This bit, gleaned from the linked slashdot interview, sums it up:
Can you explain?
by trcooper
Can you explain, in terms I could tell the average person, how your patent is novel enough that anyone who wants to distribute audio over the internet should license it from you? I'd appreciate it if you could address how the distributions of podcasts today widely differs from downloading audio files in 1995 and how your patent help change this.
Logan: Trcooper, this is one of those of questions that could get me in a boatload of troubleâ"with my lawyer, that is. Any comments I make regarding the claims and how they are different from previous systems, can and will be used against me in court. So Iâ(TM)ll have to take a pass on this one.
Beltway bandit jobs. Chances are, the ones with the clearance are the least competent in terms of technical prowess. Political prowess, that's a different thing altogether.
The laws of physics that we think are probably correct state that certain things take a certain amount of time. We based our units of time off these things
And those laws of physics are, in turn, premised on the concept of time, which is non too simple or clearly defined, measured with clocks that are constructed based on the physics, which, in turn..
No, I'm not knocking it. In the end, we accept it (time, clock accuracy, the whole physics) as long as it works when thrown up against the wall called nature.
The subject of clock accuracy brings up the nature of time, and more I think about it, more a rabbit hole it becomes in my mind.
Beyond that it's a question of determining what the uncertainties are using physics. In other words it's a mathematical proof, rather than the result of an actual measurement.
In an overly simplified nutshell, we are averaging out whole lot of stuff with circular dependencies, because, given the nature of the concept that is time, that has been the best we can do, and it seems to hold up reasonably well?
Yes. I've got bitten by bed bugs twice in my life, once abroad and once in America, and both times it woke me up in the middle of night, leading me to catch the pest in the act.
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The new ones hide means to control cookies, etc. from their UI. Wonder how many are in the same boat.
"Service economy" with IP fantasy led to this bullshit world for the West and other developed countries.
And it would. Bureaucratic, parasitic, loophole-exploiting endeavors like lawyering, bankering, lobbying are most rewarded.
The West is rotting from within.
I don't know, but maybe they should have used condom.
Are you guys paid to promote SSD this month?
I wish I could be more articulate, but I'm too drunk at the moment.
Cocksucking bastards.
NSA knew of it even before the chopper took off.
He'd get sued to bankruptcy.
Beltway bandit jobs. Chances are, the ones with the clearance are the least competent in terms of technical prowess. Political prowess, that's a different thing altogether.
Finally a project that will hire some Americans.
Yeah, it's pretty sad.
Mod this guy up for the sig.
You lose control when you insist on not paying for your shit.
The Facebook users beware. Nobody forced you to use it.
That's the end of USEFUL discussion.
It's not just teen guidos/guidettes clowning on tv, it's the whole state.
The web server glides on pure inertia. The libraries are not much less work than rolling your own. Their documentation is a joke.
Which leads me to a question:
Does time define cessium electron's frequency, or does cessium electron defines what time is?
And those laws of physics are, in turn, premised on the concept of time, which is non too simple or clearly defined, measured with clocks that are constructed based on the physics, which, in turn..
No, I'm not knocking it. In the end, we accept it (time, clock accuracy, the whole physics) as long as it works when thrown up against the wall called nature.
The subject of clock accuracy brings up the nature of time, and more I think about it, more a rabbit hole it becomes in my mind.
Thanks for the replies - they were informative.
Thanks for the reply.
In an overly simplified nutshell, we are averaging out whole lot of stuff with circular dependencies, because, given the nature of the concept that is time, that has been the best we can do, and it seems to hold up reasonably well?
What is the reference clock against which other clocks are measured?
Yes. I've got bitten by bed bugs twice in my life, once abroad and once in America, and both times it woke me up in the middle of night, leading me to catch the pest in the act.
They are about quarter inch long, dark, very visible and recognizable, especially against white hotel sheets.
See subject.
Most of them will be wrong. Half of them will be "not even wrong".
I would mod this up if I had points.
Those things are irrelevant in Python because Python's "types" are defined by what they actually do, not what they declare to do.