You can get the player shipped from the other regions.
Eventually you probably will be able to get a mod chip for the player itself (a-la playstation) that sould be able to supply a region code of the users choosing.
Printing a dvd costs as much and usually more thatnjust buying another copy. $25 for a blank writeable disc, and a few thousand for the writer. Add the time that needs to be taken to write one and it just isn't worthwhile.
A foriegn black market manufacturer would be able to get around the problem of scale and make it worth their time, but then again, they will not care about the outcome of the trial, and probably have reversed engineered their own software/secrets.
Oh, and note that your Slashdot comments are being used in court. To all parties concerned: I have no interest in making illegal copies of DVDs. I am almost certainly going to be spending significant amounts of money buying them in future. I just want to be able to bypass the cncryption so I can view my legal DVDs with whatever software and hardware I choose to do so.
One problem. They are picking and choosing a handful of posts from hundreds and claiming the handful to be representative of the "attitude of the community".
I hope the defense counters that one with the multitude of informed and supportive posts (and the ones correcting those that the defense is using) that actually were posted.
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CYE is esentially a computer controlled cart. All the computations occur on your computer. This is communicated to the cart via wireless link.
This means that if you only run linux you're out of luck trying to run one of these things. Until now.
One caveat. In the announcement text they state that it is only "known to compile under Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, and makes use of MFC and DirectX." This means that it can't compile under linux without some work.
The benefit is that they uncover all the insides of the software, so you can take whatever pieces you want and implement them any way you want. (including my preference of a command line interface, just imagine, a $600 robot carts location being mapped on an ascii map!!!)
Actually it looks more like a typo. It seems that they are refering to a theoretical system whose specs would be ideal for full realtime functionality. The mobo/athlon system they refer to I intrepreted as a 5 1ghz processor system. Neither of which exist right now, but might in a year or two.
I was just extrapolating costs and technology advancements since the gulf war. Last I heard the cruise missiles were costing aound $500,000 to build. So i went with the original cost and aplied it to an icbm. Admittedly the icbm might just be a deployment platform for the actual cruise missile, and the final projectile would separate form it once it was close enough.
It's more like lobbibg a tennis ball over a wall and hoping it will land where you want it to. (A tennis ball you can perform a few intermittent course corrections.)
What I want to know is when they plan on using the smart bomb technology.
We can launch a $1,000,000 missle from the US these days and land it within 10 yards of the target in Iraq. We don't make course corrections, it does.
Just implement this on the probe. Give it star maps. Let it navigate it's way there. Give it the best maps of the planet. Let it find the best location to land (specify coordinates, just let it make all the necessary correction to get there).
Test the system out on the moon. See how close to one of our flags we can land. I'll bet if done right, we could land it within a few feet of the flag.
Now all we have to do is convince them to adopt the technology.
Don't count out the possibility that it managed to get to the bottom of the canyon in some sort of working order. A mile of rock would probably prevent any transmission from reaching earth. There would be a very small period if everything was lined up right to receive a signal. The nine minute delay for transmission would make it almost worthless.
I live in Pittsburgh and my largest complaint has been the lack of things to do.
I just spent some time in Toronto recently and yet again was amazed at the number of quality places to go. In the first two days there I found 3 places I wouldn't mind visiting on a regular basis if I lived there (I now plan on visiting at least twice a year.) They even have a internet bar/cafe with live dj's (I assume the good ones) with a dancefloor, although I didn't get around to visiting. 2am, 5 above freezing, you walk down the block and pass around 6 people coming from somewhere or to somewhere.
In Pittsburgh there are very few places that have themes, be it clubs, cafes, restaurants. They cater to the masses, and in the attempt of appealing to everybody, noone if fully satisfied with the experience. Rosebud(strip district) on friday nights was about the best thing going.
Transportation(i have a car so parking is my biggest complaint here) is another big miss with respects to the city. We have a subway that goes nowhere. The areas that have people and places aren't connected to it or each other.
