At first thought I agree, though. Maybe there's something inherent in the nature of the conducting materials which creates an asymptote, for conventional technologies, closing in around 30 mb/sec.
Well, 30 pieces of silver was what Judas got for selling out God. I think the connection is clear.
Do a patent search for wear levelling. M Systems (bought by Sandisk) have lots of very well written patents that describe how they do it. Datalight has some too.
Third parties probably either license one of these patents, or violate them ruthlessly if they are based in China - it's not like some no name thumb drive manufacturere in Shenzen is going to be worth investigating, given that all the code is masked into a microcontroller and they are probably immune for lawsuits. Mind you, it's quite possibly that they skip wear levelling completely.
OTOH you could just write block 0 over and over again from the USB host, and connect a bus analyzer to the NAND interface. You can tell by how the NAND physical address changes which patent they are violating.
Good question, given that "look like ass" is highly variable from person to person. I think Windows apps look like ass. YMMV.
Wow, zealot much? I want stuff to look like native. That rules out out most of the cross platform stuff.
But I can see if you consider XML 'programming', WTL's assembly language HWND to CWnd* converter is a bit hard to understand. It's a pity for you that the world is full of Indians and Chinese who are smart enough to figure out stuff like this if that's what it takes to produce an efficient end result.
Just one more example. I can't vouch for how bloated or not the applications it produces are.
Sure, but you could also do the same with XUL or Mono or other technologies. You see, wxWindows was an example, not the full set of cross-platform solutions
What produces Windows applications that are as small as WTL/SDK, and don't "look like Ass" to quote another poster?
Mono is like a third rate knock off of.Net, which seems pointless to me since the original produces bloated applications. XUL seems to be some Mozilla internal XML handwaving used by Firefox, and not be much to do with developing small GUI applications.
Thank you for making my point then.
If portable GUI class libraries didn't suck so much, people would use them instead of the non portable Microsoft solutions. These days, I think if Microsoft hadn't invented Win32, we just wouldn't have as many GUI applications distributed as binaries.
But I can knock up a tiny (<100KB) SDK or WTL application much quicker than a wxWindows one. It's smaller and it looks native. And most of the time 100% of the people that are going to use it use nothing but Windows.
At a pinch they'll run on Wine anyway.
Why pull in all the bloat of wxWindows when you can do something smaller, slicker and quicker.
Actually, the latest nightly builds of the Last Measure can burn even the electronic eyeballs of the google bot, without using Javascript.
It seems to find it, indeed you can find out what Last Measure is by Googling it, but I can see from the logs that it only checks once. Just like a human would. "Hmm, Last Measure what's that? Aiiiieeee!"
Democracy is a horrible form of government. Can you point out even a single example of a democratic state that doesn't operate in a state of complete and utter lunacy?
America? Oh wait...
Seriously, Winston Churchill's quote about democracy being the worst form of government except for all the others is spot on.
The only thing democracies have going for them is that they can assign power to where it's most usefully employed -- small groups of experts that are close to the problem domain. Committees are only marginally better than small groups of idiots. Despotic governments routinely outperform democracies. That's the main reason that communist governments are so good at waging war
Actually, democracies are disturbingly good at war. E.g. if you compare the Axis and Allies performance in D Day. On the Allied side, the general in charge had a handwritten note with a speech prepared to say that the landing had failed and he accepted responsibility. Only desperate fightfighting by Omar Bradley at 3am prevented utter defeat. On the Allied side, Hitler had decided that the invasion would happen on a different date and time, and his minions were too scared to wake him until the early afternoon, by which time the Allies had a beachhead and air superiority.
The Allies prepared well and still thought they'd lose, but the Axis didn't prepare at all and thought they'd win. In fact the Nazis managed to botch any decision involving military priorities - e.g. V2 vs fighter aircraft production.
Or look at the Ancient Greeks defeating the vastly more numerous persians. Or the Iraqi army getting massacred in the first Gulf War.
As a capitalist, albeit a poor one, I've got to say that you're missing something here. The VC firm has the money (actually, I think it's probably someone else's money), and they take all the risk by investing it. So it's not unreasonable that they negotiate a deal where they get most of the rewards on the minority of the businesses they invest in which don't tank.
2) This technology is patented to the hilt & the licensing terms for the HD Photo Device Porting Kit 1.0 licensing terms specifically exclude copyleft (GPL style) licenses.
This comment contains trade secrets owned by the TII LA. Additionally, by reading this post, your brain is emulating an algorithm protected by patents, and thus violating them.
I hereby request that slashdot be shut down under DMCA, and the Trusted Infrastructure Patented Algorithm Protection Act.
Of course i can doctor my photo, print it and then rephotograph it. Damn analog hole.
