What if the songs were all purchased on iTunes, then there would be no hard copy, and iTunes does not offer the original purchaser to re-download the file, so I would assume that the original drm protected aac files would be absolutly valid and legal to transfer from one owner to another.
Selling an ipod full of illegally downloaded music though is another story, if you are selling songs you bought it should be ok, if you are selling songs you downloaded then it isnt.
// So, (.016w)*(1kw / 1000w)*(24 hours / day)*(365 days / year) =.14kWh/year.
Ok, so at (.14kWh/year)*(lets say 2 devices per person on standby)*(5 billion people) = OMGWTFBBQ!!
The actual number doesnt matter, but it's significantly higher then what our best nuclear generators can handle on their own. Perhaps an alternative to this would be to incorporate batteries inside consumer household electronics, so that when you sleep the device, it actually disconnects from the AC and sleeps running off the batteries. That way, you save the power that is from the drain of the electronics plugged into the wall, while not loosing your responsiveness to the tv.
Although we do not have much of an african american population in vancouver, in canada I do not believe this is an issue. Actually at every job I have ever held, the white man is the minority, with usually asians as the majority (all asians count). At my current job there is 3 white developers, and about 5 of color in my development team, and the other dev teams are even more multi-cultural.
I think the moral of the story is if you deal with to much racism in the states, move to canada and you'll have a good chance of getting a job based on your actual qualifications instead of your skin color.
If you rtfa it's because the distortion from a camera like this is because it captures the image in a series of scan lines, each scanline is a small exposure, but the entire picture is made up of thousands of slices. This is different from a regular digital camera where the entire sensor is exposed which gives a motion blur effect. A scanner camera does not give you motion blur but actual clear distortion as the world changes during the exposure.
It's a different effect and it's captured through optics and time, it can not be replicated perfectly in a computer and photoshop is not the solution to all problems artistic. This is a very creative idea and I plan on personally converting my 4x6 scanner to take picture like this. It's an original idea, I'd be interested to see if color filters on the lens would allow you to take multiple exposures for red/green/blue and mix them in the computer to create a color image. I think it could make some very interesting pieces of art.
Well the vacuum is really an exageration, vacuum tubes traditionally just using gravity, tend to pass shit around way faster then I'd ever want to travel.
Fast for a first generation, the speed can be increased with more power, and further increased by turning the shaft into a vacuum, eliminating air resistance.
Simple, instead of pullies and leavers and motors, your left with a system with no moving parts. Nothing will ever wear out, except the permanent magnets in a long long time
Failure can be handled like todays elevators, clamp to the walls and put the breaks on
Read above post, about how it has no moving parts, so I dont think maintenence aside from software patches would ever be necessary.
More expensive, yes this one will be, but considering that the overall maintence will be less, and it will mostly be run by cheap computers, a power relay, and a bunch of magnets, it'll be as expensive as the building is tall.
This will lead to a new generation, elevator shafts that do not require their own floor on the building, elevators that are capable to travel as many floors as we can build from a single shaft. Improvements such turning the elevator shaft into a vacuum would allow the elevators to travel at insanely fast speeds. Sure the first one will be expensive, but in 20 years, every new elevator will be a maglev one.
It all depends on the special reactive die that the data gets burnt onto.
If the cd is green or light blue, the disks are made with cyanine dyes which are chemically unstable and will not last for a very long time. Typically are the budget/midrange blank cd's and expect to get these on a spool.
Dark blue cd-r's are created with azo dyes and will be rated to last for several decades. The only azo dyed discs I've ever had are old playstation 1 game discs, I have several of which are more than 10 years old and still play fine without a problem, even though most of them are scratched.
Phthalocyanine dye is used in the high end cd's, it is also a chemically stable die and is usually light green, gold, or silver. This dye will result in a lifetime longer then your own, given that it is not abused. If you care about your data this is where it should be burnt, typically premium cd's such as kodak-gold cd's would be made with these dyes.
None of this information is really every advertised on the packaging, but there is a huge difference in quality between the cheap cd-rs and expensive "gold" cd-rs. If you plan to archive your data for the long term, buy some name brand cd's that appear overpriced, and make sure that the color matches one of the desirable colors listed above.
Water wouldnt fry the system, since it would seperate from the oil and sit at the very bottom of the tank, instead of circulating around and shorting out electronics.
I was under the impression that strong gravitational fields slowed down the passing of time. So if time is passing slower due to the gravity, would not the speed of light also decrease relative to the rest of the universe?
Aside from the fact that IE for mac is a POS and barely works as is, the first thing I thought about when microsoft cancelled IE support for Apple was that this was in response to the move to intel. When apple was on powerpc it was a seperate market segment that was not a huge dent in microsofts wallet, although now, with the news of intel apples, the possibility comes up for people to buy apple OS/X and put it on there wintel machines, microsoft doesnt want this, thus they will not provide any application for intel apples that could potentially loose them market share in the operating systems market.
