He explained to you what patents entail, and then you go on and confuse patents with results, again.
There is no confusion. My point is that it's a fricken obvious process just waiting for technology to catch up to make it a non-stupid process to implement (I could look at trends and go and patent some clever ways of flying to Mars, but until the scientists and engineers figure out how actually to do it...). What he needs is other people to do the hard work for him so he can leverage off their research. Call it good business if you like, but it still looks like patent trolling to me.
This comment is exemplary of a common misconception in patents. They are not covering the results! They are covering the mechanism and methodology.
All well and good, but it's still pretty fricken obvious to those skilled in the art. Most of us would just think it's a bad idea right now until computer vision catches up to make it reliable.
He wants a patent on a centuries old auction bid technique? But on a computer? Whateva... besides, there must be plenty of published techniques for more generic movement-as-input already - it's been a popular research topic.
I'll second the iwl3945 issue, and it leaves my knetworkmanager applet telling me it's unmanaged. The ATI X1400 video driver seems to be buggy too... weird 16-bit-ish rendering on parts of the screen. It's all annoying enough that I'm typing this from Windows 7.
Your statement reminds me of novices who avoid ?: in favor of if/else because it's 'cryptic'.
It's not about being cryptic. I use if/else and I've been cutting code for decades. if/else and ?/: do the same thing, while one is easier to read while you're scanning through lines of code (it's just English after all). That the novices can understand what's been written is a bonus.
If that's the way business works in Korea, Taiwan and China then I don't care. But they need to learn that price fixing is not acceptable when they do business in the US and the EU.
The companies involved are Samsung, Hynix, Infineon, NEC, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Elpida and Nanya.
A 10th chip maker, Micron, was also part of the price-fixing cartel but escaped a fine in return for alerting the competition authorities.
I've bolded the US and EU companies for you. It's not just an Asian problem.
If 10,000 cows can produce 1 megawatt of power, which is 1,314 horsepower, surely it would be more efficient to use the output of 1,314 horses running on treadmills instead? That's about 1 horse to 7.5 cows, meaning big savings on space which is great for a data-centre. Even greater efficiencies could be had if the waste from the horses was used in the manner intended for the cow waste.
Don't even think about using hamsters in wheels though, because they'll only generate a useful 1/2072 horsepower each, which means you need about 2.7 million hamsters to generate 1 MW. I think the overhead of cage and wheel cleaning would become prohibitive at that point.
Yeah, they could. But then they'd be doing the same thing that browser vendors have been doing for the object element since the 1990s. Then what would be the point of the new HTML 5 video element?
Well, it would make all that bitching about which codecs to standardize on a non-issue for a start. It's a browser, why should it know how to play audio, video, decode images, display fonts, or lord knows what other things will come along - 3D support next? Pass it to the OS or build against external libraries and let something else figure that out.
Now first of all to the Wild Fox project maintainers, this is the right move. Fight to win the whole war, not one battle. Don't die as a martyr and lose it all just by demanding something to happen right now.
I agree with parent that WildFox is the right way to go, but could Firefox devs not offer a means to pipe the video stream to the player of the user's choice? Eg, vlc or mplayer running as a content-transparent plugin? That sorts the patent issue (from Firefox's perspective) and sorts the playback performance problem that others have mentioned. As long as the layer of the window is handled right, this might be a palatable workaround?
How hard is it to say; change a disk in one of the submerged nodes ? or fix a loose ethernet cable ? If the nodes are separated in compartments, and you could isolate and drain one while servicing it, this would be really nice indeed.
Did you see the movie Sunshine? You'll have to immerse yourself in the coolant, possibly freezing and/or bleeding to death after getting your leg stuck in the rack. It had better be an important upgrade.
But, but... Almost all my food consists of something that died.
Yeah, there are exception, like the lettuce, tomato, etc., that are technically still alive. But, for example, the bread was made from a pile of baby wheat plants that were ground up (while still alive), then mixed with live yeast and a few other ingredients, then baked at a temperature guaranteed to kill everything in the loaf. Then we slice that up, fill it with slices of dead animals and other things. Only the lettuce leaves and the seeds inside the tomato slices are still alive; the rest is quite dead.
