Verizon is listed, they just didn't win any speed races for data - in fact, they seem to be mediocre at best.
I've found Verizon to be fantastic for phone service, but I've never understood their price gouging on SMS/MMS and Data. When I compared phones with all features on (like Droids with Data and SMS/MMS service), Verizon was priced near the top. When I looked at phones with just voice, Verizon was very competitive. After looking into it, though, I decided the price was silly and not worth it at this time. Maybe after I make my first million, but keeping up with the Jones' was never my style - I am fiscally responsible, unlike most people I know that have stuff like that.
I won't say anything about the first and last because I know nothing about them, but mass produced Italian beers... eew, you can do so much better - that is almost as bad as that crap out of the Netherlands, Heineken (which is also probably the best beer I've had from the Netherlands... Amsterdam was not my favorite city for beer, but they did have good coffee and apparently good pot [which isn't my thing, but my travel-mates loved it]). Those are all pretty much exactly the same as American beers (they all use similar hops) but without the cheap rice that make American beers even more nasty and cheaper to brew, so yes, a step up, but not a giant leap.
I also wasn't fond of the beers in and around Bonn or Frankfurt (very light, bitter, and Pils heavy... and the color of piss water when you barely had to take a pee) - I vastly preferred the ones I got in Bavaria, Tirol, and northern France, but ironically not central Munich outside of Octoberfest beers, but I only hit a couple - Munich has a ton of breweries and I only scratched the surface.
For blondes I like a nice French Biere de Garde or Saison, pretty much all Belgians (which can pretty much run the table from light to dark), or maybe a Boddingtons or other British light or pale ale (NOT IPAs though, which are preservative heavy with extra hops), as I find them refreshing and not overpowering (either in hops or alcohol).
I recently shared a Rauchbier (literally smoke beer in German) with friends just to try it - in fact, I had the Bamberg pictured in that link. The consensus was it was a strange tasting beer with lingering flavors of smoked bacon, which is a bit too odd of a combo for me. I've had an Eisbock (literally Ice Bock and Bock is a place - it is derived from Einbeck, where the style was first brewed) before, but it was more in the 18% ABV range and a bit bitter for my tastes, but the India Pale Ale fan of my friends loved it (IPAs are pale ales with extra hops [a preservative] originally used to survive long trips - like England to India, and this beer tasted IPA-ish, so may have been extra-hopped, as well). I've also recently had a Gruit, which is an unhopped beer - it was very good and different, and not malty like I expected - the flavors of anise, nutmeg and cinnamon stood out.
My personal tastes tend to be about 20-50IBU (International Bitterness Units), which excludes most Pilsners (after Pilsen, originally in Bohemia, now Czech) and IPAs, which hopheads love. I still like to mix it up and try lots of oddities. My wife prefers schwartzbier (black beer) - preferably Köstritzer (and I drive 25 miles to a specialty store to get it, which is why I often end up with a bunch of oddities to try, as well), but New Belgium's 1554 will do in a pinch.
With the destructive effects that I've seen from meth abusers at my rental property (out of 15 renters in the past 10 years, two have self-destructed into meth abuse), I'm surprised it's still prescribed at all. I would think Modifinil would heavily replace it in that role for almost all of the roles it plays (or Adrafinil, though that hasn't been approved in the US). It mainly hits the same receptors as meth, but is not highly addictive and works on some of the same receptors. It has been petitioned to be legalized OTC (over-the-counter), but I don't know where that is at - I imagine that would be a cash cow for the creator, as I believe it was invented in the mid-1990s (the parent, Adrafinil was 1970s, so I'm not sure the state of any patents). There are some known severe side effects, but as far as I can tell they are rare.
I'd be curious to see a meth'd up snail and a modifinil snail side by side...
I would say that is currently true, but the average user may care if General Purpose GPU (GP-GPU) takes off and they use applications that use it. For a speed example, I had what is essentially a math problem that kept a dual core CPU busy (and yes, it was threaded) for 2 weeks, 3 days, 14 hours. The same problem tackled by 216 GPU shaders and one CPU took around 25 minutes. While neither
I realize most people aren't doing surface detail analysis involving trillions of points of data like I was (actually, that was a brute force method, too - probably could have it down to about a day, optimized), but I know a lot of people that use Photoshop, and imagine the same sort of gains for certain filters. Filters that were too slow to incorporate 5 years ago may be possible today.