Has anyone considered that all cardboard/plastic/glass boxes are recyclable, would this potentially make harder to properly recycle these materials in the future?
Also, e-ink is currently monochrome, so even animated they would make for bland labels. I personally would not want to pay even 25 cents more for a disposable product just because it has a sub-par monochrome animation on it.
If they wanted to market this to kids, they could put lil e-ink cards inside the box for the kids to collect, make them pokemon cards and you'll drive the children crazy.
In the history of the internet, there has been languages that no matter how properly you program it, there will still be cross browser issues, bugs with implementation etc. Javascript and the original asp come to mind, is anyone forgetting that ajax IS javascript and ajax programming is not something for amatuers at all, since it IS javascript, which of all things is an unreliable, hard to program, hard to debug, language that behaves differently between every concievable browser on the market.
That said, I've been working with ajax to create a google maps web application, all things considered, I would not call it stable, or good, as of yet. It works flawlessly, but after some use my browser wants to die. Oh and it doesnt work fully in firefox.
Anyways, point is, ajax is not easy, and 90% of ajax applications will fail because they will not be written by professionals, it's a good approach and elegant when it works, but it's still a hassle and a pain in the ass to do everything in JAVASCRIPT.
By that logic, wouldnt that make compilers like gcc illegal, or even compilers in general, since there is the potential to write software from scratch that violates copyrite laws?
Not only that, but people already pay more for faster load times, you want a fast load time? Get fiber connections, they cost more but they load faster, it's the same for the home user, economy is dialup, 1st class is broadband. I already pay more for my load times to be quick, this just seems like they are trying to double dip, and in turn screw over the lil guy but encourage the monopolies. Also, there is the possibility if they mess with the internets routing tables, it could lead to all kinds of nasty things happening like circular references in the routing tables.
Not only is this just plain greedy, but it's immoral, people usually pay for services in order to get somethign better, if yahoo wants faster load times, they could pay for more data centers and faster connections/more hardware. To tell google that they need to pay money in order to not be slowed down by bells networks would be flat out extortion and should be completely illegal.
It is the same as me saying "If you dont pay me $20 now, I'll stand outside your house with a bat for 20 mins every morning as punishment for not paying". As a common carrier bell is already making good money off reselling bandwidth and such, and when someone wants a faster connection they can already goto bell and request more bandwidth and faster connections. This really does feel like double dipping and extortion all in one.
When they make some MP3/Bluetooth headset sunglasses, that also noise cancel in the mic's, and have the lenses that adjust to the light level, AND it looked cool, I would consider getting something like this, it would need a lot more memory too. A hud wouldnt be to shabby either.
I dont think bush wants a moon base to attack aliens, I think it's more for the fact that a moon base would be able to strategically bomb any part of the earth with minimal effort at some point of every day.
Yeah, and if the aliens do come, they'll come from the ground after having been in the earth for millions of years and just raise shit up until they get the flu, or they'll realize a little to late that they are allergice to water, cause we all know aliens are incredibly stupid and make no sense.
Google is just using a image pyramid which is a well documented algorithm. Using 1 pass over the map data, they can generate several levels of detail that can be retrieved efficiently over the network with minimal cpu usage. Rasteration of vector data on a per request basis is insane? Can you imagine what kind of supercomputer would be required if google maps did that now?
I use Image pyramids at my work to do fast scaling/zooming/rotation of images, as it is quicker to parse an image map then it is to perform all the calculations on the fly.
PSP has no bluetooth, just wifi, and all the wifi will get you is wireless gaming, firmware updates, and access to a hacky web browser from your own home (as you need to modify your router to trick it to redirect you somewhere useful)
So I would not say that the wifi in psp can be used for anything productive at all at this point in time.
Really? It's not interpreted anymore???
I was under the impression that java has had a virtual machine ever since it was designed, that was the idea of platform independance compiled (secure) code that was platform independant.
I think you may possibly be confused with javascript, which has very little to do with Java which is a scripted language in which your source will become public domain, also javascript imho stands for platform dependance, cause nothing ever seems to just work cross-browser.
The quickest way around bs patents such as these, is to do it, but change it just enough.
You are allowed to record the history You are allowed to datamine your records to come up with recommendations.
Put a middle tier in the middle of the algorithm and you've made it more flexible (you can store information from the cart, history, users personal info, etc..) all combined at the same time in some funky calculation to come up with recommendations for products.
Therefore by adding a middle tier to abstract the viewers history from the recommendation, you've subverted the patent and you have a more robust piece of software.
Just because there is a patent does not mean the patent outlines the best way to implement the problem at hand.
Tomorrow on slashdot new patent for...
