I think the short list of devices supported points out the lack of accelerated GFX support on many
Android devices.
Hardware vendors are missing the boat by forgetting that good hardware can make work for 50X
as many software folk as hardware folk. Closed hardware specifications do not help....
Some early versions of Android have no support for multiple cores yet MP hardware
was available. Many Samsung phones lack full support of the graphics hardware.
Without acceleration they were quick enough so ship it. Had they updated the OS
and drivers I would have stayed with Samsung but their lame hobbling of worthy hardware
(Samsung + AT&T) to push new hardware invited me to switch to a grey market phone
not from Samsung..
Most interesting is with a billion FB users this software will be seen by such a small fraction
of customer eyeballs that it is not worth discussing on its own merits. While they have
to start someplace it remains to be seen if the software is a pig that flies or just a pig
that eats battery and bandwidth.
Phone hardware is ill documented so even rooting a phone gives little opportunity
to improve the foundations. It only helps to remove cruft.... The likes of FB
and Google need to get after their hardware partners to step it up.
Get ear protection or move.
Full on over the ear ear protection combined with ear plugs but do not plug
the headphone in. Some of the best noise reduction systems are so good
that they have speakers inside to communicate with the aircraft or others
in the tank. Start with corded plugs. The cord is a reminder to visitors
that you want quiet.
Sound conducts through solids so your bones, head, skin will all conspire to breach
your cone of silence. You can build a six wall frame and cover and
fill the walls with sound proofing. There is a temptation to use materials
that are not fully fire safe so don't. You may find that a two wall L helps a
lot. Home Depot has products like Auralex 2 ft. W x 2 ft. L x 2 in. H Studiofoam Wedge Panels
that you can spend money on.
My dorm had this same problem Since it was old, small and central to campus
we asked for and got access to basement class rooms (needed a key) all night.
I can tell you that they were quiet and had the advantage of boards and chalk
to scribble notes on. In this modern world you might elect to take your ADHD card and
make such a request. Who knows they might say yes.
Some libraries have tiny little closet offices in the stacks for grad students. Check
that option too.
Stolen from the net:
Poly Urethane Foam Ear Plugs (Disposable)
Poly Urethane Foam Ear Plugs are the softest foam plugs available. They are available in a limited range of sizes because they are designed to be rolled into a thin cylinder, then inserted deeply into the ear canal where they expand to fit most ears. These plugs are very soft and so are a good choice for sleeping, studying, riding a motorcyle, attending the races, or when working on the job or around the house. Most are available with a neck strap (corded) to help keep them handy between uses. Most Urethane foam plugs are tapered, so they fit more comfortably and they have a thin smooth skin that helps them stay clean longer than PVC foam plugs.
MAX (NRR 33) (Average to Large)
LaserLite (NRR 32) (Average)
MaxLite (NRR 30) (Small to Average)
3-M 1100 (NRR 29) (Average)
EarSoft Yellow Neon Blast (NRR 32) (Average)
Sleep/Rest EAR plugs (NRR 32) (Average)
Diskless oh my... that tells me that they have a gosh-gob lot of memory.
I have never seen diskless clusters work very well. As soon as they
run close to using the system memory (very easy) they go sideways
down a GigE link. I have been wrong so sure -- go try it.
You will notice that all motherboards have mounting holes in about the
same place. Bolt them together and have at it. Airflow is a royal pain
to control without a chassis. Memory and other large packages in
the system often have air flow/cooling issues once the board leaves a
standard chassis. The closer together the boards the higher the
air flow velocity can be so that may prove to be a plus.
Also look at ROCKS clustering.
You can just stack what fits on shelves and benches then get started.
That will tell you if the performance is even close to your needs.
As you benchmark your codes you may find that more than N boxes
no longer provides any speedup and compacting boards together to
gain a couple U has little value.
Measure and Track AC power as well as cooling. These are not free and if you
can jump a couple generations the cost of upgraded hardware vanishes
when AC and cooling are considered. It may be that AC+cooling is a fixed
cost to you and thus a don't care. But measure...
Maybe, but this is why I would think China would be concerned if NK is able to throw a nuke even as far as Tokyo.
A single rocket delivering a nuke would incur such global wrath that only the thoughts of a deluded or mad man or group of men would consider it.