That isn't really true - memory bandwidths have a fairly minor impact, similar to CPU/memory - maybe 5% of the speed of a graphics card is from latencies due to memory (either bus or strobe latencies). The rest of the time is spent doing transforms, running shaders, doing depth testing, etc, and those processes depend on the GPU clock. The old AGP shared memory model is actually creeping back in (look at the G100s, for example), especially in the mobile processing area because memory bandwidth matters so little. There once was a time when main memory to GPU memory was a serious throttle, but those days died around AGP 4x and haven't returned.
Memory itself is a pain to compare, as it may be your GDDR5 is faster clock-wise than GDDR4, but the latencies negate any speed gain, same as for processor memory. To further complicate things, depending on burst size and how many times it has to call the strobes (e.g. RAS to CAS latency), you may get mixed results.
Well, they could have just called it "Crap my dad says," if they were worried about the word shit, but then again, since the FCC depends on context, not the word itself, so that probably would be objectionable, as well (hell, Bono said fucking on the air, as I recall, but the FCC ruled it an adjective used to describe his excitement and not swearing). If they wanted to play it completely safe, though, they could have said "The things dad says"
heh - I think they should have spelled (or spelt if you want a correct English flame war, since both are correct) it $#!7
And seriously, when was the last time you heard a swear word that offended you enough to punch or shoot the person dissing you in the face (which is about how it was in the Reagan years)? They are so diluted and accepted in mainstream culture these days that I find it pointless to use them at all. Better yet, I just invent my own - you're all a bunch of Farkmashing Schniznob Zumscrubbers for diluting swear words.
heh - objects, tools, machines, and LINES OF CODE - don't forget that one, as it seems to be f*cking with my coding every day. 6 lines of obvious software shader code covered by a patent... grr
The Beatles would have problems with lots and lots of prior art in that case, where this isn't the case. If you want a music analogy, I'd say this is more like Les Paul patenting all music made with electrically amplified instruments.
Almost every carrier supports tethering on their phones, and AT&T has had unsupported tethering using the iPhone already. Of course, most charge massive, ridiculous additional fees. Verizon's is $50/month, I've heard Sprint is $60 with a 5GB limit, T-mobile doesn't support tethering last I checked, but hackers have made it possible with unlocked phones... note that the fees are per-phone and usually on top of data fees. Rumor has it AT&T will be $55 including data plan after initial rumors that it would be $55 on top of data plan. We can only hope - and hope it drives down market prices, because AT&T has bad signal strength at both my work and home. I personally don't care much about tethering, but my wife could use it for her startup business, if the price were right. Currently the business isn't growing fast enough to afford almost $2000 a year in phone expenses, though (after current expenses they are barely breaking even as it is - that should improve as the business expands).
Yes and no - though since there is no EULA you may not be aware of it, but this form of copyright goes back to early recordings, if not before - you don't own the copyrighted material, you are licensed to use the material. You do own the physical media, so basically, yes, when you buy a DVD or CD or record you own it, but no in that the material on that media (say movie) is a license to view it personally and for non-commercial use - in fact, technically you aren't supposed to share it with anyone, but the 1976 Fair Use law allows for it to be legally viewed with a small non-commercial audience (e.g. family or a few friends). If you sell the physical media, you usually transfer the license to the new owner (you could, remove the copyrighted material - e.g. erase a tape and sell the blank tape without the media). Fair Use is also why you can transfer the media to any other media - the material itself is the license and the law says you can back it up any way you see fit.
The kicker is that under the DMCA, DVD movies are encrypted media and decrypting the media to even make a backup copy is a felony, so the DMCA itself violates Fair Use law, which says you can transfer copyrighted material it to any other medium to avoid obsolescence, and why I think the DMCA is illegal and should be thrown out.
Actually, I believe all players support skipping the don't skip code track(s), but it isn't widely publicized - press Stop twice and then Play (occasionally you need to press Stop 3x and then Play).
The problem referred to is because the trailers are inserted on the part of the DVD that was meant only for copyright and FBI information, and DVD players were designed so that this isn't normally skippable. I have a year old DVD player/burner that does allow skipping FBI/trailers with the skip track button (and fast-forward), but neither of my older ones have that feature.
You probably don't rent Disney movies - I have yet to find one with a trailer I can skip with the menu or track skip button on my old player (which is the one my nieces and nephews use when they visit). Marley and Me and Slumdog Millionaire I believe also have unskippable preview tracks to name two. I taught the older kids how to skip the previews on these using stop-stop-play (the younger ones tend to be amused with the power on/off buttons, so I put the older ones in charge of remote duty).