Disclamer: Did not rtfa/p ()(*$@! reading patents, your better off if you don't know)
People are forgetting, VI is far superior to openoffice.org, ms office, and emacs, it never loses your changes when your shell crashes, its much faster to do common operations (you try to yank 10 lines and move them without touching the mouse in office)
VI RULES!!!
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What if the songs were all purchased on iTunes, then there would be no hard copy, and iTunes does not offer the original purchaser to re-download the file, so I would assume that the original drm protected aac files would be absolutly valid and legal to transfer from one owner to another.
Selling an ipod full of illegally downloaded music though is another story, if you are selling songs you bought it should be ok, if you are selling songs you downloaded then it isnt.
Ok, so at (.14kWh/year)*(lets say 2 devices per person on standby)*(5 billion people) = OMGWTFBBQ!!
The actual number doesnt matter, but it's significantly higher then what our best nuclear generators can handle on their own. Perhaps an alternative to this would be to incorporate batteries inside consumer household electronics, so that when you sleep the device, it actually disconnects from the AC and sleeps running off the batteries. That way, you save the power that is from the drain of the electronics plugged into the wall, while not loosing your responsiveness to the tv.
Although we do not have much of an african american population in vancouver, in canada I do not believe this is an issue. Actually at every job I have ever held, the white man is the minority, with usually asians as the majority (all asians count). At my current job there is 3 white developers, and about 5 of color in my development team, and the other dev teams are even more multi-cultural.
I think the moral of the story is if you deal with to much racism in the states, move to canada and you'll have a good chance of getting a job based on your actual qualifications instead of your skin color.
If you rtfa it's because the distortion from a camera like this is because it captures the image in a series of scan lines, each scanline is a small exposure, but the entire picture is made up of thousands of slices. This is different from a regular digital camera where the entire sensor is exposed which gives a motion blur effect. A scanner camera does not give you motion blur but actual clear distortion as the world changes during the exposure.
It's a different effect and it's captured through optics and time, it can not be replicated perfectly in a computer and photoshop is not the solution to all problems artistic. This is a very creative idea and I plan on personally converting my 4x6 scanner to take picture like this. It's an original idea, I'd be interested to see if color filters on the lens would allow you to take multiple exposures for red/green/blue and mix them in the computer to create a color image. I think it could make some very interesting pieces of art.
Well the vacuum is really an exageration, vacuum tubes traditionally just using gravity, tend to pass shit around way faster then I'd ever want to travel.
Reasons I think your wrong
This will lead to a new generation, elevator shafts that do not require their own floor on the building, elevators that are capable to travel as many floors as we can build from a single shaft. Improvements such turning the elevator shaft into a vacuum would allow the elevators to travel at insanely fast speeds. Sure the first one will be expensive, but in 20 years, every new elevator will be a maglev one.
It all depends on the special reactive die that the data gets burnt onto. If the cd is green or light blue, the disks are made with cyanine dyes which are chemically unstable and will not last for a very long time. Typically are the budget/midrange blank cd's and expect to get these on a spool. Dark blue cd-r's are created with azo dyes and will be rated to last for several decades. The only azo dyed discs I've ever had are old playstation 1 game discs, I have several of which are more than 10 years old and still play fine without a problem, even though most of them are scratched. Phthalocyanine dye is used in the high end cd's, it is also a chemically stable die and is usually light green, gold, or silver. This dye will result in a lifetime longer then your own, given that it is not abused. If you care about your data this is where it should be burnt, typically premium cd's such as kodak-gold cd's would be made with these dyes. None of this information is really every advertised on the packaging, but there is a huge difference in quality between the cheap cd-rs and expensive "gold" cd-rs. If you plan to archive your data for the long term, buy some name brand cd's that appear overpriced, and make sure that the color matches one of the desirable colors listed above.
I know nothing yet I know that I know nothing so I must know something, I'm confused, can we just agree on we know a lil bit?
Water wouldnt fry the system, since it would seperate from the oil and sit at the very bottom of the tank, instead of circulating around and shorting out electronics.
I was under the impression that strong gravitational fields slowed down the passing of time. So if time is passing slower due to the gravity, would not the speed of light also decrease relative to the rest of the universe?
Aside from the fact that IE for mac is a POS and barely works as is, the first thing I thought about when microsoft cancelled IE support for Apple was that this was in response to the move to intel. When apple was on powerpc it was a seperate market segment that was not a huge dent in microsofts wallet, although now, with the news of intel apples, the possibility comes up for people to buy apple OS/X and put it on there wintel machines, microsoft doesnt want this, thus they will not provide any application for intel apples that could potentially loose them market share in the operating systems market.
Has anyone considered that all cardboard/plastic/glass boxes are recyclable, would this potentially make harder to properly recycle these materials in the future? Also, e-ink is currently monochrome, so even animated they would make for bland labels. I personally would not want to pay even 25 cents more for a disposable product just because it has a sub-par monochrome animation on it. If they wanted to market this to kids, they could put lil e-ink cards inside the box for the kids to collect, make them pokemon cards and you'll drive the children crazy.