However a single or pair of nukes delivered in other ways at closer ranges scares the pants off me (YouTube video has been taken down).
China has some electric/diesel submarines that are so quiet and stealthy that those that worry are
very worried. Launching a cruse missile and vanishing is well within their capabilities. So far NC
has not built one that I know of but the machine manufacturing technology to build such a boat is not a big reach in
this modern world. Modern drug lords are building stealthy delivery submarines that more larger loads and
manage to escape detection quite often.
Container ships are another risk. A 40 foot container or pig has the size and weight capacity to
cause havoc both nuclear and conventional. A 40 foot container could carry 60K of HE.. not a
nuke but still enough to shut down a port. Just a matter of mislabeling and fusing. N.B. "Fat Man" weighed 10,000 pounds and annihilated nearly half of the city.
In another thread on another forum someone discussed the US disarming its nuclear arsenal. While I like
the idea of backing away from MAD, the little I know about this, the less sane it would be
to let fools or anyone else crack open the cases of the existing devices. In most cases making them
live falls in the class of "some assembly" required so leave the segregated bits segregated and
locked up for now. BTW: Even HE artillery falls in the class of some assembly required FWIW.
They said that the DEC CPUs wouldn't ALLOW bad drivers to crash the OS, if a poorly written driver misbehaved the CPU would not allow it to access memory addresses that it shouldn't.
That sounds easy but what does 'misbehaved' actually mean and how does the CPU know and keep track of that before the driver does something bad? In any case your suggestion would imply that Windows NT on Alpha would never BSOD, but it did.
The model of circles of protection also available on other processors permits fencing the activity of a device.
But this is not the default model in Linux and Unix so drivers need to be reconsidered, redesigned and rewritten.
Since hardware details including quirks are often hidden behind NDA this is harder to do than say.
It is harder if a device has an externall processor and can push DMA data to any memory. It is easier if the CPU side does
a pull DMA from buffers on the device. As with all drivers just say no to PIO.
Both very good CPUs. In fact, had Microsoft seized the initiative then, they could have had a 64 bit version of Windows long before AMD came out w/ x64. Also, had Silicon Graphics been less dogmatic about Unix and more open to making workstations like the Magnum that ran Iris visualization software on NT, Microsoft would today have had Windows 8 running fluently on MIPS based tablets or phones, w/ a rich suite of applications. Fact remains that Windows NT came out before Windows 95 even did, so Microsoft could have had Windows applications easily cross compiled for MIPS and Alphas.
But Win NT was running on some large MIPS based hardware boxes. SGI did this work...
I suspect the issue was that Micro$loth wanted too much of the intellectual property pie.
There was a nut of multi processing that was quite important and not to be given away.
So one might assume it was not an omission of engineering effort but the inability
of management to arrive at equitable to all terms.
The security model of WinNT was not too shabby A good policy could have given
any xNIX box a run for the money and picked up a lot of the slack left behind by VMS.
Had management moved forward then the landscape of computing in the business
world would be very different.
Company policy should mandate full system encryption and
yes individual file encryption. The policy should present a clear
policy and contact point for legal search requests.
Should you be asked to enter a password request then verify that paper has been served on your company.
Carry a hard copy of the company policy.
We hear time and time again that data of thousands of individuals is lost or at risk and this
includes govment agencies.
Even a personal laptop can contain HIPPA protected information that is covered by regulations and law.
HIPPA information is interesting in that it is compartmentalized yet managed like Classified/Secret/TopSecret data
and also requires training and background checks.
Trade secrets, pre-release copyright material, multi-party data like contracts can require notification
and involvement of the other parties domestic and international.
Do not forget there is a method and system to cache and encrypt large files via a cloud service
where the key to access the files is small compared to the data and is only available and accessed via an
encrypted VPN link. Simple extension to GIT, Mercurial and "repo" (etc.). Companies can change the
key and thus the key-hash to trigger a scrub of the data in a way that is not different than the entry
of a fail safe VPN/server access key, ssh connection, local media and removable media to include OCR decoding of text
from paper records recovered from digital camera images of text or some other common encoding bar code, or 2D code blocks
of any high school geometric shape or projection.
And the rubber stamps are being made as fast as the Gvment prints paper money.