Not really, TII images will be downsampled, or possibly replaced with clip art of a terrorist if you print them. Unless you have a TII compliant printer of course, then they'll have a watermark which will cause scanners to request a license for editing from the TII key repository and replace them with clipart of a terrorist if one can't be found due to network problems. TII researchers are working on Goedel sequences in watermarks to defeature non TII compliant scanners.
Couldn't the camera just place the signature in the Exif data.
The existing EXIF standard doesn't meet the Rich Metadata requirements of TII. For example EXIF only allows for a maximum of 24 bit images. TII allows with upto 2^32 bits of color depth ( 2^64 bit depth in TII64 ).
Is to build a Trusted Imaging Infrastructure. DRM in the camera will sign the pictures as being genuine with a public key. This will obviously need a new image file format,.TII. This will be proprietary and tied down with patents, and the patent licenses will force licensees to not re sign edited images. Obviously this will mean that cameras and computers will need to implement a Trusted Imaging Infrastrusture too, to make sure that people are unable to resign images after editing them. Unsigned images or images in legacy file formats will be downsampled and POSSIBLY FAKE will be watermarked across them when they are shown on compliant operating systems. Trusted images will be handled by a protected part of the operating system. Possibly CPU maufacturers will add support for trusted image editing functionality in the form of efuses that cause the CPU to self destruct when asked to edit a TII file.
I propose a TII licensing authority composed of Adobe, various camera manufacturers, Microsoft and Apple to arrange the NDAs and licenses. Obviously illegal legacy image editing tools like GIMP will be imported from non TII approved countries, but they must be seized under the DMCA and their owners sent to Gitmo.
[1] Both use Interrupt 80h, but Linux uses the DOS calling convention, and passes arguments in ebx, ecx, etc, while *BSD uses the UNIX convention and passes arguments on the stack. Both pass the system call number in eax.
All those extra pushes and pops are probably the reason that BSD system calls are slower.
Doesn't the same thing apply to commercial EULAs though? In the sense that if you don't agree to them you don't have a right to use the software since this inevitably implies copying it from the distribution media to your hard disk and from your hard disk to ram.
I'm not sure what the legal situation is, but it seems that morally both commercial EULAs and the GPL should be enforceable, based on that argument. You're free to not use the software, but I don't think you should be free to use in violation of the copyright owner's wishes.
Of course you could make an argument based on first sale doctrine, which is that I bought the CD in a shop and I can then do whatever I want with it, but that seems to be expropriation to me.
But I don't think you can argue consistently that GPL code is in one category and Microsoft code (or for that matter Metallica mp3s) are in another based on your personal feelings about they owner of the IP.
What would you say if someone used that defense to claim they weren't covered by the GPL? I.e. paid some third party to strip the Copyright messages out of the code and the license.txt out of the archive.
The guys who write the anti phishing stuff would probably not be too keen on that sort of thing anyway.
If you read Showstopper the Dec guys who were hired to create Windows NT used to call traditional Microsoft OSs as Microslop. Interestingly, Bill Gates approved of this contempt. He was quoted as saying that he "Didn't hire Dave Cutler for his charm".
It makes sense really, if your company is bad at something - protecting OSs from malicious programs on the same machine before NT, and protecting OSs from malicious programs on other machines before the recent push to security, and you have a lot of money, you solve it by hiring people from outside. And then when people inside the company complain about them being obnoxious, you say the sort of thing that Gates said about Cutler.
Ok, I'm not sure if the current security stuff is quite as radical as this - it seems to be done by the team that did the original code - but if they want it to work, they need it to be. And they definitely shouldn't have special cases that allows Microsoft stuff to sneak under the defenses, since it compromises the whole system.
Would that apply if you had a warp drive metrics like Alcubierre's.
I know you can't build one, and probably anything like this requires god like levels of technology, but as far as I know it is possible to beat a light beam to a given point without any weirdness.
I have a feeling this is doomed to fail. Anyone who is old enough to remember when Commodore was a decent gaming platform has probably grown into the type of person who builds his own machines. And the Amiga users will just sit there reminiscing about the good old days...
No, they hide in dark places from the Atari users, who've been workin' out since the 1980's. We have Ninja skills, nunchuck skills, firearms skills, benchpress skills.
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At first thought I agree, though. Maybe there's something inherent in the nature of the conducting materials which creates an asymptote, for conventional technologies, closing in around 30 mb/sec.
Well, 30 pieces of silver was what Judas got for selling out God. I think the connection is clear.
Do a patent search for wear levelling. M Systems (bought by Sandisk) have lots of very well written patents that describe how they do it. Datalight has some too.
