Here's an interview with Hans Camenzind, the said desinger of the 555. I thought this part was interesting:
There are no patents on the 555. Signetics did not want to apply for a patent. You see, the situation with patents in Silicon Valley in 1970 was entirely different than it is now. Everybody was stealing from everybody else. I designed the 555 Signetics produced it, and six months, or before a year later, National had it, Fairchild had it, and nobody paid any attention to patents. The people at Signetics told me they didn't want to apply for a patent, because what would happen if they tried to enforce that patent, is the people from Fairchild would come back with a Manhattan-sized telephone book and say "These are our patents, now let's see what you're violating". It was a house of cards - if you blew on it, the whole thing collapsed.
Really, few of us can imagine the incredible skill and knowledge required to consistently perform such a difficult job, on such a big stage, night in night out. Especially with that electro-shock device built into your belt pack being remotely operated by the Sternmeister.
Other courtside systems with proprietary software synch up with compact belt packs worn by the referees, who automate clock stoppages by blowing their whistles. Yeah those belt packs are amazing - especially the virtual reality part that lets NBA Refs see those game changing fouls that all the TV cameras and fans somehow miss.
If there isn't really a bandwidth problem though..
then this is just a fabricated excuse to encourage the idea that some types of 'usage' are most expensive to provide than others... which then ends up with an internet equivalent of long-distance phone charges. And look what a profit center that has been for the telcos, even though there is really no such a thing as long distance any more.
Sounds like a nice example of management desire to tie in charges-per-use is taking priority over unimportant stuff like app performance. Maybe we'll be proven wrong.
Minor details like feasibility and civil rights don't really come into it. It's about who can come up with neat sounding proposals in order to get the penpushers to give you a hand-out from things like the 14bn 6th Framework fund. But don't hold your breath if you're expecting a real-world working system anytime soon.
I'd be interested to know if that is really true..
I notice that when I pay for purchases with CC at the grocery store, the coupons that then print out relate to a general trend of recent purchases I have made, and may have no relevance to the items purchased in that case. I'm far more inclined to believe the store is tracking you by CC number.
It's not like the CC company isn't falling over itself to try and sell every possible data about you to all comers anyway.
"The CMVP does not provide information regarding the status or reason as in many cases it may be proprietary"
Could someone explain how a flaw discovered in public source code is "proprietary"?!
Are they saying they can't tell anyone what's wrong with it because it would reveal some sort of flaw in SSL to 'terrorists'? Will this stand up to the Freedom of Information Act?
And then.. if the developers via divine intervention determine what the problem is, does this mean they can't put comments in the open source describing it?!
A new TCP/IP stack might mean a whole new set of support problems as all those third party antivirus and spyware apps have to start again ironing out compatibilty problems with their LSPs. Oh what joy.
they would support an open source project to get Word formats supported in Open Office. This ploy may succeeed in diverting talent from working on support for DOC/OpenXML in FOSS office apps, which would be far more desirable IMHO.
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Here's an interview with Hans Camenzind, the said desinger of the 555. I thought this part was interesting:
There are no patents on the 555. Signetics did not want to apply for a patent. You see, the situation with patents in Silicon Valley in 1970 was entirely different than it is now. Everybody was stealing from everybody else. I designed the 555 Signetics produced it, and six months, or before a year later, National had it, Fairchild had it, and nobody paid any attention to patents. The people at Signetics told me they didn't want to apply for a patent, because what would happen if they tried to enforce that patent, is the people from Fairchild would come back with a Manhattan-sized telephone book and say "These are our patents, now let's see what you're violating". It was a house of cards - if you blew on it, the whole thing collapsed.
Is this her?
If so, good but a little way to go yet :)
At what point does centralizing and/or delegating operational authority over so much of our lives become a dangerous practice of its own?
When it can kill your conne%?DE
NO CARRIER
I stand corrected.
Really, few of us can imagine the incredible skill and knowledge required to consistently perform such a difficult job, on such a big stage, night in night out. Especially with that electro-shock device built into your belt pack being remotely operated by the Sternmeister.
If there isn't really a bandwidth problem though..
then this is just a fabricated excuse to encourage the idea that some types of 'usage' are most expensive to provide than others... which then ends up with an internet equivalent of long-distance phone charges. And look what a profit center that has been for the telcos, even though there is really no such a thing as long distance any more.
This seems reasonable in principle.. but it should be made clear in the contract exactly what you are paying for.
There could ultimately be different subscription rates for how fast you want different types of traffic to go.
The problem is the issue of snooping on traffic and comcast being able to reliably decide what traffic is what class.
From TFA:
"The RIAA has denied any wrongdoing and has moved for dismissal of the lawsuit."
Hurdles, hurdles..
Reminds me a bit of those little fans for blowing smokers' pollution back in their faces.
Perhaps restaurants need to evolve to having 'no cellphone areas'.
Sounds like a nice example of management desire to tie in charges-per-use is taking priority over unimportant stuff like app performance. Maybe we'll be proven wrong.
It seems like the ease of solving this problem is proportional to the probability of Dennis Kucinich becoming president.
Don't you mean the Masshole?
Minor details like feasibility and civil rights don't really come into it. It's about who can come up with neat sounding proposals in order to get the penpushers to give you a hand-out from things like the 14bn 6th Framework fund. But don't hold your breath if you're expecting a real-world working system anytime soon.
You mean like this?
I'd be interested to know if that is really true..
I notice that when I pay for purchases with CC at the grocery store, the coupons that then print out relate to a general trend of recent purchases I have made, and may have no relevance to the items purchased in that case. I'm far more inclined to believe the store is tracking you by CC number.
It's not like the CC company isn't falling over itself to try and sell every possible data about you to all comers anyway.
I guess in NASA standard units, one Tomato Seed = 2 nano-WashingMachines
"The CMVP does not provide information regarding the status or reason as in many cases it may be proprietary"
Could someone explain how a flaw discovered in public source code is "proprietary"?!
Are they saying they can't tell anyone what's wrong with it because it would reveal some sort of flaw in SSL to 'terrorists'? Will this stand up to the Freedom of Information Act?
And then.. if the developers via divine intervention determine what the problem is, does this mean they can't put comments in the open source describing it?!
Rediculous.
A new TCP/IP stack might mean a whole new set of support problems as all those third party antivirus and spyware apps have to start again ironing out compatibilty problems with their LSPs. Oh what joy.
they would support an open source project to get Word formats supported in Open Office. This ploy may succeeed in diverting talent from working on support for DOC/OpenXML in FOSS office apps, which would be far more desirable IMHO.
D) we'll see Vista capable machines that don't have Vista preloaded
Interesting to see if the intelligence that has closed the box will at some point become enlightened enough to free it up again.