They used to on Macs. That was one reason Macs were so vulnerable to viruses back in the eighties. Evey file could have a resources fork and the machine would load and execute the resources on any disk you inserted. As a result mac viruses were a major problem - and this was before machines were networked.
That will be interesting. Given that they knew of the prior art, one can imagine a claim for triple damages because of wrong-doing might have some substance. So the amount paid plus interest could conceivably be the low end of claims.
Of course if some of the claims are in fact valid, who knows what happens. Of course there is also the age old question of who knew what when.
An electric system would probably be more efficient. That is certainly the case in diesel electric train systems. Whether this would translate to the small systems you would need in a passanger car I don't know.
You would not have to charge the battery as an intermediate step.
Also you could use a small diesel or gas turbine engine in place of the petrol engine which had further advantages.
Presumably the contracts already contained language for licensing agreements. So for example if Sony licensed a track for use in a car ad, or a film, the band would get 1/2 the net. This seems to be what the article is saying.
Sony's point will be that a license licenses the use of the track (ie the "mechanicals"), and that the sale of a track to a customer for 99c does not include such a license, so its a sale of media not a license of rights.
The bands will argue that the agreement with the vendor is a licensing of the rights since it gives the vendor the right to manufacture and distribute copies of the track (here, manufacture = transmit over an internet connection). Note that, according to the article, Sony is not distributing directly to the end user - there is a middle man.
If Sony does the manufacturing itself (ie, you always get the tune from a Sony server) on the surface it seems they would prevail. If the vendor does so, it seems the bands should prevail.
However there is also the doctrine of "unfair surprise" and internet distribution being so very different from the modes of distribution in place when these contracts were signed, having the contracts ruled inapplicable seems a possible outcome. That would probably be best for the bands - otherwise it might be possible for Sony to adopt a narrow technical solution that would limit how much the bands get.
Clearly, given that Sony appears to be trousering around 60c after all costs, having the bands get a mere 4.5c seems quite unfair.
[note - this is all speculative, since I have not seen the contracts, the article is not totally clear, and I am not a lawyer - nor do I play one on TV. I have however, as an occasional musician, done a certain amount of reading on contract law applying to the music industry]
Don't you find that the keypunch operators introduce a bunch of typos?
Also I find typing "dd" much faster than erasing code with an eraser - and my desk doesn't end up covered in little black pieces of rubber that look like miniature mouse droppings.
I save a bundle on pencils too.
(Even in the old days I would often program directly at the keypunch machine)
There's really a whole family of equations that meet the conditions from which Einsteins equation is produced. Einsteins is just the simplest. So far the experimental data does not require higher terms, but even if it did, all it might mean is refining the equation with higher order terms, in which case one would simply be refining Einstein's theory, not proving it wrong.
In any case, these results are entirely classical. I wonder how you distinguish problems with the classical equations from quantum effects that are not yet understood. It would be quite wrong to describe Einstein as "wrong" just because his equation is classical any more than it is to describe Newton as "wrong" because he failed to produce full relativity.
So I think statements like "seeing if Einstein was correct" or "seeking to prove Einstein wrong" are entirely overblown. Even if there was some experimental data.
One thing that has always worried me about anti-lock brakes, is what happens when I really need to lock everything up - like when I am sliding out of control in a safe direction and need to make sure the car does not spear off. I've been there on snow and - ahem - in other circumstances.
Seems all these systems should know when they are out of a normal driving regime and then turn off. Antilock does not seem to do that. We hear of people driving into things on wet grass at 5 mph because the brakes would not come on.
A possible problem I would be worried about with this new system is that when the back end finally does break away, its going to go so fast you have no chance of correcting.
Not really. Manufacturers are always free to derate chips (stamp a lower frequency than they can actually do) so as to match demand curve. Otherwise they would have to make the yield curve match the demand curve, which may be impossible. Or else fail to meet some part of demand, forcing people to buy more expensive parts - which would really upset the customer.
You get what you pay for - chips that run at the advertised rate.
Its like when you get upgraded to business class for free because cattle class is full. You certainly can't use this as a precedent next time you fly to argue that you deserve to be in business class again.
Now its sitting on the green, with a busted wheel no less - that can't be good for the putting surface and I bet the members who hit it with their approaches and bounce back into the bunker are not amused.
