I've been in IT at a major corp and had a supplier that I worked with personally come to me due to non-payment. I had to go pretty far up my chain of command before I found someone who would apply pressure to finance to pay up on the contract that they signed and approved. Had I not been there to facilitate it would have taken even longer, if they got paid at all. The supplier was international so they got a runaround. Wish I had a better answer, but finance depts sometimes like to collect interest on their bank accounts even at the expense of the company's reputation.
Tacking onto this, it's not like it's lost technology that needs to be rescued, or the only extant examples. I saw a full set of these engines on display in Houston in their Saturn V exhibit.
Which, btw, I highly recommend to any space geeks, the scale of it is pretty awesome up close.
As far as I know it's not an "instead of" type thing. The xfinitytv.com site that they have now is basically an online video on demand service for existing subscribers. Previously it was only accessible via a computer, so for those of us without their rental cable boxes (go TiVo!) this is the first chance to have easy access to their VoD solution on the TV without running HDMI to a computer.
Nothing at all about killing cable, more features for subscribers.
The standard/. IANAL applies here, but I'm pretty sure that if you have legal access to the copyrighted text (ie you or someone you know owns a copy of the magazine) then it is ok to create a derivative work for the purposes of searching that work. This is the loophole that Google (name your favorite search engine here) uses, and they go so far as to offer cached versions of some sites.
Lucene, or a more friendly wrapper around it like SOLR, has the option of creating a search index based on an original text from which the original content cannot be extracted (indexed=true, stored=false on a field), so that would seem to cover the case of finding an article without violating the rights of the author or the publisher.
As for not having the text online, I'd suggest either scraping the archive sites in the process of building your search index, it's pretty hard to search something that isn't digitized.
Best of luck, as this sounds like a worthwhile project. I do think that the volume of data you're discussing would fit easily in a SOLR instance that would consume very modest amounts of server resources to operate.
Bah. This is exactly what people were saying a few years back during the original AOL-TimeWarner merger. A content behemoth with a high-tech darling to deliver that content. How could they be stopped? Unfortunately for them, it didn't work out that way and all it did was cost a lot of TW shareholders a fortune.
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Strange, I have a cellphone and they deliver to me all the time. In fact, I ordered from a friend's house in a different area code using my cellphone and they had my name on record (printed on the label) and no problems. Sounds like you got a bad-egg Dominos.
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I'm hoping Tivo does away with the phone requirement when they come out with their HD units. It's asinine to rely on landlines when so many people are moving to exclusively mobile phone + broadband internet. Seems like they're spiting the demographic most likely to buy their new products.
I considered voip earlier this year, for an outbound connection for an alarm system dialer. There don't seem to be any "per-minute" type voip plans though where you only pay for use. Nor do there seem to be "outbound only". I can do without the telemarketers (do-not-call isn't enough) that come along with a land line.
Unfortunately, having read now into the details of this case, it seems to be exactly the sort of thing that the patent system was designed to encourage, and is not an artifact of the digital age or any lack in the patent application/review process.
Their listing of prior art shows an understanding of the field, and they are merely patenting a specific innovation of the proportional preview screen that zooms to/from the individual desktops. I have seen a lot of pagers in my day, dating back over 10 years, but never one that worked in that manner. And that is the key thing of the patent system, to allow for and encourage incremental improvements to existing inventions.
That said, the patent enforcement system may need some examining if any attempt is made to apply this patent in cases of any pager that does not implement the specific improvement listed.
How many eBooks have been released as eBook only, not counting prereleases of excerpts or first chapters with "special intros". Aren't most of them just existing publications in a different format? If the format dies then there is a reason, and if the work continues in some sort of archival medium then how is it a loss? Would the same lamentations be heard over cassette recordings of books on tape?
JSP is fantastically simpler than "J2EE", which is the recommended-by-Sun way of building applications, but still it seems to be too complex for seniors and graduate students in the MIT computer science program, despite the fact that they all had at least one semester of Java experience in 6.170.
Apparently he's lamenting MIT students' inability to program in Java, and blaming the technology rather than the users. He also doesn't seem to be writing about Java at all, but rather JSP pages with "pages of" Java embedded which is horrible form, but typical of students in my experience. Ok enough trolling.
This reminds me of the experience of WindowFX, a 3d transparency/animation tool made by Stardock. They included hardware 'acceleration' as a settable option, but for most cards it was anything but an option, ran at 1fps.
The exception being the G400, then the Radeon, and only very recently (on Windows) the GeForce. It's entirely an issue of how well the drivers are implemented, and since many of these 2d acceleration functions aren't widely used they're often overlooked in favor of the (traditionally) common case. I'd expect that NVidia hasn't been lobbied so heavily to make it's Linux drivers support these functions, as it took months for Stardock to lobby them to alter the Windows drivers to do the same.
I guess the answer is that I'm not surprised to hear something like this, and there is hope even if it's small hope that it will get better.
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I think they said "100 by the holiday season" which is presumably when the feature will be more widely available.
This seems to be titles that are on their way to being ported (the Rare titles) and other first-party or closely aligned ones.
After MS clears you out for an XB One, you can buy a cheap tablet for their Smartglass "second screen" app.
What?! next you'll tell me boxen isn't the plural of box. Sad face.
