It's only accurate to a millisecond within a 300km radius of the transmitter. NTP over WiFi is capable of much higher accuracy. GPS much more than that.
Yesterday he posted this comment to the Cornell page linked above: "The proof is wrong. I shall elaborate precisely what the mistake is. For doing this, I need some time. I shall put the explanation on my homepage"
+1 No gotchas. I travel internationally, and everywhere it just works. Bills for international data, used heavily for navigation, and information, but not video streaming, are never more than $5.
Was on a ship passing Morocco, and got a message to say "no service here yet" but Europe and Caribbean are no problem. My wife has corporate Verizon with international options enabled, but she invariably borrows my phone for calls and hops on my (free) hot-spot. With hotel or other wifi, you can call (or Skype) for free. It's close to free anyway if you're not a chatter.
It's also a biased poll. It's well known that liberals tend to hold some unscientific beliefs such as astrology, but they conveniently omitted any questions on them.
In this instance you seem vulnerable to a flip. They will lock you up with and exclusive "marketing period" then sell an exclusive license to Google (Youtube) or Vimeo in an afternoon, and go looking for their next victim. You could probably get a higher price if you took longer to negotiate, and not share a cut with them. If you refuse the deal they make, you will forever be blocked from selling to "their" buyer.
Some of my best friends are in this business. Some of them are ethical. They all love money more than technology.
Both "toxic asset" and "toxic assets" return no results because they're an invention to scare and dupe the public into supporting the current swindle. "Moral Hazard" was well known then however.
Six years ago, I was developing an application on a microcontroller http://mywebpages.comcast.net/orb/, and it used MD2 because it has a small code and memory footprint. Experts at the time said that I should use SHA-1 or MD5 because a simplified version of MD2 had been broken, and the full MD2 was sure to follow. Those hashes would not work on the chosen microcontroller, so I used MD2 anyway.
What does that server beast add to your power bill? $400 per year would not surprise me. You could buy a new server from Dell for less than $350, which would leave yours in the dust,performance wise, and cost less than $100 per year to power.
Mozilla suite includes a simple, useful HTML editor that is not available with the Firefox/Thunderbird combo.
I hope someone fishes this editor code out and maintains it.
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The only relationship between TWC and TiVo is that TWC wishes TiVo was dead. TiVo users almost never order pay-per-view, and TWC has to make a money losing ($5-10/mo) offering to maintain contol of the signal path.
Don't weep for these people when they lose it all, had they even done a GOOGLE search on SCO they'd have known not to invest
People are buying this stock like they buy a lottery ticket, expecting that most likely it will fizzle, but if it pops, it could be big. Even the weakest case has some chance of succeeding in court, or being bothersome enough to prompt a settlement.
In the US you can apply to patent something up to one year after its first sale. You could invent something in 1990, start selling it in 1998, and apply for a patent in 1999. Consult a lawyer for more precise inforation.
Akami have their own patents, notably 6,502,125 which will likely cover what they do. The application postdates the subject patent, but the grant predates it. Plenty for the lawyers to bill on.
This shortcut http://tinyurl.com/eh1n can be used to find http://forums.com.com/group/zd.News.Talkback/zdnn/ tb.tpt/@thread@193986@F@1@D-,D@ALL/@article@193994 ?EXP=ALL&VWM=hr&ROS=1&PAGETP=2100&NODEID=1104&SHOS T=zdnet.com.com
This is over 15 years old, and it won a bunch of awards back then. If the espionage aspect of the story interests you, it is well covered in the sequel, "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" also by Richard Rhodes, just over 700 pages.
Rhodes is, in my opinion, the first (and only) author on the topic to thoroughly understand both the physics story and the personal/political story. The richness of the story is lost without both aspects.
People with bad credit need these. That's half the population by some estimates. These are the same people that "rent-to-own," and otherwise pay a premium for a lack of financial discipline. Pre-paid cellular doesn't get good penetration with them because of the hefty security deposit, and the hassle of returning the phone for a re-charge.
In the latest quarter they brought in $5 million from all sources and lost $34 million. I don't call this making money. They're in sorry financial shape, and may not survive long term. They are forced to sell unregistered stock and warrants (toxic convertibles) offshore to raise cash.
That's what I thought until I got one. Now I love it. It's like having a little buddy that knows what I like, living quietly in the box.
