Models used to be a requirement until the Patent Act of 1870, which left it up to the Patent Office commissioner. Space and time constraints really don't allow the luxury of model examination and storage by the PTO. ( Patent Office History ).
Add to your list better cataloging and indexing of patent documentation, advanced electronic search and cross referencing of patent files, and better paid, more experienced patent examiners.
Firstly and foremost because it's a U.S. entity who pretends to be an international entity and the Internet quit being a U.S. entity a long time ago.
The catch for ICANN is it needs legitimacy to enforce policy both in the U.S. and especially abroad, but it can't gain global recognition and respect without enforcing policy and taking responsibility.
From the article: Nigel Roberts, head of the Channel Island domain registry and a member of Icann's country code committee, said the row was leading people to question just what Icann was for."The issue is not the amount of money," he said. "It is about the role that Icann has."
I think ICANN could help resolve this by giving guarantees to take an active role in use and abuse of the root servers. They could more closely track and monitor root server usage, make recommendations and requests to providers on where to put root servers to improve DNS efficiency and reliability. ICANN could also publish data on who's root servers are performing well and who's are not, shaming poor providers who create bottlenecks into better service. If ICANN performs those duties well and is responsive to concerns like those in the EU, it will become a more effective body.
I don't think its a stretch to for Jobs to concede that MS won the operating system war...
Really? It terms of market share yes, but technologically no. OS X is a big step forward, and a whole other component of the iMac's utility and cool. Plus Apple is still shipping millions of PC's a year -- with similar revenues as Gateway, but a far better balance sheet.
I think Katz's gibberish about the "middle-class" is wrong is not because the tech industry has overlooked them, or is trying to be 31337 kewl. Katz is wrong to think that misguided tech notions of cool are what cause Harry and Martha Homeowner to be overlooked. The reason the middle class is a hard sell is because personal computers are still a nascent technology. The technology hasn't evolved to the point where it is totally acceptable or suited to everyone. Our culture hasn't evolved to place the proper niche for computers in the home. After twenty-five years of the PC, we still have a way to go. When the automobile was twenty-five, black utilitarian Model T's ruled the rutted dirt roadways. A quarter century since PC's first appeared, beige utilitarian Windows boxes clog our mostly narrow-band information superhighway.
Mister Katz, I think you over estimate the tech sector's ability to provide palatable innovation for new technologies. That's an easy way out to explain so much failure when Microsoft is dominant in fulfilling network effected utilitarian need. I also think you under estimate Harry and Martha from Dubuque. They will make changes in their daily lives as they find ways that computing is personally useful to them. They will find new ways of exploiting the computer for themselves. It just takes time, and we've only just gotten started. Superior form factors, better devices, better interfaces, and better platforms will eventually restore diversity to the tech sector, just as it has for automobiles. Along the way, our culture and economy will change along with it.
tempmpi said: Now the case contains a 145 w power supply, when you want to add a athlon and nforce you would need at least 250 W.
Actually the wattage of the PSU isn't the problem, it's the current output. P4 systems get their amps from the PSU's 12V line while K7's get current from the 3.3 and 5V lines. A well chosen power supply and your problem is solved. I find it interesting that the planned update to the Shuttle unit is stated to be a P4, given its thirst for juice.
Heat dissipation would be less of a problem if a Duron is used -- which still beats the pants of the Celeron (or C3). I still think this thing needs a big side-blower copper heatsink with shroud though.
Thus spake c.r.o.c.o.: Not to mention the fact that the Nforce has good sound capabilities too. And it supports the Athlon, which is also faster than the P3.
After a couple pages of this article, that's exactly what I was shouting! It's not just the sound either, NForce supports faster CPU's, has a better memory subsystem, has superior built-in graphics, has the absolute best chipset included sound available, and comes with half the ethernet chipset all ready to go. The thing that really struck me was THG putting a SB Live in -- with decent onboard sound (aha! NForce) that slot would be available for something else like a video editing board or extra NIC. Also, why not mention a DVD+CDRW for the 5 1/2" drive option?
