The story gives a completely wrong impression. Have a look at this FFII news: EU Parliament Votes for Real Limits on Patentability - the fact is, the majority voted for drastic changes of the directive and against the original draft - so actually this is very good for all of us opposing patentability of software.
Hey editors, please change the story so that not everybody claims we european get a US-like patent law system, this is (not yet) the case!
The story gives a completely wrong impression.
Have a look at this story from the german magazine Heise (german, sorry) - the fact is, the majority voted for drastic changes of the directive and against the original draft - so actually this is very good for all of us opposing patentability of software.
Hey editors, please change the story so that not everybody claims we european get a US-like patent law system, this is (not yet) the case!
I had the chance chatting with one of the developers at the Ericsson CeBIT fair booth last year and i could try this nifty gadget by myself - pretty impressive, allthough there were some problems with the bluetooth link, IIRC.
He told me about the plans to share the pen technology with various companies but to make money on licensing the paper/pattern to e.g. makers of PostIts, etc - primarily.
Funny side-note, i first read about this technology in a BurgerKing magazine three years ago..
Do you think Bruce Perens will be legally charged for violating the DMCA when he performes his proposed actions
at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego?
So i've set up a quick vote script to gather your opinion:
to me it makes not much sense to ditribute mp3 encoding (of a single file) over a network, as it can be done fast enough today IMHO- what really matters is encoding large numbers of tracks , which in fact can be done quite easily using some little perl scripts & NFS, each system/CPU could process a single wave file.. have a look at my "spoon" (@ freshmeat) for simple workload distribution. xris
thttpd, a small web server for linux (~7000 lines source) should easily outperform the iis on the mindcraft "benchmark" due to its non forking behaviour. See the comparison chart on this page.
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FM: First Mirror :-)
http://farcaster.net/sco.html
The story gives a completely wrong impression. Have a look at this FFII news: EU Parliament Votes for Real Limits on Patentability - the fact is, the majority voted for drastic changes of the directive and against the original draft - so actually this is very good for all of us opposing patentability of software.
Hey editors, please change the story so that not everybody claims we european get a US-like patent law system, this is (not yet) the case!
The story gives a completely wrong impression. Have a look at this story from the german magazine Heise (german, sorry) - the fact is, the majority voted for drastic changes of the directive and against the original draft - so actually this is very good for all of us opposing patentability of software.
Hey editors, please change the story so that not everybody claims we european get a US-like patent law system, this is (not yet) the case!
I had the chance chatting with one of the developers at the Ericsson CeBIT fair booth last year and i could try this nifty gadget by myself - pretty impressive, allthough there were some problems with the bluetooth link, IIRC.
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He told me about the plans to share the pen technology with various companies but to make money on licensing the paper/pattern to e.g. makers of PostIts, etc - primarily.
Funny side-note, i first read about this technology in a BurgerKing magazine three
years ago
Hi, i just wondered what the ./ crowd might think:
So i've set up a quick vote script to gather your opinion:
Tell me me what you think!
To clarify things a bit: the question is not if he should be charged, but if you think he will be charged.I think calling "microbes" "earbuds" is a bit out of proportion (literally) - or did i miss an episode? :-)
..i thought there had been the discovery of a 10th planet called "rupert"?! - or am mixing up fiction and reality again?
regards, xris
to me it makes not much sense to ditribute mp3 encoding (of a single file) over a network, as it can be done fast enough today IMHO-
what really matters is encoding large numbers of tracks , which in fact can be done quite easily using some little perl scripts & NFS, each system/CPU could process a single wave file.. have a look at my "spoon" (@ freshmeat) for simple workload distribution.
xris
thttpd, a small web server for linux (~7000 lines source) should easily outperform the iis on the
mindcraft "benchmark" due to its non forking
behaviour. See the comparison chart on this page.