It doesn't mean what you think it means. Please, "ironically" has been massacred enough already. Let's this word rest for a couple of decades, unless you are one of the two people in the world that actually uses it appropriately.
All x86 computers don't boot without a video adapter.
That's not true, there's nothing in the x86 architecture that requires a video card. And in fact you can buy x86 servers without one, discrete or integrated.
It's not a matter of the operating system. It's the POST.
It's actually the BIOS, and there are open source implementations that you can change the way you like, e.g. to not require a graphics adapter.
There's no war between the US and Yemen. And fighting organized crime is not a "war". Even the worst criminal has a right to a fair trial. It's a fundamental right, it cannot be revoked by anyone. Whoever ordered this murder should now be put on trial for it.
There has been a 62% increase in the last 5 years and we are definitely approaching a point where new debris are created spontaneously even if we stop all new space launches. I don't think you realize how much our economies depend on satellites today.
Unless it's the lives of astronauts, then everybody starts thinking that spending a billion dollars to save one life is a good deal. And maybe it actually is given the economical repercussions for the whole country of NASA astronauts being killed, but it's a bit sad considering that a $1 vaccine can save a kid in Africa (just to be clear I definitely don't advocate cutting NASA budget, quite the opposite).
It's impossible even for the wire frame version to be rendered in real time. Hell for those computers it was impossible even to display in realtime the pre-rendered frames. The movie has been assembled by stitching together photos of individual frames on a computer screen.
... but if the very foundation of key parts of 3D patents is undermined through prior art.... i dunno...
Formulas can't be patented, so it's unlikely that this video could provide any prior art for dismantling patents. Probably about all this video and the GPU patents share in common is the formulas involve.
In theory the law says that they can't in practice patent offices do approve patents for them and going to court to void them is a roulette.
Can someone please post a link to the APK and/or its sha1sum so if we find it on the net we can verify that's the original one and not malware?
Thanks.
Standard disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not anyone else. None of the above should be read as an encouragement to violate the law. IANAL. I don't hate cute kittens.
This article is about WebP, not WebM. Firefox does very much support WebM, just as do Chrome, Opera, Safari and IE (these last two browser require the WebM codecs to be installed, all the other just work). And YouTube is serving WebM video (among other formats).
Before you ask, this thing has 20 kB of RAM (yes, that's kilo, not mega), still better than the 2 kB of the Arduino but do not think of this as the same ARM that runs in your phone.
And, yes, you can still do quite a lot of stuff in 2 kB of RAM (I created a pretty complicated protocol translator at work with an Arduino that even ran in the old ones with only 1 kB RAM).
Just as a curiosity, why _wouldn't_ you count individual EU states separately? EU states are actual countries, you know?
That's certainly true but AFAICT the EU itself is also in the process of slowly becoming a country (arguably it already is, since December 1, 2009 when it acquired international legal personality independent of its member states). The power within it has been for decades constantly moved from inter-government negotiations between the individual members to EU-wide shared institutions (e.g. the European Commission and the Parliament).
Huh? Aren't they the second richest country in the world?
No. The EU, the US and China all have a higher GDP than Japan, according to all the commonly used sources. You can start with a list of countries by GDP or the same list using PPP GDP if you prefer.
We're talking about their money and of course it's their choice how to spend it, but everyone please remember that the "catastrophe-struck country" is the fourth richest country in the world (even the third one, if we count individual EU states separately).
They don't need money, much less having stuff physically delivered there. If you really want hundreds of Geiger counters in Japan, don't buy them in the US and have them delivered to Japan, just send the money there and buy the thingy things directly in Japan (hint: they're probably manufactured in China anyway, think about the two alternatives on a world map).
And to the people that donated to this cause: that's your money but I assure you that there are way better ways to donate it. Like letting people that are actually experts on the subject decide which part(s) of the world need it more at any given time.
That's a very common misconception: privacy is not about criminals with things to hide.
It's about not giving some centralized entity an enormous power because they know everything about everyone. Such a huge power will be misused, sooner or later.
That's why you still need privacy and secrecy even (especially!) if you've nothing to hide. And, BTW, everyone has something to hide to at least someone else.
If you buy a house in the US, standard is an 8' ceiling, "up scale" is 9', exclusive is 10'. (Who would know the status of a 2600mm ceiling?!)
You're making the standard mistake that many Americans do: you use one or two significant digits in imperial units and four of them for the metric units. It's not a 2600mm ceiling, even if you wanted you wouldn't be able to achieve that precision. It's 2.6 m. And if you're a decent architect, even in the US, you should know very well how high that is.
There actually people reading slashdot over Freenet: the/. mirror on a FMS forum seems to be pretty popular considering that the bot that updates it has the highest rating for a non-human on FMS. And they're probably using the private/incognito mode of their browser to use Freenet, since it's the default on the Freenet installer.
