Getting balls into a hole or something, in wonderful 80s computer graphics.
Can't remember any more than that, as I'm not a trekkie, it's just that I'd watch any old guff when I was at uni.
FP. --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
GSM as a whole was a "European" invention. England Finland, France, Germany, and Sweden have all had a _huge_ input into it, and that is not meant to diminish the input from other countries (and the order is alphabetical, not ranked). I believe that the GSM standards documents are available, as official final standards in several of the above languages too, which is very rare for that kind of document.
Possibly that largest input into GSM was that from those who'd learnt their lessons from NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony) which when measured both technologically and by economically was the "best" of the precursors. This is not to put the English precursors down, if anything it probably reflects only on the English market in comparison to the Nordic market, which is by far the most telecommunication friendly in the world.
FatPhil
(Yes, I do now live in a Nordic country. And yes, my mobile here is 4x cheaper than a land line was in the UK. And yes, I also have a 2MB/s leased line to my bedroom, which only costs $25/month all in. And yes, I'm glad to be out of the UK!)
--
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Amazing - there's more coverage in the least populated area of land on the planet than anywhere else! The poles, that is.
I would have thought that tipping the planes toward the equator more than the ferw degrees they appear to be would have been more efficient.
FP. --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Sure post more, e.g. how was the choice of the 6 orbital planes made, and how likely is it that you'll need to be handed over to a satelite on a different plane?
FP. --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
This sentence contains the word coke, what do you say to that?
However, on a more serious note, the logo is completely unnecessary in order to get the MacOS overall appearance. So Apple almost certainly had the right to pull it. If it was identical they certainly do, but if it was a parody they almost certainly don't. However, on a pragmatic level, if I were them and any megacorp were to threaten me with litigation I'd quite happily give up a few small logos for the sake of keeping the rest of the theme available. The Fvwm95 start button has a little logo on it, just like W95, however, in Fvwm95 it's a penguin rather than a wavy dotty wiggly windowy thing. It's close enough. If people want facsimile, then they can rip off the logos themselves, and shouldn't expect others to do it for them.
FP. --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Firstly, respect for posting non-AC. I find it near-impossible to treat AC's as equals.
Quite a long reply, I may miss out a few points but I'll try to cover them all.
Hillbilly - that's funny:-) !
The original post, which you re-quote, does _not_ indicate the rapidity, or lack thereof, of the dispersement of said items. Ipso facto it does not imply "dumping" which was my original objection; it appears you too have incorrectly infered dumping of said goods.
The next paragraph therefore poses no point to answer.
Regarding the consumer electronics, OK, mea culpa, I was ambiguous. However the large consumer electronics manufacturers can control the supply to the distributors, which of course affects the supply to the end consumers, and thus the price. They don't _set_ the price but they do have _some_ control over it.
My posting history...
Hmm, you've obviously done some research, as I kind of recognise some of the things to which you are refering.
Firstly, the "pinch of salt" test - if I sign "FP." then I'm being a bit throwaway, if I sign "FatPhil", I've put more effort into things.
Similarly, due to my avoidance of AC, you've seen my worst side too. I've been at Karma Cap now for too long, and I care less and less about -ve moderation. I'd appreciate a delta of -10 so that I can see when I've occasionally earned karma.
Anyway, I feel you misrepresent the posts to which you refer.
I don't think I said "Windows is doomed" I think I said "Windows is doom", or similar. I don't think windows is doomed, and I try to not misrepresent myself.
I do however not hold back when given the opportunity to criticise MS and windows. However, I also believe that where criticism is due, it should be dealt out. I'm prepared to dig into Unices too. (I got some real flaming from a bunch of BSD guys recently, they really have _no_ sense of humour.) I also had quite a hack into Linux only a couple of days ago too, even though that is the OS of my choice, ATM. It needed criticising, so I criticised it.
The "make money from GPL" I don't think I've ever said - I am prepared to be corrected on this matter if you can find a quote.
