They've assembled a space telescope, landed several autonomous rovers on Mars that have exceeded their mission profile tenfold, have a squadron of probes out in the gas giants, another heading for Pluto, a next-generation space telescope the size of a bus is currently under construction. NASA's got a lot of problems but the selectivity of your examples is comical, and your argument bewildering. It's not like the rocket guys go on holiday when the astrobiologists decide to start working on something.
Also, arguments in the scientific community are nothing new, and a lot controversy occurs because somebodies research infringes on someone else's predetermined view of things.
It's telling in this case that many of the sceptical responses are coming from the researchers who pioneered arsenic-based biochemistry.
I can't recall what it was, but Scienceblogs was atwitter with claims that Twitter was censoring a science/religion/something event that was being discussed. It turns out that (shock) people just weren't talking about it as incredibly frequently as they had been when it started trending.
I'm looking for the part where you demonstrate that the problem has been solved. The market has provided an answer, and you view the problem as only a minor one anyway, but I don't see where it's been resolved. That's not to say it hasn't been, but it's the centre of your argument.
Dynamic range compression? What we have (had?) in the UK was a decibel limit, so in some cases* they just lifted everything under the limit to increase loudness. Lots of hassle for that. The law seems to legally enforce ATSC guidelines for loudness on programming when broadcasting ads, which on my cursory reading means that there's a strict loudness level and dynamic range they have to work to.
*Notoriously, when Lost came over here they ran an extra ten minutes of ads per episode and made them ridiculously loud
It's a demonstration of the US government's power over US companies, of the construction of a local police state, not a global one. It's no more persuasive evidence of an international police state than pointing to North Korea's equivalent actions.
Wikileaks' successful movement from the country which it has transgressed* to one of the many countries that are willing to give it safe harbour is a sign of "a total worldwide fascist corporate police state"? It strikes me as a reminder that whistleblowing will survive so long as nations exist and are sometimes unwilling to play by eachother's rules. Heterogeneity for the win.
*I don't mean this pejoratively, it's just a graceful verb in this instance.
The depth info tells you what's non-background in the scene unambiguously, and allows the texture map to distort to follow the object, which is a bit closer to the way the effect was depicted in GitS and the latter MGS games.
It's a shade more sophisticated than that. I think he's using the existing make-a-texture-mapped-model-of-the-space code, but telling it to texture map anything that's non-background with an pre-existing image of the background. It's a cute project, obviously intended to recreate the look of the sci-fi cloaking effect, rather than do anything clever. After all, you could achieve a much more effective result by just replacing the feed with one in which the person was not present.
Doesn't require forward planning, just opportunism. They were given a way out that would avoid a whole lot of damaging decisions against them, and they took it. If the circumstances were different I'm sure they would've continued the case on whatever other grounds they had.
I'm pretty sure that fair use allows for total reproduction in fringe cases, and conversely prohibits even trivial reproduction in extreme circumstances. It's a very wooly term. Off the top of my head, attempting to duplicate a game with copy protection to demonstrate or investigate how that particular copy protection system works in an academic setting.
I've often wondered why there isn't a standard hash check built into browsers. If you store the hash and the file on different servers (cooperatively) then you greatly reduce the risk of this sort of attack. That said I suspect that the benefit is probably a lot smaller than the difficulty in establishing such a system.
MS started doing Sky TV on the Xbox 360 some time in the last year or so in the UK, so Microsoft's certainly prepared to offer streaming TV. I figure its absence from the US has more to do with licencing and contracts than any technical hurdle.
To be fair, at least he's doing it to raise the profile of his own company. Year-in, year-out we get unscrupulous scientists coming up with (or simply endorsing) "formulas" to go with "research" coming out of the marketing arms of all kinds of bullshit companies in exchange for cold hard cash, which is much, much lower. The most famous is that stupid "mole people" item that escaped from a press release about the Time Machine remake (!) appearing on Bravo (!) and ran amok through the media, causing all sorts of debate before anyone bothered to examine the total invalidity of the exercise.
Or ensure that a such a patent is only granted if there is no doubt with regards to prior art, which would achieve the same thing in most cases while protecting genuine innovators.
Patents (like registered trademarks, and unlike copyright) are assumed enforcable unless proven otherwise. They're not supposed to be granted in the first place if they're invalid.
"The shortcomings of the prior art are overcome and additional advantages are provided through the provision of a method of facilitating management of dynamically allocated memory. The method includes, for instance, having a dynamically allocated memory buffer; and determining in real-time that an invalid access of the dynamically allocated memory buffer has occurred."
I'm no expert on HeapCheck but that doesn't sound far removed from its basic functionality.
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I think they would recycle actors with a similarly deft hand.
They've assembled a space telescope, landed several autonomous rovers on Mars that have exceeded their mission profile tenfold, have a squadron of probes out in the gas giants, another heading for Pluto, a next-generation space telescope the size of a bus is currently under construction. NASA's got a lot of problems but the selectivity of your examples is comical, and your argument bewildering. It's not like the rocket guys go on holiday when the astrobiologists decide to start working on something.
