volumes to relate what they had to say. The ancient Indians, who manufactured these ships themselves, wrote entire flight manuals on the control of the various types of Vimanas, many of which are still in existence, and some have even been translated into English.
The Samara Sutradhara is a scientific treatise dealing with every possible angle of air travel in a Vimana. There are 230 stanzas dealing with the construction, take-off, cruising for thousand of miles, normal and forced landings, and even possible collisions with birds. In 1875, the Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by Bharadvajy the Wise, using even older texts as his source, was rediscovered in a temple in India. It dealt with the operation of Vimanas and included information on the steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships from storms and lightening and how to switch the drive to "solar energy" from a free energy source which sounds like "anti-gravity."
The Vaimanika Sastra (or Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight chapters with diagrams, describing three types of aircraft, including apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. It also mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from which they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which reason they were considered suitable for the construction of Vimanas. This document has been translated into English and is available by writing the publisher: VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi Bharadwaaja, translated into English and edited, printed and published by Mr. G. R. Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979 (sorry, no street address). Mr. Josyer is the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation located in Mysore.
Sources: Ancient flying machines (Contains diagrams/details).
Wikipedia reference to the term-Vimanas
(Late) Frederick Reines at the School of Physics and Astronomy at UCI:
1995 Nobel Laureate Frederick Reines [1918-1998] Distinguished Professor Emeritus Elementary Particle Physics
Professor Reines earned his M.E. and M.S. degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and his Ph.D. from New York University in 1944. He was a member and then Group Leader in the theoretical division of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1944 to 1959. He was a Professor and Head of the Physics Department at Case Institute of Technology from 1959 to 1966 and Professor and founding Dean of Physical Sciences at UCI.
Professor Reines' work has been recognized by membership in the National Academy of Sciences and many other awards including the National Medal of Science. He was known for his work on the detection and study of the neutrino. We all mourn his passing in 1998.
All we need now is The FAQs on FAQs on FAQs.
But destructe research wins over constructive alternatives hands down.
Double standards, whatever.
Sorry to get all your panties in a bunch...
Most people would be intimidated with such a letter, and comply with out due to lack of resources or in pursuing/challenging it's validity. This, and the absence of any timely deterrent (fines, punishment) further encourages Diebold/RIAA/SCO and their ilk to use meaningless C&D and lawsuits as an intimidation and FUD technique without any approval from the legal system.
Bigehi's.
* Per Incident
* Subscription
* Deployment Services
* Custom Development
that they're considering starting Support services soon. As a Configuration Management guy at a fairly large company, one of the reasons major corporations choose commercial version control software (Rational ClearCase, etc) over the open source counterparts (CVS, etc) is primarily due to lack of formal support.
I'm all for open source and even dislike it when companies reject Linux because of "lack of support" (this is ofcourse changing with RedHat's efforts), but experience has taught me that not everybody in a large organization is a hacker and willing to figure out the intricacies incase something goes wrong. They'd rather pay for a service contract incase anything goes wrong.
And ofcourse, there's also the accountability angle (which I dislike) to it, when you're using the version control software to develop critical/huge amount of bread-and-butter software - companies want to be able to have someone to point fingers at incase something messes up.