I bet the ground's staff have that thing out of there in no time.
So what does the memory interconnect look like on this thing? They say its not NUMA but I see no mention of what it is.
There's no way you can feed that many processors over a single bus and if you've got symmetric access to a bunch of busses, that's one heck of a cross bar switch and I don't see that its any easier to program than NUMA. Instead of making sure data you need fast is local you have to make sure you load balance - that has to be harder much of the time.
Why wasn't one of the first titles available that Penguins movie? Seems like that would have actually moved units. That and something cinematically georgous along the lines of "House of Flying Daggers" or "Hero".
A panel contract means that the supplier can be used to "purchase" software without having to go through a formal tender process or get a waiver. The contract sets pricing and levels of service expectations.
PCs have been purchased on panel contracts for at least 20 years. You don't want to have to go to tender to buy a single, or a handful, of PCs - even if it weren't expensive for all concerned you would have people twiddling thumbs for months until their PCs arrived. Nor would you want to do large numbers of such purchases with waivers, with the invitations to corruption that would create.
So this really is quite a big deal.
Of course, any group that has sufficient compute savvy to do their own support will still be able to download and do their own support. They quite likely also have the level of expertise and size of project to purchase software via tender.
Its the small non-technical groups that would make small purchases using panel contracts that benefit from this - a high barrier for them to adopting Linux solutions has been removed.
"there's nothing more useless than a lock with a voiceprint" (Dr Who)
or perhaps not.
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So after the ball burns up on re-entry:
Does he have to declare the ball lost and take stroke and distance?
- or -
Does he get to declare the ball damaged and get to play his next as near as practical to the placed when the ball (would have?) come to rest?
These are important questions for scientists (well, the golf playing ones at least)
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In math some of the hardest things to prove are hard because there's an obvious proof that happens to be wrong.
So I would have said that mistakes are being made because a wrong solution is intuitively obvious. That seems to fit here too.
Oh come on. Who modded this funny? Its totally implausible. Obviously the poster hasn't tried to get coffee on an airplane recently.
I wonder who holds the patent on those?
The paint on the keyboard where my palms rest has all worn off.
They used to on Macs. That was one reason Macs were so vulnerable to viruses back in the eighties. Evey file could have a resources fork and the machine would load and execute the resources on any disk you inserted. As a result mac viruses were a major problem - and this was before machines were networked.
I mean its obvious.
A band leader gets a call from a booker in Europe who wants them come play.
The band leader calls all the band members to line them up for the tour.
They cancel any local gigs that overlapped.
Those venues or bands call other bands or subs to fill those spots.
Result: The NSA gets to be first in line for tickets.
That will be interesting. Given that they knew of the prior art, one can imagine a claim for triple damages because of wrong-doing might have some substance. So the amount paid plus interest could conceivably be the low end of claims. Of course if some of the claims are in fact valid, who knows what happens. Of course there is also the age old question of who knew what when.
When will tape die? - immediately after you write to it.
Tape is a write only medium. Upping densities will just make it worse.
I thought it would be people were complaining about the neutron flux
An electric system would probably be more efficient. That is certainly the case in diesel electric train systems. Whether this would translate to the small systems you would need in a passanger car I don't know.
You would not have to charge the battery as an intermediate step.
Also you could use a small diesel or gas turbine engine in place of the petrol engine which had further advantages.
Presumably the contracts already contained language for licensing agreements. So for example if Sony licensed a track for use in a car ad, or a film, the band would get 1/2 the net. This seems to be what the article is saying. Sony's point will be that a license licenses the use of the track (ie the "mechanicals"), and that the sale of a track to a customer for 99c does not include such a license, so its a sale of media not a license of rights. The bands will argue that the agreement with the vendor is a licensing of the rights since it gives the vendor the right to manufacture and distribute copies of the track (here, manufacture = transmit over an internet connection). Note that, according to the article, Sony is not distributing directly to the end user - there is a middle man. If Sony does the manufacturing itself (ie, you always get the tune from a Sony server) on the surface it seems they would prevail. If the vendor does so, it seems the bands should prevail. However there is also the doctrine of "unfair surprise" and internet distribution being so very different from the modes of distribution in place when these contracts were signed, having the contracts ruled inapplicable seems a possible outcome. That would probably be best for the bands - otherwise it might be possible for Sony to adopt a narrow technical solution that would limit how much the bands get. Clearly, given that Sony appears to be trousering around 60c after all costs, having the bands get a mere 4.5c seems quite unfair. [note - this is all speculative, since I have not seen the contracts, the article is not totally clear, and I am not a lawyer - nor do I play one on TV. I have however, as an occasional musician, done a certain amount of reading on contract law applying to the music industry]
Don't you find that the keypunch operators introduce a bunch of typos?
