His case is, in my not actually a lawyer opinion, completely bogus. The patent would likely be tossed out. Eventually. The catch is, it'd take ~5 million to do so, and he's probably more than happy to settle for 3 million. This is the very nature of patent trolling.
Yes and no. 32 bit windows has a mode called PAE, It will let you acces sa ful 4 gigs of RAM and then deal with video (and other hardware) memory separately. The catch is, hardware compatibility with pae mode windows is fairly low, since a lot of hardware manufacturers don't test their drivers in pae mode.
I'd actually expect plenty of good ideas from undergrads. I had plenty myself, some of which got picked up by others later (dunno if from me or someone else with similar ideas) Ideas are a dime a dozen, they're worth even less if you don't have the knowledge and skill to back them up.
"Communication between components, such as pointing devices, microphones, displays, printers, and the occasional keyboard, uses short-distance wireless technology."
All of these except displays are common place. And despite the pointlessness, people continue to buy wireless network printers and sit them 3 feet from the router despite this. Technically even displays are possible, you can get short range retransmission devices for televisions (meant to hook cable up to an entire household with one output).
All and all he's very good about predicting technology, and very bad at predicting what people want.
I'm certainly in favor of reducing copyright, but renewals every two years? So it should cost a no name author thousands of dollars over the course of the copyright, even with a modest fee, to retain the hope of both getting published and getting payed for it?
28+28 was fine, that gave us 86% (real figure, instead of pulled out of my ass) of everything within a semi reasonable amount of time, and kept the associated costs down.
I very much doubt that most people are seeing the ads. Most people do not even know its possible to block them. Certain demographics (IE, nerds) are going to block them in real numbers of course, but I can't imagine there's much money in marketing to nerds anyway (or/. would be worth a hell of a lot more than it is right now).
As for my part, I finally got adblock when shitily coded ads started causing crashes after Flash 10 was released. I actually like seeing ads, since I sometimes get the really bizarre stuff, but I have to be able to load the page.
BTW, Your denigration of Police officers may speak more to your personal experience with them than to their collective character. It suggests that they have arrested you more than once for something... drugs, wife beating, child abuse, peddling, theft, burglary? Which is it?
In small towns and villages, officers are usually respected members of the community, and chosen for that reason. In larger metropolitan areas (except L.A, Chicago, and other areas of high political corruption) putative officers are culled with a variety of physical, mental and emotional examinations, or failure to meet training standards. Those that meet the tests put their lives on the line to protect you and your property to the best of their ability on salaries that most people like you would refuse to work for. While police work is most often very boring it is, as many have noted, punctuated with short period of extreme fear, as I can personally attest.
I've known a lot of cops, I've had them in my home after I was robbed, been taught by them, befriended them, been arrested by them, been assaulted by them. The good ones will be the first to tell you you're full of shit. Oh, the other posters will tell you its because cops are sociopaths who became cops for power, and sometimes thats true, but for the most part cops are your average dipshit, with a badge, a gun, and a lot of stress.
Most people suck, cops suck more because people like you let them get away with it.
AMD processors are usually faster per GHz (for the ranges AMD actually sells in anyway). 20-40% (depending on the generation of processor you compare, Intel keeps narrowing the gap) better at floating point operations, much faster connection to the rest of the system (this is the one that matters for Vista), same speed per ghz at most other tasks. Smaller L2 cache as a tradeoff though. Some Intel processors, especially notebook ones are particularly bad at Vista, since Vista tends* to bottleneck with an FSB slower than 1066 MHz. Of course, the 6750 doesn't have that problem, (1333 on the FSB) so its not your processors fault.
*SP1 may have fixed this, I didn't get a chance to play with it on a low end Intel processor after it came out.
Why not? If ISPs don't get to extort money from websites, then websites don't get to extort money from ISPs.
As far as the DOS prevention tools problem goes, net neutrality has always had similar issues, the proponents just don't want to listen to anything thats wrong with their simple solution.
