So, you've introduced a third party, google, into your system, and it's no longer dynamic or P2P. The point of P2P is that people can drop off or connect at any time and you can search them, not an archive of what was there...
That's lovely for you. I live in Hudson, MA which is also served by cablevision. However cablevision seems more interested in auctioning themselves off to the highest bidder then giving me a cable modem. When I called to ask how long it would be until the service was available the operator laughed and told me not to hold my breath.
Also, when you get lucky you can get DSL easily and fast. My mother (Aargh! What is she going to do with it!?!) Just got RADSL from SNET in connecticut, and she gets 5Mbit/sec! I've gotten 400Kb/sec from www.us.debian.org at her house.
The point is, you got lucky, and depending on where you are either DSL or cable will be better, but you can't just say "cable is better", or "DSL is better". They're just different.
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Well aren't you an arrogant fool. Stupid too.
First off, money means dick. You don't need money to grow food, you need land great enough to sustain the people living on it. If there are too many people then they can't support themselves. End of story. But do the people spread out? No, they stay there and reproduce like bunnies until 5% of the earth's surface contains 20% of the earth's human population. Why? Because humans are stupid. Almost all of us are ready to follow any cultural tradition that has been passed down through the generations; blindly and unquestioningly. In most of these countries offspring are what people consider wealth. That tradition is killing them.
Secondly, you say that we could easily provide enough food so that no one goes hungry. While technically this is true, it is impossible for us with our current abilities to distribute food to all of the hungry people throughout the world. If you think it IS possible then you're falling victim to your own arrogance. There are so many obsticles in the way of food distribution to the areas that need it that it's rediculous. You have corrupt governments, vast distances, oceans... The list goes on.
I know this sounds cold hearted, but it's the facts of life. Neither greed nor nature is killing people. Our own stupidity is killing people. The only thing that can save them is going to where the food is!
You certainly CAN get a patent on a PCI slot with 12% green dye. It would be called a design patent. Furthermore, the USPTO doesn't make up the rules, congress does.
Prior art only invalidates thge patent if the patent is for the prior art! It doesn't matter what your opinion is, your opinion isn't the law. If A+B+C is patented, you can most certainly patent A+B+C+D. There are specific sections of patent law that specify you can do just that! However, the person with the patent for A+C+B+D has no say in wether you use A+B+C.
Also, when a patent has been granted the USPTO has already decided that the idea was non-obvious, and the only way to get it invalidated is to show that exactly what is stated in the patent has already been done; I.E. The prior art must be exactly what the patent is for. (Or, in the case of a patent for A+B+C+D, proof of A+B+C+D+E would work too.)
Furthermore, most of the patents on this site are stupid anyway. There's one for a PCI/ISA riser card that's so specific that it's useless. It specifies that the card need be attached to the wall of the PC, so if you don't attach yours to the wall, you're all set! Some of the "rediculous" patents that people have aren't really that rediculous if you read them because they usually have one little specific condition that they were required to put in that makes it really easy to design around.
I beg to differ. If he had patented the idea, then AltaVista wouldn't have ever obtained their patent. Though you may think this is wrong in some way, according to law this is a patentable idea. Unless you do something to have the law changed your opinion doesn't matter.
Besides, I meant that he was too late to apply, not that he was intending to; and yes, he is too late.
No, he can't. You need to file a patent application for your idea within one year of making your ideas public. He could have applied in 1990, but he's a little late.
What you want is multipath. You can use Fibre-Channel for the shared storage interconnect, and then keep the shared storage at different locations. Support for this under linux right now leaves a little to be desired though.
There are of course other options, and <SHAMELESS PLUG> you can have the company I work for work out a solution for you. Check out our website at http://www.missioncriticallinux.com/ and then call our professional services department </SHAMLESS PLUG>
You do NOT need to enforce patents to keep them. You can let whomever you want use them, and then decide to start enforcing them whenever too. You're thinking of trademarks.
Also, you can still get a patent on an idea that has prior art as long as you include an improvement on the original idea.
Nope. There's still only 10Mb/s incoming. He would still only be able to transfer 1MB/s in either direction. If he gets a 2MB/s download, he must be on 100baset ethernet or faster.
