There are many sugestions posted, here. But I have always taken the approach that we don't need more of the same. We don't need more programming languages or librarys or classes. What we need is are fixes for the big broken problems.
Electronic Voting is badly broken, I have mailclad, on sourceforge and web site mailclad.com using almost the same underly concepts and technology there is Decash, electronic cash and a new scheme for Anti-spam I will most likely put up at maildr.com or unmailable.com that I am planning to start working on in a serious way.
Find a real problem that pushes the boundries of technology, or solves real world needs and work on it. It helps if it's something that interests you or directly effects you also. SPAM has been a irritation for me personally for many years.
I was also thinking maybe someone could start a project to slowly replace each sub-components in Q-Mail one at a time until there would be an entirely new work alike package that would be under a much better software liscence(BSD/GPLx) and could be better maintained.
I'd love it if someone would join my afterburner web server project also on sourceforge and update that code, and make it more Linux friendly.
The single threaded server engine in there has made an excellent video server and chat server for me in the past. I'd like to make a simple yet fast mail server using it also. Or maybe some gaming servers. RTP/RTSP video server would also be a great addition, all the video on cell phone people would love something better then Darwin Streaming server that is resource heavy.
I also have some New Operating system concepts I'd love to see coded up, but I had resigned myself to only work on profitable ventures since I an tired of being strapped for cash all the time. But if anyone want's to carry that torch, i'd be happy to point out some amazing ideas.
Like Multitouch, multi HID/ Mice and users on one screen. No OS supports more then one focus and one pointing device at a time. Both Windows and X are very deeply hardwired internally for just one cursor/pointer. Why? Why can't I connect two keyboard and two mice and have color code each pair so two users share a desktop? Think about this one, there are some rather large ramifications for that.
It has on several occasion done just that. In the cast with the First byte patent on Digital audio for PC internal speaker, Activision paid me to help overturn that patent. But in that cast I had posted code to CompuServe that kept an unbiased date and time stamp. http://www.dnull.com/zebraresearch/
Being able to document the inventions date is very important, even when it is released into the public domain. If you can not produced evidence as to when you released it into public or even came up with it privately, then it's will not be valid evidence for overturning a patent.
In a later case US patent 6,108,703, August 22, 2000 the so-called "Leighton-Lewin patent", which cover a "two-level DNS" method used by both Akamai and Digital Island to route web traffic to edge-of-network caches.
I have well documented proof and could clearly show that a company Digital Island acquired a company that had copied that technology, because I had a CoLo server hosted at there site from 1995 to 1998, and the patented technology years later was nearly identical.
There is a long paper trail, I had tried to file this patent on two seperate occasions one with a California corp NetSYS inc. in 1994 and again later under another California corp DVT (Digital Video Technology) inc, were the technology was actually deployed at 40 CoLos globally for first and largest adult video network at that time in 1995 to 1998. Pussycat.net and later vidx.com We supplied for recorded video feeds to 2500 of the top adult video sites on the net using my Livecam video, we were delivering almost 600Mbps of video 24/7. We called this SDSN - (Symmetrically distributed server network).
I contacted both parties that I had Prior Art, since it's a Civil suit, and both wanted control over the IP and not to have it in Public Domain like my patents that failed to be competed had done. Both parties didn't want to hear anything about my prior art, very deliberately choosing to not be aware of it.
There are several other stories like this, but I'd have to fish through many past E-mails to detail them.
I find most legal wrangling is lots of posturing and bluffing, much more poker then logic. If they know your not bluffing or have a trump card they will fold.
I hardly invented everything, but was just in the right place working on the right things. You can see links to many of these things on my home page and sites. If you really want proof I can even dig up the original patent fillings on these things.
Even now, I have work I am doing for electronic cash, electronic voting, Anti SPAM by using Electronic postage stamps, earthquake detection and early warning, video streaming on cell phones, several Linux kernel drivers. VIVI currently in linux kernel/
Oh and I have videotechnology.com that specializes in all things video, So I am going a project for SDI, developed several DVR software packages for customers, and I am importing and reselling stuff from china, and trying to learn Mandarin right now.
This happens because I am the guy a lot of people call when they need help on anything technical or with physics mathematics and many other things. In the course of helping people I have to learn very quickly new things and because of my multidisciplinary background, I tend to come up with many new and novel solutions.
I have done stuff with Arthur C. Clarke, Timothy Leary, Leonardo Dicaprio, Chuck Moore, Sun microsystems, Wells fargo (I registed there domain too), Nikon, NASA, The governments of Uruguay, Sri Lanka, Korea and Tahiti.
So thank a lot for modding me down. I'll be sure to return the favor some day.
VC's are very easy to spook. There rational often defy common logic that any technical person would normally use. Like with my afterburner(on sourceforge) when I mentioned that the server is heavily optimized and therefor used much less computing power for the same task. VC's reply was why, there is no advantage? Computers are getting faster (Moore's law), there is no advantage in optimization of software! After that reply I was just stunned, stupefied and left speechless. Later I realized my comeback should have been, yes and my server will always be faster then the competition. Anyhow if you haven't guess yet, language isn't my strong point.
I have lost count at how many ways there are for the little guy to loose inventions and IP.
