you may have heard of them - it's a literay device sometimes used to help people think outside their boxes...
In this case I think that point that's being made is that the 17yr olds are not playing by the 'rules' at leats not by the rules of big business because they're not engaged with the system - suppose instead we say "it's a bright new wild-west frontier and some stuffy victorian gentleman is saying 'hey old chap that's not cricket' - see another metaphor - but from times gone by - the 'Hezbollah' is an idea standing in for something else - it may push your buttins right now 20 years from now it will be just a word, but it also wont carry the idea of 'working outside the existing legal system' that it does now
Well that's the problem - Copyright gives them a legally sanctioned monopoly - why aren't there competing pressings of Pink's latest album or old Stones classics on the market? because copyright is broken - and the RIAA is the worst example of why
there are lots of failure mechanisms - only takes one to kick in. Some simple ones involve stuff melting, tiny wires burning out - those are pretty drastic and tend to happen early on. Tehermal runnaway on the other hand can sneak up on you. Others take much longer.
Consider 'electromigration' (where electrons moving thru fine wires cause the atoms in the wires to move and eventually breaks to occur in metal layers) can take years and depend on the number of electrons and how much energy they carry - bump the voltage/current and you have more electrons carrying more energy - chips designers these days run simulations to make sure that electromigration will cause no problems over the life of the chip.... but they make assumptions about how the chip will be used and spec the chip based on those assumptions.
Often stuff like this is statistical - you may well have a cpu that's running perfectly, your neighbor may suffer an early failure
I agree - it's probably real - more for the custom/semi-custom world though - people who can design datapaths with flow that physically follows the clock probably do well
surely the idea of doing that is, well, "obvious" to just about anyone. There might be particular ways of doing it that might be patentable, but just matching for sounds is exactly what a worried mother does when she puts her hands over her precious son's ears. Training a computer to do the same thing seems an obvious thing to do if it's outputting sound and you don't want people to hear 'bad words'
the people who broke the BBN cartel (prior to that you had to be a large company to get connected to the 'net, and more importantly, you were not allowed to resell packets/net access (ie ISPs were not possible)
the advent of cheap enough routing hardware that small ISPs could form (I'm thinking of the Portmasters etc)
the first was most important - without it we'd still just have a research net
turning them over to the Swedish govt wouldn't ruin scientology's copyright - just because it's on file with the Swedes doesn't mean that anyone other than scientology can publish them (that's what a copyright gives you the right to do publish aka make copies).
After all in the US it's a common practice to file a copy of a work with the US copyright office when filing
The problem was that scientology didn't want to publish the work, they were trying to use copyrights to keep it secret - which if you think about the whole purpose of copyrights is slightly ludicrous - in fact they filed their US copyright application by only revealing every Nth letter - something that proved ammenable to decoding with a simple perl program
you may be confusing it with another company (who's name escapes me at the moment) which was a stealth startup around the same time Transmeta was - they were building media-processors - we kept hearing about all the wonders they were creating - but in the end they crashed and burned before ever delivering a product
I think that the right way to look at this is that verilog and vhdl are languages for describing hardware - the sort of hardware depends on the coding you do - code for synchronous synthesisable-by-synopsys you get sync logic - code async logic that's what you get (but you need back end synthesis tools that understand what you're doing....).
What you don't get is a system that inherently understands your async-latches and can generate the per-stage 'mini-clocks' that some async design regimes require - you need some way of telling the synthesis system that "these gates are together" and need to be "self-timed together" - that could be some special language feature, conventions about gate/flop naming, use of explicit cells or the way modules are laid out etc etc
claim 1: looks like a box that does frame or field based decode video decode (definitely prior art in 1991)
claim 2: claim 1 with interlace (prior art)
claims 3-12: looks like motion jpeg (prior art - pretty sure we were selling hardware at that point) - but this describes ENCODING so it doesn't apply to an xbox doing playback
claim 13: a decoding claim - motion comp - (i'm pretty sure there was prior art pre-1991)
claim 14: 13 plus arbitrary readout of the coefficients (might not be prior art here)
claim 15: 13 just explaining motioncomp in a decoder a bit more (some patent lawyers are paid by the claim)
claim 16: really just more motion jpeg decode
claim 17: adding the DC component (anyone remember is it in jpeg too?)
