For what it's worth, I've had a WAP11 outside in a garden tool shed all summer. I live in the Sacramento valley and it's been 115 F. outside and probably 130 in the shed. It's worked fine.
I've probably reduced it's lifespan, but if I get 1 year out of it, I've paid for DSL 3x or 4x over.
Any patent can be legally used for home or hobby use. The problem will lie with commercial exploitation of the patent. The developers are off the hook. Not so easy for Redhat et al.
It's easy to say that sort of stuff when you're young and healthy. Wait til you're 50 and you've lost a parent and all of your old-aged friends. Your perspective will change, if you have any heart at all.
A truly great watch. My dad was a trainman for 33 years and he bought an Acutron in the mid 60's. At the time, it was the only wristwatch that was approved for railroad use. It was one of his most prized possessions. I now have it and it still runs perfectly.
Many years ago I bought a complete system at a swap meet for $50. The electronics, the connectors, and a box full of phones. I've since bought another one for work. They don't have many new features, but they are solid as a rock. Systems show up on ebay all the time for less than $100.
You know, I think you're right. I believe I am getting cynical with my old age. And spending all my time building and selling a few thousand embedded web server boards probably doesn't help my mental attitude.
The point is that small http servers have been around for years. And yes, you can find them on 8051's. This just isn't news. It seems like all you have to do to warrant a slashdot article is to cruft together some TCP/IP app on some old junk hardware and you're in. BTW, Transmeta is up for sale. Maybe that's worthy of an article.... nah.
How this is better than embedded web servers that have been around for years? They work, run in tiny amounts of ram/rom and are a proven solution for embedded control.
I'd peg this post as a troll if it hadn't been moded up to +4.
You just don't get it. Fair use has *nothing* to do with technology. It's part of the contract between the copyright holder and the public. In a nutshell, if we allow copy protection, and it's unbreakable and/or illegal, there is *no* fair use and the contract has been broken.
Terrible article, no mention of whether or not the chicken feather composite is even a semiconductor! Just nebulus and confusing statements about the speed of electrons in his stuff.
It's the cable mentality at work as well. If you're sharing, you're stealing. If you're using port 80 to serve a web page, you're stealing services. The cable mentality dictates that unless your coax goes to one TV (or computer) and no more, you're a thief.
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No thanks. Besides, it's cold up there.
Read the GM article. No details, just a bunch of wildeyed dreaming. Nothing wrong with that, just don't mistake it for shipping hardware anytime soon.
All pussy smells. Guess you've never been there or else you mean that her's smells bad.
For what it's worth, I've had a WAP11 outside in a garden tool shed all summer. I live in the Sacramento valley and it's been 115 F. outside and probably 130 in the shed. It's worked fine.
I've probably reduced it's lifespan, but if I get 1 year out of it, I've paid for DSL 3x or 4x over.
But I think I'll stick to paper instructions, thankya very much.
Any patent can be legally used for home or hobby use. The problem will lie with commercial exploitation of the patent. The developers are off the hook. Not so easy for Redhat et al.
For diehard Wordstar users.
It's easy to say that sort of stuff when you're young and healthy. Wait til you're 50 and you've lost a parent and all of your old-aged friends. Your perspective will change, if you have any heart at all.
A truly great watch. My dad was a trainman for 33 years and he bought an Acutron in the mid 60's. At the time, it was the only wristwatch that was approved for railroad use. It was one of his most prized possessions. I now have it and it still runs perfectly.
Many years ago I bought a complete system at a swap meet for $50. The electronics, the connectors, and a box full of phones. I've since bought another one for work. They don't have many new features, but they are solid as a rock. Systems show up on ebay all the time for less than $100.
You know, I think you're right. I believe I am getting cynical with my old age. And spending all my time building and selling a few thousand embedded web server boards probably doesn't help my mental attitude.
The point is that small http servers have been around for years. And yes, you can find them on 8051's. This just isn't news. It seems like all you have to do to warrant a slashdot article is to cruft together some TCP/IP app on some old junk hardware and you're in. BTW, Transmeta is up for sale. Maybe that's worthy of an article.... nah.
How this is better than embedded web servers that have been around for years? They work, run in tiny amounts of ram/rom and are a proven solution for embedded control.
If you did, he was probably trying to get out of the way of a cager Volvo driver.
Ask Taco, I submitted it an hour after the news broke. Of course it's news when one of our own dies.
That's right. And true geeks generally work for a company that has free drinks in a refrigerator.
I'd peg this post as a troll if it hadn't been moded up to +4.
You just don't get it. Fair use has *nothing* to do with technology. It's part of the contract between the copyright holder and the public. In a nutshell, if we allow copy protection, and it's unbreakable and/or illegal, there is *no* fair use and the contract has been broken.
A libertarian vote is a wasted vote. I'll vote for someone that at least has his foot in the door.
Terrible article, no mention of whether or not the chicken feather composite is even a semiconductor! Just nebulus and confusing statements about the speed of electrons in his stuff.
"You want to impress us, go to the moon and bring back our flag"!
Slightly paraphrased for clarity.
Since all the Hindi computer engineers are working for Cisco.
Looks like there's no shortage of cockgobbling faggots. Tough shit.
Right on top of it
It's the cable mentality at work as well. If you're sharing, you're stealing. If you're using port 80 to serve a web page, you're stealing services. The cable mentality dictates that unless your coax goes to one TV (or computer) and no more, you're a thief.