If a patent is open publicly before it's finalized, the is almost a certainty that a competitor will run with it faster and with more money and then a small unfunded startup. This is because they know there is a good chance the will drive the startup out of business and walk away scott free.
Once something like that happens like this to your little startup your dead. It still takes something like $3000 to finish the filing on your own, but usually that money would be well out of reach for someone who's credit maxed out and there FICO score is rapidly approaching 450 with negative checking account balance.
This is the usual state of affairs for most founders with out rich daddy's after a large company steals from a very small pre-revenue startup.
In my case with the CDN, patents pending and system running, but a large competitor replicated the patent pending technology and took customers, I found myself living homeless in the company office 3 months behind on rent and water turned off after pouring over $100,000 of my own cash into the company.
At that point even a modest amount such as $3000 was just way out of reach and the patent filing dates expired.
More recently, I had Nisvara.com 2002 to 2005 now silentcomputing.com . We had incredible technology, again I put every last dime I had into and was working full time so there were no other sources of income. Same with several other founders.
Someone who was brought in help manage and raise money, just decided to file papers with the state claiming he owned the whole company! We had done everything right and by the book with large law firms, so his attempt was repelled, but
a $500,000 grant from the California Energy commission was lost, all the VC's scattered, the main law firm quit instead of helping. The law firm doing patent filings also bailed when hearing there was a conflict and demanded we pay $75000 debt to them and began filling legal actions against us. One by one I watched the 3 patents I had worked so hard for go down the toilet as the final filing dates passed without the money and knowledge to compete the filings.
IBM recently reinvented one of our patents that improves thermal heat transfer, I mean it so close to what we had I could cry. Our filed patent had predated theirs, but since we ran out of cash, we don't have a patents and there is little we can do about it now.
I could have saved these patents with about $10K but I was too busy working full time and digging myself out of a mountain of debt I had accumulated getting the company going. Partly this was based on the arrival of the $500K grant that we had already been awarded so I expected to be able to repay my loans, so the the other founders.
The fellow to tried to steal the company was able to empty what ever was left in the company checking account. He knew the original founders were just too low cash personally to be able to go after him.
So he just walked away. The company is stuck in a useless zombie state, a possible a tax l
I haven't read this all that closely,
But the idea of having my Intellectual property / invention read through by peers / possible competitors before my patent goes through is the worst thing that you can do to a small unfunded startup.
This would kill of the next google before then even get out the starting gate.
Basically I have some software / algorithms that I have been working on for almost 10+ years, Code is developed and I am ready to build a product and get some funding to launch the company. Investors want and need to see patent protection. I have indeed done all of the hard work, but if this it shared before I get my patent fully filed, then
some group of students or Microsoft could through a small army of coders at developing a competing product before I even get funded. I will then be unable to raise funding because M$ is doing it already and therefor will be unable to raise the cash to finish my patent filings or defend the patent.
It is already hard enough as it is, I should know, I have attempted to file about 20 patents of the past 15 years and not one ever made it all the way through because of lack of fund, or someone attempting to take over the company, or M$ putting out press releases and faked demos that were flat out lies.
At this point my plans were to file patents before taking to investors or releasing products, and do this without professional patent attorneys that have eaten up almost $300K with not 1 completed patent to show for it.
But if these patent get publicly dispersed before I even get my patent filed, well I am just dead before I even start.
In the past I had the first and largest content distribution network 1994 and running from (1995 to 1998), Caching servers, Error Correction over IP, QOS, Firewall penetration schemes, Streaming audio over IP 1987, streaming video over IP 1989, the whole concept file sharing P2P 1989 and of live P2P streaming 1994,Dynamic Rate control for video streaming encoders and many more things that all fell apart for one reason or another.
And some of these attempted patents that fell apart are now the core of several billion dollar companies that I have nothing at all to do with.
As a small entrepreneur the system is already slanted heavily against me. This would really just kill any aspirations for me.
And before you criticize, I have shared plenty of this in open source and published papers, usually only after it has lost commercial value for me though.
With my ECIP protocol we were doing that for video distribution in 1996 and 1997 with the largest network of adult video.
www.ecip.com
I called is server based routing, were a cluster of servers would keep tabs on each others status and network communication quality.
How much latency and loss between each node.
Then when a message was to be sent, they could try direct or go around the blockage by reflecting packets off a series of servers.
Packets would also be split of across multiple paths.
Specifically we had 3 T1 lines at our source site. The end was a user on a PC, we had 40 servers in 40 Co_Lo's on as varied and different backbones as possible.
ECIP would carry the video from the main site with live entertainment to the 40 servers.
End users would get directed via HTML to the server they had the best connection with an then livecam video www.livecamserver.com would be sent to them.
This as also used for several live video streaming events with Arthur C. Clarke. From Sri Lanka and ECIP
was able to get video out over a very bad and over congested 64K line that provided all Internet to Sri Lanka in 1997. http://www.dnull.com/~sokol/clarke.html
It's called Everland. It's really close to Disney land, but everything it just altered just a tad.
It's a small world ride for example had almost the same music but with a few off notes, and the message was removed.
Also they had the whole electric light parade in it's entirety, I mean actual White Americans that use to work at the real Disney land, doing almost the exact same thing but in Korea. Really freaked me out.
I wish every country would allow open inspections like this. Hacker here is just a buzz word, but basically it's an open invitation for all security experts and amatures to inspect and search for hole and problems before commiting to a potentially flawed system.
