So if the Library of Congress says jail-breaking is okay, and the DMCA says it's not, which one takes precedence in U.S. law?
The Librarian of Congress has been empowered to create DMCA exemptions, so the Library of Congress would win.
The DMCA itself is where the Librarian of Congress is granted the power to create DMCA exemptions, so it doesn't matter which of these two has precedence.
I have HDMI inputs on my TV, but I own no device that requires HDCP. No BluRay, no PS3, no HD-DVD, etc. A computer with a DVI output can make use of the HDMI TV just fine without encryption or key-exchange.
I am completely surprised by Yahoo's stats. Either user-minutes is a garbage metric, or I am using the internets incorrectly.
Most of those minutes are the user getting up, finding son-in-law, asking him unclear questions about whether their computer has an Internet or not, and a demonstration by said youngster how you don't have to type "www.google.com" into the Yahoo homepage search field.
The police who engage in beatings, theft, coercion, punishment tazering, etc., are bad and deserve to lose their jobs, no doubt about it. There are a lot of cops who say that there are very few "bad cops" but every cop who remains silent to protect such thuggery is a bad cop.
At the demo in Berlin they said there will be both Android and iOS apps for controlling Google TV. They even mentioned voice search integration.
I can just see it now. I'm watching a Star Trek episode, and Picard gives the shipboard computer a prompt, such as "Computer! Find all Starfleet regulations on personnel transfers." Suddenly my television starts playing a completely different program in my video library. Hopefully not something I put in the "embarrassing" folder.
The Cyanogen mod ROM images do NOT contain some of the stock apps (after a C&D letter from Google). They say you can back up and use the versions you received with your phone. But to back up the apps, you appear to have to root the phone. To root the phone, you have to downgrade the ROM. Will I be able to get updates to the built-in apps, or am I stuck with the oldest 2009 versions of those built-in apps on the newest Cyanogen-installed Android ROM?
When you're make up fake excerpts from a newspaper article, make sure you at least get your grammar correct. Don't write blatantly incorrect stuff like "come from the same world--the poorest corner of the San Fernando Valley".
Murphry's Law strikes again. I didn't re-read the article, though I've read each in the series. However, it seems to me that all that's missing is an em-dash, a unicode character that would not appear after posting due to the idiotically handicapped Slashcode system.
Unless you're doing very fast microelectronics, or lots of logic analysis work requiring the triggering at certain bus addresses, this unit should serve hobby level work. It's got PC connectivity, screenshots or CSV file capture to a thumb-drive, and can be found for less than $400.
How has nobody commented on the transparent-aluminum-like properties of this so-called "glass"?
If you really wanted to polish your geek cred, you'd know that transparent aluminum exists, not just on Star Trek. Read the 2009 Science Daily article. But when I saw this, I thought of the Harrison Ford version of the movie, "Sabrina." As a CEO, in one scene he demonstrates a tough new material to some Japanese investors by taking a crowbar to the front of a large flat panel television.
I'm going to have to disagree here. It's not up to software developers to go around making sure hardware x and y won't just roll over and die during certain sections of their game.... Pushing a card to its max should never cause it to "crash", let alone get damaged.
I completely agree that the MBP (and Apple products in general) have focused on many things more than heat control, and that the heat control does not get the design priority it should. (Short version for haters: Apple sucks at hardware design.) Fine, I get that. However, is it within "all normal conditions" to run the game on a summer afternoon with the laptop screen closed and plugged into the big screen? Is it "all normal conditions" to sit it on a soft tablecloth at a cafe in direct sunlight? I'd say that a lot of users would see these as perfectly natural and therefore the hardware shouldn't fail in those circumstances.
The user should realize that the sun or the tablecloth or the closed screen have an impact on heat. The system should monitor heat better and boost fans where possible. The video chips should self-regulate performance rather than burn out with permanent damage. The game should realize that it's being played by a human who can't see 200 fps, and just as there's a polygon budget for acceptable performance, there should be a heat budget or performance cap. The software, the user, the hardware all share responsibility: allow for proper cooling, allow for performance throttling if heat builds up, and don't pump 800 fps if the user experience can't possibly improve beyond 200 fps.
The summary says an overheated video card will crash. It will do more than crash. It can permanently damage the video hardware. This seems like a major hassle to swap out the video components on a big gaming rig, but it can be a lot worse for high-end laptops. I've had similar problems with 3D software running on a MacBook Pro -- plenty of performance, but the video card gets second priority in the heat-management.
In my MBP, there are separate temperature probes on the CPU, hard drive, battery and chipset, but none on the dual video chip units, so the thermostat-controlled fan won't even kick in when either the "integrated" nor the "high performance" video units are the only stressed component.
