About 1.5 hours per frame for relatively simple floating torus plus glass ball + checkerboard + infinite plane + lights and such on a stock Amiga 500.
But compare what a regular PC of the time could do.
They were looking for the blueprints for the weapons of mass distraction?
TWF? Really. How secure you expect to be a chess club?
I suggest they up the difficulty level. Next target: the Girl Scout cookies web server
"BombSweeper game by SnowBro."
Dawg! I remember SnowBro, we used to cruzz around da getto, sellin' stuff u know, until da showdown with SuperPimp. I think he got man 2, at Rikers, how come he's out so soon?
Man, I gotta to get me in the big house to learn how to program from the brothers and stuff
Some 4 years ago, in my previous company we submited a software patent (the investors insisted we apply for lots of patents) that most likely landed on a first-timer inside the PTO. It was clear that he did not had a clue about computer architecture, when we challenged we got routed directly to his supervisor who was probably pretty pissed of about having to do his subordinate work. As far as I can tell the examiner algorithm is:
1) read patent application, mark words you don't understand.
2) goggle such words
3) if a match on any, reject all claims, type a letter and cite all goggle hits as previous art.
4) upon challenge from inventor, call your super
5) super is overloaded w/ work and will concur with me (examiner) so keep rejecting patent claims. Keep collecting extension fees.
6) the inventor will find a recognized person in the field and make him do an affidavit. Now I get that he has money and really wants his patent, so accept some of the claims at random.
7) the inventor will change the wording on the other claims and resubmit. Collect more fees.
8) keep faking knowledge about the subject and accept 50% of the claims that had been reworded.
9) inventor has gotten by know 80% of the claims accepted. You wont hear from him again.
10) go to next patent
I dont think Corbis is using invisible watermarking in the traitor-tracing mode. As I recall they use Digimarc to embed copyright ownership. That is, the watermark is batch embeded once for each picture and basically says "(c) Corbis 1999" and maybe (big maybe) an image number so they can find it in the database. So finding who did it tru watermarking is definitely on the FUD department.
What people fear is Phase III, that goes up to a few meters. It requires special equipment at the cell or GPS on the phone or both (AGPS). Carriers are free to choose. Since most states are broke this Phase 3 is virtually nowere. Nevermind that your celllphone bill already has $0.5/month for that.
Just google E911 and see. E stands for Enhanced
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Google has not reversed their position. This is the beta for what will be 2.0 eventually. The 1.0 branch is and will be release. See: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/17/2345216
About 1.5 hours per frame for relatively simple floating torus plus glass ball + checkerboard + infinite plane + lights and such on a stock Amiga 500. But compare what a regular PC of the time could do.
They were looking for the blueprints for the weapons of mass distraction? TWF? Really. How secure you expect to be a chess club? I suggest they up the difficulty level. Next target: the Girl Scout cookies web server
"BombSweeper game by SnowBro." Dawg! I remember SnowBro, we used to cruzz around da getto, sellin' stuff u know, until da showdown with SuperPimp. I think he got man 2, at Rikers, how come he's out so soon? Man, I gotta to get me in the big house to learn how to program from the brothers and stuff
Some 4 years ago, in my previous company we submited a software patent (the investors insisted we apply for lots of patents) that most likely landed on a first-timer inside the PTO. It was clear that he did not had a clue about computer architecture, when we challenged we got routed directly to his supervisor who was probably pretty pissed of about having to do his subordinate work. As far as I can tell the examiner algorithm is: 1) read patent application, mark words you don't understand. 2) goggle such words 3) if a match on any, reject all claims, type a letter and cite all goggle hits as previous art. 4) upon challenge from inventor, call your super 5) super is overloaded w/ work and will concur with me (examiner) so keep rejecting patent claims. Keep collecting extension fees. 6) the inventor will find a recognized person in the field and make him do an affidavit. Now I get that he has money and really wants his patent, so accept some of the claims at random. 7) the inventor will change the wording on the other claims and resubmit. Collect more fees. 8) keep faking knowledge about the subject and accept 50% of the claims that had been reworded. 9) inventor has gotten by know 80% of the claims accepted. You wont hear from him again. 10) go to next patent
" 43 million active users " Those are not users, they are called "victims"
I dont think Corbis is using invisible watermarking in the traitor-tracing mode. As I recall they use Digimarc to embed copyright ownership. That is, the watermark is batch embeded once for each picture and basically says "(c) Corbis 1999" and maybe (big maybe) an image number so they can find it in the database. So finding who did it tru watermarking is definitely on the FUD department.
Now that you have the source, you can go here to understand it: http://www.osr.com/seminars_wsci.shtml
What people fear is Phase III, that goes up to a few meters. It requires special equipment at the cell or GPS on the phone or both (AGPS). Carriers are free to choose. Since most states are broke this Phase 3 is virtually nowere. Nevermind that your celllphone bill already has $0.5/month for that. Just google E911 and see. E stands for Enhanced