Supposedly, if you don't like MS's license, and haven't installed the software yet, you have the opportunity to return it. If you bought the software as an individual package, I believe you can send it back to Microsoft with a copy of your receipt and they'll refund your money.
Bundled, now that's a different story. They will not refund your money if you purchased it as part of a computer system. (They did, for one or two people, actually; then they decided it wouldn't be cost-effective for them to have to field all those returns.) In that case, if you disagree with the EULA, you have to return the entire system as a unit. Now, just TRY doing that without being charged a restocking fee. I dare you.
We should push Linksys (and other cable/DSL router manufacturers) to write firmware capable of creating an IPv6 intranet, as opposed to the typical class C. Better still, I'm sure they could add support for something like TunnelBroker (as mentioned above) and map one's intranet into genuine IPv6 space. Yes, you could do the same thing with a 486 running BSD or Linux, but I think using a nice, small, energy-efficient box would be more elegant.
Digital cellular and PCS are covered by this patent as well. Wonder when Acacia will get to suing them -- and whether they'll be able to dig up examples of prior art.
Speaking of which, the telcos have been using digital compression for a very long time on their trunk lines; while it wasn't an algorithmic compression method, it did result in less total throughput needed. Would this be considered prior art?
If you want to restrict access, the best way (IMHO) is to set up a dedicated routing machine running some Unix variant, acting as a firewall between the APs and the net at large. Users can then log onto that machine using PPPOE or PPTP (depending on whether you want to encrypt the links as well).
They omitted the bathroom in the demo, because engineers haven't been able to unlink the toilet flushing sound from this wav file. (Seems an irate employee hid the code deep in the OS, and the ones who are left haven't been able to locate it yet...)
You probably haven't noticed because not only are capacities going up, costs are going down as well. That 200 gig hard drive is selling for less money than 200 meg drives were when they first came out. The capacities are becoming so enormous that they're threatening to become meaningless; most computer users wouldn't know the difference between a 60 gig drive and a 20. (They might not even know where to look to find out which they have, for that matter.) As a result, companies are spending as much of their resources on dropping prices as they are boosting size.
Actually, making this stuff smaller has made it LESS fragile, not more. Less weight and shorter distance from bearing points means less torque and strain. 5-1/4" HDs were quite fragile, but 2.5" laptop drives are very hardy. And just try causing a head-crash on a Microdrive.
I suspect, if this technology ever makes it to market, it'll be in a package that keeps it nice and safe.
I dunno... First we had giant magnetoresistance, then colossal magnetoresistance... Ballistic just doesn't seem to fit. We should call it gargantuan magnetoresistance, or Herculean... I know! Let's call it "humongous magnetoresistance"!
A lot of people were complaining about latency in wireless network connections. Does anyone make a short-range, low-latency, Ethernet bridge? Something made for point-to-point communications will be a lot better for musical applications than trying to hook the guitar into 802.11b or Bluetooth.
Especially knowing how the music industry drives technology, I suspect we'll be seeing these sorts of links in the near future.
Keep a chronological log of every change you make to the database. If there's a serious bug that corrupts the data, you'll be able to rebuild the thing from your log.
I don't know about this... One of the reasons for buying a PVR is the simplicity; tell it to record your shows, then pay it no attention 'til you want to watch.
What happens when I come back one night, sit down and get ready to watch the episode of Enterprise I missed... When I discover I forgot to put the Dreamix boot CD back in, and instead turned it off after playing MLB Slugfest last night?
I suppose it might be a good way to recycle the Xbox after one's moved on to newer and better consoles, but I think I'd prefer a dedicated PVR box.
There are ways to protect P2P networks from sabotage. One utility, BitTorrent, uses a cryptographic-quality checksum on file fragments to eliminate non-authentic pieces. Once one downloads a valid ".torrent" definition file, and BitTorrent reports the download as having succeeded, one is guaranteed that file is complete and non-corrupt.
Well, wasn't the original Unix released in the mid 1970's? Didn't it have that functionality? Wouldn't any patent based on it be either expired, or be subject to prior art claims?
What intellectual property does SCO claim to own? Are these patents, or copyrights, and over what code or protocols?
I think the core Linux was based on is past-due, patent-wise, so any claim on that would be prior art; and the fact that Linus coded the basic kernel from the ground up would eliminate copyright concerns, so what's left? Auxiliary functionality?
Someone was mentioning System V; is it SysV binary code compatibility that SCO is laying claim over? I think that could be eliminated from the kernel without major disruptions; some people would get really peeved about the inability to run proprietary software they couldn't recompile, but...
In order to get my few dollars, I have to give out all my personal info, social security number, mother's maiden name, etc, etc? No thanks. I don't care how official that web site looks; that's enough information to steal everything I own and trash my credit rating for the next thousand years.
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Supposedly, if you don't like MS's license, and haven't installed the software yet, you have the opportunity to return it. If you bought the software as an individual package, I believe you can send it back to Microsoft with a copy of your receipt and they'll refund your money.
Bundled, now that's a different story. They will not refund your money if you purchased it as part of a computer system. (They did, for one or two people, actually; then they decided it wouldn't be cost-effective for them to have to field all those returns.) In that case, if you disagree with the EULA, you have to return the entire system as a unit. Now, just TRY doing that without being charged a restocking fee. I dare you.
