TV: All viewers must insert their identity cards and authenticate with the Viewing System before playback can commence.
TV: This TV can see 4 potential viewers and a dog in the room. Three viewers are on the TSN subscription plan and have automatic access to the broadcast. These viewers have household authentication and have validated within the last 24 hours. Viewing is authorized. The forth viewer, Bob Neighbour has inserted his viewerID(tm) card but not authenticated and will need to authorize the use of credit to enable the viewing. TSN allows dogs to watch Monday Night Football for free.
TV: Viewing paused. Awaiting authorization or departure. TSN thanks you for your viewing habits.
Claims that the GPL will affect government usage of software have zero basis in reality. 1) If the Government wants to modify GPL software for internal usage they are free to do so. As long as they do not distribute outside of the government they are clearly within the GPL. 2) The Government is GPL proof. If the Government wants to declare that they are void from the provisions of the GPL they have any number of options for avoiding the provisions.
a) claim national security
b) claim national provenince and take ownership
c) change copyright law
The real claims of the movement are that it will cut into proprietary software houses right to earn a buck. This are also useless claims based on continued extortion of government dollars. These companies wish to continue taking excessive amounts of money from the government.
The government should own the software it uses. Would you be happy if all the tanks owned by the government were actually owned by Laidlaw and were supplied to the government on contract? A contract that could be cancelled at any time. That software controlling the battleship-sub-airplane-tank is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft reserves the right to disable it at any time should the government not keep it happy. (See why other governments are moving away from Microsoft)
Also if the government has the code all contractors are on an equal starting point. This presents the most competition into the contracting and supply route and will get the government the best price. The only way to do this is to make it that the government will have the rights to the source code for all software used in any government project. The GPL achieves this. All contracts the govenment puts out for supply and services of computing contracts should require that the source code be supplied with all rights to modify to the government.
I saw "untethered test flight" and immediatly tried to picture a "tethered" test flight using some sort of rope to the ground. Not that different a trajectory from this flight.
Do they really call ground mounted engine fires tethered flights? Or does tethered flight mean under wing or pull along flights?
One of the main arguments buisnesses have been using against looking for Linux solutions is that legacy applications (of the windowsNT/95 variety) must be runnable. Now with Microsoft saying that they may not support all legacy code this is removing one of the last barriers stopping some companies from looking at Linux. If a company is looking at redoing an application for the windows base it may just be easier for them to make it work with WINE than with the new windows code base. I am sure Microsoft is aware of this. There must be some really big holes they are going to close with action or they would not consider dropping the support for legacy applications.
Values will shift. That is the dynamic of society.
I see plays and live action still performed. I see bands still playing live performaces. Live entertainment will still exist.
I see actor salaries at $10e6 for a movie or $1e6 per episode disappearing. I see that as good. I see professional sports salaries of $5e6 a year disappearing. I see that as good. Live events will continue at much more reasonable levels.
Books and other media will continue in some form. Possibly paid from some large pool based on recognition and contribution to society. A whole lot of distribution and sales people will be removed from the process.
Societies change. The free information age is bringing change.
The consumer technology industry is moving so much faster than the media giants brains it is amazing. I bet the RIAA would nuke the factories making these devices if they had the ability.
Archeaologists have been able to recover sounds from pottery spun thousands of years ago. The recording industry (AKA the people that charge $ for recordings) is going to have to adapt to the fact that once something is transmitted broadcast, acted or spoken out, it is released into the collective state of existance and is available to all.
With Microsoft's new product life cycle plan here, windows NT and 2000 are now approaching their decayed support eras. This would mean no new licenses for Windows 2000 only three years after the release. So "new" products are going to have to use something else. I don't know how dependant on the OS the applications are but the savings and customizability should make it worth it.
http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~elliott/cram/ is your ultimate parallel compute machine. It turns your entire memory (all the CRAM anyways) into a register set. It is based on the concept of rather than bringing the data to the CPU for the computation the CPU is brought to the memory.
Small computational units AND/OR/Adder are included on the bit access lines for all the memory cells.
