Sark: What kind of character is it? MCP: It's not any kind of character, Sark. It's a NEL. Sark: A NEL?!? MCP: What's the matter, Sark? You look nervous.
Third to half the price may be an exaggeration, but as an experiment I just went through the Apple store to configure an eMac, Dell.com to configure a comparable PC, and pcprogress.com to represent a generic whitebox dealer.
In all three systems, this was a 40GB drive, 512MB RAM, built in graphics, ethernet and sound, and a 17" monitor, with no extras -- although Dell throws in Wordperfect, Quicken, and a free cheapo printer or digital camera.
The Dell has a 1.8GHz Celeron; the whitebox system has a 1.6GHz Athlon; the eMac has a 700MHz G4 -- let's say they're equivalent for the sake of argument.
The eMac comes out at $1324 in the Apple store. The Dell finishes up at $1018, and the whitebox system comes out at $757.
I rather like Macs myself, but I think you're ignoring the reality of how Apple stays in business.
No new precedent will be set. Previous rulings will be used to apply to all items at issue here, and he won't get all the rulings he hopes for (will just have to take his chances).
- His purchase of the software will enable him to use it as property (sold not licensed), so he won't be affected by "contractual" EULA terms. - The DMCA won't be affected; he will get words from the judge similar to previous cases, saying that if he writes his own code to decrypt the list it's fine; if he publishes the list he discovered, that's also fine; if he distributes his code he's in violation of the DMCA. - Many of the claims will be dismissed for a 'lack of standing to challenge the court' as the article described happened to Felten.
But, I'll be following this with interest -- anyone got opinions on whether the judge will be forced to get into the "source code vs object code issue"?
Can you describe any guidelines for the 'novelty' requirement as they apply to the work of an examiner? I'm assuming there's some sort of internal process for making a judgement on 'obvious to a reasonably skilled practitioner' -- would be interested to hear what actually happens...
I was going to post a link to the very same book, but you beat me to it.
Also, check out the old but interesting Submarine, a nonfiction Tom Clancy factfest that has lots of detail on the Jimmy Carter class boats. The Jimmy Carter was designed as a 'special projects' boat from the beginning.
The image shows them stood in a desert, for God's sake. Didnt any of you see Wayne's World 2? I bet Val Kilmer is stood just off set going "Guys, guys, tell Mulder he has to organize a rock concert!"
The crowd in my theater knew we were having fun at the big Yoda fight scene when someone at the back called out "Fuck him up, Yoda!!!" and everyone went "YEAH!!!!"...
I'm sorry, but this is utter nonsense, especially when talking about software patents.
XML started being a hot subject, say, 4 years ago? And today there are thousands of lines of non-patent-encumbered code out there for people to build on -- the shared body of knowledge grows every year, not every 17 years after patents expire.
The consequences on the growth of the web will be disastrous if we don't take sensible steps like allowing patented technology into web standards
I'm assuming that's not just a troll, but what possible web related precedent can you give for thinking that? In particular, are you claiming that various innovations won't happen without patent protection, or that patented innovations will happen and that web standards will be the poorer without them?
Please check out this study for some interesting reading. I invite you to find contrasting views that aren't filled with corporate rhetoric.
Because the former gives rights to law enforcement but doesn't take things away from you (stop you writing whatever you want on your papers, lock them in a safe, whatever).
The latter would actively remove the right for you to send things around in any electronic envelope you please and thereby safeguard yourself (from third parties even if not the govt).
Also, like an engineered object, the information encoded in the structure is far more interesting than the physical reality because it's more malleable. You don't complain about the number of rivets in a 747...
Consider this experience: I'm sat in front of a Win2k server. If I turn off every single service I can, (including the built in FTP which requires IIS Admin, which starts opening up stuff just above 1024) I'm still left with 445 (TCP and UDP) - the SMB endpoint, and 135 (TCP) - the RPC endpoint mapper.
If you want to get rid of those, you'll have to firewall them.
MS has always made the tradeoff in favor of usability; let's not pretend they'll change overnight.
Just how do you come to use the word 'should' in that sentence?
It's quite apparent that recording industry concerns will attempt to maximise their profits, and this won't be a surprise.
But why 'should' ??
I guess it's probably lower quality than what this functionality on the Tivo can deliver, but as another poster said - it's not like no-one saw this coming.
I'm glad people like SnapStream will keep doing this stuff on commodity PC hardware -- at the very least it will keep the pressure on embedded people like Tivo to keep the features coming.
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The Departments of Truth, Peace and Love would have been just too much of a give away.
Set tabs to indent 2 spaces one more time! I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker! Change those tabs one more goddamn time!
Just imagine a Beowulf clu... eeeuww, never mind.
"Oh my god, it's full of .... EEEUUUUWWWWWWW!!!"
Sadly, many will remember this little gem for torching your NT/2000/XP system:
main () { for (;;) { printf ("Kaboom\t\b\b\b\b\b\b") ; } }
Immediate blue screen. D'oh...Now, in the interest of fairness, we should state that this is fixed in Win2k SP3 and Windows XP SP1. Check out the quality links here.