When it comes to economics, my view is basically that of an evolutionary zoologist, and the postulates I base my ideas on are very minimal. I've worked in companies ranging from 2 people to 50000 people, I've founded my own company, I've seen the effect of supply and demand on the services my company offers, I've done fairly well from this company (and continue to do so), I'm not a _complete_ economic idiot.
Your criticisms have not been discarded. I hope my responses are satisfactory. I'll still be here tomorrow if you follow up.
Thank you again for posting non-AC. You have a reasonably memorable nick, and I give you my word I won't moderate you down because you criticised me. As I say, you have my respect for the non-AC-ness. I wish more were like you.
This is the kind of attitude that tossers like me like to claim is "Apple all over".
Can you imagine if Tony McPhee had tried to force all Seattle grunge bands to cease and desist due to all their grunge sounding like the Groundhogs?
Sounds are _art_. Pictures are _art_. It's not pretending to be from Apple, it's simply _in the style of_ Apple's interface.
Question - would anyone actually _want_ to pretend to have something from Apple?
FatPhil
(yup, the correct answer is now _no_)
--
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Give advsh a go.
It's the Adventure Shell.
You walk around a maze of your directory heirarchy and can pick up objects into your knapsack (like exporer's "cut") and drop them in other "rooms", like "paste". Except of course, that the backpack can contain any number of objects.
Just like old adventure games, you can do stuff like the following:
pick up wizzo.o wizzo.a wizzo
go out
enter libs
drop wizzo.a
go out
enter binaries
drop wizzo
destroy wizzo.o
Yeah, sure it's quicker to use a file manager, but having the "adventure game" pedigree, it does try and understand simple English commands.
FP. --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Garbage.
I had to use a W98 machine the other day, and if froze. I'd never used W98, and wanted to kill the task which had disappeared up its own arse.
How do I run the task manager? Or is that "TaskMgr", or "TaskMan", or the other "TaskMan" (NT has 3 executables with that kind of name!).
Right mouse button click on the Task Bar (ooh, "task" bar - may be there's a task manager on it?) failed to offer me a task manager. Crap. Hmm, is there a keyboard method?
In NT it's C-A-Del, but in older Windows that rebooted the system. Dare I press C-A-Del?
Eventually I had to, as there was nothing else I could do. OK it worked, but that was guesssork.
I don't know if it would work on W95, and hope to never find out.
The graphical system - being different in each evolution of Windows, completely failed me.
On a command line Unix system I only need to know 3 things, which have been constant since time immemorial
a) ps b) kill c) if all else fails - man.
Which is easier to learn
"on 3.11 do XYZ, on W98 do ABC with the mouse or PQR with the keyboard, on NT do JKL with the mouse or NMO with the keyboard"
or
"ps then kill"
You've chosen your method. You can have it. I'll chose my own thank you.
(Haha, 32MB video card, and I spend 99% of the time in the text mode consoles, as they are more efficient for me!)
FatPhil --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
OK, primary mouse on/dev/aux or whatever is the pointer.
Is there anything to stop another app reading/dev/ncua1 or whatever? It would have to translate the movements into coordinates, and paste its own sprite? It's a bit clunky but it coulld work
FP. --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Hey, SFB, _you_'re the one who mentioned "dumping", not the original poster. If you are too stupid to work out how a scheme of limitting supply to drive up prices can be made to actually work in reality, then _you_ are the economically naive one. I'll give you a clue - it does _not_ involve "dumping" all of the copies simultaniously.
Nintendo and Sony etc. do this kind of thing deliberately all the time.
Sheesh.
FP.
It's only UNICOS on the vector processor machines.
The latest biggest Cray machines have all been Alpha clusters probably running some clusterable DU variant.
The first one:
"
utilizing a code in such a way that the more frequently said spectral coefficient occurs, the shorter the code word
"
Don't use a "code word" scheme. Use any sub-bit encoding scheme. Arithmetic is out, but there are several others. (I was going to have a go at patenting one about 5 years ago, before I saw the light!)
The second one:
"
The same number of bits is assigned to all values in a frequency group.
