In a move to rightly protect their copyrighted content, the MPAA asked the FCC to rule on what the viewers have the right to remember from a show. An MPAA representative have told us: "We are aware of viewers remembering great parts of a show and then telling the punch to other people. This is clearly an infringement on our copyrights. We want to have all TV's equipped with MIB flashing devices automatically activated at the end of each show."
Probability of hitting earth for an asteroid closer within the.0317 AU range: (Re = radius of earth, Ra = radius of asteroid)
pi*Re^2
------- = one chance in 560,000
pi*Ra^2
Though it's not likely a certain asteroid hits earth, with about 50 such asteroids every year, let's expect the earth to be hit by this kind of (large) asteroids about every 10,000 years! That's quite often compared to the age of the earth.
(Disclaimer: these numbers should be taken within a fudge factor of 10!)
An exclusive leaked report says that after increasing the X-Box memory from 64 to 128 meg, Micro$oft decided to further increase the features and also include the kitchen sink.
Is the P4 the same as the Itanium/Willamette? I thought P4 was an *inbetween* stage, waiting for Intel to finally ship their next generation CPU. This is what all publications (both online and offline) I read had me believe.
P4 is the same thing as Willamette. Itanium (aka Merced, aka ia64) is a totally different CPU.
How come they require such an enormous heatsink if they've revamped the engineering?
I think it's because it will be in the 1.5-2 GHz range. Note that power increases almost as the cube of the clock speed because at the same time, you increase the switching rate, the voltage (so you can switch faster) and the current. (that's also why Transmeta's CPU was so low-power when it ran at lower clock)
If I'm not mistaked (I may be, though), You can have a unicode string in C++. Since string is just
typedef basic_strig string;
You can define
typedef basic_strig unicode_string;
or something similar.
It's been a while since the last gnome/KDE flamewar, so I need to start one. Gnomers are always gratuitously nasty about KDE and that's why Gnome sucks. It's also bad because it's controlled by big nasty companies like Helix and RedHat. Fortunatly TrollTech are nice guys and don't count as a big bad company.
Did I say FUD? He complains about Miguel trying to blast KDE, then he goes on blasting gnome for 5 pages, Nice! I find this whole article so childish! I think he's trying to start wars on just about every subject:
- license wars (QPL/GPL mess)
- language wars (C vs/ C++)
- toolkit wars (QT vs GTK)
- "commercial wars" (which compagny is good (QT), which is not (Helix)
At last, when has anybody (relatively important) working on gnome said "Gnome's goal is to kill KDE". This is the worse piece of FUD I've seen in the OSS community.
(Note: For those who want to know, I use mostly gnome, but use KDE and KDE apps regularly and enjoy them)
Although I have no legal opinion on the case, I think suing the RNA because they promote firearms is not more (or less) silly than suing 2600 because it promotes DeCSS. The MPAA has sued 2600 (and won). I wouldn't be suprised is there was a law suit (at some point) against the NRA. Of course, the NRA has a much deeper pocket than 2600.
I must be living in a different reality - since when has F77 pointers?
Pointers are not in the F77 spec, but it's an extension so common that a good F77 compiler needs to have it. I know pointer support is one of the major reason people who need a fortran compiler can't use g77.
You probably haven't noticed that I am not American and don't know everything that's going on there (Do YOU know all the news in Canada?). My point was to say that if the ones who make napster/gnutella/DeCSS are guilty because you can do illegal stuff with them, then the firearms manufacturers are even more guilty, because the worse you can do with firearms is far more damaging than the worse you can do with DeCSS.
Welcome back to Earth, and please immerse yourself in current and past events before posting on Slashdot
So you think you know everything or what? I know I don't know everything going on in the US (should only US citizens be allowed to post on slashdot, since most stories are about stuff going on there?) and I'm very pleased to be told where I'm wrong. I have, however, a problem with your attitude....and before you start complaining about my spelling, can I say that english isn't my first language either.