Places to live there just aren't enough good places to live here. Most of Oakland is a dump and the college students ovverrun the place most of the year (at least South Oakland). Shadyside is good, and the South Side is alright. Beyond that you probably want to live in the suburbs, and that sucks as an option if you want to go and do something in the city if anything actally does happen.
Don't get me wrong, Pittsburgh has been improving, but slowly. (Another thing to consider is that a few years back we had sonthing like the second oldes average population in the country. (First was somewhere in florida)). The mayor wants to rejuvinate the city by putting in large stores thoughout the downtown area.
If you ask me it will not work without quality restaurants, cafes, clubs and bars. People want to live in a city, not a shopping mall. Even the people visiting to shop wnat somthing more that just the stores. They want to go to town, get lunch at a nice restaurant, and then go shopping, or the reverse. Perhaps meet friends at a cafe have some coffee/tea and visit a museum.
Mabey i'm crazy. IMHO Toronto is a good example fofa city that would appeal to geeks (and alot of other people.) It has alot of smallish places. Micro communities have the oportunity to build up and coexist.
Don't be scared away by the $65 price tag. That is for the standard membership. $35 gets you a basic membership. There also is a student membership available for I think $15. Every little bit helps (there are also membership tiers above $65).
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You can get the player shipped from the other regions.
Eventually you probably will be able to get a mod chip for the player itself (a-la playstation) that sould be able to supply a region code of the users choosing.
Printing a dvd costs as much and usually more thatnjust buying another copy. $25 for a blank writeable disc, and a few thousand for the writer. Add the time that needs to be taken to write one and it just isn't worthwhile.
A foriegn black market manufacturer would be able to get around the problem of scale and make it worth their time, but then again, they will not care about the outcome of the trial, and probably have reversed engineered their own software/secrets.
You are correct. It was a slip of the mind. (perhaps it was the mind washing of the anti-gun campaign)
They paid the licensing fees.
One problem. They are picking and choosing a handful of posts from hundreds and claiming the handful to be representative of the "attitude of the community".
I hope the defense counters that one with the multitude of informed and supportive posts (and the ones correcting those that the defense is using) that actually were posted.
The exclusions are below:
(b) This section does not apply to matters that are--
(1)(A) specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and
(B) are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order;
(2) related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency;
(3) specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than section 552b of this title), provided that such statute (A) requires that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or (B) establishes particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of matters to be withheld;
(4) trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential;
(5) inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency;
(6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy;
(7) records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information (A) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, (B) would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication, (C) could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, (D) could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source, including a State, local, or foreign agency or authority or any private institution which furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a record or information compiled by a criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security intelligence investigation, information furnished by a confidential source, (E) would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law, or (F) could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual;
(8) contained in or related to examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by, on behalf of, or for the use of an agency responsible for the regulation or supervision of financial institutions; or
(9) geological and geophysical information and data, including maps, concerning wells.
Watch what you say, in america they are trying to hold the gun manufacturers responsible for the killing that is caused by their guns.
Personally, I think it was to tide the linux/robotics community over until they have time to properly address the support issues.
They said they plan on a rewrite to help platform portability, but that is 6 months away.
Although this source code should make it relatively easy to create the linux support.
This means that if you only run linux you're out of luck trying to run one of these things. Until now.
One caveat. In the announcement text they state that it is only "known to compile under Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, and makes use of MFC and DirectX." This means that it can't compile under linux without some work.
The benefit is that they uncover all the insides of the software, so you can take whatever pieces you want and implement them any way you want. (including my preference of a command line interface, just imagine, a $600 robot carts location being mapped on an ascii map!!!)
One problem, if they fire half their developers they will have half of one person left.
Perhaps someone should actually notify the webmaster and let them know. (actually i just did)
Perhaps someone could hack the new programmable DSP chips/boards that Texas Instruments is planning on making.
Internic charges $35/year (US funds) Joker (CORE reseller) charges ~$16/year (US funds) That becomes a much smaller drop in the bucket.