This is trully the only way to ensure a secure system and also provide a level of confidence to the public that will need to trust it.
In the USA our systems are terrably flawed and there has been much evidence that they deliberately cover up security hold problems and evidence of outright election fraud. www.mailclad.com
I spend three years working on a server solution that used various oil's, solvents and water in tubes to cool servers, we also had a silient computer http://www.silentcomputing.com/http://www.silentcomputing.com/i.html There is also some Super high thermal conductive Materials we called Bridges in there. All stock Motherboards and cards. If you get any ideas from the Photo's please remember to credit me.
In 2001 to 2004 No investors would touch anything with fluids in the server room. Also the Corperate IT guys were also rejecting it outright.
Ducted Air was getting more promise.
At this time there is no reason to Wet all of the electronic with Oil, talk about a messy unmanagable solution. I friend of my actually built one, but you still have problems with the hard drives and you still need to circultate the oil just as with fans. Also beyond a certain point, you would still need to have heat exchangers (radiators) to cool the oil with outside air, and possible a compressor based chiller too.
At Nisvara, we had developed and prototyped systems with Fluid cooling, phase change fluid cooling, ducted air and chilled water as well as a total silent desk top system that didn't require any moving fans cooling components and just based on thermal conduction using High termal conductivity materials.
We had figured out how to build a fluid cool server room that wouldn't need any air conditioning even in 130F outside air tempteratures. Again using all off the shelf computer components and could be 100% sure of no fluid leakage into the system. So everything stayed cool, quiet and easy to service, even easier then the conventional designs used now. Almost had a contract with NASA Ames ARC center to build a 1000 server clusted that use the technology.
Anyhow the company is mostly dead at this time, I'd be happy to collaborate with anybody interested in still persuing this technology.
The Modern Incandescent blub is really based on the research and patents of Irving Langmuir who worked for General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York.
His invention of gas-filled incandescent lamp in patented in 1913 is the one we use today.
He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Langmuir's lamps gave up to 20 lumens per watt which was a very large improvement for that time.
Anyhow there is a whole back story where J.P. Morgan the main investor in the Edison General Electric company realized the Thomas Edison's Electric lightblub and DC current system was inferior, removed Edison from the company. Then aquired there biggest compeditor Thompson-Houston and changed the name to General Electric in 1892. Irving Langmuir was really the first true hard core scientist that went about perfecting electric lighting for the General Electric company.
Anyhow I am all for eliminating incandescents at this point and I do live in California.
RF lighting such as (Microwave-powered sulfur lamps) and LED lighting are the most efficient and make Compact Fluorescent lanps look just as obsolete as incandescents...
To communicate with the brain properly you need to interface with many individual neurons.
I keep seeing people talk about decypering these communications. That's not how it really works.
It may be possible to see some patterns, but to do it right, the computer side and the brain side need to adapt and learn together how to interract and communicate. Litterally the Brain grows new connection in the process of learning. Having Neurons grown on a chip in a dish and then have the whole thing implanted near the center of the brain you need to interface to would be the ideal way to do this, because the extermal grown neurons will have grown and learn how to interface to the chip and now those neurons will then adapt and grown with the brain's.
The chip that interfaces will also have to have a simulated neuron network that will also learn and adapt to eventually negotiate how to communicate with the brain.
Neuron's aren't like digital logic, no group of brain cells learn and grow the same way and any others, they are all unique and have to in some sense negotiate how to communicate messages with each other, using a reward and punishment system.
Most ISP are very reluctant to increase there capacity unless it's almost to the point where they are loosing customers.
Anything that drives services and network bandwidth forward and reduces it's cost is a wecome and wonderful thing.
It actually evens the playing field away from the New AT&T monopoly that controls almost all phone and cable TV today.
For the past 50 years the last mile has been the barrier keeping the Internet and any potential competition out of the game.
If google could change those rules so the last mile become ubiquitous and cheap, god bless them..
6 minutes, 200 miles. Is ~2000 MPH, but it's also going 95 miles up
I know this isn't the best way to look at it but figure 1/2 way is 100 mile and 95 up a2 + b2 = c2 so
it's 137 * 2 , up and down, so 274 so we are more like 2740 MPH.
But it's an ark so maybe more like 4000 MPH. to really cover the 200 Mile trip.
but then it would be essentially free falling from 95 miles upright?
Wouldn't it evenually hit a terminal velocity from air resistance?
And what about air resistance going up?
Does anyone know the math to figure out how fast it would be travelling on exit and impact?
How much energy is really imparted into the projectile? and how much is turned into heat at the gun site?
I know I am not up do doing the math without a week of research at the library, but my gut instinct tell me that anything far past the horizon (50 miles) would have little more impact then a small meteor falling down.. Right?
I spent 3 years from 2002 to 2005 working on a silent computing company, Nisvara. We had offices at NASA Ames, Moffet Field in Mountain View California. It seems like everyone loved what we had, Intel, Sun, ATI, HP, Siemens to name a few. None the less it ended up falling apart.
It's now dead, as one of the people we invited in to help manage thought he would just declare himself the owner just a week before we were to get a $500K grant from the California Energy Commission. When he failed he just trashed the company realizing founders (including myself) were left with nothing. He even managed to get GoDaddy to take the domain out of my name with forged corperate papers, it's been wedged since...