claims 18-end: more encoder claims
so hopefully that makes it easier to understand - I suspect prior art in the literature of the time (I was involved in building hardware to do this sort of stuff back then, so were some of MS's current staff) - or maybe a Rambus-like case of someone in the standards meeting patenting in the background - much as I want to see MS crash and burn letting crap patents out hurst everyone
My boss used to make me wear a suit when we did Usenix/Uniforums back in the mid 80s, finally he twigged to the fact that no-one would take me seriously at a Unix trade show dressed like that. As you said 'you dress for your audience' - wear a suit and you might not be taken seriously
In general people used to make the same claim back then - well it was more like 'you have to wear a suit like those IBM sales people' - and now look at all those IBM guys, they're the ones with beards and sandals
yeah but Carmack's doing it the open source way, he's writing it all up so we can see what he's doing, learn from his mistakes - it's wonderfull reading, esp for someone like me who flies rockets for fun
you're right... but of course you only pay for half of every connection - they guy at the other end (Vonage in this case) pays for the other half to their provider, and Vonage pays access fees to the public switch for you as well.
You the upthread who claimed Vonage was 'getting it all for free' is just plain wrong - however he was right in saying that they are cutting into the telcos traditional profit centers is right - think about it - if Vonage can charge you for all that and still make a profit then the telcos who charge you much more must be making a killing, or be dreadfully inefficient - competition is a wonderfull thing
Don't forget that a number of linux luminaries also donated their facial hair (or all their hair) to the fundraising cause (plus one guy who committed to growing some), one other guy volunteered to fix KDE bugs of the winner's choice etc etc
I agree - as documents go it seems like a clear overview of reality and a guide for the govt in how to to deal with it. IMHO the 3rd party requirements make sense - really all it says is "make sure your contractors talk to you before they use open source" that way you don't get blind sided and end up with a resultwithe distribution requirements you can't live with
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Th Boy Scouts of America are a paramilitary organization known for tieing their opposition up in knots ....
could be something as simple as an ISP blocking a classified site because it has a competing one
In this case I think that point that's being made is that the 17yr olds are not playing by the 'rules' at leats not by the rules of big business because they're not engaged with the system - suppose instead we say "it's a bright new wild-west frontier and some stuffy victorian gentleman is saying 'hey old chap that's not cricket' - see another metaphor - but from times gone by - the 'Hezbollah' is an idea standing in for something else - it may push your buttins right now 20 years from now it will be just a word, but it also wont carry the idea of 'working outside the existing legal system' that it does now
That's probably fair - the data's coming in ATM cells - they're 53 bytes long with a 5-byte header so you're gonna lose 10% right there
Well that's the problem - Copyright gives them a legally sanctioned monopoly - why aren't there competing pressings of Pink's latest album or old Stones classics on the market? because copyright is broken - and the RIAA is the worst example of why
especially stay away from public performances of such songs as "Happy Birthday"
Consider 'electromigration' (where electrons moving thru fine wires cause the atoms in the wires to move and eventually breaks to occur in metal layers) can take years and depend on the number of electrons and how much energy they carry - bump the voltage/current and you have more electrons carrying more energy - chips designers these days run simulations to make sure that electromigration will cause no problems over the life of the chip .... but they make assumptions about how the chip will be used and spec the chip based on those assumptions.