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They ought to do both. That way, if someone's ISP were firewalling him, he'd still be able to have a genuine IPv6 address.
We should push Linksys (and other cable/DSL router manufacturers) to write firmware capable of creating an IPv6 intranet, as opposed to the typical class C. Better still, I'm sure they could add support for something like TunnelBroker (as mentioned above) and map one's intranet into genuine IPv6 space. Yes, you could do the same thing with a 486 running BSD or Linux, but I think using a nice, small, energy-efficient box would be more elegant.
If you want to see how good a serious novel in comic form can be, get yourself a copy of The Watchmen. It's a fascinating book.
Digital cellular and PCS are covered by this patent as well. Wonder when Acacia will get to suing them -- and whether they'll be able to dig up examples of prior art.
Speaking of which, the telcos have been using digital compression for a very long time on their trunk lines; while it wasn't an algorithmic compression method, it did result in less total throughput needed. Would this be considered prior art?
If you want to restrict access, the best way (IMHO) is to set up a dedicated routing machine running some Unix variant, acting as a firewall between the APs and the net at large. Users can then log onto that machine using PPPOE or PPTP (depending on whether you want to encrypt the links as well).
They omitted the bathroom in the demo, because engineers haven't been able to unlink the toilet flushing sound from this wav file. (Seems an irate employee hid the code deep in the OS, and the ones who are left haven't been able to locate it yet...)
You probably haven't noticed because not only are capacities going up, costs are going down as well. That 200 gig hard drive is selling for less money than 200 meg drives were when they first came out. The capacities are becoming so enormous that they're threatening to become meaningless; most computer users wouldn't know the difference between a 60 gig drive and a 20. (They might not even know where to look to find out which they have, for that matter.) As a result, companies are spending as much of their resources on dropping prices as they are boosting size.
Actually, making this stuff smaller has made it LESS fragile, not more. Less weight and shorter distance from bearing points means less torque and strain. 5-1/4" HDs were quite fragile, but 2.5" laptop drives are very hardy. And just try causing a head-crash on a Microdrive.
I suspect, if this technology ever makes it to market, it'll be in a package that keeps it nice and safe.
I dunno... First we had giant magnetoresistance, then colossal magnetoresistance... Ballistic just doesn't seem to fit. We should call it gargantuan magnetoresistance, or Herculean... I know! Let's call it "humongous magnetoresistance"!
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).A lot of people were complaining about latency in wireless network connections. Does anyone make a short-range, low-latency, Ethernet bridge? Something made for point-to-point communications will be a lot better for musical applications than trying to hook the guitar into 802.11b or Bluetooth.
Especially knowing how the music industry drives technology, I suspect we'll be seeing these sorts of links in the near future.
Hmm. Infrared LEDs on the guitar strap?
Yeah, well, an author could put paid to that plan by posting a copy on the net. For that matter, anyone could.
Keep a chronological log of every change you make to the database. If there's a serious bug that corrupts the data, you'll be able to rebuild the thing from your log.
Do that, and keep praying.
Using a notebook PC without something to rest it on is a bad idea.
Umm... Wouldn't the profile of a flying saucer, viewed from a satellite be, um, circular?
I don't know about this... One of the reasons for buying a PVR is the simplicity; tell it to record your shows, then pay it no attention 'til you want to watch.
What happens when I come back one night, sit down and get ready to watch the episode of Enterprise I missed... When I discover I forgot to put the Dreamix boot CD back in, and instead turned it off after playing MLB Slugfest last night?
I suppose it might be a good way to recycle the Xbox after one's moved on to newer and better consoles, but I think I'd prefer a dedicated PVR box.
http://webreference.com/dev/frames/
A tutorial on using frames, copyrighted in 1996, that includes instructions on how to update one frame with a link in another.
SBC's patent was filed for in 1999.
There are ways to protect P2P networks from sabotage. One utility, BitTorrent, uses a cryptographic-quality checksum on file fragments to eliminate non-authentic pieces. Once one downloads a valid ".torrent" definition file, and BitTorrent reports the download as having succeeded, one is guaranteed that file is complete and non-corrupt.
You can get more information at http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/.
Well, according to the message below, you ought to be able to help this guy out in devising a replacement. Go for it.
Well, wasn't the original Unix released in the mid 1970's? Didn't it have that functionality? Wouldn't any patent based on it be either expired, or be subject to prior art claims?
What intellectual property does SCO claim to own? Are these patents, or copyrights, and over what code or protocols?
I think the core Linux was based on is past-due, patent-wise, so any claim on that would be prior art; and the fact that Linus coded the basic kernel from the ground up would eliminate copyright concerns, so what's left? Auxiliary functionality?
Someone was mentioning System V; is it SysV binary code compatibility that SCO is laying claim over? I think that could be eliminated from the kernel without major disruptions; some people would get really peeved about the inability to run proprietary software they couldn't recompile, but...
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In order to get my few dollars, I have to give out all my personal info, social security number, mother's maiden name, etc, etc? No thanks. I don't care how official that web site looks; that's enough information to steal everything I own and trash my credit rating for the next thousand years.