"
Trivial - change the bit allocation.
It only takes one claim to be not violated, and the patent as a whole is not violated.
Firstly your first Patent is registered to the company name Fraunhofer, not Thomson.
Secondly, doesn't the second patent infringe on the first. Shouldn't they screw themselves before they try screwing others?
:-)
Are Thomson part of SGS Thomson, which abbreviated itself to ST. SGS Thomson claimed they were a French company when I was reading their company literature, shortly before I turned both their job offers down. Glad I did now.
I have a better explanation.
If a server changes state on average X times an hour, then one of N servers will on average change state NX times an hour. This change needs to be propogated to N servers. Therefore the work required is N.NX communications per hour.
O(N^2)
It's a counting argument more than an algorithmic one.
It's not about how much work you need to do, it's about how many oppertunities there are for needing to do work.
The "work" is synchronising server state between servers. There are approximately n^2 pairs of servers (n*(n-1) more accurately). So there are n^2 chances of a 2 servers being out of step with each other.
There's a far better explanation of this "communication/interface" scaling in Fred Brooks' Mythical Man Month, but that applies to humans rather than servers.
... it shows Linux distro intallation-program writers to be right dozy fsckers.
The code makes the following decision:
"You appear to be running this code, but I can't tell what chip you are so I won't let you run any other code."
Imagine a toll-booth on a motorway saying "nice car, however I've never seen it before, I don't know if it's suitable for this motorway, so you can't drive on it."
Open source, begins to sound more like they're trying to type Shakepeare after all.
Slashdot Mirror
"
If you can enter this mind state and still see, you can see the portions of the UV spectrum that auras exist in.
"
What complete idiots do you take slashdot readers for?
Moderate this bull down. I've already posted so I can't.
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Getting balls into a hole or something, in wonderful 80s computer graphics.
Can't remember any more than that, as I'm not a trekkie, it's just that I'd watch any old guff when I was at uni.
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
GSM as a whole was a "European" invention. England Finland, France, Germany, and Sweden have all had a _huge_ input into it, and that is not meant to diminish the input from other countries (and the order is alphabetical, not ranked). I believe that the GSM standards documents are available, as official final standards in several of the above languages too, which is very rare for that kind of document.
Possibly that largest input into GSM was that from those who'd learnt their lessons from NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony) which when measured both technologically and by economically was the "best" of the precursors. This is not to put the English precursors down, if anything it probably reflects only on the English market in comparison to the Nordic market, which is by far the most telecommunication friendly in the world.
FatPhil
(Yes, I do now live in a Nordic country. And yes, my mobile here is 4x cheaper than a land line was in the UK. And yes, I also have a 2MB/s leased line to my bedroom, which only costs $25/month all in. And yes, I'm glad to be out of the UK!)
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Amazing - there's more coverage in the least populated area of land on the planet than anywhere else! The poles, that is.
I would have thought that tipping the planes toward the equator more than the ferw degrees they appear to be would have been more efficient.
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Reply/Moderate Up/Reply/Moderate Up
Sorry, you "lose"!
Sure post more, e.g. how was the choice of the 6 orbital planes made, and how likely is it that you'll need to be handed over to a satelite on a different plane?
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
This sentence contains the word coke, what do you say to that?
However, on a more serious note, the logo is completely unnecessary in order to get the MacOS overall appearance. So Apple almost certainly had the right to pull it. If it was identical they certainly do, but if it was a parody they almost certainly don't. However, on a pragmatic level, if I were them and any megacorp were to threaten me with litigation I'd quite happily give up a few small logos for the sake of keeping the rest of the theme available. The Fvwm95 start button has a little logo on it, just like W95, however, in Fvwm95 it's a penguin rather than a wavy dotty wiggly windowy thing. It's close enough. If people want facsimile, then they can rip off the logos themselves, and shouldn't expect others to do it for them.
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
... and my girlfriend can lip-read.
Are we breaking the law?
Anyway - this is "hear-surf", this is not an original, and has no authority, prove it's not UL before you assert its verity.