This is not a bad thing mind you. One of the abundant problems is "secret" intrusion in
the lives of random folk based on trivial linkage on social graphs or the mining of common
key words to identify individuals of interest. We see how silly this can get as six year
old kids get taken to task for doodles or imaginary attacks by space aliens.
If you rotate "LOL" clockwise it looks like handgun, target, handgun. Oh my, expel the
child that types LOL. N.B. zero tolerance policy in schools is an obfuscation for intolerance.
Intolerance by the powers that be.... it does not teach negotiation, it does not teach listening,
it teaches bullying to the next generation of police men, teachers and others in positions of power.
All in all this is a good thing. I might note that Texas has real issues from the South
with fall out from the War on Drugs. The WoD has turned some border towns (both sides)
into war zones which is a bad thing. Knowing this, this move by Texas is a brave thing
in the defense of personal privacy and human rights.
Privacy and human rights brings me to R v. W and abortion. The recent law in Arkansas
inserts the gvment into the murky early days and weeks of pregnancy where natural abortion
and miscarriage is common and for many a too often sad outcome. R v. W with its anchor
in privacy lets a family keep the pain of a miscarriage in the family and out of criminal courts.
What does R v. W have to do with this subject... heck track anyone and flag those that stop at a location
that provides early prenatal care and yes abortion services free to the poor and slap them with
abortion law violations. Tie them up in court lay bare indiscretions, foolishness, rape victims, serious
medical genetic risks. Oh, and then release individuals from protective custody and suicide watch 15-30 weeks
later so the state does not have to pay medical bills for the prisoner.
There are numbers out on the net for 8" floppy's stuffed in an 12" pneumatic tube in and under Manhattan.
The real problem is WiFi limitations at home as well as the lack of endpoint buffers
and too many buffers in the routing path. All the packet inspection BS and traffic shaping
play havoc on the way IP traffic was designed to flow. Network buffers and buffer technology
are just broken.
I tried a lot of things to improve my networking service but DNS resolution games
and other network trickery get in the way.
It could be improved a lot but the p2p traffic that could much improve a network experience
is being abused and deprecated to the purposes of the man in the middle. The man in the
middle is doing a lot of things -- most of which we would go nuts on if we knew the full truth.
As a computer none of the durn things including my wonderful HP-41
did the job that can be done with Python.
Sadly the world of calculators if full of mandates that center around standardized tests
and classroom arithmetic. This will clog the pipe and remove innovation for decades more.
In round numbers 100 million over 8 years to 102 groups.
Compare and contrast this to the $$ that Al Gore is gathering about him up on Sand Hill Road. i.e. chump change.
Today it is clear that global climate and weather fundamental are more important than the Higgs.
Yet we, the world community, are unwilling to make this investment.
The science that I have looked at over the last 20 years gives me pause. I have seen computer runs
make projections decades in advance yet PI is fixed at 3.14 i.e. three digits. This researcher was concerned
that the 19th digit was not stable and wanted the compiler or hardware fixed.
Another researcher was concerned with an anoxic region of the ocean floor. What his research did show
was the ocean was attempting to sequester carbon but his financiers wanted a fishery. Sequestering carbon
may prove necessary but it often seen as less green than a festering fish farm.
The knee jerk reactionary regulations are focusing on deep pocket players not on high leverage
technology and policy. Follow the money here... this is where the trouble is.
Carbon tax is a lot like the rake off of the dealer at a casino. Not a player just collecting
a percentage of the value as it passes by. Worse the incentive is to increase the action
and increase the flow of carbon so their rake is richer. The odds in places like Reno and Vegas
are managed and regulated by the state. The goal of the regulators is to ensure tax revenue.
A side effect is to keep the games "honest".
It is interesting to me that the roulette game has extra "green" numbers "0" and sometimes "00"
to fuel the house. The house takes their cut and "marketing" attempts to increase the number
of players i.e. pray on the ignorant and ill educated. Any time I see a carbon-taxer use
the phrase "think green" I do. I think about the extra green numbers that are there ONLY to
shift the odds and enrich the house. The current legislative mind set would increase the
green action and change the game to add GREEN "000", "0000" and more to the game.
Now who can argue with increasing "GREEN" action.
Transparency of research, publishing data and computer codes is only part of the necessary game.
What if salt water was pumped into central Africa?
