Yeah, and if you were really as smart as the inventor, you'd have patented it
first.
No - some of us have better things to do with our lives than file patents.
Really. If I filed a patent every time I had an idea, I'd be spending my whole life filing patents. But instead, I prefer to spend my life creating real value.
Re:*whoa* Check out the ultra-wide smile on that d
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Let's see - I typically receive 60 megabytes of data each month - and that's just email, not web surfing. So, using this service for Internet access would cost me AUD$3000 per month.
No thank you. I'll stick with WiFi, and the 'real' Internet...
I, too, have been using "tcpdump port ms-sql-m" to look at where these packets are coming from. I saw several such packets coming from c.msn.com. What morons!
"When talking about streaming media, you have only two and a half choices: Windows Media and Real Media (QuickTime is only half supported, if not for its typical clunky Apple streaming solution"
What on Earth are you talking about? QuickTime's streaming uses open, IETF standard protocols: RTP, RTCP, RTSP, SDP. These are far from 'clunky', and are used by lots of other companies (including RealNetworks). There's nothing Apple-specific about them.
The only thing that's proprietary about QuickTime are some of the codecs (e.g., Sorenson video and QDM audio) that it can use.
Just be thankful they accepted your submission. I'll bet that several other people had already submitted the same story, only to be rejected (with no explanation).
"so that begs the question - why the hell was his os called "V"?"
The principal investigator of that project (David Cheriton) named the system "V" at least in part because an earlier system of his was named "Verex". (I think that name came about because the system had some vague association with program verification.)
So the full etymology is:
Verex -> V -> W -> X (Window System)
"W" was chosen because it was the next letter after "V".
No kidding. "V" was the name of a research distributed operating system at Stanford at the time (mid-80s). Paul Asente thought he could improve upon its window system, so he called his new system "W". MIT later used this as the model for "X".
Just to clarify the previous comment: While the term "MBone" originally referred to a tunneled overlay network (using the DVMRP protocol) on top of unicast, that network was obsoleted several years ago by native multicast routing.
Since then, the term "MBone" came to refer to the subset of the public Internet that is connected via IP multicast routing. (Nowadays, the multicast routing protocol that's most commonly used is PIM-SM.) So, the "MBone" still exists, although it's still not nearly as widespread as many of us would like.
Nice work, assholes
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No - some of us have better things to do with our lives than file patents.
Really. If I filed a patent every time I had an idea, I'd be spending my whole life filing patents. But instead, I prefer to spend my life creating real value.
No, just American :-)
How ironic that someone writing an article about user interfaces and ease of use would put it online using white text on a dark background.
Folks (and note, in particular, "Arse(sic) Technica"): please stop doing this! You're not being 'cool' - you're just making your text harder to read.
Is http://www.informationweek.com/article/getArticle. jhtml?articleID=17601394
Noone who puts up a web page with white text on a black background has any right to be commenting on "aesthetics".
"NZ never got flowering plants"
Huh? What about the Kowhai? The Pohutukawa? Or are you distinguishing between 'plants' and 'trees'?
Ross.
Hello? 1973 called. They want their story back :-)
...while they continue to use white text on a black background.
See the photo here. (No joke.)
AUD$0.05 per kiloByte?? Yow!
Let's see - I typically receive 60 megabytes of data each month - and that's just email, not web surfing. So, using this service for Internet access would cost me AUD$3000 per month.
No thank you. I'll stick with WiFi, and the 'real' Internet...
...and other high-bandwidth LANs: vobStreamer
Am I the only person who noticed the word "Advertisement" (in an easy-to-overlook grey font) at the bottom of this "article"?
I, too, have been using "tcpdump port ms-sql-m" to look at where these packets are coming from. I saw several such packets coming from c.msn.com. What morons!
What on Earth are you talking about? QuickTime's streaming uses open, IETF standard protocols: RTP, RTCP, RTSP, SDP. These are far from 'clunky', and are used by lots of other companies (including RealNetworks). There's nothing Apple-specific about them.
The only thing that's proprietary about QuickTime are some of the codecs (e.g., Sorenson video and QDM audio) that it can use.
Oops, that should, of course be: "Understanding why black text on a white background is easier to read than *white* text on a *black* background."
:-)
That'll teach me for trying to make a snide comment
"Understanding why black text on a white background is easier to read than black text on a white background."
2002-12-09 10:10:23 30-Year Anniversary of Apollo 17 (articles,space) (rejected)
Which is easier on the eyes: White text on a black background, or black text on a white background? :-)
Just be thankful they accepted your submission. I'll bet that several other people had already submitted the same story, only to be rejected (with no explanation).
The principal investigator of that project (David Cheriton) named the system "V" at least in part because an earlier system of his was named "Verex". (I think that name came about because the system had some vague association with program verification.)
So the full etymology is:
Verex -> V -> W -> X (Window System)
"W" was chosen because it was the next letter after "V".
No kidding. "V" was the name of a research distributed operating system at Stanford at the time (mid-80s). Paul Asente thought he could improve upon its window system, so he called his new system "W". MIT later used this as the model for "X".
Since then, the term "MBone" came to refer to the subset of the public Internet that is connected via IP multicast routing. (Nowadays, the multicast routing protocol that's most commonly used is PIM-SM.) So, the "MBone" still exists, although it's still not nearly as widespread as many of us would like.
Just a day late. Sigh...
(And yes, it's all open source.)
(But no, it doesn't do the Real Networks challenge-response either :-(