What's even worse is if you actually can determine someone's identity online, even if it's not 100% reliable. Because then someone somewhere can determine how people voted and all kind of shit will hit the fan.
But even a 100% perfect, secure, open source, pure gold, RMS-approved online voting system will have a fundamental flaw: people will be able to vote from a location (e.g. home) where others can see how they vote. This will enable criminal organizations to buy votes with money or threats and check that people actually vote the way they want.
The only way to prevent this is to force people to vote in only one location, the fucking voting booth, where they can and must cast their vote in secret. So even if criminals pay someone to vote for a certain candidate, they will never be certain that he/she actually voted for that candidate.
Any type of remote voting is fundamentally flawed. It's not about the implementation details, it's the basic concept that cannot work.
And, yes, this is an actual and real problem: when Italy tried remote voting by mail for Italians abroad in 2008, criminals literally went home-to-home to bribe and threaten people and collect votes. Everyone knows this, but still the Mafia got their candidate elected (Nicola Di Girolamo, for the record). Yes politics in Italy are shitty for a number of other reasons, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make life harder for criminals, here and elsewhere.
The people that cast 300% of the votes for Colbert with high-tech hacks are the least of anyone's problem. The criminals that move 1% of the votes with low-tech bribes to voters will destroy your democracy.
Thanks for the suggestion but O2 shares the same corporate overlord with T-Mobile, so I don't trust them to not pull a similar stunt a few months down the road.
But, don't most people use a WiFi connection for this sort of downloading?
What "sort of downloading"? 500 MB/month is 16 MB/day on average. That's bandwidth for a full day shared between upload and download. I got more by my f*cking 56k modem in a single hour in 1999, even counting only downloads.
500 MB/month is on average less than 187 bytes per second. I know there are peak times, but is their network really so suckish that this is the cap that they have to impose?
I was a customer until this morning, spending approximately £50/month with you for three years.
Today I'll switch to Vodafone UK, they have a suckier network but at least they offer reasonable caps. Look for a number portability request today from a customer with a number ending in 573 and you'll know it's me.
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It doesn't mean what you think it means. Please, "ironically" has been massacred enough already. Let's this word rest for a couple of decades, unless you are one of the two people in the world that actually uses it appropriately.
There has been no trial, in the US or elsewhere, so we should assume that they are innocent.
Remember:
First they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the gays, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't gay.
Now someone is knocking at my door...
All x86 computers don't boot without a video adapter.
That's not true, there's nothing in the x86 architecture that requires a video card. And in fact you can buy x86 servers without one, discrete or integrated.
It's not a matter of the operating system. It's the POST.
It's actually the BIOS, and there are open source implementations that you can change the way you like, e.g. to not require a graphics adapter.
For Wave, you can download your data and the Wave source code (Google has released it as free software) and run your own server.
That's hardly "the whole product will be gone", IMHO.
Of course YMMV with other services.
Standard disclaimers: I speak only for myself and not for my employer or anyone else. IANAL. IANARE.
There's no war between the US and Yemen. And fighting organized crime is not a "war". Even the worst criminal has a right to a fair trial. It's a fundamental right, it cannot be revoked by anyone. Whoever ordered this murder should now be put on trial for it.
There has been a 62% increase in the last 5 years and we are definitely approaching a point where new debris are created spontaneously even if we stop all new space launches. I don't think you realize how much our economies depend on satellites today.
Unless it's the lives of astronauts, then everybody starts thinking that spending a billion dollars to save one life is a good deal. And maybe it actually is given the economical repercussions for the whole country of NASA astronauts being killed, but it's a bit sad considering that a $1 vaccine can save a kid in Africa (just to be clear I definitely don't advocate cutting NASA budget, quite the opposite).
It's impossible even for the wire frame version to be rendered in real time. Hell for those computers it was impossible even to display in realtime the pre-rendered frames. The movie has been assembled by stitching together photos of individual frames on a computer screen.
... but if the very foundation of key parts of 3D patents is undermined through prior art.... i dunno...
Formulas can't be patented, so it's unlikely that this video could provide any prior art for dismantling patents. Probably about all this video and the GPU patents share in common is the formulas involve.
In theory the law says that they can't in practice patent offices do approve patents for them and going to court to void them is a roulette.
Can someone please post a link to the APK and/or its sha1sum so if we find it on the net we can verify that's the original one and not malware?
Thanks.
Standard disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not anyone else. None of the above should be read as an encouragement to violate the law. IANAL. I don't hate cute kittens.
This article is about WebP, not WebM. Firefox does very much support WebM, just as do Chrome, Opera, Safari and IE (these last two browser require the WebM codecs to be installed, all the other just work). And YouTube is serving WebM video (among other formats).
Before you ask, this thing has 20 kB of RAM (yes, that's kilo, not mega), still better than the 2 kB of the Arduino but do not think of this as the same ARM that runs in your phone.