It's meant to be an excuse to toss people into jail when they slip up. It'll either be unenforced but used to toss someone in jail when the prosecutor has a bug up his ass over someone otherwise innocent, or be unevenly punished across racial/class/whatever strata.
Nearly the entirety of US law is built for this purpose.
Now you're just trolling. Windows share declined overall, claiming Vista did well is like only looking at share increases for intrepid ibid and nothing else.
Linux share increases 30% over the course of a year and this is supposed to be bad?
A second note on those numbers, Market Share is fairly accurate, but gives are North American specific numbers, worldwide you see more linux and less mac (though about the same windows)
Even with Bilski and prior art on the table, the judge isn't supposed to toss invalid patents out the door, instead leaving it up to the patent office to accept a challenge. Which would cost NCSoft millions to have done.
Actually, i heard about a rider that would have allowed open source development work to be tax deductible. If that went through an accountant might be key to getting management to say yes.
It's not even cherry picking. The article doesn't go into any more depth than the summary does, Now word of what the complications causd by it being commercial are. As far as I can tell, they're just pissy they don't have source code for it.
OSX might be a bad counter example to use though, since OSX has a fee associated with it, and giving a program away for free and selling it for cash are two entirely different business models, open source works for one much better than the other.
You are aware that there are around 15 million pedophiles in the United States?
Being attracted to children does not make a man a child molester any more than being attracted to women makes a man a rapist, he also has to be deranged enough to not care about the victim.
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His case is, in my not actually a lawyer opinion, completely bogus. The patent would likely be tossed out. Eventually. The catch is, it'd take ~5 million to do so, and he's probably more than happy to settle for 3 million. This is the very nature of patent trolling.
Yes and no. 32 bit windows has a mode called PAE, It will let you acces sa ful 4 gigs of RAM and then deal with video (and other hardware) memory separately. The catch is, hardware compatibility with pae mode windows is fairly low, since a lot of hardware manufacturers don't test their drivers in pae mode.
I'd actually expect plenty of good ideas from undergrads. I had plenty myself, some of which got picked up by others later (dunno if from me or someone else with similar ideas) Ideas are a dime a dozen, they're worth even less if you don't have the knowledge and skill to back them up.
"Communication between components, such as pointing devices, microphones, displays, printers, and the occasional keyboard, uses short-distance wireless technology."
All of these except displays are common place. And despite the pointlessness, people continue to buy wireless network printers and sit them 3 feet from the router despite this. Technically even displays are possible, you can get short range retransmission devices for televisions (meant to hook cable up to an entire household with one output).
All and all he's very good about predicting technology, and very bad at predicting what people want.
I'm certainly in favor of reducing copyright, but renewals every two years? So it should cost a no name author thousands of dollars over the course of the copyright, even with a modest fee, to retain the hope of both getting published and getting payed for it?
28+28 was fine, that gave us 86% (real figure, instead of pulled out of my ass) of everything within a semi reasonable amount of time, and kept the associated costs down.
I very much doubt that most people are seeing the ads. Most people do not even know its possible to block them. Certain demographics (IE, nerds) are going to block them in real numbers of course, but I can't imagine there's much money in marketing to nerds anyway (or /. would be worth a hell of a lot more than it is right now).
As for my part, I finally got adblock when shitily coded ads started causing crashes after Flash 10 was released. I actually like seeing ads, since I sometimes get the really bizarre stuff, but I have to be able to load the page.
Nah, they just started selling product to sex shops instead. Buggy whips will hold out till they finally finish outlawing anything remotely fun.
Not a word on broadcast TV about Bill Ayers (an unrepentant bomber of the Pentagon and murderer who got free on a technicality).
Being framed by the FBI is a technicality?
BTW, Your denigration of Police officers may speak more to your personal experience with them than to their collective character. It suggests that they have arrested you more than once for something... drugs, wife beating, child abuse, peddling, theft, burglary? Which is it?