It really breaks my heart. We developed so many very cool prototypes and inventions for cooling computers.
One was using the Ionic Breeze technique to provide just a slight air flow, but it increases the efficiency of the heat sink but a large amount. Problem that they fail to mention is the heatsink really attracts dust, just like the ionic breaze, so you need to get in there with a brush quite often.
Below is a link to many of the prototypes I built. I don't have a photo of the ionic version, but it was just the desktop unit with the large aluminum heatsinks with a plastic duct/ shield was added and a set of fine wires was run across the bottom of the large aluminum heat sinks with -6000V DC on it. The aluminum heat sinks were grounded.
Worked great, but you wouldn't' want to stick your finger in there.
Also in the picture are water cooled prototypes, Carbon Fiber "bridges" that had a much higher thermal conductivity then copper and other misc stuff.
I am planning to add many more photo's, papers, data and schematics and open source the designs at this point...
I find my stuff copied and plagiarized all the time, and it's nearly impossible to enforce without a large budget for lawyers. From inventions to source code to writing.
More then I could ever possible list here, but I have come to realize it's in the nature of things.
So now big cooperate America are going to get even better at chasing stuff down and coming after everyone that even borrows a paragraph now. Using there intimidation tactics.
The place where it really gets interesting is then they steal your stuff and then threaten to sue you for copyright or patent infringement.
I know it sounds crazy till you have had it done to you several times.
Example. In 1985 I named my audio card product for the PC the "Sound Byte" showed it at a trade show then a few month later a very small competitor file for the trademark and had their lawyer send me a nasty letter. Being very broke, just out of high school and living off the sales of each audio card, I had to change my name to "audio byte"
Example 2. I released an com file of compiled assembly code to CompuServe of a program that played 6 bit digital audio out the PC's internal speaker. Several years later a company "First Byte" disassembled the code, and filed a patent on it.
At that time I was selling a sound library to game developers, they sent me a nasty letter. Then threatened several large game companies, Activation who also Disassembled my code and Borrowed it, contacted me and paid me to help then win their patent case.
But I was threatened a law suite for using my own invention!!!
Anyhow I guess that's enough pissing and moaning.
This system can tell when you copy from then, but not when they copy from you.....
This automated copyright enforcer is a dangerous thing.
Once you have a bi-directional UDP packet exchange going, (it's not a connection like TCP) but it is in some sense an unreliable connection.
You can then route TCP over it (grab packets from/dev/tap or/dev/tun) , or use a user space TCP stack connection or use something like my ECIP (http://www.ecip.com/) over it.
No nuclear is not inevitable... Using things like the Nanosolar solar cells or one of many other promising alternate power systems.
Solar, Wind, wave, geothermal, Bio-fuels etc, it possible to recharge your electric car without Coal, oil or Natural gas.
Actually for $30K you can power your whole house just fine off the grid even sell back electricity to power your neighbors and make money from the power companies.
So with an electric car, you'd just get that charged at home for free also without polution...
Now with home prices at $500K for a shack here is California what's another $30K for Solar Panels.
I am hardly fatalistic, But until there is a change of the guard, we are stuck.
It's not just Big Oil, is the Old wealthy monopolies.
No one here blinks an eye when anyown critisizes Microsoft, but the Food companyies, and Oil companies and just about all monopolies start using the goverment, legal and other questionable tacktics to kill off any possible new competing technologies.
The difference here is if Solar doesn't take off like it should, say because of Big oil, then we all pay a price with health problems, and global warming where with a company like Microsoft, we just have to put up with crappy software which is far less dangerous.
And how can you guys mark my post as off topic anyhow???? It's not.
I wish the real world would really work out like that.
Last night I watched the movie "Who killed the electric car?",
(Everyone should see it, along with and "Hacking Democracy", "Fahrenheit 911" and "An Inconvenient Truth").
In that movie, Texaco bought out the NiMH Electric car battery technology and killed it.
Then GM and Toyota took back all the EV1's and crushed them.
I wonder how long it will be before some Oil company buys up NanoSolar and kills them too.
The same thing happen over and over. It's the same group of Big Oil, Bush and friends, that are holding us back from progress in almost the same way
MA Bell had done 20 years ago before it's breakup. Most of you don't realize that the Internet, Unix and Video Confrencing was held back for decades by MA Bell.
It's not technology that moves us forward but the decisions of the Rich and Powerful to allow us to move foward.
Oh man, I had written a chat room in back 1996 using what I called server push Java Script and nobody paid much attention, although it was on many adult video chat sites. Example at http://www.videotechnology.com/chatroom.html
We did many of the same things using that technique that people are doing now in Ajax, interactive games, and database etc using it.
Suddenly some marketing guy calls it "Ajax", which is almost doing the same thing is all the rage.
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There are many sugestions posted, here. But I have always taken the approach that we don't need more of the same.
We don't need more programming languages or librarys or classes.
What we need is are fixes for the big broken problems.
Electronic Voting is badly broken, I have mailclad, on sourceforge and web site mailclad.com
using almost the same underly concepts and technology there is Decash, electronic cash and a new scheme for Anti-spam I will most likely put up at maildr.com or unmailable.com that I am planning to start working on in a serious way.
