I don't believe I would be able to patent a method on top of someone else's apparatus. Sure you can and those can be some of the most rewarding. The keyword to look for is extends, a patent that builds upon an other patent.
One of the reasons a KDE bug becomes a RH, MDK SUSE bug is because the main distro's had a tendency to move things arround a bit and sometimes rename things (Bad Dog, No Bisquet) to differentiate themselves. Personaly, I think the biggest real difference should be the initial configuration.
A big help in this area would be if the developers would actualy put things where they are supposed to be (as in LSB) rather than where its easier for them to develope from (as in stick everything in/usr/local). Life would also be easier if libaries were smaller who wouldn't rather download a 57K libary from a overloaded server as compared to a 1.5 M file to fix 3 bytes.?
I see a lot of downside and little upside. I see a developer that's just plain wigged out, He's definatedly crossed the line between trash talking about doing something in-excusable and doing it
It's been a while since I dabbled in this area, but I'm sure that OSHA requires businesses to have written Emergencies plans and policies. I especialy remember a training session where they were joking about renaming the egress plan, because people in Fla kept writing a plan about egrets a bird.
Most places buy a kit with pre-printed forms and they just fill in the blanks and file 'em, never to be seen again. However, if what the company does, doesn't match what they said they would do, then the plan can be considered in-effective and they can be warned verbaly, in writing, or fined either $5K or $250K. Of course the worst part isn't the fine, it's having the inspector at your site; once they start, they just keep finding things.
Wasn't that part of the plan? weren't the regulated monopolies granted because they were supposed to supply their service to not only densely populated area that are profitable, but parsely populated areas that aren't profitable.
When a cable company rolls out broadband service like they did in my area only two years ago, they run their lines along poles owned by the utilities or underground on public right-of-ways, in return for that boon, we expect a certain level of service, and we expect that either rates will go down or service will go up as the company pays off it's infrastucture investment. If they don't expand into less profitable areas, decrease rates or add services as time go by, they become vulnerable to competion and I have little pity for them when a muncipality plays by the same rules that let them get fat and lazy.
So basicaly you have a system set up with all of the
technical problems of a spam blackhole list
Sites on the list changing IP's every week to get arround the block
Sites with legal content moving into the IP addresses not knowing they are blocked
the list maintained in secret, with no oversite,
by a state employee who's over worked, under-paid and probably had 1/2 his staff laid off in budget cuts
and all of those problems assume that the people running the list are decent, honorable people performing their duties to the best of their ability. If they have a personal agenda, the potential boggles the mind.
the age limit for "child" in the case of pornography is 18 what's scarry is the age limit for adult is what 13 now, so theoreticaly a 14yr boy have a naked picture of a 17 yr old girl could be arrested and tried as an adult for having the picture. Even weirder is the girl who is 17 could be tried as an adult for producing the child porn.
sorry, should have been past tense, my bird used electron tubes and only one transistor. It always amazed me that the elements inside those little tube could take near double digit g's and still work.
The guided missile I worked on used a S and A Safety and Arming, device not unlike what is described. The "warhead" is only armed after the missile achieves a classified amount of acceleration for a period of time. This is needed to insure that the "warhead" doesn't detonated at an unsafe distance from the launcher. It is preferable to have a spacecraft auger into the dirt, than have a parchute deploy on launch and possibly pulled the launch vehicle into a populated area.
So true I don't even remember the last time I used an 8.5 in floppy, my 5 1/4 in floppy has been sitting under my desk for a decade and I haven't used a 3.5 for several years. I still have a bunch of school programers on hollerith cards still, the grandkids think they are neat.
One thing I noticed that the article was wrong about was the Macintosh being the first computer with a 3.5 in floppy, My Radioshack Color Computer could be upgraded with a new OS either OS2 ( not IBM's OS2) or Flex that would support the 3.5 floppies purchased after-market; so the best that Macs can claim is the first shipped from the vendor.
I know we are supposed to just except the claims that plutonium is the most dangerous thing on earth; but honestly I can't for the life of me understand the physiology of it it just doesn't jive.
