Really, what does everyone really want out of their cuecat? A funtioning, unencrypted barcode wand. Check out http://members.aol.com/cuecatguy/ for instructions on how to make your cuecat into a normal barcode scanner, no drivers needed.
It's pretty sweet. I'm gong to try it this weekend I think.
It seems to me that you could have a very compact and large Beowulf cluster pretty cheap. Just think, six thousand processor cluster in a box the size of your standard tower. Hoo wee.
It seems to me that while many really dumb intellectual property lawsuits occur all the time, there are many more in the computer world than otherwise. I have a theory for this. As many of you know, when perfectly intelligent people get involved with computers, they tend to completely lose any shred of common sense they may have possesed.
I think what happens is these patenet reviewers or others who have the power to grand broad intellectual rights say, "Hey, that sounds like a great idea. I'll give this guy a patent for doing something with computers that we do every day, because it works on a computer!" And the computing public just groans and says here's another one.
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Really, what does everyone really want out of their cuecat? A funtioning, unencrypted barcode wand. Check out http://members.aol.com/cuecatguy/ for instructions on how to make your cuecat into a normal barcode scanner, no drivers needed.
It's pretty sweet. I'm gong to try it this weekend I think.
James
So they can better gouge their customers.
It seems to me that you could have a very compact and large Beowulf cluster pretty cheap. Just think, six thousand processor cluster in a box the size of your standard tower. Hoo wee.
It seems to me that while many really dumb intellectual property lawsuits occur all the time, there are many more in the computer world than otherwise. I have a theory for this. As many of you know, when perfectly intelligent people get involved with computers, they tend to completely lose any shred of common sense they may have possesed. I think what happens is these patenet reviewers or others who have the power to grand broad intellectual rights say, "Hey, that sounds like a great idea. I'll give this guy a patent for doing something with computers that we do every day, because it works on a computer!" And the computing public just groans and says here's another one.