Find a real problem that pushes the boundries of technology, or solves real world needs and work on it. It helps if it's something that interests you or directly effects you also.
SPAM has been a irritation for me personally for many years.
I was also thinking maybe someone could start a project to slowly replace each sub-components in Q-Mail one at a time until there would be an entirely new work alike package that would be under a much better software liscence(BSD/GPLx) and could be better maintained.
I'd love it if someone would join my afterburner web server project also on sourceforge and update that code, and make it more Linux friendly.
The single threaded server engine in there has made an excellent video server and chat server for me in the past. I'd like to make a simple yet fast mail server using it also. Or maybe some gaming servers. RTP/RTSP video server would also be a great addition, all the video on cell phone people would love something better then Darwin Streaming server that is resource heavy.
I also have some New Operating system concepts I'd love to see coded up, but I had resigned myself to only work on profitable ventures since I an tired of being strapped for cash all the time. But if anyone want's to carry that torch, i'd be happy to point out some amazing ideas.
Like Multitouch, multi HID/ Mice and users on one screen.
No OS supports more then one focus and one pointing device at a time. Both Windows and X are very deeply hardwired internally for just one cursor/pointer. Why? Why can't I connect two keyboard and two mice and have color code each pair so two users share a desktop? Think about this one, there are some rather large ramifications for that.
It has on several occasion done just that.
In the cast with the First byte patent on Digital audio for PC internal speaker, Activision paid me to help overturn that patent.
But in that cast I had posted code to CompuServe that kept an unbiased date and time stamp.
http://www.dnull.com/zebraresearch/
Being able to document the inventions date is very important, even when it is released into the public domain. If you can not produced evidence as to when you released it into public or even came up with it privately, then it's will not be valid evidence for overturning a patent.
In a later case US patent 6,108,703, August 22, 2000 the so-called "Leighton-Lewin patent", which cover a "two-level DNS" method used by both Akamai and Digital Island to route web traffic to edge-of-network caches.
I have well documented proof and could clearly show that a company Digital Island acquired a company that had copied that technology, because I had a CoLo server hosted at there site from 1995 to 1998, and the patented technology years later was nearly identical.
There is a long paper trail, I had tried to file this patent on two seperate occasions one with a California corp NetSYS inc. in 1994 and again later under another California corp DVT (Digital Video Technology) inc, were the technology was actually deployed at 40 CoLos globally for first and largest adult video network at that time in 1995 to 1998. Pussycat.net and later vidx.com We supplied for recorded video feeds to 2500 of the top adult video sites on the net using my Livecam video, we were delivering almost 600Mbps of video 24/7. We called this SDSN - (Symmetrically distributed server network).
I contacted both parties that I had Prior Art, since it's a Civil suit, and both wanted control over the IP and not to have it in Public Domain like my patents that failed to be competed had done. Both parties didn't want to hear anything about my prior art, very deliberately choosing to not be aware of it.
There are several other stories like this, but I'd have to fish through many past E-mails to detail them.
I find most legal wrangling is lots of posturing and bluffing, much more poker then logic.
If they know your not bluffing or have a trump card they will fold.
I hardly invented everything, but was just in the right place working on the right things.
You can see links to many of these things on my home page and sites. If you really want proof I can even dig up the original patent fillings on these things.
Even now, I have work I am doing for electronic cash, electronic voting, Anti SPAM by using Electronic postage stamps,
earthquake detection and early warning, video streaming on cell phones, several Linux kernel drivers. VIVI currently in linux kernel/
Oh and I have videotechnology.com that specializes in all things video, So I am going a project for SDI, developed several DVR software packages for customers,
and I am importing and reselling stuff from china, and trying to learn Mandarin right now.
This happens because I am the guy a lot of people call when they need help on anything technical or with physics mathematics and many other things. In the course of helping people I have to learn very quickly new things and because of my multidisciplinary background, I tend to come up with many new and novel solutions.
I have done stuff with Arthur C. Clarke, Timothy Leary, Leonardo Dicaprio, Chuck Moore, Sun microsystems, Wells fargo (I registed there domain too), Nikon, NASA, The governments of Uruguay, Sri Lanka, Korea and Tahiti.
So thank a lot for modding me down. I'll be sure to return the favor some day.
VC's are very easy to spook. There rational often defy common logic that any technical person would normally use.
Like with my afterburner(on sourceforge) when I mentioned that the server is heavily optimized and therefor used much less computing power for the same task. VC's reply was why, there is no advantage? Computers are getting faster (Moore's law), there is no advantage in optimization of software!
After that reply I was just stunned, stupefied and left speechless. Later I realized my comeback should have been, yes and my server will always be faster then the competition. Anyhow if you haven't guess yet, language isn't my strong point.
I have lost count at how many ways there are for the little guy to loose inventions and IP.
If a patent is open publicly before it's finalized, the is almost a certainty that a competitor will run with it faster and with more money and then a small unfunded startup. This is because they know there is a good chance the will drive the startup out of business and walk away scott free.
Once something like that happens like this to your little startup your dead. It still takes something like $3000 to finish the filing on your own, but usually that money would be well out of reach for someone who's credit maxed out and there FICO score is rapidly approaching 450 with negative checking account balance.
This is the usual state of affairs for most founders with out rich daddy's after a large company steals from a very small pre-revenue startup.
