At last, someone with a realistic perspective on this! (Which, coincidentally, is the same as mine.) Take what's good from HTML and discard the rest.
Email clients should be programmed to accept and utilize a user-friendly subset, and remove the rest. Email editors, likewise, shouldn't generate anything more than the basic essentials.
e.g. By use of <blockquote> in emails we can remove one reason for top posting. The email client could identify what's being quoted (in theory at the top of a message) and display the first line(s) of the sender's actual reply in a summary panel (if so equiped). (This is one of the usual reasons that I top post - so that my answer is readily visible to the reader.)
I've got the Bluetooth specification open in front of me, and I can't see how to get 5.7Mb/s,...
Ugh! Sorry, I misread the article. When it said 720Kbps I thought "K-bytes per second. Multiply by 8 and..."
But that's still enough bandwidth to stream MP3's.
Unless you suggest transmitting the compressed audio and expecting the car to have built-in decoders for all current and future popular compressed audio formats?
Actually, that is exactly what I was proposing, and I believe that is what the grandparent of my original post (by the Man in Black) was suggesting. We're buying portable music players left and right, and I'm seeing home stereo components that accept these compressed formats now. Why not commit to it in car stereo as well?
Except Bluetooth doesn't have the bandwidth for high-quality audio.
Bluetooth has an effective throughput of about 5.7Mb per second (from a quick Google search).
How much bandwidth do you need for a car stereo, what bit rate have you got your MP3's ripped at, and what the heck are you currently storing those monster files on?
I'll throw another theory into the other responses you've received:
Maybe Apple has gone after other rumors because of the risk that the rumor poses a risk to sales of their existing inventory.
However, from many of the reactions I'm seeing here, this new iPod serves a different need. Many/most of the buyers of the mini-iPod will be people who already own the larger capacity models, but want to supplement it with something more rugged.
This rumor, then, wouldn't cannibalize existing iPod sales, but it might cannibalize sales of their competitor's products.
My (very simplistic) answer to the question is that a patent should be revolutionary, not evolutionary. How's that for a sound bite?:)
A lot of things are obvious incremental progressions of existing technology. You can show a static picture? The obvious next step is to show a moving picture and, after that, a moving picture with sound.
Online auctions are an obvious extension of meatspace auctions; compter-brokered stock trading is an obvious extension of human brokered trading, etc.
This brings us right back to the existing problem: in order to judge whether something is evolutionary requires a great deal of knowledge of the relevant fields of study. This is exactly what's hanging USPTO up.
Hi, Neuros-newbie here. (Got mine about 10 days ago.)
I have no experience with other players. Neuros is my first one, so my expectations may be a good deal lower than people who collect them as a hobby.
But so far, it's working like a charm. I updated with the latest firmware/software (technically beta) as soon as I got it out of the box, because I bought for the Ogg-Vorbis support.
I haven't had the slightest problem with either the Neuros itself or the sync software (NSM). They've both been working without any hiccups.
HA! Any Disney-dweeb knows that AP'ers are evil incarnate!;)
You should also check out the discussion boards at LaughingPlace.com. Some insiders spill some good stuff every now and then. (oh, I've always wanted to/. LP! </maniacal_laugh>).
What amazed me is there is nothing on the Thousand Leagues under the Sea ride which i was on when i was 7 but when I went back in 1998 was closed due to it no being able to be made handicap accesable, which pissed me off to no end cause it was one of my favorites along with Mr. Toads
Actually, dig around a little and you'll find that neither sub ride (both Disney World and Disneyland's sub rides are now closed) were close due to ADA requirements. ADA only would apply to new construction.
It's pretty common knowledge among the fan community (of which I admit that I am one) that they were closed simply due to save on the maintenance costs. It's further believed that Disney World's sub ride was closed because the staff conned Disney prez Ovitz (about halfway down the article).
I just brought it up in Acrobat, selected some of the redacted text with the mouse, and did a "copy" (ctl-C). Then I went over to a notepad document and hit ctl-V (paste). Voila! Full text (the blacked out stuff in bold):
Hiring is serving to make the Department even more diverse: hires in 2001 were 40% female and 21% minority.
In particular, the Attorney General's Honors Program is an important tool for increasing diversity. Honors Program hires in 2001 were 63% female, compared to 45% of the law school graduating class, and 30% minority, compared to 21% of the class of 2001.
If you have a domain name through another registrar then Verisign may be trying to hijack you (as a customer). Verisign and many other unscrupulous registrars regularly spam entries in the DNS lists to get the domain owners to transfer registrar business to them.
Also take a close look at the link, if there is one in the email. If it has a long string of characters, in the middle of which you see "http:" (not at the beginning), then they may actually be trying to send you to a bogus look-alike site that will ask for account names, passwords, credit card numbers, etc. That one is an attempt to scam you.
If the BBC were to use P2P to distribute this work, it would definitely be the case that would legitimize a massive, decentralized P2P network. If some of the stuff were to be controversial (e.g. stuff critical of China) that would also be justification for that same network to provide annonymity.
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As an alternative, hire someone with a sniper rifle who will kill you if you fail to get up.
Of course, then you may have a hard time getting to sleep at night.
At last, someone with a realistic perspective on this! (Which, coincidentally, is the same as mine.) Take what's good from HTML and discard the rest.