LVS is *NOT* a high-availability offering. It is for load balancing.
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NO! 25Mhz is NOT the same on all processors; you cannot compare by cycles alone! You need to take lots of things into account, like cycles per instruction (Instructions per cycle if your superscalar), memory access speeds, variety of instructions... The clock speed of a microprocessor is a wildly inaccurate way to compare different processors. Hell, it's even inaccurate in comparing Intel processors to AMD processors of the same archetecture!
For example, a 700mhz processor that has a CPI of 10 would be slower then a 100Mhz processor with a CPI of 1, however if you had a particular operation that could be performed in one instruction on the 700Mhz Processor, but took 10 instructions on the 100Mhz processor, then the 700Mhz processor would still be faster for that particular task. It's not a simple as counting cycles.
but, for Good performance/low price try
Winchester Systems and look at the article on
our website about using them with our cluster. (When reading the article keep in mind that the performance numbers are for one node while another node is also accessing the array. In RAID 0+1 these arrays get ~40MB/sec)
For Extremely good performance, and many features at a high price, the
EMC Symmetrix is definatly the way to go.
RAID 1 is NOT the fastest, RAID 1 is mirroring. It is slow. RAID 0 is the fastest, but has no redundancy. RAID 0+1 is the way to go for speed/redundancy.
Cobalts are much smaller then option 2. They have roughly 1/3rd the depth. Means that you can put them in BOTH SIDES of the rack! That's important when you're leasing colo space.
I have a Sony MVC-CD1000 and have been using it for a few weeks now. As long as you don't drop or bang around the camera WHILE IT'S WRITING, everything is fine. I would think that this would be even less of an issue for DVD-RAM, as the DVD-RAM media is designed for random access writes unlike CD-R[W] media. If you've ever seen the back of a DVD-RAM disc you'd notice little block markers in a radial pattern on the disk. I wouldn't be too worried about the reliability of this camera. Besides, it's so expensive you wouldn't want to bang it aroung anyway...:)
Modern (i.e. Since the 1950s) engineers already know how to build steel framed structures over a mile high; no need for diamond. The only problem (besides funding) is that the taller you make the building, the more people need to go up, and the mor people that need to go up the more elevators you need. Before you know it your whole building is elevator shafts.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed a mile high building to be built in Chicago in the 50's, and they didn't build it for this exact reason.
The closed source driver works just fine, thank you! The problem is that on the second port the refresh rate sucks so much it's almost not worth using.
Ever go to a website on your linux box and have most of the punctuation on the site be question marks? That's because Microsoft had their own character set for a while that wasn't quite ASCII. All web pages made in MS Word used it. I think they've fixed it now, but I don't have MS Word, so I can't check...
If you could track down a hardware raytracer board
Thank you for confirming my point.
I guess you haven't seen Quake III recently - or any other game to come out in the last year.
Yes, I've seen Quake 3 on my GeForce2. It would be realistic looking if the entire world were made out of molded plastic. On a brick wall in real life I wouldn't be able to use the corner to shave. Light does things in the real world that aren't represented at all with present 3d hardware. We're not going to fix the problem by increasing the framerate either.
I'm not saying I'm not impressed by the technical feats of current 3d hardware, I'm just saying that it's not going in the direction that I'm looking for. I don't need my FPS or third person shooter, or what ever other rehash they're working on right now to have higher FPS. I would like to use my video hardware for other things too. I want real lighting effects, I want realistic reflections instead of perfectly sharp ones, I want acceleration for textile motion. Is it wrong for me to want these things?
All you people who say this is dumb are the ones that keep the output of 3d hardware looking shitty. I don't care what any of you say, when compared to a real world scene or a raytraced rendering GeForce2 output looks like shit. No, we can't expect realtime raytraces yet, because our computers are much too slow, but the T-buffer from 3dfx was an attempt at being able to simulate such things. Do you all want to look at unrealistically sharp corners and harsh angles in your games forever?
Sure I'm being obnoxious, sure this may be flaimbait, but I'm selfish damnit, and I want realistic looking realtime 3d. The only way I'm gonna get it is if other people want it too.
Say all you want about 3dfx, but their T-buffer tech is the only innovative thing to come out of the video card industry in recent years. Unfortunatly FPS stats sell video cards these days, not image quality.