In my case with the CDN, patents pending and system running, but a large competitor replicated the patent pending technology and took customers, I found myself living homeless in the company office 3 months behind on rent and water turned off after pouring over $100,000 of my own cash into the company.
At that point even a modest amount such as $3000 was just way out of reach and the patent filing dates expired.
More recently, I had Nisvara.com 2002 to 2005 now silentcomputing.com . We had incredible technology, again I put every last dime I had into and was working full time so there were no other sources of income. Same with several other founders.
Someone who was brought in help manage and raise money, just decided to file papers with the state claiming he owned the whole company! We had done everything right and by the book with large law firms, so his attempt was repelled, but
a $500,000 grant from the California Energy commission was lost, all the VC's scattered, the main law firm quit instead of helping. The law firm doing patent filings also bailed when hearing there was a conflict and demanded we pay $75000 debt to them and began filling legal actions against us.
One by one I watched the 3 patents I had worked so hard for go down the toilet as the final filing dates passed without the money and knowledge to compete the filings.
IBM recently reinvented one of our patents that improves thermal heat transfer, I mean it so close to what we had I could cry. Our filed patent had predated theirs, but since we ran out of cash, we don't have a patents and there is little we can do about it now.
I could have saved these patents with about $10K but I was too busy working full time and digging myself out of a mountain of debt I had accumulated getting the company going. Partly this was based on the arrival of the $500K grant that we had already been awarded so I expected to be able to repay my loans, so the the other founders.
The fellow to tried to steal the company was able to empty what ever was left in the company checking account.
He knew the original founders were just too low cash personally to be able to go after him.
So he just walked away. The company is stuck in a useless zombie state, a possible a tax l
I haven't read this all that closely,
But the idea of having my Intellectual property / invention read through by peers / possible competitors before my patent goes through is the worst thing that you can do to a small unfunded startup.
This would kill of the next google before then even get out the starting gate.
Basically I have some software / algorithms that I have been working on for almost 10+ years, Code is developed and I am ready to build a product and get some funding to launch the company. Investors want and need to see patent protection. I have indeed done all of the hard work, but if this it shared before I get my patent fully filed, then
some group of students or Microsoft could through a small army of coders at developing a competing product before I even get funded. I will then be unable to raise funding because M$ is doing it already and therefor will be unable to raise the cash to finish my patent filings or defend the patent.
It is already hard enough as it is, I should know, I have attempted to file about 20 patents of the past 15 years and not one ever made it all the way through because of lack of fund, or someone attempting to take over the company, or M$ putting out press releases and faked demos that were flat out lies.
At this point my plans were to file patents before taking to investors or releasing products, and do this without professional patent attorneys that have eaten up almost $300K with not 1 completed patent to show for it.
But if these patent get publicly dispersed before I even get my patent filed, well I am just dead before I even start.
In the past I had the first and largest content distribution network 1994 and running from (1995 to 1998), Caching servers, Error Correction over IP, QOS, Firewall penetration schemes, Streaming audio over IP 1987, streaming video over IP 1989, the whole concept file sharing P2P 1989 and of live P2P streaming 1994,Dynamic Rate control for video streaming encoders and many more things that all fell apart for one reason or another.
And some of these attempted patents that fell apart are now the core of several billion dollar companies that I have nothing at all to do with.
As a small entrepreneur the system is already slanted heavily against me. This would really just kill any aspirations for me.
And before you criticize, I have shared plenty of this in open source and published papers, usually only after it has lost commercial value for me though.
John
With my ECIP protocol we were doing that for video distribution in 1996 and 1997 with the largest network of adult video.
www.ecip.com
I called is server based routing, were a cluster of servers would keep tabs on each others status and network communication quality.
How much latency and loss between each node.
Then when a message was to be sent, they could try direct or go around the blockage by reflecting packets off a series of servers.
Packets would also be split of across multiple paths.
Specifically we had 3 T1 lines at our source site. The end was a user on a PC, we had 40 servers in 40 Co_Lo's on as varied and different backbones as possible.
ECIP would carry the video from the main site with live entertainment to the 40 servers.
End users would get directed via HTML to the server they had the best connection with an then livecam video www.livecamserver.com
would be sent to them.
This as also used for several live video streaming events with Arthur C. Clarke. From Sri Lanka and ECIP
was able to get video out over a very bad and over congested 64K line that provided all Internet to Sri Lanka in 1997.
http://www.dnull.com/~sokol/clarke.html
It's called Everland. It's really close to Disney land, but everything it just altered just a tad.
It's a small world ride for example had almost the same music but with a few off notes, and the message was removed.
Also they had the whole electric light parade in it's entirety, I mean actual White Americans that use to work at the real Disney land, doing almost the exact same thing but in Korea. Really freaked me out.
I wish every country would allow open inspections like this.
Hacker here is just a buzz word, but basically it's an open invitation for all security experts and amatures to
inspect and search for hole and problems before commiting to a potentially flawed system.
This is trully the only way to ensure a secure system and also provide a level of confidence to the public that will need to trust it.
In the USA our systems are terrably flawed and there has been much evidence that they deliberately cover up security hold problems and evidence of outright election fraud.
www.mailclad.com
John
I spend three years working on a server solution that used various oil's, solvents and water in tubes to cool servers, we also had a silient computer http://www.silentcomputing.com/ http://www.silentcomputing.com/i.html
There is also some Super high thermal conductive Materials we called Bridges in there. All stock Motherboards and cards.