Incidentally, there has been an online version of the anarchist cookbook since the early BBS days, and while it tended to lean toward hacker/phreaker things, it had pipe bombs, fish tank cleaner bombs (potassium permanganate and gasoline, but pure potassium permanganate was hard to get even back then - the stuff sold in stores had a stabilizer agent), and the best homemade smoke bomb I've ever seen - just sugar, potassium nitrate (works better if you melt them together) - heck, better than most commercial smoke bombs I've seen.
The thing is, this information is legal to possess in the United States - using the recipes is illegal in many cases, however (and I know - I got busted with 2 pages of it in Jr High due to an idiotic move by a friend who made copies and was selling them in the library, then turned me in as the source - the school made that an expulsion offense afterward... thankfully, pre-Columbine, so all I had to do was chat with the police and principal, which scared the beejezus out of me)
Exactly the reason I said the only way to truly way to secure the network is at a per-machine/per person level - require a government issued encrypted password just to access the internet, and tie it to a particular person. Since passwords are per user, even if the machine is shared criminal activity can be traced back to a particular user (or their identity stealer, but nobody will lose that, right?). Also only IPv6 with unique IPs, and MAC and IP addresses are tied to a hash key with the password - if the hash doesn't match (because any one of those three changed), the criminal is arrested by TPID (Thought Police, Internet Division), found guilty by proxy, waterboarded, thumb-screwed, and kicked by a team of 6 wearing lead toed boots for 30 minutes twice daily for 16 months. Oh, and all activity is logged and sent back to the government for analysis, but that is a given, of course.
You obviously haven't lived around farmers - some practically do have them on their front porch (due to the elements they keep them under something or indoors, though)... I know several that not only leave the house unlocked, but store loaded guns in the garage or a utility room on a unsecured gun rack (with the safety on, of course). A fox in the hen house and rabbits in the garden require quick attention. My grandpa used to store them unloaded, but with bullets handy nearby and fairly high up so kids couldn't reach them. By the time you're tall enough to reach the guns, you are expected to know how to use them safely and hopefully hit whatever you're shooting at. Grandpa wasn't too tolerant of pets, either - if a dog got in the hen house, the owner of that dog would have to put it down (one of my uncles had to do that twice, and I imagine killing your pets is quite traumatic - grandpa also shot my favorite farm dog for that offense).
And this is more akin to you leaving the apartment complex door open and your neighbor getting robbed. As for seatbelts, the laws themselves aren't quite the right analogy - it is more like a driver who picks up a hitchhiker on a dark night and at first she puts on her seat belt, but as the driver slows and approaches a brightly lit sobriety checkpoint, the passenger takes off her seatbelt, jumps out of the car and runs. A cop saw her remove her seatbelt while the car was still in motion and tickets the driver for having a passenger not wearing a seatbelt without chasing the passenger, who is actually a heroin mule running drugs.
Exactly, and more specifically, if this weren't specific to private citizens, it would essentially criminalize every wireless hotspot because as soon as that person is off the net, there is no way to track them down (any smart criminal can be anonymous by trashing IP leases and spoofing a MAC, if required [mainly for IPv6, since IPv6 addresses are generated "uniquely" using the MAC]). If this were applied to businesses, the only way to have a legal hotspot in Germany would require a user to present a legal identification card in addition to showing the IP being used after connecting (to map the DHCP address to the user), and then the user would have to only use an insecure connection so logging of all activity could be done. Basically, they are saying that private citizens don't have the same rights as businesses.
About the only way I see to make this universally legal is to force IPv6, make users register their IP and MAC code with the government, make it illegal to change the IP or MAC address, and issue at least a 1024 bit encryption code to access the Internet with that IP (a high cubit quantum key would be better, but I'm being realistic). If someone steals something using your IP, it would be treated as identity theft if they don't find the goods on your machine. OK Germany, there is the plan, good luck implementing it at reasonable cost.
I can't imagine the lawyers involved in the defense on this case were competent in any way.
And of course you didn't watch the video. What they said is vision has a lot of background processing, whether you realize it or not (maybe it happens during REM sleep? I don't know). It is why we can identify the differences between, say, a dog and a badger or know a Terrier is a dog and a Pug is a dog despite body differences.
If you walk into a room you've never been in before, how many items can you identify given 5 seconds? 15? 30 trips into the room for 5 seconds? My guess is the more exposure, the more you remember - basically, your brain can't handle the load and tries to pick out things of interest (if you have an eidetic you can remember the picture of the room and cheat, but most people don't have that) .