Care to spell out how the Open Source model applies to what is essentially data? That would be like a graphic artist working on the Open Source Model...
They could *really* be dicks and tell you to go generate the data yourself. They're not stopping you from doing that, they're just trying to make some money for all their work. Why ever would they give the data away for free? What kind of business model is that? Sheesh.
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If you can make that scale then it is "Amazing"
Would this make ass shaped pieces of metal shielding illegal under UCITA?
That's lovely for you. I live in Hudson, MA which is also served by cablevision. However cablevision seems more interested in auctioning themselves off to the highest bidder then giving me a cable modem. When I called to ask how long it would be until the service was available the operator laughed and told me not to hold my breath.
Also, when you get lucky you can get DSL easily and fast. My mother (Aargh! What is she going to do with it!?!) Just got RADSL from SNET in connecticut, and she gets 5Mbit/sec! I've gotten 400Kb/sec from www.us.debian.org at her house.
The point is, you got lucky, and depending on where you are either DSL or cable will be better, but you can't just say "cable is better", or "DSL is better". They're just different.
Well aren't you an arrogant fool. Stupid too.
First off, money means dick. You don't need money to grow food, you need land great enough to sustain the people living on it. If there are too many people then they can't support themselves. End of story. But do the people spread out? No, they stay there and reproduce like bunnies until 5% of the earth's surface contains 20% of the earth's human population. Why? Because humans are stupid. Almost all of us are ready to follow any cultural tradition that has been passed down through the generations; blindly and unquestioningly. In most of these countries offspring are what people consider wealth. That tradition is killing them.
Secondly, you say that we could easily provide enough food so that no one goes hungry. While technically this is true, it is impossible for us with our current abilities to distribute food to all of the hungry people throughout the world. If you think it IS possible then you're falling victim to your own arrogance. There are so many obsticles in the way of food distribution to the areas that need it that it's rediculous. You have corrupt governments, vast distances, oceans... The list goes on.
I know this sounds cold hearted, but it's the facts of life. Neither greed nor nature is killing people. Our own stupidity is killing people. The only thing that can save them is going to where the food is!
You certainly CAN get a patent on a PCI slot with 12% green dye. It would be called a design patent. Furthermore, the USPTO doesn't make up the rules, congress does.
Prior art only invalidates thge patent if the patent is for the prior art! It doesn't matter what your opinion is, your opinion isn't the law. If A+B+C is patented, you can most certainly patent A+B+C+D. There are specific sections of patent law that specify you can do just that! However, the person with the patent for A+C+B+D has no say in wether you use A+B+C.
Also, when a patent has been granted the USPTO has already decided that the idea was non-obvious, and the only way to get it invalidated is to show that exactly what is stated in the patent has already been done; I.E. The prior art must be exactly what the patent is for. (Or, in the case of a patent for A+B+C+D, proof of A+B+C+D+E would work too.)
Furthermore, most of the patents on this site are stupid anyway. There's one for a PCI/ISA riser card that's so specific that it's useless. It specifies that the card need be attached to the wall of the PC, so if you don't attach yours to the wall, you're all set! Some of the "rediculous" patents that people have aren't really that rediculous if you read them because they usually have one little specific condition that they were required to put in that makes it really easy to design around.
I beg to differ. If he had patented the idea, then AltaVista wouldn't have ever obtained their patent. Though you may think this is wrong in some way, according to law this is a patentable idea. Unless you do something to have the law changed your opinion doesn't matter.
Besides, I meant that he was too late to apply, not that he was intending to; and yes, he is too late.
No, he can't. You need to file a patent application for your idea within one year of making your ideas public. He could have applied in 1990, but he's a little late.
What you want is multipath. You can use Fibre-Channel for the shared storage interconnect, and then keep the shared storage at different locations. Support for this under linux right now leaves a little to be desired though.
There are of course other options, and <SHAMELESS PLUG> you can have the company I work for work out a solution for you. Check out our website at http://www.missioncriticallinux.com/ and then call our professional services department </SHAMLESS PLUG>
Good luck.
You do NOT need to enforce patents to keep them. You can let whomever you want use them, and then decide to start enforcing them whenever too. You're thinking of trademarks.