If you get any ideas from the Photo's please remember to credit me.
In 2001 to 2004 No investors would touch anything with fluids in the server room. Also the Corperate IT guys were also rejecting it outright.
Ducted Air was getting more promise.
At this time there is no reason to Wet all of the electronic with Oil, talk about a messy unmanagable solution. I friend of my actually built one, but you still have problems with the hard drives and you still need to circultate the oil just as with fans. Also beyond a certain point, you would still need to have heat exchangers (radiators) to cool the oil with outside air, and possible a compressor based chiller too.
At Nisvara, we had developed and prototyped systems with Fluid cooling, phase change fluid cooling, ducted air and chilled water as well as a total silent desk top system that didn't require any moving fans cooling components and just based on thermal conduction using High termal conductivity materials.
We had figured out how to build a fluid cool server room that wouldn't need any air conditioning even in 130F outside air tempteratures.
Again using all off the shelf computer components and could be 100% sure of no fluid leakage into the system. So everything stayed cool, quiet and easy to service, even easier then the conventional designs used now.
Almost had a contract with NASA Ames ARC center to build a 1000 server clusted that use the technology.
Anyhow the company is mostly dead at this time, I'd be happy to collaborate with anybody interested in still persuing this technology.
String theory show the possiblity of creating new universes as well as the existance of other dimentions.
It could possibly be far easier to expand a civilization to other dimentions as well as newly created universes then explore our own vast universe.
John L. Sokol
The Modern Incandescent blub is really based on the research and patents of Irving Langmuir who worked for
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General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York.
His invention of gas-filled incandescent lamp in patented in 1913 is the one we use today.
He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Langmuir's lamps gave up to 20 lumens per watt which was a very large improvement for that time.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/lighting/bios/langm
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/92.html
Anyhow there is a whole back story where J.P. Morgan the main investor in the Edison General Electric company realized the Thomas Edison's Electric lightblub and DC current system was inferior, removed Edison from the company. Then aquired there biggest compeditor Thompson-Houston and changed the name to General Electric in 1892. Irving Langmuir was really the first true hard core scientist that went about perfecting electric lighting for the General Electric company.
Anyhow I am all for eliminating incandescents at this point and I do live in California.
RF lighting such as (Microwave-powered sulfur lamps) and LED lighting are the most efficient and make Compact Fluorescent lanps look just as obsolete as incandescents...
To communicate with the brain properly you need to interface with many individual neurons.
I keep seeing people talk about decypering these communications. That's not how it really works.
It may be possible to see some patterns, but to do it right, the computer side and the brain side need to adapt and learn together how to interract and communicate. Litterally the Brain grows new connection in the process of learning. Having Neurons grown on a chip in a dish and then have the whole thing implanted near the center of the brain you need to interface to would be the ideal way to do this, because the extermal grown neurons will have grown and learn how to interface to the chip and now those neurons will then adapt and grown with the brain's.
The chip that interfaces will also have to have a simulated neuron network that will also learn and adapt to eventually negotiate how to communicate with the brain.
Neuron's aren't like digital logic, no group of brain cells learn and grow the same way and any others, they are all unique and have to in some sense negotiate how to communicate messages with each other, using a reward and punishment system.
John
Most ISP are very reluctant to increase there capacity unless it's almost to the point where they are loosing customers.
Anything that drives services and network bandwidth forward and reduces it's cost is a wecome and wonderful thing.
It actually evens the playing field away from the New AT&T monopoly that controls almost all phone and cable TV today.
For the past 50 years the last mile has been the barrier keeping the Internet and any potential competition out of the game.
If google could change those rules so the last mile become ubiquitous and cheap, god bless them..
6 minutes, 200 miles. Is ~2000 MPH, but it's also going 95 miles up
I know this isn't the best way to look at it but figure 1/2 way is 100 mile and 95 up a2 + b2 = c2 so
it's 137 * 2 , up and down, so 274 so we are more like 2740 MPH.
But it's an ark so maybe more like 4000 MPH. to really cover the 200 Mile trip.
but then it would be essentially free falling from 95 miles upright?
Wouldn't it evenually hit a terminal velocity from air resistance?
And what about air resistance going up?
Does anyone know the math to figure out how fast it would be travelling on exit and impact?
How much energy is really imparted into the projectile? and how much is turned into heat at the gun site?
I know I am not up do doing the math without a week of research at the library, but my gut instinct tell me that anything far past the horizon (50 miles) would have little more impact then a small meteor falling down.. Right?
John
I spent 3 years from 2002 to 2005 working on a silent computing company, Nisvara. We had offices at NASA Ames, Moffet Field in Mountain View California. It seems like everyone loved what we had, Intel, Sun, ATI, HP, Siemens to name a few. None the less it ended up falling apart.
It's now dead, as one of the people we invited in to help manage thought he would just declare himself the owner just a week before we were to get a $500K grant from the California Energy Commission. When he failed he just trashed the company realizing founders (including myself) were left with nothing. He even managed to get GoDaddy to take the domain out of my name with forged corperate papers, it's been wedged since...
It really breaks my heart. We developed so many very cool prototypes and inventions for cooling computers.