Also I find typing "dd" much faster than erasing code with an eraser - and my desk doesn't end up covered in little black pieces of rubber that look like miniature mouse droppings.
I save a bundle on pencils too.
(Even in the old days I would often program directly at the keypunch machine)
All those people who never had an original thought in their life are going to have someone else's IP as their password.
Looks like this might be much harder
Did she dance with the Prince of Wales?
In any case, these results are entirely classical. I wonder how you distinguish problems with the classical equations from quantum effects that are not yet understood. It would be quite wrong to describe Einstein as "wrong" just because his equation is classical any more than it is to describe Newton as "wrong" because he failed to produce full relativity.
So I think statements like "seeing if Einstein was correct" or "seeking to prove Einstein wrong" are entirely overblown. Even if there was some experimental data.
I wonder what happens with this system on snow?
One thing that has always worried me about anti-lock brakes, is what happens when I really need to lock everything up - like when I am sliding out of control in a safe direction and need to make sure the car does not spear off. I've been there on snow and - ahem - in other circumstances.
Seems all these systems should know when they are out of a normal driving regime and then turn off. Antilock does not seem to do that. We hear of people driving into things on wet grass at 5 mph because the brakes would not come on.
A possible problem I would be worried about with this new system is that when the back end finally does break away, its going to go so fast you have no chance of correcting.
What would be more impressive is if they could produce a laser that shoots down missiles a world away at half the speed of light.
Not really. Manufacturers are always free to derate chips (stamp a lower frequency than they can actually do) so as to match demand curve. Otherwise they would have to make the yield curve match the demand curve, which may be impossible. Or else fail to meet some part of demand, forcing people to buy more expensive parts - which would really upset the customer. You get what you pay for - chips that run at the advertised rate. Its like when you get upgraded to business class for free because cattle class is full. You certainly can't use this as a precedent next time you fly to argue that you deserve to be in business class again.
Now its sitting on the green, with a busted wheel no less - that can't be good for the putting surface and I bet the members who hit it with their approaches and bounce back into the bunker are not amused.
I bet the ground's staff have that thing out of there in no time.
So what does the memory interconnect look like on this thing? They say its not NUMA but I see no mention of what it is.
There's no way you can feed that many processors over a single bus and if you've got symmetric access to a bunch of busses, that's one heck of a cross bar switch and I don't see that its any easier to program than NUMA. Instead of making sure data you need fast is local you have to make sure you load balance - that has to be harder much of the time.
HD = Highly Delayed
DVD = Da*n, Very Delayed
Why wasn't one of the first titles available that Penguins movie? Seems like that would have actually moved units. That and something cinematically georgous along the lines of "House of Flying Daggers" or "Hero".
A panel contract means that the supplier can be used to "purchase" software without having to go through a formal tender process or get a waiver. The contract sets pricing and levels of service expectations.
PCs have been purchased on panel contracts for at least 20 years. You don't want to have to go to tender to buy a single, or a handful, of PCs - even if it weren't expensive for all concerned you would have people twiddling thumbs for months until their PCs arrived. Nor would you want to do large numbers of such purchases with waivers, with the invitations to corruption that would create.
So this really is quite a big deal.
Of course, any group that has sufficient compute savvy to do their own support will still be able to download and do their own support. They quite likely also have the level of expertise and size of project to purchase software via tender.
Its the small non-technical groups that would make small purchases using panel contracts that benefit from this - a high barrier for them to adopting Linux solutions has been removed.
"there's nothing more useless than a lock with a voiceprint" (Dr Who) or perhaps not.
So after the ball burns up on re-entry: Does he have to declare the ball lost and take stroke and distance? - or - Does he get to declare the ball damaged and get to play his next as near as practical to the placed when the ball (would have?) come to rest? These are important questions for scientists (well, the golf playing ones at least)