I really hope the code is released as GPL (or a GPL-compatible license). That way, the egcs (now gcc) team could incorporate some code (mostly optimizations I guess) in gcc. Also, I *think* the fortran frontend (g77) is missing a lot of features (like pointers). Maybe they'd be able to use Watcom fortran for these features... or even take the code to build a new frontend.
What's clear to me is that few people would be willing to continue developping watcom. I see more future in incorporating watcom stuff into gcc.
I'm really amazed that napster/gnutella/DeCSS would be illegal because you can do something illegal with them... yet I haven't seen a suit against the NRA and firearms companies....oh, it's true, nobody has ever committed a crime using a gun!
do you really think it will be as easy to make RDRAM at 1.6GHz as it will be to make DDR SDRAM at 266MHz DDR
I'd like to get a confirmation on this, but I think the "next generation of RAMBUS" will be wider, not faster clocked. As for the rest, I agree that DDR-SDRAM is likely to be the next generation RAM... unless RAMBUS is in bed with more people than we think.
It's sad to say, but it's likely that the next RAM technology will be the one chosen by inductry, not necessarly for the best performance (or price), but as the technology maximizing profits (while minimizig risks). Taking a look at the what's going on with Rambus, you see that marketing is more important than technology.
I don't think the RAM companies are likely to switch from a technology they fully control to another they're less sure about. The only way I see they could do the switch from Silicon to something else is if they really have no other choice, eg. if some technology comes out and increases by at least a factor of 10 the performance/price ratio. Even in that case, I suspect they'd simply try to buy out the company that produces that.
The only way I see them abandon silicon is when it is no longer feasable to cram more transistors in a fixed area (10 nm? 1 nm? 1 A?).
(Disclaimer: I'm still hoping you were ironic, in which case, I just didn't get it.)
Yet he fails to realize that without them, he would have no fame or fortune
You come to the wrong conclusion from the right argument. What he points out is that the RIAA shouldn't be the one to decide which artists get the fame. Sure he benifited from that, but he realized that many didn't have that chance and that it shouldn't be that way.
What you say is the equivalent of saying that anybody who is rich shouldn't critisized the society that made him rich. Prince benefited from a corrupt system and realized that. Now he wants to push for a system that's more fair... just like you can participate in "anti-poverty" actions even if you are not poor.
Why not let them choose their project? Ask each team to submit a project proposal and check if it's feasable. You won't find a project that will please everyone anyway. You can still have a list of suggestions, from which they can choose, but let them do what they like.
I'd just like to point out that the original analogy is not "RIAA is like cigarettes", but "napster is like cigarettes". If you read carefully, I am in no way trying to defent the RIAA.
I agree with you, and I wonder whether you can push the reasoning further. If you can prove that the RIAA is losing less money than napster (and other MP3 sharing methods) is making them lose, then you might have a point in proving that it is in fact a malicious lawsuit against napster and not about money. The purpous of the lawsuit being to preserve its monopoly on music. BTW, aren't there laws in the US about cartels? AFAIK the RIAA is a cartel.
To all those who say "Slashdot FUD", I ask "Do you expect Slashdot not to have any bias?". Slashdot is pro-Open Source, everybody knows that, and it's OK with me. I see the title more as a "joke" or a way to catch the attention. FUD is when you try to look fair, but in fact mislead the reader. This is clearly not the case.
In many ways, the parrellel between the industries is perfect.
To this date, millions (is not hundred of millions, I don't have the numbers) of people have died from cigarettes. How many artists died from copyright infringements? They sure lost a couple bucks, but there is a huge difference between the two. Also, if you want to push the analogy, note that the cigarette companies are still in buisness, while napster might be out of buisness soon.
Now, I cannot predict the verdict, but let's assume that napster is illegal. It can mean two things: "napster is bad" or "the laws need to be changed". Sure the RIAA has the (legal) right to defend their copyright, but sometimes "legal right" != "moral right". What might have started with napster (actually, maybe even before) is a movement of civil disobeissance (OK, I'm french!). It's the equivalent of a small revolution against the RIAA dictatorchip (I'm talking musical dictatorship). You might be for or against napster, but ultimate point here is not "is napster legal", but about "what should be legal in the future".