What if we banned ice breakers from 12 miles near the shore in the arctic.
What if we restricted warm Japan current water into the Bering Strait.
What if we had research teams and tools willing to be honest.
Too many monitors are being optimized for wide video content.
Programming tends to be tall pages of text.....
So, Look for a side by side pair... if you are a serious programmer.
If you are a serious web content programmer you need a mix.
Too much web content appears to be developed on monster
gaming systems not more modest displays that real people have.
35 USC 101: Patentable Subject Matter
"Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title."
That's the black letter law and has been for quite some time. Not saying it is right, or that the interpretations haven't been vastly overextended, but patents don't cover just inventions.
Oh bother... someone has been futzing with the word process.
There is an apparent corruption of the word process that confused a physical
process with a logical process. The process for making steel is not the
same as a process describing how to manage the making of steel.
Ask an atourney... Think like modern medicine. See a GP and make sure it is not something common and easy to sort out. A grand or less should cover it including a referral to the right folk. Save the "Lacking specific information and disclosure on your part to our knowledge we do not infringe directly or indirectly" letter for later.
If there is an income stream from the patent or other related records one could hunt for them in discovery.
If AT&T asserts there is no income in sworn documents then anyone making payments could stop and also demand refunds for the time frame of the sworn discovery. Disclosure of patent portfolio swaps involving this patent too....
Interesting patent. The list of technology I see very day that does this stuff is very long or the empty set.
I.e. You will also not be alone in this if it is valid in a random incarnation.
Do get qualified legal help. On first glance it is specific and demands both end points be identical.
If you have not disclosed the internals (whoops open source) there is no way you have violated
their patent unless you have an interoperability product.
If you have shipped product you are in a different boat than just getting ready to ship.
If you have venture cap kick it their way quickly.
Sure you should buy a Nikon D600 or digital back for a large format camera.
This light field thing is new and novel. New and novel to the degree that it is easy to see that sensor and post processing technology have room to improve.
It will take a while but this may prove to be the trick that solves the most common cell phone camera image errors.
The technology is flat out amazing.
Slashdot Mirror
Hardware vendors are missing the boat by forgetting that good hardware can make work for 50X as many software folk as hardware folk. Closed hardware specifications do not help....
Some early versions of Android have no support for multiple cores yet MP hardware was available. Many Samsung phones lack full support of the graphics hardware. Without acceleration they were quick enough so ship it. Had they updated the OS and drivers I would have stayed with Samsung but their lame hobbling of worthy hardware (Samsung + AT&T) to push new hardware invited me to switch to a grey market phone not from Samsung..
Most interesting is with a billion FB users this software will be seen by such a small fraction of customer eyeballs that it is not worth discussing on its own merits. While they have to start someplace it remains to be seen if the software is a pig that flies or just a pig that eats battery and bandwidth.
Phone hardware is ill documented so even rooting a phone gives little opportunity to improve the foundations. It only helps to remove cruft.... The likes of FB and Google need to get after their hardware partners to step it up.
Sound conducts through solids so your bones, head, skin will all conspire to breach your cone of silence. You can build a six wall frame and cover and fill the walls with sound proofing. There is a temptation to use materials that are not fully fire safe so don't. You may find that a two wall L helps a lot. Home Depot has products like Auralex 2 ft. W x 2 ft. L x 2 in. H Studiofoam Wedge Panels that you can spend money on.
My dorm had this same problem Since it was old, small and central to campus we asked for and got access to basement class rooms (needed a key) all night. I can tell you that they were quiet and had the advantage of boards and chalk to scribble notes on. In this modern world you might elect to take your ADHD card and make such a request. Who knows they might say yes.
Some libraries have tiny little closet offices in the stacks for grad students. Check that option too.
Stolen from the net:
Poly Urethane Foam Ear Plugs (Disposable)
Poly Urethane Foam Ear Plugs are the softest foam plugs available. They are available in a limited range of sizes because they are designed to be rolled into a thin cylinder, then inserted deeply into the ear canal where they expand to fit most ears. These plugs are very soft and so are a good choice for sleeping, studying, riding a motorcyle, attending the races, or when working on the job or around the house. Most are available with a neck strap (corded) to help keep them handy between uses. Most Urethane foam plugs are tapered, so they fit more comfortably and they have a thin smooth skin that helps them stay clean longer than PVC foam plugs.
