Exactly. In that quote, they're showing their motives; It's not about what they're entitled to enforce legally, it's what they wish they could, and what they're going to claim they can until a court says otherwise.
OTOH, the Intel offering, at around the same price, may well be a better product. Think of the children! OTOH, Indeed. The Classmate PC will cost $400. Given that the OLPC laptop eventually ballooned to "$135-$175," and that Intel is not even making these, only providing chips and specifications to manufacturers, it's likely that their quoted price is lowballed a bit.
the "/ Linux" part of your comment is off the mark. Perhaps, but MS and Intel still enjoy a healthy symbiotic alliance. Much of Intel's promotion of the Classmate PC has been roughly "But ours runs windows XP!" The fact that it's capable of running linux doesn't inspire much confidence that it will ever be shipped that way.
Perhaps the [MP|RI]AA have a stake in intel's competing design: it includes a TPM chip!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC:
The Classmate PC, in contrast to the XO (which does not require anything extra) includes a Trusted Platform Module (TPM)[2] to provide any local Windows XP Embedded installation with access to hardware-based DRM.
Negroponte's upset that Intel has been sniping out the specific countries that OLPC is targeting, telling governments to hold off until Intel's offering is ready, publishing material like "the shortcomings of the One Laptop per Child approach," etc. Intel doesn't at all like the fact that a huge number of kids around the world are going to cut their teeth on AMD / Linux based systems. As a for profit company, the tactics they're using to compete with the (non-profit) OLPC group are kind of sad, since it's only the kids who will really suffer from this.
This action seems like it will be beneficial to free software in the end, as it will hopefully cause a re-examination of the miserable state of our patent system. I, for one, hope that MS does take this to court so we can start to see some change. However, it seems that its main goal here is to spread FUD and scare the industry into letting MS profit off of the hard work of OSS developers.
I am aware of those developments. See my other comment in the thread where I say
(later it was found that she was changing her story so much because she made the whole thing up.) As a matter of fact, I wrote most of what you mentioned down before deleting it because I just didn't want to go off on an offtopic rant. The whole case was insanity, Nifong intentionally ignored exculpatory evidence as well as several other gross ethics violations for which he is now being investigated by the Bar.
As well, while it's not as common, wemon do on occasion rape men, and most wemon don't have penises. At least in North Carolina, where the duke case happened, no, forcefully penetrating someone with a broomstick would be sexual assault, which is a different, lesser crime than rape. I'm not sure about lesbian rape, but I suspect the same thing applies. Rape has traditionally been a man-on-woman crime, and it's only relatively recently that people could even conceive of rapes committed by women. Also, the act of a woman raping a man still presumably includes penile penetration, so it fits the law.
Lesbians can't rape people? Men can't rape people with broom sticks and bottles? I think it's penetration, not penile penetration. in the duke case, the DA was forced to drop the rape charge not because of a lack of penetration, but because of a lack of penile penetration. The dancer changed her story to say that she wasn't sure what they penetrated her with. (later it was found that she was changing her story so much because she made the whole thing up.)
One thing that I learned from the Duke Lacrosse case is that in most US jurisdictions, and possibly elsewhere, Rape is legally defined as including penile penetration. Thus when the accuser changed her story and said that she thought she might only have been penetrated by an object, the DA was forced to drop the rape charges to sexual assault. Online, penetration with anything is impossible, although abuse and assault have much broader definitions which certainly could include online speech and actions.
OK, but for you to use hashing as a legal basis, hashes have to have a one-to-one relationship with the numbers you're hashing (which can't happen), or else you will censor numbers that have nothing to do with the one you intend to prevent publication of. Hash collisions are a reality; publishing a hash and saying "anything that hashes to this is illegal" is effectively more onerous, and therefore harder to enforce, than just trying to block the original number.
why doesn't my Dell have 2-finger trackpad scrolling? Apple has a patent (http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/10/09.2.s html/) on that, and would likely enforce it. Actually, some new synaptics touchpads support the feature in hw, although the functionality isn't there in the windows drivers; check out the X11 synaptics option "TwoFingerScroll".
The article summary is BS. DVD ripping has not been legalized, this only applies to manufacturers of these kinds of devices.
Because of this ruling, the Judge did not have to get into copyright issues, so the Kaleidescape ruling has no copyright implications. It is not a statement on the legality of ripping DVDs.
While the n800's cpu is beefier than the 770's, it's far from being able to play video that's as big as its glorious 800x480 screen. Apparently they cut some costs and the video bus can't handle the data rate that full screen video entails. So you have to transcode most video to 320x240. I'm told this might improve in future kernels. On the upside, there are several upnp media players written that you can use with a upnp media server to automatically transcode to the proper resolution and codec before sending over the network.
I have an n800. So far, I haven't been able to come up with a task that it can't handle. it runs a modified debian; imagine apt-get on a handheld. Most any GTK program its cpu can handle can be quickly ported by the most inexperienced programmer. If you already use linux, this device is an amazing godsend. However, I understand that this amazing ability to use all the same programs as on the desktop will be lost on someone who uses windows. Literally my only gripe is that its chipset doesn't support USB Host mode, so if you want to use an external keyboard it has to be bluetooth, or another computer attached via vnc.