Also, you can still get a patent on an idea that has prior art as long as you include an improvement on the original idea.
Nope. There's still only 10Mb/s incoming. He would still only be able to transfer 1MB/s in either direction. If he gets a 2MB/s download, he must be on 100baset ethernet or faster.
The article denies that they've officially anounced such, it doesn't deny the rumor. Still, I'd be surprised if it were true.
That image you have on your hard drive *may* be of an underage girl, so now you go to jail for five years.
I.E. Better not look at porn of people under 60!
LVS is *NOT* a high-availability offering. It is for load balancing.
NO! 25Mhz is NOT the same on all processors; you cannot compare by cycles alone! You need to take lots of things into account, like cycles per instruction (Instructions per cycle if your superscalar), memory access speeds, variety of instructions... The clock speed of a microprocessor is a wildly inaccurate way to compare different processors. Hell, it's even inaccurate in comparing Intel processors to AMD processors of the same archetecture!
For example, a 700mhz processor that has a CPI of 10 would be slower then a 100Mhz processor with a CPI of 1, however if you had a particular operation that could be performed in one instruction on the 700Mhz Processor, but took 10 instructions on the 100Mhz processor, then the 700Mhz processor would still be faster for that particular task. It's not a simple as counting cycles.
For Extremely good performance, and many features at a high price, the EMC Symmetrix is definatly the way to go.
RAID 1 is NOT the fastest, RAID 1 is mirroring. It is slow. RAID 0 is the fastest, but has no redundancy. RAID 0+1 is the way to go for speed/redundancy.
Cobalts are much smaller then option 2. They have roughly 1/3rd the depth. Means that you can put them in BOTH SIDES of the rack! That's important when you're leasing colo space.
I have a Sony MVC-CD1000 and have been using it for a few weeks now. As long as you don't drop or bang around the camera WHILE IT'S WRITING, everything is fine. I would think that this would be even less of an issue for DVD-RAM, as the DVD-RAM media is designed for random access writes unlike CD-R[W] media. If you've ever seen the back of a DVD-RAM disc you'd notice little block markers in a radial pattern on the disk. I wouldn't be too worried about the reliability of this camera. Besides, it's so expensive you wouldn't want to bang it aroung anyway... :)
Frank Lloyd Wright designed a mile high building to be built in Chicago in the 50's, and they didn't build it for this exact reason.
PovRay rendering of mile high building
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Was the mile high building in Star Wars Episode 1?
The closed source driver works just fine, thank you! The problem is that on the second port the refresh rate sucks so much it's almost not worth using.
Ever go to a website on your linux box and have most of the punctuation on the site be question marks? That's because Microsoft had their own character set for a while that wasn't quite ASCII. All web pages made in MS Word used it. I think they've fixed it now, but I don't have MS Word, so I can't check...
You jest, but...
Yes, I've seen Quake 3 on my GeForce2. It would be realistic looking if the entire world were made out of molded plastic. On a brick wall in real life I wouldn't be able to use the corner to shave. Light does things in the real world that aren't represented at all with present 3d hardware. We're not going to fix the problem by increasing the framerate either.
I'm not saying I'm not impressed by the technical feats of current 3d hardware, I'm just saying that it's not going in the direction that I'm looking for. I don't need my FPS or third person shooter, or what ever other rehash they're working on right now to have higher FPS. I would like to use my video hardware for other things too. I want real lighting effects, I want realistic reflections instead of perfectly sharp ones, I want acceleration for textile motion. Is it wrong for me to want these things?
Sure I'm being obnoxious, sure this may be flaimbait, but I'm selfish damnit, and I want realistic looking realtime 3d. The only way I'm gonna get it is if other people want it too.
Say all you want about 3dfx, but their T-buffer tech is the only innovative thing to come out of the video card industry in recent years. Unfortunatly FPS stats sell video cards these days, not image quality.
Care to spell out how the Open Source model applies to what is essentially data? That would be like a graphic artist working on the Open Source Model...
They could *really* be dicks and tell you to go generate the data yourself. They're not stopping you from doing that, they're just trying to make some money for all their work. Why ever would they give the data away for free? What kind of business model is that? Sheesh.