Similar to this guy, I've noticed local vendors selling the 40-pin fiber drives. I have a 40mb/sec raid array going right now and have been looking for a cheap solution to upgrade my array. These drives seemed like a dream come true but digging deeper I found out that, without a very expensive fabric switch, I'd have to settle with arbitrated loop which, if the circuitry of the drives went down (which more often the platters do, but just the off chance that the circuitry could), then any form of raid array would be out of commission. I'd already seen a site that showed how to make the 40-pin cables from athlon overclocking devices, but yours looks like a much cleaner solution. Has anybody had the opportunity to plug your drives into a regular ethernet hub and seeing if they work? I believe hubs work at the data-link layer so it does some packet analysis for CSMA collision detection so I doubt it'd work, but I'm curious if it does.
Is it just me or does it seem like Tim can't site specific examples for Director Q? Tim argues "How would you feel if a lawyer was able to patent an argument?" Director Q gave a very satisfactor reply that if it were filed properly through all the proper channels then it should be patentable and whomever patents it should be able to collect royalties. The problem with the whole Amazon one-click shopping thing is not the idea, but how many people are ill-informed about what is patentable. The physical action of pressing your finger to the mouse button on a html link is not patentable, and even if it were, there would be millions of pages of prior art out there you could send in to rebuff that patent. What is patentable is the process that is used to store and retrieve customer information. From here we have the issue, are data structures patentable, and is the process patentable if Amazon is claiming the usage of a database server a part of their patent. Perhaps they can patent the interface to that database as long as no prior art shows that a technologically similar interface was designed previously. The basic problem is computer people don't spend enough time and resources to protect their interests. When there are children with medical conditions no-one has seen before doctors flock across the world offering their services for free to cure the child because #1) the child is paying with the possibility of their life and/or the lives of others beyond them, #2) because it brings prestige upon the doctor and could help them establish a clinic to treat the very same disease in the future, and for the knowledge. Why aren't computer people doing the same? Who here has actually examined the Amazon.com one-click patent? What exactly is it that they're patenting? You may find out that this patent is not so preposterous as it seems on the surface. Try going to WWW.USPTO.GOV, go under the patents section and the searchable database, Term 1: Amazon.com, Field 1, Assignee Name, then see 6,029,141 Internet-based customer referral system. My first qualm is Amazon trying to patent the idea of a shopping cart? If so, I'm sure every one of you could send the patent office examples of prior art. Next, are they trying to patent using html links? By what I can tell here they are patenting the algorithms/cataloging system used to extract the data from the system, but also trying to patent the abstract system itself. Probably a good question to ask Director Q. is about previous legal battles over the Dewey Decimal system (I'm sure somebody down the road tried to patent it). Is something like that system patentable and if so what arguments have been used for and against it in the past. Lets try to learn from history here. Another issue is if I'm allowed to patent an equation (or system), what draws the line between innovating from the idea and coming up with something original, and somebody just using algorithm+-some_constant which is obvious plagiarism. This is where computer philosophers need to come together and figure something out and I personally don't think Tim O'Reily has anywhere near the communication skills to devise a system of distinguishing what makes an origional idea on both a system and code level and present this to the patent office. If after that route has been taken and no action is taken THEN it is time to vye for the services of a lobbyist who IS politically savy in patent reform. For the sake of all developers out there I hope somebody is able to step to the plate who is knowledgeable of computers, government, and holds the interests of the greatest example of communism in history. The Internet.
With the full release of quake3 I've personally found it very easy to jump on a server and get 30 frags with most people not ever reaching 0 and I'm a very mediocre player. Let me put it this way....some people are just that good that it would surprise you, they're goading you (the "secret" is called skillz). You'll be surprised and amazed when you're flying through the air and they're able to follow the path of your body with frightening precision.
Um....I may not be a mathematical genius but wouldn't e^(pi*i)-1=0 be a bloated way of saying i=0? I don't know what i stands for, unless its the set of imaginary numbers, but I do know pi is a non-zero constant.
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Anybody know if there's anybody hacking anything out for any PDA devices?
Most people play games to win. In order to win you need to practice. In order to practice you need to quit your job and play full time.