I think of it as a $550 box (30 hour) with some optional financing that I declined. I hated TV before TiVo (I had no TV for 10+ adult years) and now I love TV/TiVo. I watch what I want when I want, without commercials, and with very little effort to choose the shows. It is more entertaining than getting a full Cable line-up, which would cost $50 more per month. I never rent videos anymore ($10/month) because there's always something good ready to watch. Any I spend almost no time choosing shows, and waiting for them to start. And I don't waste time by missing parts of shows due to phone calls, or other disturbances.
TiVo the company says they want to be like Switzerland -- neither giving the content owners everything they want (rights control and viewer name/addresses), or the consumers everything they want (automatic commercial erase, transfer to PC). So far they seem to be walking that thin line. So far at least they don't seem bent on world domination either.
I am an opinion leader in gadgetry, advising friends and family on PC's, software, cameras, GPS's, and the like. I have yet to convince anyone that they should buy a TiVo however. It's just a tough sell, especially to non-geeks.
The.Net/Hailstorm scheme makes the CueCat look like a good idea.
I read the article and I can't understand where the consumer's advantage is in all this. Big corporate customers will have it disabled or stripped out, the technically adept will circumvent it and the rest will keep their AOL accounts.
Happily, the harder MS tries to force this, the more users will jump to Linux or Mac.
I have Comcast @Home and an RCA modem that I rent for $10/mo. I went to the Shack to see if I could get the free modem with a $100 purchase (Wilmington, DE) but they said only in PA for now.
My RCA modem is DOCSIS type and is uses a lot of power. The transformer is rated 35W and it runs warm. I hear that the newer modems use much less power.
I wonder if mp3.com had simply "stored" mp3 rips of CD tracks, they could have survived legally.
The "storing" software could check fingerprints of each file to see if it already had it, and if so avoid the duplicate upload and storage. The fingerprint then acts as a form of compression and the service just stores the "compressed" mp3's that are owned by each user.
Saving each mp3 in, say, 256 bits would not be too taxing on servers, or the upward transmission path. Any thoughts?
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It's only accurate to a millisecond within a 300km radius of the transmitter. NTP over WiFi is capable of much higher accuracy. GPS much more than that.
Yesterday he posted this comment to the Cornell page linked above: "The proof is wrong. I shall elaborate precisely what the mistake is. For doing this, I need some time. I shall put the explanation on my homepage"
+1 No gotchas. I travel internationally, and everywhere it just works. Bills for international data, used heavily for navigation, and information, but not video streaming, are never more than $5.
Was on a ship passing Morocco, and got a message to say "no service here yet" but Europe and Caribbean are no problem. My wife has corporate Verizon with international options enabled, but she invariably borrows my phone for calls and hops on my (free) hot-spot. With hotel or other wifi, you can call (or Skype) for free. It's close to free anyway if you're not a chatter.
You spelled "fucking" correctly.
It's also a biased poll. It's well known that liberals tend to hold some unscientific beliefs such as astrology, but they conveniently omitted any questions on them.
I fully agree with the parent.
In this instance you seem vulnerable to a flip. They will lock you up with and exclusive "marketing period" then sell an exclusive license to Google (Youtube) or Vimeo in an afternoon, and go looking for their next victim. You could probably get a higher price if you took longer to negotiate, and not share a cut with them. If you refuse the deal they make, you will forever be blocked from selling to "their" buyer.
Some of my best friends are in this business. Some of them are ethical. They all love money more than technology.
The Unix date 2038 problem doesn't need to be solved if we're all getting smashed to bits two years earlier.
Both "toxic asset" and "toxic assets" return no results because they're an invention to scare and dupe the public into supporting the current swindle. "Moral Hazard" was well known then however.
Nit picked.
Six years ago, I was developing an application on a microcontroller http://mywebpages.comcast.net/orb/, and it used MD2 because it has a small code and memory footprint. Experts at the time said that I should use SHA-1 or MD5 because a simplified version of MD2 had been broken, and the full MD2 was sure to follow. Those hashes would not work on the chosen microcontroller, so I used MD2 anyway.
Is MD2 broken? If not, the irony is apparent.
What does that server beast add to your power bill? $400 per year would not surprise me. You could buy a new server from Dell for less than $350, which would leave yours in the dust,performance wise, and cost less than $100 per year to power.
Mozilla suite includes a simple, useful HTML editor that is not available with the Firefox/Thunderbird combo.
I hope someone fishes this editor code out and maintains it.