Often stuff like this is statistical - you may well have a cpu that's running perfectly, your neighbor may suffer an early failure
heh - I was going to point out the same things - perhaps we should torment him with geography questions instead
I agree - it's probably real - more for the custom/semi-custom world though - people who can design datapaths with flow that physically follows the clock probably do well
surely the idea of doing that is, well, "obvious" to just about anyone. There might be particular ways of doing it that might be patentable, but just matching for sounds is exactly what a worried mother does when she puts her hands over her precious son's ears. Training a computer to do the same thing seems an obvious thing to do if it's outputting sound and you don't want people to hear 'bad words'
or bobble as the case may be
- the people who broke the BBN cartel (prior to that you had to be a large company to get connected to the 'net, and more importantly, you were not allowed to resell packets/net access (ie ISPs were not possible)
- the advent of cheap enough routing hardware that small ISPs could form (I'm thinking of the Portmasters etc)
the first was most important - without it we'd still just have a research netSun that is ... there someone had to say it, sorry
After all in the US it's a common practice to file a copy of a work with the US copyright office when filing
The problem was that scientology didn't want to publish the work, they were trying to use copyrights to keep it secret - which if you think about the whole purpose of copyrights is slightly ludicrous - in fact they filed their US copyright application by only revealing every Nth letter - something that proved ammenable to decoding with a simple perl program
you may be confusing it with another company (who's name escapes me at the moment) which was a stealth startup around the same time Transmeta was - they were building media-processors - we kept hearing about all the wonders they were creating - but in the end they crashed and burned before ever delivering a product
What you don't get is a system that inherently understands your async-latches and can generate the per-stage 'mini-clocks' that some async design regimes require - you need some way of telling the synthesis system that "these gates are together" and need to be "self-timed together" - that could be some special language feature, conventions about gate/flop naming, use of explicit cells or the way modules are laid out etc etc
- claim 1: looks like a box that does frame or field based decode video decode (definitely prior art in 1991)
- claim 2: claim 1 with interlace (prior art)
- claims 3-12: looks like motion jpeg (prior art - pretty sure we were selling hardware at that point) - but this describes ENCODING so it doesn't apply to an xbox doing playback
- claim 13: a decoding claim - motion comp - (i'm pretty sure there was prior art pre-1991)
- claim 14: 13 plus arbitrary readout of the coefficients (might not be prior art here)
- claim 15: 13 just explaining motioncomp in a decoder a bit more (some patent lawyers are paid by the claim)
- claim 16: really just more motion jpeg decode
- claim 17: adding the DC component (anyone remember is it in jpeg too?)
- claims 18-end: more encoder claims
so hopefully that makes it easier to understand - I suspect prior art in the literature of the time (I was involved in building hardware to do this sort of stuff back then, so were some of MS's current staff) - or maybe a Rambus-like case of someone in the standards meeting patenting in the background - much as I want to see MS crash and burn letting crap patents out hurst everyoneIn general people used to make the same claim back then - well it was more like 'you have to wear a suit like those IBM sales people' - and now look at all those IBM guys, they're the ones with beards and sandals
yeah but Carmack's doing it the open source way, he's writing it all up so we can see what he's doing, learn from his mistakes - it's wonderfull reading, esp for someone like me who flies rockets for fun
an 'analog hole' .... quick call the MPAA
You the upthread who claimed Vonage was 'getting it all for free' is just plain wrong - however he was right in saying that they are cutting into the telcos traditional profit centers is right - think about it - if Vonage can charge you for all that and still make a profit then the telcos who charge you much more must be making a killing, or be dreadfully inefficient - competition is a wonderfull thing
Don't forget that a number of linux luminaries also donated their facial hair (or all their hair) to the fundraising cause (plus one guy who committed to growing some), one other guy volunteered to fix KDE bugs of the winner's choice etc etc
I think the WPS 'toilet cam' (hoax that it was) probably counts as prior art from the early '90s
just pull the plug
I agree - as documents go it seems like a clear overview of reality and a guide for the govt in how to to deal with it. IMHO the 3rd party requirements make sense - really all it says is "make sure your contractors talk to you before they use open source" that way you don't get blind sided and end up with a resultwithe distribution requirements you can't live with