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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 10:48 AM EDT |
IceCube, an ice-bound telescope that looks for neutrinos rather than
photons, has cast doubt on the long-held assumption that gamma-ray bursts [GRB]
are responsible for the highest-energy cosmic rays that rocket around the
Universe.
[...]
“My conclusion from this paper is that GRBs don’t make the
cosmic rays,” says IceCube principal investigator Francis Halzen, of the
University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Eric Hand, Nature News Blog[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 11:10 AM EDT |
element14 is pleased to confirm that we received our first delivery
of Raspberry Pi’s last Friday, April 13th, and that these were all shipped out
the same day, or over the weekend, to customers across the globe. Pis from the
first shipment went to people in Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, and the USA...
Liz Upton , Raspberry Pi[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 11:12 AM EDT |
and Illya Kuryakin says he refuses to help unless there is a body to cut
up.
Since rangeCheck and the copied lines are not covered in the story,
this must be OffTopic.
Mr Van Nest said in his opening brief
Mr. Jacobs said yesterday that there was copying, but that there was
not a lot of it. 9 lines out of 15,000,000.
indyandy found Timsort
code which had rangeCheck towards the end. This was the literal copying that
Google said was still in Android. The rangeCheck code has nine lines including
the end '}'.
That is nine lines out of the 928 in
TimSort.java.
It appears that, of the 11 files originally accused of
literal copying, all but these nine lines of code for rangeCheck are out of the
case.
rangeCheck seems to produce an error report if the lower range
limit is a minus number and the upper range limit is larger than the array being
sorted. Obviously, it does not appear in a dialogue box on your smartphone and
so I assume it is returned to the program calling the API function.
The
line with the '}' contains nothing that Sun creatively expressed. The couple of
'if' statements checking the upper and lower bounds are standard stuff. If there
is new creative expression in here from Sun then it must be in the order of the
remaining eight lines. So, would you programmers tell me where the eight lines
appear in the spectrum of creative expression from a low of 'it's done in pretty
well every program that's ever been written' to 'this checking of the bounds of
an array is something never before seen in the annuls of
programming'?
I admit that I have already been judgemental, but I am no
programmer.---
Regards
Ian Al
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| Authored by: softbear on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 11:26 AM EDT |
There is this article on the filings, but no Day 3 reports.
Did no one attend?
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IANAL, etc.
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- No Day 3 Commentary? - Authored by: hardmath on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 11:58 AM EDT
- Doh! - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 12:12 PM EDT
- Not Silenced? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 03:50 PM EDT
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| Authored by: feldegast on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 01:02 PM EDT |
Found this via Twitter
Google Tech Talks
January 24, 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?
v=aAb7hSCtvGw---
IANAL
My posts are ©2004-2012 and released under the Creative Commons License
Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 01:50 PM EDT |
This is about the asserted patents and is, therefore, off topic.
The
Android team say that:
dexopt
We want to verify and
optimize all of the classes in the DEX file. The easiest and safest way to
do
this is to load all of the classes into the VM and run through them. Anything
that fails to load is
simply not verified or optimized. Unfortunately, this can
cause allocation of some resources that
are difficult to release (e.g. loading
of native shared libraries), so we don't want to do it in the
same virtual
machine that we're running applications in.
'104 says
a memory containing intermediate form object code constituted by a
set of
instructions, certain of said instructions containing one or more
symbolic references;
and and a processor
configured to
execute
said instructions
containing one or more
symbolic references
by
determining a numerical
reference corresponding
to said symbolic
reference,
storing said
numerical references, and
obtaining data in
accordance to
said
numerical references.
and and resolving a
symbolic reference
in an instruction being interpreted,
said step of resolving
said symbolic
reference including the substeps of:
determining a numerical
reference
corresponding to said symbolic
reference,
and storing said numerical
reference
in a memory.
Mitchell claims that An
Android-based device has a memory containing intermediate form object code
constituted by a set of instructions. and that dexopt carries out
the claims in the Android-based device at the time when the VM interpretation of
the bytecode begins.
However, Mitchell also identifies the two Java
programs that call dexopt. The two Java programs can only run as part of the
Java Development Kit with the Android additional tools like dx and dxopt needed
for Dalvik. They are incompatible with the Dalvik VM found on Android
devices.
The JDK is fully licensed by Oracle to run on any desktop.
Google asks that dexopt is run from within the fully licensed JDK downloaded
from Oracle and running on the Java Runtime Environment which is also fully
licensed by Oracle to run on any desktop. The licence applies to the compilation
of Java programs to an executable file.
There is a Dalvik version of
dxopt that can be used at installation time. It is only intended to run on the
fully licensed development machine in order to create an installation image for
the Android devices. Android make it plain that running dexopt in a production
device is forbidden (see dexopt description, above).
Patent '104 is
limited to mobile devices doing an optimisation just as the application starts
to run on the VM of the device.
Android does not practice patent '104.
Even if it did, dxopt runs on the fully Oracle licensed JDK which extends a
patent license for any patents used in Java.
As far as '520 is
concerned, Google complained:Oracle asserts that, in this instance,
the term source is used to mean "a point of origin or procurement," and that
"source definition" means the place where the class preloader obtains the stored
representations of one or more classes. Consequently, while Oracle concedes that
"source definition provided as object-oriented program code" could be source
code, it is not limited to source code and includes binary forms, as
well.
Although I found Michell asserting that some claims in '520
were infringed, he does not offer any evidence in his ORACLE AMERICA,
INC.’S
PATENT LOCAL RULE 3-1 DISCLOSURE
OF ASSERTED CLAIMS AND
PRELIMINARY
INFRINGEMENT
CONTENTIONS.
The judge went away to decide whether 'source
code' meant.. umh... source code or whether it could also mean the source of
code acted upon by the '520 invention, including source code which is compiled
source code. I don't think the judge has told us what he
decided.
However, the only place you will find Java source code (as
written by programmers) intended for Android or compiled files intended for
Android is within the fully Oracle licensed Java Development Kit which includes
licenses for any patents required by the Java platform.
So, even if the
patent was not licensed, Mitchell does not seem to explain how Android practices
the invention. If 'source code' means source code, then the programmer does not
put ' the stored representations of one or more classes' into the program source
code.
The judge went away to decide whether 'source code' meant.. umh...
source code or whether it could also mean the source of code acted upon by the
'520 invention, including source code which is compiled source code. I don't
think the judge has told us what he decided, yet.
---
Regards
Ian Al
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 05:28 PM EDT |
See for yourself:
http://twitte
r.com/#!/FOSSpatents/status/193059377043865601
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