The only relationship between TWC and TiVo is that TWC wishes TiVo was dead. TiVo users almost never order pay-per-view, and TWC has to make a money losing ($5-10/mo) offering to maintain contol of the signal path.
People are buying this stock like they buy a lottery ticket, expecting that most likely it will fizzle, but if it pops, it could be big. Even the weakest case has some chance of succeeding in court, or being bothersome enough to prompt a settlement.
In the US you can apply to patent something up to one year after its first sale. You could invent something in 1990, start selling it in 1998, and apply for a patent in 1999. Consult a lawyer for more precise inforation.
Akami have their own patents, notably 6,502,125 which will likely cover what they do. The application postdates the subject patent, but the grant predates it. Plenty for the lawyers to bill on.
This shortcut http://tinyurl.com/eh1n can be used to find http://forums.com.com/group/zd.News.Talkback/zdnn/ tb.tpt/@thread@193986@F@1@D-,D@ALL/@article@193994 ?EXP=ALL&VWM=hr&ROS=1&PAGETP=2100&NODEID=1104&SHOS T=zdnet.com.com
This is over 15 years old, and it won a bunch of awards back then. If the espionage aspect of the story interests you, it is well covered in the sequel, "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" also by Richard Rhodes, just over 700 pages.
Rhodes is, in my opinion, the first (and only) author on the topic to thoroughly understand both the physics story and the personal/political story. The richness of the story is lost without both aspects.
If these numbers are close, we can also get an efficiency estimate. Power to raise 314 litre/sec of water 4 degrees K (waste):
Pwaste = 700 HP
Stated thrust efficiency of 20 cm dia jet
Pwork = 30 HP
Thermal efficiency = Pwork/(Pwork + Pwaste) = 4%
This compares poorly with internal combustion efficiencies of 25-35%. Numbers are rough however.
People with bad credit need these. That's half the population by some estimates. These are the same people that "rent-to-own," and otherwise pay a premium for a lack of financial discipline. Pre-paid cellular doesn't get good penetration with them because of the hefty security deposit, and the hassle of returning the phone for a re-charge.
In the latest quarter they brought in $5 million from all sources and lost $34 million. I don't call this making money. They're in sorry financial shape, and may not survive long term. They are forced to sell unregistered stock and warrants (toxic convertibles) offshore to raise cash.
That's what I thought until I got one. Now I love it. It's like having a little buddy that knows what I like, living quietly in the box.
I think of it as a $550 box (30 hour) with some optional financing that I declined. I hated TV before TiVo (I had no TV for 10+ adult years) and now I love TV/TiVo. I watch what I want when I want, without commercials, and with very little effort to choose the shows. It is more entertaining than getting a full Cable line-up, which would cost $50 more per month. I never rent videos anymore ($10/month) because there's always something good ready to watch. Any I spend almost no time choosing shows, and waiting for them to start. And I don't waste time by missing parts of shows due to phone calls, or other disturbances.
TiVo the company says they want to be like Switzerland -- neither giving the content owners everything they want (rights control and viewer name/addresses), or the consumers everything they want (automatic commercial erase, transfer to PC). So far they seem to be walking that thin line. So far at least they don't seem bent on world domination either.
I am an opinion leader in gadgetry, advising friends and family on PC's, software, cameras, GPS's, and the like. I have yet to convince anyone that they should buy a TiVo however. It's just a tough sell, especially to non-geeks.
The .Net/Hailstorm scheme makes the CueCat look like a good idea.
I read the article and I can't understand where the consumer's advantage is in all this. Big corporate customers will have it disabled or stripped out, the technically adept will circumvent it and the rest will keep their AOL accounts.
Happily, the harder MS tries to force this, the more users will jump to Linux or Mac.
I have Comcast @Home and an RCA modem that I rent for $10/mo. I went to the Shack to see if I could get the free modem with a $100 purchase (Wilmington, DE) but they said only in PA for now. My RCA modem is DOCSIS type and is uses a lot of power. The transformer is rated 35W and it runs warm. I hear that the newer modems use much less power.
The "storing" software could check fingerprints of each file to see if it already had it, and if so avoid the duplicate upload and storage. The fingerprint then acts as a form of compression and the service just stores the "compressed" mp3's that are owned by each user.
Saving each mp3 in, say, 256 bits would not be too taxing on servers, or the upward transmission path. Any thoughts?