Normaly the more energetic the radiation, the shorter the half-life so it can't be the energy, maybe it's the type, alpha emiters are most damaging when injested and I do believe that plutonum emits alpha, beta and gamma, but then again so do a lot of non-fissile trans-uranic elements so why single out plutonium? Also frequent alpha emeters lose mass pretty quickly which would shorten the half-life and we know plutonium has a very long half-life.
Maybe plutonium is chemicaly poisonous, like say lead, I'd guess it probably is like all heavy metals, but we don't say lead is the most dangerous thing on the planet, nor do we say it about uranium.
My hunch is that plutonium isn't any more dangerous than other trans-uranic elements, and many years ago, when the US was the only nuclear power and wanted to stay that way, when a toxicity study had a statistical anmomaly that showed plutonium was more toxic than it actualy was, it tended to get de-classified and published, a study that showed the toxicity in line with other trans-uranics stay classified.
Maybe some Health Physicist could expalin it to us, or possible a minister could explain why God put a special bad juju on 239 and not 238?
Probably wouldn't work, OSHA would have a fit, drilling into all that granite and you'd be likely to hit pockets of radioactive radon gas, from decay product from the radioactive elements in the granite!
As I understand it if the work-unit comes back as interesting, from mutiple clients, they work it on their own client (which goes into more detailed analysis). If it still checks out, and the signal isn't likely to be terrestrial like somebodies cell phone, they then check aircraft and satelites over the beam path. If it's still interesting they look for any other work-units at the same co-ordinates and have them reworked as well as actualy pointing a tellescope at the spot on purpose.
I don't want to have to wait 30 seconds for a web response to tell me i formatted my SSN improperly.
Learn JavaScript, use it to pre-validate your user responses; then use the server side to re-validate the responses. If your not doing that with any client/server system you'll regret it sooner or later and remember using a web browser doesn't exclude using java.
Web Apps also suck ergonomicaly. We usualy start out thinking web-app to get it going fast, then I'll write the gui interface later; Later never seems to happen and we stay with the web app interface. Eventuanly we quit kidding ourselves, and just say use a web-app interface.
I realy didn't mean my post as a flame on the Secret Service, If they tell the locals do A,B, and C and the locals do it is it realy the Secrer Services' fault that the locals didn't tell them they were nuts?
I've had the privelage of meeting a Secret Service Agent at the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, an honorable chap. Imagine have a job that requires you to take a bullet for an asshole that you personsaly wouldn't piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire.
I figure potential counter-suits; 1-2000 contributers/copyright-holders * $50K per each infringment = $100M - 200M * each distribution to be a boat-load of money. It could make the original $5B look like chump-change!
"federal law" as explained to the local Cop by a Secret Service Agent, normaly I'd expect computer crimes to be handled by the FBI not the Secret Service. Per comments on the site someone brings up Interesting that this gets raised in Nantucket, of all places -- we can thank the presence of the Secret Service for that, which in turn comes from the fact that John Kerry and his wife have a house there. So the real story is the Priest, rousted from a park bench in front of a public libary gets his feathers roughled by a Cop who goes home pissed because he has to roust Priests from Park Benches, who reports to a Leutentant who's pissed because those Secret Service fuckers are always up his ass
Its a free project that no one is getting money from.
Well actualy the problem is money, the point of shareware is to collect the revenues, while letting a thrid party deal with the expenses of distribution and marketing; somebody else pays for bandwidth, or pressing CDs while endusers send in money direct out of the goodness of their hearts. Obviously this doesn't work, people just don't send money. Distributers generate a bit of money with advertising on their websites, but the writer is out in the cold. So the next obvious method to get some money is to load the application up with a bunch of crap spy-ware. This stuff invades your privacy, makes your computer either run more slowly or crash outright. GPL Developers are proud of their work, and have a strong emotional attachment to it and the last thing they want is to get associated with the usual shareware stuffed full of spy-ware crowd.
