And here I thought the Chinese net was slow because of the Chinese gov monitoring everything. Turns out it was the NSA. Leaking this info is not in the "public interest" (well the Chinese public, possibly).
Last time I heard, cloned pigs display same variety in response to various tests (drugs, sickness etc.) as sibling pigs does. So they are not as similar as you might think. It takes a bit of the "dangers of cloning" out of the issue. I believe cloning should be limited to areas such clinical research, because if you replace pigs everywhere with very limited genetic variance, you're setting up a system that is rather vulnerable to diseases.
For me, it was mostly about having fun coding something cool, and the challenge of getting things to work:) Also, I played AberMud before we started on DikuMud.
I wonder if you find a natural organism that infringes on this patent - would that be prior art? Some of those very odd organisms that don't even require oxygen may be so different that they don't possess some of these 'essential' genes.
Considering that the US Army has one of these games out, they should get that game banned from the internet, as the download does not in any way _ensure_ the age of the recipient.
Well - here is the deal with watermarking and lossy compression. The task of the perfect lossy compression algorithm is to store only the information we notice. If the watermarks are not noticable, the lossy compresser should not store it. It is by definition why the data is compressed so well. So the situation is like this; Either the watermark needs to be noticable - or as better lossy compression algorithms are developed, they will automatically exclude the watermark.
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Now they just need to show _an actual working system_ and not just CG
Remind me to get investors for a "thinking hat" too
And here I thought the Chinese net was slow because of the Chinese gov monitoring everything. Turns out it was the NSA.
Leaking this info is not in the "public interest" (well the Chinese public, possibly).
Last time I heard, cloned pigs display same variety in response to various tests (drugs, sickness etc.) as sibling pigs does.
So they are not as similar as you might think. It takes a bit of the "dangers of cloning" out of the issue. I believe cloning
should be limited to areas such clinical research, because if you replace pigs everywhere with very limited genetic variance,
you're setting up a system that is rather vulnerable to diseases.
For me, it was mostly about having fun coding something cool, and the challenge of getting things to work :)
Also, I played AberMud before we started on DikuMud.
--Hans-Henrik
I wonder if you find a natural organism that infringes on this
patent - would that be prior art? Some of those very odd organisms
that don't even require oxygen may be so different that they
don't possess some of these 'essential' genes.
Could nature itself overthrow this patent?
Well - sort of - in the animated movie, the jet is used only occationally (liftoff etc)
and the wing is often used as a glider.
Considering that the US Army has one of these games out, they should get that game
banned from the internet, as the download does not in any way _ensure_ the age of
the recipient.
Well - here is the deal with watermarking and lossy compression.
The task of the perfect lossy compression algorithm is to store
only the information we notice. If the watermarks are not noticable,
the lossy compresser should not store it. It is by definition why
the data is compressed so well. So the situation is like this;
Either the watermark needs to be noticable - or as better lossy
compression algorithms are developed, they will automatically
exclude the watermark.
No, make a lexical generator, that generates random political statements
about SPAM, and mail those to him.....