If a company has patents believed to be infringed they won't list these patents in a public manner. By so doing they run afoul of numerous intellectual property law issues. It is just sound legal practice.
Hmmm...wonder why some here think "most of the/.ers" are non-believers. Has a poll been taken?
I doubt many have taken the same amount of time they spent learning their compsci craft to at least understand the issues and the arguments for evolution vs. intelligent design. Knee-jerk reactions simply toady to the mob and do nothing to add to the discussion. See http://www.askmrreligion.com/ and mention in your request that you are a/.-er and your question will be answered without the usual donation fee.
One needs to keep in mind that a published applictaion is nowhere near an issued patent. So far, none of the claims in the app have been examined by the USPTO. Once that happens you can expect to see some of them disallowed.
Gheez, Louise! Just get X1, http://www.x1.com. Pay around $75 and you get an integrated viewer with search results that are instantaneous. Can index shared network drives, too. This is the technology that Yahoo will integrate in its search tool if you want to wait for it next year.
Most real life decisions are not so simple. If they were we would not be spending so much time lamenting all the "bad choices" we and others have made in the past. (sigh)
Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
is a multiple criteria decision making method when you are faced with a small number of choices, yet each choice has a bunch of attributes that are difficult to formalize.You can Google analytic hierarchy process for about 74,600 links.
I actually implemented the AHP into a program called SELDON for the Macintosh back in the OS 8 days. Sold the program as shareware for $29. Now SELDON sits in a dusty folder on my Windows machine awaiting the days when I, or someone I partner with, have time to port SELDON to java for cross platform support.
Before the Asimov estate gets all in a huff, SELDON is an acronym for System for Effectively Legitimizing Decisions Objectively and Naturally. (heh heh)
[From 1992 to mid-1994 I was leading the Motorola Iridium network architecture team defining the Iridium system network protocols and assessing the entire systems's payload bearer performance. Although the below comes across as rah rah Iridium, I am no fan of the Motorola executives who botched the entire Iridium project, costing Motorola and Iridium investors $1B+. I am looking forward to my day in court facing these boneheads one day.]
As someone posted earlier, the Iridium birds are controlled using SNMP semantics, but the poster neglected to mention that these packets are transported inside an uplink control stream. The data streamn is a randomly changing and highly encrypted (I could tell you but then I would have to...etc.) K-band control uplink. The uplink itself is via, er, 'a few', globally linked, fault-tolerant, control stations.
To hijack the satellite control uplink would require access to the physical property of the uplink stations, not to mention having access to the protocol schemes that were devised for this data stream. You are not going to park a truckload of sat gear in the parking lot and go unnoticed. We also spent lots of time determining where best to place these control centers, too, given the geo-political issues.
The originator of this thread is full of angst over the security implications. Bravo! But, rest assured that the subject is not an unknown practice to the aerospace industry. The Iridium system is extremely robust in this particular area, so much so that the revived Iridium system will be carrying lots of DoD traffic. Needless to say, there are always risks when faced with an network attack from a government sponsored or highly funded enemy using equally skilled aerospace technologists.
Only one acredited college I know of that has absolutely NO residency and supports credit by experience evaluation, CLEP, etc. is Thomas Edison State College, tesc.edu.
Well, I am 46 and I still hack code as well as manage a department of twenty-to-forty-somethings. Age is irrelevant to me. What matters is are you in tune with your profession? Are you current with the goings on in your field? Can you work effectively in a team and with little supervisions? Bottom line- can you execute! And by the way, I am always looking for folks with hardware and software architectural modeling experience. See www.isoquantic.com/IntelJobs.html for more information. - Patrick Reilly, Asst. Director, Intel Computing Enhancement Architecture Lab, Chandler, AZ
Instead of sitting in a classroom for 4 years, design your own curriculum and work at your own pace. Try these out for the best in alternative education: Thomas Edison State College, http://www.tesc.edu/index.html, Regents College NY, http://www.regents.edu/, Grantham College of Engineering, http://www.grantham.edu/, Charter Oak State College, http://www.cosc.edu/
Non-traditoinal types need non-traditional schools. Try 'em, you'll like 'em!
If XUL (rhymes with goul) is anything like it reads at http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/languageSpec.html then mozilla will have been a smashing success in spite of JWZ's rhetoric.
Well, I don't know about that. Many of us have been running Tenon Systems mach kernel for years to do unix programming. Don't underestimate an installed base of over 25 millon macintosh machines.
I really can't blame Apple for their aggressive protection of their corporate identity. Any company having a name that is on its way towards becoming a noun or an adjective must be aggressive. I know from experience (see our company url). I have to spend several days a month tracking down violators of our corporate identities. Patrick L. Reilly, General Manager, IsoQuantic Technologies
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Theology killed the Troll star?
