Q: What is an Xbox? A: Vapor(hard)ware from a monopolistic company in Redmond.
Q: What does an Xbox do? A: All things X (where X is equal to any market the redmond company doesn't currently rule with an iron fist).
Q: How do I reverse engineer an Xbox? A: There is nothing to reverse because there is nothing there (thus the term 'vapor').
Q: Does Steve Balmer look like a drunken frat boy? A: Yes.
Q: Is reverse engineering an xbox legal? A: Yes! Reverse engineering something that dosn't exist is often refered to a as a thought experiment. It's all legal.
Q: Why is Hemos so cool? A: Some things are just natural. ___
I feel I should explain. My original post was an attempted dig on management (PHB=Pointy Haired Boss) and how they often only look for the superficial features in a computer systems.
Re: "Windows has much better screensavers (partly due to the fact that it actually supports 3D applications waay better). It also has prettier colors than KDE and the like, again by far. I'd say X has transparency on Windows, but that's about it."
Look at what MS is doing with MPEG4 and windos media (They'll be "using the OS monopoly to extend share in other markets" when they bundle windos media into M.E. Look at what MS is trying to do to Palm. Look at what MS is doing to Kerberos. Look at what MS continues to do to Java every day. If this is their best behaviour, I think they're best isn't good enough! ___
Re:"So someone installed Linux onto what used to be a Windows box, and the first thing the managers noticed was the uptime?"
Ummm no actually the first thing management (read PHB) noticed was the "puuurty new colors" and those "kick ass screen savers" and those "kewl see through windows" and then they noticed how rock solid an operating system can be without micros~1 products on the computer. ___
Re:What's more, the marketplace is now so ultra-competitive that no money in a business can possibly be wasted. In the 70s and early 80s, businesses were full of fat. Projects went nowhere. People made money for doing nothing. When that happens today, there's more likely to be real consequences, IMO. I like that; it means that bad management is punished and ludicrous waste is avoided. Usually.
I'm reminded of the superbowl this past january in which a lot of internet companies took out add time and blew millions showing off how much venture capitol they could blow. On the issue of people making money for doing nothing, I would direct your attention to Jeff Bezos and Amazon who make money (through a blind stockmarket) for doing nothing (they have yet to turn a profit). There is just as much ludicrous waste in todays tech sector as companies box out for a leadership position in their perspective markets. The leading question is, do you work for one of them? ___
Because the embedded objects making up a MNG are normally in PNG format, MNG shares the good features of PNG:
It is unencumbered by patents.
It is streamable.
It has excellent, lossless compression.
It stores up to four channels (red, green, blue, alpha), with up to 16 bits per channel.
It provides transparency and an alpha channel.
It provides platform-independent rendition of colors by inclusion of gamma and chromaticity information.
It provides early detection of common file transmission errors and robust detection of file corruption.
Single-image GIF files can be losslessly converted to PNG.
It is complementary to JPEG and does not attempt to replace JPEG for lossy storage of images (however, JNG-enhanced MNG-LC can accommodate JPEG-encoded images that are encoded in the PNG-like JNG format.
In addition:
It provides animation with variable interframe delays.
It allows composition of frames containing multiple images.
Multiple-image GIF files (except for those using the "restore-to-previous" disposal method) can be losslessly converted to MNG-LC.
I'm convinced that if our beloved Mr. Berners Lee had chosen to name his little idea "French Wide Web", "American Wide Web", "OZ Wide Web" or "EU Wide Web", many of the projections about market growth would have been very different. The name "World Wide" clouds the judgment of many researchers trying to predict the direction of markets.
Yes the web reaches new people you couldn't affordably reach before, but the product or service still has to get to the customer, and the logistical infrastructure that companies like UPS and FedEx have spent decades perfecting, has been ignored by many.coms.
I'm reminded of a recent interview I saw that had the CEO of Amazon on stage with the CEO of Lands End. The guy from Lands End went on and on about his companies ability to "Pick, pack, ship and track" more efficiently than anyone else. At the same time, the guy from Amazon waxed poetic about the future and market growth and free bandwidth and wireless and blah blah blah. This is an interesting lesson in how to run a business. Control the expenses under your control, and proits will flow. Don't position yourself in a place and wait for the vaporware to come to you. ___
Company A) 1/2 Million is revenue in a retail space projected to grow 500%.
Company B) 2 Million in revenue in a B2B space hat's projected to expand 250%.
Company C) 4 million in revenue in a portal space that's projected to expand 1000%..
Sound impressive? (this is one of the reasons that the VCs go for products like cars and plane tickets instead of comodities like soybeans or metalica music;) There's no shortage of.coms that will quote these kinds of "exciting numbers" to VCs in order to attract capitol. What does it all mean? At the risk of being to simplistic, it means that: Company A) Spends 1/2 Million dollars to buy stuff and recieves 1/2 Million to sell stuff.
Company B) can spend 2 Million buying stuff and recieves 2 million when they sell stuff.
Company C) Spends 4 million on stuff and revieves 4 Million when they sell stuff.