I've been in IT at a major corp and had a supplier that I worked with personally come to me due to non-payment. I had to go pretty far up my chain of command before I found someone who would apply pressure to finance to pay up on the contract that they signed and approved. Had I not been there to facilitate it would have taken even longer, if they got paid at all. The supplier was international so they got a runaround. Wish I had a better answer, but finance depts sometimes like to collect interest on their bank accounts even at the expense of the company's reputation.
Tacking onto this, it's not like it's lost technology that needs to be rescued, or the only extant examples. I saw a full set of these engines on display in Houston in their Saturn V exhibit.
Which, btw, I highly recommend to any space geeks, the scale of it is pretty awesome up close.
I'd imagine there is a staff member who consulted scientists in determining the proposed experimental protocol. Or at least I hope there is.
Not all legislation is driven by Hollywood lobbyists, is it?
And please ban talking on cell phones on public transit as well. Nobody wants to listen to you.
I hope to be the first American to die in space. That would be enough to be notable for Wikipedia I think.
As far as I know it's not an "instead of" type thing. The xfinitytv.com site that they have now is basically an online video on demand service for existing subscribers. Previously it was only accessible via a computer, so for those of us without their rental cable boxes (go TiVo!) this is the first chance to have easy access to their VoD solution on the TV without running HDMI to a computer.
Nothing at all about killing cable, more features for subscribers.
The standard /. IANAL applies here, but I'm pretty sure that if you have legal access to the copyrighted text (ie you or someone you know owns a copy of the magazine) then it is ok to create a derivative work for the purposes of searching that work. This is the loophole that Google (name your favorite search engine here) uses, and they go so far as to offer cached versions of some sites.
Lucene, or a more friendly wrapper around it like SOLR, has the option of creating a search index based on an original text from which the original content cannot be extracted (indexed=true, stored=false on a field), so that would seem to cover the case of finding an article without violating the rights of the author or the publisher.
As for not having the text online, I'd suggest either scraping the archive sites in the process of building your search index, it's pretty hard to search something that isn't digitized.
Best of luck, as this sounds like a worthwhile project. I do think that the volume of data you're discussing would fit easily in a SOLR instance that would consume very modest amounts of server resources to operate.
I recieved the same offer in paper mail as well with the matching NJ address and web site listed. I highly doubt there is anything phishy going on.
Bah. This is exactly what people were saying a few years back during the original AOL-TimeWarner merger. A content behemoth with a high-tech darling to deliver that content. How could they be stopped? Unfortunately for them, it didn't work out that way and all it did was cost a lot of TW shareholders a fortune.
Strange, I have a cellphone and they deliver to me all the time. In fact, I ordered from a friend's house in a different area code using my cellphone and they had my name on record (printed on the label) and no problems. Sounds like you got a bad-egg Dominos.
I'm hoping Tivo does away with the phone requirement when they come out with their HD units. It's asinine to rely on landlines when so many people are moving to exclusively mobile phone + broadband internet. Seems like they're spiting the demographic most likely to buy their new products.
I considered voip earlier this year, for an outbound connection for an alarm system dialer. There don't seem to be any "per-minute" type voip plans though where you only pay for use. Nor do there seem to be "outbound only". I can do without the telemarketers (do-not-call isn't enough) that come along with a land line.
the response time for packet loss is prohibitive... may as well get satellite
Obviously you're not an AOL user. Their proxies have been known to compress graphics before they get to the client, with visibly lossy results.
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Unfortunately, having read now into the details of this case, it seems to be exactly the sort of thing that the patent system was designed to encourage, and is not an artifact of the digital age or any lack in the patent application/review process.
Their listing of prior art shows an understanding of the field, and they are merely patenting a specific innovation of the proportional preview screen that zooms to/from the individual desktops. I have seen a lot of pagers in my day, dating back over 10 years, but never one that worked in that manner. And that is the key thing of the patent system, to allow for and encourage incremental improvements to existing inventions.
That said, the patent enforcement system may need some examining if any attempt is made to apply this patent in cases of any pager that does not implement the specific improvement listed.
So now it will look like the Windows XP Olive Green theme twice as fast?
The faster these two can work together the better off the community will be. Each one will have more software to choose from, and choice is good
How many eBooks have been released as eBook only, not counting prereleases of excerpts or first chapters with "special intros". Aren't most of them just existing publications in a different format? If the format dies then there is a reason, and if the work continues in some sort of archival medium then how is it a loss? Would the same lamentations be heard over cassette recordings of books on tape?
Randy Virgin sounds like a villian in an Austin Powers film
Apparently he's lamenting MIT students' inability to program in Java, and blaming the technology rather than the users. He also doesn't seem to be writing about Java at all, but rather JSP pages with "pages of" Java embedded which is horrible form, but typical of students in my experience. Ok enough trolling.
We found it in a tranquil time of computing, with many steps and columns
Then, in the absence of Abe Lincoln, we brought back a Speak N Spell
This reminds me of the experience of WindowFX, a 3d transparency/animation tool made by Stardock. They included hardware 'acceleration' as a settable option, but for most cards it was anything but an option, ran at 1fps.
The exception being the G400, then the Radeon, and only very recently (on Windows) the GeForce. It's entirely an issue of how well the drivers are implemented, and since many of these 2d acceleration functions aren't widely used they're often overlooked in favor of the (traditionally) common case. I'd expect that NVidia hasn't been lobbied so heavily to make it's Linux drivers support these functions, as it took months for Stardock to lobby them to alter the Windows drivers to do the same.
I guess the answer is that I'm not surprised to hear something like this, and there is hope even if it's small hope that it will get better.
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