I take it you don't know what they charge for shipping in Germany. I'm thinking it might be a better idea if >23420 of us would send them 0.2 German Marks worth in the smallest available coins (whichever coin is in use in your country).
Hmm, in my simple pocket dictionary, "illustrator" is listed as a noun under 'illustrate'. Which I guess would mean 'somebody who illustrates' or 'something that illustrates'.
So, the US military can at any time decide it's time to switch the GPS to low-accuracy, making all GPS's jump around on the map, and suddenly all rental car drivers get charged en masse?
I'd say about as reliable as IIS, it works... until the next time it doesn't...
The Thompson patent claims are about the (a?) MP3 encoding method. That means that if you don't license from them, you can't encode MP3. Then it doesn't matter whether or not you're streaming or downloading, becuase you are not allowed to create the MP3 file to begin with.
Yes, I'd say Thompson is pulling a Rambus on us. It should never have made it into the ISO standard.
"that doesn't have some silly quote about what kind of AI feature it will enable."
Right on the mark. We'll hate it anyway (anybody want a dancing paperclip? "The new Pentium V chip will be fast enough for the a line-dancing and juggling paperclip." It's still a lousy annoying paperclip.
AI requires more than just fast transistors and 3D graphics.
And all stock people should remember why the big crash happened back in the 80s: Yes: Computer trading and all these automatic trading programs suddenly shouting 'sell sell' in chorus. Let's all not learn from the past and do that again, that was fun (irony).
"and there is really nothing inherently evil or wrong with it."
True, but if it's closed source commodity software, it will be replaced. Resistance is futile.
Re:Inventors, innovation, and money.
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The money, yes he talks about so much revenue being generated by 'companies'.
But really, the world exist of more companies than just software companies.
All that revenue that those software companies are generating is adding to the bottom line of all other companies (read: the grocery store on the corner, the sub shop, the movie theater, your telephone company, the producer of your bedlinnen, etc etc etc). So, commercial commodity software make all other things more expensive.
$175 billion in worldwide COST
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He says "produces $175 billion in worldwide revenues" forgetting that, for software customers, it generates $175 BILLION is worldwide additional operating cost, increasing prices for all non-software products by a total of...
Thank god we have the subdermal antiproton injector to synthesize the antidote to the disease that is threatening to kill everybody on that planet in two minutes! And we can use the deflector dish to receive more channels!
Nah, you won't have to upgrade after three years. You will simply have to pay again for what you already paid for three years earlier. Plus accept that they do not support your preferred old software anymore.
Just for people with a more CS oriented background: Consider Shannon's information theorem, given particular signal and noise levels and bandwidth, there is a fixed amount of entropy (=bits of information) that you can put through it.
Mr Larry Fullerton simply spreads out hist signal across a very wide bandwidth, stealing a little bit of entropy from each frequency. But since the spread is so wide it is only a very very little bit of entropy, such that current frequency-domain transmission systems will not notice a degradation. And since large parts of the spectrum that Larry's signals cover are still unused, he is 'stealing' entropy from a lot of frequencies where nobody is even using it, let alone be affected by the raised noise floor. Hence, he will be able to broadcast a lot of entropy (bits per second) without hampering any of the existing broadcast systems.
The bandwidth of Larry's system is still limited by the pulse slope of his chips and by signal distortion by his antenna's, hence the bandwidth his system covers is not infinite, hence at any bit rate, he will always raise the noise floor all over the spectrum when he transmits. And I'm sure that when he increases the bitrate of his transmitter enough, he is also increasing the amount of transmitted power without increasing the bandwidth of the tranmission, hence he is increasing the noise floor that the other communication systems will experience.
So, concluding: there will be a practical limit on how many bits you can transmit with that system, but I'm sure it can make the effectiveness of how we use our available air bandwidth a lot better.
I agree with HuskyDog's next to last statement though: A spread-spectrum technique with a sufficiently wide spreading achieves the same effect and should be capable of achieving the same level of efficiency. It could be though that Larry's chips will be smaller (read:cheaper) than a spread-spectrum chip trying to get the same bandwidth.