Besides the hardware cooling problems, there's no reason for trying to draw more than 120 fps on most LCDs; software needs to get more responsible about heat and speed resource usage when given access to over-spec hardware. Limit the rendering loop to 90~120 fps, unless you're doing something purposely exotic such as driving stereoscopic displays or CAVEs (at 90~120 fps per camera).
Even if this machine can distinguish guilt at 100% accuracy, that's useless. A fake terrorist may feel guilty about what they're doing. A cartoon antagonist is aware of his evilness, because he's from the same mind as the protagonist. In good fiction, the villain shouldn't know they're the villain. In real life, the jihadist doesn't see their tasks as being bad, they feel no guilt about breaking our ethos, because it's not his ethos. He feels adamant that his actions are the true path to righteousness. Why feel guilty about helping God/Allah/Poohbear in the Ultimate Struggle? Do you think the Floridians who want to burn the Quran feel guilt or remorse about what they're doing? Hell no, they feel that the Almighty wants to act through them to purify their little part of the world.
Due to constant interruptions, I often end up moving the mouse to the area nearest where I'm reading. A bookmark on a long page. Well, I then move to any area that doesn't pop up an annoying tool tip. Tool tips are really nice in being able to expand a little bit on what you can't quite read (elided text) or remember about a toolbar button (function name), but nowadays every frickin' thing is a hot zone for tool tip popups to blare out at you, get in your way, and generally harass you for your attention.
So they're trying to rid the problem of flashers on Chatroulette, by capturing images? What happens when the flasher is a minor? Or even hint that some flashers are minors? Boom, easy way to get rid of Chatroulette.
Why use pseudo-words like "leapfrogging" when real words like "surpassing" or "overtaking" work just fine?
Leapfrog is a very old and well-known children's game which involves people continually taking the lead by surpassing (jumping over) their playmate. It has a connotation of an endless arms race or continual exchange of leadership in the marketplace. I think the use of the word "leapfrogging" here is perfectly apt. Idiom is a part of the language, and when properly used, gives another layer of nuance to the communication.
The two Super Mario Galaxy games have this "sidekick" feature that lets your little brother have fun while you're playing. You achieve all the tough stuff in the level, while any toddler who wants to sit next to you can wave the wand and collect extra stars that may help you out in some way. I'd love to see more games have a sidekick feature, or a mode which is way easier and open-ended than the beat-a-boss-find-a-bigger-boss treadmill. Say, for each major area in the game, just let somebody putz around and explore, push buttons, be congratulated for finding stuff and reset things so they can "find" them again and again. We don't all start out as an obsessed 14-year-old ready to frag everybody in sight.
I'm surprised nobody's tagged this story of a head-scanning aptitude test as 'sortinghat'... the first thing that I thought of when seeing the summary is "SLYTHERIN!"
I grew up in a rural area, and I spent hours in a car commuting because things were so far away... and I question this. There were two possible routes south from my hometown, one was about 150km to the closest big down, the other route was about 250km to the same place.
A lot of "cityfolk" like to take a drive from one major city they're familiar with, to another major attraction they plan to visit, and rural areas are a huge unknown adventure in between. Some like the superhighway, but many like to get off the beaten track, see some farm houses, smell the manure and wash the beetles off the windshield for a change of pace. They didn't grow up in the area, they didn't know that choice A was 150km, and choice B was 250km. That's exactly when they turn on the GPS and confirm which fork in the road to take.
hoggoth's reply is snarky, but mostly accurate. They say it won't matter, but it depends on how fast you expect the laser to work. The chrome would reduce the effectiveness at first, but if the laser can remain trained on the same part of the target, then any microscopic flaws or dust on the chrome would heat up, causing the chrome to heat up, causing the chrome to become less reflective, and ultimately, doom.
Rabid fandom aside, maybe the role is just not very interesting for the actors themselves. Write something punchier that doesn't involve completely confusing and self-contradictory. Alternative theory: they are just stressing the 'who!?' part of 'Dr Who' these days.
I see a lot of discussion of robot hands, synthetic hands, synthetic heads, etc. How much time is actually spent, you know, with dirty hands at the construction site? With sweaty hands after a jog? With wet hair and ears, just getting out of a shower? These aren't devices that are meant to be used by robots, they're meant to be used by human, yes icky sticky salty smelly human beings. Considering the problem is the variability of the human hand and modes of usage, I think they need to spend more time in field tests with the actual device. Of course, not leaving them in bars would be a good thing to remind the engineers, too.
They will just redefine "injuries" to a meaning around or beyond causing permanent damage to vital organs by intentional misuse.
Terms like "pre-existing medical conditions" in the press can also get that number down even if your family has a forensic pathologist.
So instead of Taser's "excited delirium," we will have a lot of "Islamic glaucoma"?
It's a touchy subject and you have to send out the C&D even if it is parody for no other than if you don't, then someone else can say, "In this example, they let it slide, therefore they failed to defend their trademark."