Email clients should be programmed to accept and utilize a user-friendly subset, and remove the rest. Email editors, likewise, shouldn't generate anything more than the basic essentials.
e.g. By use of <blockquote> in emails we can remove one reason for top posting. The email client could identify what's being quoted (in theory at the top of a message) and display the first line(s) of the sender's actual reply in a summary panel (if so equiped). (This is one of the usual reasons that I top post - so that my answer is readily visible to the reader.)
But that's still enough bandwidth to stream MP3's.
Actually, that is exactly what I was proposing, and I believe that is what the grandparent of my original post (by the Man in Black) was suggesting. We're buying portable music players left and right, and I'm seeing home stereo components that accept these compressed formats now. Why not commit to it in car stereo as well?
How much bandwidth do you need for a car stereo, what bit rate have you got your MP3's ripped at, and what the heck are you currently storing those monster files on?
I'll throw another theory into the other responses you've received:
Maybe Apple has gone after other rumors because of the risk that the rumor poses a risk to sales of their existing inventory.
However, from many of the reactions I'm seeing here, this new iPod serves a different need. Many/most of the buyers of the mini-iPod will be people who already own the larger capacity models, but want to supplement it with something more rugged.
This rumor, then, wouldn't cannibalize existing iPod sales, but it might cannibalize sales of their competitor's products.
Well, I think you've demonstrated that it can be done. (Looks like it would compile.)
But I'd plant a 19" CRT on the head of any experienced programmer that gave me code with either of those two #define's in it.
The X macro is asking for trouble in any statement:
X * 2 != (X) * 2
Redefining keywords?! Egad!
And if you had to do a define like that, at least make it accept an argument:
#define RETURN(zzz) return 2 * (zzz)
My (very simplistic) answer to the question is that a patent should be revolutionary, not evolutionary. How's that for a sound bite? :)
A lot of things are obvious incremental progressions of existing technology. You can show a static picture? The obvious next step is to show a moving picture and, after that, a moving picture with sound.
Online auctions are an obvious extension of meatspace auctions; compter-brokered stock trading is an obvious extension of human brokered trading, etc.
This brings us right back to the existing problem: in order to judge whether something is evolutionary requires a great deal of knowledge of the relevant fields of study. This is exactly what's hanging USPTO up.
They keep sending me those security patches in email, and I keep applying them. I wish they'd stop it.
I can't help but see a certain amount of irony in people arguing that formatting is unnecessary while using italics and boldface. :)
Hi, Neuros-newbie here. (Got mine about 10 days ago.)
I have no experience with other players. Neuros is my first one, so my expectations may be a good deal lower than people who collect them as a hobby.
But so far, it's working like a charm. I updated with the latest firmware/software (technically beta) as soon as I got it out of the box, because I bought for the Ogg-Vorbis support.
I haven't had the slightest problem with either the Neuros itself or the sync software (NSM). They've both been working without any hiccups.
Hmmm... Mersienne Prime 41, Mersienne Prime 42, Mersienne Prime 43, Mersienne Prime 44.
Hey! That's the combination on my luggage!
Just when I thought no one could ever guess my password. Now I have to change it again.
You should also check out the discussion boards at LaughingPlace.com. Some insiders spill some good stuff every now and then. (oh, I've always wanted to
It's pretty common knowledge among the fan community (of which I admit that I am one) that they were closed simply due to save on the maintenance costs. It's further believed that Disney World's sub ride was closed because the staff conned Disney prez Ovitz (about halfway down the article).
Do you work for Digital Innovations? You seem to have a lot to say about the Neuros.
(Just asking - I'm expecting my Neuros to arrive today, and I think it may have been your post in another thread that informed me of its existence.)
Actually, only 100,000 users deleted all their music files, but some of them had really fast computers.
I just brought it up in Acrobat, selected some of the redacted text with the mouse, and did a "copy" (ctl-C). Then I went over to a notepad document and hit ctl-V (paste). Voila! Full text (the blacked out stuff in bold):
Not a terribly interesting factiod.
You missed the most important parameter:
- Ammo remaining
If you have a domain name through another registrar then Verisign may be trying to hijack you (as a customer). Verisign and many other unscrupulous registrars regularly spam entries in the DNS lists to get the domain owners to transfer registrar business to them.
Also take a close look at the link, if there is one in the email. If it has a long string of characters, in the middle of which you see "http:" (not at the beginning), then they may actually be trying to send you to a bogus look-alike site that will ask for account names, passwords, credit card numbers, etc. That one is an attempt to scam you.
Actually, you're right.
If the BBC were to use P2P to distribute this work, it would definitely be the case that would legitimize a massive, decentralized P2P network. If some of the stuff were to be controversial (e.g. stuff critical of China) that would also be justification for that same network to provide annonymity.
Let the MPAA and RIAA try to vilify P2P then.
The coolest thing is that you actually got modded informative
Well, maybe he was serious.
My local hospital claims that the cellphones interfere with the fire alarm system.
I know whether that is really the issue, but that's what they claim.
The guy at the t-shirt shop misunderstood what I said.
Now I'm stuck wearing a shirt that says "Free Lame-o".
You have a modem? Damn!
In my day we would've toggled that trailer in on the front panel switches, and liked it!