A couple of other things I'd do in addition if I were updating this thing: First put a larger quality copper heatsink in there, as big as will fit all the way up to the HD. Only then cut a notch in the fins to allow a PCI card. With the bigger heatsink, put the fan for it on the side of the unit with intake holes in the case. I'd replace the single rear fan with two quieter ones and add tons of rubber washers and shrouds were appropriate.
Those mods should allow a decent speed Duron while cutting down on the noise without an increase in heat build up. I'd buy and recommend something like that. Shuttle, Asus, MSI, are you listening?
I looks like it is more critical to Gracenote to have an agreement with Roxio, rather than vice-versa.
It's worse than that. It _is_ critical to Gracenote -- they need to keep users, as the health of the database is dependent on quality submissions of new listings.
Gracenote originally made a big deal about how their new "paid" service was enhanced, managed, and filtered to provide better data. They may actually have convinced Roxio of that claim, but for some reason I doubt it.
Purely as an engineering tradeoff... Linux kernel was simply not designed with ensuring this kind of isolation.
Of course it's a tradeoff, all information security is a tradeoff. What you're trading is ease of use, simplicity, and convenience for accountability, verifiability, and access control. Having these tools for security is less like dominos and more like roadblocks. The more you throw up, the more you slow down attackers, and the more that are going to give up before they do any damage. Your whole post indicates a desire for bandaids to hide real bugs.
Linux implements traditional Unix security with some twists in its own unique way. We still have all the traditional tools. If you want to design a program to utilize things like chroot jails and capabilities you can do that today. HP's tools are just a nice addition to this. Linux having poor subsystem isolation is not the same as having no security at all. Now that I think about it, until we're all running Security Enhanced HURD, we won't have the overdesigned hyper-secure OS you're describing.
However, in the long term, the only solution I see to security problems is to build on foundations that have support for guarding against common bugs and analyzing security-related program properties. That means, among other things, using languages with built-in default checks for buffer overruns and using languages with type systems that can be used to verify that data doesn't get where it isn't supposed to get...
In my eyes, the local Cable company is worse than our Baby Bell (especially after that NAT bashing article recently). I can choose my local and long distance phone service, I can't choose my Cable TV company. Plus the Cable TV goes largely unregulated. The phone company has a concept of CPE vs. CO, etc. The cable co. regards everything as their network.
Now, if I used a cable modem, I have even less of the microscopic amount of privacy I had before? Great!
It would be nice if the content cartels like the RIAA and MPAA would learn to adapt business models rather than rail against their own consumers. They would rather overturn the legal system than risk their established profit system.
In some way, creating a new private network is an admission that the government "failed" in its original sponsoring and development of the internet.
Well, it has failed. Despite expectations the internet has failed to provide a secure and reliable channel for commerce and communication. Worms clog servers and rampage about on subnets. Viruses compromise user information. Crackers harvest credit card numbers.
But solutions to these problems are being sought in the wrong places. There are those at the highest levels that would duplicate the core of the 'net. However, replacing the wires doesn't make the applications of this network any more secure. Additionally, separating the network is detrimental to its utility. Having a unique government network, especially in the control of those that are paranoid about information sharing harms the potential for finding new and innovative applications.
This attitude by administrators to fear insecurity in the network betrays a more fundamental trepidation. This fear is shared by those that make money with the network as well. This is the fear that the core of the network is too dumb. There is a vested interest by network operators to provide the best quality of service. They see a way to provide superior quality of service by making the network itself more intelligent. And by intelligent, they want to discriminate between high priority traffic and lower or invalid ones.
Making the network intelligent is a fundamentally flawed strategy. The true innovation of the internet lies in the common carrier aspect of the network and the intelligence of its endpoints. Discriminating between traffic on the internet administers policy where it doesn't belong. Dropping packets that the carrier feels is less important ignores the possibility that new and different packets could appear that make the network more valuable.
In the end, making a new network is the ultimate type of service discrimination. It's presuming the purpose of an all purpose network. You might as well put AT&T back in charge of all aspects of the phone network.