I currently hold a patent on the idea of an idea. If anybody out there has ideas, you must pay royalties to me. Money is okay, blood is preferred.
Didn't Nostradamous say he'd wear a turben? Didn't he say a huge nation would be undermined by his operations?
Similar to this guy, I've noticed local vendors selling the 40-pin fiber drives. I have a 40mb/sec raid array going right now and have been looking for a cheap solution to upgrade my array. These drives seemed like a dream come true but digging deeper I found out that, without a very expensive fabric switch, I'd have to settle with arbitrated loop which, if the circuitry of the drives went down (which more often the platters do, but just the off chance that the circuitry could), then any form of raid array would be out of commission. I'd already seen a site that showed how to make the 40-pin cables from athlon overclocking devices, but yours looks like a much cleaner solution. Has anybody had the opportunity to plug your drives into a regular ethernet hub and seeing if they work? I believe hubs work at the data-link layer so it does some packet analysis for CSMA collision detection so I doubt it'd work, but I'm curious if it does.
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Is it just me or does it seem like Tim can't site specific examples for Director Q? Tim argues "How would you feel if a lawyer was able to patent an argument?" Director Q gave a very satisfactor reply that if it were filed properly through all the proper channels then it should be patentable and whomever patents it should be able to collect royalties. The problem with the whole Amazon one-click shopping thing is not the idea, but how many people are ill-informed about what is patentable. The physical action of pressing your finger to the mouse button on a html link is not patentable, and even if it were, there would be millions of pages of prior art out there you could send in to rebuff that patent. What is patentable is the process that is used to store and retrieve customer information. From here we have the issue, are data structures patentable, and is the process patentable if Amazon is claiming the usage of a database server a part of their patent. Perhaps they can patent the interface to that database as long as no prior art shows that a technologically similar interface was designed previously. The basic problem is computer people don't spend enough time and resources to protect their interests. When there are children with medical conditions no-one has seen before doctors flock across the world offering their services for free to cure the child because #1) the child is paying with the possibility of their life and/or the lives of others beyond them, #2) because it brings prestige upon the doctor and could help them establish a clinic to treat the very same disease in the future, and for the knowledge. Why aren't computer people doing the same? Who here has actually examined the Amazon.com one-click patent? What exactly is it that they're patenting? You may find out that this patent is not so preposterous as it seems on the surface. Try going to WWW.USPTO.GOV, go under the patents section and the searchable database, Term 1: Amazon.com, Field 1, Assignee Name, then see 6,029,141 Internet-based customer referral system. My first qualm is Amazon trying to patent the idea of a shopping cart? If so, I'm sure every one of you could send the patent office examples of prior art. Next, are they trying to patent using html links? By what I can tell here they are patenting the algorithms/cataloging system used to extract the data from the system, but also trying to patent the abstract system itself. Probably a good question to ask Director Q. is about previous legal battles over the Dewey Decimal system (I'm sure somebody down the road tried to patent it). Is something like that system patentable and if so what arguments have been used for and against it in the past. Lets try to learn from history here. Another issue is if I'm allowed to patent an equation (or system), what draws the line between innovating from the idea and coming up with something original, and somebody just using algorithm+-some_constant which is obvious plagiarism. This is where computer philosophers need to come together and figure something out and I personally don't think Tim O'Reily has anywhere near the communication skills to devise a system of distinguishing what makes an origional idea on both a system and code level and present this to the patent office. If after that route has been taken and no action is taken THEN it is time to vye for the services of a lobbyist who IS politically savy in patent reform. For the sake of all developers out there I hope somebody is able to step to the plate who is knowledgeable of computers, government, and holds the interests of the greatest example of communism in history. The Internet.
With the full release of quake3 I've personally found it very easy to jump on a server and get 30 frags with most people not ever reaching 0 and I'm a very mediocre player. Let me put it this way....some people are just that good that it would surprise you, they're goading you (the "secret" is called skillz). You'll be surprised and amazed when you're flying through the air and they're able to follow the path of your body with frightening precision.
Um....I may not be a mathematical genius but wouldn't e^(pi*i)-1=0 be a bloated way of saying i=0? I don't know what i stands for, unless its the set of imaginary numbers, but I do know pi is a non-zero constant.