Except that those HDDs are *NOT* rated for the 24x7 operation, they're *NOT* fast enough, and they're *NOT* seeing anything remotely approaching those 1.2M POH MTBF! NOT EVEN CLOSE. Further they take power, create heat, and take up space.
If all you're doing is for little operations fine...but if you're someone the size of Earthlink, AOL, Qwest, Hotmail, Google, Yahoo, IE basically anyone with more than ohhhhh about 5-10k mailboxes, you're talking about a bare minimum of 5Gb/day. If you're just small mom and pop with less than 5k or so mailboxes hey, you might be alright with these big drives and having to retain your users data for a MINIMUM of two years. I'd have to run the specific figures, but I doubt that we (I work for/at a mid-sized web host) could afford to keep just our HTTP access logs for two years, much less SMTP, POP/IMAP, FTP, and Shell activity logs for that long.
I have to whole heartedly agree. Helping out an existing project is a FAR better idea than trying to start ones own. Especially when you're considering the amount of effort involved in just obtaining some of these pieces of hardware!
I doubt that the USPTO will bat this down, but there's prior art on all sorts of speech recognition. This one just happens to deal with censorship and adding metadata to the audio stream based on that.
As you all can see though this patent was filed back in 2004, so it's been around for a while. The idea isn't anything new, nor is the application. What would be interesting is the broadcast industry's response to this thing.
Anyone who's got stuff that should go up drop me a note, mloftis aht wgops dawt com. If you don't know how to make that a real mail, then you can just stay quiet.
I'd be careful learning HP-UX though, th erally valuable skills right now are in Solaris. HP-UX will give you some funny ideas. AIX is worthwhile too because there just aren't many people that know AIX inside and out.
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Except that those HDDs are *NOT* rated for the 24x7 operation, they're *NOT* fast enough, and they're *NOT* seeing anything remotely approaching those 1.2M POH MTBF! NOT EVEN CLOSE. Further they take power, create heat, and take up space.
If all you're doing is for little operations fine...but if you're someone the size of Earthlink, AOL, Qwest, Hotmail, Google, Yahoo, IE basically anyone with more than ohhhhh about 5-10k mailboxes, you're talking about a bare minimum of 5Gb/day. If you're just small mom and pop with less than 5k or so mailboxes hey, you might be alright with these big drives and having to retain your users data for a MINIMUM of two years. I'd have to run the specific figures, but I doubt that we (I work for/at a mid-sized web host) could afford to keep just our HTTP access logs for two years, much less SMTP, POP/IMAP, FTP, and Shell activity logs for that long.
I have to whole heartedly agree. Helping out an existing project is a FAR better idea than trying to start ones own. Especially when you're considering the amount of effort involved in just obtaining some of these pieces of hardware!
I doubt that the USPTO will bat this down, but there's prior art on all sorts of speech recognition. This one just happens to deal with censorship and adding metadata to the audio stream based on that.
As you all can see though this patent was filed back in 2004, so it's been around for a while. The idea isn't anything new, nor is the application. What would be interesting is the broadcast industry's response to this thing.
*OWNERSHIP* is the term used, not Licensed, not used, IP *Ownership*.
Microsoft Owns Windows. Not it's licensees.
http://www.wgops.com/cnn-mir/
Don't have the image yet, but will try to get it.
Anyone who's got stuff that should go up drop me a note, mloftis aht wgops dawt com. If you don't know how to make that a real mail, then you can just stay quiet.
http://usterror.nashlink.net
We'll be trying to post news there (or atleast I will)...
ZOP
http://www.wgops.com/wtc-pix/
There linked this time, sorry ppl.
I'd be careful learning HP-UX though, th erally valuable skills right now are in Solaris. HP-UX will give you some funny ideas. AIX is worthwhile too because there just aren't many people that know AIX inside and out.
My only question on this is, would you crash the plane, your just your palm, or you whole hand?