MAX (NRR 33) (Average to Large)
LaserLite (NRR 32) (Average)
MaxLite (NRR 30) (Small to Average)
3-M 1100 (NRR 29) (Average)
EarSoft Yellow Neon Blast (NRR 32) (Average)
Sleep/Rest EAR plugs (NRR 32) (Average)
Just because I cannot type is no reason to name them. Just flame me for being a terrible cypest.
I have never seen diskless clusters work very well. As soon as they run close to using the system memory (very easy) they go sideways down a GigE link. I have been wrong so sure -- go try it.
You will notice that all motherboards have mounting holes in about the same place. Bolt them together and have at it. Airflow is a royal pain to control without a chassis. Memory and other large packages in the system often have air flow/cooling issues once the board leaves a standard chassis. The closer together the boards the higher the air flow velocity can be so that may prove to be a plus.
Also look at ROCKS clustering.
You can just stack what fits on shelves and benches then get started. That will tell you if the performance is even close to your needs.
As you benchmark your codes you may find that more than N boxes no longer provides any speedup and compacting boards together to gain a couple U has little value.
Measure and Track AC power as well as cooling. These are not free and if you can jump a couple generations the cost of upgraded hardware vanishes when AC and cooling are considered. It may be that AC+cooling is a fixed cost to you and thus a don't care. But measure...
Maybe, but this is why I would think China would be concerned if NK is able to throw a nuke even as far as Tokyo.
A single rocket delivering a nuke would incur such global wrath that only the thoughts of a deluded or mad man or group of men would consider it.
However a single or pair of nukes delivered in other ways at closer ranges scares the pants off me (YouTube video has been taken down).
China has some electric/diesel submarines that are so quiet and stealthy that those that worry are very worried. Launching a cruse missile and vanishing is well within their capabilities. So far NC has not built one that I know of but the machine manufacturing technology to build such a boat is not a big reach in this modern world. Modern drug lords are building stealthy delivery submarines that more larger loads and manage to escape detection quite often.
Container ships are another risk. A 40 foot container or pig has the size and weight capacity to cause havoc both nuclear and conventional. A 40 foot container could carry 60K of HE.. not a nuke but still enough to shut down a port. Just a matter of mislabeling and fusing. N.B. "Fat Man" weighed 10,000 pounds and annihilated nearly half of the city.
In another thread on another forum someone discussed the US disarming its nuclear arsenal. While I like the idea of backing away from MAD, the little I know about this, the less sane it would be to let fools or anyone else crack open the cases of the existing devices. In most cases making them live falls in the class of "some assembly" required so leave the segregated bits segregated and locked up for now. BTW: Even HE artillery falls in the class of some assembly required FWIW.
They said that the DEC CPUs wouldn't ALLOW bad drivers to crash the OS, if a poorly written driver misbehaved the CPU would not allow it to access memory addresses that it shouldn't.
That sounds easy but what does 'misbehaved' actually mean and how does the CPU know and keep track of that before the driver does something bad? In any case your suggestion would imply that Windows NT on Alpha would never BSOD, but it did.
The model of circles of protection also available on other processors permits fencing the activity of a device.
But this is not the default model in Linux and Unix so drivers need to be reconsidered, redesigned and rewritten. Since hardware details including quirks are often hidden behind NDA this is harder to do than say.
It is harder if a device has an externall processor and can push DMA data to any memory. It is easier if the CPU side does a pull DMA from buffers on the device. As with all drivers just say no to PIO.
Both very good CPUs. In fact, had Microsoft seized the initiative then, they could have had a 64 bit version of Windows long before AMD came out w/ x64. Also, had Silicon Graphics been less dogmatic about Unix and more open to making workstations like the Magnum that ran Iris visualization software on NT, Microsoft would today have had Windows 8 running fluently on MIPS based tablets or phones, w/ a rich suite of applications. Fact remains that Windows NT came out before Windows 95 even did, so Microsoft could have had Windows applications easily cross compiled for MIPS and Alphas.
But Win NT was running on some large MIPS based hardware boxes. SGI did this work...
I suspect the issue was that Micro$loth wanted too much of the intellectual property pie. There was a nut of multi processing that was quite important and not to be given away. So one might assume it was not an omission of engineering effort but the inability of management to arrive at equitable to all terms.