Waitaminute! Theology?
If a company has patents believed to be infringed they won't list these patents in a public manner. By so doing they run afoul of numerous intellectual property law issues. It is just sound legal practice.
Hmmm...wonder why some here think "most of the /.ers" are non-believers. Has a poll been taken?
I doubt many have taken the same amount of time they spent learning their compsci craft to at least understand the issues and the arguments for evolution vs. intelligent design. Knee-jerk reactions simply toady to the mob and do nothing to add to the discussion. See http://www.askmrreligion.com/ and mention in your request that you are a /.-er and your question will be answered without the usual donation fee.
One needs to keep in mind that a published applictaion is nowhere near an issued patent. So far, none of the claims in the app have been examined by the USPTO. Once that happens you can expect to see some of them disallowed.
Gheez, Louise! Just get X1, http://www.x1.com. Pay around $75 and you get an integrated viewer with search results that are instantaneous. Can index shared network drives, too. This is the technology that Yahoo will integrate in its search tool if you want to wait for it next year.
Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a multiple criteria decision making method when you are faced with a small number of choices, yet each choice has a bunch of attributes that are difficult to formalize.You can Google analytic hierarchy process for about 74,600 links. I actually implemented the AHP into a program called SELDON for the Macintosh back in the OS 8 days. Sold the program as shareware for $29. Now SELDON sits in a dusty folder on my Windows machine awaiting the days when I, or someone I partner with, have time to port SELDON to java for cross platform support. Before the Asimov estate gets all in a huff, SELDON is an acronym for System for Effectively Legitimizing Decisions Objectively and Naturally. (heh heh)
[From 1992 to mid-1994 I was leading the Motorola Iridium network architecture team defining the Iridium system network protocols and assessing the entire systems's payload bearer performance. Although the below comes across as rah rah Iridium, I am no fan of the Motorola executives who botched the entire Iridium project, costing Motorola and Iridium investors $1B+. I am looking forward to my day in court facing these boneheads one day.]
As someone posted earlier, the Iridium birds are controlled using SNMP semantics, but the poster neglected to mention that these packets are transported inside an uplink control stream. The data streamn is a randomly changing and highly encrypted (I could tell you but then I would have to...etc.) K-band control uplink. The uplink itself is via, er, 'a few', globally linked, fault-tolerant, control stations.
To hijack the satellite control uplink would require access to the physical property of the uplink stations, not to mention having access to the protocol schemes that were devised for this data stream. You are not going to park a truckload of sat gear in the parking lot and go unnoticed. We also spent lots of time determining where best to place these control centers, too, given the geo-political issues.
The originator of this thread is full of angst over the security implications. Bravo! But, rest assured that the subject is not an unknown practice to the aerospace industry. The Iridium system is extremely robust in this particular area, so much so that the revived Iridium system will be carrying lots of DoD traffic. Needless to say, there are always risks when faced with an network attack from a government sponsored or highly funded enemy using equally skilled aerospace technologists.
Only one acredited college I know of that has absolutely NO residency and supports credit by experience evaluation, CLEP, etc. is Thomas Edison State College, tesc.edu.
Well, I am 46 and I still hack code as well as manage a department of twenty-to-forty-somethings. Age is irrelevant to me. What matters is are you in tune with your profession? Are you current with the goings on in your field? Can you work effectively in a team and with little supervisions? Bottom line- can you execute! And by the way, I am always looking for folks with hardware and software architectural modeling experience. See www.isoquantic.com/IntelJobs.html for more information. - Patrick Reilly, Asst. Director, Intel Computing Enhancement Architecture Lab, Chandler, AZ
Instead of sitting in a classroom for 4 years, design your own curriculum and work at your own pace. Try these out for the best in alternative education:
Thomas Edison State College, http://www.tesc.edu/index.html, Regents College NY, http://www.regents.edu/, Grantham College of Engineering, http://www.grantham.edu/, Charter Oak State College, http://www.cosc.edu/
Non-traditoinal types need non-traditional schools. Try 'em, you'll like 'em!
If XUL (rhymes with goul) is anything like it reads at http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/languageSpec.html then mozilla will have been a smashing success in spite of JWZ's rhetoric.
Well, I don't know about that. Many of us have been running Tenon Systems mach kernel for years to do unix programming. Don't underestimate an installed base of over 25 millon macintosh machines.
I really can't blame Apple for their aggressive protection of their corporate identity. Any company having a name that is on its way towards becoming a noun or an adjective must be aggressive. I know from experience (see our company url). I have to spend several days a month tracking down violators of our corporate identities. Patrick L. Reilly, General Manager, IsoQuantic Technologies