Well, they are teaching Asimo as if he/she/it were a small child, so the learning may take a while, and of course, honesty is important. I was impressed with the spacial analysis, given that it was much, much worse when I had machine vision. Processing was quite slow, IMO, but it is identifying general shapes like that of the toy car, which is good.
Ah, machine vision, where I had the most anal-retentive, closed minded professor ever. I don't regret not continuing with him for four more semesters and then finally being able to move up to a competent professor (the two that were most involved with research were quite good, or so I hear - I had one of them for one quarter for Algorithm Design class and he was quite good, and yes I meant quarter - I started college with quarters and ended with semesters).
yeah, but it would not be unprecedented to release the code under multiple licenses (e.g. MySQL) or change licenses to allow more commercial adaptation (e.g. Ogre).
Also, just because it links to GPL libraries doesn't necessarily require it to be a GPL license, as there are exclusions for source libraries and general purpose tools (gcc, automake, etc). If he was the sole contributor to the GPL codebase, I imagine he would have full control over what license is used and if the university hired him, they might be able to dictate what license it falls under since it is at that point a work for hire. It sounds very dicey.
I was referring to executive compensation, not base salary. For a non-software reference, the highest base salary for a US based company that I've heard of is about $100 million and for bankers I believe it's more like 40 million (or maybe that was insurance - AIG's CEO was over $35 million I remember), but TARP limits for banks maxed executive compensation at $500 million - well over the $100 million base salary that is the highest I know of, and banks objected to the limit because they were worried about losing their execs. I imagine incentives and bonuses well over base salary are the norm.
A similar thing happens in the software industry, including the company I was referring to (which I could get into, but I will rant for hours about mismanagement and screwing employees up the ass at every corner - best to not think about it). While that company isn't Microsoft, Bill Gates did not become a billionaire on salary alone.
MECC didn't technically go under, unless you mean the Minnesota office, which was more people that had been getting government benefits and pay getting bought and managed by a company that didn't want to give either which eventually them being shut down (at least that's the biased story I heard - I had friends at MECC in the mid-to-late 1990s).
AFAIK, though, TLC was never part of Brøderbund, Softkey bought them and later bought Brøderbund, then sold both of those assets together to Mattel, who rebranded them all Mattel Interactive and then sold the TLC part to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (I think that's how you spell it) and numerous entertainment titles to Ubisoft (so probably Brøderbund, but the press announcement I saw didn't really say what was sold to whom - Mattel may even retain the old company name rights).
So have I, I worked for a small studio, but one that was hired by a major publisher, and the studio head, designer, and lead programmer made quite a bit of money (but worked their tails off, as well). As a person pulled in at the tail end of the project to write GLIDE hardware acceleration (yes, it was that long ago, 1996ish) , I was also the first to go when the project ended (I was a contractor anyway), but that studio is still in business, mainly focusing on iPhone stuff these days. It paid OK - actually more than my business job, but without benefits (which is huge).
The real issue is volume, price, and shelf life. A game that stays in stores 90 days and sells 100k copies may be a minor hit, but business software can sit on that same shelf for 2 years to sell its 100k, and charge 5x the price. Since that business software made 5x the money, they can afford to pay their employees twice as much (and the extra 3x goes in the CEO's pocket... actually it's more like 1000x... or more - I've seen 2000x myself, and I'm sure some people are 6000x or more).
Interestingly enough, despite the privacy issues, I think content systems like Steam are good in that they can extend the shelf life of games, which ultimately benefit the studios creating them. Whereas a store will stop selling when a title only sells 1-2 copies a month, Steam can keep selling those 1-2 copies until buyer interest dries up entirely, and may be able to respark interest with discounts (like UT3, which sold dismally in stores and quite well when discounted on Steam). Profit margins are also much higher with digital distribution and even the business world is moving to digital distribution for that very reason.
From a server standpoint, Apple was one of the first commercial companies with IPv6 support on non-server machines - it was in the FreeBSD 4.3 baseline, and Apple was one of the first to enable it by default OOTB (X.2 timeframe, I believe). The problem indicated is only that the fallback from IPv6 to IPv4 is slow on macs (a client issue).
Apple kind of has become the Blizzard of the hardware world - they don't really innovate that much and they usually lag behind the market in terms of features, but they do have a certain polish and consistency (accessibility) in design that other vendors lack. I personally haven't bought an Apple product in over 10 years and don't play WoW, but its hard to deny that both are successful at what they do.