So how do we fix things? The original revolutionary paradigm of the internet, as I have alluded, is that the network's intelligence is at its edges. The way we fix it is making these edges even more intelligent. We should utilize updated protocols for communication and routing to make better decisions about what to do with packets when they reach their destinations. We need to write better software for network communications. We need to develop more automatic and adaptive strategies for dealing with network stress. And for specific solutions, VPN's, public fool-proof encryption, and more advanced trust-relationship management should be used to make the internet a truly universal and revolutionary communication medium.
The great thing about the current and especially the next generation of Gnome and KDE is they establish a powerful framework for creating complex apps.
Evolution and Gnumeric are great examples, as are KOffice and Konqueror.
I know it's cliche, but I can't wait for Evo 1.0, Gnome 2.0, KDE 3.0, Mozilla 1.0, Abiword 1.0, et al.
If it's similar to the handheld Linux's like Familiar, they probably use JFFS2, the journaling flash file system. It does compression and intelligently minimizes writes to flash devices. Another one is CRAMFS, a popular choice for embedded 2.4 systems .
Is it just me, or are these newer gen handhelds looking more and more like Star Trek Communicators?
This one looks a lot like the Mularian communicators from the Enterprise: Civilization episode last night. I guess it's fitting that it runs Linux.
If these fuel-cell batteries are small, don't have a memory, last longer AND have much faster charging times, then I think they will eventually replace Li-Ion batteries.
Don't forget thermal deficiencies!
The thing I look forward too with fuel-cells is trouble-free operation at low temperature. For me, living in North Dakota, if I leave my Li-Ion based laptop in my vehicle for any length of time in the winter, the cells will lose their charge. If it's long enough, I'll even lose the backup battery and the time info. If fuel-cells give me reliable backup power at zero farenheit, plus longer life, sign me up!
For those of us more experienced at building kernels, there is another project that is looking to make building kernels much better. That is Keith Owens' new kbuild architecture. He has rewritten the makefiles to make readability better, put compile time dependency checking in the right place, and make creating patches easier. It will work wonderfully with ESR's system and have the effect of making repeated compiles much faster. Anyway, I can't wait.
With all these secret netblocks with unaccountable traffic producers, various dead IP's and hackers gunning after the vulnerable DNS the Internet shall soon implode and the world shall be plunged into a great darkness, second only to the fall of the Roman empire!
Really, is this a huge surprise? Quality of service for unregulated CableCo's is an issue many have to deal with. Plus, human error is a big factor in DNS setups. Then you've got physical problems on end-point sites that don't have redundant connections.
Debian comes close to this but in a much different way that is very top heavy in terms of people assembling packages, etc.
You say "top heavy" like it's a bad thing:-P Seriously, the strength of Debian is in its Policy (with a capitol P). It allows packaging complexity to be build into deb and dpkg where appropriate and allows fully upgradable, stable binary packaging of an entire system. It allows me to keep a P75 with a 320MB hard disk drive up to date without spending huge amounts of time on compiling or scrounging for disk space. Plus it intelligently manages the config files it touches. I'm not knocking ports, they're great, but if ports and cvsup are all that, then dpkg and apt are all that AND a bag of chips.
These aren't scientific. These are the results one person sees - and also note that the various problems presented to the servers give different results. FreeBSD and Linux both had strengths and weaknesses even in his tests.
True enough, but do some of these tests really even reflect reality? Greater minds than I may ponder this long and hard, but personally I think mucking with the filesystem aspects of a mail server, especially affecting its reliability (sync for chrissakes!) kind of makes it pointless as a real world bench. So if you're going to change a real program into a synthetic VM stressor (and a poor one -- procmail bottlenecked in its run) why not just break down and use an understood synthetic benchmark?
Yes, grain storage can explode. Small grains (namely wheat and barley) have dust that is very flammable (think microscopic kindling). The volatility of this stuff is exacerbated by the fact that it's kept as dry as possible (to prevent rot and reduced protein content) and that in large, unventilated piles, gets hot.