In the history of the internet, there has been languages that no matter how properly you program it, there will still be cross browser issues, bugs with implementation etc. Javascript and the original asp come to mind, is anyone forgetting that ajax IS javascript and ajax programming is not something for amatuers at all, since it IS javascript, which of all things is an unreliable, hard to program, hard to debug, language that behaves differently between every concievable browser on the market.
That said, I've been working with ajax to create a google maps web application, all things considered, I would not call it stable, or good, as of yet. It works flawlessly, but after some use my browser wants to die. Oh and it doesnt work fully in firefox.
Anyways, point is, ajax is not easy, and 90% of ajax applications will fail because they will not be written by professionals, it's a good approach and elegant when it works, but it's still a hassle and a pain in the ass to do everything in JAVASCRIPT.
You have to get in the box before you know for sure
By that logic, wouldnt that make compilers like gcc illegal, or even compilers in general, since there is the potential to write software from scratch that violates copyrite laws?
Didn't RTFA but what the hell does it matter, front row is not new? For something to be news it should be new, this is just olds.
Not only that, but people already pay more for faster load times, you want a fast load time? Get fiber connections, they cost more but they load faster, it's the same for the home user, economy is dialup, 1st class is broadband. I already pay more for my load times to be quick, this just seems like they are trying to double dip, and in turn screw over the lil guy but encourage the monopolies. Also, there is the possibility if they mess with the internets routing tables, it could lead to all kinds of nasty things happening like circular references in the routing tables.
Not only is this just plain greedy, but it's immoral, people usually pay for services in order to get somethign better, if yahoo wants faster load times, they could pay for more data centers and faster connections/more hardware. To tell google that they need to pay money in order to not be slowed down by bells networks would be flat out extortion and should be completely illegal.
It is the same as me saying "If you dont pay me $20 now, I'll stand outside your house with a bat for 20 mins every morning as punishment for not paying". As a common carrier bell is already making good money off reselling bandwidth and such, and when someone wants a faster connection they can already goto bell and request more bandwidth and faster connections. This really does feel like double dipping and extortion all in one.
When they make some MP3/Bluetooth headset sunglasses, that also noise cancel in the mic's, and have the lenses that adjust to the light level, AND it looked cool, I would consider getting something like this, it would need a lot more memory too. A hud wouldnt be to shabby either.
I dont think bush wants a moon base to attack aliens, I think it's more for the fact that a moon base would be able to strategically bomb any part of the earth with minimal effort at some point of every day.
Yeah, and if the aliens do come, they'll come from the ground after having been in the earth for millions of years and just raise shit up until they get the flu, or they'll realize a little to late that they are allergice to water, cause we all know aliens are incredibly stupid and make no sense.
Google is just using a image pyramid which is a well documented algorithm. Using 1 pass over the map data, they can generate several levels of detail that can be retrieved efficiently over the network with minimal cpu usage. Rasteration of vector data on a per request basis is insane? Can you imagine what kind of supercomputer would be required if google maps did that now? I use Image pyramids at my work to do fast scaling/zooming/rotation of images, as it is quicker to parse an image map then it is to perform all the calculations on the fly.
PSP has no bluetooth, just wifi, and all the wifi will get you is wireless gaming, firmware updates, and access to a hacky web browser from your own home (as you need to modify your router to trick it to redirect you somewhere useful) So I would not say that the wifi in psp can be used for anything productive at all at this point in time.
Really? It's not interpreted anymore??? I was under the impression that java has had a virtual machine ever since it was designed, that was the idea of platform independance compiled (secure) code that was platform independant. I think you may possibly be confused with javascript, which has very little to do with Java which is a scripted language in which your source will become public domain, also javascript imho stands for platform dependance, cause nothing ever seems to just work cross-browser.
The quickest way around bs patents such as these, is to do it, but change it just enough.
...
You are allowed to record the history
You are allowed to datamine your records to come up with recommendations.
Put a middle tier in the middle of the algorithm and you've made it more flexible (you can store information from the cart, history, users personal info, etc..) all combined at the same time in some funky calculation to come up with recommendations for products.
Therefore by adding a middle tier to abstract the viewers history from the recommendation, you've subverted the patent and you have a more robust piece of software.
Just because there is a patent does not mean the patent outlines the best way to implement the problem at hand.
Tomorrow on slashdot
new patent for
Disclamer:
Did not rtfa/p ()(*$@! reading patents, your better off if you don't know)
People are forgetting, VI is far superior to openoffice.org, ms office, and emacs, it never loses your changes when your shell crashes, its much faster to do common operations (you try to yank 10 lines and move them without touching the mouse in office) VI RULES!!!