For those of you doing the math ahead of the rest of the class, you know that this amounts to a zero sum gain. Renenue is great, market share is great, but profitability is quite another matter. Jeff Bezoz doesn't mind that Amazon doesn't actually make a profit right now, he's more interested in revenue and share. It's thinking like this that will make 80% of the.coms crash hard. ___
RIAA, MPAA and Microsoft in the garden of eden with Adam and Eve.
1) Eve can't eat the apple. 2) Adam can't eat the apple. 3) Eve can't copy the apple. 4) Adam can't tell Eve about the ATI (Apple Tree Interface). 5) Eve can't inform Adam about the ATI because of the click thru EULA (Eden User Licence Agreement). 6) Adam can't use the trademarked word apple without the expressed writen consent of god and monday night football. 7) Eve can't walk around eden with the apple in her hand without first ataining the exclusive distrubution rights from AAE (Apple Association of Eden). 8) Adam is prohibited from making apple sauce or using any other "compression algorithm" on the copyrighted apple. 9) Eve is prohibited from telling Adam about the apple sause maker because it would be contributing to the use of compression tools in order to facilitate piracy. 10) Neither Adam ore Eve are permitted to make caramel apples as that would be using encryption and obfuscation on copyrighted materials with the expressed intent of unauthorized distribution. 11) The snake can only sell the apple at a minimum advertised list price of $17.99. ___
Re: The problem for the IP owner occurs when little Toivo in Finland writes something that, given the encrypted product and a valid license, will produce a clean copy of the product in some friendly open format, which he is then free to Gnutella around the world
Gnutella: verb. to move data very fast around the planet.
I like the sound of that:) I'm going to Gnutella my term paper so everyone in the dorm gets an A. ___
Re:"... If that is not the case, it is irrelevant whether you encrypt it or not - people are still gonna copy it.
You couldn't be more correct. The same worldwide instant distrobution system (Gnutella) that moved their movie around the world can just as quickly move the keys instantly around the world. Let's look at some numbers:
A) Number of people wishing to have the content encrypted = 100. B) Number of people wishing to have the content unencrypted = 100 million.
Both groups of people have access to a thruly distributed distrobution system at virtually no cost. Both groups of people have a differant view on how the content should be played back. Only one group has hundreds of millions of users with the combined computing power that can drill almost any key, and the time to make sure the content is in the form they would prefer. Bottom line? The users win. Network effects, baby. ___
You're confusing licence enforcement issues with the actual licence. Yes, people copy software. Yes, some people don't get caught. No, there's not a lot people can do about that, but so what.
Re:" Who here really believes that simply by attaching a license to software, everyone will politely follow the terms of that license to the letter?" (raising hand) It's part of the deal. It's a contract. An agreement between 2 parties wishing to do trade. If I release a piece of software and I find that the licence has been broken, I know that, under the law, I have some course of action to try and fix the situation. Without the licence in place, there is no framework of agreement should a dispute arise.
Slashdot Mirror
http://music.zdn et.com/features/enforcer/screens/mediaenforcer.jpg
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Doesn't the webbys cover all things web?
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A: Vapor(hard)ware from a monopolistic company in Redmond.
Q: What does an Xbox do?
A: All things X (where X is equal to any market the redmond company doesn't currently rule with an iron fist).
Q: How do I reverse engineer an Xbox?
A: There is nothing to reverse because there is nothing there (thus the term 'vapor').
Q: Does Steve Balmer look like a drunken frat boy?
A: Yes.
Q: Is reverse engineering an xbox legal?
A: Yes! Reverse engineering something that dosn't exist is often refered to a as a thought experiment. It's all legal.
Q: Why is Hemos so cool?
A: Some things are just natural.
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Try this one
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You mean my peecee mouse will know to click on porn before I do? ;)
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My original post was an attempted dig on management (PHB=Pointy Haired Boss) and how they often only look for the superficial features in a computer systems.
Re:
"Windows has much better screensavers (partly due to the fact that it actually supports 3D applications waay better). It also has prettier colors than KDE and the like, again by far. I'd say X has transparency on Windows, but that's about it."
Thank you for proving my point. ;)
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Look at what MS is doing with MPEG4 and windos media (They'll be "using the OS monopoly to extend share in other markets" when they bundle windos media into M.E. Look at what MS is trying to do to Palm. Look at what MS is doing to Kerberos. Look at what MS continues to do to Java every day. If this is their best behaviour, I think they're best isn't good enough!
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Ummm no actually the first thing management (read PHB) noticed was the "puuurty new colors" and those "kick ass screen savers" and those "kewl see through windows" and then they noticed how rock solid an operating system can be without micros~1 products on the computer.
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. .Transmeta on a desktop.
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I'm reminded of the superbowl this past january in which a lot of internet companies took out add time and blew millions showing off how much venture capitol they could blow. On the issue of people making money for doing nothing, I would direct your attention to Jeff Bezos and Amazon who make money (through a blind stockmarket) for doing nothing (they have yet to turn a profit). There is just as much ludicrous waste in todays tech sector as companies box out for a leadership position in their perspective markets. The leading question is, do you work for one of them?