However just like any fire, there must be adequate oxygen as well as an ignitor. So with adequate precautions, grain handling is pretty safe.
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Models used to be a requirement until the Patent Act of 1870, which left it up to the Patent Office commissioner. Space and time constraints really don't allow the luxury of model examination and storage by the PTO. ( Patent Office History ).
Add to your list better cataloging and indexing of patent documentation, advanced electronic search and cross referencing of patent files, and better paid, more experienced patent examiners.
Regards
The catch for ICANN is it needs legitimacy to enforce policy both in the U.S. and especially abroad, but it can't gain global recognition and respect without enforcing policy and taking responsibility.
From the article:
Nigel Roberts, head of the Channel Island domain registry and a member of Icann's country code committee, said the row was leading people to question just what Icann was for."The issue is not the amount of money," he said. "It is about the role that Icann has."
I think ICANN could help resolve this by giving guarantees to take an active role in use and abuse of the root servers. They could more closely track and monitor root server usage, make recommendations and requests to providers on where to put root servers to improve DNS efficiency and reliability. ICANN could also publish data on who's root servers are performing well and who's are not, shaming poor providers who create bottlenecks into better service. If ICANN performs those duties well and is responsive to concerns like those in the EU, it will become a more effective body.
Regards,
Reid
Really? It terms of market share yes, but technologically no. OS X is a big step forward, and a whole other component of the iMac's utility and cool. Plus Apple is still shipping millions of PC's a year -- with similar revenues as Gateway, but a far better balance sheet.
I think Katz's gibberish about the "middle-class" is wrong is not because the tech industry has overlooked them, or is trying to be 31337 kewl. Katz is wrong to think that misguided tech notions of cool are what cause Harry and Martha Homeowner to be overlooked. The reason the middle class is a hard sell is because personal computers are still a nascent technology. The technology hasn't evolved to the point where it is totally acceptable or suited to everyone. Our culture hasn't evolved to place the proper niche for computers in the home. After twenty-five years of the PC, we still have a way to go. When the automobile was twenty-five, black utilitarian Model T's ruled the rutted dirt roadways. A quarter century since PC's first appeared, beige utilitarian Windows boxes clog our mostly narrow-band information superhighway.
Mister Katz, I think you over estimate the tech sector's ability to provide palatable innovation for new technologies. That's an easy way out to explain so much failure when Microsoft is dominant in fulfilling network effected utilitarian need. I also think you under estimate Harry and Martha from Dubuque. They will make changes in their daily lives as they find ways that computing is personally useful to them. They will find new ways of exploiting the computer for themselves. It just takes time, and we've only just gotten started. Superior form factors, better devices, better interfaces, and better platforms will eventually restore diversity to the tech sector, just as it has for automobiles. Along the way, our culture and economy will change along with it.
Regards,
Reid
Now the case contains a 145 w power supply, when you want to add a athlon and nforce you would need at least 250 W.
Actually the wattage of the PSU isn't the problem, it's the current output. P4 systems get their amps from the PSU's 12V line while K7's get current from the 3.3 and 5V lines. A well chosen power supply and your problem is solved. I find it interesting that the planned update to the Shuttle unit is stated to be a P4, given its thirst for juice.
Heat dissipation would be less of a problem if a Duron is used -- which still beats the pants of the Celeron (or C3). I still think this thing needs a big side-blower copper heatsink with shroud though.
Regards,
Reid
Not to mention the fact that the Nforce has good sound capabilities too. And it supports the Athlon, which is also faster than the P3.
After a couple pages of this article, that's exactly what I was shouting! It's not just the sound either, NForce supports faster CPU's, has a better memory subsystem, has superior built-in graphics, has the absolute best chipset included sound available, and comes with half the ethernet chipset all ready to go. The thing that really struck me was THG putting a SB Live in -- with decent onboard sound (aha! NForce) that slot would be available for something else like a video editing board or extra NIC. Also, why not mention a DVD+CDRW for the 5 1/2" drive option?