They should add 1 or 2 american celebrities who are paying their way and sell the north american TV rights for extra cash.
Think of it as a new reality show with a number of new elements 1) Russian people meet American celebrities 2) a look at people throwing up on the vomit rides 3) a look at celebrities throwing up on the vomit rides 4) a look at technology 5) a look at Russian technology
This article was posted on Zdnet several days ago and already collected a whole comment stream. Check out the article and attached comment system. It has all been said before.
AKA Macdonalds monopoly game style collect and win or instant prizes. Backstage passes. Front row seats. Prizes distributed by artist or by company.
Winners of passes are free publicity for the tour and CD buying: "Bobby Joe from Timbucktoo is going backstage with Megadeath at the concert in Ourtown. The backstage pass was won from a purchase of a CD at Spinners."
There's Klingons off the starboard bow,
starboard bow,
Personally I find the ship fights the hardest to watch. They have less complexity than your average 1800's cannon battle. And seem to occur at about the same relative ranges between ships.
Some of the old trek had the best stuff. It was at least based on WWII sub fights.
No release of active diffusive substances or "warping of space" to defocus/redirect laser/phaser shots. If you have artificial gravity powerful enough to go from 0-0.9 light in seconds without ending up splattered you can make some pretty good gravity lenses. No active point defense systems. No multi-warhead systems. No sensor confusion technology.
These are just technology effects that are in use now on the battle field.
No use of space time delay (except in the one fantastic occurance). The moon is 1 second away. The sun is 8 minutes away. The sun could blow up now we would not see it for 8 minutes. So any time the say "opps" there goes the star/planet they should have to wait 8 minutes (or other time) to see/feel it. No use of gravity well orbital mechanics. No 2D battle concepts (windage and fore/aft shots of cannon ships, lines and wedges. No 3D battle concepts, cones, globes, wedges, conveyor belts.
Still some of the worst gravity well/ non-Newtonian physics based "space" environments. You can classify it as "fantasy" as it certainly is not based on physics as we know it.
Ok, now I understand. I was much confused by all the press writing "two gate" device. Every rational NAND/NOR gate made in a MOS process is made with 2 gates. A 4 input device would have 4 gates.
The big advantage of the FinFet device is rather than being an embedded surface device with the gate on top of the channel which is embedded in the substrate, the FinFet uses a channel elevated out of the substrate so the gate wraps three sides of the channel. The papers report access to the top and bottom of the channel as "two gates" it is really a three side wrapping of the source-drain channel which is raised out of the substrate.
The big advantage is that for a given gate voltage the penetration into the channel in blocking carriers is only so far. With the gate on both(3) sides of the channel the penetration effectiveness for a given voltage is greatly increased.
The first one is very good. It explains the problems with conventional scaling methods then presents the solution to the Gordian knot, the FinFet. Found by searching IBM chips (It is on my information resources list)
This is a pretty near perfect example of a bad patent. 1) the idea is pretty obvious (as well as many references in common SF literature) 2) the actual implementation with current tech will be pretty miserable. Put big bright light behind object, make object shine big bright light at viewer. Viewer is blinded by both and as object is indistinquishable the technique is easily demonstrated to the patent requirement level. 3) it serves as a patent stake. Further research into a better/improved technology will have to deal with this patent.
This is a near perfect bad patent that grants the patent holder a big stake in the ground for actually showing very little. And any future work that will actually improve the technique is going to have to deal with the patent.
No company should really be buying Microsoft products. A basic tenet of survival is to always have an available second source for any vital components. This assures several things, amongst them being 1) competition for available market by the suppliers and therefore reduced prices 2) no hostage situation where you end up at the whim of your supplier 3) reduced possibilities of the supply disappearing due to problems within the supplier
These basic tenets were long ago abandoned by those following a Microsoft Solution TM.
An Open Source TM solution is much better. The right to run and modify the code cannot disappear. Anyone can be hired to work on and improve the code and you get full access to any contributions.
As a consumer of operating system and office products, open source, or operation with a fully public and multi-sourced interface, is the only way to go. The requirement of a fully public and open interface for programming against and database format should be the basis of buisness management, private and public. All suppliers should be required to demonstate full interoperation and replaceability before being considered.