At last, I'd like to add (though this is not new) that the "the artists are losing money" is not really valid, since most artists (all but the very popular/rich ones) make almost no mony from sold CD's anyway. For them CD's are not about direct money, but about being known and making money with their shows. The problem is that the RIAA is using its monopoly on CD's to "force" the artists to agree to their rules (giving up their copyright to the RIAA), because the RIAA controls the radios which are the only way artists get known.
The way it is now, I cannot change the order of execution. However, I have made sure to balance the multiply and add operations. As for my cache, it is 1/2. There's no (Non-thunderbird) Athlon with a fullspeed cache. I'd like to have this info confirmed, but I think double values bypass L1 cache (what about L2?).
All my stuff is large data, with a reasonable number of operations on each element (linear regression, non-linear regression, etc.), so I've never really thought about this before. I seem to need a faster harddrive and faster RAM _way_ more than I need a faster CPU.
That's interesting. I've noticed the same thing. I train neural networks on a training set of 400,000 input/output vectors and even after heavy optimization (the next step would be assembly), I still only get ~100 mflops from my Athlon 500. Looks a lot like a memory bandwidth problem. Right now it takes ~10 hours to complete training... I'd sure like to get a 5 GHz CPU/1 GHz FSB!
The problem is that is will always be possible to access the plain audio stream (think redirecting/dev/dsp to a file in Linux). That being said, you can then encode the result in MP3 and share on napster, sure it won't play on you SDMI-approved device, but I'm sure people won't stop building MP3 player devices.
As for the watermarking, you can either ignore it (your MP3 will still play) or try to remove it. They don't say much about it, so I don't know how hard it would be. What I know is that, in theory, a "perfect perceptual encoder" will get rid of it. Think of it, if the watermarking info if impossible to hear and you have a "perfect perceptual coder" that encodes only the information you hear, it will completly remove watermarking without altering the sound at all (well, it will alter it, but you will not be able to hear it).
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In a move to rightly protect their copyrighted content, the MPAA asked the FCC to rule on what the viewers have the right to remember from a show. An MPAA representative have told us: "We are aware of viewers remembering great parts of a show and then telling the punch to other people. This is clearly an infringement on our copyrights. We want to have all TV's equipped with MIB flashing devices automatically activated at the end of each show."
Probability of hitting earth for an asteroid closer within the .0317 AU range: (Re = radius of earth, Ra = radius of asteroid)
pi*Re^2
------- = one chance in 560,000
pi*Ra^2
Though it's not likely a certain asteroid hits earth, with about 50 such asteroids every year, let's expect the earth to be hit by this kind of (large) asteroids about every 10,000 years! That's quite often compared to the age of the earth.
(Disclaimer: these numbers should be taken within a fudge factor of 10!)
An exclusive leaked report says that after increasing the X-Box memory from 64 to 128 meg, Micro$oft decided to further increase the features and also include the kitchen sink.
Is the P4 the same as the Itanium/Willamette? I thought P4 was an *inbetween* stage, waiting for Intel to finally ship their next generation CPU. This is what all publications (both online and offline) I read had me believe.
P4 is the same thing as Willamette. Itanium (aka Merced, aka ia64) is a totally different CPU.
How come they require such an enormous heatsink if they've revamped the engineering?
I think it's because it will be in the 1.5-2 GHz range. Note that power increases almost as the cube of the clock speed because at the same time, you increase the switching rate, the voltage (so you can switch faster) and the current. (that's also why Transmeta's CPU was so low-power when it ran at lower clock)
Oops, I lost my "greater than" signs... it should be basic_string< char> and basic_string< short>
If I'm not mistaked (I may be, though), You can have a unicode string in C++. Since string is just
typedef basic_strig string;
You can define
typedef basic_strig unicode_string;
or something similar.
What he means:
It's been a while since the last gnome/KDE flamewar, so I need to start one. Gnomers are always gratuitously nasty about KDE and that's why Gnome sucks. It's also bad because it's controlled by big nasty companies like Helix and RedHat. Fortunatly TrollTech are nice guys and don't count as a big bad company.