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Firstly, respect for posting non-AC. I find it near-impossible to treat AC's as equals.
:-) !
Quite a long reply, I may miss out a few points but I'll try to cover them all.
Hillbilly - that's funny
The original post, which you re-quote, does _not_ indicate the rapidity, or lack thereof, of the dispersement of said items. Ipso facto it does not imply "dumping" which was my original objection; it appears you too have incorrectly infered dumping of said goods.
The next paragraph therefore poses no point to answer.
Regarding the consumer electronics, OK, mea culpa, I was ambiguous. However the large consumer electronics manufacturers can control the supply to the distributors, which of course affects the supply to the end consumers, and thus the price. They don't _set_ the price but they do have _some_ control over it.
My posting history...
Hmm, you've obviously done some research, as I kind of recognise some of the things to which you are refering.
Firstly, the "pinch of salt" test - if I sign "FP." then I'm being a bit throwaway, if I sign "FatPhil", I've put more effort into things.
Similarly, due to my avoidance of AC, you've seen my worst side too. I've been at Karma Cap now for too long, and I care less and less about -ve moderation. I'd appreciate a delta of -10 so that I can see when I've occasionally earned karma.
Anyway, I feel you misrepresent the posts to which you refer.
I don't think I said "Windows is doomed" I think I said "Windows is doom", or similar. I don't think windows is doomed, and I try to not misrepresent myself.
I do however not hold back when given the opportunity to criticise MS and windows. However, I also believe that where criticism is due, it should be dealt out. I'm prepared to dig into Unices too. (I got some real flaming from a bunch of BSD guys recently, they really have _no_ sense of humour.) I also had quite a hack into Linux only a couple of days ago too, even though that is the OS of my choice, ATM. It needed criticising, so I criticised it.
The "make money from GPL" I don't think I've ever said - I am prepared to be corrected on this matter if you can find a quote.
When it comes to economics, my view is basically that of an evolutionary zoologist, and the postulates I base my ideas on are very minimal. I've worked in companies ranging from 2 people to 50000 people, I've founded my own company, I've seen the effect of supply and demand on the services my company offers, I've done fairly well from this company (and continue to do so), I'm not a _complete_ economic idiot.
Your criticisms have not been discarded. I hope my responses are satisfactory. I'll still be here tomorrow if you follow up.
Thank you again for posting non-AC. You have a reasonably memorable nick, and I give you my word I won't moderate you down because you criticised me. As I say, you have my respect for the non-AC-ness. I wish more were like you.
FatPhil
This is the kind of attitude that tossers like me like to claim is "Apple all over".
Can you imagine if Tony McPhee had tried to force all Seattle grunge bands to cease and desist due to all their grunge sounding like the Groundhogs?
Sounds are _art_. Pictures are _art_. It's not pretending to be from Apple, it's simply _in the style of_ Apple's interface.
Question - would anyone actually _want_ to pretend to have something from Apple?
FatPhil
(yup, the correct answer is now _no_)
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Give advsh a go.
It's the Adventure Shell.
You walk around a maze of your directory heirarchy and can pick up objects into your knapsack (like exporer's "cut") and drop them in other "rooms", like "paste". Except of course, that the backpack can contain any number of objects.
Just like old adventure games, you can do stuff like the following:
pick up wizzo.o wizzo.a wizzo
go out
enter libs
drop wizzo.a
go out
enter binaries
drop wizzo
destroy wizzo.o
Yeah, sure it's quicker to use a file manager, but having the "adventure game" pedigree, it does try and understand simple English commands.
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Garbage.
I had to use a W98 machine the other day, and if froze. I'd never used W98, and wanted to kill the task which had disappeared up its own arse.
How do I run the task manager? Or is that "TaskMgr", or "TaskMan", or the other "TaskMan" (NT has 3 executables with that kind of name!).
Right mouse button click on the Task Bar (ooh, "task" bar - may be there's a task manager on it?) failed to offer me a task manager. Crap. Hmm, is there a keyboard method?