"please don't ignore us"
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Linuxworld Fun
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· Score: 3, Funny
Why go for the physical option. It looks like ozone is the magic anti-oxidant for teeth capable of repairing damage and protecting.
Guardian UK No more fillings? It's one of life's horrors. But a controversial new treatment could soon make the dentist's drill a thing of the past. Leo Hickman reports
In the productions that you have worked on what sort of effort has been done to provide security on the digital data comprising the human body models and textures you have worked with?
Just wondering if a texture/wire frame model of Pamela Anderson will ever leak out of 3d shop.
T3: Rise of the Machines
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· Score: 2
They just started playing adds in the movie theatres for T3, Rise of the Machines.
It looks like the army is continuing their new public relationship actions of making the forces look cool.
Ok, this is bad. A somewhat critical state of the OS is dependant on a blindly connected service. Please tell me the time server is authenticated fully and unbreakably. Hah. Just wait for 1) MS to implement expirable licenses on all software 2) someone to break the authentication service 3) IP spoofing of the time server to a clock set 100 years in the future when everyones time based license has expired
The result is instant crippling of all MS licenses!
Putting a site on the web invites every net appliance in the universe to connect to it. The web is a set of paths connecting gardens, people are allowed to wander anywhere. If you don't want the network world to connect to a port on your device you fire wall it.
This is different from targeted DOS where someone deliberatly sends many requests at a single port. Everyone is allowed to wander through an open garden gate. Occasionally we can expect a popular garden to get full. Driving a tank over the gate and destroying the garden is bad.
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TV: All viewers must insert their identity cards and authenticate with the Viewing System before playback can commence.
TV: This TV can see 4 potential viewers and a dog in the room. Three viewers are on the TSN subscription plan and have automatic access to the broadcast. These viewers have household authentication and have validated within the last 24 hours. Viewing is authorized. The forth viewer, Bob Neighbour has inserted his viewerID(tm) card but not authenticated and will need to authorize the use of credit to enable the viewing. TSN allows dogs to watch Monday Night Football for free.
TV: Viewing paused. Awaiting authorization or departure. TSN thanks you for your viewing habits.
Claims that the GPL will affect government usage of software have zero basis in reality.
1) If the Government wants to modify GPL software for internal usage they are free to do so. As long as they do not distribute outside of the government they are clearly within the GPL.
2) The Government is GPL proof. If the Government wants to declare that they are void from the provisions of the GPL they have any number of options for avoiding the provisions.
a) claim national security
b) claim national provenince and take ownership
c) change copyright law
The real claims of the movement are that it will cut into proprietary software houses right to earn a buck. This are also useless claims based on continued extortion of government dollars. These companies wish to continue taking excessive amounts of money from the government.
The government should own the software it uses. Would you be happy if all the tanks owned by the government were actually owned by Laidlaw and were supplied to the government on contract? A contract that could be cancelled at any time. That software controlling the battleship-sub-airplane-tank is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft reserves the right to disable it at any time should the government not keep it happy. (See why other governments are moving away from Microsoft)
Also if the government has the code all contractors are on an equal starting point. This presents the most competition into the contracting and supply route and will get the government the best price.
The only way to do this is to make it that the government will have the rights to the source code for all software used in any government project. The GPL achieves this. All contracts the govenment puts out for supply and services of computing contracts should require that the source code be supplied with all rights to modify to the government.
I saw "untethered test flight" and immediatly tried to picture a "tethered" test flight using some sort of rope to the ground. Not that different a trajectory from this flight.
Do they really call ground mounted engine fires tethered flights?
Or does tethered flight mean under wing or pull along flights?
What is a tethered flight?
One of the main arguments buisnesses have been using against looking for Linux solutions is that legacy applications (of the windowsNT/95 variety) must be runnable. Now with Microsoft saying that they may not support all legacy code this is removing one of the last barriers stopping some companies from looking at Linux.