And, yes, you can still do quite a lot of stuff in 2 kB of RAM (I created a pretty complicated protocol translator at work with an Arduino that even ran in the old ones with only 1 kB RAM).
Just as a curiosity, why _wouldn't_ you count individual EU states separately? EU states are actual countries, you know?
That's certainly true but AFAICT the EU itself is also in the process of slowly becoming a country (arguably it already is, since December 1, 2009 when it acquired international legal personality independent of its member states). The power within it has been for decades constantly moved from inter-government negotiations between the individual members to EU-wide shared institutions (e.g. the European Commission and the Parliament).
Huh? Aren't they the second richest country in the world?
No. The EU, the US and China all have a higher GDP than Japan, according to all the commonly used sources. You can start with a list of countries by GDP or the same list using PPP GDP if you prefer.
We're talking about their money and of course it's their choice how to spend it, but everyone please remember that the "catastrophe-struck country" is the fourth richest country in the world (even the third one, if we count individual EU states separately).
They don't need money, much less having stuff physically delivered there. If you really want hundreds of Geiger counters in Japan, don't buy them in the US and have them delivered to Japan, just send the money there and buy the thingy things directly in Japan (hint: they're probably manufactured in China anyway, think about the two alternatives on a world map).
And to the people that donated to this cause: that's your money but I assure you that there are way better ways to donate it. Like letting people that are actually experts on the subject decide which part(s) of the world need it more at any given time.
That's a very common misconception: privacy is not about criminals with things to hide.
It's about not giving some centralized entity an enormous power because they know everything about everyone. Such a huge power will be misused, sooner or later.
That's why you still need privacy and secrecy even (especially!) if you've nothing to hide. And, BTW, everyone has something to hide to at least someone else.
If you buy a house in the US, standard is an 8' ceiling, "up scale" is 9', exclusive is 10'. (Who would know the status of a 2600mm ceiling?!)
You're making the standard mistake that many Americans do: you use one or two significant digits in imperial units and four of them for the metric units. It's not a 2600mm ceiling, even if you wanted you wouldn't be able to achieve that precision. It's 2.6 m. And if you're a decent architect, even in the US, you should know very well how high that is.
I've read somewhere that commenting on an April's fool story gives an achievement.
Yeah, they almost got me on this one.
There actually people reading slashdot over Freenet: the /. mirror on a FMS forum seems to be pretty popular considering that the bot that updates it has the highest rating for a non-human on FMS. And they're probably using the private/incognito mode of their browser to use Freenet, since it's the default on the Freenet installer.
What's even worse is if you actually can determine someone's identity online, even if it's not 100% reliable. Because then someone somewhere can determine how people voted and all kind of shit will hit the fan.
But even a 100% perfect, secure, open source, pure gold, RMS-approved online voting system will have a fundamental flaw: people will be able to vote from a location (e.g. home) where others can see how they vote. This will enable criminal organizations to buy votes with money or threats and check that people actually vote the way they want.
The only way to prevent this is to force people to vote in only one location, the fucking voting booth, where they can and must cast their vote in secret. So even if criminals pay someone to vote for a certain candidate, they will never be certain that he/she actually voted for that candidate.
Any type of remote voting is fundamentally flawed. It's not about the implementation details, it's the basic concept that cannot work.
And, yes, this is an actual and real problem: when Italy tried remote voting by mail for Italians abroad in 2008, criminals literally went home-to-home to bribe and threaten people and collect votes. Everyone knows this, but still the Mafia got their candidate elected (Nicola Di Girolamo, for the record). Yes politics in Italy are shitty for a number of other reasons, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make life harder for criminals, here and elsewhere.
The people that cast 300% of the votes for Colbert with high-tech hacks are the least of anyone's problem. The criminals that move 1% of the votes with low-tech bribes to voters will destroy your democracy.
Amazon receives a new copy of my password every time I log in. It's over SSL but unhashed.
Try Tesco first (they run on the O2 network)
Thanks for the suggestion but O2 shares the same corporate overlord with T-Mobile, so I don't trust them to not pull a similar stunt a few months down the road.
But, don't most people use a WiFi connection for this sort of downloading?
What "sort of downloading"? 500 MB/month is 16 MB/day on average. That's bandwidth for a full day shared between upload and download. I got more by my f*cking 56k modem in a single hour in 1999, even counting only downloads.
500 MB/month is on average less than 187 bytes per second. I know there are peak times, but is their network really so suckish that this is the cap that they have to impose?
Seriously? In 2011?
I was a customer until this morning, spending approximately £50/month with you for three years.
Today I'll switch to Vodafone UK, they have a suckier network but at least they offer reasonable caps. Look for a number portability request today from a customer with a number ending in 573 and you'll know it's me.
If they're throttling the last mile, the bottleneck is not there, it's their backbone.