Add to that that if the allegations are true, the guy is stealing code from both the preceding developers, and from the present contributers. This is exactly the kind of vampiric activity that insenced Stallman to create the GPL in the firstplace.
Steam locomotives work slightly differently. They have a continous steam pressure pushing at the pistons in the cylinders. That produces a smooth torque even at zero rpm. Unless they were unfortunate enogh to stop at TDC, Top Dead Center. Also, if the train is too heavy, the piston won't move but nothing will break. Normaly the drive wheels would spin long before the connecting rods would break, which would wear a depression in the track, that would usualy be under the water tower or the coal shoot. If the wheel spin to long, the tire would heat and could be thrown off the wheel, usualy a steel tire was pressed on to a cast wheel for service.
The "Cyclopedia of Engineering", American Technical Society Vol. IV (c) 1912 has a lot on the subject as well as electric motors, generator and electric locomatives and trollies
A transmission that will let you move a 16,000 ton unit train from a dead stop is way beyond infeasible.
Well the Space Shuttle Weight at end of mission: 104,326 kg (230,000 pounds) and is pulled arround by a modified semi-truck tractor so it's probably easier than you'd imagine. A hydro-static drive can give you nearly infinite gear ratios. Also in a train, there is a gap in each coupling, so the engine only has to pull one car from dead-stop, for about a half inch, then one from dead-stop and one that's already rolling, then one stopped and two rolling ect.(just don't stop on a hill)
I read somewhere that the starter motor for a 747 engine could be used for an electric vehicle, 3600 rpm is enough for most realistic apllications and their voltage requirements are resonable as well.
a little googling on robot wars related terms, will give you tons of sites about motor controllers, and re-wiring starter motors ect. I'll leave extrapolating from toy to locomotive controllers, and Ford Fiesta starters to 747's to you but the principals are the same.
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I don't believe I would be able to patent a method on top of someone else's apparatus.
Sure you can and those can be some of the most rewarding. The keyword to look for is extends, a patent that builds upon an other patent.
I thought it a good one.
One of the reasons a KDE bug becomes a RH, MDK SUSE bug is because the main distro's had a tendency to move things arround a bit and sometimes rename things (Bad Dog, No Bisquet) to differentiate themselves. Personaly, I think the biggest real difference should be the initial configuration.
/usr/local). Life would also be easier if libaries were smaller who wouldn't rather download a 57K libary from a overloaded server as compared to a 1.5 M file to fix 3 bytes.?
A big help in this area would be if the developers would actualy put things where they are supposed to be (as in LSB) rather than where its easier for them to develope from (as in stick everything in
I see a lot of downside and little upside.
I see a developer that's just plain wigged out, He's definatedly crossed the line between trash talking about doing something in-excusable and doing it
It's been a while since I dabbled in this area, but I'm sure that OSHA requires businesses to have written Emergencies plans and policies. I especialy remember a training session where they were joking about renaming the egress plan, because people in Fla kept writing a plan about egrets a bird.
Most places buy a kit with pre-printed forms and they just fill in the blanks and file 'em, never to be seen again. However, if what the company does, doesn't match what they said they would do, then the plan can be considered in-effective and they can be warned verbaly, in writing, or fined either $5K or $250K. Of course the worst part isn't the fine, it's having the inspector at your site; once they start, they just keep finding things.
Wasn't that part of the plan? weren't the regulated monopolies granted because they were supposed to supply their service to not only densely populated area that are profitable, but parsely populated areas that aren't profitable.
When a cable company rolls out broadband service like they did in my area only two years ago, they run their lines along poles owned by the utilities or underground on public right-of-ways, in return for that boon, we expect a certain level of service, and we expect that either rates will go down or service will go up as the company pays off it's infrastucture investment. If they don't expand into less profitable areas, decrease rates or add services as time go by, they become vulnerable to competion and I have little pity for them when a muncipality plays by the same rules that let them get fat and lazy.