A couple of other things I'd do in addition if I were updating this thing: First put a larger quality copper heatsink in there, as big as will fit all the way up to the HD. Only then cut a notch in the fins to allow a PCI card. With the bigger heatsink, put the fan for it on the side of the unit with intake holes in the case. I'd replace the single rear fan with two quieter ones and add tons of rubber washers and shrouds were appropriate.
Those mods should allow a decent speed Duron while cutting down on the noise without an increase in heat build up. I'd buy and recommend something like that. Shuttle, Asus, MSI, are you listening?
Regards,
Reid
We all knew there's no intelligent life on earth, what I want to know is there any in outer space!
Reid
It's worse than that. It _is_ critical to Gracenote -- they need to keep users, as the health of the database is dependent on quality submissions of new listings.
Gracenote originally made a big deal about how their new "paid" service was enhanced, managed, and filtered to provide better data. They may actually have convinced Roxio of that claim, but for some reason I doubt it.
Reid
Of course it's a tradeoff, all information security is a tradeoff. What you're trading is ease of use, simplicity, and convenience for accountability, verifiability, and access control. Having these tools for security is less like dominos and more like roadblocks. The more you throw up, the more you slow down attackers, and the more that are going to give up before they do any damage. Your whole post indicates a desire for bandaids to hide real bugs.
Linux implements traditional Unix security with some twists in its own unique way. We still have all the traditional tools. If you want to design a program to utilize things like chroot jails and capabilities you can do that today. HP's tools are just a nice addition to this. Linux having poor subsystem isolation is not the same as having no security at all. Now that I think about it, until we're all running Security Enhanced HURD, we won't have the overdesigned hyper-secure OS you're describing.
However, in the long term, the only solution I see to security problems is to build on foundations that have support for guarding against common bugs and analyzing security-related program properties. That means, among other things, using languages with built-in default checks for buffer overruns and using languages with type systems that can be used to verify that data doesn't get where it isn't supposed to get...
Oh you mean like this.
In different words, the Linux and Windows kernels and daemons will have to be rewritten in something other than C or C++. Sorry.
Oops, sorry, I guess SE HURD won't be enough then. I'll just have to go back and see if I have my OS/360 tapes handy ;-)
Regards,
Reid
In my eyes, the local Cable company is worse than our Baby Bell (especially after that NAT bashing article recently). I can choose my local and long distance phone service, I can't choose my Cable TV company. Plus the Cable TV goes largely unregulated. The phone company has a concept of CPE vs. CO, etc. The cable co. regards everything as their network.
Now, if I used a cable modem, I have even less of the microscopic amount of privacy I had before? Great!
Regards
The funny thing is I'm a Microsoft supporter and a Democrat. I hate myself!
Interesting, these trials of conscience. I'm a Republican and a Microsoft detractor, and I don't hate myself.
It would be nice if the content cartels like the RIAA and MPAA would learn to adapt business models rather than rail against their own consumers. They would rather overturn the legal system than risk their established profit system.
Regards
In some way, creating a new private network is an admission that the government "failed" in its original sponsoring and development of the internet.
Well, it has failed. Despite expectations the internet has failed to provide a secure and reliable channel for commerce and communication. Worms clog servers and rampage about on subnets. Viruses compromise user information. Crackers harvest credit card numbers.
But solutions to these problems are being sought in the wrong places. There are those at the highest levels that would duplicate the core of the 'net. However, replacing the wires doesn't make the applications of this network any more secure. Additionally, separating the network is detrimental to its utility. Having a unique government network, especially in the control of those that are paranoid about information sharing harms the potential for finding new and innovative applications.
This attitude by administrators to fear insecurity in the network betrays a more fundamental trepidation. This fear is shared by those that make money with the network as well. This is the fear that the core of the network is too dumb. There is a vested interest by network operators to provide the best quality of service. They see a way to provide superior quality of service by making the network itself more intelligent. And by intelligent, they want to discriminate between high priority traffic and lower or invalid ones.
Making the network intelligent is a fundamentally flawed strategy. The true innovation of the internet lies in the common carrier aspect of the network and the intelligence of its endpoints. Discriminating between traffic on the internet administers policy where it doesn't belong. Dropping packets that the carrier feels is less important ignores the possibility that new and different packets could appear that make the network more valuable.
