The Solar Terrestrial Dispatch site mentioned above has a downloadable program that automatically pulls down recent satellite images, radar measurements, and live reports from observers.
I believe this anagram sums up the general feeling that the mini-series inspired. Another one is DEFICASIUN, which further describes what I thought of the mini-series.
FYI. If you go to the official Dune website, Frank Herbert's son Brian mentions that a complete outline for a seventh book was left behind by his father. There are plans to complete it after the prequels are finished.
BTW, the Sci-Fi Dune series is a POS.
I need some more convincing that neutrinos are changing on their way to Earth. A good way to give more credence to this idea would be to place both types of detectors at several points in the solar system and actually determine a rate factor.
Maybe Dubya could unificate the world to put some of these "new treeno" detectors up in the sky.
This Ipix's Press release from their site at the same time.(still
available:see www.ipix.com press releases Feb 10, 1998)
JURY UPHOLDS INTERACTIVE PICTURES' PATENTS IN INFRINGEMENT CASE
Company Now Stands Alone as Provider of Fisheye-Lens-Based Immersive
Photography
OAK RIDGE, Feb. 10, 1998 - A United States District Court jury has upheld as
valid and infringed the core patent upon which IPIX immersive photography
technology is based.
The jury's decision provides court-tested validation of the company's core
patent. The jury held that Interactive Pictures Corporation has the exclusive
rights to immersive photography created with a fisheye lens. Interactive
Pictures' patented technology allows users to interact within a photographic
image. The patented technology represents the building blocks for photographic
virtual reality and three-dimensional photographic imaging.
Interactive Pictures filed suit against Infinite Pictures, Inc. of Portland,
Ore. in October of 1996. Interactive Pictures claimed that Infinite Pictures'
SmoothMove and RealWorld Navigation Design Series products infringed
Interactive Pictures', U.S. Patent No. 5,185,667. The jury found for the
plaintiff, Interactive Pictures, unanimously on all counts of the verdict and
awarded damages of $1,000,000 to Interactive Pictures. Interactive Pictures
will request entry of a permanent injunction against Infinite Pictures to
prevent further marketing of products based on the infringing technology upon
entry of the jury's verdict by the court.
"This is the first court test of our patent portfolio and the jury has stated
loud and clear that IPIX technology is pioneering, unique, and protected,"
said Jim Phillips, CEO of Interactive Pictures. "A judicially tested and
vindicated patent portfolio makes Interactive Pictures a much stronger
company and gives us a tremendous advantage in penetrating new markets and
growing our company."
As a result of the decision, Interactive Pictures is now the only company in
the United States with the rights to use a wide-angle fisheye lens to create
immersive photographs. Last September, Live Picture Corporation, which also
had been sued by Interactive Pictures for patent infringement, agreed that
the Interactive Pictures patents were valid and enforceable. Live Picture
also agreed to stop its use of fisheye lenses.
A judgement of infringement also has been entered against Bill Tillman
awarding Interactive Pictures damages of approximately $967,000. Tillman,
doing business as Graphic Effects, used the infringing Infinite Pictures
products on the World Wide Web.
IPIX immersive photography technology now stands alone in the industry,
protected by a Federal Court jury decision. The possibility of an emerging
standard in immersive photography is more likely as a result of this decision.
With IPIX images as a de-facto standard, doors are open to wider-scale
marketing of IPIX technology and growth of the company.
Steven Zimmermann, corporate fellow at Interactive Pictures and co-inventor of
the patented technology said, "It's incredibly gratifying to know that all the
hard work we did back in the early 1990's was affirmed by a jury. This is a
major recognition for all those late nights and weekends. Now we can really
accelerate this technology into the market and continue to advance it."
A computer and electrical engineering professor at the University of
Tennessee and 1978 graduate of MIT was involved in the case from the
beginning. Dr. Doug Birdwell, Ph.D. served as an expert witness at the trial
for Interactive Pictures and testified that the Infinite Pictures products
used technology that infringed on the patented IPIX technology.
Birdwell said, "The Interactive Pictures patent was a pioneering patent,
representing an enormous advance over the prior art. The infringer, Infinite
Pictures, attempted to take the heart of the IPIX technology and the jury
correctly found that this was infringement of the core Interactive Pictures
patent."
Beyond the positive impact on the strength of Interactive Pictures' patent
portfolio, the case may become a landmark in the field of patent law. This is
one of the first times that a patent infringement case has successfully been
brought against a company that used the Internet to commit acts of patent
infringement. Interactive Pictures was represented by Washington, D.C. patent
law firm Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
By showing that Infinite Pictures sold the infringing products over the
Internet to customers in Tennessee, Interactive Pictures was able to
establish jurisdiction for the case in the United States District Court for
the Eastern Division of Tennessee. Beyond the issue of jurisdiction the
infringer, Infinite Pictures, sold the infringing product over the Internet
giving rise to one of the first cases that showed that patent infringement
occurred through the use of the World Wide Web.