If a company is looking at redoing an application for the windows base it may just be easier for them to make it work with WINE than with the new windows code base.
I am sure Microsoft is aware of this. There must be some really big holes they are going to close with action or they would not consider dropping the support for legacy applications.
LaTeX still rocks for complex formula entry
\sum_{i=1}^{n} x^i y^{n-i}
No mouse movement. No special shift/ctrl stuff. Very readable. No worrying about how it looks.
Values will shift. That is the dynamic of society.
I see plays and live action still performed. I see bands still playing live performaces. Live entertainment will still exist.
I see actor salaries at $10e6 for a movie or $1e6 per episode disappearing. I see that as good.
I see professional sports salaries of $5e6 a year disappearing. I see that as good. Live events will continue at much more reasonable levels.
Books and other media will continue in some form. Possibly paid from some large pool based on recognition and contribution to society. A whole lot of distribution and sales people will be removed from the process.
Societies change. The free information age is bringing change.
The consumer technology industry is moving so much faster than the media giants brains it is amazing. I bet the RIAA would nuke the factories making these devices if they had the ability.
Archeaologists have been able to recover sounds from pottery spun thousands of years ago. The recording industry (AKA the people that charge $ for recordings) is going to have to adapt to the fact that once something is transmitted broadcast, acted or spoken out, it is released into the collective state of existance and is available to all.
With Microsoft's new product life cycle plan here ,
windows NT and 2000 are now approaching their decayed support eras.
This would mean no new licenses for Windows 2000 only three years after the release. So "new" products are going to have to use something else. I don't know how dependant on the OS the applications are but the savings and customizability should make it worth it.
Microsoft would push them toward XP embedded.
CRAM: search google for "CRAM computational RAM"
http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~elliott/cram/
is your ultimate parallel compute machine. It turns your entire memory (all the CRAM anyways) into a register set. It is based on the concept of rather than bringing the data to the CPU for the computation the CPU is brought to the memory.
Small computational units AND/OR/Adder are included on the bit access lines for all the memory cells.
They should add 1 or 2 american celebrities who are paying their way and sell the north american TV rights for extra cash.
Think of it as a new reality show with a number of new elements
1) Russian people meet American celebrities
2) a look at people throwing up on the vomit rides
3) a look at celebrities throwing up on the vomit rides
4) a look at technology
5) a look at Russian technology
Is the launch site within 600 miles (range of Scud missle) of President Bush's ranch?
This article was posted on Zdnet several days ago and already collected a whole comment stream. Check out the article and attached comment system. It has all been said before.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-959112.html
AKA Macdonalds monopoly game style collect and win or instant prizes. Backstage passes. Front row seats. Prizes distributed by artist or by company.
Winners of passes are free publicity for the tour and CD buying:
"Bobby Joe from Timbucktoo is going backstage with Megadeath at the concert in Ourtown. The backstage pass was won from a purchase of a CD at Spinners."
There's Klingons off the starboard bow,
starboard bow,
Personally I find the ship fights the hardest to watch. They have less complexity than your average 1800's cannon battle. And seem to occur at about the same relative ranges between ships.
Some of the old trek had the best stuff. It was at least based on WWII sub fights.
No release of active diffusive substances or "warping of space" to defocus/redirect laser/phaser shots. If you have artificial gravity powerful enough to go from 0-0.9 light in seconds without ending up splattered you can make some pretty good gravity lenses.
No active point defense systems.
No multi-warhead systems.
No sensor confusion technology.
These are just technology effects that are in use now on the battle field.
No use of space time delay (except in the one fantastic occurance). The moon is 1 second away. The sun is 8 minutes away. The sun could blow up now we would not see it for 8 minutes. So any time the say "opps" there goes the star/planet they should have to wait 8 minutes (or other time) to see/feel it.
No use of gravity well orbital mechanics.
No 2D battle concepts (windage and fore/aft shots of cannon ships, lines and wedges.
No 3D battle concepts, cones, globes, wedges, conveyor belts.
Still some of the worst gravity well/ non-Newtonian physics based "space" environments. You can classify it as "fantasy" as it certainly is not based on physics as we know it.