And then there is HuskyDog's point about the wide bandwidth antenna's... One of the reasons why occupied bandwidth per channel is limited is the fact that antenna's inherently have a maximum gain dependent on the structure of the antenna (segment sizes etc) and that the more wideband an antenna should be, the larger it gets and/or the lower the signal strength you get from it.
Obviously... I guess I was just finishing projects instead and using it as a productivity tool as it is intended...
The only annoying thing, the notes "RIP" thing, only occurs when installed together with some particular programs on windows. More of a Windows DLL management shortcoming than one of Notes.
FYI: I did write some scripts, with OLE, and also used Edit-Copy.
Yeah, and ipfwadmin, ipchains or ip/iproute2 that comes with any Linux installation plus the free download of for example snort to turn it into a real firewall.
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I take it you don't know what they charge for shipping in Germany. I'm thinking it might be a better idea if >23420 of us would send them 0.2 German Marks worth in the smallest available coins (whichever coin is in use in your country).
Hmm, in my simple pocket dictionary, "illustrator" is listed as a noun under 'illustrate'. Which I guess would mean 'somebody who illustrates' or 'something that illustrates'.
Sounds pretty generic to me.
It has to be!
The GPL coders taunt the ghosts by saying 'Bite me!'
Now, is Bill a ghost or a cherry?
And... reliable?
So, the US military can at any time decide it's time to switch the GPS to low-accuracy, making all GPS's jump around on the map, and suddenly all rental car drivers get charged en masse?
I'd say about as reliable as IIS, it works... until the next time it doesn't...
"I wonder if they pick randomly from the companies which buy their reports."
I wouldn't be surprised if they used the customer lists from the companies.
The Thompson patent claims are about the (a?) MP3 encoding method. That means that if you don't license from them, you can't encode MP3. Then it doesn't matter whether or not you're streaming or downloading, becuase you are not allowed to create the MP3 file to begin with.
Yes, I'd say Thompson is pulling a Rambus on us. It should never have made it into the ISO standard.
"that doesn't have some silly quote about what kind of AI feature it will enable."
Right on the mark. We'll hate it anyway (anybody want a dancing paperclip? "The new Pentium V chip will be fast enough for the a line-dancing and juggling paperclip." It's still a lousy annoying paperclip.
AI requires more than just fast transistors and 3D graphics.
And all stock people should remember why the big crash happened back in the 80s: Yes: Computer trading and all these automatic trading programs suddenly shouting 'sell sell' in chorus. Let's all not learn from the past and do that again, that was fun (irony).
"Does that mean that digital weapons (including virii and DoS attacks) are legal? Legal to have, but not to use... "
Just like a gun, only legal if you shoot it in the protected environment of a sandbox.
"and there is really nothing inherently evil or wrong with it."
True, but if it's closed source commodity software, it will be replaced. Resistance is futile.
The money, yes he talks about so much revenue being generated by 'companies'.
But really, the world exist of more companies than just software companies.
All that revenue that those software companies are generating is adding to the bottom line of all other companies (read: the grocery store on the corner, the sub shop, the movie theater, your telephone company, the producer of your bedlinnen, etc etc etc). So, commercial commodity software make all other things more expensive.
He says "produces $175 billion in worldwide revenues" forgetting that, for software customers, it generates $175 BILLION is worldwide additional operating cost, increasing prices for all non-software products by a total of ...
plus taxes.
"and to this day I still do not know how to lock the ports below 1024"
And now you do:
ipchains -I input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 1:1023 -p tcp -j DENY
ipchains -I input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 1:1023 -p udp -j DENY
Closes all incoming tcp connections and all incoming udp packets targeted to ports 1 through 1023 of your system.
It's not so hard, really.
Such as using MSWORD for documents on the web!
Geesh. The rest of the world uses html and pdf, but noooo, 'not invented here' reigns big time at Microsoft.
