I don't get that - what use are patents if you can't use them to shut out competitors (or at least charge an entry fee which is what RAMBUS are doing/attempting). I'm sure there must be a subtler distinction here that I'm missing out on...
They would have a little difficulty with prior art on that one. I think they really ought to be considering discovering a new letter which they could then copyright. I wonder what the smallest amount of information the US patent office would allow to be patented is. Maybe a truncated capital gamma - "A small section of the lower right quadrant of the intersection of a horizontal line and its perpendicular"
New computer arrives today - see user info for reason why I'm especially happy
Out of interest are there plans to allow the viewer to select the camera angles? We have some kind of limited service for this for football (en-us: soccer) over here in the UK.
Lets see Mr Troll, today I've earned my company £1000 net of my pay. But I've cost them £1.50 on personal calls. Oh no I don't conform. I must be sacked.
Do you know what code your bank uses? I've no idea what mine uses. It never even entered my mind to use it as one of the criteria for choosing it. Why the should I care?
I just had to try it out to see what the overhead of the various methods were. (I've never seen xargs before, so I had to have a play). I created a small file to search, a file doubling script to copy all the files in my test directory and I timed the three different propsed mechanisms for searching the files for a string. I tried up to
16384 files.
1: using xargs
2: using find -exec
3: using grep `find` [or actually $(find) in ksh, backquotes are deprecated...]
The results (in seconds) I got for each method, for a doubling number of files starting at 1 are
1: 0.03, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, 0.06, 0.11, 0.2, 0.36, 0.75, 1.4, 3
2: 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, 0.08, 0.14, 0.25, 0.48, 0.94, 2.1, 4, 7.8, 16, 32, 65, 129
3: 0.02, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02, 0.03, 0.03, 0.04, 0.07, 0.13, 0.21, 0.43, 0.82, 1.9
I'm using a Sun E450 with Solaris 8.
I couldn't get the third method to blow up even at 16384 files, I'm not sure if this is because the OS is complied at an obscene limit or that it does something cleverer.
The last method is about a third quicker than using xargs, though it is (seemingly) obvious that its going to break on some platforms. Both these methods are clearly superior to forking a grep for each file found. Plotting log graphs show that all the method scale in a similar way, even if they are a factor of 40 out in their efficiency.
My birthday is on Pearl Harbour Day, my Mums on the Challenger disaster day, any takers for 1st, 2nd October or 10th September for the rest of my family.
The whole point of any computer language is to get the friggin machine to do something. Maintabilty is a desirable extra I'll admit but nice looking code that does fuck all is pretty useless.
Well I can make 5 easily distinguishable signs with each finger and three with my thumb giving 5^4 * 3 - 1 = 1874 potential hours or just over 10 hours a day over that six month period. Well aren't you just the mould breaker.;-|
I don't know why I'm replying to such an obvious troll, but such a stupid idea is currently unpatentable in the UK (and the rest of the EU I believe), both because its moronic and because you can't patent software here at the moment. The UK patent office was recently consulting about opening this sort of patent up. More details, including the address to send to can be found here (the consulting period may well be over now)
Lets see, anyone can create a page - about anything - there is no central control - people may later catalogue them and collate them its the. So its basically the web (well Internet) but with a GPL. (I wonder if it could be patented...)
When you say Ohm's Law, don't you mean "Ohm's statement the physicists have deigned to grant legal status too, but will be mighty pissed if you try and pass your own observations off with the same grandeur"
Not that I'm suggesting anything, but if this restriction is a bad thing (TM) for for freedom, how about us non-US citizens start taking an interest in WHOIS spidering.
Do you have details of how you added the ethernet? Were the tables already running a *nix under the covers that you can shell into, or is it a more custom hack? Any other arcade machines you fancy having a go at?
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I don't get that - what use are patents if you can't use them to shut out competitors (or at least charge an entry fee which is what RAMBUS are doing/attempting). I'm sure there must be a subtler distinction here that I'm missing out on...
Graduate? A ten year old could figure out this was wrong if couched in the correct metaphor.
For the first time ever that I use these three letters, its actually literaly true...
LOL
Thank you
They would have a little difficulty with prior art on that one. I think they really ought to be considering discovering a new letter which they could then copyright. I wonder what the smallest amount of information the US patent office would allow to be patented is. Maybe a truncated capital gamma - "A small section of the lower right quadrant of the intersection of a horizontal line and its perpendicular"
New computer arrives today - see user info for reason why I'm especially happy
Out of interest are there plans to allow the viewer to select the camera angles? We have some kind of limited service for this for football (en-us: soccer) over here in the UK.