I've found that people tend to think that such food is very "fresh", whatever that might mean, but they're clearly wrong. It's mostly made up of things that have died in the recent past. Some of them, like the baby wheat plants, died a rather awful death by being tossed live into a grinder. Others, like the yeast in the bread, died a horrible death in a bath of steam slowly getting hotter.
Oh man. I'm gonna have to go and live on sunlight and meditation like that Indian dude.
"What they are calling the "apple tax" is really the value add tax, which must be built into the price of all products sold."
For those wondering exactly what value is being added, perhaps having local retailers rather than international shipping / grey market retailer, shipping and distribution? It might not matter to the/. populace, but the punters seem to prefer having a physical shop to go to (and online stores are often fussy about selling internationally).
I disagree about localized pricing however, because the world is too small for that now. Local pricing only applies to the ignorant who are unable to find the "home market" prices and either source or negotiate them, while in some places with some products there is no local market anyway - it may be that all product is imported and priced arbitrarily (theoretically it's supply/demand driven, but it's rarely that simple).
Maybe it's not about that. Maybe the idea is to develop more usable human interfaces for remote control of the rovers on Mars. An immersive 3D environment for remote operators (a kind of avatar, if you will) would be a good way to improve the science being done, at least until we can get real people to Mars.
So, we could use these folding panels to power computers folding@home, and the waste heat can warm our houses as a green solution to heating. Just be ready to spend more of that other green folding stuff...
I heard you like folding, so we put an oraigami solar panel on your computer, so you can fold while you fold.
In war you don't give away anything. Just most people don't know that Larry Ellison is at war; his weapon, technology; his battleground, the reachable universe; his goal, ruthless conquest and absolute domination.
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He explained to you what patents entail, and then you go on and confuse patents with results, again.
There is no confusion. My point is that it's a fricken obvious process just waiting for technology to catch up to make it a non-stupid process to implement (I could look at trends and go and patent some clever ways of flying to Mars, but until the scientists and engineers figure out how actually to do it...). What he needs is other people to do the hard work for him so he can leverage off their research. Call it good business if you like, but it still looks like patent trolling to me.
This comment is exemplary of a common misconception in patents. They are not covering the results! They are covering the mechanism and methodology.
All well and good, but it's still pretty fricken obvious to those skilled in the art. Most of us would just think it's a bad idea right now until computer vision catches up to make it reliable.
He wants a patent on a centuries old auction bid technique? But on a computer? Whateva... besides, there must be plenty of published techniques for more generic movement-as-input already - it's been a popular research topic.
Actually, the crazy ones are the ones who hold on to their wealth. Money is for spending, it has no other worthwhile purpose.
Some would like their kids and grandkids to be able to spend some of it too.
Firstly, neutrinos have non-zero mass. Go ahead at read some of the links on Wikipedia.
Secondly, that only holds if you assume a 3D + time-arrow universe. At these scales I'm not sure you can make that assumption.
I tried to explain to her the concepts of phase delays
Note to the younger Slashdotters: Don't do this. The ladies really don't care.
And pirating movies isn't stealing. Stealing means I deprive someone else of their property. Copying said property is a different matter entirely.
They don't care about you copying a movie - it's the income they think you're depriving them of that they consider stealing.
I'll second the iwl3945 issue, and it leaves my knetworkmanager applet telling me it's unmanaged. The ATI X1400 video driver seems to be buggy too... weird 16-bit-ish rendering on parts of the screen. It's all annoying enough that I'm typing this from Windows 7.
Your statement reminds me of novices who avoid ?: in favor of if/else because it's 'cryptic'.
It's not about being cryptic. I use if/else and I've been cutting code for decades. if/else and ?/: do the same thing, while one is easier to read while you're scanning through lines of code (it's just English after all). That the novices can understand what's been written is a bonus.
That's the joke.
thank you for making me lol :-)
If that's the way business works in Korea, Taiwan and China then I don't care. But they need to learn that price fixing is not acceptable when they do business in the US and the EU.
The companies involved are Samsung, Hynix, Infineon, NEC, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Elpida and Nanya.
A 10th chip maker, Micron, was also part of the price-fixing cartel but escaped a fine in return for alerting the competition authorities.
I've bolded the US and EU companies for you. It's not just an Asian problem.