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This paper has a good overview
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/Pubs/swste2005.p
Third parties probably either license one of these patents, or violate them ruthlessly if they are based in China - it's not like some no name thumb drive manufacturere in Shenzen is going to be worth investigating, given that all the code is masked into a microcontroller and they are probably immune for lawsuits. Mind you, it's quite possibly that they skip wear levelling completely.
OTOH you could just write block 0 over and over again from the USB host, and connect a bus analyzer to the NAND interface. You can tell by how the NAND physical address changes which patent they are violating.
Good question, given that "look like ass" is highly variable from person to person. I think Windows apps look like ass. YMMV.
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Wow, zealot much? I want stuff to look like native. That rules out out most of the cross platform stuff.
But I can see if you consider XML 'programming', WTL's assembly language HWND to CWnd* converter is a bit hard to understand. It's a pity for you that the world is full of Indians and Chinese who are smart enough to figure out stuff like this if that's what it takes to produce an efficient end result.
Just one more example. I can't vouch for how bloated or not the applications it produces are.
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-deve
9MB Hello World applications. I've worked on phones that managed a GSM stack, GUI, TCP/IP in less than that.
Sure, but you could also do the same with XUL or Mono or other technologies. You see, wxWindows was an example, not the full set of cross-platform solutions
.Net, which seems pointless to me since the original produces bloated applications. XUL seems to be some Mozilla internal XML handwaving used by Firefox, and not be much to do with developing small GUI applications.
What produces Windows applications that are as small as WTL/SDK, and don't "look like Ass" to quote another poster?
Mono is like a third rate knock off of
Thank you for making my point then.
If portable GUI class libraries didn't suck so much, people would use them instead of the non portable Microsoft solutions. These days, I think if Microsoft hadn't invented Win32, we just wouldn't have as many GUI applications distributed as binaries.
But I can knock up a tiny (<100KB) SDK or WTL application much quicker than a wxWindows one. It's smaller and it looks native. And most of the time 100% of the people that are going to use it use nothing but Windows.
At a pinch they'll run on Wine anyway.
Why pull in all the bloat of wxWindows when you can do something smaller, slicker and quicker.
Actually, the latest nightly builds of the Last Measure can burn even the electronic eyeballs of the google bot, without using Javascript.
It seems to find it, indeed you can find out what Last Measure is by Googling it, but I can see from the logs that it only checks once. Just like a human would. "Hmm, Last Measure what's that? Aiiiieeee!"
Very interesting.
Democracy is a horrible form of government. Can you point out even a single example of a democratic state that doesn't operate in a state of complete and utter lunacy?
America? Oh wait...
Seriously, Winston Churchill's quote about democracy being the worst form of government except for all the others is spot on.
The only thing democracies have going for them is that they can assign power to where it's most usefully employed -- small groups of experts that are close to the problem domain. Committees are only marginally better than small groups of idiots. Despotic governments routinely outperform democracies. That's the main reason that communist governments are so good at waging war
Actually, democracies are disturbingly good at war. E.g. if you compare the Axis and Allies performance in D Day. On the Allied side, the general in charge had a handwritten note with a speech prepared to say that the landing had failed and he accepted responsibility. Only desperate fightfighting by Omar Bradley at 3am prevented utter defeat. On the Allied side, Hitler had decided that the invasion would happen on a different date and time, and his minions were too scared to wake him until the early afternoon, by which time the Allies had a beachhead and air superiority.
The Allies prepared well and still thought they'd lose, but the Axis didn't prepare at all and thought they'd win. In fact the Nazis managed to botch any decision involving military priorities - e.g. V2 vs fighter aircraft production.
Or look at the Ancient Greeks defeating the vastly more numerous persians. Or the Iraqi army getting massacred in the first Gulf War.
As a capitalist, albeit a poor one, I've got to say that you're missing something here. The VC firm has the money (actually, I think it's probably someone else's money), and they take all the risk by investing it. So it's not unreasonable that they negotiate a deal where they get most of the rewards on the minority of the businesses they invest in which don't tank.
I like the way they worry about inaccurate translations, like Muslims do with the Qu'ran. The GPL really is a revealed text, not a composed one isn't it?
2) This technology is patented to the hilt & the licensing terms for the HD Photo Device Porting Kit 1.0 licensing terms specifically exclude copyleft (GPL style) licenses.
Hey Microsoft, I was joking
This comment contains trade secrets owned by the TII LA. Additionally, by reading this post, your brain is emulating an algorithm protected by patents, and thus violating them.
I hereby request that slashdot be shut down under DMCA, and the Trusted Infrastructure Patented Algorithm Protection Act.
Of course i can doctor my photo, print it and then rephotograph it. Damn analog hole.
