I'm pretty sure it would have had a (remote) resource-monitoring program too (like 'xtop'). And a 'biff' app too (your home directory being on a remote server). You need the remote sources of data in order to nail this patent more precisely. Of course, in a network-oriented OS (sockets have been in unix since the precambrian era) the distinction between remote or local resources is a mere triviality.
"Phone" on VMS back in the 1980s. Rectangular tiles - check Remote source of data - check Updating independently of each other - check And of course, "phone" wasn't novel, as it was an obvious evolution of "talk".
And basically any network monitoring software had this functionality too. I was certainly monitoring multicast video from multiple sources simultaniously back in the early 90s. And the only thing that was "novel" about that was the "holy fuck we've got enough bandwidth for video now" aspect.
No, that completely destroys the only good that patents do have. The little guy can invent something brilliant, and patent it, and then go hunting for a company with the necessary manufacturing facilities. Your way, as soon as the first company he approaches that rejects him, they can build it without him, and he can do nothing about it.
What we need to change is the current non-enforcement of the obviousness clause. 90+% of patents nowadays are *blindingly obvious* to those sufficiently skilled in the field. Patent examiners are skilled in nothing apart from earning a paycheck from stamping "approved" on a form.
And it's not like it's similar to my X desktop with xtop, monitoring resource usage on remote machines, and xbiff, and all that crap neatly tiled in the top corner of the screen?
Back in the 1980s.
Ah, but of course, my X workstation was completely different because it was in a pizzabox. Therefore these guys are geniuses and groundbreakingly inventive.
Indeed, the "would" conditional was upon him being alive still, but I guess that wasn't clear. If we're throwing out hypotheticals that aren't going to happen, why should we restrict ourselves to those who are still breathing?
Phillips TVs had MIPS in them last time I checked (1-2 years ago, just before Phillips changed their name (flogged the division off to some international consortium, IIRC)).
I'll see your Seth MacFarlane and raise you Seth Putnam. I suspect his version would just be a barely-intelligable "kill yourselves you sad fucks". Which could be done on a far lower budget.
> 9 women can't have a baby in a month. All the data being processed by those 48 cores still has to pass through the same vagina to get to RAM or Flash.
The biggest problem is that the programmers are dicks.
TV out and HDMI out have been on phones for a while. USB host mode, under the guise of OTG, likewise - so that's your peripherals and wired network. They've had a gig of main memory for a while too (and still swap!). Moore's law would make one expect that many gigabytes will be coming soon. 64GB flash memory storage has been on phones for ages, there's no reason to not expect that to grow rapidly too.
There's nothing about modern phone technology that isn't as capable as a typical desktop 5 years ago. There's no reason to believe that mobile technology won't be as capable as a typical desktop now.
Be careful what you ask for, for you may receive it. Google promptly finds this: """ The Khmer Rouge regime arrested and eventually executed almost everyone suspected of connections with the former government or with foreign governments, as well as professionals and intellectuals. Ethnic Vietnamese, ethnic Thai, ethnic Chinese, ethnic Chams (Muslim Cambodians), Cambodian Christians, and the Buddhist monkhood were the demographic targets of persecution. """
This was political and ethnic persecution, not furtherance of atheism for atheism's sake. The only religious group in that list of the persecuted...... wait for it...... is atheist!
Erm, no. True engineers use metric. Anyone not using metric is by definition not a true engineer.
I do like the sophistry in that CNN article - blaming the "English" units, rather than "Imperial" units. Nobody calls them "English" units, that's just an attempt to try to distract blame from shoddy American sloppiness.
Exactly. "Worse, many of these systems are unneccessarily connected to the Internet" is mostly bollocks. That's not the "worse", that's the whole problem. But they put MS windows on cash machines, so they'll basically do anything that seems quick and easy. I have no sympathy for any industries which invest in such hackable devices and have connected to (a network connected to) the internet. Open season - hack away!
What happens in the corner case where everyone and their potatophone is snapping away? Do they have to be asked individually, or does a "nobody take any more photos" request carry any weight?
The response to the takedown of the 16-year-old wannabee journalist should have been two people filming it. The response to any attempted takedown of those two people should have been four people filming that. I'm sure you can guess where my argument leads. Were I to witness such a situation I definitely think I would want to record it, and to encourage others too. They can't prevent everyone, there's strength in numbers.
I like the idea of saying "if you think you're doing your job well, then you won't mind me recording it to document what a great job you're doing". Sharing a common language with the mall staff would probably be a necessary starting point before I go ahead with that though.
Name one family in the western world that, during the 60s, 70s, or 80s, wouldn't have snapped a photo of their baby playing with the bubbles in the bath? Silly question - of course - the exceptions being "those without cameras".
I know at least in the 90s in the UK people got reported to the police for processing film with such photos on.
The weak minded need boogeymen, and need labels to attach to things. Without those, they are incapable of rational thought. Alas, with them, they are incapable of rational thought.
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I'm pretty sure it would have had a (remote) resource-monitoring program too (like 'xtop'). And a 'biff' app too (your home directory being on a remote server). You need the remote sources of data in order to nail this patent more precisely. Of course, in a network-oriented OS (sockets have been in unix since the precambrian era) the distinction between remote or local resources is a mere triviality.
"... since it is very unrewarding."
Not for the lawyers!