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Verizon is listed, they just didn't win any speed races for data - in fact, they seem to be mediocre at best.
I've found Verizon to be fantastic for phone service, but I've never understood their price gouging on SMS/MMS and Data. When I compared phones with all features on (like Droids with Data and SMS/MMS service), Verizon was priced near the top. When I looked at phones with just voice, Verizon was very competitive. After looking into it, though, I decided the price was silly and not worth it at this time. Maybe after I make my first million, but keeping up with the Jones' was never my style - I am fiscally responsible, unlike most people I know that have stuff like that.
I won't say anything about the first and last because I know nothing about them, but mass produced Italian beers... eew, you can do so much better - that is almost as bad as that crap out of the Netherlands, Heineken (which is also probably the best beer I've had from the Netherlands... Amsterdam was not my favorite city for beer, but they did have good coffee and apparently good pot [which isn't my thing, but my travel-mates loved it]). Those are all pretty much exactly the same as American beers (they all use similar hops) but without the cheap rice that make American beers even more nasty and cheaper to brew, so yes, a step up, but not a giant leap.
I also wasn't fond of the beers in and around Bonn or Frankfurt (very light, bitter, and Pils heavy... and the color of piss water when you barely had to take a pee) - I vastly preferred the ones I got in Bavaria, Tirol, and northern France, but ironically not central Munich outside of Octoberfest beers, but I only hit a couple - Munich has a ton of breweries and I only scratched the surface.
For blondes I like a nice French Biere de Garde or Saison, pretty much all Belgians (which can pretty much run the table from light to dark), or maybe a Boddingtons or other British light or pale ale (NOT IPAs though, which are preservative heavy with extra hops), as I find them refreshing and not overpowering (either in hops or alcohol).
I recently shared a Rauchbier (literally smoke beer in German) with friends just to try it - in fact, I had the Bamberg pictured in that link. The consensus was it was a strange tasting beer with lingering flavors of smoked bacon, which is a bit too odd of a combo for me. I've had an Eisbock (literally Ice Bock and Bock is a place - it is derived from Einbeck, where the style was first brewed) before, but it was more in the 18% ABV range and a bit bitter for my tastes, but the India Pale Ale fan of my friends loved it (IPAs are pale ales with extra hops [a preservative] originally used to survive long trips - like England to India, and this beer tasted IPA-ish, so may have been extra-hopped, as well). I've also recently had a Gruit, which is an unhopped beer - it was very good and different, and not malty like I expected - the flavors of anise, nutmeg and cinnamon stood out.
My personal tastes tend to be about 20-50IBU (International Bitterness Units), which excludes most Pilsners (after Pilsen, originally in Bohemia, now Czech) and IPAs, which hopheads love. I still like to mix it up and try lots of oddities. My wife prefers schwartzbier (black beer) - preferably Köstritzer (and I drive 25 miles to a specialty store to get it, which is why I often end up with a bunch of oddities to try, as well), but New Belgium's 1554 will do in a pinch.
With the destructive effects that I've seen from meth abusers at my rental property (out of 15 renters in the past 10 years, two have self-destructed into meth abuse), I'm surprised it's still prescribed at all. I would think Modifinil would heavily replace it in that role for almost all of the roles it plays (or Adrafinil, though that hasn't been approved in the US). It mainly hits the same receptors as meth, but is not highly addictive and works on some of the same receptors. It has been petitioned to be legalized OTC (over-the-counter), but I don't know where that is at - I imagine that would be a cash cow for the creator, as I believe it was invented in the mid-1990s (the parent, Adrafinil was 1970s, so I'm not sure the state of any patents). There are some known severe side effects, but as far as I can tell they are rare.
I'd be curious to see a meth'd up snail and a modifinil snail side by side...
I would say that is currently true, but the average user may care if General Purpose GPU (GP-GPU) takes off and they use applications that use it. For a speed example, I had what is essentially a math problem that kept a dual core CPU busy (and yes, it was threaded) for 2 weeks, 3 days, 14 hours. The same problem tackled by 216 GPU shaders and one CPU took around 25 minutes. While neither
I realize most people aren't doing surface detail analysis involving trillions of points of data like I was (actually, that was a brute force method, too - probably could have it down to about a day, optimized), but I know a lot of people that use Photoshop, and imagine the same sort of gains for certain filters. Filters that were too slow to incorporate 5 years ago may be possible today.