Not really, TII images will be downsampled, or possibly replaced with clip art of a terrorist if you print them. Unless you have a TII compliant printer of course, then they'll have a watermark which will cause scanners to request a license for editing from the TII key repository and replace them with clipart of a terrorist if one can't be found due to network problems. TII researchers are working on Goedel sequences in watermarks to defeature non TII compliant scanners.
Couldn't the camera just place the signature in the Exif data.
The existing EXIF standard doesn't meet the Rich Metadata requirements of TII. For example EXIF only allows for a maximum of 24 bit images. TII allows with upto 2^32 bits of color depth ( 2^64 bit depth in TII64 ).
Is to build a Trusted Imaging Infrastructure. DRM in the camera will sign the pictures as being genuine with a public key. This will obviously need a new image file format, .TII. This will be proprietary and tied down with patents, and the patent licenses will force licensees to not re sign edited images. Obviously this will mean that cameras and computers will need to implement a Trusted Imaging Infrastrusture too, to make sure that people are unable to resign images after editing them. Unsigned images or images in legacy file formats will be downsampled and POSSIBLY FAKE will be watermarked across them when they are shown on compliant operating systems. Trusted images will be handled by a protected part of the operating system. Possibly CPU maufacturers will add support for trusted image editing functionality in the form of efuses that cause the CPU to self destruct when asked to edit a TII file.
I propose a TII licensing authority composed of Adobe, various camera manufacturers, Microsoft and Apple to arrange the NDAs and licenses. Obviously illegal legacy image editing tools like GIMP will be imported from non TII approved countries, but they must be seized under the DMCA and their owners sent to Gitmo.
Q)What do you do when your T800 sentrybot starts humping your leg?
A)Act interested.
They should have called it Microsoft Services and Tools For Unix
[1] Both use Interrupt 80h, but Linux uses the DOS calling convention, and passes arguments in ebx, ecx, etc, while *BSD uses the UNIX convention and passes arguments on the stack. Both pass the system call number in eax.
All those extra pushes and pops are probably the reason that BSD system calls are slower.
Doesn't the same thing apply to commercial EULAs though? In the sense that if you don't agree to them you don't have a right to use the software since this inevitably implies copying it from the distribution media to your hard disk and from your hard disk to ram.
I'm not sure what the legal situation is, but it seems that morally both commercial EULAs and the GPL should be enforceable, based on that argument. You're free to not use the software, but I don't think you should be free to use in violation of the copyright owner's wishes.
Of course you could make an argument based on first sale doctrine, which is that I bought the CD in a shop and I can then do whatever I want with it, but that seems to be expropriation to me.
But I don't think you can argue consistently that GPL code is in one category and Microsoft code (or for that matter Metallica mp3s) are in another based on your personal feelings about they owner of the IP.
And John Howard. Oh wait...
What would you say if someone used that defense to claim they weren't covered by the GPL? I.e. paid some third party to strip the Copyright messages out of the code and the license.txt out of the archive.
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The guys who write the anti phishing stuff would probably not be too keen on that sort of thing anyway.
If you read Showstopper the Dec guys who were hired to create Windows NT used to call traditional Microsoft OSs as Microslop. Interestingly, Bill Gates approved of this contempt. He was quoted as saying that he "Didn't hire Dave Cutler for his charm".
It makes sense really, if your company is bad at something - protecting OSs from malicious programs on the same machine before NT, and protecting OSs from malicious programs on other machines before the recent push to security, and you have a lot of money, you solve it by hiring people from outside. And then when people inside the company complain about them being obnoxious, you say the sort of thing that Gates said about Cutler.
Ok, I'm not sure if the current security stuff is quite as radical as this - it seems to be done by the team that did the original code - but if they want it to work, they need it to be. And they definitely shouldn't have special cases that allows Microsoft stuff to sneak under the defenses, since it compromises the whole system.
Would that apply if you had a warp drive metrics like Alcubierre's.
I know you can't build one, and probably anything like this requires god like levels of technology, but as far as I know it is possible to beat a light beam to a given point without any weirdness.
I have a feeling this is doomed to fail. Anyone who is old enough to remember when Commodore was a decent gaming platform has probably grown into the type of person who builds his own machines. And the Amiga users will just sit there reminiscing about the good old days...
No, they hide in dark places from the Atari users, who've been workin' out since the 1980's. We have Ninja skills, nunchuck skills, firearms skills, benchpress skills.
ATARI POSSE! REPRESENT!
I'm thinking more neolithic technology than >21st century stuff. Earth barriers against rising sea levels like the Dutch have, and so on.
To be honest though, the sharp knees ruin it for me.
Plus when you think about it, sperm is the ultimate malware.
You should at least hover your mouse over the link I posted, even if you're too busy to read the article.