...no need to continue.
Did I say FUD? He complains about Miguel trying to blast KDE, then he goes on blasting gnome for 5 pages, Nice! I find this whole article so childish! I think he's trying to start wars on just about every subject:
- license wars (QPL/GPL mess)
- language wars (C vs/ C++)
- toolkit wars (QT vs GTK)
- "commercial wars" (which compagny is good (QT), which is not (Helix)
At last, when has anybody (relatively important) working on gnome said "Gnome's goal is to kill KDE". This is the worse piece of FUD I've seen in the OSS community.
(Note: For those who want to know, I use mostly gnome, but use KDE and KDE apps regularly and enjoy them)
You're right! No news, good news!
Although I have no legal opinion on the case, I think suing the RNA because they promote firearms is not more (or less) silly than suing 2600 because it promotes DeCSS. The MPAA has sued 2600 (and won). I wouldn't be suprised is there was a law suit (at some point) against the NRA. Of course, the NRA has a much deeper pocket than 2600.
I must be living in a different reality - since when has F77 pointers?
Pointers are not in the F77 spec, but it's an extension so common that a good F77 compiler needs to have it. I know pointer support is one of the major reason people who need a fortran compiler can't use g77.
Dear Super_Frosty,
...and before you start complaining about my spelling, can I say that english isn't my first language either.
You probably haven't noticed that I am not American and don't know everything that's going on there (Do YOU know all the news in Canada?). My point was to say that if the ones who make napster/gnutella/DeCSS are guilty because you can do illegal stuff with them, then the firearms manufacturers are even more guilty, because the worse you can do with firearms is far more damaging than the worse you can do with DeCSS.
Welcome back to Earth, and please immerse yourself in current and past events before posting on Slashdot
So you think you know everything or what? I know I don't know everything going on in the US (should only US citizens be allowed to post on slashdot, since most stories are about stuff going on there?) and I'm very pleased to be told where I'm wrong. I have, however, a problem with your attitude.
I really hope the code is released as GPL (or a GPL-compatible license). That way, the egcs (now gcc) team could incorporate some code (mostly optimizations I guess) in gcc. Also, I *think* the fortran frontend (g77) is missing a lot of features (like pointers). Maybe they'd be able to use Watcom fortran for these features... or even take the code to build a new frontend.
What's clear to me is that few people would be willing to continue developping watcom. I see more future in incorporating watcom stuff into gcc.
I'm really amazed that napster/gnutella/DeCSS would be illegal because you can do something illegal with them... yet I haven't seen a suit against the NRA and firearms companies. ...oh, it's true, nobody has ever committed a crime using a gun!
do you really think it will be as easy to make RDRAM at 1.6GHz as it will be to make DDR SDRAM at 266MHz DDR
I'd like to get a confirmation on this, but I think the "next generation of RAMBUS" will be wider, not faster clocked. As for the rest, I agree that DDR-SDRAM is likely to be the next generation RAM... unless RAMBUS is in bed with more people than we think.
It's sad to say, but it's likely that the next RAM technology will be the one chosen by inductry, not necessarly for the best performance (or price), but as the technology maximizing profits (while minimizig risks). Taking a look at the what's going on with Rambus, you see that marketing is more important than technology.
I don't think the RAM companies are likely to switch from a technology they fully control to another they're less sure about. The only way I see they could do the switch from Silicon to something else is if they really have no other choice, eg. if some technology comes out and increases by at least a factor of 10 the performance/price ratio. Even in that case, I suspect they'd simply try to buy out the company that produces that.
The only way I see them abandon silicon is when it is no longer feasable to cram more transistors in a fixed area (10 nm? 1 nm? 1 A?).
(Disclaimer: I'm still hoping you were ironic, in which case, I just didn't get it.)
Yet he fails to realize that without them, he would have no fame or fortune
You come to the wrong conclusion from the right argument. What he points out is that the RIAA shouldn't be the one to decide which artists get the fame. Sure he benifited from that, but he realized that many didn't have that chance and that it shouldn't be that way.