That isn't really true - memory bandwidths have a fairly minor impact, similar to CPU/memory - maybe 5% of the speed of a graphics card is from latencies due to memory (either bus or strobe latencies). The rest of the time is spent doing transforms, running shaders, doing depth testing, etc, and those processes depend on the GPU clock. The old AGP shared memory model is actually creeping back in (look at the G100s, for example), especially in the mobile processing area because memory bandwidth matters so little. There once was a time when main memory to GPU memory was a serious throttle, but those days died around AGP 4x and haven't returned.
Memory itself is a pain to compare, as it may be your GDDR5 is faster clock-wise than GDDR4, but the latencies negate any speed gain, same as for processor memory. To further complicate things, depending on burst size and how many times it has to call the strobes (e.g. RAS to CAS latency), you may get mixed results.
Well, they could have just called it "Crap my dad says," if they were worried about the word shit, but then again, since the FCC depends on context, not the word itself, so that probably would be objectionable, as well (hell, Bono said fucking on the air, as I recall, but the FCC ruled it an adjective used to describe his excitement and not swearing). If they wanted to play it completely safe, though, they could have said "The things dad says"
heh - I think they should have spelled (or spelt if you want a correct English flame war, since both are correct) it $#!7
And seriously, when was the last time you heard a swear word that offended you enough to punch or shoot the person dissing you in the face (which is about how it was in the Reagan years)? They are so diluted and accepted in mainstream culture these days that I find it pointless to use them at all. Better yet, I just invent my own - you're all a bunch of Farkmashing Schniznob Zumscrubbers for diluting swear words.
heh - objects, tools, machines, and LINES OF CODE - don't forget that one, as it seems to be f*cking with my coding every day. 6 lines of obvious software shader code covered by a patent... grr
The Beatles would have problems with lots and lots of prior art in that case, where this isn't the case. If you want a music analogy, I'd say this is more like Les Paul patenting all music made with electrically amplified instruments.
that would infringe on my patent on you - I'm filing suit in Eastern Texas today.
Almost every carrier supports tethering on their phones, and AT&T has had unsupported tethering using the iPhone already. Of course, most charge massive, ridiculous additional fees. Verizon's is $50/month, I've heard Sprint is $60 with a 5GB limit, T-mobile doesn't support tethering last I checked, but hackers have made it possible with unlocked phones... note that the fees are per-phone and usually on top of data fees. Rumor has it AT&T will be $55 including data plan after initial rumors that it would be $55 on top of data plan. We can only hope - and hope it drives down market prices, because AT&T has bad signal strength at both my work and home. I personally don't care much about tethering, but my wife could use it for her startup business, if the price were right. Currently the business isn't growing fast enough to afford almost $2000 a year in phone expenses, though (after current expenses they are barely breaking even as it is - that should improve as the business expands).
Yes and no - though since there is no EULA you may not be aware of it, but this form of copyright goes back to early recordings, if not before - you don't own the copyrighted material, you are licensed to use the material. You do own the physical media, so basically, yes, when you buy a DVD or CD or record you own it, but no in that the material on that media (say movie) is a license to view it personally and for non-commercial use - in fact, technically you aren't supposed to share it with anyone, but the 1976 Fair Use law allows for it to be legally viewed with a small non-commercial audience (e.g. family or a few friends). If you sell the physical media, you usually transfer the license to the new owner (you could, remove the copyrighted material - e.g. erase a tape and sell the blank tape without the media). Fair Use is also why you can transfer the media to any other media - the material itself is the license and the law says you can back it up any way you see fit.
The kicker is that under the DMCA, DVD movies are encrypted media and decrypting the media to even make a backup copy is a felony, so the DMCA itself violates Fair Use law, which says you can transfer copyrighted material it to any other medium to avoid obsolescence, and why I think the DMCA is illegal and should be thrown out.
Actually, I believe all players support skipping the don't skip code track(s), but it isn't widely publicized - press Stop twice and then Play (occasionally you need to press Stop 3x and then Play).
The problem referred to is because the trailers are inserted on the part of the DVD that was meant only for copyright and FBI information, and DVD players were designed so that this isn't normally skippable. I have a year old DVD player/burner that does allow skipping FBI/trailers with the skip track button (and fast-forward), but neither of my older ones have that feature.
You probably don't rent Disney movies - I have yet to find one with a trailer I can skip with the menu or track skip button on my old player (which is the one my nieces and nephews use when they visit). Marley and Me and Slumdog Millionaire I believe also have unskippable preview tracks to name two. I taught the older kids how to skip the previews on these using stop-stop-play (the younger ones tend to be amused with the power on/off buttons, so I put the older ones in charge of remote duty).