If 10,000 cows can produce 1 megawatt of power, which is 1,314 horsepower, surely it would be more efficient to use the output of 1,314 horses running on treadmills instead? That's about 1 horse to 7.5 cows, meaning big savings on space which is great for a data-centre. Even greater efficiencies could be had if the waste from the horses was used in the manner intended for the cow waste.
Don't even think about using hamsters in wheels though, because they'll only generate a useful 1/2072 horsepower each, which means you need about 2.7 million hamsters to generate 1 MW. I think the overhead of cage and wheel cleaning would become prohibitive at that point.
So maybe there won't be a real one, but maybe MIT could export their design to make an X-Plane model.
Yeah, they could. But then they'd be doing the same thing that browser vendors have been doing for the object element since the 1990s. Then what would be the point of the new HTML 5 video element?
Well, it would make all that bitching about which codecs to standardize on a non-issue for a start. It's a browser, why should it know how to play audio, video, decode images, display fonts, or lord knows what other things will come along - 3D support next? Pass it to the OS or build against external libraries and let something else figure that out.
Call me when they can fit 9 inches of graphics card into one of these cpu.
Size isn't everything!
Now first of all to the Wild Fox project maintainers, this is the right move. Fight to win the whole war, not one battle. Don't die as a martyr and lose it all just by demanding something to happen right now.
I agree with parent that WildFox is the right way to go, but could Firefox devs not offer a means to pipe the video stream to the player of the user's choice? Eg, vlc or mplayer running as a content-transparent plugin? That sorts the patent issue (from Firefox's perspective) and sorts the playback performance problem that others have mentioned. As long as the layer of the window is handled right, this might be a palatable workaround?
Me too, but I get a different error message: Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States.
How hard is it to say; change a disk in one of the submerged nodes ? or fix a loose ethernet cable ? If the nodes are separated in compartments, and you could isolate and drain one while servicing it, this would be really nice indeed.
Did you see the movie Sunshine? You'll have to immerse yourself in the coolant, possibly freezing and/or bleeding to death after getting your leg stuck in the rack. It had better be an important upgrade.
But, but ... Almost all my food consists of something that died.
Yeah, there are exception, like the lettuce, tomato, etc., that are technically still alive. But, for example, the bread was made from a pile of baby wheat plants that were ground up (while still alive), then mixed with live yeast and a few other ingredients, then baked at a temperature guaranteed to kill everything in the loaf. Then we slice that up, fill it with slices of dead animals and other things. Only the lettuce leaves and the seeds inside the tomato slices are still alive; the rest is quite dead.
I've found that people tend to think that such food is very "fresh", whatever that might mean, but they're clearly wrong. It's mostly made up of things that have died in the recent past. Some of them, like the baby wheat plants, died a rather awful death by being tossed live into a grinder. Others, like the yeast in the bread, died a horrible death in a bath of steam slowly getting hotter.
Oh man. I'm gonna have to go and live on sunlight and meditation like that Indian dude.
"What they are calling the "apple tax" is really the value add tax, which must be built into the price of all products sold."
For those wondering exactly what value is being added, perhaps having local retailers rather than international shipping / grey market retailer, shipping and distribution? It might not matter to the /. populace, but the punters seem to prefer having a physical shop to go to (and online stores are often fussy about selling internationally).
I disagree about localized pricing however, because the world is too small for that now. Local pricing only applies to the ignorant who are unable to find the "home market" prices and either source or negotiate them, while in some places with some products there is no local market anyway - it may be that all product is imported and priced arbitrarily (theoretically it's supply/demand driven, but it's rarely that simple).
Maybe it's not about that. Maybe the idea is to develop more usable human interfaces for remote control of the rovers on Mars. An immersive 3D environment for remote operators (a kind of avatar, if you will) would be a good way to improve the science being done, at least until we can get real people to Mars.
So, we could use these folding panels to power computers folding@home, and the waste heat can warm our houses as a green solution to heating. Just be ready to spend more of that other green folding stuff ...
I heard you like folding, so we put an oraigami solar panel on your computer, so you can fold while you fold.
\I'm so sorry
They are not going to give it away. Another rich mans folly.
You'll notice two things about their site:
1) No prices.
2) No "home" applications listed.
We're not their target market anyway.
In war you don't give away anything. Just most people don't know that Larry Ellison is at war; his weapon, technology; his battleground, the reachable universe; his goal, ruthless conquest and absolute domination.
Maybe he just needs a new boat?