Thank god that that inferior OS I'm using has 'mswordview' to create a
Trek 3.14: Written by Douglas Adams: Absolutely Silly but Hilarious.
Thank god we have the subdermal antiproton injector to synthesize the antidote to the disease that is threatening to kill everybody on that planet in two minutes! And we can use the deflector dish to receive more channels!
Right!
And ditto away mission:
8b. Unknown character joins away mission. Character is promptly killed by aliens.
Did you read 'reusable finite-length key'?
"iteration period"
That's where it breaks down to needing an infinite key length for unbreakable encryption.
2**64 is still a finite amount of data to encrypt with that finite-length key.
Nah, you won't have to upgrade after three years. You will simply have to pay again for what you already paid for three years earlier. Plus accept that they do not support your preferred old software anymore.
Ideal for MS, 'money for nothing'.
did I say "less weakly"?
Oops typo.
s/less weakly/more weakly/
You're forgetting that Win95's limitations are a lot less weakly defined than Nature's Law(TM).
Try break Shannon's Theorem. Go on!
Go make a Perpetuum Mobile. Now?
Now make a lossless compression algorithm than compresses any file by 1 bit or more. Well?
Oh, how about a completely unbreakable encryption algorithm with a reusable finite-length key. Any succes?
If you claim to have succeeded with that, you're mistaken, or God Himself.
Very well said HuskyDog.
Just for people with a more CS oriented background: Consider Shannon's information theorem, given particular signal and noise levels and bandwidth, there is a fixed amount of entropy (=bits of information) that you can put through it.
Mr Larry Fullerton simply spreads out hist signal across a very wide bandwidth, stealing a little bit of entropy from each frequency. But since the spread is so wide it is only a very very little bit of entropy, such that current frequency-domain transmission systems will not notice a degradation. And since large parts of the spectrum that Larry's signals cover are still unused, he is 'stealing' entropy from a lot of frequencies where nobody is even using it, let alone be affected by the raised noise floor. Hence, he will be able to broadcast a lot of entropy (bits per second) without hampering any of the existing broadcast systems.
The bandwidth of Larry's system is still limited by the pulse slope of his chips and by signal distortion by his antenna's, hence the bandwidth his system covers is not infinite, hence at any bit rate, he will always raise the noise floor all over the spectrum when he transmits. And I'm sure that when he increases the bitrate of his transmitter enough, he is also increasing the amount of transmitted power without increasing the bandwidth of the tranmission, hence he is increasing the noise floor that the other communication systems will experience.
So, concluding: there will be a practical limit on how many bits you can transmit with that system, but I'm sure it can make the effectiveness of how we use our available air bandwidth a lot better.
I agree with HuskyDog's next to last statement though: A spread-spectrum technique with a sufficiently wide spreading achieves the same effect and should be capable of achieving the same level of efficiency. It could be though that Larry's chips will be smaller (read:cheaper) than a spread-spectrum chip trying to get the same bandwidth.
And then there is HuskyDog's point about the wide bandwidth antenna's... One of the reasons why occupied bandwidth per channel is limited is the fact that antenna's inherently have a maximum gain dependent on the structure of the antenna (segment sizes etc) and that the more wideband an antenna should be, the larger it gets and/or the lower the signal strength you get from it.
Agreed.
I can only hope that when I retire, I have surrounded myself with friends to do such things with all my sudden spare time too.
"... you haven't been using it."
Obviously... I guess I was just finishing projects instead and using it as a productivity tool as it is intended...
The only annoying thing, the notes "RIP" thing, only occurs when installed together with some particular programs on windows. More of a Windows DLL management shortcoming than one of Notes.
FYI: I did write some scripts, with OLE, and also used Edit-Copy.
Yeah, and ipfwadmin, ipchains or ip/iproute2 that comes with any Linux installation plus the free download of for example snort to turn it into a real firewall.
I sure hope that he knows a bit more what he's doing and uses SSH instead of telnet...