The security model of WinNT was not too shabby A good policy could have given any xNIX box a run for the money and picked up a lot of the slack left behind by VMS.
Had management moved forward then the landscape of computing in the business world would be very different.
Should you be asked to enter a password request then verify that paper has been served on your company. Carry a hard copy of the company policy.
We hear time and time again that data of thousands of individuals is lost or at risk and this includes govment agencies.
Even a personal laptop can contain HIPPA protected information that is covered by regulations and law. HIPPA information is interesting in that it is compartmentalized yet managed like Classified/Secret/TopSecret data and also requires training and background checks.
Trade secrets, pre-release copyright material, multi-party data like contracts can require notification and involvement of the other parties domestic and international.
Do not forget there is a method and system to cache and encrypt large files via a cloud service where the key to access the files is small compared to the data and is only available and accessed via an encrypted VPN link. Simple extension to GIT, Mercurial and "repo" (etc.). Companies can change the key and thus the key-hash to trigger a scrub of the data in a way that is not different than the entry of a fail safe VPN/server access key, ssh connection, local media and removable media to include OCR decoding of text from paper records recovered from digital camera images of text or some other common encoding bar code, or 2D code blocks of any high school geometric shape or projection.
This is not a bad thing mind you. One of the abundant problems is "secret" intrusion in the lives of random folk based on trivial linkage on social graphs or the mining of common key words to identify individuals of interest. We see how silly this can get as six year old kids get taken to task for doodles or imaginary attacks by space aliens.
If you rotate "LOL" clockwise it looks like handgun, target, handgun. Oh my, expel the child that types LOL. N.B. zero tolerance policy in schools is an obfuscation for intolerance. Intolerance by the powers that be.... it does not teach negotiation, it does not teach listening, it teaches bullying to the next generation of police men, teachers and others in positions of power.
All in all this is a good thing. I might note that Texas has real issues from the South with fall out from the War on Drugs. The WoD has turned some border towns (both sides) into war zones which is a bad thing. Knowing this, this move by Texas is a brave thing in the defense of personal privacy and human rights.
Privacy and human rights brings me to R v. W and abortion. The recent law in Arkansas inserts the gvment into the murky early days and weeks of pregnancy where natural abortion and miscarriage is common and for many a too often sad outcome. R v. W with its anchor in privacy lets a family keep the pain of a miscarriage in the family and out of criminal courts.
What does R v. W have to do with this subject... heck track anyone and flag those that stop at a location that provides early prenatal care and yes abortion services free to the poor and slap them with abortion law violations. Tie them up in court lay bare indiscretions, foolishness, rape victims, serious medical genetic risks. Oh, and then release individuals from protective custody and suicide watch 15-30 weeks later so the state does not have to pay medical bills for the prisoner.
I doubt it....
There are numbers out on the net for 8" floppy's stuffed in an 12" pneumatic tube in and under Manhattan.
The real problem is WiFi limitations at home as well as the lack of endpoint buffers and too many buffers in the routing path. All the packet inspection BS and traffic shaping play havoc on the way IP traffic was designed to flow. Network buffers and buffer technology are just broken.
I tried a lot of things to improve my networking service but DNS resolution games and other network trickery get in the way.
It could be improved a lot but the p2p traffic that could much improve a network experience is being abused and deprecated to the purposes of the man in the middle. The man in the middle is doing a lot of things -- most of which we would go nuts on if we knew the full truth.
As a calculator it did all I need.
As a computer none of the durn things including my wonderful HP-41 did the job that can be done with Python.
Sadly the world of calculators if full of mandates that center around standardized tests and classroom arithmetic. This will clog the pipe and remove innovation for decades more.
Compare and contrast this to the $$ that Al Gore is gathering about him up on Sand Hill Road. i.e. chump change.
Today it is clear that global climate and weather fundamental are more important than the Higgs. Yet we, the world community, are unwilling to make this investment.
The science that I have looked at over the last 20 years gives me pause. I have seen computer runs make projections decades in advance yet PI is fixed at 3.14 i.e. three digits. This researcher was concerned that the 19th digit was not stable and wanted the compiler or hardware fixed.