The Irish put an E in it, how thoughtful.
With apologies to Ally McCoist.
2 × 4 = 128
Oh no I've broken the basis that mathematics is built on again, thats the third time this week.
Not since I lost all the pages between giraffe and tuberculosis.
Cue trombone and cymbal sting.
Lets see Mr Troll, today I've earned my company £1000 net of my pay. But I've cost them £1.50 on personal calls. Oh no I don't conform. I must be sacked.
Twat.
I don't know of any CIO's sending out panicked staffers scouring for "low power servers - Transmeta if you can get 'em!"
Me neither, but that could be an extension of not knowing any CIOs period.
That was not supposed to be a swipe at your use of apostrophes. I believe it may even be acceptable to use them with acronyms
I need a breathalyzer on my submit button
CPU and video card power management would be far less worrysome
You have a video card in your server? What a ponce.
{\endsarcasm}
MySQL Error: Server shutdown in progress
So this is progress?
Do you know what code your bank uses? I've no idea what mine uses. It never even entered my mind to use it as one of the criteria for choosing it. Why the should I care?
Financial Organisations will do anything they can get away with to make money, if that means free software they will go for it.
I just had to try it out to see what the overhead of the various methods were. (I've never seen xargs before, so I had to have a play). I created a small file to search, a file doubling script to copy all the files in my test directory and I timed the three different propsed mechanisms for searching the files for a string. I tried up to 16384 files.
1: using xargs
2: using find -exec
3: using grep `find` [or actually $(find) in ksh, backquotes are deprecated...]
The results (in seconds) I got for each method, for a doubling number of files starting at 1 are
1: 0.03, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, 0.06, 0.11, 0.2, 0.36, 0.75, 1.4, 3
2: 0.03, 0.04, 0.05, 0.08, 0.14, 0.25, 0.48, 0.94, 2.1, 4, 7.8, 16, 32, 65, 129
3: 0.02, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02, 0.03, 0.03, 0.04, 0.07, 0.13, 0.21, 0.43, 0.82, 1.9
I'm using a Sun E450 with Solaris 8. I couldn't get the third method to blow up even at 16384 files, I'm not sure if this is because the OS is complied at an obscene limit or that it does something cleverer. The last method is about a third quicker than using xargs, though it is (seemingly) obvious that its going to break on some platforms. Both these methods are clearly superior to forking a grep for each file found. Plotting log graphs show that all the method scale in a similar way, even if they are a factor of 40 out in their efficiency.
I think you meant lay off, but somehow lawoff seems appropriate too.
My birthday is on Pearl Harbour Day, my Mums on the Challenger disaster day, any takers for 1st, 2nd October or 10th September for the rest of my family.
I've got to say that anderson is particularly satisfying, no #defines and I still can barely understand a character of it...
The whole point of any computer language is to get the friggin machine to do something. Maintabilty is a desirable extra I'll admit but nice looking code that does fuck all is pretty useless.
Well I can make 5 easily distinguishable signs with each finger and three with my thumb giving 5^4 * 3 - 1 = 1874 potential hours or just over 10 hours a day over that six month period. Well aren't you just the mould breaker. ;-|
I don't know why I'm replying to such an obvious troll, but such a stupid idea is currently unpatentable in the UK (and the rest of the EU I believe), both because its moronic and because you can't patent software here at the moment. The UK patent office was recently consulting about opening this sort of patent up. More details, including the address to send to can be found here (the consulting period may well be over now)
Lets see, anyone can create a page - about anything - there is no central control - people may later catalogue them and collate them its the. So its basically the web (well Internet) but with a GPL. (I wonder if it could be patented...)
When you say Ohm's Law, don't you mean "Ohm's statement the physicists have deigned to grant legal status too, but will be mighty pissed if you try and pass your own observations off with the same grandeur"
Not that I'm suggesting anything, but if this restriction is a bad thing (TM) for for freedom, how about us non-US citizens start taking an interest in WHOIS spidering.
Do you have details of how you added the ethernet? Were the tables already running a *nix under the covers that you can shell into, or is it a more custom hack? Any other arcade machines you fancy having a go at?