NO. There is no requirement to be an asshole about a trademark. The phrase is 'defend the trademark' not 'be an asshole sending out hollow legal threats without thinking about it.' If they feel they must do something, they can simply say "we happen to have a similar trademark, we chuckled at your wit, and to cover our own legal butts regarding our own trademark, please accept this email as a license in perpetuity to continue publishing your little joke as it exists currently."
Love the literary reference. In a much earlier sci-fi story, This Perfect Day, every citizen has a nameber, an identifier that is part name, part number. There are only four male names, four female names, and these are combined with a multi-digit code to make the ID unique. Ever since online forums started suggesting logins like "MaryBeth131" I can't help but think of namebers.
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Are you saying the government is taking us for granite? I've been saying that for years.
The DMCA itself is where the Librarian of Congress is granted the power to create DMCA exemptions, so it doesn't matter which of these two has precedence.
I have HDMI inputs on my TV, but I own no device that requires HDCP. No BluRay, no PS3, no HD-DVD, etc. A computer with a DVI output can make use of the HDMI TV just fine without encryption or key-exchange.
Most of those minutes are the user getting up, finding son-in-law, asking him unclear questions about whether their computer has an Internet or not, and a demonstration by said youngster how you don't have to type "www.google.com" into the Yahoo homepage search field.
The police who engage in beatings, theft, coercion, punishment tazering, etc., are bad and deserve to lose their jobs, no doubt about it. There are a lot of cops who say that there are very few "bad cops" but every cop who remains silent to protect such thuggery is a bad cop.
I can just see it now. I'm watching a Star Trek episode, and Picard gives the shipboard computer a prompt, such as "Computer! Find all Starfleet regulations on personnel transfers." Suddenly my television starts playing a completely different program in my video library. Hopefully not something I put in the "embarrassing" folder.
The Cyanogen mod ROM images do NOT contain some of the stock apps (after a C&D letter from Google). They say you can back up and use the versions you received with your phone. But to back up the apps, you appear to have to root the phone. To root the phone, you have to downgrade the ROM. Will I be able to get updates to the built-in apps, or am I stuck with the oldest 2009 versions of those built-in apps on the newest Cyanogen-installed Android ROM?
Murphry's Law strikes again. I didn't re-read the article, though I've read each in the series. However, it seems to me that all that's missing is an em-dash, a unicode character that would not appear after posting due to the idiotically handicapped Slashcode system.
Unless you're doing very fast microelectronics, or lots of logic analysis work requiring the triggering at certain bus addresses, this unit should serve hobby level work. It's got PC connectivity, screenshots or CSV file capture to a thumb-drive, and can be found for less than $400.
If you really wanted to polish your geek cred, you'd know that transparent aluminum exists, not just on Star Trek. Read the 2009 Science Daily article. But when I saw this, I thought of the Harrison Ford version of the movie, "Sabrina." As a CEO, in one scene he demonstrates a tough new material to some Japanese investors by taking a crowbar to the front of a large flat panel television.
I completely agree that the MBP (and Apple products in general) have focused on many things more than heat control, and that the heat control does not get the design priority it should. (Short version for haters: Apple sucks at hardware design.) Fine, I get that. However, is it within "all normal conditions" to run the game on a summer afternoon with the laptop screen closed and plugged into the big screen? Is it "all normal conditions" to sit it on a soft tablecloth at a cafe in direct sunlight? I'd say that a lot of users would see these as perfectly natural and therefore the hardware shouldn't fail in those circumstances.
The user should realize that the sun or the tablecloth or the closed screen have an impact on heat. The system should monitor heat better and boost fans where possible. The video chips should self-regulate performance rather than burn out with permanent damage. The game should realize that it's being played by a human who can't see 200 fps, and just as there's a polygon budget for acceptable performance, there should be a heat budget or performance cap. The software, the user, the hardware all share responsibility: allow for proper cooling, allow for performance throttling if heat builds up, and don't pump 800 fps if the user experience can't possibly improve beyond 200 fps.
The summary says an overheated video card will crash. It will do more than crash. It can permanently damage the video hardware. This seems like a major hassle to swap out the video components on a big gaming rig, but it can be a lot worse for high-end laptops. I've had similar problems with 3D software running on a MacBook Pro -- plenty of performance, but the video card gets second priority in the heat-management.
In my MBP, there are separate temperature probes on the CPU, hard drive, battery and chipset, but none on the dual video chip units, so the thermostat-controlled fan won't even kick in when either the "integrated" nor the "high performance" video units are the only stressed component.
Besides the hardware cooling problems, there's no reason for trying to draw more than 120 fps on most LCDs; software needs to get more responsible about heat and speed resource usage when given access to over-spec hardware. Limit the rendering loop to 90~120 fps, unless you're doing something purposely exotic such as driving stereoscopic displays or CAVEs (at 90~120 fps per camera).