Also, arguments in the scientific community are nothing new, and a lot controversy occurs because somebodies research infringes on someone else's predetermined view of things.
It's telling in this case that many of the sceptical responses are coming from the researchers who pioneered arsenic-based biochemistry.
In fact, they have the exclusive.
Wrong. You can pre-order it from the Carphone Warehouse already, which is about as massmarket as UK phone stores go.
I can't recall what it was, but Scienceblogs was atwitter with claims that Twitter was censoring a science/religion/something event that was being discussed. It turns out that (shock) people just weren't talking about it as incredibly frequently as they had been when it started trending.
No no, he says the bullets fell from his friend's clip. So it's a defective magazine that spills unfired bullets.
I'm looking for the part where you demonstrate that the problem has been solved. The market has provided an answer, and you view the problem as only a minor one anyway, but I don't see where it's been resolved. That's not to say it hasn't been, but it's the centre of your argument.
Usually this is marked "quiet mode" or "night mode".
Dynamic range compression? What we have (had?) in the UK was a decibel limit, so in some cases* they just lifted everything under the limit to increase loudness. Lots of hassle for that. The law seems to legally enforce ATSC guidelines for loudness on programming when broadcasting ads, which on my cursory reading means that there's a strict loudness level and dynamic range they have to work to.
*Notoriously, when Lost came over here they ran an extra ten minutes of ads per episode and made them ridiculously loud
It's a demonstration of the US government's power over US companies, of the construction of a local police state, not a global one. It's no more persuasive evidence of an international police state than pointing to North Korea's equivalent actions.
Wikileaks' successful movement from the country which it has transgressed* to one of the many countries that are willing to give it safe harbour is a sign of "a total worldwide fascist corporate police state"? It strikes me as a reminder that whistleblowing will survive so long as nations exist and are sometimes unwilling to play by eachother's rules. Heterogeneity for the win.
*I don't mean this pejoratively, it's just a graceful verb in this instance.
The depth info tells you what's non-background in the scene unambiguously, and allows the texture map to distort to follow the object, which is a bit closer to the way the effect was depicted in GitS and the latter MGS games.
Well, clever's the wrong word. Functional. It is certainly clever.
It's a shade more sophisticated than that. I think he's using the existing make-a-texture-mapped-model-of-the-space code, but telling it to texture map anything that's non-background with an pre-existing image of the background. It's a cute project, obviously intended to recreate the look of the sci-fi cloaking effect, rather than do anything clever. After all, you could achieve a much more effective result by just replacing the feed with one in which the person was not present.
Doesn't require forward planning, just opportunism. They were given a way out that would avoid a whole lot of damaging decisions against them, and they took it. If the circumstances were different I'm sure they would've continued the case on whatever other grounds they had.
I'm pretty sure that fair use allows for total reproduction in fringe cases, and conversely prohibits even trivial reproduction in extreme circumstances. It's a very wooly term. Off the top of my head, attempting to duplicate a game with copy protection to demonstrate or investigate how that particular copy protection system works in an academic setting.
Don't worry, I'm sure whatever judge they use next time will not be so thorough.
I've often wondered why there isn't a standard hash check built into browsers. If you store the hash and the file on different servers (cooperatively) then you greatly reduce the risk of this sort of attack. That said I suspect that the benefit is probably a lot smaller than the difficulty in establishing such a system.
MS started doing Sky TV on the Xbox 360 some time in the last year or so in the UK, so Microsoft's certainly prepared to offer streaming TV. I figure its absence from the US has more to do with licencing and contracts than any technical hurdle.
To be fair, at least he's doing it to raise the profile of his own company. Year-in, year-out we get unscrupulous scientists coming up with (or simply endorsing) "formulas" to go with "research" coming out of the marketing arms of all kinds of bullshit companies in exchange for cold hard cash, which is much, much lower. The most famous is that stupid "mole people" item that escaped from a press release about the Time Machine remake (!) appearing on Bravo (!) and ran amok through the media, causing all sorts of debate before anyone bothered to examine the total invalidity of the exercise.
Or ensure that a such a patent is only granted if there is no doubt with regards to prior art, which would achieve the same thing in most cases while protecting genuine innovators.
Yeah, if you take them to court the prior art would be a slam-dunk, but it's an unfair burden of proof in this instance.
Patents (like registered trademarks, and unlike copyright) are assumed enforcable unless proven otherwise. They're not supposed to be granted in the first place if they're invalid.
"The shortcomings of the prior art are overcome and additional advantages are provided through the provision of a method of facilitating management of dynamically allocated memory. The method includes, for instance, having a dynamically allocated memory buffer; and determining in real-time that an invalid access of the dynamically allocated memory buffer has occurred."
I'm no expert on HeapCheck but that doesn't sound far removed from its basic functionality.