Forget about the GSM Modem... You got the issue of different fequency bands (900/1800/1900), which you might be able to solve using a TriBand phone... But then, you also need the Data services, which most operators outside of Europe don't offer yet, or aren't part of roaming agreements. Also, most roaming agreements outside of Europe aren't really working yet.
You have two choices left... One is to use a Global ISP, like IBM Global Network (I've hear it works pretty well).
The other choice is to rely on cybercafes on each country. Every big city has a bunch of them, as do most mid-size cities too.
My recomendation is to do both... get an IBM account, and do some reseach on cybercafes on the cities you'll stop.
And if you plan to stop in Venezuela, send me an email:-)
Jeff Bezos is right in many ways, as are some of the comments posted so far... Patents are as much a defensive tool as an offensive one.
B&N could have patented 1-Click(tm?)... Or Jhon Doe could have patented it... it could have been worse... Amazon might be affected by public pressure and "release" the patents back to the "public".
Why not set up a non-profit organization to hold patents and license their use freely? Hey, Jeff could fund it to show his "good will" (and he can "donate" the 1-Click and Affiliate patents).
It could charge a less-than-nominal fee on for-profit uses, so it can support itself and all the paperwork involved. Or even better... it could live out of voluntary donations from people like you and me, who don't like ideas to be patented.
As long as the current patent system remains, we'll need patents to protect us from patents. All we need is those patents to be in the "right" hands.
Jeff, help create the "Amazing Ideas Foundation", transfer the ownership of your patents to that organization a give a couple million bucks so other people can send their ideas and get them patented and keep the bad-guys(tm) from doing so.
The Single Instance Store, which is used with From the article
Windows 2000's Remote Install Server, consists of two pieces, according to Bolosky. The first piece searches for duplicate files, computes a signature for each file and stores these signatures in a database. It then compares the signatures in the database and merges duplicate files. The other piece implements the links, recognizes when someone tries to open a link and directs the link to the common store, where all the duplicate content is stored.
There's nothing new... there are no copy on write... Write a perl script that makes a database of file signatures and you got the first piece. That script then uses the second piece, called "ln" on unix and you got the same solution. Put the perl script into your crontab and now it is transparent.
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Forget about the GSM Modem... You got the issue of different fequency bands (900/1800/1900), which you might be able to solve using a TriBand phone... But then, you also need the Data services, which most operators outside of Europe don't offer yet, or aren't part of roaming agreements. Also, most roaming agreements outside of Europe aren't really working yet.
:-)
You have two choices left... One is to use a Global ISP, like IBM Global Network (I've hear it works pretty well).
The other choice is to rely on cybercafes on each country. Every big city has a bunch of them, as do most mid-size cities too.
My recomendation is to do both... get an IBM account, and do some reseach on cybercafes on the cities you'll stop.
And if you plan to stop in Venezuela, send me an email
Jeff Bezos is right in many ways, as are some of the comments posted so far... Patents are as much a defensive tool as an offensive one.
B&N could have patented 1-Click(tm?)... Or Jhon Doe could have patented it... it could have been worse... Amazon might be affected by public pressure and "release" the patents back to the "public".
Why not set up a non-profit organization to hold patents and license their use freely? Hey, Jeff could fund it to show his "good will" (and he can "donate" the 1-Click and Affiliate patents).
It could charge a less-than-nominal fee on for-profit uses, so it can support itself and all the paperwork involved. Or even better... it could live out of voluntary donations from people like you and me, who don't like ideas to be patented.
As long as the current patent system remains, we'll need patents to protect us from patents. All we need is those patents to be in the "right" hands.
Jeff, help create the "Amazing Ideas Foundation", transfer the ownership of your patents to that organization a give a couple million bucks so other people can send their ideas and get them patented and keep the bad-guys(tm) from doing so.
Oh, and I forgot...
Everybody (even Nataly Portman) knows that symlinks were invented by Al Gore
The Single Instance Store, which is used with
From the article
Windows 2000's Remote Install Server, consists of two pieces, according to Bolosky. The first piece searches for duplicate files, computes a signature for each file and stores these signatures in a database. It then compares the signatures in the database and merges duplicate files. The other piece implements the links, recognizes when someone tries to open a link and directs the link to the common store, where all the duplicate content is stored.
There's nothing new... there are no copy on write... Write a perl script that makes a database of file signatures and you got the first piece. That script then uses the second piece, called "ln" on unix and you got the same solution. Put the perl script into your crontab and now it is transparent.
Innovative? My ass^H^H^H^H^H^H I don't think so