Incidentally, there has been an online version of the anarchist cookbook since the early BBS days, and while it tended to lean toward hacker/phreaker things, it had pipe bombs, fish tank cleaner bombs (potassium permanganate and gasoline, but pure potassium permanganate was hard to get even back then - the stuff sold in stores had a stabilizer agent), and the best homemade smoke bomb I've ever seen - just sugar, potassium nitrate (works better if you melt them together) - heck, better than most commercial smoke bombs I've seen.
The thing is, this information is legal to possess in the United States - using the recipes is illegal in many cases, however (and I know - I got busted with 2 pages of it in Jr High due to an idiotic move by a friend who made copies and was selling them in the library, then turned me in as the source - the school made that an expulsion offense afterward... thankfully, pre-Columbine, so all I had to do was chat with the police and principal, which scared the beejezus out of me)
Exactly the reason I said the only way to truly way to secure the network is at a per-machine/per person level - require a government issued encrypted password just to access the internet, and tie it to a particular person. Since passwords are per user, even if the machine is shared criminal activity can be traced back to a particular user (or their identity stealer, but nobody will lose that, right?). Also only IPv6 with unique IPs, and MAC and IP addresses are tied to a hash key with the password - if the hash doesn't match (because any one of those three changed), the criminal is arrested by TPID (Thought Police, Internet Division), found guilty by proxy, waterboarded, thumb-screwed, and kicked by a team of 6 wearing lead toed boots for 30 minutes twice daily for 16 months. Oh, and all activity is logged and sent back to the government for analysis, but that is a given, of course.
You obviously haven't lived around farmers - some practically do have them on their front porch (due to the elements they keep them under something or indoors, though)... I know several that not only leave the house unlocked, but store loaded guns in the garage or a utility room on a unsecured gun rack (with the safety on, of course). A fox in the hen house and rabbits in the garden require quick attention. My grandpa used to store them unloaded, but with bullets handy nearby and fairly high up so kids couldn't reach them. By the time you're tall enough to reach the guns, you are expected to know how to use them safely and hopefully hit whatever you're shooting at. Grandpa wasn't too tolerant of pets, either - if a dog got in the hen house, the owner of that dog would have to put it down (one of my uncles had to do that twice, and I imagine killing your pets is quite traumatic - grandpa also shot my favorite farm dog for that offense).
And this is more akin to you leaving the apartment complex door open and your neighbor getting robbed. As for seatbelts, the laws themselves aren't quite the right analogy - it is more like a driver who picks up a hitchhiker on a dark night and at first she puts on her seat belt, but as the driver slows and approaches a brightly lit sobriety checkpoint, the passenger takes off her seatbelt, jumps out of the car and runs. A cop saw her remove her seatbelt while the car was still in motion and tickets the driver for having a passenger not wearing a seatbelt without chasing the passenger, who is actually a heroin mule running drugs.
Exactly, and more specifically, if this weren't specific to private citizens, it would essentially criminalize every wireless hotspot because as soon as that person is off the net, there is no way to track them down (any smart criminal can be anonymous by trashing IP leases and spoofing a MAC, if required [mainly for IPv6, since IPv6 addresses are generated "uniquely" using the MAC]). If this were applied to businesses, the only way to have a legal hotspot in Germany would require a user to present a legal identification card in addition to showing the IP being used after connecting (to map the DHCP address to the user), and then the user would have to only use an insecure connection so logging of all activity could be done. Basically, they are saying that private citizens don't have the same rights as businesses.
About the only way I see to make this universally legal is to force IPv6, make users register their IP and MAC code with the government, make it illegal to change the IP or MAC address, and issue at least a 1024 bit encryption code to access the Internet with that IP (a high cubit quantum key would be better, but I'm being realistic). If someone steals something using your IP, it would be treated as identity theft if they don't find the goods on your machine. OK Germany, there is the plan, good luck implementing it at reasonable cost.
I can't imagine the lawyers involved in the defense on this case were competent in any way.
And of course you didn't watch the video. What they said is vision has a lot of background processing, whether you realize it or not (maybe it happens during REM sleep? I don't know). It is why we can identify the differences between, say, a dog and a badger or know a Terrier is a dog and a Pug is a dog despite body differences.
If you walk into a room you've never been in before, how many items can you identify given 5 seconds? 15? 30 trips into the room for 5 seconds? My guess is the more exposure, the more you remember - basically, your brain can't handle the load and tries to pick out things of interest (if you have an eidetic you can remember the picture of the room and cheat, but most people don't have that) .