Speaking of the technology's inventors, Steve Zimmermann and Dr. Lee Martin,
Phillips said, "Today, as was Thomas Edison, these inventors have been granted
a chance to profit from their labor and give their revolutionary invention an
opportunity to succeed in the marketplace."
For information, contact:
Ed Lewis, Interactive Pictures Corporation
phone: 423-482-3000
The problem here is that stitching together images is not an "invention", it's just an application of mathematics. Just because they paid a number of people to develop it doesn't make it novel or nonobvious. They certainly have "a freedom to charge for their own honest work", but they shouldn't be able to keep others from doing similar, yet independent, work.
Any decent programmer with a book on spherical trig, some graphics experience, and the will to do it could create similar software.
I also have to admit that I'm buying fewer CDs because of Napster (and related services). I'm tired of paying $15+ for CDs that only have one or two decent songs on them, or buying new CDs to replace my lost or damaged ones. With Napster, I have an alternative.
I own about 400-500 CDs, so I don't consider myself a freeloader. I'm just waiting for a reasonable system to appear that's fair to BOTH the artists and consumers. I would willingly pay $0.50 a song for an MP3 or $2 for a WAV file if I knew that most of the money went to the artists.
Rats! I forgot to complain about how much I hate those extra cursor keys and not being able to find the CTRL, CAPS-LOCK, and ESC keys in the right place. Ah, nothing beats an old bulletproof, buckling-spring IBM AT keyboard.
Thanks for the links. I really liked that programmable keyboard. It reminds me of the days when Borland's SuperKey used to work.
Actually, Mandrake's ease of distribution does make a difference. I'd given up on learning Linux several times in the past mainly because of installation and documentation frustrations. Mandrake was the first distro that made these issues managable for me. I doubt that I will give up my easy MS products any time soon, but I will certainly reinstall them many times.
I would give this guy a million dollars if he would put the function keys back on the left side of the keyboard where they belong. This would surely save the world countless seconds by allowing programmers to once again touch type these keys, just like in the "good ol' days."
No hurry. I still have enough IBM PC-AT keyboards to last me a hundred years.
Reading this book reminds me somewhat of the media circus known as the Columbine incident. Almost every "fact" and "explanation" that the media bombarded us with turned out to be pure crap afterwards. People everywhere formed theories and reached conclusions based on the initial reports, and were slow to change their minds even after the more accurate facts slowly surfaced.
If you read "Excess Heat", or even just some of it, you will realize that there are more facts and theories to consider than what was thoroughly covered by the likes of Discover, USA Today, and Newsweek. If you realize anything from this book, it should be that all of your armchair chemistry and physics knowledge hasn't prepared you for the world of surface chemistry, catalysis, or electrochemistry. I'm glad that none of you nay-sayers ever worked on developing lasers, semiconductors, or superconductors. You may have the intellect and education to understand knowledge, but you don't have the imagination that leads to creating new knowledge, or in this case, evaluating potential knowledge. You can rattle off a dozen reasons why it can't work, but can't think of one reason why it might.
For the record, I don't claim that P&F cold fusion exists, but I haven't dismissed it either.
You are a pretty funny troll, but a lot of people really have this mentality.
BIG SCIENCE is exactly the kind of thing that the government should support, or at least encourage. Taking that money and throwing it at the ignorant masses will only result in larger ignorant masses. The money ends up fueling the economy anyway, but at least we end up with some cool gadgets and the accumulation of knowledge.
Yes. You would still need to have a rectifier in the system. These show up on eBay also, or you could use a series of high voltage solid state devices.
There is no minimum current requirement for these devices, just tradeoffs in exposure times.
To those really interested in generating x-rays, you can find x-ray tubes and rectifiers on a regular basis on eBay. For the power supply, you can use one of those handheld electrocution devices, which nowadays can generate 100kV-400kV.
Go to it. Before long, we'll have afforable Open Source Beowulf-powered CAT scan machines all over the place.
According to this
<A href="http://member.nifty.ne.jp/handheld/calculato r/busicom/busicom.html">link</A>, the designer of the 4004 was Masatoshi Shima.<BR><BR>
To see the Intel/Busicom agreement, click
<A href="http://www.busicom-corp.com/intel.html">h ere</A>.<BR><BR>
To read about the Busicom calculator, read
<A href="http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/features/ao c/aoc.icons3.html">this</A>.<BR><BR>
<A href="http://www.busicom-corp.com/4004g.gif">Im age</A> of the 4004.
Slashdot Mirror
The Solar Terrestrial Dispatch site mentioned above has a downloadable program that automatically pulls down recent satellite images, radar measurements, and live reports from observers.