- technical problems of a spam blackhole list
- Sites on the list changing IP's every week to get arround the block
- Sites with legal content moving into the IP addresses not knowing they are blocked
- the list maintained in secret, with no oversite,
- by a state employee who's over worked, under-paid and probably had 1/2 his staff laid off in budget cuts
and all of those problems assume that the people running the list are decent, honorable people performing their duties to the best of their ability. If they have a personal agenda, the potential boggles the mind.the age limit for "child" in the case of pornography is 18 what's scarry is the age limit for adult is what 13 now, so theoreticaly a 14yr boy have a naked picture of a 17 yr old girl could be arrested and tried as an adult for having the picture. Even weirder is the girl who is 17 could be tried as an adult for producing the child porn.
You forgot trademark infringement, all of the BOA and citiBank phishes I get look so good because they use the real logo's from the bank's website.
Might be interesting to compare the server logs for the image directories vs. the page directories to see what percentage of trafic is from phishing.
sorry, should have been past tense, my bird used electron tubes and only one transistor. It always amazed me that the elements inside those little tube could take near double digit g's and still work.
The guided missile I worked on used a S and A Safety and Arming, device not unlike what is described. The "warhead" is only armed after the missile achieves a classified amount of acceleration for a period of time. This is needed to insure that the "warhead" doesn't detonated at an unsafe distance from the launcher.
It is preferable to have a spacecraft auger into the dirt, than have a parchute deploy on launch and possibly pulled the launch vehicle into a populated area.
So true I don't even remember the last time I used an 8.5 in floppy, my 5 1/4 in floppy has been sitting under my desk for a decade and I haven't used a 3.5 for several years. I still have a bunch of school programers on hollerith cards still, the grandkids think they are neat.
One thing I noticed that the article was wrong about was the Macintosh being the first computer with a 3.5 in floppy, My Radioshack Color Computer could be upgraded with a new OS either OS2 ( not IBM's OS2) or Flex that would support the 3.5 floppies purchased after-market; so the best that Macs can claim is the first shipped from the vendor.
I know we are supposed to just except the claims that plutonium is the most dangerous thing on earth; but honestly I can't for the life of me understand the physiology of it it just doesn't jive.
Normaly the more energetic the radiation, the shorter the half-life so it can't be the energy, maybe it's the type, alpha emiters are most damaging when injested and I do believe that plutonum emits alpha, beta and gamma, but then again so do a lot of non-fissile trans-uranic elements so why single out plutonium? Also frequent alpha emeters lose mass pretty quickly which would shorten the half-life and we know plutonium has a very long half-life.
Maybe plutonium is chemicaly poisonous, like say lead, I'd guess it probably is like all heavy metals, but we don't say lead is the most dangerous thing on the planet, nor do we say it about uranium.
My hunch is that plutonium isn't any more dangerous than other trans-uranic elements, and many years ago, when the US was the only nuclear power and wanted to stay that way, when a toxicity study had a statistical anmomaly that showed plutonium was more toxic than it actualy was, it tended to get de-classified and published, a study that showed the toxicity in line with other trans-uranics stay classified.
Maybe some Health Physicist could expalin it to us, or possible a minister could explain why God put a special bad juju on 239 and not 238?
Probably wouldn't work, OSHA would have a fit, drilling into all that granite and you'd be likely to hit pockets of radioactive radon gas, from decay product from the radioactive elements in the granite!
As I understand it if the work-unit comes back as interesting, from mutiple clients, they work it on their own client (which goes into more detailed analysis). If it still checks out, and the signal isn't likely to be terrestrial like somebodies cell phone, they then check aircraft and satelites over the beam path. If it's still interesting they look for any other work-units at the same co-ordinates and have them reworked as well as actualy pointing a tellescope at the spot on purpose.
I don't want to have to wait 30 seconds for a web response to tell me i formatted my SSN improperly.
Learn JavaScript, use it to pre-validate your user responses; then use the server side to re-validate the responses. If your not doing that with any client/server system you'll regret it sooner or later and remember using a web browser doesn't exclude using java.