Well, they are teaching Asimo as if he/she/it were a small child, so the learning may take a while, and of course, honesty is important. I was impressed with the spacial analysis, given that it was much, much worse when I had machine vision. Processing was quite slow, IMO, but it is identifying general shapes like that of the toy car, which is good.
Ah, machine vision, where I had the most anal-retentive, closed minded professor ever. I don't regret not continuing with him for four more semesters and then finally being able to move up to a competent professor (the two that were most involved with research were quite good, or so I hear - I had one of them for one quarter for Algorithm Design class and he was quite good, and yes I meant quarter - I started college with quarters and ended with semesters).
yeah, but it would not be unprecedented to release the code under multiple licenses (e.g. MySQL) or change licenses to allow more commercial adaptation (e.g. Ogre).
Also, just because it links to GPL libraries doesn't necessarily require it to be a GPL license, as there are exclusions for source libraries and general purpose tools (gcc, automake, etc). If he was the sole contributor to the GPL codebase, I imagine he would have full control over what license is used and if the university hired him, they might be able to dictate what license it falls under since it is at that point a work for hire. It sounds very dicey.
I was referring to executive compensation, not base salary. For a non-software reference, the highest base salary for a US based company that I've heard of is about $100 million and for bankers I believe it's more like 40 million (or maybe that was insurance - AIG's CEO was over $35 million I remember), but TARP limits for banks maxed executive compensation at $500 million - well over the $100 million base salary that is the highest I know of, and banks objected to the limit because they were worried about losing their execs. I imagine incentives and bonuses well over base salary are the norm.
A similar thing happens in the software industry, including the company I was referring to (which I could get into, but I will rant for hours about mismanagement and screwing employees up the ass at every corner - best to not think about it). While that company isn't Microsoft, Bill Gates did not become a billionaire on salary alone.
MECC didn't technically go under, unless you mean the Minnesota office, which was more people that had been getting government benefits and pay getting bought and managed by a company that didn't want to give either which eventually them being shut down (at least that's the biased story I heard - I had friends at MECC in the mid-to-late 1990s).
AFAIK, though, TLC was never part of Brøderbund, Softkey bought them and later bought Brøderbund, then sold both of those assets together to Mattel, who rebranded them all Mattel Interactive and then sold the TLC part to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (I think that's how you spell it) and numerous entertainment titles to Ubisoft (so probably Brøderbund, but the press announcement I saw didn't really say what was sold to whom - Mattel may even retain the old company name rights).
So have I, I worked for a small studio, but one that was hired by a major publisher, and the studio head, designer, and lead programmer made quite a bit of money (but worked their tails off, as well). As a person pulled in at the tail end of the project to write GLIDE hardware acceleration (yes, it was that long ago, 1996ish) , I was also the first to go when the project ended (I was a contractor anyway), but that studio is still in business, mainly focusing on iPhone stuff these days. It paid OK - actually more than my business job, but without benefits (which is huge).
The real issue is volume, price, and shelf life. A game that stays in stores 90 days and sells 100k copies may be a minor hit, but business software can sit on that same shelf for 2 years to sell its 100k, and charge 5x the price. Since that business software made 5x the money, they can afford to pay their employees twice as much (and the extra 3x goes in the CEO's pocket... actually it's more like 1000x... or more - I've seen 2000x myself, and I'm sure some people are 6000x or more).
Interestingly enough, despite the privacy issues, I think content systems like Steam are good in that they can extend the shelf life of games, which ultimately benefit the studios creating them. Whereas a store will stop selling when a title only sells 1-2 copies a month, Steam can keep selling those 1-2 copies until buyer interest dries up entirely, and may be able to respark interest with discounts (like UT3, which sold dismally in stores and quite well when discounted on Steam). Profit margins are also much higher with digital distribution and even the business world is moving to digital distribution for that very reason.
From a server standpoint, Apple was one of the first commercial companies with IPv6 support on non-server machines - it was in the FreeBSD 4.3 baseline, and Apple was one of the first to enable it by default OOTB (X.2 timeframe, I believe). The problem indicated is only that the fallback from IPv6 to IPv4 is slow on macs (a client issue).
Apple kind of has become the Blizzard of the hardware world - they don't really innovate that much and they usually lag behind the market in terms of features, but they do have a certain polish and consistency (accessibility) in design that other vendors lack. I personally haven't bought an Apple product in over 10 years and don't play WoW, but its hard to deny that both are successful at what they do.