Ok, now I understand. I was much confused by all the press writing "two gate" device. Every rational NAND/NOR gate made in a MOS process is made with 2 gates. A 4 input device would have 4 gates.
The big advantage of the FinFet device is rather than being an embedded surface device with the gate on top of the channel which is embedded in the substrate, the FinFet uses a channel elevated out of the substrate so the gate wraps three sides of the channel. The papers report access to the top and bottom of the channel as "two gates" it is really a three side wrapping of the source-drain channel which is raised out of the substrate.
The big advantage is that for a given gate voltage the penetration into the channel in blocking carriers is only so far. With the gate on both(3) sides of the channel the penetration effectiveness for a given voltage is greatly increased.
The first one is very good. It explains the problems with conventional scaling methods then presents the solution to the Gordian knot, the FinFet. Found by searching IBM chips (It is on my information resources list)
Maintaining the benefits of CMOS scaling when scaling bogs down
Process requirements for continued scaling of CMOS--the need and prospects for atomic-level manipulation
HAL was named from IBM.
Anyone know of popular fiction references to Microsoft. Directly or by implication.
Bill Gates' house is run on software. I would love to read a bug report from that setup.
This is a pretty near perfect example of a bad patent.
1) the idea is pretty obvious (as well as many references in common SF literature)
2) the actual implementation with current tech will be pretty miserable. Put big bright light behind object, make object shine big bright light at viewer. Viewer is blinded by both and as object is indistinquishable the technique is easily demonstrated to the patent requirement level.
3) it serves as a patent stake. Further research into a better/improved technology will have to deal with this patent.
This is a near perfect bad patent that grants the patent holder a big stake in the ground for actually showing very little. And any future work that will actually improve the technique is going to have to deal with the patent.
No company should really be buying Microsoft products. A basic tenet of survival is to always have an available second source for any vital components. This assures several things, amongst them being
1) competition for available market by the suppliers and therefore reduced prices
2) no hostage situation where you end up at the whim of your supplier
3) reduced possibilities of the supply disappearing due to problems within the supplier
These basic tenets were long ago abandoned by those following a Microsoft Solution TM.
An Open Source TM solution is much better. The right to run and modify the code cannot disappear. Anyone can be hired to work on and improve the code and you get full access to any contributions.
As a consumer of operating system and office products, open source, or operation with a fully public and multi-sourced interface, is the only way to go. The requirement of a fully public and open interface for programming against and database format should be the basis of buisness management, private and public. All suppliers should be required to demonstate full interoperation and replaceability before being considered.
Houston said.
"Just please don't ignore us."
I didn't know Microsoft was in that bad a way.
Why go for the physical option. It looks like ozone is the magic anti-oxidant for teeth capable of repairing damage and protecting.
Guardian UK No more fillings?
It's one of life's horrors. But a controversial new treatment could soon make the dentist's drill a thing of the past. Leo Hickman reports
In the productions that you have worked on what sort of effort has been done to provide security on the digital data comprising the human body models and textures you have worked with?
Just wondering if a texture/wire frame model of Pamela Anderson will ever leak out of 3d shop.
They just started playing adds in the movie theatres for T3, Rise of the Machines.
It looks like the army is continuing their new public relationship actions of making the forces look cool.
Ok, this is bad. A somewhat critical state of the OS is dependant on a blindly connected service. Please tell me the time server is authenticated fully and unbreakably. Hah.
Just wait for
1) MS to implement expirable licenses on all software
2) someone to break the authentication service
3) IP spoofing of the time server to a clock set 100 years in the future when everyones time based license has expired
The result is instant crippling of all MS licenses!
Putting a site on the web invites every net appliance in the universe to connect to it. The web is a set of paths connecting gardens, people are allowed to wander anywhere. If you don't want the network world to connect to a port on your device you fire wall it.
This is different from targeted DOS where someone deliberatly sends many requests at a single port. Everyone is allowed to wander through an open garden gate. Occasionally we can expect a popular garden to get full. Driving a tank over the gate and destroying the garden is bad.