The big difference between the two is that ripping CDs cannot be automated by an easy free program (since you have to manually insert the CDs). It's simple to transcode a big batch of files to mp3 though, and modern CPUS can chew through most collections in a night.
Care to provide a source for this assertion? From the small amount of research I did (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA950), it appears that you have it backwards. The GMA series offloads complex tasks like pixel shading to the CPU, but still has hardware facilities for actual 3d rendering. If intel integrated graphics truly did all 3d in software (and I assume you mean on the CPU), 3d performance would be completely miserable. I'm not a big gamer, but I do play with Beryl and run the occasional game, and my GMA950 can maintain 50-60 fps, even at my laptop's wonky 1440x900 resolution. I defy you to show me a software-rendered beryl desktop that pulls 60fps at that resolution.
I'd be interested to know what Intel chipset these PCs used, since as far as I know, all of Intel's current ones support linux, although as mentioned above, sometimes you have to use a utility like 915resolution to use nonstandard res.
You won't get one because such a thing does not exist, unless you're an enterprise user prone to heavy data processing (only a certain type of which benefits from the increased word size).
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Exactly. In that quote, they're showing their motives; It's not about what they're entitled to enforce legally, it's what they wish they could, and what they're going to claim they can until a court says otherwise.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC: The Classmate PC, in contrast to the XO (which does not require anything extra) includes a Trusted Platform Module (TPM)[2] to provide any local Windows XP Embedded installation with access to hardware-based DRM.
Negroponte's upset that Intel has been sniping out the specific countries that OLPC is targeting, telling governments to hold off until Intel's offering is ready, publishing material like "the shortcomings of the One Laptop per Child approach," etc. Intel doesn't at all like the fact that a huge number of kids around the world are going to cut their teeth on AMD / Linux based systems. As a for profit company, the tactics they're using to compete with the (non-profit) OLPC group are kind of sad, since it's only the kids who will really suffer from this.
copyright != patents
This action seems like it will be beneficial to free software in the end, as it will hopefully cause a re-examination of the miserable state of our patent system. I, for one, hope that MS does take this to court so we can start to see some change. However, it seems that its main goal here is to spread FUD and scare the industry into letting MS profit off of the hard work of OSS developers.
One thing that I learned from the Duke Lacrosse case is that in most US jurisdictions, and possibly elsewhere, Rape is legally defined as including penile penetration. Thus when the accuser changed her story and said that she thought she might only have been penetrated by an object, the DA was forced to drop the rape charges to sexual assault. Online, penetration with anything is impossible, although abuse and assault have much broader definitions which certainly could include online speech and actions.
OK, but for you to use hashing as a legal basis, hashes have to have a one-to-one relationship with the numbers you're hashing (which can't happen), or else you will censor numbers that have nothing to do with the one you intend to prevent publication of. Hash collisions are a reality; publishing a hash and saying "anything that hashes to this is illegal" is effectively more onerous, and therefore harder to enforce, than just trying to block the original number.
Yes, that's exactly why they started doing business with intel.
seriously. My favorite anachronism is Sony also plans to put the technology in the PlayStation 3 when the game console is released in the spring
You're right. I rtfa'd and the system has a palm-rest detector, as well as a flu-detector and a caffiene-levels detector
While the n800's cpu is beefier than the 770's, it's far from being able to play video that's as big as its glorious 800x480 screen. Apparently they cut some costs and the video bus can't handle the data rate that full screen video entails. So you have to transcode most video to 320x240. I'm told this might improve in future kernels. On the upside, there are several upnp media players written that you can use with a upnp media server to automatically transcode to the proper resolution and codec before sending over the network.
I have an n800. So far, I haven't been able to come up with a task that it can't handle. it runs a modified debian; imagine apt-get on a handheld. Most any GTK program its cpu can handle can be quickly ported by the most inexperienced programmer. If you already use linux, this device is an amazing godsend. However, I understand that this amazing ability to use all the same programs as on the desktop will be lost on someone who uses windows. Literally my only gripe is that its chipset doesn't support USB Host mode, so if you want to use an external keyboard it has to be bluetooth, or another computer attached via vnc.
The big difference between the two is that ripping CDs cannot be automated by an easy free program (since you have to manually insert the CDs). It's simple to transcode a big batch of files to mp3 though, and modern CPUS can chew through most collections in a night.
Care to provide a source for this assertion? From the small amount of research I did (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA950), it appears that you have it backwards. The GMA series offloads complex tasks like pixel shading to the CPU, but still has hardware facilities for actual 3d rendering. If intel integrated graphics truly did all 3d in software (and I assume you mean on the CPU), 3d performance would be completely miserable. I'm not a big gamer, but I do play with Beryl and run the occasional game, and my GMA950 can maintain 50-60 fps, even at my laptop's wonky 1440x900 resolution. I defy you to show me a software-rendered beryl desktop that pulls 60fps at that resolution.
I'd be interested to know what Intel chipset these PCs used, since as far as I know, all of Intel's current ones support linux, although as mentioned above, sometimes you have to use a utility like 915resolution to use nonstandard res.
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wrong. In the US, discrimination is only illegal for age, race, gender, or creed. Anyone can discriminate on the shape of your packets.
You won't get one because such a thing does not exist, unless you're an enterprise user prone to heavy data processing (only a certain type of which benefits from the increased word size).
As we've seen in the past with "the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer", when apple promises you performance increases, get wary.