Web Apps also suck ergonomicaly. We usualy start out thinking web-app to get it going fast, then I'll write the gui interface later; Later never seems to happen and we stay with the web app interface. Eventuanly we quit kidding ourselves, and just say use a web-app interface.
I realy didn't mean my post as a flame on the Secret Service, If they tell the locals do A,B, and C and the locals do it is it realy the Secrer Services' fault that the locals didn't tell them they were nuts?
I've had the privelage of meeting a Secret Service Agent at the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, an honorable chap. Imagine have a job that requires you to take a bullet for an asshole that you personsaly wouldn't piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire.
Sue the Mormon church for using Linux on a S390 mainframe to run one the world's largest Genological database and getting excomunicated.
I figure potential counter-suits;
1-2000 contributers/copyright-holders * $50K per each infringment = $100M - 200M * each distribution to be a boat-load of money. It could make the original $5B look like chump-change!
"federal law" as explained to the local Cop by a Secret Service Agent, normaly I'd expect computer crimes to be handled by the FBI not the Secret Service. Per comments on the site someone brings up Interesting that this gets raised in Nantucket, of all places -- we can thank the presence of the Secret Service for that, which in turn comes from the fact that John Kerry and his wife have a house there.
So the real story is the Priest, rousted from a park bench in front of a public libary gets his feathers roughled by a Cop who goes home pissed because he has to roust Priests from Park Benches, who reports to a Leutentant who's pissed because those Secret Service fuckers are always up his ass
Its a free project that no one is getting money from.
Well actualy the problem is money, the point of shareware is to collect the revenues, while letting a thrid party deal with the expenses of distribution and marketing; somebody else pays for bandwidth, or pressing CDs while endusers send in money direct out of the goodness of their hearts. Obviously this doesn't work, people just don't send money. Distributers generate a bit of money with advertising on their websites, but the writer is out in the cold. So the next obvious method to get some money is to load the application up with a bunch of crap spy-ware. This stuff invades your privacy, makes your computer either run more slowly or crash outright. GPL Developers are proud of their work, and have a strong emotional attachment to it and the last thing they want is to get associated with the usual shareware stuffed full of spy-ware crowd.
Add to that that if the allegations are true, the guy is stealing code from both the preceding developers, and from the present contributers. This is exactly the kind of vampiric activity that insenced Stallman to create the GPL in the firstplace.
Steam locomotives work slightly differently. They have a continous steam pressure pushing at the pistons in the cylinders. That produces a smooth torque even at zero rpm. Unless they were unfortunate enogh to stop at TDC, Top Dead Center. Also, if the train is too heavy, the piston won't move but nothing will break. Normaly the drive wheels would spin long before the connecting rods would break, which would wear a depression in the track, that would usualy be under the water tower or the coal shoot. If the wheel spin to long, the tire would heat and could be thrown off the wheel, usualy a steel tire was pressed on to a cast wheel for service.
The "Cyclopedia of Engineering", American Technical Society Vol. IV (c) 1912 has a lot on the subject as well as electric motors, generator and electric locomatives and trollies
A transmission that will let you move a 16,000 ton unit train from a dead stop is way beyond infeasible.
Well the Space Shuttle Weight at end of mission: 104,326 kg (230,000 pounds) and is pulled arround by a modified semi-truck tractor so it's probably easier than you'd imagine. A hydro-static drive can give you nearly infinite gear ratios. Also in a train, there is a gap in each coupling, so the engine only has to pull one car from dead-stop, for about a half inch, then one from dead-stop and one that's already rolling, then one stopped and two rolling ect.(just don't stop on a hill)
I read somewhere that the starter motor for a 747 engine could be used for an electric vehicle, 3600 rpm is enough for most realistic apllications and their voltage requirements are resonable as well.
a little googling on robot wars related terms, will give you tons of sites about motor controllers, and re-wiring starter motors ect. I'll leave extrapolating from toy to locomotive controllers, and Ford Fiesta starters to 747's to you but the principals are the same.