One was using the Ionic Breeze technique to provide just a slight air flow, but it increases the efficiency of the heat sink but a large amount. Problem that they fail to mention is the heatsink really attracts dust, just like the ionic breaze, so you need to get in there with a brush quite often.
Below is a link to many of the prototypes I built. I don't have a photo of the ionic version, but it was just the desktop unit with the large aluminum heatsinks with a plastic duct/ shield was added and a set of fine wires was run across the bottom of the large aluminum heat sinks with -6000V DC on it.
The aluminum heat sinks were grounded.
Worked great, but you wouldn't' want to stick your finger in there.
Also in the picture are water cooled prototypes, Carbon Fiber "bridges" that had a much higher thermal conductivity then copper and other misc stuff.
I am planning to add many more photo's, papers, data and schematics and open source the designs at this point...
http://www.silentcomputing.com/i.html
I find my stuff copied and plagiarized all the time, and it's nearly impossible to enforce without a large budget for lawyers. From inventions to source code to writing.
More then I could ever possible list here, but I have come to realize it's in the nature of things.
So now big cooperate America are going to get even better at chasing stuff down and coming after everyone that even borrows a paragraph now. Using there intimidation tactics.
The place where it really gets interesting is then they steal your stuff and then threaten to sue you for copyright or patent infringement.
I know it sounds crazy till you have had it done to you several times.
Example. In 1985 I named my audio card product for the PC the "Sound Byte" showed it at a trade show then a few month later a very small competitor file for the trademark and had their lawyer send me a nasty letter. Being very broke, just out of high school and living off the sales of each audio card, I had to change my name to "audio byte"
Example 2. I released an com file of compiled assembly code to CompuServe of a program that played 6 bit digital audio out the PC's internal speaker. Several years later a company "First Byte" disassembled the code, and filed a patent on it.
At that time I was selling a sound library to game developers, they sent me a nasty letter. Then threatened several large game companies, Activation who also Disassembled my code and Borrowed it, contacted me and paid me to help then win their patent case.
But I was threatened a law suite for using my own invention!!!
Anyhow I guess that's enough pissing and moaning.
This system can tell when you copy from then, but not when they copy from you.....
This automated copyright enforcer is a dangerous thing.
Oh, sh*t I love it. Someone needs to really implement this....
Once you have a bi-directional UDP packet exchange going, (it's not a connection like TCP) but it is in some sense an unreliable connection.
/dev/tap or /dev/tun) , or use a user space TCP stack connection or use something like my ECIP (http://www.ecip.com/) over it.
You can then route TCP over it (grab packets from
http://www.ecip.com/fwdoc.htm
We had it in our one of our livecam video streaming product in 1997
It's not a bug but a feature.
Change != Progess
When will everyone learn this?
No nuclear is not inevitable... Using things like the Nanosolar solar cells or one of many other promising alternate power systems.
Solar, Wind, wave, geothermal, Bio-fuels etc, it possible to recharge your electric car without Coal, oil or Natural gas.
Actually for $30K you can power your whole house just fine off the grid even sell back electricity to power your neighbors and make money from the power companies.
So with an electric car, you'd just get that charged at home for free also without polution...
Now with home prices at $500K for a shack here is California what's another $30K for Solar Panels.
I am hardly fatalistic, But until there is a change of the guard, we are stuck.
It's not just Big Oil, is the Old wealthy monopolies.
No one here blinks an eye when anyown critisizes Microsoft, but the Food companyies, and Oil companies and just about all monopolies start using the goverment, legal and other questionable tacktics to kill off any possible new competing technologies.
The difference here is if Solar doesn't take off like it should, say because of Big oil, then we all pay a price with health problems, and global warming where with a company like Microsoft, we just have to put up with crappy software which is far less dangerous.
And how can you guys mark my post as off topic anyhow???? It's not.
I wish the real world would really work out like that.
Last night I watched the movie "Who killed the electric car?",
(Everyone should see it, along with and "Hacking Democracy", "Fahrenheit 911" and "An Inconvenient Truth").
In that movie, Texaco bought out the NiMH Electric car battery technology and killed it.
Then GM and Toyota took back all the EV1's and crushed them.
I wonder how long it will be before some Oil company buys up NanoSolar and kills them too.
The same thing happen over and over. It's the same group of Big Oil, Bush and friends, that are holding us back from progress in almost the same way
MA Bell had done 20 years ago before it's breakup. Most of you don't realize that the Internet, Unix and Video Confrencing was held back for decades by MA Bell.
It's not technology that moves us forward but the decisions of the Rich and Powerful to allow us to move foward.
>1996? JavaScript was barely out and buggy and crashy up the wazoo.
Yes it was. But we had it working fairly reliably overall. This was also working with my livecam server push jpeg video.
www.livecamserver.com
What's amazing is Microsoft deliberatly went out of there way to break the X-mixed-multipart we were using to get MS IE to play the video.
Oh man, I had written a chat room in back 1996 using what I called server push Java Script and nobody paid much attention, although it was on many adult video chat sites. Example at http://www.videotechnology.com/chatroom.html
We did many of the same things using that technique that people are doing now in Ajax, interactive games, and database etc using it.
Suddenly some marketing guy calls it "Ajax", which is almost doing the same thing is all the rage.