Perhaps you were using a buggy version. (I used openBSD v2.5)
Actually it looks more like a typo. It seems that they are refering to a theoretical system whose specs would be ideal for full realtime functionality. The mobo/athlon system they refer to I intrepreted as a 5 1ghz processor system. Neither of which exist right now, but might in a year or two.
I was just extrapolating costs and technology advancements since the gulf war. Last I heard the cruise missiles were costing aound $500,000 to build. So i went with the original cost and aplied it to an icbm. Admittedly the icbm might just be a deployment platform for the actual cruise missile, and the final projectile would separate form it once it was close enough.
It's more like lobbibg a tennis ball over a wall and hoping it will land where you want it to. (A tennis ball you can perform a few intermittent course corrections.)
We can launch a $1,000,000 missle from the US these days and land it within 10 yards of the target in Iraq. We don't make course corrections, it does.
Just implement this on the probe. Give it star maps. Let it navigate it's way there. Give it the best maps of the planet. Let it find the best location to land (specify coordinates, just let it make all the necessary correction to get there).
Test the system out on the moon. See how close to one of our flags we can land. I'll bet if done right, we could land it within a few feet of the flag.
Now all we have to do is convince them to adopt the technology.
Don't count out the possibility that it managed to get to the bottom of the canyon in some sort of working order. A mile of rock would probably prevent any transmission from reaching earth. There would be a very small period if everything was lined up right to receive a signal. The nine minute delay for transmission would make it almost worthless.
It could be that they only have hardcopy of the records for some reason.
Try this one.
Fore systems (they ave been purchased by Marconi plc)
Lycos (moved)
Freemarkets.com (remember the ipo)
Probotics, Inc. (makers of Cye)
I'm sure there are many more, but these are the big ones that stick in my head.
Admittedly, many may have started and then left pittsburgh.
I just spent some time in Toronto recently and yet again was amazed at the number of quality places to go. In the first two days there I found 3 places I wouldn't mind visiting on a regular basis if I lived there (I now plan on visiting at least twice a year.) They even have a internet bar/cafe with live dj's (I assume the good ones) with a dancefloor, although I didn't get around to visiting. 2am, 5 above freezing, you walk down the block and pass around 6 people coming from somewhere or to somewhere.
In Pittsburgh there are very few places that have themes, be it clubs, cafes, restaurants. They cater to the masses, and in the attempt of appealing to everybody, noone if fully satisfied with the experience. Rosebud(strip district) on friday nights was about the best thing going.
Transportation(i have a car so parking is my biggest complaint here) is another big miss with respects to the city. We have a subway that goes nowhere. The areas that have people and places aren't connected to it or each other.
Places to live there just aren't enough good places to live here. Most of Oakland is a dump and the college students ovverrun the place most of the year (at least South Oakland). Shadyside is good, and the South Side is alright. Beyond that you probably want to live in the suburbs, and that sucks as an option if you want to go and do something in the city if anything actally does happen.
Don't get me wrong, Pittsburgh has been improving, but slowly. (Another thing to consider is that a few years back we had sonthing like the second oldes average population in the country. (First was somewhere in florida)). The mayor wants to rejuvinate the city by putting in large stores thoughout the downtown area.
If you ask me it will not work without quality restaurants, cafes, clubs and bars. People want to live in a city, not a shopping mall. Even the people visiting to shop wnat somthing more that just the stores. They want to go to town, get lunch at a nice restaurant, and then go shopping, or the reverse. Perhaps meet friends at a cafe have some coffee/tea and visit a museum.
Mabey i'm crazy. IMHO Toronto is a good example fofa city that would appeal to geeks (and alot of other people.) It has alot of smallish places. Micro communities have the oportunity to build up and coexist.
Don't be scared away by the $65 price tag. That is for the standard membership. $35 gets you a basic membership. There also is a student membership available for I think $15. Every little bit helps (there are also membership tiers above $65).
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