I believe this anagram sums up the general feeling that the mini-series inspired. Another one is DEFICASIUN, which further describes what I thought of the mini-series.
FYI. If you go to the official Dune website, Frank Herbert's son Brian mentions that a complete outline for a seventh book was left behind by his father. There are plans to complete it after the prequels are finished. BTW, the Sci-Fi Dune series is a POS.
I need some more convincing that neutrinos are changing on their way to Earth. A good way to give more credence to this idea would be to place both types of detectors at several points in the solar system and actually determine a rate factor.
Maybe Dubya could unificate the world to put some of these "new treeno" detectors up in the sky.
This Ipix's Press release from their site at the same time.(still
available:see www.ipix.com press releases Feb 10, 1998)
JURY UPHOLDS INTERACTIVE PICTURES' PATENTS IN INFRINGEMENT CASE
Company Now Stands Alone as Provider of Fisheye-Lens-Based Immersive
Photography
OAK RIDGE, Feb. 10, 1998 - A United States District Court jury has upheld as
valid and infringed the core patent upon which IPIX immersive photography
technology is based.
The jury's decision provides court-tested validation of the company's core
patent. The jury held that Interactive Pictures Corporation has the exclusive
rights to immersive photography created with a fisheye lens. Interactive
Pictures' patented technology allows users to interact within a photographic
image. The patented technology represents the building blocks for photographic
virtual reality and three-dimensional photographic imaging.
Interactive Pictures filed suit against Infinite Pictures, Inc. of Portland,
Ore. in October of 1996. Interactive Pictures claimed that Infinite Pictures'
SmoothMove and RealWorld Navigation Design Series products infringed
Interactive Pictures', U.S. Patent No. 5,185,667. The jury found for the
plaintiff, Interactive Pictures, unanimously on all counts of the verdict and
awarded damages of $1,000,000 to Interactive Pictures. Interactive Pictures
will request entry of a permanent injunction against Infinite Pictures to
prevent further marketing of products based on the infringing technology upon
entry of the jury's verdict by the court.
"This is the first court test of our patent portfolio and the jury has stated
loud and clear that IPIX technology is pioneering, unique, and protected,"
said Jim Phillips, CEO of Interactive Pictures. "A judicially tested and
vindicated patent portfolio makes Interactive Pictures a much stronger
company and gives us a tremendous advantage in penetrating new markets and
growing our company."
As a result of the decision, Interactive Pictures is now the only company in
the United States with the rights to use a wide-angle fisheye lens to create
immersive photographs. Last September, Live Picture Corporation, which also
had been sued by Interactive Pictures for patent infringement, agreed that
the Interactive Pictures patents were valid and enforceable. Live Picture
also agreed to stop its use of fisheye lenses.
A judgement of infringement also has been entered against Bill Tillman
awarding Interactive Pictures damages of approximately $967,000. Tillman,
doing business as Graphic Effects, used the infringing Infinite Pictures
products on the World Wide Web.
IPIX immersive photography technology now stands alone in the industry,
protected by a Federal Court jury decision. The possibility of an emerging
standard in immersive photography is more likely as a result of this decision.
With IPIX images as a de-facto standard, doors are open to wider-scale
marketing of IPIX technology and growth of the company.
Steven Zimmermann, corporate fellow at Interactive Pictures and co-inventor of
the patented technology said, "It's incredibly gratifying to know that all the
hard work we did back in the early 1990's was affirmed by a jury. This is a
major recognition for all those late nights and weekends. Now we can really
accelerate this technology into the market and continue to advance it."
A computer and electrical engineering professor at the University of
Tennessee and 1978 graduate of MIT was involved in the case from the
beginning. Dr. Doug Birdwell, Ph.D. served as an expert witness at the trial
for Interactive Pictures and testified that the Infinite Pictures products
used technology that infringed on the patented IPIX technology.
Birdwell said, "The Interactive Pictures patent was a pioneering patent,
representing an enormous advance over the prior art. The infringer, Infinite
Pictures, attempted to take the heart of the IPIX technology and the jury
correctly found that this was infringement of the core Interactive Pictures
patent."
Beyond the positive impact on the strength of Interactive Pictures' patent
portfolio, the case may become a landmark in the field of patent law. This is
one of the first times that a patent infringement case has successfully been
brought against a company that used the Internet to commit acts of patent
infringement. Interactive Pictures was represented by Washington, D.C. patent
law firm Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
By showing that Infinite Pictures sold the infringing products over the
Internet to customers in Tennessee, Interactive Pictures was able to
establish jurisdiction for the case in the United States District Court for
the Eastern Division of Tennessee. Beyond the issue of jurisdiction the
infringer, Infinite Pictures, sold the infringing product over the Internet
giving rise to one of the first cases that showed that patent infringement
occurred through the use of the World Wide Web.