So they'll have their own version of the AOL new mail sound --
"Could there BE more mail?!"
Sark: What kind of character is it?
MCP: It's not any kind of character, Sark. It's a NEL.
Sark: A NEL?!?
MCP: What's the matter, Sark? You look nervous.
In all three systems, this was a 40GB drive, 512MB RAM, built in graphics, ethernet and sound, and a 17" monitor, with no extras -- although Dell throws in Wordperfect, Quicken, and a free cheapo printer or digital camera.
The Dell has a 1.8GHz Celeron; the whitebox system has a 1.6GHz Athlon; the eMac has a 700MHz G4 -- let's say they're equivalent for the sake of argument.
The eMac comes out at $1324 in the Apple store. The Dell finishes up at $1018, and the whitebox system comes out at $757.
I rather like Macs myself, but I think you're ignoring the reality of how Apple stays in business.
Well, in that vein, I found these ramblings about ReiserFS rather interesting...
No new precedent will be set. Previous rulings will be used to apply to all items at issue here, and he won't get all the rulings he hopes for (will just have to take his chances).
- His purchase of the software will enable him to use it as property (sold not licensed), so he won't be affected by "contractual" EULA terms.
- The DMCA won't be affected; he will get words from the judge similar to previous cases, saying that if he writes his own code to decrypt the list it's fine; if he publishes the list he discovered, that's also fine; if he distributes his code he's in violation of the DMCA.
- Many of the claims will be dismissed for a 'lack of standing to challenge the court' as the article described happened to Felten.
But, I'll be following this with interest -- anyone got opinions on whether the judge will be forced to get into the "source code vs object code issue"?
Yep, I have a question:
Can you describe any guidelines for the 'novelty' requirement as they apply to the work of an examiner? I'm assuming there's some sort of internal process for making a judgement on 'obvious to a reasonably skilled practitioner' -- would be interested to hear what actually happens...Brian Kernighan's well known 'Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language'.
Speaking of IBM keyboards, I'm scared I'm getting fossilised now -- I managed to read "Selective" as "Selectric" in the story title.
So let's hope that Episode III isn't even darker than we expect:
Obi-wan never told you, who rendered your father....
Clickable version of above URL (extra space got inserted):
Fury over Europe's secret plan to access computer and phone data.
Also, check out the old but interesting Submarine, a nonfiction Tom Clancy factfest that has lots of detail on the Jimmy Carter class boats. The Jimmy Carter was designed as a 'special projects' boat from the beginning.
The image shows them stood in a desert, for God's sake. Didnt any of you see Wayne's World 2? I bet Val Kilmer is stood just off set going "Guys, guys, tell Mulder he has to organize a rock concert!"
The crowd in my theater knew we were having fun at the big Yoda fight scene when someone at the back called out "Fuck him up, Yoda!!!" and everyone went "YEAH!!!!" ...
I'm sorry, but this is utter nonsense, especially when talking about software patents.
XML started being a hot subject, say, 4 years ago? And today there are thousands of lines of non-patent-encumbered code out there for people to build on -- the shared body of knowledge grows every year, not every 17 years after patents expire.
The consequences on the growth of the web will be disastrous if we don't take sensible steps like allowing patented technology into web standards
I'm assuming that's not just a troll, but what possible web related precedent can you give for thinking that? In particular, are you claiming that various innovations won't happen without patent protection, or that patented innovations will happen and that web standards will be the poorer without them?
Please check out this study for some interesting reading. I invite you to find contrasting views that aren't filled with corporate rhetoric.
Because the former gives rights to law enforcement but doesn't take things away from you (stop you writing whatever you want on your papers, lock them in a safe, whatever).
The latter would actively remove the right for you to send things around in any electronic envelope you please and thereby safeguard yourself (from third parties even if not the govt).
Also, like an engineered object, the information encoded in the structure is far more interesting than the physical reality because it's more malleable. You don't complain about the number of rivets in a 747...
But the difference in attitude is *obvious*.
Consider this experience: I'm sat in front of a Win2k server. If I turn off every single service I can, (including the built in FTP which requires IIS Admin, which starts opening up stuff just above 1024) I'm still left with 445 (TCP and UDP) - the SMB endpoint, and 135 (TCP) - the RPC endpoint mapper.
If you want to get rid of those, you'll have to firewall them.
MS has always made the tradeoff in favor of usability; let's not pretend they'll change overnight.
Just how do you come to use the word 'should' in that sentence? It's quite apparent that recording industry concerns will attempt to maximise their profits, and this won't be a surprise. But why 'should' ??
Re (4): I haven't seen the contract, but any sensible contract has a termination clause...
If you haven't seen SnapStream, check it out.
I guess it's probably lower quality than what this functionality on the Tivo can deliver, but as another poster said - it's not like no-one saw this coming.
I'm glad people like SnapStream will keep doing this stuff on commodity PC hardware -- at the very least it will keep the pressure on embedded people like Tivo to keep the features coming.