Another researcher was concerned with an anoxic region of the ocean floor. What his research did show was the ocean was attempting to sequester carbon but his financiers wanted a fishery. Sequestering carbon may prove necessary but it often seen as less green than a festering fish farm.
The knee jerk reactionary regulations are focusing on deep pocket players not on high leverage technology and policy. Follow the money here... this is where the trouble is.
Carbon tax is a lot like the rake off of the dealer at a casino. Not a player just collecting a percentage of the value as it passes by. Worse the incentive is to increase the action and increase the flow of carbon so their rake is richer. The odds in places like Reno and Vegas are managed and regulated by the state. The goal of the regulators is to ensure tax revenue. A side effect is to keep the games "honest".
It is interesting to me that the roulette game has extra "green" numbers "0" and sometimes "00" to fuel the house. The house takes their cut and "marketing" attempts to increase the number of players i.e. pray on the ignorant and ill educated. Any time I see a carbon-taxer use the phrase "think green" I do. I think about the extra green numbers that are there ONLY to shift the odds and enrich the house. The current legislative mind set would increase the green action and change the game to add GREEN "000", "0000" and more to the game. Now who can argue with increasing "GREEN" action.
Transparency of research, publishing data and computer codes is only part of the necessary game.
What if salt water was pumped into central Africa?
What if we banned ice breakers from 12 miles near the shore in the arctic.
What if we restricted warm Japan current water into the Bering Strait.
What if we had research teams and tools willing to be honest.
Programming tends to be tall pages of text.....
So, Look for a side by side pair... if you are a serious programmer.
If you are a serious web content programmer you need a mix. Too much web content appears to be developed on monster gaming systems not more modest displays that real people have.
Even without considering prior art, this is not an invention. It's not patentable matter. Why is USPTO asleep at the switch?
Interesting -- there are USPTO processes that schedule payments and renewal of patents. Both push and pull....
35 USC 101: Patentable Subject Matter "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title."
That's the black letter law and has been for quite some time. Not saying it is right, or that the interpretations haven't been vastly overextended, but patents don't cover just inventions.
Oh bother... someone has been futzing with the word process.
There is an apparent corruption of the word process that confused a physical process with a logical process. The process for making steel is not the same as a process describing how to manage the making of steel.
Ask an atourney ... Think like modern medicine. See a GP and make sure it is not something common and easy to sort out. A grand or less should cover it including a referral to the right folk. Save the "Lacking specific information and disclosure on your part to our knowledge we do not infringe directly or indirectly" letter for later.
Your product is "open" so shutting the doors of the old company and opening a new company is one strategy.
I.e. after consulting with councle for routine reasons it was clear that the old structure was ill chosen and ....
Correctly done it is then possible to make many copies of one letter, a reply letter that the business is gone, poof, defunct....
If there is an income stream from the patent or other related records one could hunt for them in discovery. If AT&T asserts there is no income in sworn documents then anyone making payments could stop and also demand refunds for the time frame of the sworn discovery. Disclosure of patent portfolio swaps involving this patent too....
Do get qualified legal help. On first glance it is specific and demands both end points be identical. If you have not disclosed the internals (whoops open source) there is no way you have violated their patent unless you have an interoperability product.
If you have shipped product you are in a different boat than just getting ready to ship.
If you have venture cap kick it their way quickly.
Consider a stadium of light field cameras + location + time stamps Crowd source to the cloud and view all the pictures you wish you had taken.
Returned it.
It was awful, and the resolution wasn't hot
Sure you should buy a Nikon D600 or digital back for a large format camera.
This light field thing is new and novel. New and novel to the degree that it is easy to see that sensor and post processing technology have room to improve.
It will take a while but this may prove to be the trick that solves the most common cell phone camera image errors. The technology is flat out amazing.
Welcome to the future of imaging.
Still I also assert() asserts are under used.
I loaded the application for 20 seconds and it uses a database combined with location information.
Knock on a door and you know, who, what, when, and gosh most anything else you might want to know.
Privacy issues abound because as a tool it clearly identifies "friends" and "foes" of a campaign.
It {is||can be} used selectively by gvment funded groups to provide transportation to those they wish to transport to polling places.
drivers license.
purchase condoms
obtain a marriage license.
obtain a passport
obtain entrance to the no fly list.
and more ....