Speaking of the technology's inventors, Steve Zimmermann and Dr. Lee Martin,
Phillips said, "Today, as was Thomas Edison, these inventors have been granted
a chance to profit from their labor and give their revolutionary invention an
opportunity to succeed in the marketplace."
For information, contact:
Ed Lewis, Interactive Pictures Corporation
phone: 423-482-3000
The problem here is that stitching together images is not an "invention", it's just an application of mathematics. Just because they paid a number of people to develop it doesn't make it novel or nonobvious. They certainly have "a freedom to charge for their own honest work", but they shouldn't be able to keep others from doing similar, yet independent, work.
Any decent programmer with a book on spherical trig, some graphics experience, and the will to do it could create similar software.
I also have to admit that I'm buying fewer CDs because of Napster (and related services). I'm tired of paying $15+ for CDs that only have one or two decent songs on them, or buying new CDs to replace my lost or damaged ones. With Napster, I have an alternative.
I own about 400-500 CDs, so I don't consider myself a freeloader. I'm just waiting for a reasonable system to appear that's fair to BOTH the artists and consumers. I would willingly pay $0.50 a song for an MP3 or $2 for a WAV file if I knew that most of the money went to the artists.
Rats! I forgot to complain about how much I hate those extra cursor keys and not being able to find the CTRL, CAPS-LOCK, and ESC keys in the right place. Ah, nothing beats an old bulletproof, buckling-spring IBM AT keyboard.
Thanks for the links. I really liked that programmable keyboard. It reminds me of the days when Borland's SuperKey used to work.
Actually, Mandrake's ease of distribution does make a difference. I'd given up on learning Linux several times in the past mainly because of installation and documentation frustrations. Mandrake was the first distro that made these issues managable for me. I doubt that I will give up my easy MS products any time soon, but I will certainly reinstall them many times.
I would give this guy a million dollars if he would put the function keys back on the left side of the keyboard where they belong. This would surely save the world countless seconds by allowing programmers to once again touch type these keys, just like in the "good ol' days."
No hurry. I still have enough IBM PC-AT keyboards to last me a hundred years.
Reading this book reminds me somewhat of the media circus known as the Columbine incident. Almost every "fact" and "explanation" that the media bombarded us with turned out to be pure crap afterwards. People everywhere formed theories and reached conclusions based on the initial reports, and were slow to change their minds even after the more accurate facts slowly surfaced.
If you read "Excess Heat", or even just some of it, you will realize that there are more facts and theories to consider than what was thoroughly covered by the likes of Discover, USA Today, and Newsweek. If you realize anything from this book, it should be that all of your armchair chemistry and physics knowledge hasn't prepared you for the world of surface chemistry, catalysis, or electrochemistry. I'm glad that none of you nay-sayers ever worked on developing lasers, semiconductors, or superconductors. You may have the intellect and education to understand knowledge, but you don't have the imagination that leads to creating new knowledge, or in this case, evaluating potential knowledge. You can rattle off a dozen reasons why it can't work, but can't think of one reason why it might.
For the record, I don't claim that P&F cold fusion exists, but I haven't dismissed it either.
So, I'm either going to burn up in Hell, or burn up on a global-warming affected planet. Which god should I believe in to escape this fate?
You are a pretty funny troll, but a lot of people really have this mentality.
BIG SCIENCE is exactly the kind of thing that the government should support, or at least encourage. Taking that money and throwing it at the ignorant masses will only result in larger ignorant masses. The money ends up fueling the economy anyway, but at least we end up with some cool gadgets and the accumulation of knowledge.
eBay comes through again. You can find x-ray film there too.
Yes. You would still need to have a rectifier in the system. These show up on eBay also, or you could use a series of high voltage solid state devices.
There is no minimum current requirement for these devices, just tradeoffs in exposure times.
To those really interested in generating x-rays, you can find x-ray tubes and rectifiers on a regular basis on eBay. For the power supply, you can use one of those handheld electrocution devices, which nowadays can generate 100kV-400kV.
Go to it. Before long, we'll have afforable Open Source Beowulf-powered CAT scan machines all over the place.
According to thiso r/busicom/busicom.html">link</A>, the designer of the 4004 was Masatoshi Shima.<BR><BR>
o c/aoc.icons3.html">this</A>.<BR>< ;BR>
<A href="http://member.nifty.ne.jp/handheld/calculat
To see the Intel/Busicom agreement, click
<A href="http://www.busicom-corp.com/intel.html">h ere</A>.<BR><BR>
To read about the Busicom calculator, read
<A href="http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/features/a
<A href="http://www.busicom-corp.com/4004g.gif">Im age</A> of the 4004.