In the end, making a new network is the ultimate type of service discrimination. It's presuming the purpose of an all purpose network. You might as well put AT&T back in charge of all aspects of the phone network.
So how do we fix things? The original revolutionary paradigm of the internet, as I have alluded, is that the network's intelligence is at its edges. The way we fix it is making these edges even more intelligent. We should utilize updated protocols for communication and routing to make better decisions about what to do with packets when they reach their destinations. We need to write better software for network communications. We need to develop more automatic and adaptive strategies for dealing with network stress. And for specific solutions, VPN's, public fool-proof encryption, and more advanced trust-relationship management should be used to make the internet a truly universal and revolutionary communication medium.
Regards,
Reid
Evolution and Gnumeric are great examples, as are KOffice and Konqueror.
I know it's cliche, but I can't wait for Evo 1.0, Gnome 2.0, KDE 3.0, Mozilla 1.0, Abiword 1.0, et al.
Regards,Reid
If it's similar to the handheld Linux's like Familiar, they probably use JFFS2, the journaling flash file system. It does compression and intelligently minimizes writes to flash devices. Another one is CRAMFS, a popular choice for embedded 2.4 systems .
Regards,
Reid
Is it just me, or are these newer gen handhelds looking more and more like Star Trek Communicators? This one looks a lot like the Mularian communicators from the Enterprise: Civilization episode last night. I guess it's fitting that it runs Linux.
Trip and Archer with equipment
Regards,
Reid
Don't forget thermal deficiencies!
The thing I look forward too with fuel-cells is trouble-free operation at low temperature. For me, living in North Dakota, if I leave my Li-Ion based laptop in my vehicle for any length of time in the winter, the cells will lose their charge. If it's long enough, I'll even lose the backup battery and the time info. If fuel-cells give me reliable backup power at zero farenheit, plus longer life, sign me up!
Regards,Reid
http://kbuild.sourceforge.net/
RegardsWith all these secret netblocks with unaccountable traffic producers, various dead IP's and hackers gunning after the vulnerable DNS the Internet shall soon implode and the world shall be plunged into a great darkness, second only to the fall of the Roman empire!
Really, is this a huge surprise? Quality of service for unregulated CableCo's is an issue many have to deal with. Plus, human error is a big factor in DNS setups. Then you've got physical problems on end-point sites that don't have redundant connections.
I'd say 5% isn't bad.
Regards
Ok, I'll bite...apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
Debian comes close to this but in a much different way that is very top heavy in terms of people assembling packages, etc.
You say "top heavy" like it's a bad thing :-P Seriously, the strength of Debian is in its Policy (with a capitol P). It allows packaging complexity to be build into deb and dpkg where appropriate and allows fully upgradable, stable binary packaging of an entire system. It allows me to keep a P75 with a 320MB hard disk drive up to date without spending huge amounts of time on compiling or scrounging for disk space. Plus it intelligently manages the config files it touches. I'm not knocking ports, they're great, but if ports and cvsup are all that, then dpkg and apt are all that AND a bag of chips.
I much prefer having ports and cvsup...
Isn't choice wonderful?
RegardsTrue enough, but do some of these tests really even reflect reality? Greater minds than I may ponder this long and hard, but personally I think mucking with the filesystem aspects of a mail server, especially affecting its reliability (sync for chrissakes!) kind of makes it pointless as a real world bench. So if you're going to change a real program into a synthetic VM stressor (and a poor one -- procmail bottlenecked in its run) why not just break down and use an understood synthetic benchmark?
RegardsYes, grain storage can explode. Small grains (namely wheat and barley) have dust that is very flammable (think microscopic kindling). The volatility of this stuff is exacerbated by the fact that it's kept as dry as possible (to prevent rot and reduced protein content) and that in large, unventilated piles, gets hot. However just like any fire, there must be adequate oxygen as well as an ignitor. So with adequate precautions, grain handling is pretty safe.