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. .on a bloody knife I found in a dumpster in Brentwood CA. It identifies some guy named Orinthol James something or other.
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LAOLA looks like a good solution.
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DavidBoies2000.org
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. .a Microsurf is reading this thinking, "Fine, break us up, but just SAVE NAPSTER !
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Because the embedded objects making up a MNG are normally in PNG format, MNG shares the good features of PNG:
In addition:
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Yes the web reaches new people you couldn't affordably reach before, but the product or service still has to get to the customer, and the logistical infrastructure that companies like UPS and FedEx have spent decades perfecting, has been ignored by many .coms.
I'm reminded of a recent interview I saw that had the CEO of Amazon on stage with the CEO of Lands End. The guy from Lands End went on and on about his companies ability to "Pick, pack, ship and track" more efficiently than anyone else. At the same time, the guy from Amazon waxed poetic about the future and market growth and free bandwidth and wireless and blah blah blah. This is an interesting lesson in how to run a business. Control the expenses under your control, and proits will flow. Don't position yourself in a place and wait for the vaporware to come to you.
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Company B) 2 Million in revenue in a B2B space hat's projected to expand 250%.
Company C) 4 million in revenue in a portal space that's projected to expand 1000%..
Sound impressive? .coms that will quote these kinds of "exciting numbers" to VCs in order to attract capitol. What does it all mean? At the risk of being to simplistic, it means that:
(this is one of the reasons that the VCs go for products like cars and plane tickets instead of comodities like soybeans or metalica music;) There's no shortage of
Company A) Spends 1/2 Million dollars to buy stuff and recieves 1/2 Million to sell stuff.
Company B) can spend 2 Million buying stuff and recieves 2 million when they sell stuff.
Company C) Spends 4 million on stuff and revieves 4 Million when they sell stuff.
For those of you doing the math ahead of the rest of the class, you know that this amounts to a zero sum gain. Renenue is great, market share is great, but profitability is quite another matter. Jeff Bezoz doesn't mind that Amazon doesn't actually make a profit right now, he's more interested in revenue and share. It's thinking like this that will make 80% of the .coms crash hard.
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1) Eve can't eat the apple.
2) Adam can't eat the apple.
3) Eve can't copy the apple.
4) Adam can't tell Eve about the ATI (Apple Tree Interface).
5) Eve can't inform Adam about the ATI because of the click thru EULA (Eden User Licence Agreement).
6) Adam can't use the trademarked word apple without the expressed writen consent of god and monday night football.
7) Eve can't walk around eden with the apple in her hand without first ataining the exclusive distrubution rights from AAE (Apple Association of Eden).
8) Adam is prohibited from making apple sauce or using any other "compression algorithm" on the copyrighted apple.
9) Eve is prohibited from telling Adam about the apple sause maker because it would be contributing to the use of compression tools in order to facilitate piracy.
10) Neither Adam ore Eve are permitted to make caramel apples as that would be using encryption and obfuscation on copyrighted materials with the expressed intent of unauthorized distribution.
11) The snake can only sell the apple at a minimum advertised list price of $17.99.
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Gnutella: verb. to move data very fast around the planet.
I like the sound of that :) I'm going to Gnutella my term paper so everyone in the dorm gets an A.
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You couldn't be more correct.
The same worldwide instant distrobution system (Gnutella) that moved their movie around the world can just as quickly move the keys instantly around the world. Let's look at some numbers:
A) Number of people wishing to have the content encrypted = 100.
B) Number of people wishing to have the content unencrypted = 100 million.
Both groups of people have access to a thruly distributed distrobution system at virtually no cost. Both groups of people have a differant view on how the content should be played back. Only one group has hundreds of millions of users with the combined computing power that can drill almost any key, and the time to make sure the content is in the form they would prefer. Bottom line? The users win. Network effects, baby.
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Subsystems
Hand| Arms| Head| Controls| Avionics| Telepresence|
Videos (.AVI)
Hand (5.3 M)| Telepresenc e (3.3 M)| Arm motion (2.9 M)| Grasping (2.1 M)| Tether hook (1.9 M)| Velcro (2.7 M)|
Tools
Analysis tools| Software development | Telepresence Laboratory
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http://vesuvius.jsc. nasa.gov/er_er/html/robonaut/robonaut.html
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1) 2000: The Microsoft End User Licence.
Turns network admins into Linux users.
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Re:" Who here really believes that simply by attaching a license to software, everyone will politely follow the terms of that license to the letter?"
(raising hand)
It's part of the deal. It's a contract. An agreement between 2 parties wishing to do trade. If I release a piece of software and I find that the licence has been broken, I know that, under the law, I have some course of action to try and fix the situation. Without the licence in place, there is no framework of agreement should a dispute arise.
Sounds pretty simple, doesn't it?
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The J2SETM Platform on Linux, Update and Roadmap
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