In NT it's C-A-Del, but in older Windows that rebooted the system. Dare I press C-A-Del?
Eventually I had to, as there was nothing else I could do. OK it worked, but that was guesssork.
I don't know if it would work on W95, and hope to never find out.
The graphical system - being different in each evolution of Windows, completely failed me.
On a command line Unix system I only need to know 3 things, which have been constant since time immemorial
a) ps b) kill c) if all else fails - man.
Which is easier to learn
"on 3.11 do XYZ, on W98 do ABC with the mouse or PQR with the keyboard, on NT do JKL with the mouse or NMO with the keyboard"
or
"ps then kill"
You've chosen your method. You can have it. I'll chose my own thank you.
(Haha, 32MB video card, and I spend 99% of the time in the text mode consoles, as they are more efficient for me!)
FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
OK, primary mouse on /dev/aux or whatever is the pointer.
/dev/ncua1 or whatever? It would have to translate the movements into coordinates, and paste its own sprite? It's a bit clunky but it coulld work
Is there anything to stop another app reading
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Cobblers.
http://www.2600.org/law/bernie.html
Read it all.
Hey, SFB, _you_'re the one who mentioned "dumping", not the original poster. If you are too stupid to work out how a scheme of limitting supply to drive up prices can be made to actually work in reality, then _you_ are the economically naive one. I'll give you a clue - it does _not_ involve "dumping" all of the copies simultaniously.
Nintendo and Sony etc. do this kind of thing deliberately all the time.
Sheesh.
FP.
The comic anacdote seems to not be a million miles away from record labels buying copies of their own releases.
FP.
Me too!
I'll correct myself. Most of them are Unicos, theres now only one non-Unicos Cray. (The rather curvy MTA)
It's only UNICOS on the vector processor machines.
The latest biggest Cray machines have all been Alpha clusters probably running some clusterable DU variant.
FP.
The first one:
"
utilizing a code in such a way that the more frequently said spectral coefficient occurs, the shorter the code word
"
Don't use a "code word" scheme. Use any sub-bit encoding scheme. Arithmetic is out, but there are several others. (I was going to have a go at patenting one about 5 years ago, before I saw the light!)
The second one:
"
The same number of bits is assigned to all values in a frequency group.
"
Trivial - change the bit allocation.
It only takes one claim to be not violated, and the patent as a whole is not violated.
Thomson are just full of hot air.
FatPhil
Firstly your first Patent is registered to the company name Fraunhofer, not Thomson.
Secondly, doesn't the second patent infringe on the first. Shouldn't they screw themselves before they try screwing others?
:-)
FatPhil
Are Thomson part of SGS Thomson, which abbreviated itself to ST. SGS Thomson claimed they were a French company when I was reading their company literature, shortly before I turned both their job offers down. Glad I did now.
FatPhil
I have a better explanation.
If a server changes state on average X times an hour, then one of N servers will on average change state NX times an hour. This change needs to be propogated to N servers. Therefore the work required is N.NX communications per hour.
O(N^2)
FatPhil
It's a counting argument more than an algorithmic one.
It's not about how much work you need to do, it's about how many oppertunities there are for needing to do work.
The "work" is synchronising server state between servers. There are approximately n^2 pairs of servers (n*(n-1) more accurately). So there are n^2 chances of a 2 servers being out of step with each other.
There's a far better explanation of this "communication/interface" scaling in Fred Brooks' Mythical Man Month, but that applies to humans rather than servers.
FP.
Compatability mode would be post-pentium.
The chip supports CPUID, so it sure as hell ain't as far back as a 386.
... it shows Linux distro intallation-program writers to be right dozy fsckers.
The code makes the following decision:
"You appear to be running this code, but I can't tell what chip you are so I won't let you run any other code."
Imagine a toll-booth on a motorway saying "nice car, however I've never seen it before, I don't know if it's suitable for this motorway, so you can't drive on it."
Open source, begins to sound more like they're trying to type Shakepeare after all.
FatPhil