Even if this machine can distinguish guilt at 100% accuracy, that's useless. A fake terrorist may feel guilty about what they're doing. A cartoon antagonist is aware of his evilness, because he's from the same mind as the protagonist. In good fiction, the villain shouldn't know they're the villain. In real life, the jihadist doesn't see their tasks as being bad, they feel no guilt about breaking our ethos, because it's not his ethos. He feels adamant that his actions are the true path to righteousness. Why feel guilty about helping God/Allah/Poohbear in the Ultimate Struggle? Do you think the Floridians who want to burn the Quran feel guilt or remorse about what they're doing? Hell no, they feel that the Almighty wants to act through them to purify their little part of the world.
Due to constant interruptions, I often end up moving the mouse to the area nearest where I'm reading. A bookmark on a long page. Well, I then move to any area that doesn't pop up an annoying tool tip. Tool tips are really nice in being able to expand a little bit on what you can't quite read (elided text) or remember about a toolbar button (function name), but nowadays every frickin' thing is a hot zone for tool tip popups to blare out at you, get in your way, and generally harass you for your attention.
So they're trying to rid the problem of flashers on Chatroulette, by capturing images? What happens when the flasher is a minor? Or even hint that some flashers are minors? Boom, easy way to get rid of Chatroulette.
Leapfrog is a very old and well-known children's game which involves people continually taking the lead by surpassing (jumping over) their playmate. It has a connotation of an endless arms race or continual exchange of leadership in the marketplace. I think the use of the word "leapfrogging" here is perfectly apt. Idiom is a part of the language, and when properly used, gives another layer of nuance to the communication.
The two Super Mario Galaxy games have this "sidekick" feature that lets your little brother have fun while you're playing. You achieve all the tough stuff in the level, while any toddler who wants to sit next to you can wave the wand and collect extra stars that may help you out in some way. I'd love to see more games have a sidekick feature, or a mode which is way easier and open-ended than the beat-a-boss-find-a-bigger-boss treadmill. Say, for each major area in the game, just let somebody putz around and explore, push buttons, be congratulated for finding stuff and reset things so they can "find" them again and again. We don't all start out as an obsessed 14-year-old ready to frag everybody in sight.
I'm surprised nobody's tagged this story of a head-scanning aptitude test as 'sortinghat'... the first thing that I thought of when seeing the summary is "SLYTHERIN!"
A lot of "cityfolk" like to take a drive from one major city they're familiar with, to another major attraction they plan to visit, and rural areas are a huge unknown adventure in between. Some like the superhighway, but many like to get off the beaten track, see some farm houses, smell the manure and wash the beetles off the windshield for a change of pace. They didn't grow up in the area, they didn't know that choice A was 150km, and choice B was 250km. That's exactly when they turn on the GPS and confirm which fork in the road to take.
hoggoth's reply is snarky, but mostly accurate. They say it won't matter, but it depends on how fast you expect the laser to work. The chrome would reduce the effectiveness at first, but if the laser can remain trained on the same part of the target, then any microscopic flaws or dust on the chrome would heat up, causing the chrome to heat up, causing the chrome to become less reflective, and ultimately, doom.
Rabid fandom aside, maybe the role is just not very interesting for the actors themselves. Write something punchier that doesn't involve completely confusing and self-contradictory. Alternative theory: they are just stressing the 'who!?' part of 'Dr Who' these days.
I see a lot of discussion of robot hands, synthetic hands, synthetic heads, etc. How much time is actually spent, you know, with dirty hands at the construction site? With sweaty hands after a jog? With wet hair and ears, just getting out of a shower? These aren't devices that are meant to be used by robots, they're meant to be used by human, yes icky sticky salty smelly human beings. Considering the problem is the variability of the human hand and modes of usage, I think they need to spend more time in field tests with the actual device. Of course, not leaving them in bars would be a good thing to remind the engineers, too.
So instead of Taser's "excited delirium," we will have a lot of "Islamic glaucoma"?
NO. There is no requirement to be an asshole about a trademark. The phrase is 'defend the trademark' not 'be an asshole sending out hollow legal threats without thinking about it.' If they feel they must do something, they can simply say "we happen to have a similar trademark, we chuckled at your wit, and to cover our own legal butts regarding our own trademark, please accept this email as a license in perpetuity to continue publishing your little joke as it exists currently."
Love the literary reference. In a much earlier sci-fi story, This Perfect Day, every citizen has a nameber, an identifier that is part name, part number. There are only four male names, four female names, and these are combined with a multi-digit code to make the ID unique. Ever since online forums started suggesting logins like "MaryBeth131" I can't help but think of namebers.