"Phone" on VMS back in the 1980s.
Rectangular tiles - check
Remote source of data - check
Updating independently of each other - check
And of course, "phone" wasn't novel, as it was an obvious evolution of "talk".
And basically any network monitoring software had this functionality too. I was certainly monitoring multicast video from multiple sources simultaniously back in the early 90s. And the only thing that was "novel" about that was the "holy fuck we've got enough bandwidth for video now" aspect.
No, that completely destroys the only good that patents do have. The little guy can invent something brilliant, and patent it, and then go hunting for a company with the necessary manufacturing facilities. Your way, as soon as the first company he approaches that rejects him, they can build it without him, and he can do nothing about it.
What we need to change is the current non-enforcement of the obviousness clause. 90+% of patents nowadays are *blindingly obvious* to those sufficiently skilled in the field. Patent examiners are skilled in nothing apart from earning a paycheck from stamping "approved" on a form.
And it's not like it's similar to my X desktop with xtop, monitoring resource usage on remote machines, and xbiff, and all that crap neatly tiled in the top corner of the screen?
Back in the 1980s.
Ah, but of course, my X workstation was completely different because it was in a pizzabox. Therefore these guys are geniuses and groundbreakingly inventive.
If you try and patent donuts, you'll be in trouble with the cops!
Indeed, the "would" conditional was upon him being alive still, but I guess that wasn't clear. If we're throwing out hypotheticals that aren't going to happen, why should we restrict ourselves to those who are still breathing?
Phillips TVs had MIPS in them last time I checked (1-2 years ago, just before Phillips changed their name (flogged the division off to some international consortium, IIRC)).
Are you confusing them for a country that hasn't already stuck a machine right at the top of the top500 list?
I'll see your Seth MacFarlane and raise you Seth Putnam. I suspect his version would just be a barely-intelligable "kill yourselves you sad fucks". Which could be done on a far lower budget.
> 9 women can't have a baby in a month. All the data being processed by those 48 cores still has to pass through the same vagina to get to RAM or Flash.
The biggest problem is that the programmers are dicks.
TV out and HDMI out have been on phones for a while.
USB host mode, under the guise of OTG, likewise - so that's your peripherals and wired network.
They've had a gig of main memory for a while too (and still swap!). Moore's law would make one expect that many gigabytes will be coming soon.
64GB flash memory storage has been on phones for ages, there's no reason to not expect that to grow rapidly too.
There's nothing about modern phone technology that isn't as capable as a typical desktop 5 years ago. There's no reason to believe that mobile technology won't be as capable as a typical desktop now.
clearly not "only", I just meant included in the list
Be careful what you ask for, for you may receive it. Google promptly finds this:
... ... wait for it ... ... is atheist!
"""
The Khmer Rouge regime arrested and eventually executed almost everyone suspected of connections with the former government or with foreign governments, as well as professionals and intellectuals. Ethnic Vietnamese, ethnic Thai, ethnic Chinese, ethnic Chams (Muslim Cambodians), Cambodian Christians, and the Buddhist monkhood were the demographic targets of persecution.
"""
This was political and ethnic persecution, not furtherance of atheism for atheism's sake. The only religious group in that list of the persecuted
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Digital were not returning calls because it was a wrong number. They should have called Digital Research instead,
Even more like Villa Savoye in France: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Savoye
A major difference is that Villa Savoye looks easier to steer.
More fuel for the big oil propaganga machine: Electric cars now 10% shitter!
-1 uninformative and just downright misleading.
Your "warnings" are information such as "BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA A DESTRUCTIVE PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI IS
NOT EXPECTED"
Erm, no. True engineers use metric. Anyone not using metric is by definition not a true engineer.
I do like the sophistry in that CNN article - blaming the "English" units, rather than "Imperial" units. Nobody calls them "English" units, that's just an attempt to try to distract blame from shoddy American sloppiness.
Exactly. "Worse, many of these systems are unneccessarily connected to the Internet" is mostly bollocks. That's not the "worse", that's the whole problem. But they put MS windows on cash machines, so they'll basically do anything that seems quick and easy. I have no sympathy for any industries which invest in such hackable devices and have connected to (a network connected to) the internet. Open season - hack away!
... more webcams in shopping malls?
Am I on the wrong story?
What happens in the corner case where everyone and their potatophone is snapping away? Do they have to be asked individually, or does a "nobody take any more photos" request carry any weight?
The response to the takedown of the 16-year-old wannabee journalist should have been two people filming it. The response to any attempted takedown of those two people should have been four people filming that. I'm sure you can guess where my argument leads. Were I to witness such a situation I definitely think I would want to record it, and to encourage others too. They can't prevent everyone, there's strength in numbers.
I like the idea of saying "if you think you're doing your job well, then you won't mind me recording it to document what a great job you're doing". Sharing a common language with the mall staff would probably be a necessary starting point before I go ahead with that though.
Name one family in the western world that, during the 60s, 70s, or 80s, wouldn't have snapped a photo of their baby playing with the bubbles in the bath? Silly question - of course - the exceptions being "those without cameras".
I know at least in the 90s in the UK people got reported to the police for processing film with such photos on.
The weak minded need boogeymen, and need labels to attach to things. Without those, they are incapable of rational thought. Alas, with them, they are incapable of rational thought.