What you say is the equivalent of saying that anybody who is rich shouldn't critisized the society that made him rich. Prince benefited from a corrupt system and realized that. Now he wants to push for a system that's more fair... just like you can participate in "anti-poverty" actions even if you are not poor.
Why not let them choose their project? Ask each team to submit a project proposal and check if it's feasable. You won't find a project that will please everyone anyway. You can still have a list of suggestions, from which they can choose, but let them do what they like.
I'd just like to point out that the original analogy is not "RIAA is like cigarettes", but "napster is like cigarettes". If you read carefully, I am in no way trying to defent the RIAA.
I agree with you, and I wonder whether you can push the reasoning further. If you can prove that the RIAA is losing less money than napster (and other MP3 sharing methods) is making them lose, then you might have a point in proving that it is in fact a malicious lawsuit against napster and not about money. The purpous of the lawsuit being to preserve its monopoly on music. BTW, aren't there laws in the US about cartels? AFAIK the RIAA is a cartel.
To all those who say "Slashdot FUD", I ask "Do you expect Slashdot not to have any bias?". Slashdot is pro-Open Source, everybody knows that, and it's OK with me. I see the title more as a "joke" or a way to catch the attention. FUD is when you try to look fair, but in fact mislead the reader. This is clearly not the case.
In many ways, the parrellel between the industries is perfect.
To this date, millions (is not hundred of millions, I don't have the numbers) of people have died from cigarettes. How many artists died from copyright infringements? They sure lost a couple bucks, but there is a huge difference between the two. Also, if you want to push the analogy, note that the cigarette companies are still in buisness, while napster might be out of buisness soon.
Now, I cannot predict the verdict, but let's assume that napster is illegal. It can mean two things: "napster is bad" or "the laws need to be changed". Sure the RIAA has the (legal) right to defend their copyright, but sometimes "legal right" != "moral right". What might have started with napster (actually, maybe even before) is a movement of civil disobeissance (OK, I'm french!). It's the equivalent of a small revolution against the RIAA dictatorchip (I'm talking musical dictatorship). You might be for or against napster, but ultimate point here is not "is napster legal", but about "what should be legal in the future".
At last, I'd like to add (though this is not new) that the "the artists are losing money" is not really valid, since most artists (all but the very popular/rich ones) make almost no mony from sold CD's anyway. For them CD's are not about direct money, but about being known and making money with their shows. The problem is that the RIAA is using its monopoly on CD's to "force" the artists to agree to their rules (giving up their copyright to the RIAA), because the RIAA controls the radios which are the only way artists get known.
The way it is now, I cannot change the order of execution. However, I have made sure to balance the multiply and add operations. As for my cache, it is 1/2. There's no (Non-thunderbird) Athlon with a fullspeed cache. I'd like to have this info confirmed, but I think double values bypass L1 cache (what about L2?).
All my stuff is large data, with a reasonable number of operations on each element (linear regression, non-linear regression, etc.), so I've never really thought about this before. I seem to need a faster harddrive and faster RAM _way_ more than I need a faster CPU.
That's interesting. I've noticed the same thing. I train neural networks on a training set of 400,000 input/output vectors and even after heavy optimization (the next step would be assembly), I still only get ~100 mflops from my Athlon 500. Looks a lot like a memory bandwidth problem. Right now it takes ~10 hours to complete training... I'd sure like to get a 5 GHz CPU/1 GHz FSB!
The problem is that is will always be possible to access the plain audio stream (think redirecting /dev/dsp to a file in Linux). That being said, you can then encode the result in MP3 and share on napster, sure it won't play on you SDMI-approved device, but I'm sure people won't stop building MP3 player devices.
As for the watermarking, you can either ignore it (your MP3 will still play) or try to remove it. They don't say much about it, so I don't know how hard it would be. What I know is that, in theory, a "perfect perceptual encoder" will get rid of it. Think of it, if the watermarking info if impossible to hear and you have a "perfect perceptual coder" that encodes only the information you hear, it will completly remove watermarking without altering the sound at all (well, it will alter it, but you will not be able to hear it).