In small towns and villages, officers are usually respected members of the community, and chosen for that reason. In larger metropolitan areas (except L.A, Chicago, and other areas of high political corruption) putative officers are culled with a variety of physical, mental and emotional examinations, or failure to meet training standards. Those that meet the tests put their lives on the line to protect you and your property to the best of their ability on salaries that most people like you would refuse to work for. While police work is most often very boring it is, as many have noted, punctuated with short period of extreme fear, as I can personally attest.
I've known a lot of cops, I've had them in my home after I was robbed, been taught by them, befriended them, been arrested by them, been assaulted by them. The good ones will be the first to tell you you're full of shit. Oh, the other posters will tell you its because cops are sociopaths who became cops for power, and sometimes thats true, but for the most part cops are your average dipshit, with a badge, a gun, and a lot of stress.
Most people suck, cops suck more because people like you let them get away with it.
AMD processors are usually faster per GHz (for the ranges AMD actually sells in anyway). 20-40% (depending on the generation of processor you compare, Intel keeps narrowing the gap) better at floating point operations, much faster connection to the rest of the system (this is the one that matters for Vista), same speed per ghz at most other tasks. Smaller L2 cache as a tradeoff though. Some Intel processors, especially notebook ones are particularly bad at Vista, since Vista tends* to bottleneck with an FSB slower than 1066 MHz. Of course, the 6750 doesn't have that problem, (1333 on the FSB) so its not your processors fault.
*SP1 may have fixed this, I didn't get a chance to play with it on a low end Intel processor after it came out.
Ideally, more than one the UN+ a local country competing would be better than either on their own.
Why not? If ISPs don't get to extort money from websites, then websites don't get to extort money from ISPs.
As far as the DOS prevention tools problem goes, net neutrality has always had similar issues, the proponents just don't want to listen to anything thats wrong with their simple solution.
Keep in mind that business systems are almost exclusively IE, if you only look at home users IE might be down below 50% by now.
Office 2007 means the training cost is just as high for office now though.
While its true there are situations where CFLs don't work economically, that has nothing to do with why people don't buy them.
People are stupid, and would rather save 5 dollars every time they buy lightbulbs than buy them less often.
"Wow. Two stories about state governments run by idiots on Slashdot today alone. That has to be some kind of record...."
It is a record, its just a record low.
It's meant to be an excuse to toss people into jail when they slip up. It'll either be unenforced but used to toss someone in jail when the prosecutor has a bug up his ass over someone otherwise innocent, or be unevenly punished across racial/class/whatever strata.
Nearly the entirety of US law is built for this purpose.
Now you're just trolling. Windows share declined overall, claiming Vista did well is like only looking at share increases for intrepid ibid and nothing else.
Linux share increases 30% over the course of a year and this is supposed to be bad?
A second note on those numbers, Market Share is fairly accurate, but gives are North American specific numbers, worldwide you see more linux and less mac (though about the same windows)
Sadly it is irrelevant.
Even with Bilski and prior art on the table, the judge isn't supposed to toss invalid patents out the door, instead leaving it up to the patent office to accept a challenge. Which would cost NCSoft millions to have done.
Actually, i heard about a rider that would have allowed open source development work to be tax deductible. If that went through an accountant might be key to getting management to say yes.
Linux can infact run windows viruses, sometimes. Some trojans are WINE compatible. I have one on file that I pulled off a friends system.
Check it again after ntp sends the change signal to your system (do you even have NTP on?).
I don't expect anything different, but the experiment is somewhat useless at the moment.
It's not even cherry picking. The article doesn't go into any more depth than the summary does, Now word of what the complications causd by it being commercial are. As far as I can tell, they're just pissy they don't have source code for it.
OSX might be a bad counter example to use though, since OSX has a fee associated with it, and giving a program away for free and selling it for cash are two entirely different business models, open source works for one much better than the other.
You are aware that there are around 15 million pedophiles in the United States?
Being attracted to children does not make a man a child molester any more than